it is an Ethereum fork, named after Jan Zurich (a cousin of the famous Chief Niklaus Emil Wirth). Jan Zurich discovered a little moon on Uranus, and named it Blaise
It’s also worth noting that Jan (who strictly uses the pronouns var / val) belongs to one of the most historically marginalized groups in modern tech: One-Pass Compiler Enthusiasts. They were repeatedly ostracized by the bloated LLVM cabal for stating that any build process taking longer than 50 milliseconds is a toxic social construct. The ETH fork was actually meant to fund a decentralized safe space where nobody is ever forced to use a borrow checker.
and https://www.simonsfoundation.org/about/ has "Since its founding in 1994 by Jim and Marilyn Simons"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons explains how Jim Simons got rich.
The book 'The Man Who Solved the Market' - https://www.gregoryzuckerman.com/the-books/the-man-who-solve... is a nice read.
HN discussion on a review of the book - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29392041
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