Ben it is great to see you're into crypto mate. Respect you so much as an athlete, fighter and coach, so it's admirable to see you voice your thoughts on things like crypto. Any interest in altcoins? Specifically XRP? Or are you a bit of a Bitcoin maxi only?

Bitcoin is for money laundering

The dead cat continues to bounce. What is Bitcoin, 17 years later? It’s not great for transactions or smart contracts; the user experience is still intimidating for most, and it’s no longer capturing the public’s imagination. If it comes up at the dinner party, it's followed by a hearty “remember that!” It’s a boring store of value, trusted as that—which is its biggest value. It's boring. Folks expect bitcoin to be stable and that it’s no longer a way to get rich quick. Institutions embracing and accumulating it took $btc from punk rock to Muzak. Advocates went from pirates to suits in orange ties, awkwardly sharing cringe memes — just like the cool kids do! If Bitcoin were going to reach mass adoption and an important use case, it does better than anyone else, it would have by now. Bitcoin feels like the CD in the age of Spotify, the DVD in the age of Netflix — a bridge technology that folks who invested in “their collection” keep saying is the better experience. Perhaps bitcoin is vinyl, cool memories and fun to drag out and put on display, but a technology that served us to get to where we are now.

Over the past few years, we’ve seen multiple former ONE Championship fighters make the jump to the UFC—including Marcus Buchecha, Reinier de Ridder, Roberto Soldic, and now Akbar Abdullaev. While there are a few fighters we’d love to see make the transition, there’s ONE in particular we need to see in the UFC... Christian Lee. Christian "The Warrior" Lee is a two-division MMA champion, simultaneously holding the 170lb and 185lb titles. The 28-year-old MMA superstar holds the promotion's all-time records for both the most wins (18) and most finishes (17).