Cory Klippsten is the CEO of SwanBitcoin.com and author of the upcoming book "Bitcoin: Your Bright Orange Future." He also serves as an advisor to Riot Blockchain (NASDAQ: RIOT), Unchained Capital, and Bitcoin Venture Fund (TVP), and is a partner in Bitcoiner Ventures. As an advisor he has supported more than $250M of fundraising since 2016, and as an angel has funded 20+ early stage startups. Before startups, Klippsten worked for Google, McKinsey, Microsoft and Morgan Stanley, and earned an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago. He grew up in SF and Seattle, split 15 years between NYC and Chicago, and now lives in LA with his wife and daughters. His hobbies include Bitcoin, history and travel (Istanbul and Barcelona are favorites).
Hardcore bitcoiners explain why they are skeptical of "crypto" but love Bitcoin.
Network protocols tend toward one, and Bitcoin won the race long ago. The appropriate comparison for a global digital monetary protocol is another protocol we all use, the internet, not a company or an application. Bitcoiners are deeply troubled by fraud and unreliability. We are creating and joining a system of unstoppable, unbreakable, honest money.