That sounds like an interesting story. What were you studying? What University?
Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany. We have a few famous/leading scientists in computer science and a professor Professor Faust who has been into cypherpunk and before that cyberpunk very early on. He's not that well known because unfortunately he went deep into researching cryptography, zk-proofs and stuff in the Ethereum ecosystem. But his Blockchain Technology is still mainly about Bitcoin and some nifty cryptography and the mathematics behind it that have no use anywere. So yeah, I read a few books and whitepapers only for passing the exam... was a rough semester ;D
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