If you’ve ever dreamed of watching people glued to screens, sweating over charts, and frantically buying and selling imaginary coins—well, have I got a story for you. During the International Crypto Trading Cup 2025 (ICTC)—that’s right, a crypto event with a name that even your grandma would think sounds like a Bond villain—some brave souls from our staff cornered Volodymyr Nosov (WhiteBIT CEO) and Alex Kozenko (CMO) in person to unravel the cryptic, caffeine-fueled origins of this spectacle. What follows is their account, packed with bluster, geek pride, and possibly a few too many energy drinks. Hold your applause (and your wallets).
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Interviewer: Thanks for chatting with us. Can you give us the Netflix “previously on WhiteBIT” rundown? What’s changed since the early days? Where’s this empire headed now?
Volodymyr Nosov: Ah, the nostalgia—when WhiteBIT was just a twinkle in our server rack, and not the blockchain juggernaut it is today. Now, WhiteBIT is just one cog in our grand machine. The full WhiteBIT Group is more like a Swiss watch—12+ projects ticking along, 1,300 caffeine-dependent humans (240 of whom can recite Python code in their sleep), all churning out innovations in-house. Outsource? Pfft. We hear that’s why some folks get hacked—sending their life savings straight to Vlad in his mom’s basement. In seven years, not one “whoops, we lost your data.” I can sleep at night. That’s rare in crypto.
And let’s be honest: most so-called exchanges are basically solo acts with a shiny front-end and all the inner workings of a cardboard box. WhiteBIT? We build. That’s why we facilitated (drumroll) $2.7 billion in trades in 2024—each and every one of them proceeding glitch-free. Take that, Murphy’s Law.
Interviewer: This all sounds awfully serious. What’s the galaxy-brained master plan?
Volodymyr Nosov: We want to make your dusty bank from the 20th century jealous. Imagine every tool—from basic trading to wild financial management—sitting inside one beautiful, blockchain-fueled platform. Traditional finance, meet The Future™.
We’re not stopping at crypto nerds, either. We’re building for banks, telecoms, even esports (because nothing says “finance” like a bunch of teenagers yelling at each other over headsets). The big, lumbering Web2 dinosaurs will one day beg us to set up their blockchain infrastructure. And when they do, we’ll smile knowingly—we’ve already built the secret tunnels under their old city. We’re ready.
Interviewer: Are mainstream institutions biting?
Volodymyr Nosov: Oh, they’re biting, all right. Hundreds now, thousands soon, a tsunami of millions in a few years. Soon it’ll be blockchain all the way down.
Interviewer: What about the trading competition? Is this your chance to wield the metaphorical laser pointer and have traders chase it on livestream?
Volodymyr Nosov: Absolutely. Everyone’s done football events, esports collabs—heck, a few folks even sponsored knitting circles. But until now, nobody organized something where crypto traders could openly flex their skills and egos. So we did. Every year, too—like the Olympics, but with more graphs and fewer steroids. If we survive the feedback, we’ll make it even wilder next time.
Interviewer: It’s clear you want people to actually learn something. Is this trading’s school of hard knocks?
Volodymyr Nosov: You know, it’s like esports fifteen years ago: you’re deep in Counter-Strike and your family thinks you’re practicing for unemployment. Now kids make more than doctors playing games. We want to give trading that same street cred.
Picture a young chain-smoking trader getting accolades instead of concerned looks from their parents—fame, fortune, maybe free pizza.
Now, trading is more than a lonely guy with three monitors and a complex about moving averages. With this event, it’s official—traders are pros. Cry tears of validation, everyone.
Interviewer: So, it’s about more than making money?
Volodymyr Nosov: Of course! It’s about community, connections, high-fives, maybe a few healthy rivalries. We’re building an ecosystem—and, let’s face it, bragging rights that’ll last a lifetime.
CMO Interview Section
A Chat With WhiteBIT’s CMO, The Origins of the ICTC 2025, And A Look Into Its Future
After Volodymyr had finished reminiscing about his glory days, we pulled Alex Kozenko aside. Over interviews with Cripto Noticias, Crypto Insiders, and Bitcoinist, Alex spilled the beans on how the whole thing almost collapsed under its own complexity—then somehow didn’t.
Alex Kozenko: Oh, this was no ordinary production. Picture a project where we try everything we’ve ever learned and throw it into the metaphorical blender. We created the world’s first offline crypto trading tournament. My advice to my team: No half-measures. Either we’re recreating history, or we’re ordering too much pizza for no reason.
Interviewer: So anybody—even Bob from accounting—could face down a Bitcoin wizard?
Alex Kozenko: You’ve nailed it! Everyone entered the arena on equal footing—no secret levers, no cheat codes. Unlike esports, where you need lightning reflexes or, I dunno, anti-gravity chairs, here everyone had a fighting chance. The feeling? Imagine being subbed in for Messi in El Clásico, then tripping over your own shoelaces on live television. Priceless.
Interviewer: Does it beat just staring at price charts on YouTube?
Alex Kozenko: 100%. Instead of wondering “could I do better,” you found out—often by losing immediately. Trading fans became players; dreams rose and fell in real time.
Initially, most of them ghosted us harder than your crypto balance during a market dip. But the few adventurous ones who jumped in declared “finally—a real showdown!” For them, it was a chance for public glory. Or utter humiliation. Some literally told us “If I don’t win, I might have to refund my trading course.” Welcome to showbiz.
Interviewer: You basically gamified bravado. Was it a logistical headache?
Alex Kozenko: Gigantic. Every week, 40–50 people on calls arguing over how much LED was too much LED (the answer is: you never have enough LED). And don’t ask about electricity—we had to move the event because the building’s power couldn’t handle all the high-voltage drama. Honestly, launching a rocket might’ve been simpler, but at least no one exploded. Physically.
Interviewer: Biggest personal challenge—aside from caffeine withdrawal?
Alex Kozenko: People management. Keeping the team from open rebellion after we delayed from February to May. But seeing the thing actually happen—99% how I pictured it—felt magical. We may have bent reality, but it was worth it.
This wasn’t a PR stunt. This was a signpost at the edge of the old world, pointing straight to whatever wild thing we’ll dream up next. If this is ‘just the beginning’, then buckle up. 🚀
Cover image from WhiteBIT, chart from Tradingview
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