Before Ready I built a brain training app called Peak. At its peak, it had 40 million users. After selling in 2016, I waited for the payment. It was a transfer from one UK bank account to another. Straightforward stuff. OFAC froze the payment. I wasn’t naive. I knew that you had to ask banks for permission to move your money. But why should I ask OFAC, the enforcement agency of the United States Treasury Department, for a legit transfer between two UK bank accounts? Long story short. I eventually got the payment. But I remembered the trauma. Shortly after that, I bought my first ETH, and sent a payment to a friend. It arrived in seconds, and cost $0.01. That inspired me to build @ready_co