Christian Keroles is General Manager at Bitcoin Magazine. The Southern California native hosts the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, Fed Watch Podcast, Bitcoin Magazine Spaces and covers Bitcoin as it monetizes. You can connect with CK at https://twitter.com/ck_SNARKs

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00:00 Okcoin promo 00:59 iTrustCapital promo 01:43 Coin Stories is powered in part by Bitcoin Magazine 02:50 Growing up in SoCal, attending Chapman University 03:56 Parents are from Cairo 04:29 Family emigrating from Egypt 06:42 Software sales in Silicon Valley 08:05 Goal out of college: make money, be successful, own time 10:01 Discovering Bitcoin in 2017 in Bay Area 11:22 Learning through Laura Shin's Unchained podcast 15:21 Investing all his time in Bitcoin when he didn't have the money 17:19 BTC makes the world a better place, bullish on humans 19:51 Bitcoin maximalism, cryptocurrency community 24:50 Everything is good for Bitcoin, fighting trolls 29:37 Bitcoin Amsterdam and Bitcoin 2023 promo 30:40 Fold app promo 31:27 Transitioning from software sales to content creator 32:49 Early days of Bitcoin Magazine 33:40 Producing podcasts, Bitcoin conferences, Hard Money 36:55 Growth from Bitcoin 2019 to Bitcoin 2022 39:49 Bitcoin Amsterdam coming up October 12-14, 2022 43:35 Planning a conference in a bear market 45:12 "100K by Conference Day" 47:10 Hyperbitcoinization 49:27 Preparing for worst case scenario 52:05 Risks to Bitcoin 54:20 Is Bitcoin a zero sum game? 58:49 What's the Fed doing? Do people believe it?