Anastasia Chernikova is a tech journalist whose articles have been featured in Forbes and Esquire in Russia, Business Insider, Quartz.com and other publications. She has interviewed prominent tech founders, such as WhatsApp founder Jan Koum right after Facebook bought his app for $19 billion, and Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum founder, when his cryptocurrency ether was just in the beginning of its triumph. She is keen on the idea of the decentralized world and what the blockchain brings to the financial system.