Crypto data site CoinMarketCap hosted a "live" ask me annihilation, or AMA, session on Twitter with company CEO and founder Brandon Chez — only the session only included Chez on Twitter standby posting comments, non on video.

"I practice value my privacy, just [am] not completely opposed to trying more of a live format in the future," Chez said in a tweet when asked if the AMA format was for anonymity or privacy purposes. "We'll see how this AMA goes," he added.

Chez appears quite private

The AMA's format lines upward with Chez's reputation as someone who prefers to lay low, labeled as CoinMarketCap'due south "mysterious" founder in a recent blog post from the company.

Many references and profiles for Chez on various sites also include no pictures of the CoinMarketCap, or CMC, founder. Chez ranks 25th in Cointelegraph's top 100 most influential people in crypto and blockchain.

The founder answers the public's questions

As one of the largest crypto data sites in the manufacture, it makes sense that CMC would be a target for hackers. The company has not faced much in this department though, co-ordinate to Chez.

"CMC been DDoS'd several times in the early days but I'm happy to say that nosotros've never been hacked," Chez said, referring to distributed denial-of-service attacks — a type of assault which leaves users without website or network admission.

A Twitter user besides brought upwardly the topic of fake book numbers on CMC, as research information revealed in 2022. "We've released a new metric to give a more authentic motion-picture show of activity on exchanges," Chez said, pointing to a blog postal service with farther information.

As for how Chez got into crypto, the CMC founder noted he stumbled on an article nearly Bitcoin in 2022 when the asset hit $1, and has been involved since and so.

Several months ago, Cointelegraph likewise reported on CMC adding a liquidity metric to its data sets.