Kemal is a graduate of the Geschwister-Scholl Institute for Political Science at the Ludwigs-Maximilan-University of Munich and the Director of Marketing at Galoy, a company developing free and open source software for bitcoin-native banking infrastructure as well as the co-organizer of the annual Adopting Bitcoin conference in El Salvador. With the El Zonte-born Blink Wallet, Galoy are building the bottom-up bitcoin adoption weapon for communities around the world to make bitcoin payments accessible and secure for the masses. He is also the founder of the Istanbul Bitcoin Meetup and the Yirmibir Bitcoin Community, developing Bitcoin educational resources in Turkish language.

Hermann Vivier, co-founder of The Surfer Kids and founder of Bitcoin Ekasi, became interested in Bitcoin in 2013 due to the Cyprus banking crisis. He and his wife adopted Bitcoin for their South African tourism business in 2015. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, they expanded their involvement in the Bitcoin space, leading to the creation of Bitcoin Ekasi in August 2021.

Recognizing the future significance of Bitcoin, Patrick van der Meijde, along with Annet de Boer and Rogier Eijkelhof, established Arnhem Bitcoin City in 2014. Their primary objective was to raise awareness among the general public about Bitcoin and showcase its viability for everyday transactions as an alternative to traditional financial systems. The pivotal moment came when the first major brand supermarket, SPAR, began accepting Bitcoin in 2014, garnering global attention. BitKassa, the Bitcoin payment provider they developed, is predominantly used in the Netherlands and Belgium.