ADVANCING
BITCOIN
DEVELOPER
CONFERENCE
2023

Our Speakers.

• Angie Jones is the Global Vice President of Developer Relations for TBD, Block’s new business unit focused on decentralized technologies. She is an award-winning teacher and international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software companies and conferences all over the world. As a Master Inventor, Angie is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 25 patented inventions in the areas of metaverses, collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet, and software development processes.

  Angie Jones

  Global VP
  of Developer Relations for TBD

• Pavol ‘Stick’ Rusnak is a pioneering cypherpunk and co-founder of SatoshiLabs, the company behind the world-renowned Trezor hardware wallet. In addition to his unrelenting work in the Bitcoin space, Pavol is also an avid supporter of open-source software and hardware.

  Pavol Rusnak

  Co-founder of SatoshiLabs (Trezor)

• Became passionate about bitcoin while finishing his PhD in Algorithms in 2017. Working at Ledger to pave the way for next-generation bitcoin wallets, by bringing native support for miniscript and other advanced signing policies in hardware signers. Researching how to do smart contracts the bitcoin way.

  Salvatore Ingala

  Engineer at Ledger

• I'm Ruben Somsen, Bitcoin Sorcerer. I do protocol design in order to enhance Bitcoin. I also help maintain the bitcoin-dev mailing list, am co-host of the Unhashed Podcast, and I’m organizer/founder of the Seoul Bitcoin Meetup. I'm sponsored by Spiral, Superlunar, HRF, and am currently working on spacechains with Dhruv and Silent Payments with w0xlt and Josie.

  Ruben Somsen

  Bitcoin Sorcerer

• Eric is a cypherpunk and inventor of Fedimint. Eric's current focus is on Bitcoin and privacy enhancing technologies including Fedimint. He is a co-founder of Fedi.

  Eric Sirion

  Cypherpunk and inventor of Fedimint

• Antoine is a Bitcoin Core contributor and Lightning developer primarily focusing on contributing to the Lightning Development Kit (LDK), in parallel to researching Lightning security.

  Antoine Riard

  Bitcoin Core & Lightning Dev Kit contributor

• Long time bitcoiner with a keen interest in the security and adversarial side of things. CEO at Wizardsardine (aka Revault), also known for co-organizing Breaking Bitcoin and Building on Bitcoin a few years ago.

  Kevin Loaec

  CEO at Wizardsardine (Revault)

• CTO at Wizardsardine (Revault), contributor to various other Bitcoin open source projects (Bitcoin Core, C-lightning, ..).

  Antoine Poinsot

  Bitcoin Core & Lightning contributor at Revault

• Elias is an engineer with Spiral working on the Lightning Dev Kit

  Elias Rohrer

  Engineer at Spiral

• Conor Okus is a Product Manager at Spiral, he helps developers build on bitcoin faster. Conor is an educator, speaker, community builder, bitcoin product advocate and the host of "Bitcoin Developers" Youtube channel.

  Conor Okus

  Product manager at Spiral

• Open source Bitcoin developer supported by Spiral.

  Virtu

  Bitcoin developer

• Ben is the founder of LNBits, he is a FOSS hobbyist, and bitcoin advocate. Ben has created a number of popular bitcoin hardware devices such as an offline lightning PoS, and an offline bitcoin vending machine.

  Ben Arc

  Creator of LNBits

• Josie is a Bitcoin Core developer with a keen interest in all things related to data, wallets, and privacy. Josie also moonlights as a mentor with https://qala.dev/ and helps run the Bitdevs Amsterdam meetup.

  Josie Bake

  Bitcoin Core developer

• I’m the founder of Peak Shift Ltd. a venture and design studio for digital products. The studio helps startups solve problems through Design Sprints. We also research emerging user experience patterns in bitcoin and adjacent technologies, and organise hackathons for companies, and open source projects to help grow the ecosystem.

  Johns Beharry

  Founder of Peak Shift

• Alexander Leishman is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer at River. Alex brings his deep expertise in software engineering, information security, and Bitcoin to River where he oversees investor relations, corporate strategy, engineering and Lightning.

  Alexander Leishman

  Founder of River.

• Christian started going down the cryptographic rabbit hole in 2021. Learning and making sense of the puzzle pieces has been a pursuit ever since. In 2022 he started working for Blockstream Research, where he mainly develops Simplicity and helps maintain Miniscript.

  Christian Lewe

  Researcher at Blockstream

• Arik Sosman is a software engineer at Spiral, an open-source bitcoin initiative at Block (formerly Square). Arik has worked on language bindings for Swift, built the Rapid Gossip Sync protocol, and has most recently been involved with the Taproot spec for Lightning. Prior to joining Spiral, Arik has worked at BitGo and Facebook.

  Arik Sosman

  Engineer at Spiral

• Christoph is a contributor to the open-source Bitcoin design projects and a big purveyor of open design. He has contributed to Bitcoin Design Community, Bitcoin Design Guide, Bitcoin UI Kit and many others.

  Christoph Ono

  Bitcoin designer

• Core contributor to BTCPayServer. VP of Engineering at Strike.

  r0ckstardev

  VP of Eng at Strike

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  Adrien Lacombe

• Open source contributor in the bitcoin and lightning space. Co-maintainer of the RaspiBlitz project. Privacy enthusiast and founder of the Joininbox project. Working on infrastructure and lightning things at GaloyMoney.

  Openoms

  Lightning developer

• @joenakamoto is a Bitcoin journalist, filmmaker, conference host & MC. He writes for Cointelegraph and loves to give away Sats for his YouTube videos. Joe is multi-lingual and travels the world introducing new people to Bitcoin.

  Joe Nakamoto

  Bitcoin Reporter and Content Creator

• Oscar is a bitcoin developer that has contributed to a number of popular bitcoin wallets.

  Oscar Lafarga

  Bitcoin developer

• Alexei has worked on BTC bridges & sidechains since 2016, publishing the first design for economic security bridges in 2018 at Scaling Bitcoin (peer-reviewed paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/643). His PhD at Imperial College London focused on the problem of trustless cross-chain communication. Alexei co-founded Interlay to build a decentralized and interoperable financial layer on top of Bitcoin.

  Alexei Zamyatin

  CEO and Founder Interlay.io

• Founder of @ln_vpn and @ordimint

  Lightrider

  Founder of @ln_vpn and @ordimint