Hi. I’m John. I’m a software developer/manager and company founder/director with over 12 years experience working on protocol development, peer to peer networks, and open source projects.

In 2020, I established Brink to solve three problems:

• Making sure that established protocol developers had sustainable funding and could focus 100% of their energy on engineering work instead of worrying about fundraising.

• Ensuring that donors funds were effectively used. Sourcing and funding extremely talented engineers and providing transparency about how the funding was being used.

• Providing mentoring and coaching for exceptionally talented but less experienced protocol developers.

Brink’s mission is to support Bitcoin development by supporting Bitcoin developers. Whilst I was Executive Director, we raised $4 million and funded 7 open source developers.

Prior to founding Brink, I was at Chaincode Labs in New York, where I spent my time contributing to Bitcoin Core and running various education and mentoring projects.

In 2018, I organised the second Chaincode Residency and Chaincode Lightning Apps Residency, and in 2019 I helped run the fourth Chaincode residency.

I started Bitcoin Optech in 2018 to help Bitcoin businesses adopt scaling technologies and improve communication between the Bitcoin open source community and businesses using Bitcoin.

I co-organized and co-hosting the New York BitDevs Socratic Meetups from 2018 to 2020.

In 2019, I started the Bitcoin Core PR Review Club to help newer contributors learn about the Bitcoin Core review process.