All right, everybody, welcome back. I am joined by an incredible guest who's just got a fascinating story. He is the co-founder and the chief strategy officer of Lendend. This is Marizio di Bartolomeo. Welcome to the show.

How are you doing? I'm doing great. Thank you for the kind intro, Bryce. That was too kind.

Well, hey, thank you very much for joining us. There's so much to dive into and we don't have a lot of

time. But I want to make sure all the good citizens of Crip Nation who are watching you right now understand a little bit about your background. Because when we were just catching up before the show, I mean, it's the first time we've had somebody with such a unique background and experience kind of coming in to the crypto markets.

So let us know who you are and kind of how you found yourself here in the crypto markets before we dive into the company.

Yeah, no, absolutely.

So my name is Mauricio.

I, Diortolomeo, is my last name.

I am originally from Venezuela.

And I say that because for the largest, longest part of my life,

that piece of my upbringing was irrelevant until I came into Bitcoin and inflation is everything.

And that's something I learned a lot about growing up by experience, not because I wanted to.

You know, you can wait your whole life and people will still

not want to understand the problems that are inflicting them. I find it hilarious that there are

still articles in North America that run and say, as early as last year, I'd say people still have

no idea what cost inflation. Like, well, I have a couple of trillion ideas.

All the money for teams.

It's not rocket science.

But yet, there is a vested interest in the entire apparatus for you not to know what causes inflation.

Because the second you find out, you're going

to get really upset at the mismanagement.

And it's almost like that scene in that movie where they say you can't handle the truth.

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