The LeoFinance Podcast

Well well well, here we are another week gone by and chatting all things leofinance once again.

With only a 30 minute window for today's show we focused on answering user questions.

The Rapid Fire Q&A Session! Here are some of the questions:

@ezinwanne: What's the latest update on the DHF proposal?

The leofinance marketing DHF proposal has passed! Last week it was at 15MM power and now it surpassed the 24MM level to reach approval.

@tokenizedsociety asked What is the latest on ad-revenue buybacks?

Evergreen stuff is being rolled out that is on the docket next in the sooniverse.

@fokusnow HTML support wen?

The answer is NOW. HTML functionality is live.

And so much more...

But you have to listen to the recording!

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Well, after a two week hiatus by the Cat there is much to catch up on as the Sooniverse becomes NOW at a blistering pace!

Recap on some things that have happened before we touch on what is in the works!

Deployment Real Time Threads: The Threads feed gets updated live whenever there's a new Thread. People loved it but it was a little buggy, so we are cleaning the code to re-launch it some time this week.
The 2nd official partnership with OnixCoin and their flagship game Army of Crypto went live. Make sure to check their community page and add engagement there. Go check their game and make a review on Leo!
The Trending Tags got some love and look awesome now, with a hot tag next to the top three.
Rich search: Lions can search for anything in the search box, and they will get suggestions based on users, tags, and communities. These suggestions are clean and separated from each other, improving the user experience.
The Explore Page got a whole new feeling. Lions wanted a more friendly discovery option and we heard them. It is now easier to browse content and there's also a who to follow section with some of the most active authors on Threads and most prolific writers in high quality Long form content.

On to what is coming up SOON:

The bookmarks feature is getting an update
Image uploading on HiveSigner+ Word count feature, finally
New tickers are coming
Threads section to community pages incoming
Favorites menu incoming
News2Threads is getting a lot of action,more sites will be added and a batch of users to start using it - if you want to be a tester, write to anomadsoul
Three more partnerships coming, but we need the Lions to help us populate the existing ones and try out the apps of our partners: If this partnerships succeed, more projects will come. Check out SanR and ArmyOfCrypto

LPUD got a new approach:

With the price rise, lower inflation, less liquid out there, and 5M+ Leo powered up in a year, LPUD gets ranks now:

Lion attack (150 leo)
Cub attack (50 leo)

This will give users a chance to participate even if they can't power up 150 month after month. The badge and the full prize array is still only available for 150 power ups, but there are some prizes for the Cub attack -> LPUD adapts to the new LeoVerse growth scenario.

Community Feedback and Help...

Anyone can post to any community now from leofinance.io, help us spread the word and try using leofinance for everything. We know habits are strong, but step out of your comfort zone!

Again: We need your feedback, check this post to participate:

https://leofinance.io/@leofinance/a-call-for-feedback-what-do-you-want-to-see-added-to-leofinanceio-next

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This episode is very special because we go in-depth with everything related to our latest partnership with OnixCoin and their flagship game, Army of Crypto.

We also go in-depth about what is going on in the LeoVerse at the moment.

And to finish, we have a couple community members come in and ask questions live!

Definitely a show you don't want to miss!

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Lion Stronk! What a great past week of updates and growth.A Review of What Is and Was:+ AdSense in the mix -> more personalized regionalized ads are not hitting your page!+ The Zealy prize pool was mostly powered up, and those who sold, the market gobbled their LEO and we're back at 8c already -> leo stronk.+ The Ad revenue display on Threads launched on the last call and is pretty cool feature. Remember that this feature is coming to Long Form as well.LPUD came and went

227k Powered Up and 179 Lion powered up atleast 150 leo.

The goal was 200 but maybe the price of Leo played a role here, a ton of people powered up 50-100 leo as well
June LPUD saw the second most number or lions power up. Price action - 140% up from YTD Low (0.033c in March)The first Curation reports are out! They will come out every Sunday, follow @leo-curation and add the account to your autovotes, it helps us reward curators! Once a month, @leofinance will post a mega-monthly report.Coming updates:
Discord future updates: #resources, #roadmap, #tutorials are coming!+ AdRev is looking to be around 5k/month
We are advancing on NFTs - > concept is almost done, use cases being worked on, backend being taken care of ....Soon.
We have "Info points" and "ambassadors" solving questions on discord now, the team is now made of ~15 Lions who help grow the LeoVerse through many mini-initiatives - curation is a big one of them!Leo runway for operations is still multi-year with a basket of stables, bitcoin and ETH held.Updates on LeoCacheLeoCache is going to solve tons of problems, such as the scroll not keeping up. This will be implemented SOON.New updates on the UI?

Trading League is live, no official announcement out yet though. This first one is a test to see how it works.You can come play and try to break stuff here:https://sanr.app/clubs/LeoFinanceMarketwatch

BTC Dominance at 50% for the first time in 2 years! Price is back above 27k!
Blackrock's ETF application- they have rarely ever received a denial
BNB chain starts testnet on their L2 powered by Optimism
IMF doubles down on CBDCs and envisions a single ledger cross-border payment platformAnother Roaring Week in LeoFinance (yeah, I said that lol)

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The Wensoon Show 196Price of LEO is skyrocketing! Leo keeps pushing higher the past few weeks and it continues to look strong: + Between the new UI, new tokenomics, community loyalty and the Gamification side all created a huge synergy that has $leo on and uptrend contrary to the whole market, we mooning.Zealy came to an end: cardiac finish!

The top 10 really had to grind to stay on top. @Underlock and @Nonsowrites took 1st and 2nd, congrats! + As a final battle we had three armies who competed to create threads (that took character count, tags usage, poll usage, correct link sharing and more): black lions army defeated white and brown lions on an epic 36-hour battle with more than 23k quality threads. + Winners will be officially announced and prizes transferred on the 14th.

No keyword this week, but SOON

People already miss their quests, miss their hustling. Good news though - Zealy is here to stay! So instead of missing the grind use this time to rest cause on the 18th the grind begins again!

Lpud is coming.

May was a record month for Leo powered up! Nearly 1.5M thanks to Zealy quests and the team powering up. So for June we have the goal is having 200 Lions or more powerup atleast 150 LEO. No total Leo goal cus Lions are dry… or are they? Either way, power up at least 150 Leo and do your part!UI and Ad Revs
View counters on threads and ad rev generated by the threads is a thing now. It breaks down how many people saw it capped at 3 views per dynamic IP so it’s not rigged. This also adds another layer or gamification that goes even one step further than Twitter!+ The new long form discovery layout went live and it’s beautiful, users can see either Leo Finance or the whole Hive Blockchain. So cool!Crypto Market ChatterThe SEC continues its obvious war against crypto. The blowback they didn't expect was the SEC stabilization act that is not being bandied about.Hive had a huge presence at web3 Berlin this past weekend, Leo even had a small booth so potential users learn about the Leoverse. Big success for the hive ecosytem.Elsewhere, U.S. inflation fell to 4% year over year so most expect the FED not to raise rates. How this impacts crypto remains to be seen.Interesting times per the usual.

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Another week gone by and this one was a doozy! The leofinance discord server got hacked and the crypto market sold off (those items aren't exclusively related lol)

Lion StrongAt the end of the day, the leofinance server was down about three hours before everything got rectified. Furthermore the hackers only got $40 from the community from what we have seen.So basically, leofinance 1 hackers 0.This does remind us though that we should never click on random links and that DMs soliciting things do not come from mods.SEC hating again...The SEC filed suit against Binance with multiple charges and then to put icing on the cake...they decided to sue Coinbase as well.The irony in that is coinbase filed suit against the SEC a while back demanding answers from them on what coins are and are not considered securities so that they could be in compliance. Leofinance UpdatesAnd amidst all this week's drama the dev team is still cranking out updates.The latest is notifications. The notifications page is updated for a better user experience.A really cool feature is you can search through your notifications by user if you want to see all the interactions a specific user has done in regard to your content.Login in and actions...Basically everything works great outside of those using hivesigner. That seems to have some bugs still. Bug fix channel on discord to report anything you find.PayoutsPosts now show the payouts in leo and hbd when you hover over the amount. The hbd number is the value of the hive and hbd you are receiving. The text will likely be updated to show "hive rewards" or something to that effect.

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After a week away the cat is back! I have Khal giving us all the latest UI updates for leofinance and I gave all my opinions on the long form experience cus we all know I'm an old school blogger!Lions and Threads, Oh My!Long Form new Editor is here - and this cat loves how seamless it is to create posts now.Still a bug here or there but otherwise so much better. Remember, submit bugs to the bug fix channel in discord.Community Polls - Polls are working wonders, 21 communities still thriving and decentralized voting the author of the week. Pretty cool!Payout Display - if you hover over the payout display it will give you a breakdown of it.Leo CurationThe curation update seems to be working well as there is more defined actions on how to have a chance at getting upvotes from the leo acct.The details are listed here on how to best go about it: https://leofinance.io/posts/leofinance/a-complete-overhaul-to-curation-on-leofinance-be-active-and-earn-big-upvotes-32m-hpThreadStorms!Are lions have been getting more active, with a hell of a threadstorm a week ago as you can see the number of lions remains solid while the activity increases.And so much more...

But you gotta watch the replay if you want it all as cat can't type that fast!

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What an awesome week in the leofinance ecosystem!We saw LPUD hit a new record and the inflation rate on LEO get dropped, we'll get into it all below.LPUD Hits New Record!Power up day had a hell of a day with 525K leo being powered up, shattering the prior record of 333k.267 lions powered up and it game from all levels: dolphins, plankton and others.LEO Inflation and BurnsThe inflation rate on LEO dropped from 25k a day to 5k due to burns and the purchase of leo to pay out delegator curation rewards.This trend should continue as the bounty acct needs to buy more leo as delegators continue to grow.Monthly Active UsersLeofinance continues to see growth here as MAUs already hit 1,030 by the halfway mark of the month.There have been 71K threads in May already, crushing the previous record of 43K in February.Curation UpdatesThe way threads are curated has seen some changes and the @leogrowth account is the place to see what that entails.It mainly has to do with limits based on pride rank and such.Other random updatesAccount switching is now live so soon is now. Photo uploading is also live, mainly seems to work fine on desktop - mobile is a wildcard and should be good in the next week or so.Following tab for longform is in the sooniverse, along with editing threads.Crypto Market ChatterBitcoin teased as all and poked below that 27k area support before rallying and forming a reversal candle. Price has not really rallied off that yet, but it also has held the support so it will be interesting to see what happens over the rest of the week with price.Onward and upwardBugs keep getting worked out and features added so the UI expereince continues to get better. Until next time!

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This was the break stuff episode as the UI was down during the AMA with live BETA being in Full Force!UpdatesThe Profile has gotten updates as the BLOG link is now live and drafts are good to go as well.Setting page is coming soon with lots more options as well.Zealy Campaign KEYWORD(S)For those who may have missed it, the keyword(s) were announced on the AMA!Here is a link to the replay so you can find them!WEN NODEThe UI is down because leofinance is making to many calls to the HIVE nodes and are being limited or just choking node production.Possible fixes:Create Leofinance's own nodeSpread leofinance calls out amongst all the nodesSounds like option one is being leaned on as going forward it would make sense because volume is only gonna grow.Random CryptoBitcoin is floundering in the mid 27k area near the lower end of it's current trading range. Are we bullish right now, are we bearish. It is up for speculation. This cat thinks we are neither at the moment.

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The day is finally here. The new UI is now the live and technically beta as some features still need to be rolled out, but leofinance domain will take you to the new look UI.

Soon is Now!The biggest update into the new UI is the leoinfra update that enables to social logins/sign ups to leofinance.

Zealy Campaign

The zealy campaign is spreading the word as new people are coming in looking to create accounts and some have questions on how too, so lend a helping hand if you see anyone inquiring.

Speaking off zealy, today's keyword is....

Mainstream

Microblogging for the win!Most new users coming in will likely engage in the short form which makes sense. Short-form is easier to engage and should help increase engagement rate.Long Form is Not DeadAs the beta period of the new leofinance progress the accessibility to long form will become easier to find.

I know this cat will still be creating long form content and the trending category will show long form content once all the dust settles.

Sign Up & Account Keys

Multitasking is a mofo. Between trying to write this recap, thread, host the livestream and interact in the discord chat I miss pieces of what Khal is sharing. Oops.

There was a piece of about sign up and login through twitter for example. It sounded like after creating an account, after doing so you can download and change your keys so that leofinance is no longer storing/holding your keys.

On the flipside, you would use your private keys to login and no longer your twitter ID to login.

This makes sense for those who want to use other HIVE based Dapps. For those just looking to interact on leofinace than using twitter ID works just fine, no need to mess withe keys if not desired.

SEO Improvement

With the new UI the SEO ranking will likely improve due to several reasons including internal links, etc.

Leoglossary will be a part of this growth as you will be able to search leoglossary within threads. Thus links from that being used.

LeoAds

The big updates to leoads will be live come later this month, atleast that is the word in the soonerverse.

And so much more

Plenty more was talked about, from current features to coming soon features like personalized feeds (which I really look forward too).

Not all of it made the post, which is why joining us on the call is always the move!

Onward and upward. Let's grow the community.

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UI UpdatesThe Leo alpha site continues to get updates as we steam roll toward the May 1st launch.Ads are liveAds are now showing on threads so that revenue generator is off an running in its first instance. There are still many adjustments coming when it comes to ads.One click votingYou can now hit the toggle switch up top to turn on 1 click voting. The default is 5%, but in the future you will be able to customize the weighting.See no links!There is also a toggle switch to hide any threads that have links in them. So if you are sick of seeing link spamming, now you don't have too!Awesome UpdatesI like that all these updates are useful functionality things that users can benefit from. There are plenty more updates comning.Up your roleWhen you hover over someone's user name on threads you will see their role on leofinance and their profile.More leopower you hold, the more baller role you have. Let's all aim to be an Apex Lions!NFT badgesNFT badges is a cool idea. The idea is badges will be earned based on hitting certain milestones or completing certain things. I like this as an add on/upgrade of the roles.Promote Threads!The Zealy campaign is running strong and if you want to conquer the available quests and earn a shot at some $$$ then have at it and help promote LEO while having fun too!Also, 200K worth of HIVE delegations is also up for grabs. @theycallmedan is putting up 100K in delegations as a way to help promote and the @leofinance team is matching him!Here is the discord group for all the details: https://discord.gg/RqGYf9FgYSGeneral Crypto ChatCoinbase flips the script and files lawsuit against the SEC. This should be interesting as coinbase as literally done everything asked of them, filed for every license they were directed to and basically bent over backwards to meet whatever the regulators wanted.Guess they had enough of all that and have basically sent a lawsuit just to demand a yes or no from the SEC so they know how to move forward.Apparently VISA announced they launched an ambitious crypto product roadmap...That's all folks! See you on the next one.

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It's a day late, but not a dollar short! The AMA happened on Wednesday, lets blame it on Tax Day for missing the Tuesday slot hahaha.

HBD Savings - When Ponzi

So someone posted on twitter calling HBD a ponzi so of course the leo and hive community had full force fun with it. All sorts of tweets, threads and posts came out sarcastically "showing" why HBD has to be a ponzi.

Leo Ads

The dynamic of Leo Ad revenue is constantly growing. The addition of threads has already led to more ad revenue.

The larger overhaul is still on docket, but it is a matter of WEN which is par for the course.

The ad marketplace will allow for anyone to purchase ads. The revenue from those ads will get distributed to those who hold leo power.

What's cool is the ads can purchased with other coins and those will be converted into leo and that leo will get distributed into the leo power balances of holders.

Monthly Active Users

Get the word out and get all the lions threading. April monthly active users is on pace for 900 which is slightly below the 1K we hit in March.

There are 11 days left in April, we can pump it up. Tell your friends ;-)

LPUD Crushing it again

252k Leo was powered up (3rd best in history). 167 users (3rd best in history) powered up. 77% of supply is now staked, pretty cool!

Crypto News

Blocktrades is pulling out of the U.S. market due to concerns over the SEC and them sending lawsuits to basically any crypto exchange of late.

Coinbase announced if regulatory clarity doesn't emerge in the near future they may port their business overseas.

May 1st launch, it is close!

May 1 is the launch of alpha leo to full production. Should be an exciting time.

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Bitcoin is starting to push again and obviously it is bringing excitement. That isn't the only exciting news though!

Monthly Active Users (MAUs)

The Q2 goal for alpha leo is 1,500 MAUs and well, little over a week in and 1,400 has already been hit.

Sounds like we are well on our way to the 5K goal for 2023. Especially, considering that come May 1 we have the official launch of alpha leo to full production!

Thread Environment
Last Friday, @Khaleelkazi had a little roundtable feedback from some power users like @taskmaster4450 and myself. Several items were discussed, but creating a better environment in threads that's not full of just link posting is an overall goal.

"Engagement score" is going to be a piece of that, but the overall culture needs to be cultivated by us, the users.

We also talked about - why does someone want to hold LEO?

Reasons we came up with:

Influence
Ad revenue
Governance (polls having stake weights)
Leofi

Do you have any others you think are reasons to acquire and hold Leo? Put it in the comments if so.

Also, @moretea pitched the reputation score being called ROAR SCORE.

I like it, and want to here other ideas from the community. Throw your ideas in the comments.

CUB Report

The report is already is due out, but some data is still being waited on until the publish button can be hit.

The good news is cub flipped deflationary last month and I expected that to continue as the burn revenue grows.

Remember, the more we have staked on the bhbd and bhive pools the more burn revenue generated.

General CryptoBitcoin cracked 30K and is looking like an uptrend is in play. Its crazy how the narrative has changed after everything looking so negative just a few months ago.

Metamask is apparently going to offer the ability to purchase crypto directly with fiat.

MicroStrategy said they are now in the green again on their total bitcoin holdings as their average price is right around 30K.

Feel good vibes seem to be coming back in Crypto

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This is the Weekly WenSoon Show - Leo Finance AMA #186It is officially Q2 of 2023 and after an awesome Q1 full of updates in the leofinance ecosystem we are keeping the ball rolling into this fresh quarter.All the LEO UpdatesFeatures getting ready to hit and some that already are: Drafts is now available on the Alpha UI so feel free to go there to post your long form content without worry. Soon to be released: Wallet incoming Discord2Threads in the works More login options (i.e, hivesginer, using key, etc.)Leo Ads InitiativeKhal spoke more about the Ads protocol and what the vision is. If you are familiar with facebook ads, well it will be similar to that....in that people can create ad campaigns and bid on ads. This means ads won't just be "dumb" ads from one provider, thus creating more ad clients which means more revenue for burns.More Users Ser???1027 MAUs for March has been hit. So target #1 of hitting 1K on the way to the 5K yearly goal.Crypto News Bot on Threads!Yep, forget chasing the latest crypto news on sites that are not leofinance (cus who wants to do that anyway) as there is now a news bot on threads!Leofinance now has a crypto news bot that not only grabs the latest crypto news, but runs it through ChatGPT to summarize the news into a thread. So cool!The bot's name is CRYPTO INSIGHTS. So if you see it, now you know.Cub Deflationary, so it is so!Tomorrow the latest cub report will be out and share the news that cub has gone deflationary! Hooray, there is now more cub being burned in March than being minted.Pretty freaking cool from this cat's perspective.At the same time, this doesn't mean cub price will moon, but it does mean that there is no new supply as a net effect hitting the market.Calling all Lions!*The team is extending an invitation to write a post about what you want to see in the LeoVerse. Team meeting is Friday, they will take ideas into account. Tag your post with #leoverse

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In this week's AMA, we covered a wide range of topics including AirBnB regulations vs. Crypto regulations and the normal LeoFinance x CubFinance AMA Questions.

We've just released LeoInfra V3 and LeoMobile!

PolyCUB is on the horizon!

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On this episode of the podcast, we had Derek from StakeCube join the show to talk about their project.

StakeCube started in June 2018 as a Proof of Stake Pool and fork of Dash/Bitcoin Core. Today, they have 20+ team members and are actively growing the offerings of StakeCube with the launch of V3 right around the corner.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/@leofinance/leopodcast-interview-with-stakecube-or-evolving-with-the-crypto-industry-building-incredible-products-and-journey-to-top-100

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On this episode of the LeoFinance podcast, I'm joined by Esteban de la Peña! He has worked in the space for several years now and has most recently been heavily involved with the emerging lightning payment rails for merchants accepting BTC.

He has some incredibly interesting takes on BTC, the future of payments via Lightning, El Salvador, Merchant Treasuries looking to hold Bitcoin and much much more! I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/@leofinance/the-leofinance-podcast-returns-or-esteban-de-la-pena-on-ibex-el-salvador-s-adoption-of-bitcoin-lightning-and-the-future-of-btc

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Binance Smart Chain and the BNB token are currently the #1 news story within the Crypto/DeFi space. Bitcoin is making new all-time highs, ETH is making new all-time highs and in the meantime, liquidity, volume and the price of BNB have exploded to an even greater degree.

On this episode of the LEO Roundtable, we sit down with LeoFinance statistician by day and DeFi farmer by night @dalz to talk about the BInance Smart Chain. Dalz was one of the earliest adopters of Decentralized Finance protocols on the Binance Smart Chain and he's been crushing it on the various applications and pools that exist in that chain.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/@khaleelkazi/binance-smart-chain-hype-or-massive-opportunity-behind-the-scenes-with-one-of-its-earliest-adopters

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This bull run has had both a number of familiarities and a number of differences. In 2017, there was a massive boom in interest for the crypto space. The ICO craze marked one of the highlights of the bull run.

This time, there is the DeFi craze. There are some key differences between the ICO craze and the DeFi craze. DeFi feels more legitimate. It feels like it's solving a real use case and not just raising funds for some crazy new token that will end up going to 0.

00:00:00 You Either Know About Bitcoin or You Get Left Behind
00:02:30 This Bull Run Feels Like the 2017 Rally - Analysis With Bitcoin Dominance
00:05:15 2017 ICO Craze Vs. 2020 DeFi Craze
00:07:30 RUNE Analysis - Why We're Bullish
00:14:00 Bitcoin, Selling Crypto into Stablecoins and Avoiding Taxes with Lending Contracts
00:26:10 Using Crypto Futures to Hedge Your Portfolio
00:34:00 Is DeFi the Future of Passive Income and "Cashing Out" of Crypto?
00:46:00 Taking Rolland's Bets to the Blockchain
01:02:20 The New Update for LeoFinance.io
01:10:00 Q&A on ProjectBlank - Airdrop Details
01:18:00 ProjectBlank Will Change the Way Hive Content Creation Works on a Fundamental Level

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In this episode of the Daily LEO, we talk about Tesla's recent acquisition of $1.5B worth of BTC and their important announcement around accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment. Many people are wondering if it's too late to get into Bitcoin and if they already missed the boat.

Show Notes & Links: https://leofinance.io/@khaleelkazi/daily-leo-10-tesla-apple-and-major-players-adopting-bitcoin-or-is-it-too-late-for-retail-investors

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We decided to meet for an emergency LeoFinance podcast this morning to talk about all of the things happening in crypto right now. Tesla just filed with the SEC announcing two key pieces of news: they've purchased $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin for their balance sheet AND they will soon accept BTC as a form of payment.

These two pieces of news have shot the price of Bitcoin from $38k to $46k today, reaching a new all-time high.

In this podcast episode, we talk about the news in real-time, how it impacts us and where we see things headed. We also talked about a strategy we might deploy if BTC reaches a certain price target where we may look to take profits without completely selling our Bitcoin.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/@khaleelkazi/tesla-buys-usd1-5b-bitcoin-apple-crypto-exchange-rumors-circulating-and-the-best-profit-taking-strategy

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The LEO Roundtable is back and in this episode we talk about the Robinhood, Wall Street Bets and AMC trading frenzies. @nealmcspadden and I bought call debit spreads in AMC in anticipation of a successful short squeeze. We're still waiting to see how it plays out the rest of this week.

Show Notes

00:00:00 Me and Neal Trading AMC During the Reddit Craze (Short Squeeze and How We're Playing it)
00:12:15 BTC Monthly Chart Analysis - Are We Dipping Down to $17k?
00:22:25 Bitcoin is Going Up No Matter What Because the USD is Going Down
00:24:00 Neal is Done Trading Equities
00:26:30 Khal Options Portfolio Strategy Pt 2 - Trading Strangles
00:47:50 Me and Neal Trading AMC - Our Call Spreads
01:00:00 Discussing the Robinhood Situation and How They Sell Order Flow
01:07:20 @taskmaster4450's $250M Price Target for LeoFinance
01:13:00 Lightning DB - Posts and Comments Publish in Under 1 Second
01:17:00 Just Wait for BLANKM
01:28:00 Is SWAP.HIVE a Problem for LEO Long-Term? (How LeoFi and LEO's Standalone Second Layer Solve These Issues)
01:29:45 LeoFinance is Building 2 New Exchange UIs (We'll operate 3 total DEXes by the end of 2021)
01:31:45 Isn't LeoFinance the Best Platform These WSB Traders Could Be On?
01:37:25 Neal's Billion Dollar Idea for a New LeoFinance App
01:43:45 Silver (SLV) Short Squeeze
01:48:30 WSB is Getting Into Bitcoin?

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The most important news on social media right now is the fight against Wall Street. A community on Reddit started a massive battle of retail investors vs. Wall Street hedge funds.

The crazy part is that the retailers are winning.. and in a big way. They are winning so big, in fact, that Robinhood and other exchanges decided to delist the stocks in question and major platforms are censoring retail investors and WallStreetBets community members on social media and financial markets.

We live in unprecedented times. What's happening right now is anti free markets and a change must happen.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/@khaleelkazi/ewjtkmte

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Welcome back to the LEO Roundtable. It feels like it's been a while since we last met for a full podcast episode. You might remember the episode from 2 weeks back (our latest recording) which was "Announcing Announcements We Can't Announce Yet"

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/leo/@khaleelkazi/leo-roundtable-32-projectblank-new-leo-second-layer-building-income-streams-through-options-and-defi

In This Episode:

00:00:00 Crypto Taxes and Utilizing Leverage to Avoid Cap Gains Tax
00:11:12 LEO's Upcoming Standalone Second-Layer
00:14:00 is ProjectBlank Going to Be on LEO's Standalone Second-Layer?
00:19:00 Why ProjectBlank is Only Going to Add Value to LEO's Market Cap
00:25:00 LeoFinance has Created the Easiest Non Crypto to Crypto Onboarding Method - How ProjectBlank is Going to Making Onboarding to Hive Even Easier
00:29:00 How Many New LEO Tokens Are Launching in 2021?
00:32:50 How Do You Arbitrage the WLEO - LEO Exchange Prices?
00:42:00 Khal's Options Portfolio and Trading Strategy
01:15:00 Earning Income With DeFi Platforms
01:22:55 Building a Virtual Curve Pooling Portfolio
01:30:00 OCC Announcement and How It Impacts Centralized Banks
01:33:25 ETH Price Analysis - The Beginning of the Big Rally Everyone is Waiting For?
01:35:30 Grayscale Launching 5 New Products? BAT, Decentraland, LINK...
01:38:50 RUNE Price Analysis and Our History of Buying Into the Project Early On
01:45:00 LEO Miner (LEOM) Analysis
01:47:20 Yes Virginia, You Can Build Your Own Twitter (LeoFinance Is)
01:52:05 How Will the New ProjectBlank Miners Work?
02:01:00 The Long-Term Vision for LEO | A Parent Project for Blockchain Applications
02:29:00 Cash Flow, Financial Freedom and "Retirement"

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We met for a happy HODLdays episode of the roundtable. I hope you all are enjoying the holidays this week and with the New Year just days away, we decided to make some friendly bets on where the BTC price will end up by year end 2020.

The holidays are generally much slower for most businesses. Trading and markets are definitely slower during these times and it is nice to get a bit of a break in the mix.

On this roundtable, we also talk about some upcoming developments, stimulus checks and some DeFi info that I found extremely helpful.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/@khaleelkazi/esyietdj

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Today's Daily LEO features the latest Bitcoin news. Elon Musk teases the idea of buying BTC - wondering publicly if there's enough liquidity out there to meet Tesla's potential demand for BTC in their treasury. Michael Saylor's Microstrategy completes a 1.1 Billion dollar acquisition of BTC throughout 2020 and Ripple announces that the SEC may be filing a lawsuit against them.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/@khaleelkazi/elon-musk-researching-bitcoin-michael-saylor-completes-1-1-billion-dollar-btc-buy-ripple-gets-sued

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Mass Mutual is an insurance company that is 169 years old. It's one of the largest in the world and represents a nice segment that we could call "old" or "boring" money. As I continue to reiterate in these Daily LEOs, we're seeing a narrative of more and more institutions FOMOing into Bitcoin.

It's starting to become irresponsible for institutions and major investors to not have any sort of BTC exposure in their portfolios. If Mass Mutual were to increase their position to just 1% of this fund, then that would be an additional $2.15 billion that they'd purchase. While no plans for this were announced, it's not hard to imagine that they would leg in with a smaller purchase and slowly add to the position over time.

This article also mentions Grayscale and the reported levels of ETH buying that is happening. Institutions aren't blind to innovation and the Ethereum blockchain services the most innovative projects in all of crypto. With a market cap of $62 billion USD, ETH has some massive upward volatility ahead of itself if institutional money continues to flow into the top 2 assets in crypto.

The Daily LEO is a crypto-focused newsletter that we publish every day (Monday-Friday) with the most relevant news and happenings in the space.

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In today's Daily LEO: Michael Saylor to buy $400m worth of BTC, MSTR is now a Bitcoin ETF and Tokenized Stocks Arrive on Bittrex.

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We met this weekend for another long LEO roundtable. This one focuses intensely on LeoFinance and WLEO in particular as we've gained a number of new tools to help us analyze price action, volume and a host of other metrics related to our ERC20 token for LeoFinance.io.

Interspersed with all of these analyses, we talk about various developments within LeoFinance and talk about the overall direction we're headed in.

The bull market is just getting started and the whole crypto industry is about to get swept up in a storm of heightened FOMO, media attention and all of the other emotional and psychological factors that come along with Bitcoin mooning and other cryptocurrencies following suit.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/@khaleelkazi/leo-roundtable-29-wleo-on-coinbase-how-to-prepare-for-crypto-bull-markets-and-wleo-analysis

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Blackrock's CEO Larry Fink recently did an interview and said everything but "BTC is going to the moon".

Dan Schulman has been talking about crypto more publicly lately with the rollout of BTC buying and selling via PayPal.

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Today on the podcast we had Prof K on to tell us about his journey into the crypto space. He's one of the earliest adopters of DeFi and spent countless hours exploring and documenting this new sector of crypto before it hit the big spotlight.

Prof K specializes in helping projects reach their full potential. He's had years of experience in the crypto space and focuses on growing startups and building a more robust foundation that projects can leverage for future growth.

His latest venture is Fomocraft - a company that consults with crypto projects and helps them get funding, grow their community and ultimately build better products.

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Royale Finance - https://twitter.com/Royale_Finance
Royale Finance - https://royale.finance/

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We're about to see the highest monthly close in Bitcoin's history. The previous monthly high was ~$13,700 and today will mark a close above $19k for the first time ever.

We're seeing an unprecedented level of activity in the BTC futures market and in the activity of institutions getting exposure to BTC in various forms. Some are buying BTC outright while others are integrating BTC into their business model and others are investing into GBTC.

Coindesk reports on the Guggenheim news that broke yesterday. Guggenheim manages over $233 billion USD in their various fund allocations. A particular fund called "Macro Opportunities" has $5b in assets and Guggenheim just filed to invest up to 10% of this fund into GBTC.

This article by @behiver talks about the ETH2 launch and gives some quick overview details about the stats for ETH2 so far.

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This weekend, we met for another LEO Roundtable Podcast. The whole crypto market experienced a correction and many are wondering if it's a meaningful move. We analyze this and a myriad of factors related to how the market is moving right now.

We move on to discuss WLEO / LEO tokenomics - especially as they relate to exchange listings. LEO has such a low liquid supply that many wonder if we have the liquidity to list on various exchanges. In this episode, we explain the important tokenomic inflows/outflows that will accompany various exchange listings.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/@khaleelkazi/leo-roundtable-28-is-the-crypto-dip-meaningful-price-predictions-capitalizing-on-bull-markets-and-new-leofinance-developments

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This is the 75th episode of the LeoFinance podcast and this might be the most wide-ranging episode we've ever recorded. We covered even more ground than usual and even had 2 of @scaredycatguide (Mitch)'s friends join the show.

These 2 investors recently bought 10k + LEO each and had some questions around tokenomics, staking and security. It's always fun to see new faces on LeoFinance and this time, we got an even deeper insight into who is attracted to LeoFinance and why. Shoutout to Mitch for turning himself into ScaredyCatBroker for this one and getting these new users/investors onboarded to the platform.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/@leofinance/leo-roundtable-27-exploring-ai-content-tools-2-new-leo-token-investors-onboarded-and-the-future-of-leofinance

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It's been a wild ride for LeoFinance, LEO and WLEO. We've done this all before as we created the first version of Wrapped LEO and launched it into the Universe. Now we're back with an improved model, a high degree of security and a much bigger community.

In some ways, WLEO 1 was a blessing in disguise. It allowed us some time to go back to the drawing board on a number of aspects related to LeoFinance and the LEO token economy. With the knowledge of what happens when a wrapped token is introduced coupled with a desire to relaunch in a highly secure and compatible way, we've finally brought back WLEO.

WLEO 2 marks an important milestone for our project. LeoFinance is a cross-blockchain social platform. We're built using the most powerful aspects of Hive: fast, scalable and free transactions and our platform bridges the gap to other blockchains by reaching out with projects like the LeoInfra Metamask integrations (allowing Metamask users to signup to LeoFinance/Hive in less than 30 seconds) along with vital aspects of our economy like Wrapped LEO (WLEO).

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We kicked off this episode of the LEO roundtable by talking about the podcast and a future UI update to service more video content directly on the LeoFinance.io UI. We jumped into some questions that @rollandthomas prepared as we talked Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and also considered their impact on U.S. Debt.

@dalz wrote a post last week about stablecoins and how they're seeing an incredible rise in printing. Is this the new norm or are we waiting for a massive shift to take place?

From there, we talk Bitcoin and if there are safe ways to collect interest on your long-term BTC holdings. Thorchain's future cross-chain BTC liquidity pool integration comes up and then we talk about the differences between wBTC and native BTC.

Some details about the upcoming release of LeoInfra V2, the new WLEO LP incentive model and some 5 year projections are also discussed along with a general discussion around Ethereum and DeFi.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/leofinance-crypto-podcast-cbdcs-stablecoin-printing-and-native-vs-wrapped-bitcoin

In This Episode:

00:00:00 Getting More Interviews on the Podcast
00:01:30 Future LeoVideo Update to the LeoFinance UI
00:04:20 Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and U.S. Debt
00:13:30 The Growth of Stablecoins and Printing to Infinity and Beyond
00:17:50 Are There Safe Ways to Collect Interest on Your Bitcoin Holdings
00:25:50 Thorchain's Upcoming Native RUNE-BTC Pool Features and Why It's So Valuable
00:38:50 New Month-to-Month LeoFinance Roadmap and Progress on Onboarding New Hive Accounts
00:41:00 Some Details on the Upcoming LeoInfra V2 Update
00:44:30 Neal's Trump Vs. Biden Game on Hive-Engine and How it Works
01:05:15 HIVE/BTC Price and Where is HIVE Really Going From Here?
01:16:00 LeoFinance.io Traffic and How We're Seeing Exponential Growth From Our Referrals
01:33:30: LEO Mining Tokens - Are They Still a Profitable Investment?
01:44:00 Preview of the New WLEO LP Incentive Mode
01:51:00 Is DeFi Bringing ETH Along for the Ride or is ETH the Stage for Innovation?
01:53:40 What is the 5 Year Projection for the LEO Price and Users?

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The events yesterday have a profound impact on all of us right now. Shaking the momentum of LeoFinance and our resolve to the core.

What we do in the days that follow will define how our community and platform develop in the future. As much as I wish we could go back in time and change the way that things happened, we can’t. Instead, we have to learn from the successes and the failures. We have to take what is given to us and move in the only direction possible: forward.

In this episode, we talk about the hack. Plans to recover from it and also our future plans to build LeoFinance into a better project moving forward including new UI releases and other features from our roadmap.

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We streamed another LEO roundtable this weekend and did a post-WLEO launch round-up. It’s been just over a week since WLEO debuted on Uniswap and the results blew us away.

Clearly there is a desire on Hive/LeoFinance for this bridge to the broader crypto market. We’re also slowly seeing Ethereum-based users creep into the LEO ecosystem one small step at a time.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/nnoqpelq

With the upcoming releases to the LeoFinance UI, coupled with marketing and the new database backend we’re building (LeoInfra), we’re gearing up to onboard a whole lot of new people to the LeoFinance platform.

These are some of the most exciting times to be a part of this community and we’re still just getting started. The updated roadmap for 2020 is filled with new features and projects. Now that WLEO has launched successfully and we’ve built a bridge to Ethereum, the world of DeFi and crypto has opened up in a way that is hard to describe.

For now, we’re enjoying some nice price action on LEO. In the near future, we’ll see a massive influx of new users.

00:03:00 Are ETH People Using WLEO?
00:06:29 Liquidity Pool Updates and How the Value Fluctuates
00:11:46 Using the Liquidity.Vision App to Track LP Positions
00:17:14 LEO Author Rewards Outpacing HIVE Author Rewards
00:26:00 What Exactly is Decentralization?
00:36:14 How Our New Project - LeoInfra will Onboard the Masses to Hive
00:38:34 LeoFinance Traffic Updates
00:42:25 Will We Ever Have Enough LEO?
00:47:25 Future Liquidity Pools and Collaborating With Projects Like Thorchain
00:54:18 Will WLEO List on a Centralized Exchange?
00:58:36 Cross-Promotions and LeoFinance’s Climbing Alexa Rank
01:1:25 Where Can the Price of LEO Go In the Future?
01:15:17 Discussing a Possible Video Upload Integration to the LeoFinance UI in the Future
01:21:29 Future Tooltip System Feature Idea for LeoFinance.io
01:41:29 Will ETH Staking Be Worthwhile or are DeFi LP’s Making it Less Relevant?
01:45:01 There’s Only 2.5M Bitcoin Left to Be Mined - A Bullish Perspective on BTC
01:47:55 How Much LEO is Lost Forever?
01:51:18 Hivestats.io Feature Reviews and Future Ideas

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Another day, another LeoFinance Roundtable about Wrapped LEO (wLEO). The community is gearing up as we approach this week’s launch and the questions keep flowing in.

There are a lot of questions about LEO, our new interface, Wrapped LEO, Uniswap, Ethereum, etc. In these roundtables, we’ve been collecting these questions and exploring them and others live on the show. These have been a big help for a lot of people - especially those who don’t have much experience with crypto outside of the Hive blockchain.

The nuances of Ethereum bring a lot of opportunities for LeoFinance and the LEO token but they also bring a lot of questions. Hopefully these roundtables have helped you as we approach the launch. We’re also clipping the nuggets of content out of each roundtable and posting them on Hive/in the new wLEO repository on LeoPedia.

In This Episode:

0:00 New Landing Page + LeoFinance Beta Interface Updates
8:10 Wrapped LEO Behind the Scenes — How Do the Mechanics and WLEO Interface Work?
18:40 Do Liquidity Provider’s Effect the Price of the Underlying Token?
20:50 Is There Any Risk to Being a Liquidity Provider?
22:40 Is wLEO’s Price Based on Hive-Engine?
26:20 Investing in LEO Now is Like Being an Angel Investor
32:00 The Token Flow Impacts of Listing LEO On Multiple Exchanges
38:30 Hive, Market Caps and Being a Utility Token
41:00 Do You Have Enough LEO?
44:45 A New Age of Crypto: Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC) Gains Wider Adoption
46:28 “You’ll Never Get Another Chance to Buy LEO Under $0.10” - @rollandthomas
51:54 LeoFinance User Growth and How The Price is Making Curating/Authoring Content More Important Than Ever
1:01:05 wHIVE Pool - An Example of How Even a Low Volume Token Yields APR For Liquidity Providers
1:05:55 The Viral Factor of Uniswap Liquidity Pools
1:07:29 EOS DeFi and Alternatives to Ethereum
1:12:50 LEO’s Tight Liquidity is a Limiting Factor for Uniswap Pooling, but the Driving Factor of Rapid Price Appreciation
1:15:56 An Exercise In Imagination: Is a 30x Price Increase an Unreasonable Expectation?
1:20:00 Listing LEO on Coingecko - Could it Pass Hive’s Market Cap?
1:34:00 Neal Buys More LEO
1:36:00 Don’t Underestimate the Value of User Growth
1:47:35 Price Dynamics Between Uniswap and Hive-Engine
1:57:00 Neal & Mitch’s Tokenized Real Estate Fund
2:11:00 wLEO Launch Party?

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This episode of the LEO Roundtable podcast was streamed live yesterday. We talked about the basics of Ethereum and explored the UI of Uniswap while preparing for the upcoming wLEO launch event.

wLEO represents our community’s breakout into the world of crypto beyond just the Hive eco chamber. Hive provides a lot of opportunities and the blockchain technology is unparalleled in terms of allowing our community blogging interface to serve on-chain content and distribute LEO tokens to users who create and curate that content.

With that said, the Hive-token protocol that we’re using doesn’t allow us to be easily listed on exchanges outside of Hive. This is why the wLEO bridge is so valuable to our community. The wLEO bridge allows us to step outside of Hive and get listed on nearly any exchange in the crypto space — this is because wLEO is a LEO token equivalent (essentially acting as a pegged token) and is built using the ERC20 token protocol on Ethereum.

In This Episode:

0:00:00 Ethereum Wallets — MyEtherWallet, Exodus, Metamask
0:05:38 Basic Info About Uniswap
0:09:38 What’s a Realistic LEO Price When We Launch on Uniswap?
0:19:00 Hardware Wallets - Ledger vs Trezor + Metamask Integration
0:21:51 Navigating Uniswap Tokens/Pairs
0:26:05 Expectations for Liquidity Pool Returns on Uniswap
0:29:35 What’s the Point of Listing LEO on Ethereum Exchanges with wLEO?
0:31:41 The Importance of Having Deep Liquidity On Uniswap
0:32:50 How to Navigate the Liquidity UI of Uniswap
0:35:13 Becoming a Market Maker: Why You Need 50% / 50% ETH and wLEO
0:41:57 The Huge Opportunity Cost of Selling LEO Now vs Waiting for the Liquidity Pool Launch
0:45:01 How Much ETH Do You Need for the Liquidity Pool?
0:49:54 How Do Liquidity Pool (LP) Tokens Work
0:57:51 How Are Hive Power Delegators Earning LEO for Delegating to @leo.voter on Hive?
0:59:05 Uniswap LP Case Study
1:03:50 The LEO Community Stakeholders Are Essentially Presale Investors and Our “ICO Event” Is Listing on Uniswap/ETH DEXes

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The LeoFinance community and LEO token economy are undergoing some major upgrades in the coming weeks. We’ve announced that tomorrow will mark the launch of the new LeoFinance beta interface - featuring the Hive blogging UI that we’ve built from the ground up.

Shortly after the new interface launches, we’ll be launching the wLEO token on the Ethereum blockchain which we’ve mentioned in a few posts already. The wLEO launch is highly anticipated and a lot of people are either very excited about the launch or very confused - and in most cases, a bit of both.

In this episode, TM4450 and I run through some of the top questions surround wLEO and many of the other developments surrounding the LeoFinance platform:

What’s the value of a wrapped LEO token? (0:03:51)
Why would anyone on Hive use Ethereum? (0:06:28)
People under appreciate the development and activity on the ETH blockchain (0:07:52)
Liquidity Pool Incentives and airdrop details (0:15:44)
Mid to Long-Term vision for wLEO (0:21:18)
How does this help the overall LeoFinance ecosystem? (0:35:26)
Will wLEO get listed under other DeFi projects? (0:38:05)
New investors buying the LEO token (0:40:20)
New Hive-based blogging interface: confirmed launch into open beta tomorrow (0:50:58)
wLEO is a long-term value add for the LEO token economy and LF platform (0:57:44)

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Wrapped LEO (wLEO) is coming and we’re all preparing ourselves for what’s going to happen to the LEO token economy. A lot of LeoFinance users and LEO token HODLers are trying to figure out exactly how to navigate this uncharted territory as we venture out from Hive and explore the Ethereum blockchain, Decentralized Exchanges and DeFi protocols.

This whole DeFi industry is emerging and growing fast. The key is going to be the coupling of fundamental developments with FOMO. As people FOMO into the coins that are listed on Uniswap (which wLEO will soon join the ranks of), we truly need to see fundamental development that warrants the speculative increases in price. Without fundamental developments, you’re just holding a speculative asset that isn’t worth anything outside of the bubble.

As the launch of wLEO gets closer, we’re answering many of the fundamental questions that arise. Users on Hive and LeoFinance are wondering about how to get involved, what it does for the LEO token economy, how the LEO price will be impacted and more.

One of the main questions we’ve been seeing is: What’s the Point of Wrapped LEO? Why would you create an ERC20 token?

Launching an ERC20 token equivalent of LEO has always been in the back of our minds. The way that LEO is currently structured means that the ability for outside investors and potential users to get a hold of LEO and participate in the LeoFinance platform is limited to people with Hive accounts.

By adding an ERC20 token bridge between LEO and wLEO, we're effectively opening up the floodgates to potential investors, users and speculators. At the start, this means that wLEO will be listed on the most popular DEXes like Uniswap and will soon branch out into other protocols like Balancer.

We talk about all of this and more in today’s LEO roundtable podcast.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/saslknpp

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This is one of the longer LEO Roundtables that we’ve ever done, but more importantly: it’s the first Live podcast that we’ve done as well. Threespeak recently updated their live-streaming platform and it worked like a charm. We had a few people join us in chat and there were no delays, no dropped frames and no lag.

Streaming was a great experience and we’ll definitely continue to stream the roundtables each week on threespeak. We’ll also look to multi-stream it on Twitter and possibly Facebook/YouTube to try and bring in a wider audience to Hive and LeoFinance.

We covered an incredibly wide range of topics during this show but we had a heavy focus on crypto and DeFi.

In This Episode:

0:00 Bail-Out Mania: The Global Markets Will Rally On Anything
3:45 AAPL and TSLA Stock Splits
8:55 Real Estate - Small Towns, Lumber Prices and Rental Properties
15:20 If You Had $1000, Would You Buy BAT or HIVE?
16:30 Earning BAT and Brave Browser Adoption
25:00 Brave Built-in Wallet
31:49 BAT: The Biggest Token in DeFi
37:15 RUNE and DeFi Pump Cycle
43:40 Why is ETH a Good Investment?
45:49 BTC Price Analysis
52:08 MicroStrategy Adds Bitcoin to Their Balance Sheet
54:00 Crypto Portfolio Strategy: Just Buy Bitcoin or Speculate on Alts?
1:04:25 MakerDAO CDP Vaults with BAT
1:10:45 Apple and Credit Spreads
1:20:00 SPY and Equities V-Bottom: Will We Spike Through Highs and then Reverse?
1:32:35 Lemonade (LMND): The Robinhood of Insurance
1:40:30 Silver and Silver Miners (AG)
1:48:20 Evolution and Results of Neal’s SPY Strategy
1:54:38 LeoDex V5 Update
1:58:00 Instant Swaps - Swap-app.app Review
2:02:00 Oasis.app
2:21:00 LEO Token Supply and Ad Revenue

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What an episode! In this LEO Roundtable podcast, we covered just about every tradable asset and sector under the sun. @rollandthomas led the show and took us through detailed analyses of the largest global sectors.

We started the show talking about the U.S. dollar. The dollar has been getting weaker and weaker thanks to Fed policies and the coronavirus. There is a lot of uncertainty out there and plenty of volatility, but the markets seem to be getting led higher by big tech.

The big picture question that I think we continued to touch upon throughout every single analysis is about sector rotations. Will the current trends related to big tech leading the market, the dollar getting weaker, commodities rallying, etc. continue or will we s ee a major sector rotation on all fronts?

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/xxpuhjbr

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Over a month ago, I found the Bitcoin collateral loan product by BlockFi and decided to give it a try. Collateral loans have spiked in popularity with the latest DeFi boom in crypto. Now, everyone seems to be trying to collateralize their crypto positions to take out a loan and gain instant liquidity.

There are pros and cons to every collateral loan product - whether you’re using a centralized or decentralized protocol. BlockFi offers a professional experience and feels more like using a new-age bank than using a decentralized protocol to collateralize crypto.

With my experience in decentralized loan protocols, I decided to give a centralized loan protocol a shot and see what the pros and cons are. After using BlockFi’s loan product, I can say that there are clear reasons for using either decentralized or centralized loans. For my personal portfolio, using a mix of the two types of loan products makes perfect sense. In this episode, I explain the BlockFi loan product, how it works and the pros and cons between CeFi and DeFi.

In This Episode:

Liquidity Without Selling - participate in gains of your collateral + use liquidity to generate other returns
Taxe Advantages
Use Cases
My experience — just 2 days to liquidity
Interest payments and paying off the loan with your collateral
How Much BTC Do You Need?
Pros and cons for CeFi

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Hey everyone, here’s the latest roundtable that we recorded. It took me a while to edit it and reprocess the video, but it was just recorded a little over 1 week ago. We focused on our trading habits, especially as it related to the stock market.

We kicked off the talk by looking at the dark energy crystal (DEC) token on Hive-Engine and how we’re trading the latest dip in price. From there, we talked generally about trading and the risk of being unfocused in which industries you trade.

After that, we did a deep dive on Neal’s trading strategy for the SPY. He’s ran some extensive research on the SPY to find a way to trade specific openings and it was really interesting to see how he worked through the math to create and refine his model.

The last hour of the talk focused on options trading and credit spreads - since we’ve all gotten a lot more heavily involved in that arena.

In This Episode:

0:00 Trading DEC Tokens
6:33 The Risk of Trading in So Many Different Industries
15:00 Diving Deep on Neal’s SPY Stock Trading Strategy
1:03:50 Options Trading and Credit Spreads Update
1:25:20 NIO Analysis and Unusual Option Activity
1:35:30 Option Theta Decay Curve Analysis
1:43:48 Update on Neal’s Xerox Naked Put Trade
1:54:55 Implied Volatility Rank (IVR) and Options Pricing

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/yrkevjhh

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In a world of disagreement and disarray, there is one particular thing that we can all agree on: technological progress.

Technology is progressing forward. New innovations are continuously being released and old industries are being transformed. The questions of how much change is actually happening, where that change is occurring and how that will impact our society are all up for debate.. but the fact of progress itself is not.

In this episode of Tech Talk, @taskmaster4450 and I jump into the details of technological innovation. He kicks it off by asking my opinion about the future of our world by 2035 and how technology will impact daily living.

From there, we dive deeper into various topics surrounding that overarching question.

In This Episode:

0:00 Will Technology Create a Radical Change in Lifestyle by 2035?
4:35 Using 1980-Present as an Example of Radical Change
6:55 The Speed of AI Learning
14:00 Companies & Industries Who Get the Rug Pulled Out From Under Them
15:50 How Do Our Investing Practices Reflect Our Understanding of Technology?
28:40 Which Industries Will Impact Us the Most in the Future?
38:40 What Exactly is Disruption? What Does it Take for a Technology to Be Considered Disruptive?
41:55 Is the World Becoming More Dystopian or Utopian?

We leave it off by debating over the idea of a dystopian future versus a utopian future. There are many people who fall on both sides of this argument and there are varying reasons as to why the future is moving one direction or the other.

Closing out the episode, we call upon you (the audience) to leave a comment below and tell us why you think the future will be utopian or dystopian and why you believe either is the case.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/mbvhnskt

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This episode of the LEO Roundtable was a journey. We kicked it off talking about the stock market and how everyone and their mother seems to have become an overnight day trader.

From there, we talked about crypto adoption. Why are so many average people flocking to the equity markets to “gamble” with their extra time and stimulus money rather than going to crypto where they can work “against” the establishment and have an easier signup process (as opposed to opening a brokerage account).

@scaredycatguide (Mitch) posed a great question: is this an indication of the nascency of crypto and why mass adoption is further than everyone expects?

Show Notes:

https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/hksjxahl

In This Episode:

0:00 Why Are the Masses Flocking to the Stock Market Instead of Cryptocurrencies
3:52 We (on the roundtable) All Believe that Crypto is Here to Stay. Are the Returns Inevitable and Just a Matter of Time?
15:30 Social Media Platforms, Audiobooks and Podcast
30:31 Options Trading Update: What Happens to the Market if Biden Wins?
37:10 Iron Condor on IWM
38:17 TSLA Analysis and Short
43:52 SQ Analysis and Credit Spread
53:35 SPY
59:40 Using the Tastyworks Platform for Analyzing Options Trades & Viewing IV Rank
1:11:40 JPM Put Credit Spread
1:14:48 ZM
1:18:00 BAT Cryptocurrency Analysis
1:21:05 HIVE Crypto Analysis
1:24:25 MakerDAO CDP Vaults with BAT
1:28:00 Ethereum, Wrapped Bitcoin and DeFi
1:31:02 Pending Post/Curation Rewards on Hivestats.io
1:35:00 Gap vs. Intraday Trading and Neal’s New Strategy
1:43:00 Bitcoin & Correlation to Equity Markets

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Earlier in the week we recorded this LEO Roundtable episode and covered a broad range of topics. We kicked it off with a debate about the HIVE price and the future of the Hive blockchain — since we have different viewpoints on where Hive stands now and in the future.

It’s interesting to hear all sides of the story. We all use Hive regularly, but we have very different perspectives as to what the future of Hive might look like and how adoption could or could not take place. Sometimes we get stuck in a bubble of like-minded thinking as Hivians (or as anyone who belongs to echo chambers on the internet), so getting these alternative views is fascinating.

From there we progressed into a broader discussion about crypto adoption and how Bitcoin’s future looks. We jumped across the table and hotly debated some politics including the upcoming U.S. elections with Trump vs. Biden (and took some bets as to who would win).

We switched topics back to trading and talked credit spreads. The guys sent me down a rabbit hole a few weeks back and I’ve since put on about a dozen trades. It was nice and informative to break down each trade and talk through the general strategy on the roundtable.

0:00 The Hive debate: does Hive have a positive future?
15:00 General Crypto/Bitcoin Adoption
29:00 Politics & The Economy. Trump vs. Biden
48:55 Credit Spreads and the Options Rabbit Hole (SPY, TWTR, SQ)
1:30:00 When Do You Take Profits?
1:34:20 Yelp Analysis & 40% of Small Businesses Closing Down
1:37:50 BAT Token Analysis
1:44:00 How to Sell Puts on Stocks that You Want to Own in the Future
1:54:00 LeoPedia Glossary Resources and LeoFinance Web Traffic

Show Notes:

https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/nhgjezwx

Our Community:

Learn more about us at https://leopedia.io/faq

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In the latest episode of Tech Talk, @taskmaster4450 and I dove in the topic of digital economies. In the first part of this episode (the video in this post), we discussed the value of layered economies and global access especially as they relate to the Hive ecosystem.

Show Notes:

https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/jdqlylcf

Learn More About Our Community:

https://leopedia.io/faq

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In the 12th episode of the LEO Roundtable podcast, we set a new record for the length of a single recording session. We did just under 3 hours in this episode and covered a wide range of topics.

One of the main points we discussed (for the first hour of the podcast) is LeoFinance. We wanted to run through all the numbers including ad revenue, token burning, development costs, etc. and create a proper valuation for LeoFinance as a sort of startup tech business.

Because of our token, properly valuing LeoFinance can be an incredibly useful practice. There isn’t a lot to go on when it comes to investing in any crypto token out there and when you can bridge solid fundamentals with the potential of a new startup, you can vastly improve your decision making process.

After talking about LEO and LeoFinance, we talked about onboarding in general and followed it up by talking about streaming services and the future of media.

Moving on from there, we showed off a tool called Robintrack where you can see the hottest stocks on Robinhood — a trading platform for millennials that has recently gotten a lot of attention.

Then we talked credit spreads and analyzed 2 positions that I’ve taken over the past week in light of the last roundtable when the guys urged me to look into options spreads.

We ended the show with a deep dive on dCity and talked about playing the game, earning SIM tokens and NFTs.

0:00 Discussion About LEO Tokens, How LeoFinance Started, etc.
4:30 Rundown of LEO’s Finances and Inflation Rate
19:00 Giving LEO & LeoFinance a Proper Valuation Based on Assets & Cashflow
48:00 The Long-Term Model for Ad Revenue and Potential for Paid Marketing to Onboard LeoFinance Users
56:30 What’s a “Reasonable” Valuation for the LEO Token Over the Next 5 Years?
1:08:19 dCity, Splinterlands and Onboarding People to Crypto
1:33:30 Streaming Services and Breaking Down the Growth of Netflix
1:49:00 How to Use the Robintrack Tool to See What Stocks are Trending on Robinhood
2:16:03 SQ Credit Spread Results (From a Trade We Talked About Last Week)
2:25:00 New SPY Credit Spread Analysis
2:34:00 More Analysis on LEO and Other Hive-Engine Tokens
2:38:40 dCity Deep Dive

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/fqlzptnu

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For the 50th episode of the LeoFinance podcast, we hosted another LEO Roundtable podcast. We kicked it off talking about the popular dollar milkshake theory and continued on to analyze the price of the USD now and in the near to long-term future, drawing in analyses on other major fiat currencies across the globe.

Following a logical progression, we analyzed Gold and Bitcoin after our talks about fiat currencies. Moved on to talk about the S&P500 and where the entire equities market is headed during these turbulent times.

The Hertz situation is one that is extremely interesting. We talked about the company, the stock price and why Robinhood traders jumped in and pushed the stock up to $6 following news of bankruptcy. Hertz is also currently in talks to be able to sell worthless stock to investors.

The Tesla and Nikola conversation was also fun. We talked about the share prices and competitive advantages of these two companies as they attack the titans of the automobile industry with clean energy vehicles.

One of my favorite parts of the episode is when we talked about the basics of options trading and how one can earn an income from selling options contracts. I thought this was a very interesting strategy and ended up testing it out by selling an SQ put after the show.

We closed it out talking about the LEO token price, the crazy rally that we’ve seen recently and the future of the entire LeoFinance community. We also talked about dCity and personal strategies for building an income in the SIM token.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/riacnsnu

0:00 Dollar milkshake theory and where the USD is headed in the next 1-10 years
5:00 Analysis on AUD, CAD and other currencies as indicators for USD value
28:30 Gold Analysis
30:00 Bitcoin Analysis
34:45 SPX Analysis
38:30 Hertz Analysis: Why did Robinhood traders start a buying frenzy on a dying company?
41:00 XOP
46:00 TSLA Vs. Nikola
52:35 Options trading basics: creating a “dividend" by selling calls/puts
1:05:30 More SPX Analysis alongside other major indices
1:25:50 LEO Token Analysis and community updates
1:53:20 dCity Breakdown: Talking about game fundamentals and personal strategies to build a profitable city

Our Community:

https://leofinance.io is an online community for crypto & finance powered by the LEO token economy.

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We had an extremely wide-ranging discussion on the latest LEO Roundtable podcast episode. We intermittently talked about LEO & LeoFinance while discussing the broader crypto and equity markets.

During the roundtable, we also has a focus on the basics of charting. Since I’ve spent most of my time on fundamentals, I'm not well-versed in technical analysis. During this episode, I got some basic lessons in technical analysis and charting various assets like TSLA, BTC and others.

We ran through some interesting strategies and one that I thought was especially enlightening was the Drecken technical indicators that we used on the BTC price chart.

This episode was packed with content that covered just about everything you could imagine. I learned a lot during this recording and I think there is truly a masterclass worth of value in here for anyone who’s interested in finance.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/srlcywwy

In This Episode:

0:00 Discussing the potential of LEO, Hive and Hive-Based Apps/Communities
24:00 Tesla Buy Levels
26:20 Basic Technical Analysis Lesson: Breaking Price into 4 Sections
33:40 Dividend Growth Investing and Some Dividend Stocks to Watch
41:30 Square - A Necessary Part of Everyone’s Portfolio?
52:00 Bitcoin and Crypto Taxes
1:02:30 BTC Price Analysis
1:05:00 Drecken TA Overlay for BTC
1:15:00 LEO Token Analysis
1:18:00 S&P500 Analysis
1:21:35 Discussing Some of the New Hivestats Features
1:25:00 Jamie Dimon and Bitcoin
1:26:00 More LEO Price Analysis and the Future of LeoFinance as a Platform

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Whenever the price of Bitcoin spikes and we see BTC all over the news feeds, there is a rush of speculation and new entrants into the market. We can see this happening from a variety of metrics — Coinbase account signups, on-chain transactions, volume or even your personal text messages.

The majority of people tend to take a look at Bitcoin only during these major media coverage moments. The 2020 halving event provided a major moment for Bitcoin as many of us expected. Still, I’m seeing a wide range of people continually asking about Bitcoin & crypto.

The top question on their mind: Is it too late to buy Bitcoin?

I’m writing this in June 2020. Of course, this question has been asked and answered many times over the past decade and will continue to be asked for the next decade to come. So if you’re reading this after June 2020 and are asking the question “Is it Too Late to Buy BTC?” then know that from a fundamental sense; not much has changed. The principles of buying Bitcoin that I talk about here will remain relevant for the years to come.

Show Notes and The Full Blog Post: https://leopedia.io/is-it-too-late-to-buy-bitcoin/

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This week was a big one for technology. We saw the Dragon capsule launch by SpaceX & NASA where the first humans to ever be launched by a private company went without a hitch. This is also the first human launch on a reusable rocket.

Seeing the astronauts flying toward space while the booster rocket landed back here on Earth to be reused in a later flight is an incredible thing to witness.

We’re also living in an interesting time for the stock market as we see the valuations of many companies reach back to their all time highs amidst an economy in turmoil. We talked Tesla and our thoughts about where the stock is and what the company is doing.

Then we finished off the discussion by diving into the latest issues with Social Media as companies like Twitter battle with Trump while companies like Facebook seem to be bending the knee. The case for decentralized platforms like Hive has never been stronger than today and it seems that the need is continually growing.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/emcdmonp

In This Episode:

0:00 - SpaceX
6:00 - Tesla
13:22 - Social Media
The Need for Decentralized Platforms

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In the last LEO Roundtable we talked about the real estate market. @scaredycatguide (Mitchell) and @nealmcspadden (Neal) have a lot of knowledge in this area and they shed some light on how Covid is impacting real estate now and in the next few years to come.

With the high rate of forbearance, the growing unemployment rate and the suffering economic climate in the U.S., there are a lot of aligning factors that could cause a significant drop in the overall real estate market.

Another key factor in this whole discussion is the foreclosure process and the difference between judicial and non-judicial states.

I personally learned a lot from this section of the Roundtable and I think it’s valuable for any investor to hear whether you’re in real estate or not. It gleans some insight into having a macro perspective of a given industry and knowing when to put your capital to work and when to accumulate capital and be patient for a coming BTFD moment — which might be coming to real estate.

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/rmjedojc

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Welcome back to the 9th episode of the LEO Roundtable where we bring four unique perspectives to the traditional markets, crypto and anything finance-related that happens to catch our attention.

On one of the first episodes of the LEO Roundtable, we talked about SLV and I ended up investing in it based on the discussion we had. That has done quite well for me over the past several weeks since that episode was recorded and in this episode we link back to that discussion we originally had as new targets for SLV (and precious metals in general) are given.

I always enjoy these talks. Not just for the trade ideas that come out of them, but also for the fundamental concepts that we discuss. There’s always a lot to learn and in this episode we covered everything from equities to real estate to crypto. Buckle up, this is a great episode!

In This Episode:

0:46: IWM Analysis
6:00: Ford Analysis
11:27 Delta Analysis
17:38 SPX Analysis
21:57 Gold Analysis
29:50 Silver Analysis
35:54 Precious Metal Miners
51:20 Bitcoin Analysis
1:09:20 Real Estate Market — Crash Incoming?

Our Community:

https://leofinance.io is an online community for crypto & financial content creators, powered by Hive and the LEO token economy.

Learn more about our hive-powered community at https://leofinance.io/faq.
Trade Hive-based tokens on Leodex at https://dex.leofinance.io.
Track Your Hive Account Statistics at https://hivestats.io.
Learn & Contribute to Our Growing Library of Crypto Educational Content at https://leopedia.io.

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Hey everyone, welcome back to the second episode of Tech Talk with https://leofinance.io/@taskmaster4450 and myself (https://leofinance.io/@khaleelkazi). Each week we’re talking about the latest happenings in technology and our outlooks on the future - especially as it relates to investing in technology and being on the right side of history.

We kicked it off talking about technological convergence — how many of the disruptive technologies of today are coming together and creating/disrupting entire industries. We went on to talk about 3D printing, compound growth and the importance of corporate agility.

In This Episode:

Convergence of Technological Innovation
Overview of the 3D Printing Industry
Shortcomings of 3D Printing
Status of Innovation in 3D Printing
Best Companies in the Industry
The Importance of Agility in Tech Companies/Corporations

Our Community:

https://leofinance.io is an online community for crypto & financial content creators, powered by Hive and the LEO token economy.

Learn more about our hive-powered community at https://leofinance.io/faq.
Trade Hive-based tokens on Leodex at https://dex.leofinance.io.
Track Your Hive Account Statistics at https://hivestats.io.
Learn & Contribute to Our Growing Library of Crypto Educational Content at https://leopedia.io.

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Welcome back to another episode of the LeoFinance podcast. Today is the first episode of the new “Tech Talk” series with me (@khaleelkazi) and @taskmaster4450 (technologist and crypto investor).

In this new series, we’ll meet once a week to record a podcast episode and talk about the intersection of tech and finance. The goal here is to talk about the bigger picture when it comes to tech adoption, financial markets and sectors that are ripe for disruption.

We will evolve as we continue to talk and find new ways to discuss these innovations that are happening around us. If you’d like to hear us talk about a specific topic, feel free to drop a comment down below and give us some more ideas.

In This Episode:

3 major sectors that are ripe for tech disruption
Education
Real Estate
Medicine
The accelerated adoption of technology in all industries in light of the Covid pandemic
Access over ownership

Our Community:

Blog & Earn Crypto Rewards at https://leofinance.io
Trade Hive-Based Tokens on LeoDex at https://dex.leofinance.io
Track Your Hive Account Statistics at https://hivestats.io
Learn & Contribute to Our Growing Library of Crypto Educational Content at https://leopedia.io

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We held another LEO Roundtable this week and talked about the markets especially in the midst of major central bank actions.

We began the talk by discussing some LEO updates including 2 of the new websites that we added to the LeoFinance community portfolio. As we aim to raise the tide on our entire ecosystem, we see these various projects take shape and flourish.

We moved on to talk about the S&P500, broader markets indices and Silver & Gold. I personally made a SLV trade after one of our first LEO Roundtables and have done well on the position in the past month as people look to these safe havens in light of fiat helicopter money.

We finished off the talk with Bitcoin and Hive while also spending some time on the S2F (Stock to Flow) model and asked each other the question: would you buy BTC at these levels?

In This Episode:

0:00 LEO Developments — Talking about Hivestats, LeoPedia, etc.
21:00 S&P 500, AAPL and the Overall Market
30:00 Silver & Gold
53:00 DAX and Nikkei
57:00 BTC, HIVE & The Crypto Markets
1:19:11 Bitcoin S2F (Stock to Flow) Model Explanation - Is it a Good Time to Buy Bitcoin?

Our Community:

Blog & Earn LEO + HIVE Rewards on https://leofinance.io
Trade LEO and Other Hive-Based Tokens on LeoDex at https://dex.leofinance.io
NEW: Track Your Hive Account Statistics on https://hivestats.io
NEW: Learn About the Crypto Space on https://leopedia.io

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@Taskmaster4450 is a popular author on the Hive blockchain and has been blogging about the future and the intersection of technology, crypto, Web 3.0 and more.

He’s an avid user of Hive and also a believer in the long-term vision of the LeoFinance community. In this discussion, we talked about many of the reasons for his investment of both time and money in the Hive blockchain and his thoughts about LeoFinance as a project.

I enjoyed this talk and I think it provides a lot of perspective into the mindset of someone who is well-informed about crypto, Hive and LeoFinance alongside the pursuit of a more abundant future through technology.

In This Episode:

Why did @taskmaster4450 get into crypto?
Thoughts on technology and the future of web 3.0
Why he uses Hive on a daily basis
What’s the motivation behind Hive
What LeoFinance means to him now and in the future

Links Mentioned:

Find @taskmaster4450 on Hive/LeoFinance at https://leofinance.io/@taskmaster4450 and his alt-account https://leofinance.io/@taskmaster4450le
Hive: https://hive.io
LeoPedia Guide to the Hive blockchain: https://leofinance.io/hive
New Hivestats application by LeoFinance at https://hivestats.io

Join the LeoFinance Community!

Blog & Earn LEO + HIVE Rewards at https://leofinance.io
Trade Hive-Based Tokens on LeoDex at https://dex.leofinance.io
NEW: Track Your Hive Account Statistics at https://hivestats.io

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Today we held another LEO Roundtable and discussed traditional markets, equities, unemployment numbers, cryptocurrencies and bond interest rates.

As always, I learned a lot during this episode and we covered a lot of ground. I always tend to find some good trade opportunities as well as some good long-term insights that impact the way I manage my portfolio.

In This Episode:

Unemployment numbers and how they’re being dampened
S&P500 to reach 3100+ before a major reversal?
Bond markets — will we reach negative interest rates on the 10 yr bonds?
What are Fibonacci levels and how are they relevant
Bitcoin reaching 10k before the halving
Swing trade opportunity: Bitcoin to retrace back to $7500 post-halving?

Our Community:

https://leofinance.io is an online community for crypto & financial content creators, powered by Hive and the LEO token economy.

Learn more about our hive-powered community at https://leofinance.io/faq.
Trade Hive-based tokens on Leodex at https://dex.leofinance.io.

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We gathered for another live LEO Roundtable on May 5th and discussed where the markets are at right now, where we think they’re going short-term and also gave some longer term outlooks as well.

We talked equities, bonds and finished it off with some BTC analysis before the halving in less than 6 days. We also talked a bit about HIVE and where we see that going in the medium-term as well.

As always, the LEO roundtable is filled with a wide variety of topics.. all related to Finance. I learn a lot each episode as we all have our own expertise in different fields.

As Mitch said in the last episode of the roundtable, these are basically a mastermind group where we all come together and bring different expertise to the game. Shedding light on the markets — both traditional and crypto — and find interesting ways to analyze and invest in these turbulent times.

In This Episode:

Short-term outlook for equities
Medium-term & long-term outlook for equities
Analyzing gaps in the chart data for trade opportunities
Bonds
Bitcoin pre-halving and post-halving
How much BTC should you own?
Crypto markets and HIVE

Show Notes: https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@khaleelkazi/mkbvyibf

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With all of the various exchange listings and marketing collaborations between Hive and major players in the crypto space, there has been a lot of increased attention over the past few weeks as Hive gains ground and takes shape.

Hive is a complex ecosystem of applications, users, social interactions, rewards pools and more. Trying to navigate this blockchain as a newcomer can be daunting and many are left without a clue where to start.

LeoPedia is also starting to take shape as we put together more guides and resources about crypto & finance.

Since the explosion in price, attention and listings for Hive, I began working on a Hive guide. I’ve done Hive guides in past videos, but never a full-on comprehensive walkthrough of the entire chain.

Obviously, there’s a lot more to Hive than what I cover in this ~55 minute video. What I do cover here are the basics of Hive alongside various walkthroughs of the main features of Hive that I think any interested investor, user, entrepreneur, developer, etc. should learn before diving into this blockchain.

If you take an hour to sit down and read/watch/listen to this guide, I think you’ll come out of it extremely impressed with what Hive is today and what it is aiming to be tomorrow.

To find the the full guide on LeoPedia (including the audio, written and video versions), head over to https://leofinance.io/hive.

In This Episode:

Hive Intro (2m 3s)
Table of Contents / Overview (2m 22s)
Basic Idea of Hive (2m 57s)
One Account to Rule Them All (6m 1s)
How to Get a Hive Account (8m 27s)
The Different Currencies on Hive (10m 24s)
The Hive Rewards Pool - What It Is and How It Works (13m 44s)
Communities on Hive and How They Work (16m 5s)
Hive Witnesses and Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) (18m 15s)
Development Proposal Voting and DAF (21m 57s)
Who Uses Hive? (25m 59s)
Applications & Interfaces (44m 4s)
Peakd.com (44m 45s)
3speak.online (47m 34s)
Hive-Engine (49m 50s)
Tools & Resources (51m 38s)

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It has been a crazy week in the markets, not just for equities and the broader financial markets, but for HIVE and crypto as well.

We kicked off this episode of the LEO Roundtable by talking about the things happening on Hive. The crazy price jump (a ~10x increase in price over a period of about 72 hours), a multitude of exchange listings and more.

We also mentioned how we are each playing this market — what we think will happen to HIVE after the listings and how we are personally trading our HIVE holdings.

We moved on to discuss Square and the Cash App — we are in agreement that it is a massive long-term play and a definitive holding for the next decade. Then we did some analysis on BA, AAPL, SPX and the broader markets. Eventually moving on to discuss Oil and rounding out the talk with the AUD/JPY pairing and how Rolland has been using it as a proxy to analyze equity markets.

In This Episode:

Hive jumped 10x in price over a 72 hour timeframe.. why it’s happening, how we are approaching it and what we think will happen to Hive over the next 1-4 weeks
Exchanges — Huobi, Binance, Bittrex.. etc.
Square (SQ) and the Cash App — An essential long-term play for the next decade?
Boeing, AAPL, SPX analysis
Oil & USO analysis
Using the AUD/JPY pairing as a proxy to analyze the equity markets

Links Mentioned:

Huobi Hive Promotion https://huobiglobal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/900000687166--EXCLUSIVE-Deposit-HIVE-on-Huobi-Global-to-Share-100-000-HIVE-
Binance Lists Hive (Happened Just After Our Discussion) https://twitter.com/binance/status/1254621704954900480
Rolland’s USO analysis https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@rollandthomas/uso-wreaked-retail-investors-this-past-week

Our Community:

https://leofinance.io is an online community for crypto & financial content creators, powered by Hive and the LEO token economy.

Learn more about our hive-powered community at https://leofinance.io/faq.
Trade Hive-based tokens on Leodex at https://dex.leofinance.io.

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What a day! HIVE is up over 60% in price on the news that Huobi is listing your friendly-neighborhood cryptocurrency.

There are a lot of amazing developments on Hive, but when the price jumps like this it has an exponential impact on the pace and scope of those developments.

For one, you see more creators/users interested in blogging/using the blockchain so they can earn more HIVE from the rewards pool.

Even more profound, however, is the impact that the price has on the DAF: Decentralized Autonomous Funding — on Hive.

The DAF has increased in value from $9 million to $15 million basically overnight. In the broader crypto space, people may consider these numbers to be next-to-nothing. On a blockchain like Hive, however, these numbers are incredibly impactful. The reason being that the funds are open, transparent and are rewarded in a decentralized manner.

Would $9 million or $15 million motivate you — as an individual developer or even as a developer group — to put out a proposal to improve the blockchain in exchange for a portion of those funds?

In This Episode:

HIVE Price Jump
Huobi Global Listing HIVE
Hobi Airdropping HIVE
Bittrex Marketing HIVE
Fundamental Developments of Hive and How a Price Increase Impacts Them
Decentralized Autonomous Funding Mechanism on Hive

Links Mentioned:

https://bittrex.com/home/markets
https://huobiglobal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/900000684263-Distribution-and-Launch-of-Hive-HIVE-at-14-00-on-April-23-GMT-8-
https://www.huobi.vc/en-us/assetintro/#hive
https://peakd.com/@steem.dao/transfers
https://3speak.online/watch?v=khaleelkazi/haztviaj

Our Community:

https://leofinance.io is an online community for crypto & financial content creators, powered by Hive and the LEO token economy.

Learn more about our hive-powered community at https://leofinance.io/faq.
Trade Hive-based tokens on Leodex at https://dex.leofinance.io.

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Security of crypto funds is the greatest debate in the space. Everyone who has spent even a millisecond of time in crypto knows that there is a risk to being uninformed when it comes to storing and using your funds.

When you don’t have third-parties — i.e. banks — involved to give you a sense of security, you need to provide security for yourself. Security comes in the form being both informed and self-aware. Some people need more third-party involvement and less responsibility while others need more responsibility and less third-party involvement.

In my opinion, hardware wallets are a beautiful middle ground to all of this. You can have the best of both worlds — security and a relatively moderate degree of responsibility.

With a bit of education in the space coupled with some experimentation and usage of these devices, the average person can have access to a bank in their pockets - as Andreas Antonopolous loves to say.

There are many hardware wallets out there and I have experimented with many of them. I often recommend Ledger Hardware wallets, as I have had a great experience with mine and the user interface is relatively intuitive.

I made this episode to answer the top 3 questions that I see when it comes to Ledger hardware wallets (and most other hardware wallets in general).

In this episode, I break down each of the 3 questions and provide the respective solutions for them. I can remember back to when I first got my Ledger Nano and was asking all the same questions, pondering the actual security of storing my crypto on such a device:

Running Out of Space on My Ledger? What Happens When I Delete an App?
What Happens to My Crypto if The Ledger Company/Software Disappear Some Day?
What Happens to My Crypto During a Firmware Update, Device Reset and/or Loss of the Device Itself?

Hopefully these questions bring you some piece of mind when it comes to using a hardware wallet. I can’t stress enough how much I hate the idea of people holding crypto on an exchange. Hardware wallets provide vastly more security, flexibility and even reduced tx fees when used properly.

Repeat after me:

Your keys, your crypto.

Not your keys, not your crypto.

Links Mentioned:

Question About Space for Apps on Ledger https://www.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/comments/g33bmf/new_to_ledger_nano_s/
Supported Ledger Apps https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/categories/115000811829-Apps
What happens if Ledger disappears? https://www.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/comments/6khkpo/what_happens_if_the_ledger_wallet_company_closes/djm4co2/
Ledger support for exporting accounts https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005297709-Export-your-accounts
Firmware Updates https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002731113-Update-device-firmware

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In the latest episode of the LEO roundtable, we kick it off by talking about the latest unemployment numbers and how they may be horribly inaccurate. We move on to discuss the markets from a broad perspective and look at oil, big tech, Apple, real estate, crypto and more.

The roundtable discussions always dig deep and we cover a lot of ground.

In This Episode:

Unemployment numbers… are the numbers all wrong?
Oil Analysis and Calendar Spreads
The Tech Sector is Backpacking the Market
AAPL chart and price analysis
Short SPY and SPY price analysis
XLT and XLF price analysis
Real estate markets and loans
Brave Browser & BAT Token Analysis
Crypto Analysis
Hive blockchain

Links Mentioned:

Neal’s Unemployment Analysis https://leofinance.io/hive-100421/@nealmcspadden/oljnbwxr
Rolland’s Oil Analysis https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@rollandthomas/wall-street-secrets-revealed-8-united-states-oil-fund-lp-uso-is-designed-to-go-down-over-time-part-2
BAT Token Burning http://brave.com/transparency
Brave Browser Verified Creator Stats https://www.bat.watch/
New LeoFinance Website https://leofinance.io

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In this week’s episode of the LEO Roundtable, we talked about some of our favorite sectors in the current market conditions. We also walked through some of the FED buying activities and how they affect our positions.

One of my favorite parts of the discussion is when we talked about Gold, Silver and Bitcoin. According to every technical/fundamental indicator, these assets may have a very bright future ahead in the near-to-medium term.

I was so excited by the talk that I went out and added SLV to my personal portfolio and picked up BTC (although, the ladder is not out of the ordinary for me).

So far, I am really enjoying these roundtable discussions. Partly because it’s great content for the LEO community, but selfishly because it’s helping me iron out my portfolio and put some more perspective behind my positions.

In this Episode:

Sectors and Companies That Will Thrive In This Time
FED Buying Activities
Corporate Bail-Outs
Gold and Silver — Silver to Be a Better ROI Than Gold In the Coming Years?
BTC — A No-Brainer Buy Right Now?
SPX/SPY Price Targets
Some Hive/Steem Updates
DCity - An NFT-Based Simulation Game

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I just listened to this Q&A clip from Andreas Antonopolous in which he addresses concerns over the security of Proof of Stake systems and a few of the potential attack vectors.

Over the past 30-40 days, we’ve seen Justin Sun take advantage of a Delegated Proof of Stake system on the Steem blockchain.

Sun did this by acquiring such a large stake in the network that he controlled the witness elections and thus, could control the rules of block production.

With Delegated Proof of Stake, having 1 person/organization (or even a handful of people) with so much control over the supply of the network is dangerous. They can change the elected officials on the blockchain at will and thus, can change the rules of the blockchain itself.

We see the same issue happening with TRON and with EOS — a small group of people have too much control over the network and with that control, they cause a high degree of centralization and manipulation. These are not true decentralized blockchain networks. They are centralized networks masquerading as decentralized networks.

These 2 major issues — a centralized force doing an OTC deal for a controlling stake acquisition and also the exchanges getting involved in proof of stake/Delegated proof of stake consensus — have been addressed by the Hive blockchain and will need to continually be addressed by other PoS/DPoS blockchains.

In This Episode:

Brief Intro to Justin’s Attack on DPoS and How He Controls the Rules of Block Production
The Danger of Centralization in PoS/DPoS (and PoW)
What if Someone Buys All the Stake of a Coin?
Justin Bypassed the Market by Doing a Closed-Door Deal
Another Attack Vector for PoS/DPoS — Centralized Exchanges
How Hive Was Formed and How it Addressed These 2 Major Points of Weakness — DAF & 30 Day Voting Lock

Links Mentioned:

Andreas Antonopolous on "The Game Theory of PoS” - https://youtu.be/MHYS0xgZ9dQ
Transparent, Open-Source Development Fund (DAF) on Hive - https://peakd.com/@steem.dao/transfers

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https://steemleo.com is an online community for crypto & financial content creators, powered by Hive and the LEO token economy.

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In this second episode of the LEO roundtable, Rolland walks us through his process for ratio analyses and also presents a few macro indicators for equities, bonds, crypto and the global markets on a broader scale.

As with the first episode of the roundtable discussion, we covered a wide range of topics. Whether you’re looking for discounted investments, the “right time” to buy back in, options trades, etc. this episode will help you get some insight on the market from a bird’s eye perspective.

The main thing that I love about these roundtable discussions is that we are able to cover these topics and analyses from all angles. We each have unique perspectives on the markets and how we approach investing, trading and analyzing the conditions that arise on a day-to-day basis.

As I said toward the end of this episode, I enjoy the fact that an options trader like Rolland can use this analysis to better position himself for long/short-term options trades while I can simultaneously utilize the same analysis to add to my long-term stock portfolio.

Mitchell (https://steemleo.com/@scaredycatguide)
Rolland (https://steemleo.com/@rollandthomas)
Neal (https://steemleo.com/@nealmcspadden)
Khal (https://steemleo.com/@khaleelkazi)

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In this episode of the podcast, I’m joined by Mitchell (https://steemleo.com/@scaredycatguide), Rolland (https://steemleo.com/@rollandthomas) and Neal (https://steemleo.com/@nealmcspadden) for the first ever LEO Roundtable discussion.

We each have a very different perspective in how we look at the markets and how we choose to invest in them. It’s interesting to see everything culminate as we take a look at the data, charts and fundamentals.

The episode ran over 1 1/2 hours and we covered a wide range of topics:

Bitcoin price analysis as we approach the halving event
Equity markets and what the charts tell us
Small businesses and how the COVID situation is impacting them
Long-term IWM puts
The Hive community hard fork
Steem-Engine/Hive-Engine debate
Metals

We’re still working out a regular schedule for each roundtable discussion and we already recorded 2 this week. We're planning on getting together and doing a show at least 1x per week moving forward. The meetings are held live each week on Zoom, so feel free to jump in and throw up some questions in the chat next time we go live.

Join the LeoFinance Discord for updates: https://discord.gg/KgcVDKQ

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Today on the LEO podcast, I was joined by Rachel Siegel with CryptoFinally. We had a great conversation about the crypto space, day-to-day activities on various platforms, the Hive community situation, tribalism in the broader industry and more.

In This Episode:

How did you get into the crypto space?
How do you describe what you do in the space?
What does your day-to-day look like? Where do you spend your time? What are you reading, listening or watching to stay informed?
What are your thoughts about the whole Hive situation and the community that is forming around it?
What are your thoughts about 3speak?
What’s happening in the crypto space that excites you today?
So looking to the future of crypto — What are some of the primary developments you think need to happen in the crypto space to achieve “mass adoption”? — everyday use of crypto for the average person.

Learn More About Rachel and Follow CryptoFinally:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CryptoFinally
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzPaGwO9MY5_xUNuwHEzR4Q
3Speak: https://3speak.online/user/cryptofinally
Website: https://rachelsiegelnyc.com/crypto-finally

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Hive investor & entrepreneur - Theycallmedan - recently put out an initiative on the Hive blockchain and asked users to make a post talking about what Hive means to them. Where they see the future for Hive in terms of potential, development, etc.

In this episode of the LEO Show, I covered my thoughts on Hive now and in the future. I gave a few of the reasons as to why I believe Hive can achieve the mission of being the gateway to crypto that Steem was always meant to be, but didn't have the means and motivation to accomplish.

In This Episode:

Q: What is Hive to You?
A Clean Slate
Q: What do you want to see HIVE evolve into?
What Hive already is
What Hive can become
Q: What do you think about having a large funded DAO for future HIVE development?
Exponential funding
Ability to attract more developers
Q: What does HIVE mean to you?

Links Mentioned:

https://hive.io/
https://twitter.com/lukestokes/status/1243017553791848449
https://twitter.com/FinanceLeo/status/1242907129771687937
https://twitter.com/Cointelegraph/status/124284671619105996
https://www.stateofthedapps.com/rankings
https://twitter.com/FinanceLeo/status/1242313678092996613
https://peakd.com/@steem.dao/transfers

Our Community:

https://steemleo.com is an online community for crypto & financial content creators, powered by Hive and the LEO token economy.

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It’s not just about succeeding in this global financial crisis — some people thought that BTC/crypto would actually rise in a recession. The key is that the mainstream conversation about markets, central banks and monetary policies will shift to talking about sound financial policies outside the traditional banking system — something that BTC was literally created to solve.

In This Episode

Multi-Trillion Dollar Stimulus and unsound monetary policies entering the mainstream conversation
Bitcoin’s raison d’etre is to be a sound form of currency that is globally accessible, easily transportable and decentralized
As central banks print to “infinity” — to use their terminology — we’ll see a focus on stores of value with limited supplies and transportability. Gold is great and I think it’ll go up as well, but we’re moving toward a high-speed digital age. BTC solves the issues that gold solves in terms of “sound money” AND it also is way easier to transport than Gold or virtually any other store of wealt
Ethereum, alt-coins, DeFi and the need for Web 3.0 systems to help everyone bank outside the banking system — it’s not just for the unbanked

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Being involved in the Steem blockchain has been a wild ride. Not just over the past several weeks as we’ve dealt with the unpredictable and erratic behavior of Justin Sun and his team, but also over the past several years as we’ve dealt with the deadweight of Steemit, Inc. led by Ned Scott.

Over the past 3-4 days, we saw the launch of the Hive Blockchain — a fork of the Steem blockchain that is led by the vast majority of the Steem community.

As many have said, this is no ordinary fork of a blockchain. One of the primary reasons why this is no ordinary fork is because there is such a profound majority of people backing the fork comparative to the “original chain”.

In blockchain speak, the network with the most backing is the one who will succeed the most. Steem is now a centralized chain. I wouldn’t even call it a blockchain at this point because Justin Sun controls all 20 of the witnesses (even the ones he claims are “community-operated” which to him is another word for “witnesses-I-bribed”).

Hive is a true blockchain. It is truly decentralized. There is no CEO of Hive. There is no company behind Hive. There really isn’t even an “organization” behind Hive in the traditional sense.

What governs Hive is an active group of community members who love decentralization and love content and love creativity and developing dApps that people use each and every day.

For these reasons and more, Hive has vastly more potential than Steem ever did. I talk about these reasons in today’s episode of the LeoFinance podcast.

In This Episode:

Hive Has Community-Ownership. Not a Steemit Overlord.
Proposal System — As HIVE Thrives, Community Projects ACTUALLY Get More Funding (rather than a loose promise from Steemit about a Dev fund that they sold off to Justin)
Bittrex + Probit Listings With More Exchanges On the Way
Vitalik + Dan Larimer Interested and Paying Attention to Hive (where their attention goes, many follow)
Cointelegraph Press: Hive Trades for a Premium Over Steem
Cointelegraph Press: Justin Sun is Censoring Content on Steemit that is About Hive

Links Mentioned:

https://hive.io/
https://steempeak.com/@steem.dao/transfers
https://peakd.com/@steem.dao/transfers
https://peakd.com/me/proposals
https://twitter.com/BittrexExchange/status/1241458174147911680
https://twitter.com/FinanceLeo/status/1241409662567829504/photo/1
https://cointelegraph.com/news/hive-trades-for-20-premium-over-steem-on-bittrex-crypto-exchange
https://cointelegraph.com/news/justin-suns-steemit-accused-of-censoring-hive-related-content

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Congrats to the whole community! The Hive blockchain is alive and running! It is truly incredible to see so many talented and passionate community members and developers come together to make this chain a reality.

Make no mistake — this is a manifestation of the Steem community. Justin Sun came along, acquires Steemit, Inc. and acted as if he owned the entire Steem blockchain.

He colluded with exchanges, he attacked our governance, he installed hostile witness nodes. He used his entire repertoire to try and take control of this community. We responded by rallying together and voting up our duly elected witnesses and created a stalemate on the Steem blockchain.

After weeks of trying to make the best of the situation and work with Justin, we found that he was abusive, corrupt and highly unmotivated to cooperate with the Steem community and our elected witnesses.

The community’s solution? Fork over to our own blockchain and give Justin Sun, his sock puppets and Steemit, Inc. the boot. They can enjoy an empty blockchain over on Steem as all of our amazing apps and developers, businesses and content creators move to Hive.

Hive is the people's blockchain. Hive is a manifestation of the Steem community’s heart and soul. Our passion for community, cooperation and content creation and curation.

This episode of the LEO Show will dive into the basics of using the Hive blockchain now that it is up and running. I’ll run through how to use the https://peakd.com interface to post, curate and more.

I also briefly talk about the changes coming to Steemleo. We are currently developing and testing changes and as of right now (as I post this), you are able to make posts from https://steemleo.com and they will show up on the Hive Blockchain instead of Steem. Those posts are eligible for both HIVE and LEO token rewards. More updates will be released shortly.

In This Episode:

How to Login to Hive (PeakSigner)
How to View Your Balances
How to Make a Post
How to Earn HIVE
How to Post to the “SteemLeo” Community (Now Called LeoFinance — Post On that to Follow this Video) and Earn LEO
Upcoming Changes + HiveProjects.io — Hive Keychain, 3Speak and Other dApps are all migrating to Hive

Links Mentioned:

https://hive.io/
https://peakd.com/communityfork/@hiveio/hive-is-arriving-shortly-what-to-expect-when-expecting-a-hardfork
https://hiveblocks.com/
https://hivekings.com/witnesses
https://hiveprojects.io/
https://peakd.com/c/hive-167922/created

Our Community:

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We’re officially about 19 hours away from the Hive launch as I put the finishing touches on this upload and write this post.

The STEEM price has rallied to an insane degree. Going up as much as 200% and currently holding at about +88% on the day. STEEM rallied from $0.12 to now $0.33 and climbing.

We’re seeing an incredible amount of volume on the exchanges and we’re also seeing an incredible amount of attention in the crypto space. Several crypto KOLs (key opinion leaders) including Vitalik Buterin have tweeted about the Steem & Hive situation in support of the community moving to Hive.

Vitalik said he’s keeping a close eye on Steem & Hive and if Hive overtakes Steem in terms of market cap/general usage, then it will be an amazing testament to decentralized communities and the inability for people like Justin Sun to buy a community.

The Steem and Now Hive Community are charting new territories. We are testing the waters and we are paving the path for future decentralized communities.

I’m so happy to have a front-row seat to such a fascinating situation. It’s stressful and there are plenty of long hours, but this community is worth it and the reward waiting for us as we buidl our community going forward can’t go understated.

In This Episode:

STEEM Up 200% on News of Hardfork and Upcoming Airdrop for HIVE Tokens
Major Volume Increase for STEEM
Massive Bump In Press & Attention From The Crypto Space, Including Vitalik Buterin
Binance & Other Exchanges Are Honoring The Airdrop
Several Exchanges Have Announced Listings for HIVE/BTC
Anyx Node and Other Key Apps/Infrastructure Announce the Move to Hive
Justin is Buying Up STEEM and Moving to Exchanges to Get HIVE. Is This a Potential Threat to Hive?

Links Mentioned:

Steem Volume & Price: https://coinmarketcap.com/
Vitalik Tweets About Steem & Hive: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1240605327122464768
Binance Announcing Hive Airdrop Support: https://twitter.com/binance/status/1240267889933860867
Bithumb Announcing Hive Airdrop Support: https://twitter.com/BithumbOfficial/status/1240479336211202051
Anyx Moving to Hive: https://steemleo.com/hive/@anyx/it-s-time-to-decentralize
Justin Acquiring STEEM & Moving it To Exchanges: https://steemd.com/@hkdev404

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It’s official! The entire community has spent weeks debating and discussing the possibility of a hard fork. Now that we see a plan and roadmap in place and a hard launch date, the discussions are shifting from how to fork to how will the fork go.

There are still quite a few unknowns, but speaking in a broad sense — this is an amazing thing for the Steem community.

It allows the community to develop its own fork. To disconnect from the centralization of Justin Sun and Steemit, Inc. that has been weighing us down for the past 4 years.

Over these past 4 years, developers and community members have taken this blockchain from a tiny little blogging interface and a database into being a flourishing community with hundreds of applications and developers that are all passionate about a shared mission — Web 3.0

Hive has the potential to be everything that we all have wanted Steem to be for so long. Without having to carry the weight of a failed company — Steemit, Inc. — Hive can move freely and under the leadership of the Steem community.

When Hive launches, it will be essentially and exact clone of Steem with just a few minor tweaks to ensure that the DPoS (delegated proof of stake) governance is more secure than before. Preventing Justin Sun, Steemit, Inc. and the exchanges from overtaking the governance of a new chain.

In This Episode:

Why Hive? Why Now?
What is Hive?
Who Is Behind Hive?
The Hive Team is More than 10x Bigger than The Steemit, Inc. Team
Will Exchanges Honor the Airdrop?
How to Receive Your Airdrop
How to Use Hive
Hive Launch Date: Friday, March 20th at 10 AM EST

Links Mentioned:

https://hive.io/ - Hive Landing Page
https://hive.blog/ - Hive Condenser
https://steemleo.com/communityfork/@hiveio/announcing-the-launch-of-hive-blockchain - Hive Announcement
https://twitter.com/binance/status/1240267889933860867 - Binance Supporting the Airdrop

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https://steemleo.com is an online community for crypto & financial content creators, powered by Steem and the LEO token economy.

Learn more about our steem-powered community at https://steemleo.com/faq.
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Early last week, CZ from Binance put out a multitude of statements ousting Justin Sun and essentially admitting that Justin had sent out details for an “upgrade” to Binance’s team under false pretenses.

This “upgrade” was in fact the call for Binance to power up all the STEEM held on the exchange and vest it into STEEM POWER. Once it was powered up, it could be used to vote in Justin’s Witnesses. Which CZ and Binance did.

The statements made it seem as though Binance was either very naive and ignorant or very greedy and were well compensated for their involvement.

Withdrawals of STEEM have been on lockdown since this event took place. Users have been unable to withdraw from the exchange. Up until today — Justin Sun received millions of STEEM in transfers from the @binance-hot wallet WHILE the exchange’s withdrawal feature was still on lockdown.

Either Binance is continuing to collude with Justin Sun or Justin outright owns the keys to Binance’s Steem account. I think it’s the former, but who knows with these guys. It’s apparent that people like CZ and Justin Sun are money-hungry and power-hungry. They’ll stop at nothing to enrich themselves and push for more control over the crypto space.

In This Episode:

Continual collusion with Binance, CZ and Justin Sun — JS withdrawals a massive amount of STEEM from Binance while their system was still offline for withdrawals
Justin is Happy to talk to the community. Then blocks everyone on Steem who tweets @ him including a bunch of tron users
Witness war update — despite collusion between the biggest exchange in all of crypto and a mega-rich corrupt investor like Justin Sun, we’re still holding our ground
We are Steem

Links Mentioned:

https://steem.arcange.eu/witnesses/
https://twitter.com/justinsuntron
https://steemleo.com/steem/@justinsunsteemit/justinsunsteemit-witness-voting-policy
https://twitter.com/steemleo/status/1239573165816385536
https://steemd.com/@hkdev404

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Today marked another major downturn for both equities and cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is down over 25% and equities are down over 7% as of this recording.

We are at the beginning of a long-term stay-at-home economy. The potential impact of COVID-19 on businesses, employees, entrepreneurs, investors and everyone else is unknown at this point.

It’s hard to say whether we’re going to see crypto/bitcoin develop as a safe haven asset or if we’ll see it follow the rest of the markets as people panic sell into cash to stave off potential risk.

Links Mentioned:

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=GEMINI%3ABTCUSD
https://twitter.com/BW/status/1238076302428475393
https://twitter.com/crypt0snews/status/1237822131540357120
https://twitter.com/jimcramer/status/1238089818942341120

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Learn more about our steem-powered community at https://steemleo.com/faq.
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The Binance saga seems to be drawing to a close as CZ and Binance itself have issued multiple apologies and statements regarding the Steem Hostile Takeover and their involvement in helping Justin Sun overthrow the governance of the Steem Blockchain.

Obviously, their apologies are carefully worded and they don’t really appear to take on much blame at all. Any blame aimed at them was redirected toward Justin. Ultimately, CZ chalked up his part of this “fiasco” as a simple lack of understanding when he signed off on the hard fork, powerup of STEEM and installment of fake witnesses.

Still, Binance has retracted the vote and initiated a power down of the customer funds that they used in the hostile takeover.

This doesn’t make up for the fact that they took part in a hostile takeover that is still ongoing. Without Binance’s involvement, the hostile takeover would never have happened. Steem would have never had Justin Sun in charge of the entire blockchain with 20 fake witness accounts and we would have likely resolved the power struggle in closed door meetings with Tron and Justin.

Instead, we (the Steem Community) have been forced into an ongoing battle for the top witness spots. We currently hold 9/20 of these spots and are fighting Justin who is leveraging both the Steemit, Inc. ninja-mined stake as well as Poloniex’s customer funds.

Justin has also been neglecting the duties of running Steemit, Inc. and certain functionalities are already falling apart at the seams like account recovery.

I talk about this and more in today’s SteemLeo Show Podcast Episode.

Links Mentioned:

https://www.binance.com/en/blog/421499824684900453/A-Letter-to-the-STEEM-Community
https://twitter.com/steemleo/status/1237404393139552256
https://twitter.com/TheCryptoDrive/status/1237295220342943745
How to change your recovery account using steemworld https://twitter.com/ausbitbank/status/1237420987747938304
Status of the top witnesses https://steempeak.com/me/witnesses
Shady Deals Between Justin, Ned and Poloniex? https://twitter.com/okean12345/status/1237384375668338689

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Crypto mass adoption is a mainstream conversation in the space. People are continually wondering how mass adoption will come about and more importantly WHEN it will come about.

For me, mass adoption means a lot of different things. We’re all unique in this world and we have unique needs and desires for cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.

Regardless of how you use cryptocurrency, I believe that mass adoption is largely in the hands of the people. It’s people like you and I who will bring others into this space and take them by the hand as they learn the ropes.

Apps like Venmo have built their user base largely on word of mouth and peer-to-peer usage. Whether it’s a DeFi app or just simple day-to-day payments, crypto is no different. We need peer-to-peer use cases and we need people to start regarding cryptocurrencies as something you EARN rather than something you INVEST in.

In this Episode:

How YOU Can Make a Difference in Crypto Mass Adoption

Scalability, privacy, decentralized identity and developer tool solutions
Crypto vs. the internet
Real-world adoption right now and in the future. What will it look like?
Investing vs. earning crypto — how to benefit the most from the crypto revolution

Links Mentioned:

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=GEMINI%3ABTCUSD
https://www.coindesk.com/steem-community-mobilizes-popular-vote-in-battle-with-justin-sun
https://cash.app/

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There was finally a closed-door meeting between the Steem witnesses, Justin Sun and Eli Powell the other day where many of the current governance issues on the blockchain were discusses.

For the most part, the meeting was relatively productive in understand Justin Sun a bit better. For me, I confirmed my suspicions that Justin really doesn’t understand anything about Steem and he bought Steemit, Inc. under false pretenses from Ned.

In my opinion, Ned deceived Justin in more ways than one about Steemit, Inc. and the Steem blockchain.

Ned has come out and said that he pursued many acquisition deals until finally he found Justin and they came to an agreement.

In my opinion, the prior deals all fell through because the companies looking to acquire Steemit, Inc. dug up all of the dirt on the company and how Ned had made promises that he didn’t plan to keep and how he ultimately did nothing for the past 3 years and ran the company into the ground since Dan’s exit.

Again, this is all my speculation, but I believe Justin was fooled by Ned because Justin’s team is mostly incompetent — especially when it comes to technical details.

Justin claimed in this chat that his team did due diligence, but only on the documentation provided by Ned. That is not called due diligence, that is called naiveté and poor business practice. You don’t buy a house and take the seller’s word that there aren’t any leaks in it. You have it inspected before you sign the deal.

Anyways, in this talk I just find the key points from the meeting between Justin, Eli and the witnesses. I also conclude with what is (in my opinion) the easiest path forward — a win-win for all parties involved. Justin declining the right to vote on consensus and the Steem Blockchain witnesses signing an on-chain agreement that they will never touch Steemit’s stake in the Steem Blockchain ever again as long as the decline_voting_rights op is in place.

Links Mentioned:

https://twitter.com/steemleo/status/1235070032255868931 (Witness chat recording)
https://steemleo.com/steem/@informationwar/q6oo43 (Collection of evidence for the use of Steemit Stake)

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Today is a much happier day than yesterday.

We saw Justin Sun walk up, collude with Binance, Huobi and Poloniex to steal our Steem car.

After he stole the car by installing his own top 20 sock puppet witnesses (all running on 1 node, btw), his team got to work on a hard fork that would solidify some of the bullshit tactics that he’s been spewing. Effectively disrupting Steem as we know it.

The community did not have any of this. Today, we’ve spent countless hours on Twitter and Steem in order to rally support and vote in the previous top 20 witnesses back into consensus. As of this writing, we are now at 6 out of the 20 witnesses in power and it is growing every hour.

Over the course of the next 12 hours, I believe we will once again have consensus majority (16/20 witnesses) and will be back in the driver’s seat of the Steem Blockchain. From there, we can figure out how to proceed with Justin Sun. I assume we will install the decline_voting_rights operation to his stake, at the least, and essentially tell him to become a silent investor.

We don’t need him. We’re stronger without him and without people who are just as bad (or even worse) than Ned.

Today is a great day for Steem. Celebrate this day and don’t forget to vote for your REAL witnesses.

If you don’t know how to vote for witnesses or don’t want to know (or spend the time to do it). There’s an easy solution — vote @steem.leo as your proxy witness.

By doing this, you give us the effective power of your witness vote (doesn’t impact your voting power on steem rewards) and directs it toward the witnesses that we vote on.

Click this link to set steem.leo as your proxy or head over to a site like Steemworld.org to do it manually.

Links Mentioned:

https://twitter.com/steemleo/status/1234934689896583175
https://steempeak.com/me/witnesses
https://steemleo.com/steemleo/@steem.leo/250-leo-bounty-massive-upvotes-or-vote-for-witnesses-proxy-and-earn
https://twitter.com/steemleo/status/1234907666033651713
https://twitter.com/steemit/status/1234921590455816192
https://steemit.com/steemit/@vandeberg/an-update
https://www.coindesk.com/steem-community-mobilizes-popular-vote-in-battle-with-justin-sun
https://twitter.com/Dalz19631657/status/1234930800510013440/photo/1

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Today I woke up to some saddening news. Something that I could have never anticipated.

Justin Sun has taken control of the top 20 witness spots on the Steem Blockchain. He now controls all of the top 20 delegated proof of stake block produces. Meaning that he can do anything he wants to the Steem Blockchain and there’s not a damn thing we can do to stop him.

This is the exact reason why the soft fork was put into place — to keep this shithead from doing something like this and taking over OUR blockchain. OUR community’s home.

How did he do it though? I was so confused… that is, until I saw the transaction data.

He did it by paying Binance and Huobi something on the order of half a million USD+ in bribes to STAKE ALL OF THE STEEM held on their custodial exchanges and use it to proxy vote Justin Sun’s witness voting account.

We can’t fully confirm that these were bribes, but millions of STEEM being sent to the exchange accounts from Steemit, Inc. accounts minutes after the proxies are set?? If it looks like a bribe and smells like a bribe….

In this video, I am a bit heated. This is a passionate subject for me.

Steem is not dead. Far from it. We are not the Steem Blockchain. We are a community of Steemians. We can live and thrive anywhere, regardless of what our banner is called.

Links Mentioned:

Steemleo Tweet Thread with live updates on breaking news: https://twitter.com/steemleo/status/1234511916611112967
User Funds being locked from withdrawal on Binance https://twitter.com/FeruzM/status/1234552656783343616
Transactions indicating possible bribes to exchanges like Binance and Huobi https://steemd.com/@misterdelegation
https://steemd.com/@deepcrypto8
Proxy voting account held by Justin Sun https://steemd.com/@dev365
Current Top 20 witnesses — all controlled by Sun https://twitter.com/steemleo/status/1234512765550841858/photo/1
Steemit’s Bullshit Letter explaining their collusion and corrupt activities https://steemleo.com/tron/@steemitblog/an-open-letter-to-the-community-hf22-5

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Warren Buffet was recently interviewed on CNBC and was asked about his opinions on cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin after his dinner with Justin Sun and a few of his “crypto buddies”.

There is no doubt that Buffett is an incredible value investor, but when it comes to evaluating cutting edge technologies, he may not have the best track record. He has made a MASSIVE bet on Apple, but he didn’t make that bet until 2016 — when the company was already a global behemoth with a massive amount of positive cash flow.

Buffett doesn’t predict “the next technological breakthrough”, instead, he focuses on income-producing assets that are tangible in the here and now and can reliably grow in the future. That’s why I believe his perspective on investments regarding innovative technologies ought to be taken with a grain of salt.

In This Episode:

Titans of industry — a direct correlation to be anti-disruption
Lack of technological awareness
Lack of research in the industry — listen to people who talk about shit they know. Warren Buffett is an amazing person — maybe even the best person — to listen to when it comes to value investing. Buffett was anti-Apple until 2016 when he purchased a large stake. Now he calls Apple ‘probably the best business I know in the world'
Buffett’s principles of value investing make him an incredibly successful investor when it comes to buying companies that are already valuable and will continue to be valuable in the future. He DOES NOT make his money by predicting the future flow of innovation. It’s all about cash flow and assets.
Crypto is completely outside the realm of his understanding. He focuses on cash flow and how to purchase more INCOME PRODUCING assets. To him, Bitcoin is the same thing (or maybe even worse) than Gold because as he has said in the past — Gold is only good for looking at it. You can’t do anything with Gold. It doesn’t produce any income. With Bitcoin, Buffett values it even lower than Gold because you can’t even look at it or wear it.

Links Mentioned:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/24/warren-buffett-cryptocurrency-has-no-value
https://cointelegraph.com/news/anthony-pompliano-speaks-to-cnn-about-warren-buffett-and-bitcoin

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We have a need. A need for diversification.

I just had a conversation on Sunday about markets at all time highs, irrational greed and the potential impact of the Corona Virus and other global market factors.

In the conversation, I was asked what I would do if I was holding stocks for the long-haul — 10+ years — in an environment when prices seem irrational and greed is continually mounting.

My answer: sell small %’s on the way up and diversify into things that might do well in a potential bear market.

This is what I’ve been doing since the start of 2020. Moving my long-term positions around (in very small chunks) into things that hedge against the risk of a potentially major correction in the markets.

Links Mentioned:

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/ (Charts for S&P500, Gold and Bitcoin)

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Hope for the best. Plan for the worst. Keep your eyes open.

At 5pm Eastern time, soft fork 0.22.2 was announced by the Steem Blockchain witnesses. This soft fork was discussed and implemented by the witnesses after hearing a myriad of concerns regarding the Steemit, Inc. acquisition by Justin Sun and the subsequent press releases which gave contradictory messages about Justin’s plans for Steemit and his large newly acquired stake in the Steem blockchain.

Steem is not Steemit.

This message rings truer now more than ever before. There are 2 major sides to this argument:

Did the Steem community and witnesses just prove how decentralized Steem is and how a decentralized community should operate?
Or did we just set a dangerous precedent regarding DPoS and blockchain-based assets?

In this episode:

Steem is never lacking in the drama department
We faced an existential threat to the chain and our community warranted a response of some type to defend our home based on Tron announcements
Tron marketing teams and their PR is either intentionally misleading or horribly misinformed
A decentralized proof of Steem's governance model
Temporary fix until proper discussions are had between Steem and Justin Sun… what does this soft fork actually do?
Community is divided on whether this was a good move or not — dangerous precedence or logical downside mitigation?
Witness statements and reasoning for why they support or don’t support this soft fork
Justin’s quick and cordial response — a good first step, but also his only real option. We’ll know more on the 6th of March when there is an open dialogue

Links Mentioned:

https://steemit.com/steem/@softfork222/soft-fork-222
https://medium.com/@TronFoundation/steemit-joining-tron-ecosystem-6ad66584d0b
https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1229304521123192832
https://github.com/steemit/steem/blob/master/LICENSE.md
https://support.poloniex.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043406513-Coming-Soon-STEEM-Token-Swap
https://cointelegraph.com/news/steemit-to-shift-its-proprietary-blockchain-and-token-to-tron-network
https://steemleo.com/cryptocurrency/@blocktrades/the-fundamental-underpinning-of-blockchain-consensus
https://steemleo.com/hive-111111/@therealwolf/steem-protective-soft-fork-v0-22-2
https://steemit.com/steemit/@justinsunsteemit/open-letter-to-steem-community
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSkOFo2WA9I

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One of the most long-awaited features of the Steem blockchain has been Communities. Communities exist both in a back-end and front-end environment.

On the back-end, communities have been developed under the “Hivemind” protocol. On the front-end, they can be seen in a myriad of places and displayed in all sorts of fascinating ways — Steemleo.com shows only our community (for crypto & financial content), Steempeak.com shows all the communities (similar to Steemit, but in their own visual representation) and now Steemit.com shows the fundamental base of communities and all the various ones on the blockchain.

In this episode of the Steemleo podcast, we talk:

The Value of Communities to the Steem Blockchain
Justin Sun and His Involvement With Steem
Explore the Communities Page
Show Off the Features of an Individual Community
How to Use Communities
The Best Way to Use Steemleo — Get the Best of Both Worlds
How Communities Are the First Step to Revitalizing the Image of Steem & Steemit to the Rest of the Crypto World and Beyond

Links Mentioned:

https://steemit.com/trending/hive-167922 (Steemleo Community)
https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemitblog/communities-have-arrived
https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1230558161381150724
https://twitter.com/realNedScott/status/1230597458411081728
https://twitter.com/TheycallmeDan_/status/1230590038464847872
https://steemleo.com/faq
https://steemleo.com

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The announcement of Justin Sun buying Steemit, Inc. has been met with so many mixed feelings and confusion. It’s a big deal for anyone who’s paying attention to Steem.

There’s good and bad to this whole situation. So far, nothing bad has happened. We’ve seen Steemit, Inc. leave the hands of a founder who had grown uninterested in the project (Ned) and lacked vision, execution and resources to bring Steem(it) any further.

In my view, all the same risks exist. Ned could just as easily use Steemit and his STEEM stake to overtake the blockchain in the same way that people are worried that Justin might try to do.

The thing that kept Ned from doing that is the same thing that will keep Justin from doing it and it also happens to be the same reason why 51% attacking the BTC network doesn’t make any sense — the game is created in such a way that the financial incentives lie in propping up the blockchain and growing the network, not tearing it down.

If Justin stomps Steem into the ground, then he loses a major investment. It doesn’t make financial sense. If Justin, however, allows the Steemit team to continue their development on Communities and SMTs (not to be confused with MSTs), and then he puts his full marketing dollars and weight behind those launches and announces them to the world… think of what that could do for Steem. Think of all the major attention that our blockchain will get.

The floodgates could open once again.

There are pros and cons to every situation. There is a bright side, but you have to be willing to look at it. Keep your awareness about the downside and understand the risks of having Justin in a position of power, but also keep your awareness about the upside and understand the benefits of having Justin in a position of power.

In this episode of the Steemleo Show, I give a bit of a rant as I recap the long day we had yesterday between the AMA followed by the witness chat and then give my thoughts on the future of Steem as we know it.

Links Mentioned:

https://steemleo.com/hive-136578/@midlet/steem-tron-thoughts-the-best-we-could-have-hoped-for
https://dex.steemleo.com/market/LEO

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Hey everyone. After a crazy day and all sorts of wild speculation from the Steem community about what’s going to happen now that Tron and Justin Sun have officially purchased Steemit, Inc., I decided to collect all the information that is available to us and give my opinions on this whole situation.

Please keep this in mind when you listen to this video and also when you hear anyone else in the community talking about this — we have such a small amount of information about this whole ordeal. Aside from a few tweets and 1 non-comprehensive blog post, we haven’t heard much of anything about this deal. We also have gotten 0 response from Steemit, Inc. other than Ned’s 1 tweet in which he called us “Steemitans”, whatever that means.

In this episode of the Steemleo show, I just review the data that I could scrape together and give my 2 cents on it. Hope you enjoy!

Links Mentioned:

https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1228350189129191424
https://medium.com/@TronFoundation/steemit-joining-tron-ecosystem-6ad66584d0b
https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1228350993420578817
https://twitter.com/Poloniex/status/1228352737081020416
https://twitter.com/realNedScott/status/1228364811622322178
https://steemleo.com/mspwaves/@aggroed/steem-witness-forum-tomorrow-immediately-following-the-tron-meeting-on-mspwaves
https://steemleo.com/steem-engine/@aggroed/a-note-about-layer-2-solutions
https://steemleo.com/ama/@theycallmedan/surprise-ama
https://steemleo.com/steem/@abh12345/don-t-let-the-sun-go-down-on-me
https://steemleo.com/tron/@lukestokes/steem-is-still-not-steemit-even-if-tron-buys-steemit
https://steemd.com/tx/79d8c235801172958537715d3ffa43789cbbfbf4
https://steemd.com/tx/63e39da9d2b442564b278a479ea0ac43f4636eb6
https://dex.steemleo.com/market/LEO

EDIT — As I was editing and uploading this episode, Justin Sun made his first post on the Steem blockchain in which he just reiterates the position of Tron with the goal of bringing value to the Steem community as he and the Steem community now have the aligned goal of increasing the value of the STEEM token. https://steemit.com/steem/@justinsunsteemit/excited-about-tron-and-steem-steemit-collaboration

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Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell gave a testimony yesterday and during the questioning section, was asked about the Fed’s plans for digital currency in light of China, Libra and other countries and corporations making headway on implementing various systems.

The Chairman had a fair amount to say about digital currencies, saying that the fed is “taking a deep look” at digital currency.

It’s very early stages and there is not going to be any sort of fedcoin anytime soon, but the chairman did have quite a bit to say about privacy and the importance of thoroughly investigating these technologies.

In this podcast episode, I dive into the brief discussion of digital currencies and my opinions about how this (and other similar) conversation(s) impact Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a whole.

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-chair-jay-powell-grilled-on-chinas-cryptocurrency-plans-us-response-211840877.html (video and article)

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Coinbase put out an article a few days ago which outlined some of their reasoning for drawing a few comparisons between gold and Bitcoin.

As we approach the halvening, certain metrics such as the stock-to-flow model are starting to make BTC reflect a gold-like level of scarcity, especially in terms of newly minted Bitcoin.

In this episode, I review the article and cover the various talking points that Coinbase brings up.

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

https://blog.coinbase.com/digital-gold-scarcity-and-bitcoin-halvings-1d6cc16f3e8d

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I had the incredible honor of interviewing @theycallmedan from the Steem blockchain. Dan is a former pro poker player, quora writer, investor and entrepreneur. He has quite a bit of experience in the crypto space and has weathered the storms of being an investor in volatile markets and being a poker player who needs to manage a finite bankroll.

Dan is the Co-Founder of 3speak.online - a decentralized video streaming service built on the Steem blockchain. 3speak is providing a safe, secure and censorship-resistant platform to video content creators. In a world of uncertainty coming from centralized web 2.0 sites such as YouTube, 3speak is providing a much needed sense of security and ownership to content creators across the globe.

This is just the beginning for 3speak as a decentralized hub for video content. In this episode, Dan talks about many of the innovations happening at 3speak right now and in the near future.

Learn more about Dan and 3speak:

3speak.online
Steemit.com/@theycallmedan

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In today's podcast, I talk about the latest developments out of the Cash App and Square's team that is working on crypto-related projects. The Cash App offers a convenient solution for buying, depositing and withdrawing Bitcoin.

Along with this convenience comes an even greater one - the Visa Debit card that you can get with the Cash App that allows you to instantly convert BTC into USD and spend them at any local or online store. This makes it super easy to use the Cash App as a "hot wallet" for the BTC funds that you are spending in the near-future.

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Links Mentioned:

https://cash.app/app/XGPQRKB (The Cash App)
https://twitter.com/Xentagz/status/1091710417293004800 (Jack Dorsey on Bitcoin and crypto)
https://medium.com/@squarecrypto/what-were-building-lightning-development-kit-1ed58b0cab06 (Square Crypto's new LDK project)

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In today's episode, I cover the idea of crypto adoption and how it may be a little further away than you think. In order for mass adoption to happen, we need to have better systems in place. Topics covered:

The price of crypto is irrelevant to the development of crypto… in 2017, we saw exactly what happens when the price of crypto outpaces the development of crypto
We’re still missing key elements for mass adoption:
Infrastructure
Scaling
User interfaces & education around crypto
The pace of adoption is limited by the background development surround these areas
It gets built in the bear market.. the money is distracting.. the speculation is distracting

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I’ve talked about this several times both on this podcast as well as during interviews about Steemleo and my thoughts on the future of the Steem blockchain.

One of my driving reasons for creating Steemleo was to build a platform that could both incentivize current Steem users who created high quality investment content but also find new content creators and investment-enthusiasts and onboard them to Steem.

I have a few different ideas for how to do this and some of these ideas have already yielded some results. Through Steemleo, I’ve onboarded a handful of new users and have encouraged them to both post/read regularly in the Steemleo community.

One of the most important aspects to building a successful network is to have a consistently growing user base. As you get 1 new user, then 10 new users and then eventually hundreds and thousands of new users, you can begin noticing the network effects coming into play.

10 users convert 5 family members and become 15 users. Then those 5 new users branch out and rope in even more new users. The snowball starts rolling down the hill and things escalate quickly.

In today’s podcast, I talk about the current & future plans for onboarding new users to Steemleo (and the Steem blockchain) after having a conversation with a new user who I just onboarded right before the recording of this episode, so the ideas discussed were fresh in my mind.

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STEEM is below $0.20 and many of the alts are bleeding as well. When crypto prices are dropping, what can we do?

What do we do as long-term investors and hodlers? What are our options? How can we proceed in a seemingly endless crypto winter?

In today’s podcast, I talk about the 2 options you have in a long-term bear market when you’re a deeply passionate crypto investor. This applies not only to STEEM, but to any crypto project out there.

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Discuss the podcast episodes over on the Steem blockchain and earn LEO + STEEM rewards.

If you don’t have a Steem account, then feel free to get in touch with the Steemleo team via Twitter or Discord and we’ll get you setup.

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What 3 Things Do You Tell Someone Who's Interested In Crypto but Doesn't Know Anything About It?

Anyone who's been in crypto long enough knows what it's like to have a conversation about crypto with someone who knows nothing about it but is curious to learn more.

It's very difficult to explain crypto in a short conversation. I mean, just explaining Bitcoin takes long enough... then you want to explain the Alts that you like and all the various technologies and use cases behind it all? Impossible.

In this episode I lay out 3 things I like to start off with. Drop a comment on the Steem post with this episode and let me know what 3 things you talk about first.

https://steemleo.com/@steem.leo

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This first podcast will dive into why Steemleo was created in the first place.

What need are we trying to solve?

What value are we trying to add?

I think a lot of Steem businesses/communities are adding a lot of value to Steem, but we still see something FUNDAMENTAL lacking from all of this -- outward marketing of the Steem blockchain.

This podcast is just 1 idea in the long list of many ideas that Steemleo is implementing to market the Steem blockchain to a wider audience.

In marketing Steemleo to a wide investor-based audience, we are also marketing Steem.

So we start this journey by already having a podcast on the major outlets. It will probably have no viewers at first.. it will probably be terrible and awkward at first. But we will improve and grow.

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