09-20-2024
Jerry Chan
Author
Jerry D. Chan is a 14 year veteran of Wall Street Technology, having worked as Vice President of Goldman Sachs FICC Technology, and 3 years at JPMorgan Forex Trading Tech. He ventured out into Bitcoin technology for a couple of years before leading the blockchain strategic initiatives at SBI Group focusing on building their custodial wallet platform and SBI Virtual Currency exchange. Jerry was formerly the Chief Product Officer of blockchain infrastructure and service provider TAAL Distributed Information Technologies Inc. He is a General Partner of TwoHop, a venture capital fund focusing on startups building on the Bitcoin SV ecosystem. Jerry currently works as a blockchain consultant, and still contributes to digital asset blogs and podcasts such as the Bitcoin Capitalist in his spare time.
Article by Jerry Chan
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5 April, 2022
Attempts to scaling Ethereum in 3 different ways
In this article, Jerry Chan explores each of the three strategies in scaling Ethereum and why none will achieve the...
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30 March, 2022
On the myth of proof of stake systems
Dr. Craig Wright recently published a blog post titled “Decentralization,” where he discussed the common misconceptions surrounding the topic and...
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21 March, 2022
The economics of Bitcoin mining – distilled
The fundamental basis behind the revenue model in BTC is centered on its limitation of its block size capped at...
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14 March, 2022
Hash power follows price
The profitability calculation that every miner must go through is complex, and one must think about their economic costs, access...
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7 March, 2022
Error 402 – payment required Part II
By employing IPv6 and integrating that with bitcoin addresses and transactions, we enable the securing of the Internet, and its...
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28 February, 2022
Error 402 – payment required
This little-known HTTP error code gives us a glimpse of what the internet may have been if bitcoin or some...
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21 February, 2022
Hey David Rosenthal: A response from one industry visionary to another…
Jerry Chan examines Nvidia employee and OpenBSD hacker David Rosenthal's article, which details a lecture he gave at Stanford University...
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15 February, 2022
Bitcoin mining—the race to zero? Or race to efficiency?
This week, Jerry Chan focuses on the economics of the block reward mining industry, explaining why it is one of...
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7 February, 2022
The beginnings of the metaverse
Jerry Chan takes a look into creating a new breed of NFT that is composed of the two types of...
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2 February, 2022
Anarchy is anti-society, they just don’t know it
Anarchy is the hatred against the monopoly of power, manifested in a ‘state’ or governmental body, which has the ability...
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20 January, 2022
Signal app creator Moxie Marlinspike proves NFT signal-to-noise ratio is low
Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal chat app, recently wrote a piece about his exploration of the technology and its merits,...
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19 January, 2022
Threshold signatures to go prime time
One of the most underappreciated technological developments that have been vastly overlooked since the advent of blockchain technology is that...
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