EPISODE · Mar 13, 2022 · 1H 10M
230: Oliver Chalk – ETH Mining Experiment; Gateway to Full-Scale BTC Basis Trading
from Chat With Traders · host Kevin Avery
It was early-2017, Oliver was nearing the end of his high school years, when he had discovered Ethereum—or more accurately, the self-described tech-head had strapped together 6x GPU's for the purpose of mining Ethereum. Although the mining rig was only a mild success, it did plant the seed for what would become Proxima Capital—the crypto-focused trading firm Oliver co-founded in 2019, that almost exclusively dedicates its resources and capital into market-neutral strategies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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It was early-2017, Oliver was nearing the end of his high school years, when he had discovered Ethereum—or more accurately, the self-described tech-head had strapped together 6x GPU's for the purpose of mining Ethereum. Although the mining rig was only a mild success, it did plant the seed for what would become Proxima Capital—the crypto-focused trading firm Oliver co-founded in 2019, that almost exclusively dedicates its resources and capital into market-neutral strategies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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