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• The manner in which complex systems fail and false senses of security Semiconductor manufacturing equipment
• Economic distortions related to broken capital formation systems
• The nature of money, misconceptions about money, and, of course, bitcoin Vault insurance.

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Daniel H. Gallancy is the CEO and a founding member of Atakama, a NYC-based software company. Atakama hardens security by providing a fully distributed cryptographic key management system as well as the elimination of shared secrets (passwords, ID numbers, etc.) All aspects of Atakama are decentralized: storage of cryptographic keys, key revocationand key reissuance. Mr. Gallancy has provided bitcoin and blockchain-related advisory services for private corporations, investment management firms, post- trade processing companies, central counterparties, and US State and Federal regulators. Prior to founding Atakama, Mr. Gallancy spent ten years in the asset management industry.

Mr. Gallancy was an investment professional at Beaconlight Capital and, before that, at Alson Capital Management.  Mr. Gallancy's areas of focus included semiconductor capital equipment, IT hardware, software and telecommunications. Mr. Gallancy was responsible for corporate diligence, financial analysis and investment decision-making. Daniel is one of the co-founders of SolidX Management LLC, a company that has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the proposed launch of the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust, which will seek to provide shareholders with exposure to the daily change in the U.S. dollar price of bitcoin.

Bitcoin to be held by the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust will carry insurance against theft, loss and other adverse operational events. Daniel was raised in Queens where he attended public school. He taught himself to program in C at age 10. Daniel graduated from Stuyvesant High School before attending the University of Pennsylvania where he earned a BA in Physics and a BSE in Electrical Engineering. During college Daniel built a wireless, laser-based network communication link (back in the days before WiFi). He earned an MBA from Columbia University and is a CFA Charter holder.