In my adult life, there's really three fundamental technologies. There's internet, that's blockchain, there's AI. All three technologies are borderless, the global, right? So you can send a message to anybody anywhere in the world. You can do that at 3am. Today you can't send money at 3am on a weekend, and money is divided by country, right? So money, but now we have the technology

to make money borderless.

Thank you so much for taking the time, making the energy to be here with us in person. I think everybody here is caught by surprise.

Yeah, thanks for having me. I was actually a little bit surprised, but the schedule allowed it, so I'm popped over.

No, that's awesome. Okay, let's start here. You haven't been spending too much time here in the States recently.

This is one of your first major public appearances with us. What does that mean for you to be here with us?

Sure. I think just very frankly, for the last few years, I've been trying to avoid the US, right? So I've been trying to stay out of mind, out of sight, out of mind.

But I think obviously the US policy towards crypto changed in the last year and a half or so.

So now we have to, I have to actually make up for the absence for it.

So I think there was a lack of engagement with the US communities.

There's a lack of engagement with the US builders and also with the regulators, policymakers,

et cetera.

And there's a lot of quite a bit of misconception about me, B&B Chan, our ecosystem, etc.

So I'm here to spend more time to engage with more of our community

and try to hopefully fix that.

That's fantastic.

And just as a small plug, if you haven't picked up CZ's book

and you want to get to know them, that's a great way to get to know him.

It's like spending a five hour lunch with CZ hearing his story. Yeah. If you have trouble falling asleep at night, it's a great

square. All right. Well, Ciz, you've got a particularly unique vantage point. You travel the world,

you talk to all of these people who have significant influence and impact in terms of shaping policy, in terms of regulations.

And I want to know, we're here in the US.

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