Patrick McCorry is an Assistant Professor at King’s College London's cybersecurity group. His focus is cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, cryptography and decentralised systems. Patrick is the UK’s first PhD graduate in Cryptocurrencies and his work has recently appeared at Devcon3, Scaling Bitcoin 2017, Breaking Bitcoin 2017 and BPASE 2018 alongside numerous academic venues. In the past, Patrick worked at IBM UK on the CICS Portfolio which is used by most banks in the world.