Welcome to BitBoy Crypto!
My name is Ben.
Today, we are going to be announcing the dates for our Catching Up to Crypto book tour.
We're going to give you guys a little bit about what's going to be in the book.
And we're going to kind of apply some principles and show you why this book is so important
and why you have to make sure you're going to attend our stops on the book tour.
What you're going to do is you're going to come here at bitboycrypto.com.
And you're going to click on the menu right up here.
And then you're going to scroll right down here to BOOK.
You're going to click BOOK.
And, boom, this takes you to our book page.
So this is Catching Up to Crypto,
a fun and authoritative guide to Bitcoin and the future of money.
This is your guide to the digital economy.
You guys can see here is the cover of the book.
Looks pretty cool.
My wife picked the cover.
She's a book girl.
She knows books.
Raoul Pal wrote the foreword for this.
We were No. 1 new release in business finance.
We've been crushing Vitalik's book lately on the numbers.
Which one's your BitBoy?
You never know.
That one, he likes House of Pain.
He's jumping around, jumping around.
In this book, you'll discover how Bitcoin operates in the real world
and how the underlying technology--- known as the blockchain---operates.
You also learn about the importance of decentralization--
it's more than just about money, guys--
trustless commerce and cryptographic consensus,
the humble origins of Bitcoin,
similar to my humble origins,
as well as how it nearly died out,
and how it went on to take over the world--
died out, maybe some strong language, but you guys get the point--
how monetary and financial policy is being revolutionized
by the introduction of Bitcoin and other crypto assets.
We don't like the word cryptocurrencies.
I don't like the word cryptocurrencies.
I like crypto assets.
So here we go.
You get the book. You can order it on Amazon.
And I want to talk a little bit about the principles of this book
and why it is so important.
A lot of you guys going to be shocked of what I'm about to tell you.
Maybe you've heard me say this before.
I actually ran a marathon. Okay?
This has been about 13 years ago, maybe something like that.
I ran a marathon.
You guys know how long a marathon is?
It's 26.2 miles.
It took me about 9.56 a mile.
I was bigger than I am now.
189 right now.
I was 205 to 210 when I ran that marathon.
And it was a grind, right?
But the thing with running is,
it's mental.
Like, running is so much mental.
Eventually, it does get into the physical, where you're reaching limits of your body
when it comes to endurance running or marathon running, right?
Well, the thing is, when you're doing your training for a marathon,
it kind of looks like this.
You got a Monday,
you have a Wednesday,
you have a Friday run, and you have a Saturday.
Your Saturday is going to be your long run.
Monday, you start out with three miles.
Wednesday, you do five miles.
Friday, you do three.
Then you do like seven on Saturday.
By the end of your training,
you're going like 5, 8, 5, 20, right?
That's your last run. Your long run is 20.
Now, what's weird about this?
26 miles? And your last run is 20?
That's a whole 10k you have to run that you haven't ran yet.
A lot of running marathon is making the decision to do it.
And I kind of think crypto is kind of similar way, you know?
Like, crypto, there's so much to it, there's so much to try to bite off here
that a lot of it's mental.
So we kind of call this the last mile problem,
which is we can give you training wheels, and we can hold your hand on this channel,
but, eventually, you're going to have to take the responsibility of your last mile.
You're going to have to take crypto by the horns
and do something to get you to where you truly understand what's happening.
You've already made the decisions,
but, now, this last mile problem,
you've got to have the weight and the perspective
that will really take every single thing you do to crypto to a higher place.
Guys, this book is the solution to this last mile problem.
If sometimes you're watching a video
and someone brings something up from history of crypto and you're like,
"I don't even really know what that is,"
this book is going to answer that question,
or it's going to at least give you the ability to know where to go
to get that answer.
And so this book is going to be the supercharger
that's going to fuel our community and people that come in
to where we're going to have the most educated, the most well-rounded,
the most, you know, multi-dimensional perspectives in all of crypto.
And that's why we went on this channel, we'll keep winning and the BitSquad keeps winning.
So I want to go back and talk about our book tour for just a minute
because this is going to be absolutely huge.
We're so excited about this.
All you've got to do to be eligible to come to one of these meetups is just get a preorder.
Just preorder the book on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
Amazon helps for the Wall Street Journal bestsellers.
So if you have-- if you get either one,
you know, maybe Amazon might be the one for you.
The price has gone down to $21.99.
We started out $27.99.
You can order it right here on the website.
That's all you've got to do, is just preorder the book.
We have different levels where you can get some different things.
We'll talk about that in just a second.
But this is the official schedule.
Now, this has to be determined.
We're looking at probably like a place that's got space,
a place that has cheaper rooms.
You know, we're going to be in and out real quick,
so we're looking at kind of some Hilton or some Holiday Inn conference rooms
because we expect anywhere from 50 to 200 people at these.
There might be more. We'll see what happens.
But we're going to go all across United States starting on January 21.
We're going to be in San Francisco, California.
We do have a couple of these squared away.
We just don't have them on the website yet.
We'll give you more details when we have all these confirmed.
We're going to have you guys fill out Eventbrite for these.
It's where you get all that set up.
January 21 - San Francisco
January 22, we are going to La.
23, we're going to be in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Heading to Phoenix!
I've never been to Phoenix before, first time, January 24.
January 26, we'll be at the Quantum, Bitcoin conference in Miami.
We will be doing-- we know for sure that this is actually at the conference center.
We'll have guest passes for people for that.
January 27, that says Denver, Texas.
That is not correct.
We're going to go to Denver, Colorado.
If you show up in Denver, Texas, you might be disappointed.
But January 28, we're going to be in Austin, Texas.
Chicago - January 30
Now, we've provided a rest day in a lot of these cities that have cold weather
in case there's snow so we don't have to--
hopefully, within two days, we can make sure to pull it off.
If we had to postpone one one day,
we have that built in for you guys that are in those cold weather cities.
February 1, I've never been to Minneapolis, I'm going to be heading up to the Twin Cities.
February 3, we'll be in Boston.
February 5, we'll be in DC.
February 22, we're going to be in Atlanta.
I think we should do it here at the studio.
February 23, we're going to be in Philadelphia.
February 24--
Crypto Zombie said, "Man, I wish you weren't coming here in February. It's really cold."
And then we're going to be in London I think on the 26th or 27th.
And there you go.
The ticket to join the meetup is a digital receipt that you preordered the book.
Get it on Amazon. Get it on Barnes & Noble.
And then, also, we have here,
check this out.
If you get one preorder book, you get a ticket to the book tour.
Let me zoom in a little bit here.
If you get five,
you get access to the tour meetup and one free month of BitLab Academy.
It's where we're at, BitLab Academy studio here.
You also get one month free if you get--
we're going to change this to 15, guys.
This is going to be 15.
If you buy 15 books,
you get access to the tour meetup and one year of BitLab Academy access.
And for 100 books,
100 books,
you get access to tour meetup,
you'd have lunch with me personally,
come tour the studio,
and also we're going to give you a lifetime membership to BitLab Academy.
It's not on here, but we're going to do that also.
This book is going to be amazing.
I can't wait. I've let one person read it. And the reviews came back.
Absolutely phenomenal.
These are set to ship, I believe--
I believe December 27 would be the first ship out,
but that's a little hush-hush. I'm not even supposed to tell you that.
January 12 is the date it's officially supposed to be published and sent out.
So I can't wait.
I want to know your feedback when you get the book.
I can't wait to do a Q&A.
We're already planning our next book.
You know, probably about the FTX stuff, to be honest with you.
People are going to find how much,
how much more we've known that we've been able to talk about so far.
So that might be a new target for a book.
We've already got the outline for that as well, but it's a developing story, obviously.
You guys let me know what you think.
Are you going to come to the book tour?
We'll be setting up Eventbrites for each city so we'll know how many people to expect.
Perfect stocking stuffer for people in your lives for Christmas.
Just get that preorder receipt.
Hey, you know what you can do?
Get the preorder receipt, make a copy of it, give it to them, and then you go on the tour.
How about that?
Something to think about.
Alright, guys. That's all I got.
I can't wait to see you guys next month.
Be blessed.
BitBoy out.
I'm going on without you, BitSquad.