**Year of birth**: **Country of origin**: USA **Studied at**: **Worked at**: **Contributed to**: VoIP **Founder**: [[Celsius Network]] --- ![[Pasted image 20210501001334.png]] --- 1. Alex Mashinsky is most known as the inventor of VOIP which today enables over 1 billion people worldwide to use free voice over the internet for free. He has founded [[Celsius Network]] which is a community-based [[Proof of Stake (PoS)]] [[blockchain]] [[Protocol(s)|protocol]] allowing members to borrow dollars against their [[Crypto asset|crypto assets ]] and to earn interest when they deposit (and lend) their [[Crypto (cryptocurrency)|crypto]] out. His goal is to get 7.5 billion people to go From VOIP to [[Money over IP)|MOIP (Money over IP)]].