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From mining his first Satoshi at a Seattle coffee shop in 2012 to helping nations build bitcoin reserves, BitGo CRO @chenfang has watched this industry travel a long way. At BFC in NYC, he made the case that the next leap isn't just institutional demand. It's governments getting [Spoken audio]: I mined my first Satoshi, December of 2012. I was part of one of the Seattle Bitcoin communities way back when we met at a coffee shop every weekend to talk about Bitcoin, those were good old days. And when I first showed up, I worked at Microsoft, had a tucked in collar shirt, and all the libertarians in the room were looking at me funny. Who are you? Oh, big corporate is here. We've come a long way from those days. I would say you have to pass the institutional hurdle for this to be truly adopted by the world. I would also say on top of the institutional demand, there is demand from actual governments around the world. We're talking about the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. We're talking about basically the El Salvador playbook smeared across many countries as possible. Bico, we do a bunch of hardcore technology for securing Bitcoin. We're working with a number of these countries, as we speak, to help them set up what effectively is their own version of a digital Fort Knox. The infrastructure needs to be there, both at the institutional level and at the government level, for us to truly take this to the next level. It's been many years since 2009. We have many decades to go to get this propagated around the world.