Jeff Garzik

Software Engineer & Co-founder of Bloq

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Jeff Garzik is an entrepreneur, software engineer, and futurist. Jeff is the co-founder and CEO of Bloq. Jeff is a member of the board at Coin Center and serves on the advisory boards of BitFury, Bitpay, Chain.com, Netki, and WayPaver Labs. He is a co-founder of Hemi, an advanced layer-2 network driven by Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Quick Facts

Full name	Jeff Garzik
Birth	July 1974, United States
Nationality	American
Education	Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology
Marital status	Married
Net worth	Estimated in millions

Jeff has given brief presentations on bitcoin and blockchain at TEDx, State of Digital Money, numerous bitcoin conferences, and private briefings for corporations, governments, central banks, and hedge funds.

Jeff Garzik - Career Timeline

2010 – Became one of the earliest Bitcoin Core developers.
2013 – Launched Bitcoin mining pool ‘Eligius’.
2015 – Co-founded Bloq, a blockchain tech firm.
2017 – Supported SegWit2x proposal for Bitcoin scaling.
2019 – Developed Metronome (MET), a cross-blockchain token.
2022-Present – Focused on enterprise blockchain adoption.

Jeff Garzik earned a degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1996. His efforts in scaling Bitcoin, enhancing its security, and fostering blockchain development have established him as one of the most consequential figures in the history of cryptocurrency.