Cryptocurrency founders show true love for their start-ups with tattoos of company logos
- Binance founder Zhao Changpeng’s first tattoo is the logo of the cryptocurrency exchange
How can entrepreneurs show true love for their own start-up when the relationship gets tough? With a tattoo of the company logo, of course – and some of the biggest names in the cryptocurrency world are doing just that.
Zhao Changpeng, founder of Binance, one of the world’s biggest digital-asset exchanges, has had the company logo tattooed on his right forearm, the Chinese Canadian entrepreneur revealed in a Medium post published last week.
Zhao, who goes by CZ, said he got the tattoo – his first – in Singapore with Luke Wagman, a former Goldman Sachs analyst and co-founder of data tracking site CoinMarketCap, and Gareth Lai, a South African blockchain investor currently based in Hong Kong.
Wagman, who already has a bitcoin logo tattoo on his arm, told Zhao over dinner that he planned to have tattoos of the CoinMarketCap and Binance logos done as well, according to Zhao, who added that he was inspired to follow suit even though he never considered himself a “tattoo guy”.
“Here is a cool dude, who has contributed so much to the crypto space, and a strong supporter of Binance, and he is going to get a Binance tat, and I’m just going to sit here and watch? No, I can’t do that,” Zhao wrote.
Lai ended up getting the same Binance tattoo on his arm after learning that the design of a perfectly symmetrical square represented blockchains and crypto trades, according to Zhao. “Luke and I explained separately that he should only get the tattoo of his own will, and that there’s no need to be peer-pressured. But Gareth was committed,” Zhao wrote.
