Best of Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Andreas Antonopoulos is one of (if not the) most renowned experts of the cryptocurrency industry. In this article, we give you a quick summary of his biography and present you his most interesting and inspiring speeches. Read all the way to the end, as there will be a little bonus waiting for you.

Who is Andreas Antonopoulos?

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a Greek-British Bitcoin advocate, born in London and raised in Athens. Antonopoulos graduated from University College London, where he received degrees in Computer Science, Data Communications and Distributed Systems. After his studies he co-founded a technology research company in New York City, advising dozens of Fortune 500 company executives on networking, security, data centers, and cloud computing. He also published more than 200 articles on security, cloud computing, and data centers.

In the early 1990s, Antonopoulos’ career as a public speaker kicked off, leading to more than 1,000 speaking engagements around the world. In 2014, Antonopoulos was appointed a teaching fellow at the University of Nicosia, the first university in the world to offer a Masters Degree in Digital Currency. He helped to develop the curriculum and continues to co-teach the Introduction to Digital Currencies course that is offered as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).

Antonopoulos is one of the rare Bitcoin and open blockchain experts who approaches the subject from an educational, political, cultural, and human perspective — not…