From Wales, Ben Arc advocates and educates about Free Open Source Software (FOSS). Since around 2014, he has been building hardware and software for Bitcoin and LN. In this space, Ben encourages people to build their own things and in this way, gain more autonomy while interacting with Bitcoin and Bitcoin devices. LNbits is one of his projects, a free and open-source lightning wallet.

Jeff is the co-founder of Fulmo, the Berlin based Bitcoin and Lightning Network company, host of the well-known Lightning Hackdays and organizer of the first Lightning Conference in the world. Building the community around development of the Lightning Network is one of Fulmo's key focus areas.

Check out https://www.fulmo.org for more information. ⚡

Johns is a hybrid product designer and software engineer from a tiny island in the Caribbean, researching user experience of bitcoin payments and privacy, whose presence within the Bitcoin Design Slack is as ubiquitous as bitcoin itself. Johns is also a co-organizer of the popular BOLT.FUN and "Shock the Web" hackathons where Lightning developers come together regularly to tackle existing challenges in Lightning.

Lightrider is a Web Developer who is in love with the Lightning network. He is an expert when it comes to routing nodes, integrating Lightning into your project or building services around Lightning. His special talent is to troll other “crypto” YouTubers. He works around several hard- and software projects as well as events to bring Lightning to the masses.