Crypto isn't about making money, but value
Off The Ledger with Jason Butcher
English - October 13, 2021 12:40 - 44 minutes - 81.7 MBBusiness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Lev Mazur is the founder of the world’s fastest-growing trading platform, Quantfury. The trading veteran joins Jason Butcher on Off the Ledger to talk about the changing investment landscape, how crypto and blockchain enable innovation, and risks to consider with the rising trend of “synthetic trading.”
Show Notes
00:00 Intro
02:08 Pre-crypto trading vs. post-crypto trading
03:08 The elimination of barriers to entry for trading
06:13 Quantfury, the world’s fastest-growing trading platform
08:15 How blockchain enables accessibility & transparency
12:56 The QTF Token & Quantfury’s global presence
17:00 The rise of accessible investing & “synthetic trading”
19:50 Why Quantfury won’t list Dogecoin (for now)
25:35 Regulations are good, but who are they protecting?
30:22 What PayPal’s entry into crypto signals about the future
35:19 Crypto wasn’t invented to make money, but to create value
36:28 NFTs and virtual reality
40:03 What “Quantfurism” stands for
Lev Mazur is the Founder of Quantfury, an online brokerage that offers commission-free trading and investing at real-time spot prices. A veteran of the investment community, Lev has been a quantitative investor in proprietary capital, forex, futures, commodities, and equity markets.
Jason Butcher is the CEO of CoinPayments. An entrepreneur with nearly three decades of experience in payments and fintech, Jason has founded multiple global payments companies and serves as an advisor to various fintech and payment associations.
CoinPayments makes crypto payments easy for everyone including its 120,000 active merchants and 1.2M registered account holders. The platform enables users to transact with 2,000+ cryptocurrencies at industry-low fees of 0.5%. Since 2013, CoinPayments has processed over $10 billion in crypto payments and is now active in over 200 countries.