Dr. Owen Vaughan is the founder of Bitroots, a platform that enables anyone to buy clean Bitcoin from certified renewable miners and trade it directly on the blockchain. A long-time advocate for sustainable finance, he believes in making markets more accessible without compromising long-term environmental goals. Before Bitroots, Owen led a research group focused on scaling Bitcoin and enhancing its underlying protocols, publishing work across blockchain, cryptography, mathematics, and string theory. He is also a co-inventor on around 30 patents, an IEEE reviewer and workshop organiser, and an active contributor to the TEAconf community, where he helps guide research and discussion on the future of Triple Entry Accounting.