I was always passionate about internet and open source stuff, and saw these things progress during my lifetime. Someone being able to make a money in this way, that is internet native is incredibly cool. And the fact that it actually works continues to amaze me every day, along with trying to understand more of it.

Was a small experiment I built while learning how to code Node.js. It took off and one thing led to the other.

Many things really. We're at the forefront of solving the most important challenge in our industry. We haven't figured it out fully but we've gotten further than anyone I know. All this without engaging in speculative activities. Also I'd add the team and the culture we've built. It's hard to describe it to people who haven't seen us in a group. But it's the most amazing set of people, all with their own individual qualities, working together as one team towards a shared goal.

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Lots of things. We can be at most half of the circle - there also needs to be ways for people to get "coins to spend". Marketing wise it's challenging because the freedomy arguments of using your own wallet and all of that gets drowned out by all the speculative stuff in the crypto space. In bitcoin the speculative stuff is just "hodl" or leverage, in broader crypto it's "shitcoins, defi, yield" and so on. We don't offer customers a way to get rich. So during bull markets it's hard for us to get attention outside of all the places where "you can get rich here", during bear markets customers are poorer so spend a bit less. That said we've weathered the current decline with only a minor drop in volumes, and are still firmly above break-even.