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Rachel-Rose O'Leary is a DarkFi core developer and writer. She authored 'Lunarpunk and the Dark Side of the Cycle', a text which helped create a web3 privacy revival. She is the lead editor of the philosophy journal Agorism in the 21st Century. She was the tech lead for CoinDesk 2017-2018, and has written for WIRED, Rekt News and Defiant. She has a background in philosophy and digital art.

17 years ago, I returned to our family business, which I’ve since taken over and grown into a nationwide corporate group. We operate hotels, develop revolutionary construction technology, and, through Bitcoin education, I help people on the path to financial sovereignty.

> 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 > […]

Ryan Lackey is a cypherpunk and tech entrepreneur who has started an offshore datahaven in the North Sea, bootstrapped a satellite communications company operating in conflict zones, built a secure computing startup based on virtualization and intel processor security technologies, and is now using insurance as a way to improve the security of deployed cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence systems.