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Investing CRYPTOCURRENCIES

n a damp Tuesday night
in March, some 200 peo-
ple crammed into a bar in
O San Francisco’s Four Sea-
sons Hotel to discuss the buzziest topic
Tricks of a in inance and tech: cryptocurrencies.
he party had been organized just two
days earlier, yet in they poured, mostly
Asian men in their 20s and 30s, carrying
Crypto Trader iPhone X’s and big ideas for how digital
currencies might reshape the future and

How did an IT salesman and his buddies FBG Capital’s crypto trading whiz, Shuoji
STEFEN CHOW FOR FORBES crypto-asset management firm in Asia? Beijing. He got hooked on trading bitcoin
turn a bitcoin-trading sideline into the hottest
“Vincent” Zhou, in a shared o ce in
while caring for his newborn.
BY JEFF KAUFLIN

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