Jake Yocom-Piatt

Decred project lead Jake Yocom-Piatt: Practice what you preach

Jake Yocom-Piatt is Project Lead for Decred and a cryptocurrency pioneer who has been using, funding and directing the creation of open-source software for over a decade. Jake previously funded and oversaw the creation of Btcsuite, an alternative full-node Bitcoin implementation written in Go, whose source code has been used in several other notable projects, including Lightning Network, Ethereum, and Factom. He also is a co-creator of zkc, a high-security asynchronous chat system. In this inte...