🌟 Checkout our Cast for the Movie What Crypto Rich Asians are reading. is the newly released movie that every. Asian. person. is talking about. For those of you who may not be aware of it’s importance to the Asian (American) community, it’s the first Asian all-cast mainstream movie in the US since the Joy Luck Club. But, alas, the $$ theme was there, but the Crypto theme was missing. Why couldn’t these guys make the movie Crazy Rich Asians even more relatable? This is my version of Crypto Rich Asians TWEET If we had a Crypto Rich Asians movie and the cast reflected real world Crypto Rich Asians, the story and plot would have been so juicy. Here are the people I’d like to see on screen. These guys are in no specific order, because once you have over $1bn in net worth, does it really matter how much you have? I am sure many people in Crypto will disagree with me on this one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ more money Jihan Wu and Micree Zhang of Bitmain- with Bitmain supposedly looking to IPO in the , Jihan and Micree will make the most out of it. The company didn’t give away too much equity given that they didn’t raise a series A until . range of $40-$50bn 4 years after the company started Zhao Changpeng of Binance- CZ has a co-founder named He Yi who is responsible for marketing and business, but he probably owns majority share of Binance. Whether the market is up or down, Binance will always have business, and CZ will always win. Li Xiaolai of INBlock- with him admittingly earning , we think he is probably doing ok**.** On EOS: This one project alone will probably make me the world’s best angel investor in 2017, because it’s growing so fast” 200x from his EOS investment “ . We spent $1.5 million for 5% of the stock at a valuation of $30mn USD. Now it is worth $6bn USD, a 200x Da Fei Hong — Neo founder, been there since the early days of Crypto in China Justin Sun — with Tron’s token market cap at $1.5bn and Justin Sun’s business savviness, we don’t think Tron will go away anytime soon Litecoin- Charlie Lee. Now that he’s sold all his litecoin, he realizes that it wasn’t the right decision Bo Shen — with Vitalik being an advisor to the fund Fenbushi Partner, And many more…. I am probably missing too many. There’ll have to be sequels. who do YOU think should be on the list? Subscribe now 🌟 Top News in Asia from Wednesday through Friday Binance LCX, a joint venture between Binance and Liechtenstein Cryptoassets Exchange is the . launching of a fiat-to-crypto exchange http://bit.ly/2vSS7mH As of August 7, 2018, there are 274 legal cases related to cryptocurrency in China. 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