Ryan X. Charles, CEO Yours #fintechmedia

Ryan X. Charles CEO/CoFounder Yours, a social media content sharing app with integrated smart contract micropayments and is the former cryptocurrency engineer of reddit. He has been in the bitcoin space since 2011, and besides reddit, has also worked as an engineer at BitPay, the world’s largest bitcoin payment processor, and BitGo, the world’s largest bitcoin security provider. He is an ABD physics PhD at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Laura Lopez, SuchWow Media #fintechmedia

Laura Lopez, Such Wow Media has been enthusiastically sharing the merits of Bitcoin since 2011. She has a Certified Bitcoin Professional certification from the Cryptocurrency Certification Consortium and also works in the entertainment industry as a television editor. She thinks cryptocurrency micropayments are the way forward for content creators and is building Such Wow Media with that in mind.

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Wayne Vaughan, CEO Tierion #futurebitcoin

Wayne Vaughan CEO Tierion, a proof engine that turns the blockchain into a universal platform for proving the integrity of any data, file or business process. Prior to Tierion, Wayne pioneered the development of marketing automation software. He is the co-author of Chainpoint, the first standard protocol for anchoring data in the blockchain. In 2004, Wayne was a member of the first team of amateurs to launch a rocket into space.

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Patrick Salami, Founder/CTO HitFin #futurebitcoin

Patrick Salami Founder/CTO HitFin, a San Francisco, CA-based startup applying blockchain and smart contract technologies to trading private equity and other financial instruments and to clearing and settlement of OTC derivatives. Prior to working on HitFin, Patrick worked on risk and asset management software for hedge funds.

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