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Welcome to the A16c's YouTube channel. Today I'm here with Oloff from

Polychain, our good friend Oloff. We're both longtime crypto currency enthusiasts. Maybe, if you

don't mind, we'll just go back a little bit. You were employee one at Coinbase back in what year

was that? 2013. Okay. And I guess you got into Crypto before that.

Yeah, so I was in college when I got into Bitcoin, and I wrote my undergraduate thesis

on Bitcoin in 2011.

And what first got you excited about it?

So when I first read about it, I thought there's no way this is possible to have a native

internet money that isn't controlled by any sort of central party.

So I found it fascinating on its face.

It just sort of technically impossible.

Yeah, but then once I dug into it, I kind of thought about the nth order implications,

and you realize this is a huge deal.

It means that for the first time you can have digital scarcity on the internet.

And, of course, you could move to a global, unified financial and monetary system

that's outside the scope of any sort of sovereign state, political control, and is really

opt-in by all the users.

So the general idea was just really fascinating to me.

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