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Bram Cohen

1975 - Today

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Bram Cohen is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol in 2001, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol, also known as BitTorrent. He is also the co-founder of CodeCon and organizer of the San Francisco Bay Area P2P-hackers meeting, was the co-author of Codeville and creator of the Chia cryptocurrency which implements the proof of space-time consensus algorithm. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Bram Cohen is the 217th most popular computer scientist (up from 218th in 2024), the 14,810th most popular biography from United States (up from 15,263rd in 2019) and the 113th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Bram Cohen ranks 217 out of 245. Before him are Craig Federighi, Theo de Raadt, Hans Reiser, Martin Odersky, Alexandra Elbakyan, and Phil Katz. After him are Terry A. Davis, Eric Allman, Nancy Lynch, Douglas Crockford, Steve Wilhite, and Werner Koch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Bram Cohen ranks 518. Before him are Jade Raymond, Jorge Gutiérrez, Chris Diamantopoulos, Valentyna Shevchenko, Bo Henriksen, and Chenoa. After him are Artemy Lebedev, Bartosz Bosacki, Dan Jørgensen, Evgeni Nabokov, Laurent Robert, and Fábio Camilo de Brito.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bram Cohen ranks 14,815 out of 20,380. Before him are Bridgit Mendler (1992), Bill Dixon (1925), Michael Weston (1973), Yurizan Beltran (1986), Richard Corliss (1944), and Colin Trevorrow (1976). After him are Jeff T. Alu (1966), Brian Dietzen (1977), Ken Marino (1968), Paul Westphal (1950), Mike Piazza (1968), and Patrick Fischler (1969).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Bram Cohen ranks 113. Before him are Brian Acton (1972), Ralph Merkle (1952), Jon Hall (1950), Craig Federighi (1969), Hans Reiser (1963), and Phil Katz (1962). After him are Terry A. Davis (1969), Eric Allman (1955), Nancy Lynch (1948), Douglas Crockford (1955), Steve Wilhite (1948), and John Ousterhout (1954).

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