Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies is poised to transform our lives for better or worse for the focus of this podcast. Almost here

means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. We're just around the

corner. For Bitcoin to Artificial Intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hi this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast almost here around the corner

technology and today I have Dimitri Morashik. Hopefully I said your name right from mycellium.com.

Dimitri how you doing? Hi I'm doing pretty good. How are you?

Good. Did I successfully say your last name? Hi, I'm doing pretty good. How are you?

Good, did I successfully say your last name correctly? Yes, you did.

Okay.

Well, Dimitri is a product manager for Mycelium, and I'm going to let him describe it because it's more than just the hardware wallet for a cryptocurrency. Mycelium seems to be involved in a lot of great and

innovative things in the crypto world so do you which you tell listeners what my selling him

does primarily we are a software company at this point.

We have one of the most popular Bitcoin wallet on the market.

We also make merchant processing kind of solutions such as a payment

widget, a chart to describe this an online ordering platform for restaurants and small shops and we do have a little

bit of hardware but we are not really focusing as much in that anymore more software.

So yeah how did you guys start out? What was the original reason to start the company and what was the first product you made?

So initially back during the Arab Spring people were organizing using

internet tools like Twitter and such but the governments were trying to

shut down organizations and

process by shutting down the internet. So the idea was to create a peer-to-peer

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