Matthew Corallo

Matthew Corallo is a long-time Bitcoin developer and one of Blockstream’s co-founders, having been an author on our sidechain white paper and engineer on its design. He was a co-founder of Blockstream before he started working on open source projects for Bitcoin at Chaincode Labs in New York. Mr. Corallo is an active contributor to Bitcoin Core, as well as the creator and maintainer of the Fast Internet Bitcoin Relay Engine (FIBRE), a protocol and implementation designed to relay blocks around the globe at the speed of light. Matthew worked for Chain Code Labs, contributing to Bitcoin Core and other open-source Bitcoin projects full-time and advises Blockstream on a number of technical projects and initiatives. Currently, he works at Square as an open source engineer. He moonlights as a Whisper Systems developer andresearches secure hardware.