1a.tldr: It really all became real in a pool in Guadalajara, Mexico with Benthecarman and Katie the Russian.

I have been thinking about starting a company my whole life, but never quite knew what it would be, I just knew that I would take one big stab at it and that I should really have a solid understanding and conviction of what it was when it all began. After bouncing around aimlessly in a fiat world looking for purpose, I found Bitcoin. I've always loved game theory, economics, psychology, math, and always knew something was "off" with the wolrd... especially after learning Keynesian macroeconomics in college... so Bitcoin really clicked for me and changed my perspective on life... gave me hope for doing something with a purpose.

I left to take any job I could find in the space and landed as the first PM @ Visa Crypto where I build out a ton of proof of concept bitcoin payment stuff with them... but eventually grew very tired of constantly being asked to focus on stablecoin and CBDC stuff, when all I wanted to do was Bitcoin. When COVID hit, I left to start nomading around the world to places that let me live my life (not San Francisco) and ended up in Guadalajara, Mexico sharing an apartment with Katie the Russian. We invited carman down to come live with us. And we we're in the pool on the top floor when I told him the idea for The Bitcoin Company, and asked if he would join if I left Visa to get it started. He said yes... and from that point on... it was going to happen.

The Bitcoin Company is here to bring Bitcoin to as many people in the world as possible. We are a bunch of bitcoiners sick of the way the world works today and think that the best way to help people (who we believe are really fucked otherwise) is to provide them a reasonable alternative to the traditional banking system... a way to opt out and get the same traditional banking services, and bitcoin services in one place.

I'm not sure why Carman is doing it... but I love the guy.