B.T.O.P Special: Conversations With A Crypto Enthusiast Solicitor 🤯

This episode is an introduction to a series of podcasts we will be running together discussing the legal aspects of blockchain and crypto so you can be expertly educated.

Dans background:

1. 2007 – 2009 owned an IT company that provided network maintenance and upgrade services to the legal industry.
2. 2011 - starting looking into crypto, ultimately ended up mining BTC with GPU and USB asics followed by Blade Miners – did this for several years.
3. 2017 - starting mining BCH and BTC with a small butterfly miner then upgraded to a small farm of 8x Canaan Asic miners, resulting in me having to convert my home to 15amp wiring – very noisy time!
4. 2019 - providing advice to clients on cryptocurrency tracing and recovery options, various IP advice provided to developers of MTL project. Spoke at Pitcher Partners National Conference on cryptocurrency tracing.
5. 2020 – advising insolvency practitioners on cryptocurrency tracing claims (liquidations and bankruptcies), spoke at Pitcher Partners National Conference about the cryptocurrency recovery claims and use of ledger technology, various talks to law firms and insolvency practitioners on use of ledger technology, what is cryptocurrency and how mining works.
6. 2021 - advising on NFT project to be released in next 3 months (licensing agreements, consultancies agreements, corporate structures, IP), advising clients on recovering cryptocurrency from trading platforms.
7. 2022 - various cryptocurrency tracing claims, running a public examination against bankrupt with regards to their cryptocurrency trading activities, talks on metaverse and NFTs, Court applications for search and seizure of cold wallets/ seed phrases.

Enjoy!