Roger Wattenhofer,[1] born in 1969, is a Swiss computer scientist, active in the field of distributed computing, networking, and algorithms.
He has published numerous research articles in computer science[4][5] and a book on Bitcoin.
[6] In 2012, Wattenhofer won the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing, awarded annually at the SIROCCO conference.
[7] Together with Christian Decker in 2014,[8] he uncovered that nearly 850,000 of the Bitcoins lost by Mt.
Gox could not have been stolen by malleability attacks, as claimed by Mt.