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You're the one on whom we all defend Hey, everybody. It's Max. So I have a treat for you today. I haven't done a phone a friend in like a really long time

you know we've been busy making Midas touch videos unftr videos adding more progressive resources to the

website at unftr dot com the newsletters of course and then getting on the record off the ground

but a lot of the stories that we've done lately are starting

to synthesize. They're starting to intersect. So we've been working a lot, of course, on the Treasury,

on U.S. debt, the Federal Reserve, the moves that they're going to make to try and stabilize the

economy, what's happening with the economy generally. And then we did our big stable coin features.

So we did a couple of

really deep dives and investigations into the burgeoning cryptocurrency landscape and its intersection

with the political class. There's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes and some stuff out in the

open that we really need to talk about and think about. So in my learning journey, I ingested dozens of white papers and I interviewed some people.

I read a ton of information.

And I watched some creators out there on YouTube and in other places to try and get a feel for industry speak and kind of how people were thinking about this moment.

One of the creators that I found, I shouted out a few weeks ago and on the record, his name is Keith D. And what I liked about his presentation was that he wasn't preaching and he wasn't selling. He was teaching. He's a natural, natural-born teacher and a gifted instructor. And so when I shouted him out and on the record, I pinged him and said,

hey, just want you to know, I covered you. I think you're doing a great job. And he got back to me

right away. And it started a dialogue that's kind of turned into a friendship and one that I really

appreciate. This is a super smart guy who's in it for the right reasons. And the reason I like him is

because, yes, he's a great teacher. But he sees it from the right reasons. And the reason I like him is because, yes, he's a great teacher,

but he sees it from the technological and inevitable technological perspective. But he also understands

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