Chairman of the Texas Bitcoin Conference, Inventor of the Factom protocol and a co-founder of Factom Inc., Paul has spent 30+ years writing compilers, interpreters, protocols, and rules engines. An early adopter of Bitcoin, he organized Passing Bitcoin Around the World in 2013, a stunt highlighting the speed at which value can be exchanged around the world. He continues to run meetups, speaks, and even testifies before Congress about Bitcoin and crypto technology.