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Mihai Alisie is known for co-founding Bitcoin Magazine and Ethereum alongside Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum had a number of other co-founders as well). Currently, Alisie is the Founder of the AKASHA Project.

Alisie is originally from Romania. He attended the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu where he studied cybernetics, economy informatics and statistics and earned his degree in 2010.

Alisie launched the first interview of Bitcoin Magazine from his living room in Romania in 2011. Today, Bitcoin Magazines has over 100,000 readers and is one of the largest distributed Bitcoin industry publications. Alisie was Editor in Chief of Bitcoin Magazine from December 2012 to April 2014. He stepped down in order to focus on Ethereum. Alisie was their Chief Innovation Officer and later Vice President. He left Ethereum to launch the AKASHA Project in October 2015 which explores applications and implications of a permanent web in the context of social networks, freedom of expression, creative perpetuity, and privacy.

Angela Walch is an Associate Professor at St. Mary's University School of Law and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Blockchain Technologies of University College London.

Currently, Angela is an Associate Professor at St. Mary's University School of Law, dealing with money and the law, blockchain technologies, governance of emerging technologies and financial stability. She is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Blockchain Technologies of University College London. She has presented her research at Harvard Law School, University College London and with the Modern Money Network at Columbia Law School, among others. Her work on blockchain technologies has been featured in the NYU Journal of Legislation & Public Policy and in American Banker. Prior to joining the faculty at St. Mary's, Angela practiced Transactional law in London, where she worked in-house for Sainsbury's and served as General Counsel for Brand Events, a venture-backed consumer events company.

Previously, Angela Walch practiced Corporate law at the firm of Ropes & Gray in Boston, for which her practice included Venture Capital, Life Sciences and emerging companies work.

After Ropes & Gray, she served as an Attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at Harvard University. While at Harvard, she advised on general transactional matters and federal grants for international projects.

In 1998-1999, Angela served as a Corporate Paralegal at Skadden Arps.

Angela holds J.D from Harvard Law School (2002) and B.A. with honors from Harvard College (1998).

Angela was nominated for "Blockchain Person of the Year" for 2016 by CryptoCoinsNews for her work on the governance of blockchain technologies and her influential article in American Banker arguing that the coders and miners of public blockchains should be treated as fiduciaries.

Jeremy Gardner (born on January 20, 1992), is an American cryptocurrency entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist lives in Beverly Hills, California. He is primarily known for his early investments in Bitcoin, Crypto Castles brand, and as a co-founder of Augur. His early investments in cryptocurrency made him a self-made millionaire.

Jeremy Gardner grew up in Northampton in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. [1] He attended the Boarding school Proctor Academy and he was an AP student. Gardner on graduating in 2010 went on to study political strategy at Bard College where he was apart of several student-activity committees as and was an avid Ultimate Frisbee player.

Bitcoin

In the fall of 2013, Gardner first read about Bitcoin in a Rolling Stone piece detailing the operations of the Silk Road. Curious, he bought some Bitcoin when it was at $200 and sold it when it was $1,000.

It was only when he transferred to the University of Michigan in 2014 and met Kinnard Hockenhull that he decided to delve into the world of cryptocurrency further. A motivating factor was being disillusioned with money in politics after working a summer campaigning for Massachusetts Attorney General candidate Maura Healey. Gardner joined the Michigan Bitcoin Club and would later found the College Cryptocurrency Network alongside Daniel Bloch. Later to be called the Blockchain Education Network, the non-profit organization aim is to educate students about cryptocurrency and student cub affiliates have sprang up worldwide. As of Septmeber 2016, Gardner still serves as Chairman of the Board.

With the University of Michigan refusing to recognize a substantial number of credits Gardner had earned previously, he dropped out of school in order to pursue the College Cryptocurrency Network full-time. To support himself financially, Gardner took up a job at a blockchain company that would later become Augur, a decentralized prediction platform. He would be listed as a co-founder and Director of Operations.

In August 2015, Gardner became the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Blockchain Capital, a position he held for over two years. A year later, he founded a stealth blockchain startup out of Nashville focused on data securitization and auditing, SAAVHA as well as the Cryptocurrency publication The Distributed Ledger. He serves as an advisory board member of the publically traded company Bitcoin Shop Inc. as well as an advisory for the Mahindra Group. In late 2017 alongside Bá Minuzzi, they founded crypto venture fund Ausum.

Gardner is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Unsung, a non-profit which aims to end hunger while creating a sharing economy through its app.

In 2019, Gardner founded Mademan, a men's skincare brand.

Ethan Buchman is the co-founder of Tendermint and Cosmos projects. He serves as a technical director of the Interchain Foundation, which is a non-profit organization with a core mission to research, develop, and promote open, decentralized networks.

Ethan Buchman attends the University of Guelph where he received a degree in Physical Science and a Master's degree in Engineering Systems and Computing.

In 2014, Ethan started his career as a core developer at Eris Industries. He was the co-founder from 2016 to 2019. Also, he serves as the CTO at Tendermint. Ethan joined Interchain Foundation in 2017.

Ethan has been a technical director at Interchain Foundation since 2019. He sees a consensus algorithm as a means for promoting social cohesion. Ethan is always driven to empower people with new ways to coordinate and reach an agreement at scale.

Ethan Buchman primarily focuses on building general-purpose technology that supports interoperable state machines on the public internet as a means of providing better economic sovereignty to smaller communities around the world.

He also runs coin culture crypto consulting, which offers in-depth courses on blockchain technology for both non-technical and technical audiences.

Ethan Buchman is active on different social media platforms like LinkedIn [4] , Facebook, and Twitter, where he has over 25k followers. He normally posts cryptocurrency tips. Similarly, his fan and lovers of cryptocurrency always want to see him on “YouTube”.

According to Forbes and NETworth.org, Ethan Buchman’s net worth is $200,000 - $1.5 million. He earned the money being a professional software developer and co-founder of Tendermint and Cosmos projects.

Brian Fabian Crain is a tech entrepreneur, based out of Berlin. He is known as a Co-Founder at Chorus One & Co-Founder/Co-Host at Epicenter.

Brian started his career in 2006 as a Summer Analyst at HSBC Securities. In 2008, he became a Commodities Trading Manager at Ameropa. In 2010, he became the Co-founder of Apeary, a web application analyzing textual patterns in user-generated content to build psycho- and demographic profiles of product audiences. From 2015 to 2016, he served as a Head of Business Development at Monax. From 2017 to 2018, Brian served as the COO of Tendermint.

Since 2013 Brian has been the Co-Founder/Co-Host at Epicenter, a podcast about the technologies, projects & startups driving decentralization and the global blockchain revolution. In 2018, he became the Co-Founder at Chorus One.

In 2007 Brian received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from University of Chicago. Later, he obtained a Master's degree from University College London and London School of Economics.

From 2007-2009, Bob was a Fellow at CERN. In 2014, he served as a Senior Coin Developer at Ribbit Rewards. In 2015, he worked as a Senior Software engineer at Bloomberg L.P.. From 2015 to 2017, Bob worked as a Chief Scientist and CTO at Vida Identity. Since 2017, Bob has been a Blockchain Architect at Fidelity Investments.

In 1998, Bob received a Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Math from Northwestern University. In 2003, he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical Particle Physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Neha attended Dartmouth College and earned her B.A. in computer science and mathematics in 2003. She recieved he M.S. in computer science from MIT as well as her Ph.D. from MIT in 2015. He Ddoctoral thesis was titled Parallel Execution for Conflicting Transcactions.

For over seven and a half years, Neha was a Senior Software Engineer at Google. In the summer of 2012, Neha was a Data Scientist at Digg. She has been a Director of Research of Digital Currency at the MIT Media Lab since 2016 and the Director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative since 2017.

Jane started her career in 2015 as an Accounting Intern at Monexo Innovations Limited and Finance & Asset Management Intern at China Silver Asset Management (Hong Kong) Ltd. In 2016, she became a Group Purchasing & Procurement Intern at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts and Financial Analyst Intern at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In 2017, Jane served as an Analyst Intern at SOSV and Venture Capital & Corporate Innovation Intern at Nest.vc.

Co-founder and head of academic partnerships and programs at ZenCash. Co-director of the Blockchain Innovation Knowledge Exchange Innovation Center and advisor at Black house, Cord and Moveco.

Currently she is a partner Andreessen Horowitz