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Elon’s Gone Crypto Crazy

Elon Musk needs to filter his tweets. His most recent shenanigans involve a series of posts about bitcoin. By all metrics, I think it is safe to say that Elon is pretty heavily invested. Is he the elusive mystery founder of bitcoin? It would fit with his tactics of using Twitter to affect stock prices in reality. His timely tweets are posted as America’s largest bitcoin exchange gets ready to go public.

I asked a friend of mine that works in the market what he thought about bitcoin.This was around 2013, and he related it to the classic tale of inflation gone mad over the flower trade in Holland known as tulip-mania. 

I thought that was a stupid answer and then remembered I did his homework for money. Bitcoin is here to stay and blockchain technologies are now mainstream. My friend now works at a small firm where denial of the future is tolerated and the average age of the employee is 57 years old.

 

 

 

 

 

Youtube’s Top Earners

I was really surprised to find out that Youtube’s top earner is a person I have never heard of name Ryan Kaji. Ryan earned 29.5 million dollars last year on youtube. I recognized very few of the top-earners which goes to show how out of touch I am.

 

1. Ryan Kaji (earnings = $29.5m; subscribers = 42m) Ryan’s toy unboxings, science experiments, and other stuff you do when you’re a (comically rich) 9-year old brought in 12B views. The young YouTuber is turning this attention into a media empire.

Source: YouTube

2. MrBeast ($24m; 48m) 22-year-old Jimmy Donaldson (AKA MrBeast) is the master of what investor Blake Robbins calls “Jenga storytelling” — as in, you know how something will end but are compelled to watch to the end. Some video samples: “I Gave People $1,000,000 But ONLY 1 Minute To Spend It!” “Going Through The Same Drive-Thru 1,000 Times” “Last to remove their hand gets a Lamborghini” (PS. Yesterday, Mr. Beast hit the top of the App Store with “Mr. Beast Burger”, a network of 300 burger joints across America effectively dropshipping burgers) 3. Dude Perfect ($23m; 58m) A team of 5 brothers who do some absurd stunts, like Go Kart paintball and challenging NFL players to a football skills competition.

Source: Tubefilter

4. Rhett and Link ($20m; 42m) A comedy duo (43-year-old Rhett McLaughlin, 42-year-old Charles Lincoln III) who started with a nerdy talk show in 2012 but have built their YouTube empire into a 100-employee operation. Skipping to No. 8: Blippi ($17m; 27m) I’m putting this here because I’ve personally watched over 100 hours of Blippi — think “Mr. Rogers for YouTube” — with my toddler this year.

Source: Gyfcat