benjaminchodroff on Nostr: I’m coming up on seven years in China. I arrived on 3/28/2018 in Guangzhou and, ...
I’m coming up on seven years in China. I arrived on 3/28/2018 in Guangzhou and, having spent the last five years studying Bitcoin and then Ethereum, I lead a small cryptocurrency exchange in Hong Kong with a team in Shenzhen. I have a lot of stories, but the main one is that it was impossible to get a bank account with any of the Hong Kong banks. We shut down the exchange and sold the tech. I was fortunate to find a job in HSBC leading cash equities technology in Guangzhou. Over the past six years I made my way to leading digital assets research with a focus on cryptocurrency. I hope one day to connect a bank to cryptocurrency but it is taking a different path than anticipated.
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