AdoptingBitcoinCapeTown on Nostr: 🚨Speaker Announcement🚨 Riccardo " @fluffypony " Spagni is a pioneer of ...
🚨Speaker Announcement🚨
Riccardo " @fluffypony " Spagni is a pioneer of privacy-preserving technology and one of the crypto industry's most influential voices on financial privacy rights.
A founding member of the Monero Core Team, he served as Lead Maintainer from Monero's inception until 2019, helping build what has become the world's leading privacy-focused cryptocurrency.
He is the co-founder of Tari Labs, creator of the Tari protocol - a hybrid, programmable PoW blockchain that launched its mainnet in 2025, and aims to bring strong privacy guarantees to on-chain decentralized applications.
A Bitcoin advocate since early 2011, Riccardo invented OpenAlias and co-created Yat, and holds 19 patents in blockchain and decentralized identity.
He is widely regarded as a deeply technical thinker with an uncompromising stance on the right to personal privacy.
Website:
za26.adoptingbitcoin.org
#abct26
Published at
2026-01-26 11:43:45 UTCEvent JSON
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