Vinny Lingham
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But I think that unless you're fully dedicated to being in crypto every single day, you don't really have an edge.
Good point.
So when you're investing in crypto, it's really hard to make money if you don't have an edge.
And so I rather going back funds that are doing crypto with guys or working in the industry every single day, all their time, they're trying to pick winners myself.
I don't know whether XYZ coin and other coins and be a winner.
But when it comes to the older coins like Solana and Filecoin and Render, I got in early.
I understood those coins.
So I'm very supportive of them doing what they're doing.
But any new coins come along, I just don't have the mental capacity and bandwidth to go and relearn a whole new architecture and whatever else.
I had a, it was a good one because that was kind of the interesting point of departure with Bitcoin.
So I kind of fell out of love with Bitcoin in 2017 because of scaling limitations from the community and a bunch of things.
And it was fine, like whatever.
People can, you know, communities can go in a direction they want.
Then I met Anatoly and Raj from Solana and love the guys, first of all, really, really great guys.
And they were out raising their first round.
And I was in San Francisco.
My office was there, so I met with them.
And I got to know them very well, became an advisor to them.
You said, I should help promote Solana to people.
And I got some of my friends into it.