Age: 40 years old
Place of residence: San Francisco, USA
Activity: programmer, founder of Ripple Labs, Inc. and stellar.org
Website: http://jedmccaleb.com/
One of the founders of Ripple and generally a very productive developer. It was he who founded the first cryptocurrency exchange called MtGox, but left the project before it began active trading. Next was the eDonkey file hosting service, and then the OpenCoin project, which was later renamed Ripple. Considering that the ambitious plan turned into a commercial product, the main developer left Ripple Labs. Jed McCaleb did not agree with tight centralization and did not just abandon his brainchild, but created a worthy competitor for him called Stellar.