The Blockchain Advisor ™

Lamont is an educator, speaker, and author with a focus on financial innovation and financial markets.. Prior to joining DePaul, Lamont was an economist at the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C.  His main interests are in the areas of cryptocurrency, fintech, banking, and markets. Welcome Lamont. Cenacle Capital Management. Bridging the Gap Between Traditional Investing and Digital Assets. &...

The Ultimate Technician (TUT) started as an entry level clerk and worked his way up to top manager of one of the largest trading firms in Chicago in the 1980s and early 1990’s. Since then, the Ultimate Technician continues to advise a niche group of hedge fund managers with between $ 2 and $12 billion of assets under management (AUM). TUT is an expert technician has dedicated his life to improving...

CEO and co-founder Eric Gravengaard of Athena Bitcoin International discusses their new bundled Bitcoin service named Ruru. Eric says "...we’ve ended up with this great product. It's a Digital Economy in a Box. We've bundled an ATM, Point of Sale technology & a user friendly Bitcoin wallet which holds two of the best currencies in the world; the US Dollar & Bitcoin". Before Athena installe...

I'm not sure if there has ever been such a liquidation of digital assets since the 2018 crypto winter. The liquidation punished many interesting and exciting projects. Here are some of the tokens listed on Coinbase. Is this panic selling? Year end profit taking? Is pending regulation going to suffocate our chance of being able to monetize the greatest technology innovation modern civilization has...

In this episode of The Blockchain Advisor ™ we have a conversation with Hannah Rosenberg the CEO of Velas Commerce and her impressions of the recent Latin American Bitcoin @labitconf conference as president Bukele announces construction of #Bitcoin City, a new blockchain entrepreneurial hub funded partially from a billion dollar bond float using Bitcoin as collateral. Be sure to listen to our regu...

Welcome to The Blockchain Advisor™ Podcast where I discuss the stock & option market, Exchange Traded Funds, cryptocurrencies, Coinbase Global, Grayscale Investment Trusts, technical analysis, and opportunities to build an elegant investment portfolio consisting of both digital assets and traditional exchange traded funds. As a registered investment advisor in our home State, it’s very importa...

Bill Ulivieri, The Blockchain Advisor™ & Andy Giersher of Gains with Andy Giersher discuss crypto currencies and how sports teams are getting in on the action. Bill also talks about crypto mining and if it is even financially feasible for the individual investor. To listen Andy's podcast in its entirely visit https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/podcasts/gains-with-andy-giersher-61589/crypto-mining-...

On today's episode of Gains with Andy Giersher: Bill Ulivieri and Andy Giersher discuss different ways to trade and invest in crypto currencies, wallet storage, proof of work mining and crypto estate planning.  Disclosure. The information in this podcast is educational and general in nature and does not take into consideration the listener’s personal circumstances. The information is believed...

Gains with Andy Giersher, Bill Ulivieri Owner of Cenacle Capital Management, Glenview, IL. / www.cenaclecapital.com and "degenerate risk taker" Andy Giersher chat about cryptocurrency and offer a thumbnail sketch of crypto and block-chain technology. We also talk about Facebook's name change and its impact on gaming tokens like Decentraland-MANA, Polygon, and Enjin. We also looked at a variety of...

Today is October 27, 2021 Bitcoin and Ethereum + 36% over the last month, but -11% and -4.5% on the week, sine the ProShares ETF was introduced. Shiba Inu is + 1,000% or so since it was introduced on the Coinbase platform September 16th, 2021 and + 3,871% YTD.  It’s a meme token introduced as a "joke" like Dogecoin but is now pivoting in the Non-Fungible token space and burning a lot of their...

In this episode of The Blockchain Advisor™ Hannah Rosenberg owner of Velas Commerce discuss homeschooling, Bitcoin as a scarce and valuable piece of digital property, how the Lightning network works and how local  knowledge interacts with the worlds most secure public blockchain.  We discuss the origins of the Bitcoin and Open Blockchain Meetup group  in Chicago,  Andreas M. An...

In the spirit of Franklin D. Roosevelt. October 19, 2021, a date which will live in infamy. Today the Proshares launched an Exchange Traded Fund with the symbol $BITO whose performance is linked to the performance of the Bitcoin futures traded at the Chicago Mercantile Group. The fund does not invest directly in bitcoin. Expense ratio is 0.95%. This is a way to invest in Bitcoin indirectly, and I...

In this episode of The Blockchain Advisor ™ we have a great conversation with Bill and Brooke Mallers, parents of Jack Mallers the inventor of the Lightning network Strike App to discuss the new Bitcoin ETF as a futures-based product instead of a "spot" Exchange Traded Fund.   Bill, Brooke and Hannah Rosenberg were the founders of the Bitcoin and Open blockchain Meetup Group in Chicago in 201...

Listen to a quick 5 - minute radio interview about the NFT market on the WBBM Noon Business Hour in Chicago. I attempt to answer the question 'What is a non fungible token?" The entire hour long show can be heard by clicking on the link below. https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/podcasts/noon-business-hour-on-wbbm-newsradio-54/stalkerware-nft-101-aspiration-zero-843551550

This week we review broad market sectors and the technical field position of the Grayscale Investments and Coinbase Global products. Many investors using Coinbase Global own core position in #Bitcoin and #Ethereum but get confused with the other 90+ tokens available on their platform. We're here to help you create an elegant portfolio of digital assets from the perspective of a 40-year veteran in...

Market Update for October 2, 2021. In this episode Grayscale Investments reconstitutes their Grayscale Digital Large Cap Trust symbol GDLC, and adds two new tokens. Uniswap and Solana to the fund. Broadly speaking cryptocurrencies had a great week as most tokens rallied in sympathy with Bitcoin and statements by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Value as an asset class outperforms Growth thi...

In this episode we provide a weekly stock market, energy and cryptocurrency update. Using technical analysis we seek to build an elegant and mindful portfolio using ETF's, Coinbase Global and Grayscale Investment products.  Regulatory Disclaimer: The information in this podcast is educational and general in nature and does not take into consideration the listener’s personal circumstances. &nb...

In this episode I discuss the current technical "field position" of the stock and cryptocurrency market. We take a look at how the tokens listed on Coinbase Global are doing. To receive The Blockchain Advisor™ newsletter text 'BLOCKCHAIN' to 22828  $SPY $IWM $COIN $SOL $ETC $ETC Disclaimer. The information in this podcast is educational and general in nature and does not take into consid...

Pamela Martin of Long World Services for the Living  https://www.longworldservices.com/  shares stories about her business  of getting a house ready to sell after a loved one passes away. 

How a Floor Trader Developed a Passion for Insurance Planning in a world of generational low interest rates. How does the popular 4% Rule of Retirement work when risk-free interest rates are 1.60%?

Everything you need to know about Long Term Care insurance with specialist Ron Cohen. Author Matt Berrafato shares his LTC experience.  

Everything you need to know about Long Term Care insurance with  specialist Ron Cohen.  The Final Third Network™ refers to a time, challenges, and the joyful  experiences a person faces between the ages of 55 and 95+.  It is the realization that we are entering the Final Third of our life  here on this planet.  Words and phrases like dementia, Alzheimer's, retirement,...

Three episodes dedicated to affordable Long Term Care Insurance. Filial Laws regarding health care and Long Term Care insurance. How to afford LTC.

What is a Daily Money Manager? Part Two.  "I realized at that point how vulnerable I had become from being  completely financially independent, to not really knowing where the  important things are".

"I realized at that point how vulnerable I had become from being  completely financially independent, to not really knowing where the  important things are". Interview with CPA, and Daily Money Manager Ifaat Bosse. Northbrook , IL