Our 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

On this special edition of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, Licensed Financial Advisor and Co-Founder of Platinum Trust Group, Bruce Mack, comes on to the podcast to educate bitcoiners on why they should leverage a specialized Trust to: eliminate your capital gains taxes LEGALLY; defer your income taxes in perpetuity; and protect your assets - and Bitcoin in particular - from judgments, liens, levies, government seizure, and even divorce!

You can reach out to Bruce and the team at Platinum Trust at www.platinumtrustgroup.com/bitcoin or call (702) 371-2345.

Licensed Financial Advisor and Co-Founder of Platinum Trust Group, Bruce Mack, comes on to the podcast to educate bitcoiners on why they should leverage a specialized Trust to: eliminate your capital gains taxes LEGALLY; defer your income taxes in perpetuity; and protect your assets - and Bitcoin in particular - from judgments, liens, levies, government seizure, and even divorce!

You can reach out to Bruce and the team at Platinum Trust at www.platinumtrustgroup.com/bitcoin or call (702) 371-2345.

This week, ck and Ansel sit down to discuss unemployment around the world. 

Topics: 

Update on QE Activity from the FED and the ECB

Stock markets rally globally

The Robinhood hood effect

China distancing itself from a CBDC

Bitcoin stats 

Bearish on China, Greece, and Italy

Bullish on Mexico

 

Links: 

Fed balance sheet: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttrends.htm

 

Broad spectrum asset purchases: https://www.svb.com/de/blogs/eric-souza/alphabet-soup-the-federal-reserve-releases-an-array-of-emergency-measures

Inflation expectations: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T5YIFR

More stimulus from the ECB: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/05/26/whats-the-ecb-doing-in-response-to-the-covid-19-crisis/

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/european-central-bank-ramps-up-its-pandemic-bond-buying-to-1point35-trillion-euros.html

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You can find us @BitcoinMagazine on Twitter. 

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This week, ck and Ansel sit down to discuss unemployment around the world. 

Topics: 

Update on QE Activity from the FED and the ECB

Stock markets rally globally

The Robinhood hood effect

China distancing itself from a CBDC

Bitcoin stats 

Bearish on China, Greece, and Italy

Bullish on Mexico

Please rate and share the podcast!

You can find us @BitcoinMagazine on Twitter.

Our 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 full steam into bitcoin mining, spending some time in Beijing and then setting up operations in Siberia, the infrastructure and regulatory issues at play for energy access in Russia and the CIS region, trends he is seeing in demand for mining from institutional customers both from Russia and abroad and more. 

Igor on Twitter @IgorRunets

Our guest this week is Igor Runets, founder and CEO of BitRiver (bitriver.farm).

We talk about his going full steam into bitcoin mining, spending some time in Beijing and then setting up operations in Siberia, the infrastructure and regulatory issues at play for energy access in Russia and the CIS region, trends he is seeing in demand for mining from institutional customers both from Russia and abroad and more. 

Igor on Twitter @IgorRunets

This week, ck and Ansel sit down to discuss the eruption of social unrest stemming from the death of George Floyd.

Topics:
* Why are people angry
* The financial undercurrents
* Where Bitcoin fits in
* What this can mean for the future

This week, ck and Ansel sit down to discuss the eruption of social unrest stemming from the death of George Floyd.

Topics:

* Why are people angry

* The financial undercurrents

* Where Bitcoin fits in

* What this can mean for the future

Our 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 to entering the Bitcoin space Flex worked in financial services and was a founder of a credit services focused fintech Standard Financial Inclusion in Beijing. He has raised money from some of the most well regarded VCs in China including Zhenfund and Lightspeed. The first twenty minutes or so of this conversation covers Flex’s background and experience with those previous companies and his experience as a founder Beijing, and then we jump into Babel and dig into some of the specific business lines that are being built out around demand from miners, from more institutional players in China and from the dynamic of western companies and Chinese players not being fully connected.

You can find Flex on twitter @moonmanflex.

Topics:
- Building companies in Beijing
- Starting a crypto bank by focusing on servicing miners first
- Risk management as one of the largest lenders in the space
- Rise of Lubian with the trend of big private capital entering mining in China and consolidation
- Derivatives market and new financial products