139: Bobby Cho Making Way for the 'Whales' of Cryptocurrency Markets

Published: Aug. 24, 2017, 10:10 a.m.

b'Bobby Cho is a cryptocurrency trader at Cumberland Mining\\u2014which is a company of DRW Trading. Ever since getting involved in financial markets, during 2008, he has gravitated towards mostly illiquid/difficult-to-trade products\\u2026\\nSo, in some ways, it was inevitable that Bobby would begin to explore Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This was around 2013, while Vice President at SecondMarket.\\nIn 2014, Bobby became Director at Bitcoin exchange, itBit, and then in 2016, joined Cumberland Mining\\u2014one of the largest institutional liquidity providers in cryptocurrency markets (predominately Bitcoin and Ethereum).\\nDuring the episode, Bobby and I got speaking about some pretty interesting topics, which ranged from; the infrastructure of crypto markets to the curiosity and entrepreneurial mindset which powers DRW, and the challenges of exchange arbitrage to the real world value of Blockchain technology.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'