> be Ray Youssef > spawn NYC, son of Egyptian immigrants > grow up broke, even homeless at one point > 1999: launch ringtone startup aka “Napster of ringtones” → millions/month > discover problem of “unbanked” teens can’t pay > build social media platform w/out ads → disgusted it’s turning into proto-OnlyFans → ragequit > […]
JARRAD HOPE
Logos / Co-founder
JARRAD HOPE
Logos / Co-founder
Jarrad came to Bitcoin in early 2011 through agorism, counter-economics, & crypto-anarchy. Seeing that Bitcoin could operate a monetary policy in a hostile environment, he began to view public blockchains as a voluntary social order, one that didn’t depend on a monopoly of violence. From there, he participated in early attempts to generalise the Bitcoin […]
OLGA UKOLOVA
Pandora Prime / CEO & founder
OLGA UKOLOVA
Pandora Prime / CEO & founder
Dr. Olga Ukolova, MD, is a Co-Founder and COO at Pandora Prime, building privacy-focused Layer 2 and 3 technologies on Bitcoin, and one of the creators of the FreeAI Manifesto. Combining censorship-resistant development (RGB, Prometheus) with biohacking and neuroscience, she has worked with academia, geeks, cypherpunks, and developers to advance privacy, self-sovereignty, and decentralization as […]
JOSH DATKO
Bitpunk.fm / poet, artist & hardware hacker
JOSH DATKO
Bitpunk.fm / poet, artist & hardware hacker
Josh Datko is an American poet, artist, and hardware hacker. He publishes bitpunk.fm, a cassette magazine that mixes music, poetry, sound art, and essays into a monthly mixtape. His value-for-value poetry show, Poetry on Tape, is live every Friday on internet radio and he occasionally plays the trumpet.
