Harry Halpin

As Head of Ecosystem at BlockApps, Bob is helping to drive the transition of STRATO Mercata from a closed-source platform to a rich, decentralized ecosystem, bridging on-chain and real world assets. Bob Summerwill was previously Executive Director for the ETC Cooperative and has been working full-time on blockchain projects since late 2015. He worked on […]

> 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 > […]

"Full stack" person (electronics to code to networks). Started with electronics and programming at age 7, moved to networking when Internet became mainstream. Built several hosting companies and now applying accumulated knowledge in the Bitcoin space after discovering myself being a crypto anarchist at HCPP17.

freedom maximalist building parallel universes in the chainspace, exploring defi primitives and harnessing the system inefficiencies to create a better world today