Asset management & trading of crypto assets with Base58, Switzerland

 
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Fabio Federici is a serial entrepreneur, based in Zurich, Switzerland. We talk about his latest venture, Base58, an asset management and trading firm specializing in crypto-assets and recent events in the crypto or digital assets and the prospects for the future.

More specifically, we talk about:

  • What has attracted Fabio to the blockchain or crypto space?

  • What’s Base58 about? What’s the problem they are solving?

  • Solution?

  • Target clients? Retail or institutional?

  • What’s a cryptocurrency? A currency or an asset or both?

  • This year, the halving of bitcoin happened. What does it mean, and why is it important?

  • Cryptocurrencies are very volatile – how can one manage an asset like that?

  • Many use cases are being explored with crypto – where are we with scalability and KYC that have been hampering wider adoption?

  • Ray Dalio from Bridgewater says governments will kill bitcoin. Is he right?

  • When you look at the crypto market cap and Google Search trends, is there a correlation? It seems to me that crypto has lost some steam over the years. Why?

  • Fabio's favorite business book: The man who solved the market by Gregory Zuckerman

  • What’s the best way to reach out and find out more about Base58