Benjamin P
CEO at The Bitcoin Company
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin P is a CEO and entrepreneurial product leader with nine years of experience building crypto-first products and infrastructure from proof-of-concept to market. He founded The Bitcoin Company to embed bitcoin rewards into everyday finance and runs OpenSats to fund Bitcoin Core contributors, reflecting a rare blend of startup execution and open-source stewardship. Previously he was one of the first product managers on Visa Crypto, driving Lightning, layer‑2 experiments, merchant acceptance, node operations, and user-friendly key management including threshold ECDSA work. His background spans data science, NLP, and no-code PaaS leadership, giving him both technical depth and a data-driven product sensibility. Based in the Bay Area, he focuses on practical interoperability and UX solutions that make crypto usable for mainstream merchants and consumers.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics (Focus: Game Theory), Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics (Focus: Game Theory) at University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBachelor of Science (BS) Business Administration , Bachelor of Science (BS) Business Administration at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
nostr10
bitcoin10
peer-to-peer7
lightning7
daemon7
open-source7
cryptocurrency7
blockchain7
cryptography7
nodejs6
wallet6
lightning-network5
browser4
nextjs4
governance4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benhprice/testjs
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
OpenSats/website
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Live at opensats.org
Contributions:6 reviews, 8 commits, 24 PRs in 9 months
bitcoinflossnon-profitnostr
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