Mustafa Al-Bassam was born on January 1995 and is a British computer security researcher, hacker, and co-founder of Celestia Labs.
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Mustafa Al-Bassam later went on to co-found Chainspace, a company implementing a smart contract platform, which was acquired by Facebook in 2019.
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In 2021, Mustafa Al-Bassam graduated from University College London, completing a PhD in computer science with a thesis on Securely Scaling Blockchain Base Layers.
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Mustafa Al-Bassam was born in Baghdad, Iraq in January 1995, and migrated to London, United Kingdom when he was five years old.
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Mustafa Al-Bassam received a BSc in Computer Science from King's College London, and is currently a PhD student at University College London.
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In 2011 as a 16 year old teenager, Mustafa Al-Bassam was one of the six core members of LulzSec during its 50-day hacking spree, going by the alias "tflow".
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Mustafa Al-Bassam was affiliated with the online association of hacktivists known as Anonymous, where he was involved with the hacking of emails from HBGary Federal, an intelligence contractor for the US government.
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Mustafa Al-Bassam pleaded guilty to computer misuse and received a 20-month suspended sentence with 320 hours of unpaid community service work.
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Mustafa Al-Bassam contributed to the design and implementation of Chainspace, a blockchain protocol that makes use of sharding to increase transaction throughput.
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Mustafa Al-Bassam has since been critical of Libra, stating that "the road to dystopia is paved with good intentions, and I'm concerned about Libra's model for decentralization".
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In 2014 Mustafa Al-Bassam volunteered for Privacy International, where he released research on the computer destruction techniques that GCHQ used when forcing journalists at The Guardian's London headquarters to destroy the computers on which they stored copies of classified documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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In 2016, Mustafa Al-Bassam was listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 in the technology section for his work on uncovering government surveillance.