Why Gen Z Will Turn Everything Into a Market | Threadguy
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Thread Guy, welcome to Bankless.
Thanks, man. I'm excited to be here.
How are you? Really good. Really, really good. I'm excited for this conversation mainly because I think you have probably the largest audience that is also the most non overlapping with with ours, with mine with mine here at Bankless. And I want to, like, learn a little bit more about what's going on over there. Maybe to get that started, Threat Guy is what you are known as. That's your pseudonym. I don't even know if people know your actual name.
Michael, but with stocks, if you wanna call him Michael.
You're welcome, Michael. Yeah. Nice to meet you, Michael. Likewise. I've only ever known you as Threat Guy. Would it be fair to call you the Gen Z face of crypto?
I will take it with a smile on my face. I will absolutely take it.
Yeah. It's something that I watched slowly happened, like, in 2021 was there was, a lot of people that came into the industry that, like, cared about different things than like, what we were expecting we as being like, there was really only like Bitcoin and Ethereum back then. And I that kind of has slowly manifested into its own, like, pillar of the whole entire crypto industry. And it's really centered around, like, a new generation of crypto entrance, crypto market participants that have, like, a very strong, like, Gen z. It's, like, very Gen z coded. Very, very I'm guessing that's when you
a lot of perspective on this that I as time goes on, I realize not everyone came in at the same you know, people are here for different reasons. Not everyone understands my side of the world the way I understand it. But I Mhmm. I came here in 2020 for Topshop to trade Yeah. Okay. Topshop NFTs on the flow blockchain because I was in the Internet reselling game, and the hottest game in town was sports cards. For all basically, the whole summer into 2020, sports cards were the game. Hottest game in town. Should have been buying Bitcoin, trading crypto. I didn't even know it existed. And the sport
Yeah. I think maybe listeners are, like, gearing up. It's like, oh, okay. This is going to be a conversation, a cultural conversation about how crypto is leaning into just like the casino and, like, the financial lives. And I don't really think that's why the conversation is I wanna have. I wanna have the conversation about, like, what Gen Z is, like, naturally disposed to and what parts of crypto those that resonates with the most. And I I think part of this might be well, might be every single generation is more online than the previous, but also the important factor here is COVID. Like, COV
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