The Bitcoin Adviser Team

Partner · Region: Global · Author of Generational Bitcoin Playbook

Peter has been guiding clients in Bitcoin since 2016, combining deep industry knowledge with the ability to make complex custody concepts accessible. His focus is estate planning, generational wealth transfer, and helping families understand Bitcoin as a long-term asymmetric investment.

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Partner · Global Operations · SMSF security

Andy is the operational backbone at The Bitcoin Adviser and the creator of BitcoinSuper.io, an educational resource for Australians exploring bitcoin in SMSFs. At TBA, he helps trustees implement Collaborative Security, align audit evidence and keep documentation ready for succession and handover.

From collaborative security implementation to multi region onboarding, Andy translates complex requirements into simple runbooks so every engagement stays organised, documented, and ready for handover.

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Regions: Australia & Asia

Kai is a retired digital security and privacy professional with interests in human rights and open-source software, operating across Australia and broader Asia. Personally transacting in Bitcoin since 2016, she now operates on a Bitcoin standard and understands first-hand the peace of mind that comes with airtight inheritance planning.

Formerly in senior government roles across policy, legislation, and regulation, Kai brings decades of experience handling competing property rights. Her time at a global Bitcoin exchange focused on guiding SMSF customers through self-custody. She's also an accomplished poker player, honing observation, game theory, and risk-based decision making.

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Region: AU / NZ · Team: Looking Glass Education

Daz is an electrician from Queensland, Australia, and a lifelong music fan who still plays solo-acoustic gigs. He used that side income to explore personal investment strategies, studying an engineering degree while working full-time and supporting his young family (wife and two young boys). Those efforts led him to Bitcoin and to co-founding Looking Glass Education.

Today, Daz combines technical know-how with clear, patient coaching for families transitioning from traditional investments into collaborative security. He co-hosts Bitcoin education initiatives across Australia and helps clients implement rehearsed, fault-tolerant multisig vaults.

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Region: AU / NZ

Known as "Gaz" within the Australian Bitcoin community, he has a long track record in operational technology project management alongside a background in accounting, finance, and information systems engineering. His interest in value investing led him to rigorously evaluate Bitcoin beginning in 2018.

Gaz has many years of hands-on experience in various forms of bitcoin cold storage methods, implementing Bitcoin within SMSFs, and advising on bitcoin within a wealth management and risk framework. He helps clients critically assess their existing wealth structures before migrating capital into collaborative security.

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Region: AU / NZ

Chris has been involved with Bitcoin since 2011 personally and 2016 professionally. He co-founded Coinstop.io—Australia's oldest and most respected hardware wallet supplier—and has helped tens of thousands of people secure their Bitcoin with single-seed devices.

He is also the organiser of Bitcoin Alive, Australia's first Bitcoin-only conference. Chris now channels that security expertise into collaborative multisig vaults, guiding clients as they level up from single-sig to collaborative security.

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Region: AU / NZ

Surfer Jim is a gnarly libertarian, independent thinker, and truth seeker with a lifetime of experience and wisdom that he brings to every conversation on Bitcoin. He's been orange-pilling communities for years and is a fixture in grassroots education circles.

Jim works with clients ranging from everyday savers to high-net-worth families, helping them embed self-sovereignty and practical custody into their financial lives.

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Region: AU / NZ

James is a seasoned executive with extensive experience working with high-net-worth individuals as CEO of The Luxury Network Australia, the world's leading luxury affinity marketing and business networking group.

A knowledgeable Bitcoiner, James now helps clients across Australia and New Zealand restructure wealth into Bitcoin with secure governance—co-ordinating closely with legal, tax, and fiduciary professionals to align collaborative security with existing estate structures.

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Region: Mid North Coast

Brendan McDonald is a well-known figure in the Australian Bitcoin community, best recognised as one half of the 2-Bit Idiots podcast. He is passionate about spreading Bitcoin knowledge and serves as a go-to resource for Bitcoiners up and down the Mid North Coast.

Brendan works closely with families to document inheritance plans, rehearse recoveries, and translate complex custody concepts into approachable, plain-language playbooks.

Bitcoin & Wellness Retreats: Brendan works with clients referred by Pete Evans through immersive Bitcoin & Wellness retreats at Evolve Sanctuary in Northern NSW. These weekend experiences combine Bitcoin education with regenerative wellness practices.

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Region: Mid North Coast

Stacking Hats—affectionately known as "Hats"—is the other half of the 2-Bit Idiots podcast and curator of bitcoin-first.com. He is a long-standing voice in the Australian Bitcoin community and a trusted educator on collaborative security.

Hats cares deeply about privacy (he will happily use his real name once engaged) and supports clients who expect rigorous, discretion-first collaborative security deployments.

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Region: Sydney Northern Beaches

Andrew co-hosts the @Bitcoin_Sydney Northern Beaches Meetup, bringing together a community of thinkers and investors exploring sound money and stores of value. After building a 15-property portfolio, he realised real estate could not match Bitcoin's investment principles or performance.

Through The Bitcoin Adviser and BitcoinRealEstate.io, Andrew works alongside trusted professionals to help Australians restructure wealth into Bitcoin—transitioning superannuation out of industry funds into SMSFs and guiding families moving capital from real estate into Bitcoin with secure, long-term strategy.

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Region: Sydney Northern Beaches

Bayani Mills works alongside Andrew to deliver collaborative security playbooks and ongoing rehearsals for families and professionals across the Northern Beaches. The duo ensures every client receives hands-on support—from onboarding to estate documentation and emergency response plans.

He also curates Shop Bitcoin Australia, supplying vetted hardware, seed security, and merch that complement collaborative security engagements.

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Region: Norway / Scandinavia

A long-time defender of open-source principles and Lightning adoption, Hodlonaut helps clients design privacy-respecting custody workflows that balance resilience with discretion.

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Region: UK / EU

Known in European Bitcoin circles as "MTC," Mike is a former enterprise architect who now guides founders and family offices through Bitcoin treasury adoption. He focuses on governance, SOC2-aligned processes, and bridging internal control frameworks with multisig operations.

Region: United Kingdom

Thank you for joining us at The Bitcoin Adviser. As a valued member of our team, Rich brings a wealth of diverse financial perspectives to clients. Having spent more than a decade in U.K. tax and estate planning, Rich provides specialist assistance to high net worth individuals and businesses. Rich is responsible for client experience at one of the most forward thinking and knowledgeable Tax Chambers in London—and most importantly, Rich speaks fluent Bitcoin.

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Region: Europe

Stefan is a multilingual Bitcoin Adviser (french, english, italian, spanish, german) focused on helping european clients and their loved ones secure their bitcoin for the long run, regardless of their level of expertise.

After two decades in corporate fiat, he is now a "terminal bitcoiner", dedicating his life to Bitcoin and Bitcoiners through collaborative security and also with the Bitfluencers, THE Bitcoin Marketing Team, a group of bitcoin maxis capped at 21 members that provide Signal Over Noise and visibility on social media to Bitcoin only companies.

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Region: Netherlands / Europe

Wenze is a Bitcoin adviser focused on helping individuals, families, and businesses secure their Bitcoin for the long term. His work centers on self-custody, collaborative multisignature vaults, inheritance planning, and reducing single points of failure, both technical and human.

With a strong technical background and a methodical, education-first approach, Wenze supports clients who want to move beyond custodial solutions and short-term thinking, and instead build a Bitcoin strategy that still works decades from now.

Region: Japan

Experienced software project manager who has led global initiatives and now serves as Head of Operations at OpenSats, supporting free and open-source development within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Rob lives in the mountains of Japan, travels widely, and enjoys collaborating with clients who want open-source aligned collaborative security workflows.

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Region: Japan

Bilingual adviser raised abroad with deep respect for Japanese culture. Investing since 2012 and focused on Bitcoin since 2016, Josh now lives in rural Japan, guiding clients in Japanese on how to secure assets and future-proof their families.

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Region: North America

Holly is an accomplished author, speaker, and executive coach for entrepreneurs and business leaders worldwide. A passionate educator, she created the introductory "Bitcoin Curious?" course to help newcomers take their first steps with confidence.

With a background spanning finance and technology, Holly delivers clear Bitcoin education for high-net-worth families and empowers them to weave collaborative security into long-term strategic plans.

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Region: North / South America · Team: Looking Glass Education

Seb's early career was spent as a backcountry mountain bike guide and coach. In his spare time he dissected real estate, financial markets, and the monetary systems underpinning the economy—research that ultimately led him to Bitcoin.

As a co-founder of Looking Glass Education, Seb now guides clients from foundational literacy through to advanced multisig operational playbooks, blending real-world coaching skills with deep technical knowledge.

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Region: North America · Author of Proof Of Money

Terence is an Emmy-nominated producer with more than 20 movies and 30 television shows to his name. He invests in real estate, owns a mortgage business, strategises investments for clients, and consults entrepreneurs on cultivating their skills.

Author of "Proof of Money," Terence brings creative-industry and capital-markets expertise to high-net-worth clients looking to position Bitcoin as an asymmetric asset within diversified portfolios.

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Region: North / South America · Team: Looking Glass Education · Bitcoin Sovereign Academy

Dalia was born and raised in Medellín, Colombia. An industrial engineer by training, she built solutions for real-time logistics challenges in the flower industry and has always been driven by process optimisation.

After decades dedicated to simplifying complex mathematical concepts for students, Dalia shifted her focus to Bitcoin security and financial sovereignty. She now helps clients across the Americas build rigorous, process-driven bitcoin security.

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Region: North America · Leads Bitcoin IRA programme

Scott has spent more than thirty years working in IT as a consultant and CIO. Today he provides technical support for our self-directed IRA partnership with Advanta Trust—helping retirees and pre-retirees move traditional accounts into collaborative security without sacrificing compliance. Scott does not provide financial, tax, legal, or investment advice. Clients work directly with Advanta Trust to establish and manage their IRAs.

Based in Nashville's Bitcoin Park, he provides technical support for Bitcoin 101 education, SDIRA onboarding, and the documentation required so heirs, trustees, and CPAs all stay aligned.

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Region: North America

Jason is a founder, entrepreneur, and senior executive who has led and advised companies across the entertainment industry for more than 20 years. As Slated's #2 executive for nearly eight years, he built and ran the platform's single-picture and multi-picture film finance practices.

Jason consults innovative film, TV, and gaming companies as well as fund managers, family offices, and HNWIs—helping them integrate Bitcoin into broader capital strategies.

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Region: North America · Team: Looking Glass Education

Jordan spent the last fifteen years teaching wilderness survival skills to people of all ages. His mission is to help others become self-sovereign—whether in a remote forest or in their Bitcoin journey.

Alongside his educational work, he manages a fine arts and design studio serving clients and galleries worldwide. Jordan also collaborates with the Looking Glass team, guiding families through collaborative security frameworks.

Region: Africa · Team: Looking Glass Education

Entrepreneur and financial inclusion advocate with over a decade of experience building products for small-scale farmers, including index crop insurance. Recognised by Fast Company as one of South Africa's top twenty young entrepreneurs under 30 and a Mandela Washington Fellow.

Kudzai sees Bitcoin as the best solution to exclusionary financial systems and guides clients across Africa in building robust collaborative security frameworks.

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