iAm Hiro Shinohara

Bitcoin Otaku.

After encountering my first Macintosh computer at home when I was a kid, I learned the joy of creating through a computer. Right after that, I was strongly influenced by a tv program on Marc Andreessen’s Netscape-driven internet revolution.

As a middle-schooler, I visited the US for the first time and encountered the phenomenon that would later be termed the dot-com bubble. This was when I decided to pursue a career in the tech industry.

Back in Japan, I devoted myself to software development. After tasting initial success by creating a mobile website, I founded my first startup at the age of nineteen. Since then, I have been involved in numerous internet-based startups in fields including mobile applications, cloud hosting, IoT semiconductors, and have founded companies in Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and the US.

I was inspired by the emergence of Bitcoin and its aim to create a decentralized society, and since then, I have chosen to focus my work on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain. In 2013, I founded the website BitBiteCoin.com to provide news about Bitcoin. In 2015, I co-founded a company called SIVIRA to research and develop Blockchain in order to establish a new economic model for the next generation. Furthermore, since 2017, I’m running a bunch of startups under a decentralized organization Hulor/Harmony to make a sustainable society with emerging disruptive technologies like Blockchain.

On a different note, I am also the author of popular blog articles about the Evangelion series.

I’m a GOX survivor. Follow me on Twitter here, Mastodon here, and Nostr pub key is npub180gu7x3tjd2nce8f8tjmgndvsqp0q0k98z7y7s5uxpkx2t2dt8eqpmhu97 this.

Current Projects

Past Projects

Genesis Mining

2017-2019
Joined as a representative in Japan to help the world’s largest cloud mining company. Genesis Mining provides the easiest way to own cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum.

Advisor, GMO Internet Inc.

2017-2018
Helped to kickoff crypto-related businesses as GMO, one of the most largest Japanese Internet companies.

Co-Founder, Hotaru Inc. – Merged into Hulor Inc.

2017-2018
Crypto based social impact investment startup known as Hotaru has now become Hulor.

Bitcoin School

2016-2019
Online Bitcoin community to learn Bitcoin and Blockchain for technology geeks, traders, and investors.

“What is Bitcoin” in Japanese

2014-
Author of one of the top-ranked articles on Google with the word “Bitcoin” in Japanese. It is now under bitFlyer.

BitBiteCoin.com

2013-2018
All about Bitcoin dairy YouTube show, and a Bitcoin news website since 2013.

messa TV

2005-2012
A technology podcast show was featuring Japanese startups and the latest tech news.

Articles

My blog posts

Articles about me

仮想通貨とブロックチェーン 2018 年総括と未来への展望
- FNN プライムオンライン
ブロックチェーン技術で終わる世界、変わるメディアの未来
- FNN プライムオンライン
THE BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTION IS COMING
- SPECTRA by MITSUBISHI Heavy Industries Group
書店にはいかない流行より「私だけ」追求：日本経済新聞
- 日本経済新聞
【未来予測】ブロックチェーン技術は、なぜ産業を「ぶっ壊す」のか
- NewsPicks
「ブロックチェーンで既得権を破壊する」と豪語、起業家・篠原ヒロとは何者？肩書きは起業家・オタク・ハッカー
- Business Insider Japan

Stages

Asian Development Bank

Consultation Workshop on Digital Technologies for Advancing Food Security, Climate Action and Environmental Sustainability
- 14 March 2019, How Blockchain-enabled food traceability is changing the agricultural supply chain in Japan