Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

Cryogenic electron microscopy, which was developed in the 70's.

For the discovery of green fluorescent protein.

To Peter D. Mitchell for the discovery of the mechanism of ATP synthesis in the mitochondria, a central part of cellular respiration.

Myoglobin structure resolution (1958) by X-ray crystallography.

Gas chromatography.

Revolutionary for its time, and a big part of Ciro's Enlightenment.

But too insane, and did not keep up with internet age, and so Ciro wants to kill it now.

XML, ain't nobody ever going to write that manually.

The questions are: who is this Mark, and why does he have to go down?

This dude has done well.

A Microsoft format for flashing microcontrollers by copying files to a magic filesystem mounted on host, e.g. as done on the Micro Bit and Raspberry Pi Pico.

How it works: Section "How Bitcoin works".

Official website: bitcoin.org/en/

Reference implementation: Bitcoin Core.

This was getting very hot as of 2022 for some reason. Would be good to understand why besides the awesome name.

Cryptocurrency with focus on anonymity. Was almost certainly the leading privacy coin since its inception until as of writing in the 2020s.

Ciro Santilli has received and held considerable quantities of Monero, notably 1000 Monero donation. so bias alert.

As mentioned at Section "Are cryptocurrencies useful?", Ciro Santilli believes that anonymity is the most valuable feature that really matters on crypto coins, and therefore if he were to invest in crypto, he would invest in Monero or some other privacy coin.

localmonero.co/knowledge/monero-stealth-addresses?language=en gives an overview of the privacy mechanisms:

Based on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoNote and like Satoshi Nakamoto created by under the pseudonym "Nicolas van Saberhagen" www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/7v2obe/offering_a_bounty_for_a_video_of_the_speech_by/

Coinbase has actually stayed away from trading it even as of 2019 when Monero was the third largest market capitalization crypto because of fear of regulatory slashback: decrypt.co/36731/heres-why-coinbase-still-hasnt-listed-monero. Although it must be said, the value of privacy crypto is greatly reduced when everyone is trading it on exchanges, which require a passport upload to work.