The LeoFinance Podcast

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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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https://steemleo.com 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://steemleo.com/faq.

- Trade Steem-based tokens on Leodex at https://dex.steemleo.com

- Buy & Sell Digital Products and Services with STEEM & LEO on the Leoshop at https://shop.steemleo.com

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:

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Our Community:

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.

- Trade Steem-based tokens on Leodex at https://dex.steemleo.com

- Buy & Sell Digital Products and Services with STEEM & LEO on the Leoshop at https://shop.steemleo.com