Shanley

So you have that start to happen.

One question I've always asked is, like, to crypto people who have said, like, this is the way around the banks and blah, blah, blah.

Well, why is Wall Street getting crypto before you?

Yeah.

It's not.

It's just the math is not mathing in here.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah, so crypto, one of my absolute favorite topics to talk about.

There are a lot of ways of looking at this.

One of the ones that I find most interesting is when the first sort of dot-com bubble happened and when they first started making absolute fuck tons of money.

So they have tons of money coming in.

They're making tons of money.

And they are putting that money in banks they don't own and financial infrastructure they don't own.

And they're paying a lot of taxes on it.

So at some point, the decision is made by that.

Like, why would you want to make so much money and then have that money going right out the door?

to a bunch of bankers who are going to take all your money.

So at some point it occurs to them, all of this money that's transacting, not just through us, but over the internet overall is something we can make a ton of money on.

And one, you know, one of Mark Andreessen's first things was trying to get internet credit card payments working over the browser.