Founded by researchers. Driven by invention.

That instinct carried forward. Through a decade building and scaling energy businesses he has built multidisciplinary teams from the ground up, driven growth through a programmatic approach, and has always been accountable not just financially but operationally.

The narrative of every chapter is the same: find the edge where real-world complexity meets untapped opportunity, build the right team around it, and execute at pace.

Dots is that next chapter, and the most ambitious one yet. Co-founded on the conviction that quantum advantage will fundamentally reshape Bitcoin mining economics, James is bringing over a decade of infrastructure instinct, commercial discipline, and founder-grade tenacity to one of the most consequential technology transitions of our time. The journey has been long and deliberate. The timing has never been better.

Starting from an unlikely origin in biomedical science, he crossed into computing drawn by a question that wouldn’t leave him alone: could quantum algorithms reshape the fundamental economics of proof-of-work? That question became a PhD, a research programme, and eventually a body of work that sits at the foundation of an entirely new field. His peer-reviewed publications on Grover’s algorithm applied to Bitcoin mining, quantum amplitude amplification on proof-of-work mechanisms, and NISQ-regime mining economics have drawn over a hundred citations and established the theoretical basis that Dots is now built to commercialise. He didn’t enter this space by following the literature. He wrote it.

Seven years of research at the University of Kent produced more than publications. It produced a precise understanding of where the physics genuinely supports quantum advantage, and where it doesn’t: a distinction that most people in the quantum industry are still getting wrong. The quantum miner thesis isn’t a bet on quantum hype. It is a specific, bounded, peer-reviewed claim about what near-term quantum circuits can do to mining economics, derived from first principles and published years before the industry took the question seriously.

The narrative of every chapter is the same: follow the physics to where the opportunity hasn’t been named yet, and build before anyone else arrives. Dots is that next chapter, and the most consequential one. Co-founded on the conviction that purpose-built quantum circuits will cross the economic threshold for Bitcoin mining within this decade, Joseph brings the one thing no competitor can acquire in a hurry: the research that made the thesis possible.

A quantum computing researcher at the University of Kent, Carlos works in quantum information theory: the mathematics that sets what quantum machines can and cannot do. That foundation is exactly what a company building purpose-built quantum hardware needs close at hand, a clear line between what the physics genuinely supports and what is merely plausible.

His collaboration with the Dots founders produced the peer-reviewed analysis at the heart of the quantum-mining thesis. As an advisor he continues that work, pressure-testing the science behind every claim and keeping the engineering honest as the research moves from paper to hardware.