Mustafa Al-Bassam
Mustafa Al-Bassam | |
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Mustafa Al-Bassam giving a talk at the 34th Chaos Communication Congress (2017) | |
| Born | January 1995 (age 30) |
| Other names | tflow |
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| Awards | Forbes 30 Under 30 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Thesis | Securely scaling blockchain base layers (2020) |
| Doctoral advisor | George Danezis |
Mustafa Al-Bassam (born January 1995) is an Iraqi- British computer security researcher, hacker, and co-founder of Celestia Labs. Al-Bassam co-founded the hacker group LulzSec in 2011, which was responsible for several high profile breaches. He later went on to co-found Chainspace, a company implementing a smart contract platform, which was acquired by Facebook in 2019. In 2021, Al-Bassam graduated from University College London, completing a PhD in computer science with a thesis on Securely Scaling Blockchain Base Layers. In 2016, Forbes listed Al-Bassam as one of the 30 Under 30 entrepreneurs in technology.