We need more people on Nostr, talking about what lights a fire in them. That's why I'm here.

Bitcoin and Nostr are a hard fork in the brain. Once you understand their power you can't go back. I can't go back to just living within the fiat system and since 2024 I've been exploring ways to build a parallel life: working with Freedom Tech Company, giving talks about Nostr, writing for Proof of Work Magazine, as well as poetry too.

I don't do any of this for clout, I do it because I love it.

Murray

Bitcoin Researcher & Filmmaker

Security analyst volunteering on open source projects

Avi Burra is an author, filmmaker, podcaster, and co-founder of NosFabrica

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Bitcoiner since 2010, anarchist since the 1990s.
Software engineering; cryptography; political philosophy.

Bitcoin PopArt ✍️ by World Traveler Johannes Oppewal.

As a mathematician, I'm used to working on systems where reliability really matters. After years of leading AI and software teams, I realised that our core problem is not a lack of innovation or compassion, it's how we store value, and more importantly, how we control it.

In the traditional system, we hand over control to banks. With Bitcoin, the rule is simple: 'Not your keys, not your coins.' But true ownership isn't just about holding a seed phrase; it's about having a reliable plan for the future. Too many people lose their savings to hackers, lose their seed phrase, or leave their families unable to access funds when unforeseen circumstances arise.

These are the reasons why I decided to close this gap by building practical safety nets.

Creator of Bitmap Theory.

Spoken at NFC Lisbon three years running, panels and keynotes.

Working normal job as an IT auditor, but I'm a part-time privacy / free speech advocate. I am also friends with the NitroKey founder Jan Suhr, whose fabulous company NitroKey, true heros of privacy, I will representing

Christian is a Bitcoin developer and the founder of Mandelduck. He has worked on Lightning payments and Bitcoin rewards apps, and on X he posts the Bitcoin Seinfeld series and explainer videos.

Philosopher

I am CryptoRaptor

Delta Kid is a blues guitarist and singer-songwriter specialising in acoustic blues from the 1940’s to 1960’s. In addition to original songs he plays in a range of styles from Robert Johnson’s Delta blues to RL Burnside’s Mississippi Hill country blues. Expect driving rhythms, slide guitar and hell hounds. Catch him at Patreon.com/DeltaKidGuitar

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creator of ngit, gitworkshop and grasp

Host of The Once Bitten Podcast.

Author of Choose Life.

Musqet CEO

David Daly is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and Expert Witness in construction disputes. He has given evidence in the High Court and in international arbitration on multiple occasions, and runs a successful practice in the UK and Ireland.

Since 2022 he has been building his own freedom and sovereignty Plan B with Expat Money. Having seen what it has done for him, he is now working with Expat Money to bring the same approach to people in the UK, Ireland and Europe facing relentless government encroachment and shrinking financial freedom.

Dormino is an Italian sculptor. Creator of @AnythingtoSay_ - a traveling sculpture dedicated to courage, freedom of expression and information.

As Decented I build open-source freedom tech at ForgeSworn, on Nostr, Lightning and plain cryptography.
As Morgs express my understand and ideas through art.

A passion for deep, infectious & energetic dance floor grooves, Samosa curates atmosphere using well thought out selections of records combined with high spirit. An avid music & BTC fan & collector. Local business pest & on-boarder. The grand poobah at Satsparty.com

Derek Ross leads Developer Relations at Soapbox, an open-source collective building freedom tech on Bitcoin and Nostr. Known on Nostr as "The Nostr Evangelist," Derek has spent more than 20 years in technology and speaks internationally on freedom tech, Bitcoin, Nostr, and personal AI: AI agents and tools that serve the individual rather than a platform. His DevRel work spans talks, hands-on workshops, live demos, and community building, turning complex protocols into ideas any audience can act on.

Djuri always had a passion for open source and new technology. In 2016 he founded the “blockchain & crypto” team at Rabobank -one of the largest Dutch banks- where he quickly learned that the only real use case for a blockchain is Bitcoin.

After trying to educate the organization to no avail for eight years, he decided to go full time bitcoin by working at Satsback.com and of course the open-source BTClock project.

Peter has run the Scottish Bitcoin Conference for 3 years and been active in the local community running meetups and bringing Bitcoiners together. Peter has spoken at Bitcoin conferences in Ireland, BTCPrague and Bitfest.

Design Engineer in the Home Mining Space

Duncan – aka “I Am GPIO”

Duncan Coombe is a design engineer and the creative force behind The Solo Mining Co' and multiple other Bitcoin-focused ventures. Known online as “I Am GPIO”, Duncan has been active in Bitcoin since 2011, building a reputation at the intersection of hardware design, mining innovation, and community engagement.

With a background in engineering and product design, Duncan specializes in creating bespoke Bitcoin mining hardware that blends performance, aesthetics, and usability for the home. His projects range from near-silent, decor-friendly solo miners to experimental concepts like mining-powered home heating solutions — all united by a focus on making Bitcoin mining more accessible, sustainable, and inspiring.

Through The Solo Mining Co' and collaborations with pioneers such as GekkoScience, OSMU, Altair Tech, ACS, and countless others, Duncan has helped shape the future of creative hardware design and individual sovereignty in mining. While his core drive is building and engineering, he also has a passion for teaching and training, helping others understand, build, and participate in the mining ecosystem.

Whether speaking as Duncan Coombe or under his moniker “I Am GPIO”, he brings together technical depth, entrepreneurial grit, and a commitment to empowering individuals to participate in Bitcoin mining on their own terms.

Sovereign Living and Cypherpunk Anarchy

CTRL Records have been making music on the blockchain and performing in the Metaverse since 2021, with Fishbrain, Dedeukwu, and Gattraps, working with artists such as MoneyB (Digital Underground), Ras Kass, MoneyB, Kane Mayfield and Luniz.

Fzero is a multidisciplinary artist, creative director, and co-founder of Ninefold, a cultural company building original worlds and creating real life experiences.

His practice spans design, illustration, painting, tattooing, animation, physical objects, and music bringing, together technology, culture, and the human experience.

He is also the creator of $BLEEP, a retro sci-fi animated series that uses humour and curiosity to examine Bitcoin from an outsider’s perspective.

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Co founder of BSE Conference and host of Bitcoin and Me podcast. Speaker at BSE Conf and Bitfest 2025.

Halima Abba is a Nigerian-born Bitcoin educator, storyteller and emerging voice in Africa’s Bitcoin movement.

She hosts What’s Haute With Halima, a Bitcoin media platform built around making one of the world’s most consequential ideas accessible to people who were never supposed to be part of the conversation.

Her work sits at the intersection of Bitcoin, money, culture and freedom, with a particular focus on Africa — where monetary instability and financial exclusion aren’t theoretical concepts, but lived realities.

Now based in the UK, Halima brings an African perspective to the global Bitcoin conversation, connecting grassroots experiences of money with the bigger questions Bitcoin forces us to ask about who controls value, who gets access to financial freedom, and what a different monetary future could look like.

She is passionate about turning Bitcoin knowledge into something more powerful than information: agency.

Ian Foster has spent much of the last decade in Malawi, Southern Africa, a country he describes as ground zero for the horrors of the fiat money system. Through years of business advisory work there, he saw that any kind of economic progress is impossible in the current monetary regime. He is committed to raising awareness of this and is currently researching a PhD at the University of Manchester on the challenges of entrepreneurship in an unsound money system. He also helped start Bitcoin Boma, Malawi's first bitcoin group and is the creator of EconoKidz.com.

Jake has a background in business administration, economics, and information management. He has worked in traditional online payments and, more recently, in privacy and information security.
He is one of the founders of Lightning Piggy, is active in Bitcoin Runners, and has started two Danish community projects: Nostr.dk and ENOGTYVE, the Danish community fork of twentyone.world. He is an unapologetic LNbits fanboy and is closing in on his 30th Bitcoin conference.

I am a partner in an investment group and writing an academic textbook about Bitcoin. The latter project I started in 2024. My work experience is a bit ecclectic. I have worked as an academic philosopher, an IT consultant, an English teacher, a writer, an editor, and a professional investor. Since 2016, I have worked mostly in the Bitcoin space.

My first presentation about Bitcoin was in 2014 at the Dutch Central Bank of all places.

Long-time advocate for Bitcoin and Stacks. Lifelong explorer seeking answers to some of the music industry’s biggest challenges, and investigating the solutions blockchain technology might offer.

Joe Nakamoto is a Bitcoin video journalist and MC.

Kanika is the Financial Freedom Officer at Groundswell Project, a London-based non-profit. She leads initiatives using Bitcoin education to empower underserved communities, promote financial independence and create economic opportunities, with a focus on refugees, migrants and women in the UK and Africa.

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Laura Day.

Freedom tech enthusiast. Bitcoin developer in 2009-2011. Nostr developer from 2022.

BTC Map and Other Stuff.

Nicholas Anthony is a research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, a fellow at the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), and a member of the Economic Inclusion Group’s Advisory Board. Anthony’s research covers a wide range of topics within the field of monetary and financial economics, including central bank digital currency (CBDC), financial privacy, cryptocurrency, and the use of money in society. Anthony is the author of Digital Currency or Digital Control? Decoding CBDC and the Future of Money and his work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Business Insider, and numerous other outlets. Anthony has testified before Congress and maintains the HRF CBDC Tracker, which documents CBDC development and civil liberties concerns around the world.

Bitcoin artist and programmer producing visualizations

Nils Melzer is a leading international law expert and systemic reformer who has served for 30 years on the operational, diplomatic, and academic frontlines of the international system - from war zones in the Balkans and the Middle East to senior leadership roles, including as UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, ICRC Director of Law, Policy & Diplomacy, and Professor of International Law. Most widely known for his official investigation and engagement in the case of Julian Assange, his current work focuses on integrating neurobiology, digital technology, and systems engineering to co-create decentralized, cooperative governance architectures, including contribution-based monetary alternatives to state-led fiat currencies.

What we have built:

• A radio station that streams over the internet (video + audio), run as a labor of love for over three years, currently rebuilding itself from a shipwreck into a proper vessel.

• A jukebox: any listener can pay a few sats (the smallest pieces of a bitcoin) to request a song. The payment is instant, borderless, and goes where it should. This payment is purely anti-spam protection: 21 sats per song, and a little more for a long song.

• Live sessions: guest DJs come aboard, stream their set through our channel, and receive their fair share of everything the audience donates while they play — automatically, without paperwork, without waiting, without a middleman skimming.

One can interact with the Jukebox in four ways, at the time of writing. Via our website, over telegram, via X and nostr, too!

Nzonda Fotsing works at the intersection of Bitcoin infrastructure, financial education, and public policy across Francophone Africa.

He is the co-founder of BitBank, a Bitcoin and Lightning settlement infrastructure focused on the CEMAC and UEMOA economic regions, and the founder of the Conference Bitcoin Afrique (CBA). The inaugural edition, held in Douala in April 2025, brought together more than 400 participants, while the second edition, hosted in Ouagadougou in April 2026, welcomed over 650 attendees from 14 countries, including several ministerial delegations.

Recognized in 2025 as one of Africa's 21 Most Influential Bitcoiners, Nzonda serves as the convener of the CBA Federation an open network connecting Bitcoin communities across nine Francophone African countries. He is currently leading preparations for the third edition of Conference Bitcoin Afrique, which will take place in Kinshasa in April 2027.

His work on institutional and regulatory frameworks has led him to engage directly with governments across Francophone Africa, positioning Bitcoin as a tool for financial sovereignty and economic resilience. Rather than framing Bitcoin solely through the lens of cryptocurrency, he focuses on communicating its strategic value in the language of policymakers, regulators, and public institutions.

Chief, Tranquillity Node Ltd since 2018

Building unstoppable protocols

2014: Started Arnhem Bitcoinstad, which is currently the longest running running Bitcoin circular economy.
2014: Started BitKassa, which provided bitcoin payment & exchange services between 2014-2024
2019-2023: Chairman VBNL, which is the association of Dutch Bitcoin Companies in the Netherlands.
2016, 2024 & 2027: Organizer of bitcoin conferences in Arnhem of which Adopting Bitcoin Arnhem is most well known.

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Peter Yared is the founder of Layer3.Press, an AI News Agent that uses AI-powered new aggregation to ensure multiple perspectives are highlighted, and distributed on Nostr for censorship-resistance. He has worked on distributed computing open source projects over the past thirty years and spoken at numerous conferences from JavaOne in the 1990s to the AI Security Summit this year.

Petra is the founder of Zaprana, a space bringing together Bitcoin and wellness, where people can offer and discover wellness services, book sessions and classes, and exchange value directly in bitcoin. She is passionate about exploring the connection between personal sovereignty, well-being and Bitcoin, and how we can build an economy that supports both financial freedom and human flourishing.

Philip Charter is a totally human writer, editor, and publisher working with Bitcoin founders, authors, and companies.

He advocates for H2H (human-to-human) communication because true value in all of Bitcoin lies with real live people. In addition to content writing, Philip edits books, including the 21 Futures series, and has published six books of fiction under his own name.

He escaped Britain's shit weather in 2011, and now lives in the Canary Islands.

Proofofworkmagazine.com a Bitcoin lifestyle and culture magazine about people, places, ideas and experiences. Free to read.

Pseudonymous Bitcoiner, privacy advocate, and educator helping Foundation customers navigate self-custody and personal sovereignty.

I’m a Bitcoin artist making work that doesn’t ask for permission. My art lives at the intersection of money, sovereignty, and fine art — challenging the way people think about who controls value and why. While the system keeps printing, I keep creating. I’m here to inspire the rabbit hole journey, celebrate the values of the Bitcoin community, and present it in a way that’s bold, thought-provoking, and impossible to ignore. Mining quality dissent since Block 548777.

Renato Schiavinato Lopez builds security processes for the inconvenient moments: when software is gone, the instructions are old, the people involved are stressed, and the person who designed the system is not there.

He is the founder of GRIFORTIS and the creator of DuraShare, an open protocol for splitting and recovering Bitcoin BIP39 backups with threshold cryptography, offline tools, paper artifacts, and a manual fallback. His question is not merely whether a backup is cryptographically sound, but whether ordinary people can operate it years later without turning recovery into a leap of faith.

He also created SeReCoLiPrInGo—a framework for treating self-custody as seven competing concerns: Security, Resilience, Coercion, Liquidity, Privacy, Inheritance, and Governance. It is an argument against the idea that a hardware wallet, a seed phrase, or multisig alone can solve custody.

Before moving into Bitcoin self-custody, Renato was an Agile Coach. He designed and facilitated hundreds of workshops, trainings, and working sessions in Portuguese and English—getting groups to make decisions, surface assumptions, build shared understanding, and leave with a process they could actually use. That background now shapes his security work: DuraShare treats custody as a human coordination problem as much as a cryptographic one.

In 2026, he brought DuraShare to TABConf, UFMG, Casa21, and Brazilian BitDevs—not as a product pitch, but as something participants could calculate, audit, and recover themselves.

A Bitcoiner for > 13 years with more than my fair share of stories to tell

Rob is a Co-Founder of Appold. Appold is an award-winning independent blockchain technology and advisory company. Before Appold, Rob was a co-founder and President of the Pillar Project, a multi-chain DeFi wallet in the emerging Web3 economy. Before that, Rob was a Director of Stonehage Fleming, one of the largest independent multi-service family offices, and Ermitage, a specialist asset manager, focused on the Hedge fund industry.

Rob has spoken at many events targeted at the financial services sector and also the Bitcoin and Web3 communities.

Robin Smith is a Scottish design engineer, inventor and founder with 25 years of experience turning ideas into working products. He co-founded Heat21, which develops compute-backed electric heating systems that recover useful heat from Bitcoin mining.

The Bitcoin & Crypto Accountant
Managing Director of By The Book Accountancy Limited, a UK practice with a dedicated Bitcoin and crypto tax specialism operating as cryptotaxhelp.co.uk. I act for UK holders on HMRC compliance checks, voluntary disclosures and cost base reconstructions, and I engage directly with HMRC's Cryptoasset team on policy points.

Musician and cacao alchemist 🐉🌋

Ross Edwards is a PhD researcher at Queen’s University Belfast working at the intersection of Bitcoin, renewable energy and electricity systems. His research explores how flexible Bitcoin mining demand could help utilise curtailed renewable energy, support grid stability and improve renewable asset economics.

He has presented research at engineering and academic conferences and has previously spoken on a panel and delivered a presentation at Bitcoin Ireland. His wider interests include Bitcoin’s environmental impact, energy markets, decentralised infrastructure and the economic and distributional consequences of Bitcoin.

Traveling too much. Open-sourcing everything. Excited about the Other Stuff in Nostr.

Lifelong Bitcoiner, born at block height 117523. Speaking at conferences since 2022. Passionate about making the world a better place.

Sana is an Advocacy Officer at Privacy International, a London-based charity that campaigns against technological exploitation of people by governments and corporations. She leads work on economic and social justice and supports projects on migration, health, and surveillance. Prior to joining PI, Sana led litigation and policy teams at a legal-action criminal justice reform NGO and argued cases of a varied nature before Pakistani courts. She holds an LLM in Legal Practice and an MA in Public Policy.

Bitcoin believer
Nostr enthusiast
Future enabler

I hope that we can build a better internet. The surveillance system that we have sleep walked into is a disaster so far.

I'm the founder, CEO and Chairman of Satoshi Consult Inc. 🔑

Satoshi Consult specializes in secure cold storage of Bitcoin, e.g. inheritance planning using miniscript. Satoshi Consult also has a great track record in consulting businesses and organizations with accepting Bitcoin as a medium of exchange.

I've onboarded 17 businesses and organizations with accepting bitcoin through point-of-sales, web shops and donations.

Examples:

• The duty free shop Tax Free Norway, Oslo airport who's running BTCPay Server on 3 x Bitcoinize payment terminals ✈️

• The vendors at BTCHEL 2026 🟧

• The European Squash Federation🏅 The world’s first sport federation to accept bitcoin for donations.

• The Bitcoin Infinity Book booth 📙

• Norway's first gym to accept bitcoin 💪

• Norway's first martial arts center to accept bitcoin 🥋

• Norways first therapist to accept bitcoin 👨🏻‍⚕️

• Norway's first hairdresser to accept bitcoin 💇🏻‍♂️

I love taking deep dives into the technical aspects of nostr, Bitcoin, lightning, and other freedom-technologies.

I strive to be an inspiring educator, explaining complex concepts in a clear and accessible way.

Susie Violet Ward is a journalist, financial analyst and CEO & Co-Founder of Bitcoin Policy UK. She writes for Forbes on Bitcoin, policy, regulation, mining and energy, privacy, surveillance, digital identity and the security risks created by increased data collection. She previously wrote My Two Sats, a dedicated Bitcoin column for City AM covering economics, financial systems, mining and adoption. Her work also covers financial markets, technology and human rights, with a strong focus on financial control and civil liberties. (please feel free to trim).

Tanja Bächle leads Growth & Partnerships at Terahash, shaping both energy infrastructure and Bitcoin-native events in Europe.
Deeply rooted in Nostr, she drives grassroots adoption by connecting communities through real-world experiences and local culture.

Sedulous Exhortation @tendo442 on X

Building open tools for your freedom, retro games and a sideline in Bitcoin & Liberty synth-pop!

I am a video essayist and a researcher in privacy and politics. Covering the most important issues of our time dissected and analyzed one video essay at a time since 2016. In the past, I have worked with or interviewed folks from GrapheneOS, Nym, Tuta or Samourai Wallet.

Timothy Allen is an award-winning British photographer, filmmaker, and podcast host known for documenting remote cultures and exploring the future of governance and human organization.

He began his career as a photojournalist on Fleet Street, working for British broadsheet newspapers and magazines, before going on to a wide-ranging international career that included serving as the lead photographer on the BBC's Human Planet. His immersive, on-the-ground approach has taken him around the world, capturing how people live, adapt, and survive in some of the most challenging conditions on Earth.

His productions have included collaborations with major international broadcasters such as the Discovery Channel, alongside a broader shift into long-form storytelling and independent media.

Today, Allen is the host of The Free Cities Podcast. His work now sits at the intersection of storytelling and systems thinking, examining how governance, economics, technology, and culture shape the possibilities for individual liberty.

Toby is co-founder of Reserve, a UK-based Bitcoin lender powered by artificial intelligence, helping Bitcoiners put their sats to work.

He also founded OrdinalsBot, which helped kick of a market for Bitcoin tokens, in both Ordinals and fungible tokens like Runes and BRC 20. He also set up market insights company Novum Insights, where he remains strategic CEO. Prior to this, he helped scale Global Corporate Venturing (GCV), and is a well-known writer and analyst across blockchain, artificial intelligence, robotics, fintech and venture capital.

An automotive engineer that's hooked on building freedom tech. So far this year I've been to SEC06 in Madeira, helped bring peer discovery via Nostr to FIPS, and ran a public voting session using the Nostr-based, auditable voting system that has been developed as an offshoot from SEC for the Green Party in Wandsworth, London.

Tur Tyhyi is a writer, philosopher and field journalist working on autonomy, coordination and the structures beneath social systems. He spent two years documenting the full-scale war in Ukraine for French media, including AFP, from Bucha to the front line in Bakhmut and across the grey zone, where he ran his group's OPSEC. His work has focused on how people coordinate, adapt, trust and make decisions under pressure. He is the creator of Cypher Atlas, an interactive map of the crypto-anarchist and privacy ecosystem built entirely from public sources.

Viliam is CEO of Vexl, the p2p app.

Host of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast since January 2019. I study the evolution of the Bitcoin project, across multiple experiments. My interviews reflect a broad technical, cultural, and political perspective on the space. I create open source magazines too, which you can find on the Bitcoin Takeover website.

We create Bitcoin community and education for women in the UK. Join us to learn, get inspired and have some fun along the way!

Skip diving, tractor driving ragamuffin suburban forager, stacking sats with jam on https://plebeian.market

FOSS UX Designer building archipelago. You can find that and more of my work at https://protocolux.com

I am co-founder of Bleskomat (lighting network ATM) and has collaborated in developing multiple projects in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Right now focus on building infrastructure tools for Bitcoin over Nostr relays with ContextBTC.

I have experience talking at many Bitcoin conferences as you can see here: https://karliatto.com/talks.html

building the open financial system on Bitcoin