TJR reveals how he got into Crypto “I first learned about crypto when I was a freshman in high school. There was this senior on our football team who gave us the whole ‘Bitcoin’s going to change the world’ pitch” “He ended up getting a brand new BMW i8 with butterfly doors and the license plate said Bitcoin. Once I saw that, I was like okay… I’m sold” “From there I pursued crypto pretty hard and that’s what led me into trading. I started trading currencies, I was trading the pound against the yen for a bit and then I would trade gold as well” Banks: “What gave you the idea to do that?” TJR: “I literally looked up day trading on YouTube. I was doing that pretty much all throughout high school and then the 2020 bull run is where I made the majority of my money” “From there I gradually switched over to trading equities and doing futures…”

A machine isn’t equipment. It’s a revenue stream with a sensor stack. That’s the core insight behind the next phase of physical AI The robots are here The demand is here The capital is here What’s missing are the rails that connect productive machines to scalable finance BMW, Figure, Tesla, Amazon, K-Scale — the pattern is becoming impossible to ignore Here’s peaq’s CBO @MartinElKhouri breaking down the financing gap that holds back the Machine Economy:

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