Pierre Rochard
Independent Director at Strive
Earth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPierre Rochard is an independent director and long-time Bitcoin researcher and builder with 12 years of experience bridging engineering, policy, and product. He co-founded the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute in 2014 to curate primary Bitcoin literature and has contributed code to core projects including Bitcoin Core and Peercoin, improving wallet reliability and diagnostics. As a founder of Lightning Power Users and former product lead at Kraken, he shipped practical Lightning integrations and user tooling that scaled real-world node operations. He advised and led research at Riot Platforms, translating protocol history and proof-of-work economics into corporate and regulatory strategy. Now serving as CEO of The Bitcoin Bond Company while chairing audit at Strive, he combines financial rigor (Master’s in Accounting) with deep technical fluency. Colleagues know him as an outspoken advocate for decentralized governance who pairs archival scholarship with hands-on open source development.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Accounting, Master’s Degree Accounting at The University of Texas at AustinThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
French, English
Stackoverflow
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83reached
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Github Skills (28)
crypto-wallet10
wallet10
c-language10
website-development10
bitcoin-wallet10
testing10
css10
bitcoin10
blog-engine10
bitcoins10
cryptocurrency10
cryptography10
blockchain10
html10
litecoin10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
NakamotoInstitute/nakamotoinstitute.org
Apr 2014 - Jul 2018
Advancing and preserving Bitcoin knowledge
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:161 commits, 16 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pierre contributed to the website's content and interface. They implemented new blog posts, updated the about page and home page with the latest content and design, and modified the base HTML to update the site's navigation. They also updated the underlying data structure that is used to generate the blog posts.
reacttraditionjavascriptcryptoanarchist
bitcoin/bitcoin
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 96 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily worked on modifying the Bitcoin Core wallet code, focusing on improving logging and database interactions. Their commits include adding wallet names to log messages to clarify their origin, and removing an unused variable. Additional contributions involve adding tests for the BerkeleyEnvironment and refactoring wallet-related functions for better clarity. These changes indicate a focus on improving the maintainability and debugging capabilities of the Bitcoin Core wallet infrastructure.
cryptographyp2pc-plus-pluscryptocurrencybitcoin-core
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