"They Paid People To Spy On Us" - Binance's RUTHLESS Rise To The World's BIGGEST Crypto Empire

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🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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CZ explains how Binance went from launch to hundreds of BTC in revenue within months, with BNB jumping 29x in a single week and profits hitting 1 billion dollars in about a year. He breaks down their ultra‑low fee strategy, why competitors’ smear campaigns actually helped Binance grow, and what his insane first‑year schedule looked like as the exchange became the largest centralized crypto platform in the world.

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0:00.0	Some follow the noise.
0:03.3	Bloomberg follows the money.
0:05.4	Because behind every headline is a bottom line.
0:09.3	Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings,
0:13.8	there's a money side to every story.
0:16.5	And when you see the money side, you understand what others miss.
0:20.8	Get the money side of you understand what others miss.
0:20.9	Get the money side of the story.
0:22.9	Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com.
0:27.9	People are believing what you're gonna be doing.
0:29.5	They're sitting there, you know,
0:30.5	they're believers of what CZ's gonna be doing.
0:33.3	At what point was it when you're like, guys,
0:36.2	this thing's off to the races.
0:37.8	We built some special.
0:38.8	When did that happen?
0:39.7	I think it was about a month after launch.
0:41.6	So we launched in July 14th, 2017.
0:44.6	A month after lunch, we were like, we were growing.
0:48.8	The first three weeks, the B&B price was actually underwater.
0:51.9	It was below the ICO price.
0:53.0	That was like high pressure period.
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