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Learn the Key Features of the New tZERO Wallet
hi Im Adam Chapman with the security,token Academy today were pleased to,bring you an interview with our Gould,corporate member t0 t0 is a technology,company servicing the financial and,capital markets industries integrating,secured distributed ledgers to reduce,settlement time increase transparency,and promote efficiency they are most,well known for their secondary trading,technology utilized by pro Securities,LLC a wholly owned subsidiary that,operates an alternative trading system,in security tokens they also expect to,launch a national exchange to allow,trading of security tokens through a,partnership with Boston Options Exchange,later this year today were going to,learn more about the company their,products technology their team and much,more and to do that we go to Salt Lake,City where Im joined by none other than,Rob Kristensen vice president of product,development Rob thanks for being here,today hi Thank You Adam its a pleasure,to speak to you today and before joining,you a little more for some questions I,also have here in the studio in Los,Angeles the one and only jor law jor was,previously the head of issuance at t0,hes the co-founder of verify investor,comm which is a subsidiary of t0 jor,thank you for joining us thank you for,having me okay Rob lets begin him a,little background on t0 can you tell us,how and why T 0 was created,absolutely Adam so it really all began,with overstock.com is the first major,e-commerce business to take Bitcoin as a,payment form the founder and CEO Patrick,Byrne started investigating other use,cases for the underlying blockchain,technology and one of the strongest use,cases that came out of that exercise was,the tokenization of corporate securities,and corporate debt so in January of 2015,t 0 was formed and we had the simple,mission to issue the worlds first,publicly traded,we called them crypto securities back,then the word token was not in heavy use,yet we set out January of 2015 to issue,a corporate security that was settled on,the blockchain away from the DTCC and we,did so in December of 2016 so since,December of 2016 its really been an,evolution of creating t0 as you know it,today getting the alternative trading,systems set up issuing the t0 tokens,last fall and then really scaling that,network to other assets as well as,scaling the secondary liquidity in terms,of broker dealers and investors tied,into that trading platform yeah you guys,have been on the vanguard for sure so,jor here in the studio you were the head,of issuance at t0,can you explain maybe what that job,entailed and anything that youve seen,from that perspective yeah certainly,so t0 is a technology company and their,most well known for their secondary,markets technology which is utilized by,pro securities or other folks that will,effectively license that technology now,before you can have a healthy secondary,market of course you need a vibrant,primary markets right and I think over a,course of time you had a lot of issuers,that came out to t0 and they effectively,said like look you know our end goal is,to be traded on a teaser affiliated,exchange or t0 affiliated net 80s how,can we just work within you with you or,within your network of families to get,to that goal without kind of redirecting,us somewhere else,so while t0 does have strong,relationship with other primary shions,platforms out there they thought that,maybe it would be a good idea to serve,some of these clients internally as well,and therefore theres a primary markets,division and the prime markets division,effectively or tools consulting in,technology that helps people conduct,primary issuances all right now youre,also the founder of something called,verify investor comm which is in which,is a platform that enables legally,compliant verifications right for,accredited,now how did verify investor get involved,with t0 yes so verify investor is a,solution that hand was effectively 506 C,style verifications of accredited,investors and you know we we were,probably the dominant provider that,service kind of in in the crafting days,and as the people that were doing I SEOs,or stos started kind of doing them in a,compliant manner they often turn to,verify investors for that service now,teaser was one of those clients and in,the course of the relationship of,providing those services to t0 we got to,meet the teaser management team got to,understand the business and we thought,that there was a synergistic fit and and,therefore the t0 later acquired us,fantastic thats always happy story so,Rob t0 uses its own special technology,to connect issuers with investors can,you discuss some of those tools what,services do you provide yeah absolutely,so we really view the market as a two,sided market with t0 score exchange and,execution venue technology at the center,and we connect issuers to investors,through our issuance platform which,facilitates not only the tokenization,the technical pieces but also the,fundraising as well and as far as,services go we offer technical services,tokenization as well as security token,offering consulting and then on the,other side of the market from that we do,offer through t0 approved broker dealers,that are tied into pro securities ATS,for secondary trading we do provide,access for accredited and coming soon,retail investors to access and trade,those security tokens got it and Rob do,you guys have any new product,announcements or new as you wanted to,share sure so the most exciting launch,we have coming up here in June is going,to be the t0 wallet the t0 wallet and I,cant give you an exact date on that,Adam I apologize but the t0 wallet will,be coming here in June and the key,features around the wallah is going to,be the biometrics as well as the multi,signature key recovery this is going to,be a huge asset to investors where it,provides an added layer of security and,stability in that if they lose their,private keys those keys can be recovered,through a multi signature process and,their assets can be safely recovered and,transferred to a new address this is,useful in the case of theft of security,tokens should that happen they can be,restored back to their rightful legal,owner also in the event that they lose,in the event that they lose their seed,phrase or their private key they can,restore their funds and have access to,them as well,yeah thats critical we hear more talk,about that all the time,so we here at security token Academy,have also started seeing a tokenization,trend now for our viewers can you,explain what tokenization even is and,why one might tokenize with digital,securitys actually lets start with you,jor and then well go to your Rob yeah,you know tokenization to me is is really,a technology right its its the act of,creating a token to back in in our case,securities and in in this case the,tokens are created using this derivative,ledger technology right so tokenization,is effectively taking something and,manifesting in in a digital format,through a token and I think that has,certain advantages in the security space,because the technology allows better,effectively better tracking and audit,capabilities and that in turn allows for,many other kind of improvements to the,existing securities market so those are,mostly the issuer benefits right there,are their benefits and the tokenization,from the other side from the investor,side well I think you know any,time you have better tracking and better,information the entire market benefits,right not only for the issuer benefit,but the investors benefit from having,perhaps faster settlement times clarity,as you know as to ownership,you know settlement and clearing houses,could benefit in a sense of just you,know cutting down the efficiency and,time to settle trades and things like,that you know this is something that you,know Rob steam at t0 has looked into,extensively as well yeah right and also,of course the name Rob right what is why,is it called T 0 so t 0 comes from you,know our mission to reunify trad
Next Level Investing: tZERO (TZROP Token)
i see t0 as a revolutionary company for,fintech or for the financial markets,after watching this video,let me know if you have any questions,because i would love to ask som,hey youtube my name is eli im a phd,scientist and i love talking about,stocks in this video i want to talk,about a company that i learned about,because of my interest in blockchain i,dont equate blockchain with,cryptocurrency with bitcoin i know that,bitcoin is a type of cryptocurrency and,a cryptocurrency is a specific,application of blockchain in this video,were going to be talking about,specifically,t0 group and some of the really cool,applications that they have going on,applying the blockchain technology so,lets start off with bitcoin,i think this is the perfect place to,start off because i think most everyone,has heard of bitcoin at this point if,they havent already purchased some,themselves,recently bitcoin has been exploding it,reached almost,60 000 us dollars per coin thats crazy,because of the surge i learned about all,of these bitcoin miners ive been making,videos about these miners i invented a,new metric so that we can compare all,these miners side by side of course its,only one metric,you still need to look into management,and side businesses but if you want more,information on that check out my library,again i just want to point out that i,think its very unfortunate that,investors and enthusiasts,oftentimes use all of these terms,interchangeably,bitcoin cryptocurrencies blockchain but,i want to point out,that the underlying technology the,blockchain technology,allows this to be possible allows,bitcoin to exist,its not the only thing that blockchain,can do and again i think its a bummer,that these terms are used,interchangeably because,bitcoin at the moment kind of,overshadows blockchain applications but,that is why i like talking about,blockchain on this channel i like the,application in smart contracts the open,distributed ledgers,i always talk about this example because,its a relevant example for today,how our life is being impacted and,changing today so a company named,docusign,has revolutionized the way we conduct,business before you needed to have,authentic signatures and turn in that,authentic official document for the,document to be valid and now you can,pretty much sign a document anywhere,around the world because of docusign,i invested in docusign it did really,well for my portfolio and in this video,again i want to talk about,another company that is applying,blockchain it kind of borders that,cryptocurrency world well get into the,details in just a second but this,company is t0 group,its a subsidiary of medici ventures,which is a portfolio of overstock,of course we know that overstock is,doing some really cool things with their,e-commerce,they just had their earnings report and,earnings call and they didnt really,talk about minishi ventures which is why,i want to dive deeper into t0 group in,this video,its a company that im bullish on its,not financial advice this is my personal,opinion and my interpretation of,everything that t0 group is trying to do,and with that introduction please help,me out with a like and a subscribe,welcome if youre new,lets get into the details of t0 group i,see t0 as a revolutionary company,for fintech or for the financial markets,they are trying to democratize capital,theyre leveling the playing field,between retail investors like myself,and smart money these huge hedge funds,for example because its on the,blockchain no more secrecy everything is,transparent everything is visible its a,one-way market,no shorting no naked shorting and if you,look at the history of overstock this,makes sense,this is something that the former ceo,was really passionate about this was a,problem that hes been trying to solve,for a really long time i see t0 as a,company thats trying to solve three,problems,theyre trying to solve the issue of,liquidity in the private markets which,is a really large market well get into,some of these numbers in just a second,theyre doing this by tokenization of,these illiquid assets the second problem,is the t,plus two versus t plus zero problem,where trade is settlement and,the third problem is this all in one,platform so you have these,new assets like crypto currencies,and these tokenized private assets and,you have historical you know the,traditional stocks like apple and tesla,for example,two of these are new theyre enabled by,the blockchain technology and theyre,distinct theyre different from one,another cryptocurrency isnt really,backed by anything,tokens on the other hand are,asset-backed tokens,and under the sec theyre seen as,securities their security token so its,like its similar to investing in a,stock but you have the t,plus 0 because its on the blockchain in,addition to that you have the change,that these tokens represent,historically illiquid assets that i and,retail investors didnt have,access to this third goal is the,all-in-one platform where you have all,these assets,in one area so its a one destination,you log in you can buy,any of these assets regular stocks tesla,apple,these tokenized assets aspd which,represents real estate for example,and cryptocurrencies like bitcoin,ethereum,you name it so essentially what t0 is,trying to accomplish,looks like this pictorially you can draw,a venn diagram of all three areas you,have the public securities and then you,have the two new securities,or areas that are enabled by the,blockchain technology you have,cryptocurrencies and you have private,securities again,they are distinct from one another,cryptocurrencies arent really backed by,anything,theyre given value by supply and demand,and then you have private securities,which are,under the sec seen as securities t0 is,merging all three areas together and,theyre basically,trying to take what coinbase is doing it,and taking it to the next level,theyre trying to also get nms stocks,normal stocks like tesla and,apple for example that are typically,traded on td ameritrade on to t0,and you also have all these new private,assets like aspd,like t0 token all on one platform,and so for me this is so bullish this is,like if you look at the history of,fintech these,types of movements dont happen very,often,we had the new york stock exchange,operating on auction,and then you had the nasdaq come in they,decreased the bid ask gap,and they were really popular for otc,companies but now,the nasdaq who hasnt heard of the,nasdaq theyre now trading a number of,really important technology companies,you also have finra who helped establish,nasdaq and so then that brings me to the,question,okay so if t0 is you know providing the,next step,in the financial markets where does that,leave t0 group if the ats is enabling,the trading of these historically,illiquid assets,and a really big market where does that,leave t0 group,for example i see the t0 ats the,alternative trading system,and t0 group as the next step to the,nasdaq the same way that the nasdaq was,the next step to the new york stock,exchange and again these steps,dont come often so you had new york,stock exchange to the nasdaq you had the,introduction of etfs in the 1990s,and now we have t plus zero as well as,tokenization and liquidity for,historically inaccessible,assets illiquid assets like real estate,yeah,this is this is great so point number,one goal number one,providing liquidity for traditionally,illiquid assets and the private markets,private assets,why is this a big deal well to put,things into perspective,the world gdp the world economy is worth,100 trillion dollars and if you take,into account,only the private assets they are worth 4,quadrillion this is the biggest market,of all markets the private market,when you look at the private sector in,the private market the number one asset,that comes forward,is real estate so we have one example of,real estate with aspd,its a hotel in aspen colorado but the,private market doesnt end there it,doesnt stop there,you can invest a
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The Tokenization of Global Assets: An Overview (Expert Panel with tZero and Polymath)
Adam Chapnick: Hey everybody, its me, Adam Chapnick, with the Security Token Academy.,Now, welcome back. Today were covering an advanced topic of,security tokens called, the tokenization of global assets. And if you need a refresher,on the basics about security tokens, make sure to check out our video called “Security,Token Overview, ICOs and STOs” this will provide you the background you will need for,todays show. Here at the Security Token Academy, we see,the security token industry as really being born in 2018, and having a major impact on,the global financial system. We think it will be a fundamental foundation of a new financial,Internet. Now today, Im here in our Los Angeles studios,,and Ill soon be joined by two of the leading experts in the security token industry to,discuss the tokenization of global assets. But, before we get started, we want to take,a moment to thank the sponsors of todays Expert Panel Discussion, VerifyInvestor.com,and Inventus Law. We appreciate your continued support.,To help us further explore the future world of security tokens, we welcome Joe Cammarata,President of tZERO, who joins us from New York, and Chris Housser, Co-Founder of Polymath,,who joins us from Toronto. Now in this first segment were going to review,how ICOs and even IPOs can use security tokens. And in the next segment well get,into tokenization of global assets. Okay. So, Chris, lets kick things off with,you. Thanks for being here. Before we get into …,Chris Housser: Happy to be here. Adam Chapnick: Yeah. Good to have you.,Before we get into the topic of tokenization of global assets, what role do you see security,tokens having for ICOs and IPOs? Chris Housser: I think ICOs really are going,to start disappearing, and its really going to start being a lot more of these STOs,,or security token offerings. So, the Wild West was these ICOs that represented utility,tokens, but going forward, rather than these self described utility tokens, it will be,a lot of securitized assets, or securities, that are offered on the block chain, rather,than these utility coins that weve seen in the past.,Adam Chapnick: Right. Joe, theres a concept that digital tokens can make the trading process,more efficient, less expensive, also faster. Can you, for everybody, explain what T plus,three means, and the significance of the tZERO name?,Joe Cammarata: Sure, Adam. Yeah theres quite a bit of efficiencies that can be gained by,utilizing the block chain, and digital securities in general.,First off, starting with traditional Wall Street T3, and now recently, in the last year,or so, is going out to T plus two, means its the trade date plus three days to settle,,and now, like I said, two days to settle. And in that time, we found that there was,a lot of expenses, theres a lot of inefficiencies, and might even say games that we play between,securities lending, and what goes on in those two or three day periods while securities,are settling. On the digital side, tZERO, is the trade is,the settlements of same day were settling the trade on the block chain. So its settling,in near real time, and you avoid the three day settlement process. You dont have cash,tied up for three days. You cant have people naked, short selling your stock.,Theres also the ability for the issuer to know whos holding their stock, who their,token holder, in the traditional sense shareholders, are instead of them holding their securities,at DTCC, which is centralized clearing in street names, and they dont know who their,holders are. Adam Chapnick: Got it. So well talk some,more about some of that later. This is very exciting.,Chris, you guys had stated that ICOs were the past, and STOs were totally the future,,What do you mean by that? Chris Housser: I think youve seen, recently,,theres been a lot of regulations and enforcement, subpoenas handed out by the SEC, because theres,been a lack of clarity so far about whats happening with these ICOs, whats happening,in the block chain space. People are raising a lot of money, billions of dollars, on white,papers alone. Theres a lack of financial disclosure, and I think thats going to end,soon. And traditional shares that you see now, shares in equity funds, shares in VC,funds. Those will be coming to the block chain with proper disclosures. And, yeah, the ICOs,are ending, and were looking to create a new trend, where compliant offerings take,place on the block chain. Adam Chapnick: Joe, the big news about you,guys is that youre going to be compliant. Now, what makes your company compliant that,differs from other marketplaces? Joe Cammarata: So, Adam, just to start off,where we came from, tZERO was founded from traditional brokerage. My background has been,27 years in FinTech building trading systems and, obviously, in the regulatory environment,with FINRA and the SEC for years. We already have an existing execution routing,business called Speed Route. We do about two and a half percent of the U.S. exchange volumes,on a daily basis. We have very high throughput, and our clients are existing broker deals,and exchanges. Were one of the only U.S. firms that only deals with broker deals and,exchanges. We dont have retail or buyside customers of any kind. So, were very familiar,with the regulated space. And one of the other broker deals we have,is called an ATS. Its called a Pro Securities ATS. Weve been operating that, also, for,quite a few years. And one of our challenges was that ATSs are very common in the U.S.,equity markets. We didnt want to compete with our other broker dealer clients. So we,started about three years ago doing overnight trading. We bring it up at 8 p.m. Eastern,and shut it down at 4:00 a.m. to issue the first ever 24 five U.S. equity trading. So,thats what the ATS was doing before digital securities, and still is today. In fact, we,have two of the three largest online retail broker dealers, trading through the ATS overnight,today. Reason I get into all that is our regulatory background. Were also integrated into all,of the major auto management systems, Bloomberg, Fidessa, SS&C. So, we have all of the compliance,components, were already in a regulated environment, so it was not a difficult migration to move,over to security tokens. So, while ICOs were coming out in 2017, we,sat there wondering, “When is the SEC going to step in and realize that these are securities?”,And they finally did in June of 2017. And thats when tZERO really became noticed because,we have the only ATS, or alternative trading system, thats actually approved as an ATS,,and traded digital securities, which was Overstock, were the first public companies that did a,digital security offering, that settled away from Wall Street entirely on the block chain.,Adam Chapnick: Got it. Okay. Well, now lets talk about ICOs that were launched in 2017.,Many of these were locked via regulation D, which meant that investors couldnt sell them,for about 12 months. And soon, many of these lockups are going to be ending during 2018,,which is going to allow investors to sell and trade. So, Joe, what does this mean for,the security token trading platforms and exchanges? Joe Cammarata: So, we personally are very,excited about it. In fact were talking to a couple of companies. One of the challenges,though, Adam, that we do have in looking at these. Some of these, as you mentioned, that,they filed for Reg D, and they went the right way. The challenges some of them are having,is, if they traded on an exchange, Bitfinex and some of them had, in fact, traded briefly,on an unregulated exchange. They may have, in fact, lost their exemptions.,Thats one of the challenges that were looking at tZERO, to make sure any company that we,take on to trade through the ATS, must be in strict compliance with federal securities,laws, Reg D, Reg S, Reg A, Reg A plus. So, thats one of the challenges we have, but,looking at the coming months, in fact, our own security token offering, the Reg S, or,the tokens in general,
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Digitally IN Secure: tZero the eTrade of Bitcoin for Nasdaq? FinTech Blockchain Security Solution
welcome back to digital insecurity,today were going to focus on t0,blockchain and security tokens,all rolled into one what i want to do is,mention that this is going to be a,two-part this is this well call the,first part and then were going to post,a prequel,after the fact this has really wrapped,into many different directions,we have patrick byrne who was a ceo of,overstock who stepped down,about a year ago and the saga runs deep,as he gives a tale of involvement in the,three letter agencies,russian dossier and a cyber security ceo,that used to work with him at overstock,who was found deceased in her car in a,small neighbor small,quiet neighborhood in san jose after,telling calling her mom and telling her,that we are in the matrix theres,something odd about this,but but i also want to tie in a,connection,with milton friedman who in the 90s,had had this revelation about where we,would be today,and it so happens that patrick is,directly connected with milton,and to tie this all together with a bow,as we step through each of the concepts,today,just think what does this have to do,with nasara gesara,okay so lets jump in today this is,digital insecurity,t0 blockchain security tokens,so i want to start here with is 2021 the,year of the security token this is on,investopedia,and theres just a few concepts i want,to bring up here,blockchain is one of the fastest growing,digital technologies in recent history,and its revolutionary decentralized,model is being appropriated by,industries far and wide,and so um from blockchain we get into,icos or initial coin,offerings which were all familiar with,and from there we jump into the topic of,security over um cryptocurrencies so,where did this really come from,as with many other cryptocurrency,launches we read here on investopedia,overstock,introduced its cryptocurrency called t0,via an ico initial coin offering the ico,launched on december 18th,of 2017. lets remember that date of,2017,and was immediately met with significant,levels of interest many icos are used to,secure crucial funding,for the continuous development of a,project,as we quickly move forward security,token trading platform,t0 has been awarded a patent for a way,of recording,trading data on public block change the,company a side,a subsidiary of retail giant overstock,which i believe later spun out,altogether,announced tuesday that the patent for,its new tech dubbed,time ordered merkel epoch t-o-m-e,methodology had been awarded by the u.s,patent and trade office,and again this was announced in,august of 2019 for that award,so lets zip forward here t zero is a,distributed ledger platform and,cr and also a cryptocurrency two,different concepts of the same name,and it launched by the internet retail,company overstock it was developed to,give greater,legitimacy and oversight to icos and to,allow companies to create,and issue tokenized assets for investors,so so theres our intro my name is,barbara and diane is joining us today,to go a little bit more in depth about,t0 what it is what the implications are,and what we have up to date diane do you,want to jump in with this,uh yeah thank you barbara um i think you,know i just really wanted to um,uh talk about the excitement of the,blockchain and what um,you know what i feel is coming down the,pike which a lot of people may or may,not know about,and um you know when i can kind of see,this stuff in the background i just,feel like i want to share it so folks,can put two and two together,or just start to figure out you know how,they want to go after whatever business,opportunities that they want to,but also with an eye towards you know,how to think about,the digital insecurities around you know,how fast were moving,right i always thought that um,that uh the blockchain would definitely,come after the cloud,era and um you know as i went around to,various different conferences,and i would go to blockchain conferences,for many years,uh in the past and watch them in their,early,um presences trying to uh you know,people thinking different about their,new applications getting ready for this,phase you know but not,really being able to do anything yet you,know,until we knew that we had regulation or,until you know they really had,things dialed in for themselves and so,long story short,whats so exciting right now is that you,know,ive been in conversations and security,token summit conversations you know with,big players like ibm and i get to hear,some of these discussions about uh how,the sec is talking together,with um folks you know that are,senators even that are putting,frameworks together in the blockchain to,basically,um you know um,you know make the big reveal one day so,i feel like um,you know uh regulation is coming,and um and with this you know,come the discovery of this particular,company,that youre talking about today which is,um t-zero,and uh you know from my research uh of,this company,they have as you mentioned um gotten the,first patent,to basically um secure the um,the first um security exchange right,theyve worked with the sec,to establish this and they feel like,theyre way ahead,of many other competitors that could,potentially come out,later um and um you know i thought it,was interesting it was,um that patrick byrne um you know speaks,hes an investor,he was i guess the founder of overstock,and is,you know is the one thats creating this,um platform,for um uh folks to do stock trading,even i think is enticing the national,stock exchange,to sort of convert over which in the,past i always felt like,you know they always there was this kind,of um,not wanting to let you know the stock,traders of the,national stock exchange to really be a,part of this i think in the past there,was always just,like work working um and leaving folks,out you know and making folks,feel like theyre being left behind and,until they could really grip it and now,i think with you know the onset of covid,its just making us,have to think about how we um embrace,uh technology digital uh,technologies going forward and how were,going to solve a lot of problems right,in in money laundering how were going,to bring businesses back up how were,going to bring,economies back up and you know how we,can help governments,um as well too and so i think theres a,lot of embracing around that,and um with that you know comes the,excitement,i think the big thing that uh patrick,talks about,is you know the big 915 billion dollar,prize that everybodys going to be after,when,embracing this technology um thats sort,of the carrot for everyone is to you,know make a lot of money,and um but theyre doing it right,theyre trying to you know,they secure those patents and i think,theyre getting ready for,you know bitcoin ethereum and raven coin,to and,and you know theyre getting ready for,the various different markets that could,come on you know he was an investor that,basically,um had the forethought about,um uh technology and how,he would buy companies right and already,envision how they would come into play,very importantly around the blockchain,in areas of supply chain or in areas of,voting and finance and real estate,and i think because you know the,blockchain,has this uh connotation for being very,you know immutable if you will you know,and being able to store the information,from one block to the next,and um not being able to change it,and being able to you know see what the,history is,so um you know it can solve a lot of,problems in terms of fraud,in terms of money laundering in terms of,just keeping track of,smart contracts and real estate or you,know voting making sure that you know,those,votes are you know not um,messed with and so this is very exciting,um you know because its going to open,up new opportunities in almost,every area that you can think of and,just like,you know when we moved to the mobile era,and had to redevelop you know all kinds,of applications for mobile will be doing,the same thing and the opportunities are,endless for what will happen 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Why Overstock and tZERO Are Surging (OSTK Stock)
hey youtube its been some time since we,covered material on overstock.com and,the stock overstock so in this video,thats the company that i want to talk,about,if youve been following the channel,youll know that im a fan of blockchain,and not necessarily,cryptocurrencies i think theyre cool i,think cryptocurrencies are cool in their,own way and theyre definitely trying to,accomplish their own,goal but what i like most,about bitcoin is actually the underlying,technology that makes cryptocurrency,possible and that is blockchain and ive,said this on multiple videos,for overstock ill leave the playlist,above basically all of the videos ive,made,for overstock in this video i wont go,into a detailed background on overstock,because i have already done that,i also wont give a detailed background,on t0 because ive also already done,that so be sure to check that playlist,out,in this video i want to talk about why,overstock and t0 have been making,headlines,and why the stock has been up roughly,800 percent,since the middle of march again if,youve been following this channel,youll know that im very bullish,on overstock of course it is a,speculative company it is currently not,profitable,so do your own due diligence and be very,careful,when moving forward with companies that,are not profitable so,in this video again i want to talk about,why its been making crazy moves and why,its been making headlines,so first i want to start off with,overstock as the retail,e-commerce shop this company was,purchased by patrick berm,roughly around the time of the dot-com,bubble and it actually thrived,during that time you know taking the,inventory of stores that,went bankrupt and then selling that,online,so its been making headlines because of,the certain because of the conditions,that were in so basically,there are a lot of closures and people,are moving to online shopping,there are multiple gainers in this field,or in this area,or sector of the market and this,includes stores like wayfair i mean,wafer had a certain period of time where,it just like,boomed and shot up companies like ebay,and of course companies like,amazon also benefited from the closing,of brick and mortars and people moving,to online retailers and so again,overstock,benefited from this their traffic has,significantly increased and theyve been,able to retain their traffic,overstock their the retail sells,discounted items designer,accessories apparel and pretty much,anything else that can be sold online,and again they seem to have really high,retention rates on their,online retail because of their real-time,website personalization as well as their,real-time,email personalization making the online,shopping with overstock very dynamic,overstock has won multiple awards for,their,retail their online retail and they,theyve been,i mean front runners in this area of,course we typically hear,of companies like amazon and walmart,doing really well,on online retail but overstock is also,one of the top names in that regard,and they are recently making a large,comeback or a huge comeback,on online retail okay so now moving on,to the second part so overstock is the,main holder of medici ventures so its a,subsidiary of overstock minish,medici ventures is and medici ventures,is,the crypto or blockchain side of,overstock so overstock has always been,interested in things like bitcoin,but also launched medici ventures which,has a ton of companies,that are subsidiaries of medici ventures,that are trying to solve problems,for in day-to-day life using blockchain,and this includes things like,safe and reliable voting things like,registering land on the blockchain and,basically being really transparent and,settling things very quickly,and one of the companies that i really,like to follow is t0 so that is a,subsidiary again of medici ventures,which is a subsidiary of overstock,and t-0 aims to revolutionize the,financial markets,so the reason that overstock is making,headlines through medicine ventures,through,t0 is because may was the strongest,month,for the t0 alternative trading system,and it,had over 423 000,transactions in the month of may which,is four times more,than the month of may from 2019. so the,number of transactions are,up 50 percent over the same period year,to date so january,through the end of may and according to,coin telegraph,as well as the security token group the,alternative trading system hosted,95 percent of token transactions last,month and so thats just a really,amazing position to be in,as far as t0 goes and again overstock as,the parent company of madison ventures,of t0,and so again these are security tokens,so,not things like bitcoin the tokens,represent,assets that have been uh tokenized so,its,its not the same as trading coins like,bitcoin so that is why they,hold 95 of those transactions so theyre,two different,um uh platforms that are being traded in,addition,the month of may also holds a record,growth in investors on the platform,and t 0 also announced that they have,new subscribers,in terms of broker dealers as well as,retail investors making accounts through,their subscribed broker dealers so they,now have three active subscriber broker,dealers and theyre working on more,theyve actually signed five agreements,and are looking,forward to signing more according to,business wire,and the reason that theyre getting more,retail investors is because more people,are,either on the broker dealers that are,being subscribed to the ats these new,broker dealers,or theyre making accounts with broker,dealers that have already been on the,ats,like dinosaur financial so more,statistics,on t0 t0 crypto is a subsidiary of t0,the technology company and,this application trades cryptocurrencies,like,ethereum and bitcoin and the user count,on t0 crypto is up 15,in may and is up 85 year to date its a,new application,so of course its really easy to have,these type of numbers early on,again i just want to say that t0 crypto,crypto is a subsidiary of t0,and t0 again is a tech company founded,with the goal,to utilize the distributed ledger,technology to revolutionize financial,markets,and they want to basically make the,financial markets more efficient,more accessible and more transparent,more news,uh surrounding overstock anti-zero,is that through the ats they were able,to issue ost ko,and ostko is the first of its kind,dividend for overstock the company,and it is a digital voting series a1,preferred stock,and this was issued on may 19 2020,and this ostko digital share or,digital asset is equal weight in voting,in comparison to the common share this,was issued on a 1 to 10 basis,with the record date of april 27 2020,and the goal of issuing ostko in the,eyes of sam,and the team at overstock was to,increase the liquidity,of the ats the alternative trading,system,as well as increased participation in,trading digitized securities,or these tokens on the ats of course,with this digital dividend there were,rules that came along with this so when,they,issued the dividend if you held ostk,say in td ameritrade or robin hood which,i own,uh ostk in both platforms you received,your digital dividend again on a one to,ten ratio,in those broker dealers and then you,could transfer those,digital shares to a brokerage account,that is subscribed to the ats like,dinosaur financial,and you can then trade ostko on,the ats through dinosaur financial and,again they are working to get more,broker dealers,subscribed to the ats so when all was,said and done,this digital dividend because of the,price of ostko,represented a nine percent dividend rate,i am under the impression that this was,a one-time dividend,but we will see what happens in the,future im really excited to see what,t-zero does moving forward,they actually only accounted for three,percent of the total revenue for,overstock,and i truly think that there is a lot of,growth coming for,t0 the technology company which again,has a ton of subsidiaries,and i also think that there will be a,lot of growt