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Jul 2021
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#145: Crypto Billionaire MetaKovan On Bu...

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I am grateful to be speaking with MetaKovan, the bitcoin billionaire who spent a record US$69.3 million worth of cryptocurrency on a piece of digital art! MetaKovan is the founder and financer of Metapurse, an NFT production studio and the largest NFT Fund in the world. He is also a blockchain entrepreneur, coder and angel investor.

Get ready to hear about his humble upbringing in South India, his views on crypto investing, what it’s like being a crypto billionaire, his views on money and why he invested so much into NFT art.  

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