Bitcoin In Asia - Bitcoin Magazine
40 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHosted by Bitcoin Magazine’s John Riggins, Bitcoin in Asia, gives listeners insight into the minds of the leading experts in the Asia cryptocurrency scene. For beginners and experts, each episode tackles the complex and significant topics facing the current state of Bitcoin in Asia, bridging the information gap between the East and West.
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Bitcoin in Nigeria with Ahyke Otutubuike BIA 35
February 22, 2021 18:18 - 31 minutes - 14.2 MBOur guest this week is Ahyke Otutubuike, a technical writer and Bitcoin user based in Nigeria. Nigeria has been in the news this month as its central bank issued a directive, prohibiting regulated financial institutions from dealing with cryptocurrency exchanges and companies that touch crypto, essentially unbanking them. Ahyke had a piece in Bitcoin Magazine this past week explaining the situation and adding context for the Bitcoin’s place in Nigeria’s economy overall, and we get additional...
Poolin's Alejandro De La Torre on Hashrate Backed Tokens and Taproot - BIA 34
February 01, 2021 16:12 - 35 minutes - 40.3 MBOur guest this week is Alejandro De La Torre, Vice President at Poolin. Alejandro and Poolin are managing taprootactivation.com to improve on the communication and transparency of the Taproot activation process specifically. Poolin has also recently launched hashrate backed token, one that represents 1 Th of hashrate in their own mining operation and is already trading. Alejandro has been in Bitcoin data and mining space since 2014 when he founded SendChat, later acquired by wallet and dat...
Quick Hits with Molly of Hashkey Hub - BIA 33
January 25, 2021 19:47 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBAfter a little holiday break we are kicking off 2021 with a quick hitting episode. Our guest is Molly, head of marketing at HashKey Hub. Molly was Bitcoin Magazine’s first employee in Asia and combines that early Bitcoin experience with a lot of success rolling out Bitcoin products in Asia with Hashkey. This is more of a rapid fire episode with Molly’s perspective on mainstream media coverage of Bitcoin in China, the growth of Bitcoin interest products, the Asian view of GBTC and more.
Niall Ferguson on Bitcoin and Financial Evolution BIA 32
December 14, 2020 23:19 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBOur guest this week is Niall Ferguson. Niall is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is the author of 15 books, including The Ascent of Money and has at least two in the works in the upcoming Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe as well as part two of his excellent Henry Kissinger biography. Nia...
Bitcoin Hardware and Security with Lixin Liu of Cobo Vault - BIA31
December 06, 2020 21:43 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBOur guest this week is Lixin Liu head of hardware at Cobo and creator of Cobo Vault out of Shanghai. Lixin’s background in hardware and international product development made him Discus Fish’s choice when F2 Pool decided to get into the hardware and security game. We talk about building out Bitcoin hardware from the ground up, why it is valuable to the Bitcoin network to have increasing competition in the hardware product space, the difference between what Chinese miners and western retail u...
Coordinating Bitcoin Upgrades with Poolin's Alejandro De La Torre - BIA30
December 06, 2020 21:39 - 40 minutes - 55 MBOur guest this week is Alejandro De Le Torre, Vice President at Poolin. Alejandro and Poolin have launched taprootactivation.com to improve on the communication and transparency of the Taproot activation process. Alejandro has been in Bitcoin since 2014 when he founded SendChat, later acquired by wallet and data service Blocktrail, where Alejandro led BD until it was acquired by Bitmain. Inside of Bitmain, Alejandro cofounded BTC.com, and led their European office during the Segwit upgrade p...
The Godfathers of Bitcoin: Nick Szabo, Adam Back and David Chaum - BIA29
December 06, 2020 21:36 - 44 minutes - 61.3 MBWe have very special episode this week featuring some of the godfathers of Bitcoin: Nick Szabo, Adam Back and David Chaum. This was recorded as a live panel from Seoul at Korea Blockchain Week and is laid out as a history of the ideas and events that led to Bitcoin from their first person accounts, plus their current thoughts on the experiment and what excites them about the future. From the cryptography and cypherpunk movements to David’s DigiCash, Adam’s Hashcash proof-of-work, Nick’s Bit ...
Running India's first Bitcoin Exchange with Unocoin CEO Sathvik Vishwanath - BIA28
December 06, 2020 21:34 - 55 minutes - 63.5 MBOur guest this week is Sathvik Vishwanath, CEO of India based Bitcoin exchange Unocoin. A tech entrepreneur who got into Bitcoin in 2013, starting a Bitcoin meetup group in Bangalore out of which came the founding team of Unocoin, Sathvik as CEO is now leading the company through a new Series A funding round led by Draper Associates. We discus how Unocoin became the market leader in India initially, what the exchange ecosystem in India looks like now, why it is a market playing catchup, and ...
Bitcoin Mining and Communications with Nishant Sharma - BIA27
December 06, 2020 21:29 - 45 minutes - 52.5 MBOur guest this week is Nishant Sharma, a long time bitcoin mining industry insider in China who is now a founder and partner of BlocksBridge Consulting, a communications strategy and advisory firm focused on the Bitcoin mining sector and serving some of its largest companies. Nishant has been in the mining space since 2014, including 4 years at Bitmain in Beijing. We discuss his time at Bitmain, seeing it grow from a two digit employee company to a dominant player in the industry, trends in ...
Growing a Global Bitcoin Company with Huobi's Ciara Sun - BIA26
December 06, 2020 21:22 - 56 minutes - 25.7 MBOur guest this week is Ciara Sun, Head of Global Business and Markets at Huobi Group. Ciara joined Huobi in 2019 first focusing on growth of its institutional business and in her role now now overseeing its growth and product strategy around the world, she gives a great look into what goes into running and growing a global bitcoin company with a diverse range of products. And one that is continuously rolling out new products in very cutthroat markets, including rollouts this year in the futu...
Bitcoin in South Africa with Chris Becker - BIA25
December 06, 2020 21:05 - 42 minutes - 49.1 MBWe are actually in South Africa this week after some newsworthy M&A there involving the Luno exchange and DCG. Our guest is Chris Becker, Blockchain Technologies Lead at Investec based out of Johannesburg. Investec is a commercial and investment bank with a significant presence in South Africa, and Chris started their blockchain practice in 2016 - he talks about Bitcoin in South Africa in that time frame, DCG’s acquisition of Luno, the landscape of Bitcoin companies in SA and trends he sees ...
An Institutional Approach with Dave Chapman - BIA24
December 06, 2020 21:02 - 46 minutes - 52.7 MBOur guest this week is Australian Hongkonger and Bitcoin entrepreneur Dave Chapman. Dave is the Executive Director of the publicly listed BC Group and its subsidiary OSL (osl.com), one of Asia's leading digital asset platforms. OSL recently became the first recipient of approval in principle for Type 1 and Type 7 licenses from the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong, allowing them to operate a virtual asset trading platform and deal in securities. It is a significant step from Hon...
Advertising Bitcoin with Leo Weese - BIA23
December 06, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 28.2 MBOur guest this week is Leo Weese, a long time Bitcoiner in Hong Kong and a Cofounder and president of the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong. The Bitcoin Association has been a significant advocate for and communicator about Bitcoin since 2014 as it has established one of the strongest Bitcoin communities in Asia. One of its recent initiates, an advertising campaign highlighting Bitcoin’s traits and potential as magic internet money and digital gold among other taglines has made waves. We disc...
Bank of Hodlers Founder and CEO Darshan Bathija - BIA22
December 06, 2020 20:58 - 49 minutes - 22.5 MBOur guest this week is Darshan Bathija, founder and CEO of Bank of Hodlers (bankofhodlers.com), an asset backed lending and borrowing platform that I think we will be hearing a lot more of in the future. The company runs out of Singapore and Darshan and most of his team are currently working out of India. Darshan gives great insight into the lending and borrowing markets for retail and institutions in their different geographies from Southeast Asia to Europe and the Americas. He also goes de...
Bitmain in North America with Raymond Walintukan - BIA21
December 06, 2020 20:56 - 36 minutes - 16.8 MBDescription Our guest this week is Raymond Walintukan, Director of Mining Operations North America for Bitmain. His perspective as someone in charge of running and growing a separate geography for a Chinese company and for Bitmain in particular is an interesting one. We talk about that situation, the workflow, the growth strategy, and dive into how it works operationally and how it fits into the broader Bitmain effort. Raymond also details Bitmain’s North American footprint, the nuances of...
The Developing Environment for Bitcoin Businesses in South Korea - BIA20
December 06, 2020 20:54 - 40 minutes - 18.7 MBOur guest this week is Dr. Youree Lee, Chief Business officer of Peertec, Co-Founder of W-Foundation, and professor at Hanyang University, based out of Seoul. Peertec is a part of Peer.com a corporate group which includes the exchange GDAC, the Korean media BlockInPress and the Deconomy conference there among other entities. We talk about regulatory developments in Korea over the last year, including Korea’s new tax plan regarding cryptocurry and additional guidance for licensed exchanges. Y...
Bobby Lee on Bitcoin Cycles and the Current Macro Environment - BIA19
December 06, 2020 20:53 - 46 minutes - 21.1 MBOur guest this week is Bobby Lee. Bobby is a bitcoin and especially a China bitcoin OG as a cofounder and CEO of BTC China, later BTCC, China’s first bitcoin exchange, and presently the founder and CEO of Ballet (balletcrypto.com). He is always an insightful voice on the importance of Bitcoin and where it sits in the macro landscape. Our talk focuses on that macro landscape and the the cycles that bitcoin has followed to date. Recorded on July 27 as Bitcoin crossed $11k yet again, Bobby shar...
Allocating a 6k BTC Fund of Funds with Mustafa Yilham - BIA18
December 06, 2020 20:46 - 39 minutes - 17.9 MBOur guest this week is Mustafa Yilham, Global Business Development at China based group Bixin. Mustafa was previously director of business development at Huobi and a partner at the Hong Kong based quant fund and finance firm Amber Group. Bixin is a major player in the mining space with over 300 MW and in the wallet space with one of the most popular consumer wallets in China and operates a bitcoin denominated crypto fund of funds of about 6k BTC. At Bixin Mustafa manages international alloca...
Bitcoin in Japan and Lightning in Asia With Koji - BIA17
December 06, 2020 20:44 - 1 hour - 27.6 MBOur guest this week is Koji Higashi, a long time bitcoiner and a much sought after and followed industry expert in Japan. He has helped several large companies with market entrance and localization strategies in Japan and is a founder of Koinup. Most recently he has been focused on the Lightning Network and is building products with the team at Nayuta (https://nayuta.co). We talk about how bitcoin has trended in Japan over the past few years and really dive into product development and devel...
Bitcoin Media and Editorial insights in China with Feng Liu - BIA16
December 06, 2020 20:36 - 45 minutes - 20.8 MBOur gust this week is Feng Liu, founder and editor in chief of Chinese crypto media group ChainNews (chainnews.com). Feng was the former EIC at Bloomberg Business week in China before founding ChainNews at the end of 2017. He shares his firsthand insights into the media industry in China, how coverage of Bitcoin in China happens and has evolved in both the mainstream and industry specific media there. We also get into china’s mining industry as ChainNews recently brought back the annual Spri...
OTC Market Dynamics in Asia with Charles Yang - BIA15
December 06, 2020 20:33 - 1 hour - 28.4 MBOur guest this week is Charles Yang, head trader at Genesis Block out of Hong Kong. Genesis Block (https://genesisblockhk.com) is a leading OTC trading center in Asia, headquartered in Hong Kong and with operations throughout the region and additional physical locations in Thailand and Korea. It also operates the largest network of Bitcoin ATMs in the region, and its founders have their roots and continuing operations in bitcoin mining. As head of trading, Charles oversees Genesis Block’s OT...
This Week in China w/ Molly - BIA14
December 06, 2020 20:31 - 21 minutes - 9.73 MBOur guest this week is Mo Li (Molly), head of marketing at Hashkey Hub. We take a look at items that have been in the news coming out of China over the past week, and she shares her on the ground perspective. Topics: Covid update Mining industry trends coming out of the Chengdu mining summit Severe weather in Sichuan Mining manufacturer competitive landscape and recent developments Bitmain internal situation Bank account freezing related to USDT and BTC OTC usage
Large Scale Mining in Siberia with Igor Runets BIA13
December 06, 2020 20:24 - 57 minutes - 26.1 MBOur guest this week is Igor Runets, founder and CEO of BitRiver (bitriver.farm), a large scale mining data center operator in Russia with over 100MW in the irkustk region of Siberia. Igor founded and ran a traditional data center business Servers.Global out of university focused on setting up cloud infrastructure in more difficult parts of the world for western clients and then found bitcoin while getting his MBA at Stanford and wend on from there to found BitRiver. We talk about his going f...
Building Bitcoin Financial Services in China and Beyond w/ Flex Yang BIA12
December 06, 2020 20:21 - 1 hour - 29.5 MBOur guest this week is Flex Yang, founder and CEO of Babel Finance ( babel.finance) out of Beijing and Hong Kong. Babel Finance provides crypto-backed loans, deposit services, financing, margin trading, and other derivatives services and has grown into one of the largest commercial crypto banks in Asia. With Babel Finance Flex is aiming to build the JP Morgan of Bitcoin, and initially attacked goal by focusing on lending and other financial services targeting Bitcoin miners in China. Prior t...
BIA11- Bitcoin in India with Raghu Mohan
March 31, 2020 19:20 - 32 minutes - 15 MBOur guest this week is Raghu Mohan CEO of IBC Media out of Bengaluru India. Raghu’s background in media and education includes time as an editor at the leading Indian tech startup publication YourStory and with Udacity. IBC Media’s products include India’s largest Blockchain events in the International Blockchain Congress and Genesis DevCon as well as T-Block accelerator. The focus of the conversation is the recent Supreme Court ruling in India that reversed what had been the status quo put ...
BIA10 - How to Think About China: Coronavirus, DCEP and the Biosecurity state with Jeremy Goldkorn
February 21, 2020 19:38 - 35 minutes - 26.2 MBOur guest this week is Jeremy Goldkorn, co-host of the iconic, China focused Sinica podcast and editor-in-chief of SupChina.com. Moving to China in 1995, Jeremy worked in Beijing for 20 years as an editor and entrepreneur. In 2003, he founded the website and research firm, Danwei, which tracked Chinese media, markets, politics and business and was acquired in 2013 by the Financial Times. SupChina is an independent digital media company dedicated to informing, entertaining, and educating a gl...
BIA9 - Focusing on India with BitBnS CEO Gaurav Dahake
February 11, 2020 16:31 - 50 minutes - 43.9 MBOur guest this week is BitBnS founder and CEO Gaurav Dahake. Bitbns is now the largest Bitcoin exchange in India by volume and their team has rolled out a number of other products focused on onboarding new users into Bitcoin. Gaurav first founded successful commerce plugin Buyhatke out of university and knows what it takes to grow in the Indian market, so this is full of learnings on the market in India. We dive into sentiment around Bitcoin generally, population segments in India that Gau...
BIA8 - Design with Liquid Chief Design Officer Jon Myers
January 31, 2020 21:03 - 35 minutes - 30.2 MBOur guest this week is Jon Myers, Chief Design Officer at the global exchange platform Liquid (https://www.liquid.com/). Liquid and parent company Quione are headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and serve a number of markets. John has had a distinguished career in product design, most recently in South East Asia working on fintech and banking platforms and now with Liquid. We got together in Ho Chi Minh where Liquid has a large operations center. Our discussion focuses on that topic of design: his ...
BIA7 - Bitcoin, Beijing, & Austrian Economics with Tyler Yue of Bixin
December 27, 2019 00:44 - 56 minutes - 129 MBOur guest this week is Tyler Yue, cofounder and COO at Bixin a leading Bitcoin wallet and services provider out of Beijing. Tyler is a well-known builder and thought leader in the Chinese Bitcoin community. He is also a polymath with accomplishments outside of the Bitcoin space including as a scholar with a public role in the Austrian economics community in China and as a creator in the music space, making a name for in the Chinese rap scene. @DistRiggs and Tyler talk about his ideological f...
BIA6 - Building Thailand's Biggest Exchange
December 12, 2019 14:39 - 1 hour - 30.4 MBOur Guest this week is Topp Jirayut Srupsrisopa Co-founder & Group CEO at Bitkub Capital Group Holdings out of Bangkok. Topp previously co-founded coins.ph and built out its Thailand entity coins.th before its acquisition by Go-Jeck. In founding Bitkub Capital Group Holdings, Topp raised the largest seed round in the history of start-up funding in Thailand and launched as a part of its portfolio the cryptocurrency exchange Bitkub, now Thailand’s largest by market share. We talk about what it...
BIA4 - The OkCoin Mafia and building for Bitcoin with Richard Bensberg
December 05, 2019 16:51 - 1 hour - 30.1 MBOur guest this week is Richard Bensberg, a long time Beijinger and the newly appointed Director of Sales and Integrations at Blockstream where he is focused on their Liquid product. Richard got his start in Bitcoin in the early days of OkCoin where he was managing compliance before leaving in 2015 to found Remitsy, a money transfer business using Bitcoin that was later acquired by Wyre. Richard then ran Wyre’s Asia business before recently joining Blockstream, still out of Beijing. We cover ...
BIA5 - The OkCoin Mafia and building for Bitcoin with Richard Bensberg
December 05, 2019 16:51 - 1 hour - 30.1 MBOur guest this week is Richard Bensberg, a long time Beijinger and the newly appointed Director of Sales and Integrations at Blockstream where he is focused on their Liquid product. Richard got his start in Bitcoin in the early days of OkCoin where he was managing compliance before leaving in 2015 to found Remitsy, a money transfer business using Bitcoin that was later acquired by Wyre. Richard then ran Wyre’s Asia business before recently joining Blockstream, still out of Beijing. We cover ...
BIA3 - Bringing Bitcoin to Vietnam with Dominik Weil and Bao-Phuong (Paige) Nguyen
November 29, 2019 05:45 - 57 minutes - 26.4 MBDominik Weil and Bao-Phuong (Paige) Nguyen are cofounders of Bitcoin Vietnam and Vietnam’s Bitcoin meetup Bitcoin Saigon. Bitcoin Vietnam (https://www.bitcoinvn.io/) was founded as an exchange service in Ho Chi Minh in 2013 and it's business lines now also include an expanding ATM network, inbound remittance services, and payments services. We walk through the history of the Bitcoin market and community in Vietnam from 2013 through today. Insights around operating inside the Vietnamese marke...
BIA2 - Constance Yuan on Building Bitcoin Businesses and Managing Regulations in China
November 21, 2019 16:36 - 53 minutes - 24.3 MBOur guest this week is Constance Yuan, currently the founder and CEO of financial services company unbanking.io out of Shanghai. Constance is an early Bitcoiner in China whose background combines five years of working in and founding Bitcoin businesses including time at the first Bitcoin exchange in China, BTCC. We cover: The experience of being an early bitcoin startup founder in China and the atmosphere/support system in China for startups generally; The experience dealing directly ...
Bitcoin in Asia with Jack Huang of One Block Capital
November 14, 2019 17:41 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBOur guest for this inaugural episode is Jack Huang, Founder and Managing Partner at One Block Capital. We cover: Jack’s current “elevator pitch” for Bitcoin Experience in traditional finance at Rothschild and the World Bank Group China Central Bank’s digital currency initiative and Libra Jack’s commercial entry into the world of crypto, why ICOs took off in Asia and how early Bitcoiners in Asia reacted How Jack’s thinking about Bitcoin evolved through peak ICO mania to today, his cu...
BIA1 - Jack Huang of One Block Capital
November 14, 2019 17:41 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBOur guest for this inaugural episode is Jack Huang, Founder and Managing Partner at One Block Capital. We cover: Jack’s current “elevator pitch” for Bitcoin Experience in traditional finance at Rothschild and the World Bank Group China Central Bank’s digital currency initiative and Libra Jack’s commercial entry into the world of crypto, why ICOs took off in Asia and how early Bitcoiners in Asia reacted How Jack’s thinking about Bitcoin evolved through peak ICO mania to today, his cu...
Bitcoin in Asia Ep. 1 - Jack Huang of One Block Capital
November 14, 2019 17:41 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBOur guest for this inaugural episode is Jack Huang, Founder and Managing Partner at One Block Capital. We cover: Jack’s current “elevator pitch” for Bitcoin Experience in traditional finance at Rothschild and the World Bank Group China Central Bank’s digital currency initiative and Libra Jack’s commercial entry into the world of crypto, why ICOs took off in Asia and how early Bitcoiners in Asia reacted How Jack’s thinking about Bitcoin evolved through peak ICO mania to today, his cu...
Welcome To The Bitcoin In Asia
November 01, 2019 18:24 - 1 minute - 1.44 MBHosted by BTC Media's John Riggins, Bitcoin in Asia gives listeners insight into the minds of the leading experts in the Asia cryptocurrency scene. For beginners and experts, each episode tackles the complex and significant topics facing the current state of Bitcoin in Asia, bridging the information gap between the East and West.
Welcome To The Bitcoin In Asia
November 01, 2019 18:24 - 1 minute - 1.44 MBHosted by BTC Media's John Riggins, Bitcoin in Asia gives listeners insight into the minds of the leading experts in the Asia cryptocurrency scene. For beginners and experts, each episode tackles the complex and significant topics facing the current state of Bitcoin in Asia, bridging the information gap between the East and West.
Welcome To The Bitcoin In Asia Podcast, Season One
November 01, 2019 18:24 - 1 minute - 1.44 MBHosted by BTC Media's John Riggins, Bitcoin in Asia gives listeners insight into the minds of the leading experts in the Asia cryptocurrency scene. For beginners and experts, each episode tackles the complex and significant topics facing the current state of Bitcoin in Asia, bridging the information gap between the East and West.