Sean Hagan

When I first joined, it was right around the time of COVID.

And a lot of people started to wake up to a lot of things more broadly.

And I think that that ushered in kind of a new wave and new excitement around Bitcoin, which was very interesting, right?

Because in a world full of, you know, lies and fabrications, you know, there's this open source money that incentivizes truth, right?

And you can't manipulate it or lie about what's happening on chain.

And then through that, we go through this era of the state fighting us and doing all these things and trying to trying to debank people in the Bitcoin space.

And now you have this kind of heroic rise of Bitcoin and nation states like El Salvador adopting it and everything.

U.S.

president saying we're going to do a strategic reserve and signing executive orders around it.

You know, recently you've seen people in Congress even say Bitcoin is a power projection mechanism that is in the U.S.

best interest to utilize and the military is experimenting with it.

What that means, I have no idea.

But it's interesting that there's some very sophisticated generals even thinking about that.

Yeah.

So, you know, what's next for our company is I think we've done a really good job kind of growing up with Bitcoin throughout this time, meeting the market where it's at, right?

Whether it's the magazine, whether it's the fund, whether it's the conference, you know, really making sure that we don't let ourselves get in the way, right?

Let Bitcoin kind of continue to be that North Star and continue to just kind of self-examine and try to meet that moment.