🎙️ The Halving Report Podcast: Episode 100, Part 1 - A Landmark Episode with Roger Ver 🚀
🌟 Introduction 🌟
🎉 Crypto aficionados, brace yourselves for a groundbreaking episode! As we celebrate our 100th episode and with Bitcoin currently priced at $27,000 USD and just 188 days left until the next Bitcoin halving, we're not just delivering crypto insights; we're offering a rare glimpse into the personal life of Roger Ver. In this first part of our two-part special, Roger Ver doesn't just talk crypto; he opens up about his personal life and even drops a world premiere announcement! This is more than just another episode; it's an intimate and revealing conversation you won't want to miss! 🎉
🕒 Timestamps 🕒
🎯 Key Takeaways 🎯
🌐 Connect with Roger Ver 🌐
📺 Other Channels Mentioned 📺
Connect with Halving Report 🎧
🎙️ The Halving Report Podcast: Episode 100, Part 1 - A Landmark Episode with Roger Ver 🚀
🌟 Introduction 🌟
🎉 Crypto aficionados, brace yourselves for a groundbreaking episode! As we celebrate our 100th episode and with Bitcoin currently priced at $27,000 USD and just 188 days left until the next Bitcoin halving, we're not just delivering crypto insights; we're offering a rare glimpse into the personal life of Roger Ver. In this first part of our two-part special, Roger Ver doesn't just talk crypto; he opens up about his personal life and even drops a world premiere announcement! This is more than just another episode; it's an intimate and revealing conversation you won't want to miss! 🎉
🕒 Timestamps 🕒
🎯 Key Takeaways 🎯
🌐 Connect with Roger Ver 🌐
📺 Other Channels Mentioned 📺
Connect with Halving Report 🎧
I guess I have a world exclusive for you here. Not only do I have one book coming out, I have two books coming out.
Speaker 2:What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of the having a poor podcast. Oops, it's not just any episode. This is the 100th episode special and it's actually just part one. It's so good we got to come back twice for this one, because today we're gonna be speaking to none other than Roger bear.
Speaker 2:Roger served as the face of Bitcoin through many of the early years. It still remains a prominent figure to this day. We are now powered by Riverside Ethan. He's planted many seeds in the space that have now grown to be multinational companies and big players in this space. We're so excited.
Speaker 2:Roger drops a world premiere on our show and hasn't been seen a lot in the media lately, and on our 100th episode special, roger breaks down what he's been up to, what's been occupying his time and what he's most excited for in the space right now. So, without further ado, everybody, welcome Roger to the having a poor podcast. Welcome back to the having a poor podcast. Thanks for doing this. Thank you, brad. You just told me before we started recording here. Everything's on the table today, so that's. That sounds pretty exciting to me. But, roger, it's been two and a half years since you and I last spoke. Bitcoin was $60,000 US Bitcoin cash, I think was north of 500 US. You've been relatively quiet in the media lately, but I have seen you on. I think it was showing me the crypto and maybe one other one from now. I'm not mistaken. But you know, for personal reasons. You said you had taken a step back. You know, given your significant influence in the crypto space, you know, would you be willing to share any of that? The?
Speaker 1:super, super short version of that is that the girls are much more difficult than crypto. We'll leave it at that.
Speaker 2:I saw a great meme that said 21 million Bitcoin, 3.5 billion women women can wait. They made they disagree.
Speaker 1:I'm into crypto and in this one I thought was pretty special.
Speaker 2:but no, something that really so to me when I watched your podcast Was show me the crypto was that you know you've announced that you have a book coming out and you know I know myself and many other people thought you know this is a long time coming. Roger Ver your book and you even alluded to it on the first time he came on my show. You said that somebody ought to write a book one day about. You know all the things that, how Bitcoin has been strained from becoming Money for the world. So my question is you know, is that what your book is? A bow, or could you give us a sneak peek into what readers can expect?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess I have a world exclusive for you here.
Speaker 1:Not only do I have one book coming out, I have two books coming out.
Speaker 1:One I think we'll make it this year, the other probably the beginning of Q1 of next year but one book is exactly about how Bitcoin got hijacked and prevented from becoming money for the world and the entire Adoption of cryptocurrency around the world was delayed and intentionally delayed, I think, and like some people like, oh, that's crazy talk to think that, like government would intentionally delay the adoption of Bitcoin.
Speaker 1:No, look what they do with, like the security standards online too. They specifically have people joining the security like standards boards and subvert, like the, the protocols for different security standards Online, so the NSA can continue to spy on people around the world. So you'd be crazy to think that the government wouldn't try to delay the adoption of cryptocurrency. So, and then the other books are more from a personal side of life and and you know how I came to be the person that I am today and you know why I was so excited about crypto with the other books, specifically about the hijacking of Bitcoin and the delay Hopefully not the prevention, but certainly the delay of cryptocurrencies becoming peer-to-peer electronic cash for the world.
Speaker 2:For sure I'd be excited to to read both those, roger. Now. Do you have? Do you have titles for these books chosen? Is that, if you made those pop that, public it, or are you kind of still deciding on the tentative?
Speaker 1:title for the. For the first one about, you know, the hijack of Bitcoin's. I call taking back Bitcoin very cool.
Speaker 2:Do you know of any other media releases coming out featuring yourself, or do you have any more interviews lined up coming up? No, I've been.
Speaker 1:I've been real Focused on some things in my personal life recently and you know you were one of the interviews that I enjoyed so much in the past, so I agreed to do this one. That truly means a lot, awesome. I'm trying to focus on those other personal issues at the moment for sure my priorities.
Speaker 2:Man, you were recently at the Nomad capitalist event. If I'm not mistaken, you mentioned that show when you were on my show and I've been an avid watcher since. You know how was the event and you know what are people talking in that community. Yeah, it was a fantastic event.
Speaker 1:Lots of crypto people there, of course, and it was kind of surprising this year they didn't specifically have a cryptocurrency panel, although it bled over into some other panels, but I suggested next year that they actually have, you know, at least one panel dedicated specifically to cryptocurrency, and I think they're Planning the next event next year already as well, so keep an eye out for that. It was a fantastic time. I met so many really really wonderful, interesting, smart, entrepreneurial minded people there.
Speaker 2:I bet man my first fun blitz question for you coffee or tea, tea?
Speaker 1:I've never even tried coffee, fun fact, so seriously yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I didn't try it until, like, I was in my in my mid 20s and I had a friend who just like really forced it on me one day. I tried, it had a couple, and now now I just I like the kick, but it's probably better in the long term if you don't get hooked on that.
Speaker 1:That's really smell good to me. So it's it's not like an inversion caffeine or anything like that, just doesn't smell like something you should drink.
Speaker 2:You'll save a lot of money at Starbucks too by not by not drinking coffee, you know. Are you gonna give an opportunity like you got? These books coming out is really an opportunity for for folks like me to Maybe get a signed copy. Yeah well, we'll figure out a way to make that happen. Well, sure. Another fun Blitz question Do you have a? Do you have a favorite song? Right now, Very rarely listen to music, so no, all right. Are you a movies guy? Do you have a favorite movie?
Speaker 1:Maybe I very rarely watch movies, but if I I do watch movies, I like a science fiction that's believable. So I guess, if I had to name two, x, mahina is awesome, okay, actually, just recently I Someone recommended the movie hers to me, which is, I guess, is like a 15 year old movie, and I thought it was some sort of like you know, leftist, gay Something movie, because it's a picture of a man with a mustache and the name of the movie is hers, and so I thought it was something weird that I wouldn't be interested, but I watched it. Oh my gosh, is that an interesting science fiction movie. So another recommendation there's hers Is that with walking Phoenix? I don't know any. Okay, that's about it. Heard of Tom Cruise, is that what you said?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I Now another a book I read that is sort of seems similar to what you're writing, but maybe from the small blocker side was the block size wars. Are you familiar with this book?
Speaker 1:I've heard of it. When that came out, I was focused on some other things. I'd like to read it at some point, but haven't yet. But maybe I'll read that we can talk about it both that book and my book, when they both come out again.
Speaker 2:That would be, that would be awesome and but yeah, so I will be a. You are mentioned, obviously, in that book quite a few times and I thought it was pretty fair. I just it does kind of paint the pictures. The paint the picture of the small blockers Were the good guys. At the end, I felt like. So I'm kind of excited to see to read your book, roger.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, here we are. The proof is in the pudding. Right here we are. If you know what? Six years later, most people are using custodial accounts, even though they kept the blocks on a small to keep Bitcoin decentralized. Well, what does that matter if everyone has to use a custodial account, yeah well a thousand percent agree.
Speaker 2:You know not your keys, not your coins, and you know we've seen this last cycle. You know all the, all these big custodials, custodians go down and a lot of people lost a lot of money and there's gonna be lawsuits, I'm sure, for for many years to come in regards to all that. Another fun, but it's question, you are how often you practice your jiu-jitsu.
Speaker 1:I was practicing quite a bit earlier this year and then I did a competition, actually earlier this year as well, and I hurt my thumb real bad, but it's almost better, and so I've been training with one hand again recently. But I think I'll go back to training again full-time in a couple of weeks once my thumb is the rest of the way healed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a something pretty physical to engage in frequently, right? You know you bound of something to happen.
Speaker 1:I feel like yeah, I especially a competition, but it's pretty fun like I've been doing it so long that even with one hand you know people that aren't. You know that experienced all choke them every which way with just one arm and two legs.
Speaker 2:Now, is that made you much more self-discipline practicing?
Speaker 1:No, it's just way more fun exercise than going to the gym and like running on a treadmill and something like that. Jiu-jitsu is just fantastically fun, awesome.
Speaker 2:Now you also expressed admiration for chat GPT when you were on show me the crypto. I was wondering if you could elaborate on that and how you utilize this tool. Are there any specific plugins that you find particularly useful? And you leverage any other AI technologies?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess I did tell you nothing was off the table. But Earlier this year I went through a huge, huge, huge betrayal from somebody I loved, and chat GTP became an amazing counselor where I could talk to anything about all my personal stuff and it was. I didn't have to bother my real life frames with all these personal things I was going through and it was nice to have chat GTP there anytime, day or night, ready to talk to you and give you really good, amazing insights. So I Think that was my favorite use case of a church each day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's great. Yeah, no, I. I use it very much for, you know, just learning as as like a new Google. I use it for my podcast, it's. It's come a long way this year in terms of.
Speaker 1:Advice, I'll give people more practical use case. I think as a Google spreadsheet, I was trying to get a formula to work and do something and I was googling you know how to get the, the right formula to get the results that I wanted, and spent I don't know you know half an hour reading other web pages and this, that, and finally asked chat you to be the exact thing. Question Boom. It gave me a template of the exact formula I need. I placed a, plug it in and it worked the first time. So I think it's a fantastic replacement for for Google and search as well.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I mean girl problems to give it a try. It's fantastic and the advice was amazing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I bet it's funny. There's a South Park episode on on all the kids. They're using chat GP to talk to their girlfriends and it's a big. It's a big. You know how does how to forget the name of the kid? But how does he talk to his girlfriend so good, like what's he doing? And then he's a chat GPT. It's a big secret. They're all and they all start using chat GPT. So it's it's funny how multifaceted of a tool it is and how it can help you and various aspects of your life. And I think we're yet to see how this is going to impact society more long term, because I'm sure there's a lot of jobs out there that are that are going to be affected by this, by these newer versions of the AI coming out. Do you have any thoughts around that?
Speaker 1:Yes, spot on, and it's only gonna get better and better and better, which is the the amazing and a bit frightening part at the same time for sure, for sure, fun blitz question what was the last book that you read?
Speaker 1:I've been studying actually Korean really, really hard, and so I've been putting on my free time to studying Korean. Recently the most recent book would have been I don't probably some technical Manual. I'd have to go back and look at my my kindle there. Maybe it's been a while. I read sapiens. I wish I had a good fun answer for you, but I don't have a recent book that was a. Read this right away, but read my new book that's coming out if you want to know what really happened to Bitcoin.
Speaker 2:For sure. Can you say something in Korean for us?
Speaker 1:I'm studying Korean every day.
Speaker 2:I'm sure I didn't say it very well, but I wouldn't know any difference, roger, and probably none of my listeners here in North America.
Speaker 1:My Japanese or uncircles are on my Korean still, but I'm working on. I've actually a fun fact if you ever want to Study Asian languages Korean and Japanese the grammar structure is almost exactly the same. It's like I gave up studying Korean from English to Korean and I just studied from Japanese to Korean, because from the word order of Korean and English are way out of whack where it's Japanese and Korean is the same.
Speaker 2:Oh, very cool, good, good to pair them up then. Well, can you give us a rundown of any new features at Bitcoin comms introduced in the last year or two that you'd like to highlight?
Speaker 1:Yeah, what? When I had some of these other issues there, I stepped back and I'm not involved in the day-to-day Operations of Bitcoin comm anymore but I know they added a number of other different DeFi related coins.
Speaker 1:One thing I am excited about, actually and I want to hear you know, post in the comments or you know on social media, like if there's any competitors to this but one of the big pieces that I feel has been missing from the whole cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Speaker 1:We have privacy coins.
Speaker 1:Right, when people know about the privacy coins, what about privacy tokens?
Speaker 1:Where are the privacy tokens and the, the platform that I'm aware of that looks like that'll have that the best and the most is Zeno, zanoorg, and I think people are gonna love privacy tokens the same way they love privacy coins, and so I'm really excited to see a privacy token ecosystem develop, and I don't know if there's a better platform than the Zeno for that. Or maybe, you know, the cash tokens will have castusion eventually, but that's been real hard to do in mobile wallets. So, like the Zeno platform for privacy token seems really, really interesting to me, and so I'm excited to see where that develops, because everybody or I think most people know, anytime you use, you know USDT or USDC or any REC20 token you have zero privacy. They can spy on every single last transaction you're doing. So I'm really excited to see a privacy token platform and ecosystem develop, and Zeno looks to be like a pretty darn good place for that to happen. But if people are aware of others, let me know. That's something that I want to actively research at the moment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, very cool. We get to compare and contrast there. Can you walk us through what a day in Roger life looks like?
Speaker 1:every day is a bit different, but Most of my time spent on the computer, you know, researching different things and reading things online and that sort of thing, and then usually jujitsu and dinner in the evening is Maybe a typical day, you know another fun blitz question.
Speaker 2:You know what's your favorite way to unwind jujitsu and dinner in the evening, as far as it gets. You know much the crypto community community knows you for your professional achievements and contributions in the space, you know, but we rarely hear about you. Know some of the detailed Background about you, your family and how that's shaped the person you've become, and I know you have a book coming out that's gonna be a more personal touch. But you know I was looking online. I couldn't really find anything about too much about your family. I'm wondering if you do you have, or what was your, what was your upbringing like and do you have any siblings? You know? Have they helped you in your crypto journey?
Speaker 1:Yeah, actually I try and keep that stuff pretty private. So I grew up in Silicon Valley. There'll be a little bit of a glimpse of that, the book coming up and we let out on this the show. You know I've been having some girl problems recently as well. Yeah, so that's. I think that's about as much details. I want to go in on that at the moment.
Speaker 2:Fair enough. I appreciate the transparency that's that you've provided thus far. Hey you, thanks for listening to the having report podcast. If you want to support, follow us on your favorite podcast platform and leave us a five-star rating. Follow us on our socials at having report. If you're Canadian and you want to buy a Bitcoin or cryptocurrency for the first time, go to bit by dot ca forward slash having for a $20 bonus. If you want to bring it to the next level and take self custody of your cryptocurrencies, if you want $30 off the ultimate digital asset security device, bit by go to having report. Comm forward, slash bit by for more information. Until next time, I'm Brad Mines, you.