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Here is the latest top news in crypto Asia...BitMex losing market share to Binance, Huobi, OKExBinance moving back into ChinaCanaaan reports loss of $148 millionand much more on this edition of the ChainTalk podcast.If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Bobby Cho is Partner at CMS Holdings. In this chat we discuss his move from Cumberland to his own firm CMS Holdings, managing partner capital in an unpredictable and volatile crypto market, the state of his fund and what he looks for in new team members, and much more.Bobby Cho is President and Founding Partner at CMS Holdings. CMS is a principal investment firm focused on crypto assets. Previously, Bobby was chief operating officer of DRW’s crypto trading arm, Cumberland. Prior to DRW, Bobby was Director of Trading at Paxos Trust Company concentrating on building out crypto trading and custody products. Bobby started his career at SecondMarket working in illiquid asset-backed securities. At SecondMarket, Bobby helped build out their bitcoin trading arm, Genesis Global Trading, and asset management division, Digital Currency Group. Bobby is a graduate of Villanova University.Learn more here: https://twitter.com/robertjcho-----If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Watch Video Interviews: https://chaintalk.tv/catalogFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Jason Luo is Co-founder of BitForex. In this chat we discuss how to know which crypto exchanges are credible, the different ways BitForex is changing the exchange game and creating a stronger market, the future of IEO's, and much more.As entrepreneur period has developed online logistic trading platform with one stop financial and asset management solution. Now dedicate in Blockchain and Crypto-currency industry, strong believe that Blockchain and Crypto-currency will make revolutionary change on society and people's daily life.Learn more here: https://www.bitforex.com/------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Watch Video Interviews: https://chaintalk.tv/catalogFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Alexandre Dreyfus is CEO of Chiliz. In this chat we discuss creating fan tokens for sports teams, signing big teams like Juventus to the platform, future sports markets for tokenization, and how sports could evolve with fan tokens.Alexandre Dreyfus is an entrepreneur and Blockchain enthusiast based in Malta. He is the CEO of chiliZ, a fintech platform whose cryptocurrency which aims to provide tokenization for sports.Learn more here:https://www.chiliz.com/en/home/------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Watch Video Interviews: https://chaintalk.tv/catalogFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

 Torjus Gaaren has been in crypto since 2013. He is an analyst of the market. In this chat we discuss how he called the recent fall of the crypto market, the pattern on Dow Jones, why Bitcoin could fall below $1000, how a deflationary economy turns hyperinflation, and a doomsday scenario that could happen.Learn More Here: https://www.patreon.com/whitemountain------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Watch Video Interview: https://chaintalk.tv/Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Thomas Glucksmann is VP of Merkle Science. In this chat we discuss how crypto criminals hide transactions, current trends their using for illegal activities, how to monitor transaction history, challenges for law enforcement, and how to detect illegal activity on blockchain.This is an interview from our Spotlight series. Thomas is a multilingual business development, product management and marketing professional with extensive experience working with and for companies providing financial technology solutions and services. He has been professionally involved in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry since 2013, having previously worked at exchanges Mt.Gox and Gatecoin and enterprise blockchain services provider Diginex. Thomas is currently Vice President of Global Business Development at Merkle Science, a Singapore-based blockchain monitoring company that provides compliance and investigative tools to detect and prevent illegal use of cryptocurrency.Learn More Here: https://merklescience.com/------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Watch Video Interview: https://chaintalk.tv/Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Paul Veradittakit is Partner at Pantera Capital. In this chat we discuss seeing market trends before they happen, VC and ICO investing, how to value crypto investments, the future of ICO's and crypto, managing a Bitcoin fund, finding investment opportunities in Asia, and finding a job at a crypto fund.As a partner at Pantera, Paul focuses on the firm’s venture capital and hedge fund investments. Since joining in 2014, he has helped launch Pantera Venture Fund II and the firm’s currency funds, executing over sixty investments. Paul also sits on the board of OpenToken and BitOasis, is a mentor at The House Fund, Boost VC, and Alchemist, and is an advisor to Orchid, Origin, and Icon. Paul’s prior experience includes working as an associate at Strive Capital, where he focused on investments in the mobile space, including an early stage investment in App Annie. He also performed partnerships and growth for Urban Spoils, a daily-deal aggregation startup, and worked with LECG and Hatch Consulting. Paul graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.Visit Paul's blog: https://www.veradittakit.com/------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Watch Video Interviews: https://chaintalk.tv/catalogFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Zac McClure is the CEO of TokenTax. In this chat we discuss the current crypto tax rules on staking, forks, airdrops, hacks, mining, gains, and losses. Also, we discuss tax laws in different jurisdictions, LIFO vs FIFO vs average cost, tax loss harvesting, advantages of holding investments longer term, and much more. Zac is a true professional with crypto taxes and understands them inside and out.Zac McClure has worked in finance at JPMorgan, Imprint Capital, World Bicycle Relief and Bain. He is a Wharton MBA.Sign up to TokenTax: https://tokentax.co/------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Watch Video Interviews: https://chaintalk.tv/catalogFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Yehuda Lindell is a professor and CEO of Unbound Tech. In this chat we discuss cryptography in blockchain, security issues in digital assets, custody solutions for crypto, and a complete breakdown of MPC technology.This is an interview from our Spotlight series. Yehuda Lindell is a professor of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University, and a cryptographer with expertise in secure multiparty computation (MPC) that forms the technological core of Unbound’s solutions. Yehuda served as the Chief Scientist of Unbound from its inception until February 2019, when he took over the role as CEO.Learn More Here: https://www.unboundtech.com/------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Mati Greenspan is the founder of Quantum Economics. In this chat we discuss why he decided to leave eToro, $10k Bitcoin, macro economic analysis of crypto and traditional markets, being a contrarian, central banks and global debt, altcoin opportunities, and much more.Mati Greenspan is the founder of Quantum Economics and a former Senior Market Analyst at eToro. Mati is a licensed portfolio manager in the European Union and his main focus is on macroeconomic analysis, portfolio diversification and cryptocurrencies.Sign up for his newsletter: https://quantumeconomics.io/------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Jimmy Song is an early pioneer of Bitcoin and creator of Programming Bitcoin. In this chat we discuss technology in his childhood, what Bitcoin is and how it works, what makes Bitcoin valuable, its deflationary features and the Bitcoin halving, BTC vs BCH vs BSV, Bitcoin not blockchain, and the future of Bitcoin.Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin developer, educator and entrepreneur. He's an open source contributor to many different Bitcoin projects and is the author of Programming Bitcoin from O'Reilly and The Little Bitcoin Book. Jimmy is a lecturer at the University of Texas in Austin and is a speaker at various Bitcoin conferences around the world.Buy his book or course: https://programmingbitcoin.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/jimmysong------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Jeffery Liu is CEO of XanPool. In this chat we discuss how he got into the industry early on, exchanging local currencies to crypto without needing USD, being a fiat gateway without custody, focusing on Southeast Asia, how crypto can make a difference in the economy, and much more.Jeffery Liu is CEO of XanPool. He is a Systems Engineer and Project Manager by training. Experience in management of multinationals and startups. HODLer since 2013.Learn More: https://xanpool.com/------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Bobby Lee is Founder and CEO of Ballet. In this chat we discuss going from Yahoo and Wal-Mart executive to crypto, founding BTCC, investing in Bitcoin early, his new cryptocurrency wallet Ballet, attracting more people to crypto, Bitcoin and global economics, and much more.Bobby Lee is an entrepreneur in the cryptocurrency industry. He founded his second startup, Ballet, in early 2019. Ballet aims to drive global adoption of Bitcoin by making cryptocurrency accessible to everyone. The company is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Previously, Mr. Lee was the co-founder and CEO of BTCC (formerly BTCChina), the first Bitcoin exchange in China and one of the leading cryptocurrency platforms worldwide. BTCC was acquired in January of 2018.Get your Ballet cryptocurrency wallet: https://www.balletcrypto.com/------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Follow Eric on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Kensaku Kimura is Director of Quantum Accounting and founder of Crypto Gain. In this chat we discuss discovering Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, BIP39 and the 25th word, Wasabi Wallet and ways to store crypto, crypto taxes in Japan, and much more.Kensaku Kimura is Director of Quantum Accounting and founder of Crypto Gain. He has over 10 years experience with cross-border and domestic transactions involving multiple accounting standards such as IFRS, US GAAP and Japan GAAP. He provides valuation services for M&A transactions and accounting purposes (impairment testing, PPA, etc.). In recent years, he has been providing consulting services (investing, accounting, auditing, taxation) related to cryptocurrencies and blockchains. He is former CPA, manager at KPMG.Sign up to Crypto Gain: https://mycryptogain.io/------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Follow Eric on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Chieh Liu is CEO of Overbit. In this chat we discuss trading swaps, why Overbit chose to have zero fees, the importance of a clean and simple interface, Bitcoin as an underlying asset, price manipulation from whales, Gold vs Bitcoin, the Bitmex data leak, leverage trading, and much more.Chieh is an entrepreneur and investor. Founder of several successful technology and finance companies. He has over eight years experiences in FX trading and derivative products. He also has extensive experience in blockchain and one of the early blockchain evangelists in the professional consulting space. Throughout his career, Chieh has worked in China, Hong Kong, U.K, U.S, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Chieh has a degree in Computer Science from Cal Poly Pomona, California, US.Sign up and get bonus: https://www.overbit.com/a/8j34st------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Follow Eric on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Molly is the Marketing Director of HashKey Hub and former member of BTC Media. In this chat we discuss her destiny of being in blockchain after reading about cryptography at age 11, her experience at BTC Media, how crypto media impacts Bitcoin price and market, the mission of HashKey Hub, missing factors that blockchain needs for more usability, biggest threats to blockchain, and the current state of blockchain, crypto, and technology advances in China.Molly is the Marketing Director of HashKey Hub and former member of BTC Media. She started reading about cryptography at age 11 and was fascinated ever since. Aside from working at HashKey, Molly is also a popular influencer in China where she talks about cryptography and blockchain on her highly followed Weibo and WeChat accounts.Learn More: https://hub.hashkey.com/------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Follow Eric on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Yuming Yuan is CEO of Huobi China and Director of Huobi Research. In this chat we discuss, his experience running one of the biggest companies in blockchain, the blockchain side of Huobi that operates separately from their exchange, how they help startups and enterprises enter blockchain, how he keeps up with the continuous advancements in the industry, Libra vs Tencent, possible recession, and how he wants to be remembered in blockchain.Yuming Yuan, also known as Hubery Yuan, graduated from Tsinghua University’s Automation Department. He has served as assistant director of Industrial Security Research Institution, general manager of TMT Research Center, chief analyst of computer & Internet industry, and has been awarded the New Fortune prize for Best Analyst for five consecutive years from 2013 to 2017. In March 2018 he joined Huobi China and now serves as CEO of Huobi China and Director of Huobi Research.Learn More: https://twitter.com/yuanym2100------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Follow Eric on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Jason Lee is Vice President of NEM Foundation. In this chat we discuss how NEM Foundation almost went under, how they recovered and are now on a path of resurgence, competing with foundations like Ethereum, how Jason made Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and joining NEM, NEM Consensus, and other important industry topics.Jason Lee is the Vice President and Honorary Secretary as part of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for NEM Foundation. He is an advisory board member for Blockchain Philanthropy Foundation and Blockchain Centre Melbourne. Before working with NEM, Jason had experience in legal, banking, wealth management and innovation consulting. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2018 honoree for enterprise technology and has completed leadership and strategy executive programs at the Cambridge Judge Business School and has a Masters of International Business and a degree in Law in Australia.Learn More: https://nem.io/------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Follow Eric on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Phil Bonello is a crypto researcher and investor. In this chat we discuss why blockchain is experiencing a lack of adoption, how user driven design can help, interesting projects in the industry right now, the present opportunity of Bitcoin, incentive structures, Augur, Bitcoin days and UTXO's, the best analysis tool, crypto analysis process broken down into steps, crypto asset valuation, and finding an investment.Phil Bonello worked at Ikigai as Head of Research for a year before transitioning to an Advisory role. He has published work on crypto asset valuation and frequently contributed project analysis to Messari crypto. He is particularly focused on the study of incentive mechanisms in crypto networks and the formation of autonomous markets. He believes that in crypto investing, it's crucial to remain secular while observing the religious. The intolerant minority is powerful. Prior to that, Phil worked at Narrative Science where he implemented language automation solutions for enterprise clients. Phil started his career at IBM, where he helped manage software implementations for Fortune 500 companies. Phil holds a B.S. from University of Michigan Engineering.Learn More: https://twitter.com/PhilJBonello------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Follow Eric on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp

Peter Sherif is the creator of Wolf Of Bitcoins and crypto investor. In this chat we discuss his introduction to Bitcoin on the dark web, supporting Wikileaks, investing in Bitcoin early and riding the ICO wave, opening crypto exchanges, Bitcoin as sound money, how Bitcoin impacts a possible recession, the chances of Libra launching, and of course robots.Peter Sherif is the person behind the popular crypto Instagram account Wolf Of Bitcoins. He is a crypto trader who invested in Bitcoin and altcoins early. He also works full time as an advisor and head of business development for ChainCreator who are multinational Crypto investment company and offer Crypto exchanges as a white label solution. Learn More: https://www.instagram.com/thewolfofbitcoins/------If you enjoyed this episode and want to support this podcast please share it with your colleagues and friends. You can easily give us a rating and review by clicking the 5 blank stars and writing in your comments.For more info visit: https://www.chaintalk.media/Follow Eric on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lil_cryp