David Gokhshtein on esports and blockchain

0:19I'm excited to dive deep with you today on a number of exciting topics but if you could start the interview by just giving a little background on yourself how you got into entrepreneurial ventures tech and into politics background is pretty much in automotive industry I've been in automotive industry for about 10 plus years at the same time though I got interested in

0:42black gene cryptocurrencies and around 2014 started studying it got interested and got into it and here ever since now essentially what I love doing an oxy that's great and you know I think we have a like-minded idea towards you know how we want to see this industry

1:11grow and I've been working on media myself since about the same time could you give the viewers a little insight into you know what did you want to see for the industry when you started GOx teen lifestyle and crypto magazine and you know what if what's the sort of image that the audience portrays the magazine at right now I mean the magazine was started to go ahead and

1:34provide an outlet which is extremely blunt so you know we're gonna call it how it is we're not and we might offend some people that we actually know but we're going to call it as it is we're gonna provide super education on crypto blockchain and also you know what we're all stuck in the space 24/7 crypto blockchain what we're all into currency Bitcoin you know you know what's ripple

2:03doing but at the end of the day you know you have to get away from that Polly and that's what the lifestyle part comes in because to me personally like I'd want to read in the magazine about clothing or traveling and if you ever pick up in the magazines free you can pick it up you can see exactly what we do where you know it incorporates Krypton but it also shows you the world

2:32which I like and we just go out of bounds with it totally and I really like what you guys are doing with that partially because Krypto is bringing the world together through globalization and breaking down barriers but also being blunt about it in the way you're approaching it because throughout the last few years there's been some hype cycles and a lot of

2:53people although it's helped gain interest in the industry you know there's only so much hype people can have if you're hyping up things usually that leads to shortfalls as well so to be to be blunt about it and feed direct and to of course be educational because it is a very technical industry and we're still early on there's a lot of industry knowledge that people need to

3:15sort of get before they you know put their money where their mouth is so have you guys been focused on like super basic educational cryptocurrency intros or also for people that are in the industry as well we're trying to we're trying to build something where people stop focusing on price because you know do you know what bitcoin is do you know what you know like coin is like

3:42people don't they're focused on the price and I understand 95% of the people that jumped into 2017 it's all about the price and obviously the market came down some people left some people called you know certain things felt like we've got a word garbage but at the end of the day nobody actually educated themselves on cryptocurrency and blockchain so that's

4:09essentially what gotcha media does and watching magazine especially we educate and we do basic education that's you know basic 101 so what this cryptocurrency represents and you know what is blocked you so we try to give you the beginners cart and then we go from there it's that's really it and that's all services also let me go ahead and provide services

4:35you know we focus on basic education so we keep it simple person that's great and yeah and I know you mean despite the prices going down it's nothing that hasn't happened before with things you know for example Amazon which dropped ninety five percent but it had the fundamentals to remain in the Internet industry from when it started and now you know it's a trillion dollar

4:59company and something like not saying that this is what's going to happen but something like aetherium has sort of followed in those same footsteps it's had a solid foundation it has a lot of fundamental value with smart contracts and removing counterparties and you know automating processes and it's also dropped 95 percent in value but there's a lot to learn about that technology and

5:23the advantage it has just as Amazon has an advantage of getting things to your door you know the next day so who do you do you what do you see for 2020 as we now move into the new year in terms of some of the large projects actually delivering products and services into the mainstream that people that aren't familiar with the intricacies of cryptocurrency will actually start to

5:46use and take advantage of I hope I was expecting a lot of these projects to start delivering now you know we've gone through the crypto you know crypto winter as they call it a lot of you'll see a lot of the projects that'll stay here for the long term focused on building their projects and making them more making them better period 2020 I

6:20see a lot of those projects that you know had the eye cos I personally see them disappearing I feel like 50 percent of those I see OS and ayios now will essentially disappear in 2020 and then you'll you'll finally see the Amazons like you spoke about earlier and which would be like Bitcoin litecoin really do believe in ripple and XRP to go ahead and you know take it to the

6:52next level obviously we know about you know all their partnerships especially MoneyGram so like projects that are working and not focusing on their price and I talked a lot of projects they're not focused on the price they're focused on their projects yeah I spent 2020 those projects will stay there prices will increase I and the other ones obvious you know they will no longer be

7:19in this space will be pretty much bad holders of those crypto currencies that we bought into in 2017 listen I bought into some of the height I tell people that all the time I bought into you know 2017 you don't know which wants to go ahead and pick it was just you know oh my god look at the white paper the white paper was designed you know beautiful

7:39you know it was like Picasso looking at a Picasso painting and then you know six months later they're talking about they're shutting down or they were hacked or you know their co-founder ran away you know so at the end of the day research is essential when is it people say do your own research no don't listen to you know and there's no offense I have a lot of friends well I guess a lot

8:06of friends on social media no you know I probably speak to all the time more than people in real life about you know cryptocurrency and blockchain but I wouldn't go ahead and sit back and get my own information from somebody dressed up in a chicken especially when you're investing money you know an avatar that has a chicken or Gumby display on it I would avoid that and really like look

8:30into listen you don't want to read my magazine that's fine you don't want to read actually magazine that's fine this there's plenty of other sources that you can go ahead and turn to turn to you on YouTube you know we can turn to other outlets that provide real education without referral links okay to go ahead and educate you on some of the most fantastic projects that I've seen

8:53personally in my 30 year 30 years on this planet yep that's great well you know I think that you guys have are on the right track for the magazine you know and it's a free magazine so obviously there's a little bit of incentive to get some insight into the way that you guys approach the industry and I think you guys have the right approach but you're not all just

9:15about cryptocurrency and it is a lifestyle magazine and you've branched even further into other emerging trends and I just want to touch on this briefly about the eSports trend right because I've noticed it in Canada as well that after the blockchain trend you know wasn't the number one trend it started moving into eSports as well and I know this is the same in

9:38America and you guys have dove into that a little bit can you touch on how you've got involved in eSports so far so I've always wanted to put my hand into eSports I've been talking about this for about three to four years and but first you have to learn about it you know you can't just dive in I'm still learning but you know I felt comfortable enough

10:00to go ahead and you know reach out to major gaming and you know we inked a deal to go ahead and form a partnership major gaming has the number two team in Gears but those who know about sport you know about video games gears they have the number two gears team in the world not the United States the world and it's just a cool they have the eSports model has more viewership than

10:33the NBA right now so to get those eyes my thinking was to get those eyes you know the 18 35 year old crowd they're older but let's just take the 18 to 35 year old crowd and bring them into the crypto space for because especially that's what we're doing here you know to bring them into the crypto space now you're bringing a new crowd like you know I talked about this about

11:01conferences and not to go off record row but I'm gonna do this real quick you know we go to all these conferences you see the same face the same face same speakers in facing speaker right now you bring in about 65 million viewers into the crypto space core interested in crypto and now you get to educate them and also the way it integrates you know I love the eSports players they play

11:25these games you had you know the kid I'm sorry I forget your name but he went three million dollars report me yeah three million dollars okay that's that's a lot of one and yet there's a lot of all these there's a lot of these tournaments and these kids don't get paid yeah another day they don't get paid so what better than to incorporate blocky and some more contracts and to

11:54eSports to make sure that once that event is over you are paid for sure so that's you know besides being in love with the entire industry I'm not really good at video games you know you can probably beat me in Call of Duty but in general like to be an eSports player and to go into something win and make sure that you actually get that money back or get your prize money that's a hell of a

12:21thing and I think blockchain and blotching can't solve that problem smart contracts can't solve that problem of you know tournament runners getting away with taking all the money and not giving or painting out to the teams nor the players or vice versa where the teams don't play the payers so yeah well it's really interesting because gamers sort of almost had the first versions of

12:45cryptocurrency with in-game currencies and then the first cryptocurrency exchange that got huge was the mount GOx which is the Magic the Gathering online exchange which was from a video game as well so there is that affiliation but eSports has just grown so large that as you said it's practically the second largest sport in America you know ahead of all of these major traditional sports

13:09that and people still have no idea how big that it's going to get because it's not at its peak yet so to be able to bridge those two industries in an industry of gamers that are already attracted to technology and can see the benefits I think that would be an easy easy integration so that's great that you guys are getting into it you know it's it's something that's lepton in

13:32reality because it's a it's a multi-billion dollar business it's not just so you know this little you know section here you know that you know at most you earn a million don't know there's some multi-billion dollar business in a building an arena I'm talking about an arena the size of that maybe the Staples Center to go ahead and have Jordans okay like this is a major

13:55major player and like people are sleeping on it so you know that's why for me that it was a huge thing to go ahead and partner up what meter gaming especially having the second you know second best team in the world to go ahead and you know expand and you know at the same time spread the word about you know cryptocurrency it's it's it's just another avenue to go ahead and have

14:19our voices heard that's awesome David well we only have limited time so I want to jump to the next topic here I know that you are have brought up your congressional candidacy in New York as a Republican can you briefly touch on you know what inspired you to do this and how is it going so far so what it started off as like you know we're having a meeting you know general

14:43meeting when you know gosh seen meteor members and you know Vinnie the co-founder Benny Riley really a really good guy I'm sitting back and I'm like you know I'm just gonna we have no voices here I'm just gonna go ahead and run you know and what started off as a sort of like a joke has turned into people DMing me and you know pushing me and saying hey you know it's a good idea

15:10we need somebody to go out there and just like you know voice have our voices heard about you know blockchain and I'm like you know what I'll do it and people don't even like Big Mike you know a lot of people might think this isn't show but like I'm stepping out of my comfort zone I'm not a politician at all so if I do win I'm going in there as just straight

15:37shooting this is what I believe in you know but at the end of the day when I lose as I said to you earlier I want to make sure that our voices are heard I think the laws that we have in place right now are not low as that pertain to this space it hurts Americans especially here in the United States are not understanding blockchain not understanding cryptocurrencies and

16:03thinking you know I think the perception of cryptocurrency goes all the way back Silk Road so nobody's actually you know thinking about the technologies and the projects that are in place right now that can actually benefit people so I really want to go ahead and get in there and it'll be one of the topics that I'm running on but I really want people

16:25to know about it and win or lose again our voices will be heard I promise you yeah especially with the support all the d-ends I really appreciate it all we will make sure that people know about blockchain here and hopefully they can pass you know legislation that actually helps us and doesn't hurt us it doesn't have projects from the United States leave to other countries because

16:49they can't work here because it's so regulated yeah well I'm sure you'll have the backing of the blockchain and the cryptocurrency industry it throughout America and I know New York specifically can be a tough area for legislation with regards to blockchain and you know I you know a lot of companies went through that bitlicense debacle a few years back but besides

17:14blockchain are there any other topics that you're passionate about to bring to the table for your Congress stand standing absolutely is school systems not having teachers sit in the classroom with 50 kids you know we have to do something about that you know the way you know the way our Police Department law enforcement the way they're treated right now in New York City is horrific

17:39and we need to do something about it I speak to a lot of law enforcement people and you know they're just you know they shake their heads they're like you know we can't we can't do nothing and it's not like listen there's always a bad up on every anyway you look there's a bad apple but at the end of the day you can't he can't hands handcuffed them and now let them do

18:09their jobs so like those are particularly two I'd like to you know the economy's fine yeah let's make it better the economy is doing well right now there's little things that needs to be changed you know a younger voice will be able to go ahead and do that hopefully that young voice is me and if people are looking to follow your voice or learn more about

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19:21up in the near future Ashton thank you very much for taking the time thank you very much for giving me a chance to speak on and now let's speak on you