🎧 Kraken’s CEO Jesse Powell on Boosting Bitcoin by Improving Exchanges
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"After the #MtGox hack, I realized that to bring #bitcoin mainstream, we'd need professional exchanges that can interface w/ regulators & get everyone comfortable and educated." ~@jespow, co-founder & CEO @krakenfx
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"We try to find a compromise where we can preserve financial privacy… People respect us for holding regulators and law enforcement to some basic level of decency." ~@jespow, co-founder & CEO @krakenfx
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"Regulatory certainty could be an upgrade or a downgrade. There's been some horrible regulation. It's better to let the free market flow & get people educated. The market will find a way." ~@jespow, co-founder & CEO @krakenfx
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