About Stuart Haber
Stuart Haber is a cryptographer, computer scientist and co-inventor of the blockchain technique that laid the groundwork for bitcoin integrity by providing timestamping and authentication for digital records. Haber also co-founded the Bellcore spinoff Surety, the first commercial application of a blockchain, and has served on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). He competed in the 1974 STS.
Blockchain: Decentralization is Central
Haber discusses the need for technological security and how blockchain was invented in this TED Talk.
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Haber developed blockchain technology with Scott Stornetta while they were working at Bellcore in the late 1980s.
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