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Liam’s full interview with Tings Magazine - Part 1

Note: the interview was recorded in may 2020.

Justin Campbell: What is the weirdest YouTube/Instagram trend hole that you’ve fallen into? Liam: One that always gets me is putting Mentos in Pepsi or Coke. We all know what happens, but we have to watch the ending. I’ve seen it about fifty times, and it doesn’t change. But it’s weird finding out what things are interesting when you’re stuck inside. It’s a crazy ride watching the world react to this. It’s almost like everybody’s become a street performer. You see these people on the street who have a special skill like magic and the internet is now the place for that and everybody does it. 

Do you feel pressured to participate? Is there currency in that? Does that keep you relevant? I think artists have had to change a lot to fit in. There used to be mystery where you didn’t know too much about their lives, whereas we are in my living room now for all the world to see. I think that’s the biggest change of these newer platforms. I think you have to join in if you want to stay relevant. If you look at someone like Jason Derulo, he has 19 million followers on TikTok and he just started. His old songs are re-charting because of the TikTok chart. So, you can’t just make music and expect it to go well anymore. There has to be a personality and a story. It’s not quite the same anymore. 

There’s so many differente avenues to keep up with. There’s Instagram, YouTube, TikTok. It used to be you did radio, tours and late-night television. Now there seem to be a dozen things to do.  It’s crazy, this last promo schedule for me, having to do it indoors. I had to learn how to do a bunch of different jobs for the people that couldn’t be here. We put up a green screen in my lounge. We moved all the sofas, me and the camera guy that is staying with me set up the green screen and then you have to film it as well. It’s just crazy the amount of different things that you have to get involved in right now to stay relevant. And that’s all it is. The majority of the stuff isn’t really doing anything, but it’s doing loads at the same time if that makes sense. It’s a difficult thing to get used. And also, things have gotten jovial. So, you have to learn to make fun of ourselves. You can’t be Mr. Serious pop-star anymore. People aren’t really attracted to that anymore. People like the fun side of you, your personality and your humor come through on these things. It’s crazy. I thought about when I joined TikTok the other week, there’s a pressure to film something fun. But then if you are not having fun filming it, you’re not going to film a fun video. And I didn’t want to live my life every day thinking I got to film a video or nobody is going to care. I spent an hour trying to think of stuff and I don’t want to live my life like this. I enjoy then. I like going on TikTok and getting lost in a little TikTok rabbit hole, we all do, but I don’t know if I’m that way inclined mentally. 

With the need to share more, to share a comedic side or a vulnerable side, where do you draw the line? When do you stop sharing? How much of it is constructed sharing and how much of it is authentic sharing? It’s difficult. I’m very prone to enjoy a moment rather than take my camera out and film it. I’m always one of those people who take a picture of a sunset and then never look at it and say why did I bother taking the picture. I’d rather enjoy the moment. We live in a day and age where the camera phone is people’s first thought for things. And I’m just not one of those people. Humorous stuff will happen and it will be off the cuff, but we didn’t film it. And it will be like “aw, should we recreate it?” But we don’t want to recreate it. It just feels stupid. It always feels forced in that sense. So for me, I definitely struggle with sharing moments.  And you have those people out there, who are literally willing to do anything. There’s a trend for people who are shaving their eyebrows off at the moment. I’m not going to shave my eyebrows off so people will care a little more. That just doesn’t register with me. You have Jake and Logan Paul, who do a lot of crazy, crazy things to get noticed. And it’s like where do you draw the line. 

These platforms make it challenging to carve out a private life. People expect more and more of celebrities’ lives to be shared. They feel they have ownership of every aspect of people’s lives. What are your thoughts on that? From the start of this lockdown, the first James Corden TV performance was filmed in the lounge and we went through my whole house. I can remember back in the day when a newspaper sent out the photos of my house. I don’t like people knowing where I sleep because it’s a security problem for me. I had a big complaint about that. Now fast forward 5-6 years and the world has changed to where nothing is really a private or intimate moment. It’s strange. As One Direction, we were in an era on the rise of Twitter. I think Twitter helped us a lot. It was the way we trended on Twitter that actually made us famous. But being on the cusp of that internet stardom, we didn’t really care about how many followers [we had].  Now, it’s become a currency. I just struggle to take those things seriously, that it is part of the job because it feels so foreign. When we had apps as kids, there was no way to becoming MSN famous. Now kids want to be an Instagrammer or a TikTokker. It’s crazy. We never had that. 

You said something about people chasing the currency of liked and follows. Kids are thinking about that validation when they are creating content. How much of that are you thinking about it when you create music or social media/video content? I think, for me, I don’t often pay attention to how many likes thing gets. As a pop star, you have to have an average amount per post. We have to have meetings now where people will go through posts, and tell you why this works. Which for me, it seems insane, but you have this persona that you have to keep up online. And definitely, when posting certain things, you are gauging whether it’s going to get a reaction or there’s no point in posting it. And that’s always been the problem for me. I’m hoping for a big reaction for stuff which limits the amount you post because you think there’s no point posting this.  Often the people who do the best in these scenarios are the people that didn’t mean for it to happen. Someone makes a little challenge like The Ice Bucket Challenge. Someone thought I’ll do this. It will be fun for us to film and because they are having fun, everyone is like we will get involved. If you think about it too much, it will overtake you. For the longest time, I didn’t post a lot. I got off of Twitter because of the backlash and the fact that you are always going to annoy someone with a post. I was like, I can’t deal with it. I might as well keep it to myself. There’s no disappointment. 

I think that’s part of the condition of being an artist. You crave a certain amount of validation.  When it’s work, you can take that some people won’t get it. But because everything has become so personal now like it’s about you. You sell your personality to people. It’s like if someone asks you “what five things do you want people to know about you”. And everyone goes, well, I’d like to be... You suddenly think, what we are doing every day online is trying to sell ourselves.  It’s a difficult balance. You have to have the right amount of humor and humility and the right amount of this. It’s so difficult to find that person. And you see people who become caricatures of themselves online. They overdo it. You don’t know what works any why it works. The internet is such an untested experiment. The public decides. It’s so crazy.

You just said that it can feel so personal, which I think is such an honest statement because when you are putting yourself out there, it is hard to celebrate the work and you. When people don’t like something, it can feel like they are personally attacking you.  It genuinely scares me sometimes. Even to post a selfie, because you just don’t know what the recipe is. I’m not trying to impress anyone. I’m just trying to stay around if that makes sense. I don’t know, it’s difficult. The fact that you just let it go and it’s gone and people either take it or leave it. It’s like jumping on stage every time you post, which scares me anyway. 

You’ve spoken pretty openly about dealing with depression and anxiety. How does this level of exposure impact your ability to manage your anxiety? Before all of this started, the first day of school would probably be when you are your most anxious. Or it’s your own clothes day and you don’t know what to wear. That feels like what everyone is going through every single day online. It’s like the teen generation has so many more questions to answer that we had. I know as a kid I was quite stressed. I can’t imagine how these kids feel these days.  The only way I can relate is by how I feel in this scenario. Obviously, being a little bit older, you are a little wiser with it. I thinks it’s a different kind of pressure these days. It’s a worldwide pressure. The fact that anyone can become a superstar overnight or also the most embarrassing thing in the world and the line is that thin. I can’t imagine what is like for kids growing up in that scenario. For me, it’s raised a lot of questions about my mental health and having to deal with these things. I’ve been running a pilot with someone for people in my position, people who struggle with fame, with the position that they get themselves. You don’t really realize the playbook you’re pressing. Once you’re in it, you’re in it.  I started from 14-16, were my two start years. And the only answer that people had for you was that you’ve got have thick skin. But I don’t think that’s really the point because once you are here, you have to find out if your skin is thick enough. You have to learn. For the longest time, if somebody wrote something about me in the press, I’d rise back up and bring back up. I didn’t realize they were trying to bait me out because they knew I’d do that. Then they’d write three more articles about the scenario that I didn’t want them to write about. You can only know that with years of experience. If something comes out now, I just leave it to die and go away and that’s it. I just think it’s difficult when people say the only answer is that you have to have thick skin to do this. 

That’s not really a solution. That’s just saying you asked for this. This is just part of it, which I don’t think is fair. Is fame something that you struggle with a lot? For me, there’s different periods, severe highs with different things and a lot of questions about stuff. I’ve been going at this now for ten years, which seems insane. I’m only 26 as well, which is quite a long time to be doing anything. And to be in this pressure cooker for that long is quite difficult, but I say I’ve learned to deal with it better now. Age and time are wonderful things. And we were buffered as teens. We had each other in the band. When I look at someone like Justin Bieber, I think no wonder he went completely mental at some point because there is no one in the world that knows what is like to be Justin Bieber, but Justin Bieber. He had no one to share it with. We had each other to share it with, to remember it with and be reminded how to behave, how to act. You shouldn’t do that. It was tough at some points, but for the most part it was helpful growing up in that team exercise rather than be let off on your own and you’re the most famous person in the world. It must have been pretty crazy for him. 

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What’s a cryptocurrency?

A cryptocurrency functions similarly to a digital type of money. you can use it to split a bar tab with mates, purchase the new pair of shoes you’ve been eyeing, or book flights and hotels for your next vacation.Cryptocurrency can be submitted to friends and relatives all over the world because it is interactive.

Isn’t that the same as PayPal or bank transactions? No, not at all. It’s a lot more exciting!

Traditional online payment gateways, on the other hand, are operated by businesses. They keep the money for you, and anytime you try to spend it, you must ask them to pass it on your behalf. 

 In cryptocurrencies, there isn’t an organization.you, your friends, and thousands of others can act as your own banks by running free software.Your computer connects with other people’s computers, meaning you communicate directly – no middlemen required!

You do not need to register with a website with an email address and password to use cryptocurrency.You can download a wide variety of apps onto your smartphone to

start sending and receiving within minutes.

What is the meaning of the word “cryptocurrency”?

The name cryptocurrency is a combination of cryptography and currency. With cryptography, we use advanced math to secure our funds, making sure that nobody else can spend them.

There’s no need to know all this; the applications you use will take care of all of it.

You’ll have no idea what’s going on under hood.

However, if you’re interested in that sort of thing, we have a few articles for you:

What is Public-Key Cryptography?

History of Cryptography

Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Encryption

What is a Digital Signature?

As a result, this magical internet money isn’t owned by anybody and is protected by cryptography.

Why do you bother if you already have applications for paying people?

It’s



Permissionless

No one has the power to prevent you from using cryptocurrency.

Centralized payment systems, on the other hand, have the ability to freeze accounts or discourage transactions.



Censorship-resistant

Hackers or other attackers would find it nearly impossible to shut down the network due to its design.



A cheap and fast payment method

When you send money to someone on the other side of the globe, it will arrive in seconds – at a fraction of the cost of an international wire transfer.

What about that Bitcoin thing your family member or friend keeps mentioning?

This is the first cryptocurrency, and it is still the most common.

Who is the inventor of Bitcoin?

Surprisingly, no one knows who came up with Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto is the only name we know of them by. Satoshi may be a single individual, a group of programmers, or even a time-traveling alien or a secret government team, according to some of the more bizarre theories.

Satoshi published a 9-page document in 2008, detailing how the Bitcoin system worked. Months later, in 2009, the software itself was released.

Bitcoin laid the groundwork for a slew of other cryptocurrencies. Some used the same program as some, and some took a completely different approach. But, what is the difference between all of these cryptocurrencies?

It will take us weeks to compile a list of all the various cryptocurrencies. Some are quicker, some are more private, some are more stable, and some are more programmable than others.

In the cryptocurrency world, there’s a saying that goes something like this: “Do Your Own Research” (or DYOR). We promise we’re not being rude when we say that. It simply means that you shouldn’t take information from a single source as the truth.

Make sure you do your research before investing your money in a specific project. 

Cryptocurrencies are not all the same!

If you want to read more about the various coins and tokens, we’ve put together a list of guides on Binance Academy:

What Is Bitcoin? (the cryptocurrency’s king)

What Is Ethereum? (the distributed computer)

What Is BNB? (the original exchange coin)

A Beginner’s Guide to Monero (for the privacy aficionados)

In the next section, we’re going to talk about the technology that the vast majority of digital currencies are based on, known as blockchain.

What is blockchain, exactly?

Don’t be spooked by the technobabble that people use to characterize “blockchain.”

A blockchain is nothing more than a database.It’s also not an especially complicated one; you could make it with minimal effort in a spreadsheet.

There are a few peculiarities in these databases.The first is that blockchains are only capable of appending data.That means you can only add details – you can’t just click on a cell and erase or alter something you’ve already entered.

The second is that each database entry (called a block) is cryptographically connected to the previous entry.In layman’s terms, each new entry must include a digital fingerprint (hash) of the previous one.

That’s what there is to it!You end up with a chain of blocks since each fingerprint points back to the previous one.A blockchain, as the cool kids like to call it.

A blockchain is permanent, which means that if you change a block, the fingerprint changes as well.Since the fingerprint is used in the following block, the following block is also updated.And since the fingerprint of that block is… well, you get the idea.As a result, any transition becomes apparent in a domino effect.You can’t change something without causing others to notice.

Is that the end of it?

Are you feeling underwhelmed?That’s fair.The breakthrough here isn’t any clumsy Google Sheets replacement.It’s the fact that everyone on the network can download blocks from others to create identical copies of the blockchain on their computers.That’s exactly what the app we talked about earlier does.

Suppose that you and your friends Alice, Bob, Carol, and Dan are running the software. You might say “I want to send five coins to Bob.” So you send that instruction to everyone else, but the coins aren’t sent to Bob immediately.

Carol might decide at the same time to send Alice five coins. She also sends her instruction out to the network. At any time, a participant can gather up the pending instructions to create a block.

What prevents someone from cheating if they can make a block?

Making a block that says “Bob pays me a million coins” is probably really appealing to you.Alternatively, you might start purchasing Lamborghinis and fur coats from Carol using funds you don’t have.

That isn’t how it works, though.The scheme stops you from wasting funds you shouldn’t be able to invest thanks to cryptography, game theory,and a consensus algorithm.

Free blockchain knowledge!

What Is a Blockchain Consensus Algorithm

What Is Proof of Work (PoW)?

Double Spending Explained

Game Theory and Cryptocurrencies

Byzantine Fault Tolerance Explained

Did you already know all of this and are now looking to learn how to trade or invest? Let’s move on to the next part.

Trading

Blockchain and cryptocurrencies, as you may have heard, are now being used in a variety of fields.Speculation is, without a doubt, one of the most common current use cases.

Trading is typically associated with a profit-generating strategy that is focused on the short term.Traders are free to enter and exit positions at any time.But how do they know when to enter and when to leave?

Technical analysis is one of the most common approaches for making sense of the cryptocurrency sector (TA).Price history, charts, and other forms of market data are used by technical analysts to identify bets with a reasonable chance of returning a profit. .

You must be itching to get underway as soon as possible.Technically, you should do it.It’s that easy!Trading, like most worthwhile endeavors, is difficult!It will take us a long time to go over anything you should be aware of.

Learn how to master the art of charting!

To get you started, here are some articles:

What Is Technical Analysis (TA)?

A Beginner’s Guide to Candlestick Charts

Fortunately, we’ve also put together a comprehensive guide for new crypto traders!

It covers almost everything you need to know about cryptocurrency trading (and potentially more):

A Complete Guide to Cryptocurrency Trading for Beginners

After you’ve quoted the article after being jolted awake at 5 a.m., you should move on to other similar topics:

A Beginners Guide to Understanding Risk Management

A Beginner’s Guide to Cryptocurrency Trading Strategies

5 Essential Indicators Used in Technical Analysis

12 Popular Candlestick Patterns Used in Technical Analysis

7 Common Mistakes in Technical Analysis (TA)

Investing

Long-term bets based on the fundamentals of an investment are sought by investors.

For instance, how much profit a business makes.Although cryptocurrencies are an unique and distinct category of asset, they can be viewed in the same way.

Many Bitcoin investors INVESTORS to the “HODL” strategy.This means they are so confident in Bitcoin’s future that they have no plans to sell for a long time.But don’t believe everything they say!Read our in-depth Bitcoin guide and make your own decision.

After going through that, you might decide to become a Bitcoin HODLer.In a matter of minutes, you might become one.Simply visit the Buy Crypto page and follow the guidelines.

The onboarding method is simple and straight forward. You also don’t have to put a lot of money into it.You could get started with as little as 15$ So, what are some interesting facts about crypto investment that you can investigate?

Crypto Investing 101

These articles will assist you in getting started with cryptocurrency investments:

What is Fundamental Analysis (FA)?

Asset Allocation and Diversification Explained

Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) Explained

Passive income

We’ve just discussed trading and investing so far.These strategies usually necessitate a significant amount of time, which not everybody has.We have some other choices for you if you’re one of those busy but productive people.

“If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you can work until you die,” said Warren Buffett, one of the world’s most influential investors.

Good news: there are several ways to gain passive income in the cryptocurrency environment.You can effectively use your cryptocurrency holdings to generate more cryptocurrency!

Why aren’t all the people doing this?They most likely have no idea.But now you have it!

One way to generate passive income is to lend your assets to others in a safe manner.

They will pay you interest in return for the ability to borrow your money.

Furthermore, you might be familiar with Bitcoin mining.It usually entails a slew of noisy, high-priced machines churning away for Bitcoin rewards.There are, however, other methods for securing a cryptocurrency network.One of these is through a technique known as staking.And, spoiler warning, it has nothing to do with meat.

What is staking?

Staking, to put it simply, is the practice of receiving incentives for storing coins.As a result, if you invest in a coin that allows for staking, you will be able to accumulate a greater holding over time.In these posts, you can learn more about:

What Is Staking?

Proof of Stake Explained

Privacy and Security

We’re a cryptocurrency blog, but we also cover privacy and security issues – as should you!

The digital age ushered in a new era of serious creativity.Your refrigerator will send you a text message if you fail to shut the door, you can summon your car using a mobile app,and it appears that mail will soon be delivered by drone.

Unfortunately, there’s also been innovation in ways to steal your sensitive data – something we unknowingly produce A LOT of. Do you know the best way to deal with ransomware? Or the steps you can take to stop websites from finding out where you’re browsing from?