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When engaging in conversations with founders, entrepreneurs, and artists about the potential of NFTs and the metaverse, much of the focus is on what blockchain technology can do. While the technology and innovation aspects are appealing and crucial, what is of equal importance is the personal benefits of helping overcome anxiety, depression, and grief. In this book, we examine the potential of building equitable futures for all, gardening and creativity, smart rings using microbes, and using creative minds and empowering mindsets to overcome loss and build for the future. Technology and ...

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 less well-known ...

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. Helping people successfully deal with grief and loss, empowering ...

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...

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. What do swan songs, faith, and motorbikes have in common? They are all...

At the height of the 2021-2022 Non-Fungible Token (NFT) craze, digital art, collectibles, and memberships to exclusive communities were selling at multi-million-dollar premiums. The world was graced by digital art collections, including CryptoPunks, Bored Ape Yacht Club, Pudgy Penguins, World of Women, Doodles, and many other unique offerings. While digital art and memberships were notable and hyped to the moon, perhaps the greatest long-term technological innovation was not hyped at all. This useful breakthrough was the ability for creators and collectors to earn royalties, something that ...

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 ...

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 seventeenth compilation for Crypto Hipster's Chronicles, Episode 18, "Achieving Global Sustainability Goals through Bitcoin Mining and Community Coins", and that episode I have now converted into this book. The entire world is facing challenges that transcend crypto and blockchain issues. Finding eco-friendly, renewable energy sources to combat global warming and climate change is on the forefront of every industry’s mind nowadays. Achieving the United Nations Sustainability Goals in the areas of health and food, to create a sustainable planet for all living creatures is...

DAOs, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, offer quite a unique structure than traditional corporations. The organization, built on code, and governed by code, enables a democratic approach to governance, that differs from the Corporate Board and C-suite model prevalent across the Fortune stock companies you find on the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and just about any other global listing platform. DAOs' major tenants include decentralization, truth, trust, and justice. This is in stark contrast to the corporate board of directors' proxy voting process. While the world suffered from ...

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 ...

The hype and craze of the NFT Revolution that swept across the world of crypto and blockchain globally during 2021 and 2022 has subsided during the crypto downturn of 2023. Great debate now occurs about the future and direction of NFTs, with many believing the future is outside of the art movement. Whether that is metaverse finance, decentralized financial ticketing, institutional control, or some sort of hybrid mishmash that comes out of the Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuits and authoritative overstepping to achieve regulatory capture, the benefits of NFTs will long outlast the...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...