 Well, Michelle, I said news. My name is Rob. What I want to do is introduce you to the future investors of crypto What I'm talking about is I got to sit down with Miss Teen Crypto Randy Hipper and to give you a sense of just how far along She is at the age of 20. She's been on Fox News not once, but twice She's interviewed the mayor of New York City. She sat down with heavyweights like Mark Yusko Go to Salloway all-coin daily crypto zombie Charlie Lee Former head of litecoin around the block and my personal favorites around the metaverse with stash And we're gonna sit down and just it's a nice insight as to where things are going and if you've ever thought That's there's a problem with crypto or you didn't understand if it's going to zero Just listen to this interview about where things are going and why the next generation is gonna take it to a Whole other levels. I have a couple of flaws at many flaws actually one of those flaws is trying to see the investment strategy From a different perspective. I've been in the game for investing for quite some time So I think it's important that we take a look at our younger counterparts to see what they're doing So I brought on Miss Teen Crypto Randy from her YouTube channel just to answer some questions Randy welcome the show Thank you for having me Rob. I'm very happy to be here. Yeah, actually. Yeah, we had a great time Like we had a good time. We had this fun little banter back and forth There was an interview gosh almost a week ago or so and then here we are We just talked about the random things that are going on in the in the crypto space and things like that We didn't really get too much into Strategies themselves Because you know, we just talked about so many different things. I'll link down in the description. Everybody can check it out And then of course today just for posterity We're taking a look at February 16th Thursday and of course, we've got a pretty good nice run-up Somehow bitcoins almost a 25k and things like that, but Randy, let's just talk into it So first of all tell let's back up. Tell everybody how you got into crypto and When you started and what your initial strategy was when you when you got into digital assets Awesome, so my journey started when I was 13 in 2016. My dad was telling me about Bitcoin and I just didn't listen to him at first. I thought he was crazy. All I heard was adult things numbers I essentially didn't think I could do anything with Bitcoin and I was pretty ignorant. I was 13 When by the time I was 16, we did our first Bitcoin transaction in 2019 And I saw how easy it was to use all you have to do is skin a QR code Copy and paste in the dress and that's it anyone anywhere in the world with an internet connection could send and receive value instantly Could go into a store they scan my phone or I scan a QR code and it changes the way we transact forever I literally know kids that throw their spare change in the garbage because it's just not usable And it's not feasible to carry around anymore and I knew, you know, the way money was going it was going to be digital So why not have control over your funds and use Bitcoin to do that? In addition to that at that kind of same time I saw I had $200 in my savings account and I learned growing up that if you kept your money in the bank You were to earn interest and that number would go up But instead what I saw was my $200 was always $200 and my purchasing power was going down So I figured why not just put that in Bitcoin. I'm not touching it anyway. What's the risk? It's $200. So that's exactly what I did and by the time I was 17 I you know was April 2020 the world was sad. It was lockdowns and I liked to go into school I loved being involved in stuff and I liked being positive and I wanted to be a part of a community So I just created the hands-on misting crypto started tweeting by November 2020 I was hitting the streets asking strangers in New York if they know about Bitcoin I started minting NFTs and now I'm 20 years old today And I you know, I'm really happy to be here and you know My goal from the start and always will be is to spread crypto and NFT adoption to Gen Z and educate the masses on cryptocurrency and NFTs I mean, I think that's the most simple thing and I think of like a Bitcoin address is just another username You know instead of just going on PayPal or Venmo and just Venmoing my friends are PayPaling my friends I could just send Bitcoin and cryptocurrency and that they're in between. There's no middlemen I know especially, you know, Gen Z we always transact with cash up We always transact with PayPal and things like that and you know sending money from one person to another with your balance That's easy. It's simple But it's when you deposit money that there's fees when you take your money out of those third-party apps You put in your bank account That's another fee you're hit with when if you transact with Bitcoin or you know Something like Litecoin where it's just fast and easy to one little fee right there Then that's it and it of course, it's peer-to-peer payments. It's just me to somebody else with no intermediary You know with Gen Z being digitally native. We understand that concept You know, I was buying iTunes gift cards to have digital money to buy digital games digital assets digital tokens to transact within games So we understand the concept of digital property if you didn't take a selfie, you weren't there We want to own our property So when it comes down to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency and being your own bank and owning your value, that's an easy concept for us to understand Yeah, see like like like for us it was you know, what's weird though All things just talked about were a little bit It was it was understandable But one thing that you said is you know, you talked to your dad He talked about saving and putting in the bank account and you're like wow It's the same amount of money that I had like for this is what's crazy Like I was told by my parents and by my grandparents the exact same thing so over I mean over Decades, it's the same advice that we've heard and now here we are and we can just see that everything is just either either Inflating away or to give us no or very little purchasing power. So it's just interesting how there's one part there But the other part is like radically different. We you okay, so you guys talked about are you talked about no middleman? I think is it because of just just the economy The economy we were in the gig economy, you know doing away like just take light like uber You know to to get rid of the middle person to call for a taxi something like that Is it just like that's just normal for everybody and Gen Z? Yeah I mean, I think a lot of like traditional taxi services are making a comeback one because I think like the Monopoly that kind of uber holds is a little crazy And I think the price surging is definitely a problem in New York City, but that's like a whole different podcast Um, I do think that you know ease of use is definitely something that Gen Z loves and we'd like instant gratification And that's what you know, Bitcoin and cryptocurrency gives us being that you know If you send a traditional transaction like a wire transfer over the weekend, you're not getting that until Monday But Bitcoin's 24-7 right so you send Bitcoin right now You'll be able to get it today whenever that confirms in 20 minutes or so So I definitely think that the instant gratification is a part of why Gen Z would gravitate towards Bitcoin and cryptocurrency And it's tradition in comparison to the traditional financial system Gotcha. Okay, so that was it. That was a good little primer. So we got that that part of the way Let's talk about because you got into it when you were 13 14, you know with your dad so you were around during the collapse roughly of 2018 and then the resurgence of 2019 2020 so take us back when you were because you got into it at that point Was that like one of those times where you're just like oh, this is just a normal thing and not a big deal You shrug it off because you know and this is the is the thing because you're so young You're like well, I got time but I like like when I got when I went through it and then some older people Like holy smokes. We went to 2017 so everything go up and then just you know bottomed out were like There's 70 80 90% gone. So talk talk us through it when you went through it when I was going through it You know, I was I was younger so the perception of money wasn't as heavy I guess as it would be for someone older, right? So the volatility didn't bother me and especially when I started my Twitter account was April 2020, right? Bitcoin was seven grand and I was going around like yeah, and I was going around to my classmates I was going around the teachers. I was begging people. Let me give you money Let me give you $10 of Bitcoin and nobody wanted to take it two people took it I actually did a video with my friend that was running for school president back then in high school And he took it I gave him $5 of Bitcoin and now he texts me all the time when it goes up So I definitely do think that again like, you know They're very interesting and the cycles are very interesting But even if you're new to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency and you haven't gone through it before do your homework Like you could see like Bitcoin going down 70 to 85 percent. That's normal That's happened so many times already that if you believe in this technology And if you went in doubt zoom out on the yearly charts, you know where Bitcoin is going You understand why it's doing this So it wouldn't really scare you the volatility when if you're looking for example 10 15 years down the road Sure that makes a lot of sense, but that's it's the longevity which is kind of it's a little bit different to think about that Especially somebody like you're well ahead of the game because if you know that already like that took me until I was like My 40s to figure that out. So yeah, it's just a longer time Well 40s into the crypto the other part for businesses. It just knew that if you just stick around do the right things Things will work out. Okay, so Randy talking about that and then moving into it Let's just talk about investment strategies. What do you do? Are you doing like a value cost averaging where you just took a big just take big lumps and just put it into every like six weeks? Do you do a dollar cost averaging and just kind of like every day every week or you just say, you know What one big spot when I was 15 years old I told my dad to put all my money into it or how'd you do it and actually talk about that and also What are you investing into if there's anything outside of Bitcoin? Yeah, so, you know, I initially when I first created my Twitter account I know I had like a few extra bucks and I was like, okay, you know, I'm gonna be missing crypto I'm gonna invest like, you know, I'm gonna really just go in, you know, go for it So I was investing before I created missing crypto, of course But you know my I had a few bucks So I obviously diversified I started with Bitcoin and I always tell people Bitcoin like coin in Ethereum Those are the core three. So that's what you know, I initially was starting off with when I was new So that's what I really started off with and I just started dollar cost averaging from there So I had my initial investment that I knew I wasn't going to touch anyway And I still don't plan on touching a lot of this stuff on buying just because I want to hold it I really believe in this space long term. However, I think if you're not looking at the charts all the time You just want to accumulate no matter where the prices because at the end of the day number go up or number go down You still want money that belongs to you, right? So dollar cost averaging I think is a great way just to accumulate for example every Friday by $20 of Bitcoin Which I think is feasible for the average person So I always recommend dollar cost averaging and that's more of what I do dollar cost average huddle dollar cause now do you invest in anything outside of Are still invest outside of Bitcoin or you said like like coin and theorems other things But any kind of alts that you're getting into and then any kind of risky degenerate plays everybody wants to know that question The risky degenerate plays like I don't really get into the risky degenerate plays like you know because I get like I'm just trying to be I'm a little more conservative sometimes But I definitely always tell people Bitcoin like when Ethereum those are my top three and if you want to get spicy I always throw in Digi byte as well because that's always a been a fit a fit like something I've been a fan of since I got into the space as well Digi byte. I remember Digi byte being being the next big thing was supposed to be it will be I believe it I'll make a comeback. I really do believe Randy I hope I hope you're right I think I have some some Digi byte somewhere and I bought it for next to nothing Probably just it's languishing on some wallet. I just had to find out where it is Okay, yeah, it's had a nice run recently if you've been looking at the charts But you know I look from the reason why is because I look at money and like again like Gen Z We want instant gratification. We want something that's gonna work right there And then like if you're spending five dollars at the coffee shop with Bitcoin That's gonna take like 15-20 minutes to confirm and you're not gonna sit in the coffee shop for 15-20 minutes to make sure this all confirms You know, that's why I like things like Litecoin Digi byte It's basically right there and then you confirm you leave and you have a good day Especially for micro transactions Absolutely, okay, so now we know so we know about Randy She's she's been in she's been this game for a long longer than people have been around been around you do Investing but it's not the very risky BGM plays very conservative You understand that it's gonna be a long-term play I gotta tell you most these people and for you watch them watch the video link in the description For for Randy's YouTube channel, but just sound off How long did it take for you before you realized those basic principles of investing and how far off are you? I think that would be the biggest Comments, I'd like to see down below and then Randy that is For this one. I will just say Before we head out of here, let's talk about your channel real quick Yeah, which you got quite a bit of videos quite a bit of things and you go live quite quite a lot It seems like let's see live streams. There they are So talk to us because I the ones that I watch it's kind of like you do a little TA You do a little basic fundamental analysis and you also did the news. What else do you guys do over here? Yeah, so the Daily Zest is relatively new show been doing it for a few months now That's Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 12 p.m. Eastern. So I go over again like I'm learning charts So I go over the charts a little bit and then I go into the news because a lot of the time if you're if you're busy You have a job, you know, whatever you keep you're not like crazy like us that are constantly on crypto Twitter So I try to just get the core news break it down simple and everyone could kind of like get their news in a nice and Positive way every day and then the Miss Teen Crypto show I started When I was 18 or 19 and that was that that's just a show to follow people's lives and how they got to where they are now Especially in crypto we all come from different places different countries different socio economic statuses And we all end up in the same place a part of the same revolution So that's why I started my show to just introduce people. How did you get here? What was your life like and I've had you know, of course Rob who is awesome people like CZ Binance Charlie leave people from CNBC Fox business and the May fighters and it's just like everyone and everyone No matter where you're from media crypto, whatever I want to know your story and it's really interesting to learn about a lot of these people because at the end of the day everybody's human and a lot of the time in crypto or in really any Industry people put others on a pedestal and forget that they're a real person I expect like all these crazy things from these people sit back guys. Everyone's a person. Let them be, you know Yeah, everyone's a person and we all make mistakes more fallible So so Randy, I'm gonna link and for you watching the video. I'm gonna link Randy's YouTube channel below also I think you've got Instagram Twitter tiktok and those things so you can follow Randy on that one and that's it Randy, thanks so much for stopping by. We appreciate it. Thank you for having me Rob You're the best and I can't wait to talk to you more in the future. Happy. Yes, we'll have you back Everybody like and subscribe all that good stuff and we'll we'll cut it off there So thanks so much for stopping by everybody. See you on the next one