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Benedikt Bünz

Benedikt Bünz is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NYU Courant. He also cofounded and am the chief scientist of Espresso Systems. He researches applied cryptography, consensus and game theory, especially as it relates to cryptocurrencies. His work focuses on enhancing the privacy, usability and security of blockchain protocols.

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Umlaute explained aka how to pronounce my name


Bünz which is a small river in Switzerland according to my dad means small fat farmer. A name with so much meaning deserves to be pronounced correctly. Unfortunately, the so called umlaut “ü” is a sound that doesn’t really exist in English and despite its looks it definitley doesn’t sound like a u. The international spelling of ü is ue, hence my email address and domain name: Buenz. But a ü also doesn’t sound like ue. It probably most sound like “ee” but with a rounder mouth. Just click on this link if you actually want to learn how to pronounce it. This paragraph was brought to you by the very German need to correct people (great Economist article on it).

Btw if you want to write an ü it’s option+u and u again on a mac or "u in latex.

Also Benedikt Bunz is not how you pronounce my name but I was told that I should put the name on here for SEO.


Should I invest in Bitcoin/Ethereum etc.?


Since about a million people have asked me this, let me publicly post my answer to this question: “No idea but if you do, it’s probably wise to not invest more than you can afford to lose.”


How to create a simple yet aesthetic website


Same way you write any program. You copy it from some place in the internet. I read Jordi Pont-Tueset’s blog on building an academic website and copied his from here. Feel free to also start by cloning my website from github. Feel free to adapt this theme to your site without linking back to me or including a disclaimer.