Bram Cohen

Bram Cohen
Cohen in 2015
Born (1975-10-12) October 12, 1975 (age 49)
Alma materUniversity at Buffalo
Occupation(s)Chief executive officer, Chia Network
Known forBitTorrent protocol
SpouseJenna Cohen
Children3
RelativesRoss Cohen (brother)
AwardsUSENIX STUG Award
Time 100
MIT TR35
Websitebramcohen.com

Bram Cohen is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol in 2001, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol, also known as BitTorrent. He is also the co-founder of CodeCon and organizer of the San Francisco Bay Area P2P-hackers meeting, was the co-author of Codeville and creator of the Chia cryptocurrency which implements the proof of space-time consensus algorithm.