About Christopher Price

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Who is Christopher Price?

Christopher Price is a mad scientist with an MBA

I'm a scientist; because I invent, transform, create, and destroy for a living, and when I don't like something about the world, I change it. -Rick Sanchez

I delight in forging chaos into something worth introducing to the world. I explore and negotiate strategic partnerships for fun. Audacious missions and community service inspire me.

Some say I resemble a mad scientist, or nutty professor, depending on the moment. Hyperfocus and time blindness are part of my charm.
Plus, it helps me relate to all the neurodivergent geniuses who would sooner eat glass than intentionally talk with a business guy.

The MBA is real, but so are the scars.

Areas of Expertise

Digital asset custody —yes, that includes managing jointly-owned crypto assets.
Compliance workflows including KYC/AML
Blockchain product development
RF location and tracking
Business and marketing strategy
Nonprofit management & operations

What is Christopher Doing Now?

Companies & Projects

Rivflow

My main focus: Self-custody support for teams and families with crypto assets. Sane and compliant treasury management, inheritance... that kind of stuff.

Prima Research

A cautionary tale of the perils of hyperfocus and an overly-supportive family. See Patents below...

Digital Asset Advisors

I've got a plan for it.

Stealth Projects!

So mysterious!

Patents

We are actively seeking licensing partners or will sell the IP to the right buyer.

The patents describe a method to identify, track, and react to wireless devices within a defined 3D space. They have practical applications that span a wide range of industries, from locating and tracking cell phones to E911 navigation, drone control in confined spaces, autonomous vehicle controls, weapons targeting, and countermeasures.

Cited by: AT&T, Motorola, Troverlo, IBM, Canon, Fujitsu, Comtech/TeleCommunicaton Systems.

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The original: "On Systems and Methods for Gathering Information About Discrete Wireless Terminals"

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What is some interesting trivia about Christopher?

Conversation Starters

When I was 10, I spent much of the summer in Cairo, Egypt, without my parents, chaperoned by two Lebanese med students. We quickly learned that my blonde hair attracted women from miles around; we worked out a mutually beneficial arrangement.
I lived with a Mennonite family for most of my senior year of high school, when my family moved to Cuenca, Ecuador.
I started a very short-lived BBS with a 300 baud modem on a party line.
I was on the internet years before the World Wide Web became a thing.
I used to own the domain bing.com until I sold it to a VC. Yes, that bing.com. It ended up being the terminal value of a failed project after I spent a few weeks cold-calling juice brands and every other company with a name related to cherries. A German engine component company executive assured me, "Nobody will ever pay more than $10,000 for a domain." He was wrong.
The genesis of the patents with my name on them was that my neighbor's boyfriend missed a call in a London pub because it was too noisy.
I chatted with Nick Szabo, renowned computer scientist, legal scholar, and cryptographer, during a lunch break at the SYNCHRONIZE-DLT for Financial Institutions conference for "over 500 senior financial services executives, leading practitioners, and regulators in New York City on April 19th, 2018." (FYI, DLT is short for Distributed Ledger Technology, the term these folks use instead of blockchain.) Hilariously, Szabo was a featured speaker intent on plugging "the benefits of trust minimization and decentralization" to this crowd.

Mr. Szabo developed the concept of Smart Contracts in 1994 and, though he denies it, is often speculated to be the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. We talked mostly about tactics to repel the raccoons invading his garden.
I'm told that the digital asset custody process I created for a blockchain startup was the first digital asset collateral custody workflow robust enough to become insured by a major carrier. (Impossible to verify, but maybe.)
I was an advisor to the founder of Wall Street Bets and a team working to create compliant global retail access to tokenized securities. The INSDR portfolio meme ETF/ETP was one of the interesting products to come out of that:

‍WallStreetBets and DIGTL to Launch Retail Products with Liquid Network on Global Stock Exchange

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Position

Senior Front-End Developer

Date Started

2014

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Hobbies

Drinking Coffee, Netflix n' Eating

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