Bitcoin · Teaching · Research
Founder, professor, researcher. Bitcoin since 2014.
Co-founder and CEO of CheckSig, an Italian regulated bitcoin custodian. Founder and Scientific Director of Digital Gold Institute and of Crypto Asset Lab (Department of Business and Law, University of Milano-Bicocca). Former physicist, in finance from 1996 to 2018, QuantLib founder and btclib maintainer.
- CheckSig
- DGI
- Crypto Asset Lab
- Bicocca · Unimi · ESSEC
- QuantLib
- btclib
Work
CheckSig, Digital Gold Institute, Crypto Asset Lab, open source and the earlier career in finance.
Teaching & Research
Bitcoin & Crypto-Assets at Milano-Bicocca, the University of Milan and ESSEC. Papers on Hayek Money and interest rates.
Writing & Talks
Posts, past events and media coverage, from the United Nations to TEDx.
Bruce
A long-time Springsteen fan, with a few stories to tell.
Bitcoin
Digital gold, taught and built
I worked in finance for more than twenty years, from 1996 to 2018. I discovered bitcoin in 2014. Since then bitcoin has taken a growing share of my work. I left Banca IMI in 2018 and stopped teaching finance in 2022. Bitcoin is now my main professional and academic interest: Hayek Money for price stability, a university course, a Python library and a custody company.
Latest
- Event · 2026-10-06Digital Gold Institute, quarterly report #31 (Q3 2026) IT online, live
- Media · 2026-10-16CryptoWeek (weekly podcast) IT Apple Podcasts
- Post · 2019-06-18Libra, il coin di Facebook IT
Invite me to speak
Depending on agenda and interest, I can be available pro-bono as speaker, panelist, lecturer, or MC for scientific, academic, and community-organized non-profit events. I charge a fee for commercial events with admission price or sponsors, and for consulting.