All right, everyone, welcome back to the Crypto 101 podcast. We hope all of you are having a

fantastic morning or evening, because no matter where you're coming in from, you're in the right

place here today.

Got another awesome guest in store for all of you because today we have Brendan Cito.

He is an initial contributor over at Core.

Brendan, it's good to have you.

And I got to be honest, I think you're the first Brendan that we've ever had on,

at least one that I've ever had on, which is a bit of a weird intro

for me, but nonetheless, great to have you, man. Thank you very much. Yeah, it was good to be

jamming before a bit, getting your insights on the market, and the Brennan connection is always

funny. You're joking how interesting about email threat that'll be with three Brendan's. I know there's it's weird because

I don't feel like it's that common of a name but nonetheless I guess one way or another we we find

the way to to meet up with each other or maybe just crypto just attracts the Brendan's and

it's why we're all a funny story in my last startup, the first guy I hired,

you know, there was two of us. Our first hires named Brendan. So it was just like, you know,

the history repeats. So no, it's pretty funny. It truly just must be the space. But, you know,

all banter aside, you know, we truly are glad to have you here.

Excited to talk all things core in the markets and what's happening here with crypto as a whole,

but specifically, you work a lot with Bitcoin. And so the people have all sorts of conversations.

And the cool thing about this pod is that we get to bring in people from all different backgrounds with all different opinions. And some of them disagree a lot. Some of them really agree a lot. And so there's people who come on and they just are, you know, but they believe, hey, Ethereum is the only way or Solana's the only way or Bitcoin's the only way. Or, you know, some people believe, hey, it can be a mixture of all of them. But we love to get everyone's kind of viewpoint and perspective because you guys are building, right?

Different people can build different things and they can all be successful. But we love hearing

from the founders and the builders and the contributors to the foundations of crypto and

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