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Rapha Zagury: Tether's Bitcoin Empire, Taking Over XXI and What Comes Next
When Jack Mallers stepped down from Twenty One Capital (XXI), Rapha Zagury stepped in as CEO. A Wall Street veteran who ran trading desks at Merrill Lynch, Rapha later co-founded Elektron, the Tether-backed Bitcoin mining operation that grew into one of the largest mining companies in the world.
Now he joins me to explain what comes next for XXI — and to answer some of the biggest questions surrounding Tether. We discuss:
How much of XXI Tether actually owns — and what it wants to build next
Whether Tether's biggest critics are asking the right questions
Why XXI is trying to become much more…
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