He is known for the
Tahoe Least-Authority File Store (or Tahoe-LAFS), a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem released under
GPL and the TGPPL licenses. He is the creator of the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence (TGPPL). Wilcox-O'Hearn is the designer of multiple
network protocols that incorporate concepts such as self-contained
economies and secure
reputation systems. He is a member of the development team of
ZRTP and the
BLAKE2 cryptographic hash function.
Zooko's triangle is named after Wilcox-O'Hearn, who described the schema that relates three desirable properties of identifiers in 2001. Wilcox-O'Hearn was founder and CEO of Least Authority Enterprises in
Boulder, Colorado Zooko was a developer of the MojoNation P2P system and lead developer of the follow-on Mnet network, and a developer at SimpleGeo. Wilcox-O'Hearn worked on the first cryptocurrency,
DigiCash, with
David Chaum in 1996. In January 2009, Wilcox was among the first people to publicly write about
Bitcoin, and Bitcoin creator
Satoshi Nakamoto subsequently linked to Wilcox's blog post from the Bitcoin project's website. Wilcox later commissioned the
Rand Corporation to study whether anonymous coins were disproportionately represented in criminal transactions; the study found they were not. Additionally Wilcox-O'Hearn was one of the co-creators of
Blake3. ==References==