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1) What a difference a year makes

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2) I'm back in the states for the first time in about a year and a half. There's probably a thread to write here about COVID and masks and vaccines and travel and Asian and the bay area and Miami, but this isn't that thread.

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3) Last time I was here, I was visiting a Berkeley office, bustling with life. BTC was trading at $9k, about to crash to $4k. FTX had a few hundred millions of dollars per day of volume.

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4) There was potential, but it was just that--potential. We were grinding, and putting out fires, and onboarding our first few huge users. (Hopefully some of that never changes; hopefully we never stop grinding.)

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5) We had two developers, and a few people in BD. We were scratching for any relationships or connections or media we could get. On March 12th we set our record with $5b of volume, and had a month of CS cleanup after hours of downtime. On May 19th we had $50b and no downtime.