Speakers

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!"

Aaron Burnett is Founder and CEO of Mach33 Financial Group, specializing in research and investments at the frontier of space infrastructure and expansion technologies. He leads data-backed modeling of exponential systems, including SpaceX forecasts relied upon by clients overseeing trillions in capital.

Cofounder of Resolvr, an insurtech bridging the global insurance market to Bitcoin. Published author for Bitcoin Magazine and the Satoshi Papers.

Aaron van Wirdum is the technical editor for Bitcoin Magazine and the cohost of the Bitcoin, Explained podcast. With a background in studying the historical influence of society-shaping technologies, he’s been covering Bitcoin and related projects since 2013. He is known for his ability to explain highly-technical subjects to a layman audience and specializes in topics including Bitcoin’s history, scaling and privacy technology.

Adam is the creator of Kontor, a novel Bitcoin metaprotocol for DeFi, and Counterparty, the first protocol for blockchain smart contacts and early NFTs. Adam is the CEO and co-founder of Unspendable Labs, working there to push the Bitcoin greater ecosystem forward.

You could describe me as a three-way cross between the charismatic you-tube engineering educator Mark Rober, the serial entrepreneur / systems thinker Elon Musk, and tree planting / real estate developer Johnny Appleseed.

I live in mid-Missouri in the college town of Columbia, MO. I work throughout the region on farms and forests wearing a range of hats in what I call “Green Collar Jobs”. These include those working directly with plants and animals, as well as work done through value added processing. Direct work I am engaged with includes apple orchards, regenerative farming, forest management, and raising livestock. Similarly value added work includes pressing cider, making medically tailored meals, sawmiling logs into lumber, doing meat processing, and construction with simple regional materials; wood, straw, clay, and rock.

Like all “Green Collar Jobs”, these value chains have an inherent seasonal flow and are generally labor intensive. Blending work across multiple sectors can ballast out the highs and lows of the season to help optimize work flow, support labor organizing, and provide a fun blend of real, on the ground jobs that fit the “gig economy”. The current homestead movement is smack in the middle of this space with people craving meaningful work and simplicity to balance out the speed of the modern digital world.

Hands-on education is one of the key underpennings of this vision. In 2008 I co-founded Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture (CCUA), a 501c3 educational non-profit. We’ve since grown to a staff of 30 providing a wide range of programs in our community. These include growing produce for the local food pantry, mentoring low-income families in their home gardens, training farmers/gardeners, and operating a commercial kitchen as part of a regional food hub. My role has evolved over the years from gardener, to fundraiser, to public-private campaign manager, to now, a part time special projects director. My current role allows me to develop strategic partnerships across sectors that bring out the win-win partnerships that people have when working closer to their food supply.

I also farm part-time helping landowners establish estate apple orchards and implement regenerative farming and forestry projects. This model of farming re-sets the traditional risk-bearing dynamics in farming by helping create profitable homesteads, and creating quality jobs for people across a range of experience. The current trends of farmland fragmentation and sophistication of regional food systems supports this innovative business strategy.

Bitcoiner since 2013. Co-founder of BTC.com and Poolin mining pools. Led the Miner-activated-softfork Taproot.

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.

Alexander Blume is the Co-Founder and CEO of Two Prime. Alexander previously served as a technology advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and as a digital asset investment analyst at Eric Schmidt’s VC firm, Tomorrow Ventures. He also founded Atomic Capital and held positions at Merrill Lynch and volatility-focused hedge fund Prana Capital Group. He first learned about Bitcoin while serving in the Peace Corps in Panama from 2011 to 2012. When he’s not working, Alexander enjoys spending time with his wife, distance running, and working on his organic chestnut farm in upstate New York.

Alexander Lozben is IT entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Interhash. He is an expert in mining and fintech, who develops projects in sustainable mining, Web3, blockchain analysis, AI+Blockchain, robotics, and the digital economy.

Interhash is a compnay which provides a professional crypto mining service where innovation and expertise help achieve maximum efficiency and confidence in the future.
Website https://interhash.com/en

Alex has worked in the Bitcoin mining industry since 2021.

Alex Lewin is a software engineer at Fedi, building freedom technology to empower humanity. He is the author of the Fedimint SDK, a toolkit for building fedimint wallets. In addition, Alex is a seasoned hackathon veteran with deep experience both participating in and organizing hackathons. He works with the world-renowned Bitcoin++ conference series to run high-quality hackathons around the globe.

Alex Schaefer was born in California in 1969 and is an active fixture in world of contemporary art. Quite often with art supplies, easel and a canvas on the sidewalks of the bustling city painting streetscapes en plein-air or working in his studio, wherever he is he puts down the world before him with boldness and truth. Alex Schaefer studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Upon graduation he spent 8 years as an artist in the video game industry. After the digital world he went on to teach foundation Painting, Drawing and Composition at the Art Center for 12 years. His oeuvre is wide ranging from traditional landscapes, cityscapes and street scenes to figurative nudes, portraits and abstract and imagination paintings. In 2011 Schaefer gained international recognition for his art with a series of banks on fire in protest of financial crimes. His main influences are the painterly “old masters”, the early French Impressionists and the San Francisco Bay area figurative and abstract artists of the 1950’s and the London School. Find links to see more art online at www.paintwithalex.com

Alex is Managing Director and Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy, the leading digital assets and data center development firm. At Galaxy, Alex leads a team that produces institutional grade research on bitcoin, crypto, and artificial intelligence. Prior to joining Galaxy, Alex co-managed Avon Ventures, the crypto VC firm affiliated with Fidelity Investments. Before that, Alex was Director of Blockchain Research at Fidelity Center for Applied Technology.

Alex von Frankenberg has been investing in early-stage technology startups since 2000. He began investing in Bitcoin and crypto startups in 2015, driven by a deep interest in sound money, network effects, and the formation of de-facto standards.

Alex is a sought-after keynote speaker at international conferences and the author of Bitcoin – The Honest Money, published in German, English, and Spanish, in which he explores Bitcoin as a transparent and incorruptible monetary system. He actively invests in and serves on the boards and advisory councils of Bitcoin- and crypto-focused startups and funds, contributing to the growth of the global Bitcoin ecosystem.

Alex holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD from the University of Mannheim, Germany, where his research focused on the establishment of de-facto technology standards.

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.

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.

Amanda is the COO of Nakamoto. Previously she was the cofounder of Second Gate Advisory, Head of Mining at Galaxy Digital, and Director of Bitcoin Mining at Fidelity Investments. Currently, she serves on the board of $WULF (Terawulf).

American Hodl is some guy from the internet.

Andrew Begin is Chief Strategy Officer at Galoy, where he helps financial institutions integrate Bitcoin into their core banking and payments infrastructure. Galoy enables banks, credit unions, and fintechs to offer bitcoin-backed lending, payments, and digital asset services within a regulated framework.

Before joining Galoy, Andrew worked in strategic consulting within the WPP and Publicis Groupe networks, advising Fortune 500 companies across finance, technology, and healthcare on large-scale digital transformation initiatives.

Andrew B. Gordon, Esq., CPA
Managing Attorney, Gordon Law Group
Founder, Main Street Crypto PAC
Andrew B. Gordon is the Managing Attorney of Gordon Law Group, a nationally recognized leader in cryptocurrency taxation, IRS controversy, and digital asset compliance. A rare dual-qualified Attorney and Certified Public Accountant, Andrew combines deep legal insight with financial acumen to help clients navigate the complex intersection of tax law, blockchain technology, and regulatory policy.
Andrew earned his B.A. and Master’s Degree in Accounting from the University of Illinois and his Juris Doctor from Chicago-Kent College of Law. During law school, he volunteered at the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic, gaining firsthand experience advocating for taxpayers in disputes with the IRS. He later clerked for the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, where he assisted in litigation and even chaired an IRS fraud trial; an experience that gave him unique insight into how the IRS builds its cases.
Today, Andrew is widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading authorities on cryptocurrency taxation and policy. He advises individual investors, crypto funds, blockchain startups, and Fortune 500 companies on issues ranging from tax reporting and audits to regulatory compliance and strategic planning. Under his leadership, Gordon Law Group has become a trusted resource for high-stakes IRS defense and crypto-related legal matters nationwide.
Beyond his practice, Andrew is the founder of Main Street Crypto PAC, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to advancing pro-innovation, practical cryptocurrency regulation in Washington, D.C. He frequently meets with lawmakers and regulators to advocate for policies that balance consumer protection with technological progress.
Andrew’s commitment to his clients is unwavering. Known for his strategic, client-first approach, he has helped save taxpayers millions of dollars while providing clarity and peace of mind in an increasingly complex tax landscape.
He is an active member of the Chicago Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, and multiple professional and community organizations. Andrew also speaks regularly at industry conferences and has been featured in national media outlets for his thought leadership in crypto tax and regulatory matters.

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.

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.

Called this bear market. Authored Why Buy Bitcoin.

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.

Previously Head of Operations and Head of Asset Servicing at NYDIG. Co-Founder of Five Bells, a digital asset post trade technology company.

Anthony is a Chartered Management Accountant with over 40 years’ experience in senior finance leadership roles across the Armed Forces (British Army), the National Health Service (NHS), and the oil and gas industry in Kazakhstan. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Power Analysis (formerly Power Mining Analysis), one of the leading media platforms in the Bitcoin sector, specialising in how public companies maximise returns from their power assets.

Ariel Deschapell is Co-Founder and CTO of Hydra Host, an NVIDIA Cloud Partner operating 20,000+ GPUs across 40+ global data centers. A Bitcoin developer and writer since 2014, he has published extensively in Bitcoin Magazine and CoinDesk on protocol governance, conservative development philosophy, and scaling debates. His February 2022 piece “Against The Inevitability of Bitcoin” was featured on Bitcoin Audible.

Deschapell also has extensive policy experience, having held the Henry Hazlitt Fellowship at the Foundation for Economic Education and served as a Senior Fellow for Crypto and Web3 at the Foundation for American Innovation. He submitted independent comments to the SEC on digital asset custody (April 2021) and responded to the Department of Commerce’s request for information on GPU export policy (late 2025). He is a founder of BIPBounty.org, an initiative funding bounties for Bitcoin Improvement Proposal reviews.

His recent work articulates “Compute Maximalism”—the thesis that Bitcoin mining and AI workloads are synergistic rather than competitive, with Bitcoin providing flexible, interruptible load that complements AI inference demands. He brings hands-on Bitcoin development experience, policy credentials, and current infrastructure leadership at the intersection of Bitcoin mining economics and AI compute.

Arsh Molu champions financial freedom at the Human Rights Foundation, an organization dedicated to defending human rights in authoritarian regimes. Arsh is also the Co-founder of Generation Bitcoin and the Bitcoin Students Network, worldwide communities that support younger generations in learning about Bitcoin, cultivating the next generation of Bitcoin leaders.

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.

Avi Burra is the co-founder of NosFabrica, a startup building the reputation and Web-of-Trust layer for the Nostr protocol. A technologist and storyteller operating at the intersection of code and culture, Avi is also the author of the novels 24 and July 18, and the creator of the docu-series Finding Home. As the host of the Plebchain Radio network, he is an active builder and practitioner in the Value-for-Value economy, exploring how sovereign tools can empower independent creators.

Avik Roy is Co-Founder and Chairman of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP.org), a non-profit, non-partisan think tank improving the lives of Americans on the bottom half of the economic ladder using freedom, innovation, and pluralism.

In 2021, he authored the widely-cited essay “Bitcoin and the U.S. Fiscal Reckoning,” published in National Affairs, in which he first proposed establishing a U.S. federal bitcoin reserve. Avik also serves on the Boards of Directors of Strive Inc. and the Texas Bitcoin Foundation, and is the Senior Advisor to the Bitcoin Policy Institute.

Avik has advised several presidential candidates on policy, including Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio. In one of those roles, as Senior Advisor to Texas Gov. Rick Perry in 2015, Perry became the first presidential candidate in the U.S. to support Bitcoin, arguing that the protocol offers “the possibility of reducing the cost and improving the quality of financial transactions in much the way that the conventional internet has done for consumer goods and services.”

Avik is well known for his public policy work outside of bitcoin, especially in fiscal and health care policy. National Review has called him one of the nation’s “sharpest policy minds,” while the New York Times’ Paul Krugman concedes, “Roy is about as good as you get in this stuff…he actually knows something.”

Along with Forbes, where Roy served as the Opinion and Policy Editor for a decade, Roy’s writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Atlantic, among other publications, and he has appeared on numerous national television programs including Meet the Press, Face the Nation, PBS NewsHour, and Real Time with Bill Maher.

Avik previously worked as a hedge fund manager at J.P. Morgan, Bain Capital, and other firms. He was educated at MIT and the Yale School of Medicine.

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.

Co-founder of Satochip, I’ve been in love with Bitcoin since 2012 — the kind of love that makes you rethink money, freedom, and how we build tools for the future. I’m not a coder, but rather a geek who has always had a cypherpunk mindset: open source everything, keep self-custody at the core, and make tech that’s actually usable.

I like building things that people can hold in their hands and enjoy using — driven by UX/UI and a curiosity for new technologies. Somewhere between libertarian ideals and entrepreneurial energy, my journey is about creating simple, secure, and open ways for anyone to interact with Bitcoin.

Beau is the CEO of Abundant Mines, a bitcoin mining company helping investors get reliable bitcoin denominated income through mining. He is an engineer-turned-real estate investor who transformed his entire wealth strategy after re-discovering Bitcoin's revolutionary potential. After losing half a million dollars to an unreliable mining host, Beau and his wife didn't retreat, they built Abundant Mines in Oregon's hydropower-rich region, creating the company they wished existed when starting their Bitcoin mining journey.

Today, having sold his entire real estate portfolio to go all-in on Bitcoin mining, Beau helps investors and business owners access the tax advantages and financial sovereignty of properly managed digital infrastructure. His expertise bridges traditional wealth building with Bitcoin's principles, allowing him to holistically guide people through the intersection of energy, technology, and sound money.

Ben is an intrepid soul who has birthed a plethora of diverse projects worldwide spanning many countries, genres, and cultures. Bitcoin has played an important role in his evolution of ideas and manifesting them since 2016. Now based in Costa Rica and launching his new project Secret Keys, he hopes to inspire whomever is willing to listen to optimize oneself, and dare to dream big. Always on the cusp of the next version of himself, Ben holds an optimistic perspective, yet prides himself on being ready to overcome any obstacle.

Bitcoin and Lightning developer. Host of Austin bitdevs

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.

Worked for exchanges helping with self custody and payments, moved to help people directly to ensure they have no counterparty risk by giving free tutorials, creating a marketplace for concierge and providing an e-commerce store to buy everything you need privately.

Open source Bitcoin software developer, working on self-custody solutions.

Class of 2020, fell deep down the rabbit hole between diplomatic assignments and during COVID lockdown.
Served on the editorial team and contributed a chapter to 'National Security in the Digital Age: Bitcoin as a Tool for Modern Statecraft,' a first-of-its-kind volume to inform policymakers and elected officials on how digital assets can serve American interests in a rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape.
Co-founder of Bridger Solutions, an Africa-focused Bitcoin Mining Company
Former diplomat/national security practitioner, past speaker/panelist at BPI.

QnA is a Bitcoiner and privacy advocate that’s been helping people navigate self-custody, privacy, and sovereignty since 2017.

He spending his days building Bitcoin-centric sovereignty tools at Foundation and cohosting two shows at Ungovernable Misfits. The Bitcoin Brief - A fortnightly show about all things Bitcoin and Freedom Tech Friday - a weekly live stream about everything and anything relating to Freedom Technologies.

Bisher Khudeira is Chief Operating Officer at Stormrake, one of Australia’s leading Bitcoin brokerages, and a recognised Australian Bitcoin voice. He oversees operations and strategy, reshaping how serious investors access and safeguard digital assets. With 10+ years building and scaling Australian brokerages, he brings deep expertise in sales trading, algorithmic execution, OTC markets, and investor education. Bisher champions transparent, spread-free execution, institutional-grade custody governance, and disciplined risk practice.

At Stormrake, Bisher drives execution quality, liquidity access, and custody governance by helping clients buy, sell, and safekeep Bitcoin with clean settlement and disciplined risk.

Blockchain & DeFi Expert, Advisor, Journalist | Global Head of Sales at VNISH

Bradley Peak is a blockchain and DeFi expert, award-winning journalist, and global sales leader with extensive experience at the intersection of crypto technology, media, cybersecurity, and global business development.

Over the course of his career, Bradley has published more than 2 million words on blockchain, cryptocurrency, and financial technology across leading industry platforms, including Cointelegraph and Cryptoprocessing.com. His work has helped shape public understanding of crypto markets, regulation, mining, and emerging technologies, making him a trusted voice within the global Web3 ecosystem.

In addition to his editorial career, Bradley has built a strong on-camera presence as the blockchain and cybersecurity host at Sumsub, where content featuring him has generated over 35 million views on YouTube. Through interviews, explainers, and expert discussions, he has translated complex technical and regulatory topics into accessible insights for a global audience.

Bradley has also served as an advisor to major blockchain events and projects, including TOKEN2049, Lumia, and Symbiosis, contributing strategic insight on industry positioning, narrative development, and market trends.

Currently, Bradley is the Global Head of Sales at VNISH, where he leads international growth initiatives, partnerships, and enterprise relationships within the Bitcoin mining and infrastructure space. His work focuses on advancing crypto adoption, mining efficiency, post-quantum cryptography readiness, and the convergence of blockchain with AI and next-generation security models.

Bradley is a University of Cambridge alumnus and regularly speaks on topics including Bitcoin mining, crypto adoption, consensus mechanisms, DeFi, CBDCs, post-quantum cryptography, and artificial intelligence.

₿ Bitcoin | Freedom Tech
Marketing @ The Bitcoin Conference
Building value. Scaling networks.
Nashville 📍 | Finance • Growth • Sovereignty

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

Brandon Keys is the founder and CEO of Green Candle, a Bitcoin and finance media company often described as "the Barstool Sports of finance and Bitcoin." With a background in engineering and data analysis, Brandon hosts two podcasts—State of Bitcoin and Macro Insights—and writes the Green Candle Newsletter, all focused on making complex financial topics accessible and engaging.

He's become a recognized voice in the Bitcoin community, serving as MC for major events including the Adopting Bitcoin Conference, Bitcoin Atlantis, and the Canadian Bitcoin Conference. Brandon has also moderated panels at Bitcoin Conference 2024 in Nashville and PlebLab's Start Up Day in Austin. Beyond media, he's advised Bitcoin mining startups on heat distribution solutions.

Brent Whitehead is co-founder of Giga Energy, an AI and electrical infrastructure manufacturer, developer, and operator headquartered in Houston, Texas. Since launching the company in 2019, he has played a central role in expanding it from a startup welding modular data centers in East Texas into a U.S. manufacturer delivering transformers, switchboards, and modular systems for AI, bitcoin, data centers, utilities, and industrial projects. Whitehead was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy for his leadership in strengthening the backbone of America’s power sector.

Brian is the Digital Assets Leader for KPMG's Advisory practice.

Brian De Mint has been in Bitcoin since 2013 and has written two Amazon Best Sellers including Bitcoin Evangelism and Parallel. He is the Chief Marketing Officer at Club Orange, the largest social network for Bitcoiners in the world with over 20,000 members. In addition to his work in Bitcoin, he owns a chain of wellness studios headquartered in southern California called Salt & Light Wellness.

Brian Dixon is an entrepreneur, investor, and the CEO of Off the Chain Capital, which is a Warren Buffet / Graham-Dodd value-oriented investment firm with a goal to acquire digital assets and blockchain companies at a discount. An early participant in the Bitcoin ecosystem since 2012, Dixon brings a long-term, institutional perspective to digital assets, blending traditional value investing principles with deep domain expertise in market structure, regulation, and capital allocation. He is a frequent speaker at global industry events and a trusted voice to family offices, institutional investors, allocators, and regulators seeking to understand Bitcoin and its role in modern portfolios. He is also an author of four books and a frequent speaker on Bitcoin and its impact on the evolution of consciousness, spirituality, and its impact on morality.

Bitcoin personal finance for affluent 35 to 55 year olds. Real estate professional.

Brian Hirschfield is an experienced actuary and capital market risk manager, who spent nearly 30 years advising pensions, insurers, and annuity writers on billions of dollars of risk. He was a pioneer in Liability Driven Investments, and a recognized market leader in hedging of investment guarantees. Brian is building a new branch of the actuarial profession, based on Bitcoin.

Prior to his election to Congress, Representative Jack was one of President Trump’s longest-serving aides. During President Trump’s Administration, Jack served as the White House Political Director. Following President Trump’s Administration, he worked as the principal liaison between Congressional Republicans and President Trump.

Representative Jack is a resident of Peachtree City, Georgia and a graduate of Woodward Academy and Pepperdine University.

Representative Jack represents Georgia’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes the following counties:
Carroll County
Coweta County
Parts of Douglas County
Parts of Fayette County
Haralson County
Harris County
Heard County
Parts of Henry County
Lamar County
Meriwether County
Parts of Muscogee County
Pike County
Spalding County
Troup County
Upson County

Brianna Honkawa d'Estries is the founder of Evento (evento.so), an open-source event organizing platform with a built-in Bitcoin Lightning wallet, funded by the Human Rights Foundation. She is also the founder of Hack4freedom (hack4freedom.com), an all-women's Bitcoin and freedom technology hackathon series operating across Africa and Brazil.

Brianna works with D++ on Bitcoin education through games, bringing hands-on Bitcoin experiences to people around the world. Together they are bringing that mission to Bitcoin Conference with a Mario Kart 64++ activation where players earn Bitcoin instantly to their Lightning wallet just by playing.

Brianna came to Bitcoin through its human rights potential and has stayed committed to that mission - getting more women, marginalized communities, and people from the places where Bitcoin is needed most into the industry as builders.

Bruce Barone Jr. is the founder of BrainSprout Studios™, a father-and-son creative studio building original Bitcoin-centered story universes rooted in Christian allegory and moral philosophy. What began as a homeschool exploration of Bitcoin with his son evolved into a global media project with over 150,000 subscribers and 6+ million views since launching in late 2025.

His work blends classical architecture, historical figures, and the development of “electric money” into a cohesive Bitcoin mythology. Drawing on figures such as Tesla and other architects of energy and industry, he frames Bitcoin as a structural achievement — a digital cathedral built from mathematics and electricity. Through cinematic storytelling, graphic novels, and serialized media, Bruce explores sovereignty, technocracy, AI, and intergenerational responsibility, presenting Bitcoin as durable truth infrastructure rather than speculative finance.

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.

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.

BTC Sessions is the world's most trusted bitcoin-only educator since 2016, teaching tens of millions of people how to get, use and secure Bitcoin on YouTube. He also offers custom Bitcoin education with his team at Bitcoin Mentor, and leads various international community initiatives alongside groups like the Human Rights Foundation.

Free market maximalist, nuture capitalist, and the founder of Shopstr Markets. Focused on food freedom, open trade, and building back our local economies.

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.

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.

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.

Entrepreneur obsessed with the process of value creation. Charles started working in Artificial Intelligence in 2017 and around the same time, a side project led him to dive down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. Charles is therefore uniquely positioned to understand the synergies between those 2 fields and has made it his mission to kickstart a symbiotic relationship between Open-Source AI and the soundest money.

Charlie is a longtime Bitcoiner with a focus on Ordinals. He is cofounder of Blockspace Media, cofounder of Nakamotor partners, Board on the Oklahoma Bitcoin Association, and organizes a local Bitcoin meetup in Tulsa, OK with his wife, Lauren.

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.

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.

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.

Formerly Chief Technology Officer of Silvergate Bank, Chris is an expert in U.S. banking technology and operations with an end-to-end understanding of both banking operations, and the systems that support it.

Chris has a deep technical understanding of both Bitcoin and Traditional Finance, with hands-on experience linking settlement between digital assets and fiat currencies. He has led cross-functional teams both implementing and operating Tier 0/1 payments and FX platforms within a U.S. banks.

Chris is a Bitcoin entrepreneur and advisor focused on self-custody, insurance, and inheritance. He is the CEO of Bitsurance, the world's first insurance for Bitcoin held in self-custody, and Seedor, one of Europe's leading Bitcoin backup solutions. Chris works closely with hardware wallet manufacturers, miners, and Bitcoin companies across Europe, and regularly speaks on Bitcoin custody, threat models, and the economic and technical realities of building on Bitcoin.

Christian Papathanasiou is the Chief Architect of qBTC, a quantum-safe implementation of the Bitcoin protocol. A Bitcoiner since 2010, he is a cybersecurity veteran, three-time CISO, and former Black Hat and DEF CON speaker. His work focuses on hardening Bitcoin against post-quantum threats without compromising its core design.

Christopher Calicott is a co-founder and managing director of Trammell Venture Partners, an Austin-based early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in the Bitcoin-native ecosystem. Christopher has allocated to and managed venture investments in a number of sectors from tier 1 exchanges, to custody, credit markets, consumer-grade protocol and application infrastructure, gaming, novel Bitcoin-native financial products and services, and applied AI. He is an investor in companies such as Kraken, Unchained Capital, Voltage, VIDA Global, ZBD, and more. Christopher led the development of the TVP Bitcoin Venture Fund, the venture capital industry's first investment fund series dedicated exclusively to backing founders building on the Bitcoin protocol stack.

Bitcoin class of 2011, Nostr class of 2021 and protocol contributor, now building at the intersection of bitcoin & AI

CJK is in the Bitcoin Class of 2013. He believes Bitcoin is an engineered money and the most pristine form of collateral in the world.

As the Founder of Peoples Reserve, he is leading the charge in Bitcoin Powered Finance, creating innovative and revolutionary tools that let Bitcoiners unlock the purchasing power of their savings technology without having to give up ownership.

Peoples Reserve's flagship products include their Bitcoin Powered Mortgage and Bitcoin Bond.

They're building a marketplace that empowers We The People — redefining how savers leverage Bitcoin for mortgages, insurances, and credit to Build Wealth Smarter.

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.

Clara Shikhelman is the Head of Research at Chaincode Labs, where she explores the theoretical foundations of Bitcoin from both computer science and economic perspectives. She previously held postdoctoral positions at the Simons Institute at UC Berkeley and at Caltech, and holds a PhD in mathematics from Tel Aviv University.

Cody Carbone is the CEO of The Digital Chamber, the world’s largest and most trusted trade association representing the digital asset and blockchain industry. Under Cody’s leadership, The Digital Chamber serves as the go-to resource for policymakers, regulators, and industry leaders seeking clarity and collaboration in the rapidly evolving world of digital assets. Major affiliates of The Digital Chamber include: CryptoUK, Digital Power Network, TDC’s Digital State Network, and the Bitcoin Treasury Council.

With over 250 members spanning the entire digital economy, The Chamber plays a central role in shaping the future of Web3 policy. As the premier voice globally, The Chamber leads all education and advocacy efforts, crafting legislation, informing regulatory frameworks, and building bipartisan coalitions to ensure the United States remains a global hub for digital innovation.

Prior to joining The Digital Chamber, Cody spent six years at Ernst & Young’s (EY) Office of Public Policy, where he led federal advocacy on financial services and emerging technologies. He also brings significant legislative experience, having served as policy staff in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.

Cody holds a Juris Doctor (JD) and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Syracuse University and is admitted to the New York State Bar. He resides in Alexandria, Virginia, where he continues to champion smart, innovation-forward policies for the digital future.

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.

Colin is editor-in-chief of Blockspace Media. Previously, he served as the head of content and research at Luxor and had stints as a journalist for Bitcoin Magazine and CoinDesk.

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.

Conor Chepenik is a writer, Bitcoin advocate, and the author of The Bitcoin Coloring Book (BitcoinColoring.com). He is a father of two and works both full-time and part-time in the Bitcoin space, focused on education, adoption, and practical sovereignty. His work explores how sound money, technology, and incentives shape culture, families, and long-term human flourishing.

I'm an Associate Professor at NIU, Senior Fellow at BPI, and co-author of Resistance Money. Currently, I'm developing [redacted].

18-time MMA World Champion Cris Cyborg is not only one of the most dominant athletes in combat sports history, but also an early and forward-thinking Bitcoin advocate. She began her Bitcoin journey in 2018, seeking smarter, more secure ways to preserve and grow her earnings as a professional fighter: making her one of the first elite athletes to publicly embrace Bitcoin.

Today, Cyborg is an investor in Bitcoin mining technologies and a vocal supporter of financial education and decentralization. Leveraging her global platform, she actively promotes Bitcoin awareness and adoption through creative initiatives like her “Cyborg vs Fiat” comic book, helping make complex financial ideas more accessible to a wider audience.

Beyond her achievements in the cage, Cyborg is a dedicated humanitarian, leading outreach efforts across Africa and South America. Her work reflects a deep commitment to empowering underserved communities, where she sees Bitcoin as a powerful tool for financial inclusion and long-term opportunity.

Curtis is Compass Mining’s Senior Director of Growth, driving strategic initiatives across site procurement, managed services, and capital partnerships. With a background in energy and infrastructure, Curtis represents the company at industry events, leads brand awareness efforts, and identifies high-ROI opportunities to build recognition and drive growth. Since joining Compass, Curtis’s efforts have been instrumental in spreading awareness of Compass’s products and services, advancing its mission of democratizing Bitcoin mining.

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.

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.

Danielle is best known for her time as a WWE superstar under the ring name Summer Rae where she was on E’s hit show Total Divas. Since leaving WWE she’s been featured in movies & commercials doing her own stunt work & recently stunt doubling for Nicole Kidman. She does on camera tv commentating for BKB bareknuckle Boxing where she calls the action on their monthly PPV’s. Danielle graduated from East Carolina University in Greenville, NC with a BS in business marketing.

A FinTech expert and multiple business owner based in Lockhart, Texas, Dan brings years of hands-on experience in IT engineering and enterprise-level crypto mining consulting.

With a solid foundation in information technology, he has led and overseen major infrastructure projects, from the design of scalable crypto farms in desert environments to the implementation of efficient, high-performance mining systems. Known for technical precision and forward-thinking strategies, Dan provides tailored equipment recommendations, optimizes mining performance, and delivers expert support to ensure every client gets the most from their investment.

His mission is simple: to empower miners, both new and experienced, by streamlining operations, solving technical challenges, and helping them thrive in the fast-paced world of cryptocurrency mining.

Whether it’s setting up a first miner or scaling a commercial operation, Dan is committed to helping clients succeed.

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.

Host of What Bitcoin Did
Venture Partner @ Epoch

Dan is a Program Coordinator for The Bitcoin Conference and former co-host of the High Hash Rate podcast.

As Director of Flexible Compute Platforms at CPower Energy, I focus on enabling and monetizing energy flexibility for Miners and AI factories. With over 15 years of energy sector experience, my work emphasizes automated demand response, energy arbitrage and distributed energy resources. My expertise includes Demand Response market access for flexible, digital, automated loads, AI-driven site optimization, energy storage, blockchain and digital assets.

David Lange has 19 years of experience leading large-scale SOX and internal audit initiatives. He advises clients on building and transforming risk and assurance programs that balance efficiency, scalability and regulatory expectations.

David leads Weaver’s blockchain and digital assets advisory practice and also drives the strategy and execution of SOX and internal audit programs for clients in the asset management, life sciences and commercial industries. He partners with senior leadership teams to prioritize and address risk across all three lines of defense, integrating financial, operational and technology perspectives.

He is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and holds the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and Certified Blockchain and Digital Assets Professional (CBDA) designations. David earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in financial services and planning from Baylor University.

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.

Dennis Koch is Director of BMAG (Bitcoin Museum & Art Gallery), a division of BTC Inc. With a decade of experience in Los Angeles’s institutional and private gallery sectors—including Gagosian and Blum & Poe—he has spent the last six years helping build Bitcoin’s art infrastructure. Since 2019, the Bitcoin Conference art gallery program has facilitated over 120 BTC in sales while creating platforms for artists to exhibit, price work in bitcoin, and engage with the broader Bitcoin ethos. At BMAG, he oversees curatorial programming, artist partnerships, and sales while helping build the institutional framework for Bitcoin art and culture.

Dennis Porter is the CEO and Co-Founder of Satoshi Action, the premier state-focused organization advancing Bitcoin and digital asset policy across the United States. Under his leadership, Satoshi Action has passed 11 of its model bills into law across 11 different states. He works directly with state and federal lawmakers nationwide to develop forward-looking policy frameworks that protect consumers, strengthen innovation, and enhance American competitiveness. Dennis is recognized globally as a leading voice at the intersection of technology and public policy.

D++ is a software engineer, Lightning evangelist, revolutionary cypherpunk, and bitcoin professor turned bitcoin fungineer. She creates interactive experiences that bring bitcoin to life, giving participants real ways to use it. Your quest is to find her at the conference and play her games: you might leave with rad prizes, but you'll definitely leave with some free sats and a peak experience.

Derek Ross is the Head of Developer Relations at Soapbox Technology, where he drives developer adoption and ecosystem growth for Nostr — the open protocol for decentralized, censorship-resistant social media. With over 20 years of experience spanning systems administration, mobile tech journalism, and consulting, Derek is widely known as the "Nostr Evangelist" for his tireless work educating and onboarding developers and users alike.

In 2016 Dhruv co-founded Unchained, a financial services company building products for long-term bitcoin holders.