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I was always a loyal corporate employee for the longest time. For nearly two decades, I built massive data intelligence engines, managed multi-billion-dollar technology projects, led major corporate initiatives, and managed multiple billion-dollar books of business. Most of these strengths relied on leveraging my analytical skills and abilities. It was not until I joined the Crypto Revolution in 2017 and became an author that my mind had to shift to being a creative thinker and content creator. I had to develop the right side, creative side, of my brain, while simultaneously keeping the ...

Over the last two years, as the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission has engaged in the process of what appears to be regulatory capture, a shift has occurred. That shift, at least in terms of social sentiment, has seen greater interest by institutions than retail in the future benefits of decentralized finance. My February 13, 2023, blog post at CryptoHipster.tech, lays out the reasons retail investors should remain especially interested in DeFi. These reasons include: Increased security Accessibility Transparency Lower fees Better user experience Decentralized control Better investment ...

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, ...

Throughout the last fourteen years, since the early days of Bitcoin, crypto has seen its fair share of critics. Some of them do not understand the value of cryptographic security, the importance of data collection or digital receipts, or the need for like-minded communities to bring value to one another. The crypto industry continues to see its fair share of major problems, including centralized exchange implosions like FTX, or other events such as rug pulls, theft, off-chain exploits, and scams. But these exist in all industries, especially in traditional finance. For those who wish to ...

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. On January 10, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved ...

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 ...

According to an August 3, 2022 CNBC report, Ilya Lichtenstein told a U.S. court he was the individual behind an exploit of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016 which resulted in the theft of roughly 119,754 Bitcoin. Prosecutors had previously charged Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan, with money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Shortly after the couple’s arrest in February 2022, I interviewed one guest in this book on my Crypto Hipster Podcast, Justin Choo of Cabital. We discussed the arrest and security measures that exchanges can put into place to help...

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 ...

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 ...

This first book in the Crypto Hipster series, entitled From “Stuck” to Unstoppable focuses on how blockchain technology can help us overcome adversity, depression, and suicidal thoughts. I demonstrate the overcoming adversity component by the personal story of Sir John Hargrave and his book Blockchain for Everyone, by Brett King’s intriguing work entitled The Rise of Technosocialism, and by Brett Scott’s Cloudmoney. The fourth chapter focuses on my interview with Jay H. Tepley, her book The Unbreakable Entrepreneur, and her lifetime focus on helping others recover from depression. ...

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 ...

The best place to reintroduce the concept of ethics and Bitcoin together, a topic I wrote about in my first book Blockchain Ethics: A Bridge to Abundance in March 2018, is the discovery of the Truth, with a capital T. I'll be the first to admit, I have struggled with the Truth, and discovering the Truth recently in the crypto and blockchain space. What appears to be true isn't necessarily so. And what I've considered being "common knowledge" over the years is not so common. It appears the truth, with a little t, is it looks like a confusing narrative thrown out there by U.S. regulators. The...

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 ...

The DeFi Summer of 2020 seems like a long time ago, nearly three years from this book's publication. Some prices of tokens then, such as ChainLink, Synthetix, and Aave, catapulted dramatically. While prices have come down substantially over the last few years, the growing landscape of decentralized finance platforms, applications, yield mechanisms, and staking services has grown significantly. These ways are the most common channels of conducting DeFi, but there are quite a few others, including venture capital funding, alternative investment banks, unique funding structures, and many less ...

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 ...

Big Tech, the Facebooks, Amazons, Googles, Apples of the world have made trillions of dollars in revenue over the years of the use of customers’ data. Web 2, and all its centralized tenants have stripped away individuals’ proprietary data ownership rights for convenience, efficiency, and automation. The world is now changing with blockchain technology and Web Three, or Internet 3.0. Data ownership has been slow, and steadily returning to the rightful owners: the individuals. This book explores how this is occurring, from data pools and unions to global tools that make it simpler for 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 ...

With the untimely collapse of FTX and other centralized crypto exchanges in 2022, some American politicians have taken it upon themselves to use the excuse of fraud and other unfortunate acts by a few terrible actors to hurt the industry even further and to gain political clout with their constituents. Some of these politicians' constituents are Wall Street incumbents who have been running scared of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies for years. Evidence of their fear can be discovered through public comments. In fact, Bitcoin has been pronounced dead in the media over four hundred fifty times. ...

In the face of war with Russia, Ukraine has built a sovereign digital economy, or a national 'State in a Smartphone,' by leveraging digital technologies, cryptocurrencies, and digitized artwork, to rebuild their financial system and fund their government and military. This book sheds light on how Ukraine has built this 'State in a Smartphone,' a brand-new paradigm, and how other nations around the world could do the same, especially when faced with extreme adversity. This book demonstrates Ukraine's incredible resilience through Crypto Hipster podcast interviews. with founders, artists and ...

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 ...