Company Overview

At BlockMint, we create new distributed ledger technologies to enable a more decentralized deployment of blockchain based applications, such as cryptocurrency mining.

We believe that everyone should be able to browse the internet safely and securely without third parties having access to their private data and online activities. We also believe that everyone with an internet connection should be able to participate in the crypto-economy. We believe that cryptocurrency mining from personal devices should be easy. We aim to make the crypto-economy more decentralized and accessible to everyone.

We also believe that we each need to do our part to tackle climate change and preserve our planet for future generations. The window of opportunity to limit global warming and its dramatic consequences is closing fast. Global warming has led to devastating effects on the planet such as extreme weather events, wildfires and rising sea levels.

The Minter browser is the only browser where users can mine cryptocurrency to earn carbon credits to offset their carbon footprint as they browse the internet. Your carbon footprint is basically the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions that you produce from your daily activities. Carbon credits allow you to offset these emissions by representing a reduction or removal of emissions in a sustainable project somewhere else on the planet.

Minter browser recently released a new feature which allows users to choose to earn a fractional ownership in a non-fungible token (NFT) from our portfolio instead of carbon offsets. NFTs can represent digital files such as art, audio, video and other forms of creative work. We aim to acquire and create NFTs to have a diverse portfolio in support of Minter.

Minter also allows users to browse the internet with privacy, speed and security by offering free integrated features including a virtual private network (VPN) and ad blocker.

Management Team

Nelson Ijih, CEO & CTO

Mr. Ijih has over ten years of hardware, firmware, software development and firmware security experience. He spent nine years working at Intel Corporation within the Data Center Group and Software Groups where he was one of the founding members of a small team that received awards for the design and development of Intel's first heterogeneous server product with Pentium and Xeon CPUs integrated with FPGAs on-chip which led to the acquisition of Altera Corporation. He also worked on IoT based platform and product development targeted for low-cost convolutional neural network scoring for computer vision applications in smart camera systems for urban area and autonomous vehicles.

Mr. Ijih is the co-author of several highly referenced publications in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers on CPU and Computer Architecture. He also was adjunct faculty staff at Portland Community College where he taught Computer Information Systems. Mr. Ijih holds Undergraduate and Graduate Degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science.

Christina Wu, CFO

Ms. Wu is a senior financial analyst at Marrelli Support Services Inc., which provides accounting, regulatory compliance and management advisory services to a number of publicly traded companies on Canadian and US exchanges. Ms. Wu is a CPA, CGA and holds a Bachelors of Commerce in Management Economics from the University of Guelph. Ms. Wu has been a senior financial analyst at Marrelli since 2019 and previously was the CFO for Stratabound Minerals Inc. (2019 to 2022).

Board of Directors

Nelson Ijih, CEO, CTO & Director

Jeff Lightfoot, Director

Mr. Lightfoot is an active practicing member of the Law Society of British Columbia (since September 1985) and a shareholder of the law firm of Owen Bird Law Corporation located in Vancouver, British Columbia. His preferred areas of practice are corporate finance and securities law, with a particular emphasis on the TSX Venture Exchange and Canadian Securities Exchange. He has practiced securities law in Vancouver for more than 30 years. Mr. Lightfoot has been both a director and/or executive officer of a number of reporting issuers over the years. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree (1984) from Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Ontario; and a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) degree (1981) from Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario.

David Patterson, Director

Mr. Patterson has been involved with the founding and development of several public companies. Currently, Mr. Patterson is a director and officer of three natural resource exploration companies as well as CEO of Canada’s number one equity crowdfunding company, Vested Technology Corp. Mr. Patterson holds a Masters of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University (1991). For more than 30 years he has been involved in the administration and finance of exploration companies based in North America.

Colin Watt, Director

Mr. Watt has over 20 years of experience as a director and/or officer of several public companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange. He has been the President of Squall Capital Corp. since February 1997, a private consulting company that specializes in financing, restructuring and providing management services to early stage public and private companies. Mr. Watt holds a Bachelors of Commerce (Finance) from the University of British Columbia (1993).