Alongside his professional technology career, Hasan has taught Bitcoin and information technology at business-school level since 2023, including as a Subject Coordinator and facilitator across undergraduate and postgraduate programs.

His approach to Bitcoin education combines economic and strategic understanding with practical experience — allowing participants to move beyond headlines and price movements to understand how Bitcoin actually works, why it exists, the arguments for and against it, and where it may — or may not — be relevant to an organisation.

Bitcoin Education

Since 2023, Hasan has taught undergraduate and postgraduate technology subjects at an Australian higher-education institution, including Bitcoin, Information Networks, Project Management, and Data Structures & Algorithms.

His responsibilities have included subject coordination, curriculum delivery, assessment and moderation, student support, and coordination of facilitator teams across Australia.

This experience has involved taking technically and economically complex Bitcoin concepts and making them accessible to participants with widely different levels of prior knowledge.

Professional Experience

Hasan has more than 20 years’ experience in technology and business systems, including senior roles within the Australian Public Service.

• ICT project and program management
• Digital transformation
• Digital identity and authentication
• Cybersecurity and risk
• Systems integration and APIs
• Software development
• Technical governance
• Secure information exchange
• Stakeholder and vendor management
• Technical education and facilitation

His work has included nationally significant digital systems, large-scale systems integration, digital identity initiatives and emerging Verifiable Credential technologies, including work with OID4VCI, OID4VP and ISO mDoc standards.

Earlier in his career, he led software-development teams and founded an ICT services business providing networking, infrastructure, systems administration, security and technical support.

Practical Bitcoin Experience

In 2021, Hasan founded Lightning Bazaar as a practical environment for exploring, building and teaching with Bitcoin.

Rather than approaching Bitcoin solely from an academic or investment perspective, his experience includes hands-on work with:

• Bitcoin and Lightning infrastructure
• Bitcoin nodes
• Self-custody and hardware signing devices
• Lightning payment systems
• Web payment integrations
• Bitcoin micropayment proof-of-concepts
• Bitcoin-enabled web experiences
• Security, verification and backup practices
• Practical experimentation with emerging Bitcoin technologies

This practical work informs the workshop exercises and demonstrations.

Qualifications

Master of Information Technology Management — Distinction
University of Wollongong

Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology — Telecommunications
University of Wollongong

Additional professional training has included Cisco networking, ITIL, Agile delivery, project management, programming and data analysis.

Approach to Bitcoin Education

The purpose of the workshop is not to convince participants to buy Bitcoin. It is to provide enough technical, economic and practical understanding for leadership teams to critically examine Bitcoin themselves — including its limitations, risks and competing arguments — and make better-informed decisions about whether it has any relevance to their organisation.