Dr. Corey Petty is co-host of ‘Hashing It Out’, ‘The Bitcoin Podcast’, and started his blockchain-focused research in late 2012 during his Ph.D. candidacy in computational chemical physics from Texas Tech University. Shortly after finishing his degree, he left academia to continue pursuing his passion for blockchain technology. He then entered the security industry for a few years attempting to break and fix ICS/SCADA networks using novel blockchain solutions. Now, during the day, he works as head of security at Status.im