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....
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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....
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....
The prize committee for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - known more commonly as the Nobel Prize in Economics - is set to discuss the nomination of bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. The move comes days after UCLA finance professor Bhagwan Chowdhry penned an op-ed in The Huffington Post stating his intention to nominate Nakamoto for the prize. In his widely-covered article, Chowdhry wrote that Nakamoto deserves the prize because his invention, bitcoin, is "nothing short of revolutionary". Following its publication, however, some observers raised....
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....
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....