Peter Vessenes is an investor and technologist with deep roots in digital currency, tokenization, and blockchain. An early adopter of Bitcoin (he started mining in 2010), he is considered a crypto pioneer: he founded the first venture-backed Bitcoin company; the first company to deliver 65nm, 1TH/s Bitcoin mining systems at scale; created the first global Bitcoin conference; co-founded the Bitcoin Foundation; and was the first crypto industry person in the world to advise the US Senate GAO, The US Treasury, and other agencies about Bitcoin.In 2016, Vessenes launched New Alchemy, a leading provider of blockchain technology, strategy, and capital solutions to some of the world’s most innovative companies, and in 2020 he co-founded Noteworthy, producing nation-state grade physical banknotes that secure Bitcoin and other digital currencies.Currently, Vessenes serves as the CEO and Chief Cryptographer of LAMINA1, a Metaverse-first Blockchain which he co-founded with Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson. He continues to invent, incubate, invest in, and advise highly-disruptive startups through his venture capital firm and family office Capital 6. Vessenes holds merely an Sc.B. in Mathematics with a focus on cryptography, but he reads a lot.