It was early-2017, Oliver was nearing the top of his highschool years, when he had found Ethereum—or extra precisely, the self-described ‘tech head’ had strapped 6x GPU’s to a motherboard for the aim of mining Ethereum.
Though the mining rig was solely a gentle success, it did plant the seed for what would turn into Proxima Capital—the crypto-focused buying and selling agency Oliver co-founded in 2019, that nearly completely dedicates its assets and capital to market-neutral methods.
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- 01:44 – Discovering Ethereum, GPU mining rig.
- 10:40 – First arbitrage program, writing a decentralized trade.
- 20:30 – Beginning Proxima, a play on scale, DeFi tax complications.
- 34:10 – The Bitcoin foundation commerce, exploiting a structural edge.
Oliver Chalk: Co-founder of Proxima Capital.