Christian Keroles is General Manager at Bitcoin Magazine. The Southern California native hosts the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, Fed Watch Podcast, Bitcoin Magazine Spaces and covers Bitcoin as it monetizes. You can connect with CK at https://twitter.com/ck_SNARKs
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00:00 Okcoin promo
00:59 iTrustCapital promo
01:43 Coin Stories is powered in part by Bitcoin Magazine
02:50 Growing up in SoCal, attending Chapman University
03:56 Parents are from Cairo
04:29 Family emigrating from Egypt
06:42 Software sales in Silicon Valley
08:05 Goal out of college: make money, be successful, own time
10:01 Discovering Bitcoin in 2017 in Bay Area
11:22 Learning through Laura Shin's Unchained podcast
15:21 Investing all his time in Bitcoin when he didn't have the money
17:19 BTC makes the world a better place, bullish on humans
19:51 Bitcoin maximalism, cryptocurrency community
24:50 Everything is good for Bitcoin, fighting trolls
29:37 Bitcoin Amsterdam and Bitcoin 2023 promo
30:40 Fold app promo
31:27 Transitioning from software sales to content creator
32:49 Early days of Bitcoin Magazine
33:40 Producing podcasts, Bitcoin conferences, Hard Money
36:55 Growth from Bitcoin 2019 to Bitcoin 2022
39:49 Bitcoin Amsterdam coming up October 12-14, 2022
43:35 Planning a conference in a bear market
45:12 "100K by Conference Day"
47:10 Hyperbitcoinization
49:27 Preparing for worst case scenario
52:05 Risks to Bitcoin
54:20 Is Bitcoin a zero sum game?
58:49 What's the Fed doing? Do people believe it?