“I recently read this quote, apparently by Mark Twain, and I fnd it very insightful: ‘History does not repeat, it rhymes.’ Always try to learn from history; not just [what] you read in books but also from your own past experiences and the people you look up to. There is gold in that,” shares John, who has poetically, and successfully, co-written SCI’s history thus far. Since it was established in 2014, SCI’s platform has met the country’s demand for cheaper, faster, and more accessible fnancial services such as Rebit.ph, Buybitcoin.ph, Bitbit.cash, and more. Clearly, the market confdence is here to stay, as SCI was one of the frst Bangko Sentral Ng Pilipinas (BSP) licensed virtual currency exchange ventures in the country, and shortly after, mega Korean fintech firm, Kakao, valued at a cool US$ 10B capitalised, and jumped in.