Pizza Day Prague 2024

Politically an anarchist since the 1990s, and a Bitcoiner since 2010, Ben spends much of his time thinking about how to make the world a better place without hierarchies and centralised systems.
He runs Bitcoiner Consulting, an independent consultancy focused on the technical implementation of Bitcoin in to products and business processes.

Physicist, hacker, open-source advocate. Humanity can only be saved if we restore the privacy of the individual on the internet.

Christian is a researcher at Blockstream, where he mainly works on Simplicity. He builds tools and teaching materials around their research projects. Zero-knowledge proofs, cryptography, and mathematics are topics he finds interesting because they are not what they seem on the surface.

Advocate of sovereignty and privacy preserving tools. Co-founder of Hodling SA which provides non-custodial hardware based Bitcoin multisignature wallet solutions.

Founder and maintainer of Fedimint, Freedom-technology connoisseur, nerd and tinkerer.

The dumbest guy in the room with the best hair, cofounder of Parallele Polis in Vienna, cypherpunk house spirit and vibemaster.

Janusz is the founder and project lead for Bitcoin Layers, a risk analysis platform for Bitcoin scaling solutions. He also maintains Bitcoinrollups.io, an open-source website documenting the development of validity rollups on Bitcoin.

Juraj is an educator, book author, coder, cryptoanarchist. He helps people turn off statism in their own heads and disconnect their brains from the hierarchies of the world. He is a co-founder of Paralelná Polis and author of the book Cryptocurrencies - Hack your way to a better life. Enjoyer of volatility, swimmer in uncertainty.

Founder of nodl and host4coins, network and systems administror for 30+ years. Toxic Bitcoin maxi since 2017, I owe my Bitcoin carrier to PP.

‘layer2_nl’ is seemingly arriving out of nowhere, but don’t be mistaken he has been involved in the bitcoin ecosystem since 2016. After working in tech without a single break since way before 9/11, he is exploring to exit the corporate realm for good to pursue one of his true passions: to help us all build on bitcoin.

ZeroSync Co-Founder, Chief Benchmark Officer and Git Merge Enthusiast.

I am a young dev working on applying Zero Knowledge proofs to Bitcoin to enable faster initial block download and more efficient bridge designs. Currently working on BitVM.

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Worked on Bitcoin with Satoshi in 2009-2011. Maintained bitcoin.org, bitcointalk.org and bitcoinexchange.com. Made the first known BTC-USD transaction in 2009, selling 5,050 BTC for 5 USD. Since 2023, working on the Nostr client Iris.

Mustafa is a co-founder at Celestia, a modular data availability network. Previously, Mustafa was a PhD researcher at University College London, where he focused on layer 1 scaling.

Free open source contributor in the Bitcoin and Lightning space.
Co-maintainer of the Raspiblitz node project.
Developer relations and engineering at Galoy and Blink.

Orkun is the CEO & Co-Founder of Chainway Labs. Chainway Labs is the company building Citrea, Bitcoin's First ZK Rollup.

As an engineer, Orkun has deep expertise in various scaling solutions and their applications, such as horizontal scaling, volitions in rollups, and zero-knowledge technology.

Global opportunist, cryptoanarchist, voluntaryist, perpetual traveler focused on technology and society hacking.

https://opportunist.global

Rafe is a cypherpunk, ancap, and responsibility maximalist. He is building the tools for your liberation at Wasabi Wallet.

Super Testnet's is an Independent software developer focused on bitcoin, lightning, nostr, and, most recently, hedgehog.

Don't read this, I'm cancelled.

But if you do read it, make sure you listen to the Bitcoin Takeover podcast. You'll definitely learn something new from outside of your bubble. Season 15 is running wild!