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<p><b>Jed McCaleb</b> (* <a href="8._Juni" title="8. Juni">8. Juni</a> <a href="1975" title="1975">1975</a> in <a href="Fayetteville_(Arkansas)" title="Fayetteville (Arkansas)">Fayetteville</a>, Arkansas) ist ein US-amerikanischer Programmierer und Unternehmer. Er ist Gründer, Vorsitzender und ehemaliger CEO des Luft- und Raumfahrt-Startups <a href="Vast_(Unternehmen)" title="Vast (Unternehmen)">Vast</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> sowie Mitbegründer und CTO von <a href="Stellar_(Bezahlsystem)" title="Stellar (Bezahlsystem)">Stellar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Vor der Gründung von Stellar gründete McCaleb das Unternehmen <a href="Ripple_(Geldsystem)" title="Ripple (Geldsystem)">Ripple</a> und war bis 2013 dessen CTO. McCaleb ist auch für die Gründung der Bitcoin-Börse <a href="Mt.Gox" title="Mt.Gox">Mt.Gox</a> und der Peer-to-Peer-Netzwerke <a href="EDonkey" class="mw-redirect" title="EDonkey">eDonkey</a> und Overnet sowie der Anwendung eDonkey2000 bekannt.
</p><p>Im März 2025 kündigte er an, mit eigenem Vermögen eine eigene <a href="Raumstation" title="Raumstation">Raumstation</a> als Nachfolge der <a href="ISS" class="mw-redirect" title="ISS">ISS</a> zu entwickeln.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>McCaleb studierte an der <a href="University_of_California%2C_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a>. Im März 2024 betrug das Vermögen McCalebs laut der <a href="Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a>-<a href="The_World%E2%80%99s_Billionaires" title="The World’s Billionaires">Liste der Milliardäre</a> 2,9 Milliarden US-Dollar.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230110005431/en/Vast-Space-Becomes-the-Newest-Member-of-Space-Beach">https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230110005431/en/Vast-Space-Becomes-the-Newest-Member-of-Space-Beach</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.vastspace.com/team">https://www.vastspace.com/team</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/21/an-early-bitcoin-pioneer-predicts-how-the-blockchain-will-change-banking.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/21/an-early-bitcoin-pioneer-predicts-how-the-blockchain-will-change-banking.html</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-25/krypto-milliardar-jed-mccaleb-will-mit-eigener-raumstation-die-iss-ersetzen">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-25/krypto-milliardar-jed-mccaleb-will-mit-eigener-raumstation-die-iss-ersetzen</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/jed-mccaleb/">https://www.forbes.com/profile/jed-mccaleb/</a></span>
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