# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-chaum
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:35:04.438Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-chaum"
name: "David Chaum"
slug: "david-chaum"
description: "David Lee Chaum is an American computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor. He is known as a pioneer in cryptography and privacy-preserving technologies, and widely recognized as the inventor of digital cash. His 1982 dissertation \"Computer Systems Established, Maintained, and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups\" is the first known proposal for a blockchain protocol. Complete with the code to implement the protocol, Chaum's dissertation proposed all but one element of the blockchain later detailed in the Bitcoin whitepaper. He has been referred to as \"the father of online anonymity\", and \"the godfather of cryptocurrency\"."
tagline: "American computer scientist and cryptographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chaum.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.7
  momentum:             0.1807228915662651
  historical:           11.41526933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/chaumdotcom"
    handle:    "chaumdotcom"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-chaum-3b219b183/"
    handle:    "david-chaum-3b219b183"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.chaum.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "David Chaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum"
    title: "David Chaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum"
    title: "David Chaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "دیوید چام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum"
    title: "David Chaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum"
    title: "David Chaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deivids_%C4%8Caums"
    title: "Deivids Čaums"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%89%DB%90%D9%88%DB%90%DA%89_%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "ډېوېډ چام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BC%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Chaum"
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  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%8D%AB%C2%B7%E4%B9%94%E5%A7%86"
    title: "大卫·乔姆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump