Chris D'Costa is a Lifetime Member of the Bitcoin Foundation, is the Founder of Europe's first Bitcoin Foundation Chapter (in Belgium) and Founding Director and Lead Developer of the Meek Project to develop the world's first fully autonomous hardware bitcoin wallet. Chris is one of the leading Bitcoin Evangelists in Brussels Belgium. 

He studied art and design at Portsmouth Art College in the UK in the pre-internet peer year of Sir Jony Ive, graduating and founding his own design company soon afterwards. Seven years later on a trip to New Zealand he discovered programming and on returning to the UK, left his career behind to study C++ and structured program design.

Over the last 15 years Chris has earned a reputation in Business Intelligence circles working for some of the largest and most profitable companies in the world. Most recently he has worked with the BBC to assist in identifying supporting evidence behind the Facebook Fake Likes report of Rory Cellan-Jones in 2012.

Chris has a keen interest in explaining financial matters in plain language and this forms the basis of his blog "With this in mind" .

A UK national, he spends most of the time in Europe where he has family.