Mike Belshe

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Mike Belshe is an American software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded BitGo in 2013, the leading institutional Bitcoin custody and multi-signature wallet company. Before Bitcoin, he was a senior engineer at Google and co-created the SPDY protocol that became HTTP/2. Belshe has been a longtime advocate for Bitcoin self-custody and multi-signature security, and under his leadership BitGo became the dominant institutional Bitcoin custodian used by exchanges, funds, and corporations worldwide. He remains CEO of BitGo.

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Role: CEO and Co-founder of BitGo
Twitter: mikebelshe
Known For: Co-founded BitGo in 2013; pioneer of institutional Bitcoin multi-signature custody; former Google engineer who co-created SPDY/HTTP2
Nationality: American
Twitter Handle: mikebelshe

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