Jimmy Song

Jimmy Song is a Venture Partner for Blockchain Capital, the general partner of Blockchain Capital’s venture funds. Jimmy, a Bitcoin Core developer, brings more than 20 years’ of deep technical expertise, programming, and development experience to the firm.

Prior to joining Blockchain Capital, Jimmy served as a developer and programmer at more than a dozen start-ups. Most recently, he served as principal architect at Paxos and vice president of engineering at Amory Technologies, where he managed the development of enterprise-level Bitcoin wallet software. Jimmy started in Bitcoin Development in 2013 and has worked on numerous Bitcoin projects such as Bitcoin Core, btcd, Armory, pycoin and colored coins. Jimmy teaches developers how to program Bitcoin through his seminar Programming Blockchain. He is the editor and author of popular blog, Bitcoin Tech Talk and YouTube Off Chain with Jimmy Song.

Jimmy earned his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan.

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