Our Moral Board · Public-source moral portrait
Arvind Narayanan
A draft editorial portrait of the computer scientist whose research and teaching examine cryptocurrencies, privacy, digital systems, and their societal consequences.
His work helped Moses look beneath Bitcoin’s public narrative toward mechanisms, privacy limits, security assumptions, and the responsibility to analyze technical systems without promotional simplification.
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A public reading, not a measured identity.
The canonical labels are used to organize public evidence. They do not indicate workshop completion, consent, verification, or access to private identity state.
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Given Identity
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Public institutional records describe an education in computer science at IIT Madras and the University of Texas at Austin.
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Earned Identity
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Professor of computer science and director of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, with published work spanning privacy, cryptocurrency, and technology policy.
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Skills
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His public record supports research skills in computer security, privacy analysis, cryptocurrency systems, interdisciplinary policy work, and technical education.
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Rented Identity
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Current institutional roles include professor and research-center director; the portrait treats these as offices, not a complete identity.
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Moral Compass
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Moses reads the combination of mechanism-level explanation and scrutiny of societal harms as a discipline of understanding technology before assigning it moral or economic authority.
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Story
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The Gratitude essay’s movement under Bitcoin’s surface becomes a broader lesson: protocols should be examined through their assumptions, incentives, security properties, and social consequences.
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Identity State
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Not assessed. Research output and public office do not establish a person’s present internal, relational, or wellbeing state.
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Consent and Disclosure
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No identity-workshop or publication consent was provided. This draft is a bounded reading of public work, not an endorsement, private assessment, or actual board appointment.
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