Today Alvar is back with the Podcast after longer break. Together we discuss all FI Meetups we know in Europe. If you have more send us a message at financialindependenceeurope at gmail.com or DM on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram @FiEurope.

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Today Mathias talks with Luke and Rebecca about donating and philanthropy. Luke works for the organisation Giving What we Can” and Rebecca is already retired from her corporate career at WeWork and other companies. She is now teaching people part time about  personal finance at Yield and Spread.

Interestingly Rebecca is now giving what she earns in her side business to people in need. Today we want to find out why. Once you achieve a certain wealth, people often experience a strong desire to help others in need. Of course many of you are also giving before hitting that milestone right in your accumulation phase. Especially these days where millions are fleeing from war even in middle Europe. Something we really could not imagine some time ago.

We already talked with Sebastian in episode 36 about effective altruism and want to extend the topic even further. 

So today: You’ll learn about the motivation behind giving, how to screen for most effective projects, the history and evolution of philanthropy and how Europe and the US are different in here.

Don’t forget to apply for the FI Europe Retreat starting may where you can meet 25 ambitious and relaxed FI Europeans at the pool in the middle of the Spanish mountains.

We talk about

• Motivation behind giving
• History of philanthropy in US and EU 
• How Giving What We Can works
• How Rebacca has retired and donates

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Hi FI Europeans,

this is Mathias. In this episode I speak with Nick Neumann. He is the CEO of Casa a Startup from Denver in the US. 

today talk about the different security aspects of holding crypto and here especially Bitcoin as one of the more conservative plays in that field. 

The one important question you have to ask yourself when holding crypto is. Whom do you trust more: yourself or an exchange.

So in the past your choice has been storing crypto on a hardware wallet and potentially losing the device or the password. Or you could have kept your holdings on an Exchange like Binance or Coinbase where you do not control the cryptographic key to the wallet. 

Casa is helping to make hardware wallets and self custody more resistant to human failure improving user friendliness and resilience. 

And by that it’s making crypto available for a broader audience and driving the evolution of the current wave of new financial services.

We talk about:

• Evolution of self custody and wallets
• Security measures at Cassa
• BTC vs. other coins
• Transitioning from Product Management to CEO
• FI Community and crypto
• Metaverse and crypto

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