Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated providing you with the knowledge, skills,

insights, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building a plan

for financial freedom in 10 years or less. My name is Joshua Sheets. I'm your host, and today I want to talk

a little bit about scams, especially political scams, especially cryptocurrency scams.

Tomorrow on March 20, allegedly, if the internet is to be believed, President Trump will be speaking at the digital asset summit in New York City, a conference

happening right now in New York City. Now, over the last few months, there has been quite a lot of new energy and new things

happening in the United States in the world of cryptocurrencies and a lot of things like that.

There's a David Sachs is serving as the White House AI and Crypto Tsar.

There have been a variety of meetings and discussions and conversations

related to cryptocurrencies. The White House a week ago has announced for the establishment

of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and the United States digital asset stockpile.

And so there's a lot of things happening in this space.

And I continue to watch this space with a mixture of confusion and derision and frustration and wonderment about what the future might hold.

And at its core, I don't have much of a clue about really much of anything in this space.

On the one hand, I can see the utility of blockchain technology.

I can see the utility of some of these methods of record keeping. I can see the utility of blockchain technology. I can see the utility of some of these methods

of record keeping. I can see various arguments on various sides of the equation. There's people

that are much smarter than me that have all kinds of amazing ideas about how the world is going to be so

wonderful in the future as we adopt and embrace various currencies and Bitcoin's going to solve everything

and it's going to fix everything. And I continue to wonder, well, does the emperor have no clothes,

or am I just unable to see the clothes? I try to basically wind my way up the middle,

being open to changes in the future, but being quite frustrated by various of those changes.

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