Andrew Collier is Managing Director and Founder of Orient Capital Research. He is the former President of the Bank of China International USA, where he helped to launch the bank’s U.S. office. Earlier in his career, he was an equity analyst with Bear Stearns and CLSA in Hong Kong, and a journalist covering business for the South China Morning Post in Beijing. He has a Master’s degree in International Relations and Chinese Studies from Yale University and studied Chinese at Peking University. He also is a Senior Fellow at the Mansfield Foundation in Washington. He writes frequently for The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, The Diplomat, and other publications. Collier is currently based in Hong Kong, where he conducts independent research on China’s economy.

Last Updated: October 6, 2017

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10.06.17

Is China the Future of Bitcoin, or Its Past?

Andrew Collier, Isaac Mao & more
China often dominates the market for Bitcoin, a virtual currency managed by a decentralized network of computers: at points over the last few years, China may have accounted for more than 75 percent of Bitcoin trading. Energy subsidies there make it...