113: Benjamin Small – Normalizing Bitcoin, and exploring the cryptocurrency ecosystem

Chat With Traders

English - February 22, 2017 23:07 - 57 minutes - 80.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratings
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Next Episode: 113: Benjamin Small – Normalizing Bitcoin, and Exploring the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem

Benjamin Small is an electrical engineering PhD. He’s worked in quantitative research roles since 2006, at UBS, Citadel, Credit Suisse and the stock exchange, IEX.

Today though, Ben is head of market structure at Gemini—the world’s first fully licensed and fully regulated Bitcoin exchange, which is based in New York.

During this chat, we get into; payment for order flow and high frequency trading, why there’s an incentive to normalize Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency ecosystem, potential outcomes for the future of Bitcoin, and becoming a cashless society.