1. Bram Cohen is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol in 2001, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol, known as BitTorrent.
17 Facts About Bram Cohen
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Bram Cohen is the co-founder of CodeCon and organizer of the San Francisco Bay Area P2P-hackers meeting, was the co-author of Codeville and creator of the Chia cryptocurrency which implements the proof of space-time consensus algorithm.
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Bram Cohen passed the American Invitational Mathematics Examination to qualify for the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad while he attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City.
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Bram Cohen graduated from Stuyvesant in 1993 and attended SUNY Buffalo.
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Bram Cohen later dropped out of college to work for several dot com companies throughout the mid to late 1990s, the last being MojoNation, an ambitious but ill-fated project he worked on with Jim McCoy.
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Bram Cohen designed BitTorrent to be able to download files from many sources, thus speeding up the download time, especially for users with faster download than upload speeds.
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Bram Cohen unveiled his ideas at the first CodeCon conference, which he and his roommate Len Sassaman created as a showcase event for novel technology projects after becoming disillusioned with the state of technology conferences.
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Bram Cohen wrote the first BitTorrent client implementation in Python, and many other programs have since implemented the protocol.
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Bram Cohen has claimed he has never violated copyright law using his software.
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In May 2005, Bram Cohen released a trackerless beta version of BitTorrent.
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In late 2003, Bram Cohen had a short career at Valve, working on Steam, their digital distribution system introduced for Half-Life 2.
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Bram Cohen left BitTorrent, Inc in a day to day capacity to co-found Chia Network in the fall of 2017.
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Bram Cohen says that he has Asperger syndrome based on a self diagnosis.
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Bram Cohen's hobbies include original origami and juggling up to five balls, but his main interest is in recreational mathematics.
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Bram Cohen maintains a blog where he frequently discusses trust metrics with software developer Raph Levien, as well as money systems, games of skill, and other math-related topics.
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Bram Cohen has designed several puzzles including some in conjunction with Oskar van Deventer including several gear-based puzzles such as Gear Shift and a multiple Rubik's Cube variant called Bram's Fortress.
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Bram Cohen has received a number of awards for his work on the BitTorrent protocol.