Jeff Garzik: Bitcoin Is Moving to New Growth Stage With Cross-Chain Smart Contracts
Jeff Garzik is one of the most respected developers in the Bitcoin industry. He has been a Bitcoin core developer and has worked for various other companies, such as BitPay. Recently, he started his own blockchain-as-a-service firm, Bloq, which will serve enterprise clients who wish to develop stems on a private, public or confederated blockchain. In a....
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Today, the Encore Edition of the Onchain Scaling conference took place, discussing the many on-chain scalability solutions on the table for Bitcoin. Developer Jeff Garzik, Cornell professor Emin Gün Sirer, and lawyer Andrew Hinkes discussed hard fork potentials and the legal aspects of managing the blockchain protocol on-chain. Jeff Garzik: ‘Pushing the....
Yesterday, BitPay Inc, the world's leading payment processor for Bitcoin announced an expansion to now 10 full time employees. BitPay, founded in 2011 by Tony Gallippi and Stephen Pair, has continued to expand in organizational and merchant growth. Through enabling now almost 7,000 merchants to be able to process payments in the Bitcoin currency, BitPay continues to lead the way in promoting the utility of Bitcoin. BitPay announced the newest additions to the team. Jeff Garzik, Bitcoin core-developer, will join staff to work full-time on Bitcoin and contribute his knowledge on the core....
While many people believe there is a divide in the Bitcoin community when it comes to the early-adopting libertarians and the new breed of venture capitalists, it seems that the real battle in the world of cryptocurrency is between Bitcoin and appcoins. Around the same time that Chris Odom, the creator of Open Transactions, was dismissing the relevance of altcoins at InsideBitcoins London, Bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik was tied up in a public spat with the NXT community. As someone who has been suspicious of projects that create their own cryptocoins for quite some time, I'm happy to....
Late last year, we heard the first plans from bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik to launch bitcoin mini-satellites into space. Today, we're getting a little more information on the project. Apparently, Mr. Garzik's Dunvegan Space Systems has formed a partnership with Deep Space Industries to built tiny "BitSats" that will broadcast the block chain from earth orbit. The plan? Offer redundancy to the bitcoin network in the event something catastrophic happens down on earth. Smart, don't you think? The plan is still very much coming together, but the idea is to build CubeSats that measure 10....
Bitcoin entreprenuer Jeff Garzik has started Bloq, a code-for-hire service to develop features for blockchain software and provide access to blockchain support, according to Bloomberg. The company charges $3,000 to $5,000 per month. PriceWaterhouseCoopers has agreed to sell the service to its customers. “That opens up a lot of doors for us early in the company’s lifetime,” Garzik said. “Companies know who to call at 3 a.m. if the blockchain is melting down.” Garzik modeled Bloq on Red Hat Inc., which helped businesses develop and deploy Linux and other open-source software. From working at....