Name: I studied crypto for 1 month. And now I'm a believer
Uploaded: 2026-01-21T17:19:05.000Z
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Past simple

I spent three full months studying money.

To-infinitive

And today I want to talk about crypto for the first time ever.

The imperative

Let me explain how crypto works and why I am interested in this space.

I am on a six month challenge to study money, how to invest it and grow it.

I am doing this with my friend Yoni, who is the founder of Etoro, the largest social investing platform in the world.

If you want to join us, just go to NAS IO Money.

Everything I'm learning is available to you there for free.

Before we begin, remember this is very, very risky.

It took me a long time to really understand crypto.

So let me expl why crypto may be the currency of the future.

See, right now, the money that we all use is moving at the speed of a turtle.

It can take up to three days to send $100 to your mom via bank wire.

When you move money between countries in different currencies, it needs maybe between three different banks.

And when it moves between three different banks, it takes three days.

And in some developed countries, crazy inflation can eat away the value of your money.

And banks, in extreme cases, can lock away your money during a crisis.

And even if there is no crisis, banks and traditional financial Systems are closed 30% of the year on average because of weekends and holidays.

They're even closed right now because we're filming on a Saturday.

It's very hard to change the existing banking infrastructure.

Most of it operates on code that has been written 20 and 30 years ago.

And it's all based on the fact that the system settles once a day.

But honestly, in my opinion, banks feel outdated.

But come on, guys, it doesn't have to be this way.

In summary, the potential of crypto is to build a better financial system.

In my opinion, Bitcoin is the equivalent of digital gold.

And I think it is a generational asset class.

And it's interesting to explore it, to understand it, and to invest in it.

Crypto people believe that you should be able to send Money in less than 10 seconds, not three days for a tiny cost without banks handling your money.

Today my company makes some payments using crypto to NAS IO creators.

That request costs us almost $1 to transfer the money inst 5 to $10 on average.

And my favorite part, crypto markets are open 100% of the time, every single day, every single hour.

My father says that crypto is a hype and it's going to disappear in the next 10 years.

But when you look at crypto as an asset class, your father is right that it is a high asset class that is not necessarily regulated or backed by companies.

By now, I hope you understand the potential of crypto and the risk of crypto.

So why am I still interested in this space?

I think it's a very interesting new asset class.

My grandfather used to talk to us and invest in gold.

And I believe myself and my kids will learn and invest in the crypto markets.

Right now there are more than 20,000 coins from the Dogecoin to the Bitcoin.

And just like the stock market, I personally look at the crypto market in two big buckets.

Now, it's important to know that all crypto moves, moves fast.

But some coins have been around for longer and therefore they feel more stable.

Right now, the top two biggest stable and reliable coins are Bitcoin and Ethereum.

These two alone account for 70% of the crypto market.

The remaining 30% are the 20,000 fast and risky coins like Solana or Cardano or Litecoin.

Well, I'm personally a crypto conservative.

I've been in crypto since 2011 and I'm a very big believer in Bitcoin and in Ethereum.

All these cryptos are my view of sort of value cryptos.

Sometime high risk is potential higher returns.

But you need to educate yourself about the risks.

Okay, so why did I invest some of my money in the crypto market?

The money we use today, the paper money we all hold, that may not have value forever.

Even this can go up and down and it can lose a lot of value from inflation.

For me, the crypto market is like a hedge.

If something bad happens to the stock market, then my Internet crypto money could offer protection for me.

And if nothing bad happens to the stock market and my crypto money disappears, then I should be fine as well.

And a good portfolio is a diversified portfolio.

Diversify away from cash and into assets like the stock market, like bonds, like real estate.

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