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As an example, when you transfer
money from your bank to a
vendor, the banks will charge you
$5 or more (in the US to the US).
To send the money to a vendor in
another country, you will use the
SWIFT system. SWIFT charges
banks a fixed amount to handle

their money transfers, most of the

time that’s $35.
Contrast that with over $31 million
transferred using bitcoin a couple
days ago. Want to guess what the
fee was? It was 11 cents! Hmmm,
$35 vs 11 cents. I’m guessing I’d go
for the 11 cents, how about you?
And…the transfer took a couple
minutes, not 3-5 business days. is released in August. While I’ve Yes, you’re going to learn a lot

given up prognosticating, the of new words as you build your
A quick overview: Bitcoin was directi on is irrevocably up. knowledge on crypto.
created in 2008. It was released

into the “wild” on January 2, 2009. You might think, “Hmmm, I wonder Are you starting to see why
That’s only 11 years ago. It was if I should get some now…” “everyone” hasn’t jumped in yet?
a geek’s paradise for about three
years. Then it went viral. People If you are interested, I’m more There’s no bett er ti me than NOW

started getting excited. You may than happy to share the step by to learn more and “get into” bitcoin.
have heard the story of the 10,000 steps. They’re not diffi cult, just I think your future depends upon
bitcoin pizza. If not, you should new concepts, patt erns, and tools it.
read my book or listen to my that are unfamiliar to most of us
blogs. Those 10,000 bitcoins were over the age of about 40 or so. I’ll Let me help. Start following me on
valued at about $41. That made a give you the fi rst four quick and my website www.darwinstheory.org
single bitcoin worth about a half easy steps to start your Bitcoin

a penny. As of this writing, that (BTC) journey. About Dr. Perkins
same 10,000 bitcoins is worth just
short of $100 million. 1: Create an account on Dr. Darwin Perkins grew up as a
coinbase.com, and yes, the link techie. Since 2014, he’s mined
Over the years from 2009-2017, is official. You can use it Bitcoin, talked about it and

Bitcoin’s price went from that half- 2: Do the required validation

penny to over $19,000 (December 3: Link it to a credit card or to a answered increasingly difficult

2017) then plummeted to around bank account questions. He speaks mainly to the
$3000. This is a pattern that is over 40 crowd and helps them come

now well established: Meteoric 4: Buy bitcoin up to speed on this new and exciting
rise, 70% drop, meteoric rise, 70% world. Reach Dr. Perkins at darwin@
drop… That’s all it takes to get started. darwinstheory.org or support his
efforts at

We’re entering the Meteoric rise Now if that was really all there www.patreon.com/darwinstheory
phase. From a low of $4,800 on was, Bitcoin wouldn’t be such a
March 16, this year, to the time mystery or overwhelming for so

I’m writing this, the price has risen many. There’s a thing called a

to over $9500. I’m really curious Private Key. Until you have that,
where it will be when this magazine you don’t really own Bitcoin.
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