Muneeb Ali | |
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| Nationality | American, Pakistani |
| Education | Princeton University (PhD) |
| Known for | Stacks, Protothread |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Distributed Computing |
| Thesis | Trust-to-Trust Design of a New Internet (2017) |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrea LaPaugh |
Muneeb Ali is a Pakistani-American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Stacks, an open-source smart contract platform for Bitcoin. He is known for the regulatory framework that resulted in the first SEC-qualified offering for a crypto asset[1][2] and for his doctoral dissertation which formed the basis of the Stacks network.[3][4] He is a co-author of Protothread and Proof-of-Transfer (PoX) consensus.[5]
- ^ Vigna, Paul (10 July 2019). "SEC Clears Blockstack to Hold First Regulated Token Offering". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "Squawk Box on SEC's work to regulate crypto". CNBC Television.
- ^ "Princeton-Trained Computer Scientists Are Building a New Internet That Brings Privacy and Property Rights to Cyberspace". Reason TV. 22 June 2017.
- ^ Vigna, Paul (26 October 2019). "Tech Giants Have Hijacked the Web. It's Time for a Reboot". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "Blockstack anchors to Bitcoin network with new mining algorithm". ZDNet.