Thread by @jacobkostecki

Announcing new speakers for #MassiveAdoption (Memphis,TN on November 7-8, 2000 attendees) and re-announcing speakers previously confirmed in an effort to build a single comprehensive thread. We're currently at about 50% of our roster.

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#MassiveAdoption is the first event focused on onboarding curious professionals into the world of blockchains & digital assets, including Bitcoin.

We do this through TEDx-style talks, workshops & real interactive crypto experiences with 🔥 partners.

And whiskey, music & BBQ.

Just today, @YahooFinance wrote that the average Bitcoin holder in America is older, a parent & more conservative (in many regards) than many of us had imagined.

They can also #stacksats at @Safeway (thanks @trylolli 🍭)

This is who #MassiveAdoption speaks to.

Lots of new folks to the space who go to more advanced & established blockchain & Bitcoin events have told me they struggle keeping up with the narratives, the insider language & the culture & history.

At many events they feel they walked in on old friends telling inside jokes.

#MassiveAdoption is hosted by @FedexInstitute and @UMRFResearch.

Partners include @PurseIO @official_vault @monax.

Travel and accommodations via blockchain-powered partners, including @booklocal_in.

Many more 🔥partners to be announced soon (we're still 100+ days out).

We've build our own ticketing system on @BtcpayServer @BtcpayMerchants and we use @stripe @cashapp @sqcrypto to be as decentralized as possible.

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Okay, so onto our 🔥🔥 speakers:

But before we begin with the announcements, let me reiterate our stance on Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility:

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Okay. Now let's get onto the show...

We start with 🥁🥁🥁

Pomp 🔥🔥🔥🚀🚀🚀

@APompliano will share how he got into the industry, what makes him excited for the future & why we all need to #GetOffZero.

We'll also hear what he's hearing from the brightest minds in finance.

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Next up is our fearless chronicler Nathaniel Whittemore.

His Long Reads Sunday and his video content on @BLOCKTVnews and #Twich-like commentary is a must read and a must see.

@nlw will tell us about the big trends and big narratives guiding our ecosystem.

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We move on to 2 attorneys who live & breathe the topic of how we will organize our work and our pay in the near future, or in other words DAOs.

Marina Markezic @MarinaMarkezic & Anja Blaj @AnjaBlaj, associated w/ @LegalHackers @dgovearth @unlawcked are force to be reckoned with.

Nye (@MrMichaelNye) is a 🧨🧨🧨

Nye a crypto-native & will add some shock 💣 value to our new audience. His @EvolvementCast interviews are starting to be some of the strongest in the space.

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Announced in May as Professor Evans, now Dean Evans of UNH's Franklin Pierce School, @IPProfEvans works tirelessly to educate people about the impact of blockchains on the law and the impact of the law on what we're all working on.

I am so proud to have her!

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Kristjan Sokoli was the 1st Albanian to play in the NFL and has promoted Bitcoin among athletes as an element of a diversified investment portfolio.

@Kristjan90 will tell us why he's all in on BTC and what other professional athletes are thinking.

Gloria Kimbwala @gkimbwala has worked for one of my favorite products in the space @CashApp @sqcrypto and will talk about how Bitcoin functions on many levels and in many ways a a gateway for financial inclusion & advancement for people who didn't get the same chances others had.

John Biggs @johnbiggs has been been reporting for @TechCrunch, @TheBlock__ & now @coindesk for 15 years. Before that @nytimes and @Gizmodo.

John has seen it all and will tell us stories as the guy who's been in many of the key rooms. We're lucky to have him.

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Tyrone V. Ross Jr. will 🚨 tear the roof off the house 🚨.

@TR401 is a registered financial adviser who helps people with crypto build diversified portfolios. He works tirelessly to promote financial inclusion among vulnerable pops.

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Pierre Rochard is one of several Bitcoiners who will speak at #MassiveAdoption.

@pierre_rochard will tell us why Bitcoin is for everybody and that we need to embrace sound money in America's heartland and America's corporations.

Samantha Radocchia @SamRadOfficial has founded her own businesses, worked with the UN, large trade orgs & the world's leading corps.

She will let us all know that decentralization and crypto are coming no matter what we think about them and how to prepare and embrace the change.

Vinay Gupta @leashless of @mattereum, the legend running around #NYBlockchainWeek and #consensus19 with a #StarWars collectible in a see-through case to announce his partnership with @WilliamShatner, will join us for an amazing talk.

I'm very excited about John Monarch @realjohnmonarch's talk as he will tell us how @ShipChain is building a promoting supply chain management solutions on open public protocols (instead of permissioned chains as many others are doing).

Aaron Casillas @CryptoBanksy, an early adopter & member of the @Dashpay ecosystem & now active advisor to DeVault @official_vault, will tell us a real-world personal story of his experiences with how crypto transcends borders and promotes financial inclusion worldwide.

Ray Youssef @raypaxful of Paxful is solving the last mile problem for Bitcoin all over the world, making sure that everyone can participate in the revolution.

His efforts for financial inclusion in Africa are unprecedented.

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Simona Pop @Sim_Pop of @ethBounties will tell us about the future of working together across borders, across cultures and across value systems. What Simona and her team are doing with Bounties For Oceans is amazing.

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We're negotiating the participation of many other amazing speakers, many of whom you know from the biggest stages, the biggest companies and the nightly news and hope to be able to announce them soon for #MassiveAdoption.

More to come after I hit send as Twitter limits thread length.

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Resuming the list:

Boris Mamlyuk, a tenured law professor at UofM, founder & EIC of CryptoLaw Review & founder of blockchain-based
@CleanApp, will co-host us in Memphis and talk about how blockchain-based accountability and incentives serve socially-responsible causes.

Adam Locklin @AdamLocklin of @monaxHQ will tell us why he's working in the space, having previously served our country 🇺🇸 in the Marines @USMC, through his work in Africa, where he discovered crypto and now Monax.

Adam's personal and heartfelt talk will be 🔥!

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Erick Pinos @erickpinos works on the frontlines w @blockchainedu, born out of @MITBitcoinClub.

Erick will tell us how we can leverage students & young graduates to future-proof our companies & careers before the next wave of financial & technical innovation hits.

Sardor Umarov @umarov built & installed a #DLT hotel check-in solution he built in the huge & iconic Exchange Building he owns in downtown Memphis.

@booklocal_in integrates payment + ID (#NFT) for hospitality check-ins.

Many of our #MassiveAdoption attendees will get to us it.

Joe McGill @joes_mcgill @cychain1 chased down stolen and lost Bitcoin for the @SecretService with badge & gun

Hear this former federal investigator's cyber & digital currency war stories and learn how you can safeguard your coins & your business in crypto.

Tom Shaughnessy @Shaughnessy119 of @Delphi_Digital helps marquee investors make their way into the space.

Hear why Tom believes that institutional capital is here to stay and why much more is coming.

Matt Cutler @mcutler of @Blocknative specializes in making crypto easy to understand, with some incredible visual aids that will wow our audience.

Come see Matt explain what a wallet really holds and how hard it is to guess a private key in his immersive presentation.

Angie Dalton @daltonan of Signum Global Partners, previously of esteemed advisories & investment banking @GuggenheimPtnrs, @UBS & Evercore Partners, will tell us why she's getting institutional investors excited about virtual digital assets in video games.

Andrew Lee @2drewlee, founder of @PurseIO, will get on stage & show everyone how to easily & quickly use Bitcoin to save a lot of money on Amazon.

Nothing could be simpler.

Everyone will receive BTC from Andrew to use on Purse. No-coiners will become coiners. Boom.

Isaiah Jackson @bitcoinzay, author of Bitcoin & Black America, will talk about his work on inviting a diverse and often marginalized population into Bitcoin and how being inclusive and diverse as an industry will benefit us all.

Jeremy S. Goldstein of Blockchain For Social Development @B4SD_Official will help us understand how blockchain fits into CSR strategies & the UN's Global Goals 2030.

Hear how this attorney works day in & day out to deeply impact our world via blockchains & digital assets.

Taylor Pearson @TaylorPearsonMe will tell us why blockchains and digital assets will affect how we work, where we work and how we get paid.

Prepare to get immersed in a future that's right around the corner.

#MassiveAdoption

Dr. Jerry Beinhauer, CEO & founder of @AppleyHealth, uses blockchains & smart contracts to cut employer healthcare costs by 30%.

Not sometime in the future but today.

Hear Dr. Beinhauer tell you about the experience & what lies ahead.

Rayne Steinberg @raynesteinberg, CEO at @arca, came into digital asset investing from traditional money management, having grown $60B ETF @WisdomTreeETFs.

Rayne could have stayed on top of his world. Find out why this financial heavyweight went deep in on digital assets.

Brian Laung Aoaeh @brianlaungaoaeh is an active investor and runs the largest supply chain meetup in NYC (#TNYSCM & #TWSCF).

He will tell us why the worlds goods will move thanks to blockchain rails & digital assets and that there is no stopping what's coming.

Jenny Balliet @LulaEDUcate of @Athena_Trade and @omniumchicago is a blockchains and digital assets practitioner, but at heart she's an educator who will teach us how to get our organizations ready fro the internal changes coming when blockchains are adopted by the business world.

Rachel Siegel @CryptoFinally will tell you that perception isn't necessarily reality, especially in the way that the mass media has portrayed Bitcoin & cryptocurrencies & how to make sense of the narratives shaping the way people view our tech & our culture.

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Tushar Singh @tusharsingh of @MinuteSchool has dedicated his career to leveraging technology to advance healthcare & education.

Tushar will talk about how he designs & implements edu programs to prep your employees & organization for the blockchain & digital asset future.

Rob McNealy @RobMcNealy built TUSC, a live cryptocurrency network that offers an alternative payment solution for industries at risk by the current system.

Hear Rob talk about financial inclusion for industries considered high-risk by traditional banking.

Dr. Phil Baker, Ayile' Arnett & Jide Anyigbo of RemediChain and affiliated co's are all doing amazing work using blockchain to track pharmaceuticals along the supply chain.

Come hear how they are getting medicine to people in need thanks to blockchain tech.

All #MassiveAdoption speakers present individually in either a TEDx-style keynote format (~12 minutes) or a longer ~18 min workshop session.

This makes it possible to learn from every individual in a format that's conducive to studying new material.

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@threadreaderapp Slava Rubin @gogoSlava, founder and CEO of crowdfunding giant @Indiegogo, will tell us about his experiences with tokenzing real estate and exploring cryptocurrencies as a driving force for the future of capital formation.

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Natalia Karayaneva @NataliePropy, CEO of Propy will talk to us about how blockchains are already powering the property world.

@PropyInc facilitated the first ever #Ethereum on-chain purchase of an apartment, by @TechCrunch founder @arrington back in 2017 & many more since then.

@APompliano @APompliano if you want to RT that'd be cool... (no pressure, just a thought)