I write for Bitcoin Magazine and do cultural research around Bitcoin. The question that runs through most of my work is how Bitcoin builds cultural capital (a term I borrow from Bourdieu): the credibility, intellectual seriousness, and public recognition that an organization or a technology accumulates over time, separate from its price or technical performance. I think this is becoming important faster than most people in the industry realize, for how Bitcoin gets regulated, how institutions perceive it, and how it will be talked about in ten years.

My background is academic. I spent over a decade doing research in Germany and Austria, working with archives, museums, and universities. Provenance research, digitization, exhibitions, teaching. I left my university position in 2024 to focus on Bitcoin entirely. The training stayed with me. How institutions frame things, how official language shifts, how credibility is constructed or lost over time: I was studying these questions long before I applied them to Bitcoin.

Based in Germany.