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How to Think About Angel Investing
- ▶ 8:21 Alex Lieberman I look at it as the same as the Bitcoin bet. 2 times in the scene
How to Start Building #4: How Entrepreneurs Think
- ▶ 8:12 Alex Lieberman Before it was mainstream, before Bitcoin was even a thing, but you would have spent a lot of time with a lot of really curious and smart people, and even if you didn't invest, you would have just learned being surrounded by those people.
Ethereum 101 & How It Could Top Bitcoin in Cryptocurrency
- ▶ 1:01 Alex Lieberman At the time, in 2017, I remember him saying that he owned Bitcoin, he owned Ethereum, he also owned Litecoin, but I had no idea why or what any of that actually meant. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:54 Alex Lieberman Crypto is still super early in its life cycle, and Ethereum specifically is only 41% of the market cap of Bitcoin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:25 Alex Lieberman Ethereum was first imagined in 2013 when Vitalik Buterin, who was 19 at the time, he published a white paper, similar to a white paper that was published by Satoshi Nakamoto regarding Bitcoin, I believe in 2009. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:06 Alex Lieberman Vitalik Buterin's bet was that in the same way a financial asset like Bitcoin could benefit from decentralization, many other types of businesses and agreements could benefit from getting rid of the middleman and creating a transparent…
- ▶ 9:05 Alex Lieberman It is the defining characteristic that transforms Ethereum from a singular currency that functions like gold, aka Bitcoin, to a programmable blockchain or technology that hundreds of companies can build on top of.
- ▶ 14:05 Alex Lieberman So now you know what Ethereum is, you know what makes it different from Bitcoin, and you know the properties that make it unique, like dApps.
Why and How I Bought Bitcoin
- ▶ 1:01 Alex Lieberman Today, I'm talking about Bitcoin. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:18 Alex Lieberman So on May 21st, I put roughly .25% of my net worth into Bitcoin. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:23 Alex Lieberman So what was my view on Bitcoin after all of this research? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:03 Alex Lieberman If we experience inflation over the next several years, and Bitcoin does not store its value, and if it actually goes down in value or it continues to be a really volatile asset like it has been over the last several years, the narrative… 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:57 Alex Lieberman Despite all of the concerns that I just brought up about Bitcoin, I still put some money into it. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:34 Alex Lieberman There's two things I want you to take from this episode beyond just the idea of investing in Bitcoin. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:08 Alex Lieberman My hope from this episode is that Bitcoin was simply the vehicle for understanding a process of going deep in an opportunity