Hello, I'm Will

My Background

Books

• Learn How to Code, Editor: Learn How to Code is a free e-book with everything a person would need to know to get started or level up as a web developer.

• Maintaining Open Source Projects, Editor: There are many aspects to fostering an open source project -- building community, promoting the library, maintaining good communication, among other factors. This book is a take on how to create, grow and maintain a successful open source project.

• Mastering Bitcoin, Editor: Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos covers the technical foundations of bitcoin and other cryptographic currencies, from cryptography basics, such as keys and addresses, to the data structures, network protocols and the consensus mechanism ("mining") that underpin bitcoin. Each technical topic is explained with user stories, analogies and examples, and code snippets illustrating the key concepts.

• Mastering Ethereum, Editor: Mastering Ethereum by Andreas Antonopoulos is a book for developers, offering a guide to the operation and use of the Ethereum Open Blockchain.

Teaching

• Stanford University, Bitcoin Engineering (CS251P): CS251 tackles the applied side of Bitcoin with a focus on practical projects. Students go through a series of Bitcoin-based labs, each of which are focused on a single practical problem that they'd encounter while trying to use Bitcoin. Over the course of going through these labs, students learn how to use Bitcoin mining chips in conjunction with Bitcoin-based software to build micropayments-based applications that work with an internet-connected device. The goal of the class it to help students gain the practical knowledge required to build fairly sophisticated hardware and software applications that require intimate knowledge of the Bitcoin protocol.

Open Source

• Base: An Ethereum L2, incubated by Coinbase and built on the open-source OP Stack.

• Bitcoin Core: Bitcoin Core is a reference client of bitcoin. Initially, the software was published by Satoshi Nakamoto under the name Bitcoin, then Bitcoin-Qt and later renamed to Bitcoin Core. It is also known as the Satoshi client. It is a full client used by bitcoin nodes that create the bitcoin network. Through the changes to Bitcoin Core, its developers make changes to the underlying bitcoin protocol.

• Bitcoin.org: Bitcoin.org was originally registered and owned by Satoshi Nakamoto and Martti Malmi. When Satoshi left the project, he gave ownership of the domain to additional people, separate from the Bitcoin developers, to spread responsibility and prevent any one person or group from easily gaining control over the Bitcoin project. Since then, the site has been developed and maintained by different members of the Bitcoin community. On GitHub, there have been over 3,200 commits from 180 contributors. Over 950 translators have helped make the site natively display in 25 different languages. Bitcoin.org receives tens of millions of visits a year.

• Congo Developers Club: The Congo Developers Club is an online place where developers across Congo and Central Africa can exchange ideas, experiences and opportunities in the field of computer science and personal / professional development.

• European Space Agency (ESA): The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe's gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.

• Fedora Project: The Fedora Project is a project sponsored by Red Hat primarily to coordinate the development of the Linux-based Fedora operating system, operating with the vision that the project creates a world where free culture is welcoming and widespread, collaboration is commonplace, and people control their content and devices. The project also oversees Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux.

• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL): The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in the City of La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States. Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA and managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology.

• Python: Python is a high-level, interpreted, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation. Python is dynamically-typed and garbage-collected. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including structured, object-oriented and functional programming.

• Ruby: Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming. According to the creator, Ruby was influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, Basic, and Lisp.

• Ruby on Rails: Ruby on Rails, or Rails, is a server-side web application framework written in Ruby. It is a model–view–controller (MVC) framework, providing default structures for a database, a web service and web pages. It encourages and facilitates the use of web standards such as JSON or XML for data transfer, HTML, CSS and JavaScript for user interfacing.

Clients

• 21 / Earn: Based in Silicon Valley, California, and founded in 2013, Earn.com (formerly known as 21), enables micropayments with bitcoin-payable APIs, and microtasks between users via their paid messaging platform. In the past, the company has also experimented with embeddable mining chips that can be integrated into internet-connected devices, supporting a continuous stream of digital currency for use in a wide variety of applications.

• Accenture: Accenture is a multinational professional services company that provides services in strategy, consulting, digital, and technology-related operations.

• Alameda Research: Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets.

• ALEX: ALEX is a decentralized platform for projects on Stacks to access community funding and the resources of the ecosystem.

• Arkadiko: Arkadiko is a decentralized, non-custodial liquidity protocol where users can collateralize their STX tokens and borrow a stablecoin called USDA.

• Ava Labs: AVA is a next-generation blockchain platform with revolutionary scalability, decentralization, security, and flexibility.

• Binance: Binance is a global cryptocurrency exchange that provides a platform for trading more than 100 cryptocurrencies.

• BitPesa: BitPesa is an online payment platform launched in 2013. It's headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya with office operations in Lagos, London, Luxembourg and Dakar. BitPesa offers real-time settlement at wholesale FX rates to frontier and emerging markets.

• Bitvavo: Bitvavo is a large digital asset exchange in the Netherlands and a leading European cryptocurrency exchange.

• Blockchain: Blockchain is a cryptocurrency wallet and block explorer service. Launched in August 2011, the service provides wallets, data on recent transactions, mined blocks in the bitcoin blockchain, charts on the bitc