The Writers

Ashley Hodgson is an Economics Professor and the Heterodox Academy Economics Community Lead. Her work challenges the ideological uniformity of modern economics and brings much-needed pluralistic thinking to the project.

Brittany Kaiser contributed to Version 1 of System Override, bringing her unique voice and perspective to this project.

Fodé Diop is the founder of the Bitcoin Developers Academy, empowering the next generation of Bitcoin developers and builders across Africa and beyond.

Giacomo Zucco is a Bitcoin educator, consultant, and researcher dedicated to helping organizations and communities integrate Bitcoin into their understanding of sound money and individual sovereignty.

Hannah Wolfman-Jones is the founder of We The Web, a Bitcoin writer, speaker, and event planner. She conceived and assembled the System Override project, bringing together voices from free software, Bitcoin, free speech, and economics.

Nadine Strossen served as President of the ACLU from 1991 to 2008. She is a Professor Emeritus at New York Law School and one of the most prominent free speech scholars, advocates, and authors of our time.

Her work defending free expression — even speech many find deeply offensive — brings decades of constitutional insight to this project.

Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Movement and a lifelong advocate for digital freedom. His pioneering work started the GNU Project and fundamentally changed how the world thinks about software and user freedom.

His involvement in this project ensures that the principles of free software are woven into the heart of We The Web.

Roman Martínez is a Bitcoin adoption guru in El Salvador and a Founding Member of Bitcoin Beach. He helped pioneer grassroots Bitcoin adoption in El Centro, El Salvador, proving that sound money can empower communities excluded from the traditional banking system.

Santiago Siri is the founder of Democracy Earth. His work explores how technology can empower individual sovereignty and build systems of mutual cooperation at planet scale. A contributor to Version 1 of System Override.

Terry Newman is a Course Lecturer at McGill University and a writer for Quillette. His perspective bridges academic rigor with contrarian thinking.