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.
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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]
