Ric Edelman is a futurist. Sure, he’s additionally one of the crucial profitable monetary advisors in America, however what he’s actually obsessed with is the intersection of how we’ll reside our lives sooner or later and the present applied sciences that can get us there.
The primary time I ever noticed him converse at a reside occasion, he had the entire room in thrall to the concepts he had about robotics and the singularity. The following time I noticed him on stage he was explaining how the following era can be extra more likely to have two and even three separate careers throughout their lifetime reasonably than ever absolutely retire. He sees a brand new world the place the final remaining illnesses of the twentieth century are stamped out by science and software-driven innovation unlocks the potential for individuals to spend extra of their time how they’d like. On this model of the longer term, wealth administration corporations and monetary advisors can be radically shifting their service priorities from retirement planning to life planning.
And blockchain know-how figures prominently into the story.
I spoke with Ric yesterday (we’re planning our chat for his reside Imaginative and prescient occasion in Austin subsequent month) and we acquired to speaking about his new e-book, The Reality About Crypto. Ric didn’t write it for technologists or crypto business consultants. He wrote it for the remainder of us. For individuals who wish to perceive it sufficient in order that they will sustain. Or individuals who want to develop into consultants however, for now, merely want a background and a great grasp of the fundamentals.
The largest problem, he instructed me, was that he didn’t wish to write a e-book about an rising know-how that would develop into simply outdated. So The Reality About Crypto retains it high-level and matches in plenty of element on the broader ideas that shall be relevant now and a yr from now. Ric has written ten books, a lot of them bestsellers and he is a good communicator. He is aware of tips on how to clarify these things.
This isn’t a e-book about anarcho-capitalist ideologies or the newest crypto-libertarian utopian fever desires spreading on Twitter. It is a e-book with objective and practicality. It’s for buyers, advisors, asset managers and different professionals in associated fields. A look on the chapter itemizing makes it clear you’re going to be taught some important stuff right here: Main Base Layer Protocols, Digital Property Exchanges, Certified ITA Custodians That Maintain Digital Property, Digital Property Portfolio Monitoring Providers, Tax File Conserving and Reporting Providers for Digital Property, and so forth.
If you happen to’re in search of an simply readable e-book in regards to the present state of investing in crypto, that is the one I’d seize. I’m in chapter 4 and studying one thing on each web page to date.
The Reality About Crypto (Amazon)
