Hihiko

Software Engineer

September 2024 to Present

www.hihiko.com

Finance is too complicated. We built Hihiko with a simple principle in mind. Your money should be yours. You should be in control.

We built a completely new payment processor. Powered by Rust, LMDB, TCP, and Elliptical Curve Cryptography. Hihiko is a new way to pay for things. Backed by New Zealand Dollars, you can make transfers with low fees in subsecond time. You can privately send money to your friends and whānau, automate payments, and purchase coffee from the comfort of your Hihiko account.

We've addressed all of the problems of Bitcoin with our new platform.

• Bitcoin takes an hour to process a payment. Hihiko is subsecond ⚡
• Bitcoin's price is volatile and constantly changing. Hihiko is always worth 1NZD
• Bitcoin is unsustainable and costly to the environment. Hihiko has negligible environmental cost
• Some people started with trillions of dollars of Bitcoin. Hihiko is a non-profit
• Specialised computers (ASICS) mean a small number of people control Bitcoin. Hihiko uses a new system to decentralise the network
• Bitcoin has high fees. Hihiko has lower fees than any other competitor
• Bitcoin is pseudo-anonymous and you can still track people's accounts. Hihiko is fully anonymous and hides amounts, senders, and recipients

We're fully integrating with the existing New Zealand banking system so users can easily deposit money into their accounts and make payments, like any other bank. In September, you'll start seeing our logo in stores and be able to pay with QR Codes.

We have full KYC, that we've built in-house, as well as a microservices architecture platform with redis for sessions, kafka for event streaming, mongodb for storing data, s3 for file uploads, web sockets for real-time updates, etc. We use react, tailwind, and tanstack for our frontend.