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Praise for our bestselling book, Blockchain for Everyone:
"Makes the idea of blockchain simple, readable, easy-to-understand ... a very funny and breezy read.” - Aaron, via GoodReads
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| Last week, we asked you which features you would find most valuable in a paid Bitcoin Market Journal newsletter, and here’s how you responded. |
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| There’s no question that researchreports – especially on new crypto investing opportunities – were the most valuable items on the list: |
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| These were followed by what we’ll call wallet integration features, which we’re all pretty excited about: |
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| It was also useful for us to see which ideas were not valuable to Bitcoin Market Journal subscribers. We thought, for example, that downloadable investing tools would be a big draw (we’ve done plenty of those), but you said not so much. Same for a Discord community, and a reading group. |
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We may still offer some of these features to paid subscribers in time, but you’ve told us they’re not the priority. We also asked you for suggestions on any other features you’d find valuable. Here are a few of your responses: Opportunity to invest in cryptos pre-ICO. (We had several requests to allow our readers to "get in early" on new tokens. It's difficult to do in-depth research reports on a brand new project, however, so obviously this brings a higher degree of risk.)
Tips to reduce fees and commissions. (In my crusade against crypto fees, this is an idea I can totally get behind.)
Managing the volatility of the crypto market. When to sell? Hold some or all in a downturn? Insurance? (All great questions.)
Exclusive access to Satoshi’s private keys. (Sorry, we’ve vowed to keep those secret.)
Optional Crypto Roth and Crypto Traditional IRAs. (Yes! A blended retirement fund of both stock market and block market is the long-term dream.)
Since personalities are important, a review of people behind a token, or even whale wallets. (We do this when researching token teams, like our profile on Hayden Adams of Uniswap. Finding the whales behind wallets, though, might be like catching Moby Dick.)
Being Mati Greenspan's driver. (Yes, someone offered to pay to be Mati’s chauffeur.)
Immediate release of news events that could result in buying opportunities. (We had many suggestions to cover short-term “trending tokens.” The problem is that it’s impossible to predict whether something trending on Twitter will actually build long-term wealth.)
Long-Term Intention, Short-Term Attention This last issue is one of the most difficult: we want to help people build wealth over time, but the human brain is hardwired to hype what’s hot.
Our intentions are long-term, but our attention is short-term. This dilemma was captured in today’s Wall Street Journal article called The Social Media Stars Who Move Markets (this requires, ahem, a paid subscription). The YouTube personality Kevin Paffrath said, “Let’s be real: True wealth comes from long-run interest. The trouble is, on YouTube, none of my videos about that kind of thing get any views.” Our brains are wired for short-term pleasure, while our wallets are wired for long-term wealth.
How do we balance the short-term endorphin rush from making bold crypto bets with the long-term steady investing that’s good for us? How do we rewire our brains? Stay tuned. We’re going to do it together -- and that may be the most valuable feature of all.
Health, wealth, and happiness, |
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John Hargrave Publisher Bitcoin Market Journal |
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