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Jutta Steiner: Visionary Behind Polkadot And Parity

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Jutta Steiner

Jutta Steiner is the CEO and co-founder of Parity Technologies, the developer of one of the most advanced Ethereum clients.

She is also one of the co-founders of Project Provenance Ltd. a London-based start-up that uses blockchain technology to make the supply chains more transparent.

In this article, we will look at the career and personal opinions of one of the most influential female figures in the cryptocurrency world who also happened to be honored by the news website TechCrunch for being one of the Hottest Blockchain Startup founders, making her one well-deserving to be referred to as someone with both the beauty and the brains.

Jutta Steiner: Career paths

Her first encounter with Bitcoin technology was in 2014 while she was doing her research about state-of-the-art encryption technology that could be used for sharing data.

Jutta was a mathematician by training, holding a PhD in Applied Mathematics. She worked as a management consultant before venturing into the world of cryptocurrencies.

She oversaw network security for the Ethereum Foundation between 2014 and 2016 assuming the role of Chief of Security prior to the launch of the public blockchain network in 2015.

Jutta Steiner

This was when she came across the autonomous data network and blockchain-based platform “MaidSafe” from where she discovered Ethereum.

Jutta later built Parity technologies in 2015 to develop the technology that will become the foundation for the decentralized future of the web tagged as “Web 3.0”

She worked as the CEO of Parity Technologies and was tasked with spearheading a group of over 40 people in various tasks of both internal and external nature.

According to reports from a company insider, it was confirmed that Jutta Steiner had left the company Parity Technologies somewhere around 2021 and was due to be replaced by Gavin Wood, one of the co-founders of the Ethereum blockchain.

The current whereabouts of the crypto entrepreneur are largely unknown to most people in the crypto world but it seems like she is not too hard of a figure to contact looking at her presence on social media platforms like “X”.

Personal opinions and thoughts of Jutta Steiner

The paragraph below talks about the observations you can make about Jutta Steiner based on her views about a lot of things including blockchain transparency, market evaluation, personal involvement in trading, and even socially relevant things like the involvement of women in the crypto world.

She shows her excitement when talking about the newer token projects in the Bitcoin market like “OSCoin” which aims to provide funding and support for developers dealing with the creation of various open-source projects.

One of her concerns when looking at the potential of Bitcoin networks seems to be the problems that we will have to deal with if it is used with the wrong intentions.

The goal set for the protocol Pokadot, as described in her own words is to build the multi-chain framework that her company Parity is tasked with building. The goal is far from becoming a reality, but the potential for the technology and the ground for innovation is very vast.

We can formulate a lot of opinions and come to conclusions about her nature as a CEO of one the biggest and most impactful companies in the sphere of cryptocurrency through the number of interviews and talks she has given on a number of subjects including the cryptocurrency market, thoughts on leadership and even the role women working in the Cryptocurrency and blockchain market have to play.

In one of the interviews she gave to Cointelegraph, she talked about a varied number of such things as mentioned above.

One of the things she talked about was how important it was to convince people that the mechanisms that make technologies like Facebook, Instagram, or any other platforms of not the ideal way to make sure that your data is being protected and safeguarded.

In this interview, she also talked about having to convince the government to take measures regarding the adoption of blockchain technology and how she balances her life as a CEO of a multimillion-dollar company, as a mother, and as an influencer to younger generations of women.

Final Thoughts

Jutta Steiner is undoubtedly one of the most successful and influential figures in the field of cryptocurrency and technology. Her contributions as one of the more multifaceted individuals to the world must not be overlooked. 

Her journey has always been through the path that’s less traveled by most women thus it adds another dimension to her life and career that must be looked up to and celebrated.

Stephen Carter

Stephen Carter is a software technology expert. He writes about market research on various hot topics like cryptocurrencies, explaining how they started. He's good at making complicated tech ideas easy to understand for everyone.

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