Folks, I am super fired up to have today's guest on the show. This gentleman is a musician, a market analyst and crypto trader, a man who wears many hats. He's a chiseled day trader with years of experience across multiple cryptocurrencies. He's also a crypto influencer with over 100,000 followers on Twitter, not a big deal. Present day you'll find him providing crypto analysis for currency.com, or creating music videos that are popping off across the world.
I'm very pleased to welcome to the crypto news podcast, John Dough. John, welcome to the show.
Thanks for having me on, Matt. How's it going?
You love that intro eh?
Oh, yeah.
I could see you laughing in the background and good stuff. I think you are Canadian Number three on the pod. I always love to see that. Makes me a happy man. Where are you at in Canada right now?
I'm in Edmonton, Alberta. West Side.
Beautiful, beautiful Edmonton, Alberta. I love that. Too bad the Oilers just got knocked out.
Yeah, I know. I've seen a lot of guys talking about that. They blew like a 4-1 lead or something like that?
Yeah, that was a rough game to watch. For those of you don't know, Edmonton is one of the biggest cities in Canada on the West Coast very close to beautiful places in Alberta like Banff. If you ever see that mystic sort of light blue turquoise Lake, with mountains in the background and pine trees. It's just an absolute spot to go check that out. That is about an hour and a half away from Banff?
Yeah, like two hours, probably. Depends how fast you're going.
Depends how fast you're going. You've done some incredible projects in your career. And you've really gone headfirst into crypto, and your success shows, and I always love seeing fellow Canadians popping off. So to begin, congratulations, really proud of you happy for you. I want to start with the music part. Now. I listened to a couple of your YouTube, your music videos on YouTube rather. And you got into the game long ago, I saw you driving Porsches in Cali. Tell
me about a couple songs. How did you get into this space?
Yeah, like for the music aspect, I kind of got into music and Bitcoin, it was roughly around, they're both
kind of related you know? Like for music it was just something I was I was passionate about and then I came out with a few songs with a few friends just to be like oh let's feel it out but as the internet was growing around that time too, it was like 2011 2012, all the social media apps popping off I would upload videos, and then a lot of traction was catching on so and then I built a lot of contacts throughout the states traveled out there and I've done quite a bit of music videos, I've done a
tour and then recorded quite a few EPs with big producers and then that kind of evolved into crypto. It's weird because there's not a lot of artists that evolve into crypto like the route I'm going but the way that this has been so far and I'm pretty excited on what's to come and how I'm seeing crypto grow and even myself as an artist.
That's so cool. And like what made you get into bitcoin? Everyone starts with Bitcoin but what made you get into first?
With Bitcoin it was, um, I had a friend in what state was he in? He was in the States. But when I was doing music and stuff, he had a lot of contacts with, it's weird to say this but lot of contacts on, he helped out Soulja boy in the beginning. So, its so weird. And then he mentioned, we were talking one day, and then he actually introduced me to Uber, because I was in Vegas leaving a studio.
And I was going back to hotels like five in the morning and he was like, download this app, I'm gonna get this guy to come pick you up. Just get in and go to his hotel and I was like, What? And then I didn't have a way to pay him back. So he said oh get this thing called Bitcoin and send it to me and I was like, oh, okay, so I did that. And then I went into Uber. And then I was like, This is so weird. And then that was kind of like
my first introduction. So my first use for Bitcoin was through sending like transactions, it wasn't, I didn't think it was an investment or anything like that.
And here we are today and that Uber would have given me a 10 racks probably.
Expensive Uber.
You can't win them all. So cool. So present day you are again you're working on tons of different things you are a crypto influencer I know some people cringe at the word influencer but you are ,you have over 100,000 followers yyou get crazy engagement people look up to you and really follow and listen to what you say. You're a day trader, which I definitely want to get into. You are a musician still to this day.
Let's talk a little bit more about the music part, you have a really cool project coming out in regards to Satoshi , the ground floor is yours. Tell me more about that project.
So for this song, as the music and crypto blend was happening, I was like thinking that there's no artists right now that knows this much about crypto, that's been through all the big events that's happened and can make a song and make it sound legit. Like it's not promoting anything or anything like that, right. So when this song idea came to mind, I was like, I'm not like a top tier
world known artists. So I'm like something I could use this to my advantage and use the crypto growth so it'll be more organic. So and then there's my name is Satoshi came right when Craig Wright and was that Roger Ver had that big hash for? Yeah, so and then the idea came then and then I was just writing notes, writing notes and then I finally recorded the song. And I have been making a lot of changes to it. But basically the song is a
story about Satoshi. And then Satoshi is he's talking about what has happened throughout crypto over the years, like the events and all the alt coins at his launch, and how nobody knows who he is and how he's changing the world. So that is what the song is about. And I do mention a lot of people and events that has happened, such as that hash war, or I mentioned in alt
coins. And then with the music video, since I had the song, I was sitting on the song but I was like this is a big event for crypto like the song I can't just put it out and let it everyone forget about it. So I was like this has to be part of matched with a really good video. So and then COVID came in, because the plan was to shoot the music video, like real life but then I was like this probably I should probably just do an animated video and like
live like motion capture. So and then that's the route I went with the video and then we got so many characters in cameos and I think it's probably going to be a pilot for like a whole new video series in the crypto space. That's what I think like I got all the stories. I got Satoshi. I got john McAfee in there. Craig Wright. I got Elon Musk, all the people you can think about Mike Novogratz, Yeah, Kobe's in there, like I put everyone in, and I put them in a way in a story that they'll
be able to live on. If go part two, part three, and it just keep going. Right? So I think that is really, like, every person I've kind of showed behind the scenes about it they're like, wow, this is like a pioneer in crypto for music and the wave of NFTs and everything are going it's something pretty innovative
That's cool. And you gave me a sneak peek. And the animation as well. Like, how do you do that? Are you working with a team to do that?
Yeah, that was the hard part too was finding the right animation. Like first I was gonna do a comic book style. And then I was looking around YouTube and thinking okay, well, what's gonna fit best. And in that one video game came out. cyberpunk ii 70. So yeah, so when I seen that, I was like, wait, this kind of fit so and then I was like, Yeah, let's do that style.
That is crypto written all over it.
Yeah, exactly. So it's like, perfect fit.
That's, that's good shit. Tell me tell me about the future of the music industry in regards to crypto like two absolutely massive industries. You've already seen a lot of artists coming out with NFTs Blaus done it. And that guy's made what 10 15 20 schmill on that already? You got a lot of artists who are going the NFT route? What are the routes are there and like, what do you see sort of the future of the music x crypto industry looking like?
Well, so far right now as I look more and more artists are becoming like crypto traders don't say. Maybe we'll find a new name for it. But yeah, everyone's going into crypto and the way we all have access to the internet and our phones, everybody's becoming crypto traders. So in terms of artists, I think they're gonna all become more independent, like you don't need the big labels and stuff like that,
right? Everybody's gonna become more independent, sell their own music, NFTs, raise funding pretty much on their own projects, and then keep continuing releasing.
And crypto is the avenue that lets you do that.
Yeah. And crypto kind of opens up the avenue so you don't need all that like before. You could an artist to raise money like you'd go on a tour or something and not have to raise physical cash at a concert but now you can do online concert, drop a few NFTs and raise some some capital right there to help you out.
And then you're off to the races. And yeah, any artists that are really trailblazing the space that you look up to right now.
I don't know like, what I like most, I don't think there's any artists individually because I think I kind of separate artists I would listen to versus when I see people innovating. But there is quite a few artists that I see innovating like I don't listen to their music on a daily, but I just follow to see like, Okay, this guy's really started here, but now he's here, but he's really pushing to get a better understanding of how crypto works,
Right? Let's move forward. Well, I guess one more thing about the whole music and NFTs and crypto. I had DCL blogger on the pod and he is a decentraland Guru one of the OGs in decentraland. And he's talking about how artists are going to be throwing virtual concerts in decentraland. Have you heard any stuff like that? Like, would you ever would you ever do a john Dough concert in decentraland?
Actually, that's a good idea right there actually. But decentraland I did hear there's real estate. There's so many things on there. And I'm like, that's the way the world is going to work or heading towards within the next generations that come with how we evolve and stuff. Like, have you watched the movie Ready Player One?
Oh, yeah. That's some real shit,
I think we can head that way. And artists will throw virtual concerts. I think it'll probably have a better reward risk and enjoyment doing that then in person concerts, but yeah, in person is also great, too, right?
Oh, I've been. I'd spend a stupid amount of money to go see someone I love in person right now. We haven't done that in forever. Tell me about the name though. John Dough. I love the name. Like, again, if you were to ask me why John, like john doe is the famous like, I don't know stories you hear, check into a hotel, you don't want to give your maybe you're going in with a lady that night. You don't want to give your actual name. And you're like john doe kind of
thing. Or it's like, you see credit card companies put on the credit. Right? So like, and then there's yours, which is like john dough, like, get that bread get that cake. Like is that what is that what it's from?
It's weird. The name kind of evolves with me, because I've tried to push it away. But it always pulls back. Like in the beginning, when I was just music, john Dough, I had that name because people were asking, like, Who is this guy? They didn't know who I was because I was just posting online, like, my songs. And, who is this guy? So and then it was like, Oh, you don't know? John Dough. And then
the dough part? Yeah, I just spelled it dough becuse obviously, as a musician growing like that young, the goal is to get money, right. Get that dough. And then as I got into crypto, I was like, should I change the name but and then crypto also same thing, money and dough and like, and you don't know who it is, anonymous. So it's like, the same thing. It's just like, it's like, oh, man, this name, this is who I am. And as I just kept growing as a influencer, or whatever you
would call it trader. It just suits suits me. You know what I mean?
The rest is history. Wow. It's crazy. Tell me about
Yeah, it's not it's not what people think. some of the partnerships you've worked on before we get into the day trading stuff, which I really think should be the bread and butter of this pod. So many people dream of being day traders. You have all those traditional day trading clowns that used to see on you know, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook,
No. And then there's guys like us who've actually whatever the case may be. I think like Timothy Sykes, or whatever, use one of the classic ones some of these guys I forget his name, but I remember being in high school and he being like, oh, a trading currency you can make like 100k every day like, you know, the clowns like that. done it. So before we get into that, I want to talk about some of the partnerships you got
going. Right now you're, again pretty big influencer 100k followers on Twitter and you have a pretty sweet gig with currency.com, you are doing a very good chunk of their crypto analysis. How did that partnership come to fruition? Did they go to you and attack you, you know, in a good way and bring you on board with just an offer you couldn't refuse? And tell me what other partnerships you got cooking on the back burner?
So with currency.com, it started what year was it? It was right when they were launching actually. So I was trying, it was right when, like, leverage trading was popping off for Bitcoin and crypto. And I was using all the other platforms, trying them out. But none of them really were like a great fit for me. I didn't really like them. So and then eventually I was like, what if I just use the strategies that I know to trade traditional markets using crypto without
having to sell it? So and then I was trying to find a platform and then I came across currency.com. And I was like, Oh, I can hold my Bitcoin but I can trade the s&p 500 or I can trade this stock. So I was like, Oh, let me sign up for the site. So I signed up, started using it. And I was like, Oh, this is actually really good. So and then I just slowly started sharing, like my experience on
there and things like that. And then I came across the CEO, we talked, we had a conversation, and then it just kind of naturally grew the relationship. I just, I was a customer first. Like a trader first using the platform before I really got on board with the team. And then we talked a little bit and then I seen the potential for them and the things that we I could help them out with so and then we started the YouTube channel and started doing analysis and I kind of just have grown overall
in every aspect with them. Since then,
Yeah, looks like you love it, though. Every time I see you on YouTube, Twitter, you name it. You got the same green hoodie on that you're rockin.
Yeah, exactly. Like it's weird, I've always kind of a dreamed to be, like I'm first a musician, but I've always dreamed to be working in something like this, like presenting what I know. Because I feel like I know music and when I present in a music video or concert or something, it's something that I know. And same with analysis and looking at the markets. That's something that I know and I'm growing in. So it feels good to have a partnership or a job or whatever. Doing that right.
100%. What are the partnerships you have cooking right now?
And with the current.com that is more international, like because they are based in the UK, but they're planning on growing in the US and Canada. So I'm helping out with those launches. And then in Canada itself, I did recently start a video series with a bit by crypto exchange.
Oh, yeah. I use Bitbuy.
Yeah, so I'm just helping them out with their videos and marketing, things like that.
What else?
And then in terms of more partnerships is, the main one's also is for that music video that we mentioned earlier, I have a few partners for that. As of right now, I'm not sure, until we're getting closer to the release we'll make more announcements.
Can't tell me, gotcha.
There is some goods there but yeah, it'd be great. I'll show you a little bit more after this.
Sounds good. Getting some backdoor info there, I love it. Talk to me about the whole day trading thing. Now, There's so many different ways we can take this topic, such an interesting topic. I do a bit myself. Again, I wish I had more time. I wish I was better at it. I also get too emotional with it. I get attached to the you know the coin. I'll wake up I'll check my meta mask. I shouldn't be doing that. You have a goal,
go with it. Again, day tradings a little different than the long term hoddling, but if I was a rookie in the space, just getting into crypto, can you sort of tell me a couple of your main philosophical points and sort of pillars that you've always recommend doing when day trading?
Yeah, like the whole day trading space, I think people take it too literal, based on movies and stuff. They think you sit there for hours, like 24 hours just looking at charts and stuff when most of the successful day traders and bigger traders I've learned from and things like that, most of them don't. They say the less screen time is the best, right? Because your emotions are not
involved as much. Because the most important part is where you entered where you put your stop loss and pretty much you're either wrong in that trade, are you right? You don't need to watch it right? Because then when your emotions come in you do things you're not supposed to do, right. So I think if you are brand new coming into trading, you should kind of educate yourself before taking any major risks. Because day trading is not what people expect it to be right?
What else can you say more on that?
And I'd say within your first year, you're gonna have a pretty hard time, especially if you don't have any mentors that were looking to actually help you. Because if you're just looking on YouTube or joining courses and things like that, they're looking to make money off you rather than to just straight up help you.
I've had so many people that have read books, like an audible, I listen to a book, and I go on Twitter and I find the author of the book and reach out to them and just have a conversation which is better than signing up for the courses and stuff because you just get to learn this directly from the guy and he doesn't gain anything by giving you any information right?
Pushing some goodwill back to the world.
Yeah, exactly. I think that's the best way to learn is anyone who's actually looking to help you then make money because with day trading, it is emotional ride. Everybody has that moment of drawdown where you know, like oh, like how am I going to come back from this use? You feel like your life's over.
I know that's tough. So first big tip from john Dough was stop losses. For those at home stop losses. For example, let's say I'm choosing to trade a cryptocurrency that trades At $1 per coin at the moment, I want that coin to go to $1.50 $2, make my 50% 100%, whatever you want to call it, I would set a stop loss at we'll call it 75 cents. So if that coin goes down to 75 cents, the trade automatically gets executed. And I have no shot of going below
that stop loss. And again, you don't have to, you choose where you want to put that stop loss. That is the best tip you can get. Any trader always have a stop loss. So shit really doesn't hit the fan. You just want a little bit of shit on the fan. You don't want it to be covered and shit. That is a great tip. The next question I have is how do you pick your shit coins? Where do you find these hidden gems? Do you have any sort of influencers you go
after? How do you curate your Twitter feed to really get the best ones? Like how do you go about picking the golden nuggets in a world full of so much noise and not a lot of signal?
So back in 2017 I was like the shit coin collector. I was so blind to certain things and I wasn't even bothering with Bitcoin and Ethereum, I was just looking for the next 100x. And just my wallet was just like 30 shit coins and I'm just like, Oh, yeah, this is gonna be sweet and I think, yeah, you kind of just find a sentiment of where Twitter is going and where like low cap gems, right? You go on coin Gecko or coin market cap, you go and look in the low caps and see okay, is mark cap super
low? What does this coin do? And another thing that helps with shit coins is something that's cheap. Like, people buy something that's 0.0001 versus $100, something that's $100 or $5, It has way less supply and a lower market cap. It's just, it's the mentality, you got to kind of I don't know a better way to say this but you kind of got to dumb yourself down to be like, Oh, I was a noob What am I gonna do in this situation. When you see one of those shit coins, and it's like, oh, let me buy
this. But I do be careful with them now, before I wasn't. But now I'm pretty careful. And I just keep risk minimum. But they are crazy risk rewards, right?
So when we say shit coins, we're talking about, you know, almost every coin that's outside of we'll call it the top 10 20 30 on coin Gecko or coin market cap, which are really the two biggest and best sort of, I guess, charts and databases for every type of cryptocurrency. Tell me about what you do on the high end. If you have a coin that again, will use dollar for the sake of ease. You buy it at $1 and it hits let's call it $2 2.50 $3 you've already made 2 300% What's it what's next on
that? Are you taking half your bag out and playing the other half? Are you taking out your initial investment? Or are you just you know, YOLO hoddling until it until it hits rocketship sentiment?
So for shit coins, it's kind of like, you got to kind of think, Okay, what level of shit coin is? Is this shit that can evolve? Or is this shit that's just pure shit. So it's like, when you know the ones that are pure shit and you're up 5x, sometimes I do get greedy because I'm like, I know some of these do 100 x. So it's like, oh, you already raised this much money on it might as well ride
it out. It's like, I'm either gonna get scammed and you're gonna rug pool or it's gonna disappear or I'm just gonna hold on to it but and then you got the the higher class, let's say shit coins, that have potential and they're up there. Those like I kind of put them in a bag that I'm like, okay, if it's 2x or whatever, I usually take that and move it into Ethereum or Bitcoin.
Okay, good to know, good to know. On the shit coin topic, I guess before we get into actual day trading applications, software and hardware. We got to talk about Dogecoin. I know you also change your name to john Doge. That was hilarious, worked so well. So clean there. How many Doge you got? You have a huge bag?
I did at the time. Like when there was um, it's funny, I pretty sure majority of the Doge that I had was sent to me, I didn't actually buy, beacuse people would send it to me. So I had quite a bit and then I sold pretty early, but I also opened a long position in Doge to kind of hedge that selling of what I was actually holding. And that was probably, I gotta find the thing for that trade, the entry was about at six cents. And I rode it all the way to the top and just slowly
skimmed some off. But it was a leverage position. But yeah, it was probably one of my biggest trades this year.
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No, not really dawg. Sports betting I have been because sports obviously just started up again. So yeah, I've been slowly getting into that trying to find crypto platforms that can offer that.
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you're off to the races. Before we get back into day trading though, sports betting what are you hockey, basketball, football. What do you do?
Basketball a little bit of football.
Nice. Who's winning it all this year?
Basketball? I got either the Lakers or the Nets?
That'd be a great final to watch. I I still think Brooklyn's gonna have it. Just if those three guys get healthy
Yeah if those three guys are healthy, it's gonna be a pretty hard battle for any other team. Obviously, the top dogs
It would have been smart to sprinkle some money when they first all came together and lost what it was like Seven of Nine or seven of 10. And then they just turned their shit around. But one of the points that you talked about, which was a perfect segue into the coinpoker ad read because it is a full on gamble unless you are a vet, like our guest, john dough, and that is leveraged trading, which you spoke about. Folks, for those at home. Leverage trading, is when
you can go 2x 3x 5x. Heck, some exchanges offer 150x I highly recommend not doing anything at all, and if you are probably never go more than five or 10x. But john, if you could just quickly explain what leverage trading in is and how it allows users to either one make so much money or to lose so much money?
Yeah. So leverage trading are crypto platforms it is different compared to some platforms, like forex and things like that. But yeah, it's pretty much you select how much leverage you're using for your trade or for your account, whether that's like you mentioned 5x 10x 20x 100, if you
got the balls. And then you use that leverage to leverage your position, pretty basic, give you a bigger position size, so you get a higher return, or you get a higher loss on your trade if you don't manage the risk
properly. And that's probably the most important and taking long leverage is probably the risk management because if you're taking on 20x leverage, but you're risking 1% for a trade that's pretty safe, but if you're risking 50% of your portfolio and you're running 10x leverage, yeah, you're gonna you're gonna blow up your account.
And can you tell I guess what happens? Let's say theoretically, you're running 20x leverage on 50% of your portfolio? What happens if that trade goes the other way? And so let's say you're 20x long, you think you know, said coin x is going to go up and not down. And that means for every cent that it goes up, you are gaining 20 cents instead of one times 20 times whatever it goes up. Now, on the flip side, tell us what happens if it goes down and you are 20x long.
So on the flip side, you're 20x long, half your account. And most people who are doing this most likely don't have a stop loss. So what will happen is pretty much all your money will be gone, your account will get liquidated your head down those certain price the liquidation level, once reaches that level there's no more margin in your account to cover your leverage position loan, as you'd call it. And then yeah, your account balance has gone to zero or in worst case, it also goes to negative
And that's when you have to actually, that's when the exchange will send you an email hit you up on telegram, Twitter, you name it, and then they might send a couple guys to your house with baseball. bats. Yeah, highly recommend doing a lot of research, watch john on YouTube, and many other vets before you jump into leverage. Any other tidbits of advice when using leverage.
Yeah, I have a lot of tips, like you mentioned on the currency YouTube channel for leverage, because that's pretty much all I do on there. Yeah, I think leverag, it makes people delusional, because it makes you think, Oh, I can make so much. But realistically, leverage is just there to give you a higher position. So you can free up capital to have other other positions, right? It's not really there to make you make
way more. So you got to kind of learn the risk aspect first I think before even signing up or taking on any leverage.
Besides setting stop loss what other tips would you give to someone getting into that into the leverage trading?
Into the leveraged trading? I think the emotional part as well. Because if your timing is good, and you do get a nice leverage position and you're new you could be up so much. And you'll be like, Oh, this is easy. And I think everybody goes through that stage too if you don't learn properly, like, Oh, this is easy. I just made 20x just like that. And then your emotions are like way up here. So you're like, oh, okay, how are these guys not rich. And this is so easy. I can do this so quick.
And then all of a sudden, as soon as you're wrong, and you got some drawdown happening and then your emotions go from here, straight down, and then you do things you shouldn't be doing. And within a day all your money's gone?
Yes. So that's very bad. No, the name of the game is one, set stop losses two, take your emotion out of it. Always be willing to lose whatever you put up, because never bet the house never do anything that can get you or your loved ones into trouble. Always be super responsible, know what you're getting into. And again, you got to have those stop losses on always, always, always, that's your get out of jail free card.
Another thing I noticed is me too, even now I still get emotional. Like, I looked at my system outperforms me. And I'm the one who made the system because there's no emotions in that system. It'll stay consistent. And I remember in the beginning, when I was thinking of different strategies, I was doing algo trading. So I talked with the developer and we kind of made it a few algos for trading to trade
automated systems. But and then yeah, that was in the early stages but as I learned to kind of to be more consistent and disciplined with the system, then you don't really need it. But I think for sure you should stick to your system, because the math will always play out more than your emotions majority of the time.
Yeah, very well said. That's will conclude sort of our day trading Expo say the day. I want to talk about becoming an influencer. And again, I know a lot of people cringe at that word, but it really is the best word for for what people like you do. You do have influence on people, they look to you for guidance, they respect what you say you have clout and it's deserved. Without giving me the secret sauce because again, it's you know, there's a difference between what's the famous saying?
Remember that video for the guy of Best Buy, he's like the difference between the sauce and the... oh I'm butchering this but the sauce and the juice or whatever the case may be, but without giving me everything you know, what are the keys to becoming an influencer besides the original stuff like posting every day providing value consistency brand blah, blah, blah, give me the sauce.
I think it's kind of, it should come to you. It's kind of like an aha moment. You just continue doing what you enjoy and naturally it'll show on you right? Like I see a lot of more influencers coming up
now. And for me personally, I love seeing that like I see so many people coming up and just doing something great for themselves like that's what I kind of pushes me to push further and I think as the space grows, all the influencers will keep pushing, right and there's so many different types like there's not too many music crypto, like there is from the music side but a blend of both,
it's it's different. But overall, I think to be a crypto influencer, you just kind of have to stay up to date with everything that's happening and just be be legit. Don't get involved in all the drama and the scams and don't think about getting rich quick. Think about becoming valuable, providing value to people. And I think that's probably the most important aspect for the crypto space especially with the growth that has happened.
Is it tiring for you pumping out content every day?
Oh, yeah, I sometimes like, I wish there was like 35 hours in the day. It's hard and we're planning on like new launch recurrency and everything like that and bitbuy stuff, there's just more content to come so there's more of the come but I'm like maxed out 100% so it's like ugh I wish there was more time.
Tell me about your hardware setup, I guess hardware and software. What are some of the key pieces to the puzzle when cranking out content like I see your background right now you got the green screen in the back you got the sick headphones, like you know you got the clean shave going on, you get the as fresh as a cut as you can have for being in Canada because everything's closed right now. Like what's the sauce to the hardware and software setup?
I think I got lucky because I came from music, so I already knew music videos performing I'm like, okay. And I used to engineer my own songs. So I would know mix mastering all those things. So I already had that experience. So I got lucky in that aspect of knowing Okay, I need this light, this mic, I need two screens, three screens. And I'm a computer geek so I know how to build computers so that was pretty easy too, but I got lucky
For the rookies at home though. Like what program do you recommend for recording? Is there a go to mic you have, go to headset like anything that you can give a little one minute spiel on software hardware?
Software hardware I think for recording I use OBS Studio. Overall I think that's pretty much every streamer you'll see them using OBS or recording. For camera, I've tried a canon but right now I'm using the Sony. I think Sony produces pretty much the best quality and webcam I got the low gese I think there's c 920 it is yeah that's the one and then for Mic I got this, I got on Amazon its just a boo yeah mic it is pretty clean. I like the one you got though that one sounds nice and crisp.
This the Joe Rogan Sure SM7B or whatever it is
Yeah that one sounds clean
It's a good one. I have this and then the focus right but if I wanted to get the you know the streamer Logitech camera going, you set that up. I see streamers with that they put that on their computer all the time it's not even like, you and I are looking at each other. I'm looking at you through my MacBook Air compared to a camera, it's a piece of shit though. Like how do you set that up?
Yeah, I got the Logitech right now it's right on top of my screen. I haven't connected to OBS and that's why I said OBS you can stream directly live feed and you can adjust everything in there. And I think if you have good lighting realistically with most cameras you will have good picture quality because it's 1080P and if you shouldn't 30 frames per second Yeah, it'll look clean.
Okay, so good lighting so what just a couple like you know Amazon Tik Tok lights?
Yeah, I got the brand is newer. I think it's a big LED panels, I got those and I got a glam core. They're all those LED ones that are adjustable, they all work best,
Does that not hurt your eyes? They're near those things all the time.
It did in the beginning because like even right now I have them. In the beginning it hurt but now I kind of ignore, I even forget when it's on sometimes when I'm done shooting I'm editing the lights are still on but it does get it warms up the room. But here in Canada it's cold so yeah. It just snowed last week.
Craziness.
Yeah, so like lights keep the room warm.
Tell me some, again fellow Canadian as well from Toronto here. What are some of the things Canada can do to really increase crypto adoption because it just seems we're so far behind like every country?
I think what is needed right now for Canada is if you are an upcoming influencer and anything just keep pushing, because people look at other parts of the world. And I think I'm dragging behind but no, you're not like, the growth right now is going to continue and Canada needs the influencers and the podcasters like you, everybody to just keep keep growing, right? Because
we'll all grow together. No one's gonna just outpace someone else just because in here in Canada, I think, collectively as we all connect with each other and keep growing that is like the most important and then also providing value to like people who are looking to get into crypto, you can quickly show them how to sign up for this exchange, what resources look at YouTube channels, things like that.
Nice. Do you have any, I'd say you're probably the biggest in the space. But are there any other Canadian crypto influencers you recommend or just take a look at?
Yeah, there is but that's the thing about crypto, a lot of guys are just like semi anonymous, so I didn't realize there's so many. There is quite a bit of Canadians like I've talked with a few exchanges actually. Like that are not even, they're pretty much anonymous exchanges but now I found out they're based in Vancouver and I'm like, what? I would have had no idea. And like even there's a lot of the influences are all same thing
based out of Canada. So there is quite a bit of Canadians and with Vitalik, he was Canadian. And when I talked with Mike Novogratz, he even said he was like, a lot of the Ethereum guys and stuff that he meets, they're all Canadian. So there is the people here it's just the fact of staying connected and continuing to grow right now.
Very well said. John, this has been a treat, couple more questions before we wrap up here. I know you're very busy guy. What's in your crypto bag right now? As much as you can tell me, what do you have in there?
So there is shit coins. I don't know if you want to hear bout shit coins?
Give it to us. What do you got everything?
Okay, I have shit coin wallet and a main coin wallet. Let's see. So main things I have Bitcoin Ethereum Litecoin. I'm expecting Litecoin to really pop off this year.
Why is that?
Because they have the mimblewimble update coming in. I've been doing, for a while I do analysis on it. Keep tracking up the chart and the trend line has been following. Seems like it's going to have a nice price discovery pass all time high. Now and then Litecoin also here. And then Solana. That's one that really popped up.
Oh yeah. I missed out on Solana.
Yeah, Solana, like that one. What was that? $2 and a friend said hey, buy this and I was like, nah and I pushed off. I ended up buying later at like 14. But I moved Solana into radium. Yeah, because the ecosystem for Solana is starting to grow. So I move that into radium, radium is pretty much like how uni swap pancake swap is so.
Wow, good to know.
Yeah. So radium, and then obviously some Doge.
You still holding?
I still have a little bit but I'm not holding to be like, oh yeah $10. Once things get dangerous, like that with too much influence. I'm like you can't really have control of what's going to go down. You're just like, Yeah, what's happening here? And then also, there is some, like, I have one wallet where there is coins that people send, like, have a look at our token. So there are those as well.
But I guess you keep all those right. Like, why wouldn't you?
Yeah, sometimes I'll keep them I'll look at the tokenomics. But sometimes I don't even care to check them out.
That's how you know you made it when people are just firing tokens at you. So that's another thing, folks for those at home. The reason why john can get free tokens. It's sort of similar to e-transfer in Canada, I guess, which would be similar to the cashapp in the States. If they have your username, you can, to my knowledge, you can send money to anyone in Canada. If you have direct deposit
enabled on your E transfer. If I found John's email, which I have, and he has direct deposit enabled, I can send him money and it will go directly to his account. The crypto version of that I'll use Ethereum for the sake of ease, but if john publicly posts his Ethereum address, and you know, his meta mask wallet, I can send him any
ERC 20 token. So any token that runs on the Ethereum blockchain via ERC 20 I can just send them that token, and he doesn't even have to accept that it just shows up in his account of my wallet. That's what happened with vitalik when he received I guess, you know, a billion dollars worth of Dogecoin. So yeah, I guess that's how you know you've made it when people are firing your coins for free. Not bad.
I know. But like, yeah, a lot of them perform Okayish, but it's also like it's a new space. There's a reason why they're sending them to you because they need help right to push them and things like that. There's another one too, that I did go pretty big on is AC XC, AC dx, it's like an it's a new exchange derivatives exchange. So that one I think that's probably one of my biggest long term holdings right there.
Right? Okay. Good to know. I can't give you any more free bag, FaceTime there, we gotta end the bag stuff. But this has been awesome. Couple quick, rapid fire questions. Twitter feed your newsfeed. Who are your biggest followers who are the most reliable? Where do you get your best stuff from? I know everyone literally 99% of people I spoke to, I speak with within the crypto sphere, they all get their shit from Twitter. It's the space you get a quick you get it right most of the
time. Where do you get your stuff from? Who do you follow? Who gives you the goods?
I just kick that homepage and there's always those. It's weird. It's kind of like a robot. I click the homepage and then there's a note, there's the same people that I look at Oh my god. Is he talking about? Like I have this one guy. crypto burb? I'm not sure if you know him.
Is he good?
Oh yeah, he's all good. And each person has their own sentiment. So eventually you kind of learn a trend between what this person is saying what this person is saying what this person is saying. And I'm like, okay, the market is moving like this. And then there's also what's his name? pump?
Pump. Yeah.
He doesn't post like technical stuff. But he kind of, I remember that he's saved me a few times, actually, from his tweets. Because I'd wake up in the morning and he's, I guess he's in Eastern time. So he's ahead, and I load my feed, and then he'll be like PayPal announced this, and I was like, Oh, crap. Pull up my chart right away cuz sometimes, like everybody right now, crypto, you're looking at your phone in bed laying there.
100% always.
So it's like, you have those people who tweet right away. And it gives you more push. I'll go look at my chart. What's going on? Because I do chart trade strictly like what my chart says. But yeah, it's good to know, it helps my mental sentiment to know what's happening on Twitter too.
Well, you're doing the Quan, and you need some qual. And that's what Twitter is all about. Twitter gives you that qualitative info. Folks, I highly recommend, once again, I've spent years on my Twitter feed. Everyone has spent years on their Twitter feed. But one of the best ways is literally go to people you admire and look at who they follow. Go to their list. If they have their list public, see which people they
follow. Literally click on every single profile, take some time spent, I highly recommend putting hours into your Twitter feed, just like john talked about is the quickest way to get information sent to you. And again, Twitter has so many different ways that they could actually make the product itself the Twitter app, and incredible thing. More incredible than it is but they're out to lunch. You know jack Dorsey's getting baked and working on square and doing
LSD and working. He's doing his own thing, but that's
It's funny. I was thinking of a platform for trade. For crypto but for, like something like Twitter, but I realized like, man, Twitter's, you can't beat to it. As soon as they do it, whatever product you make is done. I mean, it's hard, it's gonna be hard to get that adoption. What's it called? iOS made? voice? Have you heard of it?
Yes, I did.
Yeah, I have an account tried it out. But it's just not, it's not Twitter.
Well, every club has tried to, clubhouse signups have gone absolutely you know to the ground but no one. I don't even use clubhouse anymore. I use it for two months back earlier this year. But yeah, you know Twitter's coming out with spaces. Yeah, it's just that's just how it is.
We should host a spaces one day.
100%, let me know. When I when I get back to, I'll
Oh yeah and you will be out on the east coast we'll be back in Canada after Bitcoin conference. And I got into my two weeks mandatory quarantine which is again bananas. Just crazy to think about but the two weeks mandatory quarantine and as soon as that's done I'm going to try to be a john dough and have that connection, that bridge. I'm going to start cranking out content. I've been in Flo ida for the last six months so t's time to start getting som
100% I'll have the CN Tower in the background. New content going place that the lady and I got it's pretty awesome. So that'd be sweet. But john has been incredible. A couple quick rapid fire questions before we wrap up. Bitcoin 100k when's a happening? Give me a month?
A month this year?
Or next year? Just give me a month.
Let's say November 2021
You would make my year if that happened.
November 2021. Let's do it.
I'd love that and question for my Canadian listeners. Our Canadian listeners Excuse me? Are you invested in any publicly traded companies more so in Canada that had Bitcoin on their balance sheet
That have Bitcoin on our balance sheet? Not that I know publicly like I do trade stocks, like right now I'm holding position in Tesla and Twitter. But no, I don't really have any private like smaller investments in companies doing that but for sure that's something that I'm looking for.
Check them out. A lot of people don't know that you can in Canada, we have a something called a TFSA, a tax free savings account and an RSP a Registered Retirement Savings Plan. Those are tax free investment vehicles. I believe it's the same one in the States. It's like the whole 401k thing where you can invest tax free you don't have to pay those cap gains taxes and there's companies like cypherpunk Holdings which is a you know, Penny stock on the Canadian
Stock Exchange. It's has 350 Bitcoin on the balance sheet. You have hot mining, you have Mike Novogratz company, galaxy Digital's done incredible. Shout out Mike Novogratz, appreciate the bag on that one. So there's a lot of really cool companies. If you want to learn more those head on over to Bitcoin treasuries.org it's sort of a goldmine list that not a lot of people know about and has all of the publicly traded stocks that hold Bitcoin on their balance sheet.
I think I'm gonna check that out I didn't even I didn't even know Canadian companies were starting to do that yeah.
Tax free into bitcoin. Cypherpunk Holdings is probably my favorite one. But yeah, I should probably be paid from Bitcoin treasuries there giving free shout outs. I think it's like a public, not publicly traded but public as in like, almost like an open source company where, you know, they just do it for the greater good of the people. Last question, john, who is Satoshi.
Who are Satoshi?
Do you think it's a group?
Yeah, I think it's a group. Like Hal Finney was one of the early people, I think he definitely is part of that group. And that initial person, I don't know if they're alive or dead or where they are but they're watching or could be listening right now.
Love that.
Maybe in my music video I'll put do a little secret release. Maybe I know something.
Love that. And lastly, before you go, can you please tell our guests where they can find you on social
On social, you can start everything real john dough, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. I don't really use Facebook, but uh, yeah, Twitter, Instagram, mostly. And that's where you can find me and YouTube, youtube.com slash john dough live. And yeah.
You're not on tik tok?
I have a tick tock account. I haven't really capitalized off it yet. There's just different. I'm probably slacking but
You can dance and sing, you gotta get on TikTok. What are you waiting for?
Probably. It's just there's so much content right now and like, YouTube is one of the most, the new university they call it now. It's true.
But on tik tok, you dance for 10 seconds you can get a million followers like it's
I know. Tik tok is definitely super valuable for influencers right now. So all the influencers or people who want to grow as influencers listening. Yeah, I would take the tik tok avenue. If I could eset, that would have been the avenue to start at.
100%. John, this ha been an absolute treat. So good to catch up. And you and I will e banging out some content in the future.
This is probab y one of the nicest chill, podc sts I've done. Pretty nice and atural.
Appreciate that. John, you're the man. Appreciate it. We'll keep in touch.
Alright man.
Folks, this was the crypto news podcast with john dough. You can check him out on all socials the links to his socials will be in the show notes. Hope you enjoyed listening to this one, I had a blast. Always good to catch up with a fellow Canadian and a crypto influencer who's absolutely crushing it in the game. Phenomenal guy. We will have more phenomenal guys and gals on the pod as you know we drop every Monday, Wednesday and
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