Lawnmower

@pgorsira @derekminter Congrats on the launch @pgorsica, @alexsunnarbog and @parchambeau! Long time in the works. Amazing to see it out in the wild. Beautiful app and design also!

@pgorsira AFAIK robinhood doesn't work in Canada, does Lawnmower?

@realsimonburns @derekminter Thanks!

@tombielecki You can download the app in Canada and use it to check asset prices, news, and resources. As far as actually investing, we're partnered with Coinbase, so you'll be able to buy with your credit card: https://support.coinbase.com/cus.... Hope this answers your question!

@pgorsira @tombielecki so we need a Coinbase wallet to be able to trade? Do you plan to open your app to other wallet? Cause I'm currently using GreenAddress and I don't understand why I can't use this wallet to trade with your app.

@jessepod Thanks Jesse! We put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into this product and I like to think that it shows. We're very passionate about this space and willing to create whatever it takes to bring things to a more mainstream level.

@jessepod Newbies should NOT be "investing" in cryptocurrencies. The barriers should be high because it is almost always a money-losing proposition. Every cryptocurrency except bitcoin is a pump-and-dump scam, and bitcoin itself is so volatile and risky that most people should steer clear of it.

@jasoncats1 @jessepod Will have to respectfully disagree that every cryptocurrency except bitcoin is a pump and dump scam. This space is growing extremely quickly and is positioned to disrupt many industries in ways and via use cases that have not even been fully explored yet. So, to completely label the entire space as a scam outright is a bit misleading I feel. As far as the volatility goes, we have investment tools for both recurring purchases (to dollar cost average) or buy/sell manually depending on your own strategy. Many of our users have fixed purchases scheduled every week or month to buy bitcoin regardless of the price to distance themselves a bit from the emotions of watching the market day to day (similarly to how many invest into their 401ks & IRAs every paycheck) & frequently many of our users use our app just as a high risk/return, overall portfolio diversification tool in addition to their investments in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etc. We have resources, data, charts, & more for many assets on our platform as a means to help inform users about what these new technologies are & give them additional material and links to help aid their research. Users can easily track historical prices (& volatility) and compare them to other assets in the app. Also, just as a data point, only bitcoin is available to actually trade / invest in, and the other assets are in our app for informative & research purposes. We are just working on developing a product that brings down the barriers to entry surrounding this nascent space. Hope that helps!