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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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

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.

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

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.

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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.

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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?

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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:

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.

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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.

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