Crypto Origin Stories: How’d You Hear About It?
Spencer Doar
Associate Editor
No one has been in the cryptocurrency field for all that long, as Satoshi’s famous white paper is only 10 years old.
In this video, Bcause Founder and Chief Marketing Officer Thomas Flake, Coinigy CFO and Director of Business Development Derek Urben, and Hehmeyer Trading + Investments CEO Chris Hehmeyer, talk about their first memories of cryptocurrencies.
Produced by Mike Forrester
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