LakeBTC Exclusive Interview!

LakeBTC Exclusive Interview!

We sat down with LakeBTC recently to find out what it was they were working on - here's what we spoke about... First of all, tells little bit about what LakeBTC is all about. LakeBTC: LakeBTC was started in March 2013 as a bitcoin exchange. The founding team came from financial industries and most of our early users were seasoned traders and other financial professionals from prop and flow desks of hedge funds, investment banks, and commercial banks. The years of experience trading bonds, currencies, commodities, equities, and all types of derivatives and structured products helped us....


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