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Nick Spanos Founder — Bitcoin Center NYC 2013 CEO— Blockchain Technologies Corp. Co-Founder— Zap.org The Storm that is Shifting the Sands of Geoeconomics

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Nick SpanosFounder — Bitcoin Center NYC 2013

CEO— Blockchain Technologies Corp.Co-Founder— Zap.org

The Storm that is Shifting the Sands of Geoeconomics

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MY FIRST COMPUTER

1978

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JUST LIKEMY FIRST MODEM

1979

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POLITICAL DATA

Sold Voter Data since the 1980’sEDO (Election Day Operations)

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DOMAIN NAMESTHE FUTURE IS

DIGITAL

In the 90’s I bought a lot of

different domains.

Digital Scarcity

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ALWAYS EARLY

I built No More

Hotels/GetaRoom in 1997

&

LiveryCab in 2008

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THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BROUGHT US

VANDERBILT, CARNEGIE & ROCKEFELLER

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INNOVATION ASKING FOR PERMISSION

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INNOVATION WITHOUT PERMISSION

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CENTRALIZATION

- Moses {pbuh}, led his people away from centralization

- plagues

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BEGINNINGS

The blockchain of our DNA

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“WITHOUT PERMISSION” COMPETING CURRENCIES REVOLUTION

THIS IS A MONETARY REVOLUTION.

Meaning of θάρρος include courage, mettle, guts, nerve, heart, spunk, grit, elation, bravery.

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• World’s First live cryptocurrency exchange, est. 2013

• Just 100 feet from New York Stock Exchange

• Set the stage for startups using Bitcoin’s blockchain distributed ledger in other applications: i.e. Dogecoin, now $80+ Billion

• As seen in the feature film:

“Banking on Bitcoin”

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BITCOINIZATION: onboarding the Mayor of Bitcoin, Francis Suarez

A. https://communitynewspapers.com/biscayne-bay/blockchain-centers-grand-opening-attracts-local-international-leaders/B. https://coincentral.com/miami-blockchain-center/

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BITCOINIZATION

COVID-19 caused governments to print tremendous amounts of money

- leading half the world’s population to ask:- “What is Money” {given that my 401K isn’t worth much}

- This accelerated the adoption of Cryptocurrencies- this caused CB to develop their own CDBCs as a last ditch

effort to thwart the speed of decentralization

But it’s too late, the Genie is out of the bottle

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February 2018

World Government Summit Keynote on Oil

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February 2018 Warren Buffet’s Statement

World Government Summit Keynote on Oil

Digital currency Bitcoin may have taken a serious hit after skyrocketing towards a $20,000 value in late 2017 yet cryptocurrency experts are

predicting a bright future lies ahead.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett knows a thing or two about making bucket loads of cash, and is one of those who have doused the flames of

investors predicting big returns by claiming the world’s leading cryptocurrency is doomed to fail.

The chairman and chief executive of multi-billion-dollar conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway insists “cryptocurrencies will almost certainly come to

a bad ending”.

That has been hotly disputed at the World Government Summit in Dubai from those locked into the industry who are predicting the market cap

could double December’s high point of around $600 billion in 2018.

Bitcoin has halved in value in just weeks, currently trading at about US$8,500 (Dh31,000).

“Warren Buffett is good at renting furniture, but this is a very different system,” said Nick Spanos, founder of Bitcoin

Centre, New York City.

“Bitcoin is the goose that laid the golden cryptocurrency, and because of its success last year it has helped the emergence of hundreds of smaller

currencies.

“We should believe in bitcoin more than the currencies offered by central banks. History shows that something that is scarce, like bitcoin, has

value.

“Cryptocurrency is the people’s declaration of monetary independence."

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Blockchain is a Family Tree for

Data

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- Buy Bitcoin

- Sell Bitcoin

- Exchange Integration

2-Way Bitcoin ATM

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Since launching the Bitcoin Center NYC in 2013, Blockchain Tech Corp has grown to become one of the leading companies in the blockchain space offering some of the most innovative solutions.

Zap bridges the gap between real world data and diverse smart contract platforms. Zap has a powerful toolset for creating secure, reliable smart contract oracles from APIs and other streaming data.

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• Spoke at the Venezuelan bank on smart contract oracles coinciding with the proposed “oil-backed” digital currency

• Tying value of a digital currency to a real world asset is a good concept in principle, but flawed in this case:

Unharvested reserves still in the ground are not a viable “reserve” to back a currency. The currency must be redeemable for the natural resource.

Blockchain’s Beginnings in Energy

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● Oracle toolkit, making it easy to connect real world (off-chain) data to a smart contract.

● Oracle peer-to-peer platform, where users can buy, sell and subscribe to data feeds

● Future birthplace of all future Ðapps because everyone can now easily connect off-chain real world data to smart contracts

Triggering smart contracts with real

world data.

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Hedge Against Runway Printing & Inflation

Since 1913, the dollar has lost 96% of its value…

If in 2021 you purchased an item for $1.00 then

in 1913 that same item would cost $0.04 cents.

About 20% of all US dollars were printed in 2020.1913 2021

Bitcoin is a monetary invention that can only be compared to the discovery of fire.

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Investing

Opportunities to Gain Capital

DeFi

Investing, Staking, Lending, Yield Farming

New methods of generating income have been

created as a result of crypto-economics.

Staking

Lending Yield Farming

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DeFi Stats

Total Value Locked….. $41.34BLending Interest/Year….. $703.9MDebt Outstanding….. $6.35BBitcoin used in DeFi….. 173,930 BTC or $8.25B USDWrapped bitcoin dominance…..73%

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ORACLIZATION

TYING THE 3-DIMENSIONAL WORLD TO EVENTS IN THE BLOCKCHAIN

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