Blockchain is not about money. But how does it influence business and does it have the stamina to also affect our society?
Paula Pettit is a serial entrepreneur who successfully exited her first two startups. She has been in the blockchain industry for the past 3 years, and began her journey by co-founding Bitfract, a portfolio management tool that was later acquired by ShapeShift. She now works as the Head of Business Development at Linum Labs, a global blockchain consultant and development company.
Steve Shadders has been involved in Bitcoin infrastructure since early 2011. As one of the first authors of open-source mining pool software "PoolServerJ," he was at the forefront of implementing new features like merged mining and local coinbase generation that are in common use today. Steve was actively involved in BitcoinJ project as one of the earliest contributors and still uses it today as his staple Bitcoin library. Today, Steve heads up nChain’s engineering team and is the Technical Director of the Bitcoin SV Node project. He is passionate about the future role of Bitcoin in reshaping the world. In his own words, it is disruptive technology with “more potential to change the world than the printing press.” In his role, he contributes his ecosystem-wide perspective to support building the mining and UX infrastructure needed to enable Satoshi’s Vision to be realized.
David Case is Chief Architect of Kronoverse. They are building a platform to bring blockchain gaming to the mainstream. Their first release is Cryptofights, which is currently in open beta. They have been building on BSV since just after the BCH fork, and working on taking advantage of it massive scaling capacity.
