Love it. Ash, I felt like you were talking to me when you suggested investing your time. As a former web developer, who has always been at odds with the ad model of the internet and social.. this feels like home. Looking for adventure... hopefully I can find some way to contribute to this space.

so you hired a shitcoin analyst

Big thanks to both of you for the interview! Many comments below with various meanings about the platform. Whatever you land on Real Vision Crypto is my first site for crypto content and I am looking forward to see how it evolves. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for bringing this new world to us

Good intro interview. You can tell from the comments just how different and in some cases tribal peoples’ perspectives are about crypto and their personal interests. Likely not possible for RV to satisfy the info demands of 100% of subscribers but I expect that between the topics that Ash and Sebastian cover I’m going to learn a lot that I wouldn’t on my own.

@Ash, thanks introducing kind of your more like personal view on crypto. I would love to see like 1h interview with Edward Harrison and his view on this topic, I dont think I've seen him. I feel he would bring a great, maybe more a bit neutral insight. Great interview, keep beeing amazing guys! ♥️

Good introduction to RV's vision for the RV Crypto channel, and the challenges it will confront in developing the appropriate mix of content that provides value to a quite diverse audience. One aspect of this vision, as presented by Ash, is to provide education to a general audience from a "50,000 ft." perspective; the other aspect, as presented by Sebastian, is to focus on the current "edge/fringe," going deep "into the weeds." Although I did start investigating and investing in cryptocurrencies beginning in 2014, .I decidedly fall into the "general audience" category. While I would be interested in content from perhaps even a 10,000 or 20,000 ft. perspective, I have little interest in the trees, the weeds, or what new is now happening at the outer edge of the field. There is a large array of crypto media available to those interested in being in the weeds and the fringe, but virtually none providing good content to a general audience, which I believe would include most of those in all tiers of RV subscribers. I therefore hope that the RV Crypto Channel does not neglect the educational interest and needs of RV's general audience as it moves forward. A particular challenge in providing a balance between content of interest to a general audience and that of interest to those at the cutting edge would be how to package it, so that the audiences don't get discouraged from investing their time with content that is too general or too specialized. Perhaps, RV Crypto will need to develop distinctive levels of content--tents, or designate the intended audience. Currently, clues as to the level of content can be obtained from the interview summery, but even more so from the comments. When commenters state that they only understood 40% of an interview, this presents a problem in retaining the attention of a general audience. Likewise, there appears to be is a problem in the opposite direction for cutting edge viewers finding that they wasted their time on too generalized information, as reflected in their comments. I am confident in RV's creative ability to resolve this conundrum.

Ash stated " I do not invest directly in cryptocurrency. I own a small position in Bitcoin that I hold through a brokerage account through a product that trades OTC, but I don't actually invest in the underlying coins." I am assuming he is referring to GBTC?

RV should cover Bitcoin to a great and detailed degree. RV is for financial people and Macro investors. The ONLY macro instrument is BTC. I would like RV to go into the depths of on-chain analytics for BTC. This current wave of BTC adoption is being powered by corporate treasuries, maybe even sovereign wealth funds. They do OTC transactions. Their volume does NOT show up in the BTC volume of your charting program. That is the Exchange Volume of retail buyers. Corporations do not go to exchanges. On-chain analytics is important. I am trying to understand it ... with NO help from RV. Even after you are convinced about the macro case for BTC there is much to understand about BTC. I have commented that RV should interview Willy Woo who in my opinion is the best on-chain analytics guy out there. RV Crypto instead is becoming a “Shitcoin” platform. I will not subscribe to it.

I'm excited about the crypto tier. If RV can cover projects that might be "disruptive" that might provide some huge returns for investors. Also if you can cover who are the potential frauds or bad players in the space so we can avoid the scammers and don't fall prey for those tokens. Sebastian can you bring in Kyle Semani from Multicoin capital to talk about helium.com?

The RV crypto offering should really be split - Maybe there should be a Bitcoin section which dives deeper into innovations like Taproot and Lightning, proper storage, legislation, how to run a node, trading, coinjoining for privacy.....and so on...... so much to learn! At the moment RV is putting it all in one section and its coming across as a mish-mash. Then there can be another section called 'Crypto dreaming' as Sebastian says himself 'where do I go to play with the crazy stuff'.

I believe this is the site mentioned at the 5 min mark. https://bitcointreasuries.org/

Love real vision crypto. I think Ash needs to start really diving in though. Like Nassim Taleb said "Don't tell me what you think, tell me what you have in your portfolio"

Like the positive energy Sebastian and Ash. Sorry for banging on about this a bit - but the privacy aspect (lack of) of these "distributed ledger technologies" is minimalised, but shouldn't be. People are ignorantly giving away their privacy. I don't trust the IQ of the new generation like you suggest Ash, their experience is almost naive regarding this. I remember posting to Mr Haynes in a BitMex interview with Raoul who glossed over something like this by saying people share on Facebook. We are seeing a vastly changed world today than even 10 years ago regarding freedoms (of thought/speech) - which will get worse. Our privacy and rights (in general and especially for finance) are something that should be valued more highly in my opinion.

I really enjoy the interview. Great for beginners new to the crypto space. It always helps to get ideas on how new tech affects finance.

Welcome Sebastian! I found the video both interesting and valuable. I liked the juxtaposition of Ash, with his focus on the intersection of Bitcoin and the 'orthodox' financial system, and Sebastian's experience at the bleeding edge of this rapidly evolving space. Some of the comments here are disappointingly negative, this is just one video in a broad spectrum of RV content on the crypto space, and to whinge because this one specific video didn't focus exclusively on BTC, or didn't convert you instantly into a super-smart crypto genius is rather Boomerish. If you want a deep dive on BTC there are plenty of books / blogs / papers, I suggest you start with: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

If you're still pitching "crypto" and not Bitcoin, you have no idea what you're talking about. Fidelity said 5% Bitcoin NOT crypto.

Great discussion - I look forward to seeing what you all discover on the bleeding edge. I'm still learning the basics, but hope that this channel will be able to provide enough details to similarly participate in these alternative innovations, like yield farming.

Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency. ETH, LINK, ADA, XRP and on and on, are companies that can make changes to their "companies". Their coins are basically shares you can trade. EOS for example was built on ETH and then moved to it's own Blockchain. Ask around, see what companies are the built on ETH as ERC20 tokens are profitable. Things can always change but at the moment, all these "exciting" companies have one thing going for them. They created a coin to trade and kept a WHOLE bunch to cash in for themselves. It's been happening since before 2017 and not much has changed YET. I'm not saying it can't change but we are STILL in an unregulated and dangerous space and the longer it goes on like this, the more victims there will be.

Hey guys, Sebastian here. What's the concern about? We made this video to show the different topics we will be covering here on RV crypto. I will be covering, in general, the more risky experimental type crypto projects, while Ash will be covering the more established crypto and traditional finance crossover projects. I would love some feedback as to how I/ we can do better. We are trying to make sure our community gets information about the WHOLE spectrum of digital assets. There has been demand for education and discussion over the various blockchain sectors and we are doing our best to show the full picture of what's going on in the space. This video was primarily to show how we will be splitting up this content, each of us will be covering those things that we are most interested in. I am not sure why there is negativity here, but I am open to constructive criticism.

Thanks Ash and welcome aboard Sebastian. I look forward to your insight on a subject I invest in but need to know so much more about. It would be great if you could shine some light on these rabbit holes I have yet to enter.

What the hell is this?

hmmm, this could have been better