Experts

Robert Koschig is researcher at 1kx, Data/Analytics Mentor from Risk DAO.

Risk DAO

Robert Koschig

Ori Shimony is Venture Partner at Portal Ventures, R&D at dOrg. Formerly, Research and Technical Lead at Atlas Holdings Group, Inc.

Ori Shimony

Table selecting inefficient markets. Research Analyst of The Block. Formerly Financials & Pmts at DeutscheBank, research at ConsenSys.

Ryan joined The Block in January as an analyst focused on fintech and crypto. Previously, he worked at Deutsche Bank as an equity analyst in Financials & Payments, and recently spent time at ConsenSys researching crypto and the broader Ethereum ecosystem. Ryan graduated from Florida State University with undergraduate degrees in Economics and Accounting/Finance, and a Masters in Finance from Vanderbilt University.

Ryan Todd

Nik Bhatia is Research Strategist at Tantra Labs, leading their research efforts as they strive to redefine the financial paradigm and usher in a future denominated in Bitcoin.

Nik is a true Bitcoin believer.

The difference between Nik and many others, though, is Nik backs up his beliefs with hard economic facts derived from years of experience and research. Magic Internet money Bitcoin may be, but Nik brings with him an academic rigor that makes even the stodgiest of critics raise an eyebrow with newfound interest.

In his past Nik traded US Treasuries and interest rate futures for Payden & Rygel, a Los Angeles based investment manager with over $100 billion assets under management. Before that, Nik received his Masters in Finance from IE University in Madrid, Spain in 2013, and received his Bachelors in Social Sciences (Economics) from University of Southern California in 2011.

When Nik fell down the Bitcoin rabbit hole, he didn’t stumble in blindly. As a family man, Nik has to allocate his time wisely. But after learning about Bitcoin, realizing its importance and potential, Nik dove in head first, and with a shovel in hand, he researched his way deeper & deeper.

Like many bitcoiners, Nik learned a great deal from watching the videos of Andreas Antonopoulos. But when Andreas first spoke about Lightning Network and mentioned “streaming money”. He became obsessed with this idea of “streaming money”, and he plowed through everything and anything Lightning Network. It was then he learned about transaction malleability, the fix with SegWit, and why segregating the witness matters for Lightning Network, eventually leading to a comprehensive understanding of payment channels and the justice transaction involved that holds everything together.

Today, Nik’s position is even more interesting. He is a professor at USC, where he uses his past professional experience to teach a class on global bond markets, but he definitely considers himself a “full-time” bitcoiner.

In addition to his work for Tantra Labs, and complimenting his professorship and continued passion for global macro trends, Nik also conducts and writes research for OpenNode, one of the top payment processors in the Bitcoin space.

Nik Bhatia

Eli Ben-Sasson is STARK researcher, Co-Founder & President of StarkWare. Also a Founding Scientist of Zcash and Professor at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Eli has been passionate about the theory (“moon math”) and realization of transparent computational integrity since 2001, when he was a post-doctoral researcher at MIT and Harvard University, after completing his PhD in CS at the Hebrew University.

He is a Professor of Computer Science at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, which he joined in 2005, a co-inventor of the Zerocash decentralized anonymous payment system and a founding scientist of the Zcash company.

Eli Ben-Sasson

Johnny Antos is Associate at Prysm Group (cryptoeconomics). Prior economics at The University of Chicago, Blockchain Advisory Group, Credit Suisse IBD.

I am very passionate about decentralized swarms, cryptoassets, and cryptonetworks.

I graduated from the University of Chicago (B.A. Economics) in 2016, Phi Beta Kappa.

Johnny Antos

Ryan Selkis is Founder and CEO of Messari. Entrepreneur, investor, and writer helping to build the bitcoin / digital currency ecosystem. Founder of Messari, and formerly an entrepreneur-in-residence at ConsenSys, and founding team member at the industry's most active investor (Digital Currency Group) and largest media brand (CoinDesk). Working on new ventures and angel investing.

Ryan Selkis was the Managing Director at CoinDesk, a site providing the latest news, analysis, and insights in the cryptocurrency and blockchain spaces. Prior to CoinDesk, Selkis was the Director of Growth for Digital Currency Group, an investment firm focused on the crypto space. He holds an MBA from MIT School of Business.

Ryan Selkis

Ismail Khoffi is Co-Founder and CTO at Celestia Labs. Formerly, Senior Software Engineer at Informal Systems, Interchain Foundation and Tendermint.

I enjoy the sweet spot between research and hands-on engineering. I’ve worked on a variety of projects in the higher education industry as well as in small to very large companies. For example, I had the honor to work at Google UK, the Decentralized and Distributed Systems lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) led by Prof Bryan Ford, the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI), and the University of Bonn.

Ismail Khoffi

Zubin Singh Koticha is Co-founder and CEO at opyn, Co-founder at Mechanism Labs. Formerly Head of R&D, Blockchain at Berkeley. Helping scale blockchains.

Zubin Singh Koticha

Spencer Noon leads investments at Doggie Tail Crypto Capital, a fundamentals-focused crypto fund. Previously he worked at SeatGeek, started an early Bitcoin ATM network, and was an investment management analyst at UBS.

Robert Koschig

Researcher at 1kx.

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