Jake Yocom-Piatt - Theft by Another Name

<p>Interview location : USA</p> <p>
Interview date : Friday June 3rd 2020</p> <p>Company : Company 0
 / DCR</p> <p>Role: Co-Founder / Project Lead</p> <p>Jake Yocom-Piatt, Project Lead for Decred, a community-directed digital currency designed to be a superior long-term store of value. Decred's hybrid PoW+PoS consensus mechanism, transparent proposal and voting system, and continually funded treasury, make it secure, adaptable, and self-funding.</p> <p>Jake has been using, funding and directing the creation of open-source software for over a decade. Prior to Decred, he 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, e.g. Lightning Network (lnd), Ethereum, and Factom. He is also a co-creator of zkc, a high-security asynchronous chat system.</p> <p>If you enjoy Decred in Depth you can help support the show by :</p> <p>- Subscribing</p> <p>- Share the show and episodes with your family and friends</p> <p>Decred is an autonomous digital currency. With a hybrid consensus system, it is built to be a decentralized, sustainable, and self-ruling currency where stakeholders make the rules.</p> <p>Join the Decred community!</p> <p>Decred: decred.org/community</p> <p>Twitter: twitter.com/decredproject</p> <p>Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/decred</p> <p>Facebook : www.facebook.com/decredproject</p>