Discovered Bitcoin in 2010. "Bitcoiner" since around 2013. Exclusively working in the Bitcoin space since 2018. With a background ranging through software development, neuroscience, linguistics, and private investigations, Ben brings with him a wealth of experience from different areas of Bitcoin from the philosophical to the technical. For the last few years, he's been focused primarily on real world Bitcoin adoption and what that means for different people in all walks of life, cultures, and backgrounds.

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.

Aaron van Wirdum is the technical editor for Bitcoin Magazine. With a background in studying the historical influence of society-shaping technologies, he's been covering Bitcoin and related projects since 2013. He is known for his ability to explain highly-technical subjects to a layman audience and specializes in topics including Bitcoin's history, scaling and privacy technology.