Former physicist, after almost twenty years in the investment banking and asset management industries I discovered bitcoin in 2014: since then it has been my major professional and academic interest.

Founder and CEO of CheckSig (transparent bitcoin custody for institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals), I am also scientific director of the Digital Gold Institute (R&D, consultancy, and training about bitcoin and blockchain technology) and the Crypto Asset Lab of Milano-Bicocca, one of the Universities where I teach “Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology”.

I have been Planning Committee member of the Scaling Bitcoin conference, I am an occasional contributor to Bitcoin, and maintain btclib, a bitcoin python library.