Avthar Sewrathan (@avthars | avthar.com) is passionate about empowering people through technology. He previously co-founded Afari: a decentralized social network secured by the Bitcoin blockchain. Afari was backed by Blockstack (now Stacks and Hiro, makers of a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts). Avthar currently works at Timescale, where he helps crypto developers harness the power of time-series data to build the next generation of the internet. Timescale users include the likes of Messari, Protocol Labs and Zondax.

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