DC Investor | Layer Zero
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🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
DC Investor is an investor... living in Washington, DC. Makes sense. A lot makes sense about DC Investor and his practical, long-term approach to the crypto markets. He has worked hard for his money, and expects his money to work hard for him in return.
With one of the best and varied NFT portfolios out there, as well as a sound thesis on ETH the asset, DC clues us in on his guiding principles and life lessons from a career as a W2 employee and crypto investor.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
4:00 DC Investor
9:36 Interest & Speculation
14:45 Risk Management
20:07 Conviction & Communities
26:58 The Crypto Moment
33:58 Early Internet Skills
41:53 Tech Changes Society
46:56 Investing, not Trading
53:04 Markets
1:00:30 NFTs and Signalling
1:09:58 Gaming
1:14:15 Digital Economies
1:19:16 Hobbies & Lifestyle
1:23:10 The Hoffman Personality Quiz
1:27:45 Closing
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Resources:
DCInvestor on Twitter
https://twitter.com/iamDCinvestor?s=20
DC's NFT Collection
http://gallery.so/dcinvestor
DC's Newsletter
https://dcinvestor.substack.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Layer0. Layer0 is a podcast of unscripted conversations with the people that |
| 0:12.6 | make up the Ethereum community. Crypto is built by code, but it's composed by people, |
| 0:17.4 | and each individual member of the crypto community has their own story to tell. |
| 0:22.1 | CypherPunks understood that the code they write impacts the people that use it, and |
| 0:26.0 | Layer0 focuses on the people behind the code, because crypto is people all the way down, |
| 0:31.1 | and it always has been. Today, I'm talking with DC Investor, who lives up to his name |
| 0:37.0 | as a guy who has been in the investing world and also lives in DC. So we go through that |
| 0:42.1 | history of what it was like to learn how to be an investor while also being a W2 employee. |
| 0:48.2 | And I think a lot of people in the Ethereum community in the crypto world can definitely |
| 0:52.1 | understand what it's like to go to work for their 9-5, and then really think hardly about how |
| 0:58.0 | to make their money work for them, and how to make sure that their money is working as DC said, |
| 1:03.7 | as hard for them as they worked for their money. I really enjoyed their framing. We talked about |
| 1:08.8 | DC's earlier exploration into using the internet before the internet is what it was today. |
| 1:13.9 | While we as a society were still trying to figure out what the internet is, and how those behaviors |
| 1:18.8 | and skills that he learned while navigating the early internet was able to be translated into |
| 1:23.5 | the world of crypto. We also, of course, go into DC's first entrance into crypto, which involved |
| 1:29.0 | buying Bitcoin at the top, selling it at the bottom, and what lessons he was able to learn from that |
| 1:34.0 | expensive mistake, which is kind of turned into a right of passage for almost everyone in the |
| 1:37.9 | world of crypto. We also, of course, talk about DC's background as it relates to NFTs, and if DC |
| 1:44.0 | famously has one of the most stellar NFT portfolios that is out there, and we also get into the |
| 1:49.1 | world of crypto gaming and what DC likes to do in his free time. So, I hope you enjoy this conversation |
| 1:55.3 | with DC Investor, but before we get into it, we have to talk for a moment about one of these |
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