Movers and Shakers

Alex Sicart: Democratizing the Internet with blockchain

  • Spain
  • 6 min read
  • Sep 17, 2019
  • By Emanuela Ferraro

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The 20-year-old tech wiz and blockchain advocate is seeking a digital revolution where decentralized systems will empower societies

Alex Sicart’s reputation precedes him. At the tender age of 18, he was named to Forbes’s 30 Under 30 list of European tech entrepreneurs to watch in 2017. Sicart had founded Sharge, a blockchain-based P2P electricity-sharing network for charging electric cars, two years earlier.
Known as a tech wunderkind of sorts in Spain, especially in his native Catalonia, Sicart had taught himself programming with online tutorials by the age of 10. When he was 13, he built his first app, Student’s Manager, for students to organize their homework and share tasks. The project helped Sic...

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