Jon Evans is the CTO of the software consultancy HappyFunCorp and TechCrunch's weekly columnist, writing about (and occasionally writing code for) blockchains since 2011; an award-winning and widely published novelist; a journalist who has traveled to more than 100 countries and reported from Iraq, Haiti, Colombia, and the Congo; a University of Waterloo electrical engineering alumnus; and the founding director of the GitHub Archive Program.