Speakers

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.

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.

Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He has also helped organize the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009. In his work Alex has connected hundreds of dissidents and civil society groups with business leaders, technologists, journalists, philanthropists, policymakers, and artists to promote free and open societies. Alex's writing and views on human rights and technology have appeared in media outlets across the world including The Atlantic, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, NPR, TIME, The Washington Post, WIRED, and The Wall Street Journal. He has spoken at universities ranging from MIT to Stanford, briefed the European Parliament and US State Department, and gives lectures on freedom in the digital age at Singularity University. He frequently speaks and writes about why Bitcoin matters for freedom, and his books include "The Little Bitcoin Book," “Check Your Financial Privilege," "Hidden Repression," and "A Trojan Horse for Freedom."

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 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.

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).

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.

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.

Anil is the author of 'The Bitcoin Handbook' and 'The Treasury of Michael Saylor'. He has previously worked with companies such as Swan, Unchained, and Bitcoin Magazine. Anil is also an investor in a dozen bitcoin-related companies.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Craig is the Director of Programming for the Bitcoin Conference and is the organizer of the Asheville Bitcoiners meetup group. Using the skills gained from a former career in early childhood education and administration, he facilitates hands-on activities and lessons to teach complex topics about Bitcoin in an easy-to-understand way.

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

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.

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

Chief Financial Officer for BTC Inc (2022 - present)

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Eric is a designer and builder of regenerative farm systems, and practices on his 200 acre homestead farm in Rainier, OR. His systems use cattle, pigs, trees, earthworks, and energy systems to grow fertility and productivity. Designs are made with a multi-generation mindset, with goals of implementing natural systems to create increasing abundance with decreasing inputs.
Eric operates Great Malus Beef to raise grass finished beef as a homestead staple food, and he markets the surplus by the quarter for local purchase and delivery. He has accepted Bitcoin payment since 2019, and is active within the Portland BitDevs community.
Eric evangelizes using Bitcoin as local currency. He helps beginners achieve their first transactions, and persuades investors to also move more of their daily financial life into Bitcoin.

Bitcoin maximalist since 2021. Focused on educating and empowering individuals to escape the thievery of the fiat monetary system via online and in-person teaching and mentoring. Expanding the Bitcoin ethos of the sovereign individual into the health and wellness space as a strength and conditioning specialist for women, and re-introducing the dignity of aging and dying through end-of-life planning as a death doula. Bitcoin gives us the tool to reclaim our time: it's what we do with that time that will change the world.

Erin Redwing is an astrologer focusing on Bitcoin and the technological changes arising in the Age of Aquarius. She is the co-host of Hell Money Podcast.

Evan Kaloudis is a software engineer and entrepreneur building tools at the frontier of Bitcoin and the Lightning Network. He’s best known as the founder and lead developer of ZEUS, a mobile, open-source Bitcoin wallet that empowers users with full self-custody, privacy, and node-level control.

With a background in cybersecurity and infrastructure engineering, Evan has spent the past several years focused on advancing self-sovereign finance. He is a vocal advocate for privacy-preserving, self-custodial technology and has been a prominent voice in defending open-source Bitcoin tools amid growing regulatory pressure.

Through ZEUS, Evan is pushing Bitcoin payments forward — making them more accessible while equipping users with tools that preserve their financial sovereignty.

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.

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.

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

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.

GMONEY is a Bitcoin Freedom Cyberpunk committed to the ideals of privacy, sovereignty, and economic freedom. A digital revolutionary advocating for the use of Bitcoin as CYBERPOWER to disrupt institutions, traditional financial systems and empower individuals.

Dr. Jörg Guido Hülsmann is a Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute, member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. He is a professor of economics at the University of Angers, where he directs the Master in Law and Finance and codirects the double bachelor program in Law and Economics. He teaches classes on macroeconomics, money, banking, and finance. Dr. Hülsmann is the author of Abundance, Generosity, and the State (2023), Krise der Inflationskultur (2013), The Ethics of Money Production (2008), and Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism (2007). His books and articles have been translated into twenty languages. His current research focuses on the political economy of financial markets, as well as on the theory of money and banking.

Hailey Lennon has be a practicing attorney in the bitcoin space since 2015. She brings extensive experience in fintech and cryptocurrency law, having advised on complex regulatory frameworks across both private practice and in-house roles.

Most recently, Ms. Lennon served as General Counsel of Fold and helped take the company public in February 2025. Prior to joining Fold, Lennon was a corporate partner in Brown Rudnick’s Digital Commerce group, advising clients on regulatory compliance involving FinCEN, OFAC, the CFTC, and the SEC. Before that, she served as regulatory counsel at leading crypto platforms Coinbase and bitFlyer and crypto bank Silvergate Bank. At Coinbase, she managed regulatory relationships with federal and state agencies, led securities law analyses for digital assets, helped launch Coinbase’s margin product in 23 states, and worked closely with the NYDFS on BitLicense and Trust Company oversight. At bitFlyer, she oversaw U.S. expansion, obtained 33 money transmitter licenses and the third ever New York Bitlicense, and led the company’s BSA/AML program. Earlier in her career, she has also served as board secretary for the Virtual Commodity Association, supporting the development of industry-led self-regulation.

Lennon is a recognized voice in the bitcoin space, frequently speaking at major conferences and contributing to outlets like Forbes and Bitcoin Magazine.

Halston Valencia is a Bitcoin marketer at Bitcoin Well and a co-founder of BOLT, a newsletter and platform helping people understand the global monetary shift through tools, dashboards, and applied analysis. She discovered Bitcoin in college through her interest in economics and monetary systems. Beyond her professional role, Halston actively studies Bitcoin education, corporate Bitcoin treasuries, and the financial infrastructure emerging around Bitcoin, while remaining a strong advocate for self-custody and cold storage. She is passionate about translating complex macro and monetary dynamics into practical understanding for the next generation.

Author • Innovator • Energy & Bitcoin Pioneer

Harvey Blom is a leading expert at the intersection of renewable energy and Bitcoin infrastructure. With over a decade of strategic leadership in energy, blockchain, and digital innovation, Harvey has become a recognized voice shaping the future of sustainable Bitcoin mining. His work centers on unlocking the synergy between clean power solutions and decentralized finance to create resilient, scalable, and environmentally responsible Bitcoin ecosystems.

As a senior strategist with GRN Energy, Harvey drives initiatives that integrate green energy systems with high-performance Bitcoin mining infrastructure. His deep understanding of power markets, energy optimization, and digital asset economics enables him to architect solutions that reduce environmental impact while maximizing ROI for industrial-scale mining operations.

Harvey is the author of The Bitcoin Mining Book—a comprehensive guide bridging technical, economic, and energy-centric perspectives of Bitcoin mining. His accessible insights have empowered professionals across finance, energy, and technology sectors to navigate the emerging Bitcoin economy with clarity and confidence.

An inventor and builder at heart, Harvey created the Bitcoin ROI Calculator, a widely used tool that demystifies mining economics by enabling operators and investors to model profitability with precision. His analytical tools have become benchmarks for transparency and efficiency in mining project planning.

Harvey is also the co-founder of BitcoinAwards.io, a platform celebrating excellence and innovation across the global Bitcoin community. Through highlighting impact and leadership, the initiative accelerates adoption and recognizes pioneers who are pushing the boundaries of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Blending strategic vision with practical execution, Harvey Blom continues to lead the charge toward a future where Bitcoin and renewable energy work hand-in-hand to power the next generation of digital and decentralized infrastructure.

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.

Isabel Foxen Duke is the Host of Bitcoin Rails—a podcast on X covering up-and-coming “Bitcoin Season II” technologies. She formerly managed communications for both the Ordinals and BRC20 core protocols and is a GP in the Bitcoin-native assets fund, Unbroken Chain.

Since the launch of Ordinals, she's advised protocol teams throughout the Bitcoin L2, metaprotocol and ZKP/BitVM spaces with a focus on technical communications and community education. She currently acts as a communications advisor to both Domo (Creator or BRC20) and Robin Linus (creator of BitVM), and is a co-author of BIP 360.

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

Former Core dev: assumeutxo, OP_VAULT, CTV

Founder, BitDevs

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.

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

Asia’s fastest growing physical Bitcoin community

As co-chair of the Amundsen Davis Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and FinTech Service Group, Joe has experience in all aspects of the digital asset space. Joe has been an active investor and proponent of Bitcoin since 2015. Joe provides practical and legal knowledge to individuals and companies on regulatory compliance and custodial solutions for digital assets for the last several years. He advises crypto startups and handles disputes involving cryptocurrency exchanges. Joe closely studies the nascent field of litigation and discovery involving digital assets. He is prepared to help clients navigate the full range of complex and evolving issues in the field. Joe shares a passion for the technology driving global adoption of cryptocurrency and is a frequent speaker on digital asset regulations, capital markets, payment systems, Bitcoin, blockchain technology, and “DeFi.”

Joe has served as an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, teaching trial advocacy. He also coaches Chicago-Kent’s nationally ranked Trial Advocacy Team.

John is the founder of My First Bitcoin, the world's largest bitcoin education non-profit, working with educators in over 40 nations around the world.

Jonathan serves on Brink's board and brings experience administering the BitMEX Open Source Developer Grant Program. He has authored two books: The Blocksize War and Reckless: The Story Of Cryptocurrency Interest Rates. He has also written a series of research articles for BitMEX

Jonathan is also an advisor to Bitwise and a chartered accountant, having started his career at KPMG in London.

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 learned about bitcoin many years ago and am impressed with its growing influence and global acceptance.

Dr. Hendrickson is a professor of economics and chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Mississippi. He is a senior fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, a senior fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research’s Sound Money Project, a senior affiliate scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and serves on the board of the Mississippi Council on Economic Education. Hendrickson’s research focuses on the intersection of monetary theory and political economy. He has written extensively on the political economy of bitcoin. He has published articles in scholarly journals such as the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Macroeconomic Dynamics, the Journal of Macroeconomics, Economic Inquiry, Economics and Politics, and Contemporary Economic Policy.

Justin Dorey is a former Olympic free-skier turned Bitcoin maximalist with a background in brand strategy and management consulting at Deloitte. His interest political economy and counter-cultural movements led him to Bitcoin. Since then, he has dedicated his career to contributing to the movement in any way he can.

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

As the founder of Branta, Keith is pioneering the pre-payment verification layer of Bitcoin payments. After asking himself about how his Bitcoin could be stolen, the idea for Branta emerged.

Branta enables sending Bitcoin with absolute certainty; confirming counterparty addresses without revealing sensitive data. Branta’s triangulated security model adds an independent verification layer that eliminates the threat of address-swap and man-in-the-middle attacks.

Branta supports ecommerce, remittances, OTC, and wallet infrastructure.

Prior to founding Branta, Keith was a software engineer at Bloomberg. Keith loves coffee, cigars, surfing and boxing.

Kellie is a Vitality Architect and Executive Coach, transforming people and businesses from functioning to flourishing. She integrates the principles of Bitcoin into how we live and work to design breakthrough results as an output of thriving.

She is also on a mission to integrate Bitcoin mining into oil and gas operations. A former BP executive (with experience at Shell and ExxonMobil too!) who's operated major fields in Alaska, Oman, and Iraq, she sees the marriage of the two industries as inevitable and is working to accelerate it.

Kellie is committed to helping Bitcoiners amplify their lives beyond the financial realm, using Bitcoin to create richness across the spectrum.

Kevin Loaec is the CEO and co-founder of Wizardsardine, a Bitcoin security company focused on building open-source, failure-resilient custody systems. He has been working on Bitcoin security and adversarial design for over a decade, with a particular emphasis on vaults, self-custody, governance, and recovery mechanisms using native Bitcoin primitives. Kevin is best known as a co-architect of the Revault protocol, a multiparty Bitcoin vault architecture designed to mitigate key compromise, internal threats, and operational failure. His work has directly influenced how institutions and individuals think about timelocks, policy-based spending, and secure Bitcoin inheritance.

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.

Kostas Ouzas is the founder of Minotaur Trading Systems, a company dedicated to building trading algorithms. With a background in quantitative system design and a deep focus on risk management, Ouzas developed Minotaur around the principle of protecting capital while capturing opportunity. Ouzas’s mission is to make institutional-grade trading intelligence accessible to everyday investors, enabling systematic exposure to Bitcoin’s long-term potential without emotion or speculation.

Kristýna Mazánková is the Director of the Master in Bitcoin — the world’s first English and global academic program dedicated entirely and only to Bitcoin as a social, technological, and economic phenomenon.

Before entering the Bitcoin industry in 2019, Kristýna built her career in technology and corporate communications, helping global and regional organizations communicate innovation and navigate change. She later led communications at SatoshiLabs, the creators of Trezor, and today serves as Head of PR at BTC Inc., the company behind Bitcoin Magazine and the world’s largest Bitcoin conferences.
At Hesperides University, Kristýna is shaping a new kind of higher education — one that treats Bitcoin not as a trend, but as a turning point in human organization, value, and trust. As she puts it, “Bitcoin deserves an academic space — serious, independent, and global.”
Her work connects communication, education, technology, and the growing movement for intellectual and financial independence.

Lauren is the devoted wife of Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of Samourai Wallet, who is currently serving a five-year federal prison sentence for developing non-custodial, open-source privacy software. She passionately advocates for cryptocurrency privacy rights and criminal justice reform, focusing on securing clemency for her husband and bringing attention to others who have suffered similar injustice under the previous administration.

Lauren campaigns to highlights the broader implications of the Samourai case, drawing parallels to other privacy-focused projects, and calls attention to the lawfare against innovators in the Bitcoin and crypto space. Resilient and outspoken, she balances her personal grief with determined activism, emphasizing that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" as she strives for her husband’s freedom and systemic reform.

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

Leon was one of the first financial economics students (M.S.c.) to write a thesis on Bitcoin in 2015.

Today, Leon is active in real estate and venture capital. He specializes in developing Bitcoin strategies for real estate developers.

I do cryptography research into scaling Bitcoin via on-chain SNARK verification at { ideal }, a company I co-founded with Robin Linus and Ying Tong Lai. Previously, I was the founding cryptographer and chief scientist of Alpen Labs on BitVM and Glock and also worked at Blockstream research on proofs for private transactions. My work focuses on proof systems research and on BitVM and garbled circuits for verification on-chain. I also work on private transaction protocols like ShieldedCSV.

Madison Hanson is a finance and economics student at Florida Gulf Coast University, graduating in May, and the Founder & President of the FGCU Crypto Club. She discovered Bitcoin in 2016 and has since been passionate about educating Gen Z on sound money, self-custody, and long-term wealth building. Madison has built grassroots Bitcoin communities on campus, hosts The HansonHash Podcast, and speaks on Bitcoin, leadership, and financial sovereignty. When she’s not studying, she’s skateboarding, serving her community, and helping students take ownership of their financial future.

Previously at Apple working on AI/ML, Mark left to work on Mutiny Wallet building self-custody Lightning for mobile phones. Now Mark and his co-founder bring self-custody technology to AI, letting users have end-to-end encryption with powerful AI on their devices.

Founder of TFTC.io, a media company focused on #Bitcoin, Beauty, and Freedom in the Digital Age. Partner at Ten31. Director at Cathedra Bitcoin.

As Lead Analyst for Bitcoin Magazine Pro, Matt looks to apply his expertise to offer valuable perspectives on bitcoin's market dynamics, often focusing on the intersection of on-chain analysis, macroeconomic trends, and broader financial markets to provide insights into both short and long term outlooks.

As Head of Digital Assets Research and Portfolio Manager of the VanEck OnChain Economy ETF ($NODE), Mr. Sigel helps guide VanEck’s digital assets strategy and sits on the investment committee of the firm’s private funds. He produces frequent research on Bitcoin, smart contract platforms, and emerging markets adoption of digital asset. Prior to VanEck, Mr. Sigel worked as a research analyst and portfolio strategist at CLSA, an analyst and portfolio manager at AllianceBernstein (where he covered technology and other sectors under Cathie Wood), and a journalist at Bloomberg, CNBC and NHK Japan Broadcasting, where he covered finance. Mr. Sigel is a CFA Charterholder and has a BA from Harvard University.

Matt Hill is the co-founder and CEO of Start9. As a technologist from the cypherpunk tradition, he creates software that protects privacy in order to shift the balance of power in society towrds individuals and families.

Max DeMarco is the Co-founder of 21c Studios. The creative engine behind the highest-quality videos for Bitcoin's most trusted voices and brands. 21c produces their ads, product videos, animations and podcasts.

You’ve seen the content just not the watermark.

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

Michael Goldstein has been a bitcoin developer and educator since 2013. He is the founder and president of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. Michael is also the co-host of the Noded Bitcoin Podcast and the Reorg podcast.

Michael is an engineer and novelist who recently released Blood of the Bourgeoisie, a Bitcoin thriller novel that's rapidly gaining attention within the Bitcoin community.

Michael Terpin has been a bitcoin investor and thought leader since 2013, when he started BitAngels (now in 30 cities) and Transform Group, the earliest bitcoin and crypto PR firm. He currently runs Transform Capital, his family office, and Transform Ventures, his advisory arm. He wrote the bestselling hardcover book, Bitcoin Supercycle, in late 2024, which accurately predicted the dates of all-time high and $100,000 bitcoin, as well as the timing of the bitcoin bubble popping. Terpin is also chief investment officer of Supercycle Genesis Partners, a Bitcoin-only, algorithmic hedge fund, and chief digital asset treasury officer for BTCMax, a digital asset treasury company specializing on maximizing bitcoin yield. Previously, he was a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits to public companies. He is the first bitcoin investor to move to Puerto Rico under the island's investor tax decree system.

Professional Video Maker with a Credentialed background. Creator at Simply Bitcoin, “Beyond Bitcoin” show. Idea fountain. Ai inspired Rapper. Podcaster.

Milan started in Bitcoin in 2012, has been a crypto policy expert at the Dutch Central Bank, and is co-founder and CEO of NanoGPT which powers AI.bitcoin.com and is one of the largest crypto-accepting services, allowing anyone to access every AI model privately, paid for in Bitcoin and Lightning.

Miles Suter is the Bitcoin Product Lead at Block, Inc., a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Miles is focused on advancing bitcoin product development across Block’s ecosystem, including Cash App, Square, and Spiral. He played an integral role in bringing bitcoin and the Lightning Network to Cash App, and is a champion of the bitcoin community more broadly.

Bitcoin PIPEs these days. BitMessage C++ implementation back in 2013. Lots of things in between (=nil;, Lido, Steemit, etc).

Naomi Brockwell is the President and Founder of the Ludlow Institute, a non-profit dedicated to advancing freedom through technology. Their media arm, NBTV, creates educational content to help people reclaim their privacy and autonomy online -- they have over 1 million subscribers across platforms and over 100 million views of their videos.

From 2013 - 2015 she worked as a policy associate at the New York Bitcoin Center. From 2015 - 2021 she has worked as a producer for 19-times Emmy-Award-Winning Journalist John Stossel. From 2021 to 2022 she hosted the CoinDesk series “Break it Down”, and the CoinDesk daily show “The Hash”.

Naomi was a producer for the 2015 feature documentary Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It (Best International Documentary, Anthem Film Festival; Winner of Special Jury Prize, Amsterdam Film Festival), and producer of the 2018 award-winning documentary The Housing Bubble.

Naomi is the co-founder of “The Soho Forum”, a NY debate series. She is on the Advisory Council at the “Mannkal Economic Education Foundation”, and is author of “Beginner's Introduction To Privacy”, and the children's book “Billy's Bitcoin”.

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

Nick Hansen is CEO of Luxor, building institutional-grade infrastructure and markets for Bitcoin miners globally. He is a systems-focused builder with deep expertise in mining economics, scale, and efficiency.