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Bitdeer and Matrixport were both spun off from Bitmain as part of a settlement deal reached between Wu and Zhan after the two cofounders clashed. A nondisclosure agreement prevents Wu from speaking in detail about the terms of that deal, but he was able to discuss the circumstances that led to it with Forbes Asia for the first time.
The company had ventured into a number of different areas during the boom time—AI, mining pool construction, a decentralized crypto exchange, venture capital, etc. The dispute became public at times until a deal was finally brokered at the end of last year that saw Wu step down as chairman and CEO of Bitmain, although he still retains a stake in the company. After buying hundreds of coins himself in , Wu invested in ASICMiner, a bitcoin mining company founded in by Jiang Xinyu, or Friedcat as he was known in various online forums.
The profits Wu gained from that deal was combined with capital from a group of other investors to start Bitmain in partnership with Zhan in Zhan was a chip designer who had been running his own business of making set-top boxes for televisions prior to teaming up with Wu. The two established Bitmain as one of the earliest manufacturers of the specialized chips used for mining cryptocurrencies known as application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs.
In less than four years, Bitmain became the most influential company in the bitcoin economy. At the same time, Bitmain was operating mining pools on contract to customers, as well as owning several of its own pools. Eventually, traditional financial institutions and regulators will embrace blockchain technology.
Subscribe Get this delivered to your inbox, and more info about about our products and services. Adrian: I have a background in fund administration for venture capital and private equity funds, so seeing them get involved initially got me interested, plus I studied Economic and Social history so the more I looked into bitcoin, the more potential benefits I could and continue to see.
What got me into physical bitcoins, was searching for a way to buy my children a bitcoin each. After a lot of research, I came across Casascius coins which I loved, but it was around the time it was shut down by FinCen and the prices soared. I believe physical bitcoins are the ideal way to introduce new people into bitcoin and thought I could use my experience of setting up controls and processes and dealing with regulators to set up TGBEX.
What makes your physical coins different to others out there? We spent a great deal of time looking at the market before we launched and were very worried about the possibility of counterfeit coins, so have invested significant amounts in specialist machinery and dies to produce highly detailed coins that would be hard to copy and we also have registered trademarks to discourage forgers. Every coin is numbered, the holograms are hand cut and each comes with a Certificate of Authenticity signed by two people, so we think our attention to detail is the main difference.
Our packaging is also designed to appeal to someone who has never heard of bitcoin, so we use jewellery type gift boxes and include a short booklet explaining bitcoin, physical bitcoins and instructions on how to redeem the coins. What would you say are the biggest challenges for a physical bitcoin manufacturer?
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