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I'm the CEO of Exodus (https://www.exodus.io https://www.exodus.io - mentioned in the article). In many regions, we're currently more popular than the bible: ht

I'm the CEO of Exodus (https://www.exodus.io https://www.exodus.io - mentioned in the article). In many regions, we're currently more popular than the bible: https://www.google.com/search?q=exodus https://www.google.com/search?q=exodus Exodus is a non-custodial self-hosted wallet. This means that you have access to the funds and only you have access. We don't have access nor do we see your activity. Betteridge's law of headlines applies here... i.e. no, the government is not banning crypto wallets. I'm biased, but this regulation will be worse for exchanges. Each customer will likely have to take onerous actions to withdrawal their funds. This will further bifurcate centralized custodial exchanges and non-custodial decentralized products like wallets and DeFi.

judge2020 6y ago
> In many regions, we're currently more popular than the bible Google searches tend to be contextualized and personalized, so i'm not sure if that's a universal statement - nonetheless, you seem to be the first result for me in an incognito window (although the knowledge panel does talk about the book of Exodus).
novok 6y ago
Where is the your company registered, what countries are the company's owners resident in, where do the majority of your employees reside?
- jonpaul 6y ago
  We have two: one in the US and the other in Switzerland. ~1/3 are in the US.
kart23 6y ago
You say you don't collect transaction fees, but that you make a small amount of money off the spread. I'm confused, whats the difference between these two?
- jonpaul 6y ago
  By "transactions fees", that's meant as a fee to the network. We don't make money off of that. We make money in the spread when you exchange.
  - mandelbrotwurst 6y ago
    So you are collecting transaction fees, just none of one particular type of transaction fee.
  - arcticbull 6y ago
    So by that logic, the airport Travelex that charges "no commission" but a 20% spread between the bid and the ask is also not charging transaction fees? I suspect cribbing from Travelex and calling it "no commission" is likely both more accurate, and probably more legal, but IANAL.
greggturkington 6y ago
> we're currently more popular than the bible You have a better Google results position for one URL (that you've paid lots of money for). The bible still outranks you for every other result on the first page (Exodus wallet isn't until page 2), and Google adds rich snippets for the definition of "exodus" and the Book of Exodus above the link to your homepage. So I guess you're less interesting than a dictionary?

judge2020 6y ago

> In many regions, we're currently more popular than the bible Google searches tend to be contextualized and personalized, so i'm not sure if that's a universal statement - nonetheless, you seem to be the first result for me in an incognito window (although the knowledge panel does talk about the book of Exodus).

novok 6y ago

Where is the your company registered, what countries are the company's owners resident in, where do the majority of your employees reside?

jonpaul 6y ago
We have two: one in the US and the other in Switzerland. ~1/3 are in the US.

kart23 6y ago

You say you don't collect transaction fees, but that you make a small amount of money off the spread. I'm confused, whats the difference between these two?

jonpaul 6y ago
By "transactions fees", that's meant as a fee to the network. We don't make money off of that. We make money in the spread when you exchange.
- mandelbrotwurst 6y ago
  So you are collecting transaction fees, just none of one particular type of transaction fee.
- arcticbull 6y ago
  So by that logic, the airport Travelex that charges "no commission" but a 20% spread between the bid and the ask is also not charging transaction fees? I suspect cribbing from Travelex and calling it "no commission" is likely both more accurate, and probably more legal, but IANAL.

greggturkington 6y ago

> we're currently more popular than the bible You have a better Google results position for one URL (that you've paid lots of money for). The bible still outranks you for every other result on the first page (Exodus wallet isn't until page 2), and Google adds rich snippets for the definition of "exodus" and the Book of Exodus above the link to your homepage. So I guess you're less interesting than a dictionary?