Today's guest Andrew Chapin, CEO and founder of Benja on the ICO Governance Foundation His company launched an ICO (Initial Coin Offering), Benjacoin. The timing of this interview was no accident, we've learned thus far that step one to buying cryptocurrency is buy bitcoin on coinbase. I've had multiple listeners ask me — well then what do I do next? One option is to buy some Altcoins. I've booked some people for upcoming episodes who are launching their own ICOs… and this opens up a whole new world. None of this is investment advice, it's up to you learn how to evaluate individual ICOs, which leads us to the ICO Governance Foundation, an effort to bring some stability to ICOs.

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Show Notes:

(0:00 INTRO) (0:45 WHAT IS AN ICO) (1:05 ENTRY INTO ICO / BENJA INTRO) (1:45 SEC ARTICLE / STATE OF ALTCOIN WORLD / ICOS) (3:30 BENJA ICO AND WHAT'S NEXT FOR BENJA) (4:30 WHAT'S YOUR SMELL TEST; HOW TO TELL LEGITIMACY) (5:00 GOVERNMENTAL REGS & ICOS) (6:45 WHY IS AN ICO NOT AN IPO?) (7:30 ICO GOV FOUNDATION INTRO) (9:00 WHY IS THE ICO GOV FOUDNATION BETTER?) (9:40 WHAT PROBLEM IS THE ICO GOV FOUNDATION SOLVING/WHAT DEEMS IT'S SUCCESS) (11:30 COLORING CRYPTO COIN/RETIRING IN MEXICO) (12:45 WHAT PROJECTS DO YOU LOOK FOR?) (13:45 WHAT ARE YOUR FEARS/CONCERNS?) (15:00 GOVERNMENTAL REACH INTO ICO'S) (16:15 NEXT STEPS FOR A BEGINNER; TOOLS TO INVEST IN ICO'S) (18:30 RECAP/STATE OF ICO GOV FOUNDATION/WHERE TO FIND ANDREW)