2024-01-19 –, Bitcoin Park
Regulation: Risk or Opportunity
Colin has been a serial entrepreneur for over 20 years. He has a background in law and engineering, and in addition to devising the KYC-minimized aspects of Distributed Hash, he has built out the entire IT infrastructure for Distributed Hash, including building several custom tools to ease management and collect detailed mining data. He and his wife work together to collect and analyze ASIC data to generate actionable insights both for individual customers, and the community at large.
Eric McErlain is Director of External Affairs for GRIID Infrastructure, a purpose-built Bitcoin mining company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio with operations in Texas, Tennessee, and New York. McErlain is based in the Washington, DC area, where he works at the nexus of government affairs, public policy, and media relations. He’s also part of GRIID’s power pipeline team and is the company’s business development lead with the nuclear power industry. Prior to joining GRIID, McErlain spent most of the previous two decades with the Nuclear Energy Institute, a Washington, DC-based trade association that represents the nuclear technologies industry.
Ilya Rekhter is the co-founder and CEO of Megawatt, a vertically-integrated Bitcoin mining company based in Indiana.
Prior to Megawatt, Ilya built DoubleMap, a transit-tech company that landed on four consecutive Inc. 5000 lists before being acquired by Ford in 2019.
Currently, Ilya is championing the Blockchain Basics bill, known as HB1388 in the Indiana House of Representatives. This bill, which protects Bitcoiner rights and sovereignty, is presently being voted on in the Indiana House before moving on to the Senate.
Brian Morgenstern is the head of public policy for Riot Platforms, Inc., one of America’s largest publicly-traded Bitcoin mining enterprises. He leads the company’s advocacy efforts at the state and federal level regarding energy, environment, financial services, tax, and national security. He is on the executive committee of the Chamber of Digital Commerce and the board of directors of the Texas Blockchain Council. He previously served at the U.S. Treasury Department as senior advisor and deputy assistant secretary and as White House deputy press secretary and deputy communications director.