Mark was trained as a Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) in 2019 by Andreas Antonopoulos. He helps businesses and individuals navigate the exciting and revolutionary world of Bitcoin through direct purchases, mining, secure storage, using Bitcoin as collateral, inheritance and generational wealth building.

Mark co-authored the e-book “Investing 101”, featured at Wall Street Survivor, and is a real estate developer from Pittsburgh, PA where he managed over 130,000 square feet of office and warehouse space.

Mark started his financial career advising U.S. Senator Harris Wofford (PA) on Tax and Budgetary issues. After he received a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of Southern California, he developed web sites during the dot-com boom for corporate clients in Los Angeles: Hyundai Motor America, Toshiba and Denso. Then he served as the Web manager for Annie’s Organics in Napa, California before moving to Montreal, Canada to work for the stock market simulation company, Stock-Trak, as Senior Marketing Director. His boutique online marketing agency, Berger & Fries, provided clients with SEO, online advertising and email marketing services for more than 20 years.

As a staunch ally of freedom, Mark quickly recognized the incredible potential of Bitcoin to further human freedom and self-sovereignty. Some of Bitcoin’s features:

• Bitcoin is the world’s first decentralized, digital store of value.
• Bitcoin has been running since 2009 with 99.99% uptime and zero security breaches, or “hacks”.
• Bitcoin is censorship resistant. It cannot be stopped by any government, military or judicial body on Earth.
• Bitcoin has a fixed, finite supply. There will never be more than 21 million bitcoins in the history of the world. This feature is hard coded into the Bitcoin protocol.
• Bitcoin makes everyone their own bank which carries with it great power and great responsibility.
• Transactions are fast and cheap. $1 million can be sent safely anywhere in the world for less than $1 and in less than 30 minutes.
• No paperwork or identification is required to use bitcoin. Any person, of any age, any race, any religion or any nation can use the open and permissionless Bitcoin network.
• Bitcoin is extremely secure, backed by millions of computers around the world, performing trillions of calculations per second. It is by far the most powerful computer network in the world.

Mark received a Bachelor of Arts from Pomona College in Claremont, California. He currently resides in Florida where freedom is valued.