Crypto and Blockchain 2020 and beyond

Blockchain Australia is proud to support the Crypto Fire Alliance with this year's most exciting meet-up to discuss what is happening in Crypto and Blockchain in 2020.

We'll open the night with a couple of presentations. first up will be William Wright – Co-Founder of Mining Store talking all things mining!

William Wright is an experienced cryptocurrency miner and has been involved in the industry for 5 years. His background was in Banking and Foreign Exchange before he and his business partner Callum Cameron founded Mining Store. William and Callum run Australia's largest and most trusted cryptocurrency hardware supplier. They also run a very active cryptocurrency community with over 500 members

Johnathan Ross- Business Intelligence and Analytics and Lucy Lovegrove Head of Communications- Loki

Loki is a privacy network which allows users to transact and communicate privately over the internet, providing a suite of tools to help maintain the maximum amount of anonymity possible while browsing, transacting and communicating online.

Matt Harry- Cloudbreak

Mr Harry has a background in wholesale currency trading and close to 15 years experience in financial markets. Most recently Mr Harry worked as a consultant to the Corporate and Institutional space in the areas of foreign exchange risk management and operations streamlining. As a global award winning foreign exchange consultant Mr Harry has strong experience in the area of managing cross-functionality teams to achieve best-case outcomes for investors and clients alike.

Our panel will include:

Grant Colthup – CEO Mine Digital Exchange
Grant is an experienced and trusted financial professional. He has held positions with a global macro hedge fund, Macquarie Bank, proprietary trading firm and IAG (Australia’s largest general insurance company).
Grant has been involved in cryptocurrencies and digital assets for the past several years and in that time has become a valuable member of the Australian crypto community, recently being elected to the Board of Blockchain Australia.

Zia Word - Crypto Queens
Zia is an experienced entrepreneur with two exits. Involved in blockchain startups since 2013, she was co-founder & CSO of crypto & blockchain ecosystem chozun 途赞 in China, exiting late 2018.
She now consults in the space and is currently working on building her own blockchain, Web 3 &DeFi investment fund - Findy Ventures to include a one-of-a kind accelerator program and social
enterprise vertical.

Joseph Shew- Crypto Consulting Institute

Joe is the founder and CEO of Crypto Consulting Institute. He helps investors safely create wealth in cryptocurrencies through his proven 5 step process.
Over the last few years, Joe has featured on Channel Nine, Channel Ten, Dollars With Sense TV and spoken at events across the world from Barclays Bank in London, to the Bitcoin Blockchain Fair and various events that he and his team throughout the UK and Asia Pacific, alongside some of the biggest names in cryptocurrency.

David Habibi - Community Manager Decred

David Habibi is the Decred Community Manager for Australia. He has a Bachelor of Information Technology, and has been involved with cryptocurrency and blockchain technology since the early days. He works professionally with companies in the medical, tech, and financial industries.

Decred is a multi-platform digital currency with support for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Easy-to-use wallet apps enable sending, receiving, and mining Decred with just a few clicks.

For those who like to tinker, Decred provides a full suite of command line tools allowing customization of the Decred experience.
And our very own hosts Karen Cohen and David Jackson from Blockchain Australia.

This event will be raising money for the Crypto Fire Alliance ( entry is not free) a minimum of $10 donation is required at the door ( Fiat/ card/ crypto all accepted)

Thanks to our sponsors:

Stone & Chalk for the room and Mine Digital for the food and drinks