An Interview With BitProof Creator Louison Dumont
17-year-old, Louison Dumont, is a French entrepreneur known for his work with Boost VC’s accelerator and his creation, BitProof. The service is a blockchain-based certification system that protects the rights of artists, writers and anyone else. Dumont started coding when he was eight, and hasn’t stopped since. When Dumont was thirteen, he started mining....
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I came across Merkle.io while browsing through the internet. Its tagline - 'Google for Blockchains' caught my attention and got me digging deeper. That's how I found Bitproof and its creator, Louison Dumont. Our readers at NewsBTC ought to know about him and the amazing tools he is building. Therefore, we caught up with him and asked him a few questions (including a couple of generic questions that we ask everybody), and this is what he had to say. He has kept his answers short and precise and managed to convey his thoughts clearly. Gautham: Your profile says you started coding when you....
As the popularity of bitcoin grows, the number of people with queries regarding bitcoin is also on the rise. We have already found a tool that can answer queries on almost everything, and we call it Google. Now we have a new wannabe in town who would like be cryptocurrency's own Google. Merkle.io calls itself the "Google for Blockchains". Merkle.io is a project by Louison Dumont, a 17-year-old developer who also founded Bitproof. Bitproof uses blockchain technology to certify electronic files. These electronic files maybe documents, artwork, business contracts or anything digital that you....
At 17 years old, Louison Dumont is the youngest-ever entrepreneur to be accepted into Boost VC, the California incubator that has so far nurtured five batches of mostly bitcoin startups, but he's not short on experience. Having started mining bitcoin at the age of 13, Dumont boasts more maturity than many in the still-nascent industry (your correspondent included), peppering his conversation with signs of his veteran status and allusions to the tribulations of trading (most of his early bitcoins were unfortunately sold in the $20-$30 range). Dumont, for example, recalls a time when you....
San Francisco's new software engineering school, Holberton, has announced it will tackle fake degrees using bitcoin technology. In partnership with Bitproof, the notary startup founded by teenager Louison Dumont, Holberton will issue every graduate with certificate that can be verified on bitcoin's blockchain using a Digital Certificate Number (DCN). While statistics on the prevalence of fake college degrees is thin on the ground, 86% of employers in a recent survey said they'd found candidates lying on their CV. In addition, fake certificates are widely available and cheap to buy.....
Louison Dumont, a 17 year-old entrepreneur, has partnered with venture capital investor and Draper Fischer Jurveson founder Tim Draper to launch Bitproof, a platform which enables individuals and organizations to digitally establish contracts and legal documents using the blockchain. Currently, the startup is focused on creating digital seals and issuing cryptographic keys to create unique university diplomas, due to the rising number of fraudulent university certificates and documents. Today, it is ridiculously easy to counterfeit university diplomas because there is no public and readily....