Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (born Bryce Wilcox; 13 May 1974 in Phoenix, Arizona), is an American Colorado-based computer security specialist, self-proclaimed cypherpunk, and CEO of the Electric Coin Company (ECC), a for-profit company leading the development of Zcash.[1]

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn at 34C3 in 2017
Born
Bryce Wilcox

(1974-05-13) May 13, 1974
Phoenix, Arizona
EmployerElectric Coin Company
Parents
  • Ron Wilcox (father)
  • Olene Harris (mother)
Websitezooko on Twitter

Biography

He is known for the Tahoe Least-Authority File Store (or Tahoe-LAFS), a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem[2][3] released under GPL and the TGPPL licenses. He is the creator of the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence (TGPPL).[4]

Wilcox-O'Hearn is the designer of multiple network protocols that incorporate concepts such as self-contained economies and secure reputation systems.[5] He is a member of the development team of ZRTP[6] and the BLAKE2 cryptographic hash function.[7][8]

Zooko's triangle is named after Wilcox-O'Hearn, who described the schema that relates three desirable properties of identifiers in 2001.[9]

Wilcox-O'Hearn was founder and CEO of Least Authority Enterprises in Boulder, Colorado[1] where he is now an advisor.[10]

Zooko was a developer of the MojoNation[11] P2P system and lead developer of the follow-on Mnet network,[12] and a developer at SimpleGeo.[13]

Wilcox-O'Hearn worked on the first cryptocurrency, DigiCash, with David Chaum in 1996.[14] He is a member of the founding team of the anonymous cryptocurrency Zcash, which launched in 2016.[14] He currently serves as the CEO of the affiliated Electric Coin Company.[15] Wilcox later commissioned the Rand Corporation to study whether anonymous coins were disproportionately represented in criminal transactions; the study found they were not.[15]

Additionally Wilcox-O'Hearn was one of the co-creators of Blake3.[16]

References
  1. DJ Pangburn (2013). "Introducing the PRISM-Proof Storage Device". motherboard. Vice. Archived from the original on 28 August 2013.
  2. Wilcox-O'Hearn, Zooko, ANNOUNCING allmydata.org "Tahoe", the Least-Authority Filesystem, v1.3, retrieved 20 April 2009
  3. Orlowski, Andrew (22 April 2009). "Why Whack-a-Tard won't save music". The Register. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  4. Yee, Ka-Ping (2008). An Open Source License Idea (PDF). PyCon.
  5. Ferne, Peter (21 November 2008). "Collaborative Filtering and Social Capital". World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
  6. zfoneproject (2010). "About The Zfone™ Project". Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  7. "BLAKE2 website". BLAKE2 Team. 19 November 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  8. Jean-Philippe Aumasson; Samuel Neves; Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn; Christian Winnerlein (2013). "BLAKE2: simpler, smaller, fast as MD5" (PDF). Applied Cryptography and Network Security. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 7954. IACR. pp. 119–135. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-38980-1_8. ISBN 978-3-642-38979-5.
  9. Ferdous, Md. Sadek; Jøsang, Audun; Singh, Kuldeep; Borgaonkar, Ravishankar (2009). "Security Usability of Petname Systems" (PDF). Identity and Privacy in the Internet Age. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 5838. pp. 44–59. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.617.1149. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04766-4_4. ISBN 978-3-642-04765-7.
  10. "About Us". Least Authority Enterprises. 2017. moved to Berlin in 2016
  11. Staff (29 July 2000). "Get Your Music Mojo Working". Wired Magazine. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  12. "Cutting edge P2P, crypto comes to your PC". The Register. 25 February 2002.
  13. "Post-Funding, SimpleGeo Pounces on a Six Aparter, A Hacker, And Beta Keys". TechCrunch. 14 December 2009.
  14. O'Hearn, Zooko (29 December 2017). "Cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, etc.: revolutionary tech?". 34C3 (video). Chaos Computer Club. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  15. del Castillo, Michael (6 May 2020). "Cypherpunk Zooko Wilcox Aims To Bring Anonymous Zcash To Law-Abiding Masses". Forbes. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  16. "Blake3 github". GitHub.
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