Biography:Muneeb Ali
Muneeb Ali | |
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| Nationality | American, Pakistani |
| Education | Princeton University (PhD) |
| Known for | Stacks, Protothread |
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| 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]
Career
Ali studied Computer Science at LUMS[6] and received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University in 2017.[7] Ali co-founded Stacks (formerly Blockstack) with Ryan Shea and went through Y Combinator in 2014.[8]
His work mainly focused on sensor networks, blockchains, and cloud computing.
Ali was a technical advisor to the HBO Silicon Valley show, and appeared in the Amazon Prime Video Rizqi Presents: Blockchain show.[9]
In 2019, he convinced the SEC regulators to allow his company to start a token offering under Reg A+ exemption, becoming the first to do so.[1][2] In 2020, Ali released a legal framework for non-security status of Stacks.[10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Vigna, Paul (10 July 2019). "SEC Clears Blockstack to Hold First Regulated Token Offering". https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-clears-blockstack-to-hold-first-regulated-token-offering-11562794848.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Squawk Box on SEC's work to regulate crypto". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GTmOHrUJzw.
- ↑ "Princeton-Trained Computer Scientists Are Building a New Internet That Brings Privacy and Property Rights to Cyberspace". 22 June 2017. https://reason.com/video/blockstack-bitcoin-blockchain-internet/.
- ↑ Vigna, Paul (26 October 2019). "Tech Giants Have Hijacked the Web. It's Time for a Reboot.". https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-giants-have-hijacked-the-web-its-time-for-a-reboot-11572062420.
- ↑ "Blockstack anchors to Bitcoin network with new mining algorithm". https://www.zdnet.com/article/blockstack-anchors-to-bitcoin-network-with-new-mining-algorithm/.
- ↑ "LUMS Graduate, Muneeb Ali Featured at TEDX New York". https://sbasse.lums.edu.pk/news/general-news/lums-graduate-muneeb-ali-featured-tedx-new-york.
- ↑ "Researchers link realism to blockchain's promise". https://cefr.princeton.edu/news/researchers-link-realism-blockchains-promise.
- ↑ "Top 100 Y Combinator Companies". https://www.ycdb.co/top-companies/funding.
- ↑ WIECZNER, JEN (June 8, 2018). "Meet the Blockchain Startup That Inspired HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Season 5". Fortune. https://fortune.com/2018/06/08/blockchain-silicon-valley-new-internet-blockstack/.
- ↑ Chavez-Dreyfuss, Gertrude (2020-12-07). "Blockstack's digital currency 'Stacks' to be tradable in U.S. once new blockchain arrives" (in en-US). Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/crypto-currencies-blockstack/blockstacks-digital-currency-stacks-to-be-tradable-in-u-s-once-new-blockchain-arrives-idUSKBN28H22O.
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