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Daniel Larimer received a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2003. He is a visionary software engineer and serial entrepreneur who is focused in the areas of blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, decentralized exchanges, economic systems and freedom.

Dan Larimer is the co-founder of Steemit, Inc and its CTO until march 2017. He's also the CEO of Cryptonomex, Inc. which is a blockchain technology consulting company. He also founded Bitshares and Invictus Innocations. He originated the idea of the "decentralized autonomous company" or DAC. In June 2016 Dan Larimer in his Steemit biog told that over the past three years he have worked with the Bitshares community to implement the worlds first Decentralized Autonomous Organization based upon many of the same principles as Ethereum's The DAO. Money was raised, tokens were allocated, and token holders were given the ability to vote on how to spend community money and set blockchain parameters.

Dan's stated mission in life is "to find free market solutions to secure life, liberty, and property for all.

An Austrian Economist

In January 4th, 2015, Dan wrote a blog post explaining his position about economy theories: Why I am an Austrian Economist - Take 1. The blog and principles of Austrian economic were criticized by many, along with Vitalik Buterin, one of the Ethereum's founders. Vitalik responded with a paper wrote by Bryan Caplan of George Mason university titled “Why I am not an Austrian Economist”. Caplan began as an Austrain economist and then switched after 8 years and a Ph.D in economics from Princeton.

Dan presented a sound argument in favour of Austrian economics, he wrote: "I am a very principled individual and am not easily impressed with fancy math. I like the Austrian approach to economics because it is an approach based upon principles and deductive/inductive reasoning." After two days, due to solid critique from Bitshares Talk forum folks he wrote another post ‘Why I am an Austrian Economist’. There he reinforced: "I am an Austrian economist because it is the only theory of economics that is compatible with my mission to find free market solutions to secure the life, liberty, and property of all."

In July 3rd, 2017, the steemian Mohit S. (@mohit18jan), after reading a lot of articles on Dan's blog to understand his personality and to have a glimpse in to his world, confessed being infected by the cult of Dan Larimer and defined him as a perfect mix of an economist and a programmer.

The creation of Bitshares

In 2009 he was attempting to engineer a digital currency when he discovered Bitcoin. He immediately got involved with Bitcoin and began communicating with Bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto in a Bitcoin forum. At this time he was alarmed by the amount of centralized exchanges being arbitrarily shut down. He came to the conclusion that decentralized exchanges would become necessary. It was at this time he created BitShares and invented BitUSD which is the first trustless cryptocurrency pegged to the dollar. The same concept was applied to Steem Dollar (SBD). For over two years he innovated and fine-tuned blockchain technology to support a decentralized exchange. The resulting technology is called Graphene and is what powers Bitshares and Steem.

The creation of Steem

If Bitshares was created to solve the issue of decentralized exchanges, Steem and Steemit are based on a combination of social networking and few concepts of mutual aid society. Before creating the Steemit, Dan mentioned the concept of a 'social network of mutual aid societies' as MUXER in his blog Mutual Aid Society (published in December 31st, 2015).

In March, 15, 2017, Dan resigned Steemit, Inc with a post - Today I submitted my Resignation to Steemit, inc - published in his Steemit account.

The creation of EOS

Dan Larimer is currently the CTO of EOS, the blockchain operating system for commercial scale decentralized applications. It promises to have the capability to process millions of transactions per second through horizontal scaling. It has it's own constitution, the first of any Blockchain.

Links

• Bytemaster's Blog : http://bytemaster.github.io/
• @dantheman : https://steemit.com/@dantheman
• @dan : https://steemit.com/@dan
• Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-larimer-0a367089
• @dantheman : Daniel Larimer - Co-Founder of BitShares & Steemit (#introduceyourself). June 2016
• @dan : Is The DAO going to be DOA? June 2016
• @dan : Today I submitted my Resignation to Steemit, inc. March 2017
• @dantheman : Making Steem really open source (deleted - see comments). March 2017
• @etherqueen : Bitshares The Musical - Starring Dan Larimer. June 2016
• @joseph : The History of Steem/Steemit Launch in the Words of @dan Larimer from the early Launch Days. August 2016
• @joseph : Tone Vays Debates Ned Scott And Dan Larimer About Steemit. December 2016
• @stellabelle : Have You Ever Wondered Why Steemit Wasn't Built On Ethereum? February 2017
• @oaldamster : The burden of a visionary. March 2017
• @stephenkendal : Steemit Lead Developer, Dan Larimer, Leaves as Steem Market Cap Declines to $18.8 Million..!!. March 2017
• @ned : My Announcement March 15 2017. March 2017
• @teamsteem : Thank you Dan Larimer! You are a great mentor! March 2017
• @steempower : Dan Larimer interview with Alex Sterk from Blocktalk. May 2017
• @kus-knee : The Old Dog Presents: My Gift to The Community. A Transcript of Dan's Awesome Interview Where He Lauds Steemit! May 11th, 2017
• @kus-knee : The Old Dog Presents: My Latest Completed Steemgig as a Gift To Our Community. The Edited Dan Larimer Steemit Video. May 15th, 2017
• @stellabelle : DAN LARIMER: Visionary Programmer of BitShares, Steem and EOS. June 11th, 2017
• @mohit18jan : The Wizard behind Bitshares, Steem & EOS - How Dan Larimer is shaping our future. July 3rd, 2017
• @lovejoy : (Interview) Dan Larimer - A Prescient Retrospective - Part 1 of 3. July 9th, 2017
• @teamsteem : Steeming Never Felt This Good!. July 11th, 2017

Related articles

• Bitshares
• EOS
• Steem
• Steemit
• Steem Tokens
• In the News
• Ned Scott

References

• Craig Grant : Dan Larimer talks about STEEM blockchain and Steemit Edition of the video interview with Dan Larimer hosted by Alex Sterk. Edited (only parts about Steemit) by Craig Grant (@craig-grant) and published in 5/18/2017
• Blocktalk : #blocktalk - Dan Larimer Bitshares Video interview with Dan Larimer hosted by Alex Sterk. Published in 5/4/2017
• Razor Forex : Steemit Lead Developer, Dan Larimer, Leaves as Steem Market Cap Declines to $18.8 Million Written by Steve Todorov Published in 3/15/2017
• International Business Times : Blockchain experts discuss fake news and reputation Written by Ian Allison. Published in 1/31/2017
• Liberty.me YouTube Channel : The Tatiana Show: Steemit Edition with Ned Scott, Dan Larimer, Brian Sovryn, and Ryan Singer Video interview hosted by Tatiana Moroz. Published in 9/21/2016
• TheAnarchast : How I made $15,000 in 12 Hours on Steemit, the New Blockchain Based Social Media Platform Video interview with Ned Scott and Dan Larimer hosted by Jeff Berwick. Published in 8/6/2016
• Forbes : Meet Cryptonomex's Dan Larimer And His 'Four Horsemen' Of Crypto-Economics. Written by Roger Aitken. Published in 10/12/2015
• CryptoCurrency Convention YouTube Channel : BitShares @ CryptoCurrency Convention NYC 4/9/14 - Dan Larimer Video published in 4/18/2014
• Bitshares YouTube Channel : Daniel Larimer & Dr. Charles Evans Video with a discussion between Dan Larimer and Charles Evans, who has more than a decade's experience teaching finance and economics. Published in 4/17/2014