Bryan Bishop

Bryan Bishop is a Bitcoin Core developer who is CTO and Director atAvanti Bank & Trustwhere he he is helping to transform the banking industry with crypto. With a background in software engineering, Bishop previously worked at LedgerX (now FTX US Derivatives) from 2014-2018 before returning to a life of consulting in fintech. In his non-commercial work, he has volunteered as a contributor to theBitcoin Coreproject.

Bishop and Max Berry, a former lab scientist at a biotech company, are now starting a company focused on theproduction of designer babiesand human germline genetic engineering. Bishop refers to himself as a transhumanist, believing that technology can improve humans in profound ways. In 2016, Bishop came up with a way todelay Bitcoin transactionsbefore receiving them, known as “the Vault”.

He is also a public speaker and published scholar (Nucleic Acids Research, J. Comp. Inf. Sci. Eng.) and self-proclaimed “Do-It-Yourself biohacker”.

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