Jared Tate is an entrepreneur, based in Austin, Texas. He is known as the Founder of DigiByte, an open-source and highly decentralized global blockchain that hosts DGB Coin, DigiAssets, Digi-ID, and more.

Jared Tate]]]was born and raised in a small town in Idaho. He learned the basics of computer programming and web design at an early age from his mother, who is a Computer scientist charged with maintaining sophisticated nuclear computer systems for the Federal government of the United States. ^[5]

Jared is a graduate of the College of Idaho and Utah Valley University. While at the College of Idaho, he became a member of the Kappa Sigma as well as a competitor on the men’s swim team while majoring in Psychology & Business administration. He became an Eagle Scout, earned his pilot’s license, was captain of both the football and basketball teams, and was elected student body president during his senior year.^[4]

After graduating from high school, Jared received multiple nominations to the United States Air Force, Naval, and Military academies. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point for a short time before transferring back to Army ROTC at the College of Idaho, where he contracted with the Idaho Air National Guard.^[1]

Jared is a certified personal trainer (ACSM) and enjoys multiple sports including snowboarding, swimming, and taekwondo. He is a licensed fixed-wing pilot with over thirty hours of helicopter flight training and is currently finishing a degree in the Aviation Administration. ^[2]

Jared has been involved with Bitcoin since 2012. In mid-2013, he decided to make several improvements to the Bitcoin core protocol which culminated in the launch of DigiByte on January 10th, 2014. DigiByte has pioneered many blockchain enhancements such has DigiShield, MultiShield & MultiAlgo which have all now been implemented by many other blockchains.^[3]