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Spiral

Spiral

Spiral is making bitcoin more than an investment. We fuel bitcoin growth by building tools, providing grants to FOSS contributors, and creating educational content that also entertains.

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spiral.xyz

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I have spent 30 years in technology including nearly a decade as a startup cofounder, a product director at Google, a long-time angel investor, and most recently 6 years as the head of Block's Spiral initiative. At my first startup I created a clean-room Java virtual machine for embedded and real-time systems then managed 2 dozen software engineers building out the product. At Google I led the mobile Google Maps team growing from 0 to a billion users. I then helped create and lead the Google Glass team within Google X. My contributions to bitcoin include helping create Presidio Bitcoin, open source software projects including LDK, BDK and the BDK Foundation, and Stratum v2 reference implementation project, the bitcoin design community, the bitcoin consensus analysis project, COPA including defeating Craig Wright, Bitcoin Optech, ₿trust, Block’s mining business, and the PBJ show.

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Chief People Officer at Credit Genie 💳 🧞‍♂️ [previously building teams at Cash App, Square, and Google]

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Product Marketing Manager at Spiral

Margaret (Maggie) Valentine

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Member of Design Staff

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Open Source Bitcoin Developer

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Product Manager at Spiral

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Founder / CEO at Peg (YC W20)

Bernardo A. Rodrigues

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bitcoin mining via stratumV2 + rust + nix + linux + embedded

Kyle Louis Fletcher

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Designer and artist. Enjoys blue sky thinking on multi-faceted brand opportunities looking to push the envelope as much as he enjoys experimental art projects in isolation. Direct client experience ranges from large fortune 500 brands to independent fashion brands, craft beer brewers, creative agencies and nimble startups. Last seen on his motorcycle with Soph the cat in his backpack riding into the sunset.

Thorbjørn König

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Principal Product Designer with a focus on creating great user experiences for FinTech products and services. Own design studio in San Francisco, California, then Copenhagen, Denmark – now remote. Concept development and hands on execution for companies such as Apple in California and Google Ventures – as well as bitcoin and blockchain companies such as River Financial, Spiral, Kraken, Chainalysis, Stellar, Blockstack and Bitcoin Suisse. Product- and Design Director for a set of European FinTech companies – solid experience with team building, management and leadership. Able to communicate with all levels of senior management. Comfortable articulating the rationale behind design decisions – and able to discuss that rationale. Participated in a series of tech startups. Jury member for three consecutive years at Creative Circle Award, the largest creative award in Scandinavia. Examiner at Danish School of Media and Journalism. Examiner at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts- Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK). External Lecturer at Kolding School of Design. Recently received a design grant from Spiral (Block), researching novel approaches to Private Key Management for bitcoin. The research, New mnemonics, was later published in Bitcoin Magazine. Design grant https://medium.com/@thorbjoernkoenig Portfolio https://www.behance.net/thorbjoernkoenig