Without any doubt, working alongside Roger, the team at Bitcoin.com and the BCH community has been one of the most invigorating times in my career. I have loved working with an equally committed team of “evolutionaries”.
Bitcoin.com is competing against FinTech companies, e.g. Square, Stripe, etc, to acquire new users.
The differentiator is the fact BCH and SLP offer “programmable money”, money with options or, even simpler, modern money for the masses. And getting distribution before incumbents get blockchain is paramount.
Bitcoin Cash is the dominant platform for payments and must own this category.
I want to highlight some of the key things we achieved and the value it brought in the past year;
Partnership with HTC
Launched the exchange with some 30+ BCH pairings and SLP support
Token listings from $GOC $SPICE $UPT $AVA $ACD $SAI $HONK and others
Investment in GoCrypto, an electrifying, driven team joining the BCH community
Acquisition of 03 Technology with great engineering talent joining the wallet team
Growing the wallet adoption from 2M to 11M
Launched the new mobile wallet app
Partnerships with MyCred, Moonpay, Travala, Sideshift, Ternio, and others
Launching Steam items and Steam credits on local.bitcoin.com
Launch of the new brand and website
20+% mom traffic growth to news.bitcoin.com
Growing the global BCH community from 5000 and 19,000+ members across 80+ cities
And this isn’t even all of it — don’t forget the pipeline too!
Given these roller-coaster times we are in, Roger is looking at a leaner, more guerilla, team. It is no surprise to those who know me that my passion and skills are in growth through deal-making and partnerships with more established brands, companies, and institutions so the planets aren’t aligning right now.
The last year-plus with Roger and the team at Bitcoin.com has been amazing. The team at Bitcoin.com really stepped up to pursue the mission we set out. You all know who you are! I cannot emphasize enough how privileged I am to have worked alongside you day and night, 24/7. Your commitment and focus to the cause were relentless. “Crypto never sleeps!”
I have been in bitcoin since 2013 and that won’t change. I will continue to stay engaged in the ecosystem and work to grow distribution for supply and demand for BCH and SLP. But I have to admit to enjoying the change in pace from 200% 20 hours 6 days a week, to “sheltering at home with my family” — they might disagree ;).
I have a number of other projects that I am involved in and have received some very interesting offers but I am in an unusual situation of being able to take a step back and look at a world under extraordinary disruption. Is this the time to bring together my key passions of bitcoin, health, fitness and even a new social order? Watch this space!
Our paths will cross again! What a blast — a ride no one can ever take away!
Stefan
“You can’t beat the experience”
Jimi Hendrix
Great work, Stefan! Good luck!