MarsOne Finalist

Lennart Lopin

Software Engineer / Entrepreneur / Futurist

" To be curious is to be human "
Lennart Lopin
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01 / Origin

Born for
escape velocity

Born in 1978 near the historic V1 rocket test site in Peenemünde, Germany. In 1984, his family escaped East Germany — trading one kind of confinement for infinite possibility.

Raised in Vienna by an electrical engineer father and radio operator mother, young Lennart consumed every science book his library held, attending university lectures on orbital mechanics before he was a teenager. That hunger never stopped.

Today: CTO of Byte Federal, creator of Marscoin®, author of 30+ books, fluent in six languages (including Latin, Sanskrit, and Pali), and one of the final candidates selected from 200,000+ applicants for the MarsOne mission.

Some people dream of escape. Others engineer it.

02 / Domains
01

Artificial Intelligence

Creator of Prelude, an AI chatbot that won the 2005 International Championship. Thesis on automated text summarization using lexical chains. Building the future of human-machine interaction.

02

Blockchain & Crypto

Early Bitcoin adopter. Creator of Marscoin®, a cryptocurrency designed to fund planetary colonization. CTO & Co-Founder of Byte Federal, operating thousands of Bitcoin ATMs nationwide.

03

Space Exploration

MarsOne Finalist - selected from 200,000+ applicants for potential Mars colonization. Born near the historic V1 rocket test site in Peenemünde. The cosmos is not a destination, it's destiny.

04

Languages & Letters

Fluent in 8 languages including Latin, Sanskrit, and Pali. Author of 30+ books spanning technology, philosophy, and beyond. M.A. in Computational Linguistics.

"One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts."

— Albert Einstein
03 / Mission Log

Trajectory

2016

Co-Founder & CTO

Byte Federal

Building the future of Bitcoin accessibility with thousands of ATMs nationwide

2015

CTO

DearReader.com

Leading technology for book recommendation platforms

2014

Creator

Marscoin®

Launched cryptocurrency to bootstrap planetary colonization

2009

CTO

Reading House

Full-stack development for the library market

2007

IT Manager

Proactive Reliability

Remote sensor networks for industrial analysis

2005

Champion

Prelude AI

Won international chatbot championship

2003

M.A.

University of Rostock

Computational Linguistics & Artificial Intelligence

04 / Research

Academic
publications

10+ Publications
50+ Citations
4 h-index
05 / Ventures

Building
the future