You asked Crypto de’ Medici on Twitter and he replied.

Doing a Q&A session with @tokens24. Comment your questions below and I will answer them. — Crypto de' Medici (@cryptodemedici) January 31, 2018

What are some of your favorite books?

My favorite books are biographies. I focus on studying how the best became the best and adopt the insights gained from their life to apply it to mine. I read some fiction to help expand my mind, but the overwhelming majority of books are non-fiction.

Favorite books for trading and investing:

Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits – Philip Fisher

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator – Edwin Lefèvre

The Alchemy of Finance – George Soros

Favorite books in general:

Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

33 Strategies of War – Robert Greene

The Sovereign Individual – James Davidson

The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle

How to Get Rich – Felix Dennis

Evolutionary Psychology – David Buss

Favorite Biographies:

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. – Ron Chernow

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt – T.J. Stiles

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York – Robert A. Caro

My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising – Claude Hopkins

Xenophon’s Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War – Xenophon

Napoleon: A Life – Andrew Roberts

There are many more books that I recommend, but these are some of the ones that have had a big impact in my life.

What are your thoughts on Bitcoin Private’s value VS Zcash and Monero?

Bitcoin Private will have a higher market capitalization than Zcash and Monero. Bitcoin forks have started to dwindle in terms of market acceptance and interest, but Bitcoin Private is a different type of fork. The fork will harness the power of two communities, Bitcoin and Zclassic, to create a cryptocurrency that is held by all bitcoin users and has the privacy technology of Zcash. The community support and technology will help propel it to be higher than Zcash and Monero. It will be the second best-supported fork behind Bitcoin Cash.

You have mentioned that you were in College. Have you graduated and do you plan to do a masters degree or will crypto make it unnecessary?

I graduated two years ago. I did not enjoy the educational part of college and would never go back. Waste of time and money. The price of college keeps going higher and higher while the value of going there keeps going lower and lower. Don’t fall into the trap of chasing higher credentials if it just keeps burying you in debt and not providing any necessary life skills.

I’d recommend anyone looking into college or graduate school to think long and hard about where they want to be in 5-10 years and if what they are getting themselves into is necessary. Many would do better interning or doing an apprenticeship with someone doing what they want to do in the future.

You said in the podcast with “Tales from the Crypt” that the crypto market progressed too fast and you expect a crash. What would you say would have been a reasonable amount of time for the market to grow where it did? A few months, years?

You said in the podcast with tales from the crypt that the progress with the crypto market happened too fast and you expect a crash. What would you say would have been a reasonable amount of time for the market to grow where it did? A few months, years? — Peter Collier (@altsofinterest) January 31, 2018

There is no reason to this madness. We are at a stage in crypto development where there is a lot of speculation, interest and little adoption. It’s too early to see the impact that crypto will have on the world, but in terms of speculation and market growth, it will keep going upwards. Crypto is in a stage of massive growth because of the untapped market that hasn’t heard of it and the interest that it is gaining.

What is your favorite underlying privacy tech and why? What do you think is the next ETH and why? And, what are your favorite resources when doing research? What is your favorite underlying privacy tech and why? What do you think is the next eth and why? Favorite resources when doing research? — Crypto Patrick Bateman (@bateman_crypto) January 31, 2018 I like the zerocoin protocol. The ability to mint a coin with no transactions and not connected to your last address is important and beneficial to any projects that use the technology. The key will be privacy-centric projects that are able to have their cryptocurrencies integrated with other projects by providing their privacy features. I don’t like to think about what will be the “next ETH” or “next BTC” as it automatically closes the mind to think of such projects instead of thinking of where the overall market is heading. ETH, when it was started, wasn’t expecting ICOs to be this big. The same will happen with ETH and other projects in the next few years. What will happen is that there will be many projects that grow as fast and strong as ethereum did. Which? No idea. Favorite resources when doing research is past research. Having a solid and in-depth understanding of the core tenants and variables of the market. This helps to put a bigger picture to your current research and start figuring out where the assets fit in the overall market. The reason I stress research and doing it well is that it all adds up.

When will BCH overtake BTC? When will bch overtake btc? — Crypto Pimp CFP® (@theperson3233) January 31, 2018 I wouldn’t rule out Bitcoin Cash overtaking Bitcoin. If Lightning Network isn’t able to be adopted and scaled fast enough to beat Bitcoin Cash then Bitcoin Cash will be able to gain on it. This fight will be played out for a few years. Both are very strong projects and should not be played down. Which Altcoin are you most bullish for in 2018, and why? Alt you are most bullish on for 2018 & why? — Sartre (@CryptoSartre) January 31, 2018 Zcoin. I am most bullish on the privacy sector and zcoin is a top 3 privacy cryptocurrency with only a $200 million market capitalization. 2018 will be a great year for it.