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Crypto Banter
A highlight from NO BITCOIN ETF IN 2023! | Gary Gensler's Plan Revealed!
"In one of the most unbelievable moves that I've seen since I entered crypto, you got Gary Gensler denying a Bitcoin ETF or not denying, but delaying a Bitcoin ETF just one day before he's supposed to appear in Congress. And he's about to testify in Congress. And despite the fact that he denied or delayed the approval of a Bitcoin ETF, which means that we're not going to see a Bitcoin ETF in 2023. The Bitcoin price is actually going up ahead of his testimony. And the thing with the Bitcoin price going up is that there's certain levels that if Bitcoin hits these levels, we may get a short squeeze. And then that could send the price up even more. I'm going to show you the levels in the show today. I also want to analyze this pump a little bit further. And I'll tell you why it's important to analyze this pump a little bit further. You are watching a Bitcoin pump, but you're watching a Bitcoin pump at the same time when the Dixie is pumping. And when the NASDAQ is down about 5 .7 % in the last six days. We need to discuss why is Bitcoin going up when the Dixie is going is going up and you've got the NASDAQ actually coming down 6%. And this is four days away from what is potentially going to be one of the most costly government shutdowns in the history of the United States. So we're going to discuss that. We also have to talk about Operation Choke Point 3 .0 in the United States, because now institutions, American institutions that are not in the United States are starting to send to letters their clients saying that they're no longer going to get be allowed to invest in crypto. This is coming from Chase Bank, but not in the United States in in in in the UK. And then lastly, and most importantly, in fact, not lastly, but most importantly, I'm going to show you why the next 140 days are the most important 140 days in your entire crypto journey. So stay tuned for that. And then if we do get 1000 likes, I'm going to show you the funniest thing that you'll see today. I guarantee you that it is the funniest, funniest, funniest thing that you'll see today, but I'm not showing it to you guys unless we get our 1000 likes. Yesterday, we got 1300 likes. Let's see if we can beat that. We had more than 1300 likes yesterday. 1400 likes. Let's see if we can beat that chat today. Anyway, let's go. Let's do this. We've got a massive show today.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Self-Custody, CoinJoins, and Q&A with Craig Raw, Sparrow Wallet - September 27th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right. All right. Let's go. I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting fired up. Bitcoin is next week. Dude, I am so excited. I'm I'm visiting three Bitcoiners on the way down. Super excited. It's going to be a hell of a lot of fun. Yeah, man. All right. Good morning and welcome, Dom Bay, Mickey. I assume that's Jordan on the Bitcoin Veterans handle, Terrence, Peter, Shane Hazel on the audience, throwing you an invite. Right. OK, quick little update. So next week, next week, we are not doing Cafe Bitcoin on Monday and Tuesdays. Swan team is traveling on Monday. Tuesday, we're going to be having like an offsite. So not going to be around Wednesday. We are resuming our regular schedule. Broadcasting from the hotel Thursday. Broadcasting live from the Swan dome Thursday morning and Friday morning. So on Thursday, we've got our crew plus BTC sessions. Ben Perrin on Friday. We are going to have Tip Enzi and Tomer Strohlight. We'll do it live. Do it live. I can write it and we'll do it live. Yeah, finally, dude, that's what I'm talking about. That's preparation. Asking Tip Enzi if she wants to perform Cantillionaire's game live. I don't know if that's going to happen, but we're going to ask her. If she does that, I will need padded area around me because that that would be insane. That's that's a tough song to do live, though, for sure. Oh, shit. Yeah. Right. You need to do some Wim Hof breathing exercises before spitting that that verse. Dude, I mean, she told me that like she's not really a rapper, right? She did a lot of editing to make the songs come out the way she wants. Good morning, Shane. How are you doing? Good morning, brother. I am working away here in the background, just enjoying a nice respite from the heat down here in North Georgia, man. It's pretty nice, but I'm getting pretty excited for PV next week. And I have a lot of people. I'm actually hosting a panel out there and looking forward to it. Yeah, that's right. That's the other thing. We're going to be doing a Bitcoin Veterans panel live at the Swan Dome. I think that's going to be on Friday. So that'll be cool. That's going to be myself, Shane Hazel. It will be Gabe Lord, Mickey Koss and Jordan Ganrel. The Swan Dome has some firepower this year. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, man. I don't know. I think this is the test run. They're not sure if they want to let Bitcoin Veterans on the main stage yet. They're testing, they're seeing, they're like, what are these crazy fuckers going to do? Like, let's see what's up. Yeah, let me just apologize in advance for screwing up our chances at that. Let me go ahead and apologize for Jordan in advance, too, because, I mean, I think if we don't burn it down, it's a huge success. We all are apologizing to Jordan and for Jordan in advance and considering getting an extra insurance rider for this particular event. OK, what time are you all going up to five? No, no. So Bitcoin Veterans is going to we're doing Cafe Bitcoin 9 a .m. Sharp Eastern and then there will be a short intro and then we're going right into Bitcoin Veterans starting at 10 a .m. on Friday in the Swan Dome. God, I was only asking because if you were going after myself in blue collar, it would for sure be already burned down. So it's checking. Any update on the flamethrower? Having a little trouble in the marshal's office. They don't seem to think that 30 to 40 foot flame lengths that I can handle that. So it's it's a back and forth. It's unlikely, but, you know, never say never. All right, we'll hold out hope. Let's get rolling into the show today. You are listening to Cafe Bitcoin. This is episode 443. Shout outs to our supporters on Fountain and Noster Nests. Our mission for this show is to provide the signal in a sea of noise. Teach the other seven billion people on this planet why there's hope because of this bright orange future that we call Bitcoin. Today, we are discussing Bitcoin news, covering some lizard alerts and talking about what's going on in the real estate markets as well. Later today, we have Craig Raw, the founder of Sparrow, looking forward to that. We're going to we're going to dig in. Last time we had Craig here, we did kind of a lot of background stuff like what is Sparrow all that. Today, we're going to get a little deeper into the weeds. We're going to go straight into the technical stuff. So if you want to know about Sparrow, have questions, whatever. We're going to go straight into that. Right. What's the most interesting breaking news? There's a congressman beating up Gary Gensler now to get those ETFs approved. And then at the same time, the SEC just delayed like three ETFs, I think, even though they're not even, you know, like a month from the deadline. And so they're starting to kick the can earlier, I guess. So it's sort of a strange situation. Maybe they're trying to line up all the timelines or something. Good morning, on the four elected officials in their open letter asking, demanding Gensler approve the Bitcoin ETF. They mentioned Fidelity, BlackRock and Grayscale, thanks to probably the lobbying by Barry Silbert and his compadres. Grayscale doesn't belong in that group. It just doesn't because BlackRock and Fidelity together manage about 13 trillion freaking dollars. Grayscale is a pimp. It's a fly on the windshield. It's very small. And Barry has a lot of problems with his ethics and genesis, GBTC kind of co -mingling funds or whatever they were doing. I understand that a lot of people who have GBTC, I have GBTC, want the conversion to happen sooner. But they're just not in the same class, ethically and just practically. That's like saying a corner grocery store belongs with Walmart. Well, all right then. So Franklin Templeton just filed a 19B -4 for its spot Bitcoin ETF application, which is officially starting the clock with the SEC. Franklin Templeton manages another one and a half trillion dollars. So the big boys are looking like the big boys are wading into the game. Yeah, the big four are besides Franklin Templeton, which is about one and a half trillion. The last one is Invesco, which is also about one and a half trillion. And those are all much bigger than the biggest of the also RANs or the smaller spot BTC applicants like ARK. And Valkyrie and so forth, they're much, much smaller, maybe tens of billions or less. Hey, Terrence, for a liquor store, doesn't Grayscale have a lot of Bitcoin in custody? They do. It's going to be pretty minor compared to the rush of cash that should flood in. Assuming like, you know, the DOJ stuff with Binance and stuff is looks like it's there's more certainty around that. They're trying to they're talking about maybe having a plea deal with CZ and Binance. So if that gets resolved, then yeah, you have a pretty big green light. I will say like one thing with the gold ETFs when those took off and gold prices shot up. That will also correlated with massive problems in the fiscal and monetary policy. And we definitely have that on the fiscal side. I would say on the monetary side rates are, you know, higher than you'd like for liquidity, money supplies going down. But on the fiscal side, with a ridiculous spending debt and deficits, that sets up a big that's a great setup for a big flood of cash to come in. As long as one of the big four launches a big Bitcoin ETF. Hey, Alex, not to not to revisit an old horse, I know that's a butchering of the phrase, but, you know, I know yesterday we were talking about institutional. And for those listening again, like, you know, the ETF comes up a lot again because it is a vehicle for institutional funds to hold commodities. I know you guys were talking about it yesterday, but like other commodities, as far as I know, funds like pension funds, any commodities they hold, none of it is physical. All of it is futures or ETF indexes. And a lot of that has to do with being able to liquidate, move things around, balance the fund, etc. All right, well, you would you mind explaining that a little more in depth for people who don't get that? Because so many I've run into many people who don't understand that they're like, why don't pension funds just buy the underlying asset? Why don't they buy the Bitcoin directly? Why don't they buy gold directly? Why don't they buy corn directly? Why don't they buy oil directly? What's the problem with that? Yeah, so one of the things with pension funds is there's a lot going on.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MONEY REIMAGINED: Breaking Down Barriers to Crypto Adoption | Insights from Jan Van Eck and Matt Hougan
"You're listening to Coindesk's Money Reimagined with Michael Casey and Sheila Warren. Hello and welcome to another edition of Money Reimagined. I'm Michael Casey. Listen to us weekly on the Coindesk podcast network or wherever you get your podcasts. We would love to hear from coindesk .com. Subject line Money Reimagined. Sheila is out this week so it's me on my own but what I'm bringing to you are recordings from an interview I did earlier this month with two leaders in fund management, both of whom have significant interests in crypto. One is Jan Van Eck, the CEO of Van Eck funds and the other is Matt Hogan, chief investment officer at Bitwise Asset Management. Van Eck and Bitwise have both filed applications with for Bitcoin. The question I wanted to put to you guys, and I'll go to you first, Jan, is I've been covering this space for 10 years now. And I think we all thought there may be some tipping point moment when the world would suddenly embrace this. And certainly there's been some incredible growth, both in terms of prices and activity and development, phenomenal growth. But at the same time, it always feels like, no, it's not yet there. So what is the single most important barrier that you see toward wider adoption of crypto? Sure. Thank you. I really break it down into, are you talking about crypto as an investment, as an asset class that should be in people's portfolios, or as a technology to be adopted? And I use this example of the relational database, which was a big breakthrough in the architecture of databases 50 years ago or more. And it created a lot more productivity, almost like AI is doing with technology today. But who cares? It wasn't investable, right? It was a nice technology, but it wasn't investable. So I'll start with the investable aspect of it. And I think that since 2017, I firmly believe that Bitcoin is a store of value alternative to gold. But I also say it's sort of like an eight -year -old child. It's going through evolution and adoption, even this year, with the ordinals kind of break through for a while and sort of transaction fees being a thing in Bitcoin, right? It's evolving, it's code, it's kind of living. And I think there's a lot of investor types that haven't adopted it yet. And that's what I see kind of going forward in the future, whether it's probably frontier countries adopting it more, maybe even formally through their central banks or something like that. I think that's foreseeable. I don't see the German central bank or the central bank buying it anytime soon, but it's possible. One of my colleagues pointed out, I think you all did a survey of, sorry, this is a long answer, but yeah, Coindesk did a survey, I think, of perceptions globally of crypto and there was a big break between EM and I guess specifically it was energy usage. It being friendlier for energy usage was the majority view in the emerging markets and in the developed markets, it wasn't that, it was the opposite. So anyway, I see Bitcoin as kind of going through cycles and gradually getting more investor adoption, the ETF aside. So let me stop there and give it to my colleague, Matt. Thanks John. I agree. And I like that separation of investment case versus sort of maybe real world utility. I would add on the investment case, I think it's already there. I agree. It's a digital alternative to gold. And so the people who are holding it are using it for its use case. And I think the barrier to mainstream adoption really is the ETF. I know we'll talk about that more later, but I think if you look back at gold, it was the ETF that brought it into the mainstream. There were a few gold funds before the ETF. Van Eck ran one of the longest running, maybe the longest running, a phenomenal fund, but it really wasn't mainstream until we had an ETF. And I think that will be the tipping point. On real world use cases, if you look at like the Ethereum ecosystem, I actually think we surmounted one of the major hurdles over the last two years. I think what stopped the NFT boom and the DeFi boom was actually the rise in transaction costs as much as anything else. I think there was not enough throughput in that ecosystem to allow it to go mainstream. And I think the development of layer twos have allowed it. I think that's necessary, but not sufficient. So there's still additional barriers, there are regulatory barriers, there are design use case barriers, but I actually think that throughput question was the biggest one and we surmounted it. We just haven't seen the fruits of it because of these other steps that we need to take as well. Okay. So there's actually both of those answers, some things I want to dive into a little bit here. The first one is like this idea of it being gold. And I think in a way, I think maybe you can read from it slightly differently because Jan, you're talking, this is what its use case is, but there is still some evolution in a way that Bitcoin needs to go into. What I think is fascinating about that is like, okay, gold isn't going to evolve. It is just gold. It's in the ground, right? But there is this Bitcoin is code, but it's also a community. It's a living, breathing ecosystem of human beings, which makes it sort of unique. And so therefore, like, you know, how it evolves into being recognized for being the status. Is there an educational component to this, for example? Like, is it important that people kind of get in their heads? We can all use the digital gold analogy, but even getting there requires an understanding about why this actually does do that. Well, let me, this is Jan. I am going to pick a fight with you on the gold side because the use of gold as an investment has changed dramatically over the last 100 years. So even if you look at the history of our company, VanEck, the reason we started our first gold fund as a gold mining fund is it was illegal to own gold in 1968. So you see both Bitcoin and gold being affected not just sort of by securities regulation, but much bigger political, debates. even geopolitical But if you go back to before FDR, right, gold was the underpinning of central banks globally with the idea of trying to reduce currency volatility so that there would be more global trade and global wealth. But then they moved to basically away from the gold system. FDR did when he wanted to spend more money during World War II. Anyway, so, you know, gold has been in and out. And now more recently, central banks around the central banks because they don't trust the U .S. to hold their dollars anymore. Okay, so maybe that's a little historical quibble, but I do think that the role changes and I think it will change with Bitcoin going forward as well, just sticking to Bitcoin. It still sounds to me as if that is a discussion about the external factors, right, i .e., regulatory models, whatever, where governments stand. And all of that is maybe what the composition of what gold is and what a secure, uncorrelated investment needs to be is all contingent upon what is actually happening in that geopolitical circle. So in some respects, Matt, it gets back to your point about like, we're still sitting here waiting for the regulators to make a decision about an ETF or whatever. Yeah, I do think we are. I wanna hit one more thing on the gold thing and then I'll get to that because I think it's really important. There is this perception that gold has been the same for 5 ,000 years, completely wrong. Most people's perceptions about gold are untrue. We went off the gold standard in the early 1970s and people didn't know what gold was, right? They were figuring out what its role in the world was. Coincidentally, or maybe not coincidentally, that was the single best decade to be invested in gold. That was a phenomenal time. When stores of value move from uncertainty to established is when they accrue a lot of value. And that's what's happening in Bitcoin. I think there's some direct analogies to gold. I'd also add gold is a lot more volatile than people give it credit for. People think of it as this steady eddy. It has big swings up and down 20, 30 % a year. A store of value doesn't have to be day to day, unvolatile to be useful. It has to hold value or accrue value over long periods of time. And I think people discredit Bitcoin because they misunderstand gold a little bit. Just to add a comment on Bitcoin before we get off of that, gold shares, to your point, like Bitcoin miners fell 90 % from 2011 to their lows in 2016. I mean, you don't get worse than that, right, in terms of volatility. And that's a part of the ecosystem. It's not bullion, but still, I completely agree with you. So I just wanted to add that. I do think also, and I really want to push you, Matt, on this, that we have a global view of regulation of Bitcoin, right, because China has really taken its foot off the brake over the last year. And I think that's, you know, I call it the country the size of the United States. I think that's super important. Yeah, I think that's really important, too. I actually agree. And I think that's been going on for the last decade. It's sort of like a blanket that won't cover the whole world. And when somebody pulls it, then another government's like, oh, maybe we have an opportunity. I think that's what we saw in China with the U .S. being more restrictive, and then Hong Kong saying, well, what if we aggressively banked gold? Maybe there's an economic opportunity there. And I think it's sort of anti -fragile in that sense. Can I just punch down, maybe we're going to move to the technology side, but I just want to punch down on Bitcoin, because I think it, as an investment, is potentially relevant to everyone's portfolios here at this conference. I mean, you may not like, there are investors like Warren Buffett that will never invest in gold and would never invest in Bitcoin. But for a lot of people, the biggest risk out there, I would say, macro risk, is U .S. federal budget deficit. And I don't know of a better hedge than gold or Bitcoin. So maybe that risk doesn't come to fruition in our lifetimes, but it has got to be an alternative that people think of regardless of everything else in crypto. Yeah. Jan and I are going to keep going back and forth. I would add, it doesn't have to come to fruition for gold to be a good, for Bitcoin to be a good investment. It's an insurance against that potentiality. And if you're a wealthy individual, that's one of the biggest risks to your long term wealth and holding that insurance policy regardless of the outlook. Last thing I would add is we've come a long way. The other mistake people make when looking at Bitcoin regulation is like evaluating us today versus a year ago. If you evaluate us today versus 10 years ago, massive progress, even today versus five years ago. Look at the conversation in Congress today around crypto versus where it was two or three years ago. People need to relax a little, take the long view, and they'll probably have a better outlook for their long term investment.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/27/23
"Lots of channels. Nothing to watch. Especially if you're searching for the truth. It's time to interrupt your regularly scheduled programs with something actually worth watching. Salem News Channel. Straightforward, unfiltered, with in -depth insight and analysis from the greatest collection of conservative minds. Like Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Sebastian Gorka, and more. Find truth. Watch 24 -7 on SNC .TV and on Local Now, Channel 525. A big hit for the Crystals, girl group, 1963. Just 14 years later, this guy, 19 -year -old Sean Cassidy, busting onto the scene. Was this in the Mike Gallagher record collection when you were 17? Nope. Missed it. Missed it. Don't miss this. Sean Cassidy, who I had on the show, I think, last year. He blows through town in some medium -sized venues and just kind of has a sense of humor about all of his hits and all of his stuff and blah, blah, blah. The great Sean Cassidy is 65 today. I also saw him in a theatrical production of a great musical called Blood Brothers. He has toured in that. I think he might have played it in New York a little bit. Maybe even in the West End in London. He's great. I thoroughly enjoyed talking to him. He just has a lot of energy. And you know what he has? He has gratitude because he knows he's pigeon -holed. He was in the Hardy Boys TV show or some such. He was the kid star and blah, blah, blah. But you know what? If you got that going for you, milk it for your entire life. I'm a big believer in staying in your lane. I am a stay -in -my -lane kind of guy. Let's talk a little bit about my years -long narrative about the crap file on Donald Trump. Oh, yes. Let me tell everybody what it is. The Mike Gallagher theory has been born out true time and time and time and time. Whenever something starts to happen that will create positive attention for Trump or make people empathize with him or vote for him or support him, some kind of story will mysteriously appear so that the media can cover something else. Go. Well, yesterday is a perfect example. Huge news. The House Oversight Committee subpoenas records and discovers that Hunter Biden got wires from China, got transfers from Beijing for more than a quarter of a million dollars. And the wires were sent to Joe Biden's home. The president himself, his home, his home address, not Hunter's address, Joe's address. Now, this is the man, of course, who has insisted all along that he doesn't know anything about his son's business dealings. He just happens to be getting a quarter million dollars sent to his residence, but he didn't know anything about it. Now, hours after that comes this big revelation. A judge in New York, a Trump -hating, maniacal leftist New York City judge ruled that Trump has overstated the value of his properties over the years.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from Ron Hammond Interview - Crypto Regulation News! SEC Gary Gensler Hearing, FTX Trial, Crypto Bills, Coinbase, Stablecoin Regulation
"Last time he spoke in front of the House Finance Service Committee, he kept saying multiple times, we have not lost a court case on crypto at all. We have brought several actions. And again, remind you, they call settlements wins. And so in their case, they were. They had won every single court case. But now that talking point is really faded because, as you mentioned, the Ripple's case, the Grayscale case, there's also ones like the Coinbase suit going on right now. This content is brought to you by Link2, which makes private equity investment easy. Link2 is a great platform that allows you to get equity in companies before they go public, before they do an IPO. Within their portfolio includes crypto companies, AI companies, and fintech companies. Some of the crypto companies you may recognize include Circle, Ripple, Chainalysis, Ledger, Dapper Labs, and many more. If you'd like to learn more about Link2, please visit the link in the description. Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. With me today is Ron Hammond, who's director of government relations at the Blockchain Association. Ron, great to have you back on. Thanks for having me. Always a pleasure. Ron, it's going to be a busy week. It's already a busy week here in DC. Tomorrow is, of course, the hearing with chairman of the SEC, Gary Gensler. Tell us about that and what can we expect. Definitely. For those who may not know, Gary Gensler, the chair of the SEC, is going to be testifying in front of the House Financial Services Committee for the second time this year. That's a really big deal because, to remind you, last year, they barely saw him at all in that committee when the Democrats had control. But if the Republicans can control, they want to exercise oversight of the SEC as much as possible. And again, it's pretty typical, though, for the opposite party to try to put the screws on to the party that has the White House. But in this case, a lot has happened, both in crypto, but also just generally, that it's going to get a lot of flack for Gary Gensler, whether it be on private funds, ESG. And again, crypto will definitely come up a lot after talking to several folks on the House side. He recently testified, though, in front of Senate Banking two weeks ago, and we didn't get too much out of that candidly. We saw a couple of questions from Senator Hagerty from Tennessee on the issues of promethium, for example, and Bitcoin ETF. We also saw some questions from Senator Lummis on SAB 121, which is more crypto accounting standards, and how do you custody actual crypto for banks. So I think we're going to see a lot more hard -hitting points from the House, especially on the Republican side. But I'd also like to caveat, as well, that the shutdown approaching, a lot of Democrats are going to use their time to hit the Republicans. It's just standard politics here. The Republicans are the ones in the House that are really slowing things down, unfortunately, when it comes to funding the government. So Democrat, any for the most part, is going to utilize their five minutes to not really talk about Gary Gensler, but talk about the Republicans shutting down the government. Because again, that's a major, major thing here. As much as crypto is big for us, the macro of all of the shutdown has a lot of implications. So we won't see crypto come up too much, but after talking to a couple offices, it does seem like we're going to have some definitely hard -hitting questions, very similar to what we saw earlier this year in the House. Yeah, and to your point of, you know, things have certainly changed since the last time he appeared, because you had the Ripple lawsuit decision, you had the Grayscale decision, where Grayscale won that, Ripple won a big chunk of theirs as well. And the Prometheum details are more about what Prometheum is and what they're up to. So do you think there's going to be some hard -hitting questions around that, those cases and those things that happened? Definitely. So if you recall, last time he spoke in front of the House Financial Services Committee, he kept saying multiple times, we have not lost a court case on crypto at all. We have brought several actions. And again, remind you, they call settlements wins. And so in their case, they were. They had won every single court case. But now that talking point is really faded because, as you mentioned, the Ripple case, the Grayscale case, there's also ones like the Coinbase suit going on right now. That's got a lot more attention. Actually, it looks a lot better for Coinbase post those decisions. And so he can't rely back on the courts here or say that, hey, look, I'm winning in all these court cases. And actually, especially in the Grayscale case, he lost 3 -0. And two of those judges were Democrat appointees and they're based here in D .C. And so I think that having that set the tone of like, look, you are really overextending here and you're losing in the courts, not by a small margin, by unanimous margin sometimes. And it's just not crypto. You are pushing the balance elsewhere where other industries like ESG or like private equity are seeing these wins and saying, you know what? I think we're going to actually have a chance to win against the SC as well. So like the ETF situation where crypto really just goes out ahead and fights a lot of these fires for more traditional finance. And then those folks kind of benefit from crypto's push. I think we're seeing some of that happening now with the Grayscale case and Ripple case and Coinbase case empowering other industries who feel like they are also having overreach from the SEC saying, you know what? I think we have actually a case here when we can actually win the courts. So I think it's going to be a major theme of this hearing going forward. But also there's going to be several other questions to your point about Prometheum. That was a major issue for that committee, which had Erin Caplan in front of that committee just a couple of months ago. And they reiterate all the talking points, securities laws are clear. The SEC gave us a way to work forward and move things forward. But that argument really fell apart pretty quickly. And we're seeing that in this case, that the Prometheum line that there is a pathway forward registration, there is a way to comply, just doesn't hold water. And so I'm pretty sure we'll see some members of Congress tighten the screws a little bit there because it's been really more of a black box, the SEC, of how this process went. Caplan just kept saying that we actually kept working the SEC and they were clear, but that has yet to even show itself. So I think there'll be a major other theme for this hearing as well. Now you mentioned Coinbase and everyone's looking at that lawsuit. There was also news reported, I think you mentioned it, where Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong will be on the Hill. They've also launched an education campaign around crypto. Tell us about that. Yeah, Coinbase has been a godsend, candidly. Again, we used to have only about five or six lobbyists during the infrastructure fight. And again, we're going up against the banks who have over 150 plus lobbyists. We have going against other agencies or other groups that have way more funding. But Coinbase really has stepped up and said, look, the fights here in DC, we are committed to the United States and we're committed to resources here in the United States and DC to educate Congress, to educate regulators, and to showcase in DC why crypto is important for the future of the United States. And so they're having a huge Hill day tomorrow, actually. Again, it lines up not on purpose at all with Kerry Gensler testifying and of course also the shutdown too. But they're going to be having a whole set of presentations for Hill staff and members of Congress to learn from founders. It's not just Coinbase itself. They're also bringing in other founders from other companies and having a whole demo day, a Hill day, you can say, to educate various offices. And so I think it's really important to have. We're all seeing a lot of other folks from the industry come down. So it's going to be quite the crypto week here in DC. Of course, bad timing with the shutdown, but no one can really plan it like that. So we're really excited to see how that plays out, especially with all the heat recently more moving to AI in terms of interest, but also scrutiny. I think it's good to have more adults in the room and say, hey, look, crypto was the AI about one or two years ago. We're still here. We're fighting a lot of big battles. We need Congress's help to move the needle. But at the same time, let's show you why this is important and why this technology needs to be in America and not be based elsewhere. Because unfortunately, we're seeing a lot of folks migrate over to London, migrate over to the EU. And Coinbase is really taking a strategic stand saying, we're here to stay. We're here to comply with the rules, but we also need some action from Congress. So we'll see how that goes. Sure. Yeah, that's really great that they're doing that. And education advocacy are certainly key. And speaking of legislation and regulations, obviously, we had the market structure bill get marked up in the house. You also have the stable coin bill. What's the latest with those and the next steps? I know the shutdown is probably delaying a lot of things. What are the latest on those items? Yeah, so we were kind of expecting by October timeframe to have a vote on the stable coin bill and the market structure bill. There are other crypto bills as well that passed out of the house financial service committee, but those are the two main big ones. And so the plan was, hopefully, was after this whole shutdown drama that we would have a vote probably in October, but it's looking more like November now. And again, our message to folks is the closer we get to that 2024 election, we're almost a year out, all of a sudden, all bipartisan politics goes away and folks start retreating back to their bases. And it's my team versus your team. And that's when everything grinds to a halt in DC. We're already seeing that right now a little bit with the shutdown where folks are saying it's my team versus your team, but the Republicans are a lot more splintered on their teams. And so we want to make sure that we get these bills pushed out of the house on a good bipartisan basis and then showcase to the Senate why it's important to take up this legislation. Now, there are been some rumors going around recently. Again, Politico report on it, Punchbowl report on it recently, too, that Patrick Henry gave an interview saying, look, the Senate Bank Committee, my Senate counterpart, they're doing completely different things than we're doing in the house. We're focusing on crypto and capital formation and data privacy. They're more focused on marijuana banking, exec compensation, and banking regs. So we are in two different camps on two major different issues. But if we were able to make a trade of some sort, the priorities that Sherrod Brown, who's running for reelection in deep red Ohio, who's going to need all the help he can get, would at least his case to voters saying, look, I'm actually working on this committee that traditionally has not passed that many bills. Mind you, again, they haven't passed a bill, except for this year, for four years before that. And that's during his time as well as Republicans in the chair time. It's crazy. And so in order for this to move the needle, they have to have a trade. And I think that's what's really important to say. If this trade were to happen, a lot does have to happen. But this does provide a pathway potentially for crypto legislation to move forward to the president's desk. Again, a lot has to happen. A lot can mess this up. But this isn't one of the first few times we're seeing kind of a light at the end of the tunnel. And we're really excited by it now again. But we have to have a lot of education because the Senate has not really given too much thought to this issue besides a couple handful of really powerful champions. Yeah, boy, fingers crossed, toes crossed, everything, hoping they can get something through the House and then we can go through the Senate. Boy, I'm hoping something happens by early next year before the madness of the election cycle. Now, there's also the trial for Sam Beckman Fried and the whole FTX debacle. In addition, there's been new updates around Sam Beckman Fried's parents and how money was moved to his aunt and Stanford University and much more. What do you expect to happen in October with this trial? So the main issue that we're going to have here in D .C. is just the noise. A lot of people are going to be talking about the SPF trial. It does have a huge media attention, for better or for worse. And again, we've really at least made sure we tell folks in D .C., again, this is not a crypto problem. This is a complete scammer just using newer technology. But guess what? Same old playbook as we've seen with Madoff and others. But there is concern that there are, at least in the case of the House, for example, we're voting on these big bills. FTX came up as a reason to support the bill, as a reason also to oppose the bill. Some folks say, look, there's no coming of a customer funds. That's what FTX did. And this bill bans that. On the other end, they're saying, you know, well, this legitimizes the crypto market. So this could potentially make more FTXs come up down the road. And so we've seen FTX kind of being pulled in two different directions when it comes to supporting or opposing legislation. And so our concern is the 300 plus members of Congress who have not sat in a crypto hearing who may not even know what Bitcoin or Ethereum is, are they going to listen to the headlines and say, look, actually, SPF is all crypto, which we all know it's not the case. Or they're going to say, SPF did this fraud. That's why we need to pass legislation to make sure this doesn't happen again. And so we're trying to really thread that needle. Of course, you know, we still know everything is going to come out through the trial. There could be some regulatory implications. Again, the campaign donations is a major factor and a major reason why a lot of folks in Congress are a lot more put back by crypto and kind of staying away on the sidelines because they don't get burned again. But as we're seeing kind of recently with the indictment with Senator Menendez recently from New Jersey, some members of the Senate took money from his PAC. And so there's a lot of, you know, just it doesn't matter if you're in crypto, doesn't matter if you're a Singh Senator, there's a lot of issues when it comes to campaign financing as a whole. And a lot of folks are on their toes here. But I think, you know, we want to make sure that we showcase it. Folks, SPF kind of went abroad and tried to really railroad the industry here in D .C. by trying to screw DeFi with his legislation and trying to protect his fraud and scam. Let's make sure it doesn't happen again. Let's put some rules on the road because, yes, SEC is not providing that right now. They haven't for years. And so it's time for Congress to act. So we'll see how that makes the dynamics. I'm sure, again, there'll be a lot of D .C. ties and connections with that court case. So if there's anything damning, we'll soon find out. But our hope is that this actually encourages Congress to act rather than sit on the sidelines saying, no, we're good. Crypto is kind of all SPF, FTX. And what do you think about the dynamic of and I don't know if this is going to be discussed in the trial at all, but Sam Beckman Fried and FTX officials met with the SEC many times. These are confirmed things on the calendar. I believe Sam met with Gary Gensler, according to some calendar updates. Does that play a factor at all? Because obviously we don't know what was discussed and what was the agenda items. But would that bring any pressure on Gary Gensler? Like you met with this guy. Yeah. He said in the New York Times article back in December that he met with SPF, I think it was twice actually, SPF and Gensler personally. But again, also remind you, it's a big organization. SPF was in D .C., more than any CEO in any industry I've seen in my time in D .C. But at the same front, staff meet all the time too. I mean, it wasn't just SPF. He had a whole team of staff that helped out on this front, both at the CFTC, at the SEC and of course with Congress as well. And so Gensler said again explicitly that he met with SPF twice. But I think it'd be good to know, look, how many times does your staff interact? How long do those conversations go? What do they lead to? Because there were some rumors swirling around that FTX is going to get a pass of sorts. And again, those are rumors. We have not had confirmation of that. But the one thing about the court case is that it's going to bring all this to light. So if there's anyone that's saying anything half -truths here or they're trying to protect their character or protect their image, it could really bite them if they have been lying to the press or they've been getting half -truths here. And so if I were to chair Gensler, this likely will come up in tomorrow's hearing. The question is like, look, it's going to come out. The truth will come out. We just want to make sure you're shored up here because it's going to be really bad for you on top of all the other things that have been happening in the courts if you've been caught potentially lying here. And again, I don't see any reason why he would in this situation, but I think the focus should be also not just on SPF and Garrett Gensler, but where do the staffs and the senior level execs and regulators also meet from FTX and the SEC? Hmm. I'm very curious to get those details. Now, speaking of FTX, obviously with the relation with Binance, and I forgot to ask you this earlier, the judge recently said it blocked the SEC from conducting further discovery, if I'm not mistaken, with Binance US. Have you heard anything about that? Not as much, at least in the DC front, but at least when it comes to the Binance situation as a whole, there's still that looming DOJ investigation that a lot of folks in DC are waiting for that shoe to drop. Again, there's various rumors of why that DOJ lawsuit hasn't dropped. There have been confirmation reports of central sanction evasion violations, as well as money laundering violations by Binance and the parent company, not Binance US to my knowledge, but Binance. What is the relationship though between Binance US and Binance? Is that there much cohesion there or is there actually a pretty separate line between those two entities? So one thing's for sure though, a lot of folks in DC or in the early of 2023 are hearing a lot more from Binance. They were definitely hitting DC a lot more, trying to get their narrative out. And I think the mounting allegations are pretty damning. And we've seen a lot of folks who were in DC for Binance trying to deliver that message. They're not here anymore. It was a very short stint for them. So whether that be for the company having financial problems, whether it be more of the regulatory issues, that's unclear at the moment. I would lean more to the regulatory issues, but I think it's all going to come more to light as time goes on, but it's pretty bad. So we'll see exactly how Binance recovers from this, if at all. But at least here in DC, the folks that they had speaking, they largely aren't here anymore. Wow. And final item here, obviously you got the Gensler hearing tomorrow with the House Financial Services Committee. Is there any other major hearings for the remainder of the year that we should be aware of? Not at the moment, at least in terms of big ones. We are seeing some small hearings, rumors coming up right now for more of Senate banking. Again, if they do consider crypto legislation, they've only had one major crypto hearing so far this year, whereas the House has had over 13. But again, like I mentioned earlier, that's just two separate priorities for two separate chairs. But if this trade were to happen, I think I'd just keep an eye on Senate banking. They just had their first AI hearing last week. And as they kind of get more into the AI issues and tech issues in finance, that's going to eventually loop in crypto more and more. So I think we'll keep an eye on Senate banking. And then finally, if we are looking for those votes happening on the House floor for the stablecoin bill, as well as the market structure bill, I probably keep a little eye on the House as well. I guess I think lastly, I'll say now, too, is tax issues. We've been talking a lot about securities law, commodities law for quite some time. But tax issues are really percolating to the surface here. Senate Finance, which is Ron Wyden, who's a big champion for crypto, Democrat side, as well as Mike Crapo from Idaho, they actually put a request out to the industry and another stakeholder saying, look, what does taxation for crypto look like? Please help us. Who should be reporting 1099s? Who should be doing various filings and such? So that's just a request ended in early September. And so we potentially could see some action or at least some legislative hearings on what does crypto taxation look like. And I think it's a very important issue with the broker definition coming out from Treasury. There's a lot of comments going through that system right now. So we'll see where that lines up by keeping an eye on tax issues. That's going to be a major fight for quite some time. And I think it's going to be really important. It's a little nitty gritty, but it's very important for any business to operate in the United States. Yeah, absolutely. That's a big one. And I know there's been some other things happening. I think the FASB rule and with corporations being able to hold Bitcoin and things like that on their balance sheet, I believe there were some updates there. Don't have the full details, but there's certainly a need for further clarity and for individuals and institutions. Ron, always great information, man. Thank you so much. Happy to help. Thanks for having me.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Leading Edge Defi Leverage Trading! (Apex Review)
"DeFi leverage trading is the hottest thing in crypto right now, and Apex is the top tier platform to use. I'm going to tell you why. It's time to discover crypto. Apex Pro, which is currently ranked fourth in 24 -hour trading volume on CoinGecko's list of DEXs, is a multi -chain, permissionless, non -custodial, decentralized derivatives exchange, also known as a DEX. That's a lot of words, so let's break it down. Multi -chain means that Apex supports multiple blockchains, and so far, you can trade using ETH, BNB Chain, Polygon, Arbitrum, Avalanche, C -Chain or Optimism. And permissionless basically means this platform is open to anyone. No one is going to come along saying you can't trade due to where you're located or force you to complete KYC, otherwise known as that thing we all love to hate. Know your customer. It's not chicken. Giving all our personal information over to giant companies makes a lot of us feel less secure. Plus, one of the biggest benefits of crypto is privacy, so I'm always a fan of platforms that don't require KYC. If you feel the same, make sure to slam that like button and subscribe if you haven't already. You can also click the link in the description to sign up for Apex. The other great thing about Apex is that because it's non -custodial, you are in charge of your crypto. We've seen with so many exchanges plummeting during the bear market that the old adage, not your keys, not your crypto, really stands true. And finally, Apex is decentralized, meaning it isn't owned by one particular company or individual. Apex is backed by a plethora of distinguished global investors from Dragonfly Capital to Kronos to Cyber, so a lot of people in the know are excited about this exchange. Apex uses Starkware's ETH Mainnet Layer 2 scalability engine StarkX. And because most of the transactions take place on -chain, the fees on this platform tend to be much lower. It offers instant settlement, and the speeds are top notch, supporting 10 trades per second. Apex is a derivatives exchange, so let's go into what that means briefly. Derivatives are contracts between a trader and an exchange where the trader speculates on price movement without actually having to own the crypto. This is where you hear terms like short and long. A short means you expect the price of the asset to go down, and a long means the opposite. You think it will go up. And what makes this kind of trading extra attractive to traders is the possibility to trade with leverage, aka borrowing funds from the exchange so you hopefully make a bigger profit. So, say you have $100 to trade and decide to use 5X leverage. This means you would borrow $400 from the exchange and trade with 500 bucks. Your gains would be five times more than they would have been without the leverage, but any potential losses will also be five times greater. Apex offers up to 30X leverage on Bitcoin and ETH and 15X on all other assets, but I highly recommend using much lower leverage, especially if you're new. You need to be careful when doing this kind of trading because it is really easy to get liquidated if you don't know what you're doing, so have a stop loss. Remember, don't invest more than you're willing to lose. Okay, so let's get started. First, make sure you go to the correct website. You can click on our affiliate link below, so be extra cautious. Then you'll see the Bitcoin chart. At the top, you'll see the dashboard that gives you an overview, your profile, any orders, transfers, fundings, and even a community section where you can follow Apex on socials. You can also check out the leaderboard where Apex has the top traders listed, as well as ones you follow. And again, the link's in the description. Make sure to check out the Apex rewards section when you can earn for trading. And there's also a referral section where you can earn for inviting new people. And the best part is your friends will get a special offer too, which is another reason why you should click on our affiliate link in the description. You can also earn by holding Apex's native tokens, Apex and BANA. Apex grants governance rights and protocol incentivization, and right now you can earn over 15 % APY from staking it. BANA, on the other hand, is a trade to earn reward token that gives you exclusive perks. All right, now back to the charts. All right, so right here, you can see the pairs you can select. You can also take a look at the depth, funding rate, details, and risk limit. Then down below, you got positions, closed order P &L, profit and loss, active orders, conditional orders, which are waiting for the conditions to be right for the trade to close, filled orders, and the total order history. Currently, it's blank because we haven't connected our wallets yet. So head on over past the order book where you can see the current longs and shorts, as well as the oracle price of the asset, which is pulled from a bunch of external nodes. Then you can choose the blockchain you want to use and press connect your wallet. Click next, click connect, agree with the terms and conditions, then send the request to verify ownership and enable trading. Finally, you press sign and you're all done. If you don't want to connect a self -custodial wallet for some reason, you can also connect your Bybit wallet to Apex, but we aren't going to go through that in this video. Throughout the connection process, Apex may prompt you to make a username and provide your email, but you don't have to. Remember, privacy is one of their top priorities, but if you want notifications about your trades, go ahead. Then you'll see where you can place an order. You'll need to deposit funds, and for your information, you can only trade with USDC, so make sure you have some of that in your wallet. Now, Apex will allow you to open a limit, market, or conditional markets trade. A limit order basically waits for the price to come to you, and a conditional order means your trade executes when certain conditions are met. So if you think Bitcoin will plummet if it hits a certain price, you can place a conditional short. However, most people place market orders, which mean the trade will immediately execute at the current market price. That's what I use. I highly recommend taking profit and setting up a stop loss, so if you start losing money, you can stop the bleeding, and you can close your trade with either a limit or market close. Well, that's all I got for you today. Are you a fan of leverage trading? Have you tried Apex for yourself? Let us know in the comment section below. That's all from Deezy. Thanks for watching Discover Crypto. Hit that like button on your way out, and we'll see you at the top.
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from The Bitcoin Debate with Jeff Booth & George Gammon
"Bitcoin us gives the ability to transact outside of the system. I think there is massive, massive, massive value and Bitcoin is sensational and Bitcoin will, in my opinion, overachieve. Hello there. Happy Wednesday. Hope you are all doing well. Just getting ready. It's a few days. I'm going to be heading out to California. We're going to be heading out to Pacific Bitcoin. Got loads of interviews planned and we can't wait to get to the conference. Corey and the Swan team, they absolutely smashed it last year. It's a great conference. So looking forward to seeing some of you out there, catching up, talking Bitcoin and catching up with some LA friends. Also, I think we've got a real Bedford game out there, so I'll be finding somewhere to hide away and watch that game. Hopefully some of you will come and watch it with me. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the absolute legends at Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host, Peter McCormack. And today I have perhaps my favorite show of the year. We've got Jeff Booth and George Gammon on the show to discuss and debate Bitcoin. Now, these two have gone back and forth a bit on Twitter. Actually, it started quite a while back and I kind of threw myself into the conversation and said, hey, guys, let's do this. Let's get on the podcast. Let's talk this through. And they both agreed, but it's taken some time to get together. And listen, while they certainly disagree on some things, they were both very respectful of each other. And I think they both made excellent points. I think, I don't know, it's really difficult. I kind of found myself agreeing with both of them at times. I think it comes down to like, are we entering a new world or is Bitcoin existing in the old world? Because if Bitcoin is existing in the old world, then I think George makes some really great points and I kind of agree with him. But if like Jeff thinks like Bitcoin is creating a new world, well then I find myself agreeing with Jeff. So yeah, it was a great interview. Got about 90 minutes out of this one. I felt like a spare part of time sat there with two heavyweights. But anyway, I love doing this. I love hanging out with you super smart people. I think you're going to love this one. I certainly did. But if you've got any questions or feedback, you know what to do. You can hit me up on hello or what Bitcoin did dot com. All righty. Smashed it, right? What a show. And you know, what a nice ending. What a really nice and pleasant ending. I think they're both really respected each other. They didn't come for the fight. They came to get their points across. But I think they both listened to each other. It was great. I really enjoyed this. I'm also going to get George back on the show. I like George. I think he's asking good questions. I think he's prodding and poking in the right areas. And I think that's an important thing to have happen in this world of Bitcoin. So yes, big, big thanks. I'm very grateful to both Jeff and George for doing this, for coming on and making this happen. It's very hard to sit in the middle of a conversation like this when they both make such good points. I've found myself going back and forth a little, but maybe you do too. So I would love your feedback. Please do get in touch. I think the crux of the debate comes down to, as I said in the intro, Jeff's framework is for a new system in which Bitcoin has emerged and is the dominant form of money, whereas George looks at how Bitcoin fits into the current system. I pushed back on both of them. I think a couple of times they both got things that are slightly wrong. But yeah, I want your feedback. Let me know what you think. It's hello or what Bitcoin did dot com.
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
A highlight from Toronto Reignites The Lillard Trade
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The Breakdown
A highlight from Huobi Changes Name to HTX and Almost Immediately Gets Hacked
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, September 22nd, and today we are talking hacks, hacks, hacks. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, today we start this show talking about Ben Armstrong, better known as BitBoy, who was arrested last night after he won, posted to his YouTube that he was going to confront a former business partner about the Lamborghini that he said was his, two, went to said person's door and rang the doorbell, three, did this with a gun and illegal narcotics in the back of his car, along with another business and affair partner to boot, and then four live streamed himself getting arrested. Just kidding. I'm not going to talk about that ever at all. In fact, I will only say this. The crypto space gets exactly the level of influencers it deserves. So perhaps as we think about where we want to be heading into the next bull market, we might want to choose who we listen to with just a hint more discernment. Now, what we're actually going to be talking about today is the plague of this bear market. Well, outside of Gensler, of course, and that is hacks. A wave of hacks impacted crypto firms starting over the weekend. On Friday, Nansen disclosed a security breach at a third party software vendor. The attacker was able to gain access to admin rights of a Nansen account in charge of facilitating client access to the platform. Nansen claims it, quote, managed to stop the unauthorized access shortly after learning about it and launched an immediate investigation. According to Nansen, wallet funds were unaffected. All affected users had email addresses exposed, while smaller user cohorts had password hashes accessed and wallet addresses revealed. Nansen urged all users to double check emails claiming to be coming from the company and be vigilant for phishing attempts. So that was Friday. Then on Saturday, OpenSea disclosed that one of its third party vendors, quote, experienced a security incident that may have exposed information. They warned that user API keys were compromised. The company noted that the incident was not expected to impact any programs which use an OpenSea API key, but that external parties using exposed keys could experience rate and usage limits. OpenSea plans on shutting down existing keys by next Monday and asked users to rotate their keys. A third exploit was disclosed early on Monday morning. Mixin Network, which is a nominally decentralized wallet service, said it lost $200 million in customer assets during an attack early on Saturday morning. Crypto developer Lawrence Day at Function Zero writes, Also, respectfully, how are you losing $200 million from a cloud breach? So this company Mixin was founded in 2017 and had nearly $400 million in protocol funds across 48 chains. The service allows users to send digital assets assigned to phone numbers and its biggest market appears to be Hong Kong. Now the firm said that it can guarantee the safety of around half of user assets, but that guarantee seems to be in the form of a corporate backstop rather than the product of successful threat mitigation. During a livestream on Monday addressing the attack, Mixin founder Feng Xiaodong said, No matter what your assets are, whether it's Bitcoin or Ethereum, we will ensure that half of it is unaffected. We're trying to find a way to recover the compromised money, but that is very difficult. For the other half of the assets, Mixin is considering offering what they are calling bond tokens for users to claim. The firm would later buy back the tokens, making them similar to other token -based recovery schemes seen in the past during events like the Bitfinex hack. A security firm called Slowmist is involved in the investigation and stated that the incident occurred when a cloud service provider database was attacked. Now if this feels like just the latest in a string of big hacks, that's because it is. In 2022, we had the record of $3 .1 billion in funds lost from hacks. And estimates this year include TRMLab saying that $400 million was stolen in Q1, Immunify saying that $700 million was lost in the first half of the year, and then just in Q3 we've had a 126 multi -chain hack in July, a $61 .7 million market -based protocol exploit of Curve Finance in July, $41 .3 million hacked from Stake .com in September, and another July hack of $37 million at CoinsPaid. So from estimates, it looks like this might be the largest hack of the year, roughly the same size as Euler in March. Still, even though it wasn't the biggest, the most high -profile hack of the weekend was disclosed on Monday as well, and that was from HTX. HTX, formerly known as Huobi, suffered the loss of 5 ,000 ETH worth around $8 million on Sunday evening. Justin Sun claimed in a Twitter thread that, quote, HTX has fully covered the losses incurred from the attack and has successfully resolved all related issues. Sun added that, quote, all user assets are SAFU and the platform is operating completely normally. Now, in addition to disclosing the loss, Sun downplayed the impact of the attack, stating that, quote, $8 million represents a relatively small sum in comparison to the $3 billion worth of assets held by our users. It also amounts to just two weeks of revenue for the HTX platform. Sun disclosed the wallet address of the hacker and added, We are willing to offer 5 % of the stolen amount, $400 ,000 USD, as a white hat reward to encourage the hacker to return the stolen funds. If the hacker returns the funds, we will also hire them as a security white hat advisor for HTX. However, they said, if the funds are not returned within seven days, we will transfer the information to law enforcement authorities for further action and to prosecute the hacker. In an on -chain message to the hacker, HTX claimed to have discovered their, quote, true identity. Now, according to Arkham Analytics, the attack affected an HTX hot wallet, which was created in March. Since then, the wallet has received $500 million in deposits from Binance, and on -chain analysts confirmed that funds have now been migrated to a new wallet. Now, there were a lot of comments relating to the name change of this exchange. Crypto Kaleo writes, Huobi changes its name to HTX and gets hacked for $8 million in the first month? Coincidence or tempting fate? Lawrence Day again said, I'm sorry, but renaming Huobi to HTX and then immediately losing millions of dollars is so effing funny that I might have a stroke. Even Binance's CZ said, A week after you rename your exchange after FTX... Jokes aside, our security team will help in tracking hacker funds in all cases where we can. Now, in addition to just the jokes about the HTX name, there are lots of questions floating around about Huobi solvency. To get a sense of some of those theories, go check out Adam Cochran's account. It's a little bit out of the scope of this particular episode, but it's obviously something that we're watching closely. Now it's unclear at this stage whether these attacks had any sort of links, but the small amount of detail available does show some common features. The first three hacks all blamed a third party service provider. While the provider was not named, Nansen did urge them to disclose the security breach. These attacks come just weeks after crypto custody firm Fortress Trust suffered a $15 million attack, which was also related to a security failure at a third party cloud provider called Retool. In that attack, an employee at the software provider was the victim of a phishing attack. The attacker used an AI -synthesized voice clone of an IT support worker to replicate the employee's credentials to access Retool's systems. In their write -up of that attack, Retool said that 27 customer accounts were compromised. All 27 were crypto companies. So the method of attack here, which uses a combination of social engineering and a bypassing of security measures, also bears a striking resemblance to the write -ups of the recent cyber attack on MGM and Caesars casinos. The casino's systems were hacked two weeks ago with customer and corporate data compromised. Postmortems of the attack claimed that hackers used a voice replication of IT workers to gain access. Identity management firm Okta confirmed that the casinos had been using their systems to credential employees. In an August blog post, Okta said that their customers were seeing, quote, consistent pattern of social engineering attacks against their IT service desk personnel, in which the caller's strategy was to convince service desk personnel to reset all multi -factor authentication factors enrolled by highly privileged users. The casino attacks were attributed to a threat actor known as Scattered Spider using malicious software developed by Alfie or Black Cat. Now if these attacks are all part of the same cybercrime spree, it could speak to a group of hackers going after high -value targets like crypto firms. The vulnerability seems hard to address as it involves security training for employees at third -party software providers. And one of the implications is, if these kind of attacks become a systemic threat to the industry, it could mean more crypto firms need to bring sensitive software in -house. That higher barrier to secure operations could make it more difficult for smaller startups to compete in the industry. Now of course for any of you who are listening to the AI breakdown, you'll also recognize that this is not going to be a problem that's unique to the crypto industry. The casino attacks speak to that as well, but the reality is that voice cloning technology is incredibly advanced and just getting more so all the time. Individuals and companies are going to need to develop entirely different modes of operation that recognize the fact that you simply can't trust a voice on the other line of a call anymore. Now when it comes to the impact of these hacks on the industry outside of just the ramifications for the people who lost money themselves, it's hard exactly to know what the real impact is. On the one hand, it certainly lends to a perception of immaturity overall, but at the same time, when it comes to the geopolitics and regulation of crypto, the hacks that are most important to keep an eye on are those that have some sort of geostrategic ramifications, particularly those emanating from the Lazarus Group in North Korea. Still, being this deep into a bear market and trying to match all -time records for hacks is not necessarily the place we want to be overall. The one other story that I wanted to cover on today's show is a bit of a dust -up around the Celsius restructuring. In short, the Celsius bankruptcy could be coming to a close after creditors have voted in favor of the current recovery plan. 98 % of creditors gave the thumbs up to a plan which would see the sale of assets to crypto consortium Fahrenheit Holdings. The acquiring group includes Errington Capital and miner US Bitcoin Corp. Fahrenheit plans to retain and operate mining equipment owned by Celsius under a new corporate structure. The new company also plans to stake Ethereum and monetize other Celsius assets. Some large creditors will receive equity in this new company. And in addition, another $2 billion in liquid crypto will be distributed to creditors. Overall, the plan is projected to provide a 76 -85 % recovery. Now one remaining snag in the plan is an objection from the SEC. The regulator filed its objection last Friday to express concerns with Coinbase's involvement in the process. Celsius receivers plan to use Coinbase as an intermediary to distribute crypto to creditors. The SEC claimed the agreement could require Coinbase to The SEC filing claimed that However, this court should not be asked to approve a deal where their material terms are missing or inconsistent. The regulator also appears concerned about an additional agreement with Coinbase, which Celsius have attempted to file under seal and have not yet disclosed. Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal hit back at the SEC's objection in a Twitter post stating, Now, Wayne Vaughn had a very simple explanation, saying, And of course, this isn't the first time we've seen the SEC stand in the way of a bankruptcy distribution agreed to by creditors. In March, the SEC objected to Voyager using Binance US to distribute crypto to its creditors, which was of course months before the regulator had filed its lawsuit against Binance but still based their objections on claims that the exchange was an unregistered securities brokerage. A very unimpressed judge in the Voyager case called it This time around, of course, the SEC at least does have an ongoing lawsuit that they can point to regarding Coinbase's brokerage services, but the objection does still seem odd given that the regulator didn't seek an injunction to prevent Coinbase from operating as normal in the interim. The Celsius case will return to court next Thursday to hear the SEC's argument and see if the judge is inclined to allow the plan to go ahead. Now one interesting line of discussion are the implications for the spot ETF applications that are outstanding. Adam Cochrane writes, Now, speaking of ETFs, Bitwise filed an amendment to its spot Bitcoin ETF application on Monday, adding 40 pages of research on Bitcoin market structure. The research aimed to preempt arguments from the SEC, which could be used to reject the current batch of ETF applications. Bitwise claimed to show that Bitcoin futures are the primary market for price discovery with spot prices following futures. According to Bitwise, this would mean that the well -regulated CME futures market should be the primary consideration when looking for evidence of market manipulation. They argued that this trading venue should count as a regulated market of significant size for market surveillance purposes. As part of their argument, Bitwise also cited a previous study from 2019, which suggested that Bitcoin's spot market mainly consisted of fake volume, making the relative size of the regulated futures market much larger in comparison. Regarding the price impact of futures, Bitwise found in 2021 that futures markets accounted for between 52 .97 % and 68 .03 % of Bitcoin's price discovery. Now this isn't the first time Bitwise have dropped large amounts of Bitcoin research on the SEC to dispute their claims. They have produced at least two 100 -page -plus reports in support of previous Bitcoin ETF applications. Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hogan explained his firm's strategy in a Twitter thread stating, That's the happy case. The question is, what happens if the SEC appeals the court decision? In short, we return to the status quo. We're back to needing to prove that the CME Bitcoin futures market leads price discovery over the spot market such that it can serve as a regulated market of significant size for the purpose of surveillance. Unfortunately, existing filings do not include substantively new arguments or research addressing this question head on. Until now, today's amendment aims to address point by point each of the major objections the SEC has raised in prior disapprovals for spot Bitcoin ETFs. In particular, we try to clear up the significant confusion around the growing body of academic literature on price discovery in the Bitcoin market and demonstrate that every well -designed academic study supports the finding that the CME is significant. So friends, there you have it, a little bit of hacks, a little bit of the SEC objecting to something that seems reasonable from the outside. In other words, a quintessential 2023 crypto day. Appreciate you guys listening, as always. And until next time. Peace.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from JPMORGAN CHASE BLOCKS CRYPTO IN UK! SEC GARY GENSLER DELAYS BITCOIN SPOT ETF & HEARING!
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, tomorrow's scumbag regulator, Gary Gensler, will be testifying before the House Financial Services Committee at 10 a .m. Eastern. So I definitely will be watching that. I'm hoping that he gets grilled, that he comes down on this clown because he has not been abiding by the law. He has made the SEC political. And there's many different topics that I hope the members of the financial committee go after him on. First, of course, the loss to Ripple in the XRP lawsuit, right where XRP was declared intrinsically not a security. So that is a total contrast to what Gary has been saying, that the rules are clear in 1933 -34 how we test for stocks and bonds. But it's like you buffoon digital assets exist on decentralized blockchains distributed globally. This is not a U .S. market. This thing is global and it's decentralized. So we need updated rules for this. And I'm not saying that every crypto asset is not a security. There are some that are. But how do we differentiate? That's the need for the updated rules. So the other aspect is Gary and the SEC took a big loss in the grayscale lawsuit. And the three judges went against the SEC and they said the denial of the grayscale Bitcoin's bond ETF was arbitrary and capricious. Gary's taking big losses in court here. Right. And obviously, Gary, going after the Coinbase folks is really bad, given that they greenlighted Coinbase to go public. The other aspect is Promethean, because since Gary was before this committee, a lot of stuff came out of a Promethean that they had they got the license, but they weren't even selling crypto and that this guy is clearly a plant by Gary Gensler and Elizabeth Warren. So I'm hoping they bring the heat on this buffoon and expose him. Last time they did a great job, but they got to keep the pressure on and expose him. Now, ahead of the hearing, Gary released his testimony. But it's the same old bullshit. Right. There's nothing new here. I don't even want to read anything. He just brings up the securities laws of 1933 and so on and so forth. Now, what also happened was a bunch of letters were sent to Gary Gensler and some other folks as well. So the first is a bipartisan letter was sent to Gary Gensler by GOP members and Democrats. So this is really great that it's bipartisan and they're urging the SEC to approve a Bitcoin spot ETF. The GOP members included Tom Emmer and Representative Mike Flood. The Democrats included Ritchie Torres and Representative Wiley Nickel. So this is really good. You know, they highlighted the grayscale lawsuit and how the court of appeals sided with grayscale. So I'm hoping that these folks bring the heat on Gary tomorrow. In addition, there was a letter sent to Gary Gensler and FINRA from Congressman Blaine stating his concern over the SEC's insufficient scrutiny of registered broker dealers with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, such as Prometheum, Webull and Moomoo app. Honestly, never heard of Moomoo app, but certainly Prometheum. We know, guys, that is a shady business and we will see what happens tomorrow. So they got to bring the heat and they got to keep putting the pressure. We have to use social media to our advantage. Folks, I want you all to be tweeting, sending emails to your representatives, making phone calls. We got to use the hashtag fire Gary Gensler. That stuff matters because I've said many times, optics play a big part in politics. I know we're not there in the capital, you know, forcing these folks to sign the bill or to fire Gary Gensler, but we can make our voices heard and we can amplify the facts and the truth and expose Gary Gensler for the corrupt scumbag that he is. And here, folks, the SEC has delayed the ARK Invest slash 21 shares Bitcoin spot ETF filing. They also delayed the global ex ETF application, which was due October 7th. So, you know, James Seyford is essentially saying, you know, will this mean that BlackRock, Bitwise, VanEck, all these folks are going to be delayed, too? You know, it wouldn't surprise me, Gary, I don't know what he's up to, but I hope the members call tomorrow him out on this. What are you doing? The courts clearly are saying you're not doing the right thing and they're siding with the crypto industry. So we once again, guys, are dealing with a corrupt scumbag regulator. He's a puppet on strings doing the bidding of his tradfi buddies and trying to slow this industry down, trying to kill crypto startups. So let's see what happens tomorrow. Now, speaking of Gary Gensler's tradfi puppet masters, Chase UK, yes, JP Morgan, Chase in the UK to block crypto payments, citing fraud and scams. Unbelievable, unbelievable, folks. And I'm going to give you the context of this. But let me give you the details of what they're trying to block. Banking giant Chase is banning crypto linked payments via debit card or by outgoing bank transfer for UK clients starting October 16th, according to an email to customers. If we think you're making a payment related to crypto assets will decline it, the email said, adding that the customers are free to use a different bank or provider to invest in crypto. However, finding a crypto friendly bank in the country may not be the easiest thing as UK credit institutions have a history of blocking or limited limiting customer access to crypto. The local financial watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, recently said it had facilitated discussions between banks and crypto firms because lenders have shown a reluctance to offer services to that industry. The fact that JP Morgan Chase is doing this is despicable. Why? Just today, just today, folks, JP Morgan agrees to pay seventy five million dollars settlement over ties to who? Jeffrey Epstein. Do I even need to say anything else about that name? Right, folks? These banks themselves are participating in a whole bunch of criminal scumbag activity, right? We've seen over the years. How many fines has JP Morgan gotten here? Kyle Schnapps, he highlighted this. He said JP Morgan Chase has paid nearly 40 billion dollars in fines for financial fraud and predatory practices since 2000.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Down with the (Burger) King with Michael Seifert and Russ Vought
"Lots of channels. Nothing to watch. Especially if you're searching for the truth. It's time to interrupt your regularly scheduled programs with something actually worth watching. Salem News Channel. Straightforward, unfiltered, with in -depth insight and analysis from the greatest collection of conservative minds. Like Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Sebastian Gorka, and more. Find truth. Watch 24 -7 on SNC .TV and on Local Now, Channel 525. Hey everybody, today on The Charlie Kirk Show, Michael Seifert from Public Square joins us. Make sure you download the Public Square app, PublicSQ .com, that is PublicSQ .com. You have to email me, as always, Freedom at CharlieKirk .com. I really enjoy hearing from you. That is Freedom at CharlieKirk .com, Freedom at CharlieKirk .com. Russ Vogt joins us as we talk 9 -30 strategy. I ask, what is a woman to a group of college women, and they do not know the answer. And Bob Menendez, I got a lot of respect for this guy. No, I'm half kidding. Not really. You'll know what I mean if you listen to the end of the episode. It's far from respect, but the guy's got game. And I bet he could win re -election in New Jersey. Email us, Freedom at CharlieKirk .com and subscribe to our podcast. That is Charlie Kirk Show podcast. Get involved with Turning Point USA at TPUSA .com. That is TPUSA .com. Start a high school or college chapter today at TPUSA .com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job. Building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Joining us now is Russ Vogt, president of the Center for Renewing America. It is September 26th. The shutdown is looming on September 30th. Russ, thank you for joining us. We've had a lot of congressmen on the program, some great guys, Congressman Dan Bishop, Matt Gaetz, we've had Chip Roy. But I'll be honest, it is a Chinese fire drill. It is disorganized. You have people on every single side. I was on the phone this morning. No one knows what the heck is going on. So Russ, what are you hearing? What can we expect coming to September 30th? Do you think the government's going to shut down? I do think it's going to shut down. I think that's where we are. And I think it's good because this is the last leverage point we have against the Biden administration. And you're right, Charlie, in the sense that when you have kind of an intentional strategy on the part of leadership to force this into a corner, it's going to leave something to be desired on the execution front. But here's the good news. I think the House conservatives are increasingly united in forcing a conversation about moving forward on bill by bill and really focusing on the woke and weaponized restrictions that need to be put in place to put a vice grip around the Biden administration's activities against the American people. I think you're going to see those kinds of debates this week, and it's going to move to a good place in terms of the theatrics of the last several weeks. I want to make sure that we calm down the alarmism. So I received a couple emails this weekend. Charlie, I can't believe you want a government shutdown. I need my Social Security checks. Russ, let's tell the truth about this. Social Security still goes out. Medicare still goes out. Essential government services, which I find hilarious because if they're not essential, why do they have jobs? They should all be fired. This is a partial, very partial, let's just call it a fractional government pause because it's not actually a shutdown because they all get back pay. It's basically the secret that no one wants to say is that a lot of government workers are hoping for this because they basically get a vacation. Russ, tell us what really happens because this is important. You've got the parameters of this. Two -thirds of the federal government is on autopilot. Not a good situation, but the reality of where we are. So a third of the federal government is subject to what we call the annual appropriations process. But if you're on Social Security, there's nothing to worry about. You're going to get your check, and you're going to get your check on time. Medicare, the Department of Defense is going to continue to be out there defending our country. All of the people that are in the business of securing this country are going to be similarly at their posts. What this does is this says for those of you who are working on the Biden climate regulations at the EPA or the Department of Interior, sorry, you're going to have to go home. You're not going to be able to be at your desk and working. So this is not something – there are tried and true ways, and I've managed this for President Trump, to make this painless as possible consistent with the law. We thankfully blazed a pretty good trail on that, that they're going to have a hard time playing politics with this. We'll be holding them accountable. But in terms of the – this is not a situation where you're going to go off a cliff, and somehow you're not going to get your government benefits. It's just not the case. Okay, so let's get into this here. What then is the ask? Because the way I look at it, the way the stars have aligned, the universe, all of a sudden – I'm not happy about this, but it just so happens the border has never been as bad as it is right now. And that's like intersecting right with this funding fight over border security. Russ, if Republicans can't get this done, when there's 8 ,500 people illegally entering an eagle pass alone, I mean, it's not as if this is something that happened six months ago. This is actively occurring. Then Republicans are completely worthless. Russ, so what is the ask, and strategically, what is your advice for how they actually get it done? So my view is that they have had a wonderful banner, a messaging parameter called no security, no funding, that allows them to be able to go at this seminal threat that we're seeing along the border, and to make that a very, very important issue. I also think it allows them to deal with the weaponization at the Department of Justice. I don't think that we can leave this leverage point without doing something against the regime that is trying to steal the next election, and at the same time going against half the country and considering them enemies of the state. So I think there's a lot of things that can be done, but if we don't get to the end of this process and have dealt with those two issues, and then spend a lot of time trying to defund the offices doing the bad activities, I'll consider it a failure. So the goal needs to be then not paperwork processors on the border, but actual border security. That's a major difference. But also, I think that the pressure needs to be that Joe Biden needs to start deporting these people. He's hosting them and just releasing them into the interior of the United States. Exactly. And there's a specific rider that needs to be put in place, and Stephen Miller has been calling for this some time, as well as Chip Roy. It needs to be illegal in the sense that you can't spend the money to be able to release someone into the border. That's the kind of thing that it's not just about changing laws that they ignore. It's about saying that a bureaucrat is going to be facing criminal charges in violation of the Anti -Deficiency Act if they ignore the appropriations law that's saying that they can't do that. And as a result, that will change a lot of the policies that we've been asking for. So we're looming towards this lockdown. Re -emphasize what you're saying about leadership. How has leadership basically set the table for failure? Build that out for us. Sure. The year started with much promise. For the first time, House Republicans were governing with conservatives in their caucus, and they were achieving things that no one thought was possible to pass $5 trillion in potential cuts. At the debt limit deal, Kevin McCarthy walked away from House conservatives and went essentially into coalition with House Democrats. At the time, he used it as an excuse. He said, we'll do all this through the appropriations process. That was an excuse, because they then didn't move any of the appropriations bills themselves. It's not like these bills are passed out of the House and sitting in the Senate. Instead, they've had a pileup in which we are now up against a deadline, and they're asking for more time. But the problem is that McCarthy has never governed from the standpoint of we're going to use leverage points to save the country. Instead, he puts a cartel view on it, which is we're going to try to minimize what is necessary to get past this leverage point, because otherwise it will have political risk. I think you and I agree, we're not going to save the country without managing political risk, and we can do that. We have done that previously in shutdowns, and the country will reward Republicans when they fight over these leverage points. That's what we're asking right now, and I think conservatives are insisting on it, and so far, he's having to go in their direction. Yeah, and I think we need to reject the framing of shutdown, which, by the way, ideologically, all I'm on board for. Maybe a pause? I mean, how else can we message this? Because, Russ, here's what's going to happen, right? So we are barreling towards not getting a deal done on Saturday, right? And honestly, I hope a deal doesn't get done in the sense of enough, draw a line in the sand, show your voters you're fighting. It's better for no deal than a bad deal. I think you would agree with that, right, Russ? It's better for no deal at all than a bad deal. And so September 30th happens, and again, your Social Security checks still go out, Medicare still goes out, military still do. You have the DEI, you know, lesbian bureaucrats at the Department of Homeland Security or whatever that might not, you know, be going to work for a couple days. Honestly, good thing. So, but Russ, let's just kind of think about this. How could we better message it? Because the media, Sunday morning, I face the nation, CBS, all that full court press, Republicans shut down the government once midnight hits on Saturday night. So how do we get ahead of this and preemptively message it, not just be on our heels and play defense? Yeah, I mean, I think the reality is, to go back to the facts, what is occurring here is a lapse in funding. It is a lapse in funding. The government is not shutting down. The Department of Defense is still up and running. That would be the case if it actually shut down. Those people would not be at their post. What is happening? Funding is lapsed. Funding will come back on when Congress reaches a deal. And I think if we can communicate facts in that vein, we will help our case and explain to the American people what's actually going on. But here's the thing that I would say. These leverage points in which there is confrontation, there is political risk, are incredibly important because the only chance that we get to get the country's attention. It's when people who are not listening to politics are listening to their Christian music station or whatever they're listening to. And all of a sudden they have the news update that's saying, OK, there's a government lapse. What are the terms that are being discussed? Oh, the weaponization of the Department of Justice. That's what we want. And that is a feature, not a bug, of our politicians here in the cartel of Washington, D .C. Russ, you're doing a wonderful job. Center for Renewing America. We're going to have you back on. September 30th is the big day. I think we're going to swing and miss. But honestly, I'd rather have us strike out with no deal than one that betrays our voters. Russ, thank you so much. You bet. Thanks, Charlie.
Crypto Altruism Podcast
A highlight from Episode 122 - Sweat Economy - Building The Economy of Movement with Web3
"Whole industries are born when you can break a trade -off that is considered standard. In our world, the trade -off is if you want to be healthy, if you want to be active, you got to pay. You got to buy a kit, you got to get your membership, you got to do all of these things. How can you be physically active if you're not paying? Actually, because it's beneficial to you and to a lot of people, we believe that you should be paid for it because it is incredibly valuable. Welcome to the Crypto Altruism podcast, the podcast dedicated to elevating the stories of those using Web3 for good. I'm your host Drew Simon from CryptoAltruism .org. Now, before we get started, a quick disclaimer. While we may discuss specific Web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice, and please make sure to do your own research on investment opportunities or any opportunity, including its legality. And now, let's get on to the show. Welcome and thanks so much for joining. Whole industries are born when you can break a trade -off that's considered standard. I think that bears repeating and I can't think of a better example of this than Move to Earn. For too long, exercise has seemed like more of a chore for many and a very expensive chore at that, with the pricey gym memberships, expensive equipment, you name it. With the advent of blockchain, however, there is a unique opportunity to disrupt this and transform exercise from a chore into a rewarding and income -generating activity. To dive into this, I'm excited to welcome Oleg Fomenko, co -founder of Sweat Economy, an OG in the Move to Earn space with a mission to reward movement to inspire a healthier and wealthier planet. We discuss how Web3 tools can incentivize healthy actions, the evolution of Move to Earn, onboarding hundreds of millions of users to Web3, and much more. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming Oleg to the Crypto Altruism podcast. Okay, Oleg, thank you so much for being here today on the Crypto Altruism podcast. Such a pleasure to have you. Thank you very much, Drew, for having me. Very nice to meet you, Drew. Thank you very much for having me. So excited to have you. I had mentioned this before we got on the call that I've been following it for quite a while, and I'm really fascinated by this whole Move to Earn movement that's going on and how Web3 tools can really change how we get people to be excited about wellness and making healthy life choices. So before we get there, I want to learn about your aha moment that got you excited about Crypto and Web3 in the beginning. I learned about Bitcoin in 2011 from a childhood friend who described what it was, and that definitely perked my interest. Stupid as I was, well, stupid as I am, I got really, really hooked on technology. And I read an awful lot about how it works, the white paper, the Byzantine generals problem, and just basically as much background as I could. In 2011, there wasn't an awful lot. Then I have installed BT Guild. That was the first sort of pool mining software on my old laptop and put it in the corner, and it was sort of chugging along there for about a month, and they mined a few satoshis. Well, actually quite a few satoshis, but because the price was like 20 cents, it wasn't even covering the electricity that I burned on it. And I just threw away a laptop's hard drive for quite a bit right now these days. So I got hooked on tech, and despite the low prices, I actually didn't buy an awful lot of Bitcoin back then. And I had a very interesting sort of music streaming startup back then, and I was trying to figure out how we can do something in crypto, but at best we could just accept Bitcoin payment, which was cumbersome, slow and not terribly interesting, and just handful of people even knew what it was. So opportunity represented itself in 2014 when I started talking to my co -founders about the problem of why are people not as active as they want to be? How come that I used to run some crazy distances and climbing some of the highest mountains in the world, and all of a sudden I couldn't even complete 5k. And, you know, kind of one conversation after another, we very quickly realized that the reason why 100 % of people want to be more active, but they can't, is because nature didn't build us to be active. Nature built us to survive, which means preserving calories rather than spending them. And nature was so serious about it that it gave us this behavioral feature that helped us surviving back then, but right now it's probably a behavioral bug that prevents us from being able to burn those calories called present bias that stops us from, you know, kind of moving and forces us to sit, unless there is a mammoth on the horizon that, you know, that we need to run and kill, or there is something about to make us into food and then we need to run away. And we realized that there is only one solution to present bias, instant gratification. So we kind of went, ooh, so can we actually create instant gratification for every step you take? And that's the story of Sweatcoin. As the name would suggest, we were thinking about building it on blockchain back then, but forking Bitcoin was slow, cumbersome and expensive. Building on Ethereum, we discussed with Vitalik in 2015. We met with him in London. That wasn't really an option because it was just too early. It was a research grade code back then. And we launched in 2016 centralized. And we thought, you know what, give us six months, maybe 12 months, there will be some wonderful blockchain that, you know, we're going to migrate onto. Little did we know that it would take until 2021 for blockchain to get fast enough and robust enough to be able to hold our scale. So, you know, we looked every year and we analyzed everything that was sort of popping up. And until 2021, the answer was consistently, no, we were processing more transactions per second than theoretical throughput of any chain. And in 2021, all of a sudden there was this explosion, there was Algorand, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, BNB, well, BC back then, and Flow and Celo and, you know, kind of all of a sudden it just sort of, there was a rush of these new technologies. And we got really excited and put a team on this and analyzed more than a dozen different chains. And sort on of after spending, I think, four or five months, we made a decision that we want to build on near. And yeah, the rest is history. We launched last September and it's going incredibly well, incredibly well. I'm sure that we're going to have an opportunity to talk about some of the numbers and metrics and, you know, sort of, yeah, totally. Definitely. I mean, you've had quite many, many, many achievements and it's really grown at an incredible pace and the amount of people that you have engaging with this platform now every day. And, you know, it's good that you really took that time to kind of like, you know, think and make sure that you had the right blockchain, the right timing. And it sounds like you made a good choice there with Near. And sustainable business model as well and token economics. Yeah, for sure, for sure, which is great. And so you talked a little bit at a higher level about sweat economy, but do you mind giving an overview to our listeners of, you know, what it is, what the mission is of your organization? Sure. The mission of the regional sweat coin and that's what economy is to make the world more physically active. And, you know, it seems like it's sort of a tree -hogging mission. And the reality is it couldn't be further away from truth because we actually realized that physical activity has tangible financial value. When I say that your physical duty has value, everyone nods, like you just did right now. But if I ask how valuable it is, people kind of go, could you reframe the question? Could you use different words? I'm like, no, I don't have to. Typically, if something is valuable, it has value attached to it. And here we have something valuable, but we cannot attach any number to it. Maybe there is an opportunity there. And then we started thinking there is an interesting economy that draws parallel with physical activity. It's attention economy by some estimates attention economy now is about $7 trillion business, all the Googles, Facebooks, everything advertising related sits in there and actually quite a lot more. And the interesting parallel between physical activity and attention is that like attention, physical activity is valuable to you. You know, when you pay attention, something starts, you know, you can engage with something, you can get new idea, you can meet somebody, you can, you know, potentially entering some sort of a conversation transaction and purchase something. Very similarly, physical activity is a better physical state, it puts you into a better mental state, it extends your life. And like attention, physical activity is beneficial for a lot of other parties, a lot of other participants on the market, starting from your family that is, of course, would prefer to have you physically active rather than not because they want to enjoy your company for longer, they want you to be in a better mood. Your healthcare provider, your insurer, your employer are all interested in you being physically active and actually prepared to pay for it. Especially insurers, they know very well that your health insurance and your life insurance, if you're physically active, should be a lot cheaper because you're a lot better risk and you genuinely a lot better business for them. Now, attention economy exists and it's $7 trillion, movement economy or physical activity economy doesn't. There is absolutely nothing there. We can talk about it, we can discuss these use cases, but it doesn't exist. And then we thought, hang on a second, in order for humanity not to spend 200 years building this economy, why don't we actually think of creating a token that is tokenizing your physical activity and makes it into a liquid asset that you can exchange with other parties? That's how the concept of Sweatcoin and now Sweat was born. So coming back to your original question, Sweatcoin is our health and fitness app. Despite the name, it's actually not crypto because for eight years we couldn't operate in crypto. We got 240 million users using this application. And when we could move to Web3, to blockchain, it was too late to tell everybody, like, look, from tomorrow, it's going to be completely different game. tokenomics is going to be different. You can't do that. So we had to put out a new token that's called Sweat and it is a crypto token built on NIR. And effectively the way the two businesses work together is you choose, you either play Web3 game and you just create your crypto account and then your steps are converted into Sweat. Or as a lot of people, you know, kind of choose to, they don't opt in and then they get Sweatcoins, which is a centralized points, think of it like air miles that you can gather and you can use inside Sweatcoin, but they cannot be traded on exchanges. They are not real crypto and not as liquid as Sweat, the token. And of course, these two tokens have very, very different token economics. Sweatcoin, for every 1000 steps, you earn one Sweatcoin and Sweat is constantly demanding an increase in number of steps in order to meet next Sweat. This way, supply dynamics are a lot healthier and we have become deflationary already from the month of July. So July and August circulating supply has been slowly shrinking. Wow. Interesting. So much going on there and like incredible. First of all, with the amount of folks that you've been able to onboard the love, the idea of like offering, you know, Web3 and Web2 version, because it might just be those people that maybe aren't quite ready yet, but want to experiment a bit, want to learn about the technology first, then it gives them an easy kind of entry, you know, accessible entryway, which is great. And so you talked about the Sweat token, which is the built on the near blockchain. And that's kind of the for the Web3 version, the currency that kind of behind this whole movement economy. So you talked about that users will get this, they'll earn this from from walking, engaging in that physical activity. What can they do with these with these tokens once they actually receive them? What's the like utility of them? Yeah, no, there is there is plenty. But actually, if we take a step back, because I think in the crypto world, a lot of people are sort of obsessed with the word utility. I actually think that the more important question is, if you ask somebody, why is this token valuable? Yeah, what is the answer to that question? And I have answered to both of these questions. But I would like to start with the one that I think is more relevant in long term, why is Sweat valuable? And the reason why Sweat is valuable is because it is produced by your verified physical activity. So when you move, and if you try to cheat, it doesn't work. In fact, if somebody is trying repeatedly to kind of break into the system and you know, sort of game it, then we just disable accounts and they can never return. But if you put in genuine physical activity, so you sweat it, then we verify it. And we issue with this token that is tokenized physical activity of yours. And because of that, there is no single question in people's mind that it is valuable. It's a very, very different relationship to a string of numbers that sort of miraculously appeared out of, I don't know, nothing, airdrop, I don't know, whatever activity. And then people, majority of people, not crypto natives, but crypto curious are wondering, why does it have any value at all? Why is it not zero? And that is an extremely difficult question to answer. Now we don't have this problem. However, crypto educated or crypto informed you are, that's my physical activity. That's my sweat. That's not zero because, you know, it cannot be, you know, can I sweat it over it? Right. And this is an answer to the longterm question. So in five years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years time, when people are going to be talking about why is sweat valuable, they're going to say, are you kidding me? It's a tokenized physical activity. How can it be zero? However, it doesn't stop there. You know, in order for us to build movement economy, in order for us to feel sweat with this meaning that it is tokenized physical activity, in order for us to establish financial, you know, kind of number or just a value to it, we need to play a game in the interim that is effectively creating utility and demand drivers for sweat. For a lot of projects, that's all they do. We do have a longterm vision that I've just described to you. The short term vision is extremely simple. You need sweat in order to participate in our kind of network in our platform, you stake sweat, and you earn interest by taking sweat, you also have access to a lot of rewards that are linked to health and fitness, well being fashion, etc. So this is an extremely engaging thing for our users, you are also earning sweat from our learn and earn. And because 90 % of our users are brand new to crypto and web3, they are seeking and are very interested in information. So what is taking? How does it work? You know, how do you transfer? How do you receive crypto? So we are building this whole ecosystem of effectively onboarding products and information, how do you become a proper crypto native? Last but not least, are a lot of functionalities that are being rolled out right now as we're ramping up for our US launch. The most exciting one is Sweat Hero. It's a free NFT game that effectively, if you engage, come in, we give you an NFT of legs. Because, you know, we're about walking and running. Yeah. And, you know, you get the NFT and you can play with other people, literally walking, I'm not going to go into mechanics, if you're interested, you can sort of go and look at it yourself in Sweat Wallet app. Or if you are in the US and you can't still use all the functionality, then you can just go on YouTube and put Sweat Hero and there are plenty of screenshots and screencasts from users that have been participating in beta testing. So you basically go into battle and the game and I battle you and I put 10 Sweat, you put 10 Sweat, the winner takes 80 % and the 20 % goes into what we call a battle fee, which is effectively a token sync that community votes on later on. And that brings me to your one of the first and earlier questions, you know, about move to earn and sustainability of the business, because we're frequently asked, you know, how are you different from, you know, kind of other projects out there? And we say, well, tens of millions of users is one thing, nine years of history and therefore ability to spend time thinking about building sustainable business and sustainable token economics. And what we are doing right now by scaling and not going into that spiral is evidence that we know how to build sustainable businesses that really function. More than that, as I already mentioned, in July and in August this year, Sweat has already become deflationary. So the sources of demand on a monthly basis are higher than emissions of token by you walking, plus all unlocks, users, team investors, and everything. So the number of tokens that hit the market is lower than the number of tokens that are extracted from the market, which in web two world would basically be definition of profitability. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Very interesting. Yeah. So much on the go. And, you know, I love this idea as well of the Sweat Hero NFT game. I think that's a really fun way to engage people in a different way and to bring NFTs in the mix as well. You mentioned move to earn in there too. And so I know that obviously Sweat Economy kind of is a great example of that, you know, move to earn ecosystem fits within there. You know, there's, it's a pretty early stage space for sure. You know, fairly nascent, a couple projects for sure, like yours that are really growing at a rapid pace, but still very early. Where do you see things when it comes to move to earn in the future, let's say five to 10 years from now? What do you think? How do you think it'll shape, you know, the overall wellness sector in the coming years? I mean, there are several very interesting things here. One is, whole industries are born when you can break a trade -off that, you know, is considered standard. You know, for example, internet broke this trade -off where you could deliver rich message, but very few people, or you could deliver extremely poor message and extremely narrow message to a lot of people. Reach and richness was a trade -off. Internet broke that and the rest is history. You know, you can talk to individual with extremely rich message and sometimes screw with their heads as well as Cambridge Analytica has proven, right? So it's a double -edged sword, unfortunately. So in our world, the trade -off is, or if you want to be healthy, if you want to be active, you got to pay. You got to buy kit, you got to get job membership, you got to dress, you got to do all of these things. You know, how can you be physically active if you're not paying? Actually, because it's beneficial to you and to a lot of other people, we believe that you should be paid for it because it is incredibly valuable. Like in attention economy, you are given free products in exchange for your attention. Why wouldn't we be doing exactly the same thing in exchange for my physical activity? So move to earn is breaking this trade -off and I believe that it is going to become a more or less standard approach because if physical activity was only valuable to me and me alone, I would need to pay. But given that it drives an incredible amount of value for everybody, including countries, I mean, if you're physically active, you're going to be more economically active for longer. The tax revenues from you are going to be higher. It's good business. You know, even if you're looking at it in the dry light of day, obstructing yourself from taking care of people, making sure that, you know, this country is a good place for them to live. But even just in financial terms, it's good business. So this is the first thing that all the businesses in move to earn are doing, regardless if they're Ponzi or non -Ponzi actually think that it's great because businesses are reminding people that their physical activity has value. Bingo. That moves this whole idea of movement economy forward. The other trend that I see is that we need to get fewer people who are focusing on crypto natives, which is the case with a lot of other products and are focusing on mass market, because the value is not in making very, very narrow field of already reasonably rich and wealthy people more physically active. The real value to humanity is going into the lower social stratas, because that typically is where behavior change is most needed. If you look at dominant in A and B social groups, but it's starting to ramp up as you go lower down the income tail. So we need to start focusing on these people. We need to start developing propositions that are absolutely free, that are extremely simple to engage with, like what's what economy is doing. Because a lot of people are asking me, crypto, web3, what's your advice? And my simple advice is, look, we're so early, I can't even point a finger where to go. But if any of you remember internet of 96 and 97, you would remember that, I mean, there was Yahoo, right? There were very, very early businesses. None of them are really sort of dominating. And the opportunity is still there. And the opportunity number one is we still don't have an email for internet. We don't have an ubiquitous use case for web3. That email became for internet. That's what we're focusing on. Can we develop something that every single person on planet earth would be interested and benefit from if they engage with? And if you have legs, and if you can take steps, you know, you can engage with sweat economy. And I think we're on the right path there. The other thing that I would say is that if you actually look at the overall web3, and all the different tokens that exist, I see right now only three use cases or three classes of tokens that can be explained in a very simple fashion. Why on earth do they have value? Case one, Bitcoin digital gold, inflationary protection. It's capped supply. Everyone is paying attention to it. Everyone is in because of the first mover advantage. Therefore, it is playing the role of digital gold and probably is replacing gold as that inflationary protection asset. Case two, layer ones, computers securing asset ownership on the internet. Like electricity powers computers, like tokens, like ETH, like NEAR, like Avax, like MATIC. You need to have them in order for these computers to work for you and secure ownership of assets. And case three is tokenization. And here there is kind of wide range. The most simple one is tokenizing fiat currency, USDT, USDC. Basically, you are turning an asset that already exists into a token to make it more liquid, easier to transfer, easier to exchange with a lot more censorship resistance and with fewer parties being able to tell you can you or cannot you conduct this particular transaction. And there is a lot of experimentation with other assets like TDELs, for example, kind of tokenizing them. And we are pushing absolutely boundaries of that because we're not tokenizing an asset that already exists, that already has markets that can be exchanged. We're creating new asset class because as I said, everyone agrees that physical activity has value. It should have been an asset, but actually without blockchain, it cannot be turned into an asset. And we are creating new asset, new asset class, and the whole new industry that cannot be created without blockchain participating in this.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Independent Bitcoin Education Unconference with John Dennehy, Founder of "My First Bitcoin" + Bitcoin News with the Caf Bitcoin Crew - September 26th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right. All right. Good morning to all you Cafe Bitcoiners. Good morning, Mickey, Dom Bay, Nico. Good morning, Jacob. D -Code. Good morning. Joe Carlessari and all the rest of you Cafe Bitcoiners. Yo, what's up, Alex? What's up, Alex? Just wanted to drop in here and, you know, this chase ban in the U .K., can't say I'm surprised that Chase Bank in the U .K. has blocked Bitcoin purchases and payments, I think is a continuation of the trend that we saw the with reaction against Russell Brand. But I mean, they don't call it the separation of money and state for no reason. The way that you frame it, Alex, is get on the mission. The way that Corey phrases it is let's win the race to avoid the war. The way I phrase it is Bitcoin or slavery. And I think as time continues to go by, I think the battle lines, so to speak, are a lot of things that are going on right now, but I think there will come a time where people are going to have to pick and choose between state money, state approved information sources and Bitcoin and independent media. And I think that time is coming a lot faster than people realize because I just see this as just another major escalation heading to an inevitable clash, in my personal Yeah, opinion. we've seen a lot of stuff like that from banks over in Europe, specifically the U .K. There are a lot of, well, I don't know about a lot, my clients I've seen get from the U .K. have wires blocked when they're trying to wire to Swan from depends on the bank. Not all of them are doing this, but more and more of them are. And this is not a regulatory thing. This is a policy thing that I think they're doing. But interestingly enough, you know, Operation Choke Point was not a regulatory thing either. There was no laws passed, et cetera, and there was no regulations on the books. It was basically a it was a bullying type enforcement.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from 5 BIGGEST Opportunities In Crypto THIS WEEK! (I'm Taking These Trades)
"In today's show we're going to talk about the five most interesting plays of the week, three of which I am actually taking. We have short setups, long setups in what is said to be a pretty interesting week for altcoin specifically and that's why I'm bringing to you my favorite setups of the week and also some of the most interesting coins that have altcoin specific catalysts. So if you do enjoy these watchlist shows every single Monday to prepare you for the week make sure to smash the like button and let me know in the comments below you do enjoy them and we will keep this going as a regular series. All right, kicking off with coin number one, we're going to be boring. We're going to talk about Bitcoin. Of course, it's not an altcoin, but it is in a pretty interesting zone right now, hovering above the key horizontal support level at the 25 -3 zone on the weekly. Bitcoin though, important to note, is still below the 200 MA on the weekly, which is typically a bearish indicator for Bitcoin. We know previous times that this level has acted as a major level of support and resistance. also So the 200 weekly moving average is super important and also the 200 moving average on the daily as well. So just keeping my eye on how Bitcoin reacts here, clearly 25k is that key level, but it doesn't look great for Bitcoin. Momentum in my opinion is still to the downside and the more we test that support the higher chance it does have of breaking, not being too bearish necessarily, but just urging you guys like a little bit of caution as long as we are below the 200 MA on the weekly. Let's get into the first altcoin of the video though in light of that, and that is Chainlink. So Chainlink is one that's actually performed really well this week in the lead up to their Smartcon. Their Smartcon 2023 is essentially a conference where developers and speakers all meet together and talk about the future of the industry, but specifically Chainlink. And we see there are many major speakers, the founder of Chainlink, we even have the former CEO of Google and multiple other major prominent figures across the crypto space speaking. So in the lead up to this, we've actually seen Chainlink perform really well from a price perspective. But in the graph in front of you, I do have the chart that outlines how Chainlink has performed in previous times leading into Smartcon and then leading out of Smartcon. And we can see in 2022, Chainlink actually peaked on the day of Smartcon and then gave up its gains in the following weeks. We can see in 2021, a similar thing happened. Two days before Smartcon, Chainlink peaked. And then after the conference, we saw a huge post -conference dump. Will the same pattern play out? Well, not necessarily, but I am convicted in the case leaning towards a dump post -Smartcon just given the price action that we've seen recently in line with previous data. So I'm convicted if I have to pick between longing and shorting Chainlink, but I think there is a decent short setup brewing here if it does push into the upper echelon of its range territory here on the weekly. And also, as you can see on the daily too, it's firmly within this range, actually approaching the mid -range zone. Maybe we get one last thrust into Smartcon because we know that the conference doesn't start until October 2nd. So that is still a week away. So I expect price performance probably to continue to the upside over the next few days. But then leading into the conference, if you are looking for a short, this may actually be a good one if those RSIs start to get into overheated territory just given what has happened in the past for Chainlink. So that is on my watch list, not as a long, but actually as a short, just playing the range here. We know if you take trades towards the extremity of the range, you're getting much better risk -reward. So the extremities being the upper echelon here near range high and the lower echelon here close to range low. These are your major levels that you want to take swing trades at considering since May 2022, more than a year Chainlink has been in this range. Very, very boring coin, pretty much a stable coin, but has provided great opportunities to those that have been able to long close to support and short close to resistance here. So maybe a setup starting to prime here on the short side if we continue to push upwards. Why wouldn't I long? Well, considering what's happened in previous conferences in line with the recent massive move that we've had, I think you may be longing into an area where it's going to be hard for Chainlink to push any higher. So that's that. All right, now we're going to have a bit of fun. Going to give away some money. So I'm making bold. Five users going to close my eyes actually to make sure I'm not accused of manually picking the users here. All right, I've just highlighted five people in bold. All of you guys are going to win $200. Bang, just like that. So every single person, this wallet here, this wallet here, this wallet here, here and here. If you are in bold, you are going to win $200. We're going to send it directly to your wallet. And that is because you provided liquidity on SmartX. So as you know, every single week, we are airdropping $200 to five random people that provide at least $50 worth of liquidity into SmartX across either Arbitrum, BNB, Base or Polygon. If you don't know what SmartX is, it's essentially an AMM -powered DEX, which is solving the problem of impermanent loss in crypto. A big problem to mitigate the negative effects of impermanent loss and also provide some pretty nice yield opportunities for people that are looking to earn yield on assets like Matic, like Arbitrum, like Ethereum, like BNB and all sorts of assets. USDC also, you compare with their native coin as well. So depending on what risk you want to assume, depending on which tokens you hold, you can stake it into the platform to earn some pretty nice APRs between 20 and up to 50 plus percent. And yeah, if you deposit minimum $50 liquidity and you enter your wallet address using the link in the description, you will enter the giveaway to be one of these lucky people that just won $200 on the show today. So link in the description. Good luck to everyone that is entering the competition for next week, where I will announce the next crop of five winners. And without further ado, let's get straight on with the show. The next coin I want to discuss is Arbitrum. Arbitrum is a really interesting one because they just announced their short -term initiative grant program, which is essentially a form of ecosystem stimulus. So we know when they did the airdrop, that was largely concentrated towards people that were using the Arbitrum chain, but actually now they are starting to help out the projects to incentivize them by essentially allocating some of their token supply towards the projects in the form of incentives grants. So what the projects can do is they can essentially bid for an airdrop. And if Arbitrum elects them via a DAO proposal, which is actually recently being completed, these projects will receive airdrops and then they can choose how they want to distribute those new tokens to their community. So I think that is a little bit of a catalyst to the Arbitrum ecosystem because we could see increased incentives across these platforms, which could obviously help attract some more TVL into the ecosystem. Next week, we also have Arbitrum Odyssey returning, which is also another initiative to get retail involved and you can earn rewards via that. As I said before, we've got this short -term incentive program launching with 50 million ARB, which is around $30 million being distributed to active Arbitrum protocols that apply for the grant. I think this will give the Arbitrum ecosystem a nice boost. I'm just looking at the chart here. Well, the chart looks ugly, but Arbitrum is at significantly discounted levels since it broke below this major dollar support region, which has been pretty strong support for Arbitrum since it first launched. So yes, technically Arbitrum doesn't look good price -wise, but I am maybe going to add a little bit to my bags this week. I have to decide whether I'm going to do that this week or whether I'm going to wait a couple of weeks. Nonetheless, I am definitely eyeing this as more of a spot trade, not a leverage trade because we're not at a key support level. My leverage trading scenario would probably kick in closer to this region if you do get like a confirmed reclamation. But until then, I'm definitely looking at the possibility of adding spot and that's why it makes my coins of the week, given it has a proprietary ecosystem catalyst, which comes in the form of the grants alongside heavily discounted prices heading into EIP 4844 later in the year. Another coin that's heading into EIP 44 being a layer 2 protocol is Optimism. But Optimism actually comes in as my short hedge of today's video. So you guys know in these watch lists, I don't just like to give long setups. I discussed Chainlink potentially being a short setup. Optimism as well, I think could potentially be a short hedge set up this week. What do I mean by short hedge? Well, a lot of you guys probably have relatively like long weighted portfolios, meaning like you're more long than you are net short. I mean myself, that's the case. And usually when I take longs in the market, that will put me in like a naked long position, meaning like I don't always like have a short hedge. But sometimes in markets that are looking kind of shaky, like right now when we get Bitcoin chopping and looking kind of weak, sometimes it's smart to have a hedge. So let's say you long three altcoins in a week. Sometimes it's good to pick like a specifically weak altcoin to hedge short against those other positions to get some sort of neutrality in case your trade goes wrong. Then you can kind of minimize the amount of risk you're taking. It's a strategy like all the top traders will use. And depending on your position size, you can even reach like Delta neutral territory with pair trades and all that sort of thing. But just to keep it really simple, I think Optimism has like a major unlock this week with over 3 % of the circulating supply hitting the market, $30 million worth of Optimism. The unlock event is in four days time. So this is a significantly big unlock for Optimism in what has been a pretty significant period for unlocks overall for the Optimism token. So in light of that, I mean, if you watch my video on token unlocks, search token unlocks, crypto banter, you should be able to watch that whole video. I explained what happens post major token unlocks. And typically what we see is despite peaks happening into unlocks, often the two weeks following the actual unlock date, we do see tokens tend to bleed and give up most of their gains. And if that plays out here on Optimism, then maybe we can expect like a rough couple of weeks from Optimism from a price perspective. So it's looking relatively weak. And if I look at the chart as well, we can see it put in its high here. It got rejected off this horizontal level at 1 .8 and it's made a lower high, another lower high, and looks to be rolling over again. If you start to clear these lows, then I think we could see further downside on Optimism. So those lows come in at the $1 .20 region. I'll just highlight them for you now. This level here, if you start to break below as we are now and you do confirm that breakdown, then Optimism could definitely be going lower. And for that reason, I would look at a short if we do get some sort of roll over here and a lower high start to firm up on the daily chart. But you could even look at it on the four hourly chart. Of course, you don't really want to take trades in the daily, use daily for your confluence, use one hourly, four hourly for your entries, depending on your timeframe. And yeah, Optimism definitely looking quite weak. So that is my short hedge of the week. So now let's get into a couple long scenarios because we've talked about two shorts. I've given you a long. Now let's talk about two more tokens that are more interested in longing that I am shorting. The first one is the OX token. Now for full disclosure, OpenX, the exchange, which is obviously powered by the OX token is an official show partner in today's video. I don't want you guys to get confused between the token and the partnership. I'm not paid to shield the token when I'm paid to promote the token. And I'm mentioning the token in a completely neutral light in today's video, just based on my personal thesis that has nothing to do with the partnership. Just want to make that very clear. The OX token though, the token itself, not the exchange, has, I mean, been significantly beaten down over the past few weeks. And this is because essentially a lot of users had locked up their OX tokens for three months after they bridged Flex, which was the coin Flex's exchange token over to the OpenX protocol and to stake OX tokens. And in light of that three months after they closed the bridge, you get a significant amount of unlocks because people are entering or coming out of their stake period. So when people come out of their stake period and they now have liquid OX, some people are going to choose to sell if they want to either take profits or just, you know, minimize risk on a maybe potentially oversized position that in tandem with users starting to receive their vested OX as part of the normal token distribution. We've kind of seen a lot of supply come onto the market over the last week. And this has resulted in a huge drawdown in the price from the 0 .7 region to the 0 .2 region. I mean, it's really been beaten down and I even took a loss on this cause I bought some OX and I staked it and I'm actually down on it. However, considering the staking ratio is still relatively high and there are a lot of people now going to be relocking for the long -term which reduces supply pressures. I do think that OX is starting to become a slightly more interesting look now at these heavily discounted prices if you do believe in the OpenX vision. And that vision is essentially, you know, of course, Carl Davies and Zhu Su but also betting on a protocol that's quite unique with its transparency features as well as the governance features of the platform which make it really unique for users like allowing you to, for example, stake OX and get its real -world assets in exchange for staking. So they do native airdrops. They've also been launching lots of tokens like really quickly. So they have this propensity to list tokens before any other exchange. So it's kind of like the degen exchange, I guess quite in tune with the market. And if you're betting on the redemption arc then OX does become an interesting bet. The volume on the exchange has been fairly strong $8 .5 billion trade volume since launch actually quite impressive. Average daily trade volume is around 100 mil on the seven day and or more than 100 mil on a seven day and 30 day timeframe. And actually 61 % of OX is staked and locked in the herd. So we are seeing some people after their unlock starting to actually relock OX tokens into the exchange. So look, you've got to make your own decision whether you wanna buy the token personally though not financial advice, but personally I will be adding some more to my bags and I'm gonna stake it as I staked a prior 10 ,000 OX might increase my position by let's say 30 % that would give me another 3000 OX. I'll probably go ahead and stake that. And that's my plan for the week but that's not financial advice. You don't have to do the same. And I wanna give full disclosure that OX is of course or OpenX not the OX token itself is a partner of the show. There's a link in the description to OpenX. If you do wanna check it out check out any information as well. And yeah, just thought I would mention that one because it's interesting getting a heavy discount if you do believe in the ecosystem, which I personally do. All right, let's get on to the next token. Another ecosystem I believe in and I believe in this one quite a lot. This is frack share. So I did a show last week. I think it was on real world assets and the potential. I mean, the sector is projected to grow by 26 X on the conservative side according to analysts at the Boston Consulting Group. On the more aggressive side of the spectrum they're anticipating 113 X in the real world asset sector by the year 2030. So that's seven years potentially looking at a 26 to 100 X. So this is a huge growth vertical and a massive adoption vertical for crypto really with tokenized assets coming on chain. And I'm always interested in protocols which are harnessing the potential of this. Now fracks isn't necessarily a real world asset specific protocol. They're doing a lot. They have their fracks land. They've got their fracks B3. They're launching fracks chain. They've got their stable coin. They've got a lot of stuff going on. They're essentially how I like to think of them as like a DeFi powerhouse. They're like the hand that controls DeFi, I guess. And is doing a bunch of stuff in multiple DeFi ecosystems. But if you're interested in real world asset exposure alongside a variety of other DeFi initiatives then I think fracks becomes a super interesting bet for a diversified portfolio. Now, the reason I'm talking about them in a watchlist video though, cause you know these Monday shows aren't just talking about long -term bets. Most of these are geared towards, you know the medium to short term type of trades is because fracks has its V3 actually completing its audit this week. So the fracks V3 audit means V3 is going to be on the horizon within the next few months. So that is an immediate catalyst for fracks as well as the fact that they could be getting an ARB grant because obviously their protocol is deployed across a variety of EVM chains, Arbitrum included meaning they could definitely get their hands on an Arbitrum grant, which would be another catalyst for the fracks protocol. So lots of stuff happening with the audit with the grant, with the new products that they're shipping fracks chain is also coming soon. So just lots to look forward to. And from a price action perspective it's been pretty resilient. Like we can see over the last 30 days it hasn't given up a lot of its gains. And even over the last 90 days, it has drawn down but it's only really dropped from, you know, 6 .8 to 5 .5 when a lot of other tokens have been smashed 30, 40, 50%. So yes, it's down, but it's not down as much as the rest of the market. And that tells me there's some sort of bid here for the fracks token at what is a discounted price versus a similar times last year. So fracks is an interesting one for me long -term mostly but in the short to medium term for me, this is a decent zone for me to add a little bit more fracks to my portfolio. And it's nice because it gives me DeFi exposure but it also gives me reward asset exposure. And it's a nice asset that I've just been DCA into over time. So that is a super interesting one. Let's just go through the market right now and actually look at Banta Bubbles and see if I can spot any that come to mind. Obviously I've given you a few trades in today's video but let's just see if there's anything else. Aptos actually does look interesting. It recently broke above some of the key horizontals that it was breaking down from over the past couple of months. So as a reversal trade, I definitely look into that. If I was a trader, I was even considering taking along today on it. I missed it unfortunately, but if we do get a pullback I might get into that one. So that's what I'm looking at. IMX not too interested in, let's just see on the weekly curve. Lots of stuff happening on curve but overall leans bearish with the amount of sell pressure in my opinion. FTT is a volatile one that if you're a trader you could definitely look at day trading. We know that there's lots of stuff happening with FTT given that the court case is currently underway and lots of the tokens now are changing hands and some are being sold. So it's quite interesting to see what actually happens here. We also saw some stuff happening with FTT and Binance as well. So those are kind of the coins from Banta Bubbles that I would keep my eye on. Another project to keep my eye on that's actually going to be launching soon is Serenity Shield. Now, Serenity Shield is a partner of the show that has a very interesting product launching soon. They're essentially launching a product which is referred to as the strongbox. Now, the strongbox is your ultimate security protocol for you to be able to store your assets in a decentralized, immutable and secure way. So if you want to store your assets but not have to worry about exploitation risk, not have to worry about ownership of keeping it on a centralized exchange, you can keep it in the strongbox protocol which is built purely for security to encrypt your data and encrypt your assets. But there are a couple really interesting features which they're introducing to make self -custody easier for the average user. One of them is the recover feature which enables users to have peace of mind knowing that their data is available using their recovery software without needing a hardware wallet which is available 24 -7. That's a good one because I don't know if you've ever been in this situation before but I have where I've lost a ledger and I can't find the seed phrase and I've been scrambling to redeem my assets. That's actually happened. I don't know if it's happened to you but if I had my assets in the strongbox that wouldn't have been an issue. The transfer function though I think is probably the most novel and maybe a kind of weird one to talk about since it's talking about inheritance which sometimes implies the death of yourself or potentially a family member but this does solve a massive problem in crypto and that's what happens if something happens to you. What happens to your tokens? What happens to your crypto? Are they easily accessible? Well in strongbox what you can do is you can put in a designated nominee and you can choose where your assets go if something were to happen to you to transfer your wealth down to your nominee. So it is quite interesting that they have this function inbuilt. It might be specifically attractive to adopt maybe the older generation that's actively thinking about this and they might hold bitcoin or ethereum but want those assurances and securities. They could leverage a protocol like strongbox that essentially enables them to have peace of mind over their assets and the transfer of those assets. So it's super interesting. You can see a little example of the platform in front of you. I will be using the platform on the show over the next few weeks to test it out for you but if you want to get involved right now they have a $50 ,000 search rewards pool. They recently had their token IDO, their sale to allow people to buy the token. If you want to get your hands on the token and you can do so via the airdrop all you need to do is click the link in the description and you can take part in the incentivized testnet for the strongbox dapp which is powered by the bnb chain. So all you need to do is essentially test out the application. You've got four days to do so using the link in the description and you could get an airdrop of some tokens. So not a bad one. If you just want to spend a few minutes of time there I will leave a link to this post which has a full tutorial and all the links needed in the description below and also in the comments as well to help you out. And yeah okay well that's pretty much the video. I got through it in a shorter amount of time. If you notice I'm speaking quickly it's because I want to get the info to you. We have the Bitcoin price which is currently leaning bearish but still at a major support but below the 200ma. You've got Chainlink which I'm looking at a short post conference. You've got Arbitrum which is interesting with its incentives grant. You have Optimism which I think is relatively bearish heading into a pretty significant token unlock. I just don't know if market conditions right now can absorb that amount of sell pressure. You've got Ox which I think is an interesting spot play considering a lot of the selling has now happened and we're looking forward to what hopefully is a slightly better period for the token with you know in the face of a lot of unlocks. You've got Frax Share launching their V3 and also their Frax Chain. This is one that I've been DCAing into and you've got the Serenity Shield airdrop as well. So that's the video. I'm going to see you in the next one which will be tomorrow. I really hope you enjoyed. I've actually been testing out a lot of training bots so I'm going to get back to testing out my training bots right now and I'm tweaking some strategies. That video will be coming very very soon. Very excited for that one but until then I'll see you later. Peace out.
The Tennis.com Podcast
A highlight from Eric Diaz's Journey From the University of Georgia to Coaching Rising American Alex Michelsen
"Welcome to the official tennis .com podcast featuring professional coach and community leader Kamau Murray. Welcome to the tennis .com podcast. We are here with Eric Diaz. You remember the name? Eric is son of Manny Diaz, coach of Alex Mickelson, Werner Tan, and right now has his own thing called tier one performance out in the Irvine area. Welcome to the show, Eric. How's it going? Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me. It's great to be on. Great to be on. So I interviewed your dad probably about 2 months ago. That was, you know, we were poking fun about him redshirting Ethan Quinn, you know, not choosing not to play Ethan Quinn later. You know he wins NCAA the next year. It was kind of like, what were you thinking, right? Yeah, one of those tough ones. Oh yeah, it was kind of like, did you think he wasn't ready? Was he, did he think he wasn't ready? Like, you know, you probably could have won NCAA twice. That kind of thing but you obviously came from good tennis pedigree. So, I guess the first obvious question was what was it like growing up with your dad being Manny? You know, because I, it's hard not to take work home, right? Let's just put it that way. You're a tennis coach and a child of a tennis dad. Yeah. You know, I don't know. I think anybody that's been in tennis for a long time knows it's kind of a lifestyle a little bit. You know, there's definitely being the tennis coach and kind of, you know, working toward things but it's also, I don't know, the sport takes so much of you that sometimes, you know, it just feels like, you know, it's second nature. It's kind of a part of it. So, I mean, growing up in Athens, growing up around Dan McGill Complex was always a treat. That was back when NCAA's were kind of always hosted in Athens. So, I got to watch, you know, all the college greats. I grew up watching the Bryan brothers get, you know, sadly then they were kind of pegging some of our guys in doubles matches but, you know, it was really cool being able to sit court side, watch those guys and then, you know, be able to watch them on TV a little bit later. Really cool. Really cool experience growing up. Now, from a junior career, did your dad coach you your whole career or did he hire private coaches to sort of teach you technique? Because I know, you know, coaching at a program like UGA, it is very demanding and sometimes the children of the tennis coach lose out to the actual players and the people who are paying. So, did he coach you? How was that? You know, he coached me. I think he tried to coach me but at the same time, he also didn't want to put too much pressure on me to like, you know, really play tennis and go in. So, he kind of let it be my own thing. I started, I actually went to Athens Country Club, great little spot on the outside of Athens. Alan Miller was the main coach there. So, he helped me out a lot. He actually, he was on my dad's first, you know, assistant coaching team where they won a national title. I think he paired with Ola who now obviously has been with USGA for a while. I think they played doubles and I think they won a doubles title as well. So, I think Alan was a part of the first team championship and then he was also, you know, he won a doubles title there too. I think he might have won two. So, I spent a lot of time around him which was also, it was really cool. You know, it was a guy who was a part of the Georgia tennis family. Athens is really tight -knit like that and so it's special to be a part of that family both, I guess, through blood and through, you know, the alumni. It's cool. Now, let me ask you, did you ever consider going anywhere else, right? I mean, successful junior career, one of the top players in the nation, tons of options. You know, it could be like, you know, there's always sort of the, oh, his dad's going to give him a scholarship, right? You saw with Ben Shelton, you know, Brian Shelton. Obviously, he's going to look out for his kid. Did you ever aspire to like go to another top program or UCLA or Texas or Florida? I think growing up, you know, because I got to see all those teams play. You know, I remember in 1999, I looked up this guy who, he played number one for UCLA. I don't know, this guy showed up. I'm a little kid and he had half of his head was blue and the other half was gold and, you know, UCLA was firing it up. They were really good at the time. I remember that was my dad's first national title in 99. And, you know, ever since then, I really, you know, I looked up to the guys. Every now and then, I got to sneak on to a little travel trip and, you know, I got to see what it was like. But, I mean, for me, it was always Georgia. I thought Athens was a special place, you know, getting to see the crowds that they get there and being able to kind of just see the atmosphere of everybody caring about each other. You know, it was cool looking at other teams. You know, the Brian brothers had the cool Reebok shoes, you know, the UCLA guy with the different hair. But at the end of the day, it was always the dogs. It was always Georgia. So, I was really lucky when I got to be a part of that team and I got to kind of wear the G that, you know, through my junior years, I was always wearing it, you know, but I guess it was a little bit different when you're actually, you know, on the team and representing. I think it's a different feeling. Yeah. So, if you didn't go into tennis, what else would you be doing? Like, you know, I didn't, you know, I'm obviously coaching now, but I didn't go right into coaching. I went to work into pharmaceuticals like marketing, sales, you know, finance. It's always, I always find it interesting to say if I wasn't coaching, I got my degree, I would be doing this. Yeah. You know, if I was a little bit more prone, I think to just loving schoolwork and loving studying, you know, everybody's always told me that I would make a pretty good lawyer just because I'm a bit of a contrarian. I like to argue. I like to challenge everybody that's kind of around me. So, I'm always looking for a good argument. So, I'll go with that. Everybody's always told me, you know, maybe you should have been a lawyer. You argue a Hey, lot. well, I'm sure, I'm sure your tennis parents, right? The parents of the academy probably don't like that one, right? They like to be in control. They have the last say and be contrarian. A lot of the time they do. A lot of the time they do. Yeah. So, you're sort of like stepping out, right? Out of the shadow and you're now on the west coast out there in the with Irvine area tier one performance and quite honestly, making your own name. I know you've had opportunity to coach Alex Mickelson as well as, you know, Lerner, Tan who are both like doing real well, both like main draw this year at US Open. Tell me about the process of moving way west. Yeah. And starting your own thing. Well, you know, it kind of started with, you know, I took that leap and I moved away from home for, you know, the first time because obviously being born and raised and going to school at UGA. I took my first chance and I went to Boise State and I worked under Greg Patton for a year who I'd heard great things about and, you know, all were true. He's a great guy. I thought it was a fantastic experience. So, I did that for a year and then over the summer, the UGA swim coach's son that I kind of grew up with, he was in Newport and so I kind of came to visit and then, you know, all of a sudden the opportunity to be coaching out here, you know, came about and, you know, I did my due diligence a little bit. You know, I looked at the old tennis recruiting pages and, you know, I'm looking at all the talent over the last like 20 years and, you know, statistically, you look at the list and you're like, okay, you know, if I'm in this area and I give myself, you know, the right opportunities and I, you know, learn how to coach properly, you know, I feel like I've had some pretty good experience from some good mentors. You know, then I kind of thought, you know, okay, maybe I can kind of control my own destiny out here a little bit and, you know, over time, it's taken a lot but, you know, over time, I feel like I did get myself some pretty decent opportunities. So, when you first laid eyes on Mickelson, how old was he? He was 12. He was coming out to some point place. It was the first place I kind of rented courts. It was this old rundown beat up club but beautiful. There were some trees there. Nobody wanted it. The courts were kind of run down and everyone's like, oh no, nothing there and I was like, I'll take it. So, you know, it gave me space. It gave me courts. It gave me the ability to kind of try and market. I made things cheap so I could get a lot of kids out there and try and get a competitive environment going and luckily, you know, had a good bit of talent out there where, you know, the kids kind of attracted the kids and I was this young coach, 23, 24 and, you know, over time, you know, people started to kind of gain trust and realize, you know, this guy isn't that bad. So, you know, over time, it kind of, you know, worked in my favor and, you know, everything kind of worked out. I eventually switched clubs to a nicer one and, you know, you move up. You earn your stripes. Now, when you saw him, did you initially see, you know, like super talent because he won our ADK this summer and, you know, it was full of Steve Johnson, Su -Woo Kwong. It was Ethan Quinn. It was other names, right? Kanee Shakuri. And Alex, okay, you know, he got the USTA wildcard. He's a young kid. You know what I mean? Like, sort of under the radar and then he wins the whole tournament in finals Newport on the grass like a week later. So, did you see it right away? Was he like a typical kind of 12 -year -old throwing his racket, having tantrums? What was he like at 12? Alex has always turned on tantrums. But, you know, when he was 12, he was good. But, you know, I'll be honest, there were a handful of kids out there that, you know, Kyle Kang, who's had a lot of success. I saw him. Sebastian Goresney, who Alex won doubles with. There were a handful of others and, I mean, Alex, they were, he was good. If I thought that he would be this good, you know, at this point, I think I'd I don't think I saw that. But, you know, you definitely see that this kid's capable of playing at a pretty good level while he's young. And then, you know, as the years kind of go and then as you sort of see him and his personality kind of develop, you kind of recognize, you know, this, you know, this isn't too normal of a 16, 17, 18 -year -old kid. And then, you know, sure enough, eventually the results followed, which was pretty fun to watch. Yeah, I mean, I felt it was interesting because he was here with like his friend. Yeah. You know, not even like a coach, trainer, physio, nothing. Like him and his homeboy. Yeah. He didn't look like he played tennis. You know what I mean? So, yeah, it was like, it was interesting to show up without, you know, completing against guys who are here with like coaching that they're paying six -figure salaries and who are scouting, right? And for him to kind of move through the draw, honestly, I mean, you know, maybe he split sets once. Yeah. It was actually really interesting. He's an extremely competitive kid. And so, you know, throughout the last few years kind of as we've traveled to some events and as he's gone to some like by himself, you know, the whole understanding is, okay, how well do you really understand, you know, your day -to -day process? How well are you able to, you know, nowadays, you know, with challengers, everything you can stream, you can watch. So, you know, both myself and, you know, Jay, the other coach that's here and helping him out, you know, we watch, we communicate. But, you know, at the end of the day, you know, it was one of those big decisions, okay, are you going to go to college or are you going to go pro? And he's kind of weighing those two things. And it's, you know, if you really think you want to be a pro, show me. And so it's one of those things, luckily, when he's young, you know, you have the, you know, it's kind of freedom. If he loses some matches, okay, you're young. If, you know, you win some matches, okay, great. You're young. So it's one of those things where, you know, we really kind of wanted to see, you know, what he's able to do sort of on his own. How well can he manage emotionally? How well can he, you know, create some game plans and stick to his day -to -day routines? And he, I would say he passed. And did he officially turn pro? He officially turned pro, yeah. Yeah. So I know UGA was going to be where he was going. I know he was undecided this summer, but UGA was going to, was there a little bit of an inside man kind of happening here, right? You know, I mean, you know, I think that, you know, I'll definitely say, I think he had some exposure to hearing about, you know, some Georgia greatness. I think that for sure. But, you know, I'll say it was his decision. Ultimately, I tried to not put too much pressure or expectation on where he was going to go. You know, I think Georgia has a lot to offer. So I think, you gone that route, I think it would be, you know, I don't think we can really fail if, you know, you're going and you're trying to be a tennis player and that's a place you choose. I think it's a pretty good place. Now tell us about Lerner Tan. I'll admit as a player that I hadn't had the opportunity to watch too much. I had not watched him in the challenges at all. But was he also sort of in the program at a young age or did he just sort of come later on? My partner actually, you know, kind of helped him when he was young because Levitt Jay used to be incorporated at Carson, which was kind of where Lerner kind of had his, you know, beginnings. He was a little bit more, I guess I'll say, you know, his talent was Federation spotted, I guess you could say as to where Alex was kind of, you know, the guy on the outside a little figuring his own way. Lerner was kind of the guy that everybody kind of thought was, you know, the guy. Right. And so, you know, it's been fun kind of watching him, you know, see his transition, you know, from juniors to now, you know, kind of becoming, you know, the top of juniors, you know, winning Kalamazoo the last two years and his transition. It's been fun to see. So, you know, I've seen a lot of him out of the last, you know, two and a half to three years. So it's been, it's definitely been a different transition. I feel like, you know, it's a little bit fire and ice there. You know, Alex is the fiery one screaming a good bit and Lerner is the silent killer. So it's, they're definitely different, which I think, you know, is pretty refreshing and it's kind of cool to see them both have success in their own accord. So tell us about Tier 1 then. So how many courts, obviously you grew up, I mean, like, you know, I started in the park years ago, right? In Chicago Park, right? And now I got 27 courts. But tell us about Tier 1 performance now. Where are you? How many courts do you now have? How many kids are you serving? Yeah, we're in Newport Beach right now, which is great. Weather's nice. We have, right now, we're running our program out of only five ports. It's not that big. You know, we take a lot of pride in just kind of being individually, you know, development based. I feel like if you're in our program, you're going to have, you know, a good bit of time from the coaches. You're probably going to have a chance to hit with some of the top guys. We try to be really selective with who we kind of have. Just because in Southern California, it's really difficult to, you know, get your hands on a ton of courts. There's so many people in tennis. There's only a few clubs now. You know, pickleball, even at our club right now, you know, pickleball is booming. You know, so many people are playing. It's keeping clubs alive, which, you know, I think is nice. But at the same time, I would love to see, you know, a lot of tennis courts and tennis opportunity. But, you know, it is what it is. Yeah, man, pickleball is definitely taking over. You see clubs getting rid of one court, two courts, and they think that it's not that big of an impact. But I mean, two courts really makes a difference in terms of being able to spread kids out, get them more time, get more balls and more balls at the time. But it's, you know, I think in tennis, if we want to fight them off, we've got to market better and we've got to grow, right? They're in this growth sort of stage and we're sort of stagnant, you know, so it's not like we're not leaving the club with a lot of choices other than to diversify, you know what I mean? Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. So, let me ask you that. So, you've obviously had two kids that are going on. What do you tell that next parent, whose kid's 14, right, may get to see learner Alex come to the academy and number one, they want to homeschool, right, or ask you whether or not they should homeschool or B, you know, whether or not they should choose to go to college or, you know, turn pro. How are you advising parents? Because I get the question all the time. Should we homeschool, right? Should we do whatever? And I always, you know, the answer is always, it depends. Yeah. But what would be your answer in terms of homeschooling to train? Well, look, I definitely think that if your primary goal is to be a tennis player and I think, you know, if you're an athlete and that's kind of what you want to do, I think there's a lot of benefit in homeschooling just because, you know, it enables you to travel. You know, if I get to the ITF level, you know, I need to be able to travel. Those tournaments start on Monday and they go through Friday. So, you know, if I'm in a regular school, if I'm a high school kid, you know, that's a pretty difficult life for me to be able to justify or to, you know, be able to get my excused absences and stuff like that. You know, we're definitely big. You know, if you show me a 14 and under kid and I feel like I had pretty good experience in this just because I saw a lot of kids from the age of 12 to 14, you know, I got to see an entire kind of generation out of SoCal and a lot of them were pretty good. You know, the one thing I think, you know, when you're 12, 13, 14 years old, I think the primary thing kind of for level, obviously it matters how you're doing it, but I think the primary thing is the repetition. You know, I saw a ton of kids where they had a bunch of practices and I knew that that kid probably, you know, had 30%, 40 % more time than some of the other kids. And, you know, sure enough, that kid is more competent at keeping the ball in play. You know, they're able, you know, they've just seen and touched more balls. So, you know, they're going to make more balls. I think it's a balance. I think it really depends on the parents. I think it really depends on the kid. And I think it depends on the environment that they'll be in if they are going to be homeschooled. You know, I will say that, you know, we've had a handful of kids kind of switch from high school to homeschooled and they're in our program. But I feel like there's still strong social aspects in our program. You know, all the boys are tight. They compete a lot. They, you know, I feel like they get their social, you know, they go to lunch. And just kind of our standards are really high. I think this past year we had five kids that graduated that all went to IVs. So, you know, it's totally possible whether you're homeschooled or whether you're in school, I think, to, you know, kind of pursue academic excellence. I think, you know, just because you're doing one thing and not the other, I don't think that that necessarily, you know, takes that away from you. I think tennis can open a ton of doors. And I think I kind of, you know, we've kind of seen that in the last few years. I've seen a lot more tennis kids choosing IV ever since 2020, I feel. I feel like the IVs have been pretty hot, especially for some blue chip players, which I think, you know, if you look prior to 2020, I think the percentages took a pretty drastic jump, which is interesting to see. Yeah, you know, it's funny, you know, in some markets you see people playing for the scholarship and in some other markets you see them playing for entrance, right, into the Princeton, the Harvards. And one of the myths, like, I think if you think about basketball or football, right, the better basketball football players are obviously choosing the SEC, right, Pac -12, whatever that is. But in tennis, you know, I think that, you know, your academics and your tennis have to be, like, at the top scale to go, just because you're not like a bad tennis player if you go to Harvard, you know what I mean? Like, the kid that goes to Harvard or makes the team probably could have gone to PCU, right, or Florida or whatever, you know what I mean? And so it is interesting to see the number of people who say, yes, I've spent 30 grand on tennis for the past eight years and I'm still willing to pay for college, right, because I got into Princeton, Harvard, Yale, etc. But I think it's a big myth where, you know, the United States is so basketball focused, we see Harvard basketball as, like, okay, that's everyone that didn't get chosen by the Illinois, the Wisconsin, the Michigan. And it's not the same, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's different for sure. So when you think about, like, the Ivies, right, you see a lot of kids go to East Coast and you think about, you know, COVID obviously changed something with the home school, you know, sort of situation. People who never considered that it was possible were like, okay, well, we've been living at home for a year and a half and doing online studies, it's not that bad, you know, they're more focused with their time. Did you see more people from families who you thought would not have done it try it post COVID? Yeah, definitely. I think the really popular thing that a lot of people are doing now is kind of a hybrid schedule, which I actually really like a lot. At least in California, I don't know if the schooling system is different everywhere else. I know it was different where I was from. But a lot of these kids, you know, they'll go to school from 8 to 1130 or 8 to 12. And, you know, they have their three hours where, you know, I don't know how they stagger their classes and stuff like that. But I know that pretty much every kid at every school in SoCal is at least able to do this if they so choose. And so they're able to get released around 12 or something. And, you know, they're able to be at afternoon practice and get a full block in. You know, for me, that still enables you to get the hours you need on court and to be able to maintain some of that social. And, you know, if you become, you know, really, really good, I guess, okay, by junior year, maybe you could consider, okay, maybe I should take this a little bit more seriously, maybe I should go full time homeschool. Or, you know, a lot of these kids are in a place where it's, you know, I'm comfortable with my tennis, I like where it's at, I feel like it'll give me opportunity in college. My grades are great. And, you know, maybe that person's a little more academically inclined. And, you know, they want to have a career and they feel like tennis is that great stepping stone. Which I think is a really cool thing about our sport is it just opens a tremendous amount of doors. I feel like if you figure out how to develop and be a good tennis player and how to compete well in tennis, you can you can apply that to almost everything in life. Yeah. So you talk about opening doors, right? When Alex or Lerner were sort of deciding whether to walk through door number one, which is college, or door number two, which is which is obviously turning pro. Right. How did you advise them? You know what I mean? If I say, hey, you know what? Take a couple wildcards. If you went around or two, maybe you go to college. If you win a tournament, maybe you stay out there. If an agency locks you into a deal, right? Then, you know, they normally know what good looks like and they normally have like the ear of the Nike, the Adidas, right? Then you turn pro. What was your advice in terms of if and when, right? Yeah. For those who ask. Well, they were both in different places. I'm gonna start with Lerner cuz he's younger. He actually, you know, did a semester in college. You know, Lerner finished high school, I think, when he was sixteen, sixteen and a half. And so, obviously, your eligibility clock starts, you know, six months after you finish your high school. So, for him, it was, you know, he was so young, he didn't really have much pro experience at that time. You know, he did great things in juniors. You know, he won Kalamazoo. He got his wild card into the men's that year and then, you know, he played a little bit of pro kind of and then, you know, that that January, he went in and and did a semester at USC which I think was a good experience for him socially. He had some eligibility problems which, you know, only let him play about five, six matches toward the end of the year which was kind of disappointing and then, you know, he won Kalamazoo again and so, you know, that was the second trip there and then, you know, by then, he had a little bit more exposure with, you know, agencies and brands and kind of, you know, the stuff that you'd like to see that'll actually give you the financial security to kind of, you know, chase your dream and pass up, you know, the the education, I guess, for the time being. So, you know, I felt like that was really the security was a big was a big thing for him. You know, prior to winning Kalamazoo for the second time, you know, he still had Junior Grand Slams to play. He wasn't playing men's events. So, for him being that age, you know, it was, well, you know, I'm I'm not in a massive rush so why not get a semester in and I think he had a great time. He really liked it. I mean, he he speaks pretty positively about the dual matches. He actually follows college tennis now a little bit more. You know, he will talk about some dual matches which I think is pretty cool and you know, I think it gave him some confidence getting to play for university, getting to represent, you know, seeing that university promotes you. I think there's a lot of benefits there and now, you know, he's got an alumni base. You know, people talk about all, you know, he's a USC Trojan and stuff like that. You know, you see it at all different tournaments. You know, guys are wearing a USC hat and, you know, hey, learner, da da da and you know, I think that that's pretty cool to be a part of, you know, a big family of people who are proud that, you know, they can say they played in the same place and then Alex. Alex was, you know, he was a little old for his grade and he was one that he committed and, you know, the whole time him and learner kind of, you know, talking and, you know, about going pro and da da da da. You know, obviously, it was their dream. You know, I just kept telling Alex, you know, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it until, you know, it's a real problem and so, you know, he gets to 400 in the world and, you know, it's what you do. You get to 400. You know, it's good but at the end of the day, you know, you're not, your life's not changing because you're 400 in the world. You know, so he's 400 in the world and he's, you know, saying stuff to me and I'm like, I could not care less you're going to college and then it was, you know, this was probably in January, February, you know, he starts to kind of do a little bit better and I think at that point, I recognized that he was better than a lot of the guys kind of at the challenger level. You know, just from my perspective, I was seeing kind of what it was, what it was to be 300, what it was to be 200 and I think at that point, like February, March, I fully knew that he was good enough to be there and to be winning those matches but at the same time, you know, having financial security, having set, you know, all of those factors that kind of go into whether I'm going to pass up my education and go pro. You know, it's a big decision and so I remember we were putting it off. I just said, you know, nothing till US Open. I was like, we're not, we're not talking about college till US Open. I said, you know, when we get to US Open, you finish US Open, you have that exposure, you know, we see what happens in those two weeks and then, you know, then we'll kind of make a decision but until then, like, don't even think about it. Don't talk about it. Don't care. You're going to school and I think that mentality really helped him kind of just play free. He was, you know, I'm not playing to go pro. I'm trying to do my job in school, finish my high school. I'm going to tournaments, playing great, just trying to compete and, you know, lucky for him, you know, well, I guess it's not lucky at all. That kid worked his absolute tail off but, you know, he had that success in Chicago at your club and then, you know, he made that little Newport run and I think by then, that was his third or fourth former top 10 win and, you know, he won his challenger. He final the challenger. He'd semied another one. He had kind of shown and, you know, some people have gotten attention and they started believing in him and so then, you know, that's when that big decision kind of came but I feel like for him, he really established himself, improved himself amongst pros which I think is an interesting thing because a lot of the time when you see these juniors kind of go pro sub 18, a lot of the time, it's because they had tremendous junior success which then made them, you know, they had grand slam success and stuff like that but Alex didn't have any of that. You know, Alex was kind of the late bloomer that, you know, in the last year when he was already 18 and aged out of ITF, the kid really just took it to a new level and, you know, I think he really showed that he's kind of ready for what the tour has to offer.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/26/23
"Olivia Newton -John would have been 75 today. So this one hurt. I mean, when she passed last year. I mean, how many people are this universally loved? It would have been easy to go get I Honestly Love You or Let Me Be There. But two, three years before that, she had this cover of the great Bob Dylan, If Not For You. It was her first big hit, and so we salute Olivia Newton -John today on what would have been her 75th. Hey! You know, it's funny that you mention this, because I spent some time on the show yesterday saluting a great, great guy out of Columbus, Ohio, Bruce Hooley. He is a Columbus host. He's filled in, I think, for Hewitt a few times. And he and I had a segment together. We haven't always seen eye to eye. He's kind of a mainstream conservative establishment Republican, and he's a really, really spiritual guy out of Columbus. He found out a couple of weeks ago, wham, he's got brain cancer. And he had brain surgery. Well, this guy is now embarking on sort of a journey to say, you know what, remember the things that matter. Now is the time everyone should lean into your faith and remember the love of Jesus, remember what we're here for. And he sees this as almost a calling that he's facing this very tough, difficult journey. And he's got a blog going, Bruce Hooley. You can look him up in Columbus. Spell Hooley. Spell Hooley. H -O -O -L -E -Y. He's the midday host on 98 .9 The Answer, our affiliate in Columbus, the Salem affiliate in Columbus. And he's such a deep man of faith that he said, I'm not afraid of this at all. He said, I know what I'm supposed to do, and if I can share the love of Jesus Christ and help everybody know what the right path is, I'm going to do it in whatever time I have. He's my age. He's 63 years old. And this guy, I always have such a deep admiration because you know what? If it's me, I'm on the floor in the fetal position, and I'm not going to be able to get out of bed. I'm going to be afraid. I shouldn't be. We should know we're here for a short period, and we know what our real purpose is, and we know where we should be headed. But you've got to make—it's an easy choice. And he writes about that. He goes, it's real easy. You accept him as your savior, and you do it now, and don't wait until you get a diagnosis. And that's kind of his message. Mark, I just love the courage and the nobility of people like Bruce. And so you just reminded me of that when our prayers were out. I am so glad. Let us lift him up in prayer. And it's funny. It's a big—not to use everybody else's story as a mirror and an attitude check in our own lives, but it just invariably happens because I can get a little twisted off if I can't get to the bank and the post office in the same day. It kind of gives you a little bit of a big -picture look at your own blessings, your own health, your own prayers. So let's everybody kind of get a grip. I got a scathing email from a listener in Columbus who said, hey, Mr. Wisdom Tooth, we had to hear you whining about your stupid wisdom tooth, and here's Bruce facing brain cancer. How dare you? And she really went at me. And I read this email, and I thought, holy—and that was after I did this lengthy tribute to his courage. But I get it. I lose perspective all the time. And all of a sudden, my stupid dry socket problem didn't seem so bad. That's it. Everything's relative. Like Elaine Stritch said, everybody's got a bag of rocks. We all got something we're dragging around in our lives. And, you know, right now we've got seven candidates on a debate stage dragging around some rocks tomorrow night. And by the way, can you help me understand why Larry Elder's name has just been eradicated from the conversation? They don't even talk about him anymore. A little bit of history, because he did, by all accounts, he did what was necessary to get onto debate stage number one. X amount of fundraising, 1 percent in a stretch of significant polls. He did it. And Ronna McDaniel or somebody simply blocked him from that debate stage. So I think he could have gotten from 1 to 3 percent just by being Larry on that debate stage. And that would have opened the door to who knows what, because if Doug Flippin' Burgum can be in this debate tomorrow night, Larry certainly could. But he was denied the chance to be on debate stage number one. The threshold for debate stage number two is 3 percent. And with Larry back there at one, there's no way for him to triple that without being on the debate stage.
VUX World
A highlight from The uniphore approach to conversational automation with Kim West
"All right. We are live and kicking, I believe. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Should have sorted my windows out before I started this broadcast, but there we go. Hello. My name is Caine Sims, as always. And as always, this is VUX World. I'm delighted for you to join me. Thank you for joining me. And today we are joined by Kim West, who is a director of product marketing at Unifor. A lot of you probably know Unifor. Unifor has been around for a long time, actually, and has been through various guises and is now definitely one of the leaders in the conversational AI space. And so we're going to be picking Kim's brains around some of the successes that Unifor have had, some of the tips and tricks that she might be able to share with businesses that want to try and capitalize on what is now probably the biggest growth industry going. Since last November, conversational AI is looking good. And so, yeah, excited for this conversation with Kim West. And so without further ado, let's bring Kim on, shall we, Kim? Welcome to VUX World. Great to be here, Caine. Thank you for joining me. All the way from Canada. All the way from Canada, Toronto. Nice, nice. Representing. Lots going on in Toronto. Like, it seems to be that, you know, I say this every time someone from Toronto is on, which seems to be fairly frequent enough, but yeah, Toronto is a happening place in the AI space right now. It is. We like to say in Canada that we are part of the sort of creators, the place to be. Yeah, yeah. A lot of exciting companies in Canada as well. Cohea is based in Toronto, I believe, actually. They're doing very well. Yeah. So yeah, there you go. Thank you for joining me. So tell us about yourself then, Kim. How did you get into conversational AI generally? Yeah, no, great question. I always like to say that I am a former agent, actually. So Unifor itself started in the contact center space thinking through how do we actually improve communication. I was an agent 20 years ago, came across these companies that were actually doing cool things in the contact center space, and so found Unifor about two and a half years ago, and loved that they were looking at the full experience. So not only the back end in terms of tools for agents and then not just QM, QA for quality management, but they're looking at analytics in a unique way, and then really looking at the front end. I was like, wait a minute, if we can improve what's happening on the call or in the chat, we have some analytics, how do we then improve that front end self -service experience that a lot of customers are looking for? When we think conversational AI, we think of that front end, but it really blows throughout every part of the interaction a customer has with any brand that they're talking to. Interesting. Definitely get into analytics shortly, because it's definitely a topic well worth exploring and underexplored, actually, in lots of cases, I think. So you were a customer service agent, so you're answering phones at one point 20 years ago, you said? Yes, so I know the pain. I did it for three years, and I understand the sort of strain that happens with that in terms of you have to be efficient, you have to hit certain metrics, you get rated on how you're doing on a daily basis, sometimes weekly, in terms of did you do the opening welcome call, did you do all of the authentication, and then on top of that, did you upsell, cross -sell. So there's a lot that a customer service agent actually has to know and manage in one time, and the idea that for so long they were just doing it on their own is fascinating, and I think it's a great training ground for anybody that then later on wants to go out professionally into any role. I speak to myself like the reason why I have comfort speaking at all times in any medium is partially because of that experience. Yeah, and that's evident because I sprung on you that this was actually going to be a live broadcast about 10 minutes ago, and so adaptivity is also something that you learned there. It's interesting because we had the conversation with Sham Aziz from Selfridges last week on the podcast, and it touched on these exact issues, not issues, but these exact points, which is that having that foundation in customer service, answering calls, speaking to customers, teaches you so much about business in general and gives you a load of foundational skills that you can use for everything else beyond that. And in fact, Sham was saying that he thinks that spending time in customer service should basically be either an apprentice or a mandatory requirement of entering the workplace in general because of how much value there is to be learned there. Completely agree. There's actually a company I know based here in Canada, regardless what level you are, when you join the company, two weeks of the sort of onboarding is that you actually need to either take calls or need to do side -by -side shadowing of the customer success team, so you have a strong understanding of the customer base, their pain points, what the company actually does, regardless if you work in finance or if you work on the tech team. Yeah, exactly. I agree with that. And the other thing we were talking about is how customer service as a job isn't what it was kind of assumed to be before, which is like, so growing up and going to college, going to uni or whatever, at that kind of age between 16 to 20, early 20s, lots of friends had jobs in call centers and stuff like that. And it was always seen as a similar kind of job to working in a corner shop, which I used to do, or working in a bar, which I also used to do. It's almost like that entry level kind of job for lots of people. But the conversation I was having with Sham last week was that actually you've just named a load of stuff that customer service agent needs to do. Multiple systems, you need understanding of technology, you need to understand people, you need to have relatively not just thick skin as in not to take offense when you're being shouted at, but also the skills to be able to navigate that negative conversation into a positive conversation, which is a tremendous social skill to be able to have. And so it's kind of like, yeah, although there is these entry level jobs, customer service shouldn't really be one of them because it is quite a complex area. Especially not anymore. I think what's so fascinating is that now they're actually looking for people. So if I look and I think about our client base, our customers are looking for people who actually have post -secondary education and have some sense of being able to absorb a lot of new information because that adaptability and being able to understand what the company does really appeal to that customer, navigate the different issues that they have, maybe transition them into something else that they weren't even calling about. So yes, you resolve their base issues, but can you now maybe upsell, cross -sell them into something? Can you inform them on something new that's coming in the next six months? You're kind of getting that sort of seed planted. There's a number of things now that I look at it as becoming more and more of this professional training ground more so than just entry level. And you could have tiers now within the contact center of like, yes, come in entry level, great way to sort of just get started. But then there's growth potential even before you get to the next levels of supervisor management. And then it helps you if you want to continue throughout that company. Because most companies, if you think of the ones that have contact centers, are large global brands that we're all familiar with. We've all at one point had to call into a contact center because of some issue. And so those companies have fast departments and other areas that that person could work in as well. Mmm. Olya is shouting Shopify on the chat on LinkedIn. I don't know. That's because is Shopify one of the companies that mandates people spend time in customer services when people begin? I don't know. That'd be interesting. I wouldn't be surprised, actually. I know that they do encourage their employees to actually build their own retail store. So I could imagine they might be something similar like that. Just it's the empathy piece at the end of the day. I think the biggest thing, what I find funny actually with all things AI coming into our space is the emphasis on being human. And it's almost like we had to get the reminder that we shouldn't just be going through the motions for the longest time. When it came to customer service contact center, it was like the necessary evil. Like, let's have this thing. Let's make sure people are getting their answers. But now we're stepping back and rethinking it and saying, wait, how can we be more human if all of the other stuff that was like drudgery and time is being handled by the tech? How do we show up to be empathetic, personal, connect, actually build a relationship? And we know that gives you a lot more in terms of what everybody wants. Long -term customer value and pieces like that. Definitely.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Has A New Super Whale! (2024 Bringing Explosive Gains)
"Good morning, everybody! It's time to discover crypto. It is September 25th. It's 1133 A .M. Eastern Standard Time. It took us a few minutes to get ready today, Tim. Was it your fault? Probably, yes. It's probably his fault. We got Drew on the ones and twos. And, Tim, how are you doing today, Drew? Oh, I'm doing great. Couldn't be better, honestly. Alright, me and Drew were talking. We might try to get that MRV video out today. Folks, I might also put out my cold plunge footage. I got to upload that and everything. So, it's going to be a good, good show. Today, we're talking about MicroStrategy. Just bought more Bitcoin. We're talking about how much Bitcoin does Coinbase hold. It's a whole lot and it's a lot more than you thought. Also, we're talking about the Expiry on Friday, Tim. Yeah. Now, what are your thoughts on the Expiry? I mean, it's going to be a little... It's a lot larger than the last one. I think it's about 4X the amount of money that's in this week's. Yeah, it's a very large one and it's going to tell us a lot. There's two things I really take away from it. First of all, it kind of gives us a good indication of what price is going to do this week. And then we got to wait to see what happens on Friday, but we'll talk about that level later, I think. If we don't get to that level, we could see that move below $25 ,000 we've been talking about for a while. And also, we're going to talk about Chainlink, everybody, and some fake Aptos floating around. So, that's going to be a pretty fun story there. Alright, let's refresh. Make sure we got the freshest crypto pricing available. And it looks like the market cap is down, folks. We are down 0 .8%. We're coming in at $1 .08 trillion, 24 -hour volume, $32 billion. And Bitcoin dominance coming in at $47 .2. Gas is almost triple what it was Friday when we were doing this. It was 29 Gwei today. It was 11 Friday afternoon. Bitcoin is bouncing a little bit on the hourly. Same for Ethereum. They're up 0 .5 and 0 .3. But down for the 24 hours, you see Bitcoin down 1 .4%. Any levels you're looking at, Tim? We got Mr. T .A. Tim here. For Bitcoin specifically or for anything? Yeah, for Bitcoin. So, again, we'll talk more about those levels. But there's something about that options expiry and that level being $26 ,500. I'm not expecting price to go too much away from that. I think there's even a point where in the week we could get a little over that, then come back down. This happens a lot when there's a big number for options expiry. Price doesn't get that far away from it because the traders want to keep it right there. But then watch right before the expiry happens. My suspicion, Deezy, is it's going to be below. It's going to be bad. And I think we might have a good little fall on Friday. And, well, depends where we're at because a lot of times it acts as a magnet. It wants to pull the price to $26 ,500. Right now, we're at $26 ,200. So I expected to end up getting pulled to that price like a magnet towards the end of the week there. We have Rice hanging out. Hey, what is going on, Rice? Rice in the chat. Hey, make sure you go follow. If you see him in the chat, go click on it. You see his channel. Make sure you're subbed if you're not already. We have ETH down 0 .6%. We have BNB down 0 .8%. XRP leading the losers of the top 10. It is down 2 .3%. And Cardano, in a weird way, besides Solana, performing pretty decently here. It is only down 0 .2%. Solana is actually up 0 .3 % while Ethereum is down 0 .6 % and Bitcoin down 1 .4%. But let's look at the top gainers here. Oh, I see a good juicy Chainlink pump. What is going on, Drew? Yeah. You're feeling good about it. I'm feeling good about it. I've been telling people to buy Chainlink. My 3 .2 should have been 4 .2, man. I'm missing out on that one Chainlink pump. I know. My heart goes out to everyone distracted by drama because Chainlink is crushing it. Yeah, yeah. Me, I'm focusing on crypto prices. I'm focusing on crypto news. And I'm focusing on bettering my situation as we get closer and closer to the halving and then beyond. I think the next 12 months after halving will look pretty good for Bitcoin. All right. Well, let's look at the top gainers. We have Aptos leading the way. Aptos is up 3 .7%. There were some counterfeit Aptos tokens. Is this, you know, maybe the team, the community pumping the token? That way, if you see, oh, a bunch of bad Aptos news, let me look into it. Oh, it's the best gainer of the day. Oh, it must not have been anything. Maybe there's a little element of that going on. Number two, though, we have Chainlink. Chainlink pumping up 3 .2%, up 8 .2 % for the week. Frac shares up 2 .9%, and ImmutableX is up 2 .2%. Was 3 .7 % just an hour ago. I actually have two of the top four coins here. I can't believe it. I'm assuming I'm going to have zero losers in the biggest losers of the day. Can I get any thoughts on SEI from JA? Get forward. Well, one, you got to get a Chevy or a Honda. That's your first problem. SEI, I don't really have any. We'll look at it as the top losers and the top gainers. All right. After that, though, we're seeing ImmutableX, then ThorChain, then Law Enforcement Officer token, then we have Bitcoin Cash up 1 .7%. But after that, it's going below 1 .5%. Really not seeing anything too crazy. Now we're going to the losers. We want to make sure your coin is not in the biggest losers of the day, and the best way to make that happen is to hit the like button. That's what I've heard. I don't know if it's true or not. Whoo! Radix is down, and it is down heavy, folks. It is down 11 .9%, and WeMix is up 65 % for the week, but it is down 8 % for the day. You can see it just cracking in the top 100. That's why we haven't really been used to seeing WeMix. It looks like it's just now getting in the top 100. Then we have Render, then we have Optimism, then we have EOS, then we have XRP. I have a small bag of XRP, but I have nothing in the top 5 there. Radix, have you been ever trying to trade? Radix get in and out. You always see it in the losers and gainers. No. So one of the problems with trading altcoins, especially when you're using TA, is some of those altcoins, they can move very quickly without TA helping them. So those ones, you definitely have to get in, be aware of what's happening with adoption, be aware of what's happening with stories. The charts still help, but the charts can't give you the complete picture. And I don't do a lot of digging on little altcoins like that. Yeah, Radix down 12%, but up 6 % for the day. So people got in a week ago. They're still looking good, even though they're down almost 12 % right now. Let's see. So what was that? The Super Chat coin there again. SEI. SEI. I don't know how to pronounce it. I always see it up there. Well, it's a newer coin, correct? Yeah, it's a newer coin. I mean, it's a new coin. It's going to be too soon to kind of give it any real data if we click. I just want to get that spike off the axis there. I mean, it looks like it's bouncing off that level. I mean, very, very limited TA. Looks like market buyers are buying it when it hits that level. So maybe they'll continue to buy it, but maybe they'll quit buying it. Maybe it falls through that support. Yeah, the charts. There technically actually is a little bit of bullishness about it going on. Definitely hitting in a place flashing oversold.
Key Battles of American History
"every hit" Discussed on Key Battles of American History
"That's what Clark really flew around in a white flight suit and he had that it preferred hurricane flag and yeah, I mean, this is a very accurate and apparently these arguments did indeed happen. It's just a difference in how in tactics and Lee Mallory was politically connected, but he also had thought that he should have gotten 11 group instead of park was a protege of doubting and they sort of came up together and went down together after the battle in terms of politics. But the big wing, it only works if you know where your enemy is and where they're going. And if you don't know where they're going and you form your group 50 aircraft or on an aircraft and the enemy's not there, well then it's no use. So the difference is that there's a little wing tactic is very costly because it requires pilots to make multiple sorties into the air and strike at the Germans and basically every hit that they area attack that they make, you're going to tangle with fighters and you're going to tangle with bombers and it's a risk. So the losses of 11 group were pretty heavy during this part of the Battle of Britain during the airfield part of the Battle of Britain. Right. Well, we come to the turning point now and that occurs when a squadron of German bombers becomes lost in bad weather at night and drops bombs on London, accidentally. Maybe. You don't quite. Yeah. It's got diversity about that. Yeah, I think that's kind of how the movie portrays it, yes. They get lost and they drop the bomb. The pilot and the co-pilot of the plane who dropped the bombs are summoned to Berlin to see rice Marshall Hammond goring, who Goering, who is in the movie previous to that. I just didn't really mention him. They are surprised to see Berlin, not blacked out. And one of them mentions goring's famous words. He said, Gary said, if ever a bomb falls on Berlin, you may call me meier.
Little Falls Christian Centre
"every hit" Discussed on Little Falls Christian Centre
"Christ in us is the hope of glory. And so I've rushed this morning. I really would have liked to spend a lot more time with you. But I want to make an invitation this morning. And I know we don't have we don't have people ready for this. I'm just going to ask it, you sit there right now, that every hit is bound, and that every person starts praying for the people around you. But if you've come into this church this morning and you're not sure where you're standing and what your position is with God right now. If you're not sure, because I said, hell is real. The time is short God can come at any moment we are living in the last days as true as Julius junior. And I would like to ask you, just for myself, if you're wanting to make a prayer with me this morning. Well, every hit is bad. Every eye is closed, people praying. If you want me to pray for you, that your name be included in God's book of life. After this prayer, I'd love for you to come down to come and see me. I'm going to get some of the posters and the ushers just to come and stand here with me. As well, if you wanting to make a commitment to God, even if it's just a new commitment to God, I'd love to pray for you this morning because, like I said, there's an urgency in the spirit for as many people to be saved. It's the devil's plan to keep people out of heaven. And we're here to profess to proclaim the victory that we have through the crucifixion that we celebrated last week on pause over. I mean, so if you want to make a decision this morning to give your life to the lord, I want you just for me so that I can see this is for me.
SI Media Podcast
"every hit" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"And then the classic Jim got had four nicknames pitcher. Pirates and others. Jim got the win, Jim got to save Jim got the lawsuit. You've got no decision. So he had four. The football one or I'll tell you one. So Eric the enemy. If it's still obviously in the news. Great one. And a great person. Chargers, chargers niners. That's Super Bowl. Media day. We're laughing in this, and I love my nickname sleeping with the enemy. Then he goes, my wife's not too fun. All right, tell her, I'm not implying that they she knows, but I thought that was funny. My all time favorite will always be burpee home boy 11. You know why? Every parent said it. Every hit hurt. You don't have to know he was a pitcher for the twins or the pirates. You don't have to know he had a curve ball. You don't have to know he won a lot of games. You just be home but I love it. Okay, dad, you know. Do you ever, you know, I'm just thinking because when we talk about nature on means and you talked about how he has those powerful bursting runs and now, I don't know if you watch good morning football Kyle Brandt. He's a friend of mine does the angry runs and he's incorporated a lot of the sounds and we see a lot of people incorporate the sounds. And I feel like they're all doing it sort of as an homage to you in a way. When you see that, do you think, yeah, it needs some noise there. Let's get some noise going on that run. Yeah, if they are doing it as an homage, I love it, but I don't look, I don't have a patent. I didn't patent it. So it's descriptive. And when doing highlights, Jimmy, whether it's Kyle, me or anybody. And I try to tell our youngsters youngsters. When words and pictures are match, it's one plus one equals three. So if you want to go and there's natron meeting business or Mike, you know, good hands with all stock. Well, you're watching, you don't look in the camera and say, you do it while he's on the three yard line, trying to score a touchdown. And it's the same with the whoop. I mean, that's Barry Sanders, by the way. I mean, that's right. But it's really just three students. Did you know that? Sure. Sure. So. Give me a player today. I mean, you do, you do prime time on prime time. But who's the player today? You love calling a highlight for who gives you the sounds who you, you know, who you get excited for, it gives you a good run, gives you a good chance to be Chris Berman that we know with the highlight. Well, it's a lot easier with the quarterbacks than it ever was, obviously. I mean, you can take a half dozen of mahomes with one of them, but Josh Allen Lamar, Jackson when he's healthy. We're seeing it from Jalen hurts. I mean, and I'm leaving a couple out because they're going to throw that Kyler Murray that extra point that took about 30 fastest the fastest three minutes of extra point, 2.3. So the mobile quarterbacks all give you a chance to do it because they're not even maybe they're not throwing it right then either. They're making a move to buy another 5 to ten seconds. So that that's so one Josh Allen maybe because again, buffalo, but any one of those that I just mentioned and with apologies to a couple I might have left out at the different game behind the center, obviously. Last thing there's nothing to do with sports. You mentioned it earlier in this podcast. You've always been, you've always loved music. We've seen you throughout the years. I've seen on stage Huey Lewis and the eagles and all that. Now, there's an ongoing joke in sports media that every sports media white male over 40 is obsessed with Bruce Springsteen. I'm not a spruce guy, and then I, people on Twitter, I get nasty responses when I say, are you a Bruce guy like everyone else? I don't know Bruce personally, I did see him a long time ago before. I don't even know if he had rosalita out at that time. So, but look, I got to be great friends with Huey Lewis Bay Area and he had me on stage 15 times or whatever and I can sing okay. I mean, for one song, you know, and it's a song he didn't sing unless I was there walking on a thin line. It was an add on. Nobody wants to hear Chris perman sing the power of love, okay? So for good reason. And it was usually an encore where people had had a few already, right? So, hey, it's great. Now get off. Glenn Frey became a really good friend. Bob Seger is a very good friend. Name dropping. The ones who are sports fans, I got to know, and those were among my favorites. I mean, I could mention about 20 more. But Bruce, give me an artist, you never saw in concert who you wish you would have seen. Dead or alive, doesn't matter. None of The Beatles. Well, I mean, The Beatles, I mean, they'd be hard. But I'd never seen Paul or Ringo. You've never seen Paul. I'm surprised by that. No, no. I saw I saw a Billy Joel concert. It was the last concert ever chase stadium. And Paul was a surprise and did two numbers. Can I count that as saying I saw Paul McCartney concert? Okay. Yes. Yes, that's it. You're in. Hold on, calls. You have a winner. I'll take it. I'm with The Beatles. That's this big. Everyone else. I do want to throw one thing out to you before we go. So people that people can think about this. The previous two games in this building, which they hate when I call it the big toast, by the way. Because it looks like a toaster, doesn't it? Yes, it does. But the English muffins and we're on. The two super bowls Jimmy in this building were the obviously the Patriots going 18 and zero for and 19 and all except for the last minute. Say no more. And the game that changed the paths of two teams last decade. By New England Malcolm butler picking off the Seahawks at the one at Seattle one tuna row for them, maybe they have a chance for three in her own cause that defense stays together and all of a sudden New England three unbelievably tough losses go from three and zero to three and three. Oh, they can't win the big one. I'm not saying they can't. So the two games in there were seminal moments for not only, I mean, for football history. So with two number one seeds, maybe we get one of those. I mean, the easy thing is all my homes shows how, but maybe it's an unbelievable game that Philly and Jalen hurts knock them off, but it's one of those so we're set the stage is set in this building for something great. I would be shocked if we don't have a one score game in the fourth quarter. I think they're just they're very evenly matched. I think the mahomes ankle is a factor. You know, I'm a little bit skeptical with the refs, the refs always come in and seem to make their presence known when we don't need it. But I'd be surprised if this is not super competitive in the fourth quarter. I agree. And that's all you want. And that's all you want. No, I completely agree. At least no but yeah, we got quarterback to start a quarterbacks are playing. As opposed to the championship game, this should be, this should be great. One score either way and it might be a sack by Reddick or those guys or Chris Jones or them that changes it and it's not the quarterbacks. You know, but in the end, this
Bloomberg Radio New York
"every hit" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Is Bloomberg Thanks for joining us on the Bloomberg business of sports show where we explore the big money issues in the world of sports Michael long And unlike lynch and we're going to let Scarlett and lynch continue their conversation with MLB Hall of Famer in 13 time all star Ken griffey junior You were only three when Jackie Robinson died in 1972 But I'm sure your dad crossed paths with him a number of times Any stories you recall your dad passing along about his interaction with Jackie Robinson My dad was in the mind leaks until I think so I haven't we've never really had that conversation It's just the stories of other players who have played with them you know a guy named Joe black Who was a teammate of his Who is that every black ball player that came into the league He made sure that he had a conversation with And make sure that we were aware of the history of black ball players from the barnstorming to Jackie making the death threat He made sure that we were all aware of all those things So it wasn't really my bad conversation with him It was more accumulating here as Joe black who had those conversations and I was able to have those conversations with Joe I know that you are also working with Capital One to donate money to the Jackie Robinson foundation for this season Can you tell us a little bit about this initiative Well it's a match made in heaven You have Capital One who wants to give back and you have the Jackie Robinson foundation in the 75 year 75th year who want to have who want to help kids achieve their goal The great thing about Capital One is their card holders Are going to get great things They're going to be able to get stuff early Whether that's tickets to the All-Star Game postseason concerts They're going to be able to get a lot of things that are going to go out first And that's going to help the foundation Also when we talk about giving back for every hit game winning hit they're giving a $1000 And last year I think it was over $250,000 Hopefully we can get more More hit and winning hit So hopefully we can raise more money and let these kids get a chance to live out their goals as a lot of us have And there's a guarantee here of what $250,000 minimum Is that right Yeah There's a guarantee Pretty cool So it's going to be fun You're going to start rooting for teams that you normally wouldn't reach for because you know that the money is going to go to getting kids to achieve their goals You want to talk about something cool I don't know if people remember this but you actually got to play with your dad And you both hit a home run in the same game Is that right 1990 Yes Yes His first and he shipped my hand and he goes that's how you do it Hey dad I got 600 I'm going to get 630 of these And I just look back and look the great thing about having a dad is that played I think that you just looked at him going That's my dad out there And so I hit mine And he made me shake everybody's hand before he shipped my hand Really And I wanted to shake his first And he stood in the back of the line and I shook everybody's hand and I sat next to him and not knowing the magnitude of the situation because I'm 20 years old I'm in the game And him being 40 looking at it in a whole different light You know he's looking at you know we just made history I'm looking at like we need to win this game It didn't actually hit me until I passed Frank Robinson on the home run chart And I was rounding the bases and that's when it hit me I go now I understand what my dad felt like in 1990 And it was the only time that I've ever felt that way Running the bases of like wow I understand it now And you hear this so you'll understand it later Right now you don't understand when a dad tells you something Well that was one of those moments where I didn't understand until later And when it finally happened I understood it but my dad was really he was a teammate And he wanted to make sure that I was treated as a teammate Until we got home and that's when he became dead again At the ballpark we were teammates when we got home He was back to being bad and it was quite interesting because he stayed at my house and usually it's the other way around But I'm like man it's only here for 6 weeks Stay at my house My mom was there So I got some pretty good food Dad was real upset because he would ask her something and I would ask and I would always get what I wanted and he was like my mom are you cooking for him or me and she's like well that's my baby Up next on the show stay tuned for more of our conversation with 13 time MLB Hall of Famer Ken griffey junior scarlet and lynchi wrap up their chat with griffey junior on the importance of Jackie Robinson not only within.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"every hit" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Lyons Bloomberg radio Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries I'm Scott Carr This is Bloomberg Thanks for joining us on the Bloomberg business of sports show where we explore the big money issues in the world of sports Michael R and I'm Mike lynch and we're going to let Scarlett and lynch continue their conversation with MLB Hall of Famer in 13 time all star Ken griffey junior You were only three when Jackie Robinson died in 1972 But I'm sure your dad crossed paths with him a number of times Any stories you recall your dad passing along about his interaction with Jackie Robinson My dad was in the mind leaks until I haven't we've never really had that conversation It's just the stories of other players who have played with them you know a guy named Joe black Who was a teammate of his Who is that every black ball player that came into the league He made sure that he had a conversation with And make sure that we were aware of the history of black ball players from the barnstorming to Jackie making the death threat He made sure that we were all aware of all those things So it wasn't really my bad conversation with him It was more a teammate of his Joe black who had those conversations and I was able to have those conversations with Joe Right right I know that you are also working with Capital One to donate money to the Jackie Robinson foundation for this season Can you tell us a little bit about this initiative Well it's a match made in heaven You have Capital One who wants to give back and you have the Jackie Robinson foundation in the 75 year certainly 5th year who want to have who want to help kids achieve their goal The great thing about Capital One is their card holders are going to get great things They're going to be able to get stuff early Whether that's tickets to the All-Star Game postseason concerts they're going to be able to get a lot of things that are going to go out first And that's going to help the foundation Also when we talk about giving back for every hit game winning hit they're giving a $1000 And last year I think it was over $250,000 Hopefully we can get more More hits and winning hits Walk off it So hopefully we can raise more money and let these kids get a chance to live out their goals as a lot of us have And there's a guarantee here of what $250,000 minimum Is that right Yeah There's a guarantee Pretty cool It's going to be fun You're going to start rooting for teams that you normally wouldn't root for because you know that the money is going to go to getting kids to achieve their goals You want to talk about something cool I don't know if people remember this but you actually got to play with your dad And you both hit a home run in the same game Is that right 1990 Yes Yes he hit his first and he shipped my hand and he goes that's how you do it Hey dad I got 600 I'm going to get 630 of these And I just look back and look the great thing about having a dad is that played is that you just looked at him going That's my dad out there And so I hit mine and he made me shake everybody's hand before he shook my hand Really And I wanted to shake his first And he stood in the back of the line and I shook everybody's hand and I sat next to him and not knowing the magnitude of the situation because I'm 20 years old I'm in the game and him being 40 looking at it in a whole different light You know he's looking at you know we just made history I'm looking at like we need to win this game It didn't actually hit me until I passed Frank Robinson on the home run chart And I was rounding the bases and that's when it hit me I go now I understand what my dad felt like in 1990 And it was the only time that I've ever felt that way You know running the basis of wow I understand it now And you hear this you'll understand it later right now you don't understand when a dad tells you something Well that was one of those moments where I didn't understand until later And when it finally happened I understood it but my dad was really he was a teammate And he wanted to make sure that I was treated as a teammate until we got home and that's when he became bad again At the ballpark we were teammates when we got home He was back to being bad and it was quite interesting because he stayed at my house and usually it's the other way around But I might imagine only here for 6 weeks stay at my house My mom was there So I got some pretty good food Dad was real upset because he would ask her something and I would ask and I would always get what I wanted and he was like I'm a mom Are you cooking for him or me and she's like well that's my baby Up next on the show stay tuned for more of our conversation with 13 time MLB Hall of Famer Ken griffey junior as scarlet and lynchi wrap up their chat with griffey junior on the importance of Jackie Robinson not only within baseball but all of sports That's straight ahead on Bloomberg business of sports.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"every hit" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Zero, that matters more. Those kids accumulate quicker. It becomes less and less fun to get back out on the football field. Third quarter fourth quarter. So if the Patriots can keep this thing close, they get two huge advantages. They get one Mac doesn't have to throw them back into the game, which is just not what they want to be as a team. Two, they continue to get possessions. They continue to put physical plays on the field. This is close. You can continue to run it. And you can continue to accumulate heads through the second quarter through the third quarter and then help you in the fourth quarter buffalo is going to want to play football anymore. And that's where you're going to have to win this game. The best thing as a pass fame when I think about this game is Alan was absolutely incredible the second time they put. It was like one of the best quarterback performances we've had. And we have stats that can prove it. Is 300 plus ran for 50 yards. Like Steve Young was the career leader with a game like that and he did it like 7 times or 8 times. I think Alan's second. It's tougher to do that in 0°. Especially you're the QB every hit hurts. And when you can't really can't feel your toes because apparently that's the thing. So that's a big revolution from you that he has poor circulation. I will say this about the pets. And I don't love I wouldn't call their offense explosive, but they do have everybody together finally for a game, which has been a while, right? Aguilar had a concussion. Stevenson had a concussion earlier, Harris was heard earlier. The Henry Johnny Smith thing. I don't know how many games they've played together, but it's probably been half the season. So now everybody's back and whatever the potential of this weird offenses that always seems to take a while to get going and weirdly, it always seems like when they spread the field for Mac, he actually makes good decisions, but for some reason, his first quarters have been bad all year. I.
My First Million
"every hit" Discussed on My First Million
"You're like i want photoshop. But by fireworks. And you know by all this other shit that we bundled with creative cloud. Tell me what you think it is. I would've guessed. Adobe market cap is one hundred fifty billion dollars. Something like that. What is it is three hundred and fifteen. And if i'm not mistaken that might be one of the It might be one of the fiftieth. Let's see adobe would be would is is one of the big companies in the world. So adobe is the thirtieth largest company in the world. So what do you think about how big this can be ten billion dollars at so much money. Well dobies the one of the biggest companies in the world famous going after it totally should be on this. It's like it's like all the business transit first unbundling site well. Creative cloud brings twelve billion dollars a year. But let's unbundle the most valuable part of photoshop. And let's do it differently. Okay what's different second trend. Cloud-based writes uh third. trent multiplayer. Right when i'm using my mouth is moving around your mouse. Also see what you're doing on the same canvas that's really cool right And so they. They're they're piggybacking off all these macro shifts doing it right just just like by the way if you think. Oh it's already at ten billion. Is it really going five x last five years. Adobe has six adobe was one hundred dollars a share. It's now at six sixty a share in five years. That's at adobe large thing. The abets their growth rate fig mus growth rates should be in the next five years much faster than adobe was in the last five and And so i. I think there's a fairly chance of in fact i should just go invest and all these companies. They're on this list. This is this is a great great list to be on all right my turn so i agree i had faked my mind so i completely agree. So we're baton one hundred percent so rippling that's my next one rippling very boring company. I used it. It's a payroll software provider but it also manages devices and gives you permissions to different stops so basically if if you're a small startup and people sign up to your to work at your company. I can easily track. Which person has a computer and pay software through there. And i can do. Hr management and issue healthcare stuff to people. Why it's interesting. The founder is names. What's his name parker. Conrad so has a controversial past started benefits which was at the time or the fastest growing companies ever. He got fired because he kinda the culture was kind of crazy. People were like having sex in the hallways and kinda bro and shit like that and so he. He was like oh in order to do this. Hr thing you have to have this compliance training it takes. Sixty hours will cool here. I just i created macro that will go through the training for you. Just push the enter key every hit on fire. Yes or something like that. And you'll you'll be done and six hours instead of sixty like shit like that was a little bit like that's actually like slightly illegal. Yes but the good news is he has experienced. The also. Good news is that he fucked up. So you think that you'd learn because he got ousted. So i kind of liked that. I always liked that in a company where someone is like is the second time around. And they've already been mildly successful. I think that's actually a good thing they were. Here's why. I think this company's interesting so they were last valued at one billion one point three billion dollars and i use them and they're amazing. I've used them for years. Every company problem every company on boards.
Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"every hit" Discussed on Metro Christian Centre - Bury & Whitefield
"The second world war and you know the purpose was trying to head. The won't know to have this will woes anymore. Question is since then up to today. How many days of peace every hit that we can. that's to global. Never let's say how many days of peace the would have had since then government of organize all sorts of think also of meeting and freeze going over there to try to create peace. How many days of peace. The award have have hanged let bringing again in our community. Just watch the news. what are we talking about. The world today is about race. The world today is about six assault the war today's decides of peace that god intended for us. What simply because human being for her wide. We're trying to play god. We think we can solve issues by ourselves. The world have been posted a rejecting god that we see yesterday. We're celebrating. What is still a should nine eleven. What this celebration nine. Eleven thinkable ticked church. We don't.
Sports Talk 1050 WTKA
"every hit" Discussed on Sports Talk 1050 WTKA
"So good, but again attack them. Don't let Yankee hitters attacked him. He's got to attack them and just trust his stuff, because it's just been spectacularly. Look at the You know the recent games that he's pitch, including that no hitter, so he's just been brilliant. He's the game brought to by Sara Whalen Chevrolet. Went up one down and rude NATO door because, well, he's the hottest kind. This lineup is in the number two spot today. How about that? Four hit game yesterday and every hit was a hard hit ball first pitch fastball up in a way and he came into that game hitting 1 60. He had 1 67 last year. It's not like he was building toward something big, right? Girls ship three to the right. And a loyal loan infielder on the left side, right up to the edge of the grass about 30 ft. Off the line the window swinging a foul back to the screen. Jimmy. It's been a really nice three start stretch the start before the no hitter, the no hitter and then the start after the no hitter for Spencer term, But there's something like about each game in a different way. Well, exactly again. You know, just that natural movement, but I think the breaking ball has been a real improvement for men that changeup. All of his pitches grating out as plus pitches this year, the one one's swing and a miss. And it's interesting, Jim. They have started now, at least on The fan grass website which breaks down each pitch. They've now started to categorize his four seam fastball, which is Has natural cutting acts Exactly. They started to call it a cutter, which is interesting, the one to swing in a pop up. Powell third base side coming over Vers Hasen and hit the rail equipped.
Boomer & Gio
"every hit" Discussed on Boomer & Gio
"Lightning. I'm jon meacham. Welcome to fate of fact season one. This series is about how and why fact became a casualty of war in the united states. Please listen and follow fate of fact a presentation of shining city audio john. Truman c thirteen original studio available. Now for free on odyssey apple podcasts. Or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm jon meacham. Welcome to fate of fact season one. This series is about how and why fact became a casualty of war in the united states. Please listen and follow. Fate of fact. A presentation of shining city audio. A john matron see thirteen original studio available now for free on odyssey apple podcasts. Or wherever you get your podcasts. Each the morning show with boomer esiason and greg boomer and geo come put down my phone for the rest of the day. That's it boomer. i'm donna. I'm not all right. Why what's the matter just the news. I can't do it anymore. But slashings in the face and people saying crazy things. And i i just i. It's it's enough already. It's enough for today. Today's a beautiful day. It's eighty degrees. We're in the brakes. Were reading each other headlines right trying to top one another like this eighty year. Old person got punched in the face. Oh yeah well. These six people got slashed in the face in a gang initiation. Oh yeah do you see what this celebrity said. Oh you can't do it. i can't do. I told you this. One man allegedly tried to kill strain wife sons football game. Yeah awesome now. That i can't i can't you beat that i it's going to be tough. I don't think i could beat that one today. No not today but tomorrow they'll be maybe and maybe by this afternoon i'll have something be maybe by the end of the show but i'm not going to look at the phone any longer. I'm not polluting my brain today. Polluting my brain. There's go on. i'd rather not read it though. No i would not like you committed that crime headlines over the point being is that somebody was killed off awfully says burned alive. Yes i mean you know so. That's that could be all right. Let's go to dan and corner. Roger goodell. Hey dan what's up man. Hey how's it going so convenient for you to take my call after you're saying about polluting your brain. Yeah that's right. Yeah segue into something like that to take a shot at de but I was calling to talk about the no hitter. I also had a question. I wanna ask you based on something you said near the top of the show about all the bizarro press conferences and You guys i think You know for you. Maybe even jerry to five. I think you guys know. My last name is campbell. So which dan campbell. Do you think is more mentally stable. Me coaching alliance. That's actually a good question. I would probably say dan campbell the coach of the lions just by a hair because he got a really big job in sports. Yes so that's why he enabled to get one of those jobs. You have to be somewhat stable by the way. This is the second time. He's a head coach. Who was interim head coach for the dolphins but just by a hair dan. So you so you and boomer ban campbell head coach alive. What about al and eddie. What do they think who's more mentally stable guy. the dannon carter dane campbell. Dan campbell just by a hair. Just by smith of the lions the lions coach. any who. yeah. I'm gonna go lions coach because you know he mentioned wanting to have an actual lion as a pet but i think different carter at once al as a pet jerry. More mentally stable. Go with dan. Carter dare sherri. Thanks for having my man do dan now about the no hitters. What is going on with all these no hitters. I mean in two thousand nineteen or two thousand eighteen. All we were talking about is Juice baseball's because all the home runs and now here we are all these no hitters. I mean where some perfect gains first of all. Why are they showing no respect. And what are the pictures taken juice. They test and these pictures for steroids. We have a. We have a no hitter like every week of the season. A launch angle. We have one of the lowest batting averages. We also have a dead and ball so you know you got you got a couple of factors going on here and for the most part. It's been relatively cold. Start getting warm now. But i think there's a lot of factors to it. Yeah one of them is the fact that people don't you don't see as much hitting for contacts type stuff in baseball these days. It's all or nothing salata strikeout. That's one and the other year right dead. The bowl maybe a fly ball. That was to the warning track that would have been four. Rows deep last year is now dying right. There you know feels like five years ago. But i remember talking to al in the dugout insane to al. Look you wanna hit the ground and you wanna make them feel it and you wanna make throw it and then you wanna make them catch it as three things that have to happen. Sure if you hit the ball on the ground and nobody does. They don't even think about doing that in baseball anymore. It doesn't seem like the thing that they're like jonathan. The our last night His last at bat. He's going to go up there and he he's hacking because he's already had a home run so he feels good about it and got one right down the middle and i love the aggressiveness and i know they were talking about this on the game. Put you know what if he can elevate that ball. That's a home run. So that's what he's thinking. And that's what major league baseball is thinking. That's what every hitting coaches teaching every hitter. Which i can't senate change now. They're noticing that everybody's getting no hit and the batting average is going down. The strike outs are going up changing approach. Stop with the launch angle stuff. You not hitting as many home runs all right jerry. The baseball coach that he is. What's going on man brought to you by town fair tire. Nobody beats town fair tire. Nobody with this conversation the perfect clip to play well here is and do our who lines basit to love. Field rounding third calhoun fires home and the throw is offline it's up basin at an rbi for and do har and the yankees have tied the game at three boy. Baseball looks a lot different when you get a lot of basis. How about that voting. Yes not a lot of home. Runs a lot of bases hits. That's with the yankees. Did last night beat the rangers. Seven four john sterling the call on the fan Gio shelhah dj lemay. Gary sanchez had some basis. Run-scoring doubles pretty good heroes aaron boone. Lots of offense and a lot of well hippos a of quality at bats and You know obviously we needed now. Sanchez did come out of the game. I in favor of higashi yoga. Because of little tweak. If you will boone zest if he'll be available wednesday yes. It seems like it was just cramping that that was happened. We ran around the bases and then when he went back on come on was to say. I can't believe i'm sitting here talking about cramming just rent water. Drink a lot more water did. Don't they said like we're supposed to be drinking a glass of water a day or sixty. Yeah we'll keep drinking. Water goes the mets too. For that matter we're cruelly a bunch of crap in guys to not enough water. That's exactly right and their routine. So and he said he wasn't even sure of santry would play or not to be. Keep them down because boys took another game. He's crampy sanchez. Crappy now yes. It's exactly right starter. James entirely on series continues tonight. Corey kluber goes for new york. We will have it on the fan at.
The Sue Plex Podcast
"every hit" Discussed on The Sue Plex Podcast
"Another thing. 'cause that united standing see we've mentioned Your dad been massive fan. But my goals i have to say or family like number one number two fruit about number twenty five top support is the of the some like his family really do vested interest in your career as arrests They bring you to shows that looking off the are met. Your mama died. Many a time that lovey paypal. I was not being defeated for them as How does that feel view. Shy si- Than been so supportive of of everything. I am just going after training school. Doug united tightening. When the is i w school. Your dad's sex broke. You might have noticed boo to try and in with your foams counters on. Because i had to be countersigned. If you're under the age of i boy your died definitely not questions. Wanted to check out when the make sure everything was co ya. How has that nestle in the past. The i'm the luckiest guy Good family my parents have been service away from day. One especially Obviously both my parents are very supportive. But my dad's took a huge interest in may wrestling because like he was a fan since he was a kid as well. He used to be obsessive That when he was young off for him to see his son. And i know he's not really proud to me. See me bratislava. I didn't realize. I think you happy even if just one show year wherever. I don't care how. I think he'd care how successful go in it. Like as long as i was doing it. And i was happy like he'd be proud in the same as my mom like hold opposite. Slow that when they come Guessing to it and he loves it loves the action but my mum's staff lynch and every two seconds on boy. I'll come on every hit kissing. Covers her is so funny to watch yet..
The gamingfixx1's Podcast
"every hit" Discussed on The gamingfixx1's Podcast
"You can do is you can help him out by going in and buying some games and they even do curbside pickup. So going down to the guild house and tell them. Then frank sent you but what's really pretty unique. But what he has a he has masol tation. So if if you like we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna mess it up and we're going to knock you over. We'll find out what's under you so that we can take it and he's all like by just send you somewhere else. It's like it's a deadly. Could've sent him down by the pit. I thought about that. They had asked he probably wouldn't do it for funsies though like if you ask them. Hey can use send us down to the bottom of the pit. They'd be like like no. Why but if you started messing with this object protecting my name valley somewhere else. I don't know if he could send you a wall and don't think you can intentionally send someone into wall. I think that's the mischance. Nothing how that mischance anymore. From second edition so Instagram a puzzle an empires. And this is the time. When i iraq on darrell little mix. I haven't seen him in the guil- recently no i i did join join play. I made minimal effort here. Fair enough But i i was in the war. Today i was so angry. I was so mad. I i was running my big team and this team is so good. Now that i can say. I can do thirty five thousand points to a titan whereas before i was only doing like eight to nine thousand now i can do like thirty. Five thousand to tighten. Because it's a really good team and i like go in and i'm like okay. This is the war. There's no other teams. What's what's the team it's like. It's a thirty five like paul. Roma thirty seven done no problem. Oh my gosh cecil the worst team ever for some reason one Sometimes i don't know if the game does it on purpose but like if you have if you don't have a specific type of hero it will give you all puzzle pieces of the hero you don't have sometimes so it totally twist you and you're sitting there going. Oh great. i've got all green. And i've got no bring guy so every every hit that i'm doing with green is doing one damage which is garbage. So you're sitting there and you're trying to get everything going and it's just it's not going and it just..
Newsradio 700 WLW
"every hit" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"There that are listening. Take it slow. And a big old hang with him. I am looking forward to working with a new colleague. This year. We have a new TV play by play announcer that you hear on Reds baseball throughout the season, and this guy is virtually done it all calling. NFL MBA, MLB college football, basketball baseball. Women's field hockey. I'm sure John say, Dak is the new voice of the Reds on the TV side. And who knows he might be at a sporting event right now, because the guy you literally does it all, John, where you emanating from? I am from our dining room in our home while the snow falls down and and me outside of any point when it's icy and snowing is a very minor league sporting event in and of itself. Well, you and I have talked on the phone a few times. So we've got to know each other a little bit. And I know the excitement. You have worked hard to get into this position. Anyone that has worked their way through the minor leagues. You can applaud because it is not an easy go to get their. Um How thankful are you still even to this day even though we're a little bit removed from the announcement I think it's a level of gratitude and this believe honestly, that I'll never get over it. Z It's very surreal. I mean, insert every cliche term that you want, and they're cliche because they're true. It's uh, it's something that the disconnected my brain right now, man. I just It doesn't feel real. It feels like a wake up at any moment. And the kindness of view when the rest of the broadcast crew and the fans everyone in the organization. It's just been overwhelming and the best way possible. This might be a tough question to ask, and I'm sure you've been asked many times. Um, about your style. What fans can expect when they hear you, You know? Are we going to hear John Sterling with us, Huh? God, or are we gonna, You know, just kind of let the home run calls comes, they will. What's your style on everything. I think my style in general is for lack of a better term to be myself, You know, I think we should have fun and be loose generally, but I think we need to answer to the moment in the game says it's a game kind of Tells us what we need to be at any given segment. You know when it's that one run game in the ninth, then it's my job to just shut up and let the atmosphere kind of carry itself. Certainly, in a free covert world, that'll be a unique challenge, depending upon fans in the stands. But when it's you know, 14 nothing upper down in the fifth inning that we we got to get a lot of other material ready and show some more personality and tell some war stories. I'm not really a home run call guy. I'm not against it. I just haven't used it extensively before. I think it's something that if it organically happens, and I have a brainstorm in advance of the year, But I'm not really beholden to anything. Now I think every home run every hit every out. Every strikeout is kind of a dome thing, And if something happens that becomes a thing, and then I'll roll with it. But otherwise I kind of lend to the game and let the game take care of that. I know that you You're a baseball guy at heart, right? You've done a lot of sports, but baseball is near and dear to you. Yeah, Baseball is being sport that began my sports fandom. You know, it's so I'm from New York City. Originally by birth. I grew up in New Jersey. My family's all from New York and New York is a baseball town that that is the number one sport there for the Yankees and the Mets. And for years ago, the The Dodgers and the Giants and first still fans to follow those franchises. To this day. My first childhood memory period. Not just sports is being a Dave Righetti is no hitter, Fourth of July 1983. I don't remember a lot of the game. I remember the final out because I was really tired and I wanted to go home and I was badly sunburned and my dad put me up on his shoulders and I could kind of feel the cresting energy in the stadium when Righetti struck out wait box to end the game and And the guy who caught that game. Butch Weinberger was the hitting coach. When I arrived the triple A, You know, many years later in life, and I was able to relive that moment and ask him firsthand stories. And I think baseball is a sport that it begets conversation for me personally, My dad was a workaholic when I was a kid. On. He was away a lot to help provide for our family and the times when we were together. But connection was baseball. If we had nothing else to talk about, we could talk about what happened in the Games the other day of the New York teams nationwide, what was going on in the World Series? Whatever it was, and then that kind of remains the case to this day that that's what all of our conversation circle back to You got time to hang out for another segment or my interrupting dining room time. I don't want to interrupt family time because I know you're you're interrupting shoveling time, which is more than welcome. Yeah, You need to wait for that snow to stop coming down, though, before avoid shelf, So you got a little time She got a little time to hang out. That's good. We'll come back on the other side. We're talking to John, Say, Doc. This is the Red hot stove league as presented by the Holy Grail, Banks, Budweiser and UDF. When you're a Reds fan to the core, you want to show your pride everywhere whether you're at the game.
Newsradio 700 WLW
"every hit" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"Dribble. Working on the right side of the floor allegation. Carter along the left sideline to Johnson, back after the top of the key to Fremantle, hands at the ball scrubs between the circles shot clock at 16. Into the high post back to Paul's drugs goes right by for an easy layup. Good for two Nice play run by the Musketeers. They flash free mail at the right elbow into free man. It was just a give and go with the very first play and learn, and now we've got a call and we'll that go Xavier's direction of Will Thompson charges into Paul Scrubs, It'll be saviors ball in a brilliant defensive play. My Paul Scrubs will give the Musketeers the ball with a minute 38 to go. Xavier leading 61 to 53 all scores a big bucket on one and he comes back and draws the charge. So he slid in front of Erin Thompson. But the key was he had his hands back and hands high to show the officials that he wasn't impeding his progress with his arms. But he kept his body between the rims in the balls. Aaron Thompson Dipped his shoulder. And knocked knocked down Paul Scruggs. Turnovers able will have the ball back with 1 38 to go by eight points with possession arrows in favor of the Xavier Musketeers eager has one time out left but where his one time out left but was committed. Nine Thousands have savior Six Musketeers with a minute 38 to go with a 61. 53 lead in the basket ball where the receiver game to watch. There's a bud light there. Many fools you shall be well, Joe, you gotta make your free throws, and that's huge. Down the stretch here. Xavier's missed their last 32 by Zach Freeman on And one by Jason Carter. So, um You don't want either one of those guys at the free throw line down the stretch here because they have just not had the confidence to step up and make free throws a beer as a team, Therefore, for nine Dewan omit Dwan. Autumn is two for two with Freeman is over to Carter's over three and Scrubs is two for two. So Would try to keep this ball in Paul Scrubs, hands assed long as possible or get it to Nate Johnson scrunch brings it across the timeline 22 on the shot clock between nine of the game clock. Was rotated left side of the floor. Kunkle with it, Hold it away from his defender. Is it up to Johnson? Looking at the top of the key momentarily double team, Johnson almost slips and falls but keeps the dribble live and keeps his balance. Into the high post of free male free mental backing his way into the paint, and he turns and shoots of play left hand bank shot. Good for 23 men are methodically worked his way down the lane. Look to me for a moment he was gonna pass it back out to the perimeter, but that just set him up to get to the rim. A left hand bank shot scores two. He's fouled on the play, extending the savior lead. Big time played by Zack Fremantle, Joe. He wasn't anticipating using his left hand. But he backed the men read the defense spent away from pressure. It was able to get to the free throw line. Free throw is no good Scramble. Four comes out. Rose to a butler player across the timeline. Thompson, one on one against Johnson throws up a shot and we've got a shot block and that is probably goaltending. With a minute three to go. Xavier leads 63 to 55 Thompson drove it hard down the right side of the lane. Johnson forced him wide and hit the glass, and then Scruggs followed and blocked it. Every hit The backboard here comes from full court pressure. By the Butler Bulldogs and Harris pulls on the arm of Paul Scrubs before they could even in down the basketballs at the fourth. Fallon Harris Will send Paul Scruggs to the line. Shoot two that's attend foul on Butler of this half minute three to play..
KNBR The Sports Leader
"every hit" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"CBS Sports radio man. I'm good, Terry. All right, Manuel. Quick question. Nobody Elementary Jr. But Tom Brady is the first quarterback to play in the Super Bowl and hosts a little from my understanding. Welcome home team. Yes. So, uh, I used their lifetime Greater or Logan. But you gotta respect, man. No, you got pushing respect on that man named and he's you know, he's just he's doing with it. When a quarterback supposed to man go out and win, So I come to respect that man. Not so. So I'm ready to go, man. Go number seven man. Absolutely. Terry, you're from Georgia rooting for Tom Brady. Well, you know, young man, I'm a fucking planet. Uh, what you did to my team, man, You know, I can't do that, but respect him, and he's going out again. Number seven. It's gonna be a good game, but I'm really gonna put it out, man. You go. Hold of all time, man. I don't know what you're bad. Think they are? Let's go their way. And we know that. Sorry. Well, thank you so much for calling from Georgia. We we know that. I didn't think that I'd hear a Falcon fan. Rooting for Brady. I don't know. That's That almost makes my stomach hurt a little bit. No. You want somebody, you know, Let let Jones go tackle him. It's not a game that I watched with Tom Brady, where I'm just like Hit him. Hit him. Hit him. Hit him! Damn! It! Hit him! Aaron Rodgers was sacked and hit five times yesterday. And we know that that front At the Bucks have only had to get after the quarterback. For God's Jpp of blew his hand off. He's still getting after, folks come on. Every hit. I'm like, Damn had to be Aaron Rodgers hit Tom Brady instead. But he hasn't been getting it. Trust me. I don't care how old you are. Those hits hurt when you get older man. Shoot. I don't even want to get on the floor. We gotta.
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"every hit" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
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ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"every hit" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
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