Quiet Riot, AKA "QR", is ever searching for comfortable shoes, dry technical reading material, and passionate peers. He grew up on a farm in Western New York with a mechanical shop full of tools and challenges just across the street. The hacker mindset set in. In school he was drawn to FreeBSD, crypto, bio systems, RF, privacy, locksport and filmmaking. He spoke at the first CarolinaCon about lock manipulation and even today enjoys gutting locks, and drinking porters, with Oak City Locksport [.com!] on sunny Sunday afternoons. Daytime he designs and builds automated video studios, for multi-site virtualized telebriefings, around the globe. Bitcoin became a strong interest for QR in 2010.