Michael Terpin

And I wasn't an equity owner of Tether.

I just helped with their marketing.

Got it, got it.

I launched them and I launched Ethereum.

So, again, my way of getting into Bitcoin and that led me into crypto was in, you know, I started hearing about it in 2012.

But I didn't really go all in until early 2013 when I got invited to the first Bitcoin Foundation conference by Brock Pierce.

And, you know, I then all of a sudden saw the light.

I sort of, you know, because about a year earlier, I was invited to go to a conference.

you know, sort of a future of money conference in San Francisco.

And they had somebody from one of the earliest Bitcoin exchanges that got shut down because of regulation in 2012 called Trade Hill.

And I had a conflict.

So I sent the head of my San Francisco office of my PR firm.

And I said, I'm interested in this Bitcoin.

What do you think?

And she's like, oh, it'll never work.

They are so smoking crack.

Now, had I gone, I would have probably had the same reaction I did a year later, which is like, oh, my God, this is going to change the world.

And as one of the co-founders is a friend of mine now, Ryan Singer of Trade Hill said, yeah, not only would you have had the same reaction, but you would have started buying Bitcoin at $4 instead of $120.

Jeez.

And of course, people got in a year earlier than that were buying it a dollar.