Riccardo Spagni
Riccardo Spagni is the Co-Founder of Tari Labs, a merge-mined sidechain of Monero, a top 15 cryptocurrency with a market capitalization of $3.2 billion USD. With an academic background in informatics and logistics, Spagni spent several years in software development before starting a business in the import/export industry. He became deeply involved in various cryptocurrency-related projects in 2012. And upon discovering the Monero project in 2014, he dedicated his professional work to the community. Spagni served as the Lead Maintainer of the Monero Project and a Member of the Monero Core Team until December 2019.
- Spagni entered the crypto space in 2011 by mining bitcoin.
- His exposure to the GPU mining community, which focused mainly on coins other than bitcoin, led him to discover Monero at its inception.
- He launched Globee in 2017, a multi-currency payment processor.
- He launched the Tari Labs University, a free online University to help incubate open source projects and train blockchain developers, both locally and globally.
- He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.