Crypto information web site CoinMarketCap hosted a “reside” ask me something, or AMA, session on Twitter with firm CEO and founder Brandon Chez —
Crypto information web site CoinMarketCap hosted a “reside” ask me something, or AMA, session on Twitter with firm CEO and founder Brandon Chez — however the session solely included Chez on Twitter standby posting feedback, not on video.
“I do worth my privateness, however [am] not utterly against making an attempt extra of a reside format sooner or later,” Chez stated in a tweet when requested if the AMA format was for anonymity or privateness functions. “We’ll see how this AMA goes,” he added.
Chez seems fairly non-public
The AMA’s format strains up with Chez’s popularity as somebody who prefers to put low, labeled as CoinMarketCap’s “mysterious” founder in a current blog post from the corporate.
Many references and profiles for Chez on numerous websites additionally embrace no photos of the CoinMarketCap, or CMC, founder. Chez ranks 25th in Cointelegraph’s top 100 most influential folks in crypto and blockchain.
The founder solutions the general public’s questions
As one of many largest crypto information websites within the trade, it is sensible that CMC can be a goal for hackers. The corporate has not confronted a lot on this division although, based on Chez.
“CMC been DDoS’d a number of occasions within the early days however I am pleased to say that we have by no means been hacked,” Chez said, referring to distributed denial-of-service assaults — a sort of assault which leaves customers with out web site or community entry.
A Twitter consumer additionally brought up the subject of pretend quantity numbers on CMC, as analysis information revealed in 2019. “We have launched a brand new metric to provide a extra correct image of exercise on exchanges,” Chez stated, pointing to a blog post with additional data.
As for the way Chez received into crypto, the CMC founder noted he found an article about Bitcoin in 2011 when the asset hit $1, and has been concerned since then.
A number of months in the past, Cointelegraph additionally reported on CMC including a liquidity metric to its information units.