Every factual claim on this site traces back to one of these sources. If something isn’t listed here, it’s marked with a TODO.

Source Index

1. Archivist Website

2. X / Twitter Profile

3. GitHub Profile

4. Institute of Free Technology (IFT)

  • URL: free.technology
  • Key fact: Portfolio company created by Status to house Waku (private messaging), Codex (private storage, originally Dagger), and Nomos (private consensus/execution, originally also called Logos). Jessie Santiago was the first Logos Program Manager (April 2021 – June 2025).
  • Used on: about, timeline, now, elsewhere, Logoss, writing seeds

5. Algorand Reddit Post

  • URL: r/AlgorandOfficial post
  • Key fact: “We’re building a Dad DAO” — posted on Algorand subreddit, February 2022. Project was partially built but never launched.
  • Used on: timeline, writing seeds

6. Civic AMA Event

  • URL: coindar.org event listing
  • Key fact: Civic held an AMA on X on March 25. Connection to Jessie Santiago implied by inclusion in this content pack.
  • Used on: timeline, writing seeds

7. Durability Labs X Account

8. Devfolio Profile

  • URL: devfolio.co/@jessiebroke
  • Key fact: Location: Atlanta, US. Role: Program Manager. Skills: Python, JS, React, C++, Arduino. Robotics background (3D-printed/CNC/laser-cut parts, embedded controllers). Working on Codex. 1 hackathon attended.
  • Used on: about, now, contact, elsewhere, Logoss

9. Amazon — The Bitcoin Podcast

10. Hashing It Out

11. Bitcoin Podcast Network About Page (compiled)

  • URL: (compiled from search snippets, Amazon, and Apple Podcasts listings)
  • Key fact: Robotics researcher. Master’s in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University. Passion for teaching & building machines. Worked at consultant engineering firm. Side projects in image-processing, ML, and Ethereum.
  • Used on: about, index, timeline, writing seeds

12. Clemson Digital Commons — MS Thesis

  • URL: open.clemson.edu/all_theses/2169
  • Key fact: MS thesis: “Continuum Robots for Space Applications Based on Layer-Jamming Scales with Stiffness Capability.” Author: Jessie Lee C. Santiago. May 2015. Advisor: Dr. Ian Walker. Committee: Dr. Keith Green, Dr. Richard Groff. PDF (78.8 MB).
  • Used on: about, timeline

13. IEEE Xplore Author Profile

14. SlideShare Resume (2016)

  • URL: SlideShare resume (Jul 2016)
  • Key fact: Full name: Jessie Lee C. Santiago. BS + MS in EE from Clemson. EE Designer. Teaching Assistant. IEEE Robotics. FE Exam passed May 2015. MS granted May 2015.
  • Used on: about, timeline

15. LinkedIn Profile

  • URL: LinkedIn
  • Key fact: Headline: “Ex-Engineer/Podcast Host/Co…” — confirms career arc from engineering to crypto/media.
  • Used on: about, contact, elsewhere

16. Dad-DAO GitHub Org & coin.fyi Summary

  • URL: Dad-DAO GitHub org, coin.fyi summary
  • Key fact: Dad DAO started with Michael “The Trosen One” Trosen & Demetrick “Fergulati” Ferguson. Intended as a paid learning community & incubator. Built NFTs on ARC-69 and created ARC-333 metadata standard for NFT-controlled DAO governance, but never launched a token or the NFT collection.
  • Used on: timeline, index, writing seeds, notes

17. Bitcoin Podcast Network Episode Pages

  • URL: (various episode listings)
  • Key fact: “Just the Headers” — weekly crypto headline show co-hosted with Dee (Demetrick Ferguson).
  • Used on: index, writing seeds

18. Roetteler et al. (2017) — Quantum Resource Estimates for ECC

  • URL: arXiv:1706.06752
  • Key fact: Shor’s algorithm on n-bit ECC requires at most 9n + 2⌈log₂(n)⌉ + 10 logical qubits. For secp256k1 (n=256): 2,330 logical qubits. Authors: Roetteler, Naehrig, Svore, Lauter (Microsoft Research). Published at ASIACRYPT 2017.
  • Used on: Quantum and Bitcoin

19. Gidney & Ekerå (2021) — Factoring RSA with 20M Qubits

20. Gidney (2025) — Factoring RSA with <1M Qubits

  • URL: arXiv:2505.15917
  • Key fact: 2048-bit RSA can be factored with fewer than 1 million noisy physical qubits in under one week. 20x qubit reduction from 2021 estimate via algorithmic improvements. Author: Craig Gidney (Google).
  • Used on: Quantum and Bitcoin

21. Webber et al. (2022) — Hardware Specs for Quantum Advantage

  • URL: AVS Quantum Science, arXiv:2108.12371
  • Key fact: Breaking a Bitcoin secp256k1 key within 1 hour requires ~317 million physical qubits. Within 24 hours: ~13 million. Authors: Webber, Elfving, Weidt, Hensinger (University of Sussex / Universal Quantum).
  • Used on: Quantum and Bitcoin

22. IonQ Quantum Roadmap

23. IBM Quantum Roadmap (Starling / Blue Jay)

  • URL: IBM Quantum blog, IBM newsroom
  • Key fact: Starling: 200 logical qubits / 100M gates by 2029. Blue Jay: 2,000 logical qubits / 1B gates by 2033. Shifting from surface codes to qLDPC codes (up to 90% overhead reduction).
  • Used on: Quantum and Bitcoin

24. NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards (FIPS 203/204/205)

25. Santiago, Walker, Godage (2015) — IEEE Aerospace Conference

  • URL: IEEE Xplore
  • Key fact: “Continuum robots for space applications based on layer-jamming scales with stiffening capability.” Authors: Jessie Lee C. Santiago, Ian D. Walker, Isuru S. Godage. 2015 IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 2015. DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2015.7118897.
  • Used on: about, timeline

26. Santiago, Godage, Gonthina, Walker (2016) — Soft Robotics

  • URL: DOI 10.1089/soro.2015.0021
  • Key fact: “Soft Robots and Kangaroo Tails: Modulating Compliance in Continuum Structures Through Mechanical Layer Jamming.” Authors: Jessie Lee C. Santiago, Isuru S. Godage, Phanideep Gonthina, Ian D. Walker. Soft Robotics, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 54–63, 2016.
  • Used on: about, timeline

27. NIST IR 8547 — Post-Quantum Transition Timeline

  • URL: NIST IR 8547
  • Key fact: Classical public-key algorithms (RSA, ECDSA, EdDSA, ECDH) deprecated by 2030, disallowed by 2035. Includes secp256k1.
  • Used on: Quantum and Bitcoin