My professional background in international capital markets and securities law provided a foundational understanding of universal economic sensibilities that drive global markets.  I began my career during the dot.com craze, celebrating countless IPO's and stock offerings, too many of which later ended in the subsequent recession.  After the sub-prime mortgage crisis, I moved to alternative markets and geographic regions, flip-flopping back and forth between debt and equity based on market whims beyond the control of individual investors.   Something was clearly wrong.  

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Regulations governing financial markets and institutions aim to protect the interests of individual investors.  But history has proven such regulations have a perverse result, albiet unintended, due to unbalanced power dynamics inherent within centralized financial institutions favoring the wealthiest at the expense of struggling individuals. 

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I was an early believer in digital assets, a 2008 financial experiment that has since evolved into a network of transactional value and efficiency that changed global commerce.  For many years denigrated by governments and centralized institutions, cyrptopcurrency is now essential to these same institutions because they no longer can afford to ignore it.