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Full Name
  
Bryce Wilcox

Parents
  
Ron Wilcox

Great-grandparent
  
James Wilcox

Website
  
zooko.com

Grandparent
  
Fred M. Wilcox

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Born
  
May 13, 1974
Phoenix, Arizona

Occupation
  
peer-to-peer hacker, cypherpunk

Employer
  
Least Authority Enterprises

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Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (born Bryce Wilcox May 13, 1974 in Phoenix, Arizona), is an American Colorado-based computer security specialist known for his work on Tahoe-LAFS.

He is working on the Tahoe Least-Authority File Store (or Tahoe-LAFS), a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem released under GPL and the TGPPL licenses. He is the creator of the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence (TGPPL).

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

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

He is founder and CEO of Least Authority Enterprises in Boulder, Colorado.

He was a developer of the MojoNation P2P system and lead developer of the follow-on Mnet network, and a developer at SimpleGeo.

Furthermore, Zooko is part of a founding team that recently launched Zcash.

References

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn Wikipedia