Yetta seeks to scale and deploy several years of Research and Development within the European Union on Blockchain Technology and supporting applications sponsored by the European Commission and developed by the Dyne.org team.
yetta (ÿ) is a global monetary innovation advancing the current state of the art in digital currency, payment systems, and decentralized smart contract applications. The Yetta Blockchain enhances the features of Bitcoin by providing three levels of irreversibility, multi-signature encryption, more scalable and faster transaction speed, and a more energy-efficient Blockchain consensus.
First, we are releasing the Yetta Blockchain based on a Proof of Trust (PoT) consensus algorithm and the Yetta Virtual Machine based upon the DECODE OS developed by the European Union. We will deploy in-house designed and developed real-world Decentralized Applications (D-Apps) spanning across the Social and Civic Sectors as well as the Public and Private Sectors.
Yetta introduces a progressive monetary system that expands economic activity, encourages trade, fosters job creation, and raises education and living standards throughout the world. We are missioned to advance social and human development and economic wellness leveraging disruptive and transformative Blockchain technology, smart contracts, and similar innovative technologies.
yetta (ÿ) is a Hebrew name meaning “ruler of the household,” where, in this context, ruler is money and household is the global economy.
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Mac Lackey is a serial entrepreneur who has built numerous companies with five exits.
Mr. Lackey and his companies have been featured nationally on CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Business North Carolina, USA Today and The New York Times.
Mr. Lackey was a collegiate All-American and played professional soccer before starting his first Internet company in 1995.
Most recently Mr. Lackey founded KYCK.com, Inc in 2011. KYCK was acquired by NBC Sports in 2016.
From 2008 until 2013 Mr. Lackey served as a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee for Lending Tree (NASDAQ: TREE). During this time he also co-founded and still serves as Chairman of ISL Futbol, LLC.
In 2003 Mr. Lackey co-founded Mountain Khakis, LLC a premiere outdoor lifestyle brand. After becoming one of the fastest growing brands in the specialty outdoor industry Mountain Khakis was acquired by Remington Outdoor Company and Cerberus in 2010 and later sold to Black Diamond in 2015.
Mr. Lackey also co-founded BlackHawk Capital Management (a multi-strategy hedge fund platform) and served as a director and majority owner of Teton Gravity Research, Sector111 and various other early stage businesses).
Mr. Lackey is the former Founder and CEO of ettain group, a Technology Services Organization based in Charlotte, NC with additional offices in Jacksonville, Dallas and Atlanta. ettain group was created when Mr. Lackey executed the merger of two regional technology companies (ettain, Inc. and TechSolutions, LLC). With revenues exceeding $100m in recent years ettain group was acquired by New Mainstream Capital.
Mr. Lackey served as President and CEO of TeamTalk Media Group, PLC's (London Exchange: TTK) North American operations. TeamTalk Media Group acquired The InternetSoccer Network, a sports technology company founded by Mr. Lackey.
Mr. Lackey served as a Senior Vice President for iXL, Inc. (Nasdaq: IIXL) after iXL acquired Mr. Lackey’s company, InTouch Interactive in 1998.
To learn more about Mac Lackey, visit MacLackey.com
Darrell Hubbard is a serial entrepreneur as well as an experienced technologist, an innovator, and a business architect.
At age 21, he was the youngest USA Expert within the American National Standards Institute to represent the United States of America internationally in proposing and negotiating various Internet-related standards.
As a Chief Architect with AT&T Bell Laboratories, he represented AT&T and served as a member of the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) working on the standardization and release of the Internet TCP/IP Protocol.
Darrell has managed over $160 Million in Information Technology projects as the Head of IT for AT&T’s Chief Financial Officer Organization reporting directly to the CFO Board of Directors.
He founded Medic Systems, a leading solutions provider of a fully integrated Electronic Medical Record system for hospitals and physician offices. Darrell was featured in PC Today Magazine for the innovation and development of the MedicMate technology.
In 2002, Darrell founded Vertron Corporation, a boutique management and IT consulting firm for venture-backed startups and fortune 500 clients. His clients include Toyota, Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Amgen, McKesson, Philips Healthcare, Hewlett Packard, and Dell Computers to name a few.
Darrell is a founding Board Member of Yobi Capital Fund Corporation.
Darrell also served as a Chairperson in the International Standards Organization (ISO).
Darrell started college at the age of 16, completed his Bachelors in Computer Science at the age of 18, and his Masters in Computer Science at the age of 19.
Darrell has a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School.
Marco Sachy is a Cryptocurrency and distributed ledger designer with expertise in monetary theory and policy, social-purpose complementary currency systems, and qualitative research for agile user experience. Mr. Sachy is a renown public speaker in various contexts - academic, business, social activist, cultural and policymaking, for instance at the United Nations Institute for Social Development.
Professional Experience:2010-present: Dyne.org Foundation, Amsterdam (http://dyne.org/). Since 2010, volunteer as main curator of and public speaker for the monetary observatory on the future of money DYNDY (www.dyndy.net). From 2013 onwards, as an in-house consultant at Dyne.org, he wrote and won two bids for EU-funded projects for Collective Awareness Platforms, which became the data set for the fieldwork of his PhD research.
2016-present: Poverty, Income and Employment News (PIE News project) - digital cryptocurrency designer to test Yetta on the Commonfare.net platform with pilots in Italy, Croatia and the Netherlands (http://pieproject.eu/; http://commonfare.net/).
2013-2016: Decentralized Citizens Engagement Technologies (DCENT project) - digital cryptocurrency designer building the DCENT platform with pilots in Iceland (Social Krónas: a reward scheme for e-participatory budgeting), Finland (Multapaakku: a self-remuneration scheme for community-supported agriculture) and Spain (Eurocat: a regional complementary currency for SMEs in Catalunya) (http://tools.dcentproject.eu/)
Education:BA - Philosophy of Language, University of Studies, Milan (2008) - Thesis: Transformational-generative grammar: an epistemological framework.
MA- Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam (2010) - Thesis: Rethinking the Nature of Money for 21st Century Monetary Economics.
PhD - University of Leicester School of Business, Ph.D Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant (2017). Thesis: Money for the Common Wealth of the Multitude: Toward a User-managed Currency and Payment System Design.
Denis ‘Jaromil’ Roio, PhD is a researcher in philosophy of technology, artist and software artisan whose creations are endorsed by the Free Software Foundation.
Jaromil is an artist, hacker and activist inspired by the free and open source software” ethics; his artworks and theoretical publications focus on computer viruses, live poetry, ASCII art, digital video and independent media practices.
He is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Dyne.org, a non-profit free software foundry with more than 15 years of expertise in developing tools and narratives for community empowerment.
Jaromil is a senior developer, creator of the dyne: bolic operating system and more software applications commonly found on GNU/Linux/BSD distributions.
In 2009 he was awarded with the Vilém Flusser Award.
Stephen has been active in the field of Complementary Currencies since 1991, 18 years before the arrival of Bitcoin.
Stephen has developed a strong track record in developing and growing Blockchain startups and advising ICOs during with their fundraising campaigns. He has held official positions and fundraising roles at PowerLedger.io, PundiX.com, Bitwala.com, Cryptstart.com, CryptolandPR.com, and CEFund.io.
Stephen is a Founding member of New Money Systems at the Lifeboat Foundation, Academic Journal board member for over 10 years, to reviewing "Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies" for the Princeton University Press, to discussing the design of Ripple Classic before it was first coded, founding member of Bitcoins in Bali, Certified Digital Currency Professional, Graduate of University of Nicosia Course in Digital Currencies, Founder of Blockchain education website Coin Academy in 2014, and much more.
Stephen’s work has been presented in several publications including "The Future of Money," "The End of Money and the Future of Civilization," "Healthy Money, Healthy Planet," “New Money for a New World,” and “Rethinking Money: How New Currencies turn Scarcity into Prosperity.”
Bernard Lietaer PhD, author of The Future of Money (translated in 18 languages), is an international expert in the design and implementation of currency systems. He has studied and worked in the field of money for more than 30 years in an unusually broad range of capacities including as a Central Banker, a fund manager, a university professor, and a consultant to governments in numerous countries, multinational corporations, and community organizations.
He co-designed and implemented the convergence mechanism to the single European currency system (the Euro) and served as president of the Electronic Payment System at the National Bank of Belgium (the Belgian Central Bank). He co-founded and managed GaiaCorp, a top performing currency fund whose profits funded investments in environmental projects.
A former professor of International Finance at the University of Louvain, he has also taught at Sonoma State University and Naropa University. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources of the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a member of the Club of Rome, a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, the World Business Academy, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Bernard Lietaer has written numerous books and articles about money systems, including Of Human Wealth (forthcoming, 2011), Monnaies Régionales (2008), and The Mystery of Money (2000).
Mr. Lietaer serves as the Chief Monetary Architect and Foundation Council President of Bancor Network.
Roberto is a lawyer at R&P Legal. Roberto moved his first steps as a lawyer operating in corporate and business law gaining high experiences in international contracts. Over the past 20 years he then consolidated his expertise in the charity and social business sector deepening new areas of legal advice in innovation field both entrepreneurial and social.
He gained solid experience in innovative startups and not-for-profit entities advices with particular attention to impact investing, social finance and social business matters. Roberto now advises several major entities from the social business sector on their development and management, as well as on fundraising, extraordinary transactions, tax and accounting matters both in Europe and in emerging countries.
As part of his wider involvement in this sector, he has developed and driven through new legal forms taking a leading position as adviser on charity law and social enterprises on both the national and international stage.
After over ten years as lecturer at Bocconi University and SDA Bocconi Master in Social Enterprises, Non profit Organizations & Cooperatives Management, he’s now Social Innovation lecturer Polytechnic of Milan. Author of many publications and papers in no-profit law and impact investing. Since 2012 he is Honorary Consul for the Republic of Uganda in Milan.
After working as a Management and Information Technology Consultant for Ernst and Young (EY), Sven joined Swisscom Blockchain as their Head of ICO Advisory. In this role, Sven evaluates hundreds of Blockchain and ICO Companies, provides recommendations and guidance on the Swiss Regulatory and Compliance requirements, and help Blockchain startups position themselves for a successful ICO and market entrance. He also assists ICOs with their business development, marketing, and fundraising activities.
Sven has a Bachelors Degree from Reutlingen University.
Dr. Jem Bendell is a Professor of Sustainability Leadership, founder of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (www.iflas.info). A consultant, researcher and educator on social and organisational change, with 20 years of experience on sustainable development.
Now specialising in leadership development, sustainable innovation and digital currencies. Recognised as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. With 100+ published texts, latest book is "Healing Capitalism".
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President, Foundation Council, Bancor
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