Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Paul Gross @pgr0ss.bsky.social Principal Software Engineer. Formerly Rvvup, Ripple, Braintree/PayPal, ThoughtWorks. https://pgrs.net/
Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social on software infrastructure @theconsensus.dev.
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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com Cofounded @authzed.com. Exited Red Hat, CoreOS.
I build distributed systems, databases, authorization systems, containers, and businesses. NYC transplant in SF.
Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social Distributed and Storage Systems. Apache Cassandra Committer and PMC member. Author of Database Internals. Mountain person. http://databass.dev/
Andrey Satarin @asatarin.bsky.social Staff SRE at Google. Distributed systems / databases / reliability / correctness. Views my own. Repost / like is not an endorsement.
http://asatarin.github.io
Hillel is on Social Media Break @hillelwayne.com Formal methods, software history, chocolatiering. DMs open. *Logic for Programmers* now out! https://logicforprogrammers.com
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Heidi Howard @heidihoward.bsky.social 
TigerBeetle @tigerbeetle.com The financial transactions database designed to power the next 30 years of online transaction processing.
Steven Kelly @stevenkelly49.bsky.social Financial crises & how to fight them. steven.kelly@yale.edu
Substacking on financial stability topics at www.withoutwarningresearch.com (free)
Victoria Guida @vtg2.bsky.social Economics correspondent and columnist at Politico. Signal: vguida.28
Omar Salem @fintechlawyer.bsky.social Financial regulation and Fintech Partner at Fox Williams LLP
Catherine M. "Cathy" Brennan @fintechesq.bsky.social I advise #fintech on how to provide credit to the people who need it & exam #fintech for investors. All opinions mine. #lawsky #fintechsky https://www.hudsoncook.com/attorney/catherine-brennan/
Alexandra Steinberg Barrage @alexbarrage.bsky.social Ex-FDIC. Left-handed. Wonkishness, running, music, books, writing, kindness.
Partner, Fin. Servs. @TroutmanPepperLocke. Bronx, Teaneck; Eph, Hoya. My views.
Todd Phillips @tphillips.bsky.social Banking and administrative law. Independent policy consultant. Future Robinson College. Fellow Roosevelt Institute. Fmr CAP, FDIC, ACUS.
Peter Conti-Brown @petercontibrown.bsky.social Associate Professor of Financial Regulation, Wharton; Banking, central banking, financial history. Petercontibrown.substack.com
Hilary J. Allen @profhilaryallen.bsky.social Law professor at the American University Washington College of Law (but all views expressed here are my own); author of Fintech Dystopia and Driverless Finance; mythbusting crypto, AI, and other fintech
Internet serial: fintechdystopia.com
Francine McKenna @fmckenna.bsky.social Teacher/writer/speaker/reader. CPA. Using tools so tools can’t use me. Dogs rule! Kundera: “In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia.” I Dig. https://TheDig.Substack.com @retheauditors Chgo-born, Philly-based She/her
Beep AI, Inc @beep-ai-inc.bsky.social Beep is an agentic payments and treasury platform for autonomous agents and developer APIs.
erincandescent @erincandescent.net immigrant | software engineer in card payments | I wrote the initial draft of ActivityPub and now spend a lot of thing thinking about how we design social systems with better dynamics
Flora Coleman @floetry.bsky.social Global financial services and tech policy, regulation, & growth
Formerly known as Flora-from-the-Lords in Westminster, and @floetry in ‘the bad place’.
Interested in global politics, tech, payments, banking, feminism, female health, DEI, AI, and dogs.
Central Bank Payments News @cbpn.bsky.social Central Bank Payments News (CBPN), a Currency Research initiative, is a monthly e-publication dedicated to informing the global central bank payments & market infrastructure community of the most relevant payments developments.
Gina C. Pieters, PhD @ginapieters.bsky.social I was an academic economist for over 10 yrs (UMinn, TrinityU, UChicago) now I work as a researcher specializing in macro-system impacts of digital assets, money, & payments (crypto/stablecoins/CBDCs). #EconSky #Chicago
www.digitaleconomyconsulting.com
Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social Prof @NorthwesternU @KelloggSchool Finance. I study how technology reduces frictions in payments markets and consumer financial markets
Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social Trained economist. Ex-global financial institutions (consumer focused). Payments nerd. Native New Yorker. Parent. Knitter. Bridge player. Petter of dogs.
Alex Lakatos @laka.bsky.social 💸 Building payments infrastructure
🏎 CTO at @interledger (actively hiring)
JP Koning @jpkoning.bsky.social monetary economics|history of money|central banking|financial privacy|payments|gold|financial inclusion|cryptocurrency|monetary law|financial crime
I write at www.moneyness.ca
Reggie @reggiecyoung.bsky.social Doing stuff and things. Chief of Staff. Lawyer. Writer.
Fintech. Public lands. Various other itinerant projects. 
Kiah Lau Haslett is a bank reporter (she/her) @khaslett.bsky.social "Kiah like the car." Banking + fintech editor at Bank Director. Midwestern nice. Bank nerd. Reader, runner, steak + soccer lover. Opinions are my own.
Todd H. Baker @tbakerbroadmoor.bsky.social Write and teach about all things fintech, banking, finreg. Man of the
Enlightenment, now sorely tried by life. Progress in finance is circular®
Peter Renton @peter-renton.bsky.social Fintech enthusiast, podcaster, consultant, events guy. Excited for what is coming.
Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 @psbdc.bsky.social Founder of Unconventional Ventures | 📚 Author — Beyond Good (2021), Metaverse Economy (2023), Banking on AI (2025) | #OneVision Podcast | Advisor | Speaker | #Fintech | #AI | #Longevity | #BeyondGood | #TechForGood
JP Nicols @jpnicols.bsky.social Innovation | Strategy | Leadership in #FinTech & #FinServ ⎮ Work:
@AlloyLabs @BreakingBanks1 @ProvokeCast ⎮ Fun: ⚽️ esp.
@ECSPubLeague #Reignfc #Sounders ⭐️⭐️ More: jpnicols.com
Leda Glyptis @ledaglyptis.bsky.social Recovering banker. NED, Advisor, Keynote Speaker
Author 📚 #BankersLikeUs & #BeyondResilience
Geek, immigrant, optimist
#LedaWrites on Thursdays
This girl can & usually does
This Week in Fintech @twif.bsky.social https://www.thisweekinfintech.com/
Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social the money stuff guy
Jason Mikula @mikulaja.bsky.social Head of Industry, Banking/Fintech @ Taktile | 2-bit amateur wannabe reporter @ Fintech Biz Weekly | Literally wrote the book on BaaS | Fmr Goldman, Enova, RPCV
Alex Johnson @fintechtakes.bsky.social I write a newsletter and host a podcast about fintech. I’m a very curious person.
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers