# I'm leaving Foundation and joining Cake Wallet

It's time for a new chapter in my journey building freedom tech, and I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be jumping in to help Vik run Cake as VP of Operations starting in September.

## Why Cake?

I've known Vik for many years in the space, and have been watching from the sidelines as he's worked hard to bring together an amazing team to build out a wallet that prioritizes ease-of-use and powerful privacy no matter what cryptocurrency people prefer. That all started with being the first Monero wallet on iOS, and has rapidly grown to being a cross-platform, multi-cryptocurrency wallet used by hundreds of thousands of people around the world.

The best part? Cake Wallet has been paving the way in the privacy space for many years, including the latest push to be the first mobile wallet to include Silent Payments for Bitcoin and MWEB for Litecoin. My vision for Cake is to carry this privacy-first vision even further, continuing to push the envelope and let users access powerful privacy features with an intuitive, beautiful user experience that makes privacy easy.

The first three objectives I have will be improving and expanding Silent Payments support (especially improving the sync experience!), building out an amazing (and privacy-preserving) Lightning experience, and fine-tuning and improving the existing Cake Wallet that you all know and love across the board.

I can't wait to step into this larger role, especially with friends that I've already gotten the chance to meet and get to know over the years. I'm also thrilled to be able to dedicate a bit more time to expanding access and ease-of-use for Monero, especially in the wake of the takedown of Samourai Wallet and the broad attacks against Bitcoin privacy.

Monero is a more important tool than ever, and Cake has been a key part of making Monero more useful over the years.

## Grateful for Foundation

I have nothing but amazing things to say about Foundation and the incredible people I've gotten to work with so closely over the past two years. We've gotten the chance to build the best Bitcoin hardware wallet out there in Passport, and turn Envoy from a simple companion app for Passport to a powerful standalone mobile wallet with the best coin control in the space.

I especially wanted to shout out Zach Herbert and @qna, as they have been close friends and allies, giving me the chance to get started in the space and grow into what became a much larger role than originally planned with Foundation. Zach has gone above and beyond to empower me over the past two years, and his tireless efforts to drive Foundation forward and ensure we ship the best possible products has been inspiring.

@qna is the reason I'm even in Bitcoin in the first place, and was the key voice of reason that helped me understand the how and why of privacy in Bitcoin, as well as the power (and necessity) of going no-KYC-only. We've built a great friendship over the past two years and I'm honored to be able to have learned so much from him.

This has to be the most bittersweet move of my life, but I'm thrilled with the new prospects at Cake and know that those taking over in my place at Foundation are going to bring a unique approach to help them take the next step forward as well.

Now let's get back to building 🫡

P.S. - Keep an eye out, Cake and Foundation will be working closely together in the near future 👀

I'm super new to bitcoin. wrapping my head around it has basically caused an existential crisis. especially this >> keys.lol

help a noob? where/how should I acquire it? I've just been using an exchange... I used venmo first... don't laugh. I have transferred it all to self custody and will be using cold storage. any help is appreciated.

I've been told I eat like a child and I always respond yeah because kids know what's good. Chicken nuggets? Yes, Pizza? Yes, A bottle of Elmer's Glue Yes

Very nice article (or whatever we should call it), I think I'm heading in the same direction for some years, while being more or less aware of it. Unfortunatelly I don't know coding, I manage to use existing code and software, run my own service, daily use Linux, but I cannot develop for others. It's sometimes frustrating as I want to contribute and share more but at least lile he says, I'm getting ready for when I will need these power user skills.

By the way, Amir is still not on Nostr? Still posting on Twitter, it's kind of ironical, isn't it?

Really starting to dig #Nostr. I always thought the tech was cool but the zaps concept is so awesome. It's not much but this is currently the only way I can obtain #Bitcoin (or #Monero) and despite the fact that it's such a small amount, the principle of knowing those sats belong to me (until I inevitably start zapping back) is an awesome feeling similar to the feel of freedom when switching to #FOSS.

Good morning, y'all!

Honestly didn't expect to be convinced of Monero...crap. The goblins got to me.

ok but serious question, what Cake Wallet theme are you rocking 👀 Right answers only

Who are the #monero folk here on #Nostr?

What?