Satoshi Nakamoto to be Nominated for the 2016 Nobel Prize

Satoshi Nakamoto to be Nominated for the 2016 Nobel Prize

Bitcoin and its blockchain technology have become something of a revelation to the greater economic community, particularly over the past year. The digital currency has shown months of stability as a store of value while it has been the Year of the Blockchain on Wall Street and in major financial corporation worldwide. 2015 has been a very solid comeback....


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Satoshi Nakamoto Nominated for the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics

Bhagwan Chowdhry, a Professor of Finance at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has nominated Satoshi Nakamoto for the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics, is an award for outstanding contributions to the field of economics. It is generally regarded as the most prestigious award for that field. "The committee has invited me to nominate someone for the 2016 Prize," writes Chowdhry in The Huffington Post. "I then started thinking whose ideas are likely to have a disruptive influence in....

Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Nominated For Nobel Prize

Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the digital currency called Bitcoin was nominated to receive the Nobel Prize in economics in 2016. The proposal was presented by Bhagwan Chowdhry, an economics professor at the University of California in the United States. Chowdry believes the technology presented by Satoshi is the most significant development of the 21st Century and will have immense implications in the way finance will be conducted in the future. Chowdhry explains: "I can hardly think of another innovation in the field of economy in recent decades with such influence. Satoshi Nakamoto's....

UCLA Finance Professor Nominates Satoshi Nakamoto For Nobel Prize

Bhagwan Chowdhry, a professor of finance at UCLA, has nominated Satoshi Nakamoto, for the 2016 Nobel Prize in economics, according to the Huffington Post. The professor was asked by the Nobel Prize committee to nominate someone for the prize. Bhagwan Chowdhry. Chowdhry said likely candidates for the prize include Paul Romer at New York University, Doug Diamond at the University of Chicago, and Steve Ross at the Massachusetts of Technology, for the work they did in the 1970s and 1980s. But in thinking about whose ideas have had a disruptive influence in the 21st Century, Chowdhry said....

Satoshi Nakamoto Not Eligible For Nobel Prize

Although UCLA Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry chose to nominate the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, for the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, it appears the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will not consider the nomination unless the legendary Nakamoto were to reveal his identity. The organization's press officer, Hans Reuterskiöld, told Inverse.com that the prize is never awarded anonymously nor after someone has died. The prize, as in this instance, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is never awarded anonymously nor....

Nobel Committee Says No to Satoshi Nakamoto Nomination

Satoshi Nakamoto the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, last week was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2016 by Bhagwan Chowdhry, a finance professor at the University of California. Bhagwan Chowdhry believes that. "the contribution of Satoshi Nakamoto will not only change the way we think of money, it should also affect the role that central banks play in conducting monetary policy." That was one of the main reasons pointed by the professor for the nomination. What really draws the attention to the whole process is that Satoshi Nakamoto is just a pseudonym for the creator and....