About Chris McCoy

Chris McCoy is the founder and curator of Data4America, a nonpartisan platform advancing understanding of American innovation and public policy. He is also the Founder and CEO of STORE Research Inc.
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Chris McCoy is a systems architect who created the STORE protocol and founded Data4America to address policy challenges through technological implementation and data-driven analysis. His two-decade track record of anticipating technological shifts—from social platforms to blockchain to AI governance—provides unique forecasting perspective for policy research, combining theoretical insight with proven execution at civilizational scale.

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In 2017, Chris McCoy connected something nobody had: Alexander Hamilton's 1787 constitutional design and Leslie Lamport's 1982 Byzantine Fault Tolerance mathematics are the same solution to the same problem, discovered 195 years apart. He built the system and governed it. Since 2020: $30 million in real economic decisions, 126 governors across 30 countries, zero constitutional violations, fully audited.

The framework applied to American policy is called Trusted America: GDP growth exceeding debt growth, surplus distributed through mathematical allocation, 40 percent to families, 33 percent to America's future, 25 percent to debt reduction, 1 percent to democracy, 1 percent to allies. The partner everyone wants, not the bully everyone fears. When America wins, you get paid.

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Chris McCoy is the founder of constitutional mathematics, the field proving that the mathematics governing American democracy for 238 years can govern artificial intelligence, and the founder and curator of Data4America.

In 2017, McCoy formalized something nobody had connected: Alexander Hamilton's 1787 constitutional design and Leslie Lamport's 1982 Byzantine Fault Tolerance mathematics are independent solutions to the same problem, distributed agreement under adversarial conditions. No faction above one-third. Two-thirds consensus required. Same threshold. 195 years apart. Neither knew about the other. The Founders encoded distributed systems mathematics into the Constitution before computer science existed.

Rather than publishing a paper and moving on, McCoy built the system and governed it. Since 2020: $30 million in real economic decisions, 126 governors across 30 countries, zero constitutional violations, fully audited. He brought it to community scale through Hilander Democracy in Kelso, Washington: 97 percent community approval.

Trusted America is McCoy's comprehensive policy framework applying constitutional mathematics to American competitiveness. When America wins, you get paid. GDP growth exceeding debt growth. Surplus distributed through mathematical allocation: 40 percent to families, 33 percent to America's future, 25 percent to debt reduction, 1 percent to democracy, 1 percent to allies. The method is symbiosis, deals where all parties agree and everyone gains strength. The partner everyone wants, not the bully everyone fears.

Every policy must pass the three-part test: would this work for someone back in Kelso AND strengthen America's position globally AND help democratic capitalism set the rules for AI?

McCoy grew up on food stamps, free lunch, and Medicaid in Kelso, Washington, a timber town that lost jobs and never fully replaced them. If a policy does not work for working families, it does not ship.

Data4America advances this systematic approach to policy analysis across monetary systems, economic growth, housing, cryptocurrency regulation, and AI governance, addressed through mathematical optimization rather than political compromise.

As co-inventor of the BlockFinBFT consensus algorithm (two US patents, 16 citing entities including IBM, Mastercard International, Capital One, Ant Group, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) and Founder and CEO of STORE Research Inc., McCoy bridges constitutional mathematics with modern governance challenges.

McCoy is the second cousin three times removed of two-time Nobel laureate Linus Pauling (Chemistry 1954, Peace 1962).

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Chris McCoy is the founder and curator of Data4America, a nonpartisan platform advancing understanding of American innovation and public policy. He is also the Founder and CEO of STORE Research Inc.
Chris McCoy is the founder and curator of Data4America, a nonpartisan platform advancing understanding of American innovation and public policy. He is also the Founder and CEO of STORE Research Inc.Chris McCoy is the founder and curator of Data4America, a nonpartisan platform advancing understanding of American innovation and public policy. He is also the Founder and CEO of STORE Research Inc.Chris McCoy is the founder and curator of Data4America, a nonpartisan platform advancing understanding of American innovation and public policy. He is also the Founder and CEO of STORE Research Inc.Chris McCoy is the founder and curator of Data4America, a nonpartisan platform advancing understanding of American innovation and public policy. He is also the Founder and CEO of STORE Research Inc.

Lifemap of Chris McCoy

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Childhood in Kelso and Longview WA (1983-1998)
  • Grows up in a rural town with a single mother and two brothers
  • Survives a car accident - age 5, causing a lifelong neck injury (kept secret from him)
  • Starts his first business - age 6 (selling plums)
  • Develops a love for reading and intellectual pursuits as an escape from family challenges
  • Discovers his second cousin twice removed, Linus Pauling, is the only two-time solo Nobel Prize winner (Chemistry, Peace) - age 10
  • Moves in with his grandfather Jack - age 14
High School Years (1998-2002)
  • Elected a Washington DECA state officer
  • Becomes a highly-recruited baseball prospect, throwing a 91+ mph fastball
  • Neck injury resurfaces, causing a significant drop in fastball velocity
  • Elected Washington DECA State President
  • Signs to play baseball for the Washington Huskies
  • Wins National DECA Presidency and takes a gap year to serve
College Years at the University of Washington (2002-2006)
  • Redshirts on the baseball team but retires to pursue tech entrepreneurship
  • Starts a baseball training and e-commerce business called PitchSmarter
  • Co-founds I Love Baseball, a non-profit in the Dominican Republic
Early Entrepreneurial Ventures (2006-2012)
  • Sells baseball business to start his first tech company, a social network for sports history (YourSports)
  • Co-founds I Love Baseball, a non-profit in the Dominican Republic
Building Sports While Exploring Policy and Data (2012-2014)
  • Builds up the social network to 4mm semantically connected sports, interest, and geographical networks
  • Recognized by Marc Andreessen as one of "55 Unknown Rockstars in Tech"
  • Starts Data4America, a nonprofit exploring policy and data
  • Files for a Bitcoin-based wallet patent, beginning his crypto innovation journey
Footprint and the Birth of STORE (2014-2018)
  • Retires from YourSports and starts Footprint, a chat system for franchises & chains
  • Marries Ciara, a native San Franciscan and UCLA track star (steeplechaser!)
  • Realizes the potential of zero-fee settlement in the app layer
  • Begins engineering STORE, a decentralized democracy, and designing BlockFinBFT consensus algorithm
  • Twin daughters born
Building and Launching STORE (2018-Present)
  • Builds STORE, a democratized cloud
  • Receives U.S. patent for BlockFinBFT
  • Ships permanent storage+ on STORE and launches the first verifiable, high-performance cloud (governed by BFT Democracy)• Finally leans in to his connection to the Pauling family's intellectual legacy
  • Happily raises twin girls+ in 🌉 with Ciara

Hear The Podcast

2020
Automation Displacement, Education Reform and a New Take on Universal Basic Income with Bradley Tusk
A 68-minute conversation between Bradley Tusk and Chris McCoy on the future of work, public education and his idea for a universal basic income policy
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2016
Stranger Than Fiction? Policy and Technology Solutions for Climate Change with Ramez Naam
An 46-minute conversation between Ramez Naam and Chris McCoy on his science fiction work, public policy, and clean energy solutions
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2016
Musings on the Role of Technology in Education Reform with Michael Gibson
An 84-minute conversation between Michael Gibson and Chris McCoy on regulation, education reform, and his time at the Thiel Foundation
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