Thanks for the small piece of history I wasn't around for. Was Bitcoinica really the first to offer leverage?

P.S. CoinJar was next for him, wonder what then.

P.P.S. What fascinated me was how people in with Chinese names who got into tech would switch their names around -- or was that the media who do that?

On his website, for example, it's Zhou Tong, but on Crunchbase, he's Tong Zhou. Same as Chang Peng Zhou... who would actually be Zhou Chang Peng in Asia... or is his CZ moniker just cause he's Canadian?

P.P.P.S. I never Zhou Tonged on crypto, or even tried. But there was a fair amount of degeneracy in the noughties for those old enough to remember 300:1 standards on forex brokers giving out free $5 to $50 to get you hooked on the cocaine of margin trading. And I humbly admit to having snorted.

@proudhon wow you're so lucky to store value in low interest savings account. Let me know next time you want to lose 120 btc. I'll trade you my high interest govt bond.