Gavin Wood is a British computer scientist and software engineer, best known as co-founder of Ethereum, inventor of the Solidity programming language, and creator of Polkadot and Kusama. He studied at the University of York, earning a Master of Engineering in 2002 and a PhD in Computer Science in 2005. Before blockchain, Wood worked across […]
POLTO
Hodling / Bitcoin Advocate
POLTO
Hodling / Bitcoin Advocate
With over 20 years of expertise in Free Software and Open Hardware, tech entrepreneur Alexander Poltorak has been involved with the Bitcoin ecosystem since its early days. He has been working as a Bitcoin consultant since 2016. He is an advocate of Libre Software, cryptography and all technologies empowering sovereign individuals and helping preserve the core values of anonymity, privacy, censorship resistance, decentralisation and security.
RYAN LACKEY
Evertas / Cypherpunk & Security
RYAN LACKEY
Evertas / Cypherpunk & Security
Ryan Lackey is a cypherpunk and tech entrepreneur who has started an offshore datahaven in the North Sea, bootstrapped a satellite communications company operating in conflict zones, built a secure computing startup based on virtualization and intel processor security technologies, and is now using insurance as a way to improve the security of deployed cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence systems.
ELENA GROZDANOVSKA
Ethereum network states researcher
ELENA GROZDANOVSKA
Ethereum network states researcher
Elena Grozdanovska is a Master’s student in Political Science at the University of Bonn, Germany. She is researching the spatial and territorial aspects of Ethereum blockchain communities, manifesting as experimental communes facilitated by blockchain technology. Her Master’s thesis focuses on the network state/pop-up city phenomenon. Her research is supported by a grant from the JUST […]
