Founder
Mike Carson is the founder of Spaces Protocol, a decentralized naming system built on Bitcoin that empowers users with control and privacy over their online identities. He is also the owner of Friendster.com, the first ever social network which he plans on rebooting & giving users control over their usernames and data. Prior to founding Spaces Protocol, Carson founded and successfully exited Park.io, a domain name backordering service, and co-founded WizeHive, which grew to $10 million in revenue before being acquired by a private equity firm. With a robust background in technology, Carson has acquired and managed three ICANN-accredited domain registrars and has worked with various ccTLD registries, including facilitating .ai's transition to EPP. Carson has been involved in the Bitcoin community since 2013, managed one of the first 50 nodes on the Lightning network and made the third purchase ever for physical goods on the network.Carson studied computer science at the College of Wooster and the University of Minnesota and has been active with technology for the last 15 years both as a developer and entrepreneur.