Speakers

As a founding partner in Base Layer Advisors, Lynne brings her experience as an investor and advisor to technology companies to connect investors with opportunities that will benefit from the accelerating adoption of the Bitcoin protocol. She is the co-host of the “Build With Bitcoin” podcast, a mentor in the Google Launchpad for Startups program, and a frequent speaker on Bitcoin innovation. Previously, Lynne was a founding partner of MITA Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund, and a vice president at Merrill Lynch. She has been a Bitcoiner since 2013.

Lyn Ulbricht is an activist and supporter of individual freedom, privacy and criminal justice reform. She is also the mother and former advocate of Ross Ulbricht, who received a double life sentence, with no parole, for all non-violent charges associated with his role in the Silk Road website. After almost 12 years fighting for Ross’s freedom, Lyn saw President Trump issue her son a full and unconditional pardon, partially in her honor.
Having had her only son sentenced to die in prison, Lyn is now dedicated to calling attention to the many thousands of others who have been victimized by excessive sentences. To that end, she has launched the nonprofit Mothers Against Cruel Sentencing (MACS). MothersAgainstCruelSentencing.org

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.

Magdalena Gronowska is a senior Bitcoin consultant with over 17 years of experience in highly regulated financial, electricity, and carbon markets, including Bitcoin. Magdalena currently advises DDC, a Bitcoin treasury and food company and hosts Magsplaining (Bitcoin x AI podcast). Previously, she sat on the Board of Advisors for the Digital Asset Securities Commission of El Salvador, served as Vice President of Business Development at Coinkite. She helped launch Canada's first publicly traded Bitcoin fund, paving the way for Canadian Bitcoin ETFs. She previously advised PRTI (Bitcoin mining), helped establish the Santa Monica Bitcoin Office, and oversaw the QuadrigaCX insolvency proceedings as a Bankruptcy Inspector.

Marc is a Swiss investor with over 22 years of experience across global finance and alternative investments, with a strong focus on bitcoin investments solutions. He comes from a distinguished entrepreneurial family behind leading financial institutions, including Credit
Suisse and Zurich Insurance.

Marc was Co-Founder, CEO, and Managing Partner of SYZ Capital, and a member of the Executive Leadership Team of the SYZ Group, overseeing CHF 26.5 billion in assets under management. As a member of the Executive and Investment Committees, he led the firm’s
private equity strategy. Marc has completed over 120 investments globally and is an active participant in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

At Syz Capital he launched and scaled the BTC Alpha fund to become one of the world's largest bitcoin denominated funds.

He serves on the boards of Nasdaq-listed MoneyHero and is an advisor to H100, a leading European Bitcoin treasury company. He holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD and has been an active investor in Bitcoin and blockchain since 2014.

Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks is a Congressional leader helping shape America’s financial freedom and digital future, serving as a prominent voice on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. A steadfast advocate for financial innovation, she is at the forefront of establishing a clear, pro-growth regulatory framework for digital assets. By supporting landmark legislation such as the CLARITY Act and the GENIUS Act, Dr. Miller-Meeks is working to provide the essential "rules of the road" that protect consumer privacy and empower American entrepreneurs to lead on the global stage.

Driven by a commitment to national security, Representative Miller-Meeks views digital asset leadership as a strategic imperative to outcompete the Chinese Communist Party and secure U.S. dominance in the next era of financial technology. Her work bridges the gap between digital innovation and energy resilience, ensuring that our nation’s infrastructure is prepared to support a 21st-century economy. Through consistent engagement with industry stakeholders and her constituents in Iowa, she remains dedicated to fostering an environment where digital assets can thrive, decentralization is protected, and American economic leadership remains unrivaled.

Mark Moss is building the world he wants to live in — powered by Bitcoin. As founder of the Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, Chief Visionary Officer at Matador, Chief Bitcoin Strategist at Satsuma, and founder of Market Disruptors, Mark operates at the intersection of Bitcoin, capital markets, and macroeconomic disruption. With over 100 million views and decades of experience in finance, he is a leading voice helping investors and entrepreneurs understand how Bitcoin is reshaping the global economic order.

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.

Marshall Long is a Bitcoin OG and Class of 2010 miner who has been hashing since the network's earliest days. With a strong background in hardware engineering, this 10th-generation Texan and serial entrepreneur brings over 15 years of deep technical expertise in Bitcoin mining, hardware optimization, global infrastructure deployment, and protocol economics. He has deployed mining operations across continents, including pioneering hydro-powered sites with Gridless in Kenya and championing innovations like immersion cooling. Marshall has held key leadership roles in the industry and responsible for founding PlebSource and serving as a General Partner at Alloyed Strategies. A frequent podcast guest, panelist, and respected voice in the mining community, Marshall delivers battle-tested insights on energy markets, hardware supply chains, chip design challenges, international operations, and the relentless pursuit of stacking sats through proof-of-work. Follow him on X at @OGBTC for unfiltered perspectives on Bitcoin's evolving frontier.

Mason Foard has spent nearly half a decade in Bitcoin, is a founding member of MSTR True North, and serves as Director of Bitcoin Strategy at Méliuz.

Mathieu Agee is the Founder of O21 Solutions, a Houston, TX-based strategic advisory firm dedicated to accelerating Bitcoin adoption in the energy sector, with a primary focus on the oil and gas industry.

With extensive leadership experience in both traditional energy markets and cutting-edge digital technologies, Mathieu has held senior roles at Amazon Web Services (AWS), ExxonMobil, multiple global integrated oil and gas companies, and professional services consulting firms. He has driven large-scale digital transformation initiatives across AI, hydrocarbon supply chains, trading and risk management, manufacturing, refining, marketing, retail, enterprise IT, and cloud computing. Notably, he developed and produced ExxonMobil's Outlook for Energy, delivering long-term energy demand and supply insights to guide multi-billion-dollar investments and inform C-level executives, Boards, senior management, and public audiences through advocacy presentations to policy groups, NGOs, universities, governments, and corporations.

At O21 Solutions, Mathieu leverages his unique expertise in energy markets and the emerging Bitcoin economy to provide unmatched insights for companies navigating the "Money Transition." The firm empowers public and private energy companies, executive teams, Boards, public affairs, and investor relations with customized Bitcoin-powered corporate strategies—including treasury optimization, balance sheet accumulation, mining integration, payments, and operational enhancements—through tailored research, analysis, education, actionable frameworks, industry best practices, and expert coaching to reduce cycle time from strategy to execution.

Mathieu is a recognized thought leader on the intersection of Bitcoin, corporate strategy, energy optimization, and sound money principles, frequently sharing insights through podcasts, conferences, and industry discussions.

Matt Ballensweig is the Global Head of Trading at BitGo, where he oversees the firm’s trading organization across spot OTC, electronic/API trading, credit, and derivatives. He is responsible for all trading operations, liquidity strategy, and new product and market development, with a focus on delivering institutional-grade execution across digital asset markets. Matt has also played a key role in scaling BitGo’s global market presence across the U.S, Asia, Europe and MENA regions, contributing to the firm’s growth and path to becoming a publicly listed company. Prior to BitGo, Matt was a senior leader at Genesis, a DCG company, where he co-led Sales & Trading and helped scale one of the industry's largest institutional crypto trading businesses. Earlier in his career, he was a Research Associate at Bridgewater Associates, a global macro hedge fund, where he worked with institutional clients including corporate and public pensions, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds.

Matt Cole has served as Chief Executive Officer of Strive, Inc. since April 2023 and has served as Chairman of the Board since September 2025. He previously served as Chief Investment Officer of Strive until October 2025.

Matt leads Strive as a Bitcoin treasury and structured finance company. Under his leadership, Strive has established a significant corporate Bitcoin treasury and has implemented a capital strategy focused on maximizing Bitcoin yield, using Bitcoin as the hurdle rate for all capital deployment decisions. The company’s approach reflects a disciplined focus on balance sheet construction, capital structure optimization, and long-term shareholder alignment.

Matt has positioned Strive at the forefront of innovation within the Bitcoin treasury sector. During his tenure, Strive became the second public company to introduce a publicly traded perpetual preferred equity instrument with the launch of SATA and successfully completed the acquisition of Semler Scientific, making Strive the first Bitcoin treasury company to acquire another publicly traded Bitcoin treasury business. These initiatives support the expansion of Strive’s Bitcoin holdings, the responsible scaling of institutional leverage, and broader market recognition of Bitcoin as a strategic corporate asset.

A long-time Bitcoin investor and advocate, Matt brings extensive institutional investment experience to Strive. Prior to joining the company, he spent approximately 15 years at CalPERS, where he served as a Portfolio Manager in global fixed income and oversaw more than $70 billion in actively managed fixed income assets. Portfolios under his leadership met or exceeded their benchmarks annually. His work at CalPERS included early research on the potential role of Bitcoin within institutional portfolios, based on its long-term return characteristics and its potential to hedge inflation, debt accumulation, technological disruption, and geopolitical risk.

Matt has also been active in advancing a shareholder-focused approach to corporate governance and fiduciary responsibility. His commentary on financial markets and Bitcoin has appeared in major media outlets, and he has participated as a guest on national business television and industry forums.

Matt is a CFA charterholder and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from California State University, Sacramento.

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.

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

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.

Matthew works as a researcher at Second, an implementation of the Ark protocol. His focus is on Bitcoin Scaling solutions for payments.

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.

Matt Hougan is the Chief Investment Officer for Bitwise Asset Management, a specialist crypto asset manager that manages more than $15 billion across a suite of US ETFs, European ETFs, SMAs, staking solutions, onchain vaults, and active strategies.

Before joining Bitwise in 2018, Hougan was CEO of ETF .com, where he created the first ETF data, ratings, and classification system, and built the world’s largest ETF conference. A regular guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business, Hougan’s thoughts on investing have been widely profiled in the media. He is a three-time member of the
Barron’s ETF Roundtable and co-author of two publications for the CFA Institute Research Foundation: “A Comprehensive Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds” and “Cryptoassets: The Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency for Investment Professionals.”

In addition to his role at Bitwise, Hougan is the co-founder of FutureProof, creator of the world’s largest financial services conference; a board member of QuantumStreet AI, a AI-driven investing company with $7 billion in assets under management; and a strategic advisor to Blockworks, a crypto data and research company. Hougan graduated from Bowdoin College with a B.A. in philosophy.

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

Matt Luongo is the Founder and CEO of Thesis*, a cryptocurrency venture studio funding and building decentralized products and protocols that enable personal empowerment. These include Bitcoin finance superapp, Mezo, Lolli, decentralized wrapped Bitcoin token $tBTC, auditing firm Defense, community-owned crypto wallet Taho, Bitcoin rewards company Fold, encrypted period tracking app Embody, and others. Under Matt’s leadership, Thesis* has garnered investments from a16z, Polychain Capital, ParaFi, Fenbushi, and others. As a developer, Matt strives for elegant solutions to messy problems. As an entrepreneur, he seeks novel fixes for problems we take for granted.

I'm not the typical Bitcoiner. I wasn't rebellious. I happily trodded along with the pack. The last thing I wanted was to move against the tide.

But there was one thing I couldn't shake.

I started lifting at 8. Deep in Reddit nutrition forums by 13. Favorite movie was Pumping Iron. What does that teach you?

The long game.

But everywhere I looked, everyone played the now game. Ate, trained, spent like it. I couldn't understand it. And I didn't have a good answer for why everyone was wired different – until Bitcoin gave me one.

I lost my shirt in 2021. But instead of licking my wounds, I decided to learn more. And yes, I became obsessed. First with the possibility. Then with a question:

If we had a money that incentivized people to save instead of spend – how would that change how they live?

It was like everything I'd ever questioned might finally make sense. And I've been on a mission to contribute to that solution since – in the way I know best.

Speaking.

Too many smart people aren't seen as such. Their ideas never get considered because they can't get a room to believe in them. I've spent the last two years working to change that – coaching executives and founders to communicate under pressure, helping them show up on stage the way their ideas deserve. I've worked with Bitcoin main stage speakers on their preparation, helped clients moderate panels alongside some of the biggest names in the space, and prepared executives for interviews on the floor of the NYSE.

The Bitcoin community gave me a mission. This is how I give back.

Matt Prusak, President of American Bitcoin (NASDAQ: ABTC), brings execution-focused leadership to bitcoin accumulation at scale. American Bitcoin is a pure-play bitcoin accumulator combining the best of mining operations and treasury strategies to maximize shareholder value. Previously, Matt served as CEO of Ionic Digital and Chief Commercial Officer of both Hut 8 (NASDAQ: HUT) and US Bitcoin Corp., where he helped build industry-leading North American bitcoin operations. During the pandemic, he demonstrated his operational capabilities by scaling Curative to deliver COVID testing nationwide. Before entering the Bitcoin space, Matt advised clients on capital markets, technology, and infrastructure projects at Bain & Company. A Schwarzman Scholar with a Stanford MBA, Matt is focused on building ABTC into a dominant bitcoin accumulator – strengthening America's position in digital assets and creating sustainable value in a competitive global landscape.

I am particularly interested in the topic of bitcoin mining pools. This interest led me to build AtlasPool.io, a globally distributed solo bitcoin pool that is highly performant and available. I enjoying learning more and contributing to the bitcoin community.

Matt Williams is the Head of Financial Services at Luxor. At Luxor, Matt has led the successful launch of Luxor’s Hashrate Forwards markets and Luxor’s Energy business, providing the Bitcoin Mining space with financial instruments to hedge their risk and gain non-dilutive access to financing.

Prior to joining Luxor, Matt was the Managing Director of Technology Strategy at NFA. Matt also spent time at CME Group as Director of Market Structure and Strategic Investments, helping to lead CME Group's go-to-market strategy for the launch of Bitcoin Futures. He started his career as an Energy trader in the Natural Gas and Crude Oil markets. Matt also sits on the Board of Directors at Bitnomial Exchange, as well as the Advisory Committee for KOR Financial, and is a Strategic Advisor for Sphinx Exchange.

Mauricio Di Bartolomeo is the Co-Founder & CSO of Ledn, a leading provider of bitcoin-backed loans. He found Bitcoin during hyperinflation in Venezuela and believes in the future of the digital economy. He has an MBA from the Richard Ivey business school at Western University.

is Bitkey & Proto Lead at Block, leading the development of the company’s self-custody bitcoin wallet Bitkey as well as the modular mining system, Proto. Prior to assuming this leadership role, Max was Hardware Security Lead at Block where he built and led product security and security engineering teams responsible for protecting a wide range of Square products and for shipping critical components that powered many different levels of Square's technology stack

MEAR ONE (Kalen Ockerman) has been at the forefront of LA’s graffiti and mural culture for nearly three decades. He is famous for having pioneered the Melrose graffiti art movement in the late 80s and is considered by many to be LA’s most prolific public muralist. Early on in his career, MEAR gained his recognition for building the bridge between graffiti art and fine art. He was the first graffiti artist to exhibit at the infamous 01 Gallery on Melrose, as well as at 33 1/3 Gallery in Silverlake, where Banksy would later debut his first North American show. MEAR ONE’s work was part of the landmark Art in the Streets exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Street Cred at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, and Last Thursday at the Orlando Museum of Fine Art. His artworks reside in the permanent collection of the Laguna Museum of Fine Art Museum, The Chambers Project, and numerous private collections around the world. He is perhaps best known for constructing powerful narratives juxtaposing philosophy, ancient mythology and modern politics to inspire an evolved consciousness. This interpretation of reality is achieved through balanced dialogue between surrealism and the metaphysical. MEAR ONE helps us envision the sublime spirit of our time – not by escaping reality, but by confronting it head on.

Chief Strategy Officer at Blockware.

Former COO of Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) Public company experience in bitcoin mining operations, hardware procurement, site evaluation, IT/Cybersecurity, SoX control design/implementation, and M&A.25+ of experience in operations, risk management, and finance.

B.S. in Finance, Master’s Certificate of Accountancy from the University of Houston, and certification in risk management.

In 2008, my family lost everything in the Great Financial Crisis. We were born and raised in Detroit and in the automotive industry. My husband lost his Tier 1 supplier job, my antique shop fell apart because everyone lost their jobs. There was no money. I started going to Chicago to sell my goods. It was a place that wasn't dependent on one industry. Pretty soon we decided to move permanently. We lost our house, literally everything and started over in the Chicago burbs with our 3 kids in an apartment. I built my own business from scratch there, The Vintage Garage and my husband had to work midnights in a shop for a few years until he could quit and work with me. We worked hard, got our kids in great schools, then-

in 2015 I bought $100 worth of Bitcoin and promptly forgot about this "internet money." In 2017, someone asked if I’d heard about Bitcoin, and I thought, “I’ve got some of that.” I go hunt it down and that 100 bucks is worth $4700! That was a TON of money for us. It sent me down the rabbit hole, what is it, why did it do this, and what’s it going to do next? So I hung on for the ride and tried to add. I made plenty of mistakes along the way. But Bitcoin taught me about money and finance and how the world works. It changed our lives for the better. We literally thought we'd never be able to retire, now we've got a shot at it. :)

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 was recently appointed Chief MAHA Officer at Steak ’n Shake—the first role of its kind in corporate America—where he leads the company’s transition toward higher standards of nutritional integrity and transparency. Prior to joining Steak ’n Shake, Michael served as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, working under President Trump and Secretary Kennedy.

Michael Borglin is Co-Founder and CEO of Surge, where he is building Bitcoin-native credit infrastructure that lets holders access liquidity without selling or compromising custody of their bitcoin. A longtime Bitcoin builder, Michael previously worked across Coinbase and Casa. He gained experience managing teams building self custodial products on Bitcoin and Lightning and also helped build the world's largest Crypto Prime Brokerage. At Surge, he is focused on making bitcoin-backed borrowing transparent, verifiable, and non-custodial.

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.

Lead Engineer LibreBoard 256 Foundation, Geek, Bitcoin Home Heater, Open Source Maxi

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.

TAB meetup started in 2016, Free Bitcoin education in Atlanta.
TAB Conference, (TABConf). Technical Bitcoin conference started in 2018.
Blocktime podcast, Bitcoin podcast started in 2018.
Started as one of the first employees at ZBD in 2020. Enabled users to earn bitcoin via lightning by playing video games. First company I know of to scale lightning for custodial usecases.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Former lead of Bitcoin in Cash App, former excutive, and now public writer and philosopher focused on finding meaning in our contemporary technological and scientific culture.

Director of Engineering, MARA
Volunteer Lifeguard, MaraPool
Product Owner, Slipstream

Author: Speculative Bitcoin Adoption/Price Theory (https://medium.com/@mcasey0827/speculative-bitcoin-adoption-price-theory-2eed48ecf7da) as referenced in "The Bullish Case for Bitcoin" by Vijay Boyapati.

Bitcoin Class of 2012

Mike has created a unique way to use Bitcoin as an employee incentive and it has fundamentally changed our culture, and by extension, our bottom line.

Mike Germano is the self appointed “Chief Marketing Officer of Bitcoin” and founder of the Bitcoin Marketing Department, focused on pushing Bitcoin into the mainstream while helping global brands connect with and market to the Bitcoin community.
He is the former President of PubKey and Bitcoin Magazine, and previously served as Chief Digital Officer at Vice Media.
At Bitcoin Magazine, Germano led a full scale revival of the brand, relaunching the print magazine, building its live broadcast division, and creating flagship productions including the Live Desk, and Bitcoin Magazine Pro. He expanded the publication into four languages and helped transform it into the leading global Bitcoin media platform.

Congressman Mike Lawler proudly represents New York's 17th Congressional District, just north of New York City, encompassing all or parts of Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess, and Westchester Counties. A lifelong Hudson Valley resident and former State Assemblyman, Congressman Lawler is widely recognized for his common-sense approach to legislating.

Congressman Lawler serves on the House Financial Services Committee, where he is Vice Chair of Communications, and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He is one of Washington's most committed advocates for Bitcoin and digital assets — earning an "A" grade from Stand With Crypto. Congressman Lawler supports President Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and has been a driving force behind both the GENIUS Act and the Clarity Act, fighting to give American innovators the regulatory clarity they need to compete and win globally.

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

Mike runs Brink, a 501c3 organization funding Bitcoin developers. He also contributes to Bitcoin Optech.

Mike is a mathematician and entrepreneur with a passion for using cryptography to solve problems in global finance. Until 2021 Mike served as CTO of DigitalX, an international cryptocurrency firm which became the first publicly listed crypto company in the world when it IPO’d on the Australian Stock Exchange in 2013. While at DigitalX, Mike built a Bitcoin mining operation which at its peak owned 4% of the Bitcoin network’s hashpower and led a team to develop an international remittances and custody solution using Bitcoin.

Mike has 15 years of experience in cybersecurity and protocol design and serves as an advisor to several prominent companies and open-source projects in the crypto space, including Zcash, Mobilecoin, and CoinPoker. Mike is also the founder of ARGO, an automated market maker for use on crypto markets, and Manucci Capital, a DeFi-focused hedge fund.

Since 2021, Mike has acted as an expert consultant for multiple insurance and reinsurance providers, evaluating the security risks of digital asset custody operations. Mike joined Evertas in 2025 to help develop a general framework for evaluating custody and infrastructure risks to emerging tech companies.

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 Jennings is Head of Policy & General Counsel for a16z crypto, where he advises the firm and its portfolio companies on decentralization, DAOs, governance, NFTs, and state and federal securities laws. Miles’ experience within the sector stretches back to 2017, when he first began working with ConsenSys and quickly became one of the most sought-after legal minds working in crypto. During his time as a partner at Latham & Watkins, he co-chaired its global blockchain and cryptocurrency task force. In addition, he worked regularly with almost every prominent venture firm operating in crypto, designing several of the investment structures they use today, and he was counsel to dozens of startups in the sector.

Miles Paschini is CEO of FV Bank, a global digital bank which harnesses the combined capabilities of a licensed bank and qualified custodian to provide an extensive array of financial services that go beyond conventional banking offerings. By offering an expanded range of banking and digital asset custody products, FV Bank addresses a wide range of financial requirements, serving both individuals and businesses within the fintech and blockchain ecosystem.

Miles was awarded seven patents related to payment processing services during the development of EWI Holdings acquired by Blackhawk Inc. in 2006. In addition to developing the industry’s first cryptocurrency linked debit cards, Miles and FV Bank co-founder Nitin Agarwal are the first in history to be awarded a U.S. patent for the development of stablecoin instruments backed by sovereign debt and on chain KYC.

Milton "Todd" Ault III is the Executive Chairman and visionary leader behind OnlyBulls, the AI-powered investing companion app launched by askROI, a subsidiary of Hyperscale Data Inc. A 35+ year Wall Street veteran, serial entrepreneur, and early Bitcoin adopter since 2011, Ault brings decades of financial expertise and a passion for democratizing access to institutional-grade market intelligence.

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

Mitchell Askew is a leading Bitcoin mining analyst and the Head of Blockware Intelligence. Mitchell provides institutional-grade research and strategic guidance to help investors navigate the Bitcoin mining landscape and build profitable mining operations. His insights on Bitcoin mining economics, and on-chain analytics, and macroeconomics is published weekly to more than 100,000 newsletter subscribers.

Mohammed Bakhashwain works at the convergence of AI, blockchain, and high-performance data infrastructure. Focused on crypto mining and data centers, he is driven to support the backbone of decentralized systems and the compute demands shaping the future of technology.

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”.

Nathan Fitzsimmons is the VP of BTC Mentor, a leading service for personalized one-on-one Bitcoin education. As a dedicated Bitcoin educator, he has spent the last two years empowering hundreds of newcomers worldwide through hands-on workshops and one-on-one sessions covering the full spectrum of self-custody models, including privacy and security best practices.

Nathan hosts the Mentor Sessions Podcast—which has gained 600,000 views on YouTube in the first year—on the BTC Sessions channel and also co-hosts the BTC Sessions Live Streams.

The Architecture of Time
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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.

As a Computer Science student (Class of 2026), I’m watching the traditional career roadmap become obsolete before I even graduate. Gen Z is witnessing a historic collision: the infinite productivity of AI is making digital labor abundant, while the absolute scarcity of Bitcoin is making digital value immutable.

I believe that for our generation to thrive, we must stop saving in a melting fiat currency that siphons away our time-value and start anchoring our futures in the world’s hardest money. By protecting our savings from inflation, we gain the freedom to stop chasing a paycheck and start building careers we actually love. I’m not just building a career; I’m building a sovereign life.

I started the Orange Peel Podcast to document this transition; peeling back the layers of a broken system to provide my generation with the signal they need to opt into a future where their wealth is truly their own.

Founder and Host of Simply Bitcoin, one of the most watched Bitcoin only media platforms on Earth.

His mission is to guide people to thrive in an ever-growing future towards individuals claiming back full financial sovereignty through Bitcoin.

Nico Smid is the founder of Digital Mining Solutions and a strategic advisor in the Bitcoin mining industry. After nearly 15 years in international business development, he entered Bitcoin as an investor in 2017 and a self-miner in 2021, recognizing the sector’s need for professionalization and scalable business strategy. Today he works with miners, investors, and infrastructure providers worldwide, supporting site development, growth strategy, and market positioning. Through advisory work, industry research, and his newsletter The Bitcoin Mining Block Post, Nico shares insights on mining economics, operational optimization, and the evolving role of mining within the broader digital infrastructure landscape.

niftynei started working in bitcoin in 2018 as part of the engineering team at CashApp. Since then, she's worked on Lightning at Blockstream and founded two foundational projects for the bitcoin developer ecosystem: bitcoin++ a global conference showcasing the cutting edge of bitcoin and Base58 a 501c3 nonprofit focused on translating the bitcoin protocol into technical mastery for the next generation.

Nir Rikovitch is the Chief Product and Technology Officer of MARA (NASDAQ: MARA), where he leads the company’s product strategy and the commercialization of breakthrough technologies into market-ready solutions. With deep expertise in machine learning, engineering leadership, and product management, Mr. Rikovitch is responsible for building MARA’s product discipline from the ground up, bridging the gap between engineering and commercial utility to deliver production-grade systems at the intersection of energy and AI.

Prior to joining MARA, Mr. Rikovitch served as Director of Product Management at Blue River, a John Deere company. During his tenure, he co-founded the autonomy unit and led product strategy for autonomous construction machinery and advanced driver-assistance systems. His leadership in developing intelligent infrastructure across robotics and industrial automation unlocked more than $500 million in revenue across the enterprise portfolio.

Throughout his career, Mr. Rikovitch has focused on the belief that technological progress hinges on the stewardship of energy. At MARA, he applies this philosophy to the development of digital energy and infrastructure designed to be intelligent, efficient, and built to last.

His proven track record in scaling real-world autonomous technologies and intelligent infrastructure makes him a leading voice on the future of digital energy and the orchestration of reliable, large-scale compute systems.

Nishant has built a diverse career over the past 15 years, spanning multiple industries and continents, entering the crypto world full-time in early 2014. He is the founder and leader of BlocksBridge Consulting—the world's first public relations firm dedicated to the digital mining industry—and the creator of TheEnergyMag, the industry's first trade publication. BlocksBridge advises C-suite executives of some of the most well-known Nasdaq-listed digital asset companies and produces research-driven content leveraging its deep industry knowledge and intelligence.

Noa Gruman is a musician, composer, and creative leader, best known as the founder and lead singer of the progressive metal band Scardust, and the founder and conductor of the metal choir Hellscore. With a deeply hands-on approach to creation, production, and storytelling, she connects naturally to Bitcoin’s values of sovereignty, long-term thinking, and creative freedom. Scardust released a Satoshi-themed music video (“RIP”) and is active on Nostr. Noa brings a cultural perspective to the space - because Bitcoin is metal, and metal thrives on freedom, range, and expression.

Nolan Bauerle writes, produces, and creates content related to our shift to a Bitcoin standard as a measure of economic production.

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

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

Nuri Katz, President of Apex Capital Partners an international boutique investment advisory, in internationally recognized as a thought leader in matters related to investor migration. Additionally Nuri Katz's advice is sought by numerous governments around the world regarding innovative ways to generate foreign direct investment. As part of the functions of Apex Capital Partners Corp, it manages the Nevis Online Gaming Authority, a government body that licensed and regulates international online gaming companies. As well Apex Capital Partners created and participates in managing the Anguilla government tax residence program which allows international HNWI to better plan their tax strategies via residence in Anguilla. Nuri is often quoted in domestic business press such as Forbes, Fortune, Business Insider, as well as numerous leading international publications in the Middle East, China, and Russia. He has been seen nationally on Bloomberg Tv, Fox, and others. Nuri is also a frequent guest speaker on matters of international business and geopolitics at numerous business conferences and universities.

OpenMike is a veteran of the independent live music industry and founder of Tunestr.io. In his career operating independent venues and traditional concerts, his businesses have promoted over15,000 shows and booked 30,000+ artists.

Tunestr is an open-source live stream application that connects artists and fans over the Nostr protocol and enables direct bitcoin lightning payments during the performance. Tunestr also promotes in-person events around the world, with the focus of educating the music community about Nostr & bitcoin.

Tunestr is where independent music meets independent money.

www.tunestr.io

Policy advisor for a government that grew a conscience and decided to speak up on the centralization of policy development around the world and the regulatory capture of Bitcoin. Bitcoin class of 2018

Paget Stanco is VP, Head of Institutional at Gemini, where she leads the firm’s institutional strategy, bringing bitcoin to a diverse audience of institutional clients, including market makers, asset managers, and HNW individuals. She also oversees Gemini's deployment of specialized bitcoin investment strategies, such as derivatives and price predictions. An early BTC believer and employee at Gemini, Paget has played a key role in building and scaling the institutional business, helping drive its evolution into a leading global digital asset platform.

CEO of Samara, a European publicly Holding company using Bitcoin as its treasury reserve asset. Issuer of Europe's first Bitcoin Bond and some of its first Bitcoin ETP's.

Host of The Bitcoin Edge, a Bitcoin educator connecting with Bitcoiners around the world to explore sound money, freedom, health and purpose while sharing a message rooted in truth, hope, and abundance.

Class of 2017er who sat on the sidelines until El Salvador in 2021. Found out all of us have a role in this (r)evolution of money.

Working on Primal.

Paul Lee is the CEO of Bitplanet and the founder of Roboventures. He started his career at Lehman Brothers in 2007 and experienced the 2008 financial crisis firsthand, which led him to question the foundations of the traditional financial system. After Harvard Law School, he worked as a corporate attorney advising some of the crypto companies that later became global industry leaders. He later managed a crypto fund focused on Bitcoin, stablecoins, and infrastructure, and those experiences now shape the strategy and philosophy behind Bitplanet.

Bitplanet is a KOSDAQ-listed Operating DAT built on Bitcoin as treasury. Through Bitcoin mining and related AI energy infrastructure, the company generates sustainable cash flow with a compliance-led approach and disciplined capital allocation. Bitplanet is purpose-built to create long-term value within the Bitcoin economy.

Paul has been a cryptography advocate since the 1990s and was involved in multiple projects. He was a co-founder of Cryptohippie and wrote the Free-Man’s Perspective newsletter for 14 years. He now writes at Substack. (The Findings, The Wreckage & The Rebuild, Ten Second Thoughts.)

Creator: BIPs 300/301, "Drivechain", Blind Merged Mining, "BitWindow" (Wallet/GUI), CUSF (the "Core Untouched Soft Fork"), "Truthcoin" (decentralized prediction markets), and many L2 chains. Author of "Nothing is Cheaper than Proof of Work" and "Security Budget in the Long Run" (on truthcoin.info). Advocate for sidechains and prediction markets -- the two most neglected ideas of our time. Former statistician and academic.

With extensive traditional finance experience as SVP Wealth Adviser at Canandaigua National Trust Co., Financial Representative at Northwestern Mutual, and Financial Advisor at UBS, I recognized Bitcoin's disruptive potential through my financial background.
My Bitcoin journey began with personal investment and client fund management, leading to co-founding the Florida Blockchain Business Association and advocating for Bitcoin education. As President & CEO of Byte Federal, I'm dedicated to democratizing Bitcoin access for individuals and businesses, fostering financial inclusivity through innovative Bitcoin financial services.
I'm committed to advancing Bitcoin education and championing seamless integration across diverse sectors. The convergence of Bitcoin with traditional finance, institutional capital, and transformative technologies like Lightning Network and NOSTR represents an exciting future for decentralized finance.
My vision is ushering in the future of finance through Bitcoin's open protocol, leveraging its transformative potential through the innovative products we develop at Byte Federal.

Pedro is a designer and developer for the Bitcoin Conference. In addition to extensive contributions to no-KYC open-source projects like Bisq and Mempool, he's directing the film Anatomy of Bitcoin, leads the design for the SatSigner wallet project, founded the research and publishing house PirateHash, and co-founded the lighting game Chain Duel.

Peng has been part of Bitdeer since its establishment, making significant contributions to sales and business development, which have greatly supported the company’s revenue and expansion.

Perianne Boring is a policy entrepreneur, investor, and founder in the digital assets sector.

She is the Founder and Chair of The Digital Chamber, the United States’ first and largest trade association for blockchain technology, established in 2014. Under her leadership, The Digital Chamber has helped shape landmark digital asset legislation and advance policies that move blockchain technology and digital assets from the fringe to the financial mainstream.

Perianne is also a General Partner at Off the Chain Capital, a value-focused investment fund specializing in digital assets.

Previously, she served as an economic adviser in the U.S. House of Representatives and as an adjunct professor and fellow at Georgetown University, where she developed the university’s original FinTech and blockchain coursework.

Her work has been recognized by Forbes (“America’s Top 50 Women in Tech”) and CoinDesk (“10 Most Influential People in Blockchain”). She is a frequent commentator on major news networks, providing analysis on digital asset policy, financial regulation, and U.S. competitiveness.

Peymon Mottahedeh is the Founder and President of Freedom Law School, an organization dedicated to helping Americans reclaim their freedom from the federal income tax system. Born in Iran, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1977 at age 14 to escape political oppression, later earning a degree in Business/Marketing from CSU Long Beach.

A former financial planner and active Libertarian, Peymon concluded in 1992 that the Federal Reserve and Income Tax systems are fraudulent. Since then, he has famously stopped filing federal income tax returns for over 30 years as an act of truth and education. He is a passionate advocate for constitutional rights and financial sovereignty, focusing his work on teaching others how to have no fear of IRS authority. You can find his resources and mission at FreedomLawSchool.org

Quantum physics PhD
I have been involved in quantum computing since 2006 and now I measure the progress of quantum computers at breaking cryptography and design solutions to secure digital assets.

Rachel Silverstein serves as Bitfarms’ Global General Counsel, leading the Company’s legal function and serving as a key strategic advisor to the Board of Directors and executive leadership team. In this capacity, Ms. Silverstein is responsible for developing and executing the Company’s enterprise-wide legal strategy and overseeing all legal affairs across Bitfarms’ multi-jurisdictional operations in the United States, Canada, and South America. Prior to Bitfarms, Rachel co-founded a boutique law firm specializing in bitcoin mining, data center development and energy infrastructure transactions, leading transactions totaling more than a gigawatt across multiple states and countries. Before that, Rachel served as General Counsel at CleanSpark, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed company, from 2020 to 2023, another large, publicly-traded bitcoin miner. Earlier in her career, she served as Corporate Counsel at Zappos and was a litigator at several multi-national law firms, among other roles. Rachel earned a bachelor’s degree from The George Washington University and a juris doctorate degree from William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

My Bitcoin journey began unexpectedly in 2017 while working as a cybersecurity consultant. A client had fallen victim to a cyberattack, with the hackers demanding payment in Bitcoin—a currency I knew little about at the time. This experience sparked my curiosity as a computer engineer passionate about transformative technology, leading me to explore Bitcoin’s potential. After delving into research and connecting with colleagues, I met a tech-savvy friend who was already mining Bitcoin and coding Ethereum smart contracts, which deepened my interest. As the founders of Miningrid, we created a platform that simplifies Bitcoin mining through a secure, non-custodial wallet, making it accessible to all. My mission is to empower others by making Bitcoin mining and its ecosystem both understandable and approachable

Rapha Zagury is the Founder & CEO of Elektron Energy, a company focused on scaling the Bitcoin network. He is a builder and coder with a deep financial background, a longtime Bitcoiner, and a sound money advocate, widely recognized for his expertise in the Bitcoin mining industry. Before founding Elektron Energy, he held senior roles in traditional finance, including Vice President at Goldman Sachs and Managing Director positions at Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank. He earned an MBA from Yale.

Artist and record producer at the intersection of memes and Bitcoin. Everything is fake.

RAS is a dedicated Bitcoin advocate pioneering the coin standard, promoting fractional Bitcoin units as the future of everyday value, advancing Bitcoin's role in fostering an open society in a digital age, and inspiring builders to focus on innovative solutions that drive adoption and sovereignty.

Root is a leading bitcoin data analyst who loves creating innovative charts about on-chain trends, cycle theory, strategies and market analysis.

Rezwan Mirza is responsible for overseeing BGIN's capital markets activity as well as inorganic growth initiatives, including strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, and overall corporate strategy.
Rezwan brings over two decades of extensive experience in the finance and investment banking sectors, including a decade in investment banking and leadership positions at global financial institutions such as Barclays and UBS. Rezwan earned both a Bachelor’s in Economics and a Master of Accounting degree from Rice University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Rezwan started his professional career at Ernst & Young and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Launched the largest BTC denominated Fund of Crypto Hedge funds globally (4,350BTC) in 2025, fund aims for 4-8% net returns for investors in BTC.

Analyze and speak about financial engineering capabilities of Bitcoin treasury companies and advise companies on how to optimize amount of bitcoin on balance sheet. Advisor at UK BTCTC XCE Connecting Excellence, and Chairman at Future (Swiss BTCTC).
For Jan3, act in an advisory capacity for a few sovereign nations, and on energy infrastructure financing structuring options in countries in LATAM and Middle Asia.

Board member at Relai, helping onboard HNWI and FOs to bitcoin.

Rick Margerison is a veteran innovator in high-performance computing and thermal management with over 30 years of experience in legacy infrastructure and liquid cooling. He specializes in advanced liquid-cooled environments designed to solve the power density challenges of next-generation data centers without disrupting existing services. His work specifically addresses the increasing convergence of power requirements, bridging the gap between traditional enterprise power and the 415–480V three-phase standards now required by both industrial Bitcoin mining and the latest high-density AI platforms.

Rick’s focus is on the “energy symbiosis” between Bitcoin mining and AI. By architecting modular, liquid-cooled infrastructure, he enables high-density clusters to operate as flexible loads for the grid while solving the complex electrical handoffs required for parallel compute. A prolific inventor and contributor to the Open Compute Project (OCP) since 2017, Rick has also served as a lead for the ITE and Immersion Requirements communities. He brings a hardware-first perspective to the stage, demonstrating how specialized power distribution and shared infrastructure can turn the competition for energy into a collaborative, efficient model for global compute

macro writer, former fintech analyst at Carta.

Robert Weinstein AKA Crypto Damus has the longest and most accurate financial astrology subscription service for Bitcoin and Crypto. Since joining Crypto Twitter in 2018 he has been one of the most accurate market analysts on there, predicting all three major BTC tops in 2024 the big crashes of the summer 2024 and March and April. He famously exited all Crypto in October 2025 and accurately predicted the current bear market.

Rob Hamilton is the co-founder and CEO of AnchorWatch. AnchorWatch has built industry-leading Bitcoin custody infrastructure and is a Lloyd’s of London coverholder, enabling bitcoin held in self-custody to be insured for the first time.

AnchorWatch designs bespoke Bitcoin custody solutions using multisignature wallets, timelocks, and Miniscript, tailored to the specific security and operational needs of each client. These custody architectures can be deployed independently or paired with insurance coverage, giving individuals and institutions flexibility in how they secure and manage their bitcoin.

Rob’s broader focus is on advancing Bitcoin as a financial system, bridging the gap between self-custody and institutional-grade security through custody solutions, insurance, and improved user experience. He frequently speaks on custody design, Bitcoin Script engineering, and the role of insurance in scaling Bitcoin adoption.

Robin is the inventor of BitVM, the founder of ZeroSync—a Swiss non-profit advancing the application of proof systems to Bitcoin—and a PhD student at Stanford focused on Bitcoin scalability, privacy, and usability.