Tales from the Crypt #125: Alexander Leishman

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2020

⏱️ 190 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Alexander Leishman, Co-Founder of River Financial, to discuss:

- Building River

- Being a Bitcoin-only business

- Dollar Cost Averaging

- Complex systems

- Bitcoin and American values

- KYC/AML hypocrisy

- much more

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Well, hey there, freaks. It's your boy, Marty Ben, here to introduce this week's episode of Tales from the Crypt.
0:05.7	I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Alexander Leashman, co-founder of River Financial.
0:10.6	He knew Bitcoin-only exchange, Bitcoin-only exchange, to be more specific, that is available here in the states, in eight states right now.
0:18.4	They're looking to expand.
0:20.3	But beyond that, Alex and I had an incredible
0:22.8	conversation of why he started River why they moved from Alto to River River Financials formerly
0:31.1	Alto Financial for any of you freaks that may be confused out there recent rebrandrand, River.com, great domain name.
0:39.6	So Alex and I talked about what it's like being a Bitcoin-only exchange,
0:42.9	why they're Bitcoin-only, what that allows them to focus on,
0:45.7	what they're thinking about building,
0:47.4	and then beyond that, why he's into Bitcoin,
0:49.9	and why we think that Bitcoin should be framed as an American value. We should be shaming people
0:59.7	who, in America specifically, who don't like Bitcoin because Bitcoin aligns very well with the
1:07.7	ideals that this country was founded on. So to be anti-Bitcoin is to be un-American, I would say.
1:14.7	And I believe Alex would agree with me.
1:17.1	I think you guys are really going to enjoy this episode.
1:18.9	We got deep.
1:19.8	We did a little drinking.
1:23.1	We had a six-pack and some whiskey.
1:25.2	We went for well over two hours.
1:27.7	Great conversation.
1:28.6	Got Cosmic at the end.
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