Mayukh Mukhopadhyay started his career as a BI developer. After the 2008-09 financial crisis, he was at Tata Consultancy Services for one of their Fortune 500 clients in the telecom sector. Holding a master's in software engineering from Jadavpur University, he is presently working as a data insight developer, where he focuses on applying data science and machine learning to raw telecom equipment logs to generate business insights. He has a varied list of academic interests, ranging from audio signal processing, structural bioinformatics, and bio-inspired algorithms to consciousness engineering. Apart from being an Oracle Certified Specialist, he is a Certified Bitcoin Professional, recognized by C4 (Crypto Currency Certification Consortium). He tries to apply blockchain as a technology to different business domains.
To my guide @JUDr Parama Bhaumik —your lectures on distributed systems were my main inspiration while writing this book.
To my professional network connections Ivan Liljeqvist, Dug Campbell, Mahesh Murthy, Kaushik Sathupadi, Ravinder Deol, Narayan Prusty, and Thomas Wiesner—thanks for your blogs and vlogs. This book is as much your creation as it is mine.
Daniel Kraft studied applied mathematics and theoretical physics in Graz, Austria, where he obtained his PhD from the University of Graz in 2015. After that, he started as a software engineer in Zurich, Switzerland. He has been very interested in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies since 2011 and involved in Bitcoin development since 2013. Since 2014, he has been the main developer for Namecoin and Huntercoin, and has successfully reimplemented both on top of the modern Bitcoin Core code base. Wherever possible, Daniel also contributed improvements to the upstream Bitcoin Core. He has published multiple research articles in peer-reviewed journals, two of them directly related to cryptocurrency.
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