Tuur Demeester is author of the Dutch financial newsletter MacroTrends and started recommending his subscribers to buy bitcoin at $5. His article "The Gloom of Central Banking", about the thoughts and limitations of financial authorities, was the first widely read article to advise Bitcoin as an investment to fund managers. Living part of the year in Latin America, Tuur sees first hand how the Bitcoin market is developing in Argentina.He was a speaker at the Bitcoin 2013 conference in Silicon Valley.   

After reading Ludwig von Mises' Human Action as a student, Tuur decided to drop out of university and pursue his studies in a self-directed manner. He co-founded the Murray Rothbard institute in 2007 and later translated Jesus Huerta de Soto's Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles into Dutch. He also co-founded two private schools, one in Belgium and one in the Netherlands. Tuur Demeester has so far lived in nine cities and traveled to thirty countries.