We recently celebrated our fifth anniversary here at BitPay. To mark the occasion, we sat down with our co-founder and CEO Stephen Pair to get his thoughts on some of our top questions:

How and when Stephen first learned about bitcoin

Why we started BitPay

What the bitcoin ecosystem was like in BitPay's first days

How BitPay in 2016 is different from BitPay in 2011

What we're most proud of having created in these five years since launching

How our understanding of bitcoin/bitcoin's importance has changed since BitPay launched in 2011

What Stephen thinks needs to happen (next five years) for bitcoin payments to reach a larger audience of businesses and consumers

This is the first episode of a new podcast project we're working on. Stay tuned for more episodes!