Jared Tate
Founder & Creator
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJared Tate is the founder and creator of the DigiByte blockchain, a long-running, highly decentralized UTXO network he launched in 2014 after working with Bitcoin since 2012. He has driven protocol innovation—pioneering features like DigiShield, MultiShield, MultiAlgo and early SegWit adoption—that have been adopted across other blockchains, and he leads efforts to apply blockchain to real-world use cases through DigiByte Holdings. Based in Austin, Texas, Jared pairs a background in psychology, business and aviation administration with a decade of hands-on blockchain engineering and ecosystem-building. He serves on the Lifeboat Foundation advisory board for new money systems, writes on the future of blockchain (author of Blockchain 2035), and maintains a focus on security and immutable asset protection. An entrepreneur at heart, he combines technical invention with community growth to scale one of the fastest and most secure public ledgers in operation.
10 years of coding experience
Psychology, Psychology at United States Military Academy at West PointPsychology & Business, Psychology & Business at The College of IdahoAviation Administration, Aviation Administration at Utah Valley University
English
Github Skills (29)
near10
blockchain-platform10
mina10
sui9
docker9
blockchain9
blockchain-network9
cryptocurrency8
ethereum6
sdk-nodejs6
python6
node-api5
coinbase5
mining4
bitcoin4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DigiByte-Core/dips
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
WIP: DigiByte Improvement Proposals
Contributions:5 reviews, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 2 months
ethereumproposalswipblockchaincryptocurrency
JaredTate/digihashv2
May 2024 - Feb 2025
DigiHash V2 is a mining pool based on NOMP to mine all 5 DGB Algos.
Contributions:1 PR, 107 pushes in 8 months
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