Natalie Brunell's Coin Stories

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Dennis Porter: Bitcoin As Legal Tender in U.S.? Arizona & Texas Hope So + Biden's Executive Action Jan 29, 2022

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Dennis is the host of Smart People Sh*t. Dennis is a political activist focused on defending bitcoin infrastructure + industry in the USA through public policy activism and advocacy. Dennis also spends time turning his home town of Portland, Oregon into a bitcoin hub.

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Mark Moss: Bitcoin's Short Term Price is a Distraction Jan 24, 2022

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This week's Coin Stories features Investor and Host Mark Moss

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Bio sourced from LinkedIn.com:

Mark is a professional investor, and host of the Market Disruptors YouTube channel and podcast. He is a startup and growth expert, helping six companies to reach seven figures in their first year, and leading businesses to the Fortune 500 promise land. Mark says he uses his well-rounded experience in multiple investing areas to research history and make predictions, leading to profits in business, real estate, gold and silver, oil, gas, securities, bonds, Bitcoin and blockchain.

You can follow Mark on Twitter at @1MarkMoss

Greg Foss: Bitcoin, Bonds and the Line We Crossed with Debt Jan 17, 2022

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This week's Coin Stories features Bitcoin Strategist Greg Foss

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Bio sourced from LinkedIn.com:

Greg is a self-proclaimed Bitcoin enthusiast and realist. He has spent 32 years in high-yield credit trading and analysis as a portfolio manager and trader, and is currently the Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives at Validus Power Corp in Toronto.

You can follow Greg on Twitter at @FossGregfoss

Bonus - Ross Gerber: The Next step for Bitcoin is Institutionalization Jan 12, 2022

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This week's Coin Stories features Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management President and CEO Ross Gerber

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Bio sourced from GerberKawasaki.com:

Ross is the Co-Founder, President and CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management. Ross oversees Gerber Kawasaki's corporate and investment management operations as well as serves individual clients. Ross has become one of the most influential investors on social and traditional media. His investment ideas and advice have made him a regular in global business news as well on many of the most popular podcasts.

Ross and the Gerber Kawasaki team oversee $1.8 billion of investments as of 2/22/21 focused on technology, electric vehicles, consumer, media, and entertainment companies for clients and the firm. Gerber Kawasaki is a leader in Fintech innovation leveraging technology and social media to work with a large diverse client base providing financial advice in scale. GK has grown to over 7500 clients and was listed in 2020 as one of the fastest-growing companies in Los Angeles according to the LABJ. GK received several Diversity and Inclusion Awards in 2020 within the financial industry and prides itself in representing the community.

You can follow Ross on Twitter at @GerberKawasaki

Hong Fang: Bitcoin and Earning Value You Can Rely On Jan 05, 2022

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This week's Coin Stories features Okcoin CEO Hong Fang

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Hong Fang is the CEO of Okcoin, a global, US-licensed cryptocurrency platform serving 190+ countries — the largest reach of any US-based exchange. Having experienced the opening of China's economy, Hong worked at Goldman Sachs for nearly a decade, driven by her passion for free markets. She left Wall Street for cryptocurrency after realizing digital assets offer the financial inclusion that traditional finance only claims to. Hong joined Okcoin in 2019 after making a growth equity investment in the company, and has since overseen the company's rapid growth. She holds an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.

You can follow Hong on Twitter at @hfangca

Timecodes:

00:00 Intro and promo codes

02:26 Hong upbringing

03:48 Hong's Chinese parents

04:38 Understanding money in China

05:26 Applying to school in the US

07:32 Chinese vs. American value systems

08:39 Business school

11:14 Chinese vs. American monetary systems

14:06 First job on Wall Street

15:10 Interest in cryptocurrency

17:10 Was Hong for or against bailouts?

18:32 Satoshi's Bitcoin white paper

20:22 Hong's transition from Goldman Sachs to cryptocurrency world

26:33 Investing in making a difference

31:23 Hong's rise to CEO of OKcoin

38:48 Hong's family's reaction to her career

40:15 Becoming first female global exchange CEO

43:12 OKcoin's culture and diversity

53:26 Hong's take on various coins and cryptocurrencies

58:17 Why does Hong believe in Bitcoin?

1:00:42 What would Hong tell her younger self?

BONUS - Doug Boneparth: Millennials, Money & Bitcoin Dec 27, 2021

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This week's Coin Stories features Financial Advisor and Bone Fide Wealth Founder Doug Boneparth

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Bio sourced from BonefideWealth.com:

For more than a decade, Douglas A. Boneparth has helped his clients negotiate sales of businesses; establish legacies for future generations; purchase new homes; pay off debt and achieve financial independence. But while servicing the needs of his diverse book of business, he noticed a gaping hole in the financial services industry: financial planning and advice for Millennials, his peers. So while everyone else was chasing old money to invest, Douglas started finding young people to invest in.

With a passion to improve the financial lives of those around him, Douglas founded Bone Fide Wealth, a firm dedicated to providing both effective and relatable advice to the city's hardest working young professionals. Through his personal experiences with student debt, higher education, career development, professional achievement and entrepreneurship, Douglas shares a perspective that very few financial advisors in the industry can. Douglas then draws upon the real life examples of his firm's clientele, offering financial solutions that are as creative as they are practical.

You can follow Doug on Twitter at @DougBoneparth

Timecodes:

00:00 Intro and Discount Promos

1:54 Doug background and upbringing

4:36 Early lessons learned about money

6:21 Becoming a financial planner

9:37 Working and living at home after college

13:40 Chasing dreams in NYC

17:45 Lessons from '08 Financial Crisis

20:45 Focusing on Millennials

26:18 Top performing Millennials

30:03 Why do we need financial planners?

33:58 Biggest mistake Millennials make

35:30 Looking at your financial behavior

37:52 Discovering Bitcoin

40:41 Post mining Bitcoin

42:34 Bitcoin rabbit hole & Investing

48:56 Bitcoin allocation

52:21 Can BTC be Global Reserve Asset?

53:40 Will the market crash?

56:05 Doug's Twitter Humor

Jason Lowery: Bitcoin is Critical For National Security Dec 23, 2021

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This week's Coin Stories features Space Force and MIT National Defense Fellow Jason Lowery

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Bio sourced from LinkedIn.com and Twitter.com:

Jason Lowery is an Air Force veteran and National Defense Fellow researching Bitcoin while pursuing a master's degree in engineering & management through the System Design & Management program jointly offered by MIT's School of Engineering & Sloan School of Management.

You can follow Jason on Twitter at @JasonPLowery

Timecodes:

00:00 Introduction and promo codes

1:53 Jason's back story and upbringing

3:20 Band camp and Space camp

5:28 Joining the military

11:08 Most surprising aspect of military

13:30 Discovering Bitcoin

17:36 Jason under investigation

20:21 Bitcoin and national security

27:58 Kinetic to electric power projection

36:25 Bitcoin as a military system

45:58 Bitcoin creates frenemies

55:56 Why doesn't the military get Bitcoin?

57:47 Jason's Bitcoin drawing

1:05:50 What will US do with Bitcoin?

1:08:26 Military spending

1:13:09 Bitcoin promotes peace

1:14:45 Military track record on new tech

1:22:16 Jason's biggest question about BTC

1:24:44 Bitcoin is a battery

1:29:05 Space Force Guy

1:31:51 Space Force, the Military and Musk

1:36:34 Explaining BTC for national security

1:39:16 Question from a Marine

1:41:53 What Jason wishes people would ask

1:42:30 Proof of Stake argument

1:50:43 Other crypto to buy Bitcoin

1:51:19 Jason denied for credit

1:53:45 When Jason is going to space

1:54:50 A future of hope

Market Update with Preston Pysh: "The System is Unbelievably Rigged," Will it crash? Dec 21, 2021

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We are checking in with podcast host and Bitcoin legend Preston Pysh who shared a viral tweet about the state of the global financial market. Preston said, "Why does everything feel like the world is falling apart, yet the stock market has looked like this since 2009?" He followed his question up with a breakdown of global indexes and how they performed when adjusted for monetary inflation. We talked about the recent market volatility and why Bitcoin is the best solution to a rigged system.

Follow him at @PrestonPysh.

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Bonus - Patrick Bet-David: Bitcoin is Here to Stay Dec 15, 2021

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This week's Coin Stories features Entrepreneur and Financial Advisor Patrick Bet-David.

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Bio sourced from PatrickBetDavid.com:

Patrick's amazing story starts with his family immigrating to America when he was 10 years old. His parents fled Iran as refugees during the Iranian revolution and were eventually granted U.S. citizenship. After high school Patrick joined the U.S. military and served in the 101st Airborne before starting a business career in the financial services industry. After a tenure with a couple of traditional companies, he was inspired to launch PHP Agency Inc., an insurance sales, marketing and distribution company – and did so before he turned 30.

Patrick speaks on a range of business, leadership and entrepreneurial topics including how and why to become an entrepreneur and the importance of learning how to fully process issues. He is particularly passionate about the need for every individual to pursue their desires, once stating, "Most of the greatest world changers and heroes of all time are at the graveyard undiscovered because they never sold out to their dreams and desires."

You can follow Patrick on Twitter at @PatrickBetDavid

Jameson Lopp: Secure your Bitcoin, Secure your Future Dec 13, 2021

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This week's Coin Stories features Bitcoin security expert and Casa CTO, Jameson Lopp.

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Jameson Lopp is a cypherpunk, software engineer, writer, and Bitcoin security expert. He is the co-founder and CTO of BTC security provider Casa.

Prior to joining Casa, Lopp was a software engineer at BitGo. He first became involved in Bitcoin around 2012.

Lopp made national headlines in 2017 when he was the victim of a swatting attack. He decided to live off the grid as the result of that incident, and the New York Times has written about the extent to which Lopp went in order to privatize his life. He purchased a decoy house, created a number of business entities and paid private investigators to try and find him. His exact location remains unknown and in his community he is only known by a pseudonym.

For more information head to lopp.net

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