Tadge Dryja
Lecturer at MIT Digital Currency Initiative
Tadge Dryja is the co-author of the Bitcoin Lightning Network, founder of Lightning Labs, and a lecturer the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. In addition to the Lightning Network, he has developed Discreet Log Contracts, a Bitcoin-native smart contract mechanism, as well as Utreexo, a protocol which makes fully validating Bitcoin nodes smaller and faster, allowing nodes to run on more limited hardware.