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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast

04:47 min | Last week

A highlight from AMAZING Ethereum Opportunity! (Watch For These Levels)

"Welcome to Discover Crypto! Today is September 14th. It's 11 .34am. We got Tim and Drew on the ones and twos today. How are we all doing today? We're doing fantastic. Alright, you ready to talk some crypto? We're going to talk about, we got some glass node charts that we're going to pull up. We're going to pull up old stock to flow model for Bitcoin. We got some top analysts issuing warnings about Ethereum, also Coinbase coming after SEC, and Bitcoin died again. I don't know if you guys have heard. It has died every now and then, Bitcoin has died again. And then we're going to talk trash about Zuckerberg, maybe. It was a good run though. The life of Bitcoin was a good run. It was good. It was good. You know, Satoshi's vision, it lasted a while. Yeah, it did. We got 15 years or so, you know, it's a good run. Yeah. Alright, well, let's get right into the markets. How are we all doing today? Alright, first off, we got the markets are moving on up, moving on up till we refresh. Alright, we went from 1 .6 to 1 .3. Still looking pretty positive here. We're almost, we could round up to say we're at $1 .1 trillion for the entire crypto market cap here. 24 -hour volume coming in at $38 billion. Dominance coming in at $47 .4 and gas, just not available. Or no, it's North American gas. So what does that mean? $3 .14? I don't know. This is like $3 .60 here in like Georgia. Okay. If gas is high in Georgia, you know, it's high everywhere else. I remember like as a family outing, whenever we like went on family trips, we always got gas in Georgia because it was the cheapest place to get it. So when we're high here, it's… I went to the state line. I went to the state line, checked out the wedding venue. I'm not going to share the name, but I think we're going to go with it. Okay. Some of that good state line barbecue. What is up with state lines? They always have good fire, fireworks? Yeah. Good barbecue. They usually have good carnivals too. Good carnivals too. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, you're right. Alright, let's see here. We have $1 ,632. It is at 1 .3 % as well. Keep scrolling. Then we have XRP. It is at 1%. Dogecoin only up half a percent. Solana up 2 .7%. Cardano also only up 0 .4%. Looks like it barely wants to leave that 25 cent range. Just likes being right out of quarter for some reason here. We do have a couple losers here. We have Polkadot down slightly, barely really. We have Toncoin down slightly, down 1 .1%. Really, really nothing is exciting as far as the losers and the gainers. So let's see something. Let's sort by most exciting, but you know what excites me more than anything, Tim, is when people hit the like button. It's a good one. It's a good feeling when people smash like. Yeah, I heard it boosts your happiness 8 ,000%, but there's only one way to figure it out and that's to hit the like button. And then you got to commit. You got to commit. You can't just like hit it and then wait, wait for something to happen. And then unlike it, no, you have to leave it there. I think you have to sleep on it. All right, guys, we do have some movers. We have some gaming, gaming token to the upside. I know KG Jan is quite excited. KG is celebrating because Axie Infinity Coin Axis is up 8 .8%. We have Rollbit just still ripping faces. I actually haven't sold any lately. It was depressed. I didn't really want to sell into the red candles. I might have to try to sell some Rollbit into the red candle or into the green candles. Maybe I sell this as it's overheating and then buy this, but I just feel like it's overheated. I know I saw people in the chat, Caspa. Bye, Caspa. Too late. Yeah, yeah, I'm still too late. It is up 6 % today. We have HBAR. All right, I think I need to add some HBAR. I'm making a post here. If I had 100K, how would I allocate my crypto? Shout out to JChains. JChains had a really, really good viral post where he did it. And me and him, we have somewhat similar portfolio, so I think I'm going to put HBAR. I only have 8 coins that I'm going to choose. I think HBAR should be one of them. Maybe type in a coin. I think I have Cardano and I have Chainlink. I have HBAR. I'm not going to reveal the other 5. Bitcoin and ETH's on there, so I'm not going to reveal the other 3. We have 4 Chain up 4 .4 % to Central Land. Mana is up 4 .1%. I'm still pretty bullish on Mana. Mana was a floater. Almost made it on there. Probably be number 9 or 10. I think what Apple is doing could spell out to be a very bullish scenario for Central Land. VCs love Metaverse. VCs love video games. VCs love whatever the next AI could be. When I say the next AI, I mean just the big VC money suck wives. So then they can have a nice exit strategy. I think video games is going to be one of those strong, strong narratives for VCs. I've been looking at it. I've been doing a lot of research. Coinbase Ventures, A16Z, Paradigm, L1s, and gaming seems to be some of their big, big investments lately. Now let's look at the top losers, the big, fat, juicy losers.

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The Spice OH! Life (Chris & Angela)

00:10 min | 6 hrs ago

Fresh update on "25 cents" discussed on The Spice OH! Life (Chris & Angela)

"You okay. So I'll get, get us started on that then. So go ahead. I was gonna ask you, what are, what are some of the things that you coming out, you talk about back in the day, some of the things that you ate that was even today you think about it, you're like, Oh yeah, I love this or I love that. Right. So one of the things that you hear me talking about all the time is, uh, people may think about that. Martin was speaking of the show. People may think about the Martin Lawrence show, but this is for real. My mom made some delicious biscuits, fluffiest clouds, and she would make them really nice and big. We would eat them sometimes with Aga Aga, Aji syrup. That's another, the stops, but it still exists. I guess, sir. And we will have salmon patties and she would make them nice and crispy on the outside, but the biscuits was fluffy as a cotton. It was just delicious. And then she would, you know, she would butter them. We had dip them in that syrup. So that's in the style. That's the, that's, that's home. That's comfort. Yeah. That's just happiness. The biscuits were better. I remember like fluffy and then crispy around the edges, flaky, buttery biscuits that taste good. Definitely with salmon patties. And like you said, that syrup, there is some type of corn syrup that my mom used, um, it came with the blue label on it. Um, I forgot the name of it, but that was the syrup that we use a lot. Um, And the reason why I used the Aji syrup is because it was very, it had a nice thing of molasses, that molasses flavor that she liked and I got used to it. So I like it too. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. So yes. Sweet molasses. Yep. That was, that was the big one. There were a number of things that, you know, we like as far as food, biscuits is one for me. Um, my mom would make some really good, uh, peach cobbler. Um, my grandma made some really good, um, coconut cake from scratch. Everything was from scratch. And that's the thing back in the day, there was no shortcuts. The food was good. And it's probably with us generations, uh, X generation X, we ate a lot of home made stuff of homemade foods. Um, now because my family was, was big, we, my mom didn't buy a lot of junk food and even a junk food back in there. If I mentioned something like the, um, like oatmeal, they still here today, oatmeal pies and the butter cookies, the cream cookies, uh, they, um, my mom would, because we didn't eat a lot, her, her desserts were, we ate mostly homemade stuff. You know, we didn't grow up with, with a lot of money. Like I can go to the store and buy this or buy that. Um, but, um, I think that those were, and we did, we know we, there was something in the house that was sweet. Yeah. It would be eating up really pretty quickly. Her name was Ansel. I would say that too. Also, um, we talking about candies, so we got, it's some of them that's out now that's still like back in the day, even M &M peanuts means something because I used to sell those as a kid. But we've been talking about now laters the other day and specific flavors and you used to have to go to these little small stores and stores that was close to our area and little have little adventures there. And it was a big deal. We got a little bit of change because those little packs and alleys just cost 10 cents and didn't add one cent for tax. So it'd be 11 cents. So yeah, it's so many nostalgic thing. I can go on forever about it. Yeah. When you talk about candy and it brings to mind, cause I used to, um, used to help my grandmother sell candy. She was the candy lady in the, um, in the apartments, in the Miller's apartments. She was miss Sally Mae. She was the candy lady. I was there helping her, you know, sell a candy. She sold candy, she sold ice cream, uh, her, my granddad, my granddad sold sodas. We had a soda machine on our porch on our, you know, so those, those were good times. It was Pops. I forgot. Yeah. She sold those too. Well, she did. She started off with, you know, with those, but we graduated up to, you know, the ice cream scoops, ice cream. And I remember this one scoop ice cream was 25 cents a scoop. And I was, um, I think I was about 10, 11, 12, I mean around that age. So I was helping her. I enjoyed that. And I'm, and I miss her so much. So, um, but anyway, those were good times. And then my grandma, my grandma say this one little thing, they will move on. But I do remember my granddad, my little, my little niece, uh, Tawana, um, who are my granddad, you know, he, you know, he, I mean, they were close. So every time he'd go out, get himself a drink and he's like, Hey, hey, you wanna, you wanna Pepsi Cola? And she like, ever forget that how she sounded every time and anytime she wanted, she was a little toddler, you know, she got free Pepsi Cola. So but anyway, very good. Yeah. So that was a, that was a thoughts from, yeah, yeah, we missed the good times. And, you know, sometimes when you think nostalgic, um, you have good feelings about, and there are people that you miss. I just thought, thought about my grandparents, you get a little choked up because, you know, those were good times.This has been another one from Chris and Angela at the spice. So, Oh, give us a moment. Keep going. Thanks everybody. And we'll talk to you soon. Bye bye.

The Bitboy Crypto Podcast

07:31 min | Last week

A highlight from Bitcoin Crashing LIVE! (Vitalik Hacked)

"Welcome to Discover Crypto, everybody. Today is September 11th. Yes, September 11th. It is 11 .34am. You may notice a new change. A little different colors over here. Maybe a little bit of a different logo right there. But we still have the same squad. We still have the same people. We still got AJ. We still got Drew on the ones and twos in the corner. Me and Drew are one step closer to eating MREs. It's going to be fantastic. Guys, we're going to talk about SEC. We're going to talk about XRP. We got an ETH hack. Vitalik got hacked. Did ETH get hacked? Is all your ETH gone? So we're going to talk about the Vitalik hack. Also, FTX. What do they hold, everybody? But guys, we're going to have another video coming out pretty soon. Probably what? After the live stream. Do we know when that's going out, Drew? I'll have to check. We'll have to check. We'll have an answer by the end of the show. We have a video explaining a lot of things, explaining everything. We just hope that you watch it. We'll share it. When as soon as I get the tweet, I'll share it to everybody. But let's just get right into the show. Does that sound good to you, AJ? That sounds great to me. AJ, you look fresh today. You got the gel. You got the cool shoes on. You look tan. You look glowing. How was your weekend? I went to the first round of SMX in Charlotte, North Carolina, working for my weekend job, which is for Racer X Magazine. It's a very well -known motocross industry kind of thing. And I had an absolute blast. Caught up with a bunch of my friends. Spent way too much time in the sun, but hey, probably needed it. And the race was great. I'm excited. I might be going to the last round in two weeks in LA. Oh, did you see Johnny Crypto out there? Nope. He's the other motocross. Guys, we see Bitcoin is dumping. Okay, we're going to look at the charts pretty quickly. We might even bump it up a little bit just to get into it. Let's just pull it up. Let's just get right into the show, everybody. Yeah, you can see a fresh little dump. Let me hit refresh because, guys, it is not looking great on the short term. And even when you zoom out, you're going to see that we kind of broke some key levels. This is the 24 -hour chart for Bitcoin. Currently, we're coming in at $25 ,118. But if you look at the 7 -day, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. We've been trading in this range. We spiked above it, but you just see that flat, flat range. And we go to the 14 -day. In the 30 -day, it looks even more sharp. Just hanging out, hanging out flat, and then we drop below. Let's go to the 30 -day. You see, we haven't fallen below this level in a while. And if we keep going, you'll see even more of the same. Back about around 3 months ago, we dipped down into the $24K level. So as long as we stay above this area, I'm not going to feel super, super scared. Now, you see the dump, AJ. Are you feeling a little worried, a little fear here? Well, I know Kelly is doing TA, but Drew, if you go to my chart really fast, one thing I just want to point out is that this line right here, this yellow line, what I talked about last week, the $25 ,300 area, that is a super important support resistance line from way back here, right? And if we lose this line, I am pretty worried moving forward. Very, very worried moving forward. I'm probably looking to fall to $23 ,000s, maybe worse. But I've been saying it for a while that this line is my make or break right now. So let's hope for the best. And that's Marcus. Wait a minute. What do you got going? Is that trading view or a puddle filled with oil? I didn't clean it up, but this is Lux Algo. With Market Cipher, I run a lot of stuff. It looks like craziness to you guys, but it makes sense to me, but I'll clean it up for next time. It looks like the console from a 1980s sci -fi movie where they showed NASA desk. That's what it looks like. Let's look at the rest of the market here. We have Ethereum down as well. If we pull up this level, you can see we're now at $15 .59, dropping down everybody. We do the same thing we do with Bitcoin. You see we're hitting some levels we haven't seen in a while. And if you go down, we're actually lower than we were three months ago. Bitcoin fell below where we were three months ago. Ethereum is, I mean, held above. Ethereum is falling below, so losing some key areas right there. The 180 day doesn't look better. But when you go to the one year, it doesn't look quite as bad. And it does the same thing for Bitcoin. You click on the one year, it feels bearish. We've been trading sideways. Everything just feels bad. But you click on that one year, kind of puts things in perspective like, okay, maybe it's not all over. Maybe we are on an uptrend on the long term here. All right, let's look at some more coins here. We have BNB down 3%, XRP down 5 whopping percent, everybody. It is down basically the whole week here, down 6 .2%. Keeps growing by. We see Cardano finally broke out of that 25 cent range, been stuck at 25 cents. Now it is below. Am I going to look to buy some cheap Cardano? Maybe not. I might hold off and look for some different alts there. We have Solana down 2 .3 and then TonCoin down 5%. We're going to go to the top losers and have an idea. This is not going to look great. The top gainers, probably going to be stable coins. I don't know. I haven't clicked it myself. Let's see what we got. We have one coin. No, wait, whoa, gold. Gold is up and optimism is up. I don't even know if we should count PAX Gold. So we have one crypto essentially that is up. That is optimism. And then we have a couple gold pegged stable coins that are down. If we go to the top losers, we have RollBit down in the double digits, everybody. I hope you pulled some profits because we are down 27 % on the week. Arbitrum down 14 % on the week and Apecoin down almost 14 % of the week. Apecoin down almost 7%, Arbitrum down almost 10%. Huobi down as well. Radix. Radix always has to get in that top five of gainers or losers. And you can see you kind of hit the mark there. All right, anything standing out to you in the markets? Are you looking to buy some or are you looking to maybe see if we go down lower? I'm waiting to see what's going to happen, especially with the support resistance line on Bitcoin. I'm being patient right now. I'm being patient. I'm sitting out. Yep. All right. Well, some people weren't patient and they saw Vitalik tweet out a link. And they impatiently just snapped in, hit that button, they signed in and they connected their wallet. And next thing you know, they got drained from this Vitalik hack, everybody. But it wasn't his wallet that got hacked. It wasn't his bank account that got hacked. But his ex -account did get hacked, everybody. Ethereum co -creator Vitalik Buterin's ex -account reportedly breached. Hacker makes away with $690K. Did they stop there on purpose? Almost $700K, folks. You can see he was leading to a left of $690K. As per Decrypt, the breach happened on Saturday. A post surfaced on his feed promoting NFTs from a software provider, ConsenSys, which turned out to be a scam link displayed to his almost 5 million followers and asked victims to connect their wallets to mint the NFT. Instead, the hacker gained access to the funds. I believe a couple punks got stolen. So most of what got stolen was NFTs, folks. So just say you got to be careful out there. Maybe people don't have a whole bunch of ETH on the wallet, but they have some NFTs. And so they're out there, they're just clicking things, they're linking things, and it didn't end up going well for those people. So you got to be careful clicking links out there, folks. I think it was a little bit of a FOMO. If I'm guessing what, if you see an hour -long post or, you know, and maybe, but when you see it's, you know, you refresh by following and it's a 14 -second link, you might go ahead and click that because, oh, you know, only 5 ,000. Maybe they go get claimed, you go on Etherscan, you see 17 people did it in the last two seconds. You're just going to FOMO in. You got to be careful out there. It happened. It does happen. It happens. Don't think that includes the values of the stolen punks. I thought it did. I'm not sure. We'll look more into that as this story has time to digest, everybody. Just here to talk about, okay, Tim. Tim and the investing bros are out there 9 to 10 a .m. Everybody, you can check that out. All right.

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Stephanie Miller

00:06 min | 19 hrs ago

Fresh update on "25 cents" discussed on Stephanie Miller

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Awards Chatter

05:19 min | 2 weeks ago

A highlight from Wim Wenders - Anselm & Perfect Days

"Wait. Are you gaming? On a Chromebook? Yeah. It's got a high -res 120Hz display, plus this killer RGB keyboard. And I can access thousands of games anytime, anywhere. Stop playing. What? Get out of here. Huh? Yeah. I want you to stop playing and get out of here so I can game on that Chromebook. Got it. Discover the Ultimate Cloud Gaming Machine. A new kind of Chromebook. Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 506th episode of the Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter Podcast. I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is one of the most significant filmmakers of the last 50 years. His credits include classic narrative films like 1984's Paris, Texas, which won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d 'Or and brought him a Best Director BAFTA Award. And 1987's Wings of Desire, for which he won Cannes' Best Director Prize, as well as documentary films such as 1999's Buena Vista Social Club, 2011's Pina, and 2014's Salt of the Earth, each of which brought him Best Documentary Feature Oscar nominations. And now, at the age of 78, he is out with two new films, one a narrative, Neon's Perfect Days, the story of a Tokyo toilet cleaner, for which Koji Yakusho won the Best Actor Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and the other a 3D doc, Janice Films' Anselm, about the art of the German painter and sculptor, Anselm Kiefer. The recipient of the Berlin International Film Festival's Honorary Golden Bear in 2015 and the Telluride Film Festival's Silver Medallion Award this year, he has been described by The Guardian as one of the key figures, along with Fassbender, Herzog, and Schlondorf, of the new German cinema movement that reinvigorated West German film in the 70s, and gave the country of Marlene Dietrich, UFA, and F .W. Murnau a bona fide cinematic movement to rival the Nouvelle Vague, by The New York Times as a film visionary and a great hero of art film audiences everywhere, and by Turner Classic Movies as one of his generation's most appreciated independent filmmakers, VIM Vendors. Over the course of our conversation at the Toronto offices of Elevation Pictures, the Canadian production and distribution company, the 78 -year -old and I discussed his circuitous path to filmmaking and the challenges of forging a career as a filmmaker in Germany back when he was starting out, what led him to America for a number of years and then back to Germany, why he moves between narrative and documentary films as often as any filmmaker except perhaps Martin Scorsese, and why he is particularly committed to making 3D docs, plus much more. And so without further ado, let's go to that conversation. Mr. Vendors, thank you so much for doing this. Great to have you on the podcast. And to begin with, just for anyone who may be living under Iraq and doesn't know, can you share where you were born and raised and what your folks did for a living? So I'm Wim Vendors and I was born in Germany right after the Second World War in August 1945, in a fateful week for the Japanese people. Grew up in post -war Germany, wanted to become a painter. First studied philosophy and medicine but then really drew up the courage to go fully for painting and cocky as I was, I went to Paris thinking that's where you become a painter and instead of becoming a painter in Paris, I became a filmmaker because I discovered the Cinematheque and that you can see the entire movies of the entire world and every screening was for 25 cents, so I saw about a thousand movies in the course of a year and after that it was decided. It wasn't painting, it was movies. Right. Now just to go backwards for a moment though, you've spoken about sort of this sense of growing up in Germany after the war, there were a lot of secrets, a lot of darkness, unanswered questions and you've talked about your parents having, I guess, photos that really kind of maybe opened your mind to the world beyond where you were from. Can you talk about that? Well, when I was a little boy and I started school, the growing up world was very, very busy, reconstructing the country and looking forward to the future and it was all positive and beautiful and you realize even as a boy there's something wrong. Why isn't the past ever a subject and why does nobody look over their shoulders? And eventually you realize all that building and all that effort to rebuild the future was in order to, as fast as possible, forget about the past. And when I saw pictures from the past, also family pictures, there were all these uniforms and, I mean, my father was a doctor in the Second World War and as soon as he finished his studies, they threw him to the front and he was a surgeon and for four years he didn't do anything but put people back together.

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Divine Naples Podcast

03:01 min | 2 weeks ago

A highlight from #438 Rich had a 5 sec shock because of numbers. Matt has something wrong with him because he gave up on German Cake and German whipped cream. Story from Iron Curtin right at the start includes Mom getting rid of Rich for 25 cents. Iron Curtain TV shuts downat midnightbecause they were feeding chickens through the screen. Speed of Hurricane Lee is down 1 MPH. Our City closed one eye on over 200 citations and law breakers. Rich is expecting toilet paper rolled lower when they pull the plug on him.

"Friday, Divine Friday, we are here, 4 .38 is the episode and from this mic, Rich on September 8th. From this mic on September 8th, Matt, have you got all the numbers together right now and everything? Yeah, I did. You were a little worried yesterday before I was leaving, I thought like you were going to have a mental breakdown. No, why would I do that? I don't know. Because you... Numbers don't scare me. They don't scare you, but you're very particular and things have to be in order and right and for you to have had gotten a show number out of whack, would it just... Oh yeah, you're right. Right. Yeah, but that was just a temporarily shock because then I fixed it immediately. Yeah, I knew that was going to happen. It was just a five second. Right. I just... anyway. Yeah, you're right. You're right. I forgot about that. Yeah. It scared me. Sometimes you forget a lot of stuff. That's why you're here. Yeah? That's why you're here. Yeah. I'm concerned about you. I mean, you came here just so like drowned down and I had such a surprise for you and you say no to that. It's now I'm really concerned. I know. Well, that's because... I had the cake, the German cake that you always send me messages about. Always cry baby. You send me messages... Let me just... So anybody will listen to this, right? Every day I get a message at least 16 times through the mobile phone from Matt. He always says, get the different languages, different, like it's still English, but different form of, you know, formatting. Yeah, it's probably... Stick your German, you know, cake and now you're going to beep that or get the German cake ready and it's all about German cake. So it's Friday. He was so good to me whole week. He didn't pound me that much because I took his attention yesterday. Perfect day. No, two days ago about Urgentanz. So I took his attention from me to Urgentanz. So he was very, he took his anger on that thing. So I was like, he was so nice to me. So nice to me whole week, I will get him that German cake he's dreaming about every day. Guess what? I did. I get him German cake, powdered sugar, it looks like cocaine and then also whipped cream, German whipped cream, which kills all the calories. I put it on the table. He looked at me with his sad eyes, like the dog. What is it, Bassett? Yeah, Bassett dog. He just looked at me like that. I said, puppy eyes. He was like, dude, I cannot eat this. I was like, yeah, you're joking. No, you have to have it. It's just German cake. I mean, come on. Then he goes, no, I cannot eat it. I thought he was going to have a heart attack. Explain. I'll tell you why. I have to, I have to take a blood test and a urine test and then an EKG for a particular life policy that I'm getting that creates this infinite banking thing. But anyway, that's a subject for another day.

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Divine Naples Podcast

03:01 min | 2 weeks ago

A highlight from #438 Rich had a 5 sec shock because of numbers. Matt has something wrong with him because he gave up on German Cake and German whipped cream. Story from Iron Curtin right at the start includes Mom getting rid of Rich for 25 cents. Iron Curtain TV shuts downat midnightbecause they were feeding chickens through the screen. Speed of Hurricane Lee is down 1 MPH. Our City closed one eye on over 200 citations and law breakers. Rich is expecting toilet paper rolled lower when they pull the plug on him.

"Friday, Divine Friday, we are here, 4 .38 is the episode and from this mic, Rich on September 8th. From this mic on September 8th, Matt, have you got all the numbers together right now and everything? Yeah, I did. You were a little worried yesterday before I was leaving, I thought like you were going to have a mental breakdown. No, why would I do that? I don't know. Because you... Numbers don't scare me. They don't scare you, but you're very particular and things have to be in order and right and for you to have had gotten a show number out of whack, would it just... Oh yeah, you're right. Right. Yeah, but that was just a temporarily shock because then I fixed it immediately. Yeah, I knew that was going to happen. It was just a five second. Right. I just... anyway. Yeah, you're right. You're right. I forgot about that. Yeah. It scared me. Sometimes you forget a lot of stuff. That's why you're here. Yeah? That's why you're here. Yeah. I'm concerned about you. I mean, you came here just so like drowned down and I had such a surprise for you and you say no to that. It's now I'm really concerned. I know. Well, that's because... I had the cake, the German cake that you always send me messages about. Always cry baby. You send me messages... Let me just... So anybody will listen to this, right? Every day I get a message at least 16 times through the mobile phone from Matt. He always says, get the different languages, different, like it's still English, but different form of, you know, formatting. Yeah, it's probably... Stick your German, you know, cake and now you're going to beep that or get the German cake ready and it's all about German cake. So it's Friday. He was so good to me whole week. He didn't pound me that much because I took his attention yesterday. Perfect day. No, two days ago about Urgentanz. So I took his attention from me to Urgentanz. So he was very, he took his anger on that thing. So I was like, he was so nice to me. So nice to me whole week, I will get him that German cake he's dreaming about every day. Guess what? I did. I get him German cake, powdered sugar, it looks like cocaine and then also whipped cream, German whipped cream, which kills all the calories. I put it on the table. He looked at me with his sad eyes, like the dog. What is it, Bassett? Yeah, Bassett dog. He just looked at me like that. I said, puppy eyes. He was like, dude, I cannot eat this. I was like, yeah, you're joking. No, you have to have it. It's just German cake. I mean, come on. Then he goes, no, I cannot eat it. I thought he was going to have a heart attack. Explain. I'll tell you why. I have to, I have to take a blood test and a urine test and then an EKG for a particular life policy that I'm getting that creates this infinite banking thing. But anyway, that's a subject for another day.

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ACG - The Best Gaming Podcast

06:34 min | 2 weeks ago

A highlight from TBGP #408 Starfield Sales, Baldurs Gate 3 console, Mortal Kombat 1 JCVD, Alan Wake 2, Switch 2

"What's up, everybody? This is Carrick with ACG and I'm here with Citizen Sleeve. Longtime member. Very long time member. Five years, six years ago. Yeah. Oh, geez. Remember, Silver fell ill. Johnny fell ill and Abzi is on a work trip. So it's just him and I keeping the fires burning. Reg is making those games and Reg is making games. Yeah, it's like it's so weird, too, because sometimes we'll get six or seven who want to come on and I pare it down. And then this morning I woke up and I was like, I think pinging people and they're like, Johnny's sick. Silver's out. I'm like, oh, because Abzi told me he was out a couple days ago. Like, what am I going to do? I was going to do it by myself, but I wanted to get sleeve on here if he was able to, because he comes on occasionally. We talk about games and movies and he's a big Mortal Kombat fan. And now we know that Mortal Kombat is going to have Jean -Claude Van Damme. We're going to talk about that full circle. So I'm actually excited about that because it is full circle. Like, it's legitimately going all the way back around to the first time. The old style games from them, man. Finding that first one in the arcade was so crazy. Oh, dude. Every time I've seen like Source Street Fighter two for the first time, I remember seeing MK for the first time and then Killer Instinct for the first time. And that loud ass cabinet you could hear across the room that all of them fucking. Yeah. Oh yeah. You know, I always forget the sound of an arcade. The sound of an arcade is crazy. When you go in and you like all of the games merging together, it's just like show you. You almost need to acclimatize now when you go in. Like I've been in a few because we've got a town near us, which has got a ton of arcade. So I go in. Yeah. It's like John change. Oh my God. Overwhelming. And then you kind of click into it. You're like, oh, I remember we would be at the fair and we would just you would track down. You would be able to track down the arcade pure by sound. You know, there'd be like at our fair, there were like animal exhibits. There was zoo exhibits. There was all kinds of crazy stuff. People paint in your face. You know, you can get pictures, you could get all this and you would just hear very far away. Okay. It is 20 meters that way. Yeah. You'd hear somebody or whatever he says when he's doing somebody's doing a kick. And I was like, OK, we know we know where the arcade is. And then you would go. And I still remember the first time it went from 25 cents to 50 cents. And I was like, oh, no, half the games because we would spend almost all of our money. Like, we would just go there, nothing to eat, dry, desiccated husks of gamers to wet in in there, just playing. Love that shit, scribbled away, hunched over. Yep. If you guys get a chance, tweet out that we're doing this. Hopefully the alert went out, but it looks like it went out with the wrong thumbnail. But that's life. I don't even think I put the numbers on the thumbnail. So a lot of people won't know that. But I appreciate you guys spreading the word of this word. A million. We're almost at one million one hundred thousand subscribers. So thank you to all of the new subscribers as well. I know a lot of people don't check out the podcast as much as the reviews, but if you do, thank you for showing up. Definitely appreciate it. Let's just break into Starfield real quick. So Starfield, it released a couple of days ago, then, you know, released early access, then it released final to people to actually play, which is what you're doing now. And they said over five million or six million people were playing it. You know, you don't know the sales. I think six and one million concurrence is what feels tweeted out. Yeah, there was one million concurrent and that was early access. Yeah, dude, like, regardless if you like it or hate it, it's obvious. I mean, even if you just look at that, it's a success of some kind, especially with it being exclusive to them. Yeah, it was pretty interesting to see something that I noticed this morning, too. So I've continued to play it after beating it twice, the third time, actually. But for the review and I saw a lot of people sort of changing their ideas on the reviews, which was weird. There was a lot of even the people who were high, low, what have you. There was a lot of people were like, oh, I've continued to play it now. I like it more or whatever. I'm like, I should do a review then. I don't quite get it. I saw a couple of people say, no, now it's my game of the year. And I'm like, what now? I don't know if it's my game of the year. I'm not. I don't want to get in that conversation. That's a dumb conversation to have right now, but it was an odd process. What do you think about the first couple hours, though? You yourself. Okay, so I got it for early access. I paid the extra. I was off for a few days. I was not aware of that. I apologize. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Early access. But I haven't played a ton because you know me and I did what I always do. I made a character played three hours. I didn't like that character because I didn't like the traits I've chosen. So I started again. I started again. I did see that. I'm okay now. So I mean, about eight hours in, so not loads, but the opening is tedious as all fuck. Yeah, I think luckily short. Yeah. I mean, it's only I mean, I've rushed through it without paying attention. It was only 90 minutes until I was making a character. There you go. That's not it's not long or anything, but it's just like Bethesda have always struggled to have an open into a game that creates the sense of kind of open world that you're about to enter into. I think Fallout does it best because you have that moment when the door opens normally. Yeah. But like growing up as a baby in Fallout three and having a birthday party. I know the idea is to establish the world and you're this kid growing up in a vault, blah, blah, blah. I don't need an hour of it. Yeah, I don't need it. And then I like Oblivion, the dungeon even Patrick Stewart's King for the first time. That's really tedious. And all I ever did in the end with those games was I would get through that as quickly as possible, make a save just before I created the character and never, ever do it again ever. Yeah, right. But this one, I think, is the worst it's been for a long time. There's no moment of do you get in the ship and you fly off? And even that's a bit trite in terms of like, here's a chance for folks to get some resources. You're not going to use for however long following. Yeah, it's it's definitely slow. Thanks for all the chats and super chats, folks. It helps the channel. I'll read them in a bit. I would say that when you look at this game, it definitely is like I can get through it, but it doesn't have it doesn't solidify me in the world, even though those others I didn't like as much. They did. And they were like, so you do it once or solidify to understand. I didn't feel that way with this. And even though I've done and plus now three times, I still don't I'm still like I even come up with a couple ideas on my own. I'm like, I could have I'm not saying I could have done it better, but I would have loved to have seen some of the other ideas that these guys had had for a starting.

"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. Walmart is putting together another experiment. They're experimenting with shopping carts. They're doing this in one of their Kentucky stores in Mayfield, Kentucky, and they're building different kind of shopping carts. They're now deeper. You can put more stuff in them. They have a built -in cup holder and a built -in phone holder, making it more convenient for you to walk around. But here's what's interesting. The one thing that got people really upset about these shopping carts, you have to put down a deposit. Much like when you go to Aldi, it's like, what, a 25 -cent deposit to be able to get the shopping cart, and you get the money back when you put the shopping cart back? Well, Walmart has had a problem with shopping carts disappearing over the years, as do most grocery stores, as do most big box stores. Well, they're making you put a dollar inside a machine, and if you don't put the dollar inside the machine, you can't take the cart. You get the dollar back, but people are upset, and now you have to put a deposit on the cart, and you have to self -checkout. I think the self -checkout is the part that's really got people upset. We went into Walmart the other day, and there was only one checkout open, but like 30 self -checkouts. They're trying everything to cut costs. They're going to lose customers, too.

Kevin Mason Walmart 25 -Cent Kentucky Mayfield, Kentucky 30 Self -Checkouts One Checkout Aldi One Thing ONE Mason

Crypto Banter

20:58 min | Last month

A highlight from A Major Bitcoin Move Is Brewing This Week! (How To Prepare)

"This is decision time for Bitcoin, and it's also decision time for the SEC, who are set to either approve, delay, or deny the BlackRock Bitcoin spot ETF this week. So I think it's going to be a pretty big week in crypto. Of course, the last week, we kind of just moved sideways, not much happened. But in today's episode, which is my weekly watchlist episode, I want to break down exactly what could happen this week, what the key dates are that you need to keep your eye on. And then, of course, as usual, from these weekly preview shows that I've been doing every Monday, I'm going to go through my altcoin list and show you some of the coins that I am watching on the market right now, the reasons why, and also go through some of the market moves that I'm making. So smash the like button if you do enjoy these Monday shows. And without further ado, let's get straight into the video. So not much to update you on in terms of the Bitcoin price. From a price perspective, the only thing I just want to reiterate right now is that we are starting to form a little bit of a flag formation. Technically, this would be regarded as a bear flag of sorts, which does have a higher probability of breaking to the downside from a technical perspective. But we also do have this upper region here, which you can keep your eye on if Bitcoin makes that push up towards the mid 26 ,000 region. So just keep your eye on this flag that's starting to form, also paying attention to, of course, that critical support level at the 25 ,000 level, which was the pivot point for Bitcoin before the initial spot ETF driven rally, which saw Bitcoin rally from 25K all the way to 31K. So just watch this flag at the moment and also keep a close eye on 25K because that is Bitcoin's major support from a technical perspective. Now, what are the key dates that you need to keep in mind? Well, as you can see here, the first deadline for the iShares Bitcoin Trust, in other words, the BlackRock Bitcoin spot ETF is on September 2nd. So that is on Saturday. But of course, because the SEC doesn't usually report on weekends, it's probably likely that we get a response either on Thursday or Friday, and it could happen even sooner. But obviously, that is their major deadline. So if they do want to kind of push it to the very last date, they could do it on Friday. We also have the Bitwise Trust on the first, which is going to be on the Friday, and then a bunch of other, a plethora of other Bitcoin spot ETFs due for their first deadline. Now, this doesn't mean that the SEC has to necessarily give a ruling on Bitcoin on Friday or on Saturday. They could technically just delay to the second deadline, which I guess the probability is that they will just keep delaying. But usually around these events, we do get major news. For example, like a couple of weeks ago, that's when the SEC handed in a request for the amendments of the spot ETF. So oftentimes during these weeks, we do see some sort of response from the SEC. The other thing that you need to keep in mind from a Bitcoin perspective is the Grayscale Trust is also set to have a response by the SEC this week. So I think it's likely either on Tuesday or Thursday that we get some sort of word about the Grayscale conversion from the futures to the Bitcoin spot ETF. So lots of news here could potentially cause volatility for Bitcoin, which makes this week a really important week to stick to the charts and have a look at what's going on and paying attention to that. Now, of course, BlackRock has an exemplary record when it comes to these spot ETFs. That's why it's such a big event in the market, and it really is what the market is hanging out for right now. I mean, we've just been shopping sideways. A lot of participants are showing some sort of apathy towards the market, quite bored, waiting for that next big catalyst. Of course, a spot ETF approval would be that catalyst and a delay into 2024, if we keep getting delays, would definitely be enough to put some suppressory pressure on the Bitcoin price to suppress it down as Q4 kind of macro effects start to affect the Bitcoin price in absence of a catalyst. That's what would happen if we got a delay, but who knows what's going to happen, and the SEC could always chuck a curveball at us in the next week or so. So definitely one to keep your eye on. But in the lead up to some of these key dates, the Bitcoin open interest has actually started to uptick. So I'm on Velo here. We could see that the total Bitcoin open interest, so the amount of total open positions in the futures market, was at $4 .8 billion towards the back end of last week. Now, it's already ticking over into the $5 billion range. And today, we did see a little spike to the $5 .06 bill range, which is the highest it's been in roughly a week. So we are starting to see some positioning in terms of shorts and longs on the Bitcoin price, which is quite interesting. And typically, when we see like CVDs and Delta perps moving higher with price and open interest increasing, that does indicate that a move could start to be brewing here. And it's interesting because you contrast the short term tick up in open interest in line with the fact that the weekly Bitcoin Bollinger Band width is now at its lowest that it's ever been in history. And it kind of paints the picture here that, look, at some point, we are going to get an explosive move, and it could be as soon as this week, because we know Bitcoin is forming this bear flag. We also know that the SEC is set to give some sort of ruling, whether it's an approval, a delay or a denial. And we also know they're going to speak on Grayscale. It could be this week. Lots of stuff happening in China and whatnot as well. But, you know, it could also not happen this week. So we don't know when it's going to happen, but I would just be prepared for volatility on the markets to hit at some point. It is boring right now, but remember that could change super quick, just as we saw a couple weeks ago with that big Bitcoin move. And we do see periods of compression tend to lead to expansion. So what am I doing? Well, this is really what I want to talk about in today's video. What am I looking at? Let's go through all the alts. Let's go through all the trades. Some are short trades, some aren't just longs, and some also longs. So you guys know every Monday I've been doing this kind of the week ahead series where we look at my favorite alt plays for the week and we dissect them and we talk about it. And it's a lot of fun and I really enjoy it. So let's get into it right now. I've got, I think, seven alts to discuss, actually 10, because some narratives are comprised of multiple altcoins. But yeah, basically 10 alts to discuss, some I'm buying, some I'm shorting. It's going to be a lot of fun going through these. Just before we go into that list, I want to give a shout out to one of our official show partners, Link2. If you're interested in investing in tech stocks or crypto companies like Equities, but you don't want to invest in the stock market, but you want exposure to IDOs that aren't available to retail investors, often you need like 100k tickets to get on the IDOs of a lot of newly launched companies. Link2 is a platform that is going to allow you essentially as a retail investor to invest in a lot of these kind of future unicorn opportunities like these tech stocks. I'll give you an example here. If you scroll down, you can see that on their platform, you can invest in Ripple, Chain Analysis, Circle, iTrust, Polysign, Copper, Ledger, a lot of these crypto companies that aren't public companies, but have IDO opportunities through the Link2 platform. Because basically what they do is they get opportunities, they vet them, they do their research, they do their risk assessment, and then they list these companies on the platform to enable you to buy in. Basically the same as you would if you're a wholesale investor, except they're allowing retail to do it through their phone app. If you're interested in just investing in other types of companies, not just coins, but also crypto businesses, then there's a link in the description. I highly recommend checking out Link2 out. Of course, not financial advice towards any specific token on the platform. Do your own research before investing in a specific company, but I think it's a really cool way for you to invest in private equity if you're interested in that, and we partner with them for that reason because I think it's really cool. Okay, let's get on with the video. The first thing I want to discuss from the altcoin point of view is Pepe. We did talk about this on the show last week, so I won't bore you too much, but essentially what happened after the Pepe multi -sig was changed, we had that drama about Pepe being dumped onto the market. The Pepe official account on Twitter came out and essentially said, just like I had mentioned on Sheldon's show last week, that there was internal conflict. And basically, a few of the team members turned on the other team members, they dumped, like they went behind the back of another team member, lots of contradictory stories flying around there, and a few discrepancies that we can really highlight in this text if we want to dive deep. But basically, the TLDR is Pepe is in a very weird spot. It's in a shaky spot. It even got hard forked, and there's like a $30 million fork of Pepe now on the market. So really weird times for Pepe, but from a like technical perspective, I'm looking at this chart going, well, this actually looks good. And it's kind of weird because it's obviously in the face of a lot of FUD and typically when coins go through, you know, such a hardship, they find it hard to recover, right? Especially a meme coin where there's like some sort of element of trust which people rely on. But from a pure TA perspective, I'm looking here at the Pepe chart and I'm saying, well, it still is on support. So if you were interested in it long, you're still getting an opportunity. But the only thing you're going to be wary of is the fact it is starting to form a flag here. It's testing support multiple times. The more it tests, the higher chance it has of breaking down. So it's on my highest probability long ever. And I actually can flip into quite a nice short. But the reason it's on my watch list for the week is because it's at a key level and it has a big decision to make. And I think that if you are asking the question like, is Pepe dead? Is it still a meme coin that's worth investing in? Is it still something we should be trading? The real answer to that question will come next time meme coins have a big move. Because I want to see if Pepe is responsive to liquidity changes in general meme coins. So last time we saw liquidity flood into meme coins, Pepe actually led the pack. And the reason for that is because it was one of the strongest memes. I want to see if the community is still strong during the next meme move. So the only real way to tell whether the market still likes Pepe. And the only real way to validate the long term Pepe thesis here is monitoring how it responds to a broader meme coin move. We don't know yet. We don't know when that's going to happen. But when that happens, that will essentially give me my final verdict on with the long term. Pepe still has legs because if it starts being irresponsive to market moves, we can kind of say, well, it's not really a meme coin beta play anymore. It's kind of like in its own nation. That's not really why we would want to invest in Pepe. We want to invest in Pepe as a high beta way to maximize market moves to the upside during periods where people are going more risk on. Right. So that's my opinion on Pepe. The next token I'm watching this week is Sui. Very interesting things happening on Sui from a fundamental level. I think they've done a really good. Look, I know they had a lot of issues with their airdrop and I think they've done a good job of starting to build a little bit of a community. Their daily transactions of Uptick actually overtook Avalanche and Nia. They're just sitting behind Polygon, actually ahead of Aptos, which is their counterpart, also built on the move language from the formerly defunct DM project that Facebook was running. You see the daily active addresses on Sui also have skyrocketed to the 500 ,000 active addresses range, which actually beats out Polygon and once again beats Avalanche, Nia, Aptos. So they're actually building something pretty cool here and I'm just keeping my eyes on some of the metrics here. TVL also increasing, DEX volumes have been fairly stable around the million range, but the prices come down alongside a lot of these other tokens. So what I'm keeping my eye on, given that we did see a little bit of a volume spike over the last week. So if we go into the chart here, we can see that over the last seven days we had this uptick and then the price significantly dumped. And the reason I think the price dumped after it initially pushed to the upside is because you have this unlock, which is roughly 4 .7 % of the circulating supply that's being unlocked later today. This is quite a steep part of their emission schedule. Then you have another major steep emissions unlock next June and then after that, things become quite a lot easier. But this is a pretty steep unlock today. And for that reason, with 4 .7 % coming into the market, I think there's been a broader selloff. But I don't think you could really assert that it's like necessarily a bearish selloff right now. Although that's how a lot of altcoins end up performing three to four months after their unlocks. For some reason, I've got like this bullish unlock vibe from Sui. I don't know why, but just some of the price action surrounding it, I would not be surprised if this thing pumps. Once again, probably not going to long it just based on my intuition because there's nothing really to substantiate it. If you do want some technicals to substantiate it, though, it's quite interesting. Dan Crypto Trades overlays here the Sui price chart with the Aptos price chart since its launch. And it shows that it's pretty similar. You have the initial pump, then the initial dump, 66%, then its first rally, its lower high, just like we got from Aptos. First rally, lower high, and then eventually sweeps its all -time low. Aptos, we see a couple months after its launch, swept its all -time low and then rallied to the upside. Sui exhibiting a very similar pattern. Is the big rally coming next? Well, I'm not sure. But definitely, definitely keep this on your watchlist as a primary target. It's all point of these shows, right, to build up weekly watchlist and monitor changes in volumes. We see some interesting upticks in volume alongside open interest. And we're seeing price respond positively post unlock. I would definitely be interested in taking along here, especially if Bitcoin is holding up. We have bullish Bitcoin news. Of course, a lot of these alts are going to perform well. Similarly, if we get like bad Bitcoin news, you can start to short the weak coins. Don't know if Sui will be a weak coin though. I think there's a little bit building here. So, and from a fundamental perspective, we can get into it in the future. But Sui is kind of, I was like averse to making any like bold calls within the first few months because I wanted to see how the network developed. But now sitting here like a few months after launch, seeing what it's doing, seeing the projects building there. I think like a firm, I think it's my favorite move programming language L1. And I also think it's starting to differentiate itself a little bit from some of the other newer L1s, which I like. So it's definitely on my watchlist. I'm not saying I'm a huge Sui bull. There's L1s I prefer more. The L1 right in front of you on your screen, Solana. I probably prefer more as well from an investment point of view. But Sui, I don't know, it doesn't have that baggage of having a bunch of bag holders. And I think it could be a strong performer next cycle. But I don't own any more so a trade for me this week. But keeping my eye definitely on the fundamentals there because it is showing some strength. And we got to pay attention to the metrics. And I do think they're going about things the right way despite them probably stuffing up or at least in the eyes of the public stuffing up on that airdrop play. So now let's go into Solana. Also some interesting stuff happening at Solana, namely the fact that NFT volume over the past couple of days has shown a massive uptick, 17 % uptick over the last 24 hours. Lots of NFTs are starting to be transacted on Sol. Network activity still fairly solid. And yeah, just starting to see a few people talking about it on Twitter. It makes my watchlist this week more from a spot accumulation point of view. Because if we look at the chart here, we are on crucial support. I am pretty wary though of like a fake push into the 22 region and a rejection around this 200 MA. So I would love to see how it responds here. What I would like to see is a thrust up, some sort of pull back into this region and then a flip of this 22 region here. And if it can do this successfully, I would be very interested in a large position at 22 hoping for this next leg up to the 27 zone. That would be a sign of strength for me. Although if it kind of does something like this and starts to break down, then yeah, we definitely have a chance of breaking through this $20 zone. So for me, this is based on price action. If this shows a strong push up, I'll be happy to maybe buy into a bit of positive price action. If it starts to break down, that's fine. I'll look to add spot a little bit lower because this is a spot bag that I'm accumulating. And as I said on my Sunday research show, Sol is one that I'm pretty confident in terms of like a speculative alt L1 better. I like the differentiation it has, the market differentiation, having its own ecosystem, having its own community, not being an EVM chain, having a pretty unique value prop for developers, being a high throughput chain and being known as a high throughput chain, I think puts it in good stead as kind of like a bet against the EVM ecosystem because we have a lot of bets in the EVM ecosystem. It's nice to have a bit of diversification. That's where Sol really comes in and balances my portfolio nicely. So I like it for that reason. Blur is one I'm watching this week. Very interesting. This is an NFT marketplace. As I mentioned before, NFT volumes are up pretty much across the board. And we can also see that some of the major large cap NFTs, although basically bleeding for the last year, have also had a slight uptick. You can see in the bottom right corner here. So does that mean I'm buying Blur? Does that mean I'm bullish? Well, we can see it broke above its 200 MA on the alley. We could see it's making a bull flag as we speak, starting to break down below. So, you know, just keep your eye on this, whether it comes back in. Overall price action, pretty positive versus the rest of the market. So you could assert Blur is really bullish. Am I longing? The answer is no, I'm actually shorting. Wait, you might be like, what the hell? You're shorting? This is a bullish chart? Mars, are you an idiot? What are you doing? Well, I'll tell you why. I'm not shorting yet, but I've got a feeling that an announcement's coming. Now, I could be wrong. Maybe there's not. But the way the price action is moving, like with that thrust to the upside, with a significant increase in volume, typically that's something we see when like insiders start positioning themselves for some sort of announcement or some sort of trade. So for me, if this goes high enough, considering there's a crap ton of unlocks on Blur and it's generally just not like the strongest narrative, if this thrust higher, I would be very interested in shorting. I don't know where exactly, maybe it's 24 cents, maybe it's 25 cents. But the short, I think, becomes a decent play. Like there's kind of this meta in the market at the moment, which is just like shorting alts, which have significant unlocks and just like betting on the shorts every time they pump. And to be honest, that strategy has like worked out so well across the board, pretty much with every single altcoin. Blur is synonymous with that trade, given the fact that it has a lot of dilution coming onto the market and is also in a significant downtrend. As long as something is below its 200 MA on the daily and for Blur, you've got to use the lower timeframes because it hasn't been listed for that long and it hasn't had 200 days of price action. But yeah, considering it's still below this level on most of the timeframes, then it's still in a bearish trend. And for that reason, I'll look to short more than I long. So that's kind of what I'm doing there. Interesting little short, if there's some sort of announcement. I think that's invalidated if it's nothing and it's just a natural move. But if this is like a buy the rumor, sell the news event, then definitely I'll be selling the news. Next trend is another speculative one. So I'm pairing two speculative trends together. But why not? You know, we're in the business of speculating today, apparently. HashKey, which is Hong Kong's biggest crypto and first crypto retail exchange, officially launched Bitcoin and Ethereum deposits, which is pretty cool. But I am keeping a close eye on some of the like Chinese narrative tokens, Conflux and ACH in case there's a listing pump. Now, I don't know necessarily whether they're going to like favor Hong Kong tokens. Like I know CFX is like very highly traded in the Asia markets and it's kind of become synonymous with being like the Chinese coin. I don't know if that's going to put it in better stead to get a listing first before other coins. But I think people will speculate on that being the case just because it's like a Chinese coin. So definitely keeping my eye on CFX chart looks OK. ACH as well for a bit of diversification on that. Let's see if it gets a listing. But if you start to see murmurs of it, I think they can perform quite well. So I'm kind of just, yeah, it's a bit of a speculative trade, a bit of like a half -baked idea. But I thought I would mention it today just that I'm keeping my eye on some of these Chinese coins now that the Hong Kong exchanges have launched. You still got CFX below on the four -hourly. It's 200MA. And also on the hourly chart on the daily. It's also looking quite bearish. So this would mostly just be like a thrust play, like a swing trade up to like the $0 .15 zone, if we're lucky. ACH also similar. So wait for a reversal here before longing, of course, and just keep monitoring Twitter and seeing what's happening there. OK, we're getting into some juicy alts now. I have a couple plays which I haven't really talked about much before, but are like in my active portfolio. So I made some moves on these towards the end of last week. I actually bought some and yet made some active moves there. Before we get into that, I want to answer a question that a lot of you guys are asking in the comments because you guys know KyberSwap is an official partner of the show.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network

07:03 min | Last month

A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Featured Story | FedNow Is a Reminder That Payments Arent Cryptos Differentiator

"This episode of markets daily is sponsored by Kraken It's Sunday August 27 2023 and this is markets daily from coin desk Hi, I'm Michelle muso here with your featured story on today's show we're taking a look at the US Federal Reserve's launch of Fed now as Always just a reminder coin desk is a news source and does not provide investment advice Today's piece comes from Paul Brody global blockchain leader for Ernst & Young We'll be using Wondercraft AI to read the story The piece is titled Fed now is a reminder that payments aren't crypto's differentiator Payments especially those across borders are often touted as a key use case and value proposition for the blockchain industry Unfortunately a look at both the technology competition and regulatory environment Doesn't really support that idea and the launch of Fed now by the Federal Reserve in late July is a good occasion to take a look at why for most people in companies the value proposition of using crypto or blockchains for basic payment services isn't very appealing Blockchains and crypto ecosystems have compelling advantages in other areas, but fiat payments aren't one of them First and foremost simple high -volume payments are cheaper and faster to execute in centralized systems Blockchains have complex consensus mechanisms and many nodes in which ledger data is distributed This means that while centralized payments flow quickly through a single infrastructure Blockchain payments get copied to thousands of nodes and are subject to varying degrees of speed and cost based on network congestion Transaction fees for Fed now are expected to be in the range of five cents each or less Automated Clearing House, ACH, the most common interbank payment method in the US, presently costs between 25 cents and up depending on the provider Bitcoin fees average around one dollar, though they can vary a lot, and transaction fees on Ethereum are similarly high and variable Both Bitcoin and Ethereum have accelerator networks that can bring costs back down towards four cents Though these are not yet widely available and we don't have experience with large volumes to know if they will stay that low The second big obstacle to widespread adoption of blockchain payments is path dependency We already have widely deployed simple payment systems linked to debit cards and bank accounts It's rare for new technologies to come in and wipe out older infrastructure unless it has a compelling advantage And, in most cases, blockchain payments are at best price competitive But without many advanced features that retailers and others depend upon for handling things like chargebacks, refunds, and loyalty points One area that is often cited by blockchain and crypto boosters as particularly promising is cross -border remittances In these cases, fees in the traditional banking and payment systems are quite high And many people are simply not served by that system because they don't have bank accounts Unfortunately, the root cause of high fees and lack of services isn't a technological one that can be fixed with blockchains The real obstacles that add cost are often regulatory, infrastructure, or a lack of competition Meet the all -new Kraken Pro, the powerful, customizable, beautiful way to trade crypto It's Kraken's most powerful trading platform ever, packed with trading features like advanced order management and analytics tools All in a redesigned, modular trading interface So head to pro .kraken .com and trade like a pro Not investment advice Some crypto products and markets are unregulated The unpredictable nature of the crypto assets market can lead to loss of funds and profits May be subject to capital gains tax The regulatory problem is mainly that, in some countries, the law does not permit banks to open accounts for people with limited or no personal identity documentation Or whose documentation would show them to be working or living in that country illegally Where those obstacles have been eased, or governments have made it a priority to bank the unbanked, banks have been quick to serve these groups Brazil, India, Kenya, and Tanzania are all shining examples of how quickly banks and financial services entities can charge into a market when the regulatory and identity obstacles are eased The second big cost driver for cross -border payments is a combination of infrastructure and regulation By infrastructure here, I don't mean computing infrastructure, I mean the physical variety Supply chains for moving money and dispersing it Sending cash from one person to another requires physical infrastructure to receive and disperse cash Western Union is reported to have over 500 ,000 access points worldwide And their competitor MoneyGram claims as many as 300 ,000 Physical retail costs more to maintain purely online systems and also acts as a huge competitive differentiator Incumbents have been building their retail networks for literally decades Western Union has been in the money transfer business since 1871 It's instructive to compare online to online payments with cash -to -cash payments at companies that offer cross -border remittances I did a quick survey looking at two providers and two currencies and fees range from 1 to 2 % for entirely digital payments To 5 % or more for a transfer of $250 in physical cash from and to a retail location While I think the odds of blockchain payments replacing credit cards or debit cards are low There are two cases where I think blockchains have exceptional value The first is in everything that isn't traditional fiat money The banking system is an amazing set of infrastructure that does an astonishingly good job of moving lots of money reliably and at low cost And none of it works for anything other than money The genius of tokenization is that you can apply the discipline that banks bring for money The second compelling value proposition is that you can make payments in the exact same ecosystem in which you take delivery of the item you are buying Every transaction involves the exchange of money for stuff In the real world, the money and the stuff reside in completely different systems The can of soda you buy in a convenience store is tracked in a different inventory system and your payment comes through the banking system The real cost of this transaction isn't the payment, it's the reconciliation across all the different systems Instead of chasing a deeply entrenched incumbent payment system Blockchain and crypto businesses should be going after the opportunities where they offer compelling advantages for consumers and businesses The flexibility and programmability of the blockchain ecosystem is costly But offers compelling advantages the moment you add any kind of complexity to a transaction From simple reconciliation all the way up to complex business logic And that's our show for today. Thank you for listening.

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Markets Daily Crypto Roundup

07:03 min | Last month

A highlight from Featured Story | FedNow Is a Reminder That Payments Arent Cryptos Differentiator

"This episode of markets daily is sponsored by Kraken It's Sunday August 27 2023 and this is markets daily from coin desk Hi, I'm Michelle muso here with your featured story on today's show we're taking a look at the US Federal Reserve's launch of Fed now as Always just a reminder coin desk is a news source and does not provide investment advice Today's piece comes from Paul Brody global blockchain leader for Ernst & Young We'll be using Wondercraft AI to read the story The piece is titled Fed now is a reminder that payments aren't crypto's differentiator Payments especially those across borders are often touted as a key use case and value proposition for the blockchain industry Unfortunately a look at both the technology competition and regulatory environment Doesn't really support that idea and the launch of Fed now by the Federal Reserve in late July is a good occasion to take a look at why for most people in companies the value proposition of using crypto or blockchains for basic payment services isn't very appealing Blockchains and crypto ecosystems have compelling advantages in other areas, but fiat payments aren't one of them First and foremost simple high -volume payments are cheaper and faster to execute in centralized systems Blockchains have complex consensus mechanisms and many nodes in which ledger data is distributed This means that while centralized payments flow quickly through a single infrastructure Blockchain payments get copied to thousands of nodes and are subject to varying degrees of speed and cost based on network congestion Transaction fees for Fed now are expected to be in the range of five cents each or less Automated Clearing House, ACH, the most common interbank payment method in the US, presently costs between 25 cents and up depending on the provider Bitcoin fees average around one dollar, though they can vary a lot, and transaction fees on Ethereum are similarly high and variable Both Bitcoin and Ethereum have accelerator networks that can bring costs back down towards four cents Though these are not yet widely available and we don't have experience with large volumes to know if they will stay that low The second big obstacle to widespread adoption of blockchain payments is path dependency We already have widely deployed simple payment systems linked to debit cards and bank accounts It's rare for new technologies to come in and wipe out older infrastructure unless it has a compelling advantage And, in most cases, blockchain payments are at best price competitive But without many advanced features that retailers and others depend upon for handling things like chargebacks, refunds, and loyalty points One area that is often cited by blockchain and crypto boosters as particularly promising is cross -border remittances In these cases, fees in the traditional banking and payment systems are quite high And many people are simply not served by that system because they don't have bank accounts Unfortunately, the root cause of high fees and lack of services isn't a technological one that can be fixed with blockchains The real obstacles that add cost are often regulatory, infrastructure, or a lack of competition Meet the all -new Kraken Pro, the powerful, customizable, beautiful way to trade crypto It's Kraken's most powerful trading platform ever, packed with trading features like advanced order management and analytics tools All in a redesigned, modular trading interface So head to pro .kraken .com and trade like a pro Not investment advice Some crypto products and markets are unregulated The unpredictable nature of the crypto assets market can lead to loss of funds and profits May be subject to capital gains tax The regulatory problem is mainly that, in some countries, the law does not permit banks to open accounts for people with limited or no personal identity documentation Or whose documentation would show them to be working or living in that country illegally Where those obstacles have been eased, or governments have made it a priority to bank the unbanked, banks have been quick to serve these groups Brazil, India, Kenya, and Tanzania are all shining examples of how quickly banks and financial services entities can charge into a market when the regulatory and identity obstacles are eased The second big cost driver for cross -border payments is a combination of infrastructure and regulation By infrastructure here, I don't mean computing infrastructure, I mean the physical variety Supply chains for moving money and dispersing it Sending cash from one person to another requires physical infrastructure to receive and disperse cash Western Union is reported to have over 500 ,000 access points worldwide And their competitor MoneyGram claims as many as 300 ,000 Physical retail costs more to maintain purely online systems and also acts as a huge competitive differentiator Incumbents have been building their retail networks for literally decades Western Union has been in the money transfer business since 1871 It's instructive to compare online to online payments with cash -to -cash payments at companies that offer cross -border remittances I did a quick survey looking at two providers and two currencies and fees range from 1 to 2 % for entirely digital payments To 5 % or more for a transfer of $250 in physical cash from and to a retail location While I think the odds of blockchain payments replacing credit cards or debit cards are low There are two cases where I think blockchains have exceptional value The first is in everything that isn't traditional fiat money The banking system is an amazing set of infrastructure that does an astonishingly good job of moving lots of money reliably and at low cost And none of it works for anything other than money The genius of tokenization is that you can apply the discipline that banks bring for money The second compelling value proposition is that you can make payments in the exact same ecosystem in which you take delivery of the item you are buying Every transaction involves the exchange of money for stuff In the real world, the money and the stuff reside in completely different systems The can of soda you buy in a convenience store is tracked in a different inventory system and your payment comes through the banking system The real cost of this transaction isn't the payment, it's the reconciliation across all the different systems Instead of chasing a deeply entrenched incumbent payment system Blockchain and crypto businesses should be going after the opportunities where they offer compelling advantages for consumers and businesses The flexibility and programmability of the blockchain ecosystem is costly But offers compelling advantages the moment you add any kind of complexity to a transaction From simple reconciliation all the way up to complex business logic And that's our show for today. Thank you for listening.

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Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell

19:59 min | Last month

A highlight from Dr. Susie Reilly: "Let's Sell Our House, Retire, and Buy More Bitcoin"

"So did you actually have a conversation with your husband at one point and say, you know what, we should sell our house and put all of that money into Bitcoin? Yes. I did. How did that go? Welcome to the Coin Stories podcast, where we talk about investing, hard money, Bitcoin, and how technology is revolutionizing the global economy. I'm Natalie Brunell, and I'm here to learn with you. So this is for educational and entertainment purposes only, none of the discussions should constitute as official investment advice, and you should always do your own research. Make sure you're subscribed to my page so you don't miss out on any new content. This show is made possible through partnerships with companies I trust, and I'm very picky about who I partner with, so I hope you take the time to listen to the ad reads throughout the show. First up, Swan. I partnered with Swan because it is a Bitcoin -only company that is focused on helping people save for their future and self -custody their Bitcoin. Swan can help you start a direct deposit to take advantage of Bitcoin as a savings technology and learn how to take it off the exchange. Swan also offers retirement planning with an IRA, tax loss harvesting, and a white glove private client service. I use Swan to dollar cost average, and I deposit a little bit every day that's equivalent to what I might spend on a meal so that I add to my future nest egg and lower my yearly cost basis. Swan Studios produces my hard money news reports, simplifying Bitcoin for mass audiences, and documenting Bitcoin adoption around the world. To learn more and get $10 in free Bitcoin, head to swanbitcoin .com slash Natalie Brunell. All right, next up, Bitcoin Conference 2024. The world's largest Bitcoin event is headed to Nashville next year. Earlybird tickets are now available, and this is the lowest cost you'll be able to secure for the conference all year. And if you use the code HODL, H -O -D -L, you'll get an extra 10 % off. So come join us for three great days of networking events, panels, keynotes, workshops, and more. You never know what big name might be announced when tickets are much, much higher in price. Head to b .tc slash conference and use the code HODL. I'll see you there. All right. It's time for the show. Hi, everyone. Welcome back. If you don't know this Bitcoiner, you are missing out. I'm so proud to call Dr. Susie Riley a friend, and you have to follow her on Twitter X, whatever you call it, because she has one of the funniest pages out there. Susie, thanks so much for joining me on the show. No, thanks so much for having me, Nat. I'm excited to be here and thankful to call you my friend as well. Well, I'm so excited to hear your Bitcoin journey because you have such an interesting backstory. A career dentist, retired recently. You have a clinic in El Zante I want to talk to you about, but let's just start from the very beginning. Where are you originally from? Tell me a little bit about your career in dentistry and how you got into Bitcoin. I grew up in San Francisco and then went to Ohio State for dental school where I met my husband. We settled on Atlanta to practice dentistry together, bought a practice there in 1998. And I've practiced until this year. Sold our practice and have retired to Hawaii. Along the way in 2018 is when I first started purchasing Bitcoin. My teen son at the time asked me to buy it. I just did it to appease him. It wasn't something that I studied or believed in at all. But that has led me down like so many Bitcoiners, just many rabbit holes. And I think it really changed how my husband and I saw our careers. We loved dentistry. We were incredibly successful, had all of the trappings of success, but Bitcoin made us realize that those trappings that we enjoyed, our cars, our homes, all of vacations, felt like traps. They no longer felt like a reward anymore. And so we started in 2021 looking at selling everything and trading our time for freedom instead of the up. Wow. OK. I want to dig into a little bit more of that because one of the things that amazed me is when you told me at one point that you sold your house to buy Bitcoin. So before we get there, let's just talk a little bit more about money. I mean, growing up, did you choose dentistry because it was going to potentially bring you financial stability, something that looked like it was going to be lucrative? Tell me a little bit about kind of your back story with money. So I didn't go into college thinking that I would be a dentist. In fact, it seemed like a disgusting career to me. I wanted to go into academia. I loved research. I loved publishing. But one of the grad students in our lab, his father was a dentist. He had a standing Friday date with him since dentists don't work on Friday generally. And he would tease me and say, this is a horrible idea for you to go into academia. I think. And I'd say, what do you think I should do, Dr. Kevin? You should be a dentist, which again, I just I couldn't imagine doing that. But he had me interned in his office and he was this beloved character. He had a great lifestyle. He lived a beautiful, beautiful family, family man, and it sold me. So I went all in knowing that I've always wanted a lot of kids. And so I then went to Ohio State for dental school, met my husband. We have four beautiful children and we practiced for 26 years together. Well, I mean, you have what so many people strive for, what they dream of, but you mentioned that it felt like trappings, like you were trapped by some of those things. So let's let's kind of dig into that a little bit more. I mean, having all of these things, especially being able to maybe afford the nice house, the nice car vacation, why did it feel like you weren't fully in the in the value of freedom and living out in a free sovereign way? Well, I think that when first of all, as a woman and a mom, a working mom, you always feel like you're never doing enough. I think when I was giving fully to my kids, I felt like I was neglecting my, you know, especially when you're a business owner, I'm like, oh, I'm neglecting running the business. When I would pour more time into the business, I definitely felt a lot of mom guilt about I wasn't giving to my kids the way I wanted to. So I think you're always balancing that, which is tough as a woman. And then so many times it's no matter how much we made over the years, we built this little practice to get this huge practice, very successful. But no matter how much we made, we somehow found a way to spend it. And, you know, we went to the bigger house we get. So it did begin to feel like it was this hamster wheel that we were constantly, you know, just we were working so hard that we wanted to reward ourselves. And so it'd be like we'd go on a bigger vacation, we'd get the fancier car, oh, we need another home. And you when look at it as a big winner, it starts to feel like this is a trap. This is what they want from us is to work harder and to just keep the system going. Did you notice just prices going up, especially in sort of those more scarce assets like real estate? I mean, I'm thinking about just the conversation that a lot of people are having this week about Paul Krugman saying, oh, we should move the inflation target to 3%. Yes. I feel like so many people, we don't study the financial system at a young age to be able to question something like the inflation rate. Did you kind of notice, oh, things are getting more expensive, but I can keep up? I think for me, and I think this is a lot of people, and it's sort of a shame to say it, again, as a business person that I thought I was educated, I thought I understood the financial system, but I really thought inflation is natural. Of course, things get more expensive over time. Of course, a soft drink costs 25 cents when our parents were young and it's $1 .50. I thought that it's just the way things are. I didn't question it. I didn't question fractional reserve banking. I thought the Fed was a government entity. I knew the dollar wasn't backed by gold, but I didn't realize it was backed by no gold. There's so many things that I didn't understand and just thought, why should I study that? I'm successful. I think that's by design. I think we're kept in the dark. I think it's meant to be that we're not supposed to understand. Even talking to so many of my normie friends now or my dentist friends now, if they're doing okay, they don't care to learn. It's like, it'll all be fine. That meme about it's fine, I hear it all the time. Why are you worrying about this? It always ends up fine. In order to preserve your wealth, were you investing essentially in real estate before and maybe a stock portfolio or how were you seeing that ability to plan for your kids to hopefully have some sort of a safety net and be able to take care of their needs into the future? Yeah. I mean, absolutely just pretty traditional stock portfolio. We had a wealth manager. We had commercial real estate, tried to always have some passive investment. We owned our building for our practice, all these things and did well. But when Tesla made the announcement in 2021 about that they had acquired Bitcoin, when that came out, my stupid little Bitcoin on my phone, rainy day that I would sock away a little bit, I looked at it and I was like, holy cow, my nothing investment that I really didn't pay attention to was now a significant amount of money and had outperformed everything else that I had invested in. And that's when, of course, I started to see Bitcoin differently. To me, it became, oh, this is something that people can get rich on. I think that's the first thought that comes to your head. So I went full, I'm going to invest in altcoins. I'm going to find the next Bitcoin again. I believed in all of those fallacies and I went full altcoin investing. I took trading classes, all those things. Oh, wow. Yeah. And did well, but it was a maxi on Twitter, a toxic maxi on Twitter. I just started to get on to Twitter in 2020. I'd been on for a long time, just not active. And it was a toxic maxi who told me I'm an idiot and that I knew nothing about Bitcoin. And here I was, I'm like, well, I'm going to be retiring from my Bitcoin holdings. And he's like, I'm not even talking to you about it until you read one book. You've obviously read nothing. And that was for me, of course, I had many people tell me, you need to study Bitcoin. You need to read more. You need to, and I was like, I'm watching YouTube videos. I need, I know all I need to know, but getting me where it hurt most, my ego, that is what caused me to really read the Bitcoin standard and it opened my eyes to everything. Same here. Thank you, Safedine. Yeah, Safedine changed my life too. Wait, so, okay. It was your son who first told you about Bitcoin. How did he know about it? And did you, I mean, you clearly had a journey, right? It's like, no, this isn't a thing. I'm skeptical. Yes, maybe it's a thing. I'm going to invest a little, but also venture out into all these other cryptocurrencies. Oh, no, this is the only, the real one that I should be relying on that has the properties of money. Can you talk about sort of that journey and how, how your son discovered it? Yeah, so my son, like most teenagers, you know, his age was 16, 17 at the time were gaming. And so a lot of these young guys would talk about Bitcoin. And so, I mean, he came to me and he was like, you need to put, you need to buy, you know, 10 ,000 And was I absolutely not. And, but he didn't let up. I mean, it must've been six, seven months. And eventually he put an app on my phone. It makes me laugh. It was called Coin Mama. And he was like, my mama, I don't even, I keep meaning to look if it's still around, but it's, that's where I got my first Bitcoin. And so, and I only did it because he installed it on my phone and it was too, he was relentless. So I, it was to shut him up. What year was this and how old was he? 2018, 17. And so, wow. Yeah. And, and so I think my first buy was $20 of Bitcoin. And then, and again, it wasn't, I genuinely believe this was something that criminals use, that it was dark web stuff that I didn't want anything to do with it. So I didn't look into it. I was, it was an easy buy on my phone. And so, but then I would kind of, I never really paid attention to news stories or anything like that. I would just, but if I didn't go to Starbucks that weren't that week or, Oh, I didn't, you know, get my hair cut or I'm just going to buy some Bitcoin this week. So I was buying like little $20 here, $10 there for, you know, three years. Wow. Okay. So, I mean, for you to go from kind of, you know, dipping your toe in, buying it here and there in, in place of what you might spend on a coffee to actually selling your home and putting it into Bitcoin, how did, how did you get to that level of conviction that this is something that's here to stay and it is the best investment I could possibly make? It really went, to me, the difference between crypto investors and Bitcoiners is Bitcoiners are always so well read and they study so much. And my life motto is to always be in this drunk environment around people smarter than me. And when I kept hearing from these people were smarter than me, this is what I believe in. You know, I mean, there's people, you pest a fish, James Lavish, so many of these people, Jeff Booth, you know, that I'm like, I look up to them so much and they put their money where their mouth is. And then I would study a little more and I'd read a book that they'd recommend and I'd, you know, learn a little more, something, some light bulb would go on and you know, things like, my real estate holdings, they've done well, but they didn't do as well as my Bitcoin. It was, and then when I say, oh, yeah, this inflation isn't natural. These things are, yes, it looks like it's, my homes are worth so much more, but it's really the money is worth that much less. There's such a shift when you study and you're not all about the money that you realize things are so broken and it makes you want to do something to help change the system. Well, you know, I'm curious because I totally agree with the people that have sort of made it in the fiat sense and they're doing okay financially. They probably don't have a reason to question the system that's working for them. But why do you think that we're having such a tough time breaking through to the normies and really getting a significant amount of the working class that is really struggling with the disadvantages of the current system and with inflation? Why aren't they taking a look at this as an alternative just in coming to it in droves? Well, I think when Bitcoin is doing well, I know my experiences at my phone, text messages, email is blowing up like in 21. I had everybody just so excited about Bitcoin and crypto at the time as well. Like, you know, everyone was ready to put their jobs and become full time traders. It seems like you could do no wrong. But I know since then, like there are some members of my family who are late 21, they were ready to invest a significant amount into Bitcoin. And then it's these terrible, you know, FBS and no plan and all these things. They hear these things and they just don't trust it. It sounds like some it sounds like a scam to them. And I think, again, that's intentional to have all of these things seem like they're Bitcoin. And it scares people off, especially like my parents generation. It's terrifying. Well, what will change that? I think one of the best things Bitcoiners do is to differentiate Bitcoin, not crypto. It's something that I say all the time is that, you know, if you understand what Bitcoin is and then if I have family members who start asking me about Dogecoin or something, you know, Ethereum. And I just start talking about this is how it's different. I will I'll see a little bit of the light bulb go on. But I think until we see, you know, legacy finance, really, I think I think these ETFs coming on the line will be terrific for older investors and give it more legitimacy. That will make a difference. It's time for a quick break to hear these messages from my partners. Fold is the best Bitcoin rewards debit card and shopping app in the world. You can earn Bitcoin on everything you purchase from Amazon to groceries to your Bitcoin conference tickets with Folds Bitcoin cashback debit card. And you can win free satoshis every day or even play for a whole Bitcoin by spinning the rewards wheel. You can also buy Bitcoin and Stacksats directly on Fold and earn even more incentives and rewards. This is a great app to get someone totally new into Bitcoin and way better than earning airline miles or hotel points. Head to foldapp .com slash Natalie. And if you use my link, you'll get up to 10000 sats when you sign up for spin or spin plus and spend at least 20 dollars on the card. I'm so excited to share that I have partnered with Coinkite and we are committed to making sure everyone has the information they need to safely self custody their Bitcoin. Coinkite produces the cold card wallet, which is the cold storage device. I am switching to for safekeeping my Bitcoin. It is Bitcoin only. You can verify the source code. It's ultra secure. And as I'm learning, it's easy to use even if you're a beginner. If you head to their site in my show notes, you can find all of their products from cold cards in different colors to seed plates, tap signers, sats cards, block clocks, which I have behind me and more. I'm also in the process of creating some how to videos on cold card. So watch out for those in the near future. Become your own bank with Bitcoin and Coinkite. All right, back to the show. So did you actually have a conversation with your husband at one point and say, you know what, we should sell our house and put all of that money into Bitcoin? Yes, I did. How did that go? At first he said, okay, he was willing to sell the house because the carrot I had at the end is let's sell our house and retire.

"And Divan it is, Divan Monday, August 21st episode 419 from This Mike Rich and from This This is our European A's Monday we start Monday not Sunday We already explained it in previous episodes enough Usually people, even though we say we start the week with Sunday, they wake up on Sunday morning going Hey the week started, it's the weekend for them So really psychologically we start the week on Monday just like you guys Why are you tripping? You start the weekend Monday. I don't I don't stop the weekend or week are going through Oh, it's just a matter of semantics. Who cares? I'm sure everybody in Europe is working on Monday, too. Are we working on Monday, too? People in you how do we just say that that's the day that the week starts everybody starts to work week on Monday? People in Europe getting lazy. They work only 40 hours a week and they have weekend off Saturday and Sunday Mostly we mostly have that year to accept that we accept me. Well, that's your last 20 years. I'm going through well I'm still waiting for the weekend. Oh, well, we just keep going. Okay. I decided you know, that's Self -inflicted abuse though. I mean job has to get done, but people should take time off you you understand But what's my time off? I do it on Sunday. Yeah, but job is a job has to be done and I cannot have it done Yeah, that's true. I understand Around there's more do you know that at one time in this country there were called blue laws? You weren't allowed to be open their work on Sundays. What is blue is to talk about that another. Oh, yeah I remember yeah. Yeah, and then some genius came as new CEO Except chick -fil -a told them to you know, put the peanut where the monkey put them We're trying to keep it. We're trying to keep the show clean. Yeah. Well, you know They don't make cows on Sunday cows sleeping. Yeah. Well, they don't eat more chicken Whatever that is. Yeah. Remember we did a day There was a day that we did that and yeah, and it was actually chick -fil -a that came came up with that anyway, go ahead Why don't you start with the essentials? Let's just let's just start with the essentials which is better than the weather Yeah, we gotta do that then. So first of all, we need to we need to say thank you to Julian Bruce To give them credit for all the music and tools then they are provided us with the intro song divine Naples It's from them. There are key to our patchouli. We have a bunch of CDs. I think 12 different CDs They they made and they are available in our divine and divine Naples coffee in Weinberg, right? If you interested you can come and purchase we have new sponsor this week and it's divine spa sponsoring ourselves It's a wellness month. We still have 10 days to go So if you're thinking to relax, maybe you have a massage reflexology Just a little bit lay down do nothing and have somebody to work on your body make you feel better and get your muscles detoxed Check it out my divine spa calm 239 244 1434 is the number of the best rated spa here in downtown Naples So that's that if you are planning to go to the beach Just don't pack too heavy because you know, you guys to pull it in pull it out Give us a chance to service you with beach delivery beach SOS that count 250 items Available and we will bring it to you in no time 20 minutes 30 minutes sandwiches desserts bottle of wine beer Anything you can think of so that's that you got q -tips No, but we should add them. Yeah Clean your ears on the beach why I don't know you've got everything else from band -aids to I Always have to come with something. Yeah, that was good to see one more thing. I know you're gonna fit it is but Do we need to take care of this or do we want to do this the business part? Is it a need or a lot is it both? Okay there. All right, you need but I want right and I wanted to clarify that because we don't need to we let we want to take the Bruce and Julie. Yes, we don't need to we need to yeah, we are happy to do I know but we want to yeah But I'm our heart. Yeah, so so do you ask me for a q -tips? I'm sure next week you ask me for all change right if you do that on a parking lot. Why not on the beach? Yeah, when you land on the beach, right? Who knows you'll come up with something. I'm sure probably would like to do that What's the weather? I don't know. Did you finish the assumption? I'm done so rudely interrupted Why just cannot keep it white? How many are you gonna put me on another put another hat on me? Yeah, now I'm the weather guy. Yeah, you were the guy so all these hats. I gotta change one time. He had me as a Captain, I guess I was sailing the seven Z's and I was all You crushed the ship then you took that hat away because you probably crushed the shit Anyway, you were looking on the girls on the beach and he crushed the ship Yeah, see and here's the deal today's weather is gonna be this We're gonna have a high of about 97 and a low of 78. It's gonna be cloudy and not cloudy Oh, yeah, it said it's cloudy and not cloudy. So there'll be clear skies. Sounds like cloudier Yeah cloudy. I know Claudia. I know cloudy. I know a couple cloudy is here and I was gonna tell you to That go ahead and prepare because there's a great possibility or almost just like the Sun rises every day It's probably gonna rain today. No, yeah, but anyway, there's your weather in Naples Yeah, I'm glad it will start doing all of Southwest, Florida. I'm glad we are not in California. Yeah Oh, yeah, my son went through that Because California right now is hit by Hillary. Yeah, but he was yeah But he was talking about how it is nothing but they did have flooding that that's the problem down there But you know what? Are they gonna find something else to complain about? I mean they went through 12 years of drought. He'd probably go like hey, give us a couple of hurricanes You know and fill up all the reservoirs and anything But anyway, you know, I'm so glad people getting pretty good idea what Hillary would be like if she would be a president. Yeah They all they all smell She lost. Oh, yeah, and and I remember somebody gave me toilet paper to heal a picture Oh, yeah with her picture, I put it. Oh, that's so bad. I put it in the coffee I would have saved it for a souvenir. I put it in the coffee shop. Oh nice And oh, it was like it was like a bit exhibit First first friend of mine Chris he went there Just Even out thinking over there I will have it with nightmares. Yeah, just this he was afraid that's okay Anyway, yeah. Well, that's enough Well, I mean it's fun to make fun of it I mean both sides are clown show But anyway, and that just here's how political we want to get we need to come together as a community There are things that we could do that we couldn't you know, it's not like talking about compromise or whatever but people should be able to come to a consensus of what is good for a community and One of the things that we think is really good for the community is to build local businesses because everybody benefits economically There's jobs people go up the social ladder. So there's not that much Argumentation there and then why can't we get together and talk about you know from a local perspective? who we have in offices and commissions and all that to To get people to put in the right policies that make business run smoother more efficient more environmentally sound and these types of things but doesn't you know throw a Wrench a monkey wrench into the engine, you know Simplify things and and get things expedited so that people could work and buy things and get along with their life That's what a kind of politics I want to be involved in. Yeah, does that sound good to you? Okay, I'll take it and I will add to it. What is good for a community is a humor, right? Yeah, yes to make fun of everything you can because that apparently Extend a life span it does and we're talking itself month. So, you know, hopefully we're making you smile I just oh, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna just hit play on these two morons Did you just call me that I called us that well don't know I just did I just insult morons Speaking the health I have to share something with everybody here. Yeah That is something that I experience in whole day So since six o 'clock in the morning, I actually woke up five. I went to sleep 230 so I got a couple hours with sleeping as a new dolphin with one eye open and So I don't know where sleep and then I was scheduled to go to one facility in four Myers and I have to share the experience with everybody and and kind of lift people with You know that that may end up there for different reasons, right? And just wanted to prepare them that that that facility is above and beyond so If you have a little person or a little human child Good child child home and need the assistance with the doctors and you have to be Seeking the medical, you know professionals in the hospital There is a hospital. It's called Golisano Children's Hospital, Southwest, Florida It's a in ninety nine eighty one south health park in four Myers And that's why I end up today drove there one hour to meet. Dr. Michael car, which is Absolutely top Why the arch what he does and I have to tell you we were so lucky to have Him to provide us the expert services which was probably procedure of 30 minutes, but all around took almost all day and Michael car doctor that been practicing over 35 years is retiring So if you planning to have some kind of problem In in the field of pediatric urology you very hurry up because he's gonna be gone and one of the top doctors from Philadelphia will disappear in retirement. You may see him on a beach or somewhere else But if you have the chance to get in his hands for any type of care It's unbelievable you come to the hospital This is this is how I expect if I have to go to hospital or anybody has to go to hospital This is how I expected my experience in some of the hospital here in locally in Naples Never been good. Okay, I have to say that and for many reasons, but this Hospital is top -notch you arrive people smiling on you. You know, the check -in is very smooth They never make you feel nervous or you should be nervous or somehow make you feel like, you know, something is going on especially when This goes about kids So, you know, there's so much that you think of and the kids, you know in an unknown space is it's a hospital So maybe some of them never been there and then you go through all this process checking out before surgeries and everything else absolutely top -notch Every single person from the greeters on the door to the people that will direct you and and the you know Tell you what's gonna happen you receiving throughout a surgery you receiving text messages. It's almost like a post game You know, that's great minute six to his in it. It's not a Artificial intelligence. No, no, they're actually writing the text message to you so if you as a parent sitting somewhere in the waiting room and your kid is Going through procedures you have an idea what's going on and it's almost like a hockey game, you know, he's just like, you know What's wrong? Play those so I don't know much about it. You don't play much with balls anyway Yeah, no hockey is a puck and you've already explained to people that you don't like sports with balls That's correct, so we we got it narrowed down right so go ahead with your hockey illustration So you get a text message, you know what's going on and then every single person on a Third floor every single person, you know in the end everything went well, everything was smooth Everything that we've been told actually happened No complications anything and and you asked somebody to get you somewhere in the secular area They're smiling. They had to get I mean, I just I just told the gentleman that it was opening door for me I said you people here so friendly. I want to thank you home all I want to thank you all of you home with me Yeah, I've noticed it's had a profound impact on you. Yeah, people treat each other. Yeah I'm just hoping that that stuff flows like that that same mojo that vibe that flowed from them on to you Will now go from you and to me. No, I just I'm suspicious. I'm suspicious I remember when I first time arrived in Las Vegas, right and you know, you just like I Put the 25 cents in the machine. I was playing for two hours. I couldn't get rid of And then then I finally like four hours later I got $50 out right and I was like, okay, let me let me step up the game So I went to the table with the roulette and I goes like, oh that was smart. Yeah Yeah, I go like, okay break it down and I asked him for give me ten You know, whatever you call it. Yep chips for five dollars and the guy look at me like what am I doing? I mean, he didn't count on me playing there. He thought I'm just not changing, you know, right so he gave me ten chips and I like very happily put them on the numbers and black and white and stuff and He just look at me roll the ice both three o 'clock in the morning. I was tired Yeah, and he spent in that one quarter four hours One quarter. Yeah, because I was winning and losing really and with one quarter. Yes and Then he spin the wheel, you know The the numbers and the number went to somewhere and I lost and he look at me and I was so sad I was like $20, you know first round. Yeah, and he took the pen and he knocked on this on the sciences minimum bet $50 I Got nervous. He's still laughing Just finish it. I will take it all anyway So the second thing what but then later on, you know Didn't bother me and then later on said, you know what they doing they putting oxygen or something in in the in the air conditioning So people are up, you know, oh, yeah lifted and so happy and and giving you cocktails And playing for hours for 25 cents So I what I want to say if they do anything like that in that hospital because I'm suspicious the oldest people are so happy They must have put something in there conditioning You're gonna just soften me up for the real bill that's coming to your house in the mail in a couple while It's gonna be insurance, but I just met Yeah, but one thing is if they pushing something in the air conditioning I would like to ask them for recipe and push it all over here Yeah, cuz I'd like I mean if it's had a tremendous impact on you today I mean, I'm just hoping I'm receiving the good vibe from you. Yeah, so why don't you keep going back to that hospital before we? Every day you go to the hospital just hang out with them then come and do it Yeah, I don't really need to go to hospital. I even said publicly few times if something happened to me. Don't bother I'm not worth it. They picking up the garbage Monday Wednesday Friday throw me dumpster I think I just What I'm just saying is go there and let that mojo get on you every day come here the same way you are Yeah, but you are very happy I just want to say that it was very important today And I'm glad that I'm aware of everything that was happening and we don't need to talk about it but I'm glad that you found a service that took care of your family member and Everything worked out well and you left there in good spirit and and and everybody's healthy and gonna heal healthy I will only say if you have a situation which is stressful because some Little human that do you care about so deeply have some kind of medical problem believe me the Golisano hospital will taking care of it professionally and on all levels so don't worry There is a place that will do exactly what you expecting as a care a medical care and absolutely top So I just wanted to share that with you because it's important for us to understand that we have These facilities here that you know wonderful people and and people that can afford great money Yeah, and and you know build a hospital for kids, which is the future which is the most important thing that we have on this planet Yeah, and and it's also one of the services that they have actually are only provided by this particular hospital and that's Between Tampa and Miami So this is a very important hospital and and just support it and and if you have anybody or know anybody that needs Anybody in your family or you know anybody that needs to have some kind of procedures done or whatever You know go ahead and get a hold of this hospital and see if they can is worth every penny Yeah, that's all I'm gonna say, you know what happened April 26 to 1928 No, you don't know well, I think maybe it has to do with a trail yes Right because we got a big trail here.

"And Divan it is, Divan Monday, August 21st episode 419 from This Mike Rich and from This Week. We are. This is our European days of Monday. Yeah we start Monday. Not Sunday. Right. We already explained it in previous episodes enough. Well, usually though people, I mean, even though we say we start the week with Sunday nobody goes, hey, they wake it up on Sunday morning going, hey, the week started. It's the weekend for them. So really psychologically we start the week on Monday just like you guys. What are you, why are you tripping? You start the weekend Monday, I don't stop the weekend or week. are going through. No, it's just a matter of semantics. Who cares? I'm sure everybody in Europe is working on Monday too. Are we working on Monday too? People in Europe. So how do we just say that that's the day that the week starts? Everybody starts the work week on Monday. People in Europe are getting lazy. They work only 40 hours a week and they have weekend off, Saturday and Sunday, mostly. We mostly have that year too, except that we've turned. Except me. Well, that's your problem. For the last 20 years, I'm going through. I'm still waiting for the weekend. Oh well, we'll just keep going. I decided, you know... That's self -inflicted abuse though. I mean, job has to get done, but people should take time off. You understand, but what's my time off? I do what on Sunday? Yeah, but job has to be done and I cannot have it done. Yeah, that's true. I understand. I turn around and there's more. Do you know that at one time in this country there were what were called blue laws. You weren't allowed to be open to work on Sundays. What is blue? We'll talk about that in another day. Oh yeah, I remember, yeah. And then some genius came as new CEO. I said, we're not going to open Sunday, let's just do it. Except Chick -fil -A told them to, you know, put the peanut where the monkey put the peanut. We're trying to keep the show clean. Yeah, well, you know, they don't make cows on Sunday. Cows sleeping. Yeah, well, they don't serve burgers, they eat chicken. Or whatever that is. Yeah, remember we did a day, it was a day that we did that and it was actually Chick -fil -A that came up with that. Anyway, go ahead. I'll tell you what. Why don't you start with the essentials? Let's just start with the essentials, which is essentials. Better than the weather? Oh yeah, we gotta do that then. So first of all, we need to say thank you to Julie and Bruce to give them credit for all the music and tunes that they provided us with. The intro song, Levi Naples, it's from them. Tera chitara patchouli, we have a bunch of CDs, I think 12 different CDs they made and they are available in our divine and divine Naples coffee and wine bar. Right. So if you interested, you can come and purchase. We have new sponsor this week and it's divine spa. How many of you are sponsoring ourselves? Yeah, there we go. Yeah, it's a wellness month. We still have 10 days to go. So if you're thinking to relax, maybe you have a massage, reflexology, just a little bit lay down, do nothing and have somebody to work on your body, make you feel better and get your muscles detoxed. Check it out. Mydivinespa .com. 239 -244 -1434 is the number of the best rated spa here in downtown Naples. So that's that. If you are planning to go to the beach, just don't pack too heavy because you're gonna have to pull it in, pull it out. Give us a chance to service you with beach delivery. Beachesos .com, 250 items available and we will bring it to you in no time. 20 minutes, 30 minutes, sandwiches, desserts, bottle of wine, beer, anything you can think of. So that's that. Do you got Q -tips? No, but we should add them. Yeah. Just in case. You never know if you gotta clean your ears on the beach. Why? I don't know, you've got everything else from band -aids to.

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