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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 ...

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 ...

At the height of the crypto bull market in 2022 to a little over a couple of years later, the crypto economy experienced several catastrophic events. These include bankruptcies of FTX, Celsius, and BlockFi, Terra Luna's and Three Arrows Capital's implosions, and many bridge hacks, including the Ronin bridge hack. Crypto prices for many projects dropped by eighty to ninety percent, some of which not named Bitcoin have never returned to anywhere close to their all-time high prices (and possibly never will). Over the last two years, however, there has been tremendous growth and development on ...

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 ...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ninth compilation for Crypto Hipster’s Chronicles, Episode 9, “Knowledge is Power”, and that episode I have now converted into this book with the same title. The Knowledge Society is a 10-month global innovation program for ambitious high school students. Students aged between thirteen and seventeen years of age and apply and interview before joining and attending weekly sessions. The Knowledge Society (TKS) is the next generation of innovators, scientists and entrepreneurs who want to solve the world’s biggest problems. During January 2021, I conducted a four-...

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 ...

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...

The interviews contained within this book span three Crypto Hipster Podcast seasons. From the beginning of Season One today, the role of the media covering the crypto industry has shifted. In its early days, crypto was largely associated with illegal activities like drug trafficking and money laundering. To an extent, some politicians and banking executives want you to continue to think that because of their own self-interest. The media highlighted these activities and painted a negative picture of the crypto space. Over the years, the media's understanding of the crypto industry has grown ...

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 ...

Join Crypto Hipster as he brings you insightful crypto and blockchain podcasts from around the world. Host Jamil Hasan interviews entrepreneurs, founders, co-founders, executives, and artists globally. Topics cover the many different areas of the digital asset economy, including NFTs, metaverse, decentralized finance, and Bitcoin. For 2023, Crypto Hipster was listed as the #1 Hipster Podcast by FeedSpot! https://podcasts.feedspot.com/hipster_podcasts/ Join the Crypto Hipster and the Blockchain Revolution. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crypto-hipster-podcast/...

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 ...