Welcome to the new season of The Digital Gold Podcast. This is season two and I'm sitting here today with Stefan Russ, the founder of Laguna. Stefan, welcome to the show. Super excited to be here. I'm excited to launch it again, especially with you, man. It's a great story you have and I'm excited to dive into it for everyone. Yeah. So tell me more about Laguna Labs. How did you, when did you have the idea that we needed the products that you guys set out to build? So, it was started off a while back, right when Covid hit government, shut everything down. What are we gonna do? How are we gonna ..read more

[5:24] Luxors data sources and how they discovered the importance of Terra hash. [7:01] How does Luxor get insight into these back of the market deals? [8:47]Can you talk about the margins again and what those look like? [10:12] Discussion around compass and liquidation. [11:44] Where do you see the market going in the next two years? [14:12] When do big players like Samsung, Nvidia, AMD, Intel get involved in the space? [17:34] How do you see the capital market? [19:33] How does Luxor fit into going public? [21:01] The future of hash rate. [23:36] How are you getting the Luxor name and brand ..read more

[00:00.50]- How did you start palm beach confidential [7:23.36] - How do you help people better understand crypto’s purpose or value? [12:30.74] - A monetary system not built on guns and missles. [13:45.17] - the relationship between Bitcoin and the energy industry. [16:32.38] - poverty caused by lack of infrastructure and Bitcoin can help alleviate that. [17:18.83] - How do you see bitcoin playing out in the next 3-4 years. [19:39.70] - Do you believe bitcoin could reach a half million in the next five years? [23:52.52] - How companies like coinbase are making crypto easier to get into. [25:1 ..read more

[00:01:30] Can you talk about the Energy crisis that happened in Texas? [00:04:05] Can you give a brief summary of the energy generation going offline in the ice storm? [00:07:00] How did people make money off this crisis? [00:08:15] Are you familiar with the credit swaps happening between energy producers? [00:10:10] Do you think Bitcoin miners can help improve the overall renewable ecosystem? [00:14:00] The optionality between selling power to the grid vs mining bitcoin.  [00:15:15] Will there be new tariffs on renewables because of the snow storm? [00:17:12] How have your discussions b ..read more

[00:01:09] How did you get into crypto? [00:02:20] What aspect of crypto are you most involved with? [00:02:52] How did you get into trading crypto and what coins are you involved in? [00:04:07] What is Huddle and how does it work? [00:05:13] Can you explain what the lightning network is? [00:06:25] How much interest can you gain in one year with one bitcoin? [00:08:58] Can you explain further what the lightning network is? [00:10:24] How do you approach buying Bitcoin? [00:12:53] What are your thoughts on Bitcoin leaderboards? [00:13:53] The monetization of energy and electricity.  [00:1 ..read more

[1:36] How did you get into the crypto space and what is your background that led you to this industry? [00:11:24] How are social tokens used? [00:14:31] How do you connect someone's income stream to their personal token and do we run into sec laws when you start doing that?  [00:18:45] Have you seen any really cool burn mechanisms that do create some value?  [00:23:56] What are you most excited about with RARA over the next six months? [00:28:55] Can jump into that a little bit more about what's the plan for that website (House Parties)? [00:32:48] What is RARA? [00:39:35] How long ..read more

[01:22] - What got you interested in art, crypto art, and how did NFTs allow you to express yourself more fully? [06:20] - What are you most excited about with improvements in the space or opportunities that you're working on either on a platform level, a feature level, even an art/NFT level? [10:11] - How has the NFT launching process changed over the past two years? Are you launching one NFT at a time or are you launching a collection with different scarcity metrics? [13:00] - What all has changed in the NFT world? Can you talk more about all the different platforms and the new terminology t ..read more

[1:20] - Can you explain how you got into tech talk and what your content looks like?  [2:53] - How did you develop your content style? [4:35] - What does your TikTok script writing process look like? [11:00] - When were you first made aware of Bitcoin?  What are your thoughts on it and Bitcoin mining? [13:40] - Are you in the process of writing a book? Can you share some of the highlights? [18:00] - How are you planning on publishing your book and when do you expect the book to be released? [20:00] - Can you give more details on your NFT release and what that process looks like? [22 ..read more

[1:00] - When were you first exposed to cryptocurrencies and what does that journey look like? [2:40] - How did you get into mining cryptocurrencies? [6:06] - Are you currently doing anything with NFTs or SFTR? [8:40] - How has Covid-19 affected your music production process? How did you come up with  the name Crypto Rich for your Album?  [12:26] - What was your experience like when you were a guest on Jordan Belfort’s podcast, The Wolf Den? [14:00] - What are some tactics you use to promote your songs and grow Crypto Rich’s audience base? [18:00] - Do you have your own label? If so ..read more

[1:00] - How did you come up with the name coin artist? [2:00] - Can you help define for our listeners what a token name is, and what the purpose of a token is? [3:00] - What are NFTs and what is a NFT shard? [6:00] - What are some of the benefits of NFTs? [7:00] - What is the Neon district? [9:00] - How do you incorporate NFTs with clothing? [10:00] - Do you accept other cryptocurrencies? [11:00] - Do you end up liquidating on the market? [13:00] - Where did the shift come from to your own coin? [16:00] - How hard was it for you to spin up a coin and credit? [18:00] - How did you get started ..read more