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As a high school student in the early 1980s, he was concerned by the hostage crisis in Iran and the Cold War, he says. "My He joined its Junior ROTC at his high school in Dayton, Ohio, and won a scholarship from the corps to attend the University of Notre Dame , in Indiana. He got the degree in 1991.

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Alma mater: University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. Alamouti says tokens, enabled by distributed ledgers, could replace cash as a method of exchange, with low-cost transaction fees. He worked in bookstores and then started a fashion business with his friends while planning his escape from Iran through Pakistan in 1982.