Well my sort of first experience with crypto didn't start when I met it's easier. I started in 2017 and that's where I was in actually Boca Raton attending a futures industry association which I go every year.

But that was the first year that I saw a lot of crypto boys coming through and I got quite

intrigued with this new industry. What exactly does you represent? The more I understood it, I said, look, I think we explore the frontier of Binance and who is taking charge.

This is Ryan Sean Adams. I'm here with David Hoffman and we're here to help you become more bankless

CZ the co-founder of Binance is gone. He's serving in prison sentence right now. So who is running Binance these days? Who took over for him?

Binance is by some measures the largest exchange in the world. It's had a crazy couple

of years. It was fined $4 billion by the US government. Its founder is now

spending four months in jail.

David, it's always four, isn't it?

It's always four, the binance.

Richard Tang is the guy who's filling CZ's shoes,

and we felt it was time to finally meet him.

So that is our guest on today's episode.

We talk about a few things.

Number one, who is Richard?

Why is he here?

Number two, how does he plan to take Binance to a billion users?

Number three, are things with US regulators really settled? Like is there a blank slate?

Number four, the story of why Binance Exex are being forcibly held in Nigeria right now? Like what is going on with that?

And number five, we end with some fun price predictions for the bull market.

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