The LeoFinance Podcast

UI Updates

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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!

"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:

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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