Featured on Episode #46, #68 & #209
Emin Gün Sirer, hacker and Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University, is a self-proclaimed “Bitcoin fan.” He has worked to improve Bitcoin in a variety of ways and, with Ittay Eyal, co-authored a “Selfish Mining” paper, which showed that some commonly held folk theorems about Bitcoin were false, and that the network needed at least two-thirds of the participants to be honest. He is the founder of the blog http://hackingdistributed.com/.
