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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q So, When I met you, it must have been 2017 or something. I don't remember you saying crypto. I don't remember you. You might've been like doing it on the side, but correct. I don't remember you having a big Twitter following. Is this something that's new ish for you?
A Relatively new. So I, I mean, I joined Twitter before Bitcoin was invented, right? I've been there since basically the video, I think, 2008 or 2009. I joined Twitter whenever it started and it was because of music, right? I was a music account. I, Got my blue check that everyone thinks is from crypto because of my DJing and music production. So, uh, I rode that. Maybe I had 40,000 followers come 2016, 17. Had a kid. Decided I didn't want to, you know, be on the road anymore. Didn't want to tour. As I said, I got older. It's always the joke like Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused. You know, I felt like, uh, I get older, they stay the same age. That's how I felt with DJing. Like, no matter how old I get, everyone I'm DJing for is 21. And wants to party, right? It just didn't really work. Um, and so, you know, I've been trading already. I love trading. I love markets. Um, and crypto is this sort of world of unicorn hundred X pumps in late 2016 and early 2017, and I just timed it well, right? A huge part of, I think, anyone's story in this industry is certainly luck and timing, right? If I had had the exact same story at the very beginning of 2018, it would be very different, right? Um, so I did well fast. Uh, became very passionate about it, and I immediately alienated everyone who followed me on Twitter. Like, one day it was like, ah, I've got this show, come to South by S…
AI assessment note: “Relatively new. So I, I mean, I joined Twitter before Bitcoin was invented”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q If you, if you could redo it all, it's 2017 when we met and start your Twitter account fresh anonymous account. I think on your Twitter title it says, like, the wolf of all streets. Maybe you call it the wolf of all streets. Would you do, would you start it anonymous, or would you be Scott again?
A I would be myself, without, without question. Although, like, I envy the guys who are anonymous to some degree because they're, I, I think it's just an easier way to interact with this particular community. I wouldn't change a thing because, like, I, I feel like everything I've done is uniquely me. You know, and I think that maybe that's why it's funny they say, you know, it takes 20 or 30 years to become an overnight success, but for myself, I think that that's the case, that I just found enough people who, like, Either enjoy my content or like my personality or just see something of myself and them, whatever that is, I found enough of those people that it created a community that allowed it to be what it is. And I don't think that would be the case if I was hiding behind a cartoon. And I don't blame anyone for doing that. Honestly, I don't begrudge them that at all. Just, I don't think it would have ever worked for me. I'm just too much of an overshare. I've been that way since I was a little kid.
AI assessment note: “I would be myself, without, without question.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q So you're like, your full time job is essentially trading, investing. Your passion is putting your thoughts out there in the world. Is that correct?
A Correct. When I started the newsletter, I thought maybe, maybe one day there'll be enough people who want to read this that I could somehow monetize it, but I've never felt overly comfortable with monetizing my audience. I have no problem monetizing a sponsor or a company that wants to support what I'm doing, but I never wanted the money necessarily from the people, but it became this challenge. I was like, I want to do this more. I want to do this five days a week, which was something that, you know, you were a part of a transition saying this, it should be, you know, saying maybe we should be doing more content. And so I started to charge the 15, but still kept the free issue just less frequently.
AI assessment note: “Correct. When I started the newsletter, I thought maybe”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.15
Q And yell, yell, like, create content, right? Like, do, just like, just put it out there.
A If your content's good enough, eventually, and like I said, initially it's gonna be bad, but eventually it'll evolve into something that people engage with, and listen, if you're bad at it, no one engages with it, you'll move on with your life, but at least you gotta try, and I think a huge part of what you're saying Which I agree a hundred percent with is another thing you always say, which is shoot your shot, right? It's, it's also letting go of the fear of judgment or rejection that comes along with it because I feel like that's what holds a lot of people back from really fully pursuing that dream. I mean, you always tell me the story or we joke about how you just cold called basically Mark Cuban by typing in a bunch of email addresses and hoping that one of them was going to match, you know, and that worked. The guy started retweeting your content and engaging with you. And you know, most people are not willing to do that. Most people are not willing to suffer the judgment of their family and friends when they say, I'm going to quit my job and become a Twitter, you know, influencer. Not what I said, but there are people, obviously I'm going to become an Instagram influencer, right? That's what I want to do. Or I'm going to become a trader. I'm going to go all in on trading and take all the money that I have, and I'm going to make money doing this. An artist. Micah Johnson, …
AI assessment note: “I think a huge part of what you're saying Which I agree a hundred percent”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.00
Q So where, where is the, just curious, like where your 75%, your, you know, where is that money?
A So listen, the funny thing is before COVID, I was one of the hardcore crypto guys who was saying, yeah, but still don't have more than like 15% of your money in crypto. It's still a risky investment. But then I stopped rebalancing. You know, I saw the nonsense that was happening with money printing, obviously, and stocks only going up while people on mainstream were suffering all the memes that are very real and very true. And it just became readily apparent that I didn't really want that much to do with that system anymore. That doesn't mean I sold all my stocks. I still invest in my retirement accounts. I still passively buy all the things that I've always passively bought. But for me now, crypto is You know, 70, 80% of my portfolio, and then breaking that down, 70% of that I've always believed 70% investments, 15% cash, 15% for trading and investing in your best friend's company that is going to lose your money.
AI assessment note: “crypto is You know, 70, 80% of my portfolio”
Partly raw tape
D 3 · C 2 · P 2 · Cm 2 2.30
Q So what's the advice for people who want to do, basically, employ the strategy of find the smartest person you know, And give them, and place a bet. You know, how do, how do people think about that?
A That only comes with access, and that's the reason it's only something I've been able to do in the last few years, unfortunately. The fact is, the United States law that is supposed to protect consumers actually prohibits consumers, or prohibits your average citizen who does not have enough money from the same opportunities that wealthy people have. It's a sad, but real truth, and that's why I love DeFi, and I love crypto, because everybody has a level playing field In that space, as long as they don't regulate it away and do the same thing to it, which is another conversation and another possibility. But what I would say in a lesson that I learned, listen, there's famous quotes about it, right? Don't put all your eggs in one basket, but then there's a flip side of that. Uh, Buffett, someone, you know, put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket. Right. And so I, I've had Mark Yusko from Morgan Creek on my, it was one of my favorite people in the world. He's more like sound bites than any human being. You could make one of those like little sound boards on the internet.
AI assessment note: “That only comes with access, and that's the reason it's only something I've been able to do”
