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Dave Pazdan, now building Phantom, previously Technical Support Manager at Metamask, ConsenSys, Coinbase. Lifelong investor in fundamentally disruptive tech. INFP.

Phantom

Dave Pazdan

OpenSea

BM. Explore free market solutions to secure life, liberty, and property for all.

My name is Daniel Larimer and I am the founder of BitShares. My mission in life is to find free market solutions to secure life, liberty, and property for all.

The purpose of this blog is to help create a free society by encouraging people to join our community which is centered around Bitshares, a next generation fully decentralized crypto-currency exchange. I use Austrian Economics to engineer the economic incentives which make freedom and non-violence profitable.

Daniel Larimer

I am CEO/CoFounder of Kyber Network, an on-chain liquidity protocol that powers decentralized applications, including exchanges, funds, lending protocols, payments wallets and so on. I am also researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security and distributed consensus algorithms. My research focuses on several problems of cryptocurrencies from improving the security to enhancing the scalability and usability of public cryptocurrencies.

Loi Luu

I am a software developer, entrepreneur, and researcher based in Texas. I spend a lot of my time researching and consulting on decentralized systems, cryptocurrencies, blockchain systems, and InfoSec topics. Some things I enjoy include converting VHS tapes to digital formats, playing tabletop RPGs with friends, TV shows targeted at millennials, Overwatch, and cookies ‘n cream flavored ice cream. I am currently splitting my time between my IoT blockchain security startup Oaken Innovations and the Ethereum Foundation.

Hudson Jameson

Co-Founder and CTO of NEAR Protocol. Team of ex-MemSQL / Google / Tensorflow. Now building sharded mobile-first blockchain protocol.

Artificial Intelligence Researcher. Making this world better with software and data. Passionate about Machine Intelligence, understanding natural language.

Illia is an ICPC finalist and has more than 10 years of industry experience, including 3 years at Google where he was a major TensorFlow contributor and a manager of the team building question answering capabilities for the core Google search.

Illia Polosukhin

Kelvin Fichter is developer at Plasma Group, currently work on a lot of stuff related to Optimistic Ethereum.

Kelvin Fichter

Dominic Williams is Chief Scientist of the DFINITY project, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, and is President and CTO of String Labs, a Palo Alto-based studio, incubator, and investor focused on advanced open protocol projects. His recent technical works include DFINITY technologies such as the Threshold Relay/Probabilistic Slot Protocol blockchain consensus mechanisms, the Blockchain Nervous System (algorithmic governance for decentralized networks), and the PHI “crypto fiat” autonomous loan issuance system.

Dominic is a crypto theoretician and entrepreneur. His recent research includes Threshold Relay and PSC chains, Validation Towers and Trees, and USCIDs, and he proposes new ideas such as "The 3 E's of Sybil Resistance". Previously he ran a venture-backed MMO game using his own distributed systems that hosted millions of users.

DFINITY working on ICP (Internet Computer Protocol). We will extend the Internet with secure serverless cloud functionality using crypto.

Dominic Williams

Juan Benet is the founder and CEO of Protocol Labs and inventor of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a new protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open. Benet is also the founder of Filecoin, a cryptocurrency-incentivized storage network. He holds a MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Obsessed with Knowledge, Science, and Technology - Protocol Labs, IPFS, Filecoin.

Juan Benet

I have a history as software developer (KenetWorks,Yahoo Inc), where I was involved in both client and backend systems, and also have a long history within web technologies. 

Starting ~2007, I've shifted focus to security, and have been working full-time as a security consultant since 2009. In 2016, I joined the Infosec group at Nasdaq in Stockholm. I have been a regular speaker at both national and international security events:

2015 - Sig Security - Outside OWASP top 10
2012 - Hackcon - Web Application Analysis with OWASP HatKit
2011 - SEC-T - Web Application Analysis with OWASP HatKit
2011 - Defcon 19 - Web Application Analysis with OWASP HatKit
2011 - OWASP Stockholm - Websockets for application testers

I am active within Open Source, particularly Proxmark3, being one of the core maintainers. Proxmark3 is a tool for interacting with RFID systems. I am also semi-actiive within OWASP , Nmap and various tools. I am also interested in blockchain technologies, and reported multiple vulnerabilities within the Ethereum project bug bounty program. 

Specialties: Application security testing; web, mobile and thick clients. 
Programming: Java, JavaScript, Lua, Python are my strongest languages, to a lesser degree: Go, C/C++, PHP, Smalltalk, Solidity and x86 assembly. 
IT-Forensics, penetration testing.

Martin Holst Swende

Peter Smith is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Blockchain, a financial technology and data company that has empowered millions of users across the globe to store and transact digital value quickly and without costly intermediaries. Under his leadership, Blockchain has become the market leader in digital currency and distributed ledger technology. By 2016, Blockchain’s software has powered over 100M transactions around the world.

Peter is a 2016 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and noted thought leader in the FinTech space, having been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business, TechCrunch, and spoken at conferences around the world including Techcrunch Disrupt, Money 20/20, Web Summit, Collision, Wired Money, among many others.

Prior to co-founding Blockchain, Peter lived, studied, and worked in the US, Europe, MENA, East Africa, and Asia. When he isn’t basking in the glow of a laptop, you can find him either reading or out running, trekking, surfing, and climbing up or skiing down a mountain.

Dave Pazdan

Former Technical Support Manager at Metamask.

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