Most of us knows ChangPeng Zhao aka "CZ" the founder of the biggest and larger crypto exchange in the world by volume transactions, but actually don't know the history behind this personality who secure one of the biggest fortunes in Bitcoin in the world, even also placed in Forbes Magazine with a net worth more than $1.4B.
But who his ChangPeng Zhao "CZ".
ChangPeng Zhao is a charismatic figure on the Cryptocurrency sphere born in Jiangsu, China and in the early years of his youth travelled with his Family to Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada where the Zhao family established their new residence after got exiled from China.
The young Zhao always showed prominence on hardworking and since teenage years helped his family working in business such as McDonald's to support them and help pay some immediate bills. Growing in Up, CZ attended the McGill University in Montreal with degree in Computer science, which gave him skills to work in the Tokyo Stock Exchange .
His career didn't end up here as he proceeded to Bloomberg Traderbook, where he developed future trading software. ChangPeng Zhao moved from Canada to Shanghai in 2005 and founded his first known company the Fusion systems and get involved in many crypto projects in 2013 like Blockchain.info and OKCoin.
OKCoin was his last project before he launched his own Cryptocurrency project in 2017, the Exchange Binance, that is the largest exchange in transaction volume in the market with almost all methods of payments available for trading in many countries around the world.
Some curiosities about CZ.
ChangPeng Zhao is a risk taker and he only get known about Bitcoin in 2013 and since then he decided that the future is directed to decentralized assets, with Bitcoin leading the way to this market. Before he opened Binance he firstly sold his house for $1million worth in Bitcoin, also raised $15 million in sales from BNB in 2017 in just 2 weeks of operation.
The man is a legend on Cryptocurrency business which took his company binance less than 180 days to become the world most important crypto exchange on the planet with daily volume surpassing the 10 million dollars in trading negotiations.
CZ live outside China Mainland and have double nationality, He's China-Canadian citizen with Binance headquarters in Malta.
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CZ bought the dip in March and this says a lot to me. A true friend of cryptocurrencies. He profited but he supports as much as possible.