Linkedin profile of the founder:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thedwilliams
'm a serial entrepreneur, engineer and cryptocurrency 2.0 advocate.
I currently run Pebble Cryptocurrency, a socially impactful venture with massive disruptive potential. Pebble will provide a 2nd generation currency layer over Bitcoin. While remaining decentralized and trustless, the currency layer will provide currency units (“pebbles”) with constant value, scale to massive transaction throughputs and provide critical UX improvements. There is a special focus on microtransactions, the IoT and financial applications in the developing world. Price stability is achieved using what we call a Decentralized Reserve Bank (DRB) system in which bitcoin is imported as digital gold via a sidechain system. Stay tuned at pebble.io. We plan to acquire 100m users in 5 years.
Previously - I was known as creator and CEO of the Fight My Monster kids MMO directed at 8-12 yrs boys that grew to almost 3 million user accounts and was the fastest growing kids game in Europe for a while (the company raised venture funding in a round led by Greycroft Partners in early 2012).
Confessed geek…
I like scalable engineering with previous focuses including NoSql database technology (in 2010 I created Pelops for Cassandra - a “big data” scalable database project started by Facebook - and was mentioned by O’Reilly’s Definitive Cassandra Guide) and the world’s first horizontally scalable game server called Starburst (proprietary). Now decentralization challenges makes scalability much harder but also way more interesting - we must abandon central control to algorithms running independently and some significant proportion of network participants may constantly try to break the system. Current engineering interests include decentralized architecture, incentives frameworks, Sybil vulnerability, new ways to apply cryptography and novel Byzantine consensus protocols.
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