Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance, also called “CZ,” has opened up to Fortune Magazine, ending his recent media silence.

The founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has broken his media silence to speak to Fortune Magazine. CZ, real name Changpeng Zhao, has been largely silent in public this year. A fact the profile explains as “a decision based on the fraught regulatory environment and on frustration with what Binance regards as media mischaracterizations of the company and Zhao.”

Over nearly 6,000 words, the profile explores CZ’s past in rural China and his experience as a first-generation immigrant to Canada. Furthermore, the article discusses why CZ left Shanghai, where Binance was founded in 2017. 

To put in bluntly, officials in Beijing disliked cryptocurrency. China first barred banks from doing crypto transactions in 2013. In 2017, the regime also banned initial coin offerings (ICOs) and shut down crypto exchanges to stop money from leaving China and prevent financial fraud. The article describes CZ’s “frantic but stealthy” weeks-long effort to move the data hosted on more than 200 Alibaba servers.

Zhao relocated Binance to servers on Amazon Web Servers, beyond the reach of the Chinese government. Eventually the company moved to Tokyo, ending his 12-year stint as a China-based entrepreneur.

Binance Has Moved Several Times

Binance reportedly had to move operations repeatedly due to regulatory issues in different countries. After relocating to Japan, regulators demanded that Binance register as an excha

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