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Former Bitcoin Core developer. Currently (Aug 2017) a figure of controversy due to his role as lead developer for the SegWit2X scaling compromise.

Medium bio:

> Husband, father, futurist, author, bitcoin core developer, Linux kernel engineer, cloud computing hacker, armchair foreign policy nerd, kinda sorta libertarian.

Twitter bio

> Husband, father, builder, co-founder @BloqInc, proud son of a USMC F-4 pilot.

## Links

* [@jgarzik on Twitter](https://twitter.com/jgarzik)
* [Jeff Garzik on Medium](https://medium.com/@jgarzik)
* [Jeff Garzik on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffgarzik/)