Simon good to get you on Real Vision. If you can give a bit of background about

yourself so people know who you are and and then we can start digging into

some things. Sure, yeah, so my journey in finance and crypto has been a 20 year journey when I started in economics, started working in

investment banking, worked as a stockbroker, then a market

maker, then in corporate finance.

And then through the corporate towel in 2006 and started giving lectures on monetary reform. I joined a movement called the monetary reform movement, which was a precursor to the Bitcoin.

I started giving some lectures and got myself invited to the first

Bitcoin conference, wrote a book called Bank to the Future, Protect Your

Future before governments go bust, which was the first published book in the

world to include Bitcoin and now an investor

in about a hundred different companies in the industry from coin-based to Krakhan,

bit Stamp, Bit-Fin, and many others, and founded a platform called Bank to the Future.com

which allows investors to invest in the equity of companies in the Bitcoin and crypto and FinTech industry.

So talk to me about discovering your journey of discovering Bitcoin and then starting to think about the space

and then we'll move into the investments that you made and some of that stuff.

But I'd love to know how the hell you got into it?

Yeah, sure. So it was, when I was writing the book bank to the Future, I was really going geeky and diving deep into many of the problems in banking.

I even started reading like Bancrot Act papers for the Bank of England and various other things.

What were the main problems you were seeing when you were looking at that?

So I summarized it into three main problems of banking that we were trying to find a solution for.

The first is that when you deposit your money with a bank, the bank becomes a legal owner of your

money, which really subjects it to bailings and other things.

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