Sahara Sittie

A cryptocurrency enthusiast, investor, analyst, social media influencer, Fisher (aka Cobie) co-hosts with Ledger’s Brian Krogsgard, the well regarded UpOnly podcast which focuses on current trends in the crypto economy.

Co-founder and CEO of Lightning Labs, developer of the Lightning Network which combats scalability issues for Bitcoin, Stark is a Fellow at digital currency policy organisation Coin Center, an advisor at Chia, and previously taught at Stanford and Yale Universities.

Previously co-founder of BitInstant, a founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation, COO of Jaxx and founder of cryptocurrency advisory CryptoIQ, Shrem also controversially served two years in jail for his association with Silkroad.

Founder of Brave, a privacy-oriented web browser, which co-created the Basic Attention Token, a cryptocurrency rewarding users for viewing ads, whose ICO in 2017 raised $35M.

Acknowledged for his significant role at DeFi platform Yearn Finance, Banteg is Yearn’s well regarded anonymous lead developer whose contribution to the project is recognised as being highly influential in its success.

A physicist and scientific researcher in cryptographic science and distributed computing, Stornetta is renowned as a co-inventor of blockchain technology, with his pioneering series of papers defining its evolution.