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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Tales from the Crypt #28: Joe Looney

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Joe Looney, Co-Founder of the Rare Pepe Foundation, to discuss digital collectibles, the history of Rare Pepes, efficiencies provided to power plants via PoW mining, and much more.  Follow Joe on Twitter: @wasthatawolf Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tales from the Crypt.

0:09.4

What is up, freaks?

0:10.7

Welcome back to Tales from the Crypt.

0:13.0

It's your boy Marty Ben here on a Friday morning.

0:15.0

We got coffee in the studio.

0:16.7

It's early.

0:18.7

It's around 8 a.m.

0:20.4

May 11th, 2018, year of our lord.

0:23.7

And we're going to talk about digital collectibles today.

0:25.4

I'm very excited.

0:28.2

So how much time do we have?

0:31.3

I got to train at 11.

0:32.9

All right.

0:33.6

So we've got a couple hours here.

0:35.2

And you guys have heard them already.

0:37.2

I'd like to introduce you all to co co-founder of the Rare Prepay Foundation, Joe Looney. Joe, welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming on. I'm excited to talk about this today because we've been corresponding in DMs for a little bit in the last couple months talking about digital collectibles. It's something I can't wrap my head around fully yet. Yep. But you have been fully immersed in it, to some

0:59.9

extent at least, being part of the Rare Pepe's project. We'll get into Rare Pepe's in a little

1:06.4

bit first. We've got to hear your tale. How did you get into Bitcoin? I got into it. I actually bought

1:12.6

my first Bitcoin just prior to the big pump in early 2013 up to like 250 bucks. So I got in,

1:23.6

I got interested probably like February, March when it was around $100. and then I thought I was a genius when I went up to 260, then it crashed back down to 100, and I wasn't as smart anymore.

1:35.1

But I had heard about it probably like a year before.

1:37.8

I remember following just a random Twitter handle that would tweet the price, but never really thought about it until I saw that tweeted price going up and up and up.

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