AMA: Episode 49 - December 4, 2020
Dec 4, 2020
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all right
december 4th um
covet is just out of control
unfortunately um
over uh uh 400 deaths
uh in 24 hours so definitely uh our
thoughts and prayers with
all the people are affected all the
people are in the hospitals
um definitely
looks like we we have not hit the worst
of it right the worst is still ahead of
us so
uh stay safe that's the most important
thing right take care of your family
and everything else comes after
i hope you like our new setup a
microphone we got better lighting
we got a super fancy camera and
uh i'm gonna be sharing a bunch of stuff
with you guys in the next few minutes so
a few things to share this week we have
a promo so don't leave until
uh zach announces a promo at some point
towards the end of the show
um we also um
have a bunch of great announcements so
uh
me and zach will be um sharing that uh
today
and on top of that we're gonna be giving
away a thousand dollars throughout the
show
so wow you're so generous with your um
referral code found in the app on the
profile page
and we'll just be picking out winners
boom hundred dollars here i know
hundred dollars there ten ten winners a
hundred dollars each
just because you are a celsium no you
don't need to do anything
right i love it great great uh promo you
see i didn't even know anything about
that so
um so swaps are coming
again the first going to be available to
the platinum users
and then to everybody else so that's uh
towards either the end of december or
beginning of january
um um
yesterday we had uh close to an all-time
record we had a day that was higher than
that but yesterday we had 17 million in
net
deposits which is great so i want to
thank everybody
for all of your trust and
obviously again we still don't have
enough eath we put a lot of
ethan to eat 2.0 so we could have
had to commit for that we we deployed a
lot of loans
so definitely need uh more eth
and we need more stable coins so
definitely um
uh we'll be actually pushing um a
campaign also
uh either this week in the beginning of
next week
uh to just focus on uh stable coins and
give you extra cash if you deposit
stable coins so watch out for that email
if you're not signed up to our emails go
to our homepage celsius.network go all
the way to the bottom of the page and
you will see
a a way where you can sign up you can
add your email to the distribution list
okay um
we got the a lot of you complained that
the otc desk
was uh 25 000 or more
so we got that lowered to 10 000. so now
if you want to do 10 000 or more in cell
to be more inclusive
uh you can email otc at celsius.network
people
send me emails asking me what is the
email for otc
otc at celsius.network don't ask me what
that is i keep saying that every week
and you can buy uh ten thousand
if you buy more you'll get that discount
right we we give up to five percent
discount the more you buy the more
discount you get from the spot price
again we accept bitcoin ethereum
stable coins or wire transfer
so we have a big surprise for you on
monday there's a big interview
going live a lot of you were asking for
that
to happen so i'm not going to tell you
what it is but it's coming monday
right and last week or this week sorry
we told you the chain analysis
announcement's coming out
we actually got uh bloomberg tv to do an
interview i'm doing an interview with
them it's actually three blocks from
here
uh bloomberg tv on 60
on 60th street and lexington avenue i
live on 63rd right
three blocks down and that's why we
delayed the chain analysis announcements
so
probably there's going to be an article
in cointelegraph and an interview
bloomberg so watch out for that we're
always going to list these things on our
youtube channel
so if you are if you don't know if you
can't find it live or you want to watch
stuff later always go to youtube
go to celsius network and you'll see all
that contact contest
content there sorry um
all right let's see what else so so i
wanted to talk a little bit about
voip and moip right so voice of ip
money over ip uh many of you know i
usually don't talk about
voip for whatever reason and but i would
definitely
want to share with you the um
the work uh that i've done so so
um so basically for about 10 years
i i was traveling all over the world
right uh
meeting with phone companies meeting
with
different entrepreneurs to convince
people that
voice of ip is the future and that all
of telephony is going to migrate from
from a system that existed for 100 years
into something
completely new called the internet and
and actually i got booted out of a bunch
of conferences
where i remember conferences in 95 and
96
where the big phone companies were the
dominant
um sponsors where they actually removed
me from the conference i was speaker and
they didn't like what i said and they
basically said look you're not welcome
here even though we invited you as a
speaker so
the path for voice of ip was not easy it
wasn't like oh everybody was
like just oh let me download it on my on
my app on my phone
you know that's not how it started right
and
the phone companies did everything they
could to
block us from being successful because
they knew that
all of their livelihood all of the
revenues are gonna disappear
if we're gonna go from that two dollars
a minute to
uh free right this is voip and we're
using it for free
right so so i put together
um basically the
all the places that i visited obviously
it's not all of them but it's a chunk of
them
and it actually posted some time ago on
my
youtube on my youtube i put i posted it
on my
a um twitter
and you can see here events going back
sorry for this obviously it's been it's
been in storage for a while
but you can see here events going back
to 93 94
1994 right 1993.
uh so this this is what it takes this is
just one
i mean there's several of these right
but this is what it takes to
get something like voices right before
and
void or money of ip
takes much more right so before covert
before uh we had let's see there's a
little glare there but let me try to
maybe
here i'll put it here maybe ah here we
go
how about that so before coven
i presented in 200 conferences 200
different conferences you see all the
different places here going back
all the way to 2016 and 17
here's me and my wife traveling on a
motorcycle and these are all the
accolades and all the
things we got you know speaker speaker
conference at indeed blah blah blah
right
but that's what it takes you know carpe
diem you see on the bottom
so that's what it takes hopefully i
won't break these tvs
to bring
right to unbank yourself and migrate
from the traditional banking system
to the new world of finance and and
what what at stake here is much more
than what was at stake with the phone
companies if you think about
the battle with the phone companies
which i won several times right
uh putting wireless in the subway in new
york definitely believe me none of the
phone companies wanted me to do that
it was like gym membership finally
people got to be
underground and not have service
meaning the phone companies didn't they
paid they still charge you that monthly
fee but they didn't give you anything in
return you were underground
you didn't have any reception so
winning against the phone companies was
really almost like a practice like a
practice run
compared to going at it for the banks
why because the banks
control all the money in the world we
talk about all the money in the world
how hard do you think they're gonna
fight to make sure that they keep the
profit instead of giving the profits
back to you
right so hundreds and hundreds of events
of conferences not just me also
obviously many of the celsius
the team members the my co-founder
everybody right
work working traveling all over the
world presenting
educating people explaining to people
that it's even possible
even today i mean most people i meet who
come from traditional finance or from
traditional life think that this is a
crazy idea that this will never happen
neither the government nor the banks
will allow any any of this to happen
so and the truth is that again
um right this is about the people
it's about what giving the power back to
the people voice of ip is taking
the power away from the phone companies
and giving it back to the people
using the internet right and money over
ip or moib
right is taking the power from the banks
by not depositing money there
by basically convincing more and more
people to not deposit money over there
we don't have to bring down the banks
if we just stop depositing money there
we are sucking the power away from them
because the only reason they have power
is because we give the money for free
we don't ask anything back and giving it
to someone who's acting in your best
interest empowering the people who are
acting in your best interest
and taking power away from the people
who are not acting the best interest so
that was kind of my
uh voip to moip a visualization
right visceral uh view for you guys to
see
what what it takes right so this is not
something we just started a few months
ago
or or you know we got lucky and we got
all these billions of dollars in
deposits we've been working
at this for several years with exactly
the same mission that's
nothing has changed right everything
i've been saying to you
i've been saying in 2015 and 16
and 17 before uh everybody knew what
celsius is
so moving on so um so let's talk about
covet a little bit right so obviously
uh covert is a horrible thing but there
is
uh something positive that comes out of
it right and and i did talk about this
in one of the amas uh earlier this year
i think either in march
uh or april so if you want to look it up
you'll see me talking about this topic
before as well but the the opportunity
uh with covid is that
think of covet as this accelerant right
covet is accelerating the
digital adoption so anything that would
have to otherwise
take 10 years because we're all stuck in
our homes and we can travel
and we can't go to work and we can meet
people
because of all those things suddenly
things that would have
otherwise taken 10 years to get mass
adoption
get mass adoption overnight right and
because of that there's transformation
in the entire economy so parts of the
economy u.s economy global economy
parts of the economy are migrating or
transforming themselves
from being focused on how things used to
be
to immediately jumping 10 years into the
future and doing things the way
they will be done 10 years from now
right so
an obvious things are okay i'm gonna
sign up to
um you know amazon prime and i'm gonna
have everything shipped to me because i
don't wanna go to the supermarket
i don't wanna go shopping in the mall
and all this other stuff but other
things much
less obvious things are happening
without most of us noticing
and the opportunity for all of us right
the opportunity for every one of you
you who lost your job you who got
furloughed you who got
basically your business is suffering or
closed down
right the opportunity is to transform
yourself reinvent yourself
into this new digital economy and the
reason this is so important is because
normally in life we are put on a certain
track
and that's what we are we're stuck there
that's it this is our family this is our
work this is our career and here you're
forced to reinvent yourself
you want it you don't want it you're
gonna have to reinvent yourself and
the opportunity for all of you is to
again figure out
what skill set you have that applies to
this new digital economy
that can make you be better than most
other people be much
more successful than you were before
because before you were working for this
or that company and you were using
10 of your skills and now you have an
opportunity to learn something new
transform yourself get into the digital
economy
get involved ahead of other people be in
the front
of this transformation instead of at the
back of it
and do much much better for yourself
right so the bad news the bad stuff
that's happening every day
is also an opportunity but it's only an
opportunity
if you do something about it and getting
involved in crypto
getting getting to basically focus on
your
financial uh well-being and all that
stuff
is definitely are definitely things that
uh that are one step already in that
direction right being a
being a pro at digital currencies is a
very unique skill
less than one percent of the people on
the planet even know that it exists
so if you are a pro at it right you're
the one percent of the one percent
right even though you don't need to have
millions of dollars it's not about being
rich
and being in cryptocurrencies it's about
being a professional
knowing more than others and like i said
always joke that
the pros pros like me are maybe six
months ahead of you that's it
it's such a new industry that no one is
an expert everybody is still
uh learning about it so those are the
kind of the two topics of the day
and uh i definitely have some uh news
that i want to share with you so
let's take a look uh zach let's uh share
the screen
yep um i'm gonna start picking winners
so um
all right you see a referral on the
screen i'm going to
save it and those are going to be our
winners so we'll uh just keep rolling
those out throughout the show
and you can use any of these referrals i
think these are 20
referrals right every one of these posts
right yep
so if if any of you
are just watching this for the first
time you can pick any of these numbers
when you open an account with celsius
you enter that number and you get
dollars and the person whose code it is
also gets twenty dollars so
and thanks for doing it and again you
can post that anywhere right so as long
as you explain to people what the
referral code is
you can post it on your youtube on your
twitter on your instagram or whatever
and just
invite people to join and again if they
join you get twenty dollars they get
twenty dollars so this is how we
uh we wanna do it because we rather give
you guys the money
than spend it on facebook or google or
whatever right i mean now we go we're
going to spend millions of dollars
instead of giving it to the advertising
companies
why wouldn't we just give it to our
community give it to the people who
already are
inside the community and give some of it
half and half right and half of it to
the people
who are just joining our community so
why isn't everybody doing that right
so here we are so we let's look at the
first screen
i'm just switching you can see my screen
zach we're good yep good to go
all right so so this is an article that
just came out
and on coin telegraph um
you know uh great article if you want to
read it uh me talking about the
uh the bull market and uh
where prices are going and stuff like
that okay it's on the coin telegraph
uh also we launched the
web dashboard right we talked to you
about the web portal
or the web app so this is the first
version
uh celsiusboard.com it's only available
to people who sign up to the beta so
there's about 100 people or so
and you can basically go here you
enter your api key which is uh available
on your phone
to me can i get my phone for a sec
thanks so so if you uh if you go to your
app
and and you wanna basically the service
will be available soon it's not
available right now but i just wanna
show you where
this stuff happens so if you if you go
to your app right the main menu
you just click on your profile and on
under the profile if you go to
uh to basically
uh to the api there's a button here that
says api
right you you should be able to
basically create the profile create an
api
key which goes into the site and then on
the site you'll be able to get all your
information
so so this is the first step in our web
portal but it's also the place
where the proof of community is going to
come to be and again another piece of
the proof of community
is our announcement with chain analysis
again coming out next wednesday
it's a few days from now and
other pieces will follow right so you'll
be able to do
all the stuff we're doing with the
horizon a
uh blockchain where we're gonna be
recording all the information there so
you can verify
our balances our loans the income did we
actually pay
uh all the stuff that we're supposed to
pay uh properly all that stuff will be
available
and coming every month you'll see
another release uh related to this this
is the first release
and uh you'll be seeing more coming soon
so
i wanted to share with you uh coin
paprika again i love the site if you
don't know if you guys
are using it or not but if you look at
the kind of the top
coins and you look uh uh
at celsius we're ranked at number 27
with a market cap of just over one
billion dollars right so
so again different ratings and different
sites
cointel coin market cap for example is
owned by
uh binance if you didn't know that they
have their own way of ranking things
and we are ranked completely different
there the market cap there is maybe half
of what it is here
so if you want fair numbers independent
views of where celsius is in the ranks
in the top 100 i would use coin paprika
or
coin gecko another article that i wrote
on nasdaq came out recently
uh why you shouldn't be surprised by the
bitcoin rally so if you haven't read it
again just do a search for this title
and you should be able to find it uh
i predicted at least six or seven times
this year in
in february in april and in in june and
so on so on that we will hit new highs
all that is documented you can go on
even on tech
or on kitkov tv or all kind of other
places and see it
and it's not that i'm a genius it's more
about just
looking at supply and demand looking at
the trends
and distilling it down to what actually
we actually actually said on even on
tech specifically
that it's gonna be towards the end of q4
of where we are right now that we're
gonna hit new highs
also some great uh um stuff if you're
not following us
on twitter you should here's an example
of us talking about
our contribution to east 2.0 as you know
all of you know vitalik uh put about a
million and a half
of his own money right his own eth into
his 2.0
and celsius put 10 times more than
vitalik to make sure that
the project loans launches successfully
on time
because ethereum was such a great
supporter of celsius right we
are the cell token runs on the ethereum
blockchain
it's an erc20 and we wanted to make sure
that when when there were still
questions about whether they're going to
hit their deadline
hit the target we put the last 25 000
eth
worth 15 million dollars to make sure
that uh
eth didn't have to go and say sorry we
didn't collect enough
uh and put doubt even more doubt on the
project
so uh very excited about that
um here's another tweet that talks about
um
uh how much we're paying every week so
this is the payments we've made
last week right uh 2.24 uh
uh million dollars and you see the
breakout
if you're not following uh celsius
network you should and you can see all
this data right
basically how many celsius are using so
you can see we're at all-time high
of celsius earning itself with all-time
high
in overall payments right here and we
are we're an all-time high
in how much we paid and sell tokens so
as long as you're seeing
all these things coming and
running at all-time highs it kind of
tells you that
um you know well celsius is doing very
well the cell token is going to continue
to do well
and so on something on that last chart
alex
um there will be a lot of critics saying
oh
why do you need a token why do you have
to use a token
and numbers that like 48 percent of our
users
want to earn in the token
so that's right it's not you know
but yeah yeah and and to clarify you do
not need a token
to earn in celsius so if you
want to have the safest of safe options
uh you can safest of safe meaning zero
volatility against the u.s dollar you
buy stable coins
you put them in celsius and you earn in
kind meaning
you're getting usdc on usdc tusd on tusd
right nothing to do with the sell token
you don't need to even
listen to it anytime you see me talking
about cell token just skip
forward right so we're not here to
push sell talking on you or convince you
to ha you know
grab it or sell it huddle it or anything
like that
our job is really just to give you two
options
and as you see but it's about 50 50
right 50
of the people choose to just earn in
kind which is great it's still very good
for our community
and 50 say no i rather earn and sell
and obviously sell has done phenomenally
better
than earning in kind right so if we go
back here and we look at
cell token right if you grab if you dig
into the
charts um you will see
uh how phenomenal the returns are like
right if you go to one year chart
against any uh other uh against any
other
uh coin right against bitcoin or
ethereum or anything like that
you will see that no matter how you
measure it
celsius has done phenomenally well right
10 times 20 times better
than earning it any other way
so there was a lot of news
in the news about stable coins right
people are saying
um we may regulate stable coins you will
only be able to issue a stable coin if
you have a license from us
is it good for celsius or is it bad for
celsius so definitely wanted to touch on
that i got a few emails from a few of
you
saying worried celsius and saying oh my
god are you going to go out of business
because of that
so let's take the obvious examples let's
say
in january libra or now it's called
diem i think they changed their name
too many bad news about libra so they're
just going to call themselves something
else
it's like a wolf putting a new uh sheep
clothing on and pretending like well
i'm no longer that cheap i'm now a
different sheep right so
so the point is is that let's say libra
comes out and they got
their license we're just going to add
them to the wallet i mean we we don't
choose
winners and losers we're not here to say
libra is good but
usdc or usdt is bad right
we let our community make that choice
so so if the if the
if the users choose uh usdc
then most of our deposits are going to
be usdc if the choose
users choose a um
libra or whatever it's called you know
in january
then we're gonna have a lot of those
deposits our job is really to generate
yield right we're like a machine that
just
spits out yield it doesn't matter what
you put in it doesn't matter if you put
in bitcoin or ethereum or cell token or
litecoin or
or libra what comes out of the machine
oh that's an it's a it's a pawn on the
machine right
uh so what comes out of the machine is
yes is
um uh um yield
and that's all you care about right all
right
so uh one more thing that i wanted to
cover
and we're gonna try to do this every
week the machinski method
uh everybody can see my screen right
yes sir all right so let's go quickly
through it before we jump into questions
and uh zach has a few more surprises for
you
um um so number one okay
make a financial plan we talked about
that last week
a financial plan means you need to know
all your finances i know you're busy you
got kids you're
parents you you have a job you have a
second job but you gotta
dedicate one day a week you gotta say
okay on a sunday i'm taking two hours
and i'm doing nothing else i'm locking
myself in the room there's no noise
there's nothing
or i sit in my car i drive to the park i
just sit in my car
lock all the windows and everything and
i just do my financial planning
most of the stuff is on your phone
anyway right and financial planning is
not complicated
it's just pulling together all your
expenses pulling together your income
comparing the two looking at your where
are your
uh uh where is your money going where is
it bleeding where are you
basically losing money right and knowing
your destinations for example knowing
okay
i'm spending ten thousand dollars a
month in total
my income is eleven thousand dollars a
month i should be able to save
a thousand dollars a month right and
that's what my plan is right i'm gonna
take a thousand dollars
and i'm gonna save that's point number
two you gotta save if you don't save
and you don't make your money work for
you nothing will happen
you'll be sitting in that car 30 years
from now asking yourself
how come you don't have any savings and
how come you're still working
for the man instead of the money working
for you
so only if you save you know you can
make your money work for you point
number three
you gotta identify debt that is
painful and that is bringing you down
and debt that is good for you
there is debt that is good and there is
debt just like fat there's
bad fat and there's good fat right olive
oil good fat
right canola oil bad fat same thing with
debt
credit card debt bad debt i don't care
what kind of credit card is i don't care
what gizmos what
they're selling you what promos
they are stealing from you
these credit card companies have the
biggest buildings in
every city how do you think they got to
own those buildings from
giving you one percent back right so
whatever you got to do first you take
all that excess cash and you pay down
the debt you will have zero success if
all you're doing
is basically um um
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saving while you're paying 24 for your
credit card
on your credit cards right so definitely
we don't want any of that
so so you got to eliminate the debt
bring it down to zero and don't create
new one meaning you gotta control
yourself your wife your kids from
creating that new debt
right because otherwise you just start
the cycle all over again
now mortgage or low-cost car loans
those car loans that are three or four
percent that is fine
right you don't touch those you don't
want to pay those down that's cheap
money
you want to get rid of the expensive
money and replace that
with savings right pay that down and
then take the excess cash and put it to
savings like celsius
where you can earn 10 and that starts
accumulating
now you have no debt that expensive debt
you have some long-term debt cheap debt
like
your home mortgage that's fine and
you're earning 10
you're paying four percent to basically
own your home and you're earning ten
percent in celsius that is a great
formula
to create wealth to get to retirement
right
next one grow your savings so again
every time you're about to spend
every time you're about to use your
credit card you got to think where do i
put that money do i put it put it in the
savings bucket
or do i put it in i'm never going to see
it again bucket right the minute you
spend it i don't care what you bought
there is almost zero chance that
whatever you bought is going to be worth
more
than what you paid for it anything you
bought in a store or in a mall
i guarantee you you will not even get 50
cents on a dollar
if you try to sell it the second you
walked out of the store
and you try to sell it to somebody else
it's worth less than half
where if you put it on the other side
every monday you wake up and there's
more money
so what do you want more money or 50 of
your money
i might bring 50 to come and explain it
to you if you don't get it
okay that's what we're gonna do in a
higher 50 to explain it to people
so point number five is
how much you need for retirement right
so you need to know that numbers there's
a big difference between
i'm gonna save enough of financial
freedom meaning it's gonna pay off my
bills
and retirement retirement is what
happens if i stop working
do i have enough money to pay all of my
expenses even if i don't work at all
i want to go and volunteer i want to
travel the world i want to
do something else right so it's a
completely different plan there's plan
one and plan two
so when you sit in that car on a sunday
for two hours
spend at least half an hour planning
your retirement and thinking what does
it look like just close your eyes and
imagine
what is my retirement looks like where
am i going to live how much i'm going to
spend
where is that money going to come from
and unless you're saving for today
that retirement is never going to happen
unfortunately for most
americans today there is no retirement
so all right so that's point number five
point number six
is never stop learning so there's always
new ways
of earning yield celsius capture some of
them but there are other ways as well it
doesn't mean that oh i put all my eggs
in one basket in celsius and i'm gonna
watch that basket very carefully right
yes that is a good plan but you need
plan b also and plan b
is um really how you're going to
uh basically develop what you are going
to do right i mean you you need
other sources of yield if they're good
sources and you need to diversify your
money there
and the last one is manage your risk and
that's again watching the basket
so you need to know where your money is
you need to know
uh how it's doing and i have a link here
let me see
one of these links is supposed to um
plan c i don't know if you guys saw plan
c
do i have it here or no
[Music]
yeah he's one of our most active twitter
community members yeah so i guess i can
just find him here on uh
what do you call it on uh on our
uh
[Music]
right so plan c uh
has uh created a beautiful site
that you can use we're still sharing the
screen
good job yeah we're good so go to this
website again this is a community member
this is not celsius it's not we're
paying this guy
this is a community member who put
together an amazing set of charts that
show you okay is a flywheel healthy
right watching the basket point number
seven
is using resources like this one
right where somebody already did all the
work for you and tells you hey
is celsius continue to do well well or
should you maybe
worry and pull some of your assets
because they're not doing well
all the charts are going this way
instead of that way so plenty of
information here great information
again you got to know what's good and
what's bad this chart is actually good
right here the chart going down is a
good thing not a bad thing but
the point is read go through it read it
and
learn as much as you can and share that
with other people
right so so i think uh
there's plenty of uh information that's
available out there
uh working with the people who act in
your best interest is definitely the
right way to do it
and again thank you for your support and
we
are zach i think you had a few updates
and then we're going to jump into
questions
yeah absolutely um we're getting a ton
of referral
codes i've already winners um and we
should get
more oh worth teen winners instead of
10.
all right you see like a given amount
um uh one thing i don't know if you
mentioned oh i i i didn't share yeah so
just one more thing that i didn't share
if i'm still sharing the screen
and there's a new a new interview i just
did this uh a day or two ago about
what does 21 look like so it's the same
reporter from kitko news that i uh
did previous interviews with predicting
the prices for bitcoin
again uh 33 000 views almost 34
000 views and over a thousand likes
so thank you guys for watching it but
for the celsius community if you missed
it
uh here's the link just go to youtube
and search for
kitkanews and you should be able to find
this
and again i'm talking about how i have
over 100 million dollars in my wallet
right so my celsius wallet
i don't even know if there is a secret
information
here but um
but basically my wallet right now is is
this is just one wallet out of multiple
has
a 102 million dollars in balances okay
so as an example so um that's a lot of
so the the the point is that mike
my coins siri siri keeps jumping in
so the point is is that that my coins
my wallet my uh wealth is sitting right
next to yours my bitcoin sitting next to
your bitcoin
my usdc right next to your usdc and so
on right earning exactly the same amount
if you have ten dollars and they have a
hundred million dollars shouldn't be
we'd be earning different percentages
right just like
jp morgan they would pay me probably 10
times more than they pay you
right because i'm a big whale right but
here
we're treating everybody alike we're
giving the little guy
exactly the same opportunity as the
biggest guy
probably the biggest single guy in
celsius right biggest single depositor
so
so all those things are important and
it's important that people do what they
say
right can they prove to you that they're
doing
uh um or they're acting in your best
interest
or are the minute they're off camera or
they're finished the interview
they do the opposite right they grab and
run away
instead of trying to help you as they
promised so zach yeah you were saying i
cut you off
no problem i was saying that
if you look in the community page we
have all this interesting data and every
night i post a screen up from the
community page
kind of just show everybody what's going
on and last night i noticed we crossed
5 billion in transfers to the app
so people have sent celsius over five
billion dollars worth of crypto which is
just like an absurd
number but so there's only one company
in the world
yeah and there's only one company in the
world that did better than celsius
which is a gray scale right and so i
think they're
like something like seven and a half
billion so we are
within a few months we will be number
one right right now we're still number
two
uh but within a few months uh we will be
number one
so yeah great achievement for celsius
and again
the only reason for a success is not
because
we are such geniuses it's because we
earned your trust we paid you back over
110 million dollars in interest
and we convinced enough people that were
acting in your best interest
and people just said hey i'm not keeping
my coins with coinbase or binance or
somewhere else i'm
not keeping them with i'm not keeping my
dollars with my bank right i'm just
transferring it over because
these guys just treat me better it's
that simple
all right so let's jump into the q a
again there's a lot i think on the chat
right pretty active chat so make sure
you include those people
we got tons of action
of action um so one thing a lot of
people are asking about is
the promo codes so people
are entering the promo code getting a
message and then sending in funds
but they're not seeing the locked reward
so we just want to let everyone know
that the promo codes are working and you
will get that reward
um it's just not showing up as locked so
we're fixing that
and app updates coming out um and you'll
see those lock rewards but
uh as long as you put it down and
transfer in the right amount
you will get that reward yeah we had a
little
bug it does happen and our team
promised that uh next week uh they will
uh have a release that fixes that
so don't worry uh we didn't suddenly
stop
paying you or took money away from you
or anything like that so you will see
that fixed
and i know a lot of you send the tickets
to customer service and
partially the reason that other people
is we're slow to respond
on customer service requests and
corporate applications and everything
else is because we've got a deluge
of people saying hey where's my money
you know so
so all that money is still there all
right next question
yeah and when like um something small
like this happens or it's
you can always ask um in our telegram
chat
and you can kind of get some community
support for these non-critical things
yeah community definitely responds
faster than customer service so
go to telegram first or twitter a we
have
chat we have community members uh seven
days a week don't send anybody money
don't send anybody your keys don't send
anybody
crypto just you can ask questions
and if you're not sure about the answer
wait for customer service but the
simple questions you can rely on the
community to answer right but
there's still hackers trolling these
channels
hoping that you will make a mistake and
give them
your code like your 2fa or two
or whatever do not never give anyone i
don't care if they tell you they're from
celsius
if i call you and i ask you for your 2fa
what's the answer no alex i'm not giving
you the 2fa that's the answer it doesn't
matter who's calling you
never ever ever give your 2fa or your
password or anything to anyone
i guarantee i will never call you and
ask you for your 2fa
all right so we had several incidents
where people thought they were talking
to celsius
employees or celsius agents
if somebody calls you you don't know who
they are because you didn't dial that
number you don't know if it's customer
service
right so you hang up and you can call
them back
and you can say hey let me talk to alex
i want to make sure that you actually
work for him
all right so very i'm very upset with
people losing
people who are trying to save for
retirement being scammed by
by scammers just because they trust them
so
next
you can put out a good video about spark
could you tell users what exactly yeah
so
look uh all you have to do first the
video is right here
spark token right here is nuke he grew a
moustache
and we were thinking who does it look
like
joe tucci right from hollywood or i
don't know what or bruce willis
right we have bruce willis working for
us but the point is
as long as your xrp is in the account
before
uh march 11th march before december 11
meaning next week or the week after you
will get your spark token the spark are
not going to be
issued until 2021 but you will be
the snapshot will be taken and you're
going to get your stuff so again
look there are hundreds of videos here
right of all
everything you can imagine answers to
every one of your questions all you have
to do
is scroll down take a look you know
here's an
hour-long video i've done answering
everything that has to do with yield you
want to know how yield is created
and where it's being used and so on so
on
i did it with digital asset news he
peppered me with every question you can
imagine i guarantee you that this video
answers 90 percent of the questions you
have about yield
okay and again it's point number seven
in the machinski method
that's you should be doing due diligence
you should be asking
hard question no one here is telling you
don't ask any questions
you know we are doing everything for you
trust us that's not
the machinski method the machinski
method is about you
knowing every detail about who is caring
for your money
and making sure every week that they
continue to do what they promised
you and the minute they deviate from
that plan
you better take your money and run okay
because that's what happens with almost
every company
okay most companies start as somebody
who's trying to help you
and sooner or later they're trying to
squeeze as much as they can out of you
start adding fees they start adding all
kind of other stuff
and it's not the good deal that you
thought it was you still
think in your head that this or that
credit card is
is doing good by you but it's not what's
happening
all right next question right we just
saw someone come out with a credit card
right and if you look at the flat
print hidden fees is 200 attractive as
it appears
here's one percent of in in bitcoin but
we're going to charge you 200
every year and we're going to charge a
crazy interest rate
so no not the machinski method do not
order the block fight card not acting in
your best interest
okay why why earn one percent
if you can earn 10 right think about it
that way
just take that money that you would have
otherwise spent they're trying to
convince you to spend more money spend
three thousand dollars we're gonna give
you something
put three thousand dollars into usdc and
see
how it pays you every monday that's what
you should be doing
next question i think we did the math on
that and it's
you have to 13 to break eve
and then another 13 000 to make 200.
yes absurd
all right you have another winner i
think we have time for another winner
oh no i've been picking them out we've
got okay
okay great you're getting paid today and
they we've got a thousand
live viewers we're gonna have to do this
every week alex can i get approval for
that well we
we promised we promised we're going to
give and you didn't even talk about the
promo code yet you just uh
what do you call it you're you're you're
you're just throwing money at people
right here
it's like the ppp you know zach has his
own ppp program
you know
all right let's cover the last thing i
okay
can we get an update on uh the in-app
swaps and the
platinum first access yes so so it's in
development we're testing it as we speak
no fee swap inside the app
meaning it's cheaper faster and better
than uniswap or
binance it you name a platform and i
guarantee you that
the celsius swap will be cheaper faster
and better than any of those platform
because we don't charge anything
so we take the best rate possible and
allow you to swap with another celsium
at that price right boom no fees right
inside the celsius wallet so
so again it's a service to the community
we make enough money
in other places we don't have to make it
here that's the whole point about
celsius
that's why we don't charge any fees on
credit card transactions
or on swap or on withdrawals we pay your
withdrawal fee
right and the next version of the
celsius wallet shows you how much we
paid you to date
in withdrawal fees we actually
calculated all that
and it's going to show you all those
numbers so
it's not people sometimes people go and
say well it's too good to be true how
can they do this without
charging anything for anything it's not
that we don't we charge
20 of the money we're earning for you
that's the only thing we charge for
right is that plenty yes we are
profitable
celsius profitable we just gave all of
our employees bonuses
zach how was your bonus
beautiful is is this fifteen hundred
dollars coming out of your bonus out of
celsius because you you're so rich now
you know like maybe you should pay for
it
all right next question giving back
directly to the community in more ways
than one
all right
okay all right let's get to some
questions here um
i hate loans going laura's asking are
they really at zero percent
yep they're at zero and zero is zero
just apply for a loan
you can fill up the t's and c's you can
read them so when
we present the t's and cs to you read
them
and the fee we charge is zero the
interest rate we charge is zero
the like block fight charges you two
percent origination fee
just to just to talk to them hey two
percent right then after that
it's four or five percent interest rate
so
so why would any of you guys would take
a loan with somebody else
right if you're you're in the uk is
special because we love the uk we're
based in the uk
celsius is a uk based company right
we launched a special program because it
took us forever to get this uk thing
launched and get a file for all of our
licenses and everything right so because
it took so long we said let's do
something special for the uk
and here we are so apply for it there's
no penalty
to cancel you don't like anything about
the program you can cancel
at any time you can walk away and
there's no penalty
we're not a bank i know your bank will
charge you penalties and
early termination and withdrawal fees
and inactivity fees and
you know your live fees all kind of fees
right
none of that okay we make all of our
money from
yield right we earn yield hundreds of
millions of dollars
we keep 20 right so if we paid you
um 110 million dollars we made
22 million dollars right we made 20
on top of that so that's how you have to
think about it right
20 million is a lot of money right it
might even pay for this apartment
no just kidding next next question
okay uh will u.s users be able to use
the swap feature and will they be able
to swap for sell token
so a lot of these questions are still
pending again um
all of basically think about this way
anything that is inside the
coinbase wallet because they're a u.s
company you'll be able to swap
because what whatever they got approved
we will get approved as well
but there's definitely uh certain
questions still remaining
again we are launching the earn and sell
very very soon
for accredited us investors so it may be
that accredited are allowed to do it but
not accredited or not
i don't have the final answer for it yet
but it's coming
it's going to be here soon again get get
your
get december out of the way january all
the stuff
there's a flood of new features coming
your way
in january the web app the swapping
the the or you know earn and sell
right all that stuff is going to be here
live in january
so definitely going to be a very very
busy month for us
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all right well celsius be supporting
digital collateralized stocks and bonds
and we'll could they earn interest on
those yeah so
so if you look at uh i do want to share
one screen here
so are you um
can you show the screen for a second yep
yeah good to go yep
so this big chart that i showed you
before the moi the 200 and something
presentation that i've done from wipe
this is one of the slides from the moib
show right from me
uh pitching worldwide right and you can
see this is going back to when we had
animals right back in 2017 remember
celsius had animals the
the oh geez the celsius oh geez know
what i'm talking about right you see
this
little celsius monkey that has a c on
him
so we used to have animals that were
like basically our brand
so this is a slide that we shared with
everybody you know like
kind of trying to explain to people
what's happening how we went through
these waves of
of adoption right first there was
satoshi
then we had the anarchist or or
or then we had the libertarians and so
on so on so on right
and how are we going to get to mass
adoption how are we going to cross this
chasm right here
and we i kept explaining to people this
back in 2017
right uh how we had two star
steps btc was one eth was the second one
and then i gave him three options i said
okay what's the next step of evolution
and most people were betting on security
tokens they were betting on
nfts or they were betting on libra and i
said to everybody back when there was
less than a billion dollars worth of
stable coins
i said it's all going to be about stable
coins the next step
why because d5 what we call d fight
today what i call moib
is all about stable coins and yield and
so on that is the bridge
so celsius focused on that and we did
exceptionally well
and everybody else who focused on
everything else didn't do so well
right do you see any great uh security
tokens
so i'm not saying security tokens are
not going to happen i'm just saying that
it's going to take a very long time
uh for that part of the industry to take
off so right now we are focused on
generating yield for you and this is how
we're doing
all right next next question
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okay um a question from scott
on twitter do you have plans to come out
with a credit card compete with block
five
the block fight credit card is so i
wouldn't want to compete with that
us not having a card is competing with
the block fight credit card which is
trying to get you to spend money you
don't have
and pay 25 on it and pay 200 a year
why would you pay 200 a year you can get
you know
i don't have the card on me but go to
fidelity go to fidelity.com they give
you a card that pays back two percent
two percent no strings attached no this
no that
you know no annual fee nothing just open
a fidelity account get back two percent
on your money
okay so that's my answer to block five
get a fidelity card okay when we have a
better card better
than fidelity something that gives you
more than two percent per year and with
no fees
then we will issue it right so today
the bar is not doing better than block
fight the bar is doing better than
fidelity
next question
all right um we are taking questions on
twitter
hashtag celsius ama a question from the
chat is
why do governments not like stable coins
well depends who the us government
actually likes stable coins right
the governments that don't like stable
coins are the people who print other
type of money so if you are the
brazilian government and you have reals
which is your local
currency and all of your citizens start
using stable coins instead of your local
currency which you print right you print
and make money out of thin air
so do you like it or you get upset about
it right so
so the issue is more about international
coverage i mean in the united states
it's more about regulations meaning like
talib or somebody else saying hey i
don't want the poor people to get hurt
because they're going to take
buy somebody's stable coin and it's not
real and they're going to lose their
money
right so that's the issue it's more
about uh
making sure that that is not happening
but
all the coins that we have uh in our
wallet the tokens the stable coin tokens
usdc usdt gusd gemini
right paxos all great companies all
trust companies meaning they must by law
have one dollar for every one token that
they issue
right so they can't use that money for
any other purposes so
so you're safe again i i have millions
of dollars in the usdc
right anytime i spare cash i convert
into usdc put it in celsius
10 and a half percent per year sleep
very well at night so
i wouldn't worry about that next
question
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okay it looks like uh celsius hub has
just released
a content platform for celsius to
translate content i'm gonna get the link
here and i'm gonna share it but uh
thank you so much great let's go right
now continuing to push the community
forward
um here we go so we are on
i'm sharing the screen so uh let's show
it to them okay so again
it's a great site uh we have a link to
it from the celsius
network site as well here's our flywheel
great content showing you how well we're
doing
and i don't know where the link is to
this content thing but let's see if we
can find it
it's probably here
all right i guess he's gonna put it on
let me maybe i need to refresh
[Music]
yeah but anyway the point is it's it's
gonna be there
and uh you know he also has the top 200
so you can kind of see uh what's the
total tokens out there
what is the machine doing with his coins
you know
and so on right you have here's my wife
my wife is number three now wow look at
that she moved up to usa strong is my
wife
i gave her i gave her a few tokens just
a few all right
next question all right chris from
twitter is asking
any update on australian service are
licenses coming through
yeah so because of covid looks like the
bureaucracy
in uh australia has a crawl to a halt
we have not heard back from the
regulators on our on our license
applications so i'm hoping that
maybe december maybe january but we are
still uh
kind of uh completely dependent on
um the bureaucracy the australian
bureaucracy to
again you can still deposit you can
still take a loan you don't need there's
no
it's not like if you're australians
there's nothing you can do you can do
almost
everything you just can't give us right
now an australian dollar straight
into our account right so so that's the
only thing that we'll be adding as an
additional feature so you'll be able to
basically go to your bank transfer money
and you're down
right so today you have to buy stable
coins send it to us or
or move coin move bitcoin ethereum and
all the regular stuff right so
so that's the difference next next
question but we are
we are opening an office there we're
interviewing people right now to be
hired there we're looking for
one loan associates that somebody who
processes local loans
and we're looking for trader somebody
who basically helps us
trade in the asia time zone so
experience with
[Music]
basically you know transferring
coins and managing coins trading coins
on different platforms if you have that
experience you want to join celsius
or you have any loan experience send
your email your resume to jobs at
celsius.network
next question all right crypto crypto
toe is asking
will celsius go public and what's the
time frame for that
um that's a good question
um when we have a plan we'll let you
know right now
uh you know no plans but uh we're
definitely looking
into there are no real public companies
there are some fake public companies in
crypto but
you know maybe we should be the first uh
public company
right so we'll see i mean i know
coinbase is thinking of going public
there are a few others
so we'll see next question would would
you consider my
strategy like a quasi public
crypto company now well their treasury
is uh uh in uh invested in
crypto assets but their business is uh
not crypto right so nothing in their
business there's a single part of their
business
that touches crypto right so they do
data analytics they do all kind of other
stuff
and their stock is doing very well so
they're a great public company they just
happen to have
a lot of their treasury almost all their
treasury in
bitcoin
okay a question from investor18
if i took a loan for six months can i
pay it back early
yes also can i open an account for
my 17 year old son yeah so
so you can pay a loan off at any time
right so there's no
again no penalties and especially since
your interest
if you took a 25 ltv loan is one percent
or your interest in the uk is zero
percent paying it early
if there's no penalties means nothing
right it's like you can basically close
it at any time
so if you took a 50 ltv loan then your
interest is higher maybe nine percent or
whatever
and when you close it you have to pay
six months if you
you're already three months into the
loan we're going to charge you three
months worth of the rest of the loan
because we have costs
setting up these loans so the min that's
why the minimum is six months next
question
okay um any plan wants to allow deposits
of coins that do not earn a yield
yeah we we thought about this a little
bit uh
people basically saying i just want to
keep all my coins in celsius um
um again it cost us money to
manage all these other coins so in
theory
um if we can find use for them and it's
not too much
hassle we also pay the withdrawal fees
right so we have
costs um but it makes sense it's a
utility that we want to give our
customers
so i definitely think that
i asked my team to do it they were just
saying basically look we have all these
projects we're understaffed
let us catch up then we can do something
like this
next question okay
uh if i make a otc this is there a
required lockup
um so the otc team can tell you
if there is any lockup or not you better
you need to email them and
and let them know
okay another good question from crypto
toe uh
where do you see bitcoin peaking this
next cycle
so i just did a full video on it i don't
know if tom uploaded it
um but this should be a new video here
on our channel with uh with all of my
predictions
we're in the wrong channel here
right so um um
is it this one no yes so this video
right here
gives you 20 minutes worth of
predictions
within detail which i probably don't
have time to do here so just watch that
video
next question all right
everyone ask your questions hashtag
celsius ama on
twitter um we've got only one more
prize to give away we've given out 14
100 prizes
all right time to spill the beans yeah
it's time to spill the beans on the
promo code
[Music]
okay promo code has been fantastic it's
for
all the new users out there um
when you have your family member or a
friend that's curious about crypto
they want to start off small let them
use promo code
and just transfer ten dollars to the app
and you'll get a ten dollar reward
okay just ten dollars to start ten
dollars for ten dollars
wow yeah good deal
instantly yeah you double your money in
30 days
guaranteed yeah that is the way to go
so there's a lot of skeptics out there a
lot of people that are not sure
promo code start ten dollars get ten
dollars
wow i love that
is that for first time users or anyone
can do it
just first time users just first time
users all right all of your first timers
all of you skeptics
all of you guys are like saying ah no no
this is real
whatever um you know
i think it's time the time has come
and we need everyone to hit button give
us a thumbs up up
um the they become like a iconic
part of our community and uh we have
over a thousand viewers now
we can really get this to grow ten
thousand
hundred thousand hundred million alex
that's right yeah we wanna be we wanna
be the best uh watched uh broadcast in
crypto
right so we gotta beat everybody else
right
this is where celsius make money
so to me can you uh
ask christy to come why don't you join
us you know
next question why is cell token not
listed on major exchanges
so i had a visit here uh
one of the top three exchanges within my
at my house here today
they came to visit me here and i
explained to them again and again that
we don't pay fees listing fees
we have the best customers in crypto
right we have 3.3
billion dollars worth of whale money
and investor money and celsius and money
and so on
and you want us to bring that to you you
the exchange and pay you money to bring
our best customers to you
i think it should be the other way
around you the exchange should pass
money to bring our best customers to you
[Music]
so for now uh we put a lot of our volume
on unit swap all of you guys who want
cell token can go to uniswap and
basically use it and guess what when you
trade on uniswap
celsius makes money celsius benefits for
me it's celsius users benefit from it
because
uniswap pays 0.3 percent in fees
and now those fees go to the people who
provide
liquidity on uniswap so do you want me
to pay money to an exchange
and take celsius money and give it to
them instead of giving it to you an
interest
or do you want me to collect money just
like i'm collecting already money from
uniswap and redistribute it back to the
community
so it's a very simple answer the answer
is of course we want to collect money
from the exchange
so sooner or later all these mega
exchanges right we just need to be top
20 coin probably
all these mega exchanges are going to
uh list us and they're going to share
their fees
mark my words all these exchanges are
going to share fees with celsius
so instead of us paying to list exactly
they are going to
work with us in order to get this
massive community
on their platform
get some fruit get some energy yeah next
question
okay um is chrissy coming on the show
yeah she'll be here in a minute
okay um this volatility that we've had
um over thanksgiving is that going to
lead to
higher rates coming to depositors
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uh yeah higher volatility normally means
more
uh higher rates the rates do fluctuate
they go up and down
like right now uh there's a lot of
demand for stable coins so the rate and
stable coins may go up
but there's not not that much demand for
bitcoin right the demand for bitcoin
is coming down so that's why we lowered
a little bit the
rate on bitcoin we lowered the fee on
the first five right instead of the
first five earnings six point two
percent now it's the first two
and uh but we we are keeping the
rate on stable coins close to all-time
highs
so definitely um that's why
next question okay i wanted to bring up
again that
otc has been brought down from 25 000
to 10 000 on the orders we want to give
access to everybody that we can
um to make those otc orders we accept
bitcoin
we accept ethereum order
somebody said send them straight to otc
at celsius right and somebody said 25
000 sell token it's not
10 000 or 25 cell token it's 25 000
or 10 000 now right so it's
it's meaning it's like five thousand
four thousand sell tokens now you wanna
buy four thousand sell tokens or more
uh that's basically you can do it on
otc.network sorry otc at celsius.network
yes
next question okay um from twitter
matt's asking with staking at east 2.0
is there any plans to offer a long term
rate
for these long-term holders yeah so so
we're going to have a separate deposit
address for youth 2.0
and every time you want to deposit eth
you can decide are you putting it into
the blended rate which would be the rate
that we earn on all of our activity
or a separate address which is dedicated
to each 2.0 staking and we will be
publishing the rate weekly
of what is the rate on that staking
fee we don't charge any fee for staking
so whatever we can get from ethereum
you will be earning so you can decide
every week the
the only thing is that with the ethe 2.0
uh
those are like for two years so you
can't really withdraw it at any time
the blended rate you can withdraw at any
time right so if you if you know if you
know you're gonna huddle for a long
period of time
then definitely um uh what do you call
it put it in the heath 2.0
all right let's see i see my my honey is
here
my honey brought some honey look at that
you see
10 bottles for your for your guests for
your
community so you you met chrissy before
she's uh she's a huge supporter of
crypto of celsius
she's becoming a pro herself believe it
or not she pays her employees in crypto
even we don't do that
so way ahead of the trend uh
i love it she has a new startup some of
you know
a lot of your viewers already know yes
and usa strong io
and uh she got this great product that
i'm actually
detroit city yeah made in the
it's great u.s distillery and bees in
the d
so it's bourbon infused honey and we
saved about 10 bottles for you guys
like i said my honey brought some honey
yeah so
you wanna try it or smell it yeah you're
gonna love it i love it
i love bourbon and i like well just like
in the light i don't drink but i love it
like as a
as well infused it's been infused yes
yes
that's great ice cream all right how
about a glass
a cup of tea with uh some bourbon i just
just want to just
sure yeah but i would also love a
cup of tea for it's really good for you
yeah
i love honey look i'm gonna get you
drunk and it supports
the environment because bees are
what gives us all of our fruits and
vegetables if you didn't know that
without bees you wouldn't have any
fruits and vegetables they pollinate
every
every plant oh it's great all right a
cup of tea how about that we're going to
make kimchi
all right thank you good to see you
yeah so so chrissy is uh
doing amazing um it's a process we're
actually using the blockchain there or
going to use the blockchain to verify
that products are made in the u.s so
like this product we verified all the
components
the content and so
if you buy that bottle you'll be able to
see okay the bottle itself the glass was
made in this in the state
the label was printed here and this in
this state the honey was made in
michigan
here is the factory that put it all
together
and it was shipped to you locally and so
on so so just trying to again leverage
locally made with the blockchain
and support the local community right
empower local businesses to do good
and do well right to get all of you to
stop buying chinese
products of amazon and help your fellow
man
who's living down the street from you
whose business is struggling so
love what she's doing i'm an investor
and
uh go on the website and help out okay
usa strong dot io all right next
question
and i'm all right i'm gonna get a couple
of you i got a cup of tea out of it you
see
so jen is asking um
a while back i tried to take a loan to
familiarize myself with how it all works
the minimum was 10k and i didn't have
enough uh
collateral has this minimum been lowered
yeah
minimums now are 500 dollars you can
take a loan as little as small as 500
good point thanks for making us repeat
that
so we love loans right loans is what
drives the celsius flywheel the celsius
engine
so so it's important that we communicate
these things right the minimum
the the term uh no penalties
no upfront fees again our many of our
competitors charge
basically require five thousand dollars
or ten thousand dollars
as a minimum loan but celsius you can
start at 500
right so uh everybody's pre-approved
again you don't need to
verify income you don't need to show us
that you are a u.s citizen or anything
right all you need to have is a little
bit of assets in celsius including
any asset anything we support you can
deposit it and take a loan against it
without selling it right the main
advantage is
that you're deferring your taxes if you
bought it at whatever
10 cents and it's now two dollars
if you sell it you will pay half of that
to the government but if you took a loan
against
it you have no cost right basically
almost no cost if you took a one percent
loan next question
and like uh having cash is not very
advantageous i was thinking about it
if you have a huge gain right and then
you sell and you have this
pile of cash that cash is losing value
every
exact day faster and faster and faster
right so so what do you do as as a
investor if you have all these assets
and you want to cash out does that mean
you just have to move into a different
asset to generate income
because i mean the cash is not going to
do anything for you
so again watch this video i talk about
all of that but basically
what i'm doing right now is i'm putting
about half in gold
and half in cash right so so if you buy
packs gold
or tether gold and
you will earn about five and a half
percent on it
we're updating the rates we're actually
raising the rates it was four and a half
now it's going to be five and a half
so you have the appreciation of gold i
think gold is going to go higher
and you're going to earn five and a half
percent on it right
so i'm saying put half in there and half
you keep in cash
you just buy a usdc or usdt
or tusd stable coins you deposit them in
celsius and you earn ten and a half
percent
ten and a half percent a hundred times
more than your bank
one hundred times more than your bank
what can i say
you know next question
all right uh has celsius reached out to
companies like microstrategy that hold a
ton of bitcoin
i didn't hear the the beginning of it
of the question has celsius reached out
to companies
like microstrategy that hold a bunch of
bitcoin
um so we are we talked to thank you
honey
here i got my bourbon infused honey
um uh what do you call it tea
you're gonna get lit on the mma
now that's good it's probably gonna make
my voice sound different
you know um
then we talked to
we have about a hundred corporate uh
corporates come join celsius every month
a hundred companies uh join celsius
every month
and because they want to put their
treasury
in celsius right so um some people
are comfortable uh putting their coins
with others some people want to keep it
in cold storage so i think
uh microstrategy bought all their
uh bitcoin on coin base
and coinbase is one of the best sources
of celsius customers so there's no
reason why we cannot
convince them to come to celsius
so we will definitely follow up on that
next question
all right pulling questions from twitter
celsius ama
we've got if i take a loan on celsius
the collateral
does not earn interest but does it count
towards
calculating your cell platinum level
for extra rewards yes so your ratio
uh whatever sell you have it doesn't
matter if you have a loan against it or
not we don't penalize you for taking a
loan
so whatever your loan is that's your
staff whatever your balance is that is
your status
so if you're already platinum taking a
loan is not gonna make you gold
or silver or something else but
as you know we've added many new we've
added a new category for people who have
at least
five percent of their assets in cell
so if you are um if you are if you want
to try
sell token again you can buy it on uh
uniswap uh you can buy it somewhere else
again we have explainer videos if you go
back here
and you just scroll down here's a great
video that shows you how to buy
sell token on unit swap and again if you
want to sell you just do the reverse
right you want to sell
cell token you go you take yourself
talking you do the reverse of this video
to convert
cell into each or sell into usdc or
anything like that right so all these
things work both ways
and here's another one to do it on
switch you so if you prefer switchio
here's here it is
so um again it does not impact your
status as a celsium
all right here's another question from
the chat uh if the value of the
collateral
given by borrowers crash how does this
impact celsius
so that's why we're only doing 33 ltv or
25 percent
to be right so let's say you have
collateral and it crashes 50
right the worst crash in a day that
bitcoin has was
was like something like 40 right so
obviously
it's not good for the person who has
that collateral but it doesn't affect
celsius so
so we we always ask you to add more
collateral if we see a lot of volatility
we'll actually reach out to you
proactively and say hey
bitcoin is very volatile you have a loan
please add more coins or pay
some of the loan back to make sure that
you do not
get liquidated right if you get
liquidated on compound or liquid or nexo
or block fi
they charge you fees right we don't want
to charge you fees they make
money from getting you liquidated
celsius does not make any money we don't
charge any fees trying to liquidate so
we don't have an incentive to liquidate
it
if you don't charge fees then i'm on
your side i don't want you to be
liquidated i want you to stay celsian
forever
right i want you to take more loans i
want you to do all kind of other stuff
so to because i'm making money in one
place right the same place i'm always
making money
on generating yield it's a win-win i'm
only charging you something if i created
new money
if i managed to make money on your coins
right so we do not liquidate we do not
try to liquidate we don't charge fees
for liquidating
next question and that's like a
a difference in motto between other
businesses and celsius is
we're not here to try to extract as much
value from you as possible right we're
here to create
as much value for you as possible
because we create that value
alongside with you so i mean that's a
really big difference that
i think is playing out more and more
over time people are realizing wait
these guys are
screwing me or these guys are not
working in my benefit
but in celsius we're always operating in
the benefit of the user
because we win alongside of the user
it's a completely different business
model
that has never existed in 700 years of
banking
remember i showed you that big chart
right it's very confusing for a lot of
people a lot of people are still saying
but
alex come on you can't run a company not
charging anything the banks charge
fees because they have to that's how
they make money no
they make enough money not charge you
any fees because they also make money on
your money
when you take your paycheck and you give
it to them they make enough money on the
money
that they don't need to charge you a
deposit fee and a checking
account fee and a check fee and a
clearing fee
and then a withdrawal fee and an atm fee
and an activity fee and you name it 100
different fees they don't need to charge
any of that
they make so much money just from
lending your money out and paying you
nothing
that a bank could be very profitable
just
doing what celsius does just sharing
eighty percent of what they make with
your money
giving it back to you and just keeping
twenty percent
okay again i had a call yesterday with
goldman sachs
right goldman sachs uh does that
80 20 with their richest customers i was
like they were pitching me last night
you should have seen how they were
pitching and they're like come on
just put your money with us why are you
giving celsius that 100 million give us
that money we will
keep 20 and we'll give you 80 i'm like
already doing it
i don't need you to do it to me are you
going to earn 10
on on the stable coins they're like no
we don't do stable coins
are you gonna put money in crypto in
bitcoin no no we don't do bitcoin
that's too risky you know so my point is
that for the rich people for the really
really rich guys the guys have hundreds
of millions of dollars
the deal is 80 20. all celsius did this
took that deal that was only available
to the one percent of the one percent
and we gave it to everybody you have ten
dollars go ahead
use the what's the promo code start
yep start start with the ten dollar
right and we will give you ten dollars
and going forward you will be keeping
eighty percent
even if you have twenty dollars in your
wallet you will be still keeping
eighty percent of what we make right we
meaning celsius right so
there is no better deal that is the deal
that the richest people in the world get
no fees plus keeping 80
that is the best deal in the world that
anyone gets
right next question can you imagine if
goldman last night said hey alex we're
going to charge you uh this fee we're
going to charge you that fee
and uh yeah you're gonna bring your mail
right here do you need us to ship you
uh like can we send you like a care
package
can we send you like just drowning me
and stuff right like every day something
is showing up from these guys dying to
get my money
so but i know i know the game you know i
know what they're trying to do but
anyway so celsius gets all my money
i went to costco you always compare
celsius as a membership organization to
costco and
um i hadn't been to costco in quite a
while but i went last week and i said
oh my gosh this is really just this is
the best stuff
at the best price and it's all brought
in this one place for me and like
they treat their members like yeah the
greatest ever because
once you become a member of costco you
get this whole suite of
fantastic products and like that that
analogy of celsius being the same like
once you become a member of celsius
you get this whole suite of premium
financial products
um and and they're all the best of the
best at the best price
the best quality you said it better than
me
okay from now on zach runs the show he
doesn't it doesn't need me anymore
i'm retiring that's it no thank you no
thank you
all right um we only have a few minutes
left if you want to give us some closing
thoughts um
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so look we we we shared with you the
machinski method again i want to repeat
that for the people who maybe
join early or were not paying attention
so i'm sharing my screen here
okay right and um
you know this is all about you just
one sec um
right so here they can see my screen yes
right so these are really simple seven
steps right there's nothing complicated
here there's nothing special
you don't need a degree or phd in
economics or uh
working for the smartest guy in finance
right
none of that it's very simple paying
down
where people steal from you like those
credit cards or
really expensive car loans right like if
you don't have credit
and you went and you bought a car loan
they're charging you 30 percent
you have a student loan right and you
didn't refinance it it's probably 20
those are the things that you got to
bring down like you cannot spend any
money
on vacations or on anything because
that's what
preventing you from paying down that
debt eliminate that debt then you can go
back to normal
right you get money from the government
from covert pay down that debt
don't put it in the stock market and buy
some shitty stock at all time high just
pay down your debt and stop paying
interest to all of these thieves
right so nothing in this plan that you
see on the screen
the seventh step is complicated you just
have to work on it you have to invest in
yourself you have to dedicate time
every week to focus on it and see am i
am i following the seven steps or not
where am i failing what do i have to do
more right where can
i cut a little bit so i can pay down
the debt and when you start paying it
down and it decreases
the balance decreases then you're paying
it faster and faster and faster and
proof one day it disappears
and that's it from that minute on you
still have income
but you have no more debt and then when
you're starting
your plan for retirement your plan for
financial freedom
takes hold right thank you for joining
us
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all right thanks everybody