Matthias is an enthusiast for Open-Source projects and facilitates projects in privacy, cryptography, and embedded technology. He is a Monero Cypherpunk, a professional and published writer, an awarded researcher in science and technology, and the co-creator of an early Bitcoin art piece Bitcoincloud (2010). He is the co-founder of the RIAT Institute and works on reverse engineering and radical open-source strategies. Matthias is also working with https://decentral.community (an annual program at the Chaos Communication Congress).