The LeoFinance Podcast

Hive investor & entrepreneur - Theycallmedan - recently put out an initiative on the Hive blockchain and asked users to make a post talking about what Hive means to them. Where they see the future for Hive in terms of potential, development, etc.  In this episode of the LEO Show, I covered my thoughts on Hive now and in the future. I gave a few of the reasons as to why I believe Hive can...

It’s not just about succeeding in  this global financial crisis — some people thought that BTC/crypto would actually rise in a recession. The key is that the mainstream conversation about markets, central banks and monetary policies will shift to talking about sound financial policies outside  the traditional banking system — something that BTC was literally created to solve. In This Epi...

Being involved in the Steem blockchain has been a wild ride. Not just over the past several weeks as we’ve dealt with the unpredictable and erratic behavior of Justin Sun and his team, but also over the past several years as we’ve dealt with the deadweight of Steemit, Inc. led by Ned Scott. Over the past 3-4 days, we saw the launch of the Hive Blockchain — a fork of the Steem blockchain that is le...

Congrats to the whole community! The Hive blockchain is alive and running! It is truly incredible to see so many talented and passionate community members and developers come together to make this chain a reality. Make no mistake — this is a manifestation of the Steem community. Justin Sun came along, acquires Steemit, Inc. and acted as if he owned the entire Steem blockchain. He colluded with exc...

We’re officially about 19 hours away from the Hive launch as I put the finishing touches on this upload and write this post. The STEEM price has rallied to an insane degree. Going up as much as 200% and currently holding at about +88% on the day. STEEM rallied from $0.12 to now $0.33 and climbing. We’re seeing an incredible amount of volume on the exchanges and we’re also seeing an incredible amou...

It’s official! The entire community has spent weeks debating and discussing the possibility of a hard fork. Now that we see a plan and roadmap in place and a hard launch date, the discussions are shifting from how to fork to how will the fork go. There are still quite a few unknowns, but speaking in a broad sense — this is an amazing thing for the Steem community. It allows the community to develo...

Early last week, CZ from Binance put out a multitude of statements ousting Justin Sun and essentially admitting that Justin had sent out details for an “upgrade” to Binance’s team under false pretenses. This “upgrade” was in fact the call for Binance to power up all the STEEM held on the exchange and vest it into STEEM POWER. Once it was powered up, it could be used to vote in Justin’s Witnesses....

Today marked another major downturn for both equities and cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is down over 25% and equities are down over 7% as of this recording. We are at the beginning of a long-term stay-at-home economy. The potential impact of COVID-19 on businesses, employees, entrepreneurs, investors and everyone else is unknown at this point. It’s hard to say whether we’re going to see crypto/bitcoin...

The Binance saga seems to be drawing to a close as CZ and Binance itself have issued multiple apologies and statements regarding the Steem Hostile Takeover and their involvement in helping Justin Sun overthrow the governance of the Steem Blockchain. Obviously, their apologies are carefully worded and they don’t really appear to take on much blame at all. Any blame aimed at them was redirected towa...

Crypto mass adoption is a mainstream conversation in the space. People are continually wondering how mass adoption will come about and more importantly WHEN it will come about. For me, mass adoption means a lot of different things. We’re all unique in this world and we have unique needs and desires for cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Regardless of how you use cryptocurrency, I believe...

There was finally a closed-door meeting between the Steem witnesses, Justin Sun and Eli Powell the other day where many of the current governance issues on the blockchain were discusses. For the most part, the meeting was relatively productive in understand Justin Sun a bit better. For me, I confirmed my suspicions that Justin really doesn’t understand anything about Steem and he bought Steemit, I...

Today is a much happier day than yesterday. We saw Justin Sun walk up, collude with Binance, Huobi and Poloniex to steal our Steem car. After he stole the car by installing his own top 20 sock puppet witnesses (all running on 1 node, btw), his team got to work on a hard fork that would solidify some of the bullshit tactics that he’s been spewing. Effectively disrupting Steem as we know it. The com...

Today I woke up to some saddening news. Something that I could have never anticipated. Justin Sun has taken control of the top 20 witness spots on the Steem Blockchain. He now controls all of the top 20 delegated proof of stake block produces. Meaning that he can do anything he wants to the Steem Blockchain and there’s not a damn thing we can do to stop him. This is the exact reason why the soft f...

Warren Buffet was recently interviewed on CNBC and was asked about his opinions on cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin after his dinner with Justin Sun and a few of his “crypto buddies”. There is no doubt that Buffett is an incredible value investor, but when it comes to evaluating cutting edge technologies, he may not have the best track record. He has made a MASSIVE bet on Apple, but he didn’t make tha...

We have a need. A need for diversification. I just had a conversation on Sunday about markets at all time highs, irrational greed and the potential impact of the Corona Virus and other global market factors. In the conversation, I was asked what I would do if I was holding stocks for the long-haul — 10+ years — in an environment when prices seem irrational and greed is continually mounting. My ans...

Hope for the best. Plan for the worst. Keep your eyes open. At 5pm Eastern time, soft fork 0.22.2 was announced by the Steem Blockchain witnesses. This soft fork was discussed and implemented by the witnesses after hearing a myriad of concerns regarding the Steemit, Inc. acquisition by Justin Sun and the subsequent press releases which gave contradictory messages about Justin’s plans for Steemit a...

One of the most long-awaited features of the Steem blockchain has been Communities. Communities exist both in a back-end and front-end environment. On the back-end, communities have been developed under the “Hivemind” protocol. On the front-end, they can be seen in a myriad of places and displayed in all sorts of fascinating ways — Steemleo.com  shows only our community (for crypto & fina...

The announcement of Justin Sun buying Steemit, Inc. has been met with so many mixed feelings and confusion. It’s a big deal for anyone who’s paying attention to Steem. There’s good and bad to this whole situation. So far, nothing bad has happened. We’ve seen Steemit, Inc. leave the hands of a founder who had grown uninterested in the project (Ned) and lacked vision, execution and resources to brin...

Hey everyone. After a crazy day and all sorts of wild speculation from the Steem community about what’s going to happen now that Tron and Justin Sun have officially purchased Steemit, Inc., I decided to collect all the information that is available to us and give my opinions on this whole situation. Please keep this in mind when you listen to this video and also when you hear anyone else in the co...

Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell gave a testimony yesterday and during the questioning section, was asked about the Fed’s plans for digital currency in light of China, Libra and other countries and corporations making headway on implementing various systems. The Chairman had a fair amount to say about digital currencies, saying that the fed is “taking a deep look” at digital currency...

Coinbase put out an article a few days ago which outlined some of their reasoning for drawing a few comparisons between gold and Bitcoin. As we approach the halvening, certain metrics such as the stock-to-flow model are starting to make BTC reflect a gold-like level of scarcity, especially in terms of newly minted Bitcoin. In this episode, I review the article and cover the various talking points...

I had the incredible honor of interviewing @theycallmedan from the Steem blockchain. Dan is a former pro poker player, quora writer, investor and entrepreneur. He has quite a bit of experience in the crypto space and has weathered the storms of being an investor in volatile markets and being a poker player who needs to manage a finite bankroll.  Dan is the Co-Founder of 3speak.online - a dece...

In today's podcast, I talk about the latest developments out of the Cash App and Square's team that is working on crypto-related projects. The Cash App offers a convenient solution for buying, depositing and withdrawing Bitcoin. Along with this convenience comes an even greater one - the Visa Debit card that you can get with the Cash App that allows you to instantly convert BTC into USD and spend...

In today's episode, I cover the idea of crypto adoption and how it may be a little further away than you think. In order for mass adoption to happen, we need to have better systems in place. Topics covered: The price of crypto is irrelevant to the development of crypto… in 2017, we saw exactly what happens when the price of crypto outpaces the development of crypto We’re still missing key elements...

I’ve talked about this several times both on this podcast as well as during interviews about Steemleo and my thoughts on the future of the Steem blockchain. One of my driving reasons for creating Steemleo was to build a platform that could both incentivize current Steem users who created high quality investment content but also find new content creators and investment-enthusiasts and onboard them...