BUIP032: Vote Peter R for Secretary
Proposer: Peter Rizun (Peter R)
Sumbitted: 2016-10-05
Status: passed
Dear Members,
Please accept this post as my entry into the election for Secretary of Bitcoin Unlimited.
My full name is Peter Ryan Rizun and I live in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I spend about half of my time running a technology company I co-own called Osensa Innovations Corp and the other half of my time working as a volunteer to help grow Bitcoin. Bitcoin is my passion, and I want to help shape its entrance upon the global economic stage, doing to the "exchange of money" what the Internet did to the exchange of information.
As Bitcoin Unlimited Secretary, I would continue to work towards the vision defined by Satoshi Nakamoto in his seminal white paper. Bitcoin was meant to be a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, accessible to the world's seven billion people, and I wholeheartedly commit to doing whatever is in my power to make this vision a reality.
Professionally, I am half physicist and half engineer.
I am a co-founder and a co-managing editor for Ledger, the very first peer-reviewed academic journal for cryptocurrency research, supported by a distinguished editorial board with representation from Oxford, Duke, Stanford and more.
My main research interest is developing analytical theory that explains properties and emergent phenomenon of the Bitcoin Network. I've written two papers related to Bitcoin that received significant interest, “A Transaction Fee Market Exists Without A Block Size Limit” and “Reduce Orphaning Risk and Improve Zero Confirmation Security With Subchains”, and gave a talk on block space as an economic commodity at the Scaling Bitcoin conference in Montreal. I also wrote a 5-part article series called "Towards Massive On-Chain Scaling: Block Propagation Results With Xthin," that received over 20,000 views, to present our results after the BU core team measured block propagation times for over 8,000 blocks.
I'm also a "hardware junky," and in the fall of 2014 I built several prototypes of "Sigsafe: a NFC key tag for signing Bitcoin transactions." One of these devices made the world's first Bitcoin transaction signed off-line over an air gap and then communicated to the network in real time.
I was the recipient of the $105,000 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) CGS Doctoral Award and was recognized as a “Leader of Tomorrow” by the Alberta Science and Technology Foundation (ASTech). I hold a B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia and a Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the University of Calgary.
Outside of Bitcoin, I'm a hard-core foodie, drink far too much wine for my own good, and love hiking and swimming. I hope that you consider voting for me in the upcoming election for Bitcoin Unlimited Secretary.
Sincerely,
Peter R. Rizun