Jack Laurence

You'd be forgiven for thinking that a guy who would go on to be accused of helping North Korea use cryptocurrency to avoid sanctions would be some sort of child tech prodigy.

But that's not quite the case with Chris, who had other aspirations as a young guy.

I used to like our IT classes at school, but I don't think that taught me much.

But my main passion then was actually theatre.

So when I was younger there, I was in sort of an English speaking theatre group.

I spent most of my time leaving school, going and rehearsing, spending my whole weekends rehearsing for whatever different shows they were putting on.

So really my life until I was sort of in my early 20s was all about theatre.

It's what I studied once I left school.

So really tech wasn't,

something really that instinctively I wanted to get involved in.

It was more I wanted to, in the end, wanted to direct plays.

But I ended up here.

Well, I would imagine there's possibly more money in tech and crypto than there is in directing plays.

That was the driving force.

I think I lived at the time in London when I was a trainee theater director above a Portuguese restaurant on the South Lambus Road in London, where there was mold on the walls, there was mold on the shower.

And I woke up one day and I thought, you know, I need to get a real job.

I can't keep living like this.

That proper job would end up being in the crypto sphere.

But the road into the world of cryptocurrency was really a mixture of luck and odd coincidences, which all began with a mobile phone plan.

I was living in Berlin in Germany.