Nic Carter

Nic Carter is a founding partner of Castle Island Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on public blockchain startups, and the co-founder of Coin Metrics, a blockchain data and analytics firm he started in 2017. Before that he was Fidelity's first dedicated cryptoasset analyst, where he developed some of the earliest institutional research on public blockchains. He is one of the most widely read writers in the industry, known for defending Bitcoin's energy use with data, popularizing proof of reserves as an accountability standard for exchanges, and coining the term "Operation Choke Point 2.0" for the alleged debanking of crypto firms. He holds a degree in philosophy from the University of St Andrews and an MSc in Finance and Investment from the University of Edinburgh.

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