Part 1 Advanced The Market Maker’s Exchange Checklist (Liquidity, Latency, and Risk Controls) Market makers and HFT desks: evaluate exchanges on execution quality, liquidity, latency, fees, margin, and security — with a WhiteBIT walkthrough. Open guide Jake Yocom-Piatt Bio
Jake Yocom-Piatt is Project Lead for Decred, cryptocurrency pioneer who has been using, funding and directing the creation of open-source software for 10+ years, he has been an expert source for the Chicago Tribune and a variety of industry publications. He has also been a frequent panelist and has taught workshops on cryptocurrency governance.
Prior to Decred, Jake funded and oversaw the creation of btcsuite, an alternative full-node Bitcoin implementation written in go, whose source code has been used in several other notable projects, e.g. Lightning Network Daemon (lnd), Ethereum, Factom. He also is a co-creator of zkc, a high-security asynchronous chat system.
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- University of Chicago Master of Science (M.S.), Physics2002-2004
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics1998-2002
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