Jay Laurence

Reddcoin (RDD) Project Core Development Team Co-Leader. Working with fluid and dynamic Redd Core team to facilitate development, solve challenges, and bring Reddcoin (RDD)'s vision of being the pre-eminent social cryptocurrency. Project management and prioritization of initiatives for the platform and evolving ecosystem. With a rich and dramatic history since 2014, a unique algorithm (Proof-of-Stake-Velocity), eco-friendly desktop and rPi staking replacing wasteful mining, and interest-like staking payments of 5% annually, Reddcoin is poised to revolutionize the way users interact on and among social networks. - Conceptualization and design of major strategic initiatives; evolution of PoSV consensus mechanism, staking characteristics and network economics. - Research and business development into potatenial and proferred corproate and project partnerships. - Marketing & PR team management; insight into intangible aspects of branding and messaging impirtant to the crypto psace specifically, and its evolution, more broadly. - Team mentoring and guidance in all functional areas with regard to project flavor and messaging. - Direct social media engagement on myriad channels. Exploration of new channels and systems. - Engagement of project stakeholders and expectation management both for internal and community action. - High energy and enthusiasm required to partner with multiple stakeholders and ability to work with a high degree of ambiguity. - Complex project and resource management and prioritization of initiatives for the platform and evolving ecosystem. - Capable of exercising forceful yet sensible leadership; willing to make tough/unpopular decisions. And of course, willing to admit mistakes and own failure when required. Open, honorable, and transparent with a motivating desire to protect user experience and affinity, building community across the crypto space.

As Content Director at FreshCredit.com, I am privileged to lead a dynamic team in the strategic creation and curation of compelling content that resonates with the innovative essence of the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. With a distinguished career in crypto/blockchain spanning over 13 years, and a prior 20 years in IT, infrastructure and security, I bring a wealth of industry 'street cred', profound insights, and a robust network to this pivotal role.

"Stanford Blockchain recognizes that relationships matter, that the strength of the networks built across borders aid both local and international ecosystems alike. For that reason, we prioritize the development of strong ties with jurisdictions that seek to foster collaboration." https://stanfordweb3.org/mentors https://onchainlab.ai/experts-list/

Leveraging a decade in foundational and advisory roles across the blockchain & cryptocurrency space, responsible for offering insight, strategy, direction to Alliance board to assist in accelerating DigiByte's (DGB) success as a global digital currency.

2018 - Participated in a global Think Tank of decision and policy makers from the blockchain and crypto world. A place of professional discussion, a platform of 30 experts, 500 professionals, proactive investors, and startups. The ICO pitch phase gave a unique opportunity to 17 startups to present their ideas in front of the world’s valuable investors. 2 winning startups: LiveTree and Photochain won and are now blockchain cpmanies in their own right.

As an early adopter of blockchain and crypto concepts, I and a number of others were uniquely positioned to facilitate the creation of what ultimately blossomed into projects like BitShares (BTS), STEEM,PeerPlays (PPY), other Graphene-based platforms and projects, and ultimately, arguably, EOS. Along the way, failed projects like VOTE, MUSIC, PLAY and others contributed to serious work in the field, though ultimately evolving into other forms. The original concept of a social contract entitling first investors to a claimable percentage of tokens in the future developments and offshoots of that project were enticing, and surely brought expertise and excitement to the work. Certainly the cryptosphere was changed by its existence. There is extensive debate on how that social contract has played out since, an object lesson in idealism vs reality in the crypto space.

SHA256 & Scrypt Miner, Peer Community Technical Support Discovered the tech and concepts behind blockchain and bitcoin in 2011 and haven't looked back.

Assisted in initial chain startup, witness node operations, block validation and coordinated decentralized chain initiation. Also provided initial PPY (PeerPlays) stake and technical expertise to other witnesses to allow their successful participation. Among top block producing witnesses until withdrawal from project in 2018. https://peerplaysblockchain.info/explorer/accounts/techadept-witness/

Helped establish blockchain on DPoS (Graphene) blockchain underlying new music/artist benefit platform. Ended involvement after corporate interests began leveraging for position in distributed witness pool.

Class of 1994, Biochemistry, Premedical focus. Did not graduate. Leave of absence (indefinite) 1992-Present