What is up Freaks? Welcome back to Tales from the Crypt at your boy Marty Bent. Sipping on Estella, on a sweaty Thursday night here in New York City. The weather has turned fast. It went from winter to summer in three days.

I should not have procrastinated on getting my air conditioner fixed over the winter, and because

of that, I've been having some sweaty sleeps the last few days. But enough about my sweaty

sleeps, we've got somebody very special in the podcast today, in the booth, as always.

Today, the subject is going to be Venezuela.

We've got Digital Nomad and Product Designer Alejandro Machado with us.

Alejandro, welcome.

Thanks for having me, Marty.

Thanks for coming on.

I know you've been traveling.

You came straight from Philadelphia into the studio.

I appreciate that. Let's jump right into it

our time is short tonight we've got beers to catch up with edwarda later yes we do this is

tales from the crypt what's your tale how did you find bitcoin well i actually came to bitcoin kind of

late in the game uh it was um only last year that I really appreciated the potential of it.

I, well, I studied computer science, so let's start there. And I studied in Venezuela and a

Venezuelan university. It's called Universia Simon Bolivar. It's a public university. It's a pretty

good one. And we had, you know, really great professors from almost every area of computation

except cryptography and networks and stuff like that.

Like, those professors are really bad.

Yeah.

And while I, I mean, I got into AI.

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