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2024.03.09 - Bitcoin Info & Opportunity

Mar 29, 202448 minSeason 2024Ep. 10
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Episode description

Guests:

  • Dan Herbert, Co-Founded a Crypto social group to learn & invest in crypto
  • Natalie Abbas, Member of the Crypto Currency Club, Formerly with Commodities Futures Trading Commission 

Discussion covered general history, characteristics and information about Bitcoin.

  • 6 Characteristics of Money Like the Dollar
    • Access
    • Divisibility
    • Durability
    • Portability
    • Limited Supply
    • Uniformity
  • Digital Assets –
    • Meets & Exceeds the Dollar in the above characteristics.
    • Crypto is Decentralized – on its own network and is not controlled by banks or government
  • Bitcoin – Non-Tangible
    • 21M bitcoin TOTAL and all that will be on the network
    • Last BitCoin will be mined by 2040
    • By 2030 – 99% will be in circulation
  • Mining –
    • The process time of energy, effort to validate BC network transactions.
    • Every 10 minutes a ledge of transactions gets approved
  • What are the concerns about BitCoin:
    • Tangible vs. Intangible
    • Hackability
  • What other forms of digital assets are there?
    • BitCoin – 50% of the existing digital assets in the $2.7T market
    • Ethereum – Utility Level 1 Digital Network, Decentralized financial exchanges and apps can operate on
    • Gold Worldwide reserves- $14T
  • How do you purchase BitCoins? 

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