Simon Ousager

Kaupr – the Nordic media house for onchain finance Verified account @kaupr_io · Mar 25, 2025

Danish Januar working to solve the banking problem for crypto companies
Januar, a Danish company, is addressing the "banking problem" faced by crypto companies, where traditional banks are reluctant to offer standard banking services to businesses in the cryptocurrency sector.

The article and the video interview is in English.

Founded to bridge this gap, Januar has evolved into an interesting player in the future of payments.

kaupr.io/nyheter/danish…

Kaupr has had a talk with @SimonOusager, founder of @januar, where we are covering a lot of topics: the bridge between fiat money and crypto, stablecoins, Bitcoin, and digital central bank money (CBDCs), as well as the positioning and future of Januar.

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Balaji Verified account @balajis · Feb 28, 2024

Hardware is hard.

That’s why Elon is by far the greatest founder of all time.

Remember — countless startups die just while trying to put stationary beige boxes on desktops. Very smart people get crushed by supply chain disruptions, or China tariffs, or lockdowns, or shipping interruptions, or regulatory delays.

Not Elon. He didn’t just survive financial crisis and coronavirus. He managed to build physical things in America while fighting the state and the laws of nature at the same time.

Somehow he managed to simultaneously build not just a car company but a rocket company. Those don’t just have “moving parts”, they are a moving whole.

The difficulty level here is insane. Hardware is completely different from software. One recall, just one serious bug, can destroy your company. If you are charging $50 for something that costs $40, and you need to recall and replace a million units, you’re usually dead.

So just one of these companies — just Tesla, or just SpaceX — would be an incredible accomplishment for anyone. Even a very intelligent and hardworking person would have to live an incredibly boring, disciplined, focused life to possibly maintain the extremely low error rate needed to profitably ship such complex products.

Not Elon. He did SpaceX and Tesla while having N children by K women. While also cofounding OpenAI and Neuralink and Boring Company. While fighting and defeating countless journalists, politicians, haters, and short sellers. And of course while buying Twitter, posting all the time, and building a following larger than almost any politician.

The better you are, the better you understand how much better Elon is. If you’re good at math you appreciate Ramanujan’s greatness. If you’re good at basketball you respect how amazing Michael Jordan was. Elon is like that, for tech. Everyone in tech understands the sport we’re playing, and he really is the greatest of all time.

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European Central Bank Verified account @ecb · Feb 22, 2024

Bitcoin has failed to become a global decentralised digital currency, instead falling victim to fraud and manipulation.

The recent approval of an ETF doesn’t change the fact that Bitcoin is costly, slow and inconvenient, argues #TheECBBlog

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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ Verified account @ESYudkowsky · Nov 3, 2023

Among the dangers of AI is that LLMs dual-trained on code and biology could enable computer viruses to jump to DNA substrate. Imagine getting a cold that compromises your immune system and makes it start mining Bitcoin

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Lyn Alden Verified account @LynAldenContact · Jun 7, 2023

Yes, and a person can believe two things at once.

1) Securities are pretty clearly defined by existing law. Some exchanges and token companies want an exception for themselves, tried to change the law, and ignored the law. A lot of crypto VCs/founders have also separated their monetary gains from the (lack of) success of their projects by drumming up hype and dumping their positions on retail 2 years in thanks to these exchanges (i.e. fast exit liquidity), unlike traditional VCs/founders that tie their fortunes more closely to the fundamentals of their businesses over the long run. So, there's a lot of similarity between modern day crypto operators to the boiler room operators in the 1990s. The modern day Stratton Oakmonts, basically. And people have rightfully developed negative heuristics for crypto, similarly to how they developed negative heuristics for penny stocks, after countless scams.

2) The process to register a security should be streamlined in the 21st century. Seems obvious. If people want to bet on digital penny stocks or moonshot early-stage innovations or collectibles from their favorite singer, they should absolutely have a path to do so even if it's usually not a wise financial decision. Some basic disclosures should help with that. And to the extent that people want to trade those things, there are safer environments to do it than others (e.g. audited exchanges with proper separation of funds, and separations between exchanges and securities issuers and market makers rather than all being the same entity). The SEC has thus far not really prevented people from getting hurt financially, and generally comes in afterward like a vulture, so they're not the heroes here either.

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