Bram Cohen (born October 12, 1975) is an American computer programmer, born in New York City, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer 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 is the creator of the Chia cryptocurrency, which implements the proof of space-time consensus algorithm. He is the chief executive officer of Chia Network.
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Bram Cohen (born October 12, 1975) 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.
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Bram Cohen (born October 12, 1975) 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.
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Chia Network is a company founded by Cohen in 2017 that has implemented a proof-of-space-time cryptocurrency called Chia (XCH).
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The company was founded on September 22, 2004 by Bram Cohen and Ashwin Navin.
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