Michael Flaxman
Venture Partner at Trust Ventures
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Flaxman is an investor and advisor based in Austin with 11 years of experience at the intersection of crypto, startups, and product engineering. He has co-founded startups and held senior engineering roles—including Principal Engineer at Paxos—applying lessons from Bitcoin to high-throughput private blockchain systems. As a venture partner at Trust Ventures and investor/advisor at Timeglass, he blends hands-on technical credibility with early-stage deal and product judgment. He's an active open-source contributor to bitcoin tooling, notably enhancing Specter Desktop with wallet export, merkle proof and block header verification features. Michael’s background in management consulting and YC-backed startups gives him a rare mix of strategic rigor and builder instincts. He often operates where cryptography, product-market fit, and scalable infrastructure converge.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBusiness Economics, Business Economics at Brown UniversityMarin Academy
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (7)
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
python10
git9
flask8
flask-ask8
hardware-wallet7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cryptoadvance/specter-desktop
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
A desktop GUI for Bitcoin Core optimised to work with hardware wallets
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 13 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Specter Desktop application's functionality and user experience. They implemented features, such as displaying the current Specter version in the sidebar and integrating Electrum watch-only wallet export. The user also worked on integrating merkle proofs and block header verification. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug related to Python version compatibility and made minor cosmetic changes.
desktop-guiwalletsspecter-desktopwalletgui
mflaxman/blind-xpub
Jun 2021 - Dec 2021
A bitcoin proposal for how to blind xpub(s) such that possession of a given seed phrase reveals nothing about what it protects.
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 101 pushes in 6 months
blindxpubseed-phraseseednothing
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