In Episode 147 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Muneeb Ali, co-founder of Blockstack, a full-stack decentralized computing platform and app ecosystem that puts users in control of their identity & data. 

The two spend the first half of their conversation discussing the recent twitter hack and what lessons can be drawn from the attack.

The rest of the episode (including the overtime) is spent on Blockstack and how protocols like it offer solutions for problems of security and privacy on the Internet today.

You can access the episode overtime, as well as the transcript and rundown to this week’s episode through the Hidden Forces Patreon Page. All subscribers gain access to our overtime feed, which can be easily added to your favorite podcast application.

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Episode Recorded on 07/19/2020

Dr. Muneeb Ali is the co-founder of Blockstack, a full-stack decentralized computing platform. He serves as the CEO of Blockstack PBC, a Public Benefit Corp that is developing the core protocols for Blockstack. He has raised 75+ million USD in capital from investors like Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, Lux Capital, Naval Ravikant, Kevin Rose, and others. Muneeb received his PhD and Master’s in computer science from Princeton University, both specializing in distributed systems. His PhD thesis was nominated for the ACM SIGCOMM dissertation award by Princeton University. At Princeton, he worked in the Systems & Networks group and at PlanetLab--world’s first cloud computing testbed. Muneeb gives guest lectures on cloud computing at Princeton University and his research publications have over 1,200 citations. You can follow him on Twitter @muneeb.