I am excited to join OKCoin to start my next chapter in the Bitcoin world.

I have often used this space to share macro thoughts about Bitcoin and I hope to continue to do so freely.

This personal blog started around a year ago, but quickly evolved into a Bitcoin one as I fell deeper into the rabbit hole. In that time, I spent time at Kraken in San Francisco as Director of Strategy and met so many who share a passion for Bitcoin. Previously, I was on the trading floor at Barclays Capital Hong Kong selling Asian equity derivatives.

Over the past month, I connected with Star Xu, CEO of OKCoin and Changpeng Zhao, CTO of OKCoin. I feel strongly about the potential of the company they have tirelessly built.

As a native speaker of both English and Chinese, and as someone who has worked in traditional finance and at an US based Bitcoin exchange, I hope to bring both international and institutional perspective to OKCoin and to shed more light on the Chinese market with the global Bitcoin community.

With Bitcoin, US companies and Chinese companies are actually selling the same underlying product. In that respect, there is a lot we can and must learn from each other to ensure mutual success.

To that end, I have been in New York, Boston, and San Francisco with Star Xu and Chris Woods (Director of Bus Dev) the past two weeks meeting with many of the leading Bitcoin companies and investors. The energy, enthusiasm and welcoming nature among all parties has been palpable.

I am headed for Beijing this week to get started on the ground with the almost 150 employee and growing team. I know there is a lot that must be addressed for OKCoin to deliver a top quality institutional-grade exchange. After becoming the leading CNY exchange, OKCoin launched OKCoin.com - for BTC/USD trading in July of this year, and futures in August, with separate Singapore registration, order book, and servers. I view OKCoin now as an international company, not as a Chinese one.

Hopefully freezing my butt off in Beijing this winter will be worth it.

-Jack

P.S. This will not become a sales blog for OKCoin. I intend to share candid thoughts as before.