- Okay welcome to today's show,
I have one of the most special episodes for you.
I have Brock Pierce here who, if you don't know is,
I consider you one of the OG's of cryptocurrency,
bitcoin, he is the chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation,
he's humble so there's about 30 titles I could give him
but if you know anything about bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
He is one of, maybe the most well known person in the world,
number one expert,
been into virtual currency since the 1990's,
he is the cofounder of Blockchain Capital
which is the biggest crypto blockchain venture fund,
he's the cofounder of EOS
which is the largest ICO in history.
I did the math, it's probably
over 700 million dollars raised
and is it fair to say you're a crypto billionaire?
- You asked me one of my sorta favorite questions.
Lately I've been putting into all of my talks that
a billionaire isn't someone with a billion dollars.
A unicorn isn't a billion dollar company.
A real billionaire in my opinion is
someone that has positively impacted
the lives of a billion people,
a unicorn in my opinion is
a community or an organization that has positively impacted
the lives of a billion people.
I think one of the misconceptions
and a lot of what's leading to the world in which we live is
this misunderstanding of money
and I think money's a bad thing, it's just a tool
but that people spend a lot of their lives in pursuit of it
thinking it's going to make them happier
and it's gonna provide them with something they need
and all they have to do is ask themselves
why do they need something
and then they'll discover whether or not they really need it
and so they'll go through a lot of their life
thinking that money's gonna bring them happiness
and then if they're lucky enough to eventually get it
a lot of those people end up staying unhappy
for the rest of their lives afraid to lose it.
'Cause it's all about
being in the present and living in the now
and in the now you don't need very much
and so I think as people are thinking about money
and clearly we're attempting to reinvent it.
So the old adages of like money is power,
that paradigm is going to come to an end
and it's gonna be technology is power
and consciousness is power
and all sorts of interesting changes to come.
- So if you're watching,
my target audience in this conversation.
He's jetting to Columbia,
he's speaking at the number one bitcoin conference
at all South America so I wanna get as much,
I wanna respect your time 'cause you're a super busy guy.
- I got back into LA this morning.
- He got in this morning.
We were supposed to meet up on Friday and it was like
we might have to helicopter him in and da da da
and I was like alright let's put it off to today.
So for people not familiar completely with
cryptocurrency, blockchain, bitcoin,
in one sentence if I have to explain to somebody
what bitcoin cryptocurrency is,
what do you say to them in one or two sentences?
- Well the funny answer is it's magic internet money.
(laughs)
- There you go, magic internet money.
- It represents something far greater than that
and that is that it's a monetary system
that is based on math and cryptography
and it's open source and it's transparent
so it's governed on a peer to peer basis
so it's a system that can't be corrupted,
it can't be cheated, it's a system kind of for the people.
- Do you think big picture there is a potential
that bitcoin cryptocurrencies, blockchain
will take down the federal reserve,
US dollars, Pounds, Euros,
can you see that in a world in 20 years?
Or does it compete?
- No I think that there's uses for both
and what bitcoin is isn't a currency,
it's not a transactional currency,
it's far too expensive to do transactions.
What it is is it's a stored value meaning you're better off
thinking of it as gold 2.0 or digital gold.
And when you think about it from that perspective
you have to ask yourself about the history of money
and so for the last 5,000 years,
the primary form of money was precious metals,
gold, silver, and copper.
And those three,
after 95,000 years of experimenting with everything,
were selected because they had specific attributes.
It was sufficiently scarce so that
you didn't need a truck load of it to buy a loaf of bread,
you can transport it.
It had to be maleable, you gotta be able to take it apart,
put it back together again,
it had to be fungable like diamonds,
it has to all be the same, like diamonds.
Non spoilable, you wouldn't want to put it in a safe,
go get it in a year, it's rotten.
So these precious metals had very specific attributes.
Bitcoin possesses all of those attributes except for
it's a lot better at all of them
and the other big difference is gold is physical,
bitcoin is intangible
and the intangibility is a positive trait
'cause you can send it
from anywhere in the world instantaneously and it's just,
gold actually it's easier to club you and take it off you.
- Yeah Paypal, Western Union, may be a thing of the past.
- It's more gold I think.
- You think gold.
Now number one question that we have,
I asked just some beginners on the drive over here,
is bitcoin a bubble?
I know you're probably sick of being asked this.
Everybody's been saying it's a bubble.
You see big bankers saying this.
The more they say it, China's banned ICOs,
Russia's banned cryptocurrencies,
the more it's going up right now.
What's your answer to that is this a bubble?
- Yeah of course it's a bubble but what are bubbles?
Markets, and this one in particular, the price--
Sentiment is the primary barometer of the price right now
and so when you think about it from that perspective
it's gonna be an emotional market
and you're gonna see emotional run ups
and because it's scarce you can see these big movements
and you're gonna see corrections
and it's just like back in the internet bubble
it wasn't all just straight up and to the right for years.
We had lots of movements during that phase
and so this is gonna be no different
so the data point I would give you though
that's most interesting,
we'll call it a 300 billion,
we can get 400 billion dollar market cap sector
more or less right now and kinda doing this in this period.
How big do you think the internet was during it's hay day?
In 1999 it got to over seven trillion,
the internet tech stocks and so seven trillion.
- So this is nothing compared.
- And that was when it was only a western phenomenon
and this is not adjusting to inflation.
So I could argue
it'd be a 50 trillion or 100 trillion dollar market today
so relative to that market
that was betting on the future potential of a new technology
which is inferior to what this is, this is ten times bigger.
I think yeah we're in maybe a temporary one
but we're far from being
even anywhere close to where the internet got
and so the thing that I would argue
is the biggest bubble today is the stock market.
- So you think cryptocurrencies, bitcoin, at 300 bill,
three to 400 billion dollar market cap
is not nearly the bubble
as conventional SMP 500 regular stock market,
what people have their 401(k)s in.
- I think the stock market's more of a bubble.
- So you could see that crashing a bigger crash
than you could see crypto.
- Of course.
It's a bigger market too so obviously I mean.
- So would you recommend people listening
should be starting moving a little bit of their money
from conventional stocks over
into bitcoin, ether, things like this?
- Yeah so I don't ever like to give anyone investment advice
and I don't think that,
if someone tries to tell you
you should do this you should invest in that,
always be very skeptical
because a good teacher doesn't say you should do this.
They give you information, they transfer knowledge to you
so that you can be informed and get more informed
if it's inspired you in some way
and you should know what you're doing
and then make decisions for yourself
when you feel that you're adequately informed
and I think that's what good teachers do,
these are the types of people that you should listen to.
People that are trying to hock something at you,
normally that should put off the red flags.
And so the information that I would give people is
if you're doing what's called asset allocation.
If you have assets you wanna try and figure out
how they should be allocated and give some thought to it,
have intention in the things that you do
and so you can say okay I've now been informed enough
due to my own research to inform my own opinion
to have my own view 'cause I'm making a decision for myself,
I am choosing to do this.
Once you've done that you say how much do I wanna allocate
and that's gonna be a matter of
what level of knowledge you have
and what level of conviction have.
Your prediction of the future and you might say
I want one percent of my assets in something like this,
you might say I want more.
I'm more or less mostly in
blockchain and crypto related assets and real estate.
- That's where you put your money,
either in crypto or real estate.
So real estate is your physical asset
that if something happens you know you're balanced out here.
- Well I think the real estate market's interesting
because it's undervalued.
Hugely undervalued because
it's the second largest asset class
and it doesn't have a matching engine or an order book,
it's still running on real estate agents and,
talk about some draconian infrastructure,
a market of this size.
So as soon as real estate title gets put on the blockchain
and where it becomes digital title, it becomes fractional.
The stuff that's gonna come out of that
is gonna be utterly insane
so imagine if you could say
I wanna buy $100 in every house in the neighborhood
or $1,000 and it's all fractionalized
and it's a whole market that's trading all the time
in fractions of home ownership, if you make it truly liquid,
markets have liquidity discounts, bring liquidity to market
and you will cause a huge increase in price.
- So you think theoretically.
So this is a whole thing for those of you who don't know.
You have cryptocurrencies
and they're built on a type of technology
that's broadly called blockchain
and there's different blockchains,
there's bitcoin is one on technology
and ether's on another one,
you're the cofounder of potentially one of,
Well EOS is going to be or is another technology.
You're saying real estate is gonna go up on this technology
and no longer just be realtors with titles
in old fashioned 1800s methodologies.
- Yeah I mean this is the technology
that will have that big an impact,
it's going to affect everything so to help--
- Yeah what else will it affect, what other huge things?
- Let me take you down like to the foundation.
So the internet itself,
if I wanted to describe the internet in three words
I would call it a data transport protocol.
It's a system for moving information.
Now the problem is it's an insecure data transport protocol
and that's because
back when the internet was first being designed
we didn't have the processing power
to run the types of cryptography necessary to do this
and so the foundation of the internet was built wrong
and then we just kept building on top of it
but the problem is when the foundation of a system is wrong,
meaning it's insecure, and the way that it was constructed,
it'll never be secure, the internet is essentially broken.
What the blockchain is doing is
it's going to bring and create
the secure data transport protocol
and so the internet is only fulfilling
one small part of it's potential
because of this security flaw.
When you fix security,
the internet is gonna reach its full potential
which is gonna be I think ten times greater,
every industry in the world is going to be affected
and it's going to be a beautiful beautiful thing.
- So are you saying internet will be gone as we know it?
- Yeah this is the new internet, it's the upgrade.
- Huh.
- The entire internet's gonna go I think.
- So will websites like Amazon, like Google disappear,
or they'll have to go on the blockchain?
- They're gonna have to
go through their process of upgrading
and anytime you have a big transformational event like this,
read the innovator's dilemma.
You've got the incumbent and you've got the new entrants
and there's gonna be a meeting of the minds there.
But my view is
I help the incumbent industry as much as I can
and I help the start up community as much as I can
because if anyone is successful in changing the world
and making it a better place, we all win.
So I help everyone, I don't ever ask for anything,
I give everyone in the industry that I can help,
every person that I have as much time in the day to do,
I don't sleep because it's such an inspiring thing to do.
- You're doing this free.
Thank you for that.
- I believe we have an incredible opportunity here
to make the world a better place
and back to that being a billionaire
this is the opportunity to be a real billionaire
and when you start to understand
what's going to happen in the world
you eventually wake up and you go
wow what I'm working on right now
isn't gonna matter in a little while
and then you just, people, all of a sudden,
I'm watching it happen in troves all over the world.
Once they come to this realization it's like
they can't get up and live the life that they had anymore
because it's no longer inspiring
because they realize that whole system is gonna change
and now all of a sudden they're like
okay I've gotta really rethink everything I'm doing
and it may stay in that same industry
using those same skills have but be the one to do it
and that can be at the incumbent's level,
that can be at the start up level.
- When he says incumbents we're talking corporations,
large companies.
- Yeah the big companies, yeah.
Yeah and the big companies
are gonna also drive a lot of progress too.
- So these big banks, should they be scared?
I mean some of these banks are hiring huge groups of
crypto, bitcoin, blockchain people
to come in and consult with them, whether they be funds,
whether they be banks, do you think they should be scared?
- I mean I think they're doing the right thing.
The analogy I like to use is
we used to make our phone calls over twisted copper wires.
And one day it switched to voice over IP
and everyone said hey this is gonna be the end of the telcos
and da da da da da, no,
the telecom industry
became the biggest beneficiary of the technology,
massively cutting their costs in the middle and back offices
and the banks are gonna do the same thing, they're smart.
They can benefit greatly from this technology
and yeah I mean
when I was asked by banks early on in this space
'cause I did a lot of introducing the ideas to them,
they'd ask me is this gonna be good or bad for my business?
I said it's gonna be both.
It's gonna be balanced, you're gonna have some
portions of your business are gonna be negatively impacted,
maybe even go away.
Some portions of your business will get better
and it's innovate or die, you can't stop change,
you can't stop innovation,
we are living in exponential times.
So you have to get with the program
and that is you have to keep evolving
and we're accelerating
which means you have to evolve even faster
than you ever evolved before
and that's this really interesting thing
about the period in time in which we live.
There's this Japanese concept of kaizen
which is to continually improve.
Approach every situation and don't just get the job done,
do it as well as you can
and always strive to do it even better.
Continual improvement, and if you start applying this
to everything you do in your life,
everything you do will become exceptional
and you will be growing and evolving
at a pace that you've never imagined.
When you stop trying to live a life of mediocrity.
When we came out of World War Two because we won
because you have that pyramid of good, fast, cheap.
And we won the war by being fast and cheap
'cause we were able to mass produce and that won the war
but post the war we kept just doing fast and cheap.
And we've basically started to,
we live in a world of mediocrity
where people are not making things incredibly well.
We don't need to be fast anymore, we can be good,
or we can be good and fast but it won't be cheap
I mean we can make it good, it should always be--
- The Japanese rose up, sure.
- It should always be good
and there's this other Japanese concept of ikigai
which is when you figure out what you love,
what you're passionate about, what you're good at,
where you got the skills, I'm never gonna be the NBA player,
figure out what you're actually good at too
and then figure out what the world needs.
In the center of that is the ikigai.
- So what you're good at, what the world needs.
- And what you love.
And in the center of that is,
what you'll find is your ikigai, that's your purpose.
- What's your ikigai?
- We've got multiple, I call them superpowers as well
and so the superpower that I'm using most right now is
I know how to take complex ideas and distill them down
into words that are generally easy for people to understand
and I make my objective being able to teach a child.
And if you can do that
you've started to hopefully master a skill
and as the Japanese do, it's about mastery,
ikigai is how you get to this point
and so I'm a storyteller which makes me an evangelist,
the first follower of Satoshi
and the many other great creators
like Vitalic and Larimer and Gavin Wood and many others,
there's a lot of incredible engineers,
incredible cryptographers,
people that are making the code
that's going to change the world
and I just try to support these people
that are operating from a place of good intention
and so my purpose though is everything in my life
from digital currency to everything I've done
just uniquely positioned me to obviously do well in this.
- You've been in virtual currency since when? 90's?
- '99 yeah.
- What virtual currency was back then?
- It was gaming,
so I was a teenager and I was a pro-ish gamer.
- He was also, a lot of you remember him from Mighty Ducks.
So he's also a child actor,
we didn't put that in the initial,
a lot of people know that.
- Yeah, it doesn't, yeah,
I'm still an actor, I just don't do scripted things anymore.
- That's right you're a reality actor.
- The world is but a stage.
You don't stop performing once you become a performer,
you don't stop using your superpowers
once you've developed them they become part of your--
- Well now you're using them for more powerful purposes.
- They become part of your toolkit of things,
you just keep learning and you just kaizen everything.
And you just keep showing up
and give everything your best so yeah the gaming stuff, '99,
it was collectible card games online
and so I was becoming the main trader,
and I called up the main seller
and I called the game company I'm like
I'd like to buy your virtual packs of cards.
Think Pokemon or Magic The Gathering.
And I said like comic book shops do or baseball card stores
and I said that's what they do in the analog world
they're like oh yeah that makes sense
and so I did that first deal
and small game that never got more than 5,000 users
but then I came back when the first MMORPGs were emerging,
Ultima Online and Everquest
and then I built the whole market for that
and I built up to buy and sell the digital currencies
in games like World of Warcraft and Second Life
and I became the primary market maker
for the world's digital economies or virtual economies
and I built up a supply chain of 400,000 people in China
in my early 20's that were playing games professionally
to mine digital currency,
I did tens of billions of dollars of business,
lived all over the world, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, so.
- And we met, what, 10, we met probably 10 years ago
through a mutual friend who was in Tiger 21
which is an investment group that you were in,
we went to dinner
and then we reconnected almost a decade later.
When did you start with cryptocurrencies as we know it,
the bitcoins?
- Yeah so I got familiar,
not as well probably as I should have very early on.
But it wasn't until 2012 where,
'cause when I was first approached
and asked what my opinion was I was like bitcoin,
this was something like it is the future
I just don't know if the future is now or 25 years from now.
Market timing is something that I try to be aware of
'cause that's kinda the main thing you gotta get right.
It's not hard to see the future,
getting the timing right is the hardest part.
And so I got in full-time in 2012,
that's when I decided hey the future is now.
- Good time to get in.
- Done a lot of things then.
- Let me ask you a practical question 'cause Zak is here,
his uncle was given about $1,000 worth of bitcoin,
a couple years ago, it's probably worth 500 grand
and he cannot access it
because he can't remember how to get to it.
What do people know, in this lesson,
this is a lesson on security, remembering your hash--
- This is why you have backups, yes,
you need to write these things down, keep them safe.
- So how do you think a beginner, what do they need to know?
- Well in this specific case,
does he know what wallet he had?
- Probably... We will find out.
- It's an investigation, what does he remember?
Was he using a blockchain.info wallet,
did he have a coin based account,
try to figure out what that is,
go through his emails, see if there's any--
- We calculated it's worth 500 grand.
- Any account registered to that email address
and with a little bit of research
you may find that the answer is there.
- Let's talk preemptively for someone
who doesn't want this to happen to them,
what's the basics of storing everything?
- Yeah so when you set up,
security is having two factor authentication,
make sure that you've enabled that,
use a Google two factor authenticator for everything.
- Do you use the Google app?
Better than SMS or anything like that?
- Definitely don't use SMS,
SMS is not secure for anything, never use SMS again.
Google Authenticator is the easiest.
- It's an app you download
and it changes and gives you new codes all the time.
- You gotta get the basics of security right
and in the new world security is important
'cause we now have secure systems
but it does require learning a new skill.
It's like learning to use email for the first time.
It's just a new skill and it's gonna serve you well
so put a little time into it 'cause it's important.
And so yeah
get the two factor authentication stuff figured out,
do not use SMS, and then when you open up a wallet
it normally has a pass phrase something of that nature
or you're gonna get the two factor auth QR codes
or whatever it might be.
Make sure you get those numbers and things,
store it down on a piece of paper.
- [Tai] Would you do it on a piece of paper?
- Put it on a piece of paper, put it in a safe.
- [Tai] A safe in your house.
- Yeah you don't wanna save it
as a photo or a screen capture
because if someone hacks into your photos
you don't want those things--
- [Tai] What about something like LastPass?
- Not for something like this
I wouldn't use your private keys there
unless it's a small account.
If it's an inconsequential amount of money to you
then take what risk--
- Piece of paper.
- If you wanna do things well yeah
just make sure you store that, put it offline,
and if ever you have a problem
you know you've got redundancy
and that's why I say have multiple of the hardware keys.
Have one and a backup.
- So everything you're doing here.
- Have redundancy.
- You want something offline and multiple places
especially if you have a lot of money
'cause that's a nightmare.
What percentage, I've read a percentage of crypto bitcoin
that people can't access.
It's a large amount
that people have forgotten where they put it.
- Yeah it's a large amount.
- Tens of millions.
- Probably 10%.
- Hundreds of millions of dollars.
- No billions.
- Billion, oh man.
I read an article, I gotta ask you this, it came out today.
Theorizing that Elon Musk is
the man of mystery behind bitcoin.
You may know a lot more than you can say here on camera.
Any comment on that?
- I've never--
Elon is obviously doing
some of the most extraordinary things in the world
he's kinda like entrepreneur of the world
kinda the man in being an inspiration,
doing the most challenging out there
dream big and remember there is no ceiling,
it's all blue sky above you, anything you dream,
anything you can imagine you can do.
The power is within you.
If you go from--
- They accept it. Bitcoin Tesla.
You can buy a Tesla with bitcoin.
- Yeah and so I mean doing what he's done for electric cars.
Doing what he's doing for solar.
Look at what he's doing for space
and now look at what he's doing with hyper loops and boring
I mean he's the man
but I can't see that that has any possibility.
- You don't think that's true.
- Well no I mean as much as he's the man there's only,
and SpaceX, I mean there's only so much one can do.
And he's not been this guy
but he obviously was part of Paypal
and been a player in this overall broader spectrum
at least the thin tech part and others
and just being a great mind, inspiration.
He's helped obviously many people,
he's made a lot of entrepreneurs in the world
the entrepreneurs today because he's inspired so many
so obviously Paypal and things
led and inspired some of these transformations.
- [Tai] The transfer, right.
- We had to go from the old world offline stuff
to the online stuff
and then figuring out how to continually upgrade it,
how do things continue to evolve?
- Yeah let me ask you this.
One of the questions, I did this poll on the way over here.
What coins, there's so many, there's thousands.
There's the main coins,
the bitcoin, the eth, the light coin, bitcoin cash.
Are there other coins people should be watching?
Do you see, is there gonna be a world
where there's a million coins,
every corporation, Apple will have a coin here.
Every place you use for a beginning investor,
let's start with this and then go big picture.
For a beginning investor, would you recommend,
that wants to put let's say $10,000 into crypto.
Do you recommend a little bit of that
into the main coins that have liquidity
and then some of the alternative coins?
- Well I'd say don't invest in anything you don't understand
and so start with the big coins
'cause those are the ones with the most liquidity,
they're the safest, and just work your way down the list.
Go to coin market cap or coin cap or any of these sites
and start at number one
and just work your way down
from coin number one, three, five, 10
and as you keep learning them all
you're gonna eventually get to the point
that you can form your own opinions.
I wouldn't recommend
investing in anything you don't understand
so start with the big stuff and then as you learn more,
try to understand, the rabbit hole runs deep
so just keep learning
and you'll see amazing things emerging before your eyes.
- Do you think people should trade coins actively?
I see people that are--
- If you think you're a trader.
If you're a Wall Street trader and that's your competency.
I don't trade but if that's what you do I can see it,
if you know how to make algorithms, if you're whatever,
if you're good at it there is obviously money to be made,
lots of money to be made in this space.
I don't like trading
because when I get involved in a project
or I get behind a project
I wanna be fully in support of it
and to trade is actually to kinda
short the project that you believe in
because I can make a couple extra bucks by riding it down
and actually causing it to go down more
because I added to the negative pressure.
- [Tai] Yes you were selling, yeah.
- I was selling into the market
and certainly as someone with influence
I don't wanna be doing that
and so I don't trade for that reason
but I don't judge others for doing what they do
if that's your talent do what you do.
I wanna be behind a project until I'm not.
- What do you think of Ethereum?
- I love Ethereum, I've been a huge supporter of Ethereum,
I'm friends with,
very good friends with most of the founders,
my firm was the first to invest in Ethereum, a venture deal.
I've been one of the founding board members of Master coin
which was the early iteration of
what Ethereum in some ways evolved into,
we did the first ICO in June of 2013.
I'm a huge fan
I mean Vitallic and Ethereum has done more for the market
in the last couple years than anyone.
- So for people listening that don't--
- Other than bitcoin and Ethereum has done other things
to expand the market, more use cases.
- Right the smart contracts.
Bitcoin cash, bitcoin gold, the classic,
someone listening that doesn't understand,
you're a master of making complicated things simple.
How do you make that simple for people?
People are going what the heck do I buy,
what is bitcoin cash, is it this, what--
- Forking, forking is good.
Forking is evolution.
We're all here because of forking,
we are a fork of our parent's DNA and this is,
forks are generally consensual
and for that reason they're generally good
but then you have contentious forks.
And it's the contentious forks
that create a lot of the problems
because you have a big disagreement in a community
and that contentious fork, watching it,
because it's open source,
you get to see how the sausage is made, it's messy.
And it sometimes leads to extinction
but that's sometimes progress too.
I support all the forks where the people behind it
are operating from a place of good intention.
There are multi variant splits
and if the community wants to split, so be it.
If you own any of these fork tokens
and you don't have a strong opinion
I would highly recommend you don't sell them.
Unless you have an informed opinion
'cause you don't know if, bitcoin cash could be the winner.
Certainly I'm not saying that's the case
but until you have an opinion
you shouldn't be doing anything.
Hold, hold your tokens 'til you know.
- Do you think there's a chance--
- You see the reoccuring theme.
Learn to know, learn to know, learn to know,
wake up, wake up.
- Yeah which is kinda how we align,
I'm all about knowledge and learning
and you're a learning machine.
Bitcoin theoretically the main bitcoin could go down
and bitcoin cash could go up, bitcoin gold.
Do you think there's a chance
or very likely chance that all of them go down to nothing?
Or do you think it'll be one could go down
and the other would rise?
- I mean yeah bitcoin could fail
I mean I don't know if bitcoin's the Friendster,
the MySpace, the Facebook, the Instagram, Snapchat.
I think it's got
a much greater chance of surviving than those did
but something else could come along
that's substantially better,
I don't see it as of right now but I never say never.
It'll be a binary outcome,
bitcoin'll go to a million bucks if it succeeds
and if it fails, yeah it's gonna go down
but it'll take a very very long time.
- You think it's conceivable bitcoin goes to a million?
- Yeah I mean if it is used enough.
- So let's talk, are people using bitcoin?
Like I said Tesla is using,
it's being used in countries in Africa,
being used in Africa some cryptocurrencies.
- [Brock] For like wire transfers and storing value.
- Places like Zimbabwe.
- And speculation, yeah, places where you've got currency.
Well keep in mind there's three billion people on the planet
that have no financial services,
another two plus billion people on the planet
with limited access to financial services.
One aspect and it's almost a small aspect
of what this technology is doing is
it's going to democratize the global financial system
in a way where every human being on the planet
is gonna have equal access
and the least fortunate billions of people on the planet
are gonna be the biggest beneficiaries.
Get involved and you will be a billionaire by my definition
because that's the type of impact we're going to have.
And if that's not a reason
to make you wanna get up in the morning I mean come on.
This is the sorta stuff
that you wanna find joy in your life.
And when you get all these things right
and you find a way to give your gift
and contribute to something beautiful
I promise you the money and everything in life
that you need and want will most likely come to you.
- Yeah so these unbank people,
there are people in third world countries,
there's people in the US, my dad was unbanked,
my dad's from Harlem,
never had a bank account in his life or a credit card.
He didn't trust the system, he kept money in his wallet,
I took him to a trip to Puerto Rico once
and he lost his sock that had $3,000 in it
which is a problem with being unbanked
that you can get robbed, you can have this happen to you.
So you're saying this thing that we call cryptocurrency,
bitcoin, blockchain,
theoretically is gonna take these three billion people who,
did you know right now the top ten men in the world
have more money if they add their net worth together
than the bottom 3.5 billion people in the world?
You think crypto, blockchain
has the potential to change that.
- Yeah I mean this is one area where
it's one of my only disappointments with bitcoin is
there's still a lot of concentration.
If bitcoin were to become that big thing
I mean yeah I'd be one of the big guys in that world
but that's the only thing that disappoints me.
I really wanna build a system that's fairer to everyone.
But I think that bitcoin
is still a big improvement over what we have.
The world can change in increments,
you don't have to go from A to Z and it normally doesn't.
Things normally have happened
in more of a hybrid type of things.
Evolution goes through phases yeah
as you continually upgrade, leveling up,
I like to think of life as kind of like a video game.
- People ask me is it too late to get in?
Bitcoins shot to $11,000
not too long ago it was at $4,000
and people go is it too late?
- Oh it's, if anything you're too early.
- [Tai] Really?
- I wouldn't say you're too late,
it's called don't get fear of missing out syndrome,
don't feel the need to just dive in.
Make sure you know what you're doing.
Don't rush in and what I always tell people is
when I'm giving talks these days I'm like
if you wanna pitch me,
don't walk up to me and just pitch me your deal.
Don't just walk up to me
and treat me like a street salesman trying to hock a watch.
That's not like how--
Or tell me you can make me a bunch of money.
That's not how I wanna transact.
Establish a human connection.
So I think if the world is a game
and I'm the game master of my game
and I can give you the first tip
on how to get through level one.
Level one is don't start out
as the first thing you do pitch me.
Don't just walk up and be rude and interrupt someone else
that's in the middle of something talking
'cause you want immediate attention.
Don't be a person that's like what do you do?
When you're at an event.
All of those things are basically saying
what can you give me?
That's people that are just basically going around entitled
and just trying to take from everyone
versus doing what you're supposed to be doing
so you fail like right out the gate.
If you pitch me it's like dying
the first press of button in Flappy Bird.
(laughs)
- Most people do that too.
- And so if you walk up to me and you're like,
yeah they do and that's why I don't invest
but I'm telling them now this is a good lesson
I'm giving you the cheat codes to my game anyway
and this game is probably true for lots of other people
whether they've thought it through
and gamified it in their minds,
it's a practice they've probably already put in place.
No one wants to just have
somebody in their face hocking you a deal.
It's just not interesting to any of us.
So instead like if you go to Burning Man come up to me
and tell me you're a burner, boom,
you just skipped to level 10.
(laughs)
- If you want to talk to Brock,
first definitely go to Burning Man.
I can tell you that.
- I'm always burning.
- You and your wife have gotten married at Burning Man
how many years in a row?
Remarried, or what is it?
- Well we got married once there two burns ago.
This year we got married in Ibiza.
- Oh okay.
- We get married every year but it's a different place.
- So it's not always at Burning Man.
What's the idea there?
Is it redoing your vows, is it just--
- It's called I think it's always fun to celebrate.
- So it's just another reason to party.
- It's a reason to yeah throw an event to celebrate love
and it's for your friends more than anything else and yeah.
- And you bought a place in Ibiza, what is it, a farm?
- Yeah.
- Is it one of the big, you told me--
- 60 acres.
So we're building something magical out there.
I'm working on also building kind of a city,
a big city somewhere else.
- Will you say where it is or not yet?
- Yeah I can say.
Puerto Rico.
The 51st state with 180 billion in debt,
35% unemployment and now a hurricane hits
I mean it's devastating what's happened there.
I'm moving right now.
- Really?
- I'm gonna be moving down there
with a bunch of my friends shortly
'cause it might just be temporary for a moment
but I wanna go roll up my sleeves
and get some work done down there
and help out I think those people need our help
and I think that we're capable of so much.
- Yeah and it's almost become a blank slate now.
- Yeah and so in these times of crisis
the phoenix can rise from the ashes,
when you experience great loss
it creates an opportunity to upgrade.
Where you can make these
giant trans quantum leaps of upgrades
because you basically lost everything
and so you have to start over
and when you have to start over from scratch
you would do it very differently
than if you have this big thing
that's kinda been building on top of itself
for ages and ages.
So in this horrible event that's occurred,
there will be a great opportunity that emerges
and I wanna be a part of helping the Puerto Rican people.
Helping people that are in need.
I'm here on this planet to live in service to humanity
I see an opportunity to make a difference in the world
and I'm devoting my life to these types of things
and I'm an American and I love my country.
I don't love everything
but I feel incredibly blessed to have been born here
and to be given the opportunities
to be where I am sitting here today with you
and eternally grateful, thank you.
I'm glad that we've reconnected
and been spending time together.
You do great things I love who you are
and I love what you're doing in the world
getting the word out
and sharing the knowledge and the wisdom
in ways that you can connect with the masses
is a wonderful thing
you have one of those incredibly important roles
and great responsibilities
and from what I see you're doing great work, I commend you.
- Well I appreciate that, I'm trying to,
this is the next thing that I think needs to get out there
and one of the things that people are asking me is
these ICO's, you've done the biggest one, right?
Isn't EOS the biggest by far?
- I think that's what they say.
- Brock's humble but it is the biggest
'cause nothing's done over 500 million
and you're not even done 'cause it goes 'til what,
May or something of 2018?
- June first.
- June first, so.
- Do you know what the logo is?
- No. Oh yeah you showed me.
- It's the chestahedron,
it's the sacred geometry of the heart.
- Yeah you actually,
he was nice enough to give me, I have it.
You gave me a necklace.
Thank you for that, by the way.
Are most ICO's scams?
- I wouldn't say most of them are scams,
there are a lot of scams.
Any time you get this big of
an asymmetry of information where the difference
between the people that have the knowledge
and those that don't is so great
every cockroach and scumbag comes out there
which is why I keep telling you
don't invest in things you don't understand.
You can't get scammed
if you don't invest in things you don't understand.
- But there are ICO's you think that are solid?
- Yeah of course.
Like all things there are good deals and there are bad deals
and you need to do your research
and that's why don't invest in things you don't understand
you can't get scammed if you know what you're doing
so make sure you learn to know, knowledge first.
Get the knowledge first before you act,
don't like rush in and let someone tell you what to do.
Think for yourself, take responsibility for your life.
- What about entrepreneurs that wanna raise capital?
- I think it's fantastic.
- You think an ICO could be for them.
- So an ICO is basically, on Ethereum
the ICO is essentially replacing most of venture capital.
- Yes, it's bigger, what's the numbers?
- We're crushing it, we're over three billion
I mean we're doing like four, five times
what the early stage venture is right now
I mean this is gonna crush it all it's gonna crush,
the world's changing
and there's an opportunity to get involved.
If you're interested in building the city of the future.
Get to Puerto Rico and
but I mean be a master and be ready
to roll up your sleeves and build, we're gonna--
- I might come down there, I'm part Puerto Rican.
- I mean we'll roll up our sleeves.
We're burners.
We're guys that can build cities in the middle of desert.
We can do things that very few people in the world can do
and why not go down there and construct something awesome
that creates all sorts of opportunity
for the Puerto Rican people
to support the Puerto Rican people
and any of the indigenous tribes and old ways of being
and making sure that they have
the freedoms that they need to still be respected
with things like Standing Rock and such going on today
I'm spending a lot of time thinking about
the indigenous tribes, most of the world's resources,
most of the world's minerals and water
and things that we need to survive
are on the lands of the indigenous people
and we think in our big cities
that we're somehow superior and that you have these people
that have old ways of being
that are just incredibly beautiful.
- [Tai] Columbia too where you're going.
- In all of these places such people
that have been doing this for so long
and doing it so well that
because it looks primitive to us
because we don't understand their ways
and they've learned how to live in harmony.
They have had their avatar, that's where they are.
We're not necessarily the advanced ones.
- For somebody who wants to do an ICO
and they're educating themselves, do you think,
number one, that this is a viable replacement
of raising capital going up to Silicon Valley?
You answered it as yes.
- Absolutely.
- Absolutely, so number two, do you raise outside of the US?
Because the US, the FCC is coming down, I know you guys did,
I think EOS is outside the US, right?
You've excluded everybody.
- Yeah we don't even talk about the sale in EOS, yes,
we exclude the US but we do encourage US developers
to build on EOS, you don't need the token
to be able to use the software.
The software is an open source software
available to everyone.
And so we encourage people--
- So do you recommend most people do that,
raise outside of the US?
- I mean again I love my country
but our regulations are the most complex
and the risks of making a mistake are really high
and so I did it with the B cap deal
but I generally don't recommend it
because the US is where most of your risk comes from
but only a small amount of your capital.
Are you willing to leave some money on the table
to sleep better at night?
It's not that you would do anything wrong
I mean most of the well intended ICO's are doing this
to the best of their abilities
and they're being as thoughtful as they can be
but the risks are high so,
you have to make that decision for yourself,
I encourage people to do the US
if they are doing it correctly
and they're properly legally advised
but if you're doing the US really know what you're doing.
The risks of getting it wrong are severe.
It's no joke.
- Yeah FCC is not--
- I know the Orange is the New Black and all
I know I wouldn't look good in that color
and I don't do anything bad I look at everything I do
and I try to also look at it in the future
with the benefit of hindsight,
if things go certain ways where
even though I didn't do anything wrong
it could eventually look bad because some,
I try to think through all of the possibilities
because I just don't ever want to do something
that could be perceived as bad and it's hard.
- Would you do it as a utility token versus,
'cause you have to securitize it,
in general do you think people should be
trying to do utility tokens?
- I mean it depends on your token,
each token sale is different, each market is different
and you have to look at each deal
on its kind of individual basis.
And so you have to ask yourself this is community building?
In designing your token, are your users,
is your community better suited
if it's a security token or a utility token?
And always do what's best for your users,
always do what's best for your community.
I like to call the ICO the initial community offering.
- Okay, not just the initial coin.
So you think in general
there's a little bit too much greed right now?
- Yeah but this is what happens
when you get in these emotional cycles and that's why--
- And you need that greed though to get people in.
- Yeah it's driving growth I mean
these are the cycles of things, this is how it goes.
- Yeah. Yeah.
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