Jameson Lopp

Jameson Lopp is an American cypherpunk, software engineer, columnist, and Bitcoin advocate. Lopp is co-founder and CTO of bitcoin security provider Casa. Prior to joining Casa, Lopp served as software engineer at BitGo.

Lopp has been publicly involved in cryptocurrency dating back to 2012 and involved with Casa since 2018.

Lopp was the subject of a swatting attack in October 2017. As a result of the attack, Lopp made the decision to live off-the-grid, which has been written about in The New York Times. In the effort, Lopp purchased a decoy house, created a number of business entities, and paid private investigators to try and locate him. Lopp's whereabouts remain unknown.

Jameson is a graduate of Mount Tabor High School. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he majored in computer science. Jameson earned his degree in 2007.

Jameson worked at Bronto Software first as a web developer and then as a software engineer from 2007-2015. Currently, he is a software engineer at Bitgo, a Bitcoin security platform.

As of November 2018, he was the chief technology officer of the crypto startup Casa.

Lopp is most notable for his decision to live off-the-grid, which has been written about in the The New York Times.

Jameson contributes regularly to coindesk.com as well as authors posts on Medium. He is particularly active on Twitter and has over 160,000 followers on the platform. He offers free Bitcoin education resources on his website.

In his interest to know and make known both users and novices the Bitcoin network, Lopp founded Bitcoin GIS in December 2013. This center functioned as a public access to a well-rounded library of cryptocurrency-focused resources.

Later in 2014, he created an open source fork in Bitcoin Core that allowed him to have more information about the internal operations that the nodes. Thus, with said fork, you could record the network metrics in a more usable and understandable format. He then created a public access to this platform on Satoshi.info, where other users could measure their interactions on the network. This mechanism transforms the data into graphics through the interface Grafana. A powerful tool for building dashboards that is quite complex but intuitive to be used by both novice and highly qualified users.

In 2015 he joined BitGo, a company known for the development of multi-signature wallets. Lopp played a key role in the development of this company and was an ambassador committed to publicizing its products. But in November 2018 he announced he was leaving BitGo and was named chief technology officer for the crypto startup Home Inc. A relatively new wallet project where Lopp hopes to take technology to a new level.

He has also contributed regularly to Coindesk.com, as well as publications by authors on Medium. Lopp is particularly active on the platform Twitter where he has more than 160,000 followers. Furthermore, Lopp offers free Bitcoin educational resources on its website.