UNESCO Grand Prix award winner Amin Rafiee is a globally recognized speaker and thought leader, having presented at prestigious venues such as The UNESCO House in Paris, The European Commission in Brussels, The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, and The Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue.
Amin has spoken across Europe, Australia, North and South America, sharing insights on decentralization, digital privacy, cybersecurity, and Bitcoin.
Amin is a polymath, published author, and documentary maker, and the visionary behind Bittopia University—the world’s first Decentralized Autonomous University.
For the past decade, he has been a regular speaker at the exclusive Hackers Congress at Paralelni Polis (HCPP)—a leading international conference—sharing the stage with prominent figures like Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, world-renowned Bitcoin speaker Andreas Antonopoulos, crypto pioneer Amir Taaki, and Cypherpunk founder Timothy C. May.
Amin has hosted hundreds of workshops worldwide, educating people on the power of decentralization, digital privacy, cybersecurity, and Bitcoin.
His extensive experience in digital security and privacy, coupled with his pioneering role in decentralization, has positioned him as a key advocate in these fields since 2013. He has advised and collaborated with industry giants such as Aave, Storj, Wirex, and Qtum, leveraging decentralized systems to disrupt various industries.
Beyond technology, Amin has explored the limits of human potential, inspired by masters like Wim Hof, Frederick Hatfield, and Mark Rippetoe. He has achieved feats such as submerging in a frozen lake for 7 minutes and deadlifting twice his body weight as a vegetarian, without supplements. His exploration of physical endurance includes extended fasting, with achievements like several days of dry fasting and up to 9 days of water fasting.
Amin’s previous collaboration on decentralized governance was honoured with a UNESCO Grand Prix award. This recognition places him in the company of previous awardees behind platforms like Twitter, Spotify, Waze, and Airbnb, underscoring the prestigious nature of his contributions.
Amin is the founder and CEO of Bittopia University, the world’s first Decentralized Autonomous University, with the goal of disrupting the education industry and decentralizing education.
Bittopia University prioritizes entrepreneurship and empowers the true stakeholders of the education industry (the students) by incentivizing the successful acquisition of knowledge and creating pathways that would otherwise not be possible through centralized legacy education institutions.
https://bittopia.org
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