Imagine 17,134 grains of sand in zen garden sand box.  ONE is an absolute winner.  Could you pick it?  Could you pick it from a much smaller box of 534 even? That’s essentially cryptocurrency right now.  Dismissing cryptocurrency is a logical reaction and yet-  would you believe as an asset class, if all of crypto were on the Fortune 500, it would be a top 10 company by market cap?  Bigger than Berkshire Hathaway?  Bigger than Tesla?  Bigger than Visa? That's a lot to fathom.  So our own Daren Blonski CFP® is here to share his take on the crypto space right now, with 4 key reasons he believes Bitcoin has stood out from everything else and will continue to do so. This episode is for educational purposes only, focused on explaining some of the realities of this still relatively-new asset class, which has become too big to ignore.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold Open: Pick The Winner From The Sand
1:28 Welcome Back: Why Bitcoin Is Different From Other Cryptos
2:18 This Episode Is Educational, Not A Sales Pitch
4:05 Crypto Goes Mainstream: Mortgages, Banks, And Regulators
6:24 Crypto Is Already A Digital Currency You're Using
7:40 By The Numbers: 17,134 Cryptocurrencies And Counting
10:22 Currency Risk And Why The Dollar's Trust Matters
12:17 Slow Jamistan: A Micronation's Currency Problem
13:57 Money Printing, Inflation, And Where To Store Value
15:47 Bitcoin's Fixed Supply: Only 21 Million, Ever
16:45 Satoshi Nakamoto: The Mystery Behind Bitcoin's Decentralization
21:31 A Live Demonstration: What Is A Pump And Dump?
25:50 Survivorship Bias And The Myth Of The Smart Investor
29:02 Ethereum, XRP, And Doge: Comparing Bitcoin To The Competition
31:54 Institutions Adopting Crypto: What It Means For Mortgages
33:22 Tulips, DVDs, And Embracing What Comes Next

References:
https://tangem.com/en/blog/post/how-many-cryptocurrencies-exist/
https://www.forbes.com/digital-assets/crypto-prices/?sh=7a54f0bb2478
https://explodingtopics.com/blog/number-of-cryptocurrencies