Either way, Chaum remains bullish, he told CoinDesk. He is now an unabashed supporter of the blockchain industry, who can escape the traps of proprietary technology and centralized corporations. He is still often called the "godfather of cryptocurrency" (one of the few Satoshi Nakamoto quotes given in the Bitcoin white paper), and his research in cryptography on blind signatures, group signatures, mixed networks, secure digital voting and zero-knowledge proofs, and more, remains fertile ground for modern crypto developers.(*3*)