How Asia's Crypto Communities View the Tariffs and Trump's Embrace of Crypto
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Crypto isn't actually really banned in China. Like, that's not really true. Like, that's just kind of like a media trope that people say, but, like, you know, like, if if China actually really wanted to ban crypto, like, it would. Like, you know, China's pretty good at banning things when it wants to do it. There are it's not that hard to trade crypto in China. So the question is is, like, why is this happening? Hi,
Hi, everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin. Every episode, we feature comments from listeners. Today, we have two comments responding to my recent interview with basis, Jesse Pollock. On Farcaster, b nine two six says, quote, the intention of Base's Contentcoin was to empower creators, but it ended up being traded like a meme coin. So what went wrong? The intention isn't bad, but the timing is off. It launched into a market where trust is low, attention spans are shorter than ever, everything gets being coined. If it were launched
Great to be here. Thank
you for having me. Let's
have each of you give a brief description of your background, you know, in terms of your involvement with crypto in Asia. Emily, do you wanna
start? Sure. So, I've been involved with Asia for most of my life. I think we've did an I think we did an Asia show once before, Laura, and, we just talked about that. But I started Chinese Years
ago? Many
years ago. Many years ago. It's still still a hot topic. So I started studying Chinese in high school. I've been involved with China pretty much ever since, moved to Japan right after college. And basically, my whole career has had of been The US China Japan triangle, which it it still very much is. And then with crypto, I kind of came to crypto through the China angle. I've been doing a lot of work on China and the Internet and looking at China's government attempts to control the Internet. And so when crypto was blowing up in China in 02/2017 and China was trying to crack down on it, I was k
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