#833 Building Institutional Crypto Infrastructure w/ David Mercer
The Pomp Podcast
Anthony Pompliano
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
David Mercer is the CEO of LMAX Group. Based in Europe, they're a leading specialist in FX trading and now have LMAX Digital, a leader in institutional trading in the Crypto Industry In this conversation we discuss institutions, high frequency trading, and all of the market infrastructure needed for the Crypto markets to mature. ======================= Choice is a new self-directed IRA product that I'm really excited about. If you are listening to this, you are likely part of the 7.1 million bitcoin owners who have retirement accounts with dollars in them, but not bitcoin. I was in that situation too. Now you can actually buy real Bitcoin in your retirement account. I'm talking about owning your private keys and using tax-advantaged dollars to do it too. Absolute game changer. https://www.retirewithchoice.com/pomp ======================= Imagine coinmarketcap - decentralized. 3X in valuation is 15 billion dollars from the current price. Cryptotoday.com starts at zero, at fair launch on 7th of March. No VC. No pre-sale. Team tokens locked. For the people, by the people. For decentralized crypto. Visit cryptotoday.com and read the whitepaper for the details.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Now let's kick this thing off. |
| 0:11.9 | David Mercer is the founder and chief executive officer of Elmax Exchange. They're based in Europe and they're a leading specialist in FX trading. |
| 0:19.7 | They now have Elmax Digital, which is also a leader in institutional trading in the crypto industry. |
| 0:25.3 | In this conversation, we talk about institutions, we talk about high frequency trading, and we talk about all the market infrastructure that's going to be necessary for the crypto industry to continue to mature. |
| 0:34.1 | I really enjoyed this conversation with David, and I hope that you enjoyed as well. |
| 0:37.9 | Before we get into this episode, though, I want to quickly talk about our sponsors. |
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