In a sense, I would say that's our criteria for feature development.

It's not what people say, it's what people do.

It's not what people ask for, it's what people are willing to pay for.

It's difficult to balance because people always ask for this and that and the other, right?

And you have to instead sort of put various plates of food on the table and see which ones people actually eat.

We had an initial UI that we built that we thought would be the bees needs, and we spent a lot

of time on it, and we didn't validate it with the market. Ended up being way overkill,

confusing in certain respects, but we more or less had to start over.

I'm Daniel H. Glancy, and I'm the CEO and co-founder of Otacama.

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Daniel H. Glancy is a husband and father to an 18-month old son.

He studied electrical engineering and physics in school, but ended up working in

finance, doing diligence on tech companies for an investment fund. In 2011, he discovered Bitcoin

and became enamored with the concept. At that time, he bought one whole Bitcoin for $4.

Looking back, he obviously wishes he would have bought more. We got into an interesting conversation about ICOs and tokens in general, and around how

companies drive up the value of said tokens through usage rather than business profit.

In his words, he saw the ICO world as a regulatory arbitrage, which didn't make for a good

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