The ACCEL Podcast is a weekly podcast focused on bringing together and building a community committed to and interested in the rapid acceleration of a decentralized future. Whether you’re interested in cryptocurrencies, curious about NFTs, or learning about the Metaverse, The ACCEL Podcast is your one stop shop to listen, learn and leverage the knowledge and expertise of our growing community.NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE– The Information presented in this podcast is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose.The Information contained in or provided from or through this podcast is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice.The Information provided from or through this podcast is general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional broker or financial advisor.You understand that you are using any and all information from this podcast at your own risk.

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On today’s episode of the ACCEL Podcast, we welcome one of the Directors of Public Relations at ACCEL, Ryan, as we discuss his background, role with ACCEL, and what the PHLIP is going on with ACCEL’s latest NFT-Powered game, PHLIP.-----------------------------------------------------Episode Transcript:-----------------------------------------------------The Information presented in this podcast is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose.The Information contained in or provided from or through this podcast is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice.The Information provided from or through this podcast is general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional broker or financial advisor.You understand that you are using any and all information from this podcast at your own risk.

On today’s episode of the ACCEL Podcast, we welcome one of the Directors of Public Relations at ACCEL, Ryan, as we discuss his background, role with ACCEL, and what the PHLIP is going on with ACCEL’s latest NFT-Powered game, PHLIP.

Episode #8: PHLIPing the Script on GameFi

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Episode #6 (Part II): ACCELerating P2E Gaming with NFTs

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Episode #7: Multi-Chain Projects, Bridges & Arbitrage Trading

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On today’s episode of the ACCEL Podcast, Scott, Eric and Alex welcome Brian and Matt from the ACCEL Gaming Division. On Part-One of this Two-Part Series, Brain and Matt discuss Blockchain, Play-to-Earn (P2E) Games, NFTs and how their integration with blockchain technology is not only growing, but accelerating to new heights of adoption across multiple chains. For more information on ACCEL , please visit <a href="http://www.acceldefi.com/" rel="nofollow">www.acceldefi.com</a> or our Link Tree: <a href="https://linktr.ee/AccelDefi" rel="nofollow">https://linktr.ee/AccelDefi</a>For educational resources related to ACCEL and Crypto in general, please visit ACCEL University on YouTube using the following link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJDNIqPTp9kjsMPmPo119Zg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJDNIqPTp9kjsMPmPo119Zg</a> Episode Transcript:[Alex] Welcome to the ACCEL Podcast. Today we have very special guests for you, Matt and Brian. They head the gaming division here at ACCEL. [Alex] Can you tell the listeners a little bit about yourself, your background in gaming, and how you found yourself developing P2E Games in the crypto space? [Brian] Thanks again. As you said, my name is Brian. I&#39;ve been an avid gamer pretty much my entire life. I&#39;ve just been working into project management and programming for a few years now, and basically I&#39;ve just brought everything together when forming this division as it appealed to all of my skills that I&#39;ve built over the years. And I&#39;ve been working on building this division from the ground up. So I am very excited to have a couple of people in our team. And honestly, it&#39;s been pretty much a dream of mine. I&#39;ve always wanted to be kind of a project manager programmer for a small indie company. That&#39;s kind of something that&#39;s always been a dream of mine. So the simple fact that now I finally get to do it is fantastic and I&#39;m looking forward to the future. [Alex] Thank you very much for giving us a little bit of information on your background. Is game development something you went to school for, or were you self taught? [Brian] That&#39;s a great question. I was self taught. The only kind of experience I have is some coding classes when I went to University, but I never really used them for gaming. It was just got through the courses and at the time that wasn&#39;t something that I planned on using. But now that I&#39;m here, I&#39;m really glad that I decided to stick with it. Those late hours of going through code, it&#39;s finally going to pay off. [Alex] Wow, that&#39;s fascinating. Hey, Matt, can you also give us a little bit about your background and how you got involved with ACCEL? [Matt] Absolutely. I&#39;ve been in eSports. I was an eSports pro in my 20s. I actually have been involved in gaming for about 18 years now. Always dream. Just like Brian, we&#39;ve been friends for ten years. We&#39;ve gone through a lot. We&#39;ve discussed a lot of things that we want to do, and this is sort of like making all that happen. I personally come from an engineering background. I am pretty good with numbers and like I set up both developed games simply and I&#39;ve worked on different games just through the variable aspect. And I&#39;ve been very involved with technology for the last ten years. So when Brian told me about this opportunity, I thought it was a great time to come in, materialize all the things that we&#39;ve discussed over the years, just bring them together and make this an amazing environment. [Alex] Thank you very much for giving us that information. [Scott] So I guess that kind of leads us into our next question. I think there&#39;s a lot of kind of confusion around gaming in the crypto sphere and kind of how everything ties together. There&#39;s a lot of different words thrown around that I think kind of confused people between these console games and these mobile games that you can play on your phone, ones where you can actually earn rewards, ones where you can&#39;t can you kind of just give us a little bit more insight on what exactly you guys are going to do in the gaming division, how that ties into crypto? [Brian] Yeah, absolutely. So mobile and console games, they all use a standard protocol, and basically there&#39;s going to be a way that we can be able to connect them to the blockchains. As of right now, that&#39;s the challenge. But I believe that what we can do is it&#39;s definitely coming along. It&#39;s faster than you think. Right. People have been playing games for virtual tokens for years, and really the only change now is that they be playing with a stake and earn real world assets. So, you know, you basically instead of farming your own Gill, gold, whatever the ingame currency is, basically. Now what you can do is not only can you throw money in there, but there are also ways to earn the money through various tasks, et cetera. And it&#39;s basically a great community effort because you&#39;re going to have people that are going to be let&#39;s say all I want to do is be a blacksmith. Right. Well, everybody&#39;s going to need a sword. So you&#39;re going to have those one on one interactions in transactions with people just like you and me. And we&#39;ll be able to use centralized token or coin or what have you. And we&#39;ll be able to do all kinds of trading. And I think Matt can actually elaborate a little more. [Matt] Absolutely. What basically is happening here is that before, if you went to any game, you&#39;d earn that game&#39;s currency, right? You could earn gold, you could earn Gill, you could earn, like, little jewels and Candy Crush, et cetera. And all those things actually allow you to participate or buy items using that in game currency. But those items and those things are only limited to that game, and you could never translate it into something outside of the game. You could be the best player in the world in Candy Crush, but you&#39;re still going to get beat up at school if you&#39;re a nerd happened to be honestly, it was an experience. And the good thing about these games, the strong thing about these games is they can appeal to both the time and skill that you can put in. And that skill doesn&#39;t always have to be related directly to one task. Right. Like, for example, you have people with different careers in the world that do different things. And in the gaming, in the meta verse itself, you can tie all this together that people are going to be very good at. Some people are going to be very good at racing, some people are going to be very good at guessing a number off of a deck. And some people are going to go more into the creative side. You know, they are going to design characters, they&#39;re going to build certain items, they&#39;re going to build a lot of different things. So there&#39;s always going to be a discipline that appeals to anyone. And like, as with horse racing, where one person wins and everyone else loses, you actually have all these opportunities for different people to come together and use the things they are good at, use the things they want to do, and they all have the same possibility to earn something that they can just take back with them after. [Scott] Okay. So I guess my follow up kind of question to that then is these Play-to-Earn games have kind of been around a while. Why do you think you&#39;re seeing this trend kind of catching on now? What is kind of that ignition behind it? Do you think it&#39;s the blockchain interaction? Is that kind of that big selling point that&#39;s really bringing the play to earn games, too? We&#39;re seeing them really rise to the top right now. [Matt] Yeah. I think one of the key reasons is exactly what you mentioned. Because for everything that happened before, one of the big elements was that there was always, well, not really in games, but like, if you take it to real world, there&#39;s always going to be someone in the middle regulating transactions between players. So, for example, this is a very simple example. If anyone out there has played RuneScape, I&#39;m sorry for you. But Besides that, if anyone out there has played RuneScape, you&#39;ve gotten like scammed at least once. Like, some person comes in and they want to sell you something and you give them your gold because like, okay, I want the site, I may give you my goal and then the person just disconnects and disappears and you basically got stiffed. Truth be told, it&#39;s just a game currency. So it wasn&#39;t really that much of a hurt on you because you really feel bad when it happens. And Blockchain Technology just has had its peaks since 2019. If I&#39;m not mistaken, it was first developed around 2009, but it&#39;s really seeing the strong adoption today. And the important part of Blockchain Technology is that it can do two things that usually didn&#39;t happen before. A it can regulate transactions between two parties without having like a physical third party having to exist. And the second one is that is a trust system so you don&#39;t actually have to go and trust the other player to make your transaction. Because it&#39;s going to be written in code, it&#39;s going to be hashed and there&#39;s no way you&#39;re getting out of that. No one can really stake a different item in transaction than they originally did. Scams are there like scams happen every day, but it&#39;s mostly like 99% of them are mostly due to a human factor. And that&#39;s why the fact that you can now actually have people playing against something that they don&#39;t need to trust, they know there&#39;s no way to go around it and they&#39;re going to get the returns of what they&#39;re putting in. It&#39;s not a scam, it&#39;s going to be like written code. The smart context is going to be there. It makes people a lot more confident to stake money or stake different sort of assets in these games. Kind of like when people in the 90s were afraid to put their credit card information anywhere because they all thought like they were going to get cloned and scanned. And now like you&#39;ll just go to a Russian site because you wanted to buy that PDF, that one book that you need to print for your son and just put your credit card info in weird Russian site with like not thinking about it twice. [Brian] Also, one thing I&#39;d love to add is I believe now more than ever people actually want to feel like they&#39;re a part of something bigger, right? So let&#39;s say you&#39;ve got your avatar, you&#39;re going in the Metaverse and you want to buy paranike, whether it&#39;s going to be for your avatar, like The Sims where you can dress your avatar, or maybe Nike will have a special NFT for X amount of sales. So either way you&#39;ve got the people who, I just want to make my avatar look cool, I want to spend it on this, that or the other. And then you&#39;ve got other people that are, I&#39;m doing this for the money. As far as like, this is a really cool limited edition Nike NFT. I can only imagine we&#39;re going to be bringing in some big names very shortly. And one of the cool things is you don&#39;t necessarily have to be quote, unquote whale to own a piece of the pie, right? You could have in the Metaverse, you own a piece of land and then that land has the shoe store in there. So someone who comes in and say 1000 people purchase that land, anybody who gets sales from that Nike shoe is going to disperse equally. And so everyone&#39;s going to be able to not only say that they&#39;ve got some connections with brand management, but also just sales get X amount of tokens or whatever. And then you use those for basically whatever you&#39;d like. So it&#39;s just really cool. [Eric] So Brian and Matt, you guys have done a diamond explanation of giving us a little bit of your background, how you&#39;re now starting to tie into ACCEL. So for our subscribers and maybe a couple more of our more veterans in the ACCEL game–I&#39;ll put myself in that category–give me a little more insight if both of you could, or a little more understanding on exactly what P2E Games are, and with that being said, exactly how they are going to now tie into The Blockchain, and I know you started to get into how we pay for it. I know, Matt, you had alluded to your son or your daughter can tie in a credit card, but bring it back a little more to the basics, and just let me know about the P2E Games, how they tie into The Blockchain, and exactly how it&#39;s being monetized. [Matt] P2E or like Play to Earn is just basically any game that gives you a reward for playing it. You can even define like, if you loosely define it, you can even call P2E to those little machines in Japan where if you exercise, you do ten squats, you actually get a train ticket. And it&#39;s sort of the same principle that comes in there. And people relate this a lot to casinos for that reason, because you basically go in, stake your money, make some bets. Betting is one of the many forms that P2E has. And I think there&#39;s a hidden gem that NFCs will bring that still hasn&#39;t been tapped into and relates directly with fractal ownership. There&#39;s a lot of artists that have talked about this. It&#39;s basically sort of selling a part or selling a piece of, for example, the right to your music. Like, if you have a favorite artist, how cool would it be if you could own a small percentage of the rights to their music? [Brian] Right. And NFT&#39;s in general, all these tokens would actually make for a strong case in which people can bring their resources together. We can form a pool of 30,000 people, and we can all pool our ETH. And the good thing is no one has to trust anyone else and get that pulled resources and get that pulled money to let&#39;s say we&#39;re all a big fan of Nike. You want to buy a percentage of Nike and sort of be able to bring the Nike brand into the Metaverse or get some dividends out of the Nike shares and et cetera. That&#39;s a strong point of NFTs and I think it&#39;s going to be seen a lot more because people are starting to realize there are a lot more uses to this than they thought originally. [Scott] Yeah, I think that&#39;s one of the craziest things we&#39;re kind of seeing in the blockchain and crypto areas. A lot of people don&#39;t really want to jump on this innovation and it&#39;s one of the things we&#39;re really seeing is everything is tied together and in our next episode we&#39;re going to kind of touch on this, but we want to leave you guys on a little bit of a cliffhanger. But in the next episode we&#39;re going to kind of explain to you guys how this all ties back together. The Metaverse, the NFTs, the Play-to-Earn, the blockchain and how they&#39;re all in one. So we&#39;re looking forward to this next episode. Please join us again with Brian Matt. It&#39;s going to be awesome. Bye.-----------------------------------------The Information presented in this podcast is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose.The Information contained in or provided from or through this podcast is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice.The Information provided from or through this podcast is general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional broker or financial advisor.You understand that you are using any and all information from this podcast at your own risk.

Episode #6 (Part I): Blockchain, P2E Games & NFTs

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On this episode of the ACCEL Podcast, Scott, Eric and Alex interview Bhaves (aka Juicy Jerms in the community) and discuss his professional background, involvement with ACCEL, cryptocurrencies and the market cycles in this space. For more information on ACCEL , please visit <a href="http://www.acceldefi.com/" rel="nofollow">www.acceldefi.com</a> or our Link Tree:<a href="https://linktr.ee/AccelDefi" rel="nofollow">https://linktr.ee/AccelDefi</a>For educational resources related to ACCEL and Crypto in general, please visit ACCEL University on YouTube using the following link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJDNIqPTp9kjsMPmPo119Zg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJDNIqPTp9kjsMPmPo119Zg</a> -------------------------------------Episode Transcript:[Scott] On today&#39;s episode of the ACCEL podcast, we interview Bhaves, also known as Juicy, as we discuss his background, involvement with ACCEL cryptocurrencies and the market cycles in the space. As always, my name is Scott and I&#39;m Eric. And I&#39;m Alex. You&#39;re listening to to the ACCEL podcast Defining a Decentralized Future. One listen at a time.[Alex] Welcome, everyone, to the ACCEL podcast. Today we have a very special guest for you, businessman, entrepreneur Juicy aka Bhaves. Welcome to the show. [Juicy] Hey, thanks for having me. Thank you for coming on. Can you introduce yourself to the listeners? Tell us a little bit about yourself. Yeah, certainly. So my name is Bhaves, aka Juicy Germs in the chat. So I&#39;ve got kind of like a wide array of background, started with SaaS software companies, have my own recruiting agency, work in various other real estate aspects. And then I was also a day trader for trading stocks. So I think it was just a good conversion to bring the crypto side into that portfolio. [Scott] Okay. Everyone kind of finds their own way into crypto. It&#39;s always exciting to hear about the different people and how they kind of found their way in. Here what really drew you in from that background into the crypto sphere. [Juicy] So when you&#39;re looking at investments, it&#39;s really about diversifying in different markets. Like I said, real estate stocks, crypto is growing, and at a very large rate, it&#39;s almost as like a doubling effect since 2012. And I kind of just wanted to grab a piece of the crypto side for my portfolio. [Scott] So it was really just kind of diversifying that portfolio, kind of reaching out into some different areas. [Juicy] Yeah. I have an investment philosophy of kind of building pillars. That way if one goes down, you&#39;re able to still rely on other areas for your money to continue to grow. As we know we have higher inflation than historically present. And I think crypto is a really good asset to just bring in to help kind of minimize the risk in overall portfolio decay. [Scott] So let me ask you something with that. Does it kind of attract you being something that&#39;s a little bit newer as it&#39;s a new market compared to some of the other things you&#39;ve gotten involved in? Is that something that kind of peaks a little bit of interest? [Juicy] Yes, definitely. The hype behind it helps a lot. And then also just with the overall growth of it, I mean, you look at the numbers of decentralized finance itself. In April of 2020, we were sitting around about 3 billion in market cap. And then just a year later, it grew almost 30 times to 103,000,000,000 in market cap. So as soon as you start reaching these billion dollars in total dollars in that market or space, it&#39;s something that really is hard to kind of just shut off. And so that&#39;s when I kind of piqued more interest into it because it&#39;s something that&#39;s not really a fad. [Scott] Yeah, that was definitely something how it kind of went for me. It was like one of those things. It&#39;s almost undeniable once it keeps going for a while. Like at first you see it. Okay. Back a couple of years, 2014. Okay. Yeah, maybe 2016, Rosalien. And now we&#39;re really getting into the time where it&#39;s like it&#39;s either time to shut up and get on board or to get completely out. I feel like it&#39;s one of those times where a lot of people are taking advantage of the market and trying to find a way in. And I think it&#39;s advantageous to think that you can&#39;t take a look at where we&#39;ve come from in crypto to kind of give you an idea of where we&#39;re going. Is that kind of how you feel? Juicy? [Juicy] Yeah. When you look at just like the overall trend from 2012, I mean, it&#39;s completely changed and flipped upside down to where instead of just having like a negative connotation behind cryptocurrencies, you&#39;re having large financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies getting involved in crypto, small countries are getting involved in crypto as well. So it&#39;s not something that really can be taken lightly for anymore or as a joke, it&#39;s a real serious player in today&#39;s world. [Eric] So juicy. With all that being said, as you give us a little bit of your background and you said you&#39;d entered into crypto coming from the day trading space, and we&#39;ve heard a lot about that where guys are coming home, gals are coming home trading on their Schwab account or their ETrade account. Now you&#39;ve moved into that crypto space. How has that traditional background of day trading transitioned you into crypto? [Juicy] So the trading side of the stock market, there are similarities. As far as technical analysis goes, when you bring it over to cryptocurrencies, one of the biggest learning curve that I had to kind of deal with was crypto is very, very volatile versus the traditional stock market, having certain levels in which you can see kind of pauses and momentum kind of shift. Whereas crypto especially DeFi when the train runs, it runs, but when it&#39;s out of gas, it&#39;s a complete stop. [Eric] So then, alright, so with that being said, is crypto something that becomes more of an emotional trading thing? Because as we always hear, everybody always says, you got to remove your emotions from trading. You have to trade upon the numbers, predicated upon the financials or is crypto one of those things that the traditional trading mentality does or does not apply? [Juicy] It somewhat applies with technical analysis. You can find your support, resistance zones, breakouts as well. Fibonacci is one of the trading tools that I use for trading the stock market, and it does relate to the crypto side. But overall, it&#39;s more psychological on the crypto side, even though it is on the stock market side as well. On the crypto side, it&#39;s a lot more about seeing green and red for when people exit and enter. So with that being said, for the new Gal or the new guy coming into the crypto space, is it something that you&#39;ve really got to go with the old traditional standpoints or not even the old traditional standpoints, but the mentality of buy and hold, you really can&#39;t get caught up in the excitement of the up and down cycles, where, as the old school mentality told me by my mom and dad, you&#39;re not going to make a quick buck overnight. It cannot mentality still be brought to crypto and still be successful and still invest for the long term, which is what people really kind of as we&#39;ve always heard, you&#39;re not getting into a marketplace for the today, you&#39;re getting into it for the future. It&#39;s about your retirement and so on and so forth. Yeah. So what I do is I actually take the stock market principles of investing in companies and then tie it to basically my startup background in SAS software or Fintech. And essentially I&#39;m looking for projects that have longevity because it is an ever growing space to where if you get in the right project and they&#39;re around three, four, five, 10 years from now, you&#39;re going to make quite a bit of money. Just like when startups come out like Airbnb DoorDash. Those guys didn&#39;t get a 300, $400 million valuation just from day one. I mean, they literally grinded it out at the very beginning. And then they slowly grew, slowly grew. Then incubator funds came in, invested in them, and now they&#39;re publicly traded. So I try to use more of take the products, the services, the IP that these projects are providing in DeFi, and then tie it with the chart itself, using one of the tools out there and try to figure out, hey, is this product something that can be around five years from now, ten years from now, is what they&#39;re building, something that is actually going to be viable for the DeFi blockchain space in the future? [Alex] We discussed a little bit about business and other investments. Can we talk about how you got involved with ACCEL? [Juicy] Yeah. So my initial investment with ACCEL was actually as a part of one of the presale tokens. The presale token provided a lot of value in the DeFi space. And I could kind of put on paper, like how they were going to generate revenue and how they can get to scale. So when the merger of ACCEL happened, it actually made it a lot better on my projections that I had of what the revenues could be at. And so I kind of just saw it as a steal, as an investment goes.[Scott] So as we kind of talk about that juicy working into the different kind of streams of rewards that we kind of can see is that kind of what really enticed you once that merger happen and you really got to dive deep into the ACCEL I know you have a little bit of a relationship with Chris that&#39;s been going on for a while and we all love Chris. We got a nice little talk with him on one of our first podcasts. And man, he&#39;s a smart guy. [Juicy] Yeah, he&#39;s brilliant. And he was actually the person to kind of push me towards ACCEL. And at first I was a little skeptical just coming from the more traditional stock background and real estate side. But then once I started to get the information, or once ACCEL released the information of how the revenues were going to work, where the revenue was coming from, how the rewards are going to be split amongst the community, and then you have the staking pool. I mean, those were things that kind of just showed me that, hey, we can really make some real money in deep eye without having to one risk quite a bit, but also still have that large unicorn type potential that you see from the startup companies in fintech that eventually go IPO. [Scott] Okay, so I guess kind of tying that in. So I know we kind of talked a little bit earlier, touched on it, at least about market cycles. Is this something that is more appealing to have these multiple revenue streams? Do you think with the different market cycles that you have to worry about with things cycle in and out? [Juicy] Yes. So it actually helps because we all know that there are going to be cycles in the market, especially at the macro level. But when you have true fundamental numbers that you can base calculations on, such as revenues and you can tie that into growth, I mean, even price coming down, it just allows me to have a good intrinsic value on buying at a cheaper price. One of the things I look for with long term hold, especially in the stock side, is like how much is it trading apart from its book value, its competitors using also PE ratio as well. If I see the revenues of ACCEL hypothetically in a 15 20 million range, but their market cap is only around 50 to 100 million. Well, for a tech company, a tech product based company, to be trading at only a four, five or ten multiple, it&#39;s kind of outrageous in valuation for me. So even these cycles that come in on the macro side, it&#39;s not really changing the thought process of what I see in an individual company or project because the revenues will speak for itself at the end of the day. [Eric] So juicy. As we all know, we always hear the terms of bullish and bearish cycles. Pretty safe to say we&#39;re in a bearish cycle right now. I mean, there&#39;s no two ways to call to say we look at all the large market cap currencies that are 50% to 60% down. So my belief and you can steer me in the right direction, having a greater knowledge of this knowing that we have a revenue generating coin in ACCEL, how are we going to get through this downturn of the market cycle and feel safe about being invested in ACCEL? [Juicy] So when you look at the stock market, what usually happens during a bear cycle? Money moves to more fundamental stable areas. And if the holders of ACCEL are seeing these rewards come in due to the revenues being shared, then it would naturally gravitate holders of other cryptocurrency where they&#39;re seeing 30, 40, 50% drops that don&#39;t have the rewards come in shift towards the more stable side of DFI because if I&#39;m able to receive back a 25 30% return ROI on just the reward side itself in a bearish market, just imagine what that would be in a bullish market. [Eric] So safe to say right now. Again, this podcast is not to give financial advice, but safe to say, to be within ACCEL right now doesn&#39;t particularly make you insulated, but knowing that eventually with every down market there is an up market, ACCEL would probably be a good place to be. [Juicy] Yeah, I do think ACCEL would be a good place to be, especially with the way that the rewards and staking pool set up. It&#39;s really there to benefit the holders itself. Ethereum Bitcoin they can do what they do in the chart, but if I&#39;m seeing returns back, why wouldn&#39;t I stick around? Is the question I ask myself.[Juicy] So juicy then tying back into what we came into this discussion about emotions, how are we able to remove our emotions or control our emotions during these bearish and bullish markets where people always say windfalls of money or windfalls of returns are made sometimes in the worst times, right? The most millionaires came out of the Great Depression. How can we then translate and tie that into this down market within ACCEL of crypto in today&#39;s space [Juicy] With the down markets, really what they do is they create buying opportunities and the emotional side, everyone looks at it as more of where is my money right now? Whereas they&#39;re not looking like a lot of the larger institutional investors are looking and they&#39;re looking where is this going to be valued in twelve months? Where is it going to be valued in a year? Where is it going to be valued in two years? We&#39;re always going to have ups and downs because people are taking profits. It happens if nobody took profits, everything would be worth ten times what it&#39;s at right now. But overall that&#39;s human psychology. You want to take profits, you want to grow your money, but they keep looking at what it is right now versus what can it be when it&#39;s actually in full fruition. And the way that you kind of do that is instead of investing for the quick hype, the quick pump it&#39;s where can I invest to where? Five years from now, ten years from now, it&#39;s changed my life, not where it is right now because right now the money sits there and if you&#39;re looking for it to grow 30, 40 X, you can do that, but you&#39;re probably going to lose more than you win versus the more fundamental side. Buy and hold wealth is created. It just takes time. And so, like for me with ACCEL, the price really doesn&#39;t matter. In my opinion, it&#39;s more of where are we going? And at that point, the market itself will catch eyes and dictate what it&#39;s truly worth. [Scott] So I think one of the biggest things people have a hard time with juicy and I&#39;d love to hear how you&#39;ve kind of taught yourself to do this is how do you take a step back and look at the whole picture? What gives you that ability, that mindset to be able to take a step back, take a deep breath and look at the whole picture. [Juicy] So it really just comes from experience. Back in College, I had my own little sports advisory where we would essentially just give out games to some not going to name anybody, but we would give out games, they would vet them, but it was all based on money management. At the end of the day, if you don&#39;t know how to manage your money, It&#39;s probably not going to work out the best. So I use those lessons basically from back then and applied it to the market side as a whole. It&#39;s really hard to take emotion out of it, right, because you see your money&#39;s green one day and then the next thing you know, you open your portfolio and it&#39;s down 10%. Usually that leads to that fear that it&#39;s going to zero, but in reality, I mean, nothing really goes to zero unless it truly just files for bankruptcy. And that&#39;s really the best way I can put it. I&#39;m kind of blessed I was able to live through 20. 07 20. 08 20. 09 and my family went through very hardship with their businesses and that kind of helped me learn more and more that, hey, even though things have gone bad, There are better days ahead because once you bought them out, there&#39;s really nowhere else to go but up. [Eric] So juicy, everything you&#39;ve given us today Dynamite information, and as everything ties back into it comes down to education and you&#39;ve kind of walked us through your journey of how you&#39;ve gotten to these trading cycles, working through emotion and for all of our listeners out there, you can get all of that insight at the ACCEL University on our YouTube channel, everyone.[Alex] Everyone, thanks for listening to the ACCEL podcast. Please check our show notes for our link tree and as always sit back and ACCEL.--------------------------------------NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE– The Information presented in this podcast is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose.The Information contained in or provided from or through this podcast is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice.The Information provided from or through this podcast is general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional broker or financial advisor.You understand that you are using any and all information from this podcast at your own risk.

Episode #5: Market Cycles & Emotions in Crypto w/Juicy

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On today’s episode of the Accel Defi Podcast, we interview a member of the Accel Defi Team, Keith (known in the community as Wolfgang Regem), as we discuss Keith’s cryptocurrency journey, involvement with Accel Defi, and how he overcame his fears of investing in crypto.For more information on Accel Defi, please visit <a href="http://www.acceldefi.com/" rel="nofollow">www.acceldefi.com</a> or our Link Tree:<a href="https://linktr.ee/AccelDefi" rel="nofollow">https://linktr.ee/AccelDefi</a>For educational resources related to Accel Defi and Crypto in general, subscribe to Accel Defi University on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJDNIqPTp9kjsMPmPo119Zg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJDNIqPTp9kjsMPmPo119Zg</a>  -------------------------------------------[Scott] On today&#39;s episode of the ACCEL Podcast, we interview a member of the ACCEL team, Keith, as we discuss Keith&#39;s cryptocurrency journey, involvement with ACCEL and how he overcame the fears of investing in crypto. As always, my name is Scott and Hi, I&#39;m Eric. I&#39;m Alex. You&#39;re listening to the ACCEL Podcast,  Accelerating Your Crypto Investments, one podcast at a time.[Alex] Welcome, everyone. Today we have a really special guest for you, one of my favorite team members. Everyone, please welcome Keith, aka Wolfgang. [Keith] Hi, Alex. Thank you for having me. [Alex] Thank you for coming on. Can you introduce yourself to listeners? Tell us a little bit about yourself. Tell us about your biggest accomplishments in your career thus far. [Keith] Well, let&#39;s see. Probably 60 years old, which basically means we&#39;ve made it through life pretty well and have been working in crypto since 2017. Been involved with this project since the start. I&#39;m an avid researcher. I&#39;m an avid writer. I&#39;m a film buff… golfer. Those are some of the fun things. And as far as accomplishments go, right now, I only deal in the present, and it&#39;s the fact that I&#39;ve even gotten active in crypto at my age. [Alex] Tell us a little bit of how you got involved with cryptocurrency. [Keith] 2010, one of my friends called up and said there was this coin and started talking about digital currency called Bitcoin. And I ignored the heck out of them. And then in 2017, after things started picking up a little bit, it was actually Christmas of 2016. I bought into three or four different cryptos and then did the smartest thing I&#39;d ever thought about, which was forgot them. Fast forward 2000 and $2400 turned into a little over $50,000. And I thought, wait a minute, I need to learn something here. [Alex] That&#39;s awesome. So we all start off very Rocky. What&#39;s one thing that you wish you would have known starting out in crypto?[Keith] Don’t day trade. Very simply, that three year period, three, four year period that while it was out there, I didn&#39;t look at it. I didn&#39;t pay attention to it. It did its own thing. Then when I started trying to trade it, I almost gave everything I had made back. So DYOR, do your own research and don&#39;t day trade. [Scott] I think that&#39;s a big thing that you see nowadays in crypto is a lot of people try to come in and they think that first move should be to try to day trade. And a lot of people come in and like you said, they don&#39;t do their research, and it makes it hard on them because then you&#39;re kind of just closing your eyes and shooting at a target, and it makes it tough. Crypto is one of those spaces where just like anywhere else, when it&#39;s innovative and booming, you have to make sure that you&#39;re doing your research or you&#39;re going to be one of those guys that get left in the dirt. I think that&#39;s a big part of it and I think a lot of people miss that. They just want to hop in and not do their due diligence and think they&#39;re going to make a ton of money. So a question for you, Keith, is being in the space, being a little older, what kind of drew you towards ACCEL and what exactly do you do? I know you&#39;re kind of a Jack of all trades, working in a whole bunch of different departments for us.[Keith] It&#39;s also awkward. Guys, if you want to refer to me as Wolfgang or Wolf or Wolfie because that&#39;s, hey, it&#39;s Crypto. Everybody has an alternate name and it&#39;s actually interesting with ACCEL. Just what I know about the project and the people involved in the project. I don&#39;t feel like I need to hide behind an alt name anymore. I&#39;m kind of proud to be able to come out go, hey, look, this is who I am and who I work with and what we do. As far as getting involved with ACCEL, I was really lucky. A few of the team members were already involved with the project and I approached them because I didn&#39;t see them where we were before. Just said, hey, Where&#39;d you guys go? You disappeared. And after a little bit of prying because they didn&#39;t want to recruit not just me, but anybody from other projects did a little bit of digging, a little bit of prying, saw what it was. And everybody that I liked and got along with was in this project. So I figured I&#39;d jump in. [Eric] Wolf that’s dynamite, I&#39;m glad to hear that you were in the project early on. One of the other things in the crypto space, we know there&#39;s a lot of common myths and misconceptions and they can all very easily be debunked for you. What do you think the biggest one was? [Keith] Well, two things actually. I mean, in crypto, what you don&#39;t know is going to cost you money. And I&#39;m older and being a little bit on the older side, you&#39;re hesitant to learn new things, to step into new spaces. And when it involves your money, it really ups the pressure, it amps the pressure like 100 times because you&#39;re thinking, oh my God, I&#39;m literally putting my money into outer space or the crypto space or whatever you want to call it. And then overcoming that was just not having a fear of the unknown. And actually I got thinking about stock certificates. Strangely enough, when I was talking to some of my friends, my peer group has a big just hesitancy to get involved. And I asked them about their stockholders. They said, well, that&#39;s not throwing your money out to nowhere like you are. We have stock certificates. I said, no, you actually hold them. Well, no, the broker does. Well, to me it&#39;s the same thing. They&#39;re out there somewhere. You just don&#39;t know where it is. [Alex] So touching on what you had just mentioned. How is ACCEL removing some of those barriers for your peer group? [Keith] Without a doubt, Alex, the educational process, that&#39;s part of what drew me to this project. Anybody that gets involved in crypto at the very beginning, if you don&#39;t do your homework and do your own research, you&#39;re going to end up getting rugged in something. And one of the things I admire about ACCEL is that this whole project is about taking away the mystery, so to speak, removing the illusion and actually educating people as to what they need to be doing and what they need to be learning. I remember when I first bought back in 2017 into crypto, the whole process was so confusing. I had to have a flow chart. And that&#39;s what I love about this is we literally have how to videos everywhere. So I&#39;m loving the fact that ACCEL is removing those barriers. [Scott] So, Keith, I know we just got to talk about some of the positives of ACCEL DeFi University and how it just kind of creates that environment to allow you to grow as an individual. What are some of the other resources and advice you can kind of give to someone that are looking to join the ACCEL community to really help grow their knowledge and experiences in the space? [Keith] I love that you&#39;re the person asking that question. Moon, you&#39;re one of my resources and it&#39;s really been funny. At 60, you expect to be the elder mentor and you step back and you lecture all the young people on your life lessons. And here you have to kind of put those things aside because you guys are just light years ahead as far as the knowledge base goes. But what&#39;s really great is that you guys share this freely. I mean, all you have to do coming on here is asking for help. I mentioned the videos and things before, but the main resource for me has been the people. I mean, you look at Mad or Jovan, you read these guys their CVs and see what they&#39;ve done and what they do. And you think, okay, I&#39;m not going to ask questions because this is going to be like a foreign language and they&#39;re not like that. They simplify it. And I think that&#39;s been for me, it&#39;s been a great thing because I&#39;ve been able to come in and just say, hey, I don&#39;t understand this part. Can you explain it to me? And they talk. So far, everybody I&#39;ve interacted with in the community talks to you, not at you. And it&#39;s made things so much simpler as far as learning. And if there happens to be something that we haven&#39;t covered at the University, then everybody&#39;s always quick. They have a resource ready to go. Okay, we&#39;ll take a look at this area. Take a look in this area. And I&#39;m cracking up now because you guys talk really fast and I&#39;m trying to talk fast to keep up. [Eric] Wolf, that&#39;s all great stuff as you speak about the space and how you&#39;ve connected to it. And I know as we speak specific about ACCEL. So now that you&#39;re on the inside and you have a position within the company and you kind of see the inner workings from your perspective, from your standpoint of all the products and all the utilities and everything that going on that happened in ACCEL to you. And you probably can&#39;t just give one specific. But what are the things that excite you most just knowing from your position, from where you stand in your vantage point, what ACCEL can do? [Keith] You know, Eric, it&#39;s funny, but my situation there is purely from a selfish aspect. And it&#39;s just getting a chance to work and learn with the people that I have a chance to interact with, not only on the team but in the community as well. I think when you get a little bit older, in my case, I was furloughed without pay. They hired somebody else. And this has given me a place to belong and to continue growing. Now the products, of course, my first thing is going to be the education, the University. I just think that is reaching out and giving something back. I&#39;m excited about the UnRekt platform. I&#39;m excited about launchpad. There&#39;s so many things. But to me, it all comes back to the education. That&#39;s something I hope to work with because I know what I&#39;m experiencing with my friends and my peer group that I don&#39;t want to do that. I don&#39;t want to try this. I don&#39;t want to learn this. I&#39;m afraid I&#39;ll lose my money. And it&#39;s kind of become a calling for me to say, wait a minute, there&#39;s no reason for you to miss out on this. There&#39;s no reason for you to step back and oh my God, I can&#39;t do this. You can do anything. You set your mind too, especially with the education. And yes, it takes me back to the University. [Alex] Hey, Keith, I just want to take a minute here and switch gears for you, ask you a couple of questions where it&#39;s not so much question and answer type interview. One of the things for me was earlier you covered that you had forgot that you had purchased cryptocurrency. You open up your wallet, you opened it up and you had $50,000 from your original investment. What was the first thought that went through your mind there? [Keith] My first thought was, okay, this is a mistake. Because what had happened is I had like a trillion of this token called ETH Lend. And all of a sudden I only had like 50 tokens of something called Ave. And I thought, well, they ripped me off. They took all my tokens. So that&#39;s where my research started. I had to go online and track back and find out what had happened, which was in stock terms it was reverse buyback. The company took them over and then did a reverse buyback. And in this, it was just they consolidated the tokens to get the value of. And I think I paid like two cent a token. And at that time they were trading at $400. [Scott] I think there&#39;s always that crazy kind of entry point. Everyone kind of comes in at a different time. There are coins like that. A lot of people that came in on SHIBA, it&#39;s such a different experience. But I think one thing that me and you have talked about this before is I really do think that 2022 is going to be the year of the utilities. And I think it&#39;s something that we&#39;re going to see make a move. But being someone that&#39;s been around a little bit longer, what do you kind of think? What was your outtake on? We&#39;ll go a bit in the past and then talk about the main coins. What was your kind of thought on that? Did you get involved in those? Was it something that you kind of wrote off? I know I was a big Meme coin hater for a long time. [Keith] I was lucky. I had actually stepped into a chance to moderate and become a part of YouTubers community. And he was very good at expressing, look, this doesn&#39;t have any application to it. This is just a picture. And people are buying this because it&#39;s a cute picture. And I was also lucky enough because I remember being exposed to DOGE way back when. Sounds so funny to say that about 2016, 2017 and remembering the guy that came out that said, hey, we invented this as a joke, but now that it&#39;s got something, let&#39;s get people to use this. And DOGE was a big education for me because everybody now if you go by what DOGE people talk about it&#39;s HODL. And the guy that was the co founder of DOGE in 2016 changed the number of coins from a specified number to unlimited because he hated the fact that people were HODLing this coin. He wanted them to use it and spend it. [Eric] So that&#39;s funny that you touch upon that and you use the examples of DOJ in these coins and what started out as Meme coins. So I always try to correlate not so much the age disparity of what goes on now in the crypto space because we know the guys that are on his podcast, they&#39;re the younger cats. And then we bring in a guy like you who&#39;s a seasoned veteran. For me, Could you explain to me, because I know my steps into the crypto were a little meandered at the beginning and I basically took a beating, unlike you, who went in on the leap of faith and then just didn&#39;t look at it and came back and was absolutely startled that 400 times could grow at that tremendous rate. To your peer group, what would be your way to explain to them, hey guys if you&#39;re not in this you are absolutely missing out on something that is going to be the future of the way currencies economics money is moved.[Keith] Back to education. When we fear something we don&#39;t know or we don&#39;t understand it so we fear it. And educating yourself and finding out this is going to be interesting to try to draw a correlation here but people my age tend to feel safer with their money in a bank and they don&#39;t realize that the banks are now utilizing the same technology that we are but they just happen to have a physical location that everybody feels secure in. So when I talk with my friends about it it&#39;s hilarious to me because they think I&#39;ve become some kind of genius. It&#39;s like no you do your research and you learn and the things that you have questions about or the easy way that I didn&#39;t have available to me at the time is to get involved with someone like us at ACCEL because you&#39;re actually getting that chance to come in and say, okay, hey I don&#39;t know squat, what do I need to do? I was seeing this morning one of the team members spent like 2 hours on a phone working with someone helping them go from I don&#39;t know any of this to setting up their wallet to Loading their wallet to purchasing it&#39;s just the support that&#39;s here but get the education that&#39;ll take away the fear. [Eric] So for all our listeners out there as you see and you hear what Wolf tells you speaking about ACCEL you can always go to our YouTube channel or you can follow along at any of our socials. [Alex] Wolf, Thank you so much for providing such great feedback. We appreciate your time everyone. Please feel free to check the show notes for our link tree and as always sit back and ACCEL.-------------------------------------------NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE– The Information presented in this podcast is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose.The Information contained in or provided from or through this podcast is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice.The Information provided from or through this podcast is general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional broker or financial advisor.You understand that you are using any and all information from this podcast at your own risk.

Episode #4: Overcoming the Fear of Investing in Crypto w/Keith

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Episode #3: CEXs: What are they, and why do they matter?

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On today’s episode of the Accel Defi Podcast, Scott, Eric and Alex interview Accel Defi’s Marketing Lead, Andres Soto, as we discuss the importance of marketing in the crypto space, and what Andres’ background is. We also discuss why successful marketing in the crypto space is crucial to the long-term success and sustainability of any project and what you, the listener, can do to get the word out. For more information on Accel Defi, please visit www.acceldefi.com or our Link Tree:https://linktr.ee/AccelDefi Connect with Andres using the following links:Twitter- @andythegreat100Reddit- @andythegreat100Instagram- @andressotofitness NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE– The Information presented in this podcast is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose. The Information contained in or provided from or through this podcast is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice. The Information provided from or through this podcast is general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional broker or financial advisor. You understand that you are using any and all information from this podcast at your own risk.

Episode #2: The Power of Marketing in Cryptocurrency

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On today’s episode of the Accel Defi Podcast, Scott, Alex, and Eric discuss the launch of Accel Defi on the Ethereum Blockchain, the Accel Defi BSC Presale Token, and the partnership between Accel Defi and the In Russ We Trust Group!  NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE– The Information presented in this podcast is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, and without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose. The Information contained in or provided from or through this podcast is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice. The Information provided from or through this podcast is general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional broker or financial advisor. You understand that you are using any and all information from this podcast at your own risk.

Episode #1: Revolutionizing the Crypto Space

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