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Obi Nwosu is the CEO of Fedi and a long-time Bitcoin advocate. Fedi develops tools designed to make Bitcoin more secure, private, and accessible for people around the world. Its flagship product, the Fedi mobile app, focuses on enabling scalable Bitcoin adoption while preserving user sovereignty and privacy. He serves on the board of ₿trust, a nonprofit initiative originally launched by Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z to support Bitcoin developers in the Global South, with a particular focus on Africa. Before joining Fedi, Obi was the CEO and co-founder of Coinfloor, one of the United Kingdom’s first Bitcoin-only exchanges, which he led for nearly eight years before its acquisition in 2021. Throughout his career, he has been a vocal advocate for financial freedom, open monetary systems, and broader global access to Bitcoin.

Aral’s been making things with computers since he was 7 years old. (That’s approximately 43 years ago. And yes, he still thinks computers are magic portals into endless universes.) Along the way, he dabbled in Flash, did some consulting, taught some workshops, gave a few talks, organised a smattering of conferences, made some apps, helped […]

Severin Bühler is a Platform Engineer at Synonym and contributor to Pubky Core, an open protocol replacing platform accounts with cryptographic keypairs and censorship-resistant identity. Before joining Synonym, he built his expertise in decentralized infrastructure through Lightning Network: he created lnrouter.app, co-authored LSPS1, the standard for Lightning liquidity providers, and shipped the infrastructure behind the Bitkit Bitcoin wallet. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGRwSbHmCKs)

With over 20 years of expertise in Free Software and Open Hardware, tech entrepreneur Alexander Poltorak has been involved with the Bitcoin ecosystem since its early days. He has been working as a Bitcoin consultant since 2016. He is an advocate of Libre Software, cryptography and all technologies empowering sovereign individuals and helping preserve the core values of anonymity, privacy, censorship resistance, decentralisation and security.