About me
Janina Lowisz (dob 09/1990); Eleven Years as Committed Blockchain and Crypto Professional (Top 12 Female Globally, longevity wise)
Janina is an experienced specialist in blockchain and cryptocurrencies since early 2013, and has played prominent roles in the establishment of various enterprises as well as being invited to speak at events in multiple countries about various aspects of crypto and blockchain.
After writing her Bachelor thesis on the adoption of Bitcoin as means of payment in 2014, her main interest in blockchain technology developed into creating blockchain applications which provide private alternatives to government services.
Education
Law, University of Freiburg, 2011
B.A Hons International Business, Anglia Ruskin University, 2014 (1st)
MSc in Business Management from BPP (Brierley Price Prior) University, London, 2015 (1st)
Professional Roles
2014. Co-founder of Bitnation. It pioneered multiple alternative government services such as identity verification (Janina’s ID being the first), land registry and notary, peaked in a partnership with E-Estonia for the latter, and eventually ended in 2018 following ongoing conflicts between some team members including Janina’s business focus, vs others’ purely ideological nature.
After graduating from BPP in 2015, with her dissertation on blockchain use cases for the public sector, Janina was recruited by American Express and became the company’s first hire from the blockchain space, exploring use cases for different parts of the business, creating an ecosystem tracker and organising lectures and conferences. Janina left in 2016 to focus on Bitnation.
2016. Co-founder of Cashaa, a business that provides business and personal accounts including IBANs, crypto wallets, fiat on- and offramp, lending and high-yield accounts. Cashaa has been profitable since 2019, and today serves over 500 crypto businesses and over 25,000 individuals around the world. See Cashaa in the media, Interview with Janina
Throughout; Janina worked as an advisor to multiple projects similar to Bitnation, the field of which is today known as network states. The projects ranged from aiming to create the first crypto-focused free zone at that time, to a social network, creating online tools, and a research-focused organisation.
With her long-standing involvement and vast network, Janina was named one of the top 100 most influential blockchain people and one of London’s top 30 VPs in Fintech.
Since 2023, Janina became involved in other industries, supporting them as an advisor, making use of her vast network. Those include recruitment, with Recruso which is placing talent from Ghana internationally, and import-export, with Neon.
Further current advisory roles include Stablpay, international business payments using stablecoins, and Futurist, a marketplace connecting patrons to investment grade baskets of intellectual property earning rights for works by outstanding creators.
Interests
From a very young age, Lowisz has been a libertarian and taken a keen interest in libertarian ideology and its potential for practical applications in alternative money and digital assets.
Janina loves to travel, cook, learn languages, and has been a model since young age.