At the time, people saw Bitcoin as a tiny market. US-based exchanges were incredibly hard to start. Even Brian and his YC application didn't really believe in his own idea because what he basically applied to YC with was the P2P transfer parts. That was enough of an insight to be the basis for a $100 billion company. No one knew that.

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