The Altcoin Playbook for the Next Bull Market w/ Altcoin Daily

**Austin Arnold** (0:00)
Always down to talk about my bags, disclose to the audience. In fact, you can go over to Altcoin Daily, go into any YouTube video, and go down in the description, you can see everything we own. I would say, have I started buying Altcoins, let's say in the last 12 months, the bear market?

**John Gillen** (0:16)
The answer is, the Bitcoin bottom might finally be in. Is it time to start thinking about which Altcoins to have in your portfolio for the next cycle? Which ones are going to be the big winners and losers, and what belongs on your watch list? Let us know below and welcome to The Milk Road Show, the podcast that knows that it's always Alt season if you never sell. I'm your host John Gillen, today is Wednesday, August 5th, and today we are joined by Austin Arnold, better known as one half of Altcoin Daily. Austin is the co-founder and host of Altcoin Daily, a major cryptocurrency news and analysis channel on YouTube with 1.6 million subscribers, maybe more than that by now.
He co-founded this and runs it with his twin brother, Aaron Arnold. They've been doing this since 2018
Altcoin Daily is one of my favorite YouTube channels. I literally never miss an episode as I was telling him before we started here. I'm really excited to have Austin on the show today. So that sounds good to you. Make sure you like and subscribe, share this episode with somebody who's going to enjoy it. As a reminder, our podcast today is free. That would not be possible without our wonderful partners at Securitize, the regulated rails for tokenization. So keep an ear out for more information about them later in the episode. But for now, welcome to The Milk Road Show. Austin, how are you, sir?

**Austin Arnold** (1:24)
John, thank you for having me, man. Honored.

**John Gillen** (1:26)
I am really happy to talk to you. I love your hat. I thought a good place to start this conversation would be with you before we dive into altcoins and have a conversation about that. We've met several times over the years at crypto conferences, but you've been running this channel for six years.
I don't think I've ever missed one of your episodes. And yet I don't know a whole ton about you. Why have you stayed so locked in and dedicated to crypto all these years and through this really difficult bear market? Talk to me about your experience with all of this.

**Austin Arnold** (1:55)
Running the channel for eight years. And yeah, when we originally started, Aaron started the channel way back in 2018 And basically at that time, came at it. The goal was to come at it from an average person's point of view. Meaning, if crypto is for everybody, if Bitcoin will eventually hit $100,000, which is what everybody said, or a million dollars.
Surely, two average guys could figure it out. We don't have a coding background. I don't have a traditional finance background. And just started making a video every single day, cultivating that like-minded audience, cultivating a community that wants to learn, doesn't have a lot of time, but wants to learn about crypto every single day, and have an edge in terms of the knowledge of what's going on in the space.

**John Gillen** (2:41)
Gotcha. And that's how you guys started building this community. You now, I think you guys have, at least you say this on your YouTube channel, you have one of, if not the largest, community in crypto. Does that feel like a big burden for two guys who just wanted to start for everybody, and just figure it out as you go along? Like, is there a lot of pressure that comes with that, or how do you deal with that?

**Austin Arnold** (3:01)
We do have the largest community in crypto, over 3.5 million subscribers across all socials, 2.7 on X, another 1.56 on YouTube. And honestly, I think that the main thing when we started the channel, the main thing we wanted to promise to the audience is authenticity, and not claiming I'm always gonna be right. I'm just giving my opinions, but especially 2017, 2018, John, I don't know if you were watching YouTube, crypto YouTube back then, but a lot of shilly channels, a lot of undisclosed paid content, a lot of content that I would not want to share with my friends if I wanted to get them involved in crypto.
Of course, there was good ones, and those good ones are still around today. But the only thing our audience knows to tune in just for our perspective and authenticity for our point of view of where the space is going.