About Chia
Chia Network is a decentralized open source global blockchain which is less wasteful, more decentralized, and more secure. It is inspired and similar to the Bitcoin blockchain, but in Chia the resource is not computing power, but disk space. To achieve this, the “proofs of work” used in Bitcoin are replaced by “proofs of space”, so disk-space becomes the main resource. This is combined with “proofs of time” to come to a decentralized “Nakamoto-style” consensus that validates transactions.
Leadership Team
Bram Cohen
CTO, Chairman & Co-Founder
Creator of BitTorrent, which grew to over 40% of Internet Traffic.
Mitch Edwards
CFO & GC
Ex-acting CEO and General Counsel Overstock.com, CFO and General Counsel, Skullcandy and BitTorrent.
Gene Hoffman
SVP Corporate Development
CEO/Founder Vindicia, sold to Amdocs and eMusic, sold to Vivendi Universal. PGP, Inc., Director Business Development.
Advisors
Dan Boneh
Research Partner at a16z Crypto and Professor at Stanford University where he leads the Applied Cryptography group and co-leads the Computer Security Lab.
Katie Haun
Andreessen Horowitz General Partner, Coinbase, Haun led investigations into the Mt. Gox hack and corrupt agents on the Silk Road task force.
Elizabeth Stark
CEO of Lightning Labs and former lecturer of law and entrepreneurship at Stanford and Yale.
Our Investors
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