Marnita
Appearances
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Genesis
What is the Nexo Tunnel? I have no idea. It is a space of enjoyment, imagination, and power. It looks like a good place to take your picture to go on Instagram.
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Genesis
Yes, sir. I am connecting people to financial literacy, investments, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology.
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Genesis
OK, so you guys, I've only been in crypto for three years and I still feel like a little baby, right?
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Genesis
Okay, so check this out. I was looking for something different, right? You know, like every one of us, we struggle with day-to-day life. We're looking for something that can give us financial freedom, something we can base a foundation on, right? So I started praying. Nothing happened. All of a sudden, I'm on Facebook. Yes, Facebook, right? And I'm scrolling and I hear this voice, man.
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Genesis
And this voice is yelling about how cryptocurrency is going to bring about the greatest financial revolution that we have ever seen.
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Genesis
My cousin, Brandon Ivey. All right. He is actually a cryptocurrency and blockchain educator.
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Genesis
Oh, he was sitting here. Can you call Brandon for me? Okay, for... Oh, I don't have a card, but he's here. Okay, so check it out.
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Genesis
And it wasn't just like, let's say, people who are less fortunate. It was like people who had a lot of money. It was blacks, it was whites, it was Hispanics. And all of these people were there for a common reason. Freedom, right?
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Genesis
Okay, so check me out. I was working at the bank. $17 an hour. Talk about irony. In the credit card department of all places. That's where I was. I started learning about cryptocurrency and I walked away. I was like, this is not the way, dude. I walked away and I started learning about cryptocurrency and I thought because he's my cousin that it was going to be easy. No. Right?
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Genesis
He made me go to work. But that was the best thing he could have ever done for me.
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Genesis
He said, you got to learn this stuff, girlfriend. I'm not going to tell you. I could have had it to where I say, hey, I have $500, Brandon. Where should I put it? He said, no, no, no. do my course, learn about what cryptocurrency is. He said, do you know who Shytoshi Nakamoto is? I said, no. He said, don't ask me where to invest your money if you don't even know who that is, right?
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Genesis
Oh, yeah, absolutely. That was the first thing I encountered. I thought I was being freed, but instead I was scammed.
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Genesis
Well, OK, so I'm Polynesian. And so there was a self-made billionaire in crypto who was Tongan and I was Tongan. So that was very appealing and attractive to me. And like a dummy, we're just like, here's our money. Take our money. Like, you know, because we're just like trusting him to, you know, take the helm and guide us.
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Genesis
But he was actually a con artist and he scammed us, took all our money and ghosted us. So we lost 57K collectively as a family.
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Genesis
Yes, it is. And it took a big toll on me. And I told myself that I wasn't going to let that happen to anyone. It didn't have to just be my family. If someone was interested in learning more about crypto and I had something to share with them, then I was going to pay it forward. So then I had to take a seat and start learning and start getting educated.
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Genesis
I owned pawn shops on Maui. So I'm in the pawn industry. That's why Bitcoin made sense to me when I was first introduced to it, because Bitcoin is like digital gold.
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Genesis
No, I didn't. I love it. It's pretty amazing. I'm going to go get a Bitcoin tattoo right now in the front.
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Genesis
Yeah, Cash App paid tattoo artists to give Bitcoin tattoos for free during convention.