Ep 193: Artur Shaback

A Founder Who Built Crypto Startup with 14M Users & Then Pleaded Guilty to Conspiracy Charges Reveals What You Should Know About Regulations, Methods to Achieve Early Growth & Why Crypto Founders Build Fewer Unicorns

Artur Schaback is the co-founder of Paxful, a peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace and one of the most well-known brands in the crypto industry. Having built Paxful into a major force in the crypto industry, Artur has witnessed the ups and downs of the Bitcoin ecosystem firsthand. He recently left his full-time role at Paxful and is now working on Clip Finance, a DeFi yield optimization protocol, where he is a core contributor.

On this episode we talk about:

• The rise of Paxful and the early days of Bitcoin 

• Growth hacking strategies that scaled Paxful 

• Managing compliance and getting charged by DOJ

• Lessons from crypto’s boom and bust cycles

• The role of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Clip Finance

• Trump’s return and the future of crypto regulations

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