# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/len-sassaman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:53:48.637Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/len-sassaman"
name: "Len Sassaman"
slug: "len-sassaman"
description: "Leonard Harris Sassaman was an American technologist, information privacy advocate, and the maintainer of the Mixmaster anonymous remailer code and operator of the randseed remailer. Much of his career gravitated towards cryptography and protocol development. It is speculated that he may have been the anonymous creator of the Bitcoin network."
tagline: "US computer systems engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Len_Sassaman_27C3.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: "1980-04-09"
deathDate: "2011-07-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.356106666666665
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/lensassaman"
    handle:    "lensassaman"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman"
    title: "Len Sassaman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "لين ساسمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman"
    title: "Len Sassaman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman"
    title: "Len Sassaman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "لن ساسامن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman"
    title: "Len Sassaman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman"
    title: "Len Sassaman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman"
    title: "Len Sassaman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Лен Сассаман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q523530"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump