Future Signal

I’ve often said that crypto is community because anytime you meet another person who’s also into crypto- there’s often an immediate connection and energy around something that, well, is still fairly underground. So, it was great to finally connect with this episode’s guest, Jose Pichardo-Eve, and learn more about his crypto  journey and what he’s excited about in the space moving forward. On this episode, Jose shares with us his thoughts on the ISO 20022 and how it will impact cryptocurrency, as the world starts to draw lines in the sand and create policy frameworks to regulate what has been a largely unregulated sector. We also discuss his pick for low cap gems during this crypto winter as it is almost moon bag season where a $50 buy of XYZ cryptocurrency could eventually be worth 100X that amount in the future bull market. Low cap simply refers to a lower market cap cryptocurrency that may not be on everyone’s radar. And we say gem because maybe it's a diamond in the rough. While it’s said throughout the episode, all of our opinions should not be taken as financial advice - they’re just insights into both of our investment strategies.

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https://twitter.com/papiCHARDO

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Videos/links mentioned by Jose in the episode:

Bitrue - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTgUYe6V2k

The Ripple Drop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m1evDyu6Bg&list=PLl-QsmXvjodqrlcbMri1joAq7_FNCZoF1&index=2

XDC roadmap - https://medium.com/xdc-foundation-communications/xdc-roadmap-2022-b33599dc3294

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Imagine playing an arcade style game like Tetris and getting paid in cryptocurrency for being a top scorer after only paying a penny to play and with the potential of even winning tokens for participation. Well, this isn’t part of a potential future - it’s already happening today by leveraging blockchain and micropayments. My guest on this episode, Joe De Pinto, is a former professional baseball player and Co-Founder of both Bar Pay and Haste Arcade - two enterprises which have led Joe and his fellow Co-Founder, Dan Wagner, to blockchain and cryptocurrency due to its low transaction fees and micropayment abilities. On this episode, we dive into both Bar Pay and Haste Arcade and discuss how blockchain backed micropayments could shift our subscription based and ad revenue models to a micropayment and consumer led landscape. Using Haste Arcade as a successful case study of micropayments in what Joe refers to as a play and earn game;This episode has left me wondering how long it will take other game and content creators to experiment with and eventually adopt similar systems?

Joe De Pinto's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-de-pinto/

Haste Arcade on Twitter - https://twitter.com/hastearcade

Haste Arcade on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/haste-arcade/

Haste Arcade website - https://www.hastearcade.com

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Traditionally, real estate has been thought of in terms of either physical residential or commercial properties - everything from the single family home to a massive office park. The internet, however, made us rethink real estate and brought to the forefront the idea of "digital real estate" - you know where domains, like physical addresses, were coveted as they were unique and non-fungible. An example of this is owning a domain like hope.com, which Michael Saylor proudly owns, and he's been known to say "Who wouldn't want to own hope?" Another and maybe more prominent example of owning digital real estate are the millions of content creators who leverage youtube to share their ideas with the world. Many content creators see their videos as digital real estate in an ever more digital world ie it's a good thing to have your ideas, brand, company, etc take up space where people are looking to find answers and socialize. And in the future, this idea of positioning yourself or your company or your brand in places where people will go for answers and to socialize is directly tied to the metaverse or the many virtual worlds where people can own land, own property, rent property and provide value.

Just like how owning real estate in Manhattan is valuable today - in the future, and even today, owning plots of land or buildings or even an apartment in either Decentraland or Sandbox, two of the most prominent virtual worlds is a big deal. Rapper and social icon Snoop Dogg famously owns millions of dollars of real estate in Sandbox and I think, as my guest today does, that as we begin to spend more time in virtual worlds, real estate in virtual worlds, or the metaverse, will become increasingly more sought after.

On this episode, I chat with Tomas from crypto house capital about their virtual real estate brokerage and how they're trying to onboard interested people and investors into the world of virtual real estate.

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Wesbite - https://cryptohouse.capital/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-nascisonis/

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As web3 and crypto mature, there’s likely going to be increased demand from both creators and users for insurance. You know the thing you pay monthly for your car, home, apartment, even for your life with life insurance. Insurance is seemingly a natural part of any sector’s evolution where there’s a lot of money being exchanged for the sale and purchase of good and services. And even in a landscape where we’re told to verify not trust, insurance will play a unique role to ensure that all parties moving forward are doing their due diligence to cut down on negligence and improve the space as a whole. On this episode, I chat with Kyle Butler about his professional trajectory into insurance and how he’s excited to leverage his web2 understanding of the insurance industry to better web3 and crypto for everyone involved.

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There are a 1,000 reasons not to own Bitcoin. Although, I argue on this episode that people, maybe even you, don't own due to your/the fear of its "newness". What if you were to view Bitcoin as a avant-garde technology, like the rotary engine, an airplane, the automobile, the internet or even Facebook, would that change your view of it? Bitcoin is much more than just a potentially sound financial decision or an investment, although this is NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE. Acquiring Bitcoin is betting on the internet's first successful internet currency. And like all of the aforementioned technological advances, they may not make sense in their inception but, as time passes, they start to be so integral to our existence that we can't fathom a world without them. I mean, can you imagine a world with the rotary engine? Air travel? Cars? The Internet? Or social media networks like Facebook? If not, maybe consider looking into Bitcoin for what it is - a nascent technology with global adoption potential. 

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Calcio is Italian for football or soccer, and to be honest there are a lot of different names for the beautiful game around the world. On today’s episode, I catch up with Mark Anthony De Francesco and we chat about how blockchain, crypto, NFTs and tokenization will likely change the world of sports for fans, players, owners and anyone tied into the ecosystem of entertainment that is professional sports in the year 2022. Instead of talking about sports in general, we explore these topics through Mark’s love for Roma, one of Italy’s and Europe’s most beloved soccer clubs. And, I must say, as a huge fan of soccer and European club football or calcio, it was great to connect with Mark and hear his thoughts on how fan tokens and crypto will enhance every súper-fan’s relationship with their club.

I also want to say that we had some technical difficulties during the recording and so half way through the episode Mark’s microphone changes from his AirPods to that of his phone.

Calcio or soccer is the world’s sport and so it makes sense that web3 and crypto, like all new tech before it, play a role in the continuous and iterative evolution that is the beautiful game.

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Yesterday, I ran into someone I’ve known since high school and when she asked about my podcasts, the topic of the metaverse came up. If you check out some earlier More Than Blockchain episodes, you’ll know that I’m very bullish on the potential of the metaverse and really feel that it will eventually be the place where we spend a lot of our time.

In episode 15, I outline multiple ways in which I think the metaverse will transform our world and in episode 17, I discuss how the metaverse will change the way we each individually think about self and our own identity. But, wait - are we already living in the metaverse?

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