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Nikolaos Makriyannis is Cryptographer at Fireblocks.

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Nikolaos Makriyannis

Founder of Parity Technologies. Blockchain bloke. All things Web 3.0. London.

Gavin Wood is the founder of Parity Technologies, which develops cutting-edge blockchain applications. Most notably, Wood was one of the co-founders of Ethereum, having coded its first functional implementation. He is also the co-founder of Grid Singularity, which aims to develop a decentralized energy management platform.

Gavin Wood

Cameron Winklevoss is the Co-founder and President of Gemini, a next generation Bitcoin exchange. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Economics and earned an MBA from Oxford University. In 2008, he represented the United States at the 2008 Olympics Games in Beijing, China, placing 6th. Cameron has been an angel investor and entrepreneur in emerging technologies since 2003.

He began participating in the Bitcoin economy through direct investment in 2012. In addition to being President of Gemini, he and his brother Tyler are currently seeking SEC approval for the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, a bitcoin ETF, and have launched the WinkDex, a bitcoin price index that will price the ETF.

Cameron Winklevoss

David Marcus is Co-Founder & CEO at Lightspark. Formerly the Head of Messaging Products at Facebook.

David was President of PayPal from April 2012 to July 2014, where he has overall responsibility for establishing PayPal as the leading global payment service and helping to drive the future of money around the world. A mobile payments entrepreneur and product innovator, David brings a wealth of experience creating products that engage and delight customers – both businesses and consumers alike. Most recently, David was PayPal’s vice president of mobile, where he led the company’s mobile business and product strategy, including the development and launch of PayPal Here.

David has more than 15 years of mobile and telecommunications experience worldwide and has a proven track record of starting and leading successful businesses. He joined PayPal in the company’s acquisition of Zong, a leading provider of payments through mobile carrier billing. Under David’s leadership as founder and CEO, Zong developed relationships with more than 250 carriers and more than 1,000 online merchants.

A native of France, David grew up in Paris and Geneva. At 23, he started his first company, GTN, which became one of the top three alternative carriers in Switzerland and was acquired by World Access in 2000. David first began learning how to become a technology entrepreneur at age 8, when he taught himself how to code on a PC.

David Marcus

Gavin Andresen is Bitcoin developer. All-around geek.

Gavin Andresen

Tyler Winklevoss is the Principal of Winklevoss Capital and co-founder and CEO of Gemini, a next-generation digital asset exchange. Winklevoss has long been a bitcoin advocate and is widely noted for becoming the world's first bitcoin billionaire, on account of his initial $11M investment in the cryptocurrency in 2013.

Tyler Winklevoss

Jesse Pollak is Senior Director of Engineering at Coinbase, building city3, OAK. Previously: Clef, Instant 2FA.

I currently work on protocols, public goods, cities, and currencies at Coinbase & beyond (more coming soon). I previously led all Retail engineering at Coinbase, including building Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, and Coinbase Wallet.

Way back when, I started Clef and was an engineer at BuzzFeed. I also write open source software and take photos.

Jesse Pollak

Stuart Haber is President at Stuart Haber Crypto. Working on blockchain techniques since 1990. Co-founder with Scott Stornetta of Surety, spun off from Bellcore to commercialize our digital time-stamping algorithm -- the first to use a publicly accessible linked chain of hash values to ensure the integrity of digital information, what's now known as the blockchain. Expert in cryptography and computer security.

Stuart Haber

Tone has worked on Wall Street for almost 10 years starting as a Risk Analyst at Bear Stearns and later becoming a VP at JP Morgan Chase in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

His expertise is in Economic Trends, Trading and Risk Analysis. Ever since getting involved in the Crypto Currency ecosystem in early 2013, he has been very active in spreading the relevance and importance of this technology as it helps promote economic freedom. Tone has been featured in several Documentaries like Magic Money & Bitcoin - Beyond the Bubble.

Tone is now an independent content creator at ToneVays.com and on his YouTube Channel focused on sound economics & finance. Tone holds a Masters Degree in Financial Engineering from Florida State University along with Bachelor Degrees in Mathematics and Geology.

Tone Vays

Kain Warwick is Founder of Synthetix, CEO at blueshyft.

I run two startups; Synthetix is a synthetic asset platform built on Ethereum and blueshyft is a network of over 1200 retail locations that enable cash transactions for digital services.

Nikolaos Makriyannis

Cryptographer at Fireblocks.