The blockchain space race: It’s all about connection

Information Age spoke to Colin Cantrell, founder of Nexus, about the real applications and innovation surrounding the emerging blockchain world.

Founded by entrepreneur Colin Cantrell, Nexus draws inspiration from his father Jim Cantrell’s work on space exploration with Elon Musk as a founder of the SpaceX company.

“I asked my father, what do you think is Elon’s most valuable trait was and he said his inability to conceive failure,” said Cantrell. “That’s how he was able to make so many rockets and come to the point of almost bankruptcy, but still he could not perceive himself as failing.”

Since its formation, Nexus has been striving to bring real innovation and choice to the blockchain world, introducing new concepts such as satellite enabled operations and an open source model that offers superior speed, scalability and business integration.

In the interview with Cantrell, he expressed an interest in space advancement and coding — in particular — since a very young age.

He learned Visual Basic programming language at age 12, and by 16 he was already designing rockets with his father. Now, at 27, Cantrell is a hardware and software inventor, musician and philanthropist who is attempting to bring positive change to the world via blockchain.