About the Author

Michael McGilbourne's life mirrors the monetary evolution he explores in 2140 ? The Rise of Bitcoin Citadels. His journey from London's financial district to life as a traveling digital nomad reflects the very transformation his writing envisions.

Beginning as an intern at a London stockbroker, Michael advanced to become a financial advisor in the U.S. and later worked in foreign exchange risk insurance, witnessing firsthand the institutional machinery sustaining fiat monetary hegemony. These experiences provided him with rare insight into the systemic vulnerabilities that Bitcoin's mathematical certainty seeks to solve.

Leaving traditional finance behind, Michael founded yoga studios and an off-grid retreat center in the French Alps, learning to build harmony between human needs and natural systems. Much like the Rio Verde facility in his novel, this chapter of his life proved that technology and nature can not only coexist but thrive together.

In recent years, he has fully embraced Bitcoin's borderless promise, traveling the world with his wife and daughters as a digital nomad. Their global journey embodies the freedom and sovereignty Bitcoin represents, and the cross-cultural awareness that shapes his storytelling.

2140 ? The Rise of Bitcoin Citadels was written entirely on the road, crafted in cafés from Lisbon to Bali, mountain retreats in India, and during flights between continents. Each setting infused the work with a global perspective, blending the philosophical with the practical realities of a changing world.

Inspired by The Bitcoin Standard and countless encounters on his travels, from witnessing hyperinflation in Turkey to observing remittance flows in Southeast Asia, Michael bridges the gap between Bitcoin's technical community and the wider public seeking to understand what this new form of money means for humanity's evolution.

Driven by curiosity and conviction, he believes we are already living through the opening chapters of the story he writes and that the best way to understand the future is to participate in creating it.

2140 ? The Rise of Bitcoin Citadels: Genesis is the first book in a planned multi-volume series exploring Bitcoin's evolution through 2140 and beyond.