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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. ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 in the world of crypto. For 2024, Crypto Hipster was recognized as a top 100 global crypto podcast (57) by FeedSpot! https://blog.feedspot.com/cryptocurrency_podcasts/ Join the Crypto Hipster and the Blockchain Revolution. And check out my book recommendation list for Gen Xers to embrace the digital economy: ttps://shepherd.com/best-books/help-gen-x-close-the-analog-to-digital-divide Support this...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

After all this time the crypto industry has existed, since the birth of Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, the ICO days of 2017 and 2018, DeFi Summer, FTX, the economy remains fraught with landmines, booby-traps, scams, wicks, digital dynamite, and many wild and baffling gains and losses. Blockchain technology has grown tremendously from just being about cryptocurrencies to what it is today. Six years ago, there were no structured sub-industries within the crypto space. Now, there are many. These include, but are not limited to: stablecoins, gambling tokens, liquid staking governance, ordinals, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...