What Happened?
San Francisco, CA-based Austin Hill as Chief Executive Office
About the Company
Blockstream was founded to develop new ways to accelerate innovation in crypto currencies, open assets and smart contracts. We are renowned architects of Bitcoin, cryptographers, cypherpunks, entrepreneurs, as well as leaders from the business, policy and the open source community. We believe in the potential of bitcoin and blockchain technology to have a significant, positive social impact.
About the Person
Austin Hill is an entrepreneur and active investor. In 1994, Austin founded one of the first Internet providers in Canada, Total.Net (Sold to BCE Emergis in 1997). After that, he co-founded Zero–Knowledge Systems, the largest and most funded research company focused around cypherpunk technologies for privacy, anonymity, and electronic cash. The company also pioneered anonymous networking technology and invented cryptographic identity trust metric systems.
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