All right, everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 podcast.

I am your host, Pizza Mind, and I am joined today by Brad Karn, the co-founder of Unstoppable Domains.

Brad, welcome to the Crypto 101 podcast.

Thanks a much for having me.

It's our pleasure.

Unstoppable Domains has been one of these names and brands that has been rising rapidly in the crypto industry.

And we need to find out why.

What are you guys up to over there?

What makes you so unstoppable?

Give us the origin story.

That's how we like to start off a lot of these podcasts.

You know, what were you doing when you and your co-founder, Matthew, came up with the idea

for unstoppable domains and what really makes it special?

Sure. So I guess I'll start from what I think is the beginning.

We both moved to San Francisco, end of 2012, early 2013.

And at that time, Bitcoin was around, but it was a very, very small little niche community.

We moved into this co-living building, this hacker house called 20 Mission, where a bunch of early Bitcoiners lived.

And there were Bitcoin meetups going back to 2012.

There was a Bitcoin media channel running in 2013, and exchange was launched before channel running in 2013 and exchange was launched before Coinbase.

Vitalik gave a talk in the courtyard before Ethereum went live.

Pretty much everybody was in some way, shape, or form involved in the crypto space.

So we've been going to meetups, buying crypto, following along.

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