The founder and owner of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, said in an interview with Bloomberg that he was receiving proposals to sell a controlling stake in the company. The businessman is ready to consider each of them.

Changpeng Zhao refused to say who exactly the offers were coming from and what conditions the interested parties were offering:

“I’m not saying I’ll hold the stock forever. I will be happy to consider any proposal, but have not taken any action yet. For now, I am an ordinary shareholder.”

Zhao assured the interviewer that he does not participate in decision-making at Binance and does not intend to return to the post of CEO, although the company’s management “sometimes turns to him for advice.”

Changpeng Zhao’s fortune, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, grew by $25 billion in 2023 and reached $37.2 billion by the beginning of 2024. The exact size of the businessman’s share in Binance is not indicated, but the compilers of the index estimate this share to be at least a controlling stake.

Commenting on his time in an American prison, Zhao told an interviewer that at first, not many prisoners recognized his face. But over time, rumors spread that he was “a big fan of Bitcoin” and “not poor.” After this, the businessman, according to him, was often asked what assets were worth investing in, including by supervisors.

Zhao said his time in prison mainly consisted of push-ups, writing a book and eating terrible food. He befriended a cryptocurrency and blockchain-savvy prisoner serving a 25-year sentence for bank robbery.

The businessman did not comment on the results of the US presidential election, but praised the direction Elon Musk chose as head of Company X.

Earlier, speaking at the Binance Blockchain Week conference in Dubai, Zhao said that in 2025 the market will be in a bullish trend. In his opinion, cryptocurrencies have become popular among politicians in the United States.