Jeff Garzik

Jeff Garzik is an American Red Hat engineer and Bitcoin developer. He studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology and currently is employed by Red Hat as a kernel developer. He is also the founder of BitcoinWatch, a website for statistics in Bitcoin.

Garzik wrote the original push-pool daemon used by all of the pooled miners today. He's also the original author of ethtool. As an advocate of Austrian economics, Garzik argues that the deflationary aspect of bitcoin makes it a superior currency and that the decentralized nature means it's a fairer means of commerce.

As a kernel developer, Garzik has been responsible for working on a variety of Linux kernel development areas, including the networking and chipset parts.