What We’ve Learned

We are all about extracting value from some of the best and brightest minds out there in the blockchain cryptocurrency space. I'm talking about the builders, the developers, the engineers, and the investors. Now, I've always believed that success leaves clues, and that means that we find other people that are successful. We find out what they did to be successful. We do about the same things and we should achieve about the same results. It's one of the reasons why I'm

such a huge reader. I believe that reading is a is a way to hack um knowledge of other successful people and bring that into our own lives. And we want to learn from other people instead of having to try and figure this out on our own, and the Market Disruptors podcast is all about that. Taking the biggest and brightest minds, hacking them, learning what we can extract from them, and then giving it to you, so you

have an unfair advantage over the rest of the industry. Now, most people don't have access to people like this to ask them the questions. Right. Most most investors are out there on their own, just working on their own trying to figure things out. And there's a lot of noise

in the space. Now, if you spend any time on social media, you know you're on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, whatever, there's so much noise, what I mean, just so many different people's opinions, and a lot of people seem really smart, right. You read their their medium article, you read their tweet storms,

and they make a very compelling case. But then you find people that are on the exact opposite side, and it gets really hard to through the noise find out what is true, find out what you should really be paying attention to. And part of the reason why that's hard is because you're not sure who has the credibility. Right. Most of these people, especially on Twitter, are anonymous. They might have a random image or animal as their avatar, and you don't even know who they are. You don't

even know how credible they are. And so it makes it really hard to discern that. So if you could sit down with the people who are actually doing it, people who have experienced, people who are building, people who are investing huge amounts of money, you feel little bit better about the information you can get. But of course, like I said before, it's hard to get access to that.

So that's what this platform is. We are getting those people, we are bringing them here, we are extracting that information and asking them the questions you wish that you could ask. Were the questions that you should ask if you had the opportunity, And that's what we're gonna do each and every week. So, like I said, you can have an unfair advantage in the markets. Now. So far, we've had eight amazing guests and we have learned so much from them already. Now we've had um We've had guests on

a wide range of topics. We had crypto beetles from Monarch Wallet, and we learned all about how to store cryptocurrencies. We learned about wallet storage, we learned about safety, and those are all super important things. Now. I've been the Internet for a really long time. I started my first e commerce business in two thousand one at the bottom of the dot com crash, which was a bad time to start. But I guess have a history of being

u invested in building through the bear markets. But you know, I've been on the I've been on the internet ever since. I've been involved in online business ever since. And the reason why I say that is because, um, I believe that my security and my knowledge of of you know, these types of technologies and every based things are it's pretty high, definitely much higher than the average person. And I've had problems. I've had problems with story my crypto,

I've had problems with my security. I've had my wallet hacked and I've lost a lot of coins, a lot um and I've lost my keys. I mean, I have had these problems. And so it's a super important topic. And we really get into the wall at the storage, the safety, and so those are super important things. Hopefully we've got a lot out of that. And then we talked to um someone we really went outside the box where or actually say we went outside the crypto ecosystem and we went and sat down with what I call

the mind of a champion. Now, in order to become a champion, you have to have a certain mindset, and we went and sat down with UFC legend Kinny Florian. Now, again, he's outside the crypto ecosystem for the most part, except for he is an investor in cryptocurrencies. So he's super into cryptocurrencies. And part of the reason why is because he was old enough to see the internet investment opportunities. Um, he's a he's a college graduate, he's a super smart

he to invest in business. Excuse me, he invested businesses, he invest in real estate, and he has been actively invested into cryptocurrencies. And he has an amazing take on this, and again like how does a champion think, like what is it that that is that has shaped the way that they live their life or think that's really led to that success that he's had over and over and over in the UFC, you know, in college and wrestling,

in the UFC, in other types of investment. So there's a lot of really good nuggets that we get out of that, and so, UM, I think it's a really good interview and hopefully everybody listened to that, and then we learned about the case for why bitcoin now. UM, A lot of times people ask me all the time, like what should I say to somebody knew who doesn't really understand this. And you know what I see most times is people are trying to explain the technical side

of bitcoin or cryptocurrencies. Um, what a blockchain is, how blocks attached to one another, what the consensus mechanism is, you know, all these types of things. But that's what, right, that's the that's the the features that that's how it works. It's not why we need it or why we should use it. And I believe that's the most compelling case. Um. You know, most people just take the Internet for granted.

And if you were going to explain someone, oh, you should get on the internet because you can get email and you can watch videos on YouTube. Right, you're not explaining how the internet works. You're not saying, well, you take your computer and you hook it up to a chord and then that chord hooks to a router, and that router goes to your I S P and like somehow it digitizes the packets of data and it sends him through a transmission line and then a computer decodes

that packet. Like you don't get into that. Nobody cares about that. That's the last thing anybody needs to know what cares about. It really comes down to why why should use the Internet. Like if you went to your grandma, right, maybe she's not very technically savvy, you said, Grandma, I want you to get this Internet then so we can face time each other. Right, So you've given her a

compelling reason why. And that's what I believe that we need to be focusing on with the blockchain, with cryptocurrency, with bitcoin, is why right now, it's such an early stages that we really need to focus on the compelling reason why, because at this point it's not really that usable, to be honest, and I see everybody that's just um, you know, they don't have the patients, and everybody really

wants it to be further along than it is. Everybody wants to be able to go out and use it as money today and there's not enough merchants accepting it and things like that. Or they wanted to be a stable store of value but it's too volatile and they don't have the patients to understand that. And if we could be true believers into the why we want this to happen, I think it helps take all that out.

So we got into it with Ben Swan and We've talked about the case for a bitcoin or why bitcoin, and really it's about censorship resistant and to me that's the number one benefit. Its censorship resistant, meaning that nobody can stop bit, nobody can block it, prevent it, so I can hold my wealth, my value and not just money but value. And we'll talk about that later. But my value is is many different things could be my information, but could be my money. And no, no bank, no

government can seize it. You can freeze it, can stop it. If I want to send it to you, nobody can block that or prevent that from happening. Its censorship resistant. Now, UM, if you're in the US, a lot of times people don't really understand the benefit of that. If you're from other countries, you do. Because bank accounts get taken and seized all the time. Right. We've seen, um from an example like in Cyprus where they just took you know, up to bank deposits obviously in them in more corrupt

countries where they're just taken all the bank deposits. UM. We've put in the United States, the thousands and thousands of bank accounts get ceased every year, UM. And we prevent people from using your money so for example, UM, people that wanted to support Julian Assange from United States weren't able to send him money until you took cryptocurrencies UM. So that's what I'm talking about, my censorship resistant UM. And again in the US sometimes you don't realize when

you need that. But today, right now, the last couple of days, I should say, we've seen in Hong Kong where we've had these massive protests and people are out there with trying to find their privacy, trying to use cash because the cash is UM censorship resistant. They haven't been using their cards to participate in these protests. And so Ben Swan really gets into UM why censorship resistant

is important, really what's going on with the information. So he really digs into UM, the censorship of the press, UM, the d platforming of all types of people on both the right and the left. When I say d platform and talking about people actually getting you kicked off of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etcetera. And it's not just right wingers, and it's left wingers too, it's anybody who is not towing the line. And there's a lot of problems with that from the blosophy level. UM,

we restrict freedom or privacy. People start to censor what they say, people start to censor what they think, and then we start losing creativity. Um, and really we should always be fostering you know, clear open communication, and so bitcoin can solve that. It's amazing and we get into that with Ben Swans. Hopefully listen to that episode and then we learned um what I call the trifecta of trends. Now, as an investor, we want to invest with the trend, right.

We want to if if you're swimming, you want to swim downstream, right, or paddle downstream. If you're running, you want the wind at your back, right, We want to invest with the trend. Now. We also want to be contrarian, meaning we want to buy when nobody wants to buy. We have to sell when everybody, um wants to buy. So we have to be contrarian. However, we want to do that along with the trend. And what I'd like

to do is I look. I like to look for global trends and then the trend within the trend, and the trend within the trend and find these smaller trends that have this massive steam. And we really get into three levels down and the trifecta of trends with Rafael sud from Unicorn and that we had a great interview.

He you know, he has a really good background where he has been kind of at the cutting edge for a long time, including working for Microsoft in his venture in the venture fund and really looking for new companies that are pushing the boundaries. And now with his new company, he's doing the same thing and he is three levels down. What they're doing is amazing. It's it's cutting edge, and I don't want to spoil it if you haven't listened to it already, so i'd have you recommend that you

do that. But um understand that the trend within the trend, within the trend is where you want to be invested. You want the wind at your back. And uh, he really shed some insights onto some new trends that are happening and are gonna are gonna see massive growth, massive growth over the next decade and as an investor of where you want to be. Now, another part about investing is, you know, more important than making money with your investments is protecting in your money not losing it. Right, you

don't want to lose your money. Losing money is asymmetric. That means if I lose on investment, I have to make back a hundred percent just to get back to even. And we speak with Kanya Daniel and she is the investing diva, and she really focuses on risk management and she's she's an investor in a trader across all types

of assets, not just cryptocurrencies. However, she did just recently write the book Cryptocurrency Investing for Dummies, um, and she really breaks it down, makes it super simple, and she really makes a case for why risk management and how you can achieve a risk management while you're trading across all these different markets, and so so much to learn there. Um again, right, protecting your money warm buffets. That is the best way to make money is to never lose money,

which sounds kind of obvious, but it's important. And so risk management, practicing rich management, understanding US management is probably the most important thing you should do before you even start investing. You need to understand the risk. Everything has risk and risk and reward will hopefully reward. So that was really good. Hopefully you guys got ahold of that. And then we jumped into an interview that I really enjoyed we talked to Sustamy Capital, founder of Chris Kamre

and um, he isn't. He's got an amazing story kind of like Kanya where she has lived in three different countries. Um. Actually a few of our guests have as well. Maybe there's a theme to that. But Chris Camre is is from has lived in a few different countries. And he was a programmer who became an attorney. And um, he was an early stage Internet pioneer and made a ton of money exiting at the top of the Internet market before it crashed. And now he's involved into blotching. But

really he's like a technologist and like a futurist. And we had a really good conversation talking about, um, you know, the trends that he's seen spiller from the internet days into the blockching days, how he's approaching the market today. Um, where he sees the opportunit it needs to invest and then really where it's going and from like a really big picture, like if you want to zoom out and really look at where this market is going. Um. So man,

that was that was exciting conversation. He's someone I'd love to sit down and talk to you for hours and hours more, but I was just trying to pull as

much as I could out for you guys. UM. And then we we spoke to a crypto fund and this is a crypto fund with excuse me, with huge amounts of money under under and management, and um we there was a catchy that we spoke with a peer to peer capital and it was it was an awesome conversation because we really dug into how a fund that has a ton of money is is dissecting the market, how they look at different types of the market, how they

want to invest in different types of the market. So UM that being like with equity investments or or liquid um investments, UM we look, you know, they also do UM like value add investments such as running nodes and things like that up staking. But then also how they break the market down into different asset classes like protocols and privacy and so forth. And there's a lot of good information that the average investor could learn from someone like catch Up who has this experience and works in

a big fund. And so I think that one really really worth while and everyone should definitely listen to that. And then the last UM, the last interview that we that we had was with legal legal expert securities attorney Mark Boyan, and um Mark is extremely smart. He spent and spends all this time thinking about this, talking about this. He's traveling and speaking all the time. Those honor to have him, and we learned from him, you know, really

what's going on in the securities landscape. You know, everybody talks about the one of the biggest things holding back this industry's clarity, lack of clarity. And we talked about what that clarity means, how we're going to achieve it, when we're going to achieve it. We talk about we don't. We dove into the kick kin Um law suit to understand how that may affect everything else that we provide

clarity and guidance to everything else. We learned about things that the average and individual investor should be worried about looking at their individual assets, how this legal landscape could change the act individual access they may be invested into, and maybe even risks that the average individual investor might have for investing into those. But also zoomed out and looked at, you know, kind of the market as a whole, what these securities and regulations mean for the market, where

it's going and so much more. And you know, investing is multi disciplinary and you have to look at it from so many angles. Going back to the risk management, right, you have to understand all the risks and of course legal regulatory risks are a really really big part of that. So that was a great conversation with Mark and UM, we're definitely gonna do some more of that. And so

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