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They also argue that the system is more egalitarian than mining because it has a lower barrier to entry — in other words, a “staker” doesn’t have to own a fleet of expensive computers to get involved.

As soon as Megan Staker moved from Iowa to San Francisco with her boyfriend, Alaghamandan’s son Soheil, Abdi “became like a second father to me,” Staker told the San Francisco Chronicle.

When Megan Staker moved to San Francisco from Des Moines in 2018 with her boyfriend Soheil, he took her home to meet his parents, Alaghmandan and Firoozeh Davallou, at their Castro Valley home, she told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Right away Abdi, as Alaghmandan was known, “became like a second father to me,” Staker told the Chronicle.

“He was stolen from us,” Megan Staker said of her boyfriend’s father, Abdolvahab Alaghmandan.