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Interactive Brokers Offers BTC, ETH Trading for Professional Traders in Hong Kong; El Salvador's ‘Bitcoin Embassy’
The most valuable crypto stories for Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023.
ABOUT
The hosts of "The Hash" weigh in as Interactive Brokers (IBKR) begins offering cryptocurrency trading to professional investors in Hong Kong. The region's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) will reportedly allow retail trading in a select group of cryptocurrencies. El Salvador is discussing opening a "bitcoin embassy" in Texas. Warner Music Group's former CEO, Stephen Cooper, is joining the board of directors at Web3 firm OneOf. Plus, an update on The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) proposed rule that would effectively require registered investment advisers to go outside the crypto industry to store digital assets.
See also:
Interactive Brokers Rolls Out BTC, ETH Trading to Professional Investors in Hong Kong
El Salvador Plans to Open 'Bitcoin Embassy' in Texas
Former Warner Music CEO Joins Web3 Company OneOf’s Board
SEC Proposal Could Bar Investment Advisers From Keeping Assets at Crypto Firms
This episode has been edited by Michele Musso. Our executive producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Neon Beach.”
HOSTS
Will Foxley is the host of The Mining Pod and publisher at Blockspace Media. A former co-host of CoinDesk's The Hash, Will was the director of content at Compass Mining and a tech reporter at CoinDesk.

Zack Seward is CoinDesk’s contributing editor-at-large. Up until July 2022, he served as CoinDesk’s deputy editor-in-chief. Prior to joining CoinDesk in November 2018, he was the editor-in-chief of Technical.ly, a news site focused on local tech communities on the U.S. East Coast. Before that, Seward worked as a reporter covering business and technology for a pair of NPR member stations, WHYY in Philadelphia and WXXI in Rochester, New York. Seward originally hails from San Francisco and went to college at the University of Chicago. He worked at the PBS NewsHour in Washington, D.C., before attending Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Jennifer Sanasie is an executive producer and senior anchor at CoinDesk, with over a decade of journalism experience across the U.S., Canada, and South Africa. Beyond media, she has worked closely with Web3 companies on marketing, content, and business strategy.
Jennifer holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management, a Master of Laws in Innovation and Technology from the University of Toronto, a BA in Media Studies from the University of Guelph, and a Journalism Diploma from Humber College.
She owns BTC, ETH, SOL, USDC, USDT, G7, and DCNT. She also holds a mix of NFTs, altcoins and memecoins worth under $1,000.

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