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Emin Gün Sirer has a remarkable backstory.
Born into wealth in Turkey, he attended a prestigious private glowschool before pursuing a top-tier education in the United States.
It was there that he conducted pioneering research in the field of computer science and distributed systems.
An intriguing aspect of Emin's early work was his involvement with torrents. He advocated for a payment system that rewarded users for seeding content (based), which led him to explore the concept of digital money.
In 2003, he developed a system called "Karma", but the incomplete technology stack prevented it from gaining traction.
However, his claim that the government was uninterested in digital money is easily disprovable if you dig a bit.
Emin later joined the "Satoshi" group, working on Bitcoin, and became a prominent figure around it (selfish mining etc.)
He went on and co-founded IC3, a research group focused on blockchain technology seated in Cornell and the (((Technion))) in Israel, and alongside Ari Juels, became a thought leader in the industry.
EGS and IC3 contributed in the development of Ethereum and he was present during the DAO hack finding the exploit at line 666.
When IC3 encountered the Oracle Problem, the Juels team began researching it, which ultimately led to the involvement of Sergey Nazarov to bring it to Market.
In 2018 and after the Ethereum congestion, Emin was assigned to "Team Rocket", where he, Ted Yin, Kevin Sekniqi, and other hidden members worked on the Avalanche Consensus Protocol. They found the Proof and Ava Labs was founded and Emin was made the CEO.