Thread by @SBF_Alameda

1) What a difference a year makes

2) I'm back in the states for the first time in about a year and a half.

There's probably a thread to write here about COVID and masks and vaccines and travel and Asian and the bay area and Miami, but this isn't that thread.

3) Last time I was here, I was visiting a Berkeley office, bustling with life.

BTC was trading at $9k, about to crash to $4k.

FTX had a few hundred millions of dollars per day of volume.

4) There was potential, but it was just that--potential.

We were grinding, and putting out fires, and onboarding our first few huge users.

(Hopefully some of that never changes; hopefully we never stop grinding.)

5) We had two developers, and a few people in BD. We were scratching for any relationships or connections or media we could get.

On March 12th we set our record with $5b of volume, and had a month of CS cleanup after hours of downtime.

On May 19th we had $50b and no downtime.

6) It was the first time I'd been in the states and felt like I'd begun to move on from my life before FTX.

I felt like a ghost. @ftx_us hadn't started yet but my old life there was over. And all things considered I was pretty happy when my trip ended.

7) I guess it feels different this time.

8) It's amazing how much we changed in the last year. It's amazing how much the world did, though in a much less positive way.

9) Anyway, I'll see some of you in Miami.