WATCH: Inside the LatAm Crypto Market With the Founder of SatoshiTango

September 29, 2019
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Sep 29, 2019 at 19:37 UTC

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SatoshiTango was one of the first crypto exchanges in Latin America and is still a major player in the ecosystem. In this video CoinDesk’s Diana Aguilar sat down with founder Marias Bari in Argentina about the future of crypto in the region.

We visited Argentina on the eve of its financial crisis last month and founders like Bari see great value in the growth of crypto in his country. The key, he and his fellow founders believe, is improvement in regulation and slow mass adoption.

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to speak with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler, recognized by CoinDesk as one of the most influential figures in the crypto industry over the past year, about how he views his agency's role in the digital asset world.You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk

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