What's really going on in Crypto - Mike Dudas (The Block)

Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. Today I interviewed Mike Dudis of the Block. They get into the truth about crypto and about the whole ecosystem and try to get to the bottom of the story. I've definitely benefited from the truth that they try to find in this place of craziness and mistruth. So I really hope that you enjoy this episode and hope you find it valuable. Mike has a lot of valuable things to say. He had just recently come back from a trip to Hong Kong and Asia to understand more about the crypto scene there. So there's a lot of valuable information about that in this episode. Hope you enjoy it. If you do, please find us on itunes by searching for Crazy Wisdom. And if you like this episode, I hope that you like the other ones and go ahead and give us a review. I hope you guys have a great day. If you do like this episode, please find me on Twitter ewartalsopiiiitalsopi and let me know what you think. Let me, you know, tweet out to me. Let me know what you think. Have a great day. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest here is Mike Dudis from

the Block, which you guys are kind of creating a lot of content around the crypto space, right?

Exactly.

And what is, like your thesis or like kind of, what do you want to put out there for the Block?

So I've been interested in cryptocurrency since 2013. I worked at Braintree Venmo. We used to process payments, or still do for Uber, Uber and Airbnb. They met with a Coinbase team at the time and, you know, considered accepting cryptocurrency Bitcoin payments at that time about, I would say a couple months later, read a piece by Chamath Paltopia. It was talking about cryptocurrency as schmuck, insurance against rising rates and global strife, etc. So became interested at that point. Left Braintree Venmo when we sold to PayPal and started a company called Button, which is a mobile affiliate company. And that company has Grown tremendously from 2014 to late 2017, almost four years. Grew from zero people to over 100. Grew from zero revenue to gross revenue, well over 50 million a year. And really exciting process. We were growing so fast, I sort of lost track of. Of the crypto ecosystem.