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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Called to Catch Men
"Well is there not a world of instruction for us here? First of all, do what Jesus says. Do what he says. Nevertheless, at thy word, we will cast down our nets. Keep preaching the word. Preach to myself. Keep casting the net. When doubts come, you resolve them here. When you're tired, when you're frustrated, when you're deposed, when you catch nothing for weeks, for months, for years. It's not easy but it's simple. Do what Jesus says. Keep casting the net of the Gospel. And believe that he has power to bring the fish in. And believe him when he says that his word will not return unto him void. Because he really has power over the hearts of men to bring them into the net or the advance of his kingdom. Those who would catch men must ultimately learn their art here. From the ministry of Christ himself who was preaching the word everywhere he went, to everyone he met. May God give us grace as a church to do so. Let's stand for prayer. O Lord our God Most High, we thank you for the glory of Christ. Some here today have seen it, some have not. Maybe some who have heard the call that comes on the back of it are now shutting their eyes to it. Lord there's something compelling here. That we have to present ourselves like Isaiah and Peter and others. That we would lay our life before you and say what would you have me to do. Too often we come and we tell you what we will do, what we're willing to do. It's not the Christian response, what would thou have me to do. Make our sons and use them for the glory of thy name and the preaching of your word. And we pray that knowing Lord that that might mean huge things for our family. That they could be thrust to the furthest ends of the earth to preach the gospel. And yet we know that such a thing would be good. We pray Lord that you would give us a burden for souls. That we would see ourselves collectively as a church, as net casters. And that we would go forth seeking the lost that we might bring them to Jesus. That you would make us not to be weary in well doing knowing that in due time we should reap if we faint not. Lord, kill in our hearts our stupid notions of building our own kingdom. Crucify them, crucify them O God. And replace that with a burning and singular desire. To seek first thy kingdom, whatever that means. We lay all of our boats and our nets, whatever they are, at thy feet today. And if you would have us continue to use them, we'll use them. We'll be diligent in our calling. But we leave it all at thy feet. We pray that you would lead and guide for Jesus' sake. Amen.
News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
Fresh update on "nets" discussed on News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
"Letitia James of inflating his net worth in order to get more favorable loans from banks. The former president maintains he did nothing wrong as he headed into the courtroom this morning. And students at Seattle's Garfield High School sheltered in place this afternoon after gunshots rang out damaging property. One person reportedly suffered minor injuries. Police believe the suspects might have fled in vehicles. The family of U .S. swimming star Jamie Cale who died in March in the U .S. Virgin Islands is demanding answers about her death. Jamie was getting ready to leave the island on March 14th. She was coming home. It makes no sense. All the evidence out there has been completely overlooked. What we are looking for is justice for Jamie. We're looking for truth. Pat and Gary Cale claim island authorities haven't been forthcoming with details into their daughter Jamie's Limiting death access to information and withholding an official copy of the autopsy. We had somebody that we authorized to go to the funeral and home to view and that's all they would allow us to and see she photographed the face so we don't know if there's anything else on the rest of the body because we don't have the autopsy report. The family sharing those photos with ABC News. She had a black eye her forehead appeared to have had trauma blunt to the forehead it appeared that her nose had been broken her lips had blood around Kale them. was a high school champion swimmer from Maine winning a gold medal in the 1997 Pan Pacific Championship 800 free relay. She then notched silver at the 1998 swimming World Cup in Brazil. She lived in the US Virgin Islands for nearly two decades. The 42 year old was found unresponsive in her home by her boyfriend back in February. According to the original police release released Kale's boyfriend with the help of a friend then took Kale to a nearby clinic where CPR was surrendered but Kale succumbed to her ailment. But months later authorities saying she died of an accidental fentanyl overdose. Her family insists Jamie didn't use drugs. Never. Jamie Kale never did drugs. Never. There's no way That she had fentanyl in her voluntarily. So her family believes critical evidence like those facial injuries are being overlooked we reached out to officials to ask about the investigation and those unexplained injuries we haven't heard back. That's ABC's Janae Norman reporting. The Mexican drug cartel is reportedly prohibiting the sale and production of fentanyl in Mexico. ABC's Alex Stone has details. Banners began appearing in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa on Monday signed by faction a of the Sinaloa cartel run by the sons of the infamous drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman. judge who says the cartel is now prohibiting the sale and production of fentanyl. The you banners have been saying warned. Fentanyl has become a top priority in talks between the US and Mexico because of thousands of overdose deaths. The DEA is offering a 10 million dollar reward for the capture of El Chapo's weapons. Alex Stone, ABC News. In Jerusalem's Old City, Christians were harassed during an annual procession for a Jewish holiday. ABC's Jordana Miller has more from Jerusalem. Israeli police arresting five Orthodox Jews suspected of spitting on Christian worshipers here in Jerusalem's Old City. The incident during a procession was caught on camera outraging Christian leaders all the way to the Vatican. The Pope quote furious according to a Jerusalem spokesman for the Catholic churches. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemning quote conduct, derogatory calling it unacceptable. Police opening an investigation into what locals say is long a -standing problem that is rarely reported. Jordana Miller, ABC News, time to 50 and money updates thanks in part to an August cyber attack that slowed production. Sales and profits at Clorox likely took a big hit in the just ended quarter. The cleaning products giant said after today's close that it now expects to report a per share loss of as much as 75 cents and a net sales officials drop of up to 28%. In response to that forecast, Clorox shares are sliding two and a percent quarter in after hours trading. In the regular Wednesday session technology shares led stocks higher. The S &P 500 rose 34 points. The Dow industrials recouped 127 and the Nasdaq composite jumped 176 or one and a third percent. That's your money now and catch your money news here at 20 and 50 past every hour traffic and weather straight ahead. Manta factor here for fast water heater. Western Washington's water heater experts. Fast water heater has installed more water heaters than anyone else in the Pacific Northwest. They're professional dependable and
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Stanley Druckenmiller: Bitcoin is BETTER than Gold | EP 838
"Yo, welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live, streaming from Los Angeles. California because we're getting ready from Pacific Bitcoin. If all goes well, in today's setup we'll be live streaming from the floor of Pacific Bitcoin Thursday and Friday, which should be a whole lot of fun. Some special episodes. Dell and Opti are gonna be holding it down. I think our boy Chris Alamo from from from Bitcoin magazine should join us as well. There should be some interesting shows and then Opti is gonna be doing some some interviews with some high -profile Bitcoiners, so that should be a lot of fun. Really, really excited for the Pacific Bitcoin Festival. It's one of my favorite conferences honestly that I've been to. I know Opti had a lot of fun to say the least last year. Sophie. It was an amazing time. I'm gonna be honest, it's gonna be hard to beat this year, but knowing the Swan team, they're gonna kill it. A hundred percent, yeah. So they've been prepping for this for a long for for for a long time, so should be should be a lot of fun. Anyways, today guys we're gonna talk about the infamous debate, Bitcoin versus gold. And you know this this famous billionaire, apparently he is one of the most famous and most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street. 6 .2 billion dollar net worth. He said the quiet part out loud. He said, you know, he believes that if the gold bet is right, the Bitcoin bet is right. But I would I think that there's more to that, right? Because the physical characteristics of gold, like I think gold bugs were were right in their arguments. I just think that they had the wrong tool, right? And I think Bitcoin solves this because of its ability to, its ability for a human being to take self -custody of large quantities of Bitcoin by just writing down, you know, 12 to 24 words. And not only taking self -custody of it, but being able to send it across the world, you know, instantaneously for pennies on the dollar, right? So that completely changes, you know, the whole dynamics of this. And I think because of its ease of, its ability for people to take self -custody because it's an open ledger, I think it's going to be a lot harder for them to rehypothecate it the way they did with gold. And then a lot of people say because they did that with gold, they were able to control the gold markets. They were able to put downward pressure on the price of gold.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Nets" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Under current law a couple must wait six or 12 months but the DC Council is moving closer to passing a bill that would allow someone seeking to a begin divorce proceedings right away the change according to supporters the change would help domestic violence victims get out of abusive or relationships sooner a law speeding up the divorce process in Maryland just went into effect a legendary athlete is making history once again basketball legend Michael Jordan's now the first athlete to land on Forbes list of 400 wealthiest Americans the six -time NBA champ and Hall of Famers now worth more than 3 billion dollars thanks to his huge licensing deal with Nike and sale of his stake in the Charlotte Elon Musk took the top spot this year with a net worth of 251 billion dollars was Jeff second Bezos and Donald Trump I have a tremendous income he's still a billionaire but Forbes says he's no longer rich enough for its list the former president was about 300 million dollars short coming up in our top stories on WTOP multiple outlets are reporting this morning that congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio intends to run for speaker of the house to replace Kevin McCarthy hundreds of health care workers in Virginia and DC are off the job today as they're walking the picket lines against Kaiser Permanente classes are canceled at Morgan State University in Baltimore today five people were shot there last night at a homecoming event keep it here full details on these stories in the minutes ahead it's 1148 traffic and weather on the 8th and when it breaks let's see what's happening with Mary DePompa in the traffic center
Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from URGENT! How To Get Your Real Estate Listings SOLD NOW! (Part 2)
"Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, starring award -winning real estate coaches and number one international bestselling authors, Tim and Julie Harris. This is the number one daily radio show for realtors looking for a no BS, authentic, real time coaching experience. What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads, make more money and have more time for what you love in your life. And now your hosts, Tim and Julie Harris. Welcome back. Today is day two, how to get your real estate listing sold. So Julie, without any further delay. Yes, that's right. So this is the continuation. We did points one through five. We're starting on six today, about 11 unexpected ways in addition to a price reduction or instead of in some cases to get those listings to move. And remember this is point number six. So if you've not heard the first few points, make sure you go back and listen to those points because they're really critical that you are tuning your mind to the fact that there are a lot of ways to get properties correctly positioned on the market so they meet the buyer's expectation, i .e. priced correctly. And also if you happen to have a listing that is out of alignment with the market's expectation, how you can make it more competitive in addition to or maybe instead of, thank you, a price reduction. So make sure you read our notes. All of our notes from today's podcast, all of our notes from every podcast are down below in the show description. If you're on YouTube, it's very easy. Just click Show More or on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, all the billions of different places you guys listen to us. Scroll down, read the notes. They're all there. We obviously include about 1 ,000 % more in addition to the notes. When you were listening, you were noticing that Julie and I, because in the comments I'm reading what you guys are saying, we often do talk about things that are I think more drilled down than what our notes are. But the notes are there for you to use to remind you to essentially what to say, how to say it when you're speaking with your sellers or buyers or whatever's relevant. But also there's a link for you to join Premier Coaching. Thousands of you have joined Premier Coaching in the last year. From what we understand, it is the nation's number one coaching program. Why are so many agents joining Premier Coaching program? Well, a whole bunch of reasons, but the best reason is because it's a coaching program designed for this new market, for the agents that are willing to do what they don't want to do and they don't want to do it at the highest level. As a result of that mindset, on the other side of that mindset, when you have the skill set necessary, you're going to experience success at levels that you can only dream of because how do I know that's true? Because we have, guess what, thousands of coaching clients that are telling us that. So the link to join Premier Coaching is below. So scroll down and click the link or just go to premiercoaching .com. Take 17 seconds to join. Yes, we've timed it. If you type faster than me, you could probably do it in 10 seconds, but the link to join is right there and you have immediate access to the entire first level of Premier Coaching. All right, so again, this is part two, starting on point number six, 11 unexpected ways to get your listings to sell faster. Now, any of these ways can happen upfront as soon as you take the listing. They can also be added to the comments after you've had the listing for a while, as some of you are sitting on listings you're surprised that haven't sold yet. And we can also do more than one of these points at the same time on those listings. So you have some flexibility on this. All right, so other ways to add some perks and get these listings to go faster. Point number six, add a $1 ,000 commission bonus to a buyer's agent if it's pending by a certain date. Now, if it is more expensive, you could add a $5 ,000 bonus. You can add a $10 ,000 bonus if it's over a million dollars. If it's over $5 million, adjust accordingly, but add a commission bonus to the buyer's agent if it's pending by a certain date. The builders are doing this. You better do it as well, especially if you have a lot of builder competition. I know, I saw, I think it's from Lenar, it might've been KB homes in San Antonio. There are some agent bonuses as high as a 6 % to the buyer side. That's amazing. And it's not just on one house either. There's like lists and lists of this stuff. Do you remember, Julie, back in 2007, 2008, we had coaching clients who their sellers had like, I remember one in particular is a Lamborghini. It was like a year old Lamborghini and it was during a hard time for the seller and the car had depreciated. The house was, they still had equity, but they wanted to sell the house before the house was worth less than they owed on it. This was a totally different market, not work that we're experiencing now. So they actually included the Lamborghini in the sale of the property and the buyer's agent that ended up buying it, ended up representing the buyer to purchase it, took the Lamborghini in lieu of their commission because the buyer didn't give a rat's, you know, what about a car? I know. Well, I mean way to be creative, right? Right. I recently saw back and forth on one of the Facebook agent pages where an agent was talking about how their broker had invested in some kind of thing where it was like a vacation voucher that they could use on any listing. And you know, I was, what was crazy was the, the other agents on this social media thing like piled on, well, if you have to do that, you must have overpriced it and that seller must be crazy. And what is this, a timeshare? And it was like insane back and forth. And go you, whoever posted that, who said, no, actually we feel it's a smart thing to do to put on all of our listings, to have a little extra something to make sure that we're shown first. I mean, that was a very professional response. There were two vacation vouchers. One was for the buyer's agent. One was for the buyer and they didn't have to use it, but it was like X percent off of their travel. I thought it was pretty crafty. Okay. So along those lines, hopefully we're motivating you guys for what we're motivating you towards is wanting to sell more expensive listings because the tchotchkes obviously are better. Well, they get better. If our first two stories didn't do it, this one might. So Ben Salem, I know you're going to mention this. Yeah. Well, cause he sells a lot of beautiful luxury real estate and he works with a lot of, you know, high end, not in Los Angeles, exactly, uh, buyers and the bird streets and the rest of it. And he's not very, I, Ben's one of my favorite coaching clients of all time cause he's not high profile and yet he sells a lot of expensive homes and he doesn't, you know, he's not, he's not peacocking around about his success. He just gets the job done. That's right. So, uh, one of the things he did on a particular really weird house that was owned by a, I won't mention who is, it was a celebrity, uh, well fallen celebrity, I should say a fallen star. In any event. So this property in particular was very difficult to sell, had a lot of condition issues, um, the whole thing. And so what Ben did is he put an incentive on it that he would pay for the buyer's agent. It was all disclosed. Everyone knew about it. Nothing under the table, nothing like that to take a private jet and fly to Las Vegas stay at the wind and he was going to pay like the whole thing. It was just some ridiculous, some sporting thing or something. I don't remember. You know, I think it was not related to some event. It was something. Yeah, something like that. Anyway, that's what he ended up doing and he took a bunch of pictures and it became a big, you know, hoopty do for the buyer's agent. And it was something that got Ben's name on the radar for other listings that may have been a little cantankerous to sell and he got more listings from it. Point being, if you're in a marketplace where something isn't selling, the answer isn't always lower the price or if it is, it's lower the price and do some things that are more creative to hype up the listing, especially true in upper end listings where the house needs a lot of repairs, updates, that type of thing. Yeah, that's right. One of the problems with big luxury homes is there's more to do when it gets outdated and it's more expensive. You know, I can just see, I can just, I feel in the collective unconscious of all of the, you know, worn out buyer's agents from the previous market. They're like right up, you know, about time we get a few perks out of this, right? We feel you guys, we understand. So we were talking about doing a commission bonus. Always do a new seller's net sheet when you're adding any of these sellers concessions to the transaction. Make sure the seller knows how their bottom line will be impacted. Many of these concessions will actually cost less than a price reduction would have or make the price reduction smaller when combined with the concession. But make sure you're translating it into actual dollars so your seller's not surprised. And you know, again, advanced coaching here, but sometimes you can get your title escrow company to actually make those for you. So they're actually seeing all the expenses. I'm not saying your net sheets aren't accurate, but it's a little bit more authoritative in some sellers eyes when it's coming from the title escrow attorney type thing. So another thing you can do to give yourself a more professional veneer in the marketplace where it's the agent has the skill set that's going to get the listing. So don't avoid doing a seller's net sheet just because you don't know how to do it. Get some help. And there are some MLS is that allow you to plug in those numbers and they know how to figure your taxes and all that. But I agree with you. The title or the closing attorney can certainly do that for you. And it's not weird to ask them to do that. That's normal. Okay. Number seven, seller does not require inspections waived. Again, a new concept that replaces the old markets as is requirements. We talked about that a lot yesterday, so make sure you go back and listen to that, especially at how we tied it in at the end of yesterday's podcast to buying a home warranty at the time you take the listing and including seller's coverage and then having the house pre -inspected and having the repairs on the property done. So that when the buyer walks in, they're seeing that the property was pre -inspected, the repairs are done and the house comes with a home warranty. We are trying to position you so that you can compete against not just other resales, but also new construction. Very well put. Point number eight, have your favorite lender create a rate sheet to give away at showings and open houses. The rate sheet should show three different ways of purchasing the home. You can also attach that to your home brochure in your home brochure box. You could do a 30 year fixed, a 321 buy down, a 723 adjustable or a 525 adjustable. All of these can get a lower interest rate and lower payment. My favorite one is to just buy down points like the builders do and to lock in a lower rate for a 30 year fixed. But there are other creative ways to combat higher interest rates. We didn't say this yesterday, we should say it today. When you're doing things like what we suggested yesterday and today and you're being more creative and the seller is contributing money to buy the points down, in the description you can say at list price seller agrees to buy the points down, making the interest rate in a 30 year fixed rate mortgage, this payment range and that type of thing. So at list price, you can buy a little bit of insurance for the seller so that if the buyer comes in low and the seller is even inclined to accept it, that they're not also then going to have to concede to all those other concessions that they used as incentives to get the offer in the first place. Great point because you don't want to sign the seller up to both have to take something lower and to contribute 10 ,000 in closing costs or what have you. But don't be surprised when you do have, especially in a market where listings are harder to sell, where the buyer's agents do come in and they do ask for a lot of different things, you're just going to have to work through it. And again, we teach you how to do that in Premier Coaching, except the old days of throwing a dart against the board to price it and then waiting for the offers to come in over list price or long over. You have to have the skill set now, not just to list properties correctly and get them sold, but also how to counsel your buyers to get the properties. This is a new market. This is a skills -based market. Those of you are willing to learn the skills and do what you don't want to do and you don't want to do at the highest level, you're going to have an unprecedented, massive, unbelievably exciting real estate future. Yes, you brought up a little minor but important point because we're working through the transition of a super hot seller's market on every single listing that hits the market, no matter where you live, to a more adjusted, more reasonable, more normalized market. Now, we've been talking about how to buy down interest rates and do some more creative financing, which freaks some of you guys out. It makes you think, oh, I heard about that during the housing crash and adjustable rates are evil and we can't do that. I've seen some of this manifest in things like a seller will have an offer brought to them by their listing agent where the buyer is asking for closing costs. And the seller and the listing agent, their reaction is, well, if they need closing costs, they must not be a very strong buyer. That's a weak, truthfully, that's a weak agent. But you understand where they're coming from. Totally, completely. You understand why that's happening. But that's a weak agent who did not properly position the seller when they put the house for sale. This goes back to skills, guys. Now, I even have an instance of that, Federico in L .A. had a builder react like that when somebody asked for closing costs, even though they came in at list price doing what the builder asked because they asked for some closing costs. Builder was like, well, they, you know, why would I take that? They must not be very strong of a buyer. Just because somebody asks to get help getting a better interest rate does not mean they are a weak borrower. It means they're actually pretty smart about what they're doing. So you'll have a choice, Mr. Seller. You either lower the price by $30 ,000 or we actually give concessions to the buyer so that they can buy the interest rate down or cover the buyer's closing costs. Because the buyer is using all of their money, they need all their cash basically as their down payment to qualify for the mortgage. Now interest rates went up, they're going to need concessions to basically buy the rate down so they can afford the payment, qualify for it. Or Mr. Seller, you can just lower the price by 30 grand and we can hope and pray that we get another offer six months from now. It's up to you. Right. And in fact, if the seller were to counter it, you know, up for 10 grand and I'm going to pay 10 grand in closing costs, their net, you guys get focused on the wrong thing sometimes. Do the net sheet. The net to the seller is list price minus coming down 10 grand minus 10 grand to closing costs. Isn't that the same as taking a price of 20 grand less? It is. But that's, by the way, one of the techniques we show you when you have someone that's trying to fight with you over your commission is you don't get them to focus on the commission. You get them to focus on what their net is and in a marketplace where what almost all the houses, well, most, most, all real estate in the United States, according to Julie's statistics two days ago on podcast has increased by at least 45, 49 % since 2019, 49 % okay. So here's the thing. If they have to come down 2%, they're probably going to be okay. And if you're having them battle you over price or I'm not paying the $360 for a home warranty, you need to move their eyes to the bottom of the net sheet and circle with a red pen, their net, and then you need to get, have them understand that they've won the real estate lottery. Congratulations. Exactly. Okay. Number nine, find out if your seller has an assumeable mortgage. What's the rate and what are the requirements? Advertise this in your MLS description as well as in your home brochures. all Just note FHA, VA, and USDA mortgages are assumeable and some other loans are as well. All you have to do to find out is call whoever's servicing the mortgage. There are ways to look it up online as well, especially if it's FHA and VA, you can go to hud .gov and look it up by loan number. My beautiful wife, what are you, what assumption are you making? That they even know what an assumeable mortgage is. Correct. You're assuming, you're assuming they knew what an assumeable was. You were making an assumption. Well, I'll explain it quickly. So basically, someone's taken out one of these FHA, VA, USDA mortgages and let's say they have a fixed interest rate of say 3%. And let's say the property is worth, they paid $400 for it and now it's worth $500. If the buyer comes up with $100 ,000 or whatever the spread is between the market value and what they own the loan and they qualify with release, in other words, the FHA, VA, USDA has to, the person has to have decent credit and obviously... They have to be able to qualify for the mortgage. They can assume, they can actually assume the mortgage of that seller. So they themselves can have that ridiculously low 30 -year fixed rate mortgage. Now I'll even make it more interesting for you. Let's say your buyer only has $50 ,000 down, the house is worth $500, the USDA mortgage is only $400, the interest rate is 3%, the payment's obviously a heck of a lot less than it would be if they went out into the marketplace now and got a loan. But the buyer only has $50 ,000, but other than that, they qualify. You can get the seller to give them a second mortgage for the $50 ,000. And I don't want to get into the weeds on that, but this is something we talked about in Premier Coaching and we talked about in previous podcasts, but you can make deals happen where other people don't even see opportunity. That's called skill. Yeah, and that's even better than doing a rate buy down or an adjustable. I mean, potentially it's pretty killer. Just to overview, if you want to, you know, hopefully some of you are having some sparks fly in your minds, what would happen is the seller would give the buyer a second mortgage, I'll stick with $50 ,000, that is an actual lien against the property. So that means every month the buyer is going to be making the payment, now the owner of the new house is going to be making a payment on the first mortgage and on the second mortgage. You can do, and you will use an attorney to do this obviously, but then what will happen is the second mortgage, let's say the first mortgage is 30 -year fixed, the second mortgage might have a three -year arm. In other words, they're going to make the payment on that $50 ,000 for three years and then they have to pay the seller back the $50 ,000 or refinance it or there could even be a covenant in there, a carve out where if the seller agrees, you know, they can continue the mortgage, right? It's not just a balloon payment. It could be essentially... You can write it however you want. Exactly. You can write it however you want and if the interest rate makes sense and the payment's been made on time, I bet you that a seller is going to be more than happy to continue to have that $50 ,000 paid over terms because maybe the interest rate is great and they're making more money on it than they would investing in other places. You have just put a buyer in a house that they normally wouldn't have necessarily been able to buy because they didn't have the down payment and now you put them in a house or they can get the mortgage assumed. The reason that this is very powerful because a lot of the properties that are FHA, I'm not going to say VA, but FHA, well, I'll just lean into USDA. They're going to be more rural type properties and some of them are going to be working farms and small farms and things like that where you're going to have to be more creative to get the property sold. This is the type of information that gives you an unfair advantage and every marketplace makes you more confident, makes it so that when you wake up every morning, you're bouncing off the walls wanting to share with the world your real estate knowledge. I have seen some of these assumables already happening because smart agents have figured this out. I have a question for you. Maybe you don't know. I need to research this. Let's say that you have a seller that has an FHA assumable, but they've owned the house for like five years, which means they only owe 25 years. If I assume that, you pick up a 25, that's another advantage, right? I mean, that's huge. Yeah. You've just shaved off five years that you don't even have a 30 year. You've got a 25. They don't recast the mortgage, Julie. That's what I thought. That's what I thought. I just wanted to make sure I had it right. But the same goes true. Like when you and I started selling real estate, there was a whole bunch, well, they were hard to find, but they were just sweetheart deals. And there were assumables out there where people had paid off half the loan. It was a 30 year and it was 15 years left. You'd pay them their equity and you'd basically have a 15 year loan. I know. It's amazing. And I was just reading, I think on housing wire, that a surprisingly large amount of this recent, you know, when we had all these low interest rates for several years, a lot of those, and some of them will be assumable, because rates were so low, people got 15 year loans when they refi'd or when they purchased in the first place because the payment was, you know, normally you wouldn't do a 15 year because the payment is higher, but with rates the way they were, it made sense to do 15 year. How are you going to use this information? First of all, ask your seller what type of mortgage that they have. Don't assume, here, I'll give you, assume they have an FHA mortgage or a Fannie or Freddie until proven otherwise, or a VA or, you just assume that they have a mortgage where there's a carve out for it to be assumable. And if you're in a marketplace where things are hard to sell, you can find out if they do because I promise you again, your sellers won't know. Find out if it's assumable. And then if it is, you have the ultimate unfair advantage when getting that property sold. A hundred percent. Because again, back to our example from yesterday, if it's that listing, which is an assumable at some outrageously, now outrageously low interest rate, and you're advertising that in your agent comments and there's four other homes that meet the buyers criteria, who do you think is going to get shown first? I'm going to even take this to the next level. If you are smart, which all of you are, otherwise you would be listening to our podcast, you're going to think, well, how can I pick up rental property this way? Because a lot of these mortgages, FHA, VA, USDA, the mortgage criteria to qualify in the first place is a little lower. You can actually use what would have been your commission as a, towards your down payment. And you can assume these low rate mortgages and you can actually start walking into rental properties. There you are. See? All right. So point number 10, use 1 -800 -HOME -HOTLINE on your for sale signs to generate leads and possibly sell your listing yourself. One of the best solutions to a listing sitting on the market too long is to sell it yourself. 1 -800 -HOME -HOTLINE .com. So also refer to past podcasts about that system. We're not going to dive too deep into that today, but capture unlisted phone numbers, answer zero transfer calls, or immediately call the prospect back. Secret, many of your initial calls will actually be from neighbors of your listing. Those are also listing leads guys. And that website, by the way, and the product is getting totally revamped. So anyway, go to 1 -800 -HOME -HOTLINE .com. Full disclosure, Julie and I own 50 % of that company. Yes. With a partner with one of our original listings, oddly enough. Actually, he was our first seller, wasn't he? Oh my gosh. We forget that sometimes. I know. Well, it's all related, right? Yep. Okay. Point number 11, use a home brochure box next to or attached to your for sale sign. There is an art to the home brochure. Of course, highlight all the attributes of your listing using 800 -HOME -HOTLINE and including your email address. But in addition to this, there's lots of different ways you can utilize the home brochure to make your phone ring. Now we have a podcast that we've done two or three times in the past called How to Hot Rod Your Real Estate Sign or Your Brochure Box. So there's all kinds of things that we did in a dedicated podcast on that. This is all about the fact that in many cases, you're going to have to sell your own listing because the buyers, agents, you know, a whole bunch of reasons. I'll give you guys a really good example. You'll remember this. It was our neighborhood in New Albany Country Club and there was a listing that was for sale when we moved there, expired, got listed with somebody else and expired again. I remember. And it was like caddy cornered to our backyard and they were moving back to Hungary. I think it was Hungary. Something like that. Yeah. And they're the nicest people ever. Super nice people. So we ended up listing the property and I was shocked the house hadn't sold. Me too. It's a good house. It was great. It was a typical expired where it basically gets a lot of activity when it's new. The local agents, you know, stopped showing it because there's other new listings, the whole thing, right? If you look at the curve on showing activity, it's really, you know, two weeks, three weeks and after that it starts to drop off pretty precipitously and after it's been for sale for 30 or 45 days in virtually all markets, the showing activity stops. Well that's what had happened to this property. But even worse, or I should say better for our advantage, even worse, the local agents were assuming that the house had some sort of problem, otherwise it would have sold. And how do I know that? I had, Julie and I had that listing. This listing I remember was five or 600 grand and this was back in. And so this house was, we had a for sale sign obviously and we had 800 home hotline. There was somebody parked in front of the listing.
Bloomberg Markets
Fresh update on "nets" discussed on Bloomberg Markets
"Wolf basically sees Key Corp catching up to its peers. Other banks, they did benefit earlier in the cycle from rising rates in terms of that net interest income before those higher rates became a little bit punishing. And that Tillman, though, it was relatively muted for Key Corp due to the bank's hedging activities. But Wolf now expects that Key Corp's 2024 results will be materially higher relative to its prior expectations. Shares right now down a fraction. Another streaming service is raising its subscription price. Fans of sister wives and the deadliest catch will have to pay more next month when Warner Brothers hikes the cost of Discovery Plus. subscribers, New they're already paying $8 .99 a month, up from $6 .99. Prices for subscriptions with ads will not change. Shares of Warner Brothers Discovery right now down about two and a half percent. Those are the company As we're following, I'm Lisa Mateo. Missed your favorite Bloomberg Radio show. Bloomberg Business Week. Masters in Business, Bloomberg Intelligence and more are also available as podcasts. on Apple, Listen today Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcasts. When you get your. When you get your news from Bloomberg, you don't just get the story, you get the story behind The the story how your battery may not be as green as it seems. Why a decrease in global birth rates could send countries scrambling to increase immigration. You get context and context changes how you see things, how you change things because context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg com to get context. Together, we have the opportunity to build a more sustainable and inclusive future. At the Bloomberg new economy forum. We help make this possibility a reality by cultivating new connections among leaders global that transcend geographies, industries
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1276. Crypto ETF Race Begins | Which Token is Next?
"All right, so let's dive into ETFs today, take a look at the market, how things are going within not only the potential for spot ETFs, but also the future side of things with Ethereum. We'll break into all this for you guys today. My name is Paul Bearer. Welcome back to Tech Path. All right, so we're going to get started, but I want to thank our sponsor, and that is Tangem. If you guys are looking at securing your crypto and you want to do it in a self -custody way, this is one of the options you can use. You can use the hardware devices, you can use the cards. This is one of the best cards that I've seen so far. I've tried a bunch of different ones, and I like Tangem, and it's a very intriguing model. There's a couple things you can do with it as well. If you go over to their website, just go to tangem .com, click on Get Tangem, and now you can get this new wallet, which has just recently launched, and you can do this where it gives you your optional seed phrase if you like going that route, or you can go with the classic wallet where it auto -generates this stuff. It's NFC, ties it into a real slick app, and very easy to use. Very secure. Also, we've done a couple of videos on the security for Tangem, but check them out. Make sure and use our link down below to help the channel out. All right, so let's get into a few topics here today, and I want to go over to Eric Balchunas and what he had to say about the current status of what's happening in the ETF race. So let's take a look at Eric's clip right here. It's a special day, Katie. This is an unprecedented day in the history of ETFs. Never seen this happen before. We have a multitude of Ether and Ether plus Bitcoin futures ETFs launching all on the same day. Remember when Bitto launched? That was two years ago. Those Bitcoin futures, only one launched, and it got like all the volume basically. So the SEC was like, well, we don't want to do that anymore. Let's have them all out to have fair play. So here's the ones all in the market trading today. There's their volume. I kind of sorted it by the most volume as of noon. Total of two million dollars trading. Not that much, although compared to a regular launch, it's a lot. But it's not a lot versus Bitto. So little less interest in here, interest in these. And it's going to be an interesting to watch these ETFs jockey position because the one that gets the most volume typically gets the most assets and has a lot of pricing power. So Katie, this is a Derby, I call it. And we're going to see who wins. It's very early still, though. All right. So he hit on a couple of things there. One of the things that he hit on, of course, is the issue of who wins this race. Now this, of course, could also start to have a lot of implications of how spot ETFs might end up also positioning in the market, especially when you get people and investors that become more and more aware of what's happening right here. And obviously, you saw the list there of all these different ETFs. Of course, VanEck, one of the leaders out there on the space, one of the first that were filed, now currently around 66 on their expense ratio, 0 .66 on their expense ratio, one of the lowest total net assets, about $840K right now. I think they were the number two on the list that we showed right there. A couple of other things that are happening right now, volatility shares canceled their ETH ETF plan for their futures, and they didn't really see an opportunity for it. I would kind of agree with that in the sense there's just so many now into the market. So it's really going to become a marketing play of how those ETF futures do. And also the institutions that also are out there promoting it, what they're going to do in terms of adding value to it. VanEck, we talked a little bit about yesterday. Not that we're saying you should go that route if you are checking a future, but they are doing some unique things, which I thought was interesting. If you didn't catch that video, go back and check that. We did a full breakdown on all that good stuff. The other thing that's happening right here, you have Tim Draper reflecting on Bitcoin ETF as Grayscale announces a new Ethereum fund. Now there's a couple of things that he notices, and just full transparency here, Tim Draper, one of the biggest Bitcoin holders out there. So he's talking his book, just so everybody's aware of that. And if you don't know who Tim Draper is, go out and Google that. This is one of the PayPal Mafia guys. These guys have been around for a while.
Bloomberg Surveillance
Fresh update on "nets" discussed on Bloomberg Surveillance
"Though its sales growth is likely to slow based on what the analysts are saying. If you look at the market cap for Apple, still trading around $2 trillion, so it's still right below that three level there. Tim Cook sold some stock. Yes, and so there you go. And obviously that's going to be a bellwether there that we're going to be watching today after today's selloff there, as well as other stocks in the tech and growth space there. PLTR shares gaining about 4 % ahead of the opening bell, so this is a data analysis firm and it has emerged as a top pick for a contract to overhaul the U .K.'s National Health Service. This is definitely one of those names that investors have been watching, especially when it comes to the AI a frenzy that we did see earlier this year too, so keeping a close eye on that stock. Another one, Calmain foods ticker symbol is calm c -a -l -m it tumbled 12 % ahead of the stock. This is an egg producer it did report fiscal first quarter net sales and earnings per share. Here's what's next! Now I should ask Ken Felio about this because during the big thing. It was, especially earlier this year. That was such a hot topic. We had the bird flu and what yes what came first the chicken or the egg I think we kind of know that. But if you do look at Stevens analysts they did trim the price target on that stock $45 to had previously been $47 and they are maintaining an equal weight rating on that stock and then lastly a point out Stevens is such a good Stevens is a regional investment bank I think in Arkansas really really good at what they do they really focus on a handful of industries that are kind of you know in their geographic right like I always remember them doing good stuff on trucking That kind of thing and agricultural and farmers, you know, it's just really it's a great little firm down there and then Moderna ticker symbol MRNA this was a stock we were talking about earlier this week shares up nearly 1 % pre market didn't didn't say it would begin a final stage trial of a combination of influenza and COVID vaccines later this year. So you're we're seeing seeing that stock also supported ahead of the opening bell Paul. All right, very good. We just met net wave first of Big weekend for A &M, right? Oh, it is Alabama. Alabama comes to College Station or you guys go to Tuscaloosa? That's a good question. Okay, we'll figure that out. All right, big big when I come back and talk to you at 11. What's amazing about that is the entire cadet corps goes yes, you know, they they all stand up during the game. Yep. It looks awesome on TV game there. Oh, it's amazing. We should all go. And they say after the third beer, they say hellabaloo. Canuck, I know the tradition. We should all go with Tom Kean sometime. I will get the surveillance golf stream will fly on down. You know, Alabama. I know Tom is excited. High point of the day was Duke in North Carolina with Jay Polaski. What do we got Paul? I looked at my losses. you Are kidding me?
The HUMAN Training
Surviving Covid and Chaos: Looking Back at the Early Days of K9 Culture
"August 1st, 2020, so right in the middle of the pandemic and that was the good old days of... Not the good old days, the days of quarantine in a lot of places, everyone's wearing a mask. Should you wear a mask? Should you wear three masks? Should you wear 72 masks? Oh my God. Six feet away from people. How many boosters should you have? I mean, it was just chaotic. Nobody knew. No, we didn't have shots then. No, there was no shots. We're not going to talk about that. But you had to be six feet away from everyone, which is really nice because the leash is six feet long, so that was awesome. So yeah, we opened up. It was just Laura and I for that first month in our facility here. We did not... God, do you remember? We didn't even turn the lights on in the back three quarters of the building because why? Why do we even need to go back there? It's just the two of us. And so that was the first year, and it was August 1st. We didn't really do boarding trains for a while. We tried to discourage them because we didn't have kennels at that point because when you order kennels, they're usually a six -week lead time, but because of COVID, it was a four to six -month lead time. I mean, everything's lead time was just ridiculous because everyone nationwide, worldwide was not working, working from home, whatever. And just general trial and error, like we did cinder block kennels first. Yeah. So we had to build some cinder block kennels. So we had some. And then once we did have a couple of boarding dogs, once those first initial dozen kennels were built, then we had the ability to board. I guess we always do. So someone's probably listening, well, why didn't you just put the dogs in the crates? We did. We But it's not what we like to do. I don't like dogs sleeping in crates all the time. I don't know. I just, because if they're not training, they're in a crate, and then if they're sleeping in a crate, I don't know. I just. But we did have crates. Yeah. Julie's office was the first kennel room. Yeah. Your office was the kennel room, air quote. Oh, God. I don't even think we had a break room. No. The first couple months. And then the break room we slept in. Yeah. Well, first we slept in Wyatt's office. That room was. A noise. Wasn't too dark. No, it didn't. No, we slept. The first time we slept in the grooming room, but there's ticking because right by the grooming room is. The fire suppression, fire alarm system constantly beeps during the day. You don't notice it that much. But when it's. At two o 'clock in the morning, when there's not a sound anywhere, like what the hell is that noise? So yeah, we made it one night in the kennel room, which is, or excuse me, the grooming room. It wasn't the grooming room at that time. It was just a room. Then we went over to Wyatt's. And then we moved to Wyatt's. Oh, I remember why we only made it one night in Wyatt's office. The way it's laid out, it was too small. You know, you try to get out of the air mattress to the left or to the right, and you're up against the desk or a wall, and I thought, no, this is crazy. we So then moved to the break room, but it wasn't the break room. It wasn't the break room. And Wyatt's office wasn't Wyatt's office either. It was just a room. When the people left this building, they left all the furniture. It was full of crap. Yeah, because they went out of business and refrigerators and they went out of business before COVID. They haven't paid their rent in like a year. Yeah. So there was like a whole bunch of crap here. It was an indoor soccer center facility before. Yeah. We sold all of it. Yeah. Facebook. That was one of my jobs. Facebook marketplace. Just getting rid of all the soccer stuff that was left. We had couches here. We had chairs. Cheers. Scoreboards, goals. Cooking. Soccer balls. Cooking because they had this little bar here. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They had that. Freezers. It was interesting. Who was our third person we hired? So the next one that came on was Wyatt. Wyatt! Wyatt came out at the end of August. Still paint the walls. And then a week later. Oh, I forgot about that. We finished. Yeah. We were still paper walls. Wyatt's little baby. Wasn't the baby's two? Make it look like a dog. Alex's like two. Maybe one. He was here riding around doing stuff while we were painting everything. My mom even came and helped paint it. She was 70 years old. It was pretty cool. Yeah. It was cool. I felt bad. We worked her to death. Yeah. We took netting down. It was a lot of work. The building's 47 ,000 square feet, so there's a lot of netting that has to come down. Scoreboards, goalies. Windows to clean. Oh my God. All glass walls. So all of our training fields, they're surrounded by eight feet tall human shatterproof glass. Well there's soccer prints, hand prints, human prints. Head print prints. I mean any print you can think of on both sides of those windows. I know for a fact I spent a whole entire eight hour day cleaning windows and it wasn't even half that. Not even. And then when we got that one with one side we went, oh shit. Now we got to go on the inside and do it. We're not dead. We're only halfway done. And you can't see the smudges until unless you're on the other side of the glass, so you could clean it but not miss parts. It took a long time. And then light bulbs, we replaced over, I can't really count, I know it was over $5 ,000 in the first two months of light bulbs. Oh my God. That's how many light bulbs they had lit. And in the middle of doing this, we're training dogs because Charles sold a few dogs the first week we opened. Right. The first week we opened and they knew they were our first. In fact, those first two dogs, Laney, she was just here boarding last week and that was three years ago and we were just all joking with the owner. I remember when he came in, it was just the two of you. And then Hank. And then Hank after her. Hank. They're both two of the most dog aggressive dogs we've trained. So right off the bat, to this day, they're still two of the most dog aggressive dogs we've had. And they both ended up liking dogs.
Evening News with Art Sanders
Fresh update on "nets" discussed on Evening News with Art Sanders
"We began our trial against Donald and Trump the other defendants. We presented our opening statement in court explaining how for years Mr. Trump fraudulently inflated his net assets to cheat the system and to enrich himself and his family. We also called our first witness to the stand today a long time for Missouri, the accounting firm that did work for Mr. Trump and the Trump is not scheduled to testify yet but he's still here telling reporters before day two of his court case began that he and his properties are worth a lot more than what prosecutors say they said. I hope you're impressed. We've had a great time but he's been given false information, misleading information and corrupt information by a very corrupt and incompetent attorney Letitia general James is what was grossly incompetent. She ran on basis the I will get drunk without knowing anything about me and complaining again about the state attorney general's lawsuit claiming he inflated his worth to secure loans. This case should be dismissed and get they on to violent crime and solving the problems of New York City and New York State. Meanwhile the told judge Trump he was wrong about the statute of limitations and that in his words the use of false financial statements in business starts the statute of limitations running again and went on to say I understand the defendants disagree. strongly This case is a scam that can't be fraud when you've told institutions to do their own work. This case is a fraud and it's a scam. At the courthouse in Manhattan I'm Julie Walker. 12 after Hunter Biden Biden faces a judge when America in the Morning texting
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from CXPA Marks CX Day, A Global CX Celebration, Podcast
"This is Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of Telecom Reseller. And I'm very pleased to have with us today, Graham Clark of Amcor CX. Graham, thank you for joining me today. Hey, it's great, Doug. Good to be here. And we also have with us Patty Soltis of Upwork and also of the Florida Network and CXPA. Patty, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. I'm delighted to be here. And we have with us once again our friend, Mark Daly, who's helped us with many different things, been involved in many projects and also a co -host at the MSP Expo. Mark, thank you for joining us this afternoon. Always a pleasure, Doug. Great to be here. Well, you know, we were just talking about before the podcast began about this is sort of a pleasure to talk about a fresh topic, at least fresh in the last few weeks. The topic of CX and how, you know, this is such an important issue, actually, for so many of our readers, even if day to day, that's not always the central part of their day job or their mission or what they're thinking about and so on. So we're going to be diving into that. We're going to be talking about CX. We're going to be talking about something called CX day and something called CXPA. But, you know, agreement, Patty, let's first just take a look at what CX means. What do we really mean when we're talking about CX? I would take that, Patty. I would say that. Yeah, I'll take that one. Customer experience, when we talk about that, that's every experience and interaction that a customer has with an organization. It starts from when the customer first realizes or has the awareness of some kind of need or want and goes through that entire cycle, like everything in between, coming out on the other end where hopefully the customers ending up in an advocacy state. It's everything that flows through all of those pieces. It's funny because a lot of people will typecast customer experiences, customer service, or typecast it as the user experience. It's that and everything more. It's the marketing that happens. It's the technology that they use as they go through this. It's the digital contact that they have. It's literally every interaction that that customer has with the organization as they go through that whole customer journey with it. And the thing I always like to add in when I talk about customer experience is the importance that customer experience can have to an organization. Because when an organization is strong in customer experience and they understand how important that customer is to them, they end up with just much better financial results. And the other thing that always gets me about this is when somebody asks me, why is customer experience important? I always want to say to them, because your business can't exist without a customer. Without customers, you don't have revenue. Without revenue, you don't have a business. So it makes perfectly good sense to pay attention to the customer. And it's kind of interesting that it's so obvious and yet, you know, it's, I like what you're saying that you're basically telling me, because it's ubiquitous inside the company, it needs to be ubiquitous and everyone's job inside the company. It sounds like everybody should be thinking about how their work inside a firm or an organization impacts CX. Yeah, that's really true. I've actually seen some other podcasts and speaking engagements and things like that where people, we've played the game where give me a job and I'll tell you how it's connected to CX. Because there is literally every role inside an organization on that customer experience. And that's, you know, some of it's direct, some of it's indirect. Some of it is in how a product is designed. Some of it is in how feedback is taken in. Some of it is in what kind of setting does someone work in. But there is a way to connect every single part and every single person in an organization back to the customer experience. Now, with that said, what is CXPA? Maybe I'll take that. So CXPA is the CX professionals organization. So in addition to customer experience, which Paddy defined, right, which is the customer's perception of how they relate to an organization. There's a thing called CX and CX is or CX management is kind of the discipline. So about 20 years or so. Some people started to put kind of methods and practices around how do you make this CX thing work. And then, of course, 2008, Apple changed the world with the launch of the iPhone and real mobile became a thing and smart apps and social media, I mean, all that stuff. Right. So so CXPA is the global professional organization that sits at the heart is think of us as the IEEE of the CX movement. And so CXPA is an organization that exists globally. We own the most important CX professional certification, the CXP, which Paddy and I are both CXP certified. That's the CX, CXB, what does CXB stand for? Certified customer experience professional. Yes, they get one of those. But it is the most widespread and recognized customer experience certification in the world. And so CXPA's role is to be the gathering place for information, networking, meeting other like minded professionals. We like to say that the CX world is like a cult or religion. And if you believe, you believe. And as Paddy said, you know, fundamentally, companies survive unhappy customers and we all have customer experiences that we rave about. We're raving fans of people. I mean, I'm a raving Amazon fan and Amex is a big fandom of mine in the sense of they're one of my brands. And then we all have customer experiences. We tell our friends about it on the other side, like dealing with our media company about a trouble problem. Or you mentioned this was coming out at the same time as the MGM hack and all the misery that people went through somewhat at the part of the company, somewhat not the company's ability. But people will talk about what happened on their once in a lifetime vacation to Vegas. Right. For a long time to come. And so how do companies recover from that? So CXPA is just the gathering place, the professional association that sits at the heart. We sometimes call it the heartbeat of the CX movement on a global basis. Graham, you actually have CX in the name of the company M -Corp CX. We do. So M -Corp CX is we are a boutique CX consulting company. We were we were founded at what's generally recognized as the birth of the modern CX movement, which is 2002. CX has two birthdays like the king of England or queen of England, king of England now. One is around 1968 when a bunch of crazy marketing people came up with a thing called C -SAT for the American automotive industry. Right. They were called J .D. Power. And that worked very well until a guy by the name of Fred Reichheld in Bain decided C -SAT wasn't a good enough score. And he came up with a thing called net promoter score that people might have heard of thrown around. And Bain created a piece of software, floated that company out as a company called Satmetrics in 2002. And the two other big technology players in the movement, Qualtrics and Medallia were formed at the same time. And then that date is kind of one of those change dates where the last 20 years have been the movement. So in the last five, six, seven years, where every technology company, integrator, agency, BPO consulting company have formed a CX practice. And every company has realized this is a foundational thing that impacts their long term success. You know, most of those companies got into the business the old fashioned way by buying something like us. So in North America, we're the last of the companies. We're about 40 people strong. And so we have been we've been a core part of this of this journey for the last 21 years. And it's certainly an honor to be to be still here fighting the good fight with, for example, a company up there in the northwest where you're from. Microsoft is one of our biggest clients helping Satya Nadella move that company from a product obsession to a customer obsession. Intel, which has a big operation of Portland, we were talking about similarly big client, a lot of pharmaceutical clients, life sciences clients, financial services clients. So we're so it's what we do. We're not just a practice attached to another consulting company who will leave the CX movement the day it becomes not quite so popular. That's the reason and rationale that we exist and all we do. Patty, could you connect the dots for us between Upwork and also the work you do on CX and for CXPA? Sure. So just in case people don't know, Upwork is an online platform at the tech company. And what we do is we match organizations with freelancers. So we are a global organization. We have clients and we have freelancers literally all over the world. What we do inside the organization is we really work on what kind of experience are we providing to our clients and to our freelancers? And this gets connected on many, many levels. There's the the analytics group, there's the product marketing group, there's the user experience and user experience research group. Then there's the customer experience division. And we all co -mingle with each other, taking a look to see what can we do to improve that? The interesting thing is that when successful organizations are working inside a customer experience, what they do is they connect what's happening in that customer experience world and they connect it back to financial metrics. So one of the big things that we do is we take a go in and take a look at what is happening with churn and retention inside the organization. And we will take a look at that piece. Then we'll go in and take a look at what it is the customer saying, what it is that they need. It's called voice of the customer. And we will co -mingle all of that data to come together. And then we can go back to the organization and say, if the platform can do A, B and C, we think retention can improve by X and that will ultimately overall improve our profitability by this much money. So that's really what we do inside the organization. CXPA has been really good. CX has been around for, as Graham said, about 20 years now, but it's still very much a growing field. You look at how long other parts of organizations have been around, things like finance, things like HR, things like marketing, innovation. Those kind of areas have been around a lot longer than the CX division. So the CXPA really comes into pretty much our organization and every organization. And one of the big things they offer is professional development for us. And they offer that through a variety of different things. There's a really great mentor mentee program inside of the CXPA. There's a lot of webinars that are offered. There's the local networks that are out there for people to mix and mingle. And there's an annual event that the CXPA does. So there's a wide variety of different things that organizations can become involved with, inside the CXPA to help that development grow and to really help use CX as a tool to drive the organization. So Mark, you have had a front row seat for a long time in sort of both worlds, in the technology world and the CX world in large and small companies. You've with worked firms to try to organize both sides of that house to work together better and to have better outcomes. So what can you tell us about what this all looks like from the point of view, especially of the IT people that we reach? Sure, I appreciate that, Doug. Yeah, so I've got a technical background, former engineer, but also former sales manager, professional services consultant, that type of world. And one of the reasons why we're here today is I met these folks at the Florida CXPA and was very intrigued because customer experience to me has been around a long time. And using technology and doing it the right way gives that great experience to keep that customer for a long time. And we used to call it the lifetime value of a customer. And if you work with big, bold and old companies like I have in my career, some of the larger ones, they look at generational value of a customer. So not only did I capture you as a client and a customer, I'm now focused on your children as a customer. So I've been with the same insurance company for 40 years. My three children use the same insurance company as I do. And so it was a natural transition. Not all companies have that culture of CX. And so when I saw the advertisement on LinkedIn for Florida CX having a local meeting, I jumped on board and I was fortunate enough to that white paper that I did on AI last February, that was read by several people. So these kind folks asked me to present on AI and really around the customer support, autonomous support using AI. And we just did that a couple of weeks ago. And so I'm very much a big proponent of what they're doing. There's a CX day globally that's happening. I think it's on Tuesday, October 3rd. And these are the reasons why I want to introduce you to these guys, because it's all about the customer. And I learned that early on in my career. And they're the ones that pay you. Your managers come and go. It's about the customer. So I was at the point one time in my career, we used to use a secret shopper and we would call up an agent, not to try to trick them to try to get valid answers, but record the conversation. And then sometimes it was a horrible conversation. They just were not prepared correctly enough. But then I would play that for an executive in the company and I would say, OK, this is how your current state. Imagine technology. This is what it would be like using technology and IVR, for example. And there's a lot of different ways to use technology. And I mentioned AI a moment ago, but there's a lot of different ways to use technology to enhance the customer experience. And that's what I'm all about. So I'll turn it back to you. Thank you for inviting me. No, no. You know, this is the type of thing that I'm hoping to facilitate with this podcast that to connect. They're not necessarily separate worlds, but I think in large companies, they're often separate divisions, people reporting to separate organizations and getting it to work together. Patty made a marvelous point about it being really every or every person in the organization from the newest hire all the way up to the CEO. You know, whether you're washing the windows or or, you know, running the accounting or whatever you're doing, even if it's not customer facing, you're facing the customer. It seems to me, so, you know, so with that said, you know, I want to hear, you know, from from you guys, you know, we have we have a large community of carriers and companies out there that serve certain types of customers. The relationship has always been very stable, but it hasn't been poor. But they're now having to make a transition to probably a more customer facing, more active role in talking to their customer and new technologies, new things, introducing new connectivity and so on. And maybe you guys could tell me a little bit about how do you make that transition to to making sure CX remains there as you roll out, roll out the new technologies and the new products? That's a really interesting question, Doug, because a lot of people for a lot of people, it's a shiny object when a new technology of some sort comes along. And the most important thing that an organization can do is look at what is their strategy and how does the technology fit into their strategy? And the unfortunate part is that what most organizations do is they do it the other way around. There's something out there. It's a new, bright, shiny object and everybody wants to have it. But how does it fit inside the organization? And it's really important for organizations to be aware of what customer experience can do for them. I read a study recently and it said that 80 percent of customers will stay with an organization when they have a good customer experience. Eighty six percent of customers will leave an organization after one poor experience. There's a lot at risk there. I loved listening to Mark talk about the 40 years that he's been with his insurance company and now his children are part of. And that's what organizations should be striving for. It's a pretty well -known number. It costs five times more to acquire a customer than it does to keep a customer. So for an organization to be able to do what Mark's insurance company has done, that's really pretty valuable to an organization. So when you're looking at those technology pieces and you're considering how are you going to leverage A .I., how are you going to really make that part of your organization? You have to look at how does it fit in your company's strategy? How does it fit in how you're going to acquire and retain customers and really drive that customer experience? That's a slightly different spin on that, which I agree with everything you said. So thinking about, you know, the telecom reseller audience. Right. I mean, I come out of that world. Here's working with cable and wireless AT &T. I built I built a telecom reseller, which was a partner with AT &T and SBC and Verizon and Cisco and a boatload of other people supporting small businesses. And so thinking about it from a company in that market, bringing bringing new technology to market rather than inside. So the absolute foundational essence of customer experience is to understand your customer. And one of the biggest challenges that organizations that we work with from from tiny companies, like I mentioned, Guadalupe Valley Telecommunications down in southern Texas, amazing organization, very much a rural telecommunication provider to huge companies that we work with is how they manage. Customer change and customer expectation change. So one of the biggest challenges a lot of companies have got, Mark, you mentioned being with the same insurance carrier for 40 years. When you turn that on the insurance company, one of the things a lot of companies struggle with is that their customers changed in those 40 years. I mean, look at demographic shifts in the United States. Right. We're eight to 10 years away from being a non -primarily white nation. Right. Those things matter when you're a company trying to do business. So understanding the changing expectations of your customers that one day after Apple makes their new iPhone announcement a few weeks ago, everybody's running in going, why can't you do this? Amazon does this. Everybody's like, why can't you do this? And so and you're, you know, Gen Z is acting differently to your baby boomers. So customer personas, customer segments are becoming much more segmented. And you need to think about how do you deliver that magical, personalized experience to that customer as they change. An example of one of our clients over the years who's a retailer that I won't mention because they let us is one of the things they saw happening was the aging of the population. So they sell a lot of electronics products. And so they realized that their customers who used to be, you know, 30 year old, mostly nifty guys to be brutal about it 30 years ago. Right. Who were into the tech stuff are now 60. Right. And they're trying to figure out what to do with their smart TV that's on the wall that they have integrated with FaceTime on their Apple iPhone so they could talk to their grandkids on the other side of the country. And it don't work. Right. And so how do you service that? So I think understanding how your customers are changing, how their expectations are changing and how do you bring all the components to the table to serve that and then really getting into the telecom world. Right. Some of these things are foundational. Companies are focused on the nifty self -service chatbot leveraging chat, GPT, whatever other words you can come out of. Guess what happens when the phones don't work? When the customer can't get through, when the hold time is inadequate. Right. When the IVR scripting in a medical business takes you through nine options before they say, by the way, if you're having an emergency dial 911 as the seventh or eighth or ninth option as opposed to the first one. Right. So so things like, you know, voice and even the other types of telecom interaction and the connectivity and the service and quality of service are absolutely foundational to a company even having a hope of doing all these more esoteric things. And so smart companies recognize how their customers are changing, recognize what their customers want, including things like different languages of service. Right. We have a bank that basically 25 percent of their calls are now answered in non -English languages. Portuguese for Brazilians, Russians for Russians, Spanish. Right. And Indian, I mean, in Hindi for us, they have to service customers because that's what their customers want. So I think starting with the who is the customer? What does the customer want? How's that changing? And then how do you use what you have as a company in order to connect with those customers as they change and drive those segments is really the essence. And that is not easy to do, but it is straightforward and it is basic and it is, you know, eat your vegetables, exercise, don't drink too much, don't smoke. Right. And you will live a relatively long and hopefully relatively happy life. And I think CX is a lot like that. Telecom means everything to us. We can't exist without it. Good point. It's all digital. Everything's digital. It's all bonding together.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1420: Bitcoin Will Surpass $1,000,000 By This Time - Max Keiser
"And here's your prescription. I know just the pharmacy to get this filled. Who are you? A pharmacy benefit manager. A middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get, what you pay, and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to. Why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood? Because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own. No one should stand between you and your medicine. Visit PHRMA .org slash middleman to learn more. Paid for by pharma. In today's show I'll be breaking down the latest technical analysis as one analyst predicts a Bitcoin price crash all the way down to $20 ,000. And check it out moving forward all crypto news alerts YouTube videos will have both English and espanol subtitles available. I'm also currently working on a dedicated channel dubbed 100 % in espanol. Let me know if that excites you. Also check this out Stanley Drunkenmiller is now known as one of the most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street and is currently worth $6 .2 billion. He says straight up frankly if the goal bet works the Bitcoin bet will probably work better per each. Also in today's show Ethereum futures ETFs garner a lukewarm reception on the first day of trading with all of the trading volume across nine products at less than $2 million. We'll also be discussing the crypto community tells Elon Musk to dump the Satoshi X account. I'm also going to be sharing with you a Satoshi Nakamoto secret email emerging from the shadows never shared before. As well as here's what's in store for Bitcoin in the S &P 500 for quarter four of 2023. According to crypto analyst Jason Pizzino I'm also going to be sharing invest answers unveiling his max upside price target for Bitcoin in 2025. And quoting Max Keiser from November of 2011 he says Bitcoin has about 100 ,000 users now. My goal is to try to get that number up to 1 million in 2012. He also shared his short -term price target of $65 ,000 back in January of 2021 and lo and behold by November we smashed that price target. He now says that BlackRock agrees with my 220 ,000 interim price target for Bitcoin which he says is still in play. He also says by the time America catches up to El Salvador and starts buying Bitcoin the price will be over a million dollars per coin. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. yo what's good crypto fam this is first and foremost a video show so if you want the full premium experience with video visit my youtube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net again that's crypto news alerts dot net welcome everyone just joining us this is a live show as you know seven days a week welcome to the number one daily Bitcoin pod this is pod episode number 1420 just blaze today is October 3rd 2023 and the markets are correcting and consolidating after the recent pump let's kick off today's show with our market watch as we do each and every day you can see Bitcoin correcting down 2 .2 % trading just above twenty seven thousand two hundred dollars also ether is down trading at 1650 along with the majority of the altcoin market and checking out coinmarketcap .com we're still sitting at 1 .08 trillion dollars with roughly 36 billion in volume in the past 24 hours we've got the Bitcoin dominance which has recently been on the climb currently at forty nine point three percent with the ether dominance barely up trading at eighteen point four percent and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours we got gala leading the pack up almost seven percent trading at one and a half cents followed by conflux up three percent trading at thirteen point six cents followed by polygon matic three percent trading just under fifty seven cents and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week we can see ultimately a sea of green with a handful in I mean a sea I should say of red with a handful in the green with our LB leading the pack of roughly seventeen percent with the biggest losers being Bitcoin cash and Ave down collectively roughly seven percent and checking out the crypto greed and fear index one of my favorite indicators hence why I shared every day in the show we're currently rated dead in the middle with a 50 which is neutral same as yesterday last week was a 46 and last month a 40 in fear so there you have it how many of you are currently bullish on the king crypto let me know and how many of you are anticipating a low as I'm going to be sharing an analyst predicting a twenty thousand dollar price crash and we'll be breaking down everything in between so let's get it shall we and again welcome to everyone just joining us make sure to say hello in that live chat as this is a live and interactive show and at the end of the show I read everyone's comments out loud so let's break down today's Bitcoin technical analysis Bitcoin just hit six week highs to start off October but some forecasts still see the Bitcoin price returning to twenty thousand in which lo and behold there's a CME futures gap if you didn't know and while up around six percent since the start of last month and now circling twenty seven five Bitcoin is not fooling many with its current price behavior the Bitcoin price strength in the recent weeks has many market participants hoping for a push and even through thirty thousand resistance send it let's go for some there remains every reason to be cautious however in an ex post analysis published October 2nd popular trader crypto bullet reiterated that twenty thousand is still very much on the radar as the Bitcoin price target the latest trip to twenty eight six he argued is now forming the right hand shoulder of a classic head and shoulders chart pattern with the downside logically due to follow if it completes quitting analysts here second half of October should be bearish in my opinion the idea was built on an August roadmap with a short term upside target of twenty eight thousand before reversing towards that twenty thousand target let me know if you agree or disagree with the analysts I disagree I think we are bullish for this October and I think we're more than likely to continue up but it's good to cover all our basis is here now not all reasons headed heeded his warning with fellow popular trader you easy in particular skeptical of the likelihood for this scenario playing out crypto bullet however is far from alone when it comes to fearing that the worst for Bitcoin is over yet and one of crypto quants quick take blog posts on September 28th we had Wetson founder and CEO of crypto trading resource dominando crypto compared bitcoins performance between 2020 and 2022 quitting the analysts here between 2020 and 2022 Bitcoin underwent a notable appreciation region historic highs and capturing global attention however this phase was followed by significant correction that caused the prices to plummet sending crypto back to the lower levels say goodbye to your credit card rewards big -box retailers led by Walmart and Target are pushing for a bill in Congress to take away your hard -earned cash back and travel points to line their pockets Senate bill 1838 would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it if you love your credit card rewards visit hands off my rewards calm and tell them to oppose credit card routing legislation paid for by the electronic payments coalition now we also suggest that should history repeat a sub 20 ,000 level could resurface and an accompanying chart offered a fractal which now has been subject to a repeat quoting him again now in 2023 we are once again witnessing Bitcoin achieving over a hundred percent gains attracting substantial interest from institutional and retail investors nonetheless the market has recently experienced significant volatility and a downward price trend the similarity to the past raises questions about whether we are witnessing a repeat of the 15 ,500 USD if this fractal holds over the next few weeks which could result in a series of FUD and negative news in the crypto space furthermore there's a possibility of a redistribution where the price threatens significant highs but institutional profit -taking forces the price down creating the atmosphere of uncertainty in the market and as reported we also had another analyst rack capital who's demanding that the bulls step up to protect this support in order to avert the long -term retracement now for news as I shared in the intro of the show moving forward all crypto news alerts YouTube videos will have both English and espanol subtitles available and I'm currently working on a dedicated channel dubbed 100 % and espanol so we can serve our Latin community for the Bitcoin daily news let me know if this excites you and if you'll be one tuning in and also as shared here breaking news Stanley drunken Miller known as one of the most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street who has worked 6 .2 billion he says frankly if the goal bet works then the Bitcoin bet will probably work better how many of you believe that he is probably right let me know your honest thoughts fam in the comments right down below and with that being shared yesterday was a historic day for ethereum futures ETFs launching however they ultimately flopped with less than two million dollars in trading volumes across nine assets so let's break this down and discuss it shall we here we go check it check it check it the rush of excitement that accompanied the launch of nine new ethereum futures ETFs appears to have yielded little in the way of investment dollars in comparison October 2nd nine new ETF products which are designed to track futures contracts tied to the value of the ethereum native currency arrived on the market of these funds only five hold exclusively ether futures while the other four track a mixture of Bitcoin and ether futures contracts quoting Eric Balchunes right here unprecedented day today with multiple ETFs all launching at the same time no clear winner has emerged all of them were pretty average lower than I would have predicted but it's a long run and remember these hold futures ETFs investors much prefer physical to derivatives that's right we much rather prefer spot ETFs because there's nothing but manipulation and price suppression continuously occurring in the futures market all by design hence by the regulators decide not to approve anything spot related but they continue to approve the futures ETFs which blows my mind personally in total all nine ETFs witness less than two million dollars worth of trading volume which is essentially nothing as a midday Eastern Time on the first day of trading the most popular of the futures ETFs products were Valkyrie's Bitcoin strategy ETF which tracks the combo of Bitcoin and ether raking up a total of 880 2 ,000 worth the volume it's worth noting had already been trading as a Bitcoin only futures ETF since October of 2021 but then adjusted its strategy to also include ETH the first day trading volume of ether ETFs paled comparison with that of the pro shares Bitcoin strategy ETF which debuted October of 2021 one month prior to hitting that all -time high and during a roaring market for crypto assets obviously it witnessed more than 1 billion dollars in trading volume on its first day so Wow compare that 1 billion in 24 hours to less than 2 million in 24 hours crazy now Balchune has noted that compared to the regular traditional finance ETF launched the volume witness was actually quite a lot though investors tend to prefer spot ETF products over futures Balchune has explained that all the products were scheduled for launch on the same day as the SEC wanted to prevent any one fund from gaining market domination now what if the SEC decided to do the same thing with the spot ETF approved them all at the same time like whoa meanwhile a range of United States firms jostled for the pole position for the nascent ether futures market ETF firm volatility shares canceled his plans to list a similar product saying that it didn't see the opportunity at the current time well we all know this we're all seeking the spot ETFs those are the game changers and there is probably about a 95 % chance that the BlackRock Bitcoin spot ETF get approved in 2023 I mean 2024 we're in 2023 hopefully right before the having occurs scheduled to be in what is that April of next year roughly six months out as we know it's gonna trigger trillions of dollars cascading into the Bitcoin market and that alongside the Bitcoin having are the two biggest catalyst for 2024 and let's add a third bullish catalyst which is a supply shock as there's currently less than two million Bitcoin sitting on the exchanges and for these ETFs once they get approved for the spot they have to be holding the underlying asset so there's gonna be mass accumulation continuing by the whales not only in this fourth quarter of 2023 but collectively in 2024 as well so let's freaking go and with that being shared now for the Satoshi X saga going on and also I want to share with you Satoshi Nakamoto's secret letter which came from the shadows never shared before I've never read it I'm gonna be reading it in real time with you so let's break this one down shall we members of the crypto community have rallied behind a post on X calling for Elon to remove a profile claiming to be the fabled creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto and here's your prescription I know just the pharmacy to get this filled who are you a pharmacy benefit manager a middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get what you pay and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own no one should stand between you and your medicine visit ph RMA org slash middlemen to learn more paid for by pharma October 3rd the user posted saying that both the account claiming to be Nakamoto and account with the handle Bitcoin should be removed because they breached the platform's terms of service which says doesn't allow misleading and deceptive identities as predator shared here hey Elon Bitcoin and Satoshi accounts are in breach of your terms of service for using misleading and deceptive identities please remove their checkmarks I guess it could be confusing to people thinking it is an official Bitcoin account and we know there will never be an official Bitcoin account and an official Satoshi account which we all know there will never be an official Satoshi account he says you can't misappropriate someone else's identity without disclosing you are a parody account it is no different than making a fake Tesla or Elon Musk account and I think he makes a great point what are your thoughts chat let me know the true identity of Nakamoto has been subject of discussion and the Bitcoin and crypto community as we know since the inception Satoshi X account is reportedly run by a user named Andy Rowe who was claiming to be posting from a profile back in 2018 and on July of 2018 Rowe said he curates quotes for the Satoshi account as outlined right here the account had been quiet since October 31st of 2018 however October 2nd yesterday the account made a new post saying Bitcoin is a predicate machine and went on to explain that it would explore different aspects of the Bitcoin white paper over the coming months as Satoshi Nakamoto announced here on X now what are your thoughts fam let me know another user call for the accounts to be disabled linking or likening them to how X responded to the account with the handle internet yeah interesting the Bitcoin creators true identity to this day remains a mystery what many people over the years claiming to be the true Satoshi the most prominent of which is fake Toshi Craig right now let's discuss this particular letter which recently surfaced from the shadows allegedly from Satoshi Nakamoto check this out fragments a Satoshi secret identity the genius responsible for the birth of Bitcoin has resurfaced shedding new light on the creation of the world's first crypto this revelation comes in the form of an email and bearing the date August 22nd 2008 we all know the Genesis block was I believe in January of 2009 now the email director to computer scientist way die offers a captivating window in the nascent stages of bitcoins creation a journey that would go out to profoundly alter the contours of the global financial realm this recently unveiled correspondence serves as a valuable historical artifact shedding light on the intellectual exchanges and collaborative efforts that paved the way for the development of Bitcoin by delving into this previously hitting piece of communication from Satoshi to way day we gain invaluable insights into the genesis of the revolutionary crypto a technology that would ultimately disrupt and redefine traditional financial paradigms worldwide so let's discuss it in the email Satoshi expresses profound admiration for way dies be money page indicating a strong connection to dies groundbreaking work in the field of digital currencies Satoshi goes on to reveal his intention to release a comprehensive paper expanding upon dies ideas ultimately culminating in the birth of Bitcoin now let's read the actual letter you can see it's dated here August 22nd 2008 sent at 438 p .m.
The Crypto Conversation
A highlight from XEROF - Cryptoassets with Swiss Precision
"Hi everyone, Andy Pickering here, I'm your host and welcome to the Crypto Conversation, a Brave New Coin podcast where we talk to the people building the future in the Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Hey team, we have a new sponsor here at the Crypto Conversation, BitGet, one of the world's leading copy trading cryptocurrency exchanges. Yes indeed. What happens if you've got the funds to invest but you don't have the time to keep track of the market? You still want to make smart money moves? What do you do? Well, copy trading is a popular choice for beginner traders. You can shorten your learning curve by uncovering tips and strategies from more experienced traders. BitGet's copy trading platform has over 80 ,000 elite traders to choose from and 380 ,000 followers just like yourself who are already using the BitGet copy trading platform as a potential passive income stream. All it takes is one click, you can subscribe to an elite profitable strategist, set your limits, automate your orders and monitor their trades. I've got some links in the show notes below, one link will take you through to the BitGet sign up page, give you a VIP discount. So learn all about it for yourself thanks to BitGet. And now it is on with the show. My guest today is Mark Taverner. Mark is the CEO and co -founder of Xerof, a financial services provider bringing Swiss precision to crypto assets. I like it. Hey, welcome to the show, Mark. Thanks, Andy. Pleasure to be here. Let's do what we do at the beginning of the show. I'd love to hear just a little bit of your personal and professional backstory. What has led you to where we are today, Mark? Wow. Okay, Andy, I'll be super brief. So fresh out of university, I founded a fax modem distribution business. This is back in 92. And the reason I founded that business was because I saw the potential for what we now know as the Internet. Back then, we didn't call it the Internet. It was a bunch of bulletin boards and various other gatherings of individuals using technology to communicate. And many of my friends chastised me, questioned me and asked me the question, why do you want to try and build a business that send faxes to people? They just didn't get the vision that I'd seen about the power of the Internet. So I launched myself into that business using my credit card to buy stock, smiling and darling every day and selling those fax modems I was buying into small companies that were popping them into PCs so that individuals could join these bulletin boards and start exchanging ideas, content and discussions between each other. And the reason I did that was because, as I said, I saw the power of the applications that could be built on top of the Internet for basic things that we really take for granted now, like estate agents being able to show pictures of property to geographically dispersed audiences and all the rest of it. And from that foundation, I became hooked on the application of technology. Shortly after that, I joined what went on to become the world's largest conference call company. I spent nearly 15 years with that management team building that business where we were realizing the vision of an application on top of the Internet, which is the ability for people to collaborate with each other across distance, not just in audio, but in video and using documents as well to work real time in a collaborative way. And it was during that journey that Bitcoin came on my radar. So I retired from corporate life and a knock came on my door one day where the question was, have you heard of Bitcoin, which I had. And in 2014, I jumped with both feet into the world of blockchain and Bitcoin and began working with what became one of the world's largest Bitcoin miners. And then from there, you could say I got the Bitcoin crypto and blockchain bug. So there's just a little potted history, Andy, to speak to your question. Yes, thank you very much. Yeah, and that was Bitfury mining that you were with for a while, wasn't it? Yeah, that's right. And so we'll bring us up to date then, Mark. So Xerof then, give us, I guess, a little bit of background, love to just hear the brief origin story and the vision for Xerof. Yeah, super well, the origin of Xerof really. I guess it has its foundation in the role that I took after I left Bitfury when I went to become the founding CEO of a trade association supported by the European Commission, whose role was to act as a bridge between the blockchain industry and governments who were developing regulation. And at the time, the European Commission, the European Parliament were just talking about a piece of regulation that's now quite well known, called the marketing crypto assets regulatory package, or MICA, as it's known. And I did two and a half years working, translating the requirements of about 170 blockchain companies that we had as members into language that the governments and regulators could understand and vice versa. And around about that point, I was having a conversation with Nick Tigrentakis, my co -founder at Xerof, and we suddenly realized that there was a real need for corporations, individuals and high net worths who had exposure to crypto assets, but wanted that bridge back to traditional finance and vice versa. And that friction point was immense to the point where both myself and Nick, my co -founder at Xerof, were having to wait sometimes up to six months to be able to open accounts with institutions and organizations who were providing that bridging service in a compliant way. So we saw a real space in the market for a company, and this is how we founded Xerof, to lead with a compliance and regulation first approach to deliver professional services that remove the friction between traditional finance and crypto assets in a compliant, professional and precise way. And you could say that the nucleus of the idea that started Xerof really hit us front and center between the eyes. During that period, I spent working at INATBA, the International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications, and helping to do that translation between the blockchain industry, government and regulators. We just saw that the friction points were not going away, but we saw the importance of regulation was gathering pace, and therefore we understood that to try and address some of those frustrations that existed between the innovators and those institutions who wanted to gain access and exposure to this marketplace, the timing was kind of right to launch Xerof. Yeah, very good. And so headquartered in Switzerland, hence the Swiss Precision tagline. Explain a little bit about, I suppose, your separate or related target audiences really. Who is Xerof aimed at, and are these different users primarily in Europe, I presume? They can be in Europe, or they can be worldwide, Andy. The thing about the crypto asset business is it's truly global. You're back to the example I gave you of the fax modem business. I saw the opportunity for services to roll out on a global basis. So our customer base operating, as you quite rightly say from our base, our proud base in Switzerland, where we're licensed and where we have a real business with real people in real offices, is to service high net worth individuals, businesses, and corporates who need a solution that simply works. So we provide that bridge between a world of traditional financing crypto assets and some examples of the types of services that we deliver to those audiences could be cross border payments. So we work with quite a large number of businesses who have a need, perhaps because they're commodity traders or they work in supply chain, and their need is to be able to make payments to their suppliers and customers very quickly for low fees and sidestepping some of those traditional frictions that exist in the regular world of banking. So we operate a process whereby to satisfy those cross border payment requirements for commodity traders or supply chain businesses, we might receive a relatively large amount of incoming fiat, that is a government backed currency such as US dollars, and exchange that into a stablecoin like Tether, USDT, so that the customer can then use that USDT, Tether, to pay their suppliers and customers super, super quickly, without any friction and massively reduced fees and thereby increase the velocity of the cash of the capital that they're using, which is majorly important for commodity traders and supply chain businesses, the quicker they can move their capital around, the quicker they can deploy it, and the greater returns they can create. So there's one example, I'll give you just two or three more if that's okay, Andy. Of course.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from IDL84 Part 3 Chapter 40 Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales Discerning Hearts Podcast
"Part 3 Chapter 40 of the Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales. This is a Discerning Hearts recording read by Corey Webb. Chapter 40 Councils to Widows Saint Paul teaches us all in the person of Saint Timothy when he says, Honor widows that are widows indeed. Now to be a widow indeed it is necessary, one, that the widow be not in body only but in heart also. That is to say, that she be fixed in an unalterable resolution to continue in her widowhood. Those widows who are but waiting the opportunity of marrying again are only widowed in externals, while in, will they have already laid aside their loneliness. If the widow indeed chooses to confirm her widowhood, by offering herself by a vow to God, she will adorn that widowhood, and make her resolution doubly sure. For the remembrance that she cannot break her vow without danger of forfeiting paradise, will make her so watchful over herself, that a great barrier will be raised against all kind of temptation that may assail her. Saint Augustine strongly recommends Christian widows to take this vow, and the learned Oregon goes yet further. For he advises married women to take a vow of chastity in the event of losing their husbands, so that amid the joys of married life they may yet have a share in the merits of a chaste widowhood. Vows render the actions performed under their shelter more acceptable to God, strengthen us to perform good works and help us to devote Him, not merely those good works which are, so to say, the fruits of a holy will, but to consecrate that will itself, the source of all we do, to Him. By ordinary chastity we offer our body to God, retaining the power to return to sensual pleasure, but the vow of chastity is an absolute and irrevocable gift to Him, without any power to recall it, thereby making ourselves the happy slaves of Him, whose service is to be preferred to royal power. And as I greatly approve the counsels of the two venerable fathers I have named, I would have such persons as are so favored, as to wish to embrace them, do so prudently, and in a holy steadfast spirit, after careful examination of their own courage, having asked heavenly guidance, and taken the advice of some discreet and pious director, and then all will be profitably done. Two, further all such renunciation of second marriage must be done with a single heart, in order to fix the affections more entirely on God, and to seek a more complete union with Him. For if the widow retains her widowhood merely to enrich her children, or for any other worldly motive, she may receive the praise of men, but not that of God, inasmuch as nothing is worthy of his approbation, save that which is done for his sake. Moreover, she who would be a widow indeed must be voluntarily cut off from all worldly delights. She that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives, Saint Paul says. A widow who seeks to be admired and followed and flattered, who frequently balls in parties, who takes pleasure in dressing, perfuming, and adorning herself, may be a widow in the body, but she is dead as to the soul. What does it matter, I pray you, whether the flag of Adonis and his profane love be made of white feathers or a net of crepe? Nay, sometimes there is a conscious vanity, in that black is the most becoming dress, and she who thereby endeavors to captivate men, and who lives in empty pleasure, is dead while she lives, and is a mere mockery of widowhood. The time of retrenchment is come, the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. Retrenchment of worldly superfluity is required of whosoever would lead a devout life, but above all, it is needful for the widow indeed, who mourns the loss of her husband like a true turtledove. When Naomi returned from Moab to Bethlehem, those that had known her in her earlier and brighter days were moved, and said, Is this Naomi? And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, which means beautiful and agreeable, call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty. Even so the devout widow will not desire to be called or counted beautiful or agreeable, asking no more than to be that which God wills, lowly and abject in his eyes. The lamp which is fed with aromatic oil sends forth yet a sweeter odor when it is extinguished, and so those women whose married love was true and pure give it a stronger perfume of virtue and chastity, when their light, that is, their husband, is extinguished by death. Love for a husband while living is a common matter enough among women, but to love him so deeply as to refuse to take another after his death is a kind of love peculiar to her, who is a widow indeed. Hope in God while resting on a husband is not so rare, but to hope in him when left alone and desolate is a very gracious and worthy thing, and thus it is that widowhood becomes a test of the perfection of the virtues displayed by a woman in her married life. The widow who has children requiring her care and guidance above all in what pertains to their souls and the shaping of their lives, cannot and ought not on any wise to forsake them. Saint Paul teaches this emphatically and says that those who provide not for their own and specially for those of their own house are worse than an infidel, but if her children do not need her care, then the widow should gather together all her affections and thoughts in order to devote them more wholly to making progress in the love of God. If there is no call obliging her in conscience to attend to external secular matters, legal or other, I should advise her to leave them all alone and to manage her affairs as quietly and peacefully as may be, even if such a course does not seem the most profitable. The fruit of disputes and lawsuits must be very great indeed before it can be compared in worth to the blessing of holy peace. Not to say that those legal entanglements and the like are essentially distracting, and often open the way for enemies who solely the purity of a heart which should be solely devoted to God. Prayer should be the widow's chief occupation. She has no love left save for God. She should scarce have aught to say to any, save God. And as iron, which is restrained from yielding to the attraction of the magnet, when a diamond is near, darts instantly towards it as soon as the diamond is removed. So the widow's heart, which could not rise up wholly to God or simply follow the leadings of his heavenly love during her husband's life, finds itself set free when he is dead to give itself entirely to him, and cries out with bride and the canticles, Draw me, I will run after thee, I will be holy thine, and seek nothing, save the savior of thy good ointments. A devout widow should chiefly seek to cultivate the graces of perfect modesty, renouncing all honors, rank, title, society, and the like vanities. She should be diligent in ministering to the poor and sick, comforting the afflicted, leading the young to a life of devotion, studying herself to be a perfect model of virtue to younger women. Necessity and simplicity should be the adornment of her garb, humility and charity of her actions, simplicity and kindliness of her words, modesty and purity of her eyes. Jesus Christ crucified the only love of her heart. Briefly, the true widow abides in the church as a little March violet, shedding forth an exquisite sweetness through the perfume of her devotion, ever concealing herself beneath the ample leaves of her heart's lowliness. While her subdued coloring indicates her mortification, she dwells in waste uncultivated places, because she shrinks from the world's intercourse, and seeks to shelter her heart from the glare with which earthly longings, whether of honors, wealth, or love itself, might dazzle her. Blessed is she if she so abide, says the holy apostle. Much more could I say on this subject, but suffice it to bid her who seeks to be a widow indeed, read Saint Jerome's striking letters to Salvia, and the other noble ladies who rejoiced in being the spiritual children of such a father. Nothing can be said more, unless it be to warn the widow indeed not to condemn or even censure those who do resume the married.
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast
A highlight from Blockchain Capital's Spencer Bogart on the Future of Crypto and DeFi
"Welcome to The Defiant. I'm your host, Tegan Kline. Today we delve deep into the mind of Spencer Bogart, partner at Blockchain Capital, aka the creme de la crypto. Spencer has played a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of decentralized technologies and digital assets over the last decade. We get into his journey, impact in the blockchain sector, their investment thesis around the controversial world coin, and how he's continued to thrive among economic downturn, many economic downturns. And we get into their recent news, this just in, of $580 million for two new funds. But first, Spencer tells us about the history of the firm. The firm has definitely been around for a long time. We're actually fortunate enough this year, we're celebrating our 10th anniversary. So it's been 10 years of solely focused on venture investments in blockchain industry. You know, it's two of my partners today, we're, we're amongst the original co -founders, that's Barton Brad Stevens. And so they founded the firm a decade ago, and really just with a thesis that the industry was going to be much, much larger than it was at the time, and that we were going to see it expand far beyond Bitcoin into other networks and other types of assets. And they said, listen, instead of just, you know, playing from the sidelines and owning some of the assets, we'd like to actually go ahead and invest in a venture firm. And when they couldn't find one to invest in, they said, let's go ahead and start it. And so they, they set out, they raised fund one, and they did, actually did something very unconventional, which I'm glad I wasn't there at the time, because I don't know if I could have been supportive, which was, let's go launch an asset management business, a venture capital firm that charges no fees. So for the first fund, they charged no fees, no carry, nothing, which, you know, on the surface is a, a silly decision, right? Like you can't start a business that doesn't make any money. But in hindsight, it was part of their, their long -term vision of let's not focus on trying to maximize on the short -term opportunity here. Let's build out a platform that, that is going to be enduring and be able to capture the upside of the industry over a much longer period of time. Amazing. And I'm sure that that helped build rapport and relationships. Can you speak to that? Yeah, for sure. I mean, so, you know, for some of the early funds, it was great because, you know, a lot of their pitch was really going around to the other founders in the industry, right? Because like there was not a lot of, there were not even very many family offices or high net worth individuals that were interested in investing in a venture fund that was dabbling in this crazy thing called cryptocurrency. And the firm at the time was actually called Cryptocurrency Partners.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from Time To Buy The Dip On These Altcoins? (LAST CHANCE)
"The market is finally showing signs of life and many altcoins are now starting to break out of their month -long downtrends. So in today's video, I'm going to discuss what altcoins I am looking at this week. I've got a variety of long setups for you. I've also got a couple short setups that I want to share in today's video. And it's funny, every single Monday I do the Watchlist shows, right? But they don't get that many views. You can see in front of you last week, I only got 4 ,000 views on the show. Yet, in my opinion, they are my most alpha -packed shows of the week. Because if we just look at last week as an example, there were many trades here which we nailed. I mean, Bitcoin, I pretty much said it was going to move sideways for the majority of the week. That is what happened, although we did get a pump in the last couple of days. LINK, I said that I was expecting us to move up heading into the conference. And then the conference could be a local top. Well, we've certainly gotten a massive move up. Now is the conference. So proof will be in the pudding when it comes to that one. But we did get the first part right. Arbitrum has pushed up massively in price. So we got that one right. OX, I was a little preemptive when it came to DCAing. That's one we can talk about later. But they have had a massive correction. And if you like OX, it could be a DCA opportunity. OP as well, I said they weren't looking as strong on a relative strength basis versus Arbitrum. And I was waiting for PostUnlock to reconsider my positioning. And I mean, pretty much you haven't missed out on a relative basis versus ARB, which has been the stronger trade. And it's all about opportunity cost in crypto. And then Frax has performed very well. And I said I was buying some Frax as well. So mostly hits when it came to the watchlist last week, 80 % hits. The only one that I did take a slight knock on was my DCAing into OX, which obviously did end up dropping. But on all the other coins, we pretty much have traded them pretty well. So that's why I believe that the Monday shows are so important. If you're not watching them, I recommend watching them every single week because this is where I go through my plans for the week. I talk about the old coins I'm interested in. I talk about what I'm seeing in the market. And it's really important. It's a great chance for us to reset and chat one on one ahead of every single week. And this week is looking to be a little more lively than previous weeks. And it comes on the very important day for Bitcoin, which is the beginning of Q4. So October, now we are officially in the Q4 period. And actually historically Q4 is the best quarter for Bitcoin. And specifically October and November are the best performing months historically for Bitcoin. You can see in front of you, October is the second best performing month and November is the best performing month for Bitcoin. So it's funny that we've kicked off Q4 in style with a very strong Bitcoin move to the upside. We've now started to break above that key 200 EMA level, as you can see here. Although last time we did break above and then we deviated below and then we didn't end up having a daily close above. So this is really what you want to keep your eye on now. Can Bitcoin actually close above and then look to use that as a launchpad to push into that major zone at 30K? That's obviously going to be the next question. Or will it close below again? Only time will tell. We'll know obviously within the next day. This video is prerecorded a few hours before it goes live. So we will be approaching daily close at that point and we will need to monitor this level. But I would like to see a few days continuously above. Just one daily close above oftentimes isn't strong enough. You often want to see multiple daily closes above and it just forms some sort of support basis, a substantive basis for Bitcoin to spring to the upside. But let's not get too much into the Bitcoin discussion because we have lots of altcoin talk today. And my plan on various altcoins I want to discuss with you in today's video. So as you can see, the market is up today. The market is up this week. Arbitrum, one of the best performers that we talked about in last week's watchlist. Solana, one of the best performers. I'm going to get into my thoughts on Solana in today's video. This is one I also called on my Twitter when I said that I thought that the pre -dump was going to be greater than the actual selling event. That is what happened. And we ended up timing the bottom pretty nicely on Sol. So overall, it's been a great couple weeks of trading, but let's get into today's one. The first thing I want to talk about is Ethereum. I think it would be remiss of me not to talk about the leader of the altcoins, given the fact that it's primarily an altcoin video today. Ethereum showing some interesting signs here, starting to push into this range high territory. It has pivoted nicely off those lows at 1540 and never quite got down to that major structural support level at 1422. And it's actually started to respond and show signs of a reversal here. Range high does correspond with the 200 MA. So that's going to be your major resistance level. Only time will tell whether Ethereum has the strength to break through there. But that is a heavy level of resistance. So if it does get rejected there, I would not be surprised. I probably wouldn't be longing ETH into resistance. But I do find more interesting is the ETH BTC chart. It did get rejected off its major resistance level. However, this is a level that it did an SR flip back in July. This is definitely a key level for ETH. If you're looking at ETH, maybe outperforming Bitcoin on a relative basis over the next couple of months, that would be your level that you really need to reclaim. This was a trade that I was in. I got stopped out. I mentioned that on the show that I did about my ETH pair trade at 62 here. But this may be a trade I get back into if we flip and confirm above this major level. So that's what I'm watching on ETH BTC. And it comes at a time where the ETH futures ETFs seem to have gotten approved, which is obviously great news for Ethereum. But we are still hanging out for that Ethereum spot ETF. Lots of speculation now about an ETH ETF. Lots of speculation also about a Bitcoin ETF. Very interested to see what happens over the next few months when it comes to ETFs. Looks like Bitcoin will be pushed forward into Q1 2024, given the fact that we got a slew of delays last week. But the Ethereum ETF is another one to keep your eye on. And the Bitcoin ETF would certainly be precedent for ETH, although ETH is on a lagging basis versus Bitcoin, typically regulatory -wise on about an eighth to, I would say, 16 months lagging basis versus Bitcoin. Now let's get a little more degen now that we've framed the market. We've looked at ETH. ETH BTC is interesting. We've looked at Bitcoin and the key levels there. Now let's get into some of the alts. Got longs, I've got shorts, and I'm going to go through this rapid fire. So I'll probably be speaking really quickly, but I want to get the alpha to you and not waste your time with 40 -minute shows anymore. First one's Radiant Capital. I like Radiant Capital long term because it's one of the only bonafide proxy bet plays for the layer zero airdrop, which is going to be in Q1 2024, most likely alongside Stargate. So Radiant's one I like. Lots happening on the third. So Radiant's one that I've been accumulating, and this is one in my watchlist every single week on the show and on my Twitter. I've been quite public about the fact that I've been accumulating spot, and I actually did buy some spot at the support level at 22 and added a little bit more lower towards the 19 to 20 zone. In terms of Radiant from a TA perspective, we have broken above major resistance at the 24 cent zone, although we have had a very explosive move to the upside. So personally, with my spot positions, I've started to unload a little, and I do think we may see a mean reversion back down into this zone here at the 24 cent level. I mean, if the market keeps pumping, clearly Radiant can pump up until this next resistance level at the 30 cent zone. But for me, at some point, I do think there is a significant amount of liquidity here that I think is logical that Radiant comes back and captures. So for me, that's why I've just started to offload a little bit, and I'll continue to offload out, ladder out if we go up in price. And I may even look to short Radiant if I have the balls to do it over the next few days. I need to firstly wait for a confirmed reversal and breaking of structure on the lower time frame, because obviously I don't take trades on the daily time frame. I would take it on the one hourly or four hourly. So that would only happen once you start to do something like this and reverse under and make a lower high. And then maybe I'll look to get into a short position. But until then, it's all longs and Radiant from a long term perspective, irrespective of the short term trading opportunities. For me, remains a good one to DC into on major pullback. So that is my Radiant update. It is definitely a token to watch this week, given the fact that they have their main net, but by the rumor, sell the news, maybe, maybe. And that's why I'm being cautious and offloading some spot. Let's get into Solana now. This is the talk of the town. This has been one of the market leaders over the last couple of days. And that comes off the back of a few different reasons. Firstly, the fact that there was a massive shorter that got liquidated and that caused a short squeeze to the upside. So this massive whale got liquidated on a huge Sol position. And also the fact Galaxy didn't end up selling any so far Solana from the FTX liquidation. So I did a tweet on this. Actually, I said, as bearish as the one Bill Sol liquidation seems at face value. And this was back in September, a month ago, the majority of the Sol's locked. Gallancy are incentivized to sell for the best possible price. There will be a $200 million a week cap on FTX sales. And I wouldn't be careful shorting. And pretty much this was spot on. In the end, the pre -dump was greater than the actual selling event. And once again, it's another reminder that peak FUD equals peak opportunity in crypto. I did a tweet saying I was buying Solana and Matic during the Robinhood sale FUD event. And that ended up being the local bottom. And I did another tweet again saying, I would be cautious shorting here, given the fact that we could likely see a pre -dump greater than actual selling event. And that's exactly what happened again. We saw the FUD, so the market's fear to do with the selling actually accelerate the downside quicker than the selling could actually be priced into the market. And no, there hasn't been any material selling of Sol yet. So this is another reason, a contributing factor as to why Sol pumped massively in price. A lot of people were anticipating selling and we didn't get major selling. So Solana definitely is one to watch. This isn't really one that I'm that interested in shorting. Maybe only if we start move up here into the $26 zone and then you may get an opportunity to short at range high. But for me, this is mostly looking bullish and Sol's one I've been stacking spot for quite some time. So any major pullbacks, I'll continue to look to add Sol at these key horizontal levels that I've laid out here. If you are looking at a leverage trade, I think you've missed the major trade. You would either wait for mean reversion back down to the 200 MA, then maybe you could long that's around the $22 zone if Bitcoin is still structurally holding up. And then the X level is obviously that short at $26 .5. So until then, we're in no man's land, but this is the hottest token. And it's funny seeing everyone suddenly liking Sol again after fighting it a couple of weeks ago. All of a sudden the price pumps, everyone likes it again. And that's something that Rand pointed out in his tweet. If you're looking at getting additional confluence with your trades on top of your TA, one tool that I've been using is Kyber AI. For Solana, it's a bit weird because there's only wormhole Sol. So it's not native Sol on the Solana What you can do on Kyber AI is you can see the Kyber score so you can get a bullish momentum score. This can tell you the momentum of the token based on on -chain analysis. Something I like to do is look at the changes in trading volume. So if I want confluence for a long, I'll look in a reversal from trading volume going from large sell amounts to flicking into that bullish territory where you start to see more buy volume kick in and vice versa. On the short side, I'll look for reversal from the buy into the sell zone. So Kyber AI is a tool I've been using to help my on -chain trading and you can also see here net flow to whale wallets. This gives you an idea as to whether whales are buying or not. So positive net flow where it's more green than it is red indicates that whales are buying and then if it's more red than green that's called negative net flow and that generally means that whales are starting to sell. So also interesting to see what whales are doing when it comes to positioning themselves in tokens and that's something I also look at when it comes to trading. But yeah it's not just soul that you can look at on Kyber AI. There's a bunch of other coins as well and if you actually go to their bullish section or their bearish section you can see the most bullish coins of the day. Kanto is actually one of them. This is one that fundamentally I've been doing some research into and I really do like as a project based on the limited research I've done so far and you can see that this is heavily in bullish territory and if you look at the on -chain analytics you can see buyers are starting to ramp up and we also seeing the trading volume to the buy side starting to ramp up as well. So yeah you can basically look at the most bullish coins and the most bearish coins for the day and this can help you become a much better trader. So yeah Kyber AI is one tool that I thought I would mention today in the context of this watchlist given it's a more trading centric show I guess although we are incorporating fundamentals of course as usual as per my you know normal show structure. But if you do want to use Kyber AI there's a link in the description and for every crypto bounty member that uses the link we're going to give you early access because if you're in the general public it's very hard to get access because there's a huge wait list that can take weeks to get approved. We are going to expedite approvals for crypto banter loyal viewers so link in the description below. If you do want access to Kyber AI it is a free tool so I'm not shilling you a paid service it's a free tool that I think can really benefit everyone and yeah of course Kyber is a sponsor of the show and they've been a great partner to work with because I believe they built an amazing AI product. Let's get into some of the other coins these are really interesting link especially very interesting trades being one of the most bullish coins over the last week or two and I actually have a controversial play here I'm thinking of picking off a short on link and I'll explain why even though a lot of people are starting to long link maybe this will bite me in the ass but I'm going to tell you why and I'll also give you my invalidation.
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Touching the whole world of communications, Infobip democratizes interactions between business and people, Infobip Podcast
"This is Doug Greenin. I'm the publisher of DR Publications. I'm very pleased to have with us today, Ivan Mestajevic, who's the Chief Business Officer of Infobib. Ivan, thank you for joining with me. Thank you for having me with you. Thank you for recording this live at the Mobile World Congress Las Vegas 2023. It's been a great show. I understand you just came back from doing a speech during your presentation. Yes, I just had a presentation in the industry city. What were you speaking on? So I was actually telling how two megatrends that are colliding now, technology megatrends like generative AI and rise of super apps like kinds of WhatsApp, rich messaging are transforming industries. financial And what are we seeing there? Well, I'm going to look forward to hearing a little bit more about that in just a second. Ivan, could you tell us what is Infobib? So Infobib is a cloud communication as a service company with a global footprint. So we are present, our services are present more or less in all countries of the world. Last year we touched two thirds of all mobile devices in the world and we have physical offices in 77. So we have truly global footprint and one communication platform where companies can come and satisfy all of their communication needs. So it's businesses and communication between businesses and people. So that's also our purpose to democratize future interactions between businesses and people. So to be very concrete, if you're an Uber and you want to go hundreds through and thousands of telcos, you'll come to a company like us, connect, and we'll manage your communication in a safe and secure way. And in the same way like we do with SMS messaging, we have all other channels, voice, email, video, various chat channels, social media messengers, so all there. And then that's not enough. We are bringing one integrated end -to -end platform that can enable businesses to build engagement flows on these channels, like customer journeys. They can enter deep into the channel and build flows within the channel. So with all of this at hand, we are helping businesses also transform their digital customer journeys. So I understand with all this work that you're doing, you've actually gotten recognized by Gartner as a leader. Yes, we are very proud of this recognition as a leader. We are the leader in the latest and first inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for CPaaS, and it comes as a recognition of everything we've done. We haven't invested a lot in marketing because we're an engineering powerhouse. Jokingly, sometimes people within companies say for every dollar that somebody invests in marketing, we invest too in engineering. But I think the testimonials from our customers around the world and in the United States, as well as the breadth of the capabilities that we have with the channels, with the platform, with the engagement tools I spoke about, and magnitude of various use cases across industry verticals that we've done, got us there. So we're looking forward, driving further digital change with our customers based on that. And to get that recognition as a leader doesn't just mean that you have very innovative ideas, but it also, I think, means that your solutions are robust. Yes, very robust. So actually that's an interesting part. I'll spend three minutes explaining. So we are actually a so -called true full stack CPaaS provider. So by Gartner's in a cloud communication, the stack has kind of five layers. So we run extremely powerful infrastructure. I would call it like a hyper network where we are linking 850 telcos around the world into that hyper network. So we can channel communication like voice and SMS and MMS. These telcos, we are connected with major chat app providers. And then we have 43 data centers around the world, 40 are running in our private cloud because the volume, but also requirements for security and compliance, the communication we run need to be super secure and we need to control this. So that's kind of that very solid, rock solid infrastructure layer. On top of that, we have channels and these channels are managing extremely large volumes. So in the United States on Black Friday, in one day, we're managing around 3 billion, close to 3 billion messages through the network. And there is no delay. Everything is delivered perfectly. And then, as I said, we have around 18 to 20 channels, depends how you count, anything from SMS, MMS, social media messages and so forth to video, voice, email, et cetera. So it's one stop shop. But it's not only that. What makes it even more robust is we are working with major B2C platforms like kinds of Microsoft and so forth that serve other businesses. So we built a platform layer to automate their work and provision communications rapidly to them. And then on top of that, the fourth layer, we have all end to end platform that helps people automate their marketing in conversational chat channels that provide customer support within the chat that build various chatbots, generative AI bots, rule based bots, intent bots in these channels. And finally, we have a big ecosystem of partner that is exposing their partners, that's exposing their product in our exchange layer. So just to give an example, embedded insurance is one of those examples. If you're using messaging to book your travel somewhere, you can integrate from our exchange this API for embedded insurance and you can offer insurance in the same flow. Very easy to build. So that's kind of, sorry, it might be overwhelming, but it's a pretty kind of robust platform. It's very crowded in infrastructure. You have channels, but then you have tools that can help you extract so much value from these channels. You know, it's interesting to talk about the evolution of communications channel now, that you're one of these companies that millions of people have done business without knowing that they've done this. Yeah. You mentioned Black Friday, you know, millions and millions of customers, people just, you know, use your ideas and projects seamlessly and take it for granted that they've been able to do commercial things. It just has to work. It just has to work. So yeah, let's talk about that because that is part of, I think, that bigger picture. You know, we are here at Mobile World Congress. Where do you see it all going? What are your comments on evolution of communications? So I heard something today in a panel where I was, it's very technology mega cycle because many different tech trends are colliding like cloud and edge, like network and 5G. But the two most important one for our industry is the rise of generative AI and the analytics and rise of so -called super apps. So the fact that like WhatsApp is now much more than a messaging channel. It's not just an app, it's a super app. It's a super app. You can do commerce, you can do payments. It can be like a currency in a way. There are others that are really providing same or similar experience like Apple messages for business or iMessage for business, Google messages. Those are these Google messages on your Android phone and various other, you know, smaller providers around the world. And some allegedly through the press, some others contemplating to enter this space like Twitter. I think with these two trends, you all of a sudden are creating what I call a third pillar of digital transformations for companies. So, you know, you have the physical branches, let's say banking, that was my speech. That was yesterday. Today everybody has like a web portal or a platform and then an app and some omni -channel. I think that's the second pillar. So digital and then the third pillar. So apps and web are two pillars and I think the third pillar of digital transformation will become these conversational experiences where you can build very seamless, very cool customer journeys in chat channels for consumers. It'll feel like talking to a friend, talking to their favorite brand and all of this can be largely automated through use of AI. So you can get into like your favorite iMessage app and say, hi, I want to find a football match or a baseball match in Las Vegas. What's today on the program? And it'll, you know, the bot will respond and say, hey, here's what's on schedule today. Do you want to buy the tickets? You will click and you buy tickets there in your messaging app. That's what I'm talking about. And my speech was some work with some major banks around the world where we actually completely built out this third pillar of digital transformation in addition to apps and apps in the conversational channels and experiences that we had. And just to say, because I think you already might be interested, the conversions and marketing cases are two, three, four, even up to fivefold versus what you get with best email and messaging marketing and customer service. This is actually kind of almost oxymoron. We reducing cost 30 to 50 percent while increasing net promoter score three to fivefold because you don't need to wait. You can take resolutions rapidly. So that's kind of the impact that this will have. So that's where the communication, I think it'll go. You know, Evan, you know, we're here again at Mobile World Congress, very competitive market, lots of companies that are kind of summer partners and so on. How do you position Infogib? It seems like you're more of a cooperative company as opposed to, you know, very competitive. Very good question. So in one of the previous reports, Gartner actually put us in a category that is called co -creator because we work with others and co -create solutions. So fundamentally for me, there are two philosophies, especially in tech space, how you can approach things. So one is like big mega platform companies that own 80 percent of anything, and then they're sort of small plugins on top of them, but they're taking the whole cake. And the other one is more an ecosystem approach where you tie up multiple partners to create value for end consumers. So these partners would be telcos from a network perspective that could be tech providers that brings everything together and then vertical, let's say, solutions or players that are working to deliver that value. And I see more Infogib in a second camp where we really want to build an inclusive ecosystem where we can work with partners to co -create solutions for our consumers. And that sort of liberates human creativity, doesn't it? It creates new markets and new ideas and things nobody's ever thought of as opposed to, I like how you said that, cornered markets. Yes, I actually strongly believe in that we're just at the beginning building things together with our partners, but I really believe that yes, that'll allow small, medium, big companies just to work together and accelerate that cycle of innovation. Ivan, I really want to thank you for joining me today, taking some time out of a very busy show here, learning a little bit more about Infogib and really learning about your actual philosophy and your approach to the market and all your innovations and so on. Where can we learn more about your company? Where can we learn more about Infogib? So we are present on all social media, our website Infobip .com. I think it gives a first preview on what we do and then from there you can contact us and have a deeper discussion. Ivan, I'm looking forward to our next podcast together but for now thank you very much for joining. Thank you for having me, I enjoyed our conversation.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from How to Turn $3.2K to $313k with Crypto (Altcoin Degen Tales)
"A trader flipped $3 .3K up to $313 ,000 in just 19 days. This is crazy money, and ex -user dealer .eth shows us how they made it happen. Watch until the end for how I plan to integrate this strategy into my trades. Let's discover crypto. These trades were insane, and they were all in meme coins. It's the Vegas casino of crypto where you either get rich or get wrecked, and there are only a few people who really know how to do it. This trader got in early, and I think the reason they were able to do this is they were watching live pairs for new coins, doing some easy research and just simply buying early. Now, no one is sure, but this seems to be the most likely way this person was able to make a 1000 % gain in just over two weeks. So what happened? It started with a big buy. Six billion fined tokens on the second day of listing, making five purchases totaling about $30 ,000 that ended up netting him just under $149 ,000. This mega swing trade took about seven days to make a huge profit. They sold and then bought another fine specimen of blockchain tech called Real Smurfcat. This one they bought within its first hour of listing. It 3Xed $18K into well over $50 ,000. Real Smurfcat went on to do another 150 % move to the upside from there, but this trader had already moved on to greener pastures by then. This shows you you don't have to time the exact top or even close. They then bought $8 ,000 worth of Super and $15 ,000 worth of Curve NU plus a few extra random meme coin tokens. A few of them popped while some of them went back down to the gutter they crawled out from. These are meme coins, so as always, the wins can occasionally be huge, but the mini losses are generally bigger. The token Curve NU generated 150 % gain while Super or Supermarket price, it fell flat. The action in meme coins is light right now, but there are gains to be made and, of course, heavy losses, too. Now, this trader is an outlier because it's almost all losses in S -coins. The huge wins are the glory stories, but the losses can leave you reeling. So back to it. The rise of Pepe was the last mega meme coin pump, but sh** coin groups are still out there pounding the pavement trying to find the next big win. Now, this is not financial advice. You should know that already. I personally don't really trade meme coins unless the meme's power is just undeniable. Like I said, most people that buy meme coins at the very least get wrecked and the price goes down. Sometimes they even get honey potted and can't sell once they buy or even click the wrong approval and get their wallet drained of crypto and NFTs. It can happen, trust me. If you want to go to the crypto casino, many traders just go to dextools .io, live new pairs tab, but rest assured 99 .9 % of them are going to zero, so be careful. Trading new live pairs is like touching a live wire. It's basically paying the ETH gas fees to try your luck on a new token that just hit the Ethereum blockchain. Almost all of them are scams, but it is possible to find a good one that has an active community, committed devs, a website, and social channels in place to drive up the price. Looking at this wallet, I'm guessing that's how they turn $3 ,000 into $300 ,000. But the size of the bets is telling me they knew they picked coins that had a chance of winning. Whether that's from doing research or being part of a meme coin community is speculation, but live pairs is definitely the way to get in early. And again, in case I haven't driven this point home enough, it's also the way to get wrecked. So, yeah, it's a mean world out there, but occasionally there is serious money to be made. Crypto is full of possibilities. Look, that's all I got for now. I'll see you at the top.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1273. Ethereum Built on Bitcoin | Spiderchain Layer-2 INTERVIEW w/Botanix Labs
"All right, so today we're going to dive into Bitcoin, but not in the normal and usual way. Actually, we're going to break into possibly an alternative for Bitcoin through an Ethereum EVM. We'll talk all about that today. You guys are going to love it. My name is Paul Veron. Welcome back into Tech Path. Joining me today is Willem Schrow, who's coming over from Botanics Labs. So, great to have you. Great to meet you all. Great to meet you, Paul. Hey, Willem. All right. So first, let's get into just in general what you guys are trying to do with Botanics. Give me kind of a breakdown. Yeah. So Botanics is actually a layer two on Bitcoin, but it is fully EVM equivalent. What that means is any of the applications that you see on Ethereum today are now possible on Botanics and are possible on Bitcoin. So with any of the applications, suddenly you will see Bitcoin instead of Ethereum. And so we bring the whole world of the EVM to Bitcoin and we bring the whole world and the capital of Bitcoin to the EVM. So why bring EVM to Bitcoin? What's the core behind it? What are you guys trying to solve in terms of just the overall technical aspect? Yeah, very good question. Well, it went back like a year where we tried to figure out where is this whole crypto infrastructure going to go to 10 years from now. And very interesting, we saw like a paradox play out. On the one hand, you have Bitcoin, which is the biggest market cap and still considered by many the one and real decentralized reserve currency. And on the other hand, you have Ethereum and the EVM with so many applications built on top of it. And how do you fit these two together? And basically what we saw play out is, OK, Bitcoin, almost no applications on top of it. And the EVM, which is what powers Ethereum, is actually where all the applications are built upon. And you can actually take the EVM part and put that on top of Bitcoin. And suddenly you can use all the Bitcoin that you have and you can use it in the applications that you find on Ethereum. OK, all right. Is it a scenario where Bitcoin benefits more or does Ethereum benefit more in this particular scenario? In this scenario, because we are fully on Bitcoin, so the whole protocol will run on Bitcoin, you will use Bitcoin to buy NFTs, you will use Bitcoin to be in DeFi indexes. Bitcoin is here, the big winner, and our applications that we want to bring are really to the Bitcoiners. All right. So I was looking at your website and on the how does Botanics work, and it gets into the spider chain. You know, I'm kind of highlighting that on screen right now. But the question I have for you is the difference between the spider chain and what Layer 2 Labs is doing with their BIP sidechain, because we've had Paul on before talking about, you know, what Layer 2 Labs does and what sidechains do and how they would kind of change the dynamic. What is the difference between what you guys are doing and them? Yeah, so the end goal is actually very similar to bring the EVM or other sidechains to Bitcoin. However, the approach and the technology is very different. Drive chains need a Bitcoin soft fork, so they need an upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol while we do not require any soft fork. So the spider chain is actually possible on Bitcoin today, which is a big difference. So in reality, this is actually a proof of stake. And so the random subset of participants are all stakers. So anyone in the world will be able to run the full protocol. Anyone will be able to stake and then the decentralized multistake will basically choose random participants out of that staker set. And so right now we are fully building it. I actually saw the testnet run this week. We will go public with that very soon and then we will start building towards the main net. Now, one of the things that happens when you run proof of stake on top of Bitcoin, it also means that in the very initial phases, when you have very little Bitcoin staked, you are very vulnerable to an attack, basically someone coming in with 5000 Bitcoin, taking over majority control of the stake and attacking the platform. And that's why we will start off federated in a more centralized way. We will be like liquid basically on Bitcoin, have some federated partners that we work together with until there's sufficient activity in win and we can make the full protocol permissions. All right. I think that's a good step, you know, because you're right with these kinds of things and this kind of scenario that would make it a little bit of a thing at risk. All right. So when you look at both Bitcoin, what we've seen in terms of the core, the core devs on Bitcoin, very reluctant to change over the years. And then you look at the evolution of what's happened within the Ethereum ecosystem and it's the exact opposite. They're just a constant, you know, throw of new devs. There's a constant new innovation happening, a test of all sorts. I mean, when you look at Bitcoin and Ethereum, is Bitcoin ever going to catch up in terms of dev activity and real movement to become something of a true currency or at least the use case of currency? Because I think that's obviously for Ethereum what ETH seems to be trying to achieve. Bitcoin ever going to catch up here? What do you thought? Yeah, I think Bitcoin itself as the Bitcoin protocol, I don't think so. It's most important for Bitcoin that it's decentralized and secure. And so that also means not a lot of upgrades. I think for all the layer twos and a lot of applications that are built on top of Bitcoin, absolutely. I think we are going to see a very big explosion of applications and layer twos in the coming years. And maybe to go further on to that point, I actually believe a big portion of the differences between Bitcoin and Ethereum is because of their foundational beliefs, which leads to a culture difference. Like the Bitcoiners, they align more with decentralization is the first principle that matters the most. The Ethereum proponents align more as a first principle. It needs to be composable. It needs to be a virtual machine. And then you have, for example, people who like Solana more, they say speed is the other most important. Same for Monero and privacy. Now, out of all of these properties, I would say Bitcoin as being the layer one for reserve currency is the most important. But all the other properties who are also very valid and have reached product market fit, you can bring them on top of Bitcoin as a layer two. And that's what I think will happen. Yeah. So in terms of the user experience on on spider chains like this, is this going to be different from other layer twos that would play into this? Yeah. So in terms of user experience, we have optimized for that and we think it's going to be extremely easy to go on to Botanics. For people who have used Arbitrum, Botanics is going to feel like you're bridging from Ethereum to Arbitrum, exactly the same. We will provide you with a certain Bitcoin address you send from any wallet, any exchange, any cold wallet, Bitcoin to that address. And boom, you have Bitcoin in your metamask. I like it. Which is that is so bizarre to see how this is going. As far as timeline, when you look at the current progress you guys have made so far, what the roadmap looks like. I'll get to the roadmap in a second. I'm just kind of curious, just from a framework of timing here, you've got a halving coming up. There's going to be a lot of acceleration around Bitcoin and its use, along with a lot of people getting into it, just recognizing Bitcoin for the first time. How long before this could potentially be a real solution? Yeah, it's very interesting. Development, as long as you're not online and the blockchain is not fully running, can go really fast. So our iteration steps, our testing process are going very fast to the moment we will go out with a testnet this month in October. And then after that, we actually are very happy with the timing that the Bitcoin halving is coming very soon because we actually aim for the mainnet by the Bitcoin halving. So mainnet basically means you will be able to use it. You will start having all your favorite EVM applications, but using Bitcoin with it. So explain to me, Willem, how Spiderchain would be different than, say, something like Stacks, you know, building obviously with ordinals playing into this. How is it and what are the core attributes that would make it different? Yeah, two big differences there. So Stacks runs on the Stacks token, Botanics runs on Bitcoin. And a second big difference is we are fully EVM equivalent. What means that any application that is built on Ethereum is able to be deployed, plug and play, copy paste on top of Botanics. OK, so we have a lot of Bitcoiners on our show, people who just think it's kind of the only way. And then we have a lot of people where I would say we're a neutral network. You know, we look at people that are really into Web3 and the development of what's going on with Bitcoin, along with other projects that are in the layer one camps, especially if you think about even Cardano and Avalanche. But you look at Bitcoiners and they're very, very centralized into the, I should say, the culture, not decentralized, obviously, as a platform, but the culture itself kind of has one vision. Have you had a lot of pushback from Bitcoiners in general? Yeah, more than I expected, actually, and the biggest pushback is actually on the EVM part, even though our whole protocols run on runs on Bitcoin. So I expect that a lot of Bitcoiners to actually fully love this. A lot of the pushback has been on the EVM, which is the Ethereum virtual machine. And it is actually because of the connotation and the bias that they have with Ethereum. But you actually argue that the EVM is a hugely powerful virtual machine and actually think the EVM has won out what we call the virtual machine battle. We think a lot of the applications that we're seeing have been built on virtual machines and the EVM is the biggest virtual machine out there. Yeah. Is there, in terms of support, where is that coming from for this project? Yeah, very interesting. It's everyone who aligns with our vision that says, like, OK, we see Bitcoin is the currency, but it's very good at being digital gold and being very decentralized and secure. But then on the other hand, they also love the EVM. They also love playing around in DeFi, on DEXs, by NFTs. And so it's basically someone who is active in the application ecosystem, but still holds Bitcoin in there called Wal -Mart. And so these two visions, they're not mutually exclusive. You can build the EVM on top of Bitcoin. And those are the people who we've seen the most support from.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from This Project Is Solving One Of Crypto's Biggest Problems...
"In today's video I want to dive a little bit deeper into a crypto project which is solving one of the biggest problems in crypto right now and is also offering some of the most attractive yields in the market allowing its users to access incredibly high APRs via a custom algorithm that allows users to earn passive income. Today I'm going to be covering Smartdex which is a leading innovation for liquidity providers and traders who want to stay ahead of the game. I'm going to run you through the unique features of the protocol and unpack why their technology may be game changing in the crypto sphere. For full transparency Smartdex is a sponsor of the show and we do thank them for sponsoring the channel as well as this video. Let's get straight into it. So if you've ever used DeFi before you may be familiar with the term impermanent loss. Impermanent loss is something that happens to liquidity providers when providing liquidity on an AMM DEX where price of one of the assets that you've paired with each other in order to stake and earn yield moves against the price of the other asset on a relative basis which creates a spread which can result in an impermanent loss of your total LP size. So let's say you have $100 in ETH and $100 in USDC. Because USDC is fixed if Ethereum moves up or down in price that liquidity pool has to balance to keep equal value of both parts of the pool. So essentially what it's going to do is sell some of your Ethereum and buy USDC to make sure things are balanced if Ethereum pumps and if the price of Ethereum dumps it will do the opposite. Your USDC balance will go down in order to replenish your Ethereum balance but this happens automatically that's an oversimplification when you provide liquidity into a pool which is pooled with a variety of other people's assets. So impermanent loss is quite annoying because even if you're earning crazy high APRs like 50, 60, 70, 100 % you can still actually end up losing money because if you have volatile assets especially if you're staking altcoins they can move against each other in price and make it extremely difficult to not only monitor your positions but also maintain profitability even in the face of extremely high APRs. Well SmartX has come up with a solution to this problem and in my belief it's the only DEX product that's been able to solve this problem in crypto using a proprietary algorithm and what they're essentially doing is with a fine -tuned algorithm transforming impermanent loss into impermanent gain. I'm going to show you some mathematical examples to show you exactly how this works. As you can see SmartX compared to your typical AMM like Uniswap actually performs very well in this instance of the Ethereum liquidity pool versus its counterpart when Ethereum fluctuates in price and despite the Uniswap pool actually going down in value the SmartX pool over this period actually gained in price because it was re -pricing in accordance to their fine -tuned algorithm. I want to give you some examples now using real simulations from SmartX to show you how it can impact price but firstly let's talk about how this actually works. Essentially what SmartX does is it concentrates liquidity on selling when price rises and on buying when price drops. This essentially mimics what a professional trader would do when managing an active position. As a result this reduces the impermanent loss over the long term and sometimes as we just saw in the example before leads to impermanent gains. I'm going to show you now a simulation table which shows this in action and actually shows SmartX has across this example an average gain of plus 21 percent versus a typical DEX where they experienced an average loss of minus 21 percent. So a huge difference here and you can see in a variety of examples here with varying start dates the SmartX performance with the LP position actually outperformed the normal DEX by a magnitude of difference. You can see here in the ADA example SmartX made 80 percent while the normal DEX lost 0 .02 percent and you can see the token price variation and how SmartX responds in accordance with a normal DEX and across most examples SmartX was able to handle the fluctuations in price much better when it comes to LP positions and this is due to their custom algorithms. So it increases the peace of mind when it comes to stakers on the platform knowing that their assets are at least going to be safer by and large than staking on a typical DEX in terms of the negative effects of impermanent loss and that's the real selling point and the cool unique feature of the DEX that's different from all other DEXs. You can see in front of you these are real examples if we click on it we'll take the ETH USDT pool as an example and look at SmartX versus Uniswap, Uniswap v3 as well and you can see here that in this instance across this pool SmartX has maintained an impermanent gain of 7 .1 percent whereas Uniswap was only able to maintain a gain of 3 .18 percent and actually after fees and rewards they ended up net negative at minus two percent whilst SmartX averaged out at plus 1 .27 percent and Uniswap v3 performed even worse close to minus four percent and I can go through a bunch of examples on Arbitrum. The Arbitrum USDC pool on SmartX performed much better than the Uniswap pool coming in at an impermanent gain of three percent versus an impermanent loss of minus 0 .2 percent in the case of Uniswap v3 and this is pretty much consistent across most pairs across the major AMMs are Wrapped ETH USDT, Arbitrum USDC, you can see the example on Matic USDC as well and USDT BNB as well and these are some of the primary networks that are offered on the SmartX exchange. So what can you actually do on the SmartX exchange? Well it's a couple cool features but one of the main awesome things is the crazy yields that it is paying out to users and these aren't fake Ponzi yields of course there are some emissions on the platform but it's not like a Ponzi scheme like Olympus DAO, this is a real AMM with real functionality and they're able to offer extremely high APRs due to their algorithm so I want to show you some of the features and what you can do on the platform. The first thing you can do is swap just like any AMM of course liquidity providers enable the functionality of swapping on the platform so I'm in the Arbitrum network right now I can swap from Ethereum into a variety of assets on the platform as well I can hop into the Ethereum network I click switch network here and now I can swap you know my USDC for other Ethereum ERC20 tokens SHIB, APE, SAND so just like a normal DEX you can do swapping here and of course they have very competitive rates across some of the major DEXs in the space but here's where it gets way more interesting in the liquidity tab here you can create a new position in order to stake your LP in their farm tab so if you click on farming you can see here across their networks they have many different LP pools that enable you to earn very attractive yields with big multiplier bonuses so for example their wrapped Bitcoin ETH pool is paying 10 % their STX TET pool is paying 9 % their STX ETH pool is paying 25 % but as we go into some of the layer 2s the yields get even better if we go over to the Arbitrum network which is a popular layer 2 network you can see the Arbitrum USDC tokens paying 17 % their Bitcoin STX tokens paying 30 % if we go into the BNB chain we can see USDT BNB is paying 14 % ETH STX 42 % USDT STX 50 % and of course you have to work out whether you want exposure to the STX token I can't work that out for you if you like the token and you're bullish on it then of course it can make sense to stake take advantage of the crazy multiplier and earn those ROIs but it all depends if you're bullish on the token if you don't like the token you don't have to stake it you can stake with any assets that you do hold for example you know you can pair your Ethereum you can pair your BNB you can pair your Bitcoin as well it really depends what asset you do want to pay you can see there's an ETH USDC pool here paying 20 % on base so some of the most competitive yields in the space considering yield overalls dried up the ability to earn passive income is super strong on the SmartX platform for some of the reasons we talked about before and if you do want to add liquidity it's as long as you have ETH and USDC in your wallet for this example on the base network you go over to liquidity you click on new position you add ETH and then you add USDC as well you add them together you click add liquidity then you go back into the farming section of the platform and you stake your tokens there to earn yield now not only can you earn yield on the platform but SmartX and Crypto Banta have actually teamed up together to give a very special offer to Banta users if you stake a minimum of $50 worth of liquidity across any of the layer 2 networks so that's Polygon, Arbitrum, BNB or base then you enter the running to win a $200 airdrop which we are issuing to five random people each week and we even did a one Ethereum giveaway a few weeks ago so we're constantly varying the prizes each week but if you want to be in the running for these prizes then you need to submit liquidity using the link below and provide your wallet address in the Crypto Banta form that is also linked in the description below so once again $50 worth of liquidity into any of these pools allowing you to earn passive income and also enter the potential giveaway to win $200 which five people will get and as we vary the prices we may change that to one ethereum or more in the future so if you were thinking about staking that is a little cool competition that we're running in partnership with SmartX.
Unchained
A highlight from The Chopping Block: Which DeFi Metrics Are Still Useful in a Bear Market? - Ep. 550
"Token economics can do way less than the industry on the whole has claimed that it's able to do and so for the most part I Sort of consider token economics to be a little bit of a dirty word today compared to how I saw it two years ago It's a tale of two fun. Now. Your losses are on someone else's balance generally speaking aircrafts are kind of pointless Anyways, I'm into trading firms who are very involved DeFi protocols are the antidote to this problem Hello everybody Welcome to the chopping block every couple weeks the four of us get together and give the industry insiders perspective on the crypto topics of the day So quick intros first we got Tom the DeFi Maven and master of beams Next we got Robert the crypto connoisseur and czar of superstate then we've got to ruin the giga brain and grand poobah at gauntlet And finally, I'm a seed that had high mana dragonfly So we're early stage investors in crypto But I want to caveat that nothing we say here is investment advice legal advice or even life advice Please see chopping blocks at XYZ for more disclosures Alright, so it's been a crazy couple weeks. There's been a lot of conferencing going on I think most of us minus Robert were at token 2049 in Asia I guess Tom and to ruin you guys are back in the States. There was also main net in New York What's been the vibe? Give me give me the brain dump of what conferencing has felt like in the last few weeks The u .s. Is dead as a doorknob for crypto It seemed like the u .s. Conferences had less attendance than they normally do amongst other things Whereas the Asia conferences were crazy like I just didn't think there were 12 ,000 people who wanted to go to a crypto conference in 2023 and clearly there was much more in Singapore Singapore was insane Yeah, I think token 2049 had more people than East Denver. Like it was it was pretty wild I mean it is like the premier event in Asia and it's sold out. Yeah It was gigantic venue, right? One of the I mean obviously if Denver was a very large venue as well, but it was it was it was absolutely massive Robert you were at permissionless. How did permissionless feel? I mean compared to prior years permissionless Felt, you know pretty quiet really high quality group of people, you know The conference goers that were showing up to a conference in Austin, Texas during a relatively hot week in September We're not totally like broad retail audiences. Most of people that were closer to industry closer to Happening in this space and a little bit more informed than you know, I've seen elsewhere so Small like token 2049 pulled a lot of people last -minute from permissionless I think a lot of people were planning to go and then decided like oh shit This seems like there's so much happening in Asia. I gotta I gotta go out there So I think the timing was a little unfortunate for permissionless, but there was a clip of Eric Voorhees Giving I guess what was like the keynote. It was pretty amazing. If you haven't seen it, I would strongly recommend watching it It's got like a couple million views or something and it's essentially just like a rallying cry Just sort of a credo of hey, you know screw the government Like we're trying to build a decentralized alternative financial system and it really kind of plucked to the heartstrings I don't know. Do you see that live? I did not see that live I actually had to take off right before that speech, but I was able to watch it online afterwards It reminded me a little bit of a his debate with SPF. I think like a year ago It was almost like it was like a month right before FTX collapsed and it was similarly kind of getting back to kind of the core Religion ethos of crypto is very we gotta get him on the show at some point He's definitely he's a very good bear market in a bull market I always feel like Eric is a little too centered and like too grounded bull markets They kind of demand a bit more craziness and levity but in a bear market I feel like he's got this gravity that is very clarifying You know, I really I really appreciate the role that he's come to play as like the elder statesman of the industry Any other takeaways from token 2049? I mean we were out in Asia for a couple weeks the videos have just started going up for token 2049 and I did one panel that I moderated with a bunch of l1s and It was actually probably the most entertaining panel I did I did I did several panels while I was out there But most of them were you know, they were great but this one we had it was Aptos we Avalanche and near all of whom were on stage and Goon who's been on the show a couple times Goon was just like he just basically was ready to pick a fight and so they just got on say they were scrapping they were like interrupting each other and getting super aggressive and It was honestly the most entertaining panel. I think I've ever moderated just from how angry everyone was on stage So any other any other highlights or anything that stood out to you guys while you were giving talks or or moderating? How about being on stage but I'll say there was a bit of a bizarro world moment with them token for 2049 too Where obviously a lot of high quality projects a lot of good representation throughout the industry and then there were a lot of random products I'd never heard of that had these like massive, you know Sort of neon lit up boots that they clearly spent a bunch of money on I believe Islamic coin was one of the large sponsors I am a not an Islamic coin expert, but there was another sort of meme floating around They're doing a public crowd sale for Islamic coin at reportedly a 30 billion dollar f .d .v I think it's like 60 million dollars raise a million dollars wait, so it's Yes, but they went on on Twitter to explain that this is a 100 year f .d .v And so in reality the the near -term f .d .v. They're nothing into is not near -term f .d .v So, um, you're the more than the near -term market cap I think we need we add we need to add some extra f .d .v Numbers in into coin gecko just so we can start the near -term f .d .v long -term f .d .v You know, I think an interesting thing related to this That's a tiny deviation but important to note is the history of finance Actually has had a lot of things where the introduction of a new met financial metric as a form of reporting Completely changes company structure like EBITDA, right? like why does EBITDA exists like earnings before income tax depreciation depreciation amortization and it's like Because it was this some company that was losing money and they started reporting EBITDA instead of like true profits But that kept them afloat for long enough to raise financing and then EBITDA now became like the accounting standard over time Right, so I kind of think that these f .d .v games We're gonna just see this like war of all these metrics and whichever metric is like the market wants will eventually be the standard and everyone Will just try to optimize that. Yeah, this is 100 % what happened to TVL Yeah TVL in principle makes sense as a number right, but how do you count TVL? Do you count your own token? Do you count wrap versions of your token if somebody wraps your token and puts it back in your protocol? Is that double the TVL like, you know? DeFi llama just decided how TVL gets counted and then the rest of the world just warped around the way that you know These metrics decided to get reported and you of course you saw that on Solana where like all these people were recursively Kind of putting TVL from one protocol back in another one back in another one Now I think we've gotten better at not double counting triple counting But you know back in in 2021 when DeFi was in full thrust It was just whatever goes like that's TVL the other chart crime that exists is that I really irks me is when people show cumulative charts instead of like instantaneous charts it I just like kills me I Will say as a VC let this be like a little one -on -one lesson as a VC. We absolutely hate cumulative charts We understand that cumulative charts look good So for those who don't understand a cumulative chart normally when you have a chart you look at look Here are the number of transactions every day, right? cumulative chart is here is the total number of Transaction volume ever if you add it all together and the nice thing about cumulative charts is that they look like they're going up Into the right always no matter what because they're adding, you know It's like the number of how many trades have been acting positive number. Yeah, exactly The problem is that it is useless to look at as a VC We as a VC and you look at a cumulative chart What I assume is that your actual chart looks like dogshit and that's why you're showing the accumulative chart So in general don't show cumulative chart. However, if it's a chart with multiple dimensions shown if it's a cumulative chart and a daily or time period flow Together then it's cool. Is it? You know, I'm already doing the first derivative Okay, let's say let's say you have a daily chart and it's like net inflows We're like some days are positive. Some days are negative. Some days are positive. Some days are negative You don't know the total you find that that's a net chart not a cumulative chart So if you're netting, you know gains and losses and you're getting like P &L or something like that We're net inflows and flows that's not a cumulative chart. That's very different because that does not go up into the right I agree. No, no, I think Then it's well Complimented with a cumulative on the other access behind it. I Net and cumulative are two different things. I did see it. I agree. That's just a U .M. We should have a chart crime episode The truest of VC true crime it was inflows prefer for friend tech, but they didn't take out the outflows So it was literally just any deposits in a friend tech added to the chart And so of course you assume you're gonna be looking at a net chart And in fact, it's any sort of deposit, you know adds to the overall chart, which is kind of a useless metric chart crime chart crime Any other any other chart crimes that come to my lungs are on the topic? I think these like feed accumulated ones where they're like people who are like trying to annualize I think people annualizing certain types of fee accrual and crypto sometimes makes no fucking sense because it's very event driven like oh Like there's a ton of fees from one event and then like zero forever But they always like choose the right time scale so that they can say like we have at least X of fees Like I understand how integrals and derivatives work and you're just trying to play with the boundary conditions Yeah, I mean I saw a lot of this in 2021 when a bunch of people like a bunch of businesses that had a bunch of random core businesses but almost all of them had tokens on the balance sheet and those tokens went up and they counted that as revenue and So they're just like, oh, you know, I had 50 million of revenue this year And if you charge that forward, you know another 50 next year and it's gonna ramp this much I'm like dude your core business made like 3 million and 50 million just came from tokens going up on your balance sheet. Like that's not your business, you know, so that I mean It's kind of charty. I don't know if it's a sharp crime per se but it's like EBITDA, right? Like I think crypto still is so nascent and the idea of like what should count and what shouldn't and what flows are it's still Kind of an open thing of like what the accounting should be, right? So I kind of think I'm kind of curious what EBITDA like the thing that becomes a like meme that sticks That's not TVL and that that's not just like fees What do you think you guys think it is because I do feel like this bear market My prediction is this bear market will end when we have invented what that is like the last bear market ended when TVL started becoming a metric and then people started monitoring it and like not gaming it as much and It was just kind of going up slowly. I feel like the Solana stuff came to even more where it was like, oh Here's the metric that everything's measured on So what if we come up with these crazy ways to like that's usually the end of a bubble, right? Like like once when it goes not the creation of a little baby That was like that was like the kickoff of the book I know I don't know but my point is like once you start getting kind of a shelling point around a particular metric It doesn't get gamed for a little while Like there's like a certain amount of time where it like it becomes a good real standard bearer But then someone eventually realizes that it's the thing to game and then you get this like kind of capital bubble around that So like AI you're having that happen with tokens per second right now Which is also a fucking useless meaningless thing because like the choice of architecture means the tokens aren't really the same There's not fungibility of them. Sure. I think it feels like right now There's a more and more fixation on revenue. And so you're seeing like, you know token terminal if you're looking at there's just revenue There's annualized revenue. There's price to sales price to earnings. So it does feel like we're sort of Morphing more closer to traditional revenue and underwriting metrics, which is a good sign However, these metrics aren't totally normalized in the sense that you know, for example for Uniswap Does Uniswap have revenue like obviously the token holders aren't capturing anything so the revenue is flowing entirely to You could say like cost of goods sold is like 100 % because all the revenue is going to the liquidity providers I would say, you know One of the biggest issues is that you have like protocols that are not businesses and people are trying to strap like business metrics or accounting metrics on them and they're just not like Ethereum Bitcoin like people are like, oh like, you know fees paid like is that revenue? No, it's not revenue, right? Like I don't think anyone thinks that like the transaction fees on Bitcoin or revenue. Are they on a theorem? No, but like I've seen platforms that like talk about That alongside something like Uniswap and it's like none of these really makes sense It's just like someone trying to build not to knock anyone particular company But someone trying to build a company about standardizing data is like, oh great Let's like standardize how we look at everything and I don't think it fits personally I don't think these protocols living on top of blockchains are necessarily businesses or need business metrics. I don't think it's that helpful I think like projects and For success like how many people are you know doing X Y & Z and like it won't always translate to the thing What do you think are metrics that should be adopted in lieu of? You know revenue or price of sales or whatever all the stuff that people are doing to try to account for You know particularly in defy I think for layer ones. It's a little more nebulous I think it comes down to exactly like what the protocol is, right? So like a great example is even taking two things that like seem like there's the same Let's say like Uniswap first like synthetics Well, both of them are for trading like, you know, one of them, you know is for trading spot tokens And one of them is more like derivatives, right? So like would you say like total notional traded like that might look crazy, you know to use that as comparison like I guess my point is like even two things that look the same are gonna be vastly different when you think about how you judge them or measure them and so All I'm trying to say is like, you know, let's slow down and not trying to come up with one size fits all metrics I don't think there is some like EBIT type But they will love defy broadly it trying and and when people get any shelling point on one of those That's when you see capital formation happen because it's like hey look there's this metric we can optimize it we see the growth curve right like growth implies you have a number or a set of numbers and a derivative like a gradient and The gradient can go up and you're like, yes or more money in it and I do feel like there's like a Psychological human behavior element to this and crypto somehow plays with that in a lot of ways and that that's some of its beauty Is that the fact that it kind of plays with these I think the revenue thing also is like a good I agree like it's really difficult to sort of compare across different types of companies, but generally it's a good heuristic for Understanding like product market fit and desirability just showing willingness to pay right like you can't fudge it because I'm literally burning money I'm spending money to use this this protocol saying something with like, you know net dollar retention at revenue retention overall It's like user retention Like yeah like it I think that's generally sort of a good heuristic because it's showing that if people are actually using these things consistently because they want to use it not because ideally you sort of you're tying out the I'm inclined to agree with this is that although it is an abuse of nomenclature I think you're better off thinking of protocols as products and thinking about like if you can just applying very kind of dumb Simplistic like yeah, they don't work perfectly, but they're way better than just like finger in the air What's TVL and kind of how do I feel like the vibes are trending for this particular protocol? I think it at the very least it keeps you honest if you look at the era Pre when people had concrete metrics that they were looking at like protocol revenue and things like that There were just a lot of things that had you know, take for example, then you have and you had 4chan economics Whatever was posted on 4chan was the truth totally totally and also like not looking at like net of emissions Looking at like willingness to pay net of emissions Like you just end up with this crazy town where it's like Oh, there's basically like a negative cycle where people are making money by using your product You're like, wow, I've parked my good fit There was basically an entire year where every hot product in crypto was that it was people it was being like wow Look how much adoption this is getting when it's really just people clicking a button that pays them every second to be very fair That is it's like it's so funny enterprise SAS bubble also had the same thing It was just the way the capital is distributed.
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A highlight from #464 How to determine Bitcoins value? The most important parameters!
"Welcome to The Crypto Show, your podcast for everything around crypto, blockchain, bitcoin, and more. Here is your host, international blockchain expert, serial entrepreneur, and investor, Dr. Julian Hasp. Are there parameters that you could look at that tell you if Bitcoin's value is going up, or sideways, or down, or is the only thing that we can look at price? Hey, welcome to this video. My name is Julian. On my channel, it's all about making you crypto fit. I discuss the beautiful world of decentralization, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, general investing, and much, much more. I try to kind of look at this from different angles. On the one hand, as a CEO of a large group operating in a crypto space. Obviously, as an investor trying to increase my purchase power, as someone who works with various regulators, and so I try to bring every, like a little bit of an aspect to that. If you look into normal investments aside of crypto, then all these investments, as soon as they are liquid, have a price, right? Then you can track this price. It's very, very easy. But Buffett always says, price is what you pay, value is what you get. So the question always is, how can you look at value? And there are different metrics, ideas, what you can look at. In general, we have cash flow in things like stocks, like bonds, like real estate. And what happens normally is you look at how much cash flow is produced, and you look at how valuable is this cash flow. For example, if interest rates are relatively high, that cash flow is not as valuable because it's very easy to get cash flow simply by lending money to the government, for example. If interest rates are relatively low, this cash flow can be very, very interesting. But in general, you look at cash flow. With some other companies, you look at even more, some more fundamental things, right? For example, a Tesla, Tesla key metric is always how many cars are produced. And so obviously the more cars per week, for example, are produced, in general, you can say, well, Tesla becomes more valuable. With Amazon, this was very powerful in 2000 dot -com crash, Amazon price got slaughtered. But at the same time, the revenue numbers went up, the number of customers went up, the number of purchases went up. So it's undeniable that the value of the company went up while the price may have gone down. Well, this is cash flowing, so generally this is a bit easier. But when we think of non -cash flowing things, we could think of commodities, we could think of precious metals like gold, and we can even think of fiat. Yes, fiat is cash flowing, but most of the time that cash flow is inflation. And so it's also interesting to kind of counterbalance that. Sure, interest rate can have a net yield if it's higher than inflation, and some years this is the case, and in some years it's not the case. But we're going to look at all three. And then we're going to look at crypto, we're going to look at Bitcoin, we're going to look at Ethereum, we're going to look at DeFi chain, and we're going to look at some parameters there. So first, let's look at commodities. In commodities, we obviously have a price, there's no cash flow, but a couple of things we can look at is how much is this commodity actually used. So for example, if we look at oil, we can see how many oil -needing cars are out there, how much oil does the industry actually utilize. In general, and this is key here, this generally means that this commodity, or be it a rare earth or something, is used, so it cannot be put back into its original form. Now obviously this is important here when we talk about usage. Now with gold, precious metals is a bit different, because in general gold cannot be used up. It can be used, but it cannot be used up, because it's an element, and destroying an element is not really possible. Now you can transform it, but with gold this is very very uncommon. But we can look for example, how much gold is used for industrial use, we can look at how much gold is used for jewelry. Now in theory this can be undone, but industrial use of jewelry in general is not a price speculation. So this would be a very very clear utilization, and these are kind of parameters that we could look at. So the more the Indians or the Chinese are buying gold for jewelry, in general we can say the price can be very well supported by something else other than price speculation. Or if more iPhones are being built and they need gold, then well this also drives obviously gold usage. What about fiat though? Is fiat only kind of used for a price? Is the US dollar the only thing you can look at is relation to other currencies? No. The actual use of a currency is that of a unit of account. That's the prime and number one kind of metric. How much is the dollar used as a unit of account? And we have a very good metric for that, and that is GDP. The bigger, the stronger the GDP in general, the stronger the currency. The number one GDP in the world, US dollar, that is why it's the global currency. And other currencies obviously go up there as well, but in general this is the number one utility measure for all these things. So you do have very clear utility numbers for all these things. And then we have crypto. And in crypto, the number one metrics that we always see from people out there are price metrics. People look at charts, they look at moving averages, they have the $200 moving average, they have a 20, a 50, a 200 week moving average. They tell you that the price has never crossed those things. But to be honest, these are absolutely terrible to me, these are not really good parameters. They are just there because we are actually really struggling to find good parameters in the crypto space. And you will see this. Now I have separated the parameters into three different types, into those that are really terrible, those that are okay, and then the gold standards. Now the gold standards measure the actual utilization, and this is always the key, and you will see this. So let's dive in with this. And maybe before I do this, let me know what you think is the key metric to look at when we look at Bitcoin. What is the key parameter? What's the key measurement? How would you measure those things? So let's take a look here. Now I have four really, really bad ones. The first one, anything that can actually be easily gained by bots or by a cyber attack. And actually, Satoshi knew that, and that is why we actually needed mining because he knew that it was impossible to somehow measure those things. For example, anything transaction -based because transactions are actually relatively cheap to make. So you can do a lot, a lot of transactions, and it doesn't really tell you anything. Also, the value that's being sent is a horrible metric because I could send a billion left, a billion right, a billion left, a billion right, and it doesn't tell you anything. Daily active addresses, also very difficult metric to use. Otherwise, Satoshi would have used these kind of things and would have said, look, instead of burning useless electricity, you have to make a thousand transactions, so the more transactions you make, the higher your chance that you're going to find the next block. None of that is the case. So he knew that. Why? Because burning electricity is just really clear, but actually doing those transactions is not clear because it can be bots, it can be easily gained. Now, some people mistakenly think that the hashrate tells you a lot about as a metric. And this is just LOL, I'm sorry. Hashrate is a consequence of the Bitcoin price, not the other way around. Now, I get it. To a certain extent, you need some hashrate, right? Because if you have zero, then this network is not stable. But after a certain limit, it doesn't really matter as much anymore if the hashrate doubles, for example, right? Like at the moment, the network doesn't become more stable just because the hashrate doubles, or even if it halves, it's not half as strong. This is ridiculous, right? It's so, so, so difficult already to attack it. And at the end, hashrate is purely a service provider that the network pays. So the bigger the budget, the more hashrate there is. And obviously, it's hashrate times hashprice. So the hashprice has been going down. So that's why the hashrate keeps going up all the time, even though the budget actually keeps going down slightly just because hashrate is actually going up. So the key metric is not necessarily hashrate. So it would actually be the hashprice. That's the key thing. And it's absolutely useless to look at that because that's just a consequence of the price. So looking at hashrate is just a trailing parameter from price doesn't really help much. Again, looking at price itself is just self -reinforcing. Just think about use price as a metric. Then if it goes down, that means value is going down. That means you should sell, which would make the price go down even further. So absolutely useless. And then there's a lot of those blah, blah statements, right? That are absolutely not measurable. And people love having this like, oh, we need to measure decentralization or the best thing is decentralization or freedom or it's the best thing ever. But there's no metric. There's nothing you can measure. And so at the end, this is just people kind of bypassing that they don't really have a parameter to kind of measure. So these are the really terrible ones. When you see people kind of talking about those, it's either they have no clue, they haven't thought this through, or they just don't have anything. And it's a combination of all three of all those. OK, so let's look at the OK ones. Now, there's a couple of OK ones and they're not really good, but I think they are usable.
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Monitor Show 16:00 09-27-2023 16:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context, and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. It does feel choppy. That's AI at work, right? In the stock market, no clear direction there, but then you take a look at the bond market, the message is clear, yields are higher right now. Yeah, absolutely so, and as you appear to be the good driver, about half the stocks in the S &P are lower, about half the stocks in the S &P are higher, you put it all together, and the net effect is really a market that is unchanged on the day. Of course, it takes time for these numbers to settle, but right now the S &P 500, right around 4 ,274, which is right around where it was yesterday at the close, basically unchanged here on the day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average did move a slightly lower here on the day, down by about two tenths of a percent, the NASDAQ Composite higher on the day by two tenths of a percent, while the Russell 2000 is gonna finish the day. As the relative out performer, higher on the day by about 17 points. Alright, we're gonna get into industry groups in just a moment, but I do want to point Energy, really the out performer, this is oil jumps to a one year high, has to do with levels at Cushing dropping to the lowest since July of 2022. Again, the supply demand dynamics at play, but you know, Katie, I feel like we continue to talk about Energy being really an out performer. I'm gonna do that right now, you take a look at the industry groups, Energy up about two and a half percent, we all know the story, oil prices in particular through the roof, that's benefiting the equities as well. Capital Goods also saw a strong day, as too did some of the semis, and of course we're awaiting Micron results after the bell. You go down the list, there is more red than green, you can see down at the bottom, Autos not doing too hot today, and Utilities, interesting, one of your defensive plays off by about 1 .9 % today, Carol.
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"nets" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"One of the best defensive player of the year level talent, a 100%. I have spent untold podcast hours, bemoaning what he doesn't do well, what he does do well is push it in the open floor, pass, rebound, and play defense like a dervish who could switch one through 5 and you put him next to KD, who was one of the best defenders in the league as well. And now, man, that could be really something and also you don't need Ben Simmons to shoulder a large portion of the offensive output because you've got those two other guys there to do that. That could be something. I just want to push back on one quick thing. Counterpoint to you saying you're tired of the drama with the nets. As both not a fan of the nets and a content producer, pro drama, pro nuts, that's true. I take that back. As someone who said we were desperate for NBA news on our last episode, at least we got some, so I'll thank them for that, but just the longer this drags out, let me say, I like the drama, but the longer it drags out, the more depressing it gets. The sadder gets for sure. So at least give us something spicier. At least give us the actual trade, something. So we'll definitely keep our eye on that. That's an interesting development. Thank you, Sean for dropping that mid recording and not a few minutes after. Yeah. You wanted to see me miss swinton? Have you been hearing about the new government modernization efforts? AI, RPA's data science, things are changing at this agency, and people will need new skills. I'd like you to get some training. Look at this management concept catalog. Wow. Over 275 courses. That's right. And local classrooms or instructor led online classes. We still have budget in this fiscal year, so sign up online. Advance your career with courses for management concepts, get a catalog at management concepts dot com or call 8 three three 5 7 8 84 66. There's nothing like being
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"nets" Discussed on Winning Plays
"You go, no, yes, but, you know, I forget what he finished for the game last night, but at least in the first half, he was making him. And was a big part of, I don't know, I just felt like they controlled that game. There was never a loss of control where it was like the other teams going on a run. The counter punches were there, every single time, where the nets did close it to two or three points. And smart was probably bigger than anyone at the end of that third quarter when in that last minute. I think honestly, that might have been the game right there, Sean. I think the nets had cut it to three and smart comes down. He beats old friend Kyrie Irving on the offensive glass sneaks by him, gets to next time down, steel, pull up three for the perfect two for one and then jaylen Brown closes out the quarter with a steal and a dunk, 7 O run nets, just absolutely demoralized. And they weren't really able to climb back into it, at least threatened seriously after that run. Yeah, after watching so many games in the first half of the season where it felt like things would slip away in the third quarter to see that sort of response. And to see the resolve and getting a key defensive stop leading to a last second win in game one or a comeback win or in game two. And then this one was close and they just rolled..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"nets" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"They built the double digit we in the first half run. Go as well. But his impact was immediate. How'd you think he looked out there? You were there in person. He looks like rob. He really does. Throwing down a lob, making the rotations defensively. He got inside on Bruce Brown once on a, you know, one of those short row attempts by Brown, this is the play where Blake kind of dropped the ball and Brown ran it back for a dunk. That was robbed in my opinion. Fill in the lane and being an intimidating presence in there against ground. Now offensively, I think it's gonna take a little while because timing and verticality and those sort of things are what get him buckets. And that's all off right now just from being out for so long. But in terms of just being a presence and a defensive force, I thought he was right back to who he was. It's limited, John. It's a very all you wanted to see was him play and not look scared and be able to move. Everything else was gravy. You're building towards something big. Give me those digits. What's up? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll see you later. Y'all have no idea about Joe sway's game y'all. And I'm gonna just leave it right there. By the way. Speak on this, right? So you really don't want me to do that, Joe. Where's the Joe sway banner? You just make, you just pan that camera to your left or yeah, you're left. I thought I'm using myself, but I guess I know, hey, all right, yeah. So I got a bunch of girls. Hey, ladies, just keep it down. Show us almost over. I guess we're going on over here. And my girls had like 3%. So I got here just in time, and then. And the show, Joseph. 7 guys, 7 guys, he was in a nut with. Those are Jimmy's girls. Keep it down. So rob looked good. I'm still a story of the game. The story of everything for me is the absolute destruction of the nets. And watching KD and I mean barring, you know, game one with Irving, but watching Kyrie and KD absolutely shit the bed on such a big stage here is so surprising and so interesting. They might get blown out, John in game four. Bailout, we don't want to go to Boston. If the shots don't fall early, they're done. They're done. They're going to pack it up. Tells me they're going to fight for a and you know what? Do you guys think there's any chance Simmons plays? They should just play Simmons. No. Punishment for Simmons. Durant. Durant should sit in a clown suit and let Simmons play 40 minutes tomorrow on Monday. I mean, that's not what happened. I wonder if simmonds, I mean, is he even stood up for this team next year? I don't know what, I don't even want to talk about him. I don't waste anywhere breathing. Oh yeah, you said that like a half hour ago too. I don't want him to talk. We've wasted a year. This probably ends on Monday. We'll be back here and then we'll have a little break. You know, after that, so again, thanks for joining us. We dug it. We're back in two days. There's no more three days off here for that game. And that might be it. It might be a little break after that. So anybody predicting this series.
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"nets" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"But I just feel like there was another option out there. You know, it's a really help these guys to help guys like Kyrie and Durant. You're surrounded with shooters. And I just didn't see the sense in bringing someone like Ben Simmons. I get if you're talking about the student that we saw last year, but we don't know if that guy still exists as a player. We really don't. And I don't think it's beyond health at this point, or at least a physical. You know, I think it's a mental thing. And I just didn't see putting him in the mix of a team like the Brooklyn Nets, next to Duran and Kyrie, where, of course, yeah, they don't need him to score necessarily like they would have expected from James Harden, but if he's not all the way there, mentally. He's been a really tough spot in trying to catch up. I just didn't see that happening. You know, this season. Well, I mean, again, going back to James Harden. And he was going to leave and you were going to get nothing if you're broken. Right. And the worst case scenario, which is what you have now is that you get Ben Simmons, who is essentially going to help you next year. Not this year. I agree with you in the Sacramento stuff. I just thought when Sacramento made it clear that they were in business to break off parts of that team. That's the team I was going for. Halliburton is the guy. That I would have absolutely tried that. I was on that train. You put him on this team and I don't think this is a .30 series. It could easily be easily two one or three O the other way. I think he's that good, that impactful. But again, they did what too many teams, I think, tend to do, and that's they go for star power as opposed to substance. And the price for that. Kudos to the south because the Celtics have a better team. It's not even close. I mean, even without the three zero standing. Boston from top to bottom is a better team. And that's why Stephen actually even makes the game for I hope so. I hope so. I really hope I really hope he's around for game four. I really want him to be there for you. They should fire dash and let Kyrie coach and start Ben in game four. Well, it was saving some money 'cause Kyrie's coaching the team now anyway, so it doesn't even really matter. That's true. Multiple moments in this game where Steve Nash is trying to call something and kind of he's like, no, I'm good. Thanks so much. We're not doing. We're not doing that. Yeah. And that's just like, oh, okay. All right, cool. Knows that he's there because of Kyrie. I mean, it's just a bad situation for Nash. But the thing I point to Steven asks is, he screwed up when all those games that Kyrie missed were opportunities for him to establish his coaching style. Him to implement whatever it is that his imprint on the game would be..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"nets" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"That's the first time I think. That's the first time. It's the first time. Welcome, everybody. Good time. Welcome. Yes. I'm gonna welcome you. It happens all the time. Real quick, but real quick. Real quick, real quick. Real quick. Meal real quick. Me real quick. Hold on, let me say something. Regular season. Ten in 5, right? Wait, wait, wait, wait, real quick. Real quick. Real quick. Hold on. Against the best defense in the NBA. That doesn't make up for going up against Tatum and brown, you know, in this new found, you know, they've seen the light now on both ends of the floor and what an example of that by Jayson Tatum in particular today, right? Man, I've never seen Tatum play defense like that. I love it. Never taken one off. You know, I asked email about it, email was just like, well, yeah, he's been doing that all season long. I'm just like, yeah, but, you know, something that's something's changed in the last couple of weeks. I got tonight in game three was the best example. Not just because he had just because he had 6 deals either. You know, it's just defense. Everywhere, man. This is like change. Go ahead, Bobby. It went to the next level because he's playing a listless team that sloppy that isn't connected that has no. And he smells it. He knows it. He knows the I mean, you saw Brown pass at one point. It was just a mess. And after a two O series lead formed after bonus 17 point lead, this is why I started to talk about sweep because when you lose in that fashion, when you have Durant playing like he did in Boston, you just started to see a team that's started to crumble a little bit in the second half of the season. One of his star players at the midway point, this all had the makings of everybody on Brooklyn just saying, maybe this just isn't our year. And we might just pack it in here and I don't think they completely packed it in here, but once they took a punch once they took two punches off those turnovers. That's the Celtics. The second half they faded. This is what's different about the Celtics over in the past is all of those runs, those punches, the Blake Griffin run, things like that. Those are normally the types of things that would tip games in the other team's favor and the Celtics wouldn't recover from them. Every single time the nets have something for them, they come right back. Every time, every time the nets got into three or four, Celtics pushed it right back to 9 in Nash's calling a timeout. Every time they have an answer and that's the best part. In fact, if they didn't get casual sometimes when they were at ten, 11, 12 points, they could have pushed this thing into the 20 point realm and proved a little bit. They did get a little passive. They did their offense broke down a little. They took some sloppy shots that were careless with the ball, but they could have, they could have, you know, they had an answer for everything the nets did. That's got to be demoralizing, too. Your Brooklyn, you think you're coming back, and then boom, you know, Brown goes around just goes off there during those Blake Griffin minutes. That's like a Cantor stint I said. Like, oh, he made a few threes, but look what's happening on the other end. And the Celtics were like, please keep shooting. The next time he got it after he made two threes, every Celtic was like, they backed up like 15 feet. They're like,.
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"nets" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"You can't be a team with no defensive identity and expect to win at the highest level against one of the best teams in the NBA, and that's clearly what the Celtics are with rob, without rob, rob helped a little bit tonight, but this was effectively a continuation of what they've done without them. And they're gonna sweep this series. That's just got nothing left and you saw the exhaustion set in. Blake Griffin just talked a little while ago about the spirit not being right with the nets. And he's right. Not difficult to imagine after blowing a 17 point lead in game two. Yeah, but I think that the bigger issue with this Brooklyn team besides our defense, which has been putrid this series has been future at all season. They're not getting the kind of offensive firepower that they're used to. I mean, and the Celtics have been able to neutralize their number one and number two options. And we really see that in a playoff series where a team 11 shots 11 shots for Kevin Durant. And you know what? I got some stuff to say. First off the Durant didn't come to the fourth. Exactly. And that was on the chat. Yeah, and that was question. I thought, I thought Taylor got out of a ball, but you know, I guess there was a little bit of that. But it was a little here. Anyway, Bobby, what's your theory? Is Bobby wants to go ether under ant right now? He's about to say some stuff. The first two games, I think you can credit Boston and being physical laying into him, tightening up the lane, all the different stuff we've talked about. He was passive tonight. He was passing. Indecisive too. Of the game. Just completely out of the action. Dumping off the ground whenever the pressure came, tentative, and with no real confidence in his shot too when the crowds formed around him, he looked like he lacked confidence, and that's the first time I can really ever say that about him. I don't think I can ever in his career point to a moment where he looked like this. And it was bad in games one and two. It somehow got worse here. And I thought he was just passives the word. You look like someone who was just mentally defeated. The skills are still there because if you look at his shooting, he was still a very efficient shop maker, but he didn't take that many shots. He wasn't assertive. It was almost as if he was the same look. I've been carrying this team all day. Can someone besides Bruce Bowen giving give us something? Kyrie, can you give us something other than football fans? Can you do something that can just take some of the pressure on me? Because I'm tired. And he looked like somebody just fatigued. Yeah. That spot on, that spot on. It felt like he had the body language of someone that was like, make it worth it. You know what I mean? Put me in the position to close this out or actually win a game, but until we reach that point, you know, I'm gonna just be not just passive, but sort of like almost reluctant in a way..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"nets" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"I don't want to be playing for this. It feels like the Celtics after a few years of bad luck. I'm knocking on wood as I say this. It feels like they have some luck going. The luck of the Irish, if you will, going in their direction right now. That's all I'm going to say about I'm not going to bring it up again. I'm just going to say that's the way it feels over the last couple of days. Gotcha, just updating the people at home. We have sherrod blakely, Bobby Manning, josue pavon, all hanging out in Brooklyn. Charade is going to jump on in a couple of minutes. Bobby and josue are in the locker rooms right now talking to the players. They'll jump on here. Well, Bobby, we told Bobby, he's got to get his ass onto this show. A hell of a lot sooner than he did in game two. There's a lot of people clamoring for Bobby and Joe sway. Josue got there sooner than Bobby, so we'll give him a pass. But these guys better get their asses into their seats and get on the show and give us sherrod, we'll give him a break as he started the show with me. He put up with me for about 45 minutes straight without those guys. So we'll give him, we'll give him a little pass, but those guys better get onto the show sooner than later. Because we have a lot to discuss. There's a lot to discuss. I don't even want to start getting deep into stuff. We're just kind of like glossing over some of the, you know, the headlines here, but there is a ton to discuss. Kevin Durant indecisive, the clamps down on him. He's just not aggressive right now. Kyrie. Kevin Durant's thinking about I think Kevin is thinking about a beach somewhere. I don't think he's given up. I think he probably did it on that. No, I just think I had it. With what he's got here. Yeah, with the nets. I mean, he's doing everything he can. But what else can you do this? They're pounding.
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"nets" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"All right, Jimmy said to give it three seconds, I gave it 5. Hardware time. Let's go. Hard hat time. I can't even feel this. This is what this is. This is after a game three win. This is how you feel. Three in O series for the Boston Celtics. They came to work. They came to work on a Saturday night and John we came to work on a Saturday night. Let's get into it. None of you pessimists believe this was possible, but here are the haters. The haters. The haters have been watching anymore. The haters have yards. The haters have no place on this show, okay? We don't want you here. We don't want you. We don't want you here. Take off. Get him out of here. Get him out of here. Okay, the Dudley's the bobbies, you know, these freaking negative Nancy. Yeah, the Bobby mannings, they won't make it. They won't even make an appearance tonight. Walk through a game like this. Only we will. Only the true believers will. Only the true believers. Anyway, hey. Line of applause for the three and O Celtics here, folks. However, I'm going to pump the brakes because Ben Simmons is returning in game four. Wait, Ben Simmons, the new dress like a clown on the sidelines tonight? That guy? Oh my goodness. He's going to change his costume and dress up as a basketball player for a game four. I don't believe it. Tell me you're not playing without telling me you're not playing. Just based off of play. Tell me just based off the tire. It's frigging just, you know. You know, like you did it, did you dressed up on a Saturday night in New York? Like, if that was the goal, then you crushed it. Yeah. And they took care of business and as Gerard blakely, so eloquently said, after game two, they snatched their souls tonight. The Brooklyn Nets, as we know them, are dead and gone. They're dead. It's just a matter of death. At this point, as a matter of fact, Brooklyn Nets Blake Griffin did everything he could to revive the nets in the fourth quarter, but jaylen Brown had other plans. And I sat me on Twitter. We officially have to talk about Jalen Brown tonight and we just did so. We're good. We're good. You were good. That's all we need. So shout out to jaylen Brown and shout out to the Boston Celtics. I will say someone tweeted that when you get those Ben Simmons moments like you're a nets team and something like that happens, he plays with energy, he ties up Jayson Tatum, you know, a couple of good hustle plays knocks down those threes. Stuff like that normally like is game changing. You know, and it turns the series. Or it turns the game. But every single time that they did that, the Celtics responded. Primarily Jalen..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"nets" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"Play a buck's team that's on ten days rest and ready to go. So if you can avoid that situation, I'm okay with the nets. I do think there is something to be said about being tested early on in the playoffs against a team like the nets that many thought were better than the Celtics or were favored really to start that series. I know it flipped very quickly, but there was a lot of people who thought that the nets were a good pick to upset. And they are in a typical 7 seat. I think we can all agree, even if the Celtics do beat the nets, then that's when a typical 7 seat, and they are an extremely tough out, regardless of if it's a four or 5, 6 game series, the nets are still a tough team for the Celtics to compete against for an entire stretch, but yeah, I mean, if they win four or 5 games, yeah, I mean, I'll admit that I was wrong about it. I had Celtics in 7. So of course, I thought it would be a closer, if in fact it ends up that way, but I'm not thinking that far ahead, I need to see the Celtics win on the road before I start thinking about, you know, 5 games and all this stuff. Yeah, it is hard to take out an individual game with how close this has been and say it has any outstanding impact beyond just one game. And that's how the Celtics are looking at it, of course, which I think is smart. They've been very focused in this series on a play to play quarter to quarter basis and even game the game, certainly. I don't think they get caught up in any of this, which is great. They've certainly seemed to be the more focused team in this series. Kairi, kind of a I say antic free night, but there was. Them again. There were some what? You can't hear you. Can't hear you..
Winning Plays
"nets" Discussed on Winning Plays
"I mean, the worst case would be a tech series with the nets where KD and Kyrie just Kyrie does what he did in the 2016 finals for 7 games and KD is averages literally 45 points a game on 60% shooting. That's kind of the scenario that the nets need and so that would be a worst case scenario for the Celtics. I could also see them losing to Milwaukee for sure. Milwaukee's a great basketball team. Brook Lopez is actually looked really good. I think I would pick the Celtics in that series because they have home court advantage. And I think that that would be a grand for sure. Giannis is Giannis. And then the Conference Finals, you might face Toronto for real. I think Toronto's path to the conference finalist is pretty clear. Not necessarily thinking that'll happen, but they've played Miami really well. All season. I think they're going to beat the sixers outright. And if you learn the Conference Finals against Toronto, you got to like your chances there. Again, assuming that rob Williams was healthy. So yeah, I think Boston should get to the finals. And once you're in the finals, I think obviously you can win the title. That's why they pay me the big bucks. Yeah, I think Phoenix is gonna win it all. I know you have a losing in the first round Mike, but they just been too good for too long. Again, anything can happen at one injury changes. Everything, but if we're assuming we're assuming health for all these teams, I mean, they've clearly been the best team in the league all season. Right? Pretty easily. Can I just jump back and say, I'm being a little tongue in cheek with thinking that Phoenix is I don't want it that to be like on the record just yet. I'm getting it after this. What are you talking about? I will say real quick. Don't you guys feel like the regular season? There's like this growing divide between what matters in the regular season and what matters in the playoffs and for the sons. It's like, if a team goes small against the suns, can they go small? Will they be able to flex muscles? And stay big and just stay true to who they are. If Jay Crowder goes cold by the three point line, how much will that impact them if I don't know, something about this team where I'm just like, I'm skeptical.
Winning Plays
"nets" Discussed on Winning Plays
"Passing and he's constantly moving and screaming and all that and all that's really valuable for lineups that have Tatum and Jalen in them and everything was really gelled wonderfully, but defensively, he's so excellent. On the ball off the ball and you can't go at Derek white. That's just not a smart solution for an offense. So I yeah, there's no weak points. Defensively for this team and even without rob Williams, Tyson isn't going to switch out probably. You would hope too much. So he'll be like dropping when he's put in ball screens. But the best rim protection that you have is just switching everything on the perimeter and not even allowing the penetration. And they can still do that with the majority of the lines that they have, even if rob doesn't play for a majority of the series or he was a report, I think yesterday that he might come back or could come back later in the first round if it gets to that point, but especially against a team that is so reliant on mid range shooting. They'll contest everything. The nets don't get to the rim anyway. And I don't know, it seems like for a team that is going to have to play Kyrie and KD 45 plus minutes every game. It's a mountain for those two guys. It really is. It would be incredible if they pulled it off. What do you think I was thinking about this? What will it take to force rob Williams back into play? I was like, oh two, one, three. Is there any combination that you think they're like, oh shit, we gotta go with rob now before it's too late? Yeah. I think you're facing elimination. So the calendar works out well in their favor to start the series regardless because the way they play 9 days. So that's going to help get him to that four week mark, but the way the white emea Doc had talked about in the way these reports keep coming out. I'm not running out for giving that for game one at this point the way. He's not going to play that, but certainly anything after game three, I would say it's on the table. So if you're down to one, I think maybe that's the earliest time you consider it if everything is good and he's checked all his boxes like a week ahead of time. I would almost hesitate a little bit. I mean, you try them in it if you're down three one or three two just because you have to, but I would feel worse about putting them in a spot like that where you're like, you're just not sure where you're gonna get from the guy and if he is coming ahead of back ahead of schedule in a game that you need to win, that puts everyone in a tough spot. So ideally, you don't have to see him at all in this series for the other reason. They're in control and maybe they can ease him back in when they're in a more of a commanding situation if he checks those boxes, but I would say game four is my bet in terms of they're like, who do we see earlier in this series guys? Rob Williams or Ben Simmons. I think that's a fascinating question too. Yeah, the Ben Simmons thing is really interesting. I part of me is kind of like these reports about him coming in game four, 5 or 6..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"nets" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"Bobby Manning. You got it. You got it. This is the Bobby Manning series. The man I'm excited about. The many cast. I want it for the same reason you guys wise, it's gonna be fun. Oh no, bob. No, no, no, Bobby, Bobby, you actually wanted it because you thought the nets were one of the weaker opponents in this place, Chicago. But in terms of wrappers, I think you got the easier of those two teams. And I think we'll see that run one. Hold on. I think we have to qualify this every time. And Jimmy, you're doing the weird iPad lean, where you're like on the complete right side of the screen. Yeah, there you go, my man, right there. So we have to qualify that Bobby. You want this because you believe that Jalen Brown was not going to be available. For the tour. I mean, it's half that. That's your judgment. Yeah, it's 50% that it's 50% the raptors having all of these long burst out guys that can make Tatum Brown stagnant. You saw here, the Cavs shot open looks all night, just a brutal shooting night for them. Garland picked them up late. They ended up getting back into the game in the fourth quarter there, and they ultimately outscored the nets for the last three quarters. But that opening 40 point bombed by the nets there ended up giving them a slight edge in this game. So you're going to be able to run your offense again some. You're going to have to defend better than the calves that tonight for sure. Every starts 12 to 12 in this one. But it's a series. That's the problem. It's not a matter of defense. That's the fear. The reason there's fear is because these guys are defense proof, you know? There's no fear. That's not a fear. The point is, what your defense is great and everybody knows that, but when you have, when you're playing guys that defense doesn't matter, that's where it's like, okay, is the thing you're best at neutralized..
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"nets" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"Okay, Rohan, that was a wonderful preamble to our show. We have a lot to get to today. We're going to be opening up the mailbag to discuss the play in some updates on the NBA's never ending Robert cyber investigation. LeBron's increasingly impressive body of work and so much more. But first, a quick reminder to our wonderful listeners to please keep your emails coming, open floor mail at Gmail dot com. That's open floor mail at Gmail dot com. All right, Roland, so I want to start today's show by quickly checking in with our favorite team, the Brooklyn Nets, they've looked unbeatable of late while also recently receiving some discouraging news about Ben Simmons, thanks to a herniated disc in his back. It does not sound like Simmons will be taking the floor any time soon with his new team. He has not been practicing. He has not been working out. And according to multiple reports, recently had an epidural injection to ease the pain, not good. That's not what you want if you're Brooklyn. The nets are 6 and 6 since the all star break, 25th and defense, 5th and offense. Are you crossing them off as a title contender of Simmons just misses the entire year? I'm not crossing them off only because I will never cross off a team that has Kevin Durant on it personally. Out of my deep respect fear terror admiration for Kevin Durant, I won't cross them off. But they become mortal. They become incredibly mortal. They become a flawed team without Simmons. I mean, obviously they're, you know, there's no perfect team, but the juggernaut that we thought was being created there, obviously when they first acquired even James Harden, the team, we think they can be if kairi is able to play full time without Simmons. I think that they can still win it. I just think the degree of difficulty becomes a lot harder, but I'm not crossing them off. You think they're, I think they become, it's interesting because I like South Korea a lot. He's an important player for them. So is patty mills. Obviously, so is Kyrie. We still don't really know who they're closing 5 is going to be. I have to imagine Lamarcus Aldridge is going to be in there. I just don't see them playing Kevin Durant at center in the playoffs..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"nets" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"It was the opposite I thought it was the nets kind of yeah, exactly played into Celtic strategy. I think if the nets work through the Celtic switching scheme and just ISO KD and Durant, the Celtics weren't able to stop that in the first half at all. And so that was a mistake. The Bruce Brown situation. It's actually, it's odd to me that Durant only finished was whatever he finished with. He should have been up in the 40s as well because he didn't shoot enough. There was no answer. He didn't shoot enough. He should have ten more shots in this game. And they should have consistently looked for, you know, just get the ball in his hands, let the Celtic switch and then go to work. It's not anybody's fault. There's literally no stopping him. I thought, you know, rob contested a couple shots on a switch, grant a couple of times, Tatum played him straight up pretty well. There's just no defending him. And we're really going to do like, I'm saying this in the chat again, the nets without Simmons. The nets, the nets without Simmons and the nets. Simmons has not joined the nets. That's not like a caveat on this. Bobby, if the Celtics traded for someone right now and we hadn't seen them yet, would you not be saying if it was in Simmons? We had a conversation about that. You're literally discounting him as like a person who exists. Like he's not like alive. You know, like you're just you're raising him off. You're writing him off like he's literally like Santa Claus. Like he just Bobby. There's something. Something's going to play at some point. We don't have impact he'll have, but he's going to help though. He doesn't exist. How do we know? He's going to make him worse. Would they be a better team right now? No. He wouldn't be playing. What's he playing? What's he going to play? That doesn't make him a little better than they are. Again, prior to last season's playoffs. This has flaws. Prior to last season's playoffs when he was afraid to shoot and miss some free throws. Ben Simmons was an all star considered one of the better players in the NBA. How long ago? He has that show. Everyone's talking about like, that was like long enough. 11 years ago. Like you got some better. It feels like it. Theo ratliff agent tracks dude. Is that what even 11 months ago, man? People are talking about like literally you signed somebody. You said it yourself. We all thought he was going to hit the ground running here. I think we had some questions in our mind, but I think we at least thought he was going to put on the uniform and start playing. And you said, you said it yourself. He's not ready to go. For whatever reason, he's not. And there's only what, 5, ten games left by the time he gets back. You may be right. He may not be ready. He may never be ready. He may never be close to what he'll be at full capacity. He may be broken. I'm just saying you can't say with certainty he is. All of what you're saying is possible, but I don't think you can discount it with conviction. That's all I'm saying..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"nets" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Merry Christmas, first and foremost, although the Lakers did not give us the Christmas present that we were hoping for a comeback effort against the Brooklyn Nets, falls short, joining me to help break it down. Chris the masterpiece masters welcome back man. And Merry Christmas, dude. Yeah, Merry Christmas, Trevor. I believe it or not, I'm actually really excited to be on despite the finish. That was a tough game, but honestly, Trevor, I know we're going to yeah a lot to talk about. It's been a while and again, Merry Christmas, but it's been a difficult season as I'm sure every Laker nation or Lakers fan can attest to. I mean, this has been crazy, it's been hard to even look forward to games. And I just, I got a lot of dancing to do throughout the show and I don't want to do it all here. So yeah, anyways, good to be back on. Difficult game. Well, this is certainly the place for. This is where people come to vent a little bit after a tough loss. This is now 5 losses in a row for the Lakers. This looked bad for a long stretch, and then the Lakers gave us hope we thought, oh, they're really going to come back and they're going to do this. Oh, no, no, they're not. They're not. They tied it up at one point late in the fourth quarter, but then the nets went on another little run and the Lakers could not answer and they wind up coming up short in the end. Let me go through some of the stats before we dive into this game and get into some of the venting. But we've got for the Lakers 39 points for LeBron 9 board 7 assist three steals one block 14 to 25 shooting and played 40 minutes. 40 minutes and they could not get the job done and a lot of that. I mean, I hate to say it but Russell Westbrook four for 20 shooting, including the mist dunk at the end that ultimately sealed their fate four for 20 shooting from Ross 12 boards 11 to 6, so he got the triple double 13 points for him on the night but not an efficient performance at all the turnovers he kept down only three turnovers, but my goodness four for 20. That's not getting it done THT 5 for 11 from the field 14 points. 17 for Carmelo Anthony to go along with 11 boards for assist two steals three blocks, saw the night for him, but shooting the ball not great 6 for 15, Malik monk returned. Welcome back Malik monk from health.
First Take
"nets" Discussed on First Take
"On how you buy night and it was absolutely the opposite. No james harden. Instead it was a beatdown and kevin durant on a holistic masks. I think it's fair to say he's looked hubbard. Kevin tomorrow will mark two years since you initially injured your calf. I know you work your butt off to get to this point. Did you ever think you'd beat this. Good real question of kobe. You want me to say to that. Of course i. It's pretty impressive. What you've been able to do thank you. I appreciate that. But i mean i was two years ago. I'm looking forward to getting up tomorrow. We're going to practice. Watch and see how we can get better but you know i appreciate that but that was that was long ago. You gotta see it are without it and stop that now and stop Make stuff possible. I said before that you know. He's he's getting. That is one of the best scorers in the league. Like he's he's supposed to do this in the which going to try to make a splash improvement. Show more bodies be more physical than Hopefully backing by you're supposed to do to janas all right. Lebron not only focused on space jam to also marveling at katie. Like the rest of tweeting. Back combo nasty. My goodness max. Kellerman was this game more about the nets or the bucks the nets of course the nets. Once you saw the way they came together once you saw how quickly the defense improved when harden joined. The team looked unstoppable. The fact that they're doing this without james harden right now when they still haven't really figured defense out not really like it's going to be the next couple of weeks considering how quickly they figured out. The first time is absurd. Only thing i could compare it to. It's like and healthy. It seems like that's like the universe doesn't want us to see that like too much. Something called singularities even a black hole. Right it punctures facetime and you can't see into a black hole that would be a naked singularity. It's like the universe doesn't want you to see secrets almost. That's what i feel like. It would be if james harden healthy on this team. That's why the basketball god's can't allow this team to be healthy because it's like we know too much. The universe would explode. I mean this is ridiculous. Katie was completely unstoppable. Kyri is the second best player on the team like how many second best players on a team or as good as ever blake. Griffin's blake griffin. Like here's the thing i know. He didn't have a big stat line. Last night had a bigger one the day before right what was supposed to twenty points. Double digit rebounds. Did you see them. Dunk all over yes. That's blake griffin. He's the guy who duncan over cars and all that that's blake griffin blake. Griffin's back so it is a big three and they got shooters everywhere. This nets team. Even without harden will challenge for a title with james harden. You might as well. There's nothing anyone can do. There's nothing anyone can do. Not the bucks not the jazz. Not no one especially with james heart tomorrow produces be a be ready to call up that jaanus quote when i ask for it in the second that same before mac started talking. That janas quote. But before i get into youngest. Are you ready to admit for a second when we get ready for admit that they can win without james art. It's possible you ready to just. I never said i never said no. You really are making that up. I didn't say listen. I'm to start asking for your college. Say that me hard and not only is he the most important play. Because i know that's not what you talked about. How i wouldn't pick them to get out of the just your i wouldn't take. Oh that's not the same thing as saying they can't win really really you think only the team you possibly can win. Excuse me you said in the middle of your soliloquy. you're donald trump. Whatever word is appropriate. No they need james harder to get out of the east that not the same as saying they win it without dave's audit making it. I don't wanna go down it to pick a team and say this team is going to win not that team as identical win. I just ask you a question. Does play word what i want to know why did not i don't know not say they are not coming out of the east without jay. Okay let let's say i did. I didn't but let's say okay. Thank you very much didn't bit's okay. That's fine that's fine. You might still be allowed to talk basketball to admit the guy got later. Here's what are you talking. that's all right. I did a few years ago but unlike you to admit it or not dance around it. But like i'm moving case that is what it is. Injuries played a role. The deputy the kind of unlike you got three decades of a resume. So let's be clear out now. Here's the deal be right now. Let's get to the milwaukee bucks call that quota from john poll please. I want america. The cd's is quote again from jaundice. Antonescu game last week and you play that place anyway. He's he's supposed to do this. You know and But they tried to make the responsibility of show. More bodies is be more physical than now over the by. That is a disgrace. Who is the rainy defensive player of the year. The reading play the guitar playing the p et defensive player six feet eleven kevin durant towels over everybody like towels over everybody else to try to defend up. Six eleven jaanus is mobile. Jaanus is to forty. Why can't you got up. You know what k. D. is the best in the world. That's what k. d. is the best offensive player on the planet. The best shooter that would be steph curry the best offensive player on the planet earth. You can't stop this brother. He is on god. -able there is nothing that they could do which is why repeatedly told you he is the most important component he is expected. Give me macari give me cari would bought it. I don't give a damn it. You're not going anywhere without kevin durant but with kevin durant you go to the promised land. You can win seventy three games in a season and go to the finals and lose but kevin durant and before he plays the game. Lebron james is given a concession speech in boston at td garden's talking about. I don't want to be stressed thinking about having to go up against k. d. and steps and the golden state warriors. That's who the hell this do. It is and if you walkie bucks. Let me say this buddha knows. I hope he's enjoying his days. How god's name do you come out and start to game on a zone zone against kevin durant and carbon. we don't. he's not making adjustments. You got to team helpless. You got jaanus This is this is basketball. Y'all you got jaanus when you have a basketball player. Yana says ability sitting there talking about what we can't do anything with them. I mean we just got to figure it out as a group we gotta be. There's know you because.
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"nets" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Should i have been looking for more excitement there from kyrie irving like should. I have been expecting that. I'm part of a super team again. One of my takeaways was look this. Is you know. Kyrie's in. Cleveland and boston was that he was one physician. He was in situations that were not of his choosing like he was drafted by cleveland. And then he was part of something for a couple of years and then lebron comes in and he's a part of something different now that resulted in a championship and what straight trips for him to the nba finals. But i always felt that was something that bothered him that it was a situation on of his choosing he gets straight to boston. He liked it early on. Didn't like it so much the end and then he goes to brooklyn and chooses to go back home. To the new york city area chooses to play with kevin durant and then two weeks into the season three weeks of the season. Whatever it is all of a sudden that team looks a lot different than what it was gonna look like when kyrie got there. I mean maybe i'm reading too much into it hard but that was one of my first thoughts that all right. Here's kyri now in a situation that he did not choose to be in and how he going to react to that. Is he going to embrace it or is he going to sulk his way through it. So i i totally get all that. Chris and i watched his his presser. It was twelve minutes long which you know. That's a pretty good longtime for a guy who probably by his body language certainly seemed like he did not want to be there. And i'll be there with the nets i mean. Be there in the in the in that press conference on zoom he was you know very emotionally kind of flat. His most expansive most interesting answers. I think had more to do with where he is emotionally and mentally how he's feeling about kind of just justice place in the world and i mean that earnestly not facetiously at all like he had some really interesting thoughts just as he was trying to semi explain himself in a very ambiguous way of course and he did not offer any specifics about his absence and about his return and i don't think he owes any of. That's how ios does it to his teammates and he says he has delivered that. They know they know where he's at. They know what's going on. I'll take that as a.