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Take everything you think you know about crypto and poop it in the toilet. Shout between the stalls to your neighbor to show your support for their struggle. Light a match to cover up the Taco Bell token you bought earlier. Give a congratulatory hoot when you flush and finish. This is my anti-professional crypto channel. I‘m just a a barely sane dude who fell down the cryptocurrency rabbit hole. This channel is my fumbling attempt to communicate myself outside of my own head about my journey in the crypto space.
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Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Good morning! The whole subject of Celsius Network now only allowing accredited investors to earn on their platform has led me down a rabbit hole of ways the wealthy establishment perpetuate systematic financial discrimination and exclusion. This ends up driving those without the means to be "accredited investors" who would love to move upwardly financially into bubble frenzies and risky bucket-shop like projects and activities where they end up being further manipulated and oppressed. It has been truly fascinating to read about all the way people try to move upwards and the way that those established work to keep them down.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C7NGaAUrcE
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bucketshop.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo5414939.html https://kroisos.io/was-there-ever-a-tulip-fever/
https://www.zdnet.com/finance/blockchain/i-bought-bitcoin-from-paypal-heres-what-happened/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/l6xsi1/robinhood_is_a_dirty_bucketshop_they_claim_to/
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Good morning! This morning I talk about Celsius Network and Coinjoin. Celsius is a centralized crypto lending and savings platform. Basically a crypto bank that gave good interest rates for storing your crypto on there and allowed user to use their crypto as collateral for a loan. Those days are now over for the unaccredited investors. All good things come to an end and time to move on in my view.
Then, the conversation with myself led to Coinjoin and the need for privacy in light of the regulation, which in turn led to doing a quick look at Samourai and Wasabi wallets.
Sources:
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/12/celsius-bans-us-non-accredited-investors-from-earning-crypto-rewards/
https://compassmining.io/education/why-the-bitcoin-mining-debate-is-so-dysfunctional/
https://coinjoin.io/en
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/coinjoin.asp
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/data-anonymization.asp
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2019/08/06/a-battle-between-bitcoin-wallets-has-big-implications-for-privacy/
https://samouraiwallet.com/
https://wasabiwallet.io/
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Good morning! This morning I study a little more about what the RPL token actually does in Rocketpool. Then I got hung up on what a rebase token is, so I did a search on that definition of rebasing and found out there are two very different uses of the word. One use is in tokenomics to describe an elastic token. The other is in programming to describe the combining of two branches in a development project. Nerdy, but interesting stuff!
Sources:
https://medium.com/rocket-pool/rocket-pool-staking-protocol-part-3-3029afb57d4c
https://www.coindesk.com/learn/what-is-a-rebaseelastic-token/
https://www.juststartinvesting.com/what-is-token-rebasing/
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/merging-vs-rebasing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lido
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Good morning! This morning I talk about staking ETH on Rocketpool and Lido and some of the differences and similarities.
Sources:
Newsletter: Bankless HQ
Newsletter: Crypto Pragmatist
https://medium.com/rocket-pool/rocket-pool-staking-protocol-part-3-3029afb57d4c
https://wento.co/rpl/
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Good morning! This morning I start with some Tweets about ways people are doing some guerilla Bitcoin education in schools and also another one from Frank Chaparro who highlights the bankers ignorance of crypto amid their criticism of it.
Then, I go into the ERC-4626 standard and talk about what it is and why it is amazing. I am really looking forward to see how all this can streamline and standardize DeFi to make it explode once again!
Sources:
https://twitter.com/MikeCLCS/status/1511503047981248517
https://twitter.com/fintechfrank/status/1511376124063977477
https://twitter.com/iearnfinance/status/1511444220850184197
https://bowtiedisland.com/erc-4626-the-most-important-standard-youll-never-notice/
https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4626
https://cointelegraph.com/news/yearn-finance-advocates-for-the-adoption-of-erc-4626-tokenized-vault-standard
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/01/13/erc-4626-defis-newest-money-lego/
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Good morning! If you wanna get to the part where I talk about all the bonds and stuff you can skip to about 12:40 mark (yes, I rambled on that long). I look at the basics of bonds, interest rates, yield curves, inflation, and how it all relates to crypto.
Sources: (Should have been your high school economics teacher, instead it's a Tweet)
https://twitter.com/PrestonPysh/status/1510804019790626817
https://twitter.com/coinbitsapp/status/1509199799320522762
https://twitter.com/vishalinvests/status/1504172581745741824
Book: Tony Robbins - Money
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Good morning! This morning I do my usual rambling bit at the beginning and then I go poking around the very useful tool IO discovered called dexscreener.com. This is a tool that lists all pair on tons of DEXs and blockchains and ranks them. It Could give a person hours of informative entertainment.
Then, I zero in on Zero Money. I don't know much about this new protocol, but it is funny. They take all the assumptions about what a crypto project and DAO should want to be and does the opposite. The are a completely centralized, dictatorship. Holding the token does nothing but loses value, and there is zero team allocation. I went and claimed my Zero token to see what will happen. You can go get your too until April 9, 2022. For what? I dunno.
Sources:
https://dexscreener.com/
https://sifu.vision/
https://www.thezero.money/
https://blog.levxdao.org/introducing-zero-money-125b513c6fc9
https://twitter.com/LevxApp
Friday Apr 01, 2022
Friday Apr 01, 2022
Good morning! In this episode I rant a bit as I talk about Ripple donating money Greenpeace to lobby to try to change Bitcoin's code. Regardless of what I think about proof of work vs proof of stake (I like both), it is impossible to just throw money at Bitcoin and tell some people to "just change it". They clearly do not understand how Bitcoin works and how it was designed specifically to counteract this type of activity. So there is a $5 million donation to Greenpeace that could be used to help fight real pollution just going down the drain. What a waste. Anyway, when you watch this video, you will know where I stand. I don't hate the Earth and I am not a wasteful person. I just believe everyone should have financial freedom and autonomy from the corner of slavery we are being pushed into by the WEF using climate change as their mascot.
Sources:
https://cryptonews.com.au/ripple-co-founder-launches-5-million-campaign-to-change-bitcoin
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
I got the pleasure of having Nutellalicka on my show for an interview to talk about his crypto career and how he came to found Tokel.io. Tokel is an NFT and Token generation platform built in the Komodo ecosystem. I spend some time getting to know Nutellalicka and then talk about some of the philosophies and features of the Token platform. This is a very high level and light-hearted interview for people wanting an airbrushed look at what Tokel. I appreciate Nutellalicka humoring my most amateur of questions at times!
What is Tokel?
Create build and trade NFT. Tokenize your business on the Tokel chain. Tokel Platform reaps the benefits of tokenization or the use of a tokenization or the use of a token economic model. Create equity based tokens, security tokens, debt issuance tokens or asset backed tokens. Other token use cases include charities looking to tokenize and utilize a public ledger for donations, crowdfunding organizations, as well as video game development projects looking to capitalize on token economics or gamifying NFT's.
Sources:
https://tokel.io/TokelPaper1stEdition.pdf
https://twitter.com/TokelPlatform
https://medium.com/@tokel-platform/
https://explorer.tokel.io/
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Good morning! This morning I poke around the XDAO platform and learn about multisigs, quorums, Robert's Rules of Order, Voting rights vs investment rights and several other concepts that I was foggy on before.
Sources:
https://blog.xdao.app/what-is-xdao-69c427ce046b https://docs.xdao.app/guides/for-dao-creators/create-a-dao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert's_Rules_of_Order
https://github.com/ArturVargas/avalanche-DAO