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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#186: Alex Leishman & Andrew Benson

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Alex Leishman and Andrew Benson, co-founders of River Financial, to discuss:

- Starting a company with your cousin

- Expanding River to 30 states

- River's foray into Hawaii

- Hawaii's regulatory history with Bitcoin

- Onboarding and educating high net worth individuals

- Building out River's software stack

- Thoughts on chain surveillance companies

-  Interacting with a banking system that isn't open 24/7/365

- much more

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Check out the article we discussed

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So, Franks, your boy, Marty, here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Cript.

0:04.4

I had the immense pleasure of sitting down with the co-founders of Alexander Leashman.

0:10.1

I guess his parents would be the co-founders of him.

0:13.2

But Alex is a co-founder of River Financial, along with Andrew Benson.

0:17.8

We sat down to discuss the news today that they're going to be able to operate in Hawaii.

0:23.7

And it wasn't just us.

0:24.5

He met Hedell joined us as well.

0:26.1

We had a far-ranging, interesting conversation, everything from the Journey River's been on to the regulatory red tape.

0:35.3

They've had to get through to the specifics of the regulatory environment

0:38.2

in Hawaii, Bitcoin, you guys will listen to it. You're going to listen to it. You're going to

0:42.5

hear it. What am I telling you what's going to happen before you're about to listen to it?

0:46.2

It's not what you're here for. I'm sorry I'm doing this to you. It's just like a mental tick

0:51.0

when I do these intros. I just mentally think about what we talked about

0:54.8

and try to give you like a little hint what's going.

0:57.4

But you'll hear it anyway.

1:00.6

Okay, this episode of Tales from the Crypt

1:02.0

is brought to you by good friends

1:04.1

at the motherfucking cache app.

1:06.0

And as you can hear, I just got a Slack notification.

1:08.3

But let me tell you about the Cash app

1:09.5

before I get to this Slack message, right?

1:11.2

The Slack message can wait. The Cash app needs to be described to you freaks right now.

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