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- 0:02Today we have a special guest, Kyle Chassy.
- 0:05He's a respected leader, a veteran in the world of crypto.
- 0:10He runs a great YouTube channel, but he's done a lot, lot more.
- 0:14Just to name a few things. He's the founder of MV Global
- 0:18AVC Fund with over $100 million under management.
- 0:22He's created groundbreaking projects like Paid Network and
- 0:26Commonwealth. He was also an early seed
- 0:29investor in Coinbase, Kraken and Circle.
- 0:33And interestingly, he operated a resort in Thailand that operated
- 0:38completely on Bitcoin. There's actually a lot more, but
- 0:41I I don't want to read it all to you.
- 0:42Kyle, welcome to Ron's basement. Hey Ron, thanks for having me.
- 0:46How you doing? I'm doing great now you've
- 0:48you've been around crypto for a long time.
- 0:51For those of us that didn't watch our previous interview,
- 0:54when I talked with you, I learned so much.
- 0:57So I'm so excited to have you on here.
- 0:59You know, last time you introduced me to this concept of
- 1:03decentralization and I want to talk about that a little bit
- 1:06more as we as we dive into this. But I wanted to ask you about
- 1:10community first because you've been around Bitcoin from the
- 1:13early days and I'm just curious. I think you and I both just got
- 1:17back from the Bitcoin conference.
- 1:20What's your thoughts on community and kind of how
- 1:22community has evolved in crypto over the last 12 or so years?
- 1:28Well, I think I think community is an interesting word and it's
- 1:32it's taken a lot of different shapes and forms the way people
- 1:36use it in our space. And since I've been a big
- 1:41believer in community, that's why I created that.
- 1:44We called it Cryptopia in Thailand, the resort that I took
- 1:47over and had a bunch of crypto entrepreneurs come and but it's,
- 1:53you know, that that idea is like truly starting to build a
- 1:56network of friends that almost feel like family that you can
- 2:00actually relate to, bounce ideas off of, you know, grow together.
- 2:07And you know, I think that, you know, it's funny when like the
- 2:13whole meme coin space took off, you'd always, you'd always hear
- 2:16people going on different shows and saying, oh, this, this, this
- 2:19new token that launched 5 days ago has the best community.
- 2:22It's like, no, no, they don't have a community.
- 2:24Actually, They just have a bunch of people who bought bags and
- 2:27they're like, now trying to use the word as a community.
- 2:30But like the, the second the price goes down, they'll leave.
- 2:33And then, you know, so it, it, it needs to be built over time
- 2:36and, and communities often have either they'll have like a
- 2:42centralized kind of leader that people look up to and or they
- 2:47can be more decentralized where the people who kind of started
- 2:51the community maybe leave some sort of some sort of
- 2:57constitution, if you will, that kind of describes the ethos and
- 3:00values that one might subscribe to when choosing to join this
- 3:04community or not. And I think that's interesting
- 3:07because you know, when you look at a community and you you
- 3:11choose to where you're going to spend time, like, do I align
- 3:14with the values of this community?
- 3:16And if those values aren't written out somewhere, then how
- 3:19are people supposed to know like that moral and ethical code of
- 3:22conduct within that community and how it's supposed to
- 3:24operate? Wow, you've got me thinking
- 3:27about so many things. And of course, I'm 100% UFD, but
- 3:32but when you when you talked about this idea that community
- 3:35takes time, we're only six months old or a little under six
- 3:40months old. Do you do you think that
- 3:43community also is built through hardship as well through make me
- 3:49going through the hard times? Well, that's what I was saying.
- 3:51I mean, you know, people will claim that they're part of a
- 3:55community, but as soon as in our in our space, the price goes
- 3:58down, a bunch of people leave. Well, that's not, you know,
- 4:01that's not community, that's people.
- 4:03That's, you know, that's people who are trying to be
- 4:06opportunist, you know, and, and give the false pretense that
- 4:12this is a safe community and the people are welcome and that
- 4:15we're all friends. When in reality the people who
- 4:19are there just short term and don't want to stick around long
- 4:23term, they were pretending to be part of a community so that they
- 4:28could use the new people they're bringing in claiming it to be a
- 4:30community as exit liquidity. Yeah, yeah.
- 4:33And it's interesting. And I also liked what you said
- 4:36about the fact that there has to be, and correct me if I'm wrong
- 4:39on this, but like a common bond, something beyond just trying to
- 4:43pump your bags or or make, make a, make a quick buck, that there
- 4:48has to be like a core, maybe fundamental moral code or a
- 4:54uniting theme that brings the community together.
- 4:56Is that is that a? Is that a safe statement?
- 4:59I think so. I think, I think it, it always,
- 5:02it's always interesting when you find some sort of mission
- 5:05statement or a manifesto or like what's the purpose?
- 5:09Why are we here, you know? Yeah.
- 5:13Could, could, I'm sorry I interrupted you.
- 5:16In UFD we talk about good attracts good.
- 5:19Could that be construed as being a, you know, this idea of
- 5:23fairness and honesty, integrity? Could that be considered a a a,
- 5:28a manifesto or something that could be, I guess, tokenized for
- 5:32lack of a better way to say it? Well, I think it's, I think it
- 5:35could be 1 like, like, think about it.
- 5:38Maybe, you know, in America, we've got like the Bill of
- 5:41Rights and the Constitution and stuff like that, right?
- 5:43It's, it's further, you know, we have these, but it's many types
- 5:49of things. And there's a mission usually.
- 5:51And you know, there's a lot of great manifestos out there too.
- 5:55You know, there was 1 famously or infamously now written by a
- 6:03guy named Aaron Schwartz. And for those who don't know
- 6:06Aaron, he was the Co founder of Reddit.
- 6:11He was a child prodigy and he wrote a manifesto one day called
- 6:16the Gorilla Open Access Manifesto and it got him in a
- 6:23lot of trouble. He was he was someone that
- 6:27believed information should be free and it should be free at
- 6:30all costs. The idea essentially was that
- 6:35there's a lot of geniuses that are born everyday on this
- 6:38planet. Like geniuses.
- 6:39I mean that by like extremely high intellect.
- 6:43And unless they have access to the knowledge base that's been
- 6:47generated by humankind over time, then that genius often
- 6:52goes to waste. And so we're talking about a lot
- 6:54of, you know, people in developing countries that are
- 6:57geniuses that don't get access to all the scientific literature
- 7:02that's locked up by these, like, nonprofits that actually keep it
- 7:05behind a paywall or, you know, the different kind of Supreme
- 7:09Court rulings that create law. So anyway, he wrote a manifesto
- 7:15saying that, you know, it should be everyone's everyone's
- 7:19interest to try to make this information that's locked behind
- 7:24these nonprofits for free. And Long story short, really
- 7:29brilliant kind human being was up against the US prosecutors
- 7:35for something he did that was only trying to help humankind
- 7:39and they had no evidence to prove a motive until they found
- 7:44this manifesto when they use that to to prosecute him, which
- 7:48was a shame. Wow.
- 7:50So was that, would that be considered almost the
- 7:52decentralization of information, what he was trying to, you know,
- 7:57to make that information available?
- 7:59Well, yeah, I think this. We didn't have distributed
- 8:01databases in a way that actually worked like we do today, where
- 8:05you could actually put that information up and you could
- 8:08assure that even if one server got taken down that it would
- 8:11still survive today. We have really great systems
- 8:13being built that can ensure that really important things can be
- 8:18distributed across servers so that if one gets taken out then
- 8:20you don't lose the information. But he was trying to democratize
- 8:25access to information. Interesting, Interesting as
- 8:31you've observed Bitcoin over the last in the Bitcoin community
- 8:35over the last 10-15 years. Again, I reference for the very
- 8:56first time ever, so that's fully.
- 9:01Ron, I don't know if it's you or me breaking.
- 9:03I don't know if it's you or me breaking up Ron.
- 9:12Kyle. Yeah.
- 9:15Sorry, I don't know if it's you or me breaking up, but I missed
- 9:18that last question. Yeah.
- 9:20Well, I was just curious. I, I went to the Bitcoin
- 9:22conference for my very first time.
- 9:24How different would the Bitcoin conference have been 10 years
- 9:28ago? I don't know if you went back
- 9:30then or knew what was, but was it?
- 9:31Was it a different scene altogether?
- 9:33I did, I went, I went, I have been.
- 9:37It was a 10 years ago at but conferences, they were the 11
- 9:42particular one, the I think probably one of the first ones I
- 9:45can remember was held to the library in London and Roger Ver
- 9:50was like one of the only speakers there.
- 9:52And Roger, for those of you who don't know, Roger Ver was like
- 9:54the first Bitcoin evangelical evangelical evangelist.
- 9:58He, he was going out all over the world reaching Bitcoin and
- 10:02this kind of stuff. So, so yeah, it was like it was
- 10:051/2 day and there was maybe 60 people that showed up.
- 10:10Ledger was there and Ledger had their prototype of the hardware
- 10:15wallets. It wasn't even and production
- 10:17yet. So it's just like this, it's
- 10:20like this all the like it's basically the USB drive without
- 10:23the casing. And this is like the model of
- 10:25what they were producing and and it was and it was a lot
- 10:29different back then. I mean, the crypto crypto
- 10:32conferences in general were a lot different before 2017, you
- 10:37know, before 2007, 2017 Icos came and then we started people
- 10:41showing up to crypto conferences in suits and, and there was a, a
- 10:46lot of people had dollar signs in their eyes, like dollar
- 10:48signs, not Bitcoin signs, but dollar signs.
- 10:50They were trying to extract money from the ecosystem and it
- 10:53happened and we've been dealing with that ever since.
- 10:55So at those kind of conferences, you get a lot of people who are
- 10:58really interested in passionately building things and
- 11:01trying to use the technology for its intended purpose.
- 11:04And there wasn't really an idea of like getting rich at the
- 11:07time, You know, that idea hadn't really come to the surface.
- 11:11No one. I think people were just more
- 11:13excited about the potential disruption that was coming from
- 11:16the technology. So things were.
- 11:19It sounds like things were more is pure and accurate way to
- 11:23describe it. Yeah, for sure, for sure.
- 11:27It was just a, it was great energy, but also a lot of really
- 11:33great people and, you know, very, very interesting early
- 11:38adopters. No, no, no Formula One race cars
- 11:41in the in the in the exhibition hall or anything like.
- 11:44That yeah, no, it was even, you know, I, I was even got really
- 11:48excited if I ever heard the word Bitcoin on like a radio station
- 11:52or saw on the news maybe, you know, that that happened maybe
- 11:55twice a month, maybe once a month, something like that.
- 11:59Yeah. Well, I want to ask you this
- 12:01question and I'm, and I'm, I'm coming at this from a, a UFD
- 12:04perspective, but do you feel like crypto in general, because
- 12:09I do still gives that opportunity for like a pure
- 12:16project that is, that really is not necessarily been corrupted
- 12:21by maybe I'm saying that too harshly, but things like IC OS
- 12:26and you know that that like that, like what I was able to
- 12:28do, not by any great strategy of my own, but what's been able to
- 12:33happen with UFD, where I just started this literally as a
- 12:37little experiment, had no strategy, no plan, but just
- 12:41followed doing what I thought was right, that there still is
- 12:45kind of a pure pathway for crypto to be able to, to, to, to
- 12:50operate in that manner. There's a lot of there's a lot
- 12:53of people that are that have good intentions in the space,
- 12:56You know, you know, the one of the difficult things about that
- 13:01though, is that there's a lot of people like the there's a lot of
- 13:04people that have a value extraction mentality.
- 13:08And I mean, the video that I recorded, it's like an hour or
- 13:13two ago that's going to go out later today is all about pump
- 13:17fun and how the creators of that seem to be purely driven out of
- 13:23value extraction, like a ideology.
- 13:26The idea in general, I think probably when it started was was
- 13:30probably fairly innocent. And then when they just started
- 13:33making crazy money and then the ecosystem got hyper diluted by a
- 13:37bunch of people who are trying to not like you, but people who
- 13:40literally had no intention to try to, to, to build a community
- 13:44or an idea or IP or something. You know, it's literally like,
- 13:49how high can I get this market cap for a short period of time,
- 13:52sell, and then move on to the next one.
- 13:54Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, I know, you know, as
- 13:59I've been in, in, in crypto now for almost 6 months that that's
- 14:02generally what seems to happen within the pump fund ecosystem.
- 14:08I mean, I know that what happened with UFD is, is a, is,
- 14:12is an exception and it's, you know, it's something that we, I
- 14:17think, I don't say fight against, but it's, I don't think
- 14:23that it's necessarily good for them.
- 14:25In my opinion, for the crypto community.
- 14:28I do feel like if there's a silver lining to it from, from
- 14:32the good projects and, and I agree with you, there are some
- 14:35other really, really great people out there that I've had
- 14:37the pleasure of meeting. But it makes us maybe stand out
- 14:42a little more when there's so many other, you know, projects
- 14:45out there that, that, that don't have such great intentions.
- 14:51And like you said, in terms of building a community or, or or
- 14:54something else in terms of utility or anything along those
- 14:57lines. Yeah, fully.
- 15:01I mean, imagine all of that money that was sucked out by
- 15:04people who are taking advantage of a situation from people who
- 15:08are looking to get rich quick or, you know, trying to actually
- 15:11invest in something that their favorite influencer told them to
- 15:14buy or something. Imagine if we could redirect
- 15:17that money back into quality projects.
- 15:20You know, we wouldn't have this. We would probably be in a better
- 15:22place where we saw, you know, more interest in all coins.
- 15:27Yeah, yeah, because I think some people get burnt and then leave
- 15:30and never come back. And yeah, you said something
- 15:33interesting earlier on that I want to touch on and get and get
- 15:36a little more info from you and, and on behalf of myself and up
- 15:40there, we have almost 500 people joining us right now.
- 15:42Thank you, Kyle. I know your time is very
- 15:45valuable and I really appreciate you, you know, sharing your your
- 15:48insight and wisdom with us. You talked about when
- 15:51communities form, they're either, and correct me if I'm
- 15:55wrong here, they're either centralized where there's like
- 15:58an official leader or they're more decentralized.
- 16:01Could you expound upon that a little bit more if I if I
- 16:05remember your your statement correctly?
- 16:07Well, I mean, I guess, you know, Satoshi always he, he like he
- 16:15didn't want to be a known and he didn't want to be important.
- 16:20And he stuck around literally as long as he had to until he felt
- 16:24like there was some other people who could kind of take over.
- 16:27And so Bitcoin essentially doesn't have, you know, we, we
- 16:35know from the white paper kind of what the intention is.
- 16:38And so people use that as a guideline.
- 16:41We know that that we don't ever want to have more than 21
- 16:43million coins ever produced. You know, we know how the boxing
- 16:47is supposed to work. And then you have something like
- 16:50Vitalik, who, you know, even though there was many Co
- 16:55founders of Etherium, he's kind of the guy who everyone thinks
- 16:58of when they think of Etherium. And he's tried to remove himself
- 17:04for a long time from that leadership role, but keeps
- 17:08getting dragged back in. But now Etherium is still larger
- 17:11than him, but he still has a lot of significance in it.
- 17:17It is it's really hard to do to, to, I think the proper path is
- 17:24probably the proper path to a more decentralized community is
- 17:29probably where the leader initiates things, sets the tone,
- 17:33sets the pace. And then over time, you know,
- 17:37it's when speaking to the community, find out who are the
- 17:40other like really active team members who like organically
- 17:44take a leadership role. And then, you know, promote them
- 17:47within the communication groups, whether it's like Discord or
- 17:51Telegram, whatever, promote the admin to admin positions.
- 17:56You know, maybe, you know, hopefully that they're working,
- 17:59they're excited and they're working because they hold a bag
- 18:02of this token or whatever. And then, and then, you know,
- 18:10start figuring out. And then I, I think that like
- 18:12just depends on what the mission is again, right?
- 18:14Like it's like for UFD, is there a mission, right?
- 18:16Did you, do you want the IP to go, you know, to create a, you
- 18:20know, do you want to move into, you know, branding later?
- 18:24Do you want to do books and TV shows and merch and stuff like
- 18:28that? Or is it always just going to be
- 18:30a, a meme coin kind of thing? Like like Pudgy Penguins, for
- 18:34example, They went from NFTS to plushies at Walmart to a
- 18:38blockchain to now trying to build an ecosystem around the
- 18:41original meme NFT, for example, and the original creator of
- 18:47Pudgy Penguins left and sold to someone who could drive that
- 18:52batter, Lucas. And then and so, but I think if
- 18:56eventually Lucas's goal, he did, he built this blockchain, that
- 19:01blockchain should probably be decentralized in the way that
- 19:07operates now. Would it be successful or will
- 19:11it be successful if he removes himself?
- 19:12Probably not, right? But may.
- 19:14But does he also want to be responsible the next 10 years to
- 19:18continue to to drive it and be responsible?
- 19:20I think ideally if one is able to figure out a game plan where
- 19:24they can remove themselves eventually and that that's like
- 19:28the essence of where we all like to get to in in this space.
- 19:32I think Vitalik would love to, you know, remove himself from
- 19:35Ethereum, for example, so he can move on with his life and he
- 19:38still contribute core code or something or whatever, maybe
- 19:40build something else. I don't know.
- 19:42But yeah, so I, I'm not sure. I don't have an answer to that
- 19:46because it's, it's, it's still early days for our industry.
- 19:49It's it's yeah, right. One more one more community
- 19:52Question is you've observed communities grow over the years,
- 19:56different communities, Ethereum, Bitcoin, I'm sure a lot of
- 19:58communities is a certain amount of infighting and friction a
- 20:03normal part of the evolution process for for for the
- 20:07communities A. 100% And that's why I think that that's why it's
- 20:11important to, if a, if a project's goal is to
- 20:14decentralize, it should be done over time and it should be done.
- 20:17It's our first. The leader needs to come in and
- 20:20set up that kind of constitution on how things operate and the
- 20:25vision. And that's why I think it's
- 20:26important to put something on the digital wall that says this
- 20:31is our objective, this is our mission, this is our goal, this
- 20:33is how we operate. We're nice to each other.
- 20:35We don't do this, we don't do that.
- 20:37And if you break these rules, you might get a kind polite
- 20:41warning not to do it again. But if you continue to violate
- 20:44our constitution of how we operate, we'll kick you out of
- 20:46our digital country, you know, and, and the more, the more
- 20:50clarity the community has on that constitution, the rules,
- 20:55the easier it is to self regulate, you know, so, so it's
- 21:00hard when there's no, when, when there aren't these, this
- 21:03constitution and rules and stuff like that for them to know
- 21:05what's right or wrong or what the intention is.
- 21:07And so, but, but fighting in communities has always happened.
- 21:11I mean, it happened a big two year battle raged in Bitcoin
- 21:17when they're trying to figure out if they should keep the
- 21:19block size smaller or make it bigger.
- 21:21And the same thing happened in Ethereum when there was a Dow
- 21:24hack and they were, you know, the, they're trying to figure
- 21:28out if they should roll the chain back, which is against the
- 21:30decentralization principle in order to not let the hacker go
- 21:33out with those funds. So it's, and that and that's
- 21:37what the community have. And then you have Ethereum
- 21:38Classic and you have Ethereum. So it, it, it's historically
- 21:42happened in almost every single major project to date.
- 21:46And that's part of democracy. I mean, you see it in America
- 21:49right now, right? You've got the libs and the
- 21:50Republicans, and they fight all the time, but we're still
- 21:53Americans. Yeah, yeah.
- 21:55Great. Great point.
- 21:57Thank you, Kyle. Decentralization, digital
- 22:01scarcity and democratization. Those are what I what I'm is,
- 22:05I'm learning here what I call the 3DS that I think make set
- 22:11crypto. And of course, I'm always
- 22:12thinking of UFD apart. Any comment on those three
- 22:16things? And in terms of, you know, the
- 22:18last time you and I talked, you turned on the biggest light bulb
- 22:22in my head in regards to decentralization.
- 22:26I'd never really thought about that.
- 22:28And, and, and now I think about it even in terms of precious
- 22:31metals, I think are decentralized.
- 22:33But do you do you see decentralization is one of the
- 22:37like key attributes that really gets people excited about crypto
- 22:43and really like at levels the playing field for people all
- 22:46around the world? No, people don't care about it
- 22:50mostly, but. I do.
- 22:52I do. But, but decentralization is, is
- 22:57the, it's the infrastructure on which our industry is supposed
- 23:04to exist. And the things that are being
- 23:07done can't really be done unless the infrastructure operates in a
- 23:13way that allows these Daps and things like that to be built
- 23:16upon. But it's the same thing for the
- 23:21Internet, for example, where, you know, there's a lot of stuff
- 23:24that happens to make this call possible right now.
- 23:27And you and I don't have to care like about it's like, say, you
- 23:31know, do people care what kind of what kind of wire wire they
- 23:35run from, from what point A to point BI don't really care if
- 23:39it's like fiber optic or if it's, you know, laser or
- 23:42whatever, as long as like we can have this call.
- 23:46And, you know, decentralization matters a lot, especially when
- 23:50things are are disrupting things.
- 23:51And so like Bitcoin likely would never have existed if it wasn't
- 23:57decentralized. In fact, we've seen examples in
- 23:59the past where people tried to build these E gold and these
- 24:03other E cash and these things that were shut down by central
- 24:05governments before Satoshi figured out how to decentralize
- 24:10in a way that it was too big to fail.
- 24:12Like, you know, even it was just, it was just a few years
- 24:15ago when you had senators and congressmen and, you know,
- 24:18French presidents and stuff like that saying Bitcoin must be
- 24:20stopped. Well, because it's centralized,
- 24:23you know, and it cannot, it cannot be stopped.
- 24:26And because of that, now we have a path, an option to opt out, a
- 24:33Fiat if we choose to. And I think that's a very good
- 24:37thing because, you know, you know, depending on who's in
- 24:41leadership at what time. But if you look at China, for
- 24:43example, you know, they're working on CBDC, the social
- 24:46credit scoring system, all tied to a very big totalitarian like
- 24:51dictatorship, you know, and that's the way I saw the path of
- 24:54America heading to, you know, during the Biden administration,
- 24:57there was a lot of talks about CBDC, and they were trying that
- 25:00out within the Fed. They had fed now.
- 25:02And that would have been a very dystopian outlook for a country
- 25:06that was supposed to be free. But at least the decentralized
- 25:09technology of Bitcoin allowed us to have an opt out path if we
- 25:13chose to do so, which I've been doing since 2013.
- 25:16Yeah, yeah, it's no, I know. I was real familiar with the Fed
- 25:20Now program and most people, I bet 98 percent, 99% of, you
- 25:27know, my fellow Americans who are living here in the US right
- 25:29now, had no idea that it even was going on and and could
- 25:33really care less right now. I'm like, that's the
- 25:36infrastructure potentially for a CBDC And, you know, it's kind of
- 25:41like the water main that you that you connect the individual
- 25:44house water pipes to. So, yeah, that's, you know, the
- 25:49whole Fiat system. You know, I've studied it myself
- 25:53as well very, very closely. And, you know, it's a, it's a,
- 25:58it's a, it's a bad deal for, it's a great deal for the top
- 26:02one percent, 2%, generally 10%, however you want to quantify it.
- 26:07But for the average person in the world in general, it's not
- 26:11such a great deal. And, and that's one of the
- 26:13things that really excites me about crypto, as well as this
- 26:17idea that, you know, people can have a fair shot at being able
- 26:22to store value and, and, you know, and to get rewarded in the
- 26:27future for work that they're maybe doing now.
- 26:30And yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's fascinating.
- 26:35Very fascinating. Ron, I have to wrap up.
- 26:37I've got another call right now. Gotcha.
- 26:39Yep, I appreciate. Yeah, we said 20 minutes.
- 26:41Thank you, Kyle. I appreciate it.
- 26:43OK, I'll, I'll look forward to talking to you next time.
- 26:46Thank you. Thank.
- 26:47You, Ron. Thank you everybody watching.
- 26:49Yep. All right.
- 26:49See you, Kyle. Bye bye.
- 26:50I'll show your website and stuff now.
- 26:52Thank you. Thank.
- 26:53You, yeah. Follow me on X and YouTube guys.
- 26:55See you around. I'm going to show your YouTube
- 26:57channel. Bye bye.
- 27:00All right guys, that was Kyle Chassis.
- 27:02Lucky to have him on here for a few moments.
- 27:05Let me show you his YouTube channel.
- 27:09This is Kyle Chassis puts out videos on a very regular basis
- 27:15100 and what 52,000 subscribers. I watch his videos great content
- 27:21and I wanted to also show you this is MV global that is his VC
- 27:30fund. But yeah, always enjoy talking
- 27:33with Kyle, you know, and I think about the UFD community as I'm
- 27:37as he's as he's talking and kind of how we are growing, how we
- 27:42are evolving. And, and even to the extent that
- 27:46that squabbles are part of the process, you know that like any
- 27:52family, right? I think a community can be very
- 27:54much likened to a family. And then any family, any
- 27:57organization, as they evolve, there are there are going to be
- 28:01squabbles and that that's healthy and part of the process.
- 28:05But I also like how we talked about community leaders kind of
- 28:10rising up. And I definitely see that with
- 28:13our UFD community as well, right?
- 28:16We've got some, some people, I won't name names, but you know,
- 28:19you know who you are. And it is a truly decentralized
- 28:23community. I've said to you many times, UFD
- 28:26is way bigger than me. It was way bigger than me from
- 28:30about the 12 hour mark after I created it because the community
- 28:35had had genuinely taken over. So while I may be the figurehead
- 28:40here and I'm always willing to give my opinion on things, at
- 28:44the end of the day, it really is led by the community and there
- 28:48and there are genuinely opportunities for a lot of
- 28:52people to step up into to, to, to make a big difference within,
- 28:57within the community, within UFD.
- 29:00And that's everything. You know, we talked about it,
- 29:03but I know it, right? We are tokenizing honesty,
- 29:07fairness, fun, laughter and, you know, integrity.
- 29:13Those are our key things. And, and, and, and Kyle talked
- 29:16about that as well, right. This mission and we'll evolve.
- 29:20Yeah. You know, look, we, we are, we
- 29:23are evolving as a community in a very, I think organic way.
- 29:27But we know we have our good attracts good.
- 29:29We know that we believe in honesty, integrity,
- 29:32inclusiveness, and we have people who are, who are a
- 29:36conservative, liberal, every color of skin, every country in
- 29:40the world, religion. We set all that aside because
- 29:44we, we do believe in this kind of common bond that we have that
- 29:49we want a fair shot. We want to be part of a
- 29:51community and crypto gives us that.
- 29:54That's the cool thing, right? The blockchain, the, the, the,
- 29:57the, the, the, the Solana, a blockchain, the transparency
- 30:02that's there. It's like this opportunity for
- 30:05us, the infrastructure is there for us to continue to evolve and
- 30:09to continue to grow the, the community.
- 30:11The other thing that he said that I hadn't really thought
- 30:14about, and maybe that's something that we can work on is
- 30:17a community is like a set of rules as we move forward, right?
- 30:20Like certain things, certain behaviors may not be what most
- 30:26of us deem is acceptable. I'm not going to lay down the
- 30:29law. I think it's something that we
- 30:31as a community will have to come up with together.
- 30:34And, and I want to say this as well, like over the past six
- 30:37months, I do believe this community has done an
- 30:40unbelievable job of evolving, being self policing for lack of
- 30:44a better way to say it. And, and, and, and, and the
- 30:48like. So hey guys, thank you for being
- 30:50here. Thanks to Kyle for joining us.
- 30:52OK, He's a great guy. Got a lot of respect for him.
- 30:56You know, he's been, he was an early Bitcoin investor and early
- 31:02Bitcoin evangelist. Look, he was talk he talked
- 31:04about being at a Bitcoin conference at a library in
- 31:08London where there were 60 people there and Ledger brought
- 31:11their like prototype, a hardware wallet device.
- 31:15And look now where did it go? I got right here, right now
- 31:18we've got this, you know, look at these, the the Ledger flex
- 31:21device and and very grateful to have Ledger as a sponsor.
- 31:26Also very grateful to have moon pay as a sponsor.
- 31:29So have a great day everybody. Don't forget this feels a little
- 31:34different for me because it's a different format than our normal
- 31:36live stream, but I won't forget one very important thing.
- 31:40Horns up dusters, right? Let's keep up the good work,
- 31:43keep up everything that you're doing out there because it is
- 31:47making a difference, right Again that the blockchain gave us this
- 31:53really pure opportunity. I had no idea what I was doing
- 31:57when I started this, knew nothing about crypto, but I did
- 32:00know right from wrong. And I know that you do too.
- 32:03And we continue to grow this community in such a robust,
- 32:08solid way that I know we've got great, great, great things
- 32:12ahead. So it's a big pleasure to have
- 32:15you in the basement. Don't forget, please, most
- 32:17important, be good to yourself, OK?
- 32:20We're, we are good, attracts good.
- 32:22But that starts with you. That starts with #1 because from
- 32:25there, right, you'll have a good solid foundation that you'll be
- 32:29able to spread a lot of goodness to the other people in your life
- 32:32and around the world. Have a great day, guys.
- 32:34Let's keep it up and let's go, go, go, you.