CoinTree is quite simply, all of your crypto addresses and social links in one place. I personally use it at cointr.ee/scottcbusiness, but more importantly I’d like to share what it’s all about and why you may want to use it for free too. While I currently use FIO, Unstoppable domains, and Ethereum name service for crypto addresses like scottcbusiness.crypto and scottcbusiness.eth where I can receive different cryptocurrencies and they route to the correct address given the wallet supports the addresses. These are not free though and they don’t support every coin either. With cointr.ee you can share all of your crypto addresses for people to donate to as well as your social links and have a picture and biography included. This is great given sites that I’ve found usually have limits to how many links you can have and have paid upgrades and it creates a perfect link for you to use anywhere, including social media profile bio links. Another sweet feature is that you can also send messages with donations so your donators can either identify themselves or anonymously send messages with tips that you can address in videos or thank them publicly as a way to incentivize your audience to donate, etc. It’s a great platform and Naomi Brockwell had it created to solve this one link free solution issue. She creates tons of content on privacy, cybersecurity, crypto, and more. I highly recommend checking out her content on LBRY or anywhere you consume content and to shout her out a thank you after you sign up for free. This way you can also avoid posting stale addresses or changing wallets. Perhaps your addresses from one year ago are drastically different now, this way you can ensure you just have one link to post and change everything on the backend. Do you use a one link hosting solution? I don’t think websites are really necessary anymore for most people these days, but what do you think? Do you know of a better solution than this? Let me know your thoughts about CoinTree and other platforms like it in the comments below and don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe. **This is a LBRY first video meaning it appears on LBRY at least 1 hour before anywhere else**

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Is a centralized exchange the best place to store your crypto? More importantly, why isn’t it a good idea and what are the alternatives? Let’s dive into these questions so you can minimize risk and keep your crypto as safe as possible. **Video Timestamps:** *00:00 Intro 00:52 Centralized Exchange 02:44 Reasons Why People Use Them 05:57 Reasons To Avoid Them 09:10 Examples 16:55 My Recommendation 21:53 Outro* ### Reasons People Use Centralized Exchanges: • Ease of use - It’s easier to do everything in one place. • Familiarity - It’s more familiar to stock market trading, ownership, and custody. • Feature-rich - Trading with leverage, options, shorts, longs, margin, derivatives, futures, etc. typically requires a centralized exchange to facilitate. Trading with leverage can help reduce custody risk too. • More convenient - Exchanges with a wide variety of altcoins allow you to easily hold everything in one place while withdrawing these may be very painstaking and require many different crypto wallets. Reasons Why To Avoid Centralized Exchanges: • Security & ownership – You actually own everything and have full control and security over it. • Centralization & gatekeeping – You have to ask them to do anything, they could require more. identification like your ID for KYC. I’ve had to previously reKYC and wait days to withdraw funds. • Targets for hacks – They are much bigger targets for hacks and social engineering than individuals. • Future regulation – They could be affected by future regulation • Lack of regulation – This allows for a lot more sketchy things to happen and enables perpetrators to more easily get away with it. • No insurance – None of your funds are insured on these platforms anyway, so it’s not any better than keeping it yourself. • Malicious behavior – No exchange or institution is perfect and above questioning. ### Examples: • Shakepay – Sell above market price and buy below market price to you with the allure of “shake pay” to shake your phone to earn cryptocurrency. • Binance, Huobi, & Poloniex - Were all involved in blocking funds to users and stealing them for a major governance shift and hostile takeover of the Steem blockchain in collusion with Justin Sun from the Tron Foundation. • QuadrigaCX – The founder stole everyone’s funds and supposedly died. • Coinbase – Requiring you to now KYC to continue using their platform. • Coinsquare – They were audited and gave users information for those with over $20,000 to the Canadian Revenue Agency for taxation. • Cryptopia being breached, shutdown, and now liquidating • Regulation – Regulation can change at any time, affecting your country and preventing you from using an exchange like with Binance & Kucoin here in Canada for specific provinces. This isn’t just for exchanges but any product or service that requires you give up control of your crypto including many gambling and crypto lending platforms. The key is to look for the use of smart contracts or some way that you are still the one totally in control of your funds and your access to them. ### Conclusion Your best bet is to store your crypto a self-custodial wallet that you own and control. There are some wallets that allow you to trade cryptocurrency and exchanges that are non-custodial that you can use without compromise. At the very least, your long-term holdings should be kept in a self-custodial wallet with offline storage methods like a physical crypto hardware wallet. I have reviewed a few wallets, but currently I use the Ledger Nano X. You can also do many other things to protect yourself like using a very strong password, using multi-factor authentication, using a VPN, never open emails related to your crypto or finances or click directly through email links, and using an email and password separate from everything else that has no identifying characteristics in the email like your name. There are many other things you can do, but this is a great start. Check out the chart on this site that explains over 12.6 billion dollars have been stolen since 2011 as of September 2018 when adjusted for inflation: https://hackernoon.com/the-12-6-billion-black-hole-are-your-assets-protected-7ee34d9c810e They also state that “exchanges lose $2.7 million every day on average, and this figure is set to increase in the future.” I will do a review of all the centralized exchanges, decentralized exchanges, swap exchanges, and wallets eventually so stay tuned! Do you leave crypto on exchanges? What wallets do you use? Let me know what you think about this in the comments below and don’t forget to subscribe! ***Disclaimer: This is not financial advice and is purely for entertainment purposes. What you see, hear, or read is my personal opinion, and any statements made are based on my views and should not be misconstrued as fact. My crypto portfolio may or may not be simulated***

Dislike fiat inflation? Ever wanted to get paid by your employer in Bitcoin? Bitwage makes this possible so I reached out to Jonathan Chester who is the cofounder and CEO there and we talked all about Bitwage and the solutions it provides to both companies and individuals. Bitwage provides the solution for companies to pay individuals and individuals to receive wages in Bitcoin. This is a solution to payroll and HR services for the new digital era. Not only does this help you get paid in a currency that isn’t inflating and thus declining in purchasing power, but it allows remote workers to receive payments significantly faster with fewer restrictions too. **Timestamps:** *00:00 Intro 00:33 Tell Us About Yourself 3:20 Is It Just For Bitcoin? 06:20 DCA Or Lump Sum Investing? 08:00 How To Get Started 09:30 What Does Bitwage Solve? 12:30 Bitcoin 401K 14:50 What Countries Support Bitwage? 15:35 Origins Of BitWage 16:31 2021 Economics 26:15 BitWage Adoption 28:50 What Is Up Next? 30:00 5 Year Vision 31:45 Bitwage Competition 32:25 Outro* **These are some of the questions we went over:** • Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? • How and when did you originally get into cryptocurrency • Can you give us a brief introduction to Bitwage? • What problem does Bitwage solve? • How did Bitwage get its name and what was the original idea or motivation to start it? • How many countries does Bitwage work in currently? • Do you offer other cryptocurrencies and if not, why is this a better option than getting paid in a stablecoin for example? • What are your thoughts on inflation and the current fiat system • Since this is essentially dollar-cost-averaging, do you personally prefer DCA over lump-sum investing? • What is your current userbase and how many companies are actually adopting this payroll model? • What are the next big updates for Bitwage to release soon or that are in the works? • Where does Bitwage fit in with other existing similar projects? • Where do you see Bitwage going in the next year? The next 5 years? • So where can everyone go to learn more about this? Check out https://www.bitwage.com/ for more information and to learn more about what they have to offer. You can follow him on Twitter @JonChest and you can follow BitWage on Twitter @Bitwage. What do you think about Bitwage? Would you like to get paid in Bitcoin? Would you rather get paid in a different cryptocurrency? Let us know if you have any further questions on Bitwage in the comments below and don’t forget to like and subscribe as well! **This is a LBRY first video meaning it shows up on LBRY before it gets published anywhere else. If you’re not on LBRY, sign up and get started here: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@ScottCBusiness:4**