Contributors
ALEKSANDAR SVETSKI
Author; The UnCommunist Manifesto, Founder @ The Amber App & The Bitcoin Times. Host of The Wake Up Podcast. Bitcoiner, contrarian, writing for Bitcoin Magazine
ALEX MCSHANE
Alex McShane is the Head of Multimedia / Programming at Bitcoin Magazine. He is laser focused on spreading Bitcoin adoption, creating Bitcoin content, and growing his business on a Bitcoin Standard. In his free time Alex trains MMA, Brazillian Jiu Jitsu, and Muay Thai
ALLEN FARRINGTON
Allen Farrington is a professional investor and popular writer on Bitcoin’s intersection with history, economics, and philosophy. Allen is a board observer at Blockstream, and co-author of the book, “Bitcoin is Venice”.
BRANDON QUITTEM
Brandon is an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, and passionate Bitcoiner. He’s currently building Swan Bitcoin which is a bitcoin-only exchange. His articles have been read by more than 2 million people online. He’s most well known for exploring the intersection between Bitcoin and Fungi
Brian Gitt
I’ve been a startup founder, consulting firm CEO, non-profit Executive Director, wilderness guide, and home remodeler. I love to follow my curiosity and learn. I dedicate time every day to read, write, and exercise.
CONNOR BROWN
Conner Brown is a bitcoiner at Stanford Law School. His interests include monetary history, Austrian economics, and philosophy.
CRAIG WARMKE
Craig is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University and occasionally writes for Atomic Finance. He’s currently writing a book-length defense of bitcoin with fellow philosophers Andrew Bailey and Brad Rettler.
DAN HELD
Dan Held is a long time Bitcoin advocate, entrepreneur and now Director of partnerships at world-leading exchange, Kraken.
Drew Armstrong
Chairman and President of Cathedra Bitcoin (TSX-V: $CBIT), a bitcoin mining company that believes sound money and abundant energy are the keys to human flourishing.
ERIK CASON
Erik has been involved with Bitcoin since 2012 and started working in the space in 2013 when he joined Coinbase. He left Coinbase in 2017 and started writing about his experience and philosophy on Bitcoin at cryptosoverginty.org.
GIACOMO ZUCCO
Giacomo is an Italian, Swiss-based Bitcoin entrepreneur consultant, educator, and advocate. With a background in Physics, he is equally ignorant about the financial, technical, philosophical, and political aspects of Bitcoin, so he can just try to follow them all without a specific focus.
GIGI
Bitcoiner. Author. Privacy advocate. Wrote research papers on internet stuff in a previous life. Wrote a bunch of software after that. Writing words on Bitcoin now. Kinda religious about it. Working on: 21 Lessons & 21 Ways
HASS MCCOOK
Chartered Civil Engineer. Oxford MBA. Bitcoin Mining Researcher. Austere Religious Scholar and Humble Friar, Spreading the word of Satoshi
JEFF BOOTH
Jeff is an Entrepreneur, investor, and Board member of numerous technology companies. Jeff is also the author of a best-selling book titled “The Price of Tomorrow – Why Deflation is Key to an Abundant Future.”
JIMMY SONG
Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin developer, educator and entrepreneur. He’s an open source contributor to many different Bitcoin projects and is the author of Programming Bitcoin from O’Reilly and The Little Bitcoin Book. Jimmy writes a weekly newsletter, Bitcoin Tech Talk and has a podcast; Bitcoin Fixes This
Konrad S. Graf
Konrad has published articles on bitcoin monetary theory and action-based legal philosophy and has presented on these topics at conferences in Europe and Australia. He is the author of in-depth articles and monographs such as: Action-Based Jurisprudence (2011), On the Origins of Bitcoin (2013), Commodity, Scarcity, and Monetary Value Theory in Light of Bitcoin (2014), Are Bitcoins Ownable? (2015), and The Bitcoin Block Size Limit, Artificial Scarcity, and Code-enhanced Public Club Governance (2019). His additional interests include evolutionary-health concepts and evolutionary theory more generally. His work is collected at konradsgraf.com.
MAKENA RHODES
Coming from a traditional background in architecture, Makena is applying the design process to all things Bitcoin. The technical aspects of Bitcoin were resolved in full by Satoshi himself; the rest is left to us. Reaching mass adoption will require products, art and diagrams that are both aesthetic and intuitive.
Michael Goldstein
Michael Goldstein is the founder and president of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, a co-host of the Noded Bitcoin Podcast, and a software engineer in the bitcoin industry.
NIC CARTER
Partner at a Bitcoin and Blockchain-focused VC fund; Castle Island, Nic mostly thinks and writes about the political implications of the rise of private monies.
PARKER LEWIS
Parker is the Head of Business Development at Unchained Capital, a bitcoin native financial services company based in Austin, TX. With a background spanning investment banking, restructuring and most recently on the buyside at a global macro hedge fund, Parker has a unique understanding of the legacy monetary system as well the economic and technical underpinnings that fuel bitcoin.
PETER ST ONGE, PHD
Peter is an economist at the Heritage Foundation and an Associated Scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He writes about Bitcoin and the economy at Crypto Economy.
Pierre Rochard
Pierre Rochard has researched and written about Bitcoin since February 2013. He co-founded the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute in 2014 to curate the best primary source literature. In addition to developing Bitcoin software, Pierre is an outspoken advocate for Bitcoin’s decentralized governance. He co-hosts the Noded Bitcoin Podcast and the Bitcoin for Advisors Podcast. Pierre served as the Bitcoin and Lightning product manager at Kraken for three years before joining Riot as the VP of Research.
Rahim Taghizadegan
Rahim Taghizadegan is the last Austrian economist of the Austrian School in the direct tradition and has been teaching at universities in Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Germany. He has written more than a dozen books and is the founder of Scholarium (scholarium.at/rt/) in Vienna, an educational institute, where the Austrian School is kept alive in its original interdisciplinary form. He was the first Austrian economist to understand Bitcoin and is currently building Bitcoin citadels in Europe.
ROBERT BREEDLOVE
Host of the What is Money Podcast, Prolific writer, Author and Former CFO and operations executive.
Saifedean Ammous
Dr. Saifedean Ammous is the author of The Bitcoin Standard, The Fiat Standard, and the forthcoming Principles of Economics. He teaches Austrian economics on his independent learning platform saifedean.com, and hosts the The Bitcoin Standard Podcast.
TOMER STROLIGHT
Tomer Strolight is a human being contributing to the humanity-being by helping it to understand the Bitcoin-being. He is also editor in chief of the blog and the private client report published by Swan Bitcoin.