Dr. Olga Ukolova, MD, is a Co-Founder and COO at Pandora Prime, building privacy-focused Layer 2 and 3 technologies on Bitcoin, and one of the creators of the FreeAI Manifesto. Combining censorship-resistant development (RGB, Prometheus) with biohacking and neuroscience, she has worked with academia, geeks, cypherpunks, and developers to advance privacy, self-sovereignty, and decentralization as […]
ARAL BALKAN
Small Technology Foundation / activist, designer & developer
ARAL BALKAN
Small Technology Foundation / activist, designer & developer
Aral’s been making things with computers since he was 7 years old. (That’s approximately 43 years ago. And yes, he still thinks computers are magic portals into endless universes.) Along the way, he dabbled in Flash, did some consulting, taught some workshops, gave a few talks, organised a smattering of conferences, made some apps, helped […]
AMIR TAAKI
DarkFi / Cryptography
AMIR TAAKI
DarkFi / Cryptography
Bitcoin dev 2010-2015
20+ years free software dev
Created DarkFi
Created BIP 0001
Founded the first UK Bitcoin exchange
10+ years privacy tech (first CoinJoin and stealth addr impl)
Founded DarkWallet with Vitalik and Cody Wilson
Fought ISIS in Syria
Anonymous cryptography and mathematics (homology, algebra, geometry)
DarkFi = L1 for anonymous on-chain apps: world's first fully anon DAO, world's most anon p2p chat, and anonymous trustless cross-chain swaps
TOMASZ MENTZEN
Bitomat.com / founder & libertarian economist
TOMASZ MENTZEN
Bitomat.com / founder & libertarian economist
Computer scientist and blockchain technology enthusiast. Developer of the software used in over 320 Bitcoin ATMs operated by Bitomat.com. A curious expert deeply fascinated by the technological side of cryptocurrencies, he prefers conversations about specifics and the intricate workings of blockchain over speculations on fluctuating prices. For him, price talk is unproductive compared to the […]