Welcome back to Chain Reaction , a podcast diving deep into the stories, backgrounds and latest news with the biggest names in crypto. For this week’s episode , Jacquelyn interviewed Jack Mallers, the founder and CEO of Strike, a bitcoin-based payment network and financial app that is trying to expand the reach of cross-border payments and remittance markets. Last year, Mallers’ company raised $80 million in a Series B round to grow into that space, and today counts major companies like Visa, Clover and Fiserv among its partners. “I think it’s about meeting consumers where they are and solving a problem for them,” Mallers said. Mallers is also the CEO of Zap, a bitcoin investment and payments company that transacts