We are very excited to announce that Dr Torsten Stüber is joining us as Chief Technology Officer. Torsten holds a PhD in Computer Science, awarded Summa cum laude by TU Dresden, Germany in 2011.
In addition to his outstanding academic record — Torsten was awarded TU Dresden’s Lohrmann Medal as Best Computer Science graduate in 2006 and nominated for German Computer Science association Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. Dissertation Prize for his PhD thesis in 2012 — he is an experienced entrepreneur with two prior positions as co-founder and CTO in venture-capital-backed startup companies.
No stranger to crypto
The SatoshiPay team is particularly impressed by Torsten’s own implementation of the popular cryptographic library TweetNaCl in WebAssembly, which according to him is “the fastest library for end-to-end encryption in the browser — even faster than the browser’s native AES implementation.” Kudos!
Blue Star Capital PLC (LON:BLU) is an investing company with a focus on new technologies. Blue Star’s investments include a 31% holding in SatoshiPay, a nanopayment software and blockchain company.