Joel Comm: While the world is focused on the FTXs debacle, there
Joel Comm: is many things happening in the broader economic, political and
Joel Comm: cultural marketplaces. How can we assimilate all of these happenings
Joel Comm: to determine how to best position ourselves and our families
Joel Comm: for success? Today we welcome Christina Brew Hon of Continuum
Joel Comm: Dot Market to the show to make sense of it all.
Joel Comm: Known to many in the industry as data points, Christina
Joel Comm: makes a compelling case for where things are headed and
Joel Comm: ties them all together with a shocking Bitcoin price prediction.
Joel Comm: You don't have to be a pointy head to enjoy data,
Joel Comm: but you do have to be bad to listen to
Joel Comm: this Episode number 650. Of the Bad Crypto podcast.
Travis Wright: Five, four, three. How are you all? Okay. Who's bad?
Joel Comm: Hey, guess what? It's the Bad Crypto podcast. I'm Joel. Comm.
Joel Comm: That's Travis, right? Who are you? What's your name? Speak
Joel Comm: slowly so we can understand you.
Travis Wright: I can't hear what they said. It's sorry. I know
Travis Wright: you like this.
Joel Comm: A little bit louder now. Be a little bit loud.
Joel Comm: And now come on and shout it now. We're bad.
Joel Comm: How are you? It's a good day because we've got
Joel Comm: data points coming out of our ears. So many data points.
Travis Wright: A lot of data points. And we might as well
Travis Wright: just jump right on in here. That's a pretty it's
Travis Wright: a decent length interview.
Joel Comm: So, yes, you guys are going to be fascinated by this.
Joel Comm: I guarantee that you'll be fascinate. You're going to be
Joel Comm: so fascinated. Nobody's ever been as fascinated as you're going
Joel Comm: to be by this interview that we did with Christina
Joel Comm: Bruton of Continuum Dot Market. And we'll talk about what
Joel Comm: we talked about on the other side of talking about it.
Joel Comm: As we try to prognosticate and predict what is next
Joel Comm: for the crypto world. There's a lot of different places
Joel Comm: we can look. We're not just looking at the crypto
Joel Comm: space and what's happening with RTX or BLOCKFI. We're not
Joel Comm: just looking at the stock market. We're not just looking
Joel Comm: at what's happening in politics and current events. We're not
Joel Comm: just looking at social sentiment. We need to look at
Joel Comm: all of it. And fortunately today we have the CEO
Joel Comm: and founder of Continuum Dot Market. She's a friend of
Joel Comm: the show, Christina Bruen. Some call her data points because
Joel Comm: she looks at all of these data points and feels
Joel Comm: like she's got a pretty good grasp on what her
Joel Comm: crystal ball is saying. Christina, welcome to the show. It's
Joel Comm: been a while.
Kristina Bruhahn: Well, thanks, Jill and Travis. It's great to be back.
Joel Comm: Yeah. So let's let's let's start with some credibility here
Joel Comm: because people are going to want to know why are
Joel Comm: you qualified and how are you qualified to gather and interpret,
Joel Comm: extrapolate results from the data points?
Kristina Bruhahn: Certainly So not to brag, but I have a 15
Kristina Bruhahn: year data background in Fortune 500. I discovered blockchain a
Kristina Bruhahn: little over five years ago and jumped right into the
Kristina Bruhahn: deep end with Wall Street Analytics attempting to use time
Kristina Bruhahn: series forecasting to predict the price of Bitcoin. Long story short,
Kristina Bruhahn: you can't. The regime changes every two months and it's
Kristina Bruhahn: tied to bigger global macro factors like political regimes by
Kristina Bruhahn: country adoptions. Geolocation is a big factor and it really
Kristina Bruhahn: has a lot to do with sentiment. So at Continuum,
Kristina Bruhahn: we see the price of these coins almost secondary to
Kristina Bruhahn: the actual metrics of their adoption. And their adoption comes
Kristina Bruhahn: primarily from credibility, trust and actually onboarding new users, obtaining testimonials,
Kristina Bruhahn: and in general, having a positive contribution to the blockchain economy.
Kristina Bruhahn: I do look at a lot of data points and
Kristina Bruhahn: all of those data points matter, which means every brand,
Kristina Bruhahn: that continuum is a unique snowflake that needs different things
Kristina Bruhahn: at different times. And that's what we're building. Our infrastructure
Kristina Bruhahn: is to support the evolution over the next decade as
Kristina Bruhahn: we approach global cross-border payment infrastructure and multiple countries understanding
Kristina Bruhahn: what that means to their tax code.
Joel Comm: You know, if you don't mind a hot potato, I
Joel Comm: would consider a logo for a T-shirt or a hat
Joel Comm: that says DPI data points matter.
Kristina Bruhahn: I would be okay with that. I definitely have some
Kristina Bruhahn: swag campaigns. I'm just here for the data points is
Kristina Bruhahn: one of my favorites. Nerd out, also a data nerd.
Kristina Bruhahn: All of those are applicable and I'm very proud that
Kristina Bruhahn: the industry has nicknamed me data points. As you know,
Kristina Bruhahn: over a year ago when I had my market analysis podcast,
Kristina Bruhahn: we I said data points. So often they used a
Kristina Bruhahn: drinking game with it and I said, Please don't play
Kristina Bruhahn: this drinking game. You'll have liver disease in 5 minutes.
Travis Wright: Especially now while you're driving.
Kristina Bruhahn: Really bad plan, good analysis, good analysis.
Travis Wright: So I want to ask this. You have all these
Travis Wright: data points. What is the actionable side of things? All right.
Travis Wright: Because you're out there pulling all this interesting information about
Travis Wright: certain brands. What are people doing with it once they
Travis Wright: get it?
Kristina Bruhahn: So the biggest thing right now is we are a
Kristina Bruhahn: we're a database for the blockchain industry from the blockchain industry.
Kristina Bruhahn: So the biggest component of that is actually warm introductions, partnerships,
Kristina Bruhahn: things that actually help the brand move forward in their milestones.
Kristina Bruhahn: So it's not just about assessing their 2023 landscape or
Kristina Bruhahn: even their 2024 landscape. It's about unblocking those things and
Kristina Bruhahn: helping them move faster all the way to being able
Kristina Bruhahn: to have a red carpet all the way to Capitol
Kristina Bruhahn: Hill in order to have government relations to defend your
Kristina Bruhahn: blockchain use case.
Joel Comm: Is, as we look here at the website, I went
Joel Comm: to brand pages. This is on Continuum Dot Market and
Joel Comm: there'll be links in the show notes and you could
Joel Comm: see some of these dossiers and brands that that you're
Joel Comm: working with and the coins that you're covering. Let's just
Joel Comm: jump right to the question that I think a lot
Joel Comm: of people are going to want answered, and that is
Joel Comm: in this political environment, with centralized exchanges being scandalized, elections
Joel Comm: being questionable, at the very least, the inflation being at,
Joel Comm: you know, crazy highs, the housing market on the precipice.
Joel Comm: You take all of these data points together and what
Joel Comm: does it mean to the future of the global economy,
Joel Comm: the U.S. economy, the crypto markets, Bitcoin? Ahead and just
Joel Comm: let loose on what you think. And I'm assuming you're
Joel Comm: not a financial advisor. So this is just what you see.
Kristina Bruhahn: This is not trading advice. This is me reading the landscape.
Kristina Bruhahn: And this is pretty much why I've gotten 50 unsolicited
Kristina Bruhahn: calls this week asking me, what do you think is
Kristina Bruhahn: going to happen? So make.
Joel Comm: This 51.
Kristina Bruhahn: I'm okay with that. I'm okay with.
Joel Comm: That unsolicited call or like, Hey, let's talk.
Kristina Bruhahn: So that's what I'm here for, is actually to that.
Kristina Bruhahn: That's the origin of Continuum. I knew that my cousins
Kristina Bruhahn: were never going to do the five years of research
Kristina Bruhahn: to understand the nuances between these brands and why they're
Kristina Bruhahn: a unique snowflake. So let's start four years ago. So
Kristina Bruhahn: with my analysis into Time series forecasting, we found out that,
Kristina Bruhahn: you know, from a mathematical standpoint, quantitative easing was unsustainable
Kristina Bruhahn: and that meant that we were leading towards an inevitable recession.
Kristina Bruhahn: Now they've kicked the can down the road quite a
Kristina Bruhahn: bit on that, even with some of the COVID things.
Kristina Bruhahn: And printing $10 trillion helped kind of stave off that
Kristina Bruhahn: global recession that was already mathematically going to happen. And
Kristina Bruhahn: you can go back the last four years in my
Kristina Bruhahn: content and see me kind of calling the landscape on that.
Kristina Bruhahn: Where we're at right now is they've run out of
Kristina Bruhahn: road to kick the can down the road anymore. And
Kristina Bruhahn: already before, two weeks ago, before the FTC's fiasco, we
Kristina Bruhahn: were already predicting that January was going to establish some
Kristina Bruhahn: pretty clear statements from Capitol Hill and regulations in that
Kristina Bruhahn: they were going to be looking at the crypto industry
Kristina Bruhahn: and saying, we need to address stablecoins. We don't want
Kristina Bruhahn: circling Coinbase's Usdc to be in charge of that. We
Kristina Bruhahn: want to do our own internal CBD sees there needs
Kristina Bruhahn: to be a structure around that. And by the way,
Kristina Bruhahn: you can't trust these mom and pop blockchain brands because
Kristina Bruhahn: they're not going to protect your data, they're not going
Kristina Bruhahn: to protect your funds. Instead, you should you should put
Kristina Bruhahn: your trust in these banking blockchain solutions like Jp morgan
Kristina Bruhahn: and Bank of America, which is the opposite of what
Kristina Bruhahn: we want to see happen in the Web3 space. Our
Kristina Bruhahn: web3 space started to get away from centralized authorities like that.
Kristina Bruhahn: And really any blockchain brand is interrupting a middleman economy.
Kristina Bruhahn: And those middleman economies are tied to things that have
Kristina Bruhahn: existed for hundreds, if not thousands of years. And those
Kristina Bruhahn: middleman economies are not going to die slowly. There's going
Kristina Bruhahn: to be a lot of pushback. So seeing that landscape,
Kristina Bruhahn: I knew that the blockchain brands were going to need
Kristina Bruhahn: really an army to rally around them and be able
Kristina Bruhahn: to defend that they are in fact impacting people in
Kristina Bruhahn: a good way. They are in fact a good thing
Kristina Bruhahn: for U.S. consumers, and that has to be proven out
Kristina Bruhahn: on a case by case basis. So part of what
Kristina Bruhahn: we're doing at Continuum, besides the intake process and standardizing
Kristina Bruhahn: the narrative of all of these brands, is tracking their
Kristina Bruhahn: growth over the next two years. We're looking at sales
Kristina Bruhahn: daily active users, assets under management, community metrics, all of
Kristina Bruhahn: those things that these brands are now posting on Twitter. Oh,
Kristina Bruhahn: we're being so transparent. Look at our assets, look at
Kristina Bruhahn: our holdings. We've been asking for that at Continuum for
Kristina Bruhahn: over two years now. So it's a good time for
Kristina Bruhahn: us to kind of self organize as a blockchain industry
Kristina Bruhahn: because we're going to need the entire community coming together
Kristina Bruhahn: to push back on some of these legal cartels and
Kristina Bruhahn: the illegal cartels that make the money of the world
Kristina Bruhahn: go round. That's called the global economic engine. Any time
Kristina Bruhahn: you're impacting the global economic engine, watch out. They have
Kristina Bruhahn: bigger teeth than we do. We're going to have to
Kristina Bruhahn: prove it through data and we're going to have to
Kristina Bruhahn: prove it through adoption. We're going to have to prove
Kristina Bruhahn: it through testimonials. And that's what we're trying to create it.
Kristina Bruhahn: Continuum is a place for all of that to live,
Kristina Bruhahn: so my cousins can go to one website and say,
Kristina Bruhahn: What is it? Why should I care? What does it do?
Kristina Bruhahn: How do I make money with it?
Travis Wright: That's fascinating. Fascinating for sure. And I want I don't
Travis Wright: even know if you know about this, but I'm going
Travis Wright: to bring it up because I think it's just it's
Travis Wright: insane to me. So there's this company called Token SAF
Travis Wright: that's based in California. I don't even know about them.
Travis Wright: But basically what they've done, according to this data that
Travis Wright: I that I pulled up, they created a list of
Travis Wright: 5000 of their KYC clients and they literally publish the
Travis Wright: KYC details on the blockchain, and that includes their full names,
Travis Wright: their wallet addresses, their real home addresses. That to me
Travis Wright: is the worst kind of use case of the, you know,
Travis Wright: like even if you're pissed off at your customers, you
Travis Wright: don't go all, you know, scorched earth on people, right?
Travis Wright: So I don't really have any question around that other
Travis Wright: than what the hell is going on.
Kristina Bruhahn: Well, I'll double down on that and tell you more
Kristina Bruhahn: of that might happen. So that's actually one of the
Kristina Bruhahn: concerns with the FTC or excuse me, the FTC's bankruptcy
Kristina Bruhahn: lawsuit is that that data might be revealed. And here
Kristina Bruhahn: in Web3, we have a massive interest in protecting privacy
Kristina Bruhahn: and being able to have a shield up if we
Kristina Bruhahn: want it. We're very open to doing KYC, AML, and
Kristina Bruhahn: that should be something that lives in our digital identity.
Kristina Bruhahn: And we carry with us in a wallet that is
Kristina Bruhahn: safer than metamask. I have some solutions for you guys.
Kristina Bruhahn: So if we're if we're looking at all the way
Kristina Bruhahn: forward a decade in the future of what The Jetsons
Kristina Bruhahn: future means is all this technology converges. You're looking at
Kristina Bruhahn: being able to be verified on blockchain. You're looking for
Kristina Bruhahn: those data packets to be able to be passed back
Kristina Bruhahn: and forth between the systems. And you're looking at interoperability
Kristina Bruhahn: and just on a completely new level that we've never
Kristina Bruhahn: seen before in human history. So we need to be
Kristina Bruhahn: aware that everything has now changed and it changed 13
Kristina Bruhahn: years ago when Satoshi released the White paper. But my
Kristina Bruhahn: cousins and politicians especially still have a very difficult time
Kristina Bruhahn: grasping what that means. And if you look at from
Kristina Bruhahn: a scientific level, which is where I come from, my
Kristina Bruhahn: ultimate stakeholder is Neil deGrasse Tyson. I want him to
Kristina Bruhahn: come in and poke it with a sharp stick and
Kristina Bruhahn: bring all the data scientists in. But if you look
Kristina Bruhahn: at historically from a scientific level, invasive species usually decimate
Kristina Bruhahn: native species, and these native species have a lot of
Kristina Bruhahn: things to fight back with. They have a lot of
Kristina Bruhahn: tools at their disposal. So don't think that they're going
Kristina Bruhahn: to go down easy. It's going to take a collective
Kristina Bruhahn: narrative not just from the US, but from a global position.
Kristina Bruhahn: And the biggest data point that can help that is
Kristina Bruhahn: GDP increases, right? So if you're in Nigeria and all
Kristina Bruhahn: of a sudden your constituents are able to earn more
Kristina Bruhahn: money than they've ever seen in their lives, that literally
Kristina Bruhahn: changes the landscape of your economics within your country. The
Kristina Bruhahn: US knows this, and they also know that they govern
Kristina Bruhahn: with the global economic engine with the US dollar. So
Kristina Bruhahn: they have to be very, very careful and they're going slow.
Kristina Bruhahn: That doesn't mean that you can't be domiciled and still
Kristina Bruhahn: have to instill touch US consumers. Any brand that has
Kristina Bruhahn: even one U.S. consumer, you're under the purview of US regulation.
Kristina Bruhahn: So you better be prepared about what that means.
Joel Comm: It tweaks me when we reference The Jetsons. I grew
Joel Comm: up watching The Jetsons. We were promised flying cars.
Kristina Bruhahn: You.
Joel Comm: And robots. And what do we get? Tik Tok dances
Joel Comm: and gender confusion. I just I'm like, Why aren't we there?
Joel Comm: Come on.
Kristina Bruhahn: I should have this memorized. But I believe that George
Kristina Bruhahn: Jetson is born next year. I believe that he is
Kristina Bruhahn: born next year. And that's where we should be. And
Kristina Bruhahn: this isn't.
Travis Wright: Flying cars yet, right? A result we still have a
Travis Wright: few years to these flying cars.
Kristina Bruhahn: You've got patents, you've got patent issues around the big
Kristina Bruhahn: tech companies that are sitting on patents that don't want
Kristina Bruhahn: this game changing tech to come out. You've got blockchain
Kristina Bruhahn: innovators that are doing things because the ones and zeros
Kristina Bruhahn: can do them, not even knowing that they're getting close
Kristina Bruhahn: to things that are regulated and have, you know, have
Kristina Bruhahn: a rule based system around them. So a lot of
Kristina Bruhahn: this is education. And to your point, I want the
Kristina Bruhahn: flying cars. I want smart cities. I know it can
Kristina Bruhahn: all be done with data. You know, we've got Sophia,
Kristina Bruhahn: the robot in ecosystem as a speaker, along with 140
Kristina Bruhahn: other blockchain brands, so that the world can start to
Kristina Bruhahn: understand this bleeding edge technology that these brands can collaborate
Kristina Bruhahn: and not have to build it all themselves. There's a
Kristina Bruhahn: lot of moving parts in bringing about this next future.
Joel Comm: So be it pisses me off too. I'm like, That's.
Kristina Bruhahn: A whole other thing.
Joel Comm: That is a whole other thing.
Kristina Bruhahn: Okay, three modes to Sophia. Let's be real about that, though.
Kristina Bruhahn: That's an important data point to understand.
Travis Wright: Yeah. So I want to talk about George Jetson real quick.
Travis Wright: So George Jetson, he was born in July of 2022.
Travis Wright: That's when he was born. And he was like in
Travis Wright: his forties. Jane was actually 33 years old during the show,
Travis Wright: and then their kid was actually like 18 or something.
Travis Wright: So there's some. Math doesn't work on this whole thing.
Travis Wright: Or George Jackson was a pedophile.
Joel Comm: Yeah, okay. That's a whole other conspiracy.
Travis Wright: I just went down. I just did the math. I
Travis Wright: was like, Wait a second. So just thought I'd throw
Travis Wright: that out there. I mean, Travis.
Kristina Bruhahn: Brought some data points.
Travis Wright: How about some data points? Yeah.
Joel Comm: All right. I want to know what it means, though.
Joel Comm: Here we are in the middle of this collapse of
Joel Comm: centralized exchanges, massive scandal that arguably ties back to a
Joel Comm: single political party, maybe both, but definitely hedges towards another.
Joel Comm: And the corruption goes all the way, it appears, to
Joel Comm: the top of the globalists and the World Economic Forum.
Joel Comm: What does this mean for crypto? All of a sudden?
Joel Comm: The news comes out today that 12 banks are going
Joel Comm: to be test piloting central bank, digital currency, digital dollar
Joel Comm: over the next 12 weeks. I mean, are we this
Joel Comm: close to becoming enslaved by the government? You know, is
Joel Comm: freedom about to be tossed away?
Kristina Bruhahn: Okay, that's a lot to unpack, Mr. Joe.
Joel Comm: Unpack it nicely. Okay. Get get me.
Travis Wright: All or let me answer right.
Kristina Bruhahn: Now. Let me let me try and create some buckets there.
Kristina Bruhahn: So first you've got the team. You're going to.
Joel Comm: Make a list of bucket.
Kristina Bruhahn: Yes, I'm going to data points. I always make a
Kristina Bruhahn: data points list. All right. So you've got the FTSE scandal,
Kristina Bruhahn: which has to do with leverage and propping up things
Kristina Bruhahn: that should have been allowed to fail. That was over
Kristina Bruhahn: leveraged by a bunch of other trading institutional folks. I
Kristina Bruhahn: don't want to say their names, but they're all over
Kristina Bruhahn: Twitter making announcements this week about, yes, we were impacted.
Kristina Bruhahn: We have to pause withdrawals. That's going to create a
Kristina Bruhahn: domino effect. And so this is actually very similar to
Kristina Bruhahn: Lehman Brothers, where they called in the loans and then
Kristina Bruhahn: the whole everything collapsed because it was being propped up
Kristina Bruhahn: and didn't actually have the real meat and potatoes behind it.
Kristina Bruhahn: So that's what's going on with FTI. The interesting thing,
Kristina Bruhahn: as the exchanges are kind of doing a war zone
Kristina Bruhahn: right now is that I know too much and I'm
Kristina Bruhahn: under NDA for too many brands. So I'm aware of
Kristina Bruhahn: the exchange of the other centralized exchanges that are in
Kristina Bruhahn: the exact same boat. A lot of the community is
Kristina Bruhahn: now calling for decentralized exchanges, but even decentralized exchanges are
Kristina Bruhahn: going to need some level of regulation in order to
Kristina Bruhahn: play in the Nasdaq nicey type of US ecosystem. So
Kristina Bruhahn: that's one thing that's that's going to be a domino
Kristina Bruhahn: that continues through the end of the year to topple
Kristina Bruhahn: things over. And that domino toppling things over, I would argue,
Kristina Bruhahn: is probably the worst thing that's ever happened in the industry.
Kristina Bruhahn: For every rug pull that's ever happened, for every bad
Kristina Bruhahn: thing that's ever happened, for every scam artist, for all
Kristina Bruhahn: the people that are not allowed at Continuum, this one
Kristina Bruhahn: is probably the worst because he was perceived as the
Kristina Bruhahn: golden boy of regulation and he was in talks with
Kristina Bruhahn: the SEC, which means how did the SEC not see this?
Kristina Bruhahn: And also there is now this stickiness around. Were they
Kristina Bruhahn: using stocks to move funds from Ukraine back to Democrats?
Kristina Bruhahn: And was this a money laundering situation? Did the Democrats
Kristina Bruhahn: ask for this? Well, my research at Continuum before two
Kristina Bruhahn: weeks ago and I've said this in many, many, many,
Kristina Bruhahn: many podcast, is that in January 2023, they were going
Kristina Bruhahn: to have regulation that was anti crypto anyway. Obviously the
Kristina Bruhahn: SEC is the biggest proponent of like, no, you guys
Kristina Bruhahn: can't do that. Your security until proven otherwise. They were
Kristina Bruhahn: already going to do that. And I used to joke
Kristina Bruhahn: and I joked on camera that ha ha ha, we'll
Kristina Bruhahn: see a rebalance in November volatility, which is normal and
Kristina Bruhahn: December kind of closing out the end of year, which
Kristina Bruhahn: is normal. So you'd see a price dip in December
Kristina Bruhahn: and then, ha ha ha. Wouldn't it be funny if
Kristina Bruhahn: the US government was like, Oh, crypto actually triggered the
Kristina Bruhahn: entire global recession? And I'm like, How absurd would that be?
Kristina Bruhahn: And now I'm looking at this play out going, Oh God,
Kristina Bruhahn: my conspiracy theorist friends might actually be correct. And I
Kristina Bruhahn: don't know, but it's it lines up a little too effectively,
Kristina Bruhahn: except for the fact that Sam Bankman-fried is now nuclear toxic.
Kristina Bruhahn: And I don't know if he would trade the rest
Kristina Bruhahn: of his life in doing what he loves and what
Kristina Bruhahn: his brain is trained to do for these billions of dollars.
Kristina Bruhahn: I don't know. Joel, would you stop working for billions
Kristina Bruhahn: of dollars? I don't know. Logically, from a psychological perspective,
Kristina Bruhahn: I could argue both sides of that leaning towards a yes,
Kristina Bruhahn: billions of dollars.
Joel Comm: I would personally, I would never want to be a billionaire.
Joel Comm: That is that's too much money for somebody to have.
Joel Comm: And I don't want a target on my back. It's
Joel Comm: just it's crazy if you ain't got that much.
Travis Wright: To know, you're a billionaire. No, I would be even
Travis Wright: if you had it happen. You like. Woops, I'm a billion. Well,
Travis Wright: I'm not going to let anybody know.
Joel Comm: Yeah. No. There's filings, there's public records. People would know,
Joel Comm: like they know who's got the money and it's public
Joel Comm: in like, All right, how how quickly can I give
Joel Comm: a bunch of this away? Because.
Travis Wright: Yeah, I don't want it. So I want to add
Travis Wright: this on.
Kristina Bruhahn: My continuum wants more publicity. We want more transparency of
Kristina Bruhahn: things like that. We want actual.
Travis Wright: Has to be in.
Kristina Bruhahn: Their their holdings.
Travis Wright: Yeah, we'll have plenty of transparency like proof of what's
Travis Wright: in your vault. Like, if you're an exchange, you need
Travis Wright: to have a proof of that. Like, how are you
Travis Wright: not doing that?
Joel Comm: Leave it to Travis to want proof of transparency Pot.
Joel Comm: That's a love.
Travis Wright: Pot. I love it. I think we should only have
Travis Wright: pot at Continuum.
Kristina Bruhahn: We call it transparency as a service. And a lot
Kristina Bruhahn: of that has to do with collecting the data directly
Kristina Bruhahn: from the brand. We're not selling the brand. We're literally
Kristina Bruhahn: letting them tell their story. I'm under NDA for every
Kristina Bruhahn: one of these brands. I know too much and I
Kristina Bruhahn: know too much in order to help them connect the
Kristina Bruhahn: dots on the back end or remediate issues that might
Kristina Bruhahn: be challenging for them and really help them go faster.
Kristina Bruhahn: But the transparency part is what my cousins are missing
Kristina Bruhahn: is what the politicians are missing. And keep in mind
Kristina Bruhahn: at Continuum, we have four major quadrants that kind of
Kristina Bruhahn: covers everything. You've got Main Street, you've got Blockchain Street,
Kristina Bruhahn: my people, right, CTOs ones and zeros rule the world.
Kristina Bruhahn: You've got Wall Street, how the global economic engine responds
Kristina Bruhahn: to it, and then you've got Capitol Hill. And unfortunately,
Kristina Bruhahn: all roads in this industry lead to Capitol Hill. We
Kristina Bruhahn: have got to unify and self-organize and what we're going
Kristina Bruhahn: to be presenting as good versus bad to you as legislation.
Kristina Bruhahn: This is a call to arms to the entire blockchain industry.
Kristina Bruhahn: Call me. You can reach me at Christina at Continuum
Kristina Bruhahn: Dot Market on Social at Continuum 3000, we have a
Kristina Bruhahn: red carpet ready to the politicians that want to have
Kristina Bruhahn: these conversations and all US citizens are welcome to be
Kristina Bruhahn: part of this. I have a vision in the next
Kristina Bruhahn: decade of blockchain voting, of being able to have insight
Kristina Bruhahn: into bills and things that are on the floor and
Kristina Bruhahn: actually hold your elected officials accountable, that you're not just
Kristina Bruhahn: voting them out every two years, but you're actually working
Kristina Bruhahn: with them to understand what is the landscape. The education
Kristina Bruhahn: that is needed in America is ridiculous and that needs
Kristina Bruhahn: to extend out to a global footprint as well. We're
Kristina Bruhahn: talking blockchain, blockchain literacy, data literacy on your data and
Kristina Bruhahn: why you should be mad that they're making trillions of
Kristina Bruhahn: dollars off of your data right now. They're not going
Kristina Bruhahn: to want to give that up. You've also got financial literacy,
Kristina Bruhahn: which is not taught in schools, and if you want
Kristina Bruhahn: to understand the DEFI game, you need to be pretty
Kristina Bruhahn: literate in financial concepts. And we say all the time
Kristina Bruhahn: that crypto is Wall Street on crack. They're not doing
Kristina Bruhahn: anything that Wall Street isn't already doing. And how much
Kristina Bruhahn: are they? How much is Wall Street being held accountable
Kristina Bruhahn: for this kind of stuff? How many times is Bank
Kristina Bruhahn: of America been embroiled in a, you know, embezzlement scam?
Kristina Bruhahn: You know, for multiple states, these are things on a
Kristina Bruhahn: level that they almost feel untouchable. And we as constituents
Kristina Bruhahn: need to push back that. No, you're not untouchable. And yes,
Kristina Bruhahn: there is transparency and we can hold you accountable.
Travis Wright: Oh, that's so that's so cute. They're not held accountable.
Travis Wright: Nobody in Capitol Hill is held accountable because it's almost
Travis Wright: like you're part of the gang. If you're part of
Travis Wright: the gang, you're not going to get in trouble. If
Travis Wright: you're not part of the gang, well, then the justice
Travis Wright: hammer will come down on you. So I just read
Travis Wright: I read this earlier today on Bitcoin magazine that global
Travis Wright: banking giants are starting a 12 week CB DC pilot
Travis Wright: with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York starting immediately.
Travis Wright: So then what we know or what we think we
Travis Wright: know about after X and we can see because we've
Travis Wright: seen some of these records where, you know, even Mitch
Travis Wright: McConnell got $2.5 million from, you know, from FCX, right?
Travis Wright: So it's like you have a bunch of money, the
Travis Wright: Ukraine money goes in the air, RTX filters it to
Travis Wright: these politicians. So of course, they don't want accountability. Of
Travis Wright: course they want a central bank, digital currency, and they
Travis Wright: want to say, oh, crypto caused this crash because they're assholes.
Travis Wright: Quite frankly I.
Kristina Bruhahn: Think I think you're paraphrasing is a expected narrative by
Kristina Bruhahn: January 20, 23. Now, too. Two things to unpack there.
Kristina Bruhahn: Number one, you've got the the politicians essential. Number one,
Kristina Bruhahn: you've got the Cbdcs. Now, banks have been publicly denouncing
Kristina Bruhahn: anything blockchain related for five years. Meanwhile, quietly working on
Kristina Bruhahn: their blockchain protocols and their corbynites.
Travis Wright: Right.
Kristina Bruhahn: On the politician side, for five years they've been publicly
Kristina Bruhahn: denouncing blockchain. Meanwhile, we know that Office of Management and
Kristina Bruhahn: Budget has been exploring with blockchain. We know that the
Kristina Bruhahn: financial infrastructure, we know that the state level and the
Kristina Bruhahn: federal level has been exploring with blockchain and we. Also
Kristina Bruhahn: know that the Red administration under Trump was desperately trying
Kristina Bruhahn: to be able to announce the cbdcs and the banking
Kristina Bruhahn: infrastructure as the same as they were trying to take
Kristina Bruhahn: credit for the cannabis release. So this crypto cannabis bags
Kristina Bruhahn: of cash infrastructure actually goes hand in hand. And it
Kristina Bruhahn: is not a very popular opinion on Capitol Hill to
Kristina Bruhahn: change the status quo. Right. That's going to mess with
Kristina Bruhahn: how they make money and that's going to mess with
Kristina Bruhahn: how they know how to, you know, glad hand and
Kristina Bruhahn: trade what they call chits. And so if you guys
Kristina Bruhahn: think of Capitol Hill, what we see on TV is
Kristina Bruhahn: very much like a play, a staged performance. Right. What
Kristina Bruhahn: happens behind the scenes is incredibly different. And they don't
Kristina Bruhahn: want to let go of the status quo. Now, there
Kristina Bruhahn: are a few small number of politicians that are ready
Kristina Bruhahn: to work with us and absorb everything that the blockchain
Kristina Bruhahn: industry has to offer. But that's a very small percentage
Kristina Bruhahn: of the actual elected officials in Washington, DC.
Joel Comm: So. There's an answer that I'm hoping you can give me.
Joel Comm: My kind of asked it, but I didn't ask it completely.
Joel Comm: If all of this plays out like you are saying
Joel Comm: you believe it will. What does this mean to the
Joel Comm: overall economy? Like, is the stock market are we going
Joel Comm: to see a crash here pretty soon? And have we
Joel Comm: seen the bottom for Bitcoin? And if not, where do
Joel Comm: you think it is?
Kristina Bruhahn: Oh, okay. Not trading advice. This is not trading advice.
Kristina Bruhahn: We've been predicting a global economic recession for over four
Kristina Bruhahn: years now. I don't see how. We have also predicted
Kristina Bruhahn: for six months on record, we have been saying they're
Kristina Bruhahn: going to wait until after the midterms and they're going
Kristina Bruhahn: to let the Fed rates impact start truly hitting in
Kristina Bruhahn: Q1 and Q2 of 2023. This means consumer price index
Kristina Bruhahn: that has been high for absolutely no reason may need
Kristina Bruhahn: to reset. This means the real estate market, which has
Kristina Bruhahn: been high for absolutely no reason. This means that the
Kristina Bruhahn: consumer credit crunch and the institutional credit crunch are all
Kristina Bruhahn: going to kind of rear their ugly heads in Q1
Kristina Bruhahn: and hopefully by Q2 some things are leveling out. But
Kristina Bruhahn: when you look at a bear market, it generally takes
Kristina Bruhahn: 270 days to kind of get through it. And sometimes
Kristina Bruhahn: it is for now, the Wizards that I work with,
Kristina Bruhahn: the mathematicians and the technical analysts that I work with,
Kristina Bruhahn: they have predicted that this recession will be a global
Kristina Bruhahn: recession worse than 2008 and that it will reset the
Kristina Bruhahn: value of the dollar. Now, if the dollar is getting reset,
Kristina Bruhahn: everything is getting reset. I mean, this means price of meat, agriculture, energy,
Kristina Bruhahn: precious metals, all the things that make the world go
Kristina Bruhahn: round is all going to get reset based on supply
Kristina Bruhahn: and demand. And unfortunately, those supply and demand gatekeepers have
Kristina Bruhahn: been in power for a very long time, doing some
Kristina Bruhahn: very not mathematically backed things with those ecosystems. So one
Kristina Bruhahn: of the biggest things that blockchain does to interrupt that
Kristina Bruhahn: is provide the clarity on the supply chain. And so
Kristina Bruhahn: if you're applying blockchain technology, it starts to erode some
Kristina Bruhahn: of that money shell game that the gatekeepers have been
Kristina Bruhahn: able to do up until now. So I would expect
Kristina Bruhahn: from January 2023 across the next 18 months to mid 2024,
Kristina Bruhahn: that this is going to be an insanely tumultuous time
Kristina Bruhahn: in the markets that we have never before experienced. It
Kristina Bruhahn: will come out in the wash around GDP. But there's
Kristina Bruhahn: so many countries that have taken bad loans that they
Kristina Bruhahn: may also end up going bankrupt. Not to mention the
Kristina Bruhahn: nefarious things that you've got from both China and the
Kristina Bruhahn: US going into other countries and buying up things like
Kristina Bruhahn: energy and precious metals and reserves. So anything that's considered
Kristina Bruhahn: a commodity is going to get reset. The US dollar
Kristina Bruhahn: is going to get reset. That means that Bitcoin will
Kristina Bruhahn: not be seen as a store of value. You could
Kristina Bruhahn: absolutely see it go below ten K. And we have
Kristina Bruhahn: called the bottom for over a year now. When the
Kristina Bruhahn: recession actually hits, it could go as low as three
Kristina Bruhahn: and a half, maybe even lower. This is about value
Kristina Bruhahn: and where people start buying again when it gets so low,
Kristina Bruhahn: when there's blood in the streets that people go, I'll
Kristina Bruhahn: buy that. That's where you start to see that the
Kristina Bruhahn: tides change. But that won't happen until the massive slide happens.
Joel Comm: And I just I want to pull this tweet I
Joel Comm: just spotted right here, just just broke. New York Fed
Joel Comm: says household debt increased by 2.2% in quarter 3 to
Joel Comm: 6 and a half trillion, a 15% increase, the largest
Joel Comm: increase in credit card balances in over 20 years. This
Joel Comm: seems to just dovetail right on what you were saying.
Kristina Bruhahn: I am not at all surprised by that. That's real
Kristina Bruhahn: data points. Those are the data points I don't have memorized.
Kristina Bruhahn: But that's where our instinct goes, is that BTC is
Kristina Bruhahn: not going to be seen as an alternative store of
Kristina Bruhahn: value during this recession. It's going to go down the
Kristina Bruhahn: drain along with everything else. And when the human species
Kristina Bruhahn: decides this thing is of value, then they'll start buying
Kristina Bruhahn: it and that starts bringing it back up to wherever
Kristina Bruhahn: the price point is going to settle. I do believe
Kristina Bruhahn: it will be 2025 until we see another 60 all
Kristina Bruhahn: time high of Bitcoin.
Travis Wright: Hmm. So let me ask you this. You know, so
Travis Wright: one of the things that that Joel and I talked
Travis Wright: about over the years was how great will it be
Travis Wright: when a lot of these corporations are doing security tokens? Right.
Travis Wright: Instead of instead of, you know, having stocks which are manipulated. Right.
Travis Wright: The stock market's completely manipulated, you know, And then so
Travis Wright: so what about security tokens? Because I'm looking at the
Travis Wright: total market cap. It's like stock market icon. You can
Travis Wright: go and look. It's like $14 billion is the total
Travis Wright: stock market cap, which seems really low to me because
Travis Wright: there's a lot of really big companies. How long? And
Travis Wright: so we see the proliferation of security tokens.
Kristina Bruhahn: I think first you're going to see the proliferation of
Kristina Bruhahn: utility tokens. I think that what's happening right now with
Kristina Bruhahn: Fortune 500 brands, what I call the household brands, these
Kristina Bruhahn: are brands like Eminem's. I pick on them all the time.
Kristina Bruhahn: Shout out to Eminem. They're doing things in the metaverse
Kristina Bruhahn: and with NFT is with reward economies, with discounts, with
Kristina Bruhahn: loyalty programs, things like that that can all be handled
Kristina Bruhahn: with a utility token. And so the adoption of a
Kristina Bruhahn: utility token as a data packet to say, yes, this
Kristina Bruhahn: thing happened and now we can go ahead and give
Kristina Bruhahn: them a reward. I think that's step one. Step two,
Kristina Bruhahn: what you're talking about technically, step three, because step two
Kristina Bruhahn: would be a hybrid of saying we should have a
Kristina Bruhahn: security token. But the security token is what you're talking about,
Kristina Bruhahn: where basically anything to do with profit sharing is going
Kristina Bruhahn: to fall into the realm of security. Token doesn't matter
Kristina Bruhahn: if you're using NFT for it doesn't matter what background,
Kristina Bruhahn: if it has profit in it, If you're sharing profit,
Kristina Bruhahn: you're probably a security. So that being said, now you're
Kristina Bruhahn: getting into some new structure and new legislation, and this
Kristina Bruhahn: is why we actually have an advocacy and lobbying arm
Kristina Bruhahn: at Continuum is because things like employee stock options programs
Kristina Bruhahn: will now be a revenue share for, you know, potential
Kristina Bruhahn: Fortune 500 brands. What you're talking about, Travis, is kind
Kristina Bruhahn: of releasing the Kraken, right? Like you're opening the floodgates
Kristina Bruhahn: at that point. If we don't.
Travis Wright: Release all the corrections.
Kristina Bruhahn: If we don't have safe lanes of commerce and established
Kristina Bruhahn: tax code, even the Fortune 500 brands will get hit
Kristina Bruhahn: on their wrist for doing things like that. And so
Kristina Bruhahn: there's this counter movement in Capitol Hill to be ready
Kristina Bruhahn: to support the BlackRock's and the JPMorgan's and the Halliburton's
Kristina Bruhahn: and the M&M brands.
Travis Wright: And Nestlé is taking on all the crappy companies.
Kristina Bruhahn: Like I'm telling you need to understand. You need to
Kristina Bruhahn: understand that the rules that apply to a good company
Kristina Bruhahn: also apply to a bad company. You need to understand
Kristina Bruhahn: tech team and intentions. You need to understand nefarious actors
Kristina Bruhahn: need to understand what do you think that brand is
Kristina Bruhahn: going to do with that kind of power? To Joel's point, earlier,
Kristina Bruhahn: he said, If we get cbdcs, are we all just
Kristina Bruhahn: under surveillance at that point? Yes. Yes, that's exactly what
Kristina Bruhahn: it is. Are you going to focus back on that?
Kristina Bruhahn: Are you going to come?
Travis Wright: You're just like, yeah, you're done. What happens when they
Travis Wright: don't like what Joel said and they don't like what
Travis Wright: Travis said? Boom. You don't count anymore.
Kristina Bruhahn: That's a different thing. So actually, to move down a
Kristina Bruhahn: weird rabbit hole so the media and entertainment companies own
Kristina Bruhahn: the rights to yet they own his likeness all live, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Kristina Bruhahn: So they've actually started and I've heard this through the
Kristina Bruhahn: grapevine will need the brands to comment on it. This
Kristina Bruhahn: is not trading advice. They've started to digitize artists and
Kristina Bruhahn: take 10% of Kanye and 10% of. Nipsey Hussle and 10%
Kristina Bruhahn: of this and 10% of that. And put together an A.I.
Kristina Bruhahn: character that's never going to flub up on Twitter. Right.
Kristina Bruhahn: That is a bigger sense of investment and revenue model
Kristina Bruhahn: for them that they get to outright own. Then dealing
Kristina Bruhahn: with a human that could potentially go off the rails.
Kristina Bruhahn: So now you're into AI and bleeding edge technology that
Kristina Bruhahn: has a blockchain back end. But we're really just dealing
Kristina Bruhahn: with the fact that these are all really hard concepts
Kristina Bruhahn: for my cousins to understand and for the politicians to understand.
Kristina Bruhahn: But they're already here. And are you going to punish,
Kristina Bruhahn: you know, Atlantic Records versus Halliburton, Right. All of this
Kristina Bruhahn: kind of falls in the same category of legislation, and
Kristina Bruhahn: it's very, very murky waters.
Joel Comm: So you've got.
Kristina Bruhahn: We've we've done the best we can.
Joel Comm: You've got confused cousins because that's what that's what I
Joel Comm: want to say. Well, Christina, we appreciate you coming on today.
Joel Comm: The website Continuum dot market, you can sign up for
Joel Comm: for Christina's email newsletter over there and find out how
Joel Comm: to get involved, whether your brand or your crypto or
Joel Comm: your politician, whatever, if you want to be a part
Joel Comm: of a positive movement. Or meet her in Miami, you're
Joel Comm: going to be at Art Basel. Yeah.
Kristina Bruhahn: We sure are. We're doing a V VIP event with
Kristina Bruhahn: Miami Phantom Blue at Art Basel on Friday. The second
Kristina Bruhahn: you can get $800 off the ticket price using code
Kristina Bruhahn: continuum 800. So definitely take advantage of that. We have
Kristina Bruhahn: not only the blockchain brands and some of my favorite
Kristina Bruhahn: humans coming, but also some very big venture capital asset
Kristina Bruhahn: capital management. So we've got a couple of folks. One
Kristina Bruhahn: person alone manages 2 billion, so I'd imagine we have
Kristina Bruhahn: about 5 billion assets under management at that party, not
Kristina Bruhahn: to mention celebrities like Baron Davis, who I was just
Kristina Bruhahn: at his house singing some Adele over some of his
Kristina Bruhahn: beats he was laying down. That was super fun. Everyone
Kristina Bruhahn: in Web three is welcome to join Continuum. You just
Kristina Bruhahn: have to be transparent about what you're doing and allow
Kristina Bruhahn: us to track your journey for two years. If you're
Kristina Bruhahn: here to build a web3 world, we want to help
Kristina Bruhahn: you and we want to prove that you're actually safe
Kristina Bruhahn: for us consumers.
Joel Comm: Very nice and and we are pleased to also partner
Joel Comm: with you. And why don't you go and talk a
Joel Comm: little bit about what that means for bad crypto, the
Joel Comm: Nifty show, the nifty checks. Travis Right. Joel Calm this universe.
Kristina Bruhahn: Oh, I'm so excited about that. So this is really
Kristina Bruhahn: how Continuum interacts with the world. So we've got all
Kristina Bruhahn: these blockchain brands, right, but they want more exposure, and
Kristina Bruhahn: Travis and Joel are also speakers at Continuum, so we
Kristina Bruhahn: want to track where they're going to be and so
Kristina Bruhahn: that you guys can find them and get in contact
Kristina Bruhahn: with them. It's really a community of access to the
Kristina Bruhahn: best blockchain thought leaders and these blockchain brands. They want
Kristina Bruhahn: to be on shows like the Bad, Bad Crypto podcast.
Kristina Bruhahn: They want to be on the nifty podcast, Nifty Chix.
Kristina Bruhahn: We have about 400 podcast, but you guys have the
Kristina Bruhahn: metrics that show quantifiable impact when the brands are actually participating.
Kristina Bruhahn: That's what we want to show. We want to show
Kristina Bruhahn: it continuum that they might have had a community of
Kristina Bruhahn: 2000 and then they went on bad crypto and now
Kristina Bruhahn: they have a community of 10,000. We want to show
Kristina Bruhahn: those event triggers from a data science perspective and give
Kristina Bruhahn: you guys the credit for everything amazing that you're doing
Kristina Bruhahn: to impact the industry from not only events and media
Kristina Bruhahn: but also deal flow. The advisor ships you guys are doing,
Kristina Bruhahn: the conversations you guys have offline. You guys are chock
Kristina Bruhahn: full of data points. We want that all to be
Kristina Bruhahn: available at Continuum.
Joel Comm: That was just that was lunch. I'm chock full of you.
Joel Comm: Just like Thomasin a doll. Beat us because you blinded
Joel Comm: me with science, girl.
Kristina Bruhahn: That's what I do. Data Points.
Travis Wright: Thank you so much for coming on. We really appreciate it.
Travis Wright: And go to continue that market to hear more data points.
Kristina Bruhahn: Thanks, guys. I'll see you in either Miami or Puerto Rico,
Kristina Bruhahn: where we're going to be with Mike Turpin's Coinagenda Caribbean.
Kristina Bruhahn: So much love to bad crypto and the bad crypto family.
Kristina Bruhahn: Love you guys. Thank you for the work you do
Kristina Bruhahn: for the blockchain industry.
Joel Comm: That is one heck of a prediction, sir. Lord Travis
Joel Comm: for bitcoin to go all the way down to the
Joel Comm: 3000 range. What do you think of that?
Travis Wright: If that would happen. Like this is going to be
Travis Wright: a crazy, crazy time if that ends up happening. So
Travis Wright: hopefully that does not happen if it does happen. While
Travis Wright: we're all going to be in a world of hurt,
Travis Wright: I think if that does well.
Joel Comm: If that happens, I'm backing up the truck. I mean,
Joel Comm: that's like.
Travis Wright: Beep, beep.
Joel Comm: Beep. You know, give me a shovel and let me
Joel Comm: load up some BTC because.
Travis Wright: Wow, Loaded up. Loaded up. If that's the case, it's
Travis Wright: going to be crazy. So we shall see. We don't know.
Travis Wright: There's not financial advice, but it was some interesting data
Travis Wright: points from data points herself. And there you go.
Joel Comm: Yeah, we do encourage you guys to go check out
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Joel Comm: was the guy who called Luna before it happened. He
Joel Comm: was the guy who called Celsius before it happened. And
Joel Comm: I'll bet you he was calling you after, too. I
Joel Comm: want to know what he's calling next.
Travis Wright: Yeah, I wonder if he's calling Crypto.com and some of
Travis Wright: these other ones, because that's like, you know, gosh, if
Travis Wright: you just become so bad, if that's the case, right.
Travis Wright: Where the global markets crash, that's going to probably happen
Travis Wright: in our lifetime, if not sooner, then we would really
Travis Wright: feel comfortable around. We've been talking about it for a
Travis Wright: long time. Fiat money always crashes. What has happened traditionally
Travis Wright: is countries would then reach an equilibrium around the amount
Travis Wright: of gold that they have and they would tie their
Travis Wright: currency to their gold that they have in storage. Is
Travis Wright: that going to happen now? Because all I know is
Travis Wright: that China has a lot of gold. Russia has a
Travis Wright: lot of gold. America doesn't seem to have as much
Travis Wright: gold as we would think they have. So what's next?
Travis Wright: We shall see.
Joel Comm: I don't know. All I know is this programmable dollar
Joel Comm: is scary. Dystopian level. George Orwell, 1984 stuff. And while
Joel Comm: not financial advice, if you want to consider it life advice,
Joel Comm: I don't think this is ever bad advice. To figure
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Joel Comm: can go. These are questions you need to be asking
Joel Comm: yourself now before the hammer falls, because once the hammer
Joel Comm: has fallen, it's too late. So figure out what you
Joel Comm: need to do to set yourself up for success. For
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Joel Comm: is certainly not looking out for you.
Travis Wright: Hey, yo, I think we've set it off. Ladies and gentlemen,
Travis Wright: if you. A group Whose band?
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