How The Middle Class Can Reclaim Financial Sovereignty with Bitcoin

Pauline Shangett is the Chief Strategy Officer at ChangeNOW, a top-tier crypto exchange platform with over $1 billion in monthly trading volume. Since joining the industry in 2018, she has quickly grown from CMO to a key strategic leader, helping scale the platform’s user base and trading activity twofold in just six months.
Pauline specializes in building scalable growth and revenue strategies in Web3, combining deep blockchain expertise with a sharp focus on sustainable growth. She’s known for her flexible, transparent approach and long-term vision for ecosystem development.

Brian is the CEO of SmashFi, a service that has developed proprietary Bitcoin auto-investment features and a dedicated Bitcoin wallet, supporting the entire journey of Bitcoin investment from accumulation to secure custody. Driven by the mission of enabling everyone to own 1 BTC, he also runs a YouTube channel, where he focuses on Bitcoin education and advocacy. He is the author of The Final Answer Bitcoin (2025), Bitcoin Handbook (2024), and Web 3.0 Handbook (2023).

Hunter Albright made his first Bitcoin purchase in 2018 and has been hooked ever since.

With a career spanning across lending and payments, Hunter has worked with leading global banks like Barclays, HSBC, and Visa, and served on the advisory board of Mastercard Europe. He is passionate about global financial systems and the adoption Bitcoin. At SALT, he helps people transform their Bitcoin into wealth and liquidity through innovative financial solutions.

Additionally, he works to spread the understanding and awareness of Bitcoin through his role as an advisory committee member for the Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) program, by the nonprofit C4, and created the first crypto course at the University of Colorado, Boulder.