Very glad to have you along, Rachel! I hope the collaborations continue!

I've always had a bit of a nordic streak. I liked a lot of the music from the region (not just Finland, also Norway especially, and Sweden to a lesser extent) since I was in high school. I also had a bit of a thing for languages, and I studied Finnish and Norwegian to varying degrees in my spare time, purely as a hobby.

My wife and I were open to living either in Finland or Norway, just to experience living abroad, and I looked for jobs in both countries. The company I worked for at the time was looking for people in the Helsinki office, and we decided to go on an adventure. I've loved it here ever since, and very much can't imagine going back to Canada at this point. I still have a lot of love for Alberta (and a lot of ...not love... for much of the rest of the country), but I'm very much used to life here now, and I think I would have a much harder time going back than moving to Finland in the first place.

So to a certain extent, it wasn't ever Finland specifically, but once I arrived here, it really stuck. And now, of course, I'm advocating for Bitcoin here through BTC HEL. I feel grateful to be here, and this is one of the ways I'm giving back. I'm really excited and hopeful that what started at BTC HEL 2025 continues, and we just build on it, not just in Finland, but in the Nordics and in all of Europe as well.

Thanks again for joining us for this Rachel!