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My hope is that we can have meaningful discussions that will keep innovation and crypto moving forward in the right direction in the U.S. … a direction that will employ more people, restore the economy, and create opportunities for our future. My work on decentralized finance and analysis continued with the interviews presented in this book. The content shared demonstrates how DeFi is an inclusive discipline that should be welcome to both retail and institutional investors and suggests dual contribution and collaboration. This twenty-ninth book in the Crypto Hipster Chronicles series, ...

The year 2022 witnessed a remarkable crypto implosion, with numerous insolvencies and bankruptcies filed by some of the largest centralized crypto exchanges in the world. From Celsius and Voyager in June 2022, to FTX and BlockFi in November 2022, it appeared that almost no one was immune from a crypto catastrophe. The interviews contained within this book happened before the remarkable festivities but serve not as harbingers of the massive failures, but predictive lessons of what to be on the lookout for in the industry. Rugs, hacks, frauds and cybercrime have been prevalent throughout the ...

For anybody interested in learning the intricacies of cryptocurrencies, there are several outstanding books that go into every detail of Blockchain technology, Bitcoin, and the rise of cryptocurrencies. One such book was my first solo book "Blockchain Ethics: A Bridge to Abundance", published March 1, 2018. This captured the height of the Initial Coin Offering craze, just before Bitcoin entered Crypto Winter 2018, a few months before two massive heart attacks I suffered later that year. Obviously, I recovered. So did Bitcoin. In that book, I note a few important things about Bitcoin that ...

Unlike many other recent Blockchain books focused on describing and defining Blockchain technology from a technical or cryptocurrency perspective, this unique book takes a very different tack: its focus is on how mainstream and marginalized Americans can use blockchain technology and digital assets ethically to create an abundant life. This book explores what Blockchain technology is doing today and how it can be used to create a better tomorrow. The book daringly explores how blockchain technology can make a difference in improving America’s education system, cracking the Glass Ceiling, ...

I have titled the seventeenth compilation for Crypto Hipster's Chronicles, Episode 17, "Addressing Compliance and Global Regulatory Standards", and that episode I have now converted into this book. The crypto industry is still, after Bitcoin first arrived on the scene in 2009, fraught with uncontrolled risks. From Bitcoin's early days of Mt. Gox, to Bitconnect in 2017-18, to the centralized finance implosion and FTX in 2022, plenty of risks still abound. Plenty. We need to start discussions of what creating compliant global platforms and regulatory rules look like when players across the ...

While the U.S., China and other countries have fumbled the ball in the early days of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, one of the few countries that has demonstrated forward looking leadership has been Switzerland, most notably Zug, otherwise known as Crypto Valley. While Switzerland is not the only crypto friendly country in the world, regulators, government officials, and entrepreneurs have created an environment conducive to positive innovation, future business growth, profitably, and sustainability. They have done so in a way that other countries' regulators, such as the ...

Heroes arise during times of great uncertainty, despair, and unforeseen disaster. Heroes can be found in purposeful commitment, dedication, and conviction. They are people who take many shapes, sizes, and forms and can be from anywhere in the world. This book explores heroes from war-torn countries, and countries with inflation. From art backgrounds to venture capital and finance. And from fierce wintery conditions to warm climates. In fact, we can all be heroes in our daily lives. This seventeenth book in the Crypto Hipster series, entitled Fierce… Courageous… Heroes, draws upon four ...

Crypto Hipster's Mysticals compilations that cover Season 4 and Season 5 are far more than just a catchy-named compilation. While there is a deep focus on technology, they also include common themes faced by entrepreneurs and founders across all industry spectra. This theme is based on "human" issues, which include societal, mindset, social opportunities, and personal growth and development. Of course, they also focus on solving industry and technological problems that we all face in our everyday lives or will face soon. Most of the Crypto Hipster Podcasts are focused on thought leadership ...

In my landmark book, Re-Generation X: How Generation X Can Leverage Blockchain Technology to Save Themselves and Rebuild America, one discussion presented is the impact of the Paycheck Protection Program, a Small Business Administration loan that helped keep business workforces employed during the early days of COVID-19. One of the popular investment areas for program funds was precision medicine, which is most beneficial at the intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology. From the AI side of things, we are now witnessing advancements in individualized healthcare ...

Crypto Gaming has been an area of tremendous growth over the last couple years. This digital sector has witnessed the recreation of the play-to-earn model that was first introduced in legendary games such as Adventure in 1975 and World of WarCraft in 2004. Now, with global popularity of the play-to-earn model, crypto has taken this genre of gaming into a growth realm. Players can now monetize their time, creativity and efforts while building skills required for careers in the global digital economy. This seventh book in the Crypto Hipster series, entitled Play Amazing Games, Earn Amazing ...

I have titled the fourth compilation for Crypto Hipster’s Chronicles, Episode 4, “The Pursuit of Trust and Altruistic Good”, and that episode I have now converted into this book. As the blockchain continues its ethical importance on a global scale, transforming everything from finance to banking to social impact initiatives to family court and reuniting families, keeping up with all the societal breakthroughs caused by this innovative technology is more important now than ever before. Understanding how blockchain technology could have a vital role in our personal lives is paramount. ...

Coming out of COVID-19, the year 2021 started a renaissance movement with nonfungible tokens (NFTs), witnessed by remarkable growth and development of different NFT marketplaces: gaming, metaverses, collectibles, art, and music, to name just a few. This book covers the early part of that movement, around the April 2021 timeframe, just before the massive market explosion just a few months later. The interviews contained within this book, looking back, were the early harbingers of that growth market. NFTs have grown dramatically since their inception, and even since April 2021. This book ...

Crypto Hipster's Mysticals compilations that cover Season 4 and Season 5 are far more than just a catchy-named compilation. While there is a deep focus on technology, they also include common themes faced by entrepreneurs and founders across all industry spectra. This theme is based on "human" issues, which include societal, mindset, social opportunities, and personal growth and development. Of course, they also focus on solving industry and technological problems that we all face in our everyday lives or will face soon. The interviews contained within this are focused on Web Three gaming, ...

I have titled the fourteenth compilation for Crypto Hipster's Chronicles, Episode 14, "Research, Development, and Production in Crypto-Gaming and the Metaverse", and that episode I have now converted into this book. Most of us have definitely at least heard of the metaverse. Or, at least we have all heard the buzz, the hype, and wild delusions of grandeur. What is not as frequently discussed are the challenges of building out the technology and the real-world challenges that the metaverse technology will solve. This book explores some of those pressing challenges, such as solving ...

Crypto Hipster's Mysticals compilations that cover Season 4 and Season 5 are far more than just a catchy-named compilation. While there is a deep focus on technology, they also include common themes faced by entrepreneurs and founders across all industry spectra. This theme is based on "human" issues, which include societal, mindset, social opportunities, and personal growth and development. Of course, they also focus on solving industry and technological problems that we all face in our everyday lives or will face soon. The interviews contained within this are focused on just a few of the ...

I have titled the second compilation, Episode 2, “Why Wall Street is Running Scared”, and that episode I have now converted into this book. As global finance shifts from traditional products and services to a digital economy built upon blockchain technology and more inclusive to the unbanked population of the world, keeping up with the shifts may appear challenging. That’s where this edition comes in… to help you better navigate and understand the world of decentralized finance. This second book in the Crypto Hipster series, entitled Why Wall Street is Running Scared focuses on how ...

Contrary to the wishes of existing Big Tech incumbents, the future of NFTs and the metaverse are based on decentralization and on correcting the global mistakes we made during the evolution of the Web 2.0 internet. Musicians and artists are now able to take control of their creations and build intimate fan engagement. Concerts are being held in the Metaverse with greater attendance than physical venues. Artists now have unprecedented global reach and can collaborate easily with scientists and other experts. And content creators from all spectrums of the art world can build a loyal following...

In the preamble to my 2020 book Re-Generation X, I write the following about Brutality: In its most malevolent form, brutality involves the blatant disregard, neglect, and disrespect of others around us. In action, it is torture for the unappreciated, ridicule for the uninformed, poverty for the uneducated, and suffering for the misguided. Such malevolent brutality could occur anywhere, including but not limited to politics, government, and corporate unemployment. From my experience, it surely occurs on both Wall Street and Silicon Valley, especially with corporate bailouts and the ...

Many different words have been used to publicly describe Non-Fungible tokens over the past two years. Just JPEGs. The future. Not the future. Stupid. Contrarian. Just digital art. Stupid. Not so stupid. Overvalued. Overhyped. Along with any number of countless adjectives, NFTs can be whatever you want them to be, for you. While NFTs have gotten a rather “bad rap” at times, its underlying technology (blockchain technology) has had an even rougher time of it, especially Bitcoin that has been pronounced dead several hundred times. While much of the discussion is based on this inhuman ...

I have titled the nineteenth compilation for Crypto Hipster's Chronicles, Episode 19, "Early Crypto Trends and Predictions for 2022", and that episode I have now converted into this book. Most crypto “experts” and “pundits” talk about the price possibilities of various cryptocurrencies. Price is the easiest denominator to discuss, especially for non-techies. And everyone likes to predict what prices could be. At the beginning of 2022, all of those predictions would turn out to be wrong. This was for a variety of factors including centralized finance implosions caused by Celsius, FTX...