In this episode of the Decentralized Careers Podcast our guest Mike Benzaken, CEO of the Citizen Warrior Foundation talks about how with a set of consumer safety protocols and transparency, we can keep the retail investors safe from future disasters like FTX, Celsius, and Voyager.

 We also talk about how to build a successful Web3 community and the most exciting emergent tech that is coming out of this space.

 Mike’s BIO

Mike Benzaken is the former Chair CEO of an SME Multinational Life Sciences Company and was instantly attracted to blockchain technology for its prospective applications in funding overseas disaster relief and economic development. Shortly thereafter, he began the startup Citizen Warrior, which focused on designing a web 3 decentralized media apparatus, DeCent Media, to reinvigorate integrity in journalism. As a result of his pursuit, Mike had fallen victim to repeated institutional censorship and as a result, Mike sees TradFi, the Corporate Press, certain Regulatory Bodies and unaccountable Supranationals as an existential threat and impediment to wide-scale human flourishing. Today, in the wake of multiple lending/custodial platforms filing for Chapter 11, Mike and his development team has suspended their private equity venture to spearhead multiple initiatives with his nonprofit Citizen Warrior Foundation. CWF is building partnerships, a private donor network and onboarding volunteers from experts across Legal, TradFi, DeFi, and “Web3” more broadly, in order to educate the public about the various elements within the so-called “crypto-sphere” and emergent tech more broadly. Currently, CWF is investigating the root cause of the ~$1.5T crypto market drawdown that resulted in the numerous CeFi platforms to restrict their users from withdrawing their deposits and ultimately file for bankruptcy. CWF has since ID’ed multiple points of prospective criminality and intend to leverage these events to assist in brokering a Depositors’ First outcome for the victims of what they see as rampant managerial malfeasance and gross neglect of those responsible for ensuring the financial help of the Celsius Network. Relative to the Corporate Press and in line with CWF’s pursuit of integrity and accountability in the “crypto-sphere, their brother company Citizen Warrior, Inc. has launched WarriorCast – “Seeking Truth in a World Seemingly Gone Mad.” In their podcast, Mike interviews Industry Leaders throughout emergent tech and rips the nerd out of freedom-safeguarding tech and shoves the resulting goodness down his audiences’ brain-holes. There’s so much more to the Citizen Warrior Enterprise and ways YOU can personally get involved. You can learn more about the Citizen Warrior Foundation and WarriorCast / DeCent Media and how to get involved through Citizen Warrior’s LinkTrees, here: https://linktr.ee/citizenwarrior and https://linktr.ee/WarriorCast.

With your Host Benjamin Mena with Select Source Solutions: http://www.selectsourcesolutions.com/

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