Meet The Maximalists

Parshva Jain

(…cypherpunk…)
Parsh’s research and development interest transcend open blockchains, cryptography, and distributed computing. He advocates widespread use of strong cryptographic primitives and privacy-enhancing technologies as a route to social and political change.

Varunram Ganesh

(… open-source pundit…)
Varunram is a Bitcoin and cryptocurrency researcher at the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. He is interested in solving problems that challenge existing notions of money and likes to explore new alternatives to existing financial technologies.

Prasad

(…mass adoption guy…)
Digital Transformation leader with a startup mindset. Prasad comes on board with hands-on experience in building Digital, FinTech, Blockchain products & platforms and in result-oriented IT transformation.

Ali Meer

(…democratise finance lead…)
Bitcoin, Blockchain and CryptoFinance expert. A firm believer and proponent for decentralisation. Ali comes on board with vast experience in Digital Banking working with the largest banks in the UK and EU. He also has hands-on technical knowledge of how finance works.

Arpan Jain

(…the realist…)
Technology enthusiast working towards the goal of “Bitcoin adoption by solving real-world use cases”. Arpan comes on board with entrepreneurial experience in Marketing Technology, eCommerce & Blockchain.

Anant Tapadia

(…monetary maximalist and meme lover…)
A passionate entrepreneur who believes that we have a once in a millennia opportunity to shape humanity. For, Bitcoin is the marrying of at least three disciplines – Sociology, Economics, and Technology.

Raj Maitra

He is a Structural Engineer, and works on designing bridge structures full time. Or lets say for the majority of his time. When he’s not connecting people in the real world, he spends his time doing his bit to lay the ground work to connect people globally, via Bitcoin. Raj is the kind of person who pursues knowledge and wicked problems for the sheer happiness of pursuit. Bitcoin evangelism is thus an extremely useful byproduct we, the ecosystem get from him as a result. There’s also Quantum Mechanics involved in the mix in there somewhere. A lot cooking inside an amazing head led by a passionate heart.

Matt Odell

Build, use, and support tools that empower individuals to take personal responsibility.

Fulgur Ventures

Spearheaded by passionate Bitcoiners, Fulgur Ventures is a highly sought after catalyst in the Bitcoin and Lightning Network ecosystems.

The team at Fulgur brings decades of experience in tech and growing startups across geographies. As an Angel fund, Fulgur Ventures strengthen Bitcoin first companies by engaging at a pre seed stage, guiding fledgling companies towards scale and maturity.

Abhilash Nair

Abhilash is a quintessential people’s person and a wearer of many hats at BitHyve. He helps nurture our community of passionate Bitcoiners, is incharge of the communications we put out and also doubles up as a User Acceptance Tester.

Murtuza Ameen

Shreyas Nisal

Shreyas is an undergraduate student at BITS Pilani- Goa, pursuing a double major in Computer Science and Physics. He is passionate about coding, and enjoys developing web as well as mobile applications.

Other than coding, Shreyas enjoys technical writing, poetry, badminton, chess and carrom. He finds his calm in solving puzzles, especially the variants of the Rubik’s cube, such as the Megaminx and the X2.

Sumaiah Khan

Ravi Patel