Founder, Argentinian Bitcoin Foundation and Co-Founder, Global Bitcoin Alliance Owner of CESYT, the first college in the world to take Bitcoin (since early 2012), Rodolfo is a key member in the Latinamerican Bitcoin Ecosystem.He is founder of the Argentinean Bitcoin Foundation, the Bitcoin Center Buenos Aires, hoster of the Latin American Bitcoin Conferences, and co-founder of the Global Bitcoin Alliance.), now turned into a Bitcoin 2.0 startup called Amiko “Friends of your brand”, and also working in two other bitcoin startups: bitcoinear.me, “The most simple, fair and secure way to buy bitcoins” and the Bitcoin Time Capsule, the first ever of it´s kind and capable of showing the full scope of Bitcoin capabillities beyond the store of value to the mainstream audience.CEO & Founder, ProDataLab Peter Alexander has been an entrepreneur managing companies and employees for most of the past 28 years.Peter is self-taught and has a very capable and comprehensive ability in the domain of computer science.

Being an autodidact, he has had front-line experiences in the un-needed complexity and in-flexibility of current software systems.Peter is determined to change the current paradigm to a more practical, intuitive and efficient one.He recently released a whitepaper titled “Proposal for a Modern Software Ecosystem”.Utilizing state-of-the-art crypto currency technologies and an unconventional programming model, a complete paradigm shift in technology production is possible.Time-to-market for all software developers could decrease by a hundredfold.The innovations presented, Peter believes, will change the way all computing is produced and consumed in the future.Lastly, he is strong participant in, and advocate for, open source software and its community.Associate, Crowley Corporate Attorneys Steve is serial entrepreneur with a keen eye for emerging technologies and the business instincts to develop companies in the critical path of the trends.In the early 90’s, Steve helped DIRECTV launch the first commercial satellite television service in the US and Latin American countries.

He played a key role in the design and integration of their business systems and the in-country rollout of service.As the Internet gained steam, Steve identified email as the next “killer app” and launched a successful Enterprise Messaging and Collaboration practice for international fortune 100 companies.litecoin pool bestIn 1998, Steve took that practice mobile after RIM showed him an early prototype of a two-way mobile email pager (the device was ultimately rebranded as the BlackBerry.)bitcoin zinsenRecognizing the trend early, Steve positioned his company REGARD as the first west coast BlackBerry partner and at one point become the largest independent reseller of BlackBerry products in the US.bitcoin just crashedAfter the Y2K craze, REGARD expanded into a high-end boutique Internet strategy firm to compete with Razorfish, March-First and the like.litecoin calculator table

REGARD quickly added clients TRW, VPA (bought by Fidelity), DIRECTV and John Deere while the mobility division landed Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, Wells Fargo Bank, Countrywide, Hughes, LIONSGATE, Creative Artists Agency and myriad state & federal gov’t agencies.litecoin linux vs windowsIn 2003, REGARD opened an Indian software development subsidiary and established a nationwide reputation with RIM, Microsoft, AT&T, Sprint/NEXTEL, & Verizon a “go-to” mobile and eCommerce company.bitcoin hard fork 2017Steve has been COO of a publicly traded eCommerce business, conducted due diligence and made countless angel investments into startups, acted as outside business process and technology strategist to countless “C-Level” executives of Fortune-500 and SMB Businesses.bitcoin in london ontario

Steve was featured in Entrepreneur Magazine (9/07), is often quoted in trade rags, and speaks at southern California universities & tradeshows on entrepreneurship, mobility, social media, and NOW cryptocurrencies!pyopencl bitcoin minerFounder, Satoshi Fantasy Founder and CEO, Digital Currency Council (DCC) David Berger is the Founder and CEO of the Digital Currency Council (DCC), the leading provider of digital currency-related training, certification, and continuing education.bitcoin armory windows 8Berger is an attorney with extensive experience in finance in the United States and Asia.He has a passion for building professional networks that support members’ advancement with actionable commercial insight.Prior to launching the DCC, Mr.Berger was the CEO Americas at Campden Wealth, the parent company of the Institute for Private Investors – the premier decision support network for ultra high net worth investors and family offices.

Berger is also the founder of Private Investor Collective, a Hong Kong-based network for sophisticated private investors, and played a key role in the development of two network-based advisory firms for CEOs in Asia Pacific.He also founded Asia Executive Solutions, a Hong Kong-based strategy consulting firm, where his clients included SecondMarket, Corporate Executive Board, and NPD Group.Prior to his career in finance, Mr.Berger was an attorney in the Washington DC office of the global law firm O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he focused on securities law.Berger also spent two years at the United States Department of Justice.He is a graduate of New York University School of Law and Emory University.Founder & CEO, Noble Markets Founder and President, Chamber of Digital Commerce Executive Director, Coin Center Management Consultant, Growthink Luke is a management consultant with the investment bank Growthink, focusing on strategic growth initiatives for low to middle market companies with $3-50 million in yearly revenue, primarily in the technology, medical, and internet sectors.

He also runs Growthink’s Investor Prep Bootcamps, manages projects, and conducts pitch deck and business development training.Luke was instrumental in doing the research and implementing bitcoin payments for Growthink in January, 2015.Prior to working at Growthink, Luke was the Director of Client Services for Tony Robbins and Chet Holmes at Business Breakthroughs International.Luke is a former entrepreneur who started and sold three companies in the banking, telecommunication, and distribution industries.He is also a Visiting Entrepreneur at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.He teaches business planning using the Business Model Canvas and Lean Startup methods.He has worked with students in the USC Entrepreneur Club, USC Summer Accelerator and Blackstone Launchpad.In addition, he was a Mentor at South by Southwest Vegas to Venture.Luke earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Management with a minor in Psychology from Pepperdine University and a certificate in Internet Marketing from HubSpot’s Inbound Marketing University.

Senior Columnist, The Wall Street Journal and Co-Author, The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order Senior Manager, Financial Services Office, Ernst & Young LLP Founder and COO, Bitwage Director of Institutional Client Group (ICG), itBit Founder, Seven Advisory and Board Director and Secretariat, DATA (Digital Asset Transfer Authority) Constance serves on the boards of several digital currency companies and advises startups and traditional financial institutions in global financial regulations, licensing and compliance, government advocacy, corporate restructuring, and strategic market development for digital currencies and distributed cryptographic ledger technologies.One of the founders and Board Directors of DATA, the self-regulatory organization for digital currency firms comprised of over 40 companies worldwide, Constance spearheads sound public policy and the development of best practices for these emerging technologies.

Prior to these roles, Constance served as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Kraken, where she helped transform a software development startup into a globally respected financial institution.Constance is a member of the California State Bar, holds a J.D.from UC Berkeley School of Law, and undergraduate degrees from Brown University and University of Cambridge.She formerly practiced at Kirkland & Ellis, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Perkins Coie, focusing on internet law, IP law, privacy, data security, consumer protection and constitutional rights.CEO and Co-Founder, Spondoolies-Tech Global Editor in Chief, Reuters Breakingviews CTO & Co-Founder, BitGo Chief Economist, Humint Executive Director, Bitcoin Foundation Bruce Fenton is the founder and President of Atlantic Financial which, in 1994 became the first full service investment firm to use the Internet.

Prior to Atlantic Financial Bruce was with Morgan Stanley and has specialized in emerging technologies and emerging markets.He is also Managing Director of a subsidiary of the company which focuses on emerging markets economic consulting.Bruce has completed over $4.5 billion in transactions and served as an advisor to large government funds, investment firms, high net worth individuals and charitable organizations.Bruce lives half of the year in the Middle East and has spoken at MIT, Tony Robbins, the Global Competitiveness Forum and other major events and has been quoted by the Wall St. Journal, Investor’s Business Daily and others.Bruce is a lifetime member of the Bitcoin Foundation and a founding member of the Bitcoin Association, an industry advocacy group.Partner, Securities Litigation and White Collar Defense Group, Privacy and Data Security Practice, Goodwin Procter LLP CEO and Founding Member, SolidX Partners Founder and Executive Director, BitGive Foundation CEO, 112 BIT LLC CEO, CoinOutlet Eric Grill stands at the forefront of the intersection of bitcoin technology and financial services.

He has spent the last year evangelizing for the massive adoption of bitcoin technology, and has positioned his company as a leader in the bitcoin kiosk space.Always on the lookout for new growth opportunities, Grill has proven that a lot can be accomplished with a little.The US Navy veteran and former financial services software developer and project manager brings twenty-five years of software development to the table.Grill has worked for Credit Suisse, Reuters, Nielson Media Research, Northpoint Solutions, Blackstone, Delta Hedge.Founder, ICON Co-Founder and CEO, BitMex (Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange) Arthur Hayes obtained his BA in Economics at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 2008.Subsequently he moved to Hong Kong where worked as an equity derivatives trader for Deutsche Bank and Citigroup for 5 years.Arthur made markets on the Hong Kong and Singapore stock exchanges on 50+ Exchange Trade Funds (ETFs).In January 2014, BitMEX – Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange was formed.

BitMEX through its financial products helps eliminate price volatility for businesses accepting and using Bitcoin.Arthur used his experience trading in the traditional financial markets to help create a professional Bitcoin derivatives exchange.BitMEX opened its doors in November of 2014 and is fast becoming the exchange where professional investors trade Bitcoin and cryptocurrency derivatives.Editor in Chief, American Banker Marc Hochstein became the Editor in Chief of American Banker in July 2014.He joined the publication in 1998 as a reporter covering mortgages and has steadily added responsibility over the years.At one time or another he has overseen American Banker’s coverage of consumer finance, payments, and community banking; the vibrant opinion blog BankThink; the wildly popular Morning Scan newsletter; and the reinvigoration of SourceMedia’s mortgage publications.Marc was responsible for some of the earliest serious coverage of Bitcoin anywhere and chaired SourceMedia’s successful Digital Currencies conference in July.

Partner, Akerman LLP Christopher Hopkins is a partner with Akerman LLP with extensive trial and appellate experience.Christopher’s practice frequently involves emerging technologies such as crypto currency, cloud computing, drones, e-discovery, internet crimes, privacy, and social media.Hopkins published a law article on bitcoin back in 2011 and recently wrote a second article about bitcoin regulation in 2014.He personally owns bitcoin.Hopkins represents alt coin developers, investors, and a bitcoin ATM company.He has degrees from the University of Richmond (B.A.), Wesley Theological Seminary (Master’s), and Tulane Law School (J.D.).CEO, BitSpread Cedric Jeanson serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of BitSpread Ltd founded in 2014 delivering enhanced returns on Bitcoin investment trading strategies.He runs the Trading strategies, and oversees the executive, strategic and operational aspects of the firm.Before 2014, Cedric served as the Chief Operating Officer for Equity Derivatives at Nomura International where he set up algorithmic and complex event processing trading infrastructures for online and on-exchange trading.

Prior to this, Cedric headed several trading desks at JPMorgan, BNP Paribas and Barclays in fixed income and equity derivatives.He received his M.Sc.in Finance from HEC 1997, an M.Sc.in Computer Science from ISEP, and M.Sc.in Advanced Systems from Brunel University and also holds a B.A in Economics from Brunel University 1995.Co-Founder, BitAngels and Managing Director, Decentralized Application Fund David has been a 10X serial entrepreneur developing companies in various different fields from software to biotech.He is currently co-founder of the BitAngels (the world’s largest angel group) and serves as the Managing Director for the Decentralized Application Fund.As the Managing Director, David evaluates investments in Decentralized Applications & Protocols that are based on open source software, and use a distributed blockchain for token ownership and access to the application.He is also a board member at the Mastercoin Foundation, which encourages the development of open source protocols on top of the Bitcoin Protocol.

David got into the Bitcoin space in 2012 and has been excited to see the disruptive potential of the technology in finance and beyond.David and his wife currently reside in Austin, TX when he is not traveling the world speaking at conferences or core developers of new technologies.Contributor, CNBC’s Fast Money and Founder & Managing Member, Brian Kelly Capital LLC Brian Kelly is an investor, author, and financial markets commentator.He is an expert in global financial markets, macro-economics and digital currencies.Brian Kelly has over twenty years experience in financial markets and is the author of the book The Bitcoin Big Bang – How Alternative Currencies are About to Change the World.He is a CNBC contributor and can be seen regularly on Fast Money.Brian is a graduate of the University of Vermont where he received a BS in Finance.He also holds an MBA from Babson Graduate School of Business with a concentration in finance and econometrics.A passion for investments and entrepreneurship has led Brian to start several successful investment businesses.

His most recent start-up BKCM LLC is a global investment management firm specializing in Global Macro and Currency investing.Prior to BKCM LLC, was co-founder and Managing Partner of Shelter Harbor Capital LLC and managed the Shelter Harbor Capital Global Macro Hedge Fund.Kelly was a co-founder and President of MKM Partners, a brokerage firm catering to institutional investment managers.Brian provides money management services to a select clientele, consults on digital currencies and is available for speaking engagements.Executive Director, Bitcoin Alliance of Canada and Director, Global Bitcoin Alliance President, Factom Peter Kirby, president of Factom, the first usable blockchain technology to solve real world business problems, works with leaders in financial services, government, law and security to address the most complex data security issues throughout the globe using distributed ledger technology.A seasoned entrepreneur, Peter has spent the past 15 years involved in numerous successful early-stage technology companies, and brings a deep knowledge of business development and community based marketing in the technology sector to his role at Factom.

As a leader in the blockchain space, Peter has run multi-million dollar operations and been the driving force behind major projects delivering products to market.His expertise has made Peter a sought-after speaker throughout the globe, as well as a trusted source to leading outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and numerous other industry trade publications.Partner, Baker Marquart LLP Brian Klein is partner at the boutique litigation firm Baker Marquart LLP.There, his practice focuses on high-stakes criminal and regulatory defense and civil litigation matters in state and federal court.He has extensive experience representing clients involved with Bitcoin, including many prominent early adopters and well-known start-ups.He formerly volunteered as the outside general counsel of the Bitcoin Foundation, the industry’s leading trade group.He has spoken about Bitcoin around the world at, among other places, global law firms, major payments and technology companies, and conferences for Bitcoin industry members and legal professionals.

He also teaches a federal criminal practice seminar at USC’s law school.Before joining Baker Marquart, Brian was a federal prosecutor at the United States Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles for five years (2007-2012).As a federal prosecutor, he handled significant white-collar criminal cases, including cases involving money laundering, corporate fraud, and tax violations.Lead Developer, Augur Joey attended Pomona College where he studied Computer Science, before leaving to to focus full time on Augur.Joey has spent most of his life honing his programming skills, and has an in-depth knowledge of Bitcoin Core.He conducted the first Bitcoin transaction via sound.Recently, Joey and Jack completed Sidecoin, which allows new crypto-currency distributions to be based on a “snapshot” of Bitcoin account balances.Co-Founder, Moneta Founder & CEO, Simplex and Board Member, Israeli Bitcoin Association Founder and CEO, Huobi Leon Li is the founder and CEO of Huobi.He is responsible for corporate strategy, product planning, team building, and investor relations.

He graduated from Tsinghua University with a master’s in automation engineering.He went on to work at Oracle and then became an entrepreneur in 2009, founding Friend Network and Renrenzhe social e-commerce business.In 2013 he founded Huobi, one of the world’s most influential digital currency companies.Huobi is committed to leading the development and innovation of the digital currency industry worldwide., , , , , a comprehensive hosted bitcoin mining platform.Huobi has a professional, experienced team and has received venture capital investment from Sequoia Capital China, Zhenfund, and other major investors. Founder, Co-CEO and Chief Technology Officer, Ciphrex Corporation CEO, Coinsetter Managing Director, Wedbush Securities Gil Luria is a Managing Director covering Financial Technology stocks at Wedbush Securities.He joined Wedbush in 2005 and was previously at Sanford C. Bernstein covering large U.S.Prior to that he was a Manager with Deloitte Consulting focused on telecommunications companies.

Luria holds a B.A.in Economics from Hebrew University and an M.B.A.from Columbia Business School.Gil was among the first to publish research on bitcoin and Wedbush was the first US financial institution to accept bitcoin payments.Chairman and CEO, TeraExchange Christian Martin, Chairman & CEO directs overall management and strategy of TeraExchange – a CFTC regulated exchange.A former market maker and proprietary fixed income trader he co-founded TeraExchange with the goal of addressing the rapidly evolving needs of derivatives market participants in the post Dodd-Frank environment as well as driving the firm to establish critical capital markets infrastructure for the global Bitcoin ecosystem.Earlier in his career, Mr.Martin spent more than 20 years in senior trading and management positions at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America, where he managed trading desks across rates, credit, financing and securities lending transactions.He started his career on the floors of the New York Stock Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and the Singapore Mercantile Exchange.

CEO, Boone Martin Sarah leads Boone Martin, where she directs public affairs and communications.She specializes in mobile payments and digital currency and focuses on emerging markets.Sarah writes regularly about bitcoin and public policy and is dedicated to raising awareness about digital currency worldwide.Previously, Sarah served as VP of Communications and Business Development at Fanclub Studios, an LA-based digital distribution company.She led internal and external messaging and directed successful M&A negotiations.Before founding Boone Martin, Sarah spent ten years overseas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America/the Caribbean as a public policy analyst for the: US Dept of State, US Dept of Defense, USAID, UN, Harvard School of Public Health, and Princeton University.Great Credit Contraction Trace Mayer is an entrepreneur, investor, journalist, monetary scientist and ardent defender of the freedom of speech with degrees in Law and Accounting.He has studied Austrian Economics focusing on the work of Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises and operates the privacy blog How To Vanish.

He was among the first popular bloggers to publicly recommend Bitcoin in its infancy with a market cap under $2m and well before its massive rise over $2.5B in April 2013.He serves on the Editorial Board for the Bitcoin Magazine which receives millions of visitors per year and has presented on Bitcoin, both objectively and persuasively, to a wide variety of audiences including members of the Federal Reserve, Bundesbank, major financial institutions, HNWIs, IRS, FBI, conferences and many others.President, Digital Currency Institute and Founding Member, San Diego Bitcoin Association Founder & CEO, Veritaseum David Miller has a background in electronics, Forex trading and network security.He is a former Cisco Academy Instructor and Microsoft Data Center Engineer.Leverage Holdings is focused in the development of trading applications utilizing crypto-currencies.We are currently exploring the facilitation of price discovery for major players in the realms of bitcoin, oil and gold futures.

CISSP, Chair, CNP Payment Forum and Founder, Alina Consultants Partner, Global Advisors (Jersey) Limited Founder, BitcoinNYC Founder and CEO, Pantera Capital Management Partner and Head of Trading, SolidX Partners Founder, BTC Launch & Bond Manager, Alpha Surety Brokerage Managing Director, Rosenblatt Securities Garrett Nenner offers unique expertise within portfolio management, trading, operations and trading technology and is known for his combined experiences in fund management, brokerage and business development.He is a trading infrastructure and market structure specialist with a deep focus on improving execution for institutions.Previously, Garrett served as MD of Global Markets & Market Structure at Momentum Trading Partners, and built the original trading desk and managed a large high-volume quantitative stat-arb portfolio at Millennium Partners hedge fund.Later, he was recruited by Lehman Brothers to work on further commercializing the RealTick trading/order management platform for high-volume fundamental, quantitative and agency B/D clients across North America, Europe, Asia and Brazil.

Nenner is also a visiting instructor at the New York Institute of Finance, and asked to speak at noted graduate masters programs.He is a recognized expert commentator, and presenter, keynote speaker and moderator at significant industry and academic conferences worldwide focused on market structure, trading and trading technology, and on the effects of regulation on portfolio strategy and the industry.Founder and CEO, Netki Justin is an early Internet pioneer and startup veteran.As CEO of NetKi, Justin has been building Netki’s Wallet Name Service, which allows users to link multiple wallet addresses via an easy to share Wallet Name.Justin is focused on creating solutions to foster the mass market adoption of digital currency through the Netki platform.Prior to founding Netki, Justin created over $2 billion in new revenue and savings at various start-ups, including AboveNet, NetZero, Demand Media and Blackline.Justin currently serves on the Board of Directors for ADRA Match Software and Vision Fleet’s Advisory Board.

Will O’Brien is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and executive with deep expertise in bringing innovative and disruptive businesses to market.He is also active in the early stage ecosystem, as an investor and advisor.Will most recently co-founded and was CEO of BitGo, the leading bitcoin security company and a pioneer in multi-sig technologies.BitGo raised more than $14MM in venture financing.Will was previously an executive at Big Fish Games (social casino, casual games) where he led Corporate and Business Development.Big Fish was acquired by Churchill Downs (NASDAQ: CHDN) in 2014.Will also held leadership roles at TrialPay (in-app payments and advertising) acquired by Visa in 2015, Random Walk Computing (real-time trading technology) acquired by Accenture in 2006, and has founded and operated his own startups in consumer Internet and media.Will is an accomplished public speaker and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, AllThingsD, BusinessWeek, and various industry press.

He is a regular presenter at industry conferences and appeared on television and in film.Will holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.A.in Computer Science from Harvard University.Will has dual citizenship in the US and Ireland.Co-Founder and General Counsel, Epiphyte President, CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4)and Director, Bitcoin Alliance of Canada The Ultimate Bitcoin Business Guide Kirk Phillips, aka the TheBitcoinCPA, is an entrepreneur and Certified Public Accountant (CPA) passionate about technology and the possibilities for bitcoin to disrupt, decentralize and bring transparency into the business world.He is author of “The Ultimate Bitcoin Business Guide,” a first of its kind inspirational business focused bitcoin book for entrepreneurs and business advisors coming soon in all mediums including audiobook.He weaves risk management into business process outsourcing, crypto business consulting and education.He brings more than 15 years’ experience working with high-net worth business owner individuals in public accounting and private industry while launching multiple businesses including invizibiz.biz, a virtual accounting and back office subscription service.

Kirk is a member of the curriculum committee of the DCC, Digital Currency Council.In addition, he recently obtained the Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) designation issued by C4, the Crypto Currency Certification Consortium and holds multiple other designations including Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) to name a few.Kirk has immersed himself in bitcoin and blockchain technology and its currently only one of a handful of qualified CPA strategic advisors in the bitcoin and cryptocurrency space.Founder and Managing Partner, Blockchain Capital Chief Editor, BitcoinVOX CEO and Co-Founder, Airbitz Paul is CEO and Co-Founder of Airbitz, a company with a vision of Bitcoin mass adoption through ease of use and ease of security.Airbitz has been focused on delivering a great user experience to connect Bitcoin users and merchants through their Bitcoin Directory and integrated mobile wallet.Paul is an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science graduate of UC Berkeley with a wide range of technical skills from low-level 3D graphics engineering to development of custom web CMS systems.

He held lead engineering positions with Nvidia Corp and Chromatic Research.Most recently he owned and operated several non-technical small businesses where he implemented solutions to streamline the intersection of people, business, and technology.CEO, Digital Currency Labs and Co-Founder, Wall Street Bitcoin Alliance Chief Strategy Officer, Xapo Founding Partner, Tally Capital Mr.Roszak is Founder and CEO of Tally Capital, a private investment firm focused on blockchain-based technologies and currencies.Named as one of the “who’s who of the crypto-currency world” by The Wall Street Journal, Mr.Roszak is a Bitcoin investor, advocate and speaker.He has spent over 18 years in private equity and venture capital with Advent International, Keystone Capital Partners, Platinum Venture Partners and SilkRoad Equity, and has invested over $1 billion of capital (from start-up to IPO) in a broad range of industries.Roszak serves on the boards of BitGive, Blockchain Capital, Chamber of Digital Commerce, Chicago Bitcoin Center, Dunvegan Space Systems, Factom and Robocoin, amongst others.

He was also a producer of the first ever Bitcoin documentary, The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin.Attorney, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Marco Santori is an attorney with Pillsbury and is a leading authority on Bitcoin and digital currency.Described by American Banker as “the dean of digital currency lawyers,” Santori is a recognized authority in the law of bitcoin, digital currencies and emerging payments.He counsels exchanges, payment processors, institutional miners, and other companies making new and exciting uses of virtual currency technology, including “Bitcoin 2.0” implementations.Recently, he won the first annual Blockchain Award for Bitcoin Legal Expert.Santori advises clients on regulatory matters, including the compliance with and avoidance of money service business and securities regulations and New York’s newly implemented bitlicenses.He works with his clients to structure their business plans to comply with these regulations.His practice focuses on early-stage companies in the high-technology sector, including web, e-commerce, financial technology, and the emerging digital currency space.

For these businesses, Santori offers comprehensive, full-service business counsel, including advice on seed, angel and venture-backed fundraising.His commercial litigation practice, focusing on high-technology matters, covers intellectual property, trade secrets, defamation and securities fraud disputes.He is well-versed in alternative dispute resolution and lectures on the topics of mediation and arbitration.As Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation’s Regulatory Affairs Committee, his knowledge of the latest industry trends develops in near real-time and he is fluent in the Bank Secrecy Act, the Patriot Act’s application to digital currency businesses, including Know Your Customer and Anti Money Laundering regulation.He appears as a commentator on “Real Money with Ali Velshi” and Bloomberg TV. and Crain’s New York Business.He won the first annual Blockchain Award for Bitcoin Legal Expert.Santori received his J.D.from the University of Notre Dame Law School and his B.A.from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in Philosophy.

Santori comes to Pillsbury from Nesenoff & Miltenberg LLP.Chief Editor, CoinTelegraph Allen is the Chief Editor and writer at CoinTelegraph.He is an avid traveler and Bitcoin-aficionado from New York City with a background in journalism and economics.Under his guidance, CoinTelegraph has grown from a small news blog to become one of the top news publications as well as the largest media group in Bitcoin.Allen has interviewed some of the most prominent experts, entrepreneurs and thought-leaders within the cryptocurrency space.Digital Currency Market Maker, BitSpread Ritika’s love for the new technology space and considerable experience in the financial industry sparked her keen involvement with digital currencies.At BitSpread Ltd, a company founded in 2014 delivering enhanced returns on Bitcoin investment trading strategies, Ritika works on the Sales strategies of the firm.Prior to BitSpread, Ritika worked on the Equity Derivatives Delta 1 Desk at Nomura International as a Trading Assistant managing the Desk’s primary market making activities and looking after operational aspects involving management of Risk and PnL.

She started her career in the Prime Brokerage division in Lehman Brothers in London.Ritika received her M.Sc.in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 2007, an M.A.in Politics and International Relations from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, and a B.A in Political Science from Presidency College, Calcutta, India.Digital Currency Lawyer, Androit Lawyers and Global Strategy Director, igot Amor Sexton is Australia’s first Digital Currency Lawyer.As a lawyer at the boutique technology law firm, Adroit Lawyers, Amor helps bitcoin and digital currency businesses navigate the uncertain regulatory landscape and commercialize their ventures.Amor also works with both the Bitcoin Association of Australia and the Australian Digital Currency Commerce Association to provide advice on policy considerations and to liaise with the government, regulators, and key other stakeholders on behalf of the digital currency industry in Australia.Adroit Lawyers specializes in providing commercial legal advice to innovative businesses in industries that include mining, engineering, e-commerce, media and financial services.

Adroit Lawyers was also one of the first law firms in Australia to accept payment in bitcoin.Professor of Law, New York Law School Director, Promontory Financial Group Founder, Digital Currency Group and Founder, SecondMarket Barry Silbert is the Founder of Digital Currency Group, a company building the foundation for the digital currency revolution by investing, starting and growing companies in the Bitcoin space.In addition, Barry also created the Bitcoin Investment Trust, a private, open-ended trust that is invested exclusively in bitcoin and derives its value solely from the price of bitcoin.It enables investors to gain exposure to the price movement of bitcoin without the challenges of buying, storing, and safekeeping bitcoins.Barry is also one of the most prolific angel investors in the bitcoin space via his personal investment vehicle, Bitcoin Opportunity Corp., with investments in over 40 bitcoin-related companies, including BitGo, BitPay, BitPagos, BitPesa, Chain, Circle, Coinbase, Gyft, Kraken, Ripple Labs, TradeBlock, Unocoin and Xapo.

Prior to founding Digital Currency Group, Barry founded SecondMarket, a platform that enables private companies and investment funds to more efficiently raise capital and provide liquidity to their stakeholders by simplifying complex transaction workflows, streamlining investor onboarding and verifying that investors are accredited.SecondMarket has received numerous accolades in recent years including being named by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and has received honors from Forbes, Fast Company, Deloitte and other organizations.Barry has received several individual honors including being named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and Crain’s, and being selected to Fortune’s prestigious “40 Under 40” list.Prior to founding SecondMarket in 2004, Barry was an investment banker at Houlihan Lokey and graduated with honors from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University, and holds Series 7, 24 and 63 licenses.Director of Strategic Initiatives, BitGo CTO, HyprKey and Founder Bitcoin Security Project Partner, Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP CEO, First Global Credit Gavin Smith is the CEO of First Global Credit.

FGC has created a trading platform where people who have mined or traded bitcoin use them as collateral to buy and sell over 100 well known stocks and stock markets.He has over 20 years’ experience working for banks, exchanges and large corporations in London and Geneva where his specialty is managing complex hedging requirements in financial and commodity markets.Gavin started his career in an Options risk management team for a Global Market Making company; responsible for both hedging the company exposure to risk as well as finding and taking advantage of inefficiencies in markets as they became available.More recently he has worked for a leading international commodities trading firm, defining hedging strategies that protect the business against market exposure in the fast moving commodity marketplace.With in-depth knowledge both of IT and the business of market trading he was the driving force behind the team that delivered the hedging technology that managed the company’s far ranging positions in real-time.

Gavin founded FGC to bring capital market access to the altcoin community.And it is his expertise in risk minimisation and technical innovation that will allow the company grow and develop as a leader in this burgeoning field as the blockchain merges with the rest of the world financial landscape.CEO, Elliptic Dr. Smith oversees product design and business development as co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Elliptic, a VC-backed custodian bank for the blockchain.Elliptic’s core product, Elliptic Vault is the world’s first insured and accredited bitcoin storage service.Prior to Elliptic Dr. Smith was an options trader for market-making firms in the City of London.Dr. Smith has a computer science PhD from the University of Oxford in Natural Language Processing as well as a computer Science MPhil and BA from the University of Cambridge.Director, Sales and Business Development, Grayscale Investments Michael Sonnenshein joined Grayscale Investments in January 2014, where he is spearheading the sales and business development efforts on behalf of the Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT), developing relationships with hedge funds, family offices, and other institutions.

Prior to joining Grayscale, Mr.Sonnenshein was a financial advisor at JP Morgan Securities, covering HNW individuals and institutions.He also worked in a similar capacity at Barclays Wealth, providing coverage to middle-market hedge funds and institutions.Sonnenshein earned his Bachelors of Business Administration from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and is currently pursuing his MBA at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.He holds his Series 7 and 66 licenses.Founder, Bitcoin Center NYC Managing Partner, Stratis Advisory Brian is the Chief Strategy Officer at CoinComply, a digital currency consultancy, offering the first and only end-to-end anti-money laundering program (AML) with a fully integrated know your customer and transaction monitoring platform solely dedicated for cryptocurrency companies, including Bitcoin.At CoinComply, he works with seed-stage, early stage, and later stage digital currency companies, venture capitalists, law firms, and financial institutions on Bitcoin AML compliance.

Brian previously served as a strategy and management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in San Francisco, CA, advising executive management of money service businesses, financial institutions under consent orders, and international intelligence firms.Prior to Booz Allen, he served as Vice President for OneWest Bank, where he managed the AML M&A due diligence of three failed financial institutions purchased from the FDIC and developed a fully integrated enterprise-wide AML program.He serves as the Chair of the ACAMS Chapter Steering Committee, as Co-Chair of the ACAMS Northern California Chapter, and served as a founding Executive Board member of the ACAMS Southern California Chapter.Brian is also the recipient of the 2011 ACAMS Volunteer of the Year Award.He received his Juris Doctor from New York Law School and his Bachelor of Arts from Stony Brook University.CEO and Co-Founder, Genesis Mining Chief Technology Officer, Coinsetter Marshall Swatt is the Chief Technology Officer of Coinsetter.

Marshall has deep experience with numerous startup ventures, as well as creating and managing the development of challenging and complex software systems for large corporations.Prior to Coinsetter, Marshall was a senior lead developer on the development and launch of Citigroup’s fully-rebuilt retail forex trading platform.Prior to that, Marshall led the design and development of Opt-Intelligence’s successful real-time advertising platform., Magnet Interactive, National Geographic Society, Mind’s Eye, MoMa, and Microsoft.Marshall graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.CEO, AlphaPoint Chairman, BitAngels, Partner, AngelList Bitcoin Syndicate and CEO, Transform Group Michael Terpin co-founded BitAngels, the world’s first angel network for digital currency startups, in May, 2013, and now serves as its chairman.The distributed angel network currently has more than 600 members, and it has made more than 25 investments in bitcoin and cryptocurrency companies with two exits and several follow-on rounds.

Terpin is also co-founder of the Bitcoin Syndicate, the largest bitcoin investor syndicate on AngelList.He has spoken widely on bitcoin at leading conferences, including Bitcoin 2014, BitFin, CoinSummit, Inside Bitcoins (Berlin, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, London, NY), North American Bitcoin Show, Satoshi Roundtable, South by Southwest, and TEDx Hollywood.In addition, Terpin is founder and CEO of Transform Group, a marketing holding company that includes SocialRadius, one of the nation’s first social media marketing firms, and Transform Public Relations, a global digital PR firm.The Firm currently represents more Bitcoin companies than any other PR firm in the world, including ChangeTip, Factom, Gem, Synereo, and UnbreakableCoin, and has worked on projects for Bitcoin Shop, Counterparty, Gyft, KnCMiner, Kraken, MaidSafe, Mastercoin/Omni and Swarm.Transform Group is headquartered in Las Vegas, with additional offices in Santa Monica and Mountain View.Terpin also founded Marketwire, one of the world’s largest and most technologically sophisticated company newswires.

Originally known as Internet Wire, Marketwire was acquired in 2006.Terpin holds an MFA in Creative Writing from SUNY at Buffalo and degrees in Newspaper Journalism and English Literature from Syracuse University, where he serves as an advisor to its top-ranked Newhouse School of Public Communications and was inducted into its prestigious Wall of Fame in 2000., Rivetz, Walls360, XFire and YouMail.Co-Founder & Chief Start Up Officer, Seedcoin Eddy Travia is the co-founder of Seedcoin, a global Bitcoin startup virtual incubator helping Bitcoin and Blockchain startups in the development of their services and products around the world since mid-2013.Seedcoin startups include wallets, exchanges, trading platforms, payment processors and software companies.Eddy has been living in China and Hong Kong for the past ten years where he has managed private equity investment funds focusing on Greater China.Eddy has completed the Stanford Financial Engineering program in Hong Kong and has extensive experience in private equity, deal structuring, due diligence supervision and advising foreign funds and angel investors investing in emerging markets.

Soon after learning about Bitcoin he decided to shift the focus of his investment actitivies to Bitcoin-centric startups, convinced of the great potential and disruptive power of the blockchain technology to transform our society.Head of Research, Brave New Coin Tone has been working on Wall Street for almost 10 years starting as a risk analyst at Bear Stearns and later becoming a VP at JP Morgan Chase in the aftermath of the financial crisis.His expertise is in Economic Trends, Trading and Risk Analysis.Ever since getting involved in Crypto Currencies in early 2013 he has been very active in spreading the relevance and importance of this technology to people looking to better understand the current financial system.Living in NYC, Tone is often found at the NYC Bitcoin Center and recently started speaks at Bitcoin Conferences globally.He is the Head of Research at BraveNewCoin where you can find his latest work after previously writing at CoinTelegraph.Tone still attempts to maintain his personal blog LibertyLifeTrail focused on sound economics, privacy, free-thinking and adventurous travel.

Tone holds a Masters Degree in Financial Engineering from Florida State University along with Bachelor Degrees in mathematics and Geology.Co-Founder, MD – Professional Services and CISO, Armory Enterprise Security LLP John co-founded Armory Enterprise Security LLC, a wholly owned division of Armory Technologies Inc, aimed at assisting clients in securing their Bitcoin crypto-currency assets.John leads the professional services division of this highly innovative Bitcoin startup.With nearly twenty years of IT security consulting, cryptography and secure payments expertise gained primarily in the financial services industry, John is uniquely positioned to bring a wealth of commercial / enterprise grade security capabilities to this exciting new field.Prior to joining Armory, John was a Principal in Accenture’s technology consulting workforce, based in London.He was part of Accenture’s specialist security capability with over 17 years of consulting experience across multiple business and industry sectors.

degree specialising in cryptography and information security.John is a full (founding) member of the Institute of Information Security Professionals, IISP – M.Inst.ISP.Founder and CTO, AlphaPoint Vice President, Pantera Capital Reporter, The Wall Street Journal and Co-Author, The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order SVP of Operations, itBit Partner, Pantera Capital Co-Founder & CEO, MintCombine Rik Willard is Co-Founder and CEO of MintCombine, a Global Cryptocurrency Incubator and Decentralized Technology Lab headquartered in New York City.With portfolio companies and affiliates in the US, Africa, South America, MintCombine has fast become a leader in the digital currency space.Rik is an acknowledged pioneer in branded mediatech including DOOH and large-public screen projects, content production, CMS, mobile and social media with clients and productions including: MGM Resorts, Calvin Klein Cosmetics, Lucent Technologies, Dictaphone, The World-Famous Apollo Theater, Couture designers (including Chado Ralph Rucci, Oscar de LaRenta and Kevan Hall), The French Ready-to-Wear Association (Pret-a-Porter) and others.

He is a f eatured speaker for live appearances and on national television (from the Harvard Business School to CNN) concerning entrepreneurship and digital matters.He is also the Founder of the ON:21 Vision Series which explores digital interconnectedness, new entrepreneurship and creative financing within the nascent Cryptocurrency movement.CEO and Founder, Gem Co-Founder, Bitmain Managing Partner, Binary Finacial Harry Yeh is a Managing Partner at Binary Financial and is known in the digital currency space for trading and facilitating large bitcoin transactions between high net worth individuals.Harry is Serial Entrepreneur with a software and infrastructure engineering background, and has over 15 years experience in the Technology and Business Field.He has been the CTO and Co-Founder in a few startups as well as running his on technology consulting company.Harry also have years of experience trading stocks, options and currencies.Harry is a graduate from the University of Western Ontario and has a BA in Statistical Science and studied Computer Science at Stanford’s professional development program.