What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to Off the Chain, simply the best podcasting crypto. Let's kick this thing off.

Joseph Weinberg is co-founder of Shift Network and CEO of Pay Case Financial. In this conversation, we discussed mining Bitcoin in 2010, moving to live

with a tribe in the Amazon forest, plant-based medicine, and the idea of building an

interoperable permission blockchain. I really enjoyed this conversation, and I hope you do as well.

Anthony Pompliano is a partner at Morgan Creek Digital.

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particular strategy, but only as an expression of his opinion. This podcast is for informational

purposes only. All right, guys, bang, bang. I'm here with Joseph. He has been in the game just

as long as anybody. So thank you so much for taking the time to come on and talk

with us. Thanks for having me. All right. You were manning Bitcoin in what? 2010, 2011? Late

2010, yeah, December. You're a psychopath. How did you hear about this and why my Bitcoin

that early? Fully in psychopathic mode.

I was finishing my first semester in third-year ComSai,

and me and my two buddies were actually in a distributed systems class.

So we're sitting there.

I was like, we just finished last exam, actually.

So it was the 13th of December.

I'm like going home, getting out, going to hit the snow Hanukkah whatever it is um and my friends just used to me with it I'm gonna hit the

snow and honica yeah of course yeah I'm from Vancouver and Whistler you know we had to go hit the

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