All Speakers

Stacy Herbert is the Director of the National Bitcoin Office of El Salvador. She is co-presenter, along with Max Keiser, of Orange Pill, a weekly bitcoin podcast out of Bitcoin Country, El Salvador. She is one of the first bitcoin content creators to extensively cover bitcoin from early 2011. Her background is in film and television development and production and international feature film sales. Stacy is a co-founder of Heisenberg Capital, an early investor in both bitcoin and in many bitcoin related startups, including Kraken, Bitpay, Shapeshift, Unocoin, Bitpesa, Bitso, Bitfinex, Circle, Uphold, Casa and more. Her film and television experience saw her work in development for Michael Phillips, the Oscar-winning producer of The Sting, Taxi Driver and Close Encounters, in international film distribution with Capitol Films (including projects featuring Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio and Ewan McGregor) as well as television production with USA Network, Channel Four (UK), BBC3, BBCWorld, Aljazeera English and RT.‍

Max Keiser is known as the ‘High Priest’ of Bitcoin and the co-presenter, along with Stacy Herbert, of Orange Pill, a weekly bitcoin podcast out of Bitcoin Country, El Salvador. He is the Senior Bitcoin Advisor to President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, and will be on the advisory board to the new Digital Securities Commission being established there. He is also a Partner at El Zonte Captial. A bitcoin content creator since early 2011 when bitcoin was still under $1, Max Keiser has a background in banking, options trading and financial technology innovation.

Bitcoin Mechanic has been a vocal and passionate advocate for Bitcoin since discovering it in 2011. Since then, he has participated in network upgrades, helped educate on sovereign usage of Lightning and now works at OCEAN which seeks to break up the centralization of mining and template construction.

Prior to serving as Marathon’s chief executive officer, Thiel co-founded and served as chairman of Sprocket, a blockchain and cryptocurrency technology and financial services company whose mission is to reduce the risk and friction of cryptocurrency trading across marketplaces, regions and exchanges by establishing a federation of exchanges that together create a single aggregated global trading marketplace with large scale liquidity, rapid execution, minimal counter-party risk, and price transparency.

James is Managing Partner of the Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, a hybrid investment fund that makes public and private investments in companies and assets in the Bitcoin ecosystem. He is also the author of The Informationist, a newsletter with over 20K subscribers that simplifies one financial concept weekly.

Josh is a career Firefighter/Paramedic who has been enamored by Bitcoin since 2017. He has been interested in markets and economics since the GFC in 2008. He soon discovered Austrian Economics and Sound money believing the gold standard to be the solution to the fiat problem. He has always had a strong libertarian lean, and once he fully understood Bitcoin, there was no going back.

Dan is a career firefighter/paramedic with a passion for exploring economics and Bitcoin. He has particular interest in unpacking how the Bitcoin protocol, as well as today's current economic climate, impact his demographic—the middle class. Dan co-hosts the Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast alongside fellow firefighter, Josh.

Luke is an escapee from Justin Trudeau's Canada who has settled in sunny Finland. Luke is passionate about spreading the Bitcoin message, and has done so primarily through producing the Freedom Footprint Show, co-hosted with Knut Svanholm. Luke is the co-author (along with Knut) of Bitcoin: The Inverse of Clown World, the follow-up to Knut's classic - Bitcoin: Everything Divided by 21 Million.