During episode 362, host B.L. Ochman interviews Shelly Palmer, expert on cryptocurrency and the role it will play in marketing and commerce.

Among the topics we cover in this interview:
 - Defining basic cryptocurrency terms
- What is DeFi?
- What’s a smart contract?
- What is de-centralized banking?
- How does blockchain work?
- Is the IRS watching crypto?
- Crypto taxes
- What are stable coins?
- What are NFTs?
- How NFTs can be used
- NFTS: financial freedom for artists
- Crypto democratizes the art biz
- Crypto & Web 3.0
- How brands can use crypto
- Brands have NFT FOMO
- El Salvador using crypto as currency
- Bitcoin is volatile
- What’s a hodler?
- Understanding Tokenomics
- War over decentralized finance is coming
- Impact of decentralizing finance
- Role of the metaverse
- Metaverse is a shiny new object

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• https://beyondsocialmediashow.com/362
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