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Bitcoin booms and crypto conundrums

Topp Jirayut

A plethora of issues divide opinion in 2023, but there are few more polarising subjects than cryptocurrencies.

“Topp” Jirayut Srupsrisopa has long been engaged in the debate. The CEO of Bitkub Capital Group Holdings, owner of Thailand’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, found himself arguing with both the central bank and his own parents when he started the country’s first bitcoin wallet, Coins.co.th, in 2013.

“My parents have a small factory, a small shop in the Pratu Nam area in Bangkok,” he tells Dave Kendall on the Bangkok Post‘s new podcast, Deeper Dive.

“I used the spare room, and after eight months…

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