LogOn Cryptoboosters WEB
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- LogOn Cryptoboosters WEB
- August 16, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: LogOn: Crypto Boosters TV/R) HEADLINE: LogOn: Crypto Community Not Scared of Rocky Times TEASER: Conference pulls in crypto experts from around the world. PUBLISHED AT: BYLINE: Deana Mitchell CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: AUSTIN, Texas VIDEOGRAPHER: Deana Mitchell PRODUCER: Deana Mitchell SCRIPT EDITORS: Michelle Quinn, MPage VIDEO SOURCE (S): Original VOA, Storyblocks PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO _X_ TRT: 1:57 VID APPROVED BY: Reifenrath TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR Please place in HFR-LogOn after the 2nd edit. Thank you. ]] ((INTRO)) [[One of the largest conferences for the cryptocurrency and blockchain community was recently held in Austin, Texas, attracting a wide spectrum of people involved. Deana Mitchell gets the scoop.]] ((BROLL: Wall Street and NYSE-Storyblocks)) ((NARRATOR)) After 20 years on Wall Street, Akash Patel now works for an investment firm based in India, which he says trades between $100 and $200 million a day in crypto currency. The promise of crypto, he says, is to offset the risks inherent with government-controlled currencies. ((Akash Patel, AlphaGrep Vice President)) ((Crypto graphic chart from Storyblocks)) “If you're in some place like Argentina or if you're in an African country, how do you protect yourself against your own government making bad decisions? And that's why you decide to invest in something like Bitcoin or Ethereum.” (BROLL: Conference)) ((NARRATOR)) Around the world, investors big and small are talking about crypto currency, which works through computers and without a central authority. While the value of cryptocurrencies has dropped drastically in recent months, enthusiasts say the momentum for crypto is only going to grow. At a recent gathering of crypto fans, Adam Charles was meeting with Trekk, a YouTube star he promotes who specializes in information videos about crypto. ((Adam Charles, Marketer)) “99% of the world’s population learns how to download a wallet and buy their first crypto currency off of YouTube, so we gotta make sure it’s safe and also fun. Cause if it ain't fun, they ain’t gonna to watch it.” ((BROLL: Conference)) ((NARRATOR)) Olivia Janisch, a crypto investor who works in brand strategy in Los Angeles, says she tells people to enter the crypto market based on their own comfort with risk. ((Olivia Janisch, Crypto Investor)) “Just read, listen to podcasts, educate yourselves, figure out what your comfort level with the risk is." ((BROLL: NFT Gallery and DAO House)) ((NARRATOR)) Murray Newlands, an NFT artist and business adviser with over 1 million Twitter followers, says the low barriers to create NFTs —digital assets like artwork that are registered on the blockchain— and trade crypto have allowed a lot of people to jump into the market. ((Murray Newlands, NFT Artist)) “Regulation is coming. We know regulation is coming. It's been a little bit of the Wild West, so, as regulation comes in, that will provide barriers for people but also opportunities for other people.” ((BROLL: Conference)) ((NARRATOR)) How will this burgeoning industry change with this new regulation? Only time will tell, but for these crypto boosters, the future is bright. For VOA News, Deana Mitchell, Austin, Texas.
- Transcript/Script ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: LogOn: Crypto Boosters TV/R) HEADLINE: LogOn: Crypto Community Not Scared of Rocky Times TEASER: Conference pulls in crypto experts from around the world. PUBLISHED AT: BYLINE: Deana Mitchell CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: AUSTIN, Texas VIDEOGRAPHER: Deana Mitchell PRODUCER: Deana Mitchell SCRIPT EDITORS: Michelle Quinn, MPage VIDEO SOURCE (S): Original VOA, Storyblocks PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO _X_ TRT: 1:57 VID APPROVED BY: Reifenrath TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR Please place in HFR-LogOn after the 2nd edit. Thank you. ]] ((INTRO)) [[One of the largest conferences for the cryptocurrency and blockchain community was recently held in Austin, Texas, attracting a wide spectrum of people involved. Deana Mitchell gets the scoop.]] ((BROLL: Wall Street and NYSE-Storyblocks)) ((NARRATOR)) After 20 years on Wall Street, Akash Patel now works for an investment firm based in India, which he says trades between $100 and $200 million a day in crypto currency. The promise of crypto, he says, is to offset the risks inherent with government-controlled currencies. ((Akash Patel, AlphaGrep Vice President)) ((Crypto graphic chart from Storyblocks)) “If you're in some place like Argentina or if you're in an African country, how do you protect yourself against your own government making bad decisions? And that's why you decide to invest in something like Bitcoin or Ethereum.” (BROLL: Conference)) ((NARRATOR)) Around the world, investors big and small are talking about crypto currency, which works through computers and without a central authority. While the value of cryptocurrencies has dropped drastically in recent months, enthusiasts say the momentum for crypto is only going to grow. At a recent gathering of crypto fans, Adam Charles was meeting with Trekk, a YouTube star he promotes who specializes in information videos about crypto. ((Adam Charles, Marketer)) “99% of the world’s population learns how to download a wallet and buy their first crypto currency off of YouTube, so we gotta make sure it’s safe and also fun. Cause if it ain't fun, they ain’t gonna to watch it.” ((BROLL: Conference)) ((NARRATOR)) Olivia Janisch, a crypto investor who works in brand strategy in Los Angeles, says she tells people to enter the crypto market based on their own comfort with risk. ((Olivia Janisch, Crypto Investor)) “Just read, listen to podcasts, educate yourselves, figure out what your comfort level with the risk is." ((BROLL: NFT Gallery and DAO House)) ((NARRATOR)) Murray Newlands, an NFT artist and business adviser with over 1 million Twitter followers, says the low barriers to create NFTs —digital assets like artwork that are registered on the blockchain— and trade crypto have allowed a lot of people to jump into the market. ((Murray Newlands, NFT Artist)) “Regulation is coming. We know regulation is coming. It's been a little bit of the Wild West, so, as regulation comes in, that will provide barriers for people but also opportunities for other people.” ((BROLL: Conference)) ((NARRATOR)) How will this burgeoning industry change with this new regulation? Only time will tell, but for these crypto boosters, the future is bright. For VOA News, Deana Mitchell, Austin, Texas.
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date August 16, 2022 10:55 EDT
- Byline Deanna Mitchell
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America