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About Us

Find information here about the team behind the Cryptocurrency Advocate, and the events organized like appearances of the Cryptocurrency Village or the Cryptocurrency Cyber Challenge.

About

About Us

The Cryptocurrency Advocate is a group working to prepare society for the likely adoption of cryptocurrency in financial systems.

We host a number of events and activities, including the Cryptocurrency Village and the Cryptocurrency Challenge.

Address

Physical Address

We are in Defcon at the Las Vegas Convention Center

Please enter Defcon and come to see us with your questions!

PEOPLE

Core Organisers

Chelsea

Chelsea is a lawyer specializing in consumer finance, data and technology. She advises clients on updates in the law and defends them in litigation. She is a cryptocurrency advocate, with multiple professional publications.

Paul

Paul is a computer scientist specializing in software engineering, computer security and Bitcoin. He is an open source dev in the Bitcoin space who contributes to a variety of projects including the lightning network, payment pools, privacy, and a variety of other things.

Michael

Michael is a computer scientist specializing in embedded systems. As chairman of Monero Devices, he produces cryptosecure electronics while contributing to Opensource development communities. Michael teaches hardware security and organizes cryptocurrency groups at Defcon since 2017.

Tom

Tom is an electronic engineer and cryptocurrency enthusiast, bringing a novice perspective to help others practice good security while getting started. His interests include installation of nodes and wallets, comparisons among coins, as well as analysis of trends and the culture shift to modern finance technology.

PEOPLE

Village Residents

Bobby Bobson

Meet Bobby, our resident artist. Bobby is responsible for coordinating the visuals of the village. She controls the optical quality of everything from colour swatch, font choice, and illustration style.

Sammy Samson

Meet Sammy, our resident webmaster. Sammy is responsible for designing and maintaining our network of web based content. He manages the everything relating to web application engineering from the platform, language, topology, and administration.