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Emmanuel Montero and the machinery behind the money
A former US Navy diver built a Bitcoin mining business in the UAE. At Omnes, Emmanuel Montero is now working to turn that industrial activity into a financial instrument professional investors can hold.
Gideon Powell and the value of switching off
He grew up in a family that searched for oil. Now the Cholla CEO is exploring a different kind of resource: electricity demand that knows when to step aside.
Micree Zhan Built Bitcoin’s Engine - Then Had to Win Back the Keys
The quiet engineer behind Bitmain turned a peculiar internet currency into a silicon business. When the partnership fractured, the battle moved from chip architecture to company law.
Jihan Wu and the Long Road from a White Paper to Silicon
He began by translating an idea. Fifteen years later, Jihan Wu is building the chips, power networks and data centers meant to prove that computing infrastructure can outlast crypto's arguments.
Andrew Webber Found a Second Market for Electricity
A newspaper story about California paying Arizona to take surplus electricity sent a former Marine and Wall Street investor down an unlikely path. His answer was to bring computing to the power - and teach data centers when to get out of the grid's way.
Tomas Ocampo
Tomas Ocampo is the founder and CEO of Unblock, a company that drops modular data centers next to remote oil wells and renewable sites in Latin America, turning gas that would otherwise be flared off (and power that would otherwise be curtailed) into Bitcoin and AI computing. An Argentine lawyer turned investment banker turned Stanford-trained energy operator, he ran YPF Ventures before launching Unblock in 2021. The company now operates one of the largest computing fleets at oil field facilities in the world, says it eliminates roughly 142,000 tons of CO2 a year, and raised a $13.5M seed round in 2025 led by Goldcrest Capital and Collaborative Fund.
Alon Webman
Alon Webman is the co-founder and CEO of Chain Reaction, an Israeli semiconductor company building purpose-built chips for encrypted computation, Bitcoin mining, and privacy-preserving AI. Before Chain Reaction, he co-founded Mellanox Technologies in 1999 and spent nearly two decades there, rising to VP-level roles before NVIDIA acquired Mellanox for $7 billion in 2020. A Technion graduate, Webman is now betting his second act on making fully homomorphic encryption practical at scale - a technology that would let clouds compute on data they can never see.