Bram Cohen

Bram Cohen
Cohen in 2015
Born	(1975-10-12) October 12, 1975 (age 48) New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	University at Buffalo
Occupation(s)	Chief executive officer, Chia Network
Known for	BitTorrent protocol
Spouse	Jenna Cohen
Children	3
Relatives	Ross Cohen (brother)
Awards	USENIX STUG Award Time 100 MIT TR35
Website	bramcohen.com

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.