Welcome to the Crypto 101 podcast presented by Gemini, your bridge to the future of money.

All right, everyone, welcome back to the Crypto 101 podcast. We have another exciting episode in store for all of you.

And this one's probably going to be a familiar face. Some of you have heard about him.

You've definitely heard of some of his products that he's been building over the years, as well as some of his companies.

Because we're joined by Reeve Collins. He is the co-founder and chairman of Wii Fi, STBL, and Reserve One. And prior to all this, he's one of the co-founder and chairman of wei STBL and reserve one and prior to all this he's one of

the co-founders of tether who we all know as the largest stable coin in the crypto markets right now so

reeve welcome and it's good to have you yes thank you for having me here i'm happy to dive in

well i'll tell you what there's a lot to talk. I know people are always kind of, I don't want to say bug him, but people are always asking you, stablecoins, this, stable coins that. You've got a lot more going on now than just working with stable coins. And we want to make sure that we dive into all of that. But man, what an interesting time in the market. Over the last year or so, regulations have been changing,

how crypto's been looking at has been changing.

Obviously, the area that you have so much history with stable coins

is exploding into this massive industry where you have banks that are looking at it,

you know, asset managers,

countries, you know, individual companies as well. You got everyone that's kind of turning

their eyes towards this stuff and saying, what are all the different ways that we can use

this, especially in different ways? Because stable coins are nothing new. You know, they've been

around for over a decade now. And now what we're starting to see is that the underlying technology can be used in so many different ways than what we're so used to so far. So, man, there's a lot to talk about. Reeve, before we even begin and get too deep into the weeds on all this stuff, for the audience out there, you know, let us know a little bit about yourself and how you got

started working with all of this in the first place.

Yeah, it has been a really great journey.

Looking back on my career, I'm always kind of on the cutting edge of these technological

revolutions way back in the late 90s with the Internet.

I was at one of the very first ever online advertising companies,

the first ever online advertising agency,

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