- Early contributor to Wikipedia
- Worked for the Mozilla Foundation
- Bitcoin developer since 2011, current CTO of Blockstream
- Founded MemoryDealers.com, which saw him become a millionaire by the time he was 25
- Began investing in bitcoins in early 2011, it is said he has 300.000 bitcoins
- Was in prison for selling explosives, relinquished the American nationality
- Computer Science Ph.D. from University of Exeter, England.
- Cited in Bitcoin's paper for Hashcash POW
- Current CEO of Blockstream
- Studied Economics and Psychology in Peking University.
- Co-founder of BITMAIN (Bitcoin Mining Hardware Supplier)