Nick Spanos
Founder
Bitcoin Center NYC · Blockchain Technologies Corp. Bitcoin · Blockchain Voting · Oracles
Building the First Physical Rails for Bitcoin – and the Civic Layer That Followed
Nick Spanos is a Bitcoin and blockchain pioneer best known for founding Bitcoin Center NYC in 2013 – the world's first physical cryptocurrency trading floor, opened directly across from the New York Stock Exchange and featured in the Netflix documentary Banking on Bitcoin. He is Founder and Chairman of Blockchain Center (New York and Miami), CEO of Blockchain Technologies Corp., and co-founder of Zap Protocol, an oracle and bonding-curve platform that lets real-world data and events trigger smart contracts.
A granted inventor of multi-branched blockchain and blockchain voting (VoteWatcher), Nick has spent more than three decades at the intersection of technology and politics – from early internet ventures such as GetaRoom.com to voter-contact work and Federal Reserve accountability campaigns. He remains a sought-after speaker on Bitcoin, decentralization, and the infrastructure that turns crypto from a trading venue into civic and financial rails.
Run of show
Appearing at
Wednesday, September 16
Main Stage, Hard Rock Times Square
Liberty, Privacy & Building the Better World
Opening the main stage with a values-first frame: how privacy, open networks, and intentional design can still produce a more equitable digital world. The conversation sets the week’s north star–technology that expands agency rather than concentrating control.
Thursday, September 17
Main Stage, Hard Rock Times Square
The New Sovereign Moment
A new sovereign moment is reshaping capital, networks, and national strategy around digital assets. Pierce, Terpin, and Kerner frame where power is shifting–and which bets still matter as Bitcoin and crypto enter the geopolitical mainstream.
Expertise
- •Bitcoin & Early Crypto Infrastructure
- •Blockchain Voting & Multi-Branched Ledgers
- •Decentralized Oracles & Smart Contracts
- •Bitcoin Center NYC & Global Blockchain Centers
- •Crypto Policy & Decentralization Advocacy
Signature Moves
- •Founder – Bitcoin Center NYC (2013), first crypto trading floor across from the NYSE
- •Featured in Netflix's Banking on Bitcoin
- •CEO – Blockchain Technologies Corp. (VoteWatcher blockchain voting)
- •Co-Founder – Zap Protocol (oracles & bonding curves)
- •Founder/Chairman – Blockchain Center New York & Miami
- •Granted patents – multi-branched blockchain and blockchain voting
“Bitcoin clicked because for the first time we had a weapon against centralization that actually worked.”
– Nick Spanos
