# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bram-cohen
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:26:35.922Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bram-cohen"
name: "Bram Cohen"
slug: "bram-cohen"
description: "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."
tagline: "American programmer, creator of BitTorrent protocol"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bram_Cohen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
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birthDate: "1975-10-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 135
platforms:
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    handle:    "bramcohen"
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    url:       "https://bramcohen.com"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump