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Ryan Myher

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288 total appearances

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The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

Well, to be fair, I was also doing those things as well. So I worked at Subway, JCPenney's, construction, you know, all the good stuff too.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

Well, to be fair, I was also doing those things as well. So I worked at Subway, JCPenney's, construction, you know, all the good stuff too.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

Yeah. So like I said, I was going to Duquesne for track. Next company we started, which never really became like large, but was like a cool thing was I really got into crypto. I was following like crypto prices 2016. We walk into 2017. I'm with a friend, Evan Gruss. We're at a basketball game and we were just talking about crypto.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

Yeah. So like I said, I was going to Duquesne for track. Next company we started, which never really became like large, but was like a cool thing was I really got into crypto. I was following like crypto prices 2016. We walk into 2017. I'm with a friend, Evan Gruss. We're at a basketball game and we were just talking about crypto.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

Yeah. So like I said, I was going to Duquesne for track. Next company we started, which never really became like large, but was like a cool thing was I really got into crypto. I was following like crypto prices 2016. We walk into 2017. I'm with a friend, Evan Gruss. We're at a basketball game and we were just talking about crypto.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

And we're like, what if we just start like, you know, buying crypto for our friends and family? What if we get them all kind of bought in? And so we were doing that. We had another friend at Carnegie Mellon, a really smart guy named Kay. And we all kind of got together and we were like, oh, we could launch like an alternative to Bitcoin.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

And we're like, what if we just start like, you know, buying crypto for our friends and family? What if we get them all kind of bought in? And so we were doing that. We had another friend at Carnegie Mellon, a really smart guy named Kay. And we all kind of got together and we were like, oh, we could launch like an alternative to Bitcoin.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

And we're like, what if we just start like, you know, buying crypto for our friends and family? What if we get them all kind of bought in? And so we were doing that. We had another friend at Carnegie Mellon, a really smart guy named Kay. And we all kind of got together and we were like, oh, we could launch like an alternative to Bitcoin.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

And then that basically turned into us building the first decentralized hash exchange in the world. And basically what that is, is I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with like Bitcoin mining. But if you have like one miner, that's usually not enough like, you know, power to like really get any kind of.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

And then that basically turned into us building the first decentralized hash exchange in the world. And basically what that is, is I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with like Bitcoin mining. But if you have like one miner, that's usually not enough like, you know, power to like really get any kind of.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

And then that basically turned into us building the first decentralized hash exchange in the world. And basically what that is, is I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with like Bitcoin mining. But if you have like one miner, that's usually not enough like, you know, power to like really get any kind of.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

reward um so you can rent power basically online and the reason why being decentralized like means anything is because um basically there was a competitor called nice hash they had all these funds flowing in and out of a centralized wallet had like 80 million in it it got hacked all these people lost 80 million dollars and we were like if this was peer-to-peer and we just took a little fee on the side like it would solve that problem there wouldn't be like one centralized vector to attack you know so that's so we started that yeah

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

reward um so you can rent power basically online and the reason why being decentralized like means anything is because um basically there was a competitor called nice hash they had all these funds flowing in and out of a centralized wallet had like 80 million in it it got hacked all these people lost 80 million dollars and we were like if this was peer-to-peer and we just took a little fee on the side like it would solve that problem there wouldn't be like one centralized vector to attack you know so that's so we started that yeah

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

reward um so you can rent power basically online and the reason why being decentralized like means anything is because um basically there was a competitor called nice hash they had all these funds flowing in and out of a centralized wallet had like 80 million in it it got hacked all these people lost 80 million dollars and we were like if this was peer-to-peer and we just took a little fee on the side like it would solve that problem there wouldn't be like one centralized vector to attack you know so that's so we started that yeah

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

First crypto I ever bought. Oh, God. Probably. And I'm ashamed to say this now because it's, you know, but XRP. Yeah, Ripple. Somehow it's still like one of those tokens that people love. Like I'll get calls from friends. They'll be like, my mom just asked me if she should buy $10,000 in Ripple. Like her friend from work said that she needs to put 10K in it.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

First crypto I ever bought. Oh, God. Probably. And I'm ashamed to say this now because it's, you know, but XRP. Yeah, Ripple. Somehow it's still like one of those tokens that people love. Like I'll get calls from friends. They'll be like, my mom just asked me if she should buy $10,000 in Ripple. Like her friend from work said that she needs to put 10K in it.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

First crypto I ever bought. Oh, God. Probably. And I'm ashamed to say this now because it's, you know, but XRP. Yeah, Ripple. Somehow it's still like one of those tokens that people love. Like I'll get calls from friends. They'll be like, my mom just asked me if she should buy $10,000 in Ripple. Like her friend from work said that she needs to put 10K in it.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

I'm like, dude, I don't even like Ripple.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

I'm like, dude, I don't even like Ripple.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From Small-Town Hustler to Crypto Innovator: Ryan Myher’s Journey

I'm like, dude, I don't even like Ripple.