Sources

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

• URL: archivist.storage
• Key fact: Archivist is the first project of Durability Labs. Jessie Santiago is listed as COO and Co-Founder of Durability Labs.
• Used on: about, Archivist, Durability Labs, timeline

2. X / Twitter Profile

• URL: x.com/JessieBroke
• Key fact: @JessieBroke X/Twitter profile exists and is active.
• Used on: contact, elsewhere

3. GitHub Profile

• URL: github.com/jessiebroke
• Key fact: github.com/jessiebroke profile exists.
• Used on: contact, elsewhere

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, Logos, 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

• URL: x.com/DurabilityLabs
• Key fact: @DurabilityLabs X account exists. Durability Labs is the company co-founded by Jessie Santiago, Mark Spanbroek, and Dmitriy Ryajov. Archivist is its first project.
• Used on: Durability Labs, Archivist, elsewhere, about, index

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, Logos

9. Amazon — The Bitcoin Podcast

• URL: Amazon — The Bitcoin Podcast
• Key fact: Co-host of The Bitcoin Podcast Network since 2017, part-owner since 2020. One of the oldest crypto podcasts.
• Used on: about, index, timeline, elsewhere, index, writing seeds

10. Hashing It Out

• URL: thebitcoinpodcast.com, YouTube
• Key fact: Co-host of “Hashing It Out” podcast (2018–present) — deep technical blockchain infrastructure interviews. Now merged with The Bitcoin Podcast content.
• Used on: about, timeline, elsewhere, index, writing seeds

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

• URL: ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37087351928
• Key fact: Jessie Lee C. Santiago has an IEEE Xplore author profile with published work.
• Used on: about

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

• URL: Quantum journal, arXiv:1905.09749
• Key fact: 2048-bit RSA can be factored in 8 hours using 20 million noisy physical qubits (superconducting, 10⁻³ gate error rate).
• Used on: Quantum and Bitcoin

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

• URL: ionq.com/roadmap, IonQ blog
• Key fact: Targets 10,000 physical / 800 logical qubits by 2027, 2M+ physical / 40,000–80,000 logical by 2030. Trapped-ion architecture.
• Used on: Quantum and Bitcoin

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)

• URL: NIST announcement
• Key fact: Three PQC standards finalized August 13, 2024: ML-KEM (FIPS 203), ML-DSA (FIPS 204), SLH-DSA (FIPS 205).
• Used on: Quantum and Bitcoin

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. Archivist Whitepaper

• URL: docs.archivist.storage/learn/whitepaper
• Key fact: Reed-Solomon erasure coding with systematic encoding. Groth16 ZK-SNARKs with Poseidon2 hashing. CTMC reliability model targeting p_loss = 10⁻⁹ with k=16, m=4, e=1.25. DDE framework (Redundancy, Auditing, Repair, Incentives, Dispersal). Local encoding at rate > 0.5 enables ~10-sample proof detection. Targets consumer hardware (NUCs, laptops).
• Used on: The Hard Drive and the Bus

28. Archivist Architecture Docs

• URL: docs.archivist.storage/learn/architecture
• Key fact: Three node types: Storage Nodes (stake collateral, prove possession), Client Nodes (request storage/retrieval), Aggregator Nodes (offload erasure coding/proof generation, planned). Stochastic proof scheduling, lazy repair, expanding-window slot dispersal.
• Used on: The Hard Drive and the Bus

29. Optimum — High-Performance Memory Infrastructure

• URL: getoptimum.xyz
• Key fact: “The world’s first high-performance memory infrastructure for any blockchain.” Uses Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC), co-invented by CTO Muriel Médard at MIT. Products: mump2p (pub-sub protocol for block/tx propagation), DeRAM (decentralized RAM layer, coming soon). Operates via Flexnodes — “can be run by anyone and permissionlessly connect to any blockchain.”
• Used on: The Hard Drive and the Bus

30. Optimum Documentation

• URL: docs.getoptimum.xyz
• Key fact: Technical docs covering mump2p protocol research (gossip, transport, decentralized access), DeRAM research (atomicity/consistency, decentralized data storage), and getting started guides.
• Used on: The Hard Drive and the Bus

31. Wikipedia — Linear Network Coding

• URL: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_network_coding
• Key fact: RLNC allows intermediate nodes to recode without decoding. Decoding requires Gaussian elimination over random coefficient matrix — O(n³) with generation size. Each coded symbol carries coefficient vector overhead.
• Used on: The Hard Drive and the Bus

32. 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

33. Vitalik Buterin, Tweet on DAOs

• URL: x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2013145235447042067
• Key fact: Vitalik argues for “different and better DAOs”: DAOs to “get projects off the ground quickly” and for “long-term project maintenance.”
• Used on: Data DAOs

34. Vitalik Buterin, Concave vs. Convex (Moving Beyond Coin Voting Governance)

• URL: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/11/08/concave.html
• Key fact: Concave decisions benefit from robustness and averaging; convex decisions benefit from decisive leadership. Framework for when decentralized governance outperforms centralized.
• Used on: Data DAOs

35. Griff Green on The Bitcoin Podcast, The DAO History

• URL: thebitcoinpodcast.com episode
• Key fact: Griff Green discusses The DAO’s 2016 history: the original $150M experiment and its collapse. Lessons on DAO governance complexity.
• Used on: Data DAOs

36. Myrient, Retro Game Archive

• URL: myrient.erista.me
• Key fact: One of the largest retro game archives on the internet. Community-maintained.
• Used on: Data DAOs

37. Hachette v. Internet Archive

• URL: Wikipedia
• Key fact: Legal case threatening the Internet Archive’s lending practices. Illustrates existential risks to centralized digital archives.
• Used on: Data DAOs

38. The DAO (2016)

• URL: Wikipedia
• Key fact: Decentralized autonomous organization on Ethereum that raised ~$150M in 2016 before being exploited. Led to the Ethereum hard fork.
• Used on: Data DAOs

39. Archivist Desktop / Pilot

• URL: pilot.archivist.storage
• Key fact: Archivist Desktop application for running consumer-grade storage provider nodes.
• Used on: Data DAOs, Data DAO

40. Riff.cc, Threshold Funding

• URL: riff.cc/docs/concepts/threshold-funding
• Key fact: Two-stage funding model. Production threshold: fans subscribe ($10/year),onceenoughsubscribe,productionbeginsandsupportersgetthedrop.Commonsthreshold:afterearningasetamount($250k example), work releases under Creative Commons non-commercial. Platform takes 0% by default, optional opt-in contribution.
• Used on: Data DAOs

41. RareSkills, EIP-1167 Minimal Proxy Standard

• URL: RareSkills EIP-1167 guide
• Key fact: EIP-1167 defines a minimal bytecode proxy that delegates all calls to a known implementation contract. Enables cheap clone deployments (factory pattern) where each clone shares logic but has isolated storage.
• Used on: Data DAOs