Jake Thacker

Yeah, exactly. It was an exchange just like Binance or Coinbase, and it allowed people to commoditize on the market, right? I want to invest X amount on this coin. They take your money, they invest it, they supposedly hold it for you, give you access to your returns, right? It's kind of like a Robinhood.

Yeah, exactly. It was an exchange just like Binance or Coinbase, and it allowed people to commoditize on the market, right? I want to invest X amount on this coin. They take your money, they invest it, they supposedly hold it for you, give you access to your returns, right? It's kind of like a Robinhood.

Exactly. And so, again, that's where the biggest hang up was in the crypto markets was we still weren't free of the traditional or institutional ways in which

Exactly. And so, again, that's where the biggest hang up was in the crypto markets was we still weren't free of the traditional or institutional ways in which

Exactly. And so, again, that's where the biggest hang up was in the crypto markets was we still weren't free of the traditional or institutional ways in which

money transferred and flowed right and that's to your point of it wasn't hedging or it wasn't in lieu of the traditional markets it was in parallel or in tandem because again at that time crypto was not seen as a quote-unquote currency and so it had to follow some sort of recognized monetary value in the dollar more often than not was the one that we used in the us in exchange

money transferred and flowed right and that's to your point of it wasn't hedging or it wasn't in lieu of the traditional markets it was in parallel or in tandem because again at that time crypto was not seen as a quote-unquote currency and so it had to follow some sort of recognized monetary value in the dollar more often than not was the one that we used in the us in exchange

money transferred and flowed right and that's to your point of it wasn't hedging or it wasn't in lieu of the traditional markets it was in parallel or in tandem because again at that time crypto was not seen as a quote-unquote currency and so it had to follow some sort of recognized monetary value in the dollar more often than not was the one that we used in the us in exchange

Or wallet, in some instances, a place to store money or coins or tokens that you had acquired and weren't ready to put on the market or weren't ready to pull out of the exchange and put into the traditional market and so on and so forth.

Or wallet, in some instances, a place to store money or coins or tokens that you had acquired and weren't ready to put on the market or weren't ready to pull out of the exchange and put into the traditional market and so on and so forth.

Or wallet, in some instances, a place to store money or coins or tokens that you had acquired and weren't ready to put on the market or weren't ready to pull out of the exchange and put into the traditional market and so on and so forth.

You know, honestly, it put them on the radar for me, but it didn't really give me pause for a couple of reasons. Not so much as all the flash and the glitz and so on and so forth. But for instance, I worked for a company called Under Armour Tom Brady and Steph Curry were both athletes of Under Armour.

You know, honestly, it put them on the radar for me, but it didn't really give me pause for a couple of reasons. Not so much as all the flash and the glitz and so on and so forth. But for instance, I worked for a company called Under Armour Tom Brady and Steph Curry were both athletes of Under Armour.

You know, honestly, it put them on the radar for me, but it didn't really give me pause for a couple of reasons. Not so much as all the flash and the glitz and so on and so forth. But for instance, I worked for a company called Under Armour Tom Brady and Steph Curry were both athletes of Under Armour.

I had the lovely pleasure of meeting both several times and it sounds very cliche, but I trusted them and therefore I knew that they had invested in this platform and that as they have financiers and managers to guide them with their money and how to invest it wisely and what seems legitimate and what doesn't, I kind of wrote on that.

I had the lovely pleasure of meeting both several times and it sounds very cliche, but I trusted them and therefore I knew that they had invested in this platform and that as they have financiers and managers to guide them with their money and how to invest it wisely and what seems legitimate and what doesn't, I kind of wrote on that.

I had the lovely pleasure of meeting both several times and it sounds very cliche, but I trusted them and therefore I knew that they had invested in this platform and that as they have financiers and managers to guide them with their money and how to invest it wisely and what seems legitimate and what doesn't, I kind of wrote on that.

I said, well, if Steph's in there, if Tom's in there, it can't be that bad. And my initial approach to the platform was not to use it as a trading platform. It was just to hold funds. I needed a place to hold funds and be able to access them quickly without incurring all these large transaction fees.

I said, well, if Steph's in there, if Tom's in there, it can't be that bad. And my initial approach to the platform was not to use it as a trading platform. It was just to hold funds. I needed a place to hold funds and be able to access them quickly without incurring all these large transaction fees.

I said, well, if Steph's in there, if Tom's in there, it can't be that bad. And my initial approach to the platform was not to use it as a trading platform. It was just to hold funds. I needed a place to hold funds and be able to access them quickly without incurring all these large transaction fees.