Bridging the Gap

Laura K. Inamedinova didn’t start out in crypto — but she arrived early and never looked back. With a background in physics and an early fascination with science and systems thinking, Laura found herself questioning whether to pursue a conventional career in traditional finance or to bet on the chaos and promise of crypto. She

Few people sit at the crossroads of AI, economics, and decentralized systems quite like David Minarsch. With a PhD in applied game theory from Cambridge and the founding of two transformative platforms—Valory and Olas—Minarsch is reimagining how humans and machines can collaborate in the digital age. He isn’t just engineering smarter systems; he’s laying the

Not all Bitcoin believers arrive by way of tech idealism or early crypto gains. For Peruvian Bull, the turning point was personal, visceral, and economic. A front-row seat to the 2008 financial crisis—watching his brother’s real estate business implode—sparked the beginning of a long intellectual excavation. What caused so much pain? Why did an entire

Aleksandar Svetski doesn’t just advocate for Bitcoin. He defends it as a civilizational imperative. A self-made entrepreneur, writer, and sovereign tech builder, Svetski has one foot in legacy-hardening philosophy and the other in startup grit. He’s founded companies, written bestselling books, lost fortunes, rebuilt again — and through it all, he’s emerged as one of

Denis Rusinovich is not your average Bitcoin miner. He doesn’t just plug in machines and hope for the best. With over two decades of experience in international finance, commodities, and private equity—including 12 years at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)—Denis brings a geopolitical, energy-market, and regulatory lens to crypto mining that few

Byron Gilliam is not your average newsletter writer. With a career spanning nearly three decades in equity trading across some of the world’s most respected financial institutions, he brings Wall Street-grade insight to a crypto industry often saturated by hype and speculation. Now a full-time market strategist and writer at Blockworks, Byron has carved out

From early investments in crypto’s chaotic boom cycles to co-founding one of Web3’s most sophisticated and transparent secondary market platforms, Omar-Shakeeb has carved out a reputation as a quiet builder with an eye for long-term value. Today, as Co-Founder and Chief Business Development Officer of SecondLane, Omar leads strategic partnerships and complex deal executions, building

Nick Cote’s story is one of persistence, precision, and a deep belief in digital asset sovereignty long before it was mainstream. From his early days bootstrapping Bitcoin OTC networks to building one of crypto’s most innovative secondary market platforms, Nick has quietly become a pivotal figure in the new era of digital finance. Building in