2026-11-21 –, Pioneer - Creative Stage
Ordinals
Jim Crane
Arwin
Music, Bitcoin, Stacks, Audionals, Xtrata
Creator of Bitmap Theory.
Spoken at NFC Lisbon three years running, panels and keynotes.
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.
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.
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.