Bernard Mikhail is an instructor in peer-to-peer technology and a startup mentor. A Co-founder and CEO of an industry-leading blockchain and cryptocurrency research company serving academic institutions, corporations, and government agencies. A globally distributed payment system using blockchain. A platform for philanthropy that encourages giving cryptocurrency to underprivileged people who otherwise could not access finance or investment opportunities. A cryptocurrency data and market intelligence startup. He offers financial products such as options, leveraged tokens, derivatives, and volatility products and serves both experienced and novice traders, with the intention of helping everyone access financial services. His firm is one of the first US investment firms with funds in cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Investing solely in blockchain technologies, they are now one of the largest institutional crypto holders and also one of the largest global investors in cryptocurrency start-ups. The project brings together work by cryptocurrency’s most important experts and their in-house writers to provide in-depth information, news, and analysis. Bernard Mikhail was Chairman of the educational committee of the Bitcoin Foundation and founded the Cryptocurrency Research Group for investors in cryptocurrencies, offering interest-bearing accounts, credit, and trading. He manage billions of dollars in assets for millions of users using a digital asset trading platform that was one of the first to offer cryptocurrency trading. He also led the development of the cryptocurrency Cardano in 2017. He also co-founded Ethereum, called a “decentralized mining network and software development platform rolled into one” which went live in 2015 with 65 million Ether (ETH) coins. Its market capitalization was around $16 billion in early 2020 (Bitcoin was around $150 billion). He also worked in a semiconductor company offering servers, chips, and cloud solutions for AI and blockchain. Their products include the cryptocurrency mining platform, blockchain super computing hardware, and the mining pool and block explorer. He was a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2016. He was Managing Director of a World finance company during its acquisition, as it grew revenue 7x in 18 months and organized the largest industry event in 2017. He believes that cryptocurrency will begin “the greatest wealth transfer of our lifetimes.” He is a cryptocurrency advocate who believes that Bitcoin will succeed as a safe haven against inflation and an alternative to gold. He hopes to create a more inclusive global economy by “making money more fluid and people more empowered,” backed by open-source software. He is also Advisor to Intelligence Research Institutes. He blogs and tweets about crypto, technology, and current events.