Alexander Petek on Maintaining Your Online Privacy from Anywhere in the World with SpiderDAO (Episode 147)
Today Alexander Petek with SpiderDAO joins us to discuss how you can maintain your online privacy anywhere in the world.
Alexander is the Business Development Manager at SpiderDAO.
With a strong background in business and finance, Alex has built up several successful companies over the past ten years. Currently, he is leading automotive rental operations, delivering multi-million euro turnovers and a consistently growing employment of over 200 people as of 2021.
Alex’s Crypto venture started in 2015 when he first got involved with mining operations and market trading; he has gained valuable insight into cryptocurrency markets and their inner workings.
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*Disclaimer. None of this information is financial advice.
The following transcript was created using artificial intelligence. There will be some grammatical errors below.
00:00:03:12 – 00:00:14:11
Richard Carthon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Crypto Current, your host here, Richard Carthon, and today I got a really special guest working on a cool project that I’m excited to learn more about. We’ve got Alexander was SpiderDAO. How are you doing today?
00:00:15:12 – 00:00:50:27
Alexander Petek: Hey, Richard, thank you for having me. Hello, Crypto Current community, I am glad to be on your podcast. I’ve heard a lot about it, have seen some of your videos on podcasts, on other projects. Just really stoked to be here. So far doing great. It is a nice Sunday, right? Just mostly, you know, doing some work here, preparing for the Monday. And yeah we’ll see because this week is going to be quite hectic for SpiderDAO, we’re ramping up. We’re going to have a lot of announcements coming up in the next like two, three weeks. So, yeah, we are currently readying our content calendar and everything so that it will be ready to fly. Yeah.
00:00:51:25 – 00:00:59:04
Richard Carthon: That’s awesome, man. Well, definitely excited to be learning more about the company, but of course, before we do that, want to learn more about you. Give us a little bit of background about yourself.
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Alexander Petek: As you already mentioned, right? I’m Alex and I really come from a small country of Slovenia, which is basically from the middle of the Europe. And yeah, I come from basically a family of entrepreneurs, right? We had family businesses, as far as I can remember. We used to have a really big computer business in our family. And, you know, I really started working really, really early, very young age and I was just always genuinely interested because of that into computers and technology and what would bring us in the future, right?
00:01:29:03 – 00:01:56:20
Alexander Petek: But you know, after unfortunately, there was like some kind of a crisis in 2008, right? As I remember just when I was kind of like, you know, in the middle of the high school, there was a big crisis in tech sector in Slovenia. Most of the companies that worked with computers just went downhill, right? Businesses didn’t really run as they used to, so I actually found myself in a quite opposite sector, as one would imagine. I found myself in construction and industrial companies, right?
00:01:57:26 – 00:02:27:13
Alexander Petek: During those times, it was really a peculiar time for Slovenia because, you know, most of the people out there, they all wanted to go and work in Germany, right? Because the wage at those times were like three times the wages in Slovenia, right? So, there were a lot of these companies, industrial companies that were popping up left and right, you know, and just kind of took advantage of that opportunity, you know, shoving people into Germany and having them to work on different factories and everything just to, you know, just to kind of earn that more money than they do right here.
00:02:27:24 – 00:02:28:09
Richard Carthon: Right.
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Alexander Petek: So, yeah. I first delve in the business of car rentals, because, you know, there were so many companies and so many people going to Germany back and forth every week, so I was like, okay, well, obviously there is a transportation issue, right? So, I opened one of the first companies that did car rentals in my region, right? And that was very successful around, I ran that business up to over thirty cars. And then, you know, as I was still working in one of those industrial companies I got later on, I had a chance to buy one out, the owner, because it wasn’t running really well. He did some unfortunate financial decisions, he got a little bit poor on the cash and I had an opportunity to buy him out. And also run that company up to about, at the best time it was around 200 employees.
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Richard Carthon: Wow.
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Alexander Petek: So, yes, I did gain a lot of, even though I’m not from the financial world, right? Or should I say schools? I did gain a lot of knowledge running those two companies, right? And yes, the companies are still running today, not exactly at the height of the peak due to you know, Corona and everything, you know, did slow the business down as well. Kind of did find myself in Crypto in about 2015, because at the time I was trading a lot of stocks as well, right?
00:03:40:17 – 00:04:10:12
Alexander Petek: Being in financials and running companies, you heard of stocks sooner or later and you just want to have that, you know. I always wanted to have that mentality that I want to start investing early to kind of have that retirement fund. So, yeah, I found myself in stocks and traded them a lot. And obviously, if you find yourself in stocks, you heard of Bitcoin, right? And I heard a Bitcoin and yeah, I pretty much loved it, just delved into it and started doing some research. And yeah, was before the first or should I say the most massive bull run happened, right? In 2017, I was already well versed in Crypto. Yeah.
00:04:11:26 – 00:04:35:25
Richard Carthon: You have your very unique background, was going from construction into like rental cars, into, you know, learning about investments, you learn about Bitcoin in 2015. So, tell us about the transition into you learn about Cryptocurrency and now you’re like, Wow, I want to now find a way so I can get involved and work in this industry. So, tell us about how you got involved with with SpiderDAO, what that transition looked like and what you’re currently working on with it.
00:04:37:27 – 00:05:05:24
Alexander Petek: When it came to Cryptocurrency and Blockchain, you know, always had that kind of idea that the one thing that really involved me, if you look at the stuff that we carry in our pockets when we usually leave home, right? So, you have your like, your car keys, which went from like normal house keys to like these cars that you just have it in your pocket, you sit in your car and you start the engine and you go, right? You don’t even have to insert the key anymore. Or you have those phones, we usually had these flip phones or phones with buttons on it, if you still remember, right?
00:05:05:26 – 00:05:06:11
Richard Carthon: Right.
00:05:06:13 – 00:05:38:27
Alexander Petek: Now, everything is like finger touch and everything without buttons, right? But there’s one thing that never changed, it was wallets, right? For me, the wallet was kind of old school, right? It’s been there for hundreds of years and the only thing they added to it was a couple of plastic cards, right? Sure, the Apple Pay and Google Pay came around and everything, but it just wasn’t that because I was doing a lot of traveling when I was working for those companies and one thing I always hated was I had to go and exchange my money, right? And you always had to do it before because they would scam you in that other country, right?
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Richard Carthon: Right.
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Alexander Petek: Do not exchange your money at airports or anything like this.
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Richard Carthon: Right.
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Alexander Petek: Do it at your local bank before you go to that country. So, having an idea that I can actually go to a foreign country and, you know, pull up my phone and I can automatically pay for stuff and then go to another country and pay for stuff without needing to worry about anything, right? Was definitely a very you know, something that I was very intrigued to during those times, right? If I say it like this, yeah, I was using Bitcoin in 2015. I was trading it, I was entering all of those projects, fully different projects in 2017. I went from community management to like all of this, just going through the ranks of every project and I went in and out. And I learned about SpiderDAO in about sorry, not SpiderDAO, but the Spider VPN at the time, at around about 2017, 2018, when Sentinel on Cosmos Network was really popular. And I was actually a participant in their ICO.
00:06:37:03 – 00:07:33:09
Alexander Petek: There was this guy called Nathan that came in and opened the company, Spider VPN, and at the time it was the cheapest VPN out there, right? And obviously me needing a VPN because I do care about my privacy, immediately started being his customer. And I learned quite fast for it, right? Back then I didn’t know what kind of plans they had back, right? So yeah. So, fast forward, I knew Nathan for about two years. In 2020 I think it was, I really started to learn something about the routers when I was just speaking to one of his employees, I learned about some stuff with routers and what they’re doing behind and I was like, stoked, right? I mean, I’ve never heard of any hardware being encrypted or anything. So, yeah, immediately I messaged him, we kind of took off and yeah, we started this project together, right? I mean, just rebranding the company a little bit, so, SpiderDAO, so it’s like, kind of taking care of two different niches, right? And then just moving forward, right? In development and so on.
00:07:34:09 – 00:07:53:27
Richard Carthon: Nice. So I mean, you get into it, you’re like, Okay, the first use case was the VPN because you want your privacy and we’ll probably spend a second on that just so you can explain, like why that’s important and why a lot of people are using it. And that’s going to be, of course, for the newbies. But then talk about, like, how that’s kind of evolved into, you know, all the other arms that SpiderDAO is kind of breaking into.
00:07:55:06 – 00:08:22:22
Alexander Petek: Yeah. So, we all know that VPN is kind of a network that protects your privacy on the Internet, right? All of these devices, let’s just say smartphones or Google Chromes and everything, they do take your data, right? They follow your data. That’s why when you like, sometimes to search for a car or you search for some schools or something, you know, you will immediately be showered by commercials that say, “Oh, yeah, buy car here” or “Schools here,” “Look at that,” “Go to Amazon,” “Buy this,” right?
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Richard Carthon: Right.
00:08:23:19 – 00:08:49:03
Alexander Petek: So yes, they do follow your data. And I always found that a little bit you know, I’m not comfortable with something like that. I do like to protect my data, I do respect my data, right? So yes, VPN kind of helps you solve that, right? And not only that, being from Slovenia, again, I have to go back here, right? When I try to watch, let’s just say Netflix or YouTube, a lot of the videos are blocked, right? So, let’s just say VPN also allows me to watch geo blocked content, right?
00:08:49:12 – 00:08:49:27
Richard Carthon: Right.
00:08:49:29 – 00:09:18:08
Alexander Petek: So yes, I can watch the same shows they look at in America or in Britain or so on so on, right? So, I do like that as well. And yeah. I mean, Spider was never I mean, yes, they did sell VPN, but they always had kind of a bigger notion on privacy, right? They always wanted to do something more, take a step further than everybody else, because obviously you have Null VPN, you have Express VPN, you have Ghost VPN. They all they all kind of operate on the same things, right?
00:09:18:22 – 00:09:54:11
Alexander Petek: But Spider VPN always had an idea that we have to create our own hardware that will actually block all of the connections coming in from Google Chrome’s, smart devices and so on, so on, right? They were unable to do this without a hardware device, right? So, they wanted to take that step further and they started developing their own router and obviously router is not even a big thing here, right? Because router is just a normal router that you can buy in the store, right? Of course, we have perfected it a little bit with our chipsets and everything throughout the years, but router is nothing too special.
00:09:54:16 – 00:10:22:29
Alexander Petek: What is special is the software that we ended up, or should I say Spider VPN ended up doing it for the last three years, right? They ended up perfecting it, almost perfecting, it’s still being worked on, obviously, because some of the things are missing. But yes, so far right now, it’s really top notch and we were able to move it forward with the whole thing, right? Into the Crypto world, where we could comfortably say, “Yes, if you use our router you’re going to be more protected than using Express VPN or other VPN’s,”right?
00:10:23:01 – 00:10:23:16
Richard Carthon: Right.
00:10:23:24 – 00:11:11:14
Alexander Petek: And being that at the time, you know, we were trying to do this, we never knew it’s going to end up being decentralized VPN as well, right? We haven’t yet perfected this, we haven’t yet come to a level that we could call ourselves the decentralized VPN, but after we will bridge over to Polkadot Network, we could achieve that level and really make a VPN that will have zero of data. It will be totally protected with multilayer privacy using our router and there’s no one on this earth that will be able to get any data or track you down or anything, right? So, it will be probably even more popular when it comes to Asia markets, right? Because we all know that in Asia they block them. I mean, it’s not right, what they’re doing to these people when it comes to freedom and everything, right? So, yeah, we will fight against that and that is our plan. Yeah.
00:11:11:29 – 00:11:23:11
Richard Carthon: Just like you said, it’s a free offering, right? So, how is it that you’re uniquely poised to create so much like privacy value on a free level?
00:11:25:00 – 00:11:40:06
Alexander Petek: The VPN expense of some of these companies that are charging you for a VPN, right? They’re charging you big numbers. And I’m telling you, the VPN expenses are not as big as so many people thought of, right?
00:11:40:08 – 00:11:43:28
Alexander Petek: Obviously, you need to pay for servers, you need to have them on different locations and everything, right?
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Richard Carthon: Right.
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Alexander Petek: But as soon as you start bringing in the volume, I’m talking about the volume of people, the price will slowly go down, right? So for someone like Null VPN, I’m pretty sure it cost them like five to 10 cents to run a single personal VPN, right? As for us, right now we are currently at about 10,000, a little bit over 10,000 users, right? We still have the costs that are over a dollar, right? But our initiative here is and obviously this time around, we want to bring the masses towards us. We want to show them our plans, show them what the future brings and how we can protect them so they can let us see. Oh, look at this, these guys really know what they’re doing, these guys really want to have us, they really appreciate their customers, right? And hopefully people will see that and then later on join us when it’s going to be paid as well, right? I mean, going to prolong their subscriptions.
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Richard Carthon: Right, right.
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Alexander Petek: Right. You can say it’s a bit of a marketing move, right?
00:12:43:25 – 00:13:21:00
Richard Carthon: Yeah, for sure. It’s good because it’s allowing that way for someone to come and experience a VPN without spending an arm and a leg to get set up, because I know that’s an initial hurdle for a couple of friends who’ve even talked about VPNs before. But on that same like, target, you know, one of the things that I think’s pretty cool about SpiderDAO, which y’all have going on is that you, like you said, from a hardware device standpoint, is the direction that you’re headed and what you’re trying to ultimately build to. So, if you’re a brand new person, let’s say that one of my listeners is listening right now, and they’re like, Wow SpiderDAO sounds really cool, how do I get set up? Like, how would I be able to come and get started with SpiderDAO?
00:13:22:26 – 00:13:52:06
Alexander Petek: The thing is, like you mentioned, right? The hardware device, okay that is probably our most expensive product there is, right? And we also know that it’s an issue for some of the people having that expense, because at the end of the day, we are charging currently $99, free shipping for the router, right? So, yeah, for some of the parts, it is expensive indeed, right? So, what we did, right? Our people or I should say your people can join us in multiple stops, right?
00:13:52:08 – 00:14:11:07
Alexander Petek: So, we have released a lot of programs, we have released Spider Nest programs, right? Recently if you have tokens or you’re a participant of our project, you can stake your tokens in. We have a minimum amount, obviously, right? And if you stake that minimum amount in for lets just say X amount of months, you will receive a free router to your address, right?
00:14:11:09 – 00:14:49:27
Alexander Petek: So, we have provided a solution for these people that don’t have much wealth to obtain one router or to obtain VPN as well. That’s kind of how we get those people in. But even if you’re not in financial crisis, obviously, then yes, the router can be purchased from our Spider VPN site or SpiderDAO website, right? And that’s basically how you get set up. We have all the guides and everything comes with it. We have created the videos on YouTube, everything can be found on our channel. And we have a support channel separate you know, just open for people if they have any issues or anything. So, basically 24/7 support almost, right?
00:14:49:29 – 00:14:50:14
Richard Carthon: Right.
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Alexander Petek: Yeah, it’s really fairly easy to get.
00:14:53:23 – 00:15:16:19
Richard Carthon: Definitely appreciate you kind of breaking down the different ways that people can get involved. And I think it’s cool that you can find a way to stake for a couple of months and basically, you’ll then get the router. There’s a lot of creative ways that you’ve been able to find for people to get started and get involved with this. So, I think kudos to y’all for figuring that out and for getting that going. Of course, for everyone listening, make sure you go check out the website, see how you can get involved.
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Richard Carthon: I kind of want to shift gears for a second, you know, on the subject of privacy and going through 2020 in a COVID world where a lot of people started working remotely and now there’s not as many people potentially going into like an office to work and everything else like that. And even people traveling, once we get back to a more normal world where people are traveling a little bit more since they are now working remotely, privacy is a big challenge, it’s very important. Where do you see the future of privacy going and how do you think SpiderDAO is uniquely positioned to help address that need?
00:15:51:01 – 00:16:17:19
Alexander Petek: That’s very interesting that you asked me that, because we have kind of debated that way for a while right now. I mean, because we know that obviously Corona is going to end and people will start going to offices back again. They won’t go to offices like they used to, right? I’m sure a lot of people will always stay home and work, right? A lot of those jobs will essentially provide that option, right?
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Richard Carthon: Yeah.
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Alexander Petek: And when it comes to VPN, I think it’s going to grow throughout the years, if you just expect the chart, VPN is going up, up, up every single year, right? But yes, when it comes to traveling, yes, we have debated that and we have already in the works. And I’m not too sure if I can share that, we have plans or should I say we already are kind of working towards a Spider VPN small router, which is going to be a traveling router, which will fit in your pocket and you will have the ability to insert a SIM card in it. So, you could just simply put it in your pocket or, you know, in a briefcase or something, and you just can travel with it. And you know, you come to your hotel room, you will plug it in and like and it’s going to be working in like 10 seconds, it’s going to be plug and play.
00:17:00:29 – 00:17:33:05
Alexander Petek: Or if you don’t have the Internet, right? You’ll just plug in a battery and a SIM card and you will again plug and play, right? You will connect on with your I don’t know, with your smartphone or your laptop. You can have multiple devices on it. And as you connect on, you know, again, you will have access to geo block content. You won’t have issues, you will be protected, your privacy will be protected. Everything, right? Everything will be set up for you. And even if you choose to download something from the Internet, because I’ve seen countries before where that was a big issue, I know how it is. So yes, you will be able to download stuff as well, right?
00:17:33:25 – 00:18:10:23
Richard Carthon: Right. Really cool to know about. Definitely going to personally be interested in that in the future because I’m sure as the world opens back up, I’ll be doing some traveling with Crypto and everything else that’s going on. So, definitely going to keep that on my horizon. But speaking on that as well, as we look at 2021, it’s a very bullish year to start, so everything has been extremely exciting. Bitcoin hitting all time new highs, Ethereum, pretty much the entire market we’re looking like a pretty solid bull cycle. What are some things in the space that you’re looking out for that you think other people should be looking out for as well?
00:18:11:29 – 00:18:28:00
Alexander Petek: Well, I’m going to say we were one of the first projects that had a chance on opening or should I say we were the first project that opened on the Polkastarter Network, or should I say Polkastarter platform.
00:18:28:12 – 00:18:28:27
Richard Carthon: Right.
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Alexander Petek: And, you know, we had chances back in December, that was on December 15th if I’m not mistaken. We had chances to see their version a week prior because obviously we need to prepare everything tokens and you know, how the pools are working and everything they explained to us. And as soon as we saw that platform back in December, you know, even our testing, everyone was wild, you know, and then we said, Polka, started this project is going places, obviously, right? Their system is definitely NexGen and you can even see that by the price today, right?
00:19:01:11 – 00:19:01:26
Richard Carthon: Right.
00:19:01:28 – 00:19:44:03
Alexander Petek: I mean, it’s rising rapidly. I think it’s like over $6 or something, it’s absolutely insane how fast they’re growing, right? So, yeah, Polkastarter is definitely the project that I am personally invested in and I think it’s going to go vais in the future, especially during the bull year, right? Because you have all of these amazing projects launching on it and you have to hold tokens to stay in the project. So yeah, they have a good system there in use case as well, right? The secondary thing that I’m kind of really bullish at the moment, we recently joined the DeFi Gaming Coalition, sorry DeFi Gaming Coalition, which is run by On Key. And, you know, we at SpiderDAO really believe that gaming is going to be a huge part of Crypto.
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Richard Carthon: Definitely.
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Alexander Petek: Especially in 2021 or in 2022, right?
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Richard Carthon: Right.
00:19:49:18 – 00:20:33:02
Alexander Petek: So, we definitely think it’s going to be big. And, you know, you’ll have all of these amazing projects in the gaming coalition with us that already do amazing stuff like I’m going to talk about Exceedme, right? They already have a platform that kind of allows you to have skill based matches or you can host your tournaments, right? And you can do all of these things and I’m pretty sure then you have like Royale or On Key that have these NFTs. And also Project GUM, which is basically you will be able to have games to get connected with smart contracts, right? This is definitely, I think that a big future of NFTs is the smart contract games space, right? So, you will be able to throw in cards and you know, just play games based on those cards, which is something if you remember Nintendo Wii tried years ago.
00:20:33:04 – 00:20:33:19
Richard Carthon: Yeah.
00:20:33:21 – 00:21:09:24
Alexander Petek: They had these little cards they had to buy in the store, right? And then you had this card and you threw the card down and, you know, you could play as that character in the game. And this is exactly what is happening with these NFTs right now. And we really think that it’s kind of the future of the game is going to be a huge future in Crypto, right? It’s going to be huge markets. So yeah, we are also orienting towards that market, you know, by joining gaming coalition and, you know, providing people with privacy so they can game in peace, and you know, play banned games in their countries, right? Because they are essentially growing the list of banned games, which people can play. But, yeah, we’re trying to, you know, go around that just to provide for the people, right?
00:21:10:09 – 00:21:58:26
Alexander Petek: And also for the last one, I probably have to mention Polkadot, right? I mean, Polkadot being one of the hottest networks this year, right? Or I should say you know, last year. I mean, they’re absolutely amazing when it comes to it. And I really got to give them my full support because they always supported us when we needed help and we had questions, they were always somebody who would talk to us. They accepted us and to build their program, right? So, they even paid us to build on them. Or when we deliver some stuff or they just give you that free grants and everything, right? So, they’re very, very friendly. And not only that, I mean, we really like the network just because they have a huge notion of privacy, right? They want everything to be secure and private and so on. And, you know, since our company stands for that privacy, we obviously are a perfect match with them, right?
00:21:59:12 – 00:21:59:27
Richard Carthon: Right.
00:21:59:29 – 00:22:13:09
Alexander Petek: So, those are the kind of projects that I’m you know, invested in personally and I’m really stoked about them. And I really hope they will continue to grow as they are today. And they are all growing really nicely. They’re all performing quite nicely.
00:22:13:20 – 00:22:56:20
Richard Carthon: For sure. I mean, thank you for putting all those on our radar. Interestingly enough, especially with Polkadot, so I live in Austin and there’s a pretty good Polkadot scene here, a lot of people that work in Polkadot that are here that I’ve been able to communicate with. And it’s been cool to see their journey as they’ve been growing as a company, but then also just to see how the performance and the market has been going really well also. So again, thanks for sharing those things that you’re looking at. This one is a newer question I’ve been starting to ask speakers that I think have been very beneficial for people. If you could go back and talk to your original self about Crypto, what are some of the like key lessons that you would try to teach yourself very early if you could, like, go back and do it again?
00:22:57:17 – 00:23:13:14
Alexander Petek: If I could go back in time and talk to me, right? Well, the first thing I would say to myself, go all in Ether, right? That would be probably the first thing, because that one I well, you know, you’ve seen Ether go from $1 to like what it is right now, 2,000 is absolutely crazy for me. Yeah.
00:23:13:16 – 00:23:14:08
Richard Carthon: Right.
00:23:14:10 – 00:23:37:20
Alexander Petek: What could I say? Well, you know, probably what I would say is to be a little bit more, I should have been a little bit more active in the beginning because during those times in 2015, I was just you know, trading a little bit of Bitcoin back and forth on very high timeframes. So, I wasn’t really paying that much attention to all the smaller communities that I should have, right?
00:23:38:05 – 00:23:38:20
Richard Carthon: Right.
00:23:38:22 – 00:24:08:21
Alexander Petek: Because at the time I was running those companies, so I’m still the head guy, right? So, I didn’t have as much time as I could, right? And I really wish that I took advantage back in those days before 2017 a little bit more because I could have started some of the companies in Crypto as well, right? And kind of be the leader of the future, right? Because like I’ve said from the beginning, I always was more into technology and more into computers than everything else, right? But because of crisis and everything, just tables turned and you know, when you’ve got to eat, you’ve got to eat essentially, right?
00:24:09:07 – 00:24:09:22
Richard Carthon: Right.
00:24:09:24 – 00:24:41:10
Alexander Petek: So, yeah. So, I would do that. And then I mean in 2017, I was quite active, so I wouldn’t change much then but maybe doing better, you know, I could have been kind of studying the whole Blockchain a little bit more, right? So, I would be even more knowledgeable than I am, right? It’s just, you know, just trying to improve myself at every step, right? That would probably be the best advice I could give myself, just don’t give up and just keep on improving because this thing is going huge. And we can see we just passed one trillion market cap with Bitcoin, right?
00:24:41:18 – 00:24:42:03
Richard Carthon: Right.
00:24:42:05 – 00:25:00:29
Alexander Petek: So, I’m pretty sure Crypto and Blockchain is not going anywhere, right? So yeah, keep your head up in this space, just follow it. Even though you know, if something might happen in the future we might get another 2018 to 2019, you never know, right? But even if that happens, keep your head high man because Crypto is probably going places. Yeah.
00:25:02:01 – 00:25:13:17
Richard Carthon: Right. No, that’s great. I think that’s some great advice to go back and look at. But Alex, I really do appreciate you spending some time with us today. What is a final thought that you want to leave with all of our listeners here today?
00:25:14:08 – 00:25:38:01
Alexander Petek: Well, simply, my final thought would be, you know, I know people these days, they don’t respect privacy as much as they should. And, yes, we had you know, I’m going to say this, our parents respected privacy a lot more than we do, because I know the first time when I saw the Internet, you know, my parents were like, never leave your name on the Internet, never leave your information, never. They were super, super scared about the Internet when it comes to privacy, right?
00:25:38:23 – 00:25:39:08
Richard Carthon: Right.
00:25:39:10 – 00:26:06:19
Alexander Petek: And if you look at it this day, we have no problem leaving our information everywhere, right? You go on Facebook, you leave tons of information, you go Google, Amazon, everywhere. And, I even see people leaving credit cards on the Internet. It’s just not a good ideal thing to do. So, yeah, my final thought would be like, yes, guys, respect your privacy, right? Respect your privacy, get a VPN. It doesn’t cost that much, it’s really cheap. Or if you check SpiderDAO, you can even get it for free, right?
00:26:06:29 – 00:26:07:14
Richard Carthon: Right.
00:26:07:16 – 00:26:27:10
Alexander Petek: And just use it and protect your privacy at all costs because once, you know, once somebody tries to do something with your information, you know, you will really regret it because you will go through the whole series of issues before, you know, you will get your life back, which essentially which I’ve seen. I’ve seen this before, right? Happened, so it is quite a scary thing to happen to someone, right?
00:26:27:27 – 00:26:28:12
Richard Carthon: Definitely.
00:26:28:14 – 00:26:29:27
Alexander Petek: So, yes, just remember to stay safe, right?
00:26:29:29 – 00:26:48:20
Richard Carthon: For sure. Yeah man, that’s a great final thought. Everyone listening, make sure that you are securing yourself, being safe, take privacy as a priority and make sure you go check out SpiderDAO. So actually, Alex, what are some ways that people can connect with you and learn more about SpiderDAO?
00:26:49:23 – 00:27:25:22
Alexander Petek: So, probably the best way to learn about SpiderDAO is checking our Spider.io website, right? Or joining our Telegram. Again, if you type in SpiderDAO on Telegram or if you click the Telegram icon on our website, you can join in the channel and we will answer all of your questions. We have all the guides on our own media and we have all of the information on media, how you can buy VPN, how you can stake a token, how you can participate in long projects, everything, we got it on there. So, if you just come on Telegram, hop by and if you ask a couple of questions, we got really nice admins on there. They will answer everything that you can possibly desire. And yeah, give you all kinds of information, right?
00:27:26:13 – 00:27:30:16
Richard Carthon: Awesome. Well, Alex, again, really appreciate that. Thank you for sharing all your information today.
00:27:30:18 – 00:27:31:03
Alexander Petek: Thank you for having me guys. Yeah.
00:27:31:05 – 00:27:34:08
Richard Carthon: Yeah, no doubt. And for everyone listening, Stay Crypto Current.
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