Jacob Swambo
Head Of Research at Silver 8
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Swambo is Head of Research with nine years of R&D experience at the intersection of cybersecurity, Bitcoin custody, and theoretical physics. He completed a PhD investigating whole-system approaches to custody and has applied complex adaptive-systems thinking since his MSc work modeling signal networks in the heart. Jacob has blended academic rigor with industry impact through roles at Revault and Fidelity and now leads research efforts at Silver 8 to help build the Bitcoin economy. He practices regenerative economics in his day-to-day life, managing land with permaculture principles, reflecting a hands-on commitment to systems-level resilience beyond code and papers.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSci), Physics with Theoretical Physics, Master of Science (MSci), Physics with Theoretical Physics at Imperial College LondonYsgol Gyfun Bro MorgannwgDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics at King's College London
English, Welsh, Turkish
Github Skills (26)
bitcoin9
revault8
cold-storage8
vault8
routines8
daemon7
cryptocurrency7
wallet7
data-structures6
rust6
blockchain6
hardware-security-module6
python6
locked6
transaction6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JSwambo/bitcoin-vault
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
Implementation of a time-locked vault covenant using pre-signed transactions with secure key deletion.
Contributions:33 commits, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 month
covenantsecuresignedvaultlocked
JSwambo/practical-revault
Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
Where we bikeshed how to *actually* implement Revault
Contributions:16 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 7 months
revaultminecraftbikeshed
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