Crypto’s Payment Stack

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[00:02:15] - [First question] - How he and his co-founder met

[00:05:38] - Building Snapcard and whether they moved into crypto at that time 

[00:06:49] - The ways they technically achieved receiving funds via Snapcard

[00:08:13] - What led to the second iteration of Snapcard

[00:10:31] - Who their first competitors were when they started accepted Bitcoin and when they moved into cross-border payments 

[00:12:58] - The history of sending money across the border and what their products unlocked for consumers

[00:15:27] - How people would on-ramp into crypto in the first place and the financial and technical risks of early crypto transfers

[00:16:48] - The biggest pain points and what led them away from having so many businesses

[00:18:51] - Whether or not he and his co-founder ever had second thoughts 

[00:19:54] - What he means by “It’s the fast that eat the slow”

[00:21:06] - Interesting views on why major crypto exchanges won’t remain dominant

[00:23:34] - Learning regulatory jurisdiction issues and the landscape today 

[00:25:37] - How someone can use Wyre to set up their Web3 protocol more quickly 

[00:27:31] - Some of the biggest surprise use cases for Wyre from developers 

[00:30:15] - Things he thinks about differently now not being so end-user focused 

[00:31:40] - How much money they raised on Wyre’s processing power

[00:32:49] - Being acquired for over a billion dollars and selling their company 

[00:34:26] - How it feels now to run Wyre compared to their building days

[00:35:21] - What he’s most excited to build over the next six months and six years