Rohas Nagpal

About Rohas Nagpal

 
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I am the Chief Blockchain Architect at Hybrid Finance Blockchain (HyFi) and author of the Crypto Playbook.

With over two decades of experience in cybercrime investigation & cyber law, I have worked across 18 countries, investigating cyber crimes and data breaches for hundreds of organizations.

I am also a columnist for NDTV and Mint, conduct a free Blockchain Developer Course, and mentor early-stage Blockchain startups.

To add more logic and math to crypto price valuation, I have developed the Blockchain Token Valuator.

How it started...

I come from a military family and had the good fortune of growing up in many cities and attending many schools.

I started my career in the early 1990s as a hacker, working with Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows NT, and Novell NetWare.

My life-long love affair with Cryptography started when I chanced upon David Chaum's work on blind digital signatures and the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Menezes, Oorschot & Vanstonemy.

Cyber crime investigation...

In 1999, I co-founded the Asian School of Cyber Laws, where I worked for the next 16 years in cyber investigation and cyberlaw.

During this time, I also assisted the Government of India in framing draft rules under the Information Technology Act.

My work spanned 18 countries, and I have investigated cyber crimes and data breaches for hundreds of organizations across many sectors, including aerospace, banking, law enforcement, pharma, and shipping.

I also led the teams that developed "Collaborative Online Investigation Network" and the "ASCL Volatile Evidence Retrieval Tool" and authored the Cyber Crime Investigation Manual, referred to as a "bible for cybercrime investigators" by the Times of India.

Blockchain & crypto...

I first heard of Bitcoin in 2011 when I was assisting the police in a case involving the drug mafia.

I found the concept fascinating and even mined some bitcoins, but then made one of my biggest mistakes by "deleting" them.

In 2015, I decided to move into the blockchain space and spent four months barricaded at home studying bitcoin technology and setting up multichain blockchains.

In 2016, I co-founded Primechain and BankChain, a community of 37 banks plus IBM, Microsoft, and Intel. Our core product was a "self-building" blockchain ecosystem with a web app, PWA, and a Blockchain REST API service.

The project went into hibernation in early 2018 after the Reserve Bank of India's ban on crypto, but I continued as a Blockchain Architect for some very interesting projects.

Currently, I am the Chief Blockchain Architect at Hybrid Finance Blockchain (HyFi) and author of the Crypto Playbook.

With over two decades of experience in cybercrime investigation & cyber law, I have worked across 18 countries, investigating cyber crimes and data breaches for hundreds of organizations.

I am also a columnist for NDTV and Mint, conduct a free Blockchain Developer Course, and mentor early-stage Blockchain startups.

To add more logic and math to crypto price valuation, I have developed the Blockchain Token Valuator.

Some of my publications