One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

ShapeShift, like SatoshiDICE before it, demonstrated how an old business could operate in a brand new way because of the properties of cryptocurrencies.