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MrBeast Is Getting into Financial Services. Parents Should Pay Attention

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33 points by sigwinch 12 days ago · 11 comments

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phatfish 12 days ago

I wonder if kids today will look back with nostalgia about all that time they spent watching "Mr Beast" videos where he did some dumb stunt or flashed money around for YouTube views. Will there be a Mr Beast revival in 20 years where a new generation of "content creators" fondly recreate the video where he swam in a swimming pool full of jelly (not sure he did that one yet).

nailer 12 days ago

> Mr. Housenbold believes crypto is a viable asset class

Crypto isn’t an asset class at all - it’s a wrapper for anything from government bonds to gold to bitcoin to stocks to native tokens to memecoins. Anyone who thinks of ‘crypto’ as an asset class can be ignored, whether they’re writing positively or negatively.

  • 306bobby 12 days ago

    You are aware bitcoin is crypto right? You basically just said "fiat currency isnt an asset class, it's a wrapper for USD"

  • 306bobby 12 days ago

    I can't see my previous comment, but feel free to ignore it, as I misread what you were saying. Apologies!

sigwinchOP 12 days ago

Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/business/mrbeast-step-ban...

  • remote 12 days ago

    No gift for me `unlocked_article_code=1.QlA.iLWK.sVMw0U6y1zzb`...

bayarearefugee 12 days ago

I suspect this is going to morph into some horrible quasi-legal gambling system.

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