Founder of CypherGoat, a non-custodial cryptocurrency swap aggregator

Price degen cosplaying as an analyst.

Christian Sillaber is a Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Bern. His research focuses on privacy and AML compliance in digital currencies, including both decentralized cryptocurrencies and centrally managed systems.

Francisco Cabañas (articmine@getmonero.org): Based in Canada, Francisco holds a PhD and MSc in Physics, a BSc in Physics and Mathematics, and has extensive business and non-profit experience. He has actively researched and invested in cryptocurrencies, since 2011, and focuses on the economic, social, regulatory and long-term economic viability aspects of cryptocurrencies. Francisco has researched and studied scaling. POW security, spam mitigation, fees, fee markets and the adaptive block weight in Monero since 2014. He also has been a Core Team Member of the Monero Project, https://getmonero.org/, since 2016.

Irem Kuyucu is a security engineer based in Vilnius and founder of RasterSec. She has reported vulnerabilities to companies including Ford, Revolut, Citrix, OpenAI, and Google, and holds CVE-2025-29331. A free software advocate, she is best known in the Monero community for MoneroPay, a standalone payment processor, and the Monero ATM Project. She writes mostly in Go and C.

Telecommunications engineer, 38 years old, based in Latin America with active grassroots Monero adoption projects in Venezuela since 2023. My work focus on bridging the gap between privacy-preserving cryptocurrency and real-world adoption among non-technical populations in economically restricted environments. Native Spanish speaker with professional English proficiency. I have participate in cryptocurrency conferences in Caracas and organize community-driven initiatives that combine privacy education, merchant integration, and freedom technologies. My background in telecommunications give me a practical understanding of the connectivity and surveillance challenges that users in the Global South face when trying to adopt private, decentralized financial tools like Monero.

Hello, my name is Kiryl. I am an independent researcher focusing on trust in digital environments and a content manager at diva.exchange.

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Martin Arness is a wealth manager and the creator behind the YouTube channel Shadow Atlas, where he explores offshore tax strategies, asset protection, and how to keep more of what you make. With a background in law, his approach to finance is holistic, integrating tools not just from a legal perspective, but also accounting, investing, lending, and of course, digital privacy.

Mirosław Karczmarczyk is an independent researcher at the intersection of monetary theory, political philosophy, and cryptocurrency. His interests focus on the ideological and structural connections between the cypherpunk movement, libertarian and anarchist traditions, and privacy-preserving technologies. He is presenting related work at the Austrian Economics Meeting Europe conference, May 2025.
Based in Kraków, Poland

Product Designer, member of Monero Design Collective

MoneroKon 2025 speaker, 2× Linux Day Italy speaker

I'm a freelance software developer focused on making bitcoin faster, cheaper, more private, and more reliable for merchants and users, particularly by researching and developing prototypes of innovative ideas. In search of the privacy focus, I sometimes research and develop privacy tools, including in the monero versus lightning space.

I am software developer who is interested in cryptotechnologies. I love consistency of rules in cryptocurrencies - once defined forever followed.

Vít Jedlička is the Founder and President of the Free Republic of Liberland, established on April 13, 2015. A graduate of the University of Economics in Prague and the CEVRO Institute, he has been a passionate advocate for liberty since his youth, inspired by thinkers like Bastiat and Rothbard. Under his leadership, Liberland has grown into a global movement with over 800,000+ people registered for citizenship in just eleven years. Vít has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, USA Today, and on Fox Business Network, and has spoken at major events including Bitcoin Miami, TEDx, ALEC, and the St. Gallen Symposium. In 2023, he was honored with the prestigious Humanitarian Award at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, recognizing his contributions to human rights, innovation in governance, and service to humanity. His mission is to build the freest country on Earth, where voluntary cooperation, limited government, and blockchain-based governance enable honest people to thrive without unnecessary interference.

Long time Bitcoin and Monero user with a focus on research, security incentives, and game theory.
Mainly I build in the Bitcoin ecosystem but there is a lot of crossover when discussing PoW threat models.

Website: https://censorshipresistant.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/aeonBTC
X/Twitter: @aeonBTC

Atomic Cypherpunk

I am an undergraduate student studying computer science with an emphasis in machine learning. My contributions to Monero include bounty work on Haveno, discussions in the community chatrooms, and work on the ill-fated I2P monero-gui bounty.