Matthew J RipponMatthew earned his BSc in International History in 2001 from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2008, he was awarded an MSc in Globalisation and Development at Queen Mary, University of London. His PhD, at the same institution, tudied the intellectual property of geographically-specific food names. Matthew's current interests include crypto-currency, financial technology, libertarianism, black and white photography, and Russian literature. He became interested in Bitcoin in early 2012 and attended the London Bitcoin conference in September of that year. Matthew is currently writing a paper about innovators and entrepreneurs in the Bitcoin economy. In January 2016, he was granted Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) status by the CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4). Read More Read Less