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William Casarin, jb55, Lightning Developer & Bitcoin core. Building Damus, LNLink.

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William Casarin

Andrew Poelstra is a Mathematician at Blockstream. He has dabbled in software development for the last twenty years, in open-source cryptography for ten.

He became involved in Bitcoin in late 2011, and joined Blockstream cofounders Greg Maxwell and Pieter Wuille in developing the high-performance cryptography library libsecp256k1.

His latest major project has been Mimble Wimble which is described as a blockchain design with no script support and blinded amounts. Like proverbial black holes, transaction outputs have no hair. This simplicity allows aggressive compaction and aggregation, resulting in a blockchain with much better scalability than any other design to date.

He has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Simon Fraser University. While completing his Masters of Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, he wrote and co-wrote several papers about Bitcoin, practical cryptography and mathematics.

Andrew’s other interests include jazz piano, cycling and exploring the world. He hopes one day that blockchains will enable private and censorship-free transactions for all people regardless of their political environment.

Andrew Poelstra

Barry Silbert is the Founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group. Sitting at the epicenter of the bitcoin and blockchain industry, DCG is a global enterprise that builds, supports, and invests in companies all over the world. 

A pioneer in bitcoin investing, Barry established himself in 2012 as one of the earliest and most active investors in the industry. In 2015, he founded DCG and today, DCG is one of the industry’s most prolific investors, backing more than 120 companies in 30 countries around the world, including Coinbase, Ripple, BitPay, and Circle.

In addition to its investment portfolio, DCG owns Grayscale Investments (the largest asset manager in the industry with ~$2 billion in AUM), Genesis Trading (the largest regulated OTC crypto trader), and CoinDesk (the preeminent media and events company in the space). DCG also invests directly in digital currencies and other digital assets. 

Prior to DCG, Barry was the founder and CEO of SecondMarket, a venture-backed technology company that was acquired by Nasdaq. Barry has received numerous awards and accolades including being named Entrepreneur of the Year by both Ernst & Young and Crain's, and being selected to Fortune’s prestigious "40 under 40" list.

Before becoming an entrepreneur, Barry worked as an investment banker in New York. He graduated with honors from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University.

Barry Silbert

Kevin Owocki is internet citizen, DAO cartographer, EVM whisperer & chaos magician of web3eventco. Formerly, Founder of Gitcoin.

I am 7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3 @owocki, but my real name is Kevin Owocki. I am a software engineer by profession. I've been experimenting with web projects since 1999, when I ran a web company out of my parents house in Pennsylvania, USA. I am hacking, learning, and writing about the intersection of health, technology, design, & lifestyle.  I've dabbled in some Python, PHP, Postgres, Objective C, Rails, & Javascript in my day, but am interested in mediums beyond code too; especially photography, audio, and the written word.  Nowadays, I am interested in next generation technologies, especially machine learning, computer vision, VR, AR, & plenoptic photography.

Kevin Owocki

Raul Jordan is Co-Founder Prysmatic Labs. Harvard University / Thiel Fellow / Blockchain Engineer / Ethereum Developer.

I Build, Therefore I Am.

Raul Jordan

Chris Burniske is Partner of Placeholder VC, co-author of Cryptoassets, formerly led crypto ARKinvest.

Chris Burniske

AI, blockchain, Founder & CTO of BigchainDB, Ocean Protocol, IPDB Foundation.

Trent McConaghy has 20 years of deep technology experience with a focus on machine learning, data visualization and user experience. He was a researcher at the Canadian Department of Defense and in 1999, he co-founded Analog Design Automation Inc. and was its CTO until its acquisition by Synopsys Inc. In 2004, he co-founded Solido Design Automation Inc., once again in the role of CTO.

Trent has written two critically acclaimed books on machine learning, creativity and circuit design and has authored or co-authored more than 40 papers and patents.

Trent has a PhD in Engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium and Bachelor’s degrees in Engineering and in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan where he won awards for the top PhD thesis and top undergraduate thesis.

Trent McConaghy

Kathryn (Katie) Haun was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley based tech venture capital firm. Katie serves as an independent director at Coinbase, where she chairs its Audit and Risk Committee, and HackerOne. She has testified before both houses of Congress on the intersection of technology and regulation, and teaches at Stanford's GSB. 

Before becoming a venture capitalist, Katie spent a decade as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, where she focused on fraud, cyber, and corporate crime alongside agencies including the SEC, FBI, and Treasury and created the government’s first cryptocurrency task force. While at the Justice Department, she prosecuted RICO murders, organized crime, public corruption, gangs, and money laundering. She also held senior positions at Justice Department headquarters in both the National Security Division and Attorney General’s office. Katie clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and is an honors graduate of Stanford Law School.

Kathryn Haun

Casey K. Caruso is Investment Partner at Paradigm. Engineer, BS Computer Science, MS Machine Learning. Building Search Google. Investing in crypto.

Her main interests are technology and social pyschology. She is a transparent, bold, and reflective person.

Casey Caruso

Jackson Palmer is marketer and data geek at Adobe by day. Coder and producer by night. Creator of Dogecoin, gifbase and NOISESUPPLY.

William Casarin

Lightning Developer & Damus Founder.

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