Speaker 1: What's up everybody? How you're going? And you are hearing
Speaker 1: those cool tunes? You know, it's another episode of Nerdificent.
Speaker 1: I'm if you Waddy Way and sitting across from me,
Speaker 1: it's my good friend Danny Danny Fernandez. You said how
Speaker 1: what did you say? At the beginning of this It
Speaker 1: didn't make sense. I think you meant to say, how
Speaker 1: are you doing? But you said how are you going?
Speaker 1: A new wave? That's a new wave? You know. No,
Speaker 1: I feel like you just haven't had enough coffee today.
Speaker 1: How y'all going? Yeah, that's what we say around these parts.
Speaker 1: How y'all going? How y'all going? And you don't say
Speaker 1: do you say y'all? I say y'all? Oh yeah, Apparently
Speaker 1: that's Australian slang. So you know I've been I've been
Speaker 1: a heavily in Texas. They say that they're fixing too, fixing.
Speaker 1: So today we're talking about bitcoins, and you know, I
Speaker 1: know a few of y'all y'all saw that title, y'all
Speaker 1: HiPE y'all like I've been thinking about getting in a bitcoin? Well, uh,
Speaker 1: you may not want to or you may do you
Speaker 1: depending on what you take from this episode. It could
Speaker 1: go either way. I've I've been on that ledge, and
Speaker 1: every time I've been ready to jump the water, it
Speaker 1: was it's like trying to jump into the ocean on
Speaker 1: a rocky ledge that like the wave keeps pulling back,
Speaker 1: and every time I want to jump, I only see rocks.
Speaker 1: So I didn't sit back down. I definitely regretted that.
Speaker 1: I like it was something that I could have bought,
Speaker 1: and then I was like, oh, damn, I should have
Speaker 1: because now it's worth so much. And then now I
Speaker 1: feel bad, like now that I saw that it isn't
Speaker 1: spoiler alert, um, I was like, well, good, you know.
Speaker 1: But that's that's what's so funny about it is if
Speaker 1: I would have gotten into it when I first heard
Speaker 1: of it, oh yeah, it was good, but we wouldn't
Speaker 1: be friends and I'd be you and yeah, i'd be
Speaker 1: smoking weed next to Elon Musk on Joe Rogan Show,
Speaker 1: like yeah, bro. But no, since I've known about it
Speaker 1: for so long, I know that like the amount of
Speaker 1: that I would gain from it would never be as much,
Speaker 1: So it's always easier to just pass on it from
Speaker 1: here on out. You know, you still got those like
Speaker 1: magic the gathering cards, so that could be your retirement
Speaker 1: right there. Oh yeah, we'll see, we'll see. I definitely
Speaker 1: still have my rare sleeve, you know, get some stuff
Speaker 1: busting out of there. They have my beanie babies that
Speaker 1: I have the Tag Protectors, that's my investment. They're worth
Speaker 1: seven nine. That's what's so funny is the influx of
Speaker 1: like collectible collectible things and me always having some weird
Speaker 1: hand in it. Like now Funco pops are starting to
Speaker 1: become this new collector's trend. The like the limited edition
Speaker 1: ones because most of them you can still get for
Speaker 1: ten dollars. Oh yeah, I think even some you can
Speaker 1: even get, like the the rare ones, the twenty ones,
Speaker 1: like the Dragon ball Z. I think they're forty, which
Speaker 1: isn't a bad cop for me, like I said. But
Speaker 1: then you have things like sneakers. They've always been this
Speaker 1: constant because I think the sneakers are synonymous with like
Speaker 1: a quick turnaround gain. So it's always interesting to see
Speaker 1: during the super hyped release the people that gather to
Speaker 1: get it, Like when I wanted the Chinese New Year
Speaker 1: Jay's two years ago because I got the ones from
Speaker 1: this year, not two years ago. Last year because I
Speaker 1: got the ones this year. I remember me and my
Speaker 1: buddy Echo, We're kind of like, we're both struck out
Speaker 1: online and we're like, let's go to the Glendale Galleria
Speaker 1: because they had a first come, first serve, which is
Speaker 1: always anytime. Let me give you a tip sneaker heads.
Speaker 1: You know we're getting close to the DBZ release, so
Speaker 1: a lot of you uh nerds and would be sneaker
Speaker 1: heads might be I'm gonna give you the first any
Speaker 1: time something is first come, first serve. The time you
Speaker 1: think you're getting there, even if you think it's early,
Speaker 1: is never going to be early enough. I learned that
Speaker 1: the first time when I wanted these Bapadida en m
Speaker 1: d s. They were super clean, super nice, and they
Speaker 1: said that you can start lining up after the store
Speaker 1: closes at nine pm for the next day after the
Speaker 1: next day, So me and my sister we packed like
Speaker 1: a sleeping bag. We come through. I'm like, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be good. We're gonna come at eight pm. Thinking I
Speaker 1: was real slick when I say that line was wrapped
Speaker 1: around the block multiple times, and when we got there,
Speaker 1: we were asking how long have people been here there?
Speaker 1: Like since this morning? So two days they waited two
Speaker 1: days in line because I feel I think you were
Speaker 1: able to cop this you for like one eight and
Speaker 1: you were able to flip it for a grand so
Speaker 1: so Crow, you think about that. If you say, like
Speaker 1: your day rate is to fifty, that's still more than
Speaker 1: your day right, Oh my god. Yeah, there are the
Speaker 1: ones that you The new ones that you're talking about
Speaker 1: are the Dragon moll Z the Adidas line, which I'm
Speaker 1: pretty uh pretty they've I've been tagged in them quite
Speaker 1: a bit the last like two months, been sending it
Speaker 1: to us. I like the intention behind making sure I
Speaker 1: see it. But if you know my brand, you know
Speaker 1: I've seen like I am a nerd slash sneaker head,
Speaker 1: so like it is, it has been deep. I've before
Speaker 1: you've thought to send it to me. I've known about this.
Speaker 1: I've known about this since August of last year. That's
Speaker 1: how long. Yeah, I've been tracking them ever since. But
Speaker 1: sometimes people do hit me with like some leaked images
Speaker 1: that I didn't see, Like someone tagged me in one
Speaker 1: where it was like the Gokus that we see now
Speaker 1: and that was the first time I seem like the
Speaker 1: close to finished product. But yeah, I never think that
Speaker 1: you're going to be the one. There's that's wow. Speaking
Speaker 1: of tangents, I feel like that is the deepest, longest,
Speaker 1: and earliest tangent that we've had. But speaking of getting
Speaker 1: in early making money, let's talk about what is bitcoin?
Speaker 1: Some people might not even know what it is, and
Speaker 1: some people kind of heard of it and are wondering
Speaker 1: where it came from. What is it? What is that bitcoin?
Speaker 1: Bitcoin's I don't want to get in trouble this time. Bitcoin.
Speaker 1: What is bitcoin? It was invented in two thousand and
Speaker 1: nine by a person or a group. This is debated
Speaker 1: because there's no real person that's been credited necessarily um
Speaker 1: who called himselves Satoshi Nakamoto. So his stated goal was
Speaker 1: to create a this isn't quote, a new electronic cash
Speaker 1: system that was completely decentralized with no server or central authority. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then after cultivating it in two thousand life Nakamoto
Speaker 1: turned over the source code and the domains too pretty
Speaker 1: much everyone else in the bitcoin community, and subsequently vanished.
Speaker 1: Because we'll get into it. The bitcoin is stronger the
Speaker 1: more people who are who has their kind of tentacles
Speaker 1: in it and keeps it going. Uh. And if you
Speaker 1: want more on that. The New Yorker did a great
Speaker 1: profile of Nakamoto from two thousand and eleven, so definitely
Speaker 1: peep that. If you got it'll be in them footnoice.
Speaker 1: So what exactly is bitcoin? So? Bitcoin, simply put is
Speaker 1: a digital currency, so there's no bills to print or
Speaker 1: coins to mint. It's decentralized, so there's no government institution
Speaker 1: like a bank or authority that controls it. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: and the owners are anonymous, which is kind of why
Speaker 1: it grew so popular in the first place. So instead
Speaker 1: of using names, tax ideas or social security numbers, bitcoins
Speaker 1: connect buyers and sellers through encryption keys. It's very, very
Speaker 1: very secure, right, And it is an issue from top
Speaker 1: down like a traditional currency. Rather, bitcoin is mined by
Speaker 1: powerful computers connected to the internet. Uh. And this we'll
Speaker 1: get into has affected many different economies, most certainly most
Speaker 1: affecting me and superproducer Dan just building PCs and well,
Speaker 1: like I said, we'll get into that later, I'm very
Speaker 1: salty about it. Still to this day, bitcoins have really
Speaker 1: done in the kind of build your own computer game
Speaker 1: and it's because of this, because they were minding it.
Speaker 1: But that's kind of when I first learned about bitcoin
Speaker 1: and why I was hesitant to join into it. So
Speaker 1: bitcoin was We'll probably get into it later, but to
Speaker 1: talk about my experience now. Was popularized by a site
Speaker 1: called Silk Road, which was a deep web website where
Speaker 1: people were trading drugs, sex, sex, child pornography, just all
Speaker 1: types of legal guns. It was. It was basically a
Speaker 1: digital black market. Of course, what currency would you use
Speaker 1: in a digital black market? Then a untraceful encrypted currency
Speaker 1: like bitcoin. So that's where I heard been. I was like,
Speaker 1: why would I want this currency that is used for
Speaker 1: all this illegal stuff? You know and hinties free anyway?
Speaker 1: Is that why you're on silk Silk Road? Not think
Speaker 1: that I'm like Devian Arts, just like change your settings
Speaker 1: to eighteen plus the record show. I've never logged in
Speaker 1: to silk Road, So I would one go on silk
Speaker 1: Road just for drugs. I want to specify that I
Speaker 1: don't use it for the other show. I've never used
Speaker 1: it ever, but I listened to it. Listen, listen. No,
Speaker 1: I've listened to other podcasts on the House Stuff Works Network,
Speaker 1: and I think that um stuff you should know. They
Speaker 1: might have talked about it a little bit yeah so um.
Speaker 1: But the only anytime, like, oh, drugs, which I don't
Speaker 1: even do. I just do weed because I'm done. I
Speaker 1: do weed. Kids, Listen how I talk about you, But
Speaker 1: I do weed. But no, now that now that I'm
Speaker 1: divorced and I have been the last day, he may
Speaker 1: not know, but I've turned the upper lamp and shined
Speaker 1: it in Danny's face, and I've been splashing water on
Speaker 1: her face. That's why she's been stuttering so much. You
Speaker 1: won't break me. Um uh no, I was gonna say that.
Speaker 1: Now that I'm in my thirties, I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I should try drugs about I didn't do it. I
Speaker 1: was such a nerd in college. My roommates would make
Speaker 1: fun of me for studying so much because I had to.
Speaker 1: Like one of my roommates, I went to UT and
Speaker 1: that's actually a difficult school, Like they only took the
Speaker 1: top eight percent of their class to get the University
Speaker 1: of Texas and their business program is super hard. And
Speaker 1: my roommate would party all the time. I'm like, how
Speaker 1: do you go to school here? How do you go
Speaker 1: to school here? I was studying so much. I was
Speaker 1: completely afraid of marijuana because my dad said, and I
Speaker 1: quote the people that I knew back in Nigeria who
Speaker 1: smoked weed. I did not. That is unrelated, unrelated to
Speaker 1: you didn't tell me that they were in the army
Speaker 1: and died in the war because people I know Nia
Speaker 1: so passed from old age. So I waited till I
Speaker 1: was sixteen a smoke weed. I just want to say
Speaker 1: one word, tangent, is that so many of my friends
Speaker 1: and I that I've talked to, like millennials that don't
Speaker 1: do ecstasy is because one particular episode that I feel
Speaker 1: like everybody saw and everybody's parents saw, where somebody died
Speaker 1: from taking ecstasy is like one of the reasons why
Speaker 1: I still to this day of not taking X anyways. Yeah,
Speaker 1: also like that's the reason Electric Daisy Carnival isn't in
Speaker 1: l A anymore and I'm still mad about it. I
Speaker 1: don't do don't do drugs. Yeah, yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't do them, But um, I might, you might. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like Dave Chappelle said, I might, I might bust amount
Speaker 1: when I'm Maybee. You know, got nothing to lose. What
Speaker 1: is bitcoin? Um? So basically uh so, no, A bitcoin
Speaker 1: became like this new global payment network like MasterCard or
Speaker 1: pay Pallett allows money to be transmitted electronically. But Bitcoin
Speaker 1: is different from these conventional payment networks in two important ways. Yeah. First,
Speaker 1: so bitcoin network is fully decentralized. So the MasterCard network
Speaker 1: is owned and operated by MasterCard, Inc. But there is
Speaker 1: no Bitcoin Inc. Instead, thousands of computers around the world
Speaker 1: process Bitcoin transactions in a peer to peer fashion, which
Speaker 1: is interesting because it's almost just like bit torrent. Oh
Speaker 1: does that make sense now, guys? If you just figured
Speaker 1: something out? Why? But yeah, it's if you're aware of
Speaker 1: how bittorrenting works. That's that's basically bitcoin. Can you explain
Speaker 1: Torrantine to people? Hell? Yeah, so our pirates pull up
Speaker 1: your boats and conting. Yeah, so before things like Spotify,
Speaker 1: I just got it because you're pie reading. Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: you just thought I was doing a fun pirate voice.
Speaker 1: How do we have our own show? I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is definitely the most off the Rails episode. But
Speaker 1: you know what, it's bitcoin. It should be because bitcoin
Speaker 1: is boring unless also it's just insane as as a product.
Speaker 1: But so, yeah, before we had Spotify, Apple Music and
Speaker 1: your Netflix and and movie Pass and Wild movie Pass
Speaker 1: was the short flash in the pan that movie pass
Speaker 1: was people felt the need to pirate movies. I've never
Speaker 1: pirate in a single thing. That's not true, you know,
Speaker 1: because you know it's not you know, because God's always watching.
Speaker 1: But certain scurvy dogs would go on the Internet and pirate.
Speaker 1: Now this I'm not talking about kaza or or Napster.
Speaker 1: Eventually there became a more secure way to torrent called
Speaker 1: uh torrenting or bit torrenting, where instead of you downloading
Speaker 1: the file from a network or a server, the file
Speaker 1: is broken up across a bunch of different computers which
Speaker 1: are now seating parts of the file, and your computer
Speaker 1: leaches the file with other leechers and they download as
Speaker 1: one complete file. And it also spreads the workload and
Speaker 1: also makes it harder to track. Until some buster gets
Speaker 1: busted than charters on your neck and they send you
Speaker 1: that weird letter in the mail that says, hey, please
Speaker 1: stop pirating or we'll cut off your internet. Can they
Speaker 1: literally do send you that, like they will send you
Speaker 1: a letter. I know people that have gotten it before.
Speaker 1: I think the my favorite pirating story was was the
Speaker 1: We're When I was working on a midnight a show
Speaker 1: that is about the Internet and needs the Internet. The
Speaker 1: Internet went out for a solid like thirty forty five minutes, Uh,
Speaker 1: just gone, and we were freaking out. And it turns
Speaker 1: out that one of the crew it was downloading a
Speaker 1: movie and so the the Internet company cut it off.
Speaker 1: And the movie they're downloading was a Man from Uncle.
Speaker 1: And that was the funniest part about It's like, really
Speaker 1: a man from Uncle, that's the one that you were
Speaker 1: about to get fired over. So yeah, we all they
Speaker 1: were so strict that you could not give the crew
Speaker 1: the Internet password. I think it was an inside job.
Speaker 1: I think the crew was getting blamed and it was
Speaker 1: like someone in HR going off a man from Uncle. Wow. Anyway, So,
Speaker 1: like Danny was saying, there is no single entity to
Speaker 1: kind of pool from. And also MasterCard and PayPal payments
Speaker 1: are based on conventional currency such as the US dollar.
Speaker 1: Bitcoin does not work like that. It has its own
Speaker 1: unit of value, which is called the bitcoin. The value
Speaker 1: of one bitcoin fluctuates as other currencies, in the same
Speaker 1: way the euro's value fluctuates against the dollar or the
Speaker 1: end to the dollar. Worthy. Uh the paso and you
Speaker 1: got you got your pound. Uh. But back back when
Speaker 1: this this kind of research article is written in November
Speaker 1: two thousand and fifteen, one bitcoin was worth about four
Speaker 1: hundred dollars and all bitcoins in existence were worth about
Speaker 1: six billions, I think, so yeah, so okay, So so
Speaker 1: one bitcoin is worth around four hundred and all bitcoins
Speaker 1: in existence are worth around okay, yeah, so because you
Speaker 1: can have a fraction of a bitcoin as well, So
Speaker 1: we'll get we'll get into that. So the skyrocketing value
Speaker 1: of bitcoins from thirteen dollars in January to more than
Speaker 1: one thousand in early December, that's a huge leap for
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to do the leap. So
Speaker 1: they said in uh, November of two thousand and fifteen,
Speaker 1: one bitcoin was worth about four hundred dollars. Right now
Speaker 1: one bitcoin is six thousand, three hundred and twenty eight
Speaker 1: dollars and forty three cents, and that's during a drop.
Speaker 1: It is dropped, and that's where it's at. So that's
Speaker 1: what's interesting too, and why I kind of mentioned the
Speaker 1: when you jump in when you don't where it's like
Speaker 1: people who jumped in during the big boom a few
Speaker 1: months ago when all the news sites were going in.
Speaker 1: They might be hurting now. But if you jump came
Speaker 1: in up like this, you're still you're still on the
Speaker 1: come up. If you had bought one bitcoin for four
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, you're still looking sitting real pritty, which is
Speaker 1: why it's like yeah, yeah. So back in venture capitalists
Speaker 1: invested ninety five million in bitcoin based startups uh and
Speaker 1: then three seven million and more than four fifty million
Speaker 1: in But there hasn't been much signed that bitcoin is
Speaker 1: revolutionizing the financial industry the way optimists hoped it would.
Speaker 1: So the use of the Bitcoin network has grown kind
Speaker 1: of slowly. Almost seven years after the network was created,
Speaker 1: there still aren't any good examples of bitcoin applications that
Speaker 1: are accessible and useful to mainstream users. Well yeah, and
Speaker 1: it got like okay, I was circling the human to
Speaker 1: use shark terms, Me and my sharks be talking a
Speaker 1: circle in the human for a bit when it came
Speaker 1: came to this recent boom. And it's gotten more complicated
Speaker 1: to get into cryptocurrency because there because everyone, I think
Speaker 1: the way for a lot of people are the alt coins,
Speaker 1: because you know, people would rather like to have multiple
Speaker 1: coin than fractions of coins. Even though you can buy
Speaker 1: in a fraction you like, you would rather have one
Speaker 1: a fraction of a bitcoin, but to get to a
Speaker 1: lot of these alt coins you have to buy in
Speaker 1: at bitcoin anyway. Then you would have to transfer the
Speaker 1: bitcoin to ethereum. And in the end it feels like
Speaker 1: one big pyramid scheme to get the people who own
Speaker 1: these all coins so they can get more bitcoins. That's
Speaker 1: what it feels like. I'm sure somebody's like, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, it's kind of cool is I saw
Speaker 1: at a different like stores and stuff. I have seen
Speaker 1: bitcoin a t M s oh yeah, back before meltdown
Speaker 1: Comics before they closed had a big bitcoin a t
Speaker 1: M and they accepted bitcoin. And Heather and Campbell good
Speaker 1: friend who I think we've mentioned her on the pod before.
Speaker 1: She was when she would coach teams, she would accept
Speaker 1: bitcoin as well. Wow. Yeah. Heather and Campbell is a
Speaker 1: improv coach and also a writer for The Twilight Zone
Speaker 1: a new episode the new series with Jordan Peele. And
Speaker 1: she's written on a bunch of stuff. She's written on.
Speaker 1: You know what was that? Key and Peel? Right, No, no,
Speaker 1: she wrote on She's written on a lot of she's
Speaker 1: written on SML for sure, I know. And what was
Speaker 1: that The awesome crew she wrote on that show. Uh,
Speaker 1: probably her least favorite credit for someone to mention, but
Speaker 1: you know, oh and she was on whose lines in anyways? Anyway,
Speaker 1: So what is blockchain? Huh? Well what is blockchain? When
Speaker 1: you often hear bitcoin or any coin brob, you hear blockchain. Well,
Speaker 1: blockchain is an electronic database of transactions, and new deals
Speaker 1: are added to the chain and then stamped and protected
Speaker 1: with mathematical equation. That's why I'm like my hate math.
Speaker 1: I do hate math as well. Um. The database is
Speaker 1: shared among hundreds of other computers or nodes on the
Speaker 1: network to make it virtually impossible for one agent to
Speaker 1: change it. So these nodes use their computing power and
Speaker 1: compete to verify and decode the latest transaction. So this
Speaker 1: is the nerdiest that our podcast has gotten. This is
Speaker 1: then appended as a block to the chain. Its ability
Speaker 1: to offer a verifiable, immutable, and public record is what
Speaker 1: attracts many advocates. And so this is a quote from
Speaker 1: Jonathan Johnson, who is an executive at overstock dot com,
Speaker 1: which is an online retailer that accepts payment in virtual currencies.
Speaker 1: I've also used I think I bought a rug from them.
Speaker 1: He said, it can do for the nearly free and
Speaker 1: friction lists transfer of assets what the Internet did for
Speaker 1: the nearly free and friction list transfer of information. I
Speaker 1: still feel like they're acting like it's really simple and easy,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's as simple and easy as there,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, I think that there's
Speaker 1: still a lot of shadiness to it at times, Like
Speaker 1: like you said, iffy um, So how is it being used?
Speaker 1: Its chief use is as a system behind most of
Speaker 1: the hundreds upon hundreds of virtual coins that are being created, stored,
Speaker 1: and traded online, of which bitcoin is the best known,
Speaker 1: but it's not the only cryptocurrency. Estonia uses distributed ledgers
Speaker 1: for the public to follow court, legal and democratic procedures.
Speaker 1: That makes sense, Like there has to be as much
Speaker 1: as it's like, it's not untraceable. Yeah, there is some
Speaker 1: way to trace it. Yeah, I'd say there's there's some
Speaker 1: way to trace it kind of yeah, exactly. M Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then what's interesting is like the fact that some
Speaker 1: countries like Russia and China are interested in creating their
Speaker 1: own virtual currencies. The reason that's interesting is because China
Speaker 1: recently band bitcoin, and it would be very interesting to
Speaker 1: see if within the next few months they launched their
Speaker 1: own coin, because that would be kind of a power
Speaker 1: monopolistic thing to do. But also it is China. It's
Speaker 1: like Disney pulling out of a Netflix, like no, we're good,
Speaker 1: We're good. Mapp Oh my gosh. It's just the more
Speaker 1: people split buckle up for another tan, the more people
Speaker 1: split from a United streaming platform, the more it just
Speaker 1: becomes like regular TV. Yeah, but the United streaming platform
Speaker 1: could monopolize in certain ways. And anyways, I love Netflix
Speaker 1: and Disney. I love you guys so much. I hope
Speaker 1: you're listening and I have meetings with you. I love
Speaker 1: you very much. So financial markets are among the most
Speaker 1: enthusiastic adopters. So equity into companies building the blockchain technology
Speaker 1: hit one billion last year across two fifteen deals, according
Speaker 1: to data from CB Insights, which is a research group. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even the bank back our three consortium has raised more
Speaker 1: than a hundred million. Credit Agricole, the French lender, took
Speaker 1: a small equity stake and Settle the UK blockchain technology developer.
Speaker 1: Many institutions hope that a real time ledger could automate there.
Speaker 1: They're kind of expensive back office system and save them millions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but how are people using bitcoin and how can you
Speaker 1: use it? We're going to get into that right after
Speaker 1: this break and we are back. So one of the
Speaker 1: things when you're using bitcoin is you have to have
Speaker 1: a bitcoin wallet. Yeah, yeah, that's I have the empty bitcorn.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I was starting. Yeah, I had a
Speaker 1: loaded the app. I was ready to go. I was like,
Speaker 1: you got the tag protectors, you just didn't have the
Speaker 1: beanie baby protector. I love that there's always some extra
Speaker 1: accessory you need for collecting stuff, like what comic books
Speaker 1: he became bagging boards, sneakers there, you gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: keep the box, which has been a nightmare. Well, I
Speaker 1: need to talk to you about cleaning my sneakers because
Speaker 1: I know that you've commented on my sneakers. Because I
Speaker 1: don't really care about them as much as you do,
Speaker 1: but I know that I know that I have some
Speaker 1: cool ones. You'll be like, oh, those are really nice,
Speaker 1: and oh take them to the dry cleaner. Well that's
Speaker 1: because I actually work out in my Mine aren't just
Speaker 1: for show, Okay, I have I have I have workout shoes,
Speaker 1: and the workout shoes are my under armor Rock deltas
Speaker 1: with the Brahmable on the back to let people know
Speaker 1: I'm on team Rock. The only time is when like
Speaker 1: listeners and people on the internet asked me where it goes,
Speaker 1: because I know we won't show up to the same
Speaker 1: place with them on, but there I will never forget.
Speaker 1: Here's a quick story. In high school, I had this
Speaker 1: echo jacket. It was like that. It was like the
Speaker 1: good version of that episode of Atlanta where he gets
Speaker 1: the Foo boo. I found this echo jacket at Ross
Speaker 1: and everybody was like, damn, that jackets tight, and I
Speaker 1: was like so cool, Like my cred went up. Everyone
Speaker 1: thought it was cool. I was rocking it. And a
Speaker 1: week later, this fool shows up to school. We're in
Speaker 1: the same jacket, and every time I would I would
Speaker 1: antagonize this kid every time where it's like, oh, you
Speaker 1: you know I had this jacket. You know I had
Speaker 1: this jacket, until finally he was like, my mom got
Speaker 1: me this. I can't. He's like I don't, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, we're kids. We have no choice
Speaker 1: in what we really wear. We point at things on
Speaker 1: a on a rack and ask for it and maybe
Speaker 1: we'll get it. My thing with that is I have
Speaker 1: go my little gocum vegeta tattoos which I got specifically
Speaker 1: like made Romeo Acost, who does a lot of anime tattoos,
Speaker 1: did and he's also like how to show on one
Speaker 1: of those tattoo shows. But anyways, Romeo accosted at that. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I got some off air stuff to say. Okay, um,
Speaker 1: but anyways, uh, I mean, I guess it's not too spicy.
Speaker 1: But he dated or hooked up. Yeah, he dated or
Speaker 1: hooked up with my ex's best friend. Okay, and that's
Speaker 1: and so we we were like big kicking it for
Speaker 1: a minute, and I thought he was cool. And then
Speaker 1: they broke up and I was like kind of like
Speaker 1: Romeo more than you. Yeah, yeah Romeo. Somebody tagged I
Speaker 1: was wanted someone to do my tattoos, and someone tagged him,
Speaker 1: and I thought he was just like some kid that
Speaker 1: was like, hey, I heard you want to do tattoos.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, sure kid, And then I looked and
Speaker 1: he had like four followers, was like, oh, sure you
Speaker 1: can do him. Anyways, what I was going to say
Speaker 1: real quick is that a lot of people copy my
Speaker 1: tattoos like they're like, oh, I want to get those,
Speaker 1: or I'm going to get those that showed this to
Speaker 1: my tattoo or it is, which I guess is flattering.
Speaker 1: But now it kind of just seems like I went
Speaker 1: along this trend as opposed to like, no, I asked
Speaker 1: specifically for him to make them like this, and I've
Speaker 1: seen people tweet like kind of versions of it. But anyways, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's on my body, so it's like something really
Speaker 1: personal to me. But it's I don't own the characters,
Speaker 1: so I guess if you're going to copy his design
Speaker 1: of them whatever, um movie not. No, It's just I
Speaker 1: don't want people to I want people to know that
Speaker 1: I'm not copying someone else. I don't care people copying me,
Speaker 1: but I don't want people to be like, oh, because
Speaker 1: I've shown my tattoos and people have been like, oh,
Speaker 1: I've seen those before, I'm like, no, no, no, you've
Speaker 1: seen them from me. I got these done and then
Speaker 1: they got really popular by because a lot of anime
Speaker 1: sides shared them. And then what is a bitcoin wallet
Speaker 1: if he well, unlike most traditional currencies, bitcoin is digital,
Speaker 1: as we've been saying multiple times, and so the approach
Speaker 1: to this kind of currency is completely different, particularly when
Speaker 1: it comes to where you're gonna store it, as bitcoins
Speaker 1: don't exist in the physical shapes. They can't throw it
Speaker 1: in a physical wallet or put it in a card
Speaker 1: or I guess you can there they there were there
Speaker 1: were a few launches of bitcoin cards, but you can't
Speaker 1: like to get it out of the bank and hold
Speaker 1: it and like hand it and distribute it that way.
Speaker 1: Uh So instead the private keys used to access your
Speaker 1: public bitcoin address and sign for transactions that need to
Speaker 1: be securely stored, you can use a digital wallet, and
Speaker 1: a combination of the recipient's public key and your private
Speaker 1: key is what makes the bitcoin transaction possible. So there
Speaker 1: are several forms of your wallet catering for different stuff
Speaker 1: and varying in terms of safety and security, convenience and
Speaker 1: accessibility then you know, so let's just go through some
Speaker 1: of them. First up, we got the mobile wallet. Mobile
Speaker 1: wallets are basically what I have is a phone app,
Speaker 1: and they're handy because they can use them and uh
Speaker 1: with some if you have like like Apple pay, you
Speaker 1: can use them even in physical stores. All you need
Speaker 1: to do is just install the app, open an account,
Speaker 1: and you just go from there. It's pretty easy set up,
Speaker 1: probably the easiest one. Then it says here that it's
Speaker 1: considered to be more safer than cloud wallets. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know cloud gets it's not as safe as people think obviously,
Speaker 1: so all the nudes being leaked. Yeah, the Big Cloud
Speaker 1: has been trying to push their Jennifer Big Cloud. My
Speaker 1: mom to this day will not her phone runs so
Speaker 1: slow because she refuses to upload to the cloud. So
Speaker 1: she just has all of her phote like everything on there,
Speaker 1: and and she doesn't really understand about like upgrading her phone.
Speaker 1: And anytime she goes into upgrade it, they're like, well,
Speaker 1: you need to back this up to the cloud, and
Speaker 1: she refuses to as she does know she can just
Speaker 1: plug it in and put some of those You just
Speaker 1: don't want to sit down with her and have to.
Speaker 1: You know, I pick and choose my battles, but I
Speaker 1: also want to be like on the government. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they care about all the pictures of your
Speaker 1: granddaughter and your rose garden, but you know, you to
Speaker 1: each of the news. You know, I tuned into the cloud.
Speaker 1: So this Danny Fernanda and I I'm a big fan.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. I've been listening to nerd Uncles
Speaker 1: and I've been listening. I've been looking for the krill
Speaker 1: or the krill on it videos. I can't find them.
Speaker 1: Big fan of Danny Fernando Rails gonna follow her on
Speaker 1: the twitters and she's been posting those thirsty traps. I
Speaker 1: feel like it started as trump and then like turned
Speaker 1: into like some other. Desktop wallets are another popular choice,
Speaker 1: which is also safer than online wallets, So we're just
Speaker 1: getting more and more safe here. They're downloaded and installed
Speaker 1: on PC or laptop and are accessible from an installation device. However,
Speaker 1: if your computer is infected with a virus, gets hacked,
Speaker 1: or experiences external damage, there's a chance to lose all
Speaker 1: your funds. What the hell? None of these are actually
Speaker 1: bullet proof, like fool proof. Well, yeah, that's technology, just
Speaker 1: isn't Like there are moments in your life when you've
Speaker 1: had things stolen from me. I was just talking about
Speaker 1: this with our friend Paris the other day. Whereas like,
Speaker 1: I would rather be robbed than to have someone break
Speaker 1: in and take my stuff, because at least I can
Speaker 1: like either try and fight if I feel like it's
Speaker 1: worth it, or remember their eyes and track them down
Speaker 1: for the rest of their lives. But like when someone
Speaker 1: comes in and takes it, or or a situation like
Speaker 1: this where you get in virus and it's just gone.
Speaker 1: It's just gone. It just feels it is just the
Speaker 1: worst feeling back in. No, No, we got to move on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's move on. So then we also have the hardware wallet.
Speaker 1: Hardware and wallet story uses private keys on a device
Speaker 1: typically like a USB drive and seem safe. Well, you
Speaker 1: can have it in your pocket, I got Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's very safe, carrying like all of your money and
Speaker 1: the USB drive on your pocket and just as safe
Speaker 1: as a regular wallet. Uh. But you know you're able
Speaker 1: to make the online transactions with the USB drive. However,
Speaker 1: most of the time they're offline, and that is one
Speaker 1: of the strengths. Various manufacturers make hardware walllet's compatible with
Speaker 1: different web interfaces. Therefore, complete characteristics depend on the wallets
Speaker 1: personal integrations. And then the hardware storage is also convenient
Speaker 1: because of its ability to send and receive the currencies
Speaker 1: by merely plugging them into the internet. You jack in
Speaker 1: and you get your money. Okay. So there is one
Speaker 1: more way, and that is a paper wallet that just
Speaker 1: seems very and I have actually heard of these. So
Speaker 1: paper wall is essentially a document which contains a public
Speaker 1: address that can be used to receive bitcoins and a
Speaker 1: private key which allows you to spend or transfer bitcoin
Speaker 1: stored at that address. So those are often printed in
Speaker 1: a form of QR codes so that you can quickly
Speaker 1: scan them and the keys to a software wallet to
Speaker 1: make a transaction. This all see, I mean, this is
Speaker 1: probably the worst because, like you're saying, you're like, all right,
Speaker 1: about to go to this drug deal. Let me go
Speaker 1: to this kink goes print out my paper wallet. On
Speaker 1: the way, big old rott willers in the move for
Speaker 1: some paper, your your hands hanging low. You're walking just
Speaker 1: because you're really excited to make this, make this big
Speaker 1: drug deal. And then the rott Wiler comes up, eat
Speaker 1: your paper. What you're gonna do at the drug deal?
Speaker 1: Say the dog ate my big That was a lot
Speaker 1: of build up for that one bad joke. What're you
Speaker 1: gonna do? Say the dog ain't bitcoin? Actually that's a
Speaker 1: good joke. I'll take it back. That was a very
Speaker 1: good joke. Basically, it's it's interesting because the you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of people's hang ups with bitcoin is because
Speaker 1: it's this new money that you don't know where it is,
Speaker 1: how can it go and all this stuff, But also
Speaker 1: we forget how wild and insane actual money is. Like
Speaker 1: he's a you know, green backs themselves are just wild,
Speaker 1: like they're based off of our gold stores question mark
Speaker 1: question mark. Yeah, I mean, I understand people's concerns. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like it's out of thin air, but almost
Speaker 1: all of our U S dollars about are purely abstract.
Speaker 1: That's actually kind of terrifying and freeing if you. I
Speaker 1: did see a tweet that was like, all these hackers
Speaker 1: need to, you know, get on and delete our student loans,
Speaker 1: which I agree with. I mean, come on. So there's
Speaker 1: actually nothing stopping our banking system from creating more dollars
Speaker 1: whenever the mood strikes. That's also crazy and something that
Speaker 1: they did do in the history of the U S
Speaker 1: um of the thirteen point seven trillion in the M
Speaker 1: two money supply as of October, thirteen point five trillion
Speaker 1: was created after nineteen fifty nine, or to put it
Speaker 1: another way, M two has expanded by almost fifty times. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so it is interesting because I think that was
Speaker 1: kind of the lure of bitcoin for some people is
Speaker 1: do not have that kind of government backing attached to it.
Speaker 1: You do get to create a almost universal form of
Speaker 1: money because there's no there's there's no no one can
Speaker 1: go in and sway bitcoin. Bitcoin is gonna ebb and
Speaker 1: flow as it naturally does, as there are more people
Speaker 1: using it and keeping it and spending it and cashing
Speaker 1: it out for money. So when you think about it,
Speaker 1: bitcoin is almost and now it sounds like the guy
Speaker 1: who's cornered you in the office, who's who heard you
Speaker 1: over talk over talking Bitcoin. Yeah, he's cornered you, and
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, it's actually, you know, in a way
Speaker 1: safer than regular currency because you know, you know that
Speaker 1: no one can come in and change it, especially when
Speaker 1: you look at things like when the you have that
Speaker 1: huge crash and the amount of money you thought you
Speaker 1: had just wasn't or the the amount of money, especially
Speaker 1: because I feel like Europeans travel a lot more than
Speaker 1: than Americans, and they've traveled on the strength of how
Speaker 1: strong their dollar is. So to be to use like
Speaker 1: the euro and then to have it sink in its
Speaker 1: price probably did affect certain people way more than you
Speaker 1: know us over here even though the euro is still
Speaker 1: stronger than the dollar. I appreciate that we should go
Speaker 1: to a break, all right, Yeah we should. We should
Speaker 1: because we we've talked about how people can use bitcoins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like we've been on team Bitcoin to this point.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should switch sides. After the break, we are back,
Speaker 1: so we're going to talk about you know, why it
Speaker 1: might not be so great. One is fluctuation. Major that's
Speaker 1: happening to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been identified as
Speaker 1: economic bubbles. So what is an economic bubble? And economic
Speaker 1: bubble is a trade in an asset at a price
Speaker 1: or price range that strongly exceeds the assets intrinsic value UM.
Speaker 1: It could also be described as a situation which asset
Speaker 1: prices appear to be based on implausible or inconsistent views
Speaker 1: about the future. Basically, it's kind of dangerous to have
Speaker 1: a lot of your money. I think some people even had.
Speaker 1: Like during the break, if I was telling you about
Speaker 1: friends of ours that work at a different channel, who
Speaker 1: the owner of that channel, The guy that bought that channel.
Speaker 1: He bought it because he got a lot of money
Speaker 1: in cryptocurrency, and then he started to offer them getting
Speaker 1: their paychecks in crypto like in bitcoin, and uh I
Speaker 1: was telling our friends, no, you need to get real money,
Speaker 1: not saying that bitcoin isn't, but now looking at some
Speaker 1: of the some of the how how it's fluctuating a
Speaker 1: little bit dangerous. Yeah, I mean, that's it's all. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be paid with something where the
Speaker 1: baseline is constantly changing because because also how would that work.
Speaker 1: Would would you always get like your paychecks worth in
Speaker 1: crypto or would you get a crypto amount that doesn't change.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, in two thousand seventeen, the prices
Speaker 1: were kind of starting at nine dollars and then rows
Speaker 1: thirteen thousand, four hundred twelve dollars and forty four cents
Speaker 1: on the first of January in two thousand and eight
Speaker 1: this year, on the first, Yeah, that's why everybody was talking.
Speaker 1: I mean people have been talking about it, but that's
Speaker 1: why it was really I felt like in the zeit
Speaker 1: guys like the past around that time. Oh yeah. So
Speaker 1: even though it's a thirteen grand at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year, it actually reaches peak in December when it
Speaker 1: had an all time high of nineteen thousand, six hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty six dollars. That's the devil's number. That's why
Speaker 1: that's the devil's number. Well it must have been, because
Speaker 1: it fell to five thousand, nine d and twenty dollars
Speaker 1: on the sixth of February of this year. Now here's
Speaker 1: where you know you're gonna hear me say over and
Speaker 1: over again how you still would have been good if
Speaker 1: you got in early. Because if you got if you
Speaker 1: bought in for nine hundred ninety eight dollars, you're still
Speaker 1: on the come up, that's the thing. But you do
Speaker 1: have to live with the fact that you missed out
Speaker 1: on almost twenty k. Then something I mentioned a little
Speaker 1: earlier happened. China ban the trading and bitcoin with the
Speaker 1: first steps taken in September and had a complete band
Speaker 1: start in that February. So then bitcoins prices fell from
Speaker 1: nine thousand and fifty two dollars to six thousand, nine
Speaker 1: hundred fourteen dollars on February five of two thousand and eighteen.
Speaker 1: This year, the bitcoin percentage of bitcoin and trading fell
Speaker 1: from over in September two thousand seventeen to less than
Speaker 1: one percent in June yikes, And then throughout the rest
Speaker 1: of the first half of this year, bitcoin's price fluctuated
Speaker 1: between around eleven K and five K and on the
Speaker 1: jew I first of this year, bitcoins price was six thousand,
Speaker 1: four hundred and sixty nine dollars. Bitcoins prices were negatively
Speaker 1: affected by several hacks and hats from cryptocurrency exchanges, yeah,
Speaker 1: including the thefts of the coin check in January two
Speaker 1: tho eight, coin rail and bit thumb in June, and
Speaker 1: bangor and two lie. So that's a lot of thefts
Speaker 1: of people money, and that's and that's that's also kind
Speaker 1: of what that's crazy about bitcoin because at least what
Speaker 1: banks you have the f d i C, which is
Speaker 1: the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which was created after the
Speaker 1: Great Depression, which means basically, if your bank fails, you
Speaker 1: at least won't go completely broke you or you're insured
Speaker 1: for general amount like the insurance and that limit was
Speaker 1: initially d dollars per ownership category, but as of the
Speaker 1: Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven, they have d i C insurers deposit
Speaker 1: and member banks for up to two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars per ownership category, So you have that if
Speaker 1: your banks fail or I guess get robbed or anything
Speaker 1: that would lead to you losing money. There's nothing like
Speaker 1: that in bitcoin. So if the people who are holding
Speaker 1: your money get robbed or jacked ors, you know, or
Speaker 1: even if they fail, you're out of money. You're done,
Speaker 1: You're out. Yeah, it seems like this would be like
Speaker 1: a black mirror episode because in a in a perfect world,
Speaker 1: would be like, yeah, why wouldn't we just use bitcoin?
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't we just use cryptocurrency? But then it's like, oh, right,
Speaker 1: because it can be hacked, all right, because it's an
Speaker 1: electronic you know, entity, and those are susceptible to things
Speaker 1: like that. Really quick, before we wrap up, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to mention a couple of other types of cryptocurrency.
Speaker 1: So there's ether, which is uh cryptocurrency whose blockchain is
Speaker 1: generated by the that's what you were talking about ethereum platform.
Speaker 1: So either can be transferred between accounts and used to
Speaker 1: compensate participant in mine notes for computations performed. What a
Speaker 1: nerdy sentence. Yeah he had light coin. I've heard of
Speaker 1: light coin as well, which was released via an open
Speaker 1: source client in October seventh of two thousand eleven. Light
Speaker 1: Coin Network went live in October thirteenth, two thousand eleven,
Speaker 1: and it was a fork of the bitcoin core client,
Speaker 1: differing primarily by having a decreased block generation time two
Speaker 1: point five minutes, increased maximum number of coins, a different
Speaker 1: hashing algorithm. Yeah, it should be noted that it was
Speaker 1: made by Charlie Lee, who was a Google employee and
Speaker 1: former engineering director at coin base. Yeah, he kind of
Speaker 1: knew what he was doing. He had the doge coin
Speaker 1: because of course the Internet made a meme coin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so can you play explain to people with the what
Speaker 1: that meme is? Yeah, so the doge is a meme
Speaker 1: of one of arguably one of the cutest dog, shiba
Speaker 1: in New Dog, and is basically it's making like a
Speaker 1: goofy face. You know, we'll have to tweet it out.
Speaker 1: It's hard. And that was the coin based in the
Speaker 1: logo was that does. It was introduced as a joke
Speaker 1: currency on December six, but it quickly developed its own
Speaker 1: online community. The Internet is so predictable and reached a
Speaker 1: capitalization of sixty million in January. Here's here's what is
Speaker 1: kind of what I mentioned earlier before we get out
Speaker 1: of here, I don't want to cut this off. So
Speaker 1: we touched on bitcoin mining, but we didn't really explain
Speaker 1: what it is. And what bitcoin mining is is you basically, uh,
Speaker 1: use your desktop CPU and GPU two kind of yes, Dan,
Speaker 1: you know the ins and outs of mining, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: a little bit. The long story short is that you're
Speaker 1: basically using your computer to do complex calculations, calculations that
Speaker 1: haven't been pleaded yet, and each individual calculation that you
Speaker 1: do gets added to the blockchain, and that is one
Speaker 1: incredibly complex calculation. That then is that is kind of
Speaker 1: like taken care of, and it takes your whole GPU
Speaker 1: to even do these incredibly complicated calculations. I think that's
Speaker 1: all I have, but yeah, you might be here in
Speaker 1: CPU and GPUs. CPU is basically your computer's brain, but
Speaker 1: your GPU is your graphics processing unit or your graphics card.
Speaker 1: The reason this is ruined building computers is now you
Speaker 1: have bitcoin miners who were buying up graphics cards just
Speaker 1: to use them for bitcoin mining, and lots of bitcoin
Speaker 1: mining rigs don't use just one graphics cards. Those stuff
Speaker 1: three four five GPUs in a one box and just
Speaker 1: to have them running non stop so that there they
Speaker 1: could do these complex computations, and then some folks might
Speaker 1: try and flip that card, and then you get a
Speaker 1: card that been worked hard and it dies on you
Speaker 1: and you don't know why. Even though now it's a
Speaker 1: rumored that actually mining cards are better taken care of
Speaker 1: because the miners have to keep them up. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a big debate on Reddit specifically. But because of that,
Speaker 1: it caused a supplied demand issue with graphics card raising
Speaker 1: the prices because it feels like graphics cards of the
Speaker 1: wild Wild West and if and if there's a demand
Speaker 1: for it, New Egg and all these sites seem to
Speaker 1: be okay with just raising the price instead of just
Speaker 1: distributing them and limiting how many people can buy. But
Speaker 1: you know, you know that's just common sense. But you know,
Speaker 1: when money is involved, we seem to lose it. And
Speaker 1: it's true, it's true. I just wanted to add one
Speaker 1: more thing is Yeah, definitely if you want to know
Speaker 1: more about the creator, Satashi na Kamoto, definitely check it
Speaker 1: out because he's it's a very he's very elusive billionaire.
Speaker 1: Very few people outside of the Department of Land Security
Speaker 1: know his real name. Because I guess that's not his
Speaker 1: real name. Um and uh, the DHS will not publicly
Speaker 1: confirm that they even know the billionaire's identity. UM. As
Speaker 1: of he was worth more than seven billion. Don't know
Speaker 1: if that's changed since the fluctuation of bitcoin, but um,
Speaker 1: very fascinating guy slash maybe not guy maybe a whole
Speaker 1: group of people. I don't know. Yeah, I imagine that
Speaker 1: is on purpose that they can't find this for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean also, if you're a billionaire, you kind of
Speaker 1: have the money to disappear to disappear. Well, that's it,
Speaker 1: and then that is bitcoin. Sorry for the extra matter,
Speaker 1: I feel like extra Yeah, I stuffed a lot more
Speaker 1: tangents in here, but well, you know, we'll we'll just
Speaker 1: hell it back the next episode. Every episode is an experiment.
Speaker 1: We just well know, I mean, we we have different
Speaker 1: things that we need to talk about and discuss. Plus,
Speaker 1: like I have some tea on some upcoming episodes, so
Speaker 1: you know, you can come here for the facts, but
Speaker 1: also the behind the scenes of stuff that of people
Speaker 1: that we actually know in the industry. That's spicy. It's
Speaker 1: all right. Well, now, do you have anything you want
Speaker 1: to plug or any shows coming up? Yes, I do. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be on a show at Dynasty Typewriter.
Speaker 1: If you live in l A, come out. It's going
Speaker 1: to be Oh. Also, a friend of the show, Jamie Loftus,
Speaker 1: is on it. You know, she's part of the night gang.
Speaker 1: Uh here, we got to get her a part of
Speaker 1: the NERD fan for sure. But that's September. There we
Speaker 1: go at eight pm. Come out and see our show. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if you're listening and Washington d C, I was like, dang,
Speaker 1: I wish I can go to the show or see
Speaker 1: at least one half of Nerdificent. I will be up
Speaker 1: in there. Me and the White Women crew are coming
Speaker 1: to Washington, d C for the d C Improv Fast.
Speaker 1: So if you're listening to Danny's and you're like, I
Speaker 1: wish I can see one half of Nerdificent. But I'm
Speaker 1: on the way and watching the new CE, lucky you
Speaker 1: because Friday, September I will be touching down my feet
Speaker 1: and Washington, d C for the d C and Pro
Speaker 1: Fest with my group White Women. Carl Tart, who was
Speaker 1: formerly on Culture Kings Lamar Woods, currently writing for Single Parents,
Speaker 1: wrote for New Girl. Zeke Nicholson, writing for a b
Speaker 1: bio Ishmael Sahid a dad on Cousins for Life, and
Speaker 1: Ronnie A Jurnien from that weird Gus van Zant movie
Speaker 1: that just came. Oh it won't get far on foot
Speaker 1: and your boy. If you wide a wait from Nerdificent
Speaker 1: the feed a k A buzz feed and wherever else
Speaker 1: they pay me, check us out DC and pro fest
Speaker 1: will and check out Candy Dinner on on Monday's too,
Speaker 1: we were the Spice and What's Nice on Tuesdays? Which
Speaker 1: is this cast? I wanted to say, let us know
Speaker 1: your bitcoin stories. Oh yes, please, I'm very fascinated, or
Speaker 1: your cryptocurrency stories, like or if you have like some
Speaker 1: weird relative that I don't know, like got huge from bitcoin,
Speaker 1: I want to know all the stories. Or if your
Speaker 1: boss try to pay you in bitcoin or whatever, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm very fascinated. Yeah, if you're just super
Speaker 1: hype on bitcoin, it's like, if you'm gonna send you
Speaker 1: a bitcoin, hit me up and I'll give you my
Speaker 1: bitcoin walad info and we'll go into this business together.
Speaker 1: As always. You can find me on if you wad
Speaker 1: I f y n w A D I two B
Speaker 1: on Twitter and Instagram and if he's on Twitch, lots
Speaker 1: of the nerd fan coming through. I'm gonna come through
Speaker 1: with a harder schedule. I'm getting used to this buzz
Speaker 1: feed schedule. I had to do a lot of business
Speaker 1: eat stuff this month, so it was the harder to
Speaker 1: lock it down. But I have like a fun schedule plan. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna do throwback Thursdays where we're gonna
Speaker 1: be playing older games like Borderlands, maybe Diablo three. We're
Speaker 1: just gonna take it back. And then of course, mmo
Speaker 1: Monday's where we're playing Wow, I'm an Alliance fan. Let's
Speaker 1: let's run some raids. Uh, and I may, I might,
Speaker 1: I might make a Hord character for y'all. And then
Speaker 1: we're definitely gonna have to have some some some weed
Speaker 1: Wednesdays when we play some some nice anime based games
Speaker 1: and some yeah, and do some League. We've got lots
Speaker 1: of league heads, so let's let's mix it up. Let's
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