Jerry Chan

Jerry Chan

Jerry D. Chan is a 14 year veteran of Wall Street Technology, having worked as Vice President of Goldman Sachs FICC Technology, and 3 years at JPMorgan Forex Trading Tech. He ventured out into Bitcoin technology for a couple of years before leading the blockchain strategic initiatives at SBI Group focusing on building their custodial wallet platform and SBI Virtual Currency exchange. Jerry was formerly the Chief Product Officer of blockchain infrastructure and service provider TAAL Distributed Information Technologies Inc. He is a General Partner of TwoHop, a venture capital fund focusing on startups building on the Bitcoin SV ecosystem. Jerry currently works as a blockchain consultant, and still contributes to  digital asset blogs and podcasts such as the Bitcoin Capitalist in his spare time.

Articles By Jerry Chan:

Growing Tree in a shape of a bitcoin sign
Tech 6 August 2021

BSV as a green technology

The growing problem of the massive energy footprint of Bitcoin is starting to be the focus in the public eye of both digital currency advocates and critics.

BSV as a store of value—seriously!
Business 30 July 2021

BSV as a store of value—seriously!

The reason why discussing BSV as a store of value needed to wait until the other value propositions were discussed first has to do with the nature of the way in which BSV can ever become a store of value.

BSV as a store of value
Tech 26 July 2021

BSV as a store of value

If it were to eventually become a good store of value, it would be an emergent quality and not an intrinsic one, Jerry Chan writes.

Key and binary code password
Tech 15 July 2021

BSV as a secure transport protocol

In this second part of the “BSV as a” series, Jerry Chan examines the similarities of BSV to a networking protocol and its potential to act as a foundation for a new economy.

Nodes
Editorial 8 July 2021

BSV as a data standard

If BSV is going to be something other than just another Ponzi scheme, then the blockchain must be used for something other than just a store of value, Jerry Chan writes.

this-is-what-teranode-is-about-50k-tps-1
Tech 9 June 2021

This is what Teranode is about (+50k TPS)

On a day which saw the Demo-Gods’ smile upon him, Steve Shadders was able to demonstrate a 4-cluster Teranode process over 50,000 txn/s before the latency delay rose above 100ms.

Bitcoin logo in the center of a blockchain background
Tech 4 February 2021

Data gardening on the Bitcoin blockchain

Jerry Chan addresses some of the commonly repeated things about blockchain data, while also discussing data permanence on the Bitcoin blockchain.

what-is-p2sh-and-why-must-it-go
Tech 24 January 2020

What is P2SH? And why must it go?

Sunsetting P2SH will finally reset Bitcoin 99% of the way back to the original design as defined by the whitepaper and its original goal as a global peer-to-peer cash system.

The future ecosystem of Bitcoin
Editorial 20 January 2020

The future ecosystem of Bitcoin

Jerry Chan of Bitcoin Association clarifies the incorrect assumption that all nodes on the Bitcoin network are all supposed to be equal.

economic-security-in-the-bitcoin-game
Editorial 18 December 2019

Economic security in the Bitcoin game

Jerry Chan, Bitcoin Association general manager for Japan and South Korea, discusses why the security of cryptocurrency systems are economic in basis.