Nolan is the Director of Research at Manhattan-based CoinDesk. His work with Bitcoin and blockchain technology began in 2013 with a long term study of cryptocurrencies for the Canadian Senate Banking Committee. After convincing the committee to study Bitcoin, he helped select witnesses and draft the report while also dreaming up a fun publicity stunt — as the report was tabled in Parliament, it was also simultaneously hashed into the Bitcoin blockchain. He believes we stand at the brink of a revolution on cryptography through the personal use and widespread deployment of cryptocurrencies.