Nobel Prize Committee to 'Discuss' Bitcoin Creator's Nomination
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....
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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 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....
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....
Looking at our long list of Nobel laureates, recipients of arguably the world’s greatest prize include Rudyard Kipling for his contribution to literature, Milton Friedman for economics, and Peter D. Mitchell for his work in the field of chemistry. The award has been around for well over one hundred years, and it is given to men and women who make a different not only in individual societies but on the world as a whole. These winners bring nations together, and create things that live on for generations to come, so will Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator behind America’s favorite....
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