 From New York, it's theCUBE. Covering Blockchain Week. Now, here's John Furrier. Hello, I'm John Furrier with theCUBE. We're back here on the ground for coverage of Consensus 2018, part of Blockchain Week, New York. And we've got some amazing action going on here. We've got Omar Bam, who's with Crypto. C-R-Y-P, P-Zero. He also got a great podcast. Great to see you. Crypto News, you're doing a lot of great social. Love the hat. Sweat, looking good. Thank you so much, thank you so much. Yeah, this is a swag. Actually, a follower of mine actually sent me, so I get these random boxes of the shirts, but I love them because my entire closet is crypto shirts, and now Goodwill, because I donate all these crypto shirts. That's awesome. Well, great to have you on. I'll pleasure. You're celebrity, but you're really an example of a rising, new kind of stakeholder in the ecosystem and the community. You're producing content. You're producing with the community. It's a co-development model. You're building a network. Yeah. Not audience, they're already there, but you've got a network. Yeah, it's that thing where you want to find that niche, you know, and we've been blessed some of us to find this space pretty early on and develop that presence before others perhaps could. It's just a blessing. So what's your take on all this place? I've got to ask you. What's your thoughts, massive proud? What's the analysis? You know, I was here last year, and we were expecting, I think it was 2,750 last year. This year, 4,000. Turns out to be 8,000 people, and a big trending Twitter post today was, do you think that you're getting work done? This is by Amin Gunsir. He's one of the big blockchain. He looks at the code very deeply in different blockchains. And so he said, do you feel like you're getting work done with that many people, or do you feel like you're not? And more people were actually getting work done. I think it was like 62% to 38% to vote. So even with the amount of people here, people are close, tight, and still getting work, you know. Well, one of the things, and this brings up a good point. I mean, when you're face to face at a physical event, you have engagement at a whole nother level. It's not digital. Not digital face to face. Yeah. I was down in the cafeteria for the little cafe. It's supposed to be public, open for when you buy your lunch. It was like a conference room. I couldn't sit down. People having meetings. There is so much business being done, relationships being built. So this community really is kind of getting work done. And a lot of it's relationship based. Sure. Yes, absolutely. And you know, it's a lot of it to do with old relationships, blossoming into new relationships. It's that I trust somebody who I already trust. So a lot of these guys have been coming to conferences together for years and you get introduced to somebody, and then it just works that way. And that's kind of a beautiful, it's like a mesh network. It's not just coming here and trying to, you know, like necessarily chill. It's like, oh, here's my friend who I trust. We went to school together and naturally automatically, maybe it's a human thing. We just connect to that person a little bit easier. Talk about the work you're doing. You got a YouTube channel, you got a podcast. You got to do some Facebook. What's the format of the show? What's your style? What are you looking for? What kind of content are you producing? Obviously it's very engaging, it's very popular. What's your style? Well, originally my style was a belief that the economy was going to collapse. So I was a big investor in stocks. I was trading and I was trying to save my 401k. Believe it or not, this is a while back and I was thinking how do I grow my capital and preserve it? I was worried that we're gonna have another collapse. Like 2008 was the beginning of it. So I thought about the future, the singularity and this one point where we look at Moore's Law where computing prices get cut in half for chips. Every year and a half was the original roadmap. Prices cut in half and basically how do we connect that old world collapsing perhaps into this new infrastructure and cryptocurrency came at that point where I had already had some Bitcoin and Ethereum was coming out and I realized Ethereum could very well provide that base protocol for the next internet of things. And the developer community uptake has been phenomenal with Ethereum. Yeah, it's incredible, yeah. So let's do a little show right now. Omar, what's going on? How's it going? What's the content like? What's the coolest thing you're seeing here? Share some stories from the show. What do you've seen? Let me see, I did interviews with some huge people. So it's so cool just to run into like the creator of Litecoins right there, giving out stickers for his crypto magical friends, creator of Monero, talking about how he lost all his crypto in a boating accident to me yesterday, talking to some big trader dudes, hearing about some stuff I can't even talk about like because I promise that we did a verbal NDA and I honor those. But I don't know, it's everywhere you look there's something to learn. And it's open. It's got everything into it. I mean I love this wavering because one, technically it's some magical shit happening and it's happening big time. Starting out and it's growing fast. Business side, radical disruption, the business models. Community has been open source, kind of an extension to open source communities. So yeah, and then you got a glam factor, money. I mean money, I mean, what is it missing? You know, I had a friend actually tell me that he got kidnapped. He got kidnapped, tied up and held at gunpoint for three hours for all his cryptos. We lost all his crypto. So mostly the people who are like way up there don't do all that flaunting and showy stuff. You look at the big developers aren't rolling up in the Lambos and Ferraris. Generally you want to be pretty humble and modest about your earnings art. So I think it's a, maybe it's a sign of like that Floyd Mayweather phenomenon. Let me show it off. Yeah, let's glance it. But mostly like I think it's that, you know, when you work for somebody, you wear a suit. When you work for yourself, no offense. I think you look great. You got the jeans on. I'm not wearing a tie. Exactly. And then when you work for yourself, you can show up in pajamas. So. Well, I got to agree with you that I love the Mojo. And I think one of the things that's notable in this industry is the pioneers, the guys who's making the money on the front end, they're developers too. They're not just, you know, guys rolling the financial Wall Street kind of thing. They're making money and they're paying it forward. Right? There's a huge pay it forward culture here. And I think that is, I think the differentiator that no one sees is that that ethos is self governing. Yeah, I think there'll be a mainstream adoption pretty quickly. But still right now it's tight knit. It's very cool. And it's a pay it forward culture. This is mainstream to me, man. Two years seeing this space just blossom. Well, we're getting there. I think it's the early adopter phase. Maybe a little bit of early adopter, early majority in the United States. It depends where you are in the world. In LA, everyone has at least heard of Bitcoin or has some Bitcoin where I live. It wasn't the case before when I was living in Miami. Well, I'm a big fan of your work. We showed you the Clipper tool. We're gonna get that to you. I love what you're doing. Thank you so much for sharing it to me. I have to have you on my own show. Yeah, what's the URL? Give a plug. What's the URL, YouTube channel, coordinates, how do people get in touch with you? You can go to youtube.com slash C-R-Y-P-T zero. So it's basically crypto, but without a zero. You can go to Twitter so you can follow me. Without a no. It's crypto without a no or with a no? Not the letter O, just the letter, the number zero. Number zero, okay. So C-R-Y-P-T zero, then you go to crypto's news. Same way, I'm always crypto with a zero at the end instead of a letter. So crypto's news, Instagram, Twitter, we're on Steemit, crypto, everywhere. Well, let's do some code development together. You're now a CUBE alumni, welcome to the CUBE. Thank you so much for having me. We just met, but I'm really excited to have met you. Love the new producers, we love code developing. We do it out in the open. We're in the open right now. We're on the floor here at Consensus 2018 bringing you all the coverage. We're going to do 10 more interviews tomorrow. I did eight interviews last night. We interview anything that moves that's high quality. Omar, thanks for coming on. It's the CUBE. I'm John Furrier, thanks for watching. Thanks, John. Live from the campus of MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's the CUBE. Covering the MIT Chief Data Officer and the Information Quality Symposium. Now, here's your host, Stu Miniman.