[1] In high school, Casares earned a Rotary Club scholarship as an exchange student in Washington, Pennsylvania.

[8] Investors in Patagon included George Soros, Jorge Paulo Leman, Stephan Schmidheiny, Intel, Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, and entrepreneur Fred Wilson.

[3] In 2002, Casares founded Wanako Games, (later Behaviour Santiago), a videogame developer headquartered in New York City.

[15] Xapo is said to be the largest custodian of bitcoin in the world and is believed to hold as much as $10 billion of the cryptocurrency in underground vaults on five continents, including in a former Swiss military bunker.

[17] Widely known as "Patient Zero", Quartz reported that Casares was the entrepreneur to convince Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Chamath Palihapitiya, Bill Miller, Mike Novogratz, Pete Briger and other tech veterans in Silicon Valley and Wall Street to invest in bitcoin.