

March 31 2021
All The Hacks: New Crypto Earning Credit Cards, 5x Stock Picks, Hacking Discount Codes & More, with Chris Hutchins
About the episode
Wealthfront’s Chris Hutchins, well-known as a savvy financial hacker and life optimizer, joins Kevin to talk about credit cards that give Bitcoin instead of cashback, how you can earn interest on your existing crypto, stock evaluation tactics and their 5x picks, hacking discount codes, and more.
About our guest

Chris Hutchins
Chris Hutchins (@hutchins) is the Head of Autonomous Financial Planning at Wealthfront. Previously he was co-founder and CEO of Grove (acquired by Wealthfront), co-founder of Milk (acquired by Google), and a Partner at GV, where he focused on seed and early-stage investments.
Topics covered
Links from the episode
The Grove Team is Joining Wealthfront | Grove
10 Million Credit Card Reward Points Just Hit by This Millennial | CNBC
Visa Rewards Card for Crypto | BlockFi
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Ways of Redeeming Delta SkyMiles | 10xTravel
Coinbase Card (Coming Soon) | Coinbase
2021 Square Cash Card Review: Boosts Is a Hidden Treasure | Dyer News
Decentralized Finance Will Change Your Understanding Of Financial Systems | Forbes
Build Crypto Apps That Scale | Solana
NFTs: Blockchain-Powered Art, Trading Cards, Music, and More with Aftab Hossain | Modern Finance 1
Gemini Partners with Crypto Lender Genesis to Offer 7.4% Yield on Customer Deposits | CoinDesk
Top 100 DeFi Tokens by Market Capitalization | DeFi Market Cap
Bitwise Launches DeFi Crypto Index Fund | CoinDesk
Enabling NFT Index Funds | NFTX
1916 M101-4 “Piano” Babe Ruth Rookie Card Found, Heads to Auction | Beckett
The Decentralized Finance Leaderboard | DeFi Pulse
Smart Contracts | Investopedia
What is Yearn Finance? The DeFi Gateway Everyone Is Talking About | CoinDesk
CEO Says BlockFi Is Lending to Crypto Miners as Other Providers Pull Back | CoinDesk
What Is a Stablecoin? | Investopedia
Complete Stablecoins List | Decentralized Stablecoins
USD Coin (USDC) Stablecoin | Coinbase
What Is Yield Farming? The Rocket Fuel of DeFi, Explained | CoinDesk
Four Ways DeFi Users Can Pay Less in Ethereum Gas Fees | Maker DAO
Amex Platinum $30 PayPal Credit: How to Use | The Points Guy
Oculus Quest 2: Our Most Advanced All-in-One VR Headset | Oculus
Amex Platinum UberEats Credit Details | WalletHub
Complimentary DashPass from DoorDash | Chase Sapphire Reserve
Now Earn Up to 10x Points and $120 in Peloton Statement Credits from Chase | The Points Guy
How Credit Card Issuers Are Responding to COVID-19 | NerdWallet
Credit & Payment Cards | Amazon
5 Things to Know About the Rakuten Cash Back Visa Card | NerdWallet
Cashback Comparison & Miles/Points Reward Comparison | Cashback Monitor
Alienware Gaming PCs: Laptops, Desktops, and Consoles | Dell USA
Shoprunner Complimentary Benefit | American Express
Change Your Address and Other USPS Services | USAGov
Get 15% Off Home Depot By Completing Online Workshop | The Money Ninja
Moonshot Innovators ETF | MOON | Direxion
Animal Spirits Podcast | The Irrelevant Investor
Nintendo Co., Ltd. (NTDOY) Stock Price Today, Quote & News | Seeking Alpha
Marvel Annual Report Comic Books | My Comic Shop
Insurance Built For the 21st Century | Lemonade
A Fit Woman’s Review of Fitness VR Game Supernatural | Futurus
Facebook Poised to Shoot 32% Higher, Says Analyst | The Motley Fool
Want to Buy Peloton Stock? Here’s What to Know | NerdWallet
Will Shopify’s (SHOP) Stock Split in the Near Future? | Seeking Alpha
If You Invested $1,000 In Nio Stock One Year Ago, Here’s How Much You’d Have Now | Benzinga
3 Reasons Square Is Just Getting Started | The Motley Fool
What It’s Like to Fly First Class on Singapore Airlines | Business Insider
Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) | Investopedia
Show notes
What Chris considers to be the best way to pack your finances.[05:18]
How do Square’s Cash App “boosts” work?[06:43]
Remember how hard it used to be to accept credit cards as a business? We do.[10:13]
Why does Chris have such good credit?[10:57]
How does someone get on the waitlists for BlockFi and Gemini cards?[11:54]
What goes into building a diverse crypto portfolio.[12:32]
Gemini offers interest on crypto.[16:41]
Chris shares his tragic CryptoPunks story.[19:35]
My mission with this podcast.[21:11]
How you can keep your finger on the pulse of DeFi.[21:43]
Why I consider Yearn to be an insanely well-run project.[23:19]
Why Chris wound up converting a lot of his random altcoins to USDC.[30:37]
What Chris considers to be the best way to optimize your dollars now.[33:38]
Are DeFi “gas fees” the new payday loan?[33:56]
Hot deals Chris is seeing right now (including how he snagged an Oculus Quest 2 for $150).[36:35]
Cashback Monitor: better than Rakuten?[42:33]
Dude, I got a Dell! (Well, Alienware.)[43:19]
Where does Chris find his coupons?[44:38]
Four stocks we each like.[48:04]
The first episode of this podcast was auctioned as an NFT![01:05:00]
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