📝 The crypto starter guide

GM everyone. This is 2036, the crypto newsletter that pays you.

Today is Favorite Friday - with a spin. Instead of our favorite resources of the week, we’re gonna serve up some of our favorite crypto resources of all time 🍲.

So if you’re heading to the beach, here’s some material you can take with you to supercharge your crypto learning curve…🧠

🥢 Our All-Star Resources

What we most enjoyed over the last 6 years

Our crypto journey started a while ago. Combined, we’ve spent thousands of hours studying the why and how of crypto.

If we were to do it again, here’s where we’d start:

Resource # 1: The Crypto Mind

… a.k.a a framework for how to think about the future.

Crypto isn’t just some random technology we can gamble on. It’s much more than that. And who better to explain that than Balaji Srinivasan.

Balaji Srinivasan is:

• a former CTO of Coinbase

• a former partner at a16z (the most prestigious VC firm on the planet)

• an angel investor who was dubbed “Einstein if he had the Internet” by the guy who created the Internet browser and sparked the 2000 Internet bubble:

Balaji Srinivasan has been on the Tim Ferris podcast three times. His second appearance was the golden grand slam. And that is your first must-listen:

And if you’re feeling fly, you can also listen to his first appearance here.

Resource #2: The Crypto Investment

Aite, you’ve now got a framework for how to think about the world and the role crypto plays in it. Next, we’re gonna get you truly orange-pilled, as bitcoiners say…

And there’s no one better to help us do that than Cathie Wood.

Cathie Wood is the founder of ARK Invest, an investment manager focusing solely on investing in innovation.

Here at 2036, we stand by our claim that Cathie Wood is the most badass woman in finance.

We love Cathie and ARK because a) they’re awesome, and b) they publish all of their research for free.

Their research has lots of graphs and colors instead of huge chunks of (boring) text. Everyone can handle it.

So your second task will be to read the following documents - in this order:

#1, #2, #3, #4.

Resource #3: The Crypto Reality

So how do we know that what we’ve read so far is actually happening?

For that, we need to look at the economy.

And that’s what Raoul Pal will do for us.

Raoul Pal is a macro investor who does a phenomenal job breaking down complex macro narratives in the economy into something we can all understand.

So your last go-to resource will be this one:

The thesis of the video has been updated here, by the way.

Alright, so with these, you should know more about crypto than 95% of people.

But if you’re feeling really frisky, here are a few more resources to go even deeper…

• Michael Saylor on Lex Friedman

• Arthur Hayes on What Bitcoin Did (Arthur’s newsletter is the only newsletter, besides 2036, of course, that we recommend everyone to read)

• Naval Ravikant & Chris Dixon on Tim Ferriss

• The Ultimate Macro Framework with Raoul Pal

Happy reading/watching.

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🏆 The winner of this week’s task

Earn $30 in BTC/ETH for creating a bitcoin & ETH wallet

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s task.

Here’s a list of all the participants as well as the winner.

Congratulations to the winner 👏 - your $15 in BTC and $15 in ETH are on their way.

Paid tasks will resume next week.

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