Ep. 299 - "Why I Left Amazon to Go All-in on Crypto", w/ Bittrex CEO Bill Shihara

CRYPTO 101

Bryce Paul & Brendan Viehman

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4.3 • 841 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In this episode of CRYPTO 101, brought to you by eToro, we sit down with Bittrex CEO Bill Shihara. Bittrex is one of the largest and most influential crypto exchanges worldwide. They boast several hundred different cryptocurrency trading pairs, unprecedented security and customer support, and a complete toolset to make your trading experience seamless and professional. Bill shares why he left Amazon as a Security Engineer with his co-founder Richie Lai, what he thinks cryptocurrency truly means, his vision for how the future looks, and some security tips to keep in mind. Sponsored link: http://etoro.com/crypto101 Guest Links: https://bittrex.com/ https://twitter.com/BittrexExchange https://twitter.com/BittrexIntl https://twitter.com/BittrexGlobal Show Links: https://www.CRYPTO2020summit.com https://CRYPTO101podcast.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/user?u=8429526 Social: https://twitter.com/Crypto101Pod https://twitter.com/BrycePaul101 https://twitter.com/PizzaMind https://instagram.com/crypto_101 https://www.facebook.com/groups/101Crypto https://www.facebook.com/CRYPTO101Podcast **THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL OR LEGAL ADVICE** © Copyright 2019 Boardwalk Flock, LLC All Rights Reserved ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Fog by DIZARO https://soundcloud.com/dizarofr Creative Commons — Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported — CC BY-ND 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/Fog-DIZARO Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/lAfbjt_rmE8 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Our Sponsors: * Check out Mars Men: https://mengotomars.com * Check out NPR: https://npr.org * Check out Quince and use my code quince.com/crypto101 for a great deal: https://www.quince.com * Check out Scribe and use my code Scribe.how/CRYPTO101 for a great deal: https://scribe.com/Crypto101 * Check out Shopify and use my code shopify.com/crypto101 for a great deal: https://www.shopify.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	All right. What is up? All you good, beautiful, wonderful citizens of Crip Nation.
0:15.3	It's your host, Bryce Paul. And we have a special announcement. If you guys have been tuning in, you will know that we have the Crypto 2020 summit that we are hosting. This is going to be January 29th to January 31st. We got over 60 of the biggest, baddest speakers in crypto presenting on their projections for 2020, what their projects are going to be doing,
0:38.7	all sorts of fun forecasts.
0:40.9	It's going to really be amazing.
0:42.6	And the best part of it all is it's free and it is online.
0:46.8	So go ahead to www.crypto2020 summit.com and register for your free ticket.
0:53.6	And we hope to see you there.
0:58.0	All right, what is up? Good Citizens of Crip Nation. It is Bryce and Pizza Mind here as always.
1:05.2	And today we are joined by somebody that I'm sure you guys all know one way or another, at least I hope you do,
1:12.7	the very first exchange I ever traded on, the CEO of BitTrek's Bill Shihara, welcome to Crypto 101.
1:21.9	Hey, thanks for having me. And that's actually pretty exciting that we were your first exchange.
1:28.9	You truly were. You truly were.
1:32.2	It was I was deciding between BitTrex and Poloniacs.
1:34.7	And this was the end of 2016.
1:40.8	You know, before the run up, I think, you know, Bitcoin was maybe about 800 bucks or high sevens.
1:47.4	And I got some recommendations by a gentleman. And he said, oh, yeah, BitTex or Poloniac.
1:51.2	So I went over to BitTex. I was like, all right, this one looks cool. I like the colors.
2:00.1	So, and you had more options, too. Yeah, that's pretty exciting. And, you know, I, it's crazy because I drew the short straw when we were deciding what each of the founders was going to do as we're building Bitrix.
2:06.3	And I had zero experience.
2:09.0	Actually, none of us had any experience writing web pages or building websites or anything like that.
2:15.2	So I had to learn everything on the fly.
2:17.4	So it actually still kind of warms my heart when people will say to me, like, they anything like that. So I had to learn everything on the fly. So it actually
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