Understanding Blockchain Freedom - Episode 001: Introduction
Welcome to the first video in a new series I'm calling Understanding Blockchain Freedom.
You can share this with your friends via http://understandingblockchainfreedom.com
In this video series, I plan to explain cryptocurrencies and blockchains and why they matter.
You'll learn how to buy them, secure them, transfer them, and trade them.
Though I could put these behind a paywall and create email drip campaigns to sell them as informational videos, I'd rather make this content available for free for everyone. I hope to provide enough value that some will decide to reward me for my time.
SBD/STEEM: @lukestokes
Bitcoin: https://onename.com/lukestokes
BitShares: luke-stokes
Ethereum: lukestokes.eth
Big thank you to my friend and neighbor Nathan Brumley who created the music in the video. You can view his work here. The intro image was taken by me during our stay in Costa Rica.
Next Episode:
Please let me know what you think of this project. I hope it's useful to you, your friends, and your family. I have some more videos in the series I've recorded which I'll edit and release as time allows. I appreciate you resteeming episodes of this project as well as sharing them on your social media outlets so we can educate more people about the decentralized future.
As a programmer and Steemit witness, I want to help bridge the gap between technology and understanding. I'm constantly working to improve my communication skills to help others. Thank you for giving me a witness vote.
will look forward to your other educational videos...I am a father of 1 human baby and 3 doggie babies recently loss my job and i am trying to go full time on steemit ..fortunately I have a few months worth of rent saved up...with that being said I am looking forward to learning more from you and will give back once I am self sustainable...thank you for your video!
Followed!
Good luck, but please understanding "Going full time on Steemit" is not a great plan, IMO. I know many have tried it and this place is super exciting for sure, but it's still a blogging platform. I'm able to do what I do here because I work for myself, I've paid off my house, and I'm currently in a position of high autonomy. People living pay check to pay check don't have that same opportunity.
The strongest advice I can give you is to get a job first, pay off debt, and be in a financial place of security so you can fully enjoy Steemit and the community of amazing relationships here.
Hi Luke... Great advice and will be listening to the other videos in this series.
Finished reading Your latest Post today, August 12th, 2017 and the more I listen to You AND go back to say, this video series, the more I learn & understand.
Even though I have almost 40 years of financial experience some of the experience with a number of the Fortune 100...
I still feel somewhat ignorant BECAUSE there is a significant "Learning Curve" because "Blockchain Technology" covers such a vast/wide array of applications in the world... there are ideas/concepts that most likely still have not been created or thought of YET...
Thanks Again for explaining things in "layman terms" because it makes it easier to understand sometimes very complex issues AND the way You explain things directly "reflects" the high level/degree of Your comprehension & understanding.
One last point...
One of the BEST Votes I've ever given was to YOU, as a Witness !!
Have a Good Weekend with Your Family & Thank You 4 giving back...
Cheers !!
Thank you. :)
This is complicated stuff which I've been trying to wrap my head around since early 2013. Any knowledge you gain in this area puts you well ahead of most everyone else out there, so stay encouraged and keep learning. Sleep is something we'll find time to do eventually. Hahah. :)
YES... sleep is something I've been missing a bit.
Work between 12 to 16 hours/day researching crypto markets... have currently made a little over a 10 fold increase over about the last 75 days and currently holdings are just a bit under $100k... Will buy a bit more STEEM over the coming weeks and delegate some of it towards of the P.A.L. community.
Again, Appreciate the guidance in Your Posts.
Cheers Luke !!
absolutely fantastic work @lukestokes! You are a champion!
Thank you!
This is very generous of you to share your knowledge and experience with us. Worth sharing with my friends. Hopefully one day they will realize what they have been missing for so long. And I have a nice place to go if I have any questions too. Thanks!
You're welcome and thanks for voting for my witness!
Of course. Good luck and have fun with it ;)
Finally something I can share with my steemit-suspicious english-speaking friends. They can't coprehend the fact that you could get paid for GIVING your intellectual and brain power to writing and blogging and POSTING it. Facebook has made their souls cold lazy.
Hah! Yeah, the series is going to touch on just a bit of philosophy to help people think more about what value actually is and why something like cryptocurrency is even possible. I hope this series is really useful to you and others.
Amazingly awesome idea. I desperately need this information and I look forward to rewarding you as I profit from it :)
Bring on number 2!
Sounds good to me, Jason. Thanks for the encouragement.
are you going to set an approximate time for your videos? or you just release them as you make them?
Thanks a good question. I haven't yet set a schedule because I have a full-time job running a business, hanging with my three kids, a wife, and various other responsibilities. I think for now it's going to be somewhat random as I get to publishing them. If you subscribe on YouTube with notifications, you should get alerts when new videos come out.
already subscribed
thank you very much, looking forward to watch them.
Good post @lukestokes
Every person who is busy, working on to enlighten the public about cryptocurrency, is to me a front line soldier in the battle against fake money.
Keep going my friend!!
I like the sound of that. :) Thank you.
I like this video a lot although I almost closed it when I saw that horrible 90s intro with sunset. If you are serious about making more of these videos I can maybe create nice animated intro for you (After Effects).
Thanks for the feedback. I'm not at all a graphics person and have a friend playing around with some logo ideas. I didn't want to wait until everything is perfect to get this information out there though. I wonder how many share your opinion. I actually liked it. Hahah.
Sorry for sounding harsh but in my eyes the intro really can not be worse :D Holla at me if your friend doesn't deliver. Creating some simple animated logo/intro for your series would be an easy job that I can do in an hour or so...
STEEM will win with people like you.
Thanks :)
Really cool, good luck with new and exciting endeavor! Will be closely following this series... It looks like I was the first one to subscribe to Youtube channel :)
Very cool! Thanks for subscribing.