Muneeb Ali

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Muneeb Ali
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NationalityAmerican, Pakistani
Education Princeton University (PhD)
Known for Stacks, Protothread
Scientific career
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. 1 2 Vigna, Paul (10 July 2019). "SEC Clears Blockstack to Hold First Regulated Token Offering". The Wall Street Journal .
  2. 1 2 "Squawk Box on SEC's work to regulate crypto". CNBC Television.
  3. ↑ "Princeton-Trained Computer Scientists Are Building a New Internet That Brings Privacy and Property Rights to Cyberspace". Reason TV. 22 June 2017.
  4. ↑ Vigna, Paul (26 October 2019). "Tech Giants Have Hijacked the Web. It's Time for a Reboot". The Wall Street Journal .
  5. ↑ "Blockstack anchors to Bitcoin network with new mining algorithm". ZDNet .
  6. ↑ "LUMS Graduate, Muneeb Ali Featured at TEDX New York". LUMS News.
  7. ↑ "Researchers link realism to blockchain's promise". Princeton University News.
  8. ↑ "Top 100 Y Combinator Companies". Y Combinator Database (YCDB).
  9. ↑ WIECZNER, JEN (June 8, 2018). "Meet the Blockchain Startup That Inspired HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Season 5". Fortune. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  10. ↑ Chavez-Dreyfuss, Gertrude (2020-12-07). "Blockstack's digital currency 'Stacks' to be tradable in U.S. once new blockchain arrives". Reuters.


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