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Crypto Asia 100 Vol.6 Recently, Qtum announced their partnership with AWS (Amazon Web Services) to develop decentralized applications (DApps). I will use the opportunity to Below, Bianca Chen revisits an earlier conversation with its founder, Patrick Dai. BIANCA: Qtum is a smart contracts platform. Why do you think smart contracts are essential? PATRICK: I think smart contracts are essentially a virtual agent, or an agency, used to carry out programmed operations with data o

Today, SEC turned down 9 Bitcoin ETF proposals from three applicants. I sat with Tim Byun, CEO of OKCoin USA, to discuss SEC's decision. Tim used to work for Fed Reserve Bank and FDIC for a total of sixteen years. He was also an AML officer at VISA. Here is a clip with the transcript: BIANCA: SEC just rejected in total of 9 ETF applications. Do you think was bound to happen eventually? What are the obstacles? TIM: I'm very optimistic that it[ETF] will happen, but all good thi

If you happened to read my previous post, you would know WeChat group chats plays a phenomenal role to connect the Chinese crypto circle. The night of July 12th, a unique interview took place in one of those WeChat groups. You may even say the first of its kind. On the one end is my friend Matthew Roszak, co-founder and chairman of Bloq; on the other, there are 499 women--all of them blockchain entrepreneurs and journalists from different parts of China. I worked as the host