“What would it take to make Hong Kong the Bitcoin city of the world? In this episode, we sit down with Gaëlle Wizenberg, Founder & CEO, The Whale Lounge HK Ltd. at The Whale Lounge HK Limited; Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong, for a deep conversation recorded at Bitcoin Asia 2026 in Hong Kong. Gaelle Wizenberg founded The Whale Lounge in El Salvador and moved it to Hong Kong, where she is also Director of the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong â” one of the oldest, running since 2012. Her background is manufacturing: she founded the eco-friendly baby products brand Charlie Banana, and she is applying that to Bitcoin merchandise and merchant onboarding. She is refreshingly direct about what actually stops merchants: not insecurity about Bitcoin, but their own discomfort at not knowing â




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