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4.8689 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Bitmain’s IPO filing reveals that it’s doing well despite the bear market.

-AND-

If you bet that the SEC would delay its bitcoin ETF decision again, you’re a winner.

-ALSO-

In a biting op-ed on CoinDesk.com, former EY employee Angus Champion de Crespigny writes that permissioned blockchains may have no real business benefit.

-DON’T MISS-

CoinDesk editor Marc Hochstein investor Jalak Jobanputra on blockchain's progress in the developing world and advancing women's participation in the industry.

Host Pete Rizzo has the rest.

Recorded September 27, 2018 in New York, NY.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Numbers and facts from Bitmain's IPO filing. The mining giant is doing well despite the bare market.

0:08.2

Good evening, I'm Pete Rizzo, and this is late confirmation from CoinDesk,

0:12.0

giving you the top stories from September 27, 2018. On today's show, the SEC delayed its decision

0:18.4

on a Bitcoin ETF once again. Now what?

0:21.6

Not everyone is enthusiastic about enterprise blockchain.

0:24.8

Angus champion de Crispigni, a former employee of EY, is definitely not.

0:29.8

A little later in the show, we'll be talking to Jalak Jobon Putra, founder and managing partner of Future Perfect Ventures,

0:36.0

who will share her perspective on blockchain's

0:37.8

progress in the developing world and advancing women's participation in the industry.

0:42.4

I think there's going to be new crypto asset infrastructure that's built. So in our second fund,

0:48.9

about half of our investment so far have been around how do we build the new financial

0:54.0

infrastructure for this new

0:55.9

asset class.

0:57.0

At first, a word from our sponsor.

0:59.4

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1:05.8

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1:10.6

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1:12.0

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1:17.2

Oxfordexecfintech.com. Bitmain's draft ICO prospectus was published on Wednesday, and it was

1:24.3

anything but a quick read. Revealing the inner workings of the Chinese

1:27.6

mining giant, the 438-page document gives detailed information about the company's sales and profitability

1:33.5

going all the way back to 2015. As you can imagine, the details are illuminating. Bitmain sales grew

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