Amir Taaki is a developer, anarchist, and one of the big names behind the development of Bitcoin technology, especially in the areas of technical improvements, privacy, and anonymity. "The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools". DarkFi is a new Layer 1 blockchain, designed with anonymity at the forefront. It offers flexible private primitives that can be wielded to create any kind of application. DarkFi aims to make anonymous engineering highly accessible to developers https://mallorcablockchaindays.com https://twitter.com/MallorcaBCDays https://dark.fi/

Mallorca Blockchain Days 2021 - Thomas Voegtlin - Electrum - Interview Bitcoin & Liberty Thomas Voegtlin is a computer scientist, neuroscientist, and creator of the Electrum Bitcoin wallet. He served for 10 years as a research scientist at INRIA, the French National Institute for computer science and applied mathematics. Thomas created the Electrum Bitcoin wallet in 2011, and became the founder and CEO of Electrum Technologies. https://mallorcablockchaindays.com/ https://twitter.com/MallorcaBCDays

Rahim Taghizadegan (Austrian Economist, Scholarium) - "Bitcoin citadels and blockchain experiments - new freedom technology or old schemes" Mallorca Blockchain Days 2022" Rahim Taghizadegan is the last Austrian economist of the Austrian School in the direct tradition and has been teaching at universities in Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Germany. As one of the last Viennese polymaths, he is also a physicist (specialization in nuclear physics and complex systems), philosopher, investor and entrepreneur. He has written more than a dozen books, some of them best-sellers, and is the founder of the private university scholarium in Vienna, where the Austrian School is kept alive in its original interdisciplinary form of the Hayek- and Mises-Circles. Rahim Taghizadegan was one of the first academic economists to understand and analyze the monetary nature of Bitcoin. He is originally from Iran, but has grown up in Austria and studied in Switzerland and the US. https://mallorcablockchaindays.com https://twitter.com/MallorcaBCDays http://aliskainwonderland.com

Professor Richard A. Werner, D.Phil. (Oxon), is an LSE and Oxford-educated economist, Professor of Banking and Finance at De Montfort University, UK. Professor Werner is an expert in money, banking, central banking and high growth economic systems. He is also a proponent of decentralised finance via community banking. As founding director of Local First Community Interest Company he is engaged in promoting the establishment of local not-for-profit (but profitable) community banks that lend to SMEs and boost productivity. In 1991, Professor Werner warned of the coming banking crisis and depression in Japan. In 1995 he proposed a new policy to end banking crises which he called ‘Quantitative Easing’. His book ‘Princes of the Yen’, on central banking, was a top bestseller in Japan in 2001. The 2003 English edition warned of the coming credit bubbles, banking crises and recessions. His 2005 book ‘New Paradigm in Macroeconomics’ (Palgrave Macmillan) presents reality-based economics. His academic research is among the most downloaded scientific work in the world (see www.professorwerner.org). Previously, he was professor of banking at the University of Southampton, Professor of Economics at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Assistant Professor of Economics at Tokyo’s Sophia University, chief economist of Jardine Fleming Securities (Asia) Ltd. in Tokyo, for over a decade member of the ECB Shadow Council, Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns Asset Management in London, and a member of the asset allocation committee of TelWel, a multi-billion dollar Japanese corporate pension fund. Earlier, he was a visiting researcher at the Bank of Japan, European Commission Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, Visiting Scholar at the Ministry of Finance, Japan, and the first Shimomura Fellow at the Development Bank of Japan. https://mallorcablockchaindays.com https://twitter.com/MallorcaBCDays