Nic Cary
The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Nic Cary presents as a textbook Pioneer, having co-founded Blockchain.com in 2011 in York, England, at a time when, as he acknowledges, peers warned it would be career suicide. Throughout this interview Cary consistently frames digital assets not as speculative instruments but as foundational infrastructure for a fairer global financial system, articulating a clear big idea and returning to it repeatedly under skeptical questioning. He draws on General Petraeus's leadership framework, getting the grand strategic idea right and then creating conditions to reassess, as a deliberate model for how he navigates extreme market volatility. His willingness to engage hostile discovery, regulatory friction, ESG criticism, and the FTX fallout without defensiveness, while doubling down on long-term conviction, marks him as someone who builds toward a horizon others cannot yet see. His parallel work with Sky's Limit reinforces a mission beyond commerce.
“If you had told me in 2011 that there'd be a $3 trillion asset class, hundreds of millions of users worldwide, and that BlackRock would be selling Bitcoin to my parents generation, I would probably be dancing on top of the table.”
“Money is just a social construct that we all consent to that enables us to exchange wealth over time. And we've used a lot of different technologies to do that.”
“The big idea for the past decade was that it was possible for a computer system to create a more fair economic and accessible financial system for the world. And I still think and believe that to be true.”
Money Maze Podcast: “Cryptocurrencies: Ill-Advised Speculation or an Alternative Asset Class? With Nic Cary, Co-Founder and Vice Chair at Blockchain.com”
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