Agenda

Zack Shapiro is the Managing Partner at Rains LLP and leads the law practice and advises Bitcoin-focused startups. He also serves as Head of Policy at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, and is the Executive Director of the Peer-to-Peer Rights Fund. Zack is a graduate of Williams College and Yale Law School, and started his legal career clerking in the federal courts for the S.D.N.Y. and the 2nd Circuit, and at Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Tor Ekeland is a leading criminal defense lawyer in the Bitcoin space and one of the earliest attorneys to take Bitcoin seriously as both technology and money. Long before “crypto law” was a practice area, Tor was advising and defending clients where code, finance, and criminal law collide. As far as is publicly known, he was among the first lawyers anywhere in the world to accept Bitcoin as payment for legal services.

Over the past decade, Tor has been at the center of some of the most consequential Bitcoin-related criminal cases, representing developers, operators, and individuals in matters that have helped define how non-custodial software and privacy-preserving tools are treated under the law. His work is frequently cited and closely watched because it sits right at the edge of where regulation ends and overreach begins.

Tor is known for combining deep technical understanding with aggressive, principled defense work, and for consistently challenging expansive enforcement theories that threaten open-source development and individual privacy. He is a leading advocate for Bitcoin, privacy, and the legal risks facing developers building decentralized systems.

Gary A. Vecchiarelli brings more than two decades of experience in finance and accounting to CleanSpark as its president and chief financial officer. Gary supports the chief executive officer by overseeing financial strategy, treasury operations, capital markets activities, and legal and compliance, while also driving organizational execution, operational excellence, and cross-functional alignment as president. He has guided the company through numerous acquisitions and executed strategic debt financing, resulting in low debt. Throughout his career, Gary held senior positions with multiple publicly traded, high-growth companies ranging in size from $50 million to over $1 billion. Gary opened BDO’s Las Vegas audit practice before leading finance operations for Golden Entertainment and Galaxy Gaming. He was most recently the chief financial officer for Imatrex, a high-tech medical imaging solutions company. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business with an emphasis in accounting from San Jose State University.

Founder, Owner and CEO of CES Corporation, Chuck L’Ecuyer is a third-generation electrician with over 20 years of experience in project operations. Since founding CES in 2011, he has grown the company from the ground up, assembling a team of skilled professionals across Engineering, Manufacturing, and Construction to deliver complete, multidisciplinary EPCM services.

In 2019, Chuck led the development of the Intelliflex product line—an advanced, fully integrated modular solution purpose-built for next-generation computing. Originally designed to meet the demanding needs of blockchain and cloud infrastructure, the Intelliflex platform has since expanded to power cutting-edge AI factories and high-density modular data centers. Engineered for rapid deployment and scalability, Intelliflex enables clients to fast-track infrastructure rollouts and accelerate return on investment.

Bitcoin enthusiast and community builder. Co-founder of Orange Pill Peru, organizer of Bitcoin Charlotte, HODLween, and Bitcoin markets in Charlotte, NC, Motiv Peru Ambassador. Known for bringing the heat (literally) to Bitcoiners worldwide with Delgado’s Fuego hot sauce. Stacking sats, spreading adoption, and adding spice—one block at a time. ₿

Passionate about community! Serving: Thank God for Bitcoin, the Philadelphia Bitcoin Jawn meetup, other local meetups, builder of BlockTron, dispeller of Quantum FUD, stranded energy mining and home heat punk advocate.

Liz Parrish is the Events Coordinator for Bitcoin Bay and former contributor to Bitcoin Charlotte, where she created HODLween. After nearly a decade as a traffic engineer in Washington, D.C., she transitioned into Bitcoin to focus on building high impact grassroots communities. Liz designs welcoming, design forward events that make Bitcoin accessible for newcomers while strengthening connection across the pleb community. She has also collaborated with the Beef Initiative, supporting decentralization, food sovereignty, and local ranchers within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Chris Kuiper is VP of Research for Fidelity Digital Assets®, which provides enterprise-grade digital asset solutions for institutional investors. Chris contributes to and oversees the research creation process, working closely with sales and marketing to provide leading education and resources to clients.

Prior to joining Fidelity Digital Assets®, Chris served as Vice President of equity research at CFRA Research, one of the largest independent global investment research providers. There he covered financial exchanges as well as payment and fintech companies, while also expanding CFRA’s research capabilities to include digital assets and led the creation of CFRA’s research methodology. Chris also previously served as a research analyst at various asset management firms, as well as a research fellow at the Mercatus Center, a university-based public policy research center where he focused on technology- and finance-related public policy issues.

Chris holds an MA in Economics from George Mason University as well as a BA in Business Administration from Dordt University. Chris Kuiper is a CFA® charterholder.

Sam Callahan is Director of Strategy & Research at OranjeBTC, where he oversees the company’s Bitcoin treasury strategy and education initiatives. He previously served as Vice President at Battery Finance and Lead Analyst at Swan Bitcoin. He holds a degree in Biology from Indiana University Bloomington and has collaborated with Lyn Alden on research spanning Bitcoin and macroeconomics. He also serves on the advisory boards of MARA Digital Holdings, LQwD Technologies, and Cantilever Advisors.

Greg Cipolaro is the Global Head of Research at NYDIG, where he leads the firm’s macro, market, and digital-asset research. Previously, the Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Asset Research (DAR), Greg also held investment and research roles at Balyasny, Robeco Investment Management, Salomon Smith Barney (Citigroup), and Prudential Securities. He holds both an MBA and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Rapha Zagury is the Founder & CEO of Elektron Energy, a company focused on scaling the Bitcoin network. He is a builder and coder with a deep financial background, a longtime Bitcoiner, and a sound money advocate, widely recognized for his expertise in the Bitcoin mining industry. Before founding Elektron Energy, he held senior roles in traditional finance, including Vice President at Goldman Sachs and Managing Director positions at Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank. He earned an MBA from Yale.

Kent Halliburton began his career transforming the energy landscape through rooftop solar, pioneering the first residential power purchase agreement, and driving innovation in distributed energy. Recognizing similar disruptive potential in Bitcoin, he now serves as CEO and Co-Founder of Sazmining.

Sazmining's Bitcoin Mining as a Service provides clients direct access to the Bitcoin network, allowing them to mine "wild sats" without relying on exchanges. Driven by renewable energy and fully aligned with client success, Sazmining is redefining the future of sustainable, purpose-driven Bitcoin mining.

Matt Prusak, President of American Bitcoin (NASDAQ: ABTC), brings execution-focused leadership to bitcoin accumulation at scale. American Bitcoin is a pure-play bitcoin accumulator combining the best of mining operations and treasury strategies to maximize shareholder value. Previously, Matt served as CEO of Ionic Digital and Chief Commercial Officer of both Hut 8 (NASDAQ: HUT) and US Bitcoin Corp., where he helped build industry-leading North American bitcoin operations. During the pandemic, he demonstrated his operational capabilities by scaling Curative to deliver COVID testing nationwide. Before entering the Bitcoin space, Matt advised clients on capital markets, technology, and infrastructure projects at Bain & Company. A Schwarzman Scholar with a Stanford MBA, Matt is focused on building ABTC into a dominant bitcoin accumulator – strengthening America's position in digital assets and creating sustainable value in a competitive global landscape.

partner - Ten31
cofounder - OpenSats
founding board - Bitcoin Policy Institute

Bruce is CEO of the investment holding company Chainstone Labs. Bruce has been full time in Bitcoin since 2013 when he was Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation. He has over 30 years financial and investing experience and owns Atlantic Financial, a Registered Investment Advisor. Fenton is a liberty and free market advocate and ran for US Senate for New Hampshire in 2022. Fenton is the host of the Satoshi Roundtable, now in its 13th year, an annual event bringing together leading Founders, CEOs, and developers in the fintech and Bitcoin ecosystem.

Luke Rudkowski is the founder of We Are Change, a nonpartisan, independent media organization dedicated to exposing corruption and reporting truthfully on worldwide events. Luke is a journalist, entrepreneur and investor who has been using, covering and promoting Bitcoin for more than decade. Luke is also a self-defense instructor. His reports can be viewed at youtube.com/wearechange.

Started buying in 2021, haven't stopped since.

Aaron Arnold is the host/founder of Altcoin Daily a Bitcoin & crypto focused YouTube channel with over 3M+ followers (across multiple platforms) where he & his brother Austin share news, analysis, & opinion.

Altcoin Daily is the largest crypto YouTube channel in the US (& top 3 in the world) with a trusted 6 year reputation in the space.

Aaron is also a core on-camera contributor for TheStreet's Bitcoin/crypto arm as well as producer & on-camera judge for Killer Whales (a Shark Tank like crypto show) which premiered this year on Apple TV, Amazon, & other streaming services world wide.

Aaron bought his first Bitcoin in 2016 (a very small amount) and after learning more and more about it went 'full time' in bitcoin, crypto, & YouTube in 2018.

"Bitcoin is future. It's important to me to make sure you know: what Bitcoin is, why Bitcoin is revolutionary, how Bitcoin is different from other crypto assets, and overall give you an edge in this nascent industry exploding with growth!"

Austin, host/co-founder of Altcoin Daily, runs one of the largest crypto media companies on the internet. Started back in 2018 with the goal of demystifying the crypto market, Austin & his brother Aaron share news, opinion, and education. With over 3M+ subscribers across all social platforms, Altcoin Daily is your one stop shop for all your daily bitcoin & crypto news.

Head of Engineering at Vinteum and OpenSats grantee. I work on Bitcoin Core, bitcoinfuzz and other projects. Mostly working to make Bitcoin projects safe and reliable.

Larry is a Bitcoin educator and the lead instructor for the Bitcoin 101 course at BTC Isla. He is also a co-organizer of the Albany, NY Bitcoin Meetup.

Author of the book Bitcoin Circular Economies.
Cofounder of Bitcoin4Humanity, Bitcoin Institute of philosophy and economy (IFEB), La Bitcoineta and the Rootstock Bitcoin sidechain.

Author of The Bitcoin Tao

Asia’s fastest growing physical Bitcoin community

Red is a software engineer working in Bitcoin. From covering bitcoin and bitcoin-related networks at Messari, to building out the data pipeline for Bitcoin Layers, to building BTC DCA roundup tools for degen traders on Solana with Lemondrop, and now to working with the Taproot Wizards team.

Aviral Shukla is the founder of Altair Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering from Purdue University and has prior work experience with Intel Corporation and Bayer AG. Aviral holds multiple US Patents in the field of data science and his work is widely published and cited in a multitude of peer-reviewed publications. Aviral started mining Bitcoin in 2016 in St. Charles, Missouri. What started as a hobby with a few ASIC miners in his basement, slowly grew into a megawatt scale mining operation. Aviral founded Altair Technology in 2021 with a goal to simplify hardware procurement and demystify bitcoin mining for new miners. Altair Technology is one of the largest US-based retailers of commercial and home mining hardware.

Bitcoiner working to bring open source back to Bitcoin mining.

Leo Wang leads public markets strategy, corporate development, and corporate communications at Canaan Inc., a Nasdaq-listed, Singapore-headquartered Bitcoin infrastructure company with a global footprint and a strong focus on the United States.
He brings over a decade of senior leadership experience across fundraising, investment, and capital markets at high-growth companies. Leo began his career in law and is a graduate of Columbia Law School. He is admitted to the New York State Bar.

Previous BD, Education, and Marketing at Unchained. Passionate about individual freedom and self custody.

Carla Bitcoin is an eccentric woman who combines her skills in theater, music, writing, and video production to create satirical and educational content around bitcoin and current events. She loves to make people laugh, cry and cringe. You’ll find her wearing orange.

As a CEO of Plan B passport Katie helps Bitcoiners from all over the world to obtain a second citizenship for their benefit.
Mother of two. Former pro-sailor.

A physician with libertarian and Austrian leanings my entire life. At the tail end of my clinical training in Neurology, the GFC of 2008 reinvigorated my interest in alternatives to central banking, and in 2013 I went fully down the rabbit hole. Satoshi solved for the permissionless p2p transfer of value, and for the past decade-plus I've been obsessed with its twin problem, the final frontier of freedom tech: the permissionless p2p transfer of trusted information.

William Casarin is the founder of Damus, building decentralized social media applications designed to give users control over their online experience—without algorithms or gatekeepers. He has been involved in bitcoin since 2010, beginning as a miner before contributing to Bitcoin Core and the Lightning Network. William is passionate about the future of bitcoin and the development of decentralized protocols.

Jeff Gardner is a Nostr developer focused on freedom tech. He is the creator of the Marmot protocol, which brings together the MLS protocol and Nostr's decentralized network to enable highly efficient and secure group communications. He is founder of White Noise, an end-to-end encrypted messaging app using Marmot, and is a founding member of And Other Stuff, a Nostr & Bitcoin builder collective. His work is supported by grants from the Human Rights Foundation and OpenSats.

Chief Financial Officer for BTC Inc (2022 - present)

Bitcoin operator and systems builder with several years of hands-on experience running bitcoin at scale inside operating companies. As Head of Operations at Fedi, led execution across treasury, controls, finance and organizational scaling including navigating the realities of holding bitcoin on the balance sheet through volatile market conditions. Focused on building durable financial systems that work under pressure, not just in theory.

Štěpán Uherík has served as CFO of Trezor since 2017, leading the company’s global financial, manufacturing, and Bitcoin strategy. A veteran of multiple Bitcoin bull and bear cycles, he combines battle-tested market experience with a deep commitment to personal freedom and open, sovereign technologies.

I started with Bitcoin in 2012. At first, I was just interested in the fact that it was easily accessible and could be transferred anywhere without any verification. This is what made me stick with it. I quickly delved deeper into Bitcoin, purchasing my first miner and experimenting with it. I wrote some basic scripts to make use of my miner. Initially, Bitcoin was not what it is for me today. It started as an online currency that was nice to have and turned into something that is necessary for me today. After finishing my Business Computer Science degree in 2022, I wrote more and more code, and eventually discovered the Bitaxe project, which hooked me. I instantly understood why open source is so important, and why Bitcoin is so far removed from open source these days. I became a contributor and then a maintainer, and now I am the lead software developer of this project. I am driving forward innovation and updates for anyone interested in using open-source mining equipment.

Mike is a mathematician and entrepreneur with a passion for using cryptography to solve problems in global finance. Until 2021 Mike served as CTO of DigitalX, an international cryptocurrency firm which became the first publicly listed crypto company in the world when it IPO’d on the Australian Stock Exchange in 2013. While at DigitalX, Mike built a Bitcoin mining operation which at its peak owned 4% of the Bitcoin network’s hashpower and led a team to develop an international remittances and custody solution using Bitcoin.

Mike has 15 years of experience in cybersecurity and protocol design and serves as an advisor to several prominent companies and open-source projects in the crypto space, including Zcash, Mobilecoin, and CoinPoker. Mike is also the founder of ARGO, an automated market maker for use on crypto markets, and Manucci Capital, a DeFi-focused hedge fund.

Since 2021, Mike has acted as an expert consultant for multiple insurance and reinsurance providers, evaluating the security risks of digital asset custody operations. Mike joined Evertas in 2025 to help develop a general framework for evaluating custody and infrastructure risks to emerging tech companies.

niftynei started working in bitcoin in 2018 as part of the engineering team at CashApp. Since then, she's worked on Lightning at Blockstream and founded two foundational projects for the bitcoin developer ecosystem: bitcoin++ a global conference showcasing the cutting edge of bitcoin and Base58 a 501c3 nonprofit focused on translating the bitcoin protocol into technical mastery for the next generation.

In 2008, my family lost everything in the Great Financial Crisis. We were born and raised in Detroit and in the automotive industry. My husband lost his Tier 1 supplier job, my antique shop fell apart because everyone lost their jobs. There was no money. I started going to Chicago to sell my goods. It was a place that wasn't dependent on one industry. Pretty soon we decided to move permanently. We lost our house, literally everything and started over in the Chicago burbs with our 3 kids in an apartment. I built my own business from scratch there, The Vintage Garage and my husband had to work midnights in a shop for a few years until he could quit and work with me. We worked hard, got our kids in great schools, then-

in 2015 I bought $100 worth of Bitcoin and promptly forgot about this "internet money." In 2017, someone asked if I’d heard about Bitcoin, and I thought, “I’ve got some of that.” I go hunt it down and that 100 bucks is worth $4700! That was a TON of money for us. It sent me down the rabbit hole, what is it, why did it do this, and what’s it going to do next? So I hung on for the ride and tried to add. I made plenty of mistakes along the way. But Bitcoin taught me about money and finance and how the world works. It changed our lives for the better. We literally thought we'd never be able to retire, now we've got a shot at it. :)

I’m a 16-year-old high school junior in Florida, athlete, and founder of Tidy Tails. My focus is on Bitcoin, health, and helping Gen Z think bigger and start earlier. I actively teach peers how fiat money works, where it comes from, and why missing these basics can leave young people at a disadvantage when entering adult life. I believe my generation listens differently when the message comes from someone living it in real time, and I’m committed to helping more young people take control of their future.

John’s visionary leadership shines through in the development of BitcoinDay Naples, and other BitcoinDay events in Florida. With a strong network of experts and innovative companies in the local Bitcoin ecosystem, John is known for his ability to forge collaboration and inspire innovation. Additionally, John is VP at Curated Mining, a Naples-based Bitcoin mining company, and also leads a vibrant meetup group of over 600 members, demonstrating his commitment to community development and the balance of professional success with Naples culture.

Ali Tager is the Vice President of External Affairs at the National Cryptocurrency Association (NCA) where she helps Americans make sense of crypto by sharing real stories of how crypto can benefit everyday life and support communities with the most to gain. Her focus is on giving a voice to the millions of people and businesses using crypto, providing educational resources to demystify the hype and jargon, and offering guidance and support. She's previously worked with tech, finance and consumer brands including PayPal/Venmo, Microsoft, Adobe and Canva.

Mauricio Di Bartolomeo is the Co-Founder & CSO of Ledn, a leading provider of bitcoin-backed loans. He found Bitcoin during hyperinflation in Venezuela and believes in the future of the digital economy. He has an MBA from the Richard Ivey business school at Western University.

Adam Reeds is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ledn, a leading bitcoin-backed lending platform serving clients in over 100 countries. He oversees Ledn’s strategy and has guided the business as it expands access to institutional funding and capital-markets structures for bitcoin-backed consumer loans. He has also championed transparency initiatives including a long-running proof-of-reserves program.

Mr. Vandrew is the Chief Financial Officer & Chief Legal Officer for Unchained, and a Board Member at its Gannett Trust Company subsidiary. He is a licensed attorney, a certified public accountant, and a certified financial planner. Before joining Unchained, he spent 14 years in private law practice as a Managing Member of Vandrew LLC, a boutique law firm. Mr. Vandrew joined Unchained through the acquisition of his company, KeyKeeper IRA (now Unchained IRA), in 2021.

Mr. Vandrew earned his Juris Doctor in Law from Rutgers Law School and and Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers University. He is a Floridian.

Zac is the Co-Founder and CEO of Meanwhile, the world's first financial institution denominated in Bitcoin. Meanwhile operates a licensed and regulated life insurance carrier that uses Bitcoin as its exclusive currency. The life insurer offers wealth planning products to Bitcoiners and BTC companies.

Jake Claver is CEO & Principal of Digital Ascension Group and founder of Digital Wealth Partners, a digital-asset focused RIA, and leads Syndicately. A recognized expert in blockchain and Web3 adoption, he helps family offices reimagine wealth strategy, advising elite clients through a multi-family office model that integrates planning, governance, and next-generation investment frameworks. Jake is a frequent industry speaker, has been featured in major outlets including Bloomberg and MarketWatch, and is co-author of the bestselling book Wealth in Numbers. For more, visit jakeclaver.com.

Glenn Miller, Partner and Co-Chair, Affordable Housing and Community Development Practice at Katten, brings a creative approach to tax issues present in a wide range of domestic and international transactions. He has experience in multiple industries, including data centers, affordable housing, real estate investment trusts (REITs), undersea cables and cross-border real estate investments. He has particular experience structuring real estate investments by pension funds and REITs.

While at a previous Washington, DC, law firm in the 1990s and early 2000s (Swidler & Berlin, Chartered), Glenn worked at the cutting edge of the competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) boom, which culminated in the early Internet. Glenn (while then an associate) and his firm were involved with the acquisition of Internet pioneer UNET by MFS (later acquired by WorldCom) in 1996 and Glenn later structured the tax ownership of the early undersea cable systems for Global Crossing, MFS and Google (now Alphabet). Glenn has structured multiple data center land assemblages and has overseen data center or data center land sales to such parties as AWS, QTS, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company and others.

Jay spent over a decade in financial leadership & operational management. After mining personally for 5 years, Jay cofounded SATOKIE with the goal to bring operational excellence and build a best-in-class service offering to the bitcoin mining industry. Before starting SATOKIE, Jay served as CFO of a $150MM revenue organization, managing complex portfolios & ensuring regulatory compliance.

Class of 2017er who sat on the sidelines until El Salvador in 2021. Found out all of us have a role in this (r)evolution of money.

Working on Primal.

Chef Pete Evans is a bitcoin Max. He is the number 1 selling author in Australia for health and wellness books. (over 1 million sold) Creator of the Netflix documentary The Magic Pill", he is also the creator of "The
Paleo Way" - a 16 x 30 minute tv cooking series focused on long term regenerative health. Pete hosted PBS A moveable Feast" for 8 seasons, and also hosted Australia's #1 tv series "My Kitchen Rules" for 11 years. Petes'
"Evolve Podcast" features over 500 episodes focusing on long term regenerative health and wealth (only bitcoin is discussed in regards to wealth). Australia's most controversial celebrity for challenging the mainstream agenda on health as well as questioning covid loudly (subsequently cancelled losing over 2 million followers and 15 business. Hit latest offering is The Primal Code, a book featuring over 100 nutritious recipes, which also takes a deep dive into bitcoin and shares the similarities between bitcoin and long term regenerative health.

Launched the largest BTC denominated Fund of Crypto Hedge funds globally (4,350BTC) in 2025, fund aims for 4-8% net returns for investors in BTC.
Analyze and speak about financial engineering capabilities of Bitcoin treasury companies and advise companies on how to optimize amount of bitcoin on balance sheet. Advisor at UK BTCTC XCE Connecting Excellence, and Chairman at Future (Swiss BTCTC).
For Jan3, act in an advisory capacity for a few sovereign nations, and on energy infrastructure financing structuring options in countries in LATAM and Middle Asia.
Board member at Relai, helping onboard HNWI and FOs to bitcoin.

Bitcoin and Lightning developer. Host of Austin bitdevs

Matthew works as a researcher at Second, an implementation of the Ark protocol. His focus is on Bitcoin Scaling solutions for payments.

COO of Cake Wallet, host of the Opt Out podcast, and privacy advocate.

I've been pushing for, educating on, and implementing the latest in privacy tech on Bitcoin and in the freedom tech space since 2020.

Ethan Marcus is the CEO of Flashnet, which he built as Bitcoin's first permissionless, non-custodial exchange infrastructure. Flashnet's APIs and SDKs let wallets, apps, and protocols offer Bitcoin-native swaps and liquidity without touching custody. He also created USDB, the first stablecoin native to Bitcoin, earning yield in BTC. Flashnet settles on Spark, the Bitcoin L2, and is backed by Craft Ventures, Abstract Ventures, and UTXO Management.

Irene has years of experience in the digital currency mining space and is in charge of BITMAIN’s global business development. She is an expert on developing the mining ecosystem with vast knowledge of high-performance mining hardware and data center development. She is an advocate for renewable energy integration for green mining.

Staci Costopolous, known as The Bitcoin Nova, is a community builder and podcast host who helps people see Bitcoin clearly for the first time. Like a supernova, her conversations bring sudden clarity, moments where Bitcoin finally clicks.

She is the creator and host of The Bitcoin Nova Podcast, where she uses curiosity, warmth, and real life dialogue to turn confusion into understanding. Through podcasting, Staci has experienced how starting her own journey inspired others to use their voice and create ripple effects that reach far beyond a single audience.

Staci also co creates and co hosts Hive Minded, a panel style show that blends Bitcoin education with humor, banter, and real friendship. Hive Minded highlights how conversation, collaboration, and different personalities make Bitcoin more approachable, especially for people who may never click on a traditional Bitcoin show.

Her journey shows that you do not need to be technical or have all the answers to make an impact. By simply starting a podcast and showing up authentically, she has connected with people across the Bitcoin ecosystem and helped others realize they can do the same, inspiring new creators to reach new audiences and carry the signal forward.

Through her podcast, Staci discovered the Illinois Bitcoin Council, whose mission is to help paint Illinois orange through education, advocacy, and collaboration.

Daily Bitcoin Podcast Host. All-In Bitcoin since he is 21 years old and committed to interview every day a Bitcoiner in the next 10 years!

Host of The Bitcoin Edge, a Bitcoin educator connecting with Bitcoiners around the world to explore sound money, freedom, health and purpose while sharing a message rooted in truth, hope, and abundance.

Salman Khan is the Chief Financial Officer at MARA. MARA is a global leader in leveraging digital asset compute to support the energy transformation. Salman comes from traditional finance, oil and gas, energy transition and technology background and has worked in the Middle East and North America. Salman oversees the company’s financial strategy, corporate development, investor relations, legal and accounting functions.
Prior to joining Marathon, Salman Khan served as Chief Financial Officer for Verb Technology Company Inc., a Nasdaq listed leading provider of interactive video-based software-as-a-service applications and an e-commerce platform and played a pivotal role in selling the core business of the company. Before joining Verb, Salman served in various senior executive level positions at Occidental Petroleum Corporation and its spinoff, California Resources Corporation, including director of renewable energy, Director of Corporate Development, Director of Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting, and Business Division Controller and Chief Financial Officer. Salman also spent eight years at major accounting firms including Arthur Andersen, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young, where he served domestic and international clients in the technology, media, telecommunications, entertainment, and biotechnology industries. Salman holds a Master in Business Administration from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business and is a licensed chartered certified accountant (UK).

Rory is the Vice President of Digital Asset Management at CleanSpark, where he leads Bitcoin treasury optimization and related capital strategy. The Digital Asset Management group directs the stewardship, deployment, and risk management of the company’s digital asset holdings to enhance balance sheet performance and generate incremental returns. Rory previously worked at Discovery Capital, a global macro fund, where he was a member of the investment team responsible for managing risk and trading a wide range of products across international and domestic markets. As a hedge fund veteran and CFA Charterholder, he brings a distinct maturity to the intersection of Bitcoin and financial markets.

Matt Williams is the Head of Financial Services at Luxor. At Luxor, Matt has led the successful launch of Luxor’s Hashrate Forwards markets and Luxor’s Energy business, providing the Bitcoin Mining space with financial instruments to hedge their risk and gain non-dilutive access to financing.

Prior to joining Luxor, Matt was the Managing Director of Technology Strategy at NFA. Matt also spent time at CME Group as Director of Market Structure and Strategic Investments, helping to lead CME Group's go-to-market strategy for the launch of Bitcoin Futures. He started his career as an Energy trader in the Natural Gas and Crude Oil markets. Matt also sits on the Board of Directors at Bitnomial Exchange, as well as the Advisory Committee for KOR Financial, and is a Strategic Advisor for Sphinx Exchange.

Co-founder Ten31. Have invested +$200mm into bitcoin related companies and freedom tech from early stage start-ups to public credit markets.

Scott Marmoll is a 10-year investment banking and private equity veteran and nearly decade-long bitcoiner. He is Founder and Managing Director of Capital B Advisory. A boutique investment banking advisory firm focused on bitcoiner business owners. CBA bridges the gap between Wall Street deal execution and the Bitcoin economy.

Marc is a Swiss national with over 22 years of experience in global finance and investing. He comes from a 250 year old family of entrepreneurs who founded and built leading institutions, including Credit Suisse and Zurich Insurance, shaping a long-standing legacy in financial services.
Marc was Co-Founder, CEO, and Managing Partner of SYZ Capital, and a member of the Executive Leadership Team of the SYZ Group, overseeing CHF 26.5 billion in assets under management. As a member of the Executive and Investment Committees, he led the firm’s private equity strategy.
Previously, Marc served as Managing Director at ACE & Company, a global co-investment platform. He led the group’s expansion into Asia from Hong Kong and managed multiple investment portfolios across Europe and Asia. Over his career, Marc has completed more than 120 venture and growth investments, including leading one of Southeast Asia’s largest Series A financings alongside Goldman Sachs, the IFC, and Alibaba.
Earlier in his career, Marc was Head of Capital Markets & Equity Sales at Union Bancaire Privée in Geneva, advising institutional and ultra-high-net-worth clients representing over USD 130 billion in assets. He began his career as a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse First Boston within the Structured Products division.
Throughout his career, Marc has focused on building and scaling companies, mentoring founders, and driving value through strategic planning, operations excellence and disciplined execution. He discovered Bitcoin in 2014 and has since been an active investor in the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem. At Syz Capital he launched and scaled the BTC Alpha fund to become one of the world's largest bitcoin denominated funds.
Marc is currently board member of H100, a european leading Bitcoin treasury company and was previously Vice Chairman of Future Holdings, the fisrt Swiss Bitcoin treasury company, and serves on the board of Nasdaq-listed MoneyHero, a leading fintech platform in Southeast Asia. He brings deep expertise across capital markets, M&A, asset management, and alternative investments globally, and holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD.

Paul has been a cryptography advocate since the 1990s and was involved in multiple projects. He was a co-founder of Cryptohippie and wrote the Free-Man’s Perspective newsletter for 14 years. He now writes at Substack. (The Findings, The Wreckage & The Rebuild, Ten Second Thoughts.)

Shodipo Ayomide, with over 13 years of experience in engineering, has a focus on blockchain protocol development, software architecture and large language models

Currently doing engineering at BKey.

Conduition is a freelance cryptographic engineer, security consultant, and protocol researcher. He has worked under contract with Spark to help design their namesake statechain protocol now used by Wallet of Satoshi, and with Lava to find vulnerabilities in their Bitcoin-backed loan protocol.

In his free time, Conduition has hunted bug bounties by finding critical vulnerabilities in open-source protocols like Cashu and Mercury. He has also designed his own protocols, such as Ticketed DLCs and DLC Factories.

Recently, Conduition's open-source research has turned towards post-quantum cryptographic systems and how they can be optimized for use on Bitcoin.

Tadge has introduced several important advances to Bitcoin, such as the Lightning Network, DLCs, and Utreexo. Currently working independently to help more people use Bitcoin.

Alex Pruden is the Co-Founder & CEO of Project Eleven, an applied lab of builders and technologists at the intersection of quantum computing and cryptography to harden digital assets and build the financial rails in the post-quantum era.

Alex is a former U.S. Army Green Beret who transitioned from military service to a career in blockchain and cryptocurrency after witnessing the profound challenges in conflict zones like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. After earning an MBA from Stanford, he began his decade-long career in the industry at GGV Capital, Coinbase, and Andreessen Horowitz before joining Aleo as the first employee and scaling the organization as CEO to pioneer the first permissionless, privacy-preserving smart contract blockchain powered by zero-knowledge proofs.

Jonas is the Director of Research at Blockstream. He has made foundational contributions to Bitcoin through co-authoring various Bitcoin Improvement Proposals, including the Taproot upgrade, and is a core contributor to libsecp256k1, the cryptographic library used in Bitcoin Core.

Recently, Jonas has focused on securing Bitcoin against future quantum computing threats. In late 2025, he co-authored the comprehensive paper "Hash-based Signature Schemes for Bitcoin", which laid the groundwork for his co-development of SHRINCS—an optimized hash-based post-quantum signature scheme. This work led to the first production deployment of post-quantum signature verification on the Liquid Network using Simplicity smart contracts in early 2026.

Alongside his post-quantum research, Jonas continues to advance classical cryptography with academic publications on constant-size aggregate signatures (DahLIAS), advanced applications of Schnorr signatures (MuSig2), and zero-knowledge proofs (Bulletproofs++).

Creator of No More Inflation (2025), a documentary exposing the cause of inflation, its impact and how Bitcoin will end inflation.

The film features Graham Hancock, Dr. Robert Malone, Tuur Demeester, Alex Gladstein and many more.

Creator of Comeback Country (2022), a 11-minute short film on El Salvador’s rise from civil/gang war to Bitcoin adoption and safety under Bukele (retweeted by @nayibbukele).

Parker Worthington (WebWorthy) is a leading Bitcoin videographer and filmmaker. His documentary MY TRUST IN YOU IS BROKEN chronicles Bitcoin's Blocksize Wars through the origins of BTCPay Server, serving as the definitive film on this pivotal chapter in Bitcoin history. It won the Audience Award at Bitcoin Film Fest 2024. Working for Bitcoin Magazine, he directed Michael Saylor's Endgame video and stands out as the sole Bitcoin videographer to record an interview at the White House. From merchant Lightning rollouts to grassroots adoption stories, Parker creates compelling narratives that affirm Bitcoin as sovereign, non-custodial sound money.

Andrew McCormick is the Head of eToro US, the trading and investing platform with over 40 million registered users from 75 countries. eToro is a platform built around collaboration and investor education, a community where users can connect with other investors. On eToro, users can view other investors’ portfolios and statistics, and interact with them to exchange ideas, discuss strategies and benefit from shared knowledge. We act as a bridge between the old and new worlds of investing. On our US platform, users can trade equities, cryptoassets and options.

Prior to eToro, Andrew worked at leading investment firms including E*TRADE and Morgan Stanley. With his experience in traditional finance, Andrew brings his passion for promoting the transformative power of capital markets to the disruptive world of fintech. Even while he was in the world of traditional finance, Andrew started doing work in the innovative cryptocurrency space as early as 2017. Before working for those financial firms, Andrew represented companies as a lawyer in high-stakes regulatory and litigation matters while also being a rapper in a law firm and as a spirited side hustle.

Andrew holds a B.A. from University of Virginia, a JD from George Mason University School of Law, Virginia, Washington D.C., and New York Bar licenses, and the Series 7, 24, and 63 securities licenses.

Milton "Todd" Ault III is the Executive Chairman and visionary leader behind OnlyBulls, the AI-powered investing companion app launched by askROI, a subsidiary of Hyperscale Data Inc. A 35+ year Wall Street veteran, serial entrepreneur, and early Bitcoin adopter since 2011, Ault brings decades of financial expertise and a passion for democratizing access to institutional-grade market intelligence.

Standing 5 foot 11, Micah Warren is a mathematician who wrote the textbook "Bitcoin, a Game Theoretic Analysis," published by de Gruyter. Proud longtime hodler of a ONESATOSHI token.

Bitcoin/Lightning project development and enterprise integration. Active in many open source projects and a key speaker at ATL BitLab events and Bitcoin conferences. Leads the ATL Nostr meetups and is a sound money advocate.

Derar Islim, Ph.D. – Chief Operating Officer, Antalpha Platform Holding Company and CEO, Americas & EMEA

Derar Islim, PhD, is a seasoned financial executive with significant experience in the digital asset industry, building and managing premier digital assets financial services and products globally. Islim’s career reflects a blend of academic rigor and practical experience in high-stakes financial environments. Derar’s leadership at Genesis, particularly during its crisis, showcased his ability to navigate complex operational and financial challenges from execution and governance perspectives.

Derar formerly held the roles of Interim CEO and COO at Genesis and, prior to that, Head of Risk at Hard Yaka. He has an established track record of leading at the forefront of modern financial markets. Early in his career, he served as a senior trader at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he co-managed the Funding Valuation Adjustment (FVA) trading desk and worked on modeling, pricing, and hedging credit structured products.

Derar holds a Ph.D. in Financial Mathematics from Florida State University, focusing on financial derivatives and applied partial differential equations.

Derar is a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship, alongside other academic and professional awards.

Long time self custody engineer, focused on making bitcoin better money for everyone.

Former Core dev: assumeutxo, OP_VAULT, CTV

Author of BIP 360, a proposal to make Bitcoin more quantum-resistant, Senior Protocol Engineer for the Anduro sidechain platform incubated by MARA. CTO for BitVault, a time-delay multisig wallet designed to help resist physical attacks.

Founder of Capriole Investments, Charles is a systematic macro investor with a decade of experience building trading algorithms. Creator of renown on-chain models including Hash Ribbons, Bitcoin Production Cost and Macro Index, and develops proprietary strategies from 200+ macro and crypto signals. A regular speaker on CNBC, the Investors Podcast, and at global conferences like TOKEN2049 (Singapore), Binance Blockchain Week (Dubai), Global Blockchain Show (Abu Dhabi), Consensus (HK) and Bitcoin2026 (Las Vegas). Featured in Forbes and across global media outlets. Charles shares market insights with 130,000+ X followers.