Peter Vessenes

About Peter Vessenes

Peter Vessenes is an investor and technologist with deep roots in digital currency, tokenization, and blockchain. An early adopter of Bitcoin (he started mining in 2010), he is considered a crypto pioneer: he founded the first venture-backed Bitcoin company; the first company to deliver 65nm, 1TH/s Bitcoin mining systems at scale; created the first global Bitcoin conference; co-founded the Bitcoin Foundation; and was the first crypto industry person in the world to advise the US Senate GAO, The US Treasury, and other agencies about Bitcoin.In 2016, Vessenes launched New Alchemy, a leading provider of blockchain technology, strategy, and capital solutions to some of the world’s most innovative companies, and in 2020 he co-founded Noteworthy, producing nation-state grade physical banknotes that secure Bitcoin and other digital currencies.Currently, Vessenes serves as the CEO and Chief Cryptographer of LAMINA1, a Metaverse-first Blockchain which he co-founded with Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson. He continues to invent, incubate, invest in, and advise highly-disruptive startups through his venture capital firm and family office Capital 6. Vessenes holds merely an Sc.B. in Mathematics with a focus on cryptography, but he reads a lot.

Experience

1. Founder

   Capital6

   Jan 2019 — Present

Education

• Brown University

  Sc.B., Mathematics; emphasis in cryptography