Agenda

George Mekhail is the Managing Director of Bitcoin for Corporations at BTC Inc., author of I Am Not Your Bruh, and co-author of Thank God for Bitcoin. A passionate advocate for Bitcoin since 2017, George blends his experience in marketing, financial innovation, and community development to guide companies in thoughtfully integrating Bitcoin into their strategic operations, while also advocating for strong family dynamics at home.

Just a humble snowman stackin' sats and shredding on strings.
Find me on X @mattcsnow

Nuri is Chief Product Officer at BitGo, responsible for onboarding new blockchains, building new capabilities for DeFi and NFTs, and continuing to grow WBTC. Most recently, he led BitGo’s MetaMask Institutional Integration. He has been with BitGo since 2020 and initially served as Director of Product Management.

Prior to BitGo, Nuri held product manager positions at several Silicon Valley startups including Nuna Inc., Affirm, and Zenefits. Earlier in his career, he was a strategist at Propane, an advertising agency. Nuri holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Gui Gomes is the Founder and CEO of OranjeBTC, the largest Bitcoin Treasury Company in Latin America. He brings a rare combination of deep Bitcoin expertise, institutional finance experience, and entrepreneurial execution.
Prior to founding OranjeBTC, Gui served as Chief Revenue Officer at Swan Bitcoin, where he played a key role in scaling the business and launching new products. Earlier, he worked at Bridgewater Associates, advising leading banks and insurance companies on portfolio strategy and capital allocation.
Gui began his career as a founder, co-creating Jazz Side, a Brazilian brand experience company that was later acquired by one of the region’s largest tourism conglomerates.

Dylan LeClair leads Metaplanet’s corporate Bitcoin strategy, advancing its mission to integrate Bitcoin into the core of public capital markets.

I am the author of The Philosophy of Bitcoin, a Spanish-language bestseller. CEO of BTC Consulting 360 and Director of the Bitcoin Master’s Program at the University of the Hespérides.

Alessandro Cecere, also known as El Sultán Bitcoin, is a Venezuelan Industrial Engineer and Economist who embarked on his Bitcoin journey mining at home in 2013. Previously Co Founded one of Venezuela's and Latin America's first Bitcoin mining farm. His passion for Bitcoin's censorship resistant properties, led him to become the first Latin American to connect to Blockstream's South American Bitcoin satellite, which has been extensively documented in various publications and documentaries. He’s held significant marketing roles, contributing to the growth and recognition of major firms within the Bitcoin space, including Luxor Technology. Previously, he was the Product Marketing Manager at Ledn, and Chief Marketing Officer & Co Founder at El Dorado, LATAM's stablecoin-powered SuperApp.

Clara García Prieto is a tax lawyer specializing in Bitcoin. She advises companies on Bitcoin treasury strategy, including tax, accounting, and regulatory matters, and helps individuals with tax and inheritance matters involving Bitcoin. She is the author of Bitcoin: A New Form of Private Property. She is also an educator and speaker, regularly contributing to specialized media and conferences.

Brandon is CEO of BTC Inc. Since joining the Company in 2017, Green has been a core member of BTC Inc, holding a variety of leadership roles including Managing Director, Chief of Staff, and Head of Events. During his tenure, he has helped drive the global expansion of the Bitcoin Conference franchise beyond the United States to Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Abu Dhabi.

Garry Krugljakow is Head of Bitcoin Strategy and Board Member at aifinyo AG - Germany's first publicly-traded Bitcoin Treasury company. A Forbes 30 under 30 alumnus with 15+ years in debt capital markets, he was part of N26's launch team and achieved successful FinTech exits. Garry is now executing Germany's first corporate Bitcoin treasury strategy, having already acquired 30 BTC with a target of 10,000 BTC by 2027. He's passionate about making Bitcoin treasuries mainstream in Germany and helping establish best practices within a regulatory framework.

Khing Oei is the Founder and CEO of Treasury, a Netherlands-based Bitcoin treasury company, backed by investors including Winklevoss Capital and Nakamoto.

Khing is a seasoned investor with deep expertise across traditional and digital markets. He most recently served as Senior Advisor Crypto at a multi-billion-dollar hedge fund focusing on crypto distressed situations such as FTX and Genesis, where he is a member of the Board of Directors. In this role, he oversaw multi-billion-dollar Bitcoin swaps, acquisitions and distributions.
He began his career at Goldman Sachs in the Fixed Income, Currency & Commodities’ Special Situations Investing Group, before moving into senior investment roles at Fortress and Bardin Hill (formerly Halcyon), where he was CEO of Europe and built the firm’s $2.5B securitized credit business. He later founded and was Chief Investment Officer of Eyck, a $200M event-driven distressed & special situations hedge fund.

Throughout his career, Khing executed complex transactions across equities, credit, special situations, and digital assets. As an entrepreneur, he has also launched ventures such as Maicrotrader, an AI-driven Bitcoin and crypto trading agent platform.

John Riggins is the CEO of Moon Inc. (HKG-1723), a Hong Kong Stock Exchange listed Bitcoin Treasury company.

Prior to Moon Inc, John was a founding partner of UTXO Management’s Bitcoin Ecosystem Fund, the most active early-stage venture capital fund across the Bitcoin landscape and led Asia business for BTC Media, the world’s preeminent Bitcoin focused media group, with brands including Bitcoin Magazine and The Bitcoin Conference

Joseph Kelly is the co-founder and CEO of Unchained, a bitcoin-focused financial services company offering custody, lending, and IRA products.

Early adopter and supporter of Bitcoin. Original Mt. Gox account holder. Leader on the Hill for Bitcoin policy.

Zach Herbert is co-founder and CEO of Foundation, a startup working to build the open hardware foundation for Bitcoin and a freedom-centric Internet. Zach studied mechanical engineering at Boston University and dropped out of Harvard Business School’s MBA program after his first year. Zach is passionate about Bitcoin, freedom tech, product design, and hardware.

As a bitcoiner class of 2025, Andy has created a decentralized approach to funding healthcare with the goal of using bitcoin as the primary medium of exchange in healthcare. He has aggregated thousands of bitcoiners as the payers and hundreds of doctors as the service providers. He believes that if we can us bitcoin as a medium of exchange in the $5.6T healthcare industry, it will lead to broader adoption of bitcoin as a medium exchange leading to more efficient transactions and increasing the value of bitcoin.

Jon has been working to integrate bitcoin into healthcare for the past 4 years. After leading business development for CrowdHealth, Jon went on to help doctors, dentists and ecommerce businesses adopt a bitcoin strategy. In early 2025, Jon teamed up with another healthcare veteran, Stu Lackey, to launch SOUND HSA, the first bitcoin health savings platform. SOUND HSA facilitates individual health savings accounts and a wellness program - move to earn - for companies to offer sats for steps to their people to improve health and encourage bitcoin education.

SOUND HSA also enables individuals to save step data to Nostr, and is moving towards decentralizing health data. Jon serves on the board of the Bitcoin Physicians Network. Jon is also a co-founder of NosFabrica, building web of trust tooling on Nostr.

Jon has been studying bitcoin for 5+ years and is an active leader in the Chicago bitcoin community. A certified yoga teacher, Jon believes bitcoin is the best form of money humans have ever discovered and has written extensively on the connection between bitcoin and yoga. He's currently manifesting hyperbitcoinization...

I've been in crypto for a while and it's allowed me to practice medicine on my own terms. Through my efforts to practice DPC, I became completely orange pilled. I see bitcoin as freedom from fiat medicine and authoritarian control over bodies.

Fred Thiel is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of MARA Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MARA) and has over 35 years of experience in the technology sector. Mr. Thiel is an acclaimed innovator and expert, having led organizations across diverse fields including digital assets, AI, semiconductors and enterprise software. Under his leadership, MARA has grown from a market cap of under $30 million to over $5 billion, becoming the largest in the space, with operations spanning four continents. MARA operates 15 data centers, including several across the United States, as well as locations in the UAE and Paraguay, boasting an energy capacity of 1700 MW. The company is fully integrated, enhancing its operational efficiency.
Throughout his career, Mr. Thiel has consistently driven rapid growth and created substantial shareholder value. Prior to MARA, Mr. Thiel served as the CEO of two other public companies, Local Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM) and Lantronix, Inc (NASDAQ: LTRX). He has successfully raised billions in equity and debt through private and public offerings, led companies through IPOs, executed high-value exits to strategic and financial acquirers, and implemented effective M&A and roll-up strategies.
Mr. Thiel attended the Stockholm School of Economics and executive classes at Harvard Business School, and is fluent in English, Spanish, Swedish, and French. Mr. Thiel is the Chairman of the Board for Oden Technology, Inc. and is active in Young Presidents’ Organization where he has led initiatives in both the FinTech and Technology Networks.
A recognized voice in the industry, Fred frequently shares his insights on energy and technology with major media outlets like Bloomberg TV, CNBC, and FOX Business, contributing to vital discussions about the future of these sectors.

Garret began his time at Robinhood on the custody team, later moving to provide technical leadership for the security organization as a whole. In his current role he serves as CISO for Robinhood's crypto business. He loves HSMs and multi-party computation. His favorite number is secp256k1's base point.

Erik Kellogg is Chief Information Security Officer at Binance.US, where he leads cybersecurity, cyber risk, and security compliance for a U.S.-regulated digital asset platform securing billions in customer assets. A veteran security executive with more than 25 years of experience, Erik has built and matured cybersecurity programs across fintech, blockchain, and global enterprise environments.

Previously, he served as a principal leader within Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, advising organizations on cyber risk, resilience, and incident response. Erik brings deep expertise in digital asset security, threat detection and response, and operating security at scale in high-risk, adversarial environments.

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.

Arthur Hayes is the CIO of Maelstrom, a family office that invests across the crypto and web3 ecosystem. He is also the co-founder of BitMEX – the first crypto unicorn. Prior to entering the crypto industry, he worked as a trader in the capital markets divisions of Deutsche Bank and Citibank. Arthur holds a Bachelors of Economics from the Wharton School of Business. He has appeared on major business news networks including Bloomberg and CNBC. He is active on X (@cryptohayes) and releases a monthly newsletter (Crypto Trader Digest) read by thousands of investors globally.

Shone Anstey is the CEO and Co-Founder of LQWD Technologies Corp. (TSX-V: LQWD, OTCQX: LQWDF), an institutional-grade Bitcoin Lightning Network infrastructure company using AI and advanced technology to scale its network. He brings more than 20 years of experience building complex technologies and software across search, analytics, and data center operations. Active in Bitcoin since 2012, Mr. Anstey has held technology leadership roles in industrial Bitcoin mining and mining pool operations. He is also a Certified Bitcoin Professional, a Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator, and co-founder of BIGG Digital Assets, where he helped develop blockchain analytics tools used by U.S. federal law enforcement and cryptocurrency companies worldwide to support AML risk mitigation.

A decade of teaching Bitcoin mining on YouTube
Founder of Bitcoin Merch since 2017

Scott Ellam is the Founder and CEO of Connecting Excellence Group (XCE), the first Bitcoin standard international executive recruitment group, listed on the Aquis Stock Exchange (AQSE: XCE / OTCQB: XCELF).

In 2014, Scott founded XCE's flagship operating business Spencer Riley, an international executive search firm headquartered in Leeds, UK. Generating over 70% of its revenue from international clients and placements across high-growth sectors including professional services, business advisory and consulting, life sciences, logistics, engineering, and environmental services.

In 2021, Scott made the pivotal decision to adopt Bitcoin as the company’s primary balance sheet asset. This positioned XCE as a differentiated Bitcoin Treasury Company (BTCTC), combining profitable recruitment operations with disciplined BTC accumulation to create a compounding flywheel: XCE’s performance-based share attracts revenue generating high performance executive recruiters, driving revenue growth to support the company’s Bitcoin treasury capital markets strategy and long-term shareholder value.

U.S. Senator Cynthia M. Lummis has been Bitcoin's most consistent and consequential champion in the United States Senate.

As the first-ever Chair of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Senator Lummis is the architect of the legislative framework shaping America's digital asset future. She introduced the landmark Lummis-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act, the first comprehensive bipartisan crypto regulatory framework in Senate history. She co-authored the GENIUS Act — the first federal stablecoin law ever enacted — and introduced the BITCOIN Act, which would establish a U.S. strategic Bitcoin reserve of up to one million BTC. She is leading the Clarity Act, which will bring long-overdue regulatory certainty to the digital asset industry. She has also championed digital asset tax reform, including a de minimis exemption for small transactions and equal tax treatment for miners and stakers.

Known as Congress' "Crypto Queen," Senator Lummis represents Wyoming — a state she has helped build into one of the most digital asset-friendly regulatory environments in the nation. Before serving in the Senate, she served 14 years in the Wyoming Legislature, eight years as Wyoming State Treasurer, and eight years in the U.S. House. She is a three-time graduate of the University of Wyoming.

Her work represents a crucial bridge between traditional financial systems and the emerging digital economy, ensuring America leads the world in financial innovation while protecting the individual freedoms that define it.

Himanshu is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Arch Lending, a leading bitcoin-backed loan provider known for its industry-leading security and compliance, exceptional customer service, and automated product experience. Arch specializes in over-collateralized loans to both individuals and institutions, ensuring that customer assets are stored in qualified custody, are not rehypothecated, and remain bankruptcy remote. Arch has recently raised $70M through a first-of-its-kind collateralized loan obligation (CLO) structure for a bitcoin company, a groundbreaking move in the industry, backed by Galaxy. Himanshu’s background in consumer technology includes key roles at Tinder, Bird Rides, and Snapchat. He has also run a venture fund and has invested in several early and growth stage companies and cryptocurrency projects.

Avalon Labs is the leading on-chain, Bitcoin-focused capital markets platform and the issuer of USDa, the Bitcoin-collateralized stablecoin. To date, Avalon has facilitated more than $3.1 billion in loan volume and serviced over 20,000 BTC, earning the trust of institutions and individual users alike.

The protocol provides a full suite of financial products, including fixed-rate Bitcoin borrowing, institutional-grade yield strategies, decentralized lending, AI-powered RWA yield vaults, and high-yield staking. By bridging traditional finance with decentralized infrastructure, Avalon Labs is building the financial center for Bitcoin—offering secure, scalable, and transparent solutions for the digital asset economy.

Hunter is the Chief Revenue Officer of SALT Lending, one of the earliest Bitcoin-backed lending platforms, and co-author of the upcoming book - The Bitcoin Advantage. A systems engineer by training with a Ph.D. in optimization and AI from the University of Virginia, he has held senior leadership roles at global banks include Barclays, HBOS, and MasterCard, founded and advised multiple startups, and worked internationally across Europe and the U.S. Hunter has been active in Bitcoin education through the University of Colorado Blockchain Alliance, IEEE blockchain initiatives, and the CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4), and he frequently speaks at global Bitcoin conferences on innovation in Bitcoin-backed finance and financial sovereignty.

Korok is the Founder and Executive Director of BEI. He’s also an Associate Professor at the Mays Business School of Texas A&M University and the Founder and President of the Southwest Innovation Research Lab, another 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Korok teaches and researches Bitcoin. He also cofounded the Blockchain and Energy Research Consortium, which is dedicated to researching bitcoin mining in Texas. As an applied game theorist, Korok focuses his research on the intersection of economics and computation, specifically in distributed systems, computer networking, cybersecurity, and cryptocurrencies. Naturally, Korok’s work in this space led him to Bitcoin.

Korok teaches two classes on Bitcoin at Texas A&M. The Bitcoin Protocol is an engineering course that examines the technical codebase underneath Bitcoin, including cryptography, distributed computing, and computer networking. Bitcoin: Accounting for Digital Transactions, on the other hand, explores the business, economics, and policy of the Bitcoin industry, especially Bitcoin mining. These courses represent the first – and, so far, only – Bitcoin-only classes offered by a major US research university.

Korok writes a popular Bitcoin newsletter, Principles of Bitcoin. He speaks regularly on podcasts and conferences; notably, he delivered the keynote speech on Bitcoin and AI at MicroStrategy World 2024.

Prior to joining the faculty at Mays, Korok served on the Council of Economic Advisers at the White House from 2007 to 2009. During this time, he witnessed the Great Financial Crisis up close – it wasn’t his fault! Korok’s policy portfolio covered technology and financial services, and he was on the President’s Working Group for Financial Markets.

Korok earned a BS in mathematics from the University of Chicago and a PhD in economics from Stanford University. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Georgetown University, The George Washington University, and, now, Texas A&M.

Ella Hough works where Bitcoin meets people.

She is a Bitcoin Advocacy Associate at Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) and a Junior Fellow at Cornell University’s Brooks School Tech Policy Institute. She also co-founded the Bitcoin Students Network (501c4) and advises Generation Bitcoin (501c3), helping scale grassroots education worldwide.

A TEDx speaker and Cornell alumna, Ella’s honors thesis “Bitcoin: The Language for Discovering, Speaking, Settling, and Preserving Truth” positions Bitcoin as a protocol for truth and global coordination. At Cornell, she built the first-ever self-directed Bitcoin-focused major through the College Scholar Program, alongside studies in Cognitive Science, Business, Information Science (Networks, Crowds & Markets), and Moral Psychology, and founded the Cornell Bitcoin Club.

Her experience spans Bitcoin’s digital and physical layers, including roles at Galaxy (asset management, mining, research) and Gridless in Kenya. Previously, she worked on IBM Canada’s CSR team, managing STEM learning experiences for 75,000+ students.

Sal Pineda is a strategist and researcher focused on Bitcoin’s role in capital markets, energy systems, and the emerging digital economy. With experience across Latin America and the United States, he brings a distinctive blend of capital markets fluency, operational execution, and systems-level analysis to the study of Bitcoin, economic resilience, and institutional design. His work develops the concept of the “Knowledge Network of Bitcoin”: the decentralized ecosystem of miners, institutional allocators, policymakers, builders, educators, and grassroots advocates advancing Bitcoin adoption across finance, energy, and digital infrastructure.

His research examines how Bitcoin intersects with capital formation, treasury strategy, energy markets, and the convergence of Bitcoin, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing with national security, monetary sovereignty, and nation-state strategy. His work has been shared through research papers, educational guides, podcasts, X Spaces, and media interviews. His current research focuses on Bitcoin, policy development, and financial innovation in Washington, D.C., and the broader evolution of digital financial markets.

Sal brings a multidisciplinary background spanning diplomacy, strategy consulting, venture advisory, private equity, and capital markets research across fintech and emerging technologies. He is also a founding member and former co-president of the Cornell Bitcoin Club, the university’s student organization dedicated exclusively to Bitcoin education and research.

He holds an MBA from Cornell University and a Master’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Having grown up experiencing the consequences of political instability and government failure, Sal approaches Bitcoin as a tool for strengthening economic sovereignty, institutional resilience, and long-term capital formation in the digital age.

Fabian works on Bitcoin Core but also supports other related Bitcoin open source projects. He is also researching protocol innovations enabled by Schnorr signatures such as CISA.

Timo is a well-known figure in the Bitcoin mining industry. He discovered the technology in 2014 and built the first professional mining farm in Africa in 2016. Since then, he has expanded his operations globally.

As the founder of MIM, Timo aims to democratize the Bitcoin mining industry and make it accessible to every enthusiast in Europe. His commitment to decentralization and his expertise continue to drive innovation in Bitcoin mining.

Alessandro Cecere, also known as El Sultán Bitcoin, is a Venezuelan Industrial Engineer and Economist who embarked on his Bitcoin journey mining at home in 2013. Previously Co Founded one of Venezuela's and Latin America's first Bitcoin mining farm. His passion for Bitcoin's censorship resistant properties, led him to become the first Latin American to connect to Blockstream's South American Bitcoin satellite, which has been extensively documented in various publications and documentaries. He’s held significant marketing roles, contributing to the growth and recognition of major firms within the Bitcoin space, including Luxor Technology. Previously, he was the Product Marketing Manager at Ledn, and Chief Marketing Officer & Co Founder at El Dorado, LATAM's stablecoin-powered SuperApp.

Daniel is the CEO of newly launched mgmt Digital Infrastructure, a company focused on bitcoin mining where energy is low cost, stranded or curtailed and leveraging mining with additional revenue streams such as grid balancing and heat reuse in the Nordics and eventually throughout Europe. mgmt Digital Infrastructure is in the process of launching its first Digital Infrastructure fund.

A passionate miner since 2017, Daniel has been active in the industry founding and leading companies such as mgmt Energy (formerly GreenBlocks), a bitcoin mining company and Viska Digital Assets, Iceland's first digital asset focused hedge fund.

Daniel has been an active angel investor in recent years.

Daniel is a firm believer in proof of work and doing hard things.

Arthur Hayes is the CIO of Maelstrom, a family office that invests across the crypto and web3 ecosystem. He is also the co-founder of BitMEX – the first crypto unicorn. Prior to entering the crypto industry, he worked as a trader in the capital markets divisions of Deutsche Bank and Citibank. Arthur holds a Bachelors of Economics from the Wharton School of Business. He has appeared on major business news networks including Bloomberg and CNBC. He is active on X (@cryptohayes) and releases a monthly newsletter (Crypto Trader Digest) read by thousands of investors globally.

Brent Johnson brings twenty-six years of experience in the financial markets to his position as CEO of Santiago Capital where he manages the assets of high net worth families via a combination of separately managed accounts and private funds.

He enjoyed more than nine years as a Managing Director at BakerAvenue, a $4 Billion Asset Manager and Wealth Management firm, with offices in San Francisco, Dallas and New York. During his time there he was the lead advisor for several of the firms largest clients.

Prior to joining BakerAvenue, Brent spent nine years at Credit Suisse in their private client group. He got his start as part of the training program at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) in New York prior to moving to San Francisco. He joined Credit Suisse in the fall of 2000 when the bank purchased DLJ.

Earlier in his career, Brent was a financial auditor for Philip Morris Management Company in New York City where he performed audits at the company’s headquarters as well as subsidiaries in Germany, Hong Kong, and Richmond, Virginia.

In addition to his role at Santiago Capital, he is also a member of the Advisory Board for Monetary Metals, a platform that allows investors to earn a yield on gold, paid in gold, by leasing and lending to qualified precious metals businesses in the industry.

Brent regularly gives interviews and speaks at conferences regarding precious metals, currencies & macroeconomic trends. He is well known as the originator of the “Dollar Milkshake Theory” and his views have been quoted in numerous print, online and television outlets. He lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico with his wife Mary and son Moses.

Roger Huang was one of the first writers in 2014 to write about the intersection of Bitcoin in remittance payments and drug policy. Since then, he’s been a HODLer of Bitcoin, and he’s built several mini-projects with them for fun. He’s written for Forbes and TechCrunch and is the author of a book on Bitcoin + China (Would Mao Hold Bitcoin)

I document Bitcoin adoption around the world, particularly in developing countries, via my work at Fedi, my work as a contributor to Bitcoin Magazine and Forbes Digital Assets, and my podcast, new renaissance capital.

Biography of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche

The Honorable Todd Blanche is the 40th Deputy Attorney General of the United States, overseeing the work of the 115,000 dedicated employees who fulfill the Department of Justice’s mission at Main Justice, the FBI, DEA, U.S. Marshals, ATF, and 93 U.S. Attorney’s Offices.
Todd began his career at the Department where he served for over fifteen years in a variety of capacities, including as a contractor, a paralegal in the Criminal Division, and at the United States Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York where he eventually became an AUSA and later a supervisor.
After leaving the Department, Todd worked as a criminal defense attorney that included representing President Donald Trump in three of the criminal cases brought against him in 2023 and 2024.
Following President Trump’s historic return to the White House, the President appointed Todd to work alongside Attorney General Pam Bondi to make America safe again. At the DOJ, Todd is working tirelessly to implement President Trump’s priorities that include confronting illegal protecting American businesses from fraud.
Todd has been married to his wonderful wife Kristine for nearly thirty years, is a father and grandfather.

Board Director of Bitcoin Strategy at Capital ₿, Europes first Bitcoin treasury company.

Yves Choueifaty is the Founder of TOBAM, a quantitative asset manager known for pioneering both Maximum Diversification® and LBRTY®. He has been involved in Bitcoin since 2013 and launched the first institutional strategies dedicated to Bitcoin and blockchain-related equities. Yves is a frequent speaker on portfolio construction, monetary evolution, and Bitcoin treasury strategies. TOBAM focuses on delivering exposures traditional asset managers do not yet provide.

Jon Ovadia is the founder and CEO of OVEX, one of Africa's largest Bitcoin and crypto exchanges. OVEX moves billions annually across African corridors, using Bitcoin and stablecoin rails to solve the FX and settlement problems that traditional banking cannot. The group operates under Satoshi Holdings, a name that reflects where its conviction has been since day one.

Jennifer Harding-Marlin is a Canadian-Caribbean attorney, entrepreneur, and global mobility strategist specializing in Bitcoin-aligned citizenship, residency, and asset-protection frameworks.

As Founder and Managing Director of JH Marlin Law, she advises Bitcoin founders, early adopters, and internationally mobile families on jurisdictional strategy, second citizenship, residency planning, and long-term sovereign risk mitigation. She has advised some of the earliest participants in the Bitcoin ecosystem and helped the world’s first Bitcoin investor design and implement a multi-jurisdictional passport portfolio as part of a long-term sovereignty and risk-mitigation strategy.

JH Marlin Law actively operates and maintains strategic partnerships across the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific.

Michelle has over twenty years of experience working in emerging technologies and ten years specifically in the Bitcoin industry. She is the Director of Product Development at Byte Federal which was one of the first bitcoin ATM networks and now spans more than 40 states and three countries.

Before Bitcoin she lived in the UAE and worked in China.

She is a global corruption whistleblower and a free speech advocate.

Michael S. Selig was sworn in on December 22, 2025 to serve as the 16th Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Chairman Selig was nominated by President Donald J. Trump to the post on October 27, 2025, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 18, 2025.

Chairman Selig brings to the role deep public and private sector experience working with a wide range of stakeholders across agriculture, energy, financial, and digital asset industries, which rely upon and operate in CFTC-regulated markets.
Prior to his leadership at the CFTC, Chairman Selig most recently served as chief counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Crypto Task Force and senior advisor to SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins. In this role, Chairman Selig helped to develop a clear regulatory framework for digital asset securities markets, harmonize the SEC and CFTC regulatory regimes, modernize the agency’s rules to reflect new and emerging technologies, and put an end to regulation by enforcement. He also participated in the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets and contributed to its report on “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology.”

Prior to government service, Chairman Selig was a partner at an international law firm, focusing on derivatives and securities regulatory matters. During his years in private practice, he represented a broad range of clients subject to regulation by the CFTC, including commercial end users, futures commission merchants, commodity trading advisors, swap dealers, designated contract markets, derivatives clearing organizations, and digital asset firms. Chairman Selig advised clients on compliance with the Commodity Exchange Act and the CFTC’s rules and regulations thereunder, including in connection with registration applications and obligations, enforcement matters, and complex transactions.

Chairman Selig earned his law degree from The George Washington University Law School and was articles editor of The George Washington Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree from Florida State University.

Grant McCarty is the Co-Founder of the Bitcoin Policy Institute. BPI is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization researching the policy and societal implications of Bitcoin and emerging monetary networks. It advocates for sound policy at the federal level and has grown to a team of over 40 people, making it the largest cryptocurrency think tank in the country.

Before founding BPI, Grant built an education startup dedicated to reducing inequity in college admissions and then led the public policy team at BTC Inc. He received his undergraduate degree in History and Political Science from the University of Alabama and his MBA from Johns Hopkins University.

Charley Brady is a strategic finance executive with over two decades of experience spanning investor relations, capital markets, and sell-side equity research. He currently serves as Vice President of Investor Relations at BitFuFu, a global Bitcoin mining and cloud-mining technology company, where he leads the company’s investor relations strategy and plays a key role in supporting capital markets initiatives and public company financial communications.

Charley began his career in sell-side equity research, spending over 15 years as a senior analyst covering diversified industrial companies at Credit Suisse, BMO Capital Markets, and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. In these roles, he conducted in-depth company and sector analysis, published investment research, and advised institutional investors and corporate clients.

Yash brings nearly a decade of power origination and data center development experience, ensuring ValueHash clients access reliable, scalable hosting for Bitcoin miners. He has been instrumental in educating and spreading the gospel of mining to utilities across the USA

Started Bitcoin mining in 2011, followed by GPU mining during the Litecoin and Dogecoin era while studying at university. Progressed through multiple mining cycles, including the Ethereum mining era, while consistently maintaining a primary focus on Bitcoin.

During the early phase of the industry, developed custom cryptocurrency mining software, along with performance optimization tools and firmware tweaks for ASIC overclocking and miner efficiency improvements, gaining deep hands-on experience in mining infrastructure, hardware optimization, and operational management. Developed MinerBoxes that reduce miner noise level by 50 db.

Later founded OneMiners, fastest growing bitcoin mining company in the world - now offering the best ROI for bitcoin mining on the market with hosting as low as 4.55 c per KW in USA.
Always holding bitcoin in Bitcoin native SegWit (bc1) address :).

Paul S. Atkins was sworn into office as the 34th Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 21, 2025, after being nominated by President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2025, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 9, 2025.

Prior to returning to the SEC, Chairman Atkins was most recently chief executive of Patomak Global Partners, a company he founded in 2009. Chairman Atkins helped lead efforts to develop best practices for the digital asset sector. He served as an independent director and non-executive chairman of the board of BATS Global Markets, Inc. from 2012 to 2015.

Chairman Atkins was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a Commissioner of the SEC from 2002 to 2008. During his tenure, he advocated for transparency, consistency, and the use of cost-benefit analysis at the agency. Chairman Atkins also represented the SEC at meetings of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets and the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Economic Council. From 2009 to 2010, he was appointed a member of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Before serving as an SEC Commissioner, Chairman Atkins was a consultant on securities and investment management industry matters, especially regarding issues of strategy, regulatory compliance, risk management, new product development, and organizational control.

From 1990 to 1994, Chairman Atkins served on the staff of two chairmen of the SEC, Richard C. Breeden and Arthur Levitt, ultimately as chief of staff and counselor, respectively. He received the SEC’s 1992 Law and Policy Award for work regarding corporate governance matters.

Chairman Atkins began his career as a lawyer in New York, focusing on a wide range of corporate transactions for U.S. and foreign clients, including public and private securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He was resident for 2½ years in his firm's Paris office and admitted as conseil juridique in France.

A member of the New York and Florida bars, Chairman Atkins received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1983 and was Senior Student Writing Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. He received his A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, from Wofford College in 1980.

Originally from Lillington, North Carolina, Chairman Atkins grew up in Tampa, Florida. He and his wife Sarah have three sons.

Dan Hersey is the Founder of the Rhode Island Bitcoin Policy Initiative, where he works with legislators, state officials, and community stakeholders to advance pragmatic Bitcoin policy in a small, traditionally blue, and highly regulated state. In Rhode Island, Dan has written and testified on behalf of multiple Bitcoin-specific bills, including tax and financial policy reforms.

His work focuses on framing Bitcoin as sound money, consumer protection, and public digital infrastructure rather than ideology. With a background in financial services marketing and journalism, Dan brings a ground-level perspective on how Bitcoin legislation actually moves through statehouses; and how smaller states can play an outsized leadership role.

Colin Crossman is a Wyoming-licensed attorney and Bitcoin maximalist serving as Deputy Secretary of State for Wyoming. A prolific writer for Bitcoin Magazine, he has authored articles on key issues including Wyoming’s Bitcoin strategic reserve, the Custodia Bank v. Federal Reserve litigation, Operation Choke Point 2.0, patent threats to Bitcoin mining, and strategies against financial suppression of Bitcoin businesses.

As in-house counsel for Distributed Hash, he directed regulatory compliance for crypto-adjacent infrastructure and developed Python-based tools for operational monitoring. Crossman advocates for Bitcoin sovereignty, co-authoring amicus briefs on state authority and digital assets. He codes in Python for compliance systems and explores patent work in Bitcoin tech.

I’ve been fascinated with computers since the early days of the internet, teaching myself HTML in the late 1990s and building websites for small businesses in my hometown, often trading my work for dance and karate lessons for my kids. One night I stumbled across a Bitcoin faucet, had no idea what Bitcoin was, assumed it was just gamer money, and casually entered my email address and then my wife’s, receiving 10 BTC total before completely forgetting about it. Years later, after being elected as a Mississippi State Representative in 2016, a friend reintroduced me to Bitcoin and I began seriously studying it, cautiously investing, getting shaken out by volatility, and then watching it climb as I slowly came to understand what it truly represented. Only a couple of years ago I suddenly remembered those original 10 bitcoin and asked my wife about the hard drive, and she reminded me that it was the one we had given our son Josiah to take apart because he wanted to see what was inside. Losing 10 BTC stung, but what changed me was not the price, it was seeing from inside government how easily money is manipulated, borrowed against, and debased, and realizing that Bitcoin cannot be printed, controlled, or politically weaponized. That is why I believe Bitcoin is the answer, not as speculation but as sound money, and why today, after seeing the system from the inside, I save in BTC.

Chief Revenue Officer at Blockware.

10+ years of various sales roles of increasing responsibility leading to Vice President, Enterprise Sales at Fusion Risk Management.

B.S. in Finance and Certificate in Entrepreneurship from University of Colorado, Boulder's Leeds School of Business.

University of Colorado Men's Hockey Team.

FinTax offers crypto accounting suite, tax calculator and professional tax consulting services.

Roland Bewick is the lead developer of Alby Hub, Alby's self-custodial, next-generation NWC-first lightning wallet. He also works on development SDKs and agent-first tools for the bitcoin lightning network. 2x BOLT FUN lightning hackathon winner with Bitcoin Connect and Lightsats. First in the world to create an OpenClaw that could spawn a child agent completely autonomously by paying for services with bitcoin.

John Wang is the Head of Crypto at Kalshi, where he leads all crypto-related efforts. Previously, he was a Paradigm Fellow and founder.

Sisun Lee leads crypto at Aven, where he drives product strategy across digital assets. He previously built and scaled global consumer products at Facebook, Uber and Tesla, and served as chief product officer at Argo. Lee is also a two-time founder of More Labs and Ramper, an embedded crypto wallet provider.

Roya Mahboob is an entrepreneur and Afghanistan’s first female tech CEO, but her impact extends far beyond the sphere of business. Ms. Mahboob has used her success and tech expertise to help educate and empower Afghan women and girls, and she has been an outspoken advocate for their rights. She founded the Digital Citizen Fund (DCF), which aims to increase Afghan women’s technological and financial literacy. She also co-founded and supports the Afghan Girls Robotics Team. Ms. Mahboob has worked to build Innovation/Tech Centers across Afghanistan and has launched an online platform to strengthen the voices of Afghan women and journalists. Ancillary to this, she regularly speaks and writes eloquently about the vital importance of STEAM education and economic opportunity for women and girls as they pertain to human rights. Ms. Mahboob was named to TIME’s 2013 list of 100 Most Influential People and received the 2014 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award, The Advancement of Gender Equality through Education Award, Young Leader of World Economic Forum 2015 , Asia Game changer 2019, Doha forum award of 2022, LantosHumanRights awards, the prestigious Presidential Leadership Scholarship and is a founding Leader of The NewNow, a group of rising global leaders tackling global challenges.

Jeremy Singer is currently the High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems manager at ExxonMobil, responsible for a portfolio of supercomputing assets and mission driven algorithms at scale. In addition to HPC, Jeremy is also active in market development of ExxonMobil Data Center cooling fluids as well as Venture execution of Low Carbon Data Center assets. Jeremy is passionate about bitcoin and open source computing projects.

Changzhou Bingrui Heat Transfer Technology Co., Ltd. is a leading provider of advanced thermal management solutions for Bitcoin mining and high-density data centers. The company specializes in dry coolers, liquid cold plates, and customized hydro-cooled container systems designed to optimize the performance and longevity of mining hardware.

With a strong focus on efficiency, reliability, and scalable deployment, Bingrui supports global mining operations by addressing one of the industry’s core challenges: heat. Its solutions enable higher computing density, reduced energy consumption, and more stable long-term operation across diverse environments.

By bridging thermal engineering with Bitcoin infrastructure, Bingrui plays a key role in advancing the sustainability and industrialization of next-generation mining systems.

Long time Miner, investor and business owner, have started/operated/owned/advised on over 500MW of projects over the last 12 years in 10+ countries and 3+ continents, as well as sitting on the Board of Satoshi Action and helping craft/testify for Pro-bitcoin policy in several US States.

Current: PubKey. Formerly: Fidelity, Stronghold, HODL Capital, and Hash Function

Matt is General Partner at Axiom. He also sits on the board of Cathedra Bitcoin Inc. and is the curator of Bitcoin Jawn. Previously, he served as General Counsel of Cathedra Bitcoin and in various in-house legal roles at BitGo and FIS.