The Satoshi Papers

AUTHOR BIO

ANDREW W. BAILEY is an interdisciplinary teacher and scholar whose work spans philosophy, politics, and economics. He is a Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College (Singapore) and a Senior Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute. With Bradley Rettler and Craig Warmke, he is author of Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin (Routledge, 2024).

LEOPOLDO BEBCHUK is an anthropologist who earned his degree from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires. His research focuses on the intersection of social sciences, monetary theory, and blockchain technology. He is currently an analyst and product manager at MicroStrategy, where he contributes to the development of Bitcoin products as well as projects and conferences concerning Bitcoin and related technologies. He collaborates with the Latin American Network of Digital Anthropology and the Confoederatio Think Tank.

AARON DANIEL is a practicing attorney and a Florida Bar Board Certified Appellate Specialist with years of experience designing and evaluating court systems and procedures as an officer of the Florida Appellate Court Rules Committee. Aaron founded the Open Source Justice
Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the development of open source tools and software that empower communities and individuals to peacefully and voluntarily resolve their own disputes. Aaron is also a founding member of Bitcoin Grove, a community accelerator and coworking space in Miami. He authors The Bitcoin Brief, a legal-research newsletter analyzing Bitcoin’s transformative potential for society.

JOSHUA R. HENDRICKSON is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department at the University of Mississippi. He is a Senior Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research’s Sound Money Project, a Senior Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, and a Senior Affiliate Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He also serves on the Board of the Mississippi Council on Economic Education. Hendrickson’s research focuses on the intersection of monetary theory, monetary history, and political economy. He has published articles in scholarly journals including the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Macroeconomic Dynamics, the Journal of Macroeconomics, Economic Inquiry, Economics and
Politics, and Contemporary Economic Policy.

DANIEL HUGHES is a technologist and philosopher. He has founded and exited several software companies, one of which, Learning Machine, built the first self-sovereign open standard for verifiable claims. This became the W3C Verifiable Credentials standard and helped launch the
global decentralized-identity movement. Dan is a founding board member of the Texas Bitcoin Foundation. He spends much of his time in Husserl’s Nachlass thinging about First, Second and Last Philosophy Sarah Kreps is the John L. Wetherill Professor, the Director of the Tech Policy Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell. University. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy
Institute, Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative, and Faculty Fellow in the Cornell Johnson School of Business Contributors Bios.docx
Fintech Initiative. Sarah is the author of five books and dozens of academic articles, policy briefs, and op-eds at the intersection of emerging technologies, political economy, and national security, including a number of articles about the national security implications of digital
currencies and the political economy of security. She has a BA from Harvard, MSc from Oxford, and PhD from Georgetown. She served as an active duty officer in the United States Air Force. Avik Roy is founder and President of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a think tank focused on research that considers the impact of public policies and proposed reforms on those with incomes or wealth below the US median. He is also Director of the Texas Bitcoin Foundation, Senior Adviser to the Bitcoin Policy Institute, and Policy Editor at Forbes. Previously, Roy served as policy director for the presidential campaigns of Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Texas Governor Rick Perry. Prior to that, he managed investment portfolios at Bain Capital and J. P. Morgan. Avik trained as a scientist at MIT and as a physician at Yale Medical School.

NATALIE SMOLENSKI is founder and Executive Director of the Texas Bitcoin Foundation, a public charity dedicated to original research and education about Bitcoin and political economy. She is also an anthropologist developing a theory of money and value. She writes about Bitcoin policy as a Senior Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute. Previously, Natalie cofounded Learning Machine, a software company that built the first Bitcoin-based digital-identity wallet and helped launch the global decentralized-identity movement. After exiting Learning Machine, she cofounded and served as inaugural Board Chair of the Texas Blockchain Council, a professional trade association representing the Bitcoin industry in Texas. She is a member of the Initiative for the Study of a Stable Peace, hosted by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

CRAIG WARMKE researches money at the intersection of philosophy, economics, and computer science. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University and a Senior Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute. With Bradley Rettler and Andrew Bailey, he is author of Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin (Routledge, 2024).

JACK WATT is an entrepreneur and writer whose focus is Austrian economics and monetary theory. His writing is featured on Mises.org. He also cofounded the Bitcoin-focused company Sovbtc and is a professional pilot. He has a degree in physics from the University of Sheffield
and a postgraduate certificate in money and banking from the University of Buckingham.