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Defensive extremity for the San Francisco 49ers is taking the entirety of his wage successful bitcoin. He joins Bitcoin Magazine Twitter spaces to discuss.
This is simply a signaling of a caller Twitter Spaces speech astir NFL player, Alex Barrett, taking 100% of his wage successful bitcoin.
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[0:06] Bitwage: Can I get things started here? It's truly chill to person everyone successful the assemblage today. This was a large time for us. This was a large time for Bitcoin. It's a large time for Alex Barrett for him personally. Before we get into that and explicate what conscionable happened, if you don't cognize what Bitwage is, we're the world's largest Bitcoin payroll invoicing and benefits platform.We've been successful this abstraction for a while. We've been present since 2014 and lately, we've been doing a large selling run wherever we're trying to truly propulsion the needle connected adaption and getting a batch of antithetic athletes and influencers progressive successful the Bitcoin mission. As Q referenced, our past ambassador concern was with Matheus Nicolau, who is up present connected signifier with us. We were moving with him to get a percent of his paycheck successful Bitcoin.And yeah, Alex was successful that room. That's wherever this each started. We reached retired to him aft that room. We discovered however bullish helium was, however passionate helium was aboutBitcoin. We brought him connected down to Miami erstwhile we were astatine the conference. Like this needs to beryllium said but you guys conscionable killed it astatine this conference. That decidedly needs to beryllium said. This year's league was conscionable specified a occurrence from an attendee's constituent of views. Congratulations connected that. Yeah. When Alex was there, helium loved the energy. He was conscionable like, "Yo, I americium each in. I americium loving this." After that, we flew retired to San Francisco wherever he's at. We did similar a VIP concierge work with him. We got him each acceptable up. We changeable immoderate videos with him. And accelerated guardant to contiguous and present we made this announcement and he's decided to instrumentality 100% percent of his wage with his squad successful Bitcoin, which is conscionable huge.I mean, sometimes, you perceive astir these announcements and you're proceeding these players instrumentality a percentage, a tiny fraction, but helium conscionable made specified a bullish illustration by taking consecutive up a 100 percent. So, I conscionable deliberation that's truthful incredible. Alex, we'd emotion to perceive your archetypal thoughts astir this full happening and wherefore you decided to bash this.
[2:24] Alex Barrett: Yeah. When I archetypal heard astir Bitcoin, this is backmost successful 2017, it goes backmost to my rookie twelvemonth erstwhile Bitcoin hit. To me, it archetypal reached retired to maine throughInstagram conscionable station Bitcoin successful 20K. I wanted to larn much astir it and invest, astir of each amended but I didn't truly cognize wherever to commencement then. And I benignant of fto the extracurricular noise, the fad, the fear, and different people's sentiment get successful my caput truthful I steered distant fromBitcoin and cryptocurrency successful general.Fast guardant to wherever we're astatine now, particularly this past year, I truly took that dive in, particularly erstwhile I'd seen that deed 69k. The imaginable that Bitcoin has is conscionable unlimited, and for myself, arsenic an athlete, I marque income connected the field. But what americium I doing extracurricular of the shot tract to assistance turn and acceptable myself up for my future?And erstwhile I deliberation astir that, I deliberation astir existent estate. I deliberation astir stocks. Now, 1 of the biggest of them each is simply a cryptocurrency and the longevity successful that. That's however I benignant of got successful this space. I'm perpetually learning and increasing much astir this tech and what it has to connection and I'm truly conscionable excited.
[3:48] Bitwage: I privation to springiness the mic to Matheus truly quick. He is really teaching close now. He was capable to instrumentality a fewer minutes disconnected of teaching to leap successful this space.Matheus, we'd emotion to perceive from you conscionable for a fewer seconds astir who you are and wherefore you're here.
[4:05] Matheus Nicolau: Hello, guys. First of all, congratulations to Alex for being portion of the Bitwage squad and successful the Bitcoin world. I whitethorn person adjacent done a antithetic athletics but I deliberation our careers person truthful overmuch successful common. I've seen him talking before, and our clip successful doing our occupation successful the athletics is not that agelong truthful we got to deliberation astir our aboriginal and I person the aforesaid thought arsenic him erstwhile I started successful the Bitcoin world. I'm doing this, readying my future. Welcome, Alex and I anticipation to spot you successful 1 of my fights successful the future. Let's support successful interaction and if you privation to come, it volition beryllium a pleasance to person you watching and cheering for me.
[4:57] Alex Barrett: Thanks, bro. I admit that, man. I would emotion to marque it to the fight. Trust me. Let's marque that happen.
[5:02] Matheus: Let's marque that hap for sure.
[5:04] Alex Barrett: Let's go.
[5:05] Matheus: Maybe we tin walk immoderate of our Bitcoin together.
[5:09] Alex Barrett: Let's bash it.
[5:11] Matheus: Nice. Welcome, brother. Welcome to the team.
[5:14] Alex Barrett: Thank you truthful much, bro.
[5:14] Matheus: And congrats, Bitwage. What you guys are doing is huge. I'm beauteous definite that Alex lone makes that determination due to the fact that portion of that is due to the fact that you guys are doing an awesome occupation successful explaining everything that comes unneurotic with Bitcoin successful each the crypto satellite truthful congratulations to Bitwage, and to the supporters for giving everything that we need.
[5:41] Bitwage: Thank you truthful overmuch for that, Matheus. I cognize that you're successful the mediate of thing close present truthful consciousness escaped to permission whenever. We conscionable wanted to perceive from you and it's truly bully to perceive your voice. Just for immoderate speedy context, if immoderate of you don't cognize who Matheus is, he's the world's fig 8 ranked flyweight combatant successful the UFC and we precocious conscionable did a woody with him successful which helium was taking a information of his wage with the UFC successful Bitcoin.And that made a batch of quality due to the fact that he's fundamentally the archetypal Latin American combatant that has ever done specified a happening and that is specified a immense woody for his region, particularly theSouth America portion specifically successful which a batch of countries are unluckily saddled with a batch of economical issues, particularly inflation.So, for him to acceptable that illustration and bash a Bitcoin payroll woody with america was truly unthinkable due to the fact that it showed his peers and his chap countrymen that there's a mode retired of this system. There is anticipation and you tin commencement that contiguous by putting a information of your wealth into conscionable a truly hard, secured, and dependable plus similar Bitcoin truthful it's ace awesome that Matheus was consenting to beryllium connected committee with america for that.
[6:58] Matheus: Yes. Thank you guys for each the enactment and for making maine consciousness harmless doing this. Without the Bitwage guys, adjacent though for a agelong time, I'm listening alternatively a small spot astir Bitcoin but I ne'er had the information to truly started doing it and aft I met the Bitwage team, I was mode much comfy and feeling harmless successful doing it truthful convey you, guys, for helping maine to get into the Bitcoin world. I truly judge that I'm doing immoderate truly bully present for my future, truthful that's it.
[7:36] Bitwage: Wonderful, Matheus. Thank you truthful much. Alex, I person benignant of a question for you. I cognize immoderate different squad members from the Bitcoin media enactment tin chime connected this excessively due to the fact that they person truly large perspectives connected this I know. But from your perspective, wherefore bash you deliberation it's go specified a fashionable determination for athletes to beryllium drawn to these types of similar Bitcoin payroll deals, paid-in Bitcoin deals? What bash you deliberation athletes, successful particular, are truthful drawn to this, conscionable from your perspective?
[8:11] Alex Barrett: From my perspective, I deliberation it conscionable gives america an accidental we don't usually have. A batch of our wealth is connected the tract arsenic I was saying and that's USD. But erstwhile you speech astir cryptocurrency with the world's wealth and I similar to telephone it arsenic a pool, and getting the precocious manus and investing early, I deliberation that tin pull guys similar myself, conscionable financially speaking arsenic an concern accidental aboriginal on. The semipermanent effect of that conscionable increasing and gathering much assets and I deliberation Bitcoin is 1 of those imaginable large assets that I person heavy invested in.
[8:56] Bitwage: Right. Very cool. Alex McShane and Q, I cognize you guys person a batch of perspectives regarding the confluence of sports and Bitcoin. What perspectives bash you guys person connected this substance wherever we're seeing this gyration of...Time and clip aft again, each these athletes are being drawn to Bitcoin. We've seen it for the past fewer years now. I consciousness similar it's thing we spot each period if not each week. What are you guys seeing?
[9:22] Alex McShane: I deliberation it allows athletes to absorption much connected little clip preference.Prepare for the aboriginal successful a benignant of beauteous passive mode successful general. Bitcoin is beauteous overmuch nary attraction outgo erstwhile you get your information successful bid and they tin absorption connected what they bash and person assurance that they person a store of worth and that they're not going to get disenfranchised by managers. The wealth successful their custody is genuinely theirs, And it's going to admit semipermanent and they tin walk it peer-to-peer with anyone successful the world. It's the aforesaid benefits anybody with entree to the net has really.
[10:02] Q: I think, to besides grow connected that, I'll conscionable beryllium direct. I'll sanction names. I retrieve increasing up watching a subordinate similar Antoine Walker oregon Charles Barkley marque millions upon millions of dollars and past precise soon aft their careers are over, you perceive the stories of them wholly having burned done each the millions they had earned portion they played.This instauration to the champion savings exertion ever created allows for athletes to look astatine their finances successful a vastly antithetic way. In a mode that everyone who gets benignant of exposed to Bitcoin starts to look otherwise astatine their finances. You commencement to inquire questions similar what really is money. What is the worth [inaudible] tin cipher these things out?You look astatine things truthful differently. I deliberation you're lone starting to spot it statesman and it'll beryllium absorbing to spot arsenic it expands.
[11:01] Alex McShane: Can I grow connected what you said conscionable existent shortly, Q? I think, similar successful my clip astatine slightest with Fighters, what I've seen is athletes, astatine the precise least, we tin hold that they unrecorded highly irregular lifestyles from the remainder of us. I deliberation immoderate of the fiscal education, adjacent the mainstream whitethorn get arsenic misleading arsenic that mightiness be, [inaudible]some radical who are similar pure-play focused connected their sport.And I'm not [inaudible] immoderate little susceptible but I deliberation Bitcoin provides an elegant solution and an existent inducement erstwhile they get their archetypal spot of Bitcoin. You person tegument successful the game.You person a crushed to commencement doing your ain owed diligence digging into it and learning astir however wealth ought successful and each the ways that they're being to having their clip stolen from them done taxes and done inflation.
[11:58] Q: I besides think, and Alex, I'd emotion for possibly your position connected this. My playing days ended successful college. I'm sitting present reasoning astir it much and more, and it's astir similar this was an inevitable modulation successful the mode athletes think. We've seen implicit the people implicit the last, particularly 10, 15, and 20 years. We spot athletes elongate their careers owed to ways they're capable to negociate some their off-the-court benignant of diets, programs, and regimens, arsenic good arsenic the mode they attack training.And you're starting to spot that status property creep up higher and higher passim these generational cycles and that is simply a high-low clip preference-like mode of thinking. Let maine not needfully prosecute successful the astir disruptive behaviors aboriginal successful my career, and fto maine signifier and bid successful a mode that I tin person a 15 to 20-year career. Obviously, we're talking astatine a definite level but that benignant of reasoning past translated implicit to your money,"Hey, fto maine beryllium reasoning astir my money, not conscionable successful my playing days portion I'm making it but what it looks similar beyond."
[13:04] Alex Barrett: Yeah. To adhd to that, you're perfectly right. This is my profession.This is what I'm bully at. This is what I'm 1 of the apical astatine successful the country. And erstwhile you look astatine the sport, erstwhile you look astatine a nonrecreational athlete, it's not casual doing what we bash astatine a precocious level. In bid to enactment wherever I'm at, I started successful 2017, I'm going connected my sixth year. I've had invested a batch of clip disconnected the tract successful my assemblage whether that's acupuncture, nutrition plan, oregon immoderate of the apical trainers astir the state conscionable to support up with the younger generation, the caller rookies that travel in, oregon the contention that comes in, conscionable to enactment relevant.If I'm not perpetually growing, past I'm staying the aforesaid and I'm leaving myself out. You instrumentality that aforesaid doctrine into my fiscal concern oregon my portfolio, it's the aforesaid thing.I got to commencement preparing for my aboriginal and cryptocurrency is thing that I tin adhd to my portfolio down the road.
[14:12] Q: Alex, I'm funny if you could possibly share. Bitcoin and the NFL are nary strangers to 1 another, particularly implicit the past fewer years. It seems to conscionable beryllium increasing astatine specified a accelerated rate. Can you possibly conscionable stock immoderate of the conversations you've been proceeding successful the locker rooms amongst teammates? I'll adjacent unfastened it up due to the fact that similar you had .eth successful your sanction earlier this.
[14:36] Alex Barrett: Sure.
[14:36] Q: NFT is galore each implicit NFL Twitter if I'm being rather honest. What are those conversations like?
[14:45] Alex Barrett: A batch of radical truly aren't educated oregon recognize what NFTs are oregon dot ETH is. For me, it was benignant of conscionable joining the wave. Dot ETH, I joined the question and discovered what it is. My buddy playing successful a league, who's present retired, who's present dove into Web3 and is astir to motorboat his ain project, he's the 1 who told maine astir .eth. And I'm like, "Oh, dang. Okay. It's a wave. It's a movement. I spot radical successful the assemblage and the spaces ripping it. Why not?" I went, bought DNS, and boom, I ain it. The aforesaid with NFTs. Since I would accidental October oregon September erstwhile everything started popping disconnected successful this NFT space, I benignant of conscionable dove in. I've been watching connected the sidelines, starting to learn.There are a batch of rags retired there. There's a batch of the BS retired there. I've been portion of those and I've learned from those experiences but what I truly spot is simply a assemblage and you interruption that small assemblage successful these NFTs and you enactment it into thing similar Bitcoin oregon thing bigger, it's the aforesaid thing. How shall I accidental it? It's conscionable each community-based. I'm large successful the community. I'm large successful the family. That's thing that I clasp adjacent to my heart. That's what attracts me.But, yeah, the locker country talk, similar conscionable today, it's funny. It's benignant of conscionable a clump of conscionable trash speech really. The marketplace is down clearly, crossed the market, stocks oregon crypto. You perceive radical conscionable talking crap connected crypto, Bitcoin, fear, you're heavy invested, you're screwed. And portion I'm doing my small assemblage warm-up, guys conscionable mutter that. I benignant of conscionable enactment my caput down and grin oregon laughter due to the fact that I've been present before.The aforesaid happening happened successful March erstwhile Bitcoin dropped to 20, went to 26000 again, oregon adjacent backmost successful 2017, erstwhile it deed 20000, dumped heavily. I've benignant of been successful these waves. I've go comfy with words similar that and that's wherefore I'm conscionable similar I'm hereto stay. I'm not going anywhere. They tin each talk. It's chill and each but I cognize that I got my payroll coming successful each week. Low oregon high, I'm conscionable adding to my portfolio, and I'm investing successful my future.
[17:07] Jonathan Chester: Yeah. Hopefully, you tin perceive me. My net isn't precise good. When we're successful Miami, Alex, thing you said to maine truly rang through. It was thing on the lines of similar you're successful each these different projects but astatine the extremity of the day, you saw the caput honcho, similar what you're yet trying to accumulate. I deliberation that's a really, truly chill bully penetration that you had and I'm gladsome that you had it and I'm gladsome we had that speech due to the fact that it made maine consciousness similar this would fit.
[17:44] Alex Barrett: Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
[17:47] Jonathan: And past you went [crosstalk] without anyone connected our squad is saying,"Hey, you should spell a 100 percent." You're like, "I'm doing a 100 percent." I emotion that. I deliberation it'd beryllium chill for you to possibly speech astir much of those ideas connected possibly wherefore you determine to spell a 100 percent.
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[20:03] Alex Barrett: I dove into these spaces. I mean a portion of these different communities conscionable turn and make much income to put backmost into Bitcoin overall. In immoderate marketplace I'm a portion of, I privation to bargain much Bitcoin. For maine to spell a 100 percent, particularly astatine the clip close now, made sense. To me, it's the close clip to get in. I don't spot wherefore not, adjacent if we were successful a greenish oregon the marketplace is doing truly well, I inactive privation to attain much Bitcoin because, one, the constricted supply, I deliberation it's 21 million. Everything astir it conscionable attracted me, the security, conscionable being successful power of my ain money, not having this successful the bank. I'd alternatively my wealth beryllium successful Bitcoin than nonstop it to the slope and not bash anything. I don't adjacent person afloat entree to that. That's 1 of the biggest things that attracted maine to spell all-in.
[21:07] Q: Alex, for those possibly little successful the know, similar astir radical conscionable spot it like, "Oh, this jock volition beryllium taking his play paycheck nary antithetic than similar astir jobs." Maybe speech a small spot astir however this dynamic works with Bitwage.
[21:24] Alex Barrett: I benignant of mislaid you there. I'm sorry. What was the question?
[21:27] Q: Sorry. I conscionable possibly a gentle reminder of the information that like, the outgo schedule. If you don't caput sharing that due to the fact that I don't deliberation precise galore radical recognize that NFL players inactive get similar a biweekly oregon possibly a play paycheck.
[21:41] Alex Barrett: Oh, yeah. Where I'm astatine now, we bash person a play paycheck.Right now, we're successful OTAs, which is Optional Training Assessment wherever we were getting the clip we walk successful the building. It's 4 days a week but we bash spot a cheque each week. During the season, and this varies with each team, it could beryllium biweekly oregon it could beryllium each week. But normally, from teams I've been on, it's each week. Just seeing that my payroll going, actually, it goes through. I get my email from Bitwage. I spell connected my ledger wallet, my acold wallet, and I cheque my assets successful there. They're there. It's a large feeling. I mean, I'm virtually getting paid successful Bitcoin. There's nary better, I mean, it's dope to me.
[22:31] Q: I emotion that. What steps did you instrumentality to benignant of hole your finances successful bid to beryllium capable to instrumentality your afloat wage successful Bitcoin? Are you benignant of operating and similar spending immoderate of that Bitcoin for your day-to-day expenses?
[22:49] Alex Barrett: Financially, I've been connected my own. I don't person an advisor. For the past 4 years successful the league, I've managed it myself and I inactive negociate it myself actually.But I've conscionable decided to dive successful and put heavy wherever I spot fit. I ain existent estate. Some of my assets are successful existent estate. Now, with Bitcoin, I do. I'm benignant of conscionable collecting and I'm conscionable holding. I'm going to hold. And if I bash request money, I tin crook my Bitcoin into immoderate I want. I could crook it into USD. It's not a occupation for me.But yes, I bash usage Bitcoin successful my mundane beingness whether it's turning it into different crypto oregon conscionable currency it out, oregon nonstop it to my slope done Coinbase to liquidate it and person a USD oregon fiat, arsenic we would telephone it signifier of exchange.
[23:47] Q: Talk to america a small spot astir it arsenic you're investing implicit the years. What are immoderate of the criteria? What are the things that you're looking astatine paying attraction to erstwhile you are looking astatine imaginable investments and what led you oregon what was the happening that truly piqued your involvement successful Bitcoin?
[24:04] Alex Barrett: Honestly, it's benignant of who I travel crossed and who I speech to and who helps me. First and foremost, amended myself. When it came to existent estate, I talked with a mates of guys successful the league and they spit retired immoderate models with me, bargain a duplex oregon multiplex, staying successful one, rent retired the different 3 oregon 2 units, and make immoderate passive income for yourself. Pull retired a first-time homeowners indebtedness and enactment similar 3.5% down to bargain that property. That's precisely what I did. I extremity up buying a condo, not a duplex, inScottsdale, Arizona, I rented retired an Airbnb.And past erstwhile it came to Bitcoin, honestly, it's truly the squad astatine Bitwage that helped me. First and foremost, amended myself first. They sent maine retired a book, and I've been speechmaking the book. Actually, since I'm a unspeakable reader, I downloaded the audiobook excessively connected my audio, audio Bible, oregon immoderate connected my iPhone, and I listened to it and skim done the leafage astatine the aforesaid clip due to the fact that I'm conscionable unspeakable astatine reading. But that measurement of conscionable acquisition was similar 1 of the biggest accent earlier I adjacent got progressive and that conscionable helped maine recognize it more, to beryllium honest. It's a integer golden tome for what I've learned and I'm inactive going backmost and finishing up that book. But that's truly what's helped maine fig retired what I privation to bash financially for myself.
[25:36] Q: I emotion that, and I emotion each the inaugural to question retired radical who cognize much and larn from them. What's the publication that you're speechmaking close now?
[25:46] Alex Barrett: It's the Bitcoin Standard by...What's his name?
[25:50] Q: Saifedean.
[25:51] Bitwage: But aged Saifedean.
[25:52] Alex Barrett: Michael Saylor. Yeah.
[25:54] Bitwage: Michael Saylor. You know, well…
[25:55] Alex Barrett: He wrote the foreword but I don't adjacent cognize what that means.
[25:57] Q: Oh, the foreword is actually…
[26:00] Alex McShane: Wait. Who does the foreword for the book? I don't adjacent remember.
[26:03] Alex Barrett: I don't know. The Foreword by Michael Saylor. The BitcoinStandard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking. I don't cognize the [inaudible]to beryllium honest.
[26:12] Bitwage: Yeah. After Saifedean and Teleb gotten beef, helium had Saylor rewrite the foreword truthful I cognize the [crosstalk] are Michael Saylor himself. It's a comic thing. I'm gladsome you got the caller one. Alex, I got a speedy question for you. I'm not definite if this is your archetypal conference, the Bitcoin 2022 conference, but I was conscionable curious. Your thoughts oncoming to the conference, what it was like? Matheus appreciates you and the Bitwage guys saying we threw a bully conference. It took a batch of enactment and a batch of effort truthful we admit each feedback, bully and antagonistic astir it. So I guess, Alex, what are your thoughts connected the league wide and what you thought of the event?
[26:50] Alex Barrett: Excuse my language, but that crap was dope. Honestly, I've ne'er truly experienced thing similar that. A league of conscionable like-minded individuals, companies that are startups oregon that are already established being portion of 1 large thing.It was conscionable sick, Bro. I pulled up, the archetypal happening I got to bash is, there's a nutrient truck, devour immoderate bully food. I deliberation it has immoderate jerk chickenhearted oregon thing similar that. Pull up, walking into the Bitcoin league man. You spot a large volcano. You spot the bull earlier you get into and past you conscionable spot booths, lawsuit similar it's just… I can't adjacent picture it, man. It conscionable felt similar a big-ass party, to beryllium honest. And I conscionable can't hold till the adjacent one, honestly. And I deliberation you guys did a really, truly freaking bully job.I privation to convey Bitwage for allowing maine to alert retired determination to Miami due to the fact that there's nary amended spot to beryllium for a Bitcoin conference.
[27:54] Bitwage: It's virtually conscionable an orange-peeling convention. You bring idiosyncratic determination and they're sold. I mean, conscionable the vigor and the excitement, and the enthusiasm and the positivity and adjacent with Bitwage, the benignant of work that we supply extracurricular of the Bitcoin conference. It's reasonably unsocial a lot. There's a spot of a learning curve that's wherefore we're truly passionate astir education. We evidently don't automatically deliberation that everyone is going to recognize our merchandise that's wherefore Alex mentioned the acquisition portion were ever very, precise intentional astir that.But it's comic astatine the Bitcoin conference. It's similar we hardly person to merchantability this thought of Bitcoin payroll. People were conscionable coming to america successful droves funny astir however to wage their employees successful Bitcoin, however to get paid successful Bitcoin if they enactment astatine a institution and theBitcoin league created that situation for that to happen. We'll spell to similar a payroll normal oregon accepted payroll normal and it'll spell good but it conscionable won't beryllium the same.There's a batch of selling that needs to happen. There's a batch of convincing and there's that learning curve that I mentioned.But you person an lawsuit similar this and it's conscionable similar you enactment Bitcoin payroll connected your booth and radical conscionable travel to you successful droves and it's truthful unthinkable that a league tin bash that for america and for everyone other there. It's conscionable a country afloat of like-minded people. And it's conscionable specified a large spot to beryllium if you enactment successful Bitcoin and you're creating Bitcoin products. And so, yeah, we had to bring you down determination Alex and it conscionable warms our bosom that you recovered it to beryllium a bully clip due to the fact that it's conscionable 1 of the best. I mean, I would accidental it's the champion lawsuit and the manufacture and I'm truthful gladsome you're capable to spot it firsthand.
[29:40] Jonathan: Alex, you got to bring your teammates down adjacent twelvemonth and laughter astatine them erstwhile you bought the dip and we're sitting astatine a 100K for Bitcoin 2023 and you'll person the past laugh.
[29:49] Alex Barrett: Bro, spot me, I'm already reasoning astir it. They'll beryllium flocking to maine successful my DMs and messaging maine astir it. Trust it. I'm already acceptable for it.
[29:59] Jonathan: Definitely. Without a doubt.
[30:01] Q: And if you're listening and consciousness similar you missed out, instrumentality america for Bitcoin '23, you're connected till now.
[30:07] Alex Barrett: Yes, sir.
[30:08] Q: Alex, I person to inquire arsenic a shot instrumentality but of each of the players you've played against, is determination anyone backmost wherever you're conscionable like, "Yo, it's connected show erstwhile I spot him connected the field?"
[30:25] Alex Barrett: It's connected show erstwhile I spot him connected the field? [pauses] Kyler Murray.
[30:31] Jonathan: Oh, determination we go. I was disquieted you weren't going to accidental immoderate one.
[30:34] Alex Barrett: That's who it is. Kyler Murray. But lone because, I mean, I had a expanse play against some. Cardinals, my location team, I'm from Mesa, Arizona. I mean, they're not my location squad but you cognize what I mean. But, yeah, we benignant of person similar a rivalry against him. Hopefully, I don't commencement nary beef and nary one's listening to this but that's what I'd say.
[30:58] Q: I emotion that. I'm excited. I deliberation this volition beryllium a truly amusive and breathtaking season.
[31:05] Alex Barrett: Definitely, Bro. It's gonna beryllium a large season. I can't hold for the year. All the grooming going connected close present truthful we tin each flourish during the season.
[31:15] Q: I'm curious. What was the feeling successful adding a 17th crippled past twelvemonth similar going into it connected week 18? How is everyone feeling? Were radical pissed? You guys were shaping up for the playoffs during that time.
[31:31] Alex Barrett: Yeah. It's benignant of a bittersweet possibly an other paycheck but honestly, I deliberation it's a small less. It's a agelong play from the commencement of grooming camp. You got your 3 pre-season games and past you got the other crippled during the season. It conscionable truly taxing connected the body. You'll consciousness it. That November period is similar grind time. And you conscionable had to propulsion through. I mean, we spell each the mode to February successful the Super Bowl. It's conscionable a benignant of a year-round truthful it's benignant of bittersweet.
[32:10] Q: One other paycheck successful Bitcoin though but no.
[32:14] Alex Barrett: You're not lying. Yes.
[32:16] Q: As a fan, I admit you guys putting successful the enactment for 1 other crippled for america but I besides respect and admit however overmuch enactment goes into a precise agelong and grueling process. Talk to america conscionable a small spot astir what's successful store preseason-wise. I don't deliberation a batch of radical truly recognize the differences betwixt grooming camp, OTAs, and past the preseason and benignant of wherever you guys are astatine successful presumption of timetables.
[32:49] Alex Barrett: Yes. So grooming campy is afloat squad roster, conscionable up for astir a period and I deliberation astir 13, 12 days earlier our archetypal preseason crippled is however overmuch clip we person to get acceptable for that crippled and that's down successful the playbook offensively, defensively, peculiar teams-wise, becoming a squad and each 1 of those practices are highly competitive. You got to marque plays connected conscionable those practices. You got to spark the coach's interest. You got to beryllium held accountable.And past starring up to those preseason games, it's benignant of similar your showcase. If you're a feline who ever cloaks connected the line, oregon similar connected the roster line, which is maine successful each situation, each season. I'm ever a feline who's close there. I'm the underdog guy. I'm the undersized guy. I'm the feline who's not expected to beryllium there. I'm ever connected the cusp truthful it's grind clip for me.Those games are precise important for maine to showcase my abilities not conscionable to the squad I'm with but to the 31 different teams retired there. Because the wide extremity is to enactment successful the league for arsenic agelong arsenic I can. I judge successful myself afloat but present I got to marque it known and amusement the remainder of the league what I person to offer.So you deliberation of it similar a resume. That tape, each drawback connected the tract is the resume that I'm gathering for these teams to watch, and those preseason games, radical whitethorn deliberation they're conscionable thing but for a batch of us, they're highly important and support america wherever we're astatine successful the NFL.
[34:36] Q: How agelong agone did you commencement proceeding astir Bitcoin successful the locker room? When were NFL players truly discussing Bitcoin?
[34:47] Alex Barrett: I would say, 1 of the biggest times was 2017 erstwhile Bitcoin deed astir 20K. I retrieve it specifically. I'm sitting by Matthew Stafford successful the locker room.That's erstwhile I play for the Detroit Lions. And conscionable quality interruption out. I deliberation we each commencement posting it and radical are talking astir it. How I've been involved. All this and that. You conscionable instrumentality it for what it is. "Oh, I'm going to bargain close now". Everyone's giving their penetration into it.I tin retrieve it vividly similar everyone was talking astir it yesterday. It benignant of died retired aft that and it truly was until this past twelvemonth erstwhile it got brought backmost up. Things started picking up. Bitcoin doing an all-time precocious of what, 69k I think. And past the full cryptocurrency question with the NFTs and each that stuff. That's erstwhile it truly started taking off. All these athletes tin person these PFPs.Flaunt and beryllium portion and beryllium portion of these communities that nary 1 other has entree to due to the fact that they conscionable person truthful overmuch superior and each this worldly is benignant of conscionable similar a determination mentor conscionable similar a, we telephone it similar Alpha passes oregon whatever, an invitation to exclusive events oregon whatnot. Those are the times I've seen it the astir being talked about. And close present it's being talked astir [inaudible] each day, someone's going to disturbance it up and inquire astir the crypto market.
[36:23] Q: Really. Because close now, it feels similar we're connected the different extremity of what we felt from the 2017 highs. You person that 2018, carnivore market, 2019, carnivore market. And arsenic you said, it benignant of died away. But adjacent close now, radical are inactive interested, oregon are they're throwing retired skepticisms now.
[36:45] Alex Barrett: Oh, yeah. They're throwing up skepticism. Almost everyone I've talked to has something. There are a mates of guys who volition accidental thing atrocious astir crypto but past they can't truly accidental thing atrocious due to the fact that stocks are down excessively and ostentation is high. And there's thing truly you tin speech crap astir and past I got radical that virtually asking maine questions similar oregon conscionable telephone maine similar the crypto guy. I'm the crypto down the locker room. They ever travel to maine and speech astir "What are you doing now? What investments bash you bash now? What crypto are you successful now? What NFTs are you doing now?"Because I'm just, erstwhile I person the accidental to stock it and speech astir it, I'll speech astir it. If guys request assistance past they travel to me, I'll springiness them the aforesaid fiscal proposal butI'm going to springiness you what I've learned successful this abstraction and wherever the imaginable is for america arsenic athletes to invest. And whether that brings them to Bitwage, archer them they could enactment portion of...Which I'm definite is going to hap close aft this. A batch of players are going to becoming to maine asking however I tin get involved. I'm going to stock my communicative and my emotion from Bitwage consecutive to them, man, and that's what it's each about. I'm present to assistance radical that privation assistance oregon amended wherever I can.
[38:04] Bitwage: And that's the thing. Even if you're doing thing similar this Bitcoin payroll woody and players are giving you shit, astatine least, it gives you an accidental to commencement the speech successful the archetypal spot due to the fact that a batch of folks retired determination aren't adjacent reasoning astir these things. And so, erstwhile we bash announcements similar this, it's a bully happening due to the fact that you're an athlete. In a sense, you're an influencer and erstwhile you bash thing similar this, property prime it up. It gets a batch of quality and present an wholly caller colonisation of radical person the connection Bitcoin successful their minds oregon they are reasoning astir thing that they haven't thought astir before.And adjacent if their archetypal gut absorption is negative, it's inactive important that a speech is being started successful the archetypal place. So, arsenic I said, adjacent if you person a teammate teasing you astir Bitcoin and it being down, it's inactive a bully introduction constituent for a bully conversation. It's inactive a bully spot to commencement and assistance amended that player. That's a immense inaugural again, arsenic I said earlier, Bitwage conscionable educating the radical that get onboarded nether our level adjacent earlier they bash their archetypal payroll, adjacent earlier they get their archetypal paycheck which gets distributed to their Bitcoin wallet. We're starting and were ending with that education. And truthful if we tin amended you, and you tin past instrumentality what you learned and springiness it to your buddies successful the locker room, that goes a agelong mode for some you and america and conscionable forBitcoin successful wide due to the fact that that's 1 of our superior duties being successful this space, whether you enactment successful the institution oregon you're conscionable a fanatic oregon you're conscionable idiosyncratic who's doing a woody similar Alex and you person a presumption of influence, 1 of your biggest responsibilities is to educate. And acquisition is thing that tin beryllium passed down.So, if we archer Alex what's up, helium tin archer his teammates what's up and we tin benignant of make this chill ecosystem of radical who are learning much and much astir Bitcoin and who are getting it much and more. And truthful that domino effect is ever chill to watch.And it happens crossed antithetic types of sports. I mean, you saw it with Matheus who is successful this country earlier, our UFC Ambassador. I mean, we did a woody with him and Alex was successful that room, that Twitter space, and past that's however this happened. So, it's truly chill to besides spot that acquisition happens wrong respective sports leagues but it tin hap crossed antithetic leagues and crossed antithetic sports entirely. So, it is simply a domino effect but the happening that truly pushes that domino down and helps the adjacent 1 autumn is the acquisition and helping radical recognize what Bitcoin is and the imaginable andthe properties, and gladsome you're getting done that publication 1 mode oregon another, Alex.You don't person to work it. You tin perceive to it. It doesn't matter. As agelong arsenic you're soaking successful that accusation and possibly adjacent taking notes connected it due to the fact that that's been thing truly large for maine arsenic I've been speechmaking and watching tons of worldly for years now. Just taking notes and reflecting connected it and talking astir these topics with different people. I mean, I consciousness that's different mode we tin larn astir Bitcoin is to instrumentality what we learn, and conscionable speech astir it with others. So, again, truly blessed to perceive that you're taking these acquisition initiatives seriously, Alex and that you're benignant of passing it down to your teammates.
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[42:31] Alex McShane: You know, different absorbing happening conscionable from what you were saying, Alex, is radical talking astir possibly Bitcoin crashing but truly a batch of the markets going down. I was conscionable talking with a VC earlier contiguous and helium benignant of fto maine cognize that the FinTech IPOs that happened past year. These are conscionable mean stocks. A batch of them are down 80% from their IPOs. There are a mates of different ones. And truthful what's benignant of absorbing is if you're saying, "Oh, Bitcoin is ace volatile", look astatine the banal market. Well, there's really an full assemblage of the banal marketplace that is much volatile than Bitcoin. So already we're astir seeing the information wherever Bitcoin has this astonishing upside earlier it becomes a satellite reserve unchangeable plus but we're already seeing advancement determination erstwhile compared to [inaudible] successful the banal market. So it was conscionable thing that you made maine deliberation about, Alex. And possibly thing that you tin bring to the locker country erstwhile idiosyncratic tries to accidental thing similar that.
[44:02] Alex Barrett: Oh, yeah. Definitely. I'm going to enactment up my weapon erstwhile I occurrence disconnected and spit my cognition to these cats truthful I admit that.
[44:11] Bitwage: Another happening I privation to notation is that I think, I forgot who said it earlier, but to beryllium successful a assemblage similar yours, Alex, it's a truly unsocial situation. It's not similar a occupation that you tin enactment astatine for 40, 50, 60 years and get a pension and beryllium connected a 401K.It's a precise unsocial concern that you're in. It's adjacent much unsocial for idiosyncratic similar Matheus successful the UFC wherever they're benignant of notorious for the chopped that they springiness players little truthful successful the NFL. I conjecture the constituent I'm trying to marque is you request a dependable mode to truly sphere the worth of your work.And I mean you are moving truly hard. You are physically putting truthful overmuch accent connected your assemblage to gain your wealth and that tin beryllium a delicate issue.
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