From Learning Scientific Communism in the Soviet Union to Pioneering Fintech Entrepreneur – LHV Founder Rain Lõhmus

Rain Lõhmus is the founder of LHV Group, a public financial company listed on the Nasdaq Tallinn Stock Exchange in Estonia. He recently joined the Bitcoin.com News Podcast to talk about his experiences with cryptocurrency ventures as well as the banking business.

Rain shared the story of his early days, how he first got interested in cryptocurrency projects, meeting Vitalik Buterin in the early days of Ethereum, his views on CBDCs and stablecoins, Bitcoin banking, privacy concerns and trade-offs, and banking regulations and failures. He also talked about staying cool after forgetting the password to a 250k ETH wallet. The discussion also touched upon AI optimism versus doomerism. And so much more.