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Rushion Interviews the Queen of Crypto, Tavonia Evans; she breaks down smart cities and blockchain and discusses the first black female-founded cryptocurrency technology! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations Masterclass. I'm your host with
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Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. I recognized that we all have different definitions
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Speaker 1: of success. For you and may be the size of
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Speaker 1: your paycheck mineus inspired people to develop a plan to
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Speaker 1: reach their dreams. It's time to stop reading other people's
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Speaker 1: success stores and start writing your own. You can only
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Speaker 1: exceed the expectations by believing in yourself. People always talk
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Speaker 1: about their purpose or gifts. If you have a gift,
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Speaker 1: lead with your gifts and know that your friends, family,
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Speaker 1: or coworkers. Stop people planning or living your dreams. My
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Speaker 1: guest on the show is Tavanna Evans. She's the forty
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Speaker 1: seven Uh you know New York and New York. Uh mom, mom, Panura.
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Speaker 1: Let me get that at MAMPA Now. She didn't just
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Speaker 1: put a new word out there, and I can't even
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Speaker 1: say it. She has been called the Queen of Crypto
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Speaker 1: due to being an established cryptal experts and the founder
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Speaker 1: of the decentralized cryptocurrency known as rob Corn. She was
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Speaker 1: featured on Glamor Magazines in May of twenty eighteen, Women
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Speaker 1: in Crypto c and then Bloomberg Complex, tv C, NBC
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Speaker 1: Recount mclaire and liveaty anything that has to do with
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Speaker 1: talking about this new money that we as African America,
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Speaker 1: we as people of color, need to be aware of it.
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Speaker 1: I got on the shoulder today to eat. Continue to
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Speaker 1: educate me on it. Please work with the Money Making
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Speaker 1: Conversation Master class Tavannah Evans. Well, two things. When I
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Speaker 1: bring an expert like you, Tavanna, because I'm gonna tell you,
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Speaker 1: I I am a credit card person, I am a
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Speaker 1: cash person. I am a guy who uh knows the
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Speaker 1: banking systems that I've been raised on. And so now
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Speaker 1: you're introducing a digital currency platform that some people and
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Speaker 1: even myself when it came out, I said, oh, this
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Speaker 1: is a a scam. And how you because I couldn't. I
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Speaker 1: couldn't hold my money. I couldn't hold a credit card,
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Speaker 1: I couldn't hold five dollars, ten dollars or coins. What
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Speaker 1: has been is that the is that the world that
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Speaker 1: you hear a lot from a person like me or
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Speaker 1: people like me when it comes to cryptocurrency. Absolutely, But
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Speaker 1: I love the way you started out by saying new money,
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Speaker 1: because most of us in our community don't realize that
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Speaker 1: this is actually money, right, Um, there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: people think that crypto is either a stock or just
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Speaker 1: simply an investment instrument or you know, uh, like you said,
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Speaker 1: a scam um. But what they failed to realize is
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Speaker 1: that it's been around for well aware a decade now
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Speaker 1: and the rest of the world is using this every day,
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Speaker 1: and we're behind as Americans, and then we're even further
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Speaker 1: behind as black Americans. Well here's my whole thought to
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Speaker 1: try to simplify the world. When people say, well, well,
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Speaker 1: cryptrough courage. I don't live like that because, like I
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Speaker 1: go to this uh kind of like fast food restaurant
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Speaker 1: called Quava Guava carva carva c A v A. You
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Speaker 1: can't even use cash, so I gotta use the credit
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Speaker 1: card to do businesses in there. So I'm already in
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Speaker 1: the digital currency world. The crypto is living in Okay.
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Speaker 1: And then when you have a credit card, you have
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Speaker 1: a credit card, let me put on so you can.
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Speaker 1: So you're already in that digital currency world because you're
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Speaker 1: spending money technically that you are being granted based on
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Speaker 1: your credit reach and so. Right, but there's a huge difference. Okay, cool,
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Speaker 1: I understanding. I'm just trying to trying to wrap my
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Speaker 1: head around people who are listening so they can know
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Speaker 1: they're kind of dealing in this digital space already right there,
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Speaker 1: and then I broke. You want to show the varner
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Speaker 1: can kind of transition us to this new space, this
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Speaker 1: new money space that's happening that we need to be
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Speaker 1: a part of. So that's I wanted to I was
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Speaker 1: gonna stop right there, so then you can take us
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Speaker 1: explain ra sean good good example, but the wrong example. Right.
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Speaker 1: It's a great example, don't get me wrong. But there's
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Speaker 1: a huge difference, and it's that actual difference that we
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Speaker 1: kind of fall behind on. When you're talking about credit,
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Speaker 1: you're talking about a centralized system that's not really your money. Right,
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Speaker 1: So you talked about you mentioned limits, you mentioned UM.
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Speaker 1: You know we crevate limits, and you know even when
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Speaker 1: we're using the debit card, we still have debit card limits.
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Speaker 1: But when it comes to cryptocurrency, you are the bank.
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Speaker 1: So this is your money. There are no limits to
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Speaker 1: what you can send and what you can spend. So
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Speaker 1: that's the huge difference between UM crypto, the crypto digital currency,
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Speaker 1: and the digital currencies that we're using, is that this
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Speaker 1: is your money. There is no intermediary between you and
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Speaker 1: your money when it comes to decentralized crypto, and that's
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Speaker 1: why people love it so much because it's the it's
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Speaker 1: disrupting the power structure, structure that exists between you and
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Speaker 1: your money. Right. And so now I know it's real because,
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Speaker 1: like I said, the Staples Center was just named crypto
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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles with the Lakers and the Clippers play
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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. So nobody's going to give naming rights
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Speaker 1: to something that's a fad or scam and so so
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Speaker 1: that that that has a huge air of legitimacy. We
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Speaker 1: talked about all these billionaires that didn't have made with
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Speaker 1: through cryptocurrency. Now, how did you get involved in crypto because,
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Speaker 1: like I said, we met several years ago while I
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Speaker 1: was still managing Steve Harvey, and you have a tech
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Speaker 1: background and we were trying to develop a dating app
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Speaker 1: and also an app tied to the to the famous
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Speaker 1: strawberry leather at the time. So I know you have
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Speaker 1: the tank background, and so now you in the crypto
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Speaker 1: world called the crypto queen. How did you make that
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Speaker 1: transition because that was more just techie techie. Now this
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Speaker 1: is fintech. Well, in I founded a company called Safe
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Speaker 1: to Me and which was a peer to peer verification platform.
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Speaker 1: And it was during that time when I came into
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Speaker 1: the knowledge that black people don't get funded by vcs. Right, um,
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Speaker 1: not only black people, but black women. Black women get
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Speaker 1: less than a percentage point. So when it came to
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Speaker 1: time to time for us to actually scale our m
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Speaker 1: v P, there was no money to do so, right,
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Speaker 1: So that caught my attention. Crypto caught my attention a
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Speaker 1: little more because I saw that there were actual tech
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Speaker 1: companies out there that were using crypto to raise funds
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Speaker 1: for their projects. Right, So it clicked to me, Wow,
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Speaker 1: crypto is money, because, believe it or not, I was
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Speaker 1: introduced a big point a long time ago, but I
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Speaker 1: didn't quite understand that big point was actually money, right.
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Speaker 1: So it was at that point that I realized that
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Speaker 1: this is money. And in our community, we've been talking
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Speaker 1: about the black dollar for so long, but we really
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Speaker 1: technically don't have a black dollar. But what if we did,
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Speaker 1: and what if we had a black dollar that could
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Speaker 1: ride on on the rails of a blockchain and it
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Speaker 1: be transparent and have more trust and and it would
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Speaker 1: have government intervention. That was like a light went off
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Speaker 1: in my head. So not only did I see crypto
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Speaker 1: as an opportunity for me to be able to get
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Speaker 1: capital for all my great tech ideas, but I also
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Speaker 1: thought as an opportunity for us to use in our
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Speaker 1: community and have greater access to money outside of vcs
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Speaker 1: and banks, etcetera. That you know, of course, are you know,
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Speaker 1: very not fair to our community. We'll be right back
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Speaker 1: with more money Making Come Sations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's return to money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald.
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Speaker 1: And if we hear the word fair, we hear the
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Speaker 1: word education, and hear the word uh lasting line. You know,
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Speaker 1: that's what people of color are are tied to those
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Speaker 1: you know, last hired, you know, last first let go
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Speaker 1: or first fire that some people may use that terminology.
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Speaker 1: How can we as African Americans, because that's what I
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Speaker 1: am and as an African Americans, how can we how
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Speaker 1: can we start catching up? Well, one of the ways
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Speaker 1: that we can start catching up is we have to
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Speaker 1: start having more value in ourselves and having more value
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Speaker 1: in what we offer. The black tech community has is
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Speaker 1: rich when it comes to solutions to our condition. However,
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Speaker 1: we suffer from a lack of support, you know. So
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Speaker 1: you know, we may come up with a platform that
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Speaker 1: might be a social media platform, but people are preferred
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Speaker 1: to be on Facebook, which is predatory, or they may
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Speaker 1: prefer to be on Instagram or whatever, right, and they
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Speaker 1: don't really we don't really give our own affair shake
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Speaker 1: when it comes to tech. And I mentioned that you
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Speaker 1: know before the show, tech is very buggy and initially
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Speaker 1: not the prettiest looking thing. It's not the pretty tech
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Speaker 1: that actually goes on to being the more successful, it's
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Speaker 1: the more functional. Right, So we tend to have a
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Speaker 1: lot of patients with these um new tech that we
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Speaker 1: put out m v P s or whatever it's and
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Speaker 1: we we might compare it to other larger funded projects
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Speaker 1: out there. There are projects out there. Um for instance,
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Speaker 1: um uh, the guy who started we work right his
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Speaker 1: his company almost went under, but then he was refunded
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Speaker 1: again a couple of hundred million dollars for a new project. Right,
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Speaker 1: So in black tech, we have to come out and
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Speaker 1: compete with these guys who are coming into the coming
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Speaker 1: in the space with hundreds of millions of dollars even
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Speaker 1: billion dollars evaluations. When we can't even raise a million dollars,
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Speaker 1: you know, And what we have to understand is that
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Speaker 1: what gets us this money is to support people. Intact.
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Speaker 1: Equal data, data equals currency equals money. So we need
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Speaker 1: people to support our projects so that we can get
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Speaker 1: to that level to where we can solve the problems
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Speaker 1: and issues in our community and we can also flourish
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Speaker 1: and close the wealth gap. Well, you know, I'm talking
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Speaker 1: to uh Tavana evans Um. She is the Queen of
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Speaker 1: Crypto since seventeen, she has been an expert global voice
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Speaker 1: for blockchains, UH Language, big corns, U n f t s.
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Speaker 1: Because that's what I've been trying to bring on this
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Speaker 1: show where you have money making conversation Massacage, you've better
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Speaker 1: talk about money and you better to tell people how
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Speaker 1: to understand money because we all know how to spend
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Speaker 1: it to a certain degree. When inflation, every times you
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Speaker 1: go up to a gas pump and you don't know
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Speaker 1: if you can fill it up or halfway or quarter
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Speaker 1: tank or just here's five dollars and five dollars basically
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Speaker 1: we'll just get you home nowadays. So with that being said,
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Speaker 1: in the in the world that we live in, how
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Speaker 1: does one get into the cryptocurrency world. That's gonna be
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Speaker 1: our first question to ta Vanna. Well, the first thing
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Speaker 1: you want to do, and it depends on where you're
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Speaker 1: coming from. Some of us won't come from a creative side,
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Speaker 1: like we were interested in maybe using this as a solution,
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Speaker 1: and in others we're just consumers. We want to see
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Speaker 1: how we can use this more efficiently. So if you're
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Speaker 1: coming in just as a basic person coming new to crypto,
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Speaker 1: the first thing you want to do is get a wallet, right,
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Speaker 1: and not only that, let me back up. The first
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Speaker 1: thing you want to do is get a little education. Right.
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Speaker 1: So we talk a lot about their not being crypto education,
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Speaker 1: but yes, there nowadays there is more crypto education out there.
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Speaker 1: There are more programs out there to get the basics.
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Speaker 1: So start out with a little crypto education, just a
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Speaker 1: little bit. But the main thing that you want to
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Speaker 1: do is you want to get a wallet. Whiles they're easy,
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Speaker 1: they're free, and that's how you get That's like the
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Speaker 1: doorway or the gateway into crypto. You know, I know
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Speaker 1: in the in the community is like a little southern thing.
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Speaker 1: You say you have a wallet, you know you're gonna
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Speaker 1: eventually have money to fill it up right, so you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. So you but but you gotta
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Speaker 1: get a wallet first. So yes, and crypto, you're gonna
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Speaker 1: get a wallet, and it's not a physical wallet. It
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Speaker 1: is a software, it is digital, and they're all kind
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Speaker 1: of wallets. You have non custodial wallets and you have
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Speaker 1: custodial wallets. US crypto heads, we prefer that you get
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Speaker 1: a non custodial wallet. And what that means is you're
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Speaker 1: getting a wallet that truly is connected to the blockchain
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Speaker 1: and is not owned by someone else. So for instance,
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Speaker 1: if you go on, if you sign up to point
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Speaker 1: based for instance, you're gonna get a custodial wallet. That's
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Speaker 1: almost like having a bank account, meaning you got to
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Speaker 1: prove who you are, and they they actually hold your wallet,
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Speaker 1: it's not yours, and a front of a mind. Another
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Speaker 1: crypto person he goes bitcoin, is that he goes it's
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Speaker 1: not your keys, it's not your cheese. So basically, if
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Speaker 1: you don't have your keys or your wallet key, then
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Speaker 1: someone else is holding it and they actually hold your funds.
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Speaker 1: So you want to have a non custodial wallet, which
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Speaker 1: they're going to give you keys. So that means if
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Speaker 1: you decide that you want to take your money somewhere else,
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Speaker 1: or even if you want to take your crypto offline
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Speaker 1: and store it on a paper somewhere, you always have
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Speaker 1: your keys and you can do that. So we always
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Speaker 1: suggest that you get a non constoial wallet to start
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Speaker 1: out with, so you truly own your money. Now. Grop Corn, well,
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Speaker 1: that's something that started in twenty seventeen and you wanted
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Speaker 1: the inspirations when it was launched. Is a decentralized cryptocurrency
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Speaker 1: is similar to big corn. Okay, so let's let's talk
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Speaker 1: about big corns because I want to, like, at the
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Speaker 1: end of the end of view, hopefully I I simplify
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Speaker 1: some of the terminology. You know, we talked about the wallet,
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Speaker 1: you talked about constoleo non constoio. That's an education point
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Speaker 1: right there. Constoial means you don't have ownership of your
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Speaker 1: money basically you open the bank account. A non constoial
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Speaker 1: means you have control, you can take your money where
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Speaker 1: you want to take offline to keep it online. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's go to this grop corn, which is a decentralized cryptocurrency.
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Speaker 1: Well decentralized again, Beach always start that because That means
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Speaker 1: that there's no middleman, no company or anything running it.
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Speaker 1: This is a cryptocurrency is strictly owned by the people.
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Speaker 1: And what I mean by the people is when you
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Speaker 1: get a wallet, then you become an owner, a stakeholder
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Speaker 1: in this whole project, right, And that's what makes it
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Speaker 1: similar to bitcoin, because Bitcoin is also a decentralized crypto.
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Speaker 1: That means that there's no owner, there's no company running
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Speaker 1: pulling the streams in the background. There's nobody you can
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Speaker 1: call for customer service, and bitcoin if you have a
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Speaker 1: problem and um, you have to participate in the company
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Speaker 1: so that I'm sorry, in the community, because that's what
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Speaker 1: these cryptos are about. Decentralized cryptocurrencies are about community. They're
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Speaker 1: based on community. So the community gets to share and
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Speaker 1: rr and and tell everybody get this crypto and all
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Speaker 1: of that, because they're all equal stakeholders in this thing.
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Speaker 1: No one can just come and pull the plug. That's
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Speaker 1: the difference with a decentralized crypto as well. No one
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Speaker 1: can come and pull the plug and say, hey, this
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Speaker 1: project is gonna get shut down and we're gonna just
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Speaker 1: take it and we're gonna run. No one can take
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Speaker 1: your money because that is your you're like having in
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Speaker 1: a non fostodial wallet, right and you have say, you
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Speaker 1: get to vote a lot, you know, you get to
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Speaker 1: be a part of community, and you have say in
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Speaker 1: the direction of the crypto in the future. So this
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Speaker 1: is the model that we chose for black Coin because
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Speaker 1: this really truly gives us autonomy when it comes to money,
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Speaker 1: and it's going to breed trust in the community when
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Speaker 1: it comes to money as well. Well, you know, Facebook
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Speaker 1: changed their name to Meta. You know what, nobody's aw
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Speaker 1: that coming, and so you have this whole method and
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Speaker 1: it's really interesting how you know, you watch these marvels
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Speaker 1: and d C like I watched I watch The Flash
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Speaker 1: on g W and so that's where metaverse comes to
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Speaker 1: my world, all these different metas. So that's the first
14:47
Speaker 1: introduction into the world of metaverse was do this uh,
14:51
Speaker 1: you know, this action adventure series. And so when I started,
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Speaker 1: when I heard that Facebook was changing their name to
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Speaker 1: Meta and then you know, when you start talking about
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Speaker 1: city is an echo sustain the metaverse in real life
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Speaker 1: smart city, which focuses on educating the citizens on land ownership.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about that smart city. Let's talk about the metaverse.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about all these terminology which tend to jump
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Speaker 1: from fantasy land to reality, and when it becomes reality,
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Speaker 1: that's where the education comes on, and that's when you
15:19
Speaker 1: need to go there. There's just a just read when
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Speaker 1: when a major company, a billion dollar company says call
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Speaker 1: us meta now, we need to start listening, especially when
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Speaker 1: they control the social media platforms that we all participate in.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean as a geek, I'm a total
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Speaker 1: metaverse geek. I'm being involved in the metaverse for a
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Speaker 1: long time as well. It's not a new thing, been
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Speaker 1: around for quite a bit. Um. But the metaverse, we
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Speaker 1: felt is not going to solve our problems so solely
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Speaker 1: as African Americans and as the global diaspora because a
15:53
Speaker 1: lot of our problems exists offline. We don't even have
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Speaker 1: the money, the resources as a collective to even catch
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Speaker 1: up to where they are in terms of building the
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Speaker 1: metaverse and those products. Right, So we have to solve
16:05
Speaker 1: both problems. And we also have to solve problems that
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Speaker 1: are coming, whether it's the recession, whether it's food and security, um.
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Speaker 1: And we also have to solve the problem of educating
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Speaker 1: our folks to be become more sustainable and and um,
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Speaker 1: so that we can survive, you know, um, the things
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Speaker 1: that are coming. So these are these are um problems
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Speaker 1: that we feel out a unique to us that also
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Speaker 1: can go hand in hand with the metaverse. So we've
16:32
Speaker 1: been acquiring land in Georgia, uh and you know, basically
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Speaker 1: we brought it up under the Monica block city. So
16:38
Speaker 1: we're trying to build a sustainable city and a sustainable
16:42
Speaker 1: city model which will function as a framework that other
16:45
Speaker 1: people can use to create sustainable cities, whether it's um
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Speaker 1: in another state or whether it's in another country. So
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Speaker 1: so our whole thing is to build this foundational model
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Speaker 1: that is governed by the blockchain, which is what we
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Speaker 1: call DALs or decentralized autonomous organizations, which allow people to
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Speaker 1: vote on practically everything you need to do when it
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Speaker 1: comes to a city, right, and not only vote, but
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Speaker 1: vote in a transparent way, in a undisruptible way, so
17:13
Speaker 1: there's no somebody's tempering with voting papers and all of that,
17:17
Speaker 1: but you can actually vote on the immutable blockchain, which
17:21
Speaker 1: creates more security. So um, the concept of the TAO
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Speaker 1: is kind of sort of still new, right, and we
17:29
Speaker 1: don't want our folks to be left behind that as well,
17:32
Speaker 1: you know, because of you know, the technology gap that exists.
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Speaker 1: So we're opening up this world to um, you know,
17:38
Speaker 1: to African American and global diaspora so that we can
17:42
Speaker 1: you know, not only just catch up, so we can
17:44
Speaker 1: also thrive when it comes to building smart cities and
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Speaker 1: and also building meta verses, because that's what we're doing.
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Speaker 1: We're building metal versus. There's actually not a metaverse. There
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Speaker 1: is metavers is. Anyone can create a metaverse, and that's
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Speaker 1: a misunderstanding. Um that's kind of been put out there
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Speaker 1: a little bit. Maybe it's putting put out there so
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Speaker 1: we can kind of you know, be yanked up into
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Speaker 1: one construct by somebody. But anyone can build a metaverse.
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Speaker 1: It's not just a one thing, you know. So we
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Speaker 1: were trying to dispel a lot of the myths out
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Speaker 1: there about these technologies as well that may potentially, um
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Speaker 1: cause a disadvantage to us because we, number one, we
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Speaker 1: have great social capital, and a lot of these companies
18:28
Speaker 1: would love to be able to tap into our social
18:30
Speaker 1: capital to push along their agendas and their platforms and stuff,
18:33
Speaker 1: and we want to own ours, so you know, that's
18:36
Speaker 1: the difference We'll be right back with more Money Making
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18:45
Speaker 1: Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. We know that, Yeah,
18:51
Speaker 1: I gotta go to the other page. Because people see money,
18:55
Speaker 1: um and they see an opportunity. They poorly educated or
18:58
Speaker 1: not educated enough. So how does want evolved the wrong
19:03
Speaker 1: relationship or the scam relationship or the relationship is not
19:07
Speaker 1: a scam. You just invested in their own direction to
19:10
Speaker 1: open your wallet on the wrong platform. Let's start with
19:13
Speaker 1: the wallet, Well, you should open it that. I think
19:18
Speaker 1: the best protection is community. That's why I said that
19:21
Speaker 1: the foundation of these projects are community. You should be
19:24
Speaker 1: joining communities that align with your core principles, you know,
19:28
Speaker 1: and and not just joining the community because of money,
19:31
Speaker 1: a community that says, yeah, you're gonna make a ton
19:34
Speaker 1: of money by joining our community. No, you should be
19:37
Speaker 1: joining communities that align with your four principles, that are
19:40
Speaker 1: working on real life solutions that impact you in a
19:42
Speaker 1: real life way, you know, And and that's going to,
19:46
Speaker 1: you know again, make you want to delve a little
19:48
Speaker 1: bit deeper, make you more comfortable in what you're doing.
19:51
Speaker 1: You're not a fish out of water. You're not just
19:53
Speaker 1: joining on some project that you know nothing about, but
19:55
Speaker 1: they're promising you all of these payments in in um
19:59
Speaker 1: you know, future riches and etcetera. That's not what we're
20:03
Speaker 1: promising with wapoint. We're promising a tool that we can
20:06
Speaker 1: all use to come together and build a financial community
20:10
Speaker 1: and then build a data community and use our resources
20:15
Speaker 1: to reinvest in our offline communities. So, you know, you
20:19
Speaker 1: want to find something that you can align with, and
20:21
Speaker 1: that's what people were doing earlier on. Earlier on, and
20:24
Speaker 1: were many projects and people would find projects that they
20:27
Speaker 1: really were interested in that it could be something like
20:30
Speaker 1: save the Dolphins, you know, but you were really interested
20:33
Speaker 1: in this this project, So you join the project and
20:35
Speaker 1: you put your your not only invested your money, but
20:38
Speaker 1: you invested your interests and you invested your time in
20:42
Speaker 1: these projects. So I think that's the big key. The
20:45
Speaker 1: key is to align with those projects that align with you, right.
20:51
Speaker 1: And so it's all about, like I said, relationships, which
20:55
Speaker 1: is just which your typical and trying to establish credit.
20:58
Speaker 1: You know, you have to work for a company, the
21:01
Speaker 1: developer understand that that company has a long term investment
21:05
Speaker 1: in you. You invest your time into the company in
21:07
Speaker 1: order the good credit, you've gotta pay people on the
21:10
Speaker 1: time of the basis. But in this cryptocurrency world, I
21:13
Speaker 1: guess the word is just digital. It guess old habits
21:16
Speaker 1: are hard to break. I guess that's the term I
21:18
Speaker 1: should put into this conversation. And then the comfort zone.
21:22
Speaker 1: You know, we're already as African Americans, we don't invest
21:25
Speaker 1: enough in the stock market enough. We know we're not
21:27
Speaker 1: We're low end participants in that world. Uh we you know,
21:31
Speaker 1: we still go to these check cashing places to cash
21:34
Speaker 1: our checks. We don't have the banking facilities and African
21:38
Speaker 1: American neighborhoods. Even though the younger generation of US are
21:41
Speaker 1: very prone to use and prone in a very positive
21:44
Speaker 1: amount of apps, which they still are the generation that
21:48
Speaker 1: may start investing in the cryptocurrency. I ask you this question,
21:51
Speaker 1: and not saying you the expert to say this, but
21:54
Speaker 1: it is the older generation lost in trying to understand
21:58
Speaker 1: the cryptocurrency world, not at all. My grandmother was ninety
22:02
Speaker 1: nine years old. She passed away in January, and she
22:05
Speaker 1: was one of my biggest supporters with black Point. She
22:08
Speaker 1: very well understood what we were trying to do in
22:10
Speaker 1: terms of creating a currency that we could use in
22:13
Speaker 1: our community. She understood totally. So I felt that my
22:17
Speaker 1: ninety nine year old grandmother can get it. Anyone could
22:19
Speaker 1: get it. Of course, the younger generations, they're more socially savvy.
22:24
Speaker 1: And really this is you know, you talked about how
22:26
Speaker 1: we we haven't really invested in these other things, but
22:29
Speaker 1: we're fully invested in social media, don't don't you know?
22:33
Speaker 1: We can't discount that. You know, we're fully invested in
22:36
Speaker 1: social media. Like if we were to pull out of
22:38
Speaker 1: Instagram and that would include all of the celebrities that
22:40
Speaker 1: we know tomorrow, then we're with Instagram. Graham b Um
22:45
Speaker 1: Snoop already said that he was one of the first
22:48
Speaker 1: celebrities on Instagram and pulled in a lot of people
22:50
Speaker 1: with him when he came. So we have to understand
22:54
Speaker 1: that we've already been investing with our social capital. So
22:57
Speaker 1: we're savvy enough to now take our social capital capital
23:01
Speaker 1: and lead to another system and actually monetize our social capital,
23:05
Speaker 1: because that's what crypto does. Crypto gives us the ability
23:08
Speaker 1: to monetize our social value and our social capital. People
23:11
Speaker 1: always ask where does it come from? Where does the
23:13
Speaker 1: value come from it? It It comes from you. It comes
23:15
Speaker 1: from your social value, right and when you do that,
23:19
Speaker 1: you know you win. I'm talking to Vada uh Evans.
23:23
Speaker 1: She is the She's called the Queen of Crypto, which
23:26
Speaker 1: I think is the title of most appropriate. And like
23:28
Speaker 1: I said, when I bring people on my show Money
23:31
Speaker 1: Making Conversation Masterclass, I a working history or working relationship.
23:35
Speaker 1: It's very important. She reminded me with Sean we've met before,
23:39
Speaker 1: and I said, two thousand nine, I was doing an
23:43
Speaker 1: app for you on your data map, which really comforted
23:45
Speaker 1: me because when I never tell you did when I
23:48
Speaker 1: because people listen to me, people that would trust to me.
23:50
Speaker 1: And when I bring individuals on this show and they
23:53
Speaker 1: start talking about cryptocurrency, you know it comes with a
23:56
Speaker 1: warning label, you know, because of the fact that do
23:58
Speaker 1: your research. Just so just as I'm bringing somebody on there,
24:01
Speaker 1: you know, I understand there is risk. You know, there's
24:04
Speaker 1: no there's risk when you get on the airplane, there's
24:06
Speaker 1: risk when you drive your car. But this is direct
24:09
Speaker 1: risk because it involves your money. How can they reach
24:12
Speaker 1: out to you? How could they or do you have courses?
24:15
Speaker 1: Do you have a online of setups where people can
24:19
Speaker 1: take monthly page subscriptions to be educated because mabl big
24:24
Speaker 1: walk away from this interview is that they need to
24:27
Speaker 1: find you educate themselves based on your legacy that you
24:32
Speaker 1: put out there and your reputation. Yeah. Absolutely, Well it's
24:36
Speaker 1: two ways. I am a master class teacher on a
24:39
Speaker 1: platform called Class Rebel as Class Rebel dot com um
24:44
Speaker 1: and we have free introductory crypto classes that lead into
24:48
Speaker 1: a longer, more intensive couple of day crypto classes. So
24:52
Speaker 1: if you follow me on social media um, whether it's
24:54
Speaker 1: LinkedIn Tovanta Evans or or Twitter, Tovannah Evans or even Blockpoint,
24:59
Speaker 1: you see your way to get into our pre crypto
25:03
Speaker 1: um class. And then also we have an initiative called
25:07
Speaker 1: one million Wallets dot com and one million Wallace is
25:11
Speaker 1: our is our effort to go out anywhere someone asks
25:14
Speaker 1: us to show up and instruct the people on crypto.
25:18
Speaker 1: So whether it's your church or whether it's your organization,
25:21
Speaker 1: or if you could get together twenty to fifty people,
25:24
Speaker 1: we will show up. I will show up personally and
25:28
Speaker 1: educate you on cryptocurrency UM. So that's one of our
25:32
Speaker 1: other initiatives as well. One million it's one million wallets
25:35
Speaker 1: dot com um, and you can visit us like wallpoint
25:38
Speaker 1: dot org and we have some links, will have links
25:41
Speaker 1: fossile to one million wallet. But that's our big initiative
25:45
Speaker 1: we want to go. You know, I decided like six
25:48
Speaker 1: months ago, I want to get on the streets, like
25:50
Speaker 1: I want to be right there on the streets educating
25:52
Speaker 1: people about this, you know. And you know that's where
25:56
Speaker 1: we came up with one million wallets, because we're gonna
25:58
Speaker 1: get a million people to get a wallet. It's free.
26:01
Speaker 1: Just get a wallet, you know. And in the process
26:04
Speaker 1: of getting a wallet, you help us to be able
26:07
Speaker 1: to grow to a point where we can help you
26:09
Speaker 1: and we can teach you all you need to know
26:12
Speaker 1: about crypto and answer all of your questions. First of all,
26:15
Speaker 1: I'm excited, UM. I want you to do me a favor.
26:19
Speaker 1: I have a newsletter that goes out every Wednesday at
26:22
Speaker 1: ten a m. It goes out to six or six
26:24
Speaker 1: thousand plus. We have an open rate about thirty six,
26:28
Speaker 1: so that means that they don't discard my newsletter when
26:31
Speaker 1: it comes across their desk. The industry standard, I think
26:34
Speaker 1: is like fifteen percent open rate, and I like to
26:37
Speaker 1: those free classes. If you have a banner that you
26:40
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26:43
Speaker 1: a newsletter. And I love that one million wallets. I
26:46
Speaker 1: like to I like, I like to become an advocate,
26:48
Speaker 1: if you don't mind, because I'd like to be able
26:50
Speaker 1: to to to educate myself and educate my base. But
26:55
Speaker 1: the free uh, the free crypto classes, I think you
26:58
Speaker 1: can really get the man. And I like to put
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Speaker 1: a dropping in my newsletter if you don't mind, Thank
27:03
Speaker 1: you awesome yea. So so get with the Marissa or
27:08
Speaker 1: who hawns all the bookings on this show for this
27:10
Speaker 1: particular segment. And I really am sincerely telling you, Tavana Evans.
27:14
Speaker 1: I may not have remembered you from two thousand nine,
27:16
Speaker 1: but I remember you in two I want your help.
27:20
Speaker 1: I want to use your talents. I want to use
27:23
Speaker 1: your abilities to help turn that curve. Like you said,
27:26
Speaker 1: just sign up for a whilet it's free. I need
27:29
Speaker 1: to put my name on the wallet. You know Telfond
27:31
Speaker 1: who was my producer and this for this show every week,
27:33
Speaker 1: he needs to put his name on a wallet. So
27:35
Speaker 1: we can start at least creeping into that world and
27:38
Speaker 1: develop some level of comfort that we can be a participant.
27:42
Speaker 1: And it's not a scam. It's not something that you
27:45
Speaker 1: that you should avoid. You should avoid it, you should
27:48
Speaker 1: run to it, run to it with a with proper
27:51
Speaker 1: family guidance. So I took away from you family and visionary,
27:55
Speaker 1: and I consider your visionary. But Tavana, most importantly, thank
27:58
Speaker 1: you for coming on Money Making Conversations master Class. Thank
28:01
Speaker 1: you You've been wonderful. And again this is a show
28:04
Speaker 1: about cryptocurrency. Bitcorn, we didn't talk about n f t s,
28:08
Speaker 1: but she can help you out there. But we're gonna
28:10
Speaker 1: put our banner, her banner in our in our newsletter
28:13
Speaker 1: on a weekly basis, so it offers free classes that
28:17
Speaker 1: could educate you by cryptocurrency. So don't stop, don't stop
28:21
Speaker 1: yourself from being a part of the economic games that
28:24
Speaker 1: are being made out there, especially in the digital currency world.
28:27
Speaker 1: The murder verse is real, y'all. And she said metavers
28:30
Speaker 1: is absolutely