Transcript of a YouTube interview (Crypto Stories Ep. 21) in which brothers Austin and Aaron recount founding the Altcoin Daily YouTube channel. They describe growing up in Ohio, moving to Los Angeles to pursue entertainment careers, facing hardship (sleeping on couches, breaking up relationships), and discovering cryptocurrency (mentions of the Bitcoin pizza story and an Uber driver who 3X'd on an altcoin). Aaron started the channel after roughly a year involved in crypto and gathered about 1,000 initial subscribers. The pair emphasize daily publishing, consistency, and community impact (viewer testimony about family reconciliation). They mention personal events (Aaron's mother got COVID in 2020; he reconciled with his father in 2021) and recognition (named "Influence of the Year" and "Best Crypto YouTube News Channel"). The tone is reflective, earnest, and promotional of content-creation as opportunity.
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February 17, 2023
About 1,000 subscribers
Over a year (investments for about a year)
"Influence of the Year" and "Best Crypto YouTube News Channel"
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Hey, what's up, everybody? My name is Austin.
My name is Aaron. And welcome back everybody to Altcoin Daily.
We're not there yet, but we'll get there. I want to talk about how it all started. We're in Los Angeles, struggling in the entertainment industry. What else is out there? I would spend many a sleepless night wondering what's my purpose. It's scary to look up at the stars and in question whether you're going to be able to help people. Seriously, would I be able to make a difference?
I think the story of Altcoin Daily is a story of America. We grew up in Ohio. Family who's working class actually really credit my dad for giving us our work ethic. A lot of people now think it's crazy that we make a video every day. But to me that's not crazy. It just, hey, gotta work every day, right?
I mean, honestly, Aaron and I weren't big fighters oftentimes. I think we were really good at de escalating. And also because again, there's two of us and if you mess with one of us, you're gonna mess with both of us in terms of each other. We used to wrestle each other a lot when we were kids.
When I was a very little kid, I wanted to be a veterinarian, you know, take care of animals because I like pets. And then I wanted to be an actor and a filmmaker and we moved out to Los Angeles and that dream did come true. It's like starting fresh, sleeping on my friend's couc couch. Didn't have a place, didn't have a job. Like we were in college at the time. I remember being in the our fraternity's computer lab. And I think it came up on Reddit that it was probably time where the bitcoin pizza guy, you know, spent 10,000 bitcoins for the pizza. And I remember reading the story and it was just like, oh, that's cool. They there's a use case people are using it. First of all, at that time, me and my ex girlfriend, we broke up. So all of a sudden I had a lot more free time. You know, I had the obligatory uber driver on my way to a comedy show in Los Angeles telling me about he 3X'd his money on an altcoin called Firecoin. So I thought maybe it'd be a good idea to get into cryptocurrency.
Trading my story in the most simplistic sense is when Aaron first turned me on to crypto, I think it was probably, hey man, have you heard about bitcoin And I just probably looked at him and thought, yeah, I heard about the meme. Didn't understand why something like bitcoin could have value. And I, you know, honestly, I think it was just like waking up in the morning because Aaron and I were in the same apartment, constantly waking up and then Aaron would be at breakfast listening to crypto content, trying to learn as much as possible. And then I would sort of just like slowly learn along the way.
Definitely before 2016, 2017, there was hardly anybody. There was Roger Ver, Andrea Santinopoulos making kind of like long, long form videos not specifically meant for YouTube or podcasting. There was this hunger, this need to find out good cryptocurrency information and we wanted to fill that void. Since this is my first video, let me quickly introduce myself. My name is Aaron from Altcoin Daily. This is a new channel, obviously. Thank you for joining me. Who am I? I'm just a normal guy. I've been involved in the crypto space for over a year now. I've had investments for about a year and with those investments I've made some decent coin. So yeah, I've just basically I've self educated myself. I just have a general interest in the community and the technology and I've learned a lot and I'm learning every single day. That's who I am now. Welcome back everybody. This is Altcoin Daily, as I'm sure you know. Good morning everybody. Welcome back guys to Altcoin Daily. And I remember I told Austin, hey, I started this YouTube channel, you can do it with me. Goes over bitcoin and crypto content. We have a thousand subscribers. And Austin interjected and said, how many of those thousand subscribers did you pay for? Because he couldn't believe it. Thousand subscribers. I said zero.
I think one. It speaks to the consistency of the content we put out. We drop a video every single day, rain or shine. Bowler Bear market. I'm just talking about this industry.
I'm constantly under threat from my followers. I'll take back the like, I'll take back the view. It's part of the Internet. But you know what, I just have to keep doing what's true to me.
If you reach a big enough audience, there's always going to people that threaten violence or threaten you in some way. I don't even like to acknowledge those people because once you feed the troll, then they just grow bigger. I like to turn my attention as best I can towards like responding to our audience that has interesting things to say. About the topic, that likes hearing about.
The topics and you know, people talk about how with cryptocurrency, with Bitcoin, we're in a digital asset gold rush. Well, I think we're in a content creation gold rush as well, where it's never been easier to produce your own content, upload your own content and find an audience. Welcome back everybody to Altcoin Daily. I watch the market every single day. I'm constantly reading articles and then I make videos about it. Yes, welcome. Good job clicking on the video today. Alright, welcome back everybody to Altcoin Daily.
All right, welcome back everybody to Altcoin Daily.
Alright, welcome back everybody to Altcoin Daily. Alright. I got my coffee, I got my computer.
All right, welcome back everybody to Altcoin Daily. I'm alright.
Welcome back everybody. I'm ride. Welcome back, everybody to Altcoin Daily. Welcome back everybody to Altcoin Daily. Yeah, we got influence of the Year and best crypto YouTube news channel. We got honored with those awards and are just generally successful, number one, because we're consistent people, we're part of their routine, they get used to tuning in. And number two, we provide a lot of value. It is very rewarding to have a successful YouTube channel and to be in the forefront of this cultural, monetary and technological revolution. Somebody came up to me at a meetup and said because of your channel and getting the cryptocurrency information on a daily basis, me and my father have gotten a lot closer. In 2020, my mom got Covid. She was very old and anyways, me and my father had kind of like a falling out and then my mom was gone. And then in 2021, me and my father solved our relationship and got a lot closer by just talking about your daily content, you know, every single day. And it's stuff like that that, you know, really means a lot to me. And it's great to hear that cryptocurrency or our content can bring people together. Being a crypto YouTuber or YouTuber in general wasn't a possibility when I was a kid. I wanted to be an actor and a filmmaker and we moved out to Los Angeles. I would say I am living my dream right now.
When I was growing up, I wanted to be an astronaut and turns out that I got to the moon in another way. I love working with my brother, how much of a teammate he is. So. I love you, bro. Love you.
