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Changpeng Zhao, billionaire of cryptocurrencies

2020-07-29T18:28:14.891Z


THESE UNKNOWNS BEHIND THESE SUCCESSFUL APPS (4/6) - He founded Binance, which in three years has become the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world.


Changpeng Zhao fell into cryptocurrency like Obelix in the pot of potion. In early 2014, he sold his house to buy his first bitcoins. A few months earlier, he discovered the concept of this cryptocurrency, invented in 2008 by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto. I fell in love with bitcoin. I read about it a lot and decided to devote myself to it full time. The young man is already familiar with stock trading platforms. A computer engineer, he worked for the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange, as well as the finance department of Bloomberg. In 2005, he went to China to work on high frequency trading before founding in Shanghai a first start-up of technological solutions for exchange platforms.

Read also: Binance, the meteoric rise of the cryptocurrency giant

A return to origins for the one who emigrated to Canada with his parents at the age of 12, following the events of Tiananmen. He must leave his native country a second time when the Chinese authorities decide,

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Source: lefigaro

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