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Welcome back to The Breakdown. It is Friday, January 17th, and today we have something special.

As you know, I want this to be a platform. I want the breakdown to be a platform for great

thinkers and thoughts and ideas. And I want it to be as fun and interesting and informative for you guys,

the listeners, as possible. And so part of that is bringing on more voices, talking about real things,

especially things that maybe aren't talked about enough in the market. So I'm trying something out

that I'm calling Fire Fridays or Fire Take Fridays where I'm almost going to turn this over to someone that I

respect and that I think has a lot of interesting things to say to give three hot takes,

basically, about different parts of the market than are maybe our normal area of focus.

We're going to kick it off with Tyrone Ross.

Tyrone is financial advisor in the space.

He was early in bringing crypto to his clients. He's working

on a number of different projects. And most importantly to me, he's an endless advocate for

crypto's power to transform people's lives and destinies, not just in the early adopter tech

sector, but across the spectrum of investors. I think he brings a really

important perspective. And so he gets into three hot takes, one about the importance of financial

advisors in bringing in new people to the market. Second, about how many financial advisors and

just maybe even some of us in this industry are overlooking the true power

of defy as it relates not just to Ethereum developers, but to real actual, no kidding people,

which is super interesting conversation. And then third, he talks about why Cash App is the most

bar none, not even close, finance isn't even in the conversation, most important

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