BREAKDOWN: The View From China: Crypto, Crisis and Digital Currencies Feat. Matthew Graham
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
When everyone wrote their 2020 crypto prediction pieces, China featured prominently in everything from the exchange business to enterprise blockchain to the potential impact of a forthcoming digital yuan.
Coronavirus erased those issues from focus. On this episode of The Breakdown, @NLW is joined by Matthew Graham, CEO of Sino Global Capital. For the past 7 years, Matthew has lived in China and for the past several years, his exclusive focus has been on crypto and blockchain.
In this episode, they discuss:
- What Chinese crypto and blockchain investors were focused on before Coronavirus
- The shift in the crypto and blockchain narrative in China post-Libra
- What living through the Coronavirus has actually been live (and how it differs from the media narrative in the US)
- Why enterprise blockchain is poised to be one of the most dominant focuses for China-centric investors this year
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| 0:00.0 | Keeping the fact that I work in China crypto in mind, I have to tell you this is the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. |
| 0:09.0 | Yeah. Corona. I mean, it's just nuts. It really has been like out of a movie. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown, an everyday analysis breaking down the most important stories in Bitcoin, crypto, and beyond, with your host, NLW. |
| 0:29.5 | The Breakdown is distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:34.9 | Welcome back to The Breakdown. It is Monday, March 2nd, and today we are kicking off the week, |
| 0:40.2 | kicking off the month, with a special interview with Matthew Graham. Matthew is the CEO of |
| 0:46.3 | Sino Global Capital, which is based in Beijing, and he has an interesting perspective as someone who is |
| 0:54.1 | an American investor, but based in China. |
| 0:57.6 | Now, I think this perspective gives Matthew a really unique vantage point on a number of issues |
| 1:03.1 | as it relates to the crypto markets, right? This is an industry that is from the get-go being |
| 1:08.2 | birthed and growing up in different places differently, even though |
| 1:12.6 | they are interconnected. And Matthew sits at the intersection of some of those different perspectives. |
| 1:18.2 | So I wanted to have him on for that reason alone, but obviously in the context of the world |
| 1:24.1 | and the markets where they are, coronavirus is an overwhelming point that we just have to |
| 1:29.7 | address. And so in this interview, I ask Matthew a little bit about his perspective, having |
| 1:35.5 | watched how the China around him that he knows that he spent the last seven years in has |
| 1:40.9 | reacted to coronavirus and how is it or isn't it different than what our perception |
| 1:46.3 | is here in the U.S. We discuss further the perception of Chinese investors in both the |
| 1:52.1 | crypto and the regular markets around what the impact of coronavirus might be. But we also talk |
| 1:57.8 | about more crypto-specific issues. We talk a little bit about what the difference |
| 2:02.4 | is between 2020 and 2019 in terms of where the crypto industry in China is, what their focus is, |
| 2:08.7 | what their level of maturity is. We talk about the Chinese digital yuan, the DeSep that is |
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