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The Breakdown
A highlight from Huobi Changes Name to HTX and Almost Immediately Gets Hacked
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, September 22nd, and today we are talking hacks, hacks, hacks. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, today we start this show talking about Ben Armstrong, better known as BitBoy, who was arrested last night after he won, posted to his YouTube that he was going to confront a former business partner about the Lamborghini that he said was his, two, went to said person's door and rang the doorbell, three, did this with a gun and illegal narcotics in the back of his car, along with another business and affair partner to boot, and then four live streamed himself getting arrested. Just kidding. I'm not going to talk about that ever at all. In fact, I will only say this. The crypto space gets exactly the level of influencers it deserves. So perhaps as we think about where we want to be heading into the next bull market, we might want to choose who we listen to with just a hint more discernment. Now, what we're actually going to be talking about today is the plague of this bear market. Well, outside of Gensler, of course, and that is hacks. A wave of hacks impacted crypto firms starting over the weekend. On Friday, Nansen disclosed a security breach at a third party software vendor. The attacker was able to gain access to admin rights of a Nansen account in charge of facilitating client access to the platform. Nansen claims it, quote, managed to stop the unauthorized access shortly after learning about it and launched an immediate investigation. According to Nansen, wallet funds were unaffected. All affected users had email addresses exposed, while smaller user cohorts had password hashes accessed and wallet addresses revealed. Nansen urged all users to double check emails claiming to be coming from the company and be vigilant for phishing attempts. So that was Friday. Then on Saturday, OpenSea disclosed that one of its third party vendors, quote, experienced a security incident that may have exposed information. They warned that user API keys were compromised. The company noted that the incident was not expected to impact any programs which use an OpenSea API key, but that external parties using exposed keys could experience rate and usage limits. OpenSea plans on shutting down existing keys by next Monday and asked users to rotate their keys. A third exploit was disclosed early on Monday morning. Mixin Network, which is a nominally decentralized wallet service, said it lost $200 million in customer assets during an attack early on Saturday morning. Crypto developer Lawrence Day at Function Zero writes, Also, respectfully, how are you losing $200 million from a cloud breach? So this company Mixin was founded in 2017 and had nearly $400 million in protocol funds across 48 chains. The service allows users to send digital assets assigned to phone numbers and its biggest market appears to be Hong Kong. Now the firm said that it can guarantee the safety of around half of user assets, but that guarantee seems to be in the form of a corporate backstop rather than the product of successful threat mitigation. During a livestream on Monday addressing the attack, Mixin founder Feng Xiaodong said, No matter what your assets are, whether it's Bitcoin or Ethereum, we will ensure that half of it is unaffected. We're trying to find a way to recover the compromised money, but that is very difficult. For the other half of the assets, Mixin is considering offering what they are calling bond tokens for users to claim. The firm would later buy back the tokens, making them similar to other token -based recovery schemes seen in the past during events like the Bitfinex hack. A security firm called Slowmist is involved in the investigation and stated that the incident occurred when a cloud service provider database was attacked. Now if this feels like just the latest in a string of big hacks, that's because it is. In 2022, we had the record of $3 .1 billion in funds lost from hacks. And estimates this year include TRMLab saying that $400 million was stolen in Q1, Immunify saying that $700 million was lost in the first half of the year, and then just in Q3 we've had a 126 multi -chain hack in July, a $61 .7 million market -based protocol exploit of Curve Finance in July, $41 .3 million hacked from Stake .com in September, and another July hack of $37 million at CoinsPaid. So from estimates, it looks like this might be the largest hack of the year, roughly the same size as Euler in March. Still, even though it wasn't the biggest, the most high -profile hack of the weekend was disclosed on Monday as well, and that was from HTX. HTX, formerly known as Huobi, suffered the loss of 5 ,000 ETH worth around $8 million on Sunday evening. Justin Sun claimed in a Twitter thread that, quote, HTX has fully covered the losses incurred from the attack and has successfully resolved all related issues. Sun added that, quote, all user assets are SAFU and the platform is operating completely normally. Now, in addition to disclosing the loss, Sun downplayed the impact of the attack, stating that, quote, $8 million represents a relatively small sum in comparison to the $3 billion worth of assets held by our users. It also amounts to just two weeks of revenue for the HTX platform. Sun disclosed the wallet address of the hacker and added, We are willing to offer 5 % of the stolen amount, $400 ,000 USD, as a white hat reward to encourage the hacker to return the stolen funds. If the hacker returns the funds, we will also hire them as a security white hat advisor for HTX. However, they said, if the funds are not returned within seven days, we will transfer the information to law enforcement authorities for further action and to prosecute the hacker. In an on -chain message to the hacker, HTX claimed to have discovered their, quote, true identity. Now, according to Arkham Analytics, the attack affected an HTX hot wallet, which was created in March. Since then, the wallet has received $500 million in deposits from Binance, and on -chain analysts confirmed that funds have now been migrated to a new wallet. Now, there were a lot of comments relating to the name change of this exchange. Crypto Kaleo writes, Huobi changes its name to HTX and gets hacked for $8 million in the first month? Coincidence or tempting fate? Lawrence Day again said, I'm sorry, but renaming Huobi to HTX and then immediately losing millions of dollars is so effing funny that I might have a stroke. Even Binance's CZ said, A week after you rename your exchange after FTX... Jokes aside, our security team will help in tracking hacker funds in all cases where we can. Now, in addition to just the jokes about the HTX name, there are lots of questions floating around about Huobi solvency. To get a sense of some of those theories, go check out Adam Cochran's account. It's a little bit out of the scope of this particular episode, but it's obviously something that we're watching closely. Now it's unclear at this stage whether these attacks had any sort of links, but the small amount of detail available does show some common features. The first three hacks all blamed a third party service provider. While the provider was not named, Nansen did urge them to disclose the security breach. These attacks come just weeks after crypto custody firm Fortress Trust suffered a $15 million attack, which was also related to a security failure at a third party cloud provider called Retool. In that attack, an employee at the software provider was the victim of a phishing attack. The attacker used an AI -synthesized voice clone of an IT support worker to replicate the employee's credentials to access Retool's systems. In their write -up of that attack, Retool said that 27 customer accounts were compromised. All 27 were crypto companies. So the method of attack here, which uses a combination of social engineering and a bypassing of security measures, also bears a striking resemblance to the write -ups of the recent cyber attack on MGM and Caesars casinos. The casino's systems were hacked two weeks ago with customer and corporate data compromised. Postmortems of the attack claimed that hackers used a voice replication of IT workers to gain access. Identity management firm Okta confirmed that the casinos had been using their systems to credential employees. In an August blog post, Okta said that their customers were seeing, quote, consistent pattern of social engineering attacks against their IT service desk personnel, in which the caller's strategy was to convince service desk personnel to reset all multi -factor authentication factors enrolled by highly privileged users. The casino attacks were attributed to a threat actor known as Scattered Spider using malicious software developed by Alfie or Black Cat. Now if these attacks are all part of the same cybercrime spree, it could speak to a group of hackers going after high -value targets like crypto firms. The vulnerability seems hard to address as it involves security training for employees at third -party software providers. And one of the implications is, if these kind of attacks become a systemic threat to the industry, it could mean more crypto firms need to bring sensitive software in -house. That higher barrier to secure operations could make it more difficult for smaller startups to compete in the industry. Now of course for any of you who are listening to the AI breakdown, you'll also recognize that this is not going to be a problem that's unique to the crypto industry. The casino attacks speak to that as well, but the reality is that voice cloning technology is incredibly advanced and just getting more so all the time. Individuals and companies are going to need to develop entirely different modes of operation that recognize the fact that you simply can't trust a voice on the other line of a call anymore. Now when it comes to the impact of these hacks on the industry outside of just the ramifications for the people who lost money themselves, it's hard exactly to know what the real impact is. On the one hand, it certainly lends to a perception of immaturity overall, but at the same time, when it comes to the geopolitics and regulation of crypto, the hacks that are most important to keep an eye on are those that have some sort of geostrategic ramifications, particularly those emanating from the Lazarus Group in North Korea. Still, being this deep into a bear market and trying to match all -time records for hacks is not necessarily the place we want to be overall. The one other story that I wanted to cover on today's show is a bit of a dust -up around the Celsius restructuring. In short, the Celsius bankruptcy could be coming to a close after creditors have voted in favor of the current recovery plan. 98 % of creditors gave the thumbs up to a plan which would see the sale of assets to crypto consortium Fahrenheit Holdings. The acquiring group includes Errington Capital and miner US Bitcoin Corp. Fahrenheit plans to retain and operate mining equipment owned by Celsius under a new corporate structure. The new company also plans to stake Ethereum and monetize other Celsius assets. Some large creditors will receive equity in this new company. And in addition, another $2 billion in liquid crypto will be distributed to creditors. Overall, the plan is projected to provide a 76 -85 % recovery. Now one remaining snag in the plan is an objection from the SEC. The regulator filed its objection last Friday to express concerns with Coinbase's involvement in the process. Celsius receivers plan to use Coinbase as an intermediary to distribute crypto to creditors. The SEC claimed the agreement could require Coinbase to The SEC filing claimed that However, this court should not be asked to approve a deal where their material terms are missing or inconsistent. The regulator also appears concerned about an additional agreement with Coinbase, which Celsius have attempted to file under seal and have not yet disclosed. Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal hit back at the SEC's objection in a Twitter post stating, Now, Wayne Vaughn had a very simple explanation, saying, And of course, this isn't the first time we've seen the SEC stand in the way of a bankruptcy distribution agreed to by creditors. In March, the SEC objected to Voyager using Binance US to distribute crypto to its creditors, which was of course months before the regulator had filed its lawsuit against Binance but still based their objections on claims that the exchange was an unregistered securities brokerage. A very unimpressed judge in the Voyager case called it This time around, of course, the SEC at least does have an ongoing lawsuit that they can point to regarding Coinbase's brokerage services, but the objection does still seem odd given that the regulator didn't seek an injunction to prevent Coinbase from operating as normal in the interim. The Celsius case will return to court next Thursday to hear the SEC's argument and see if the judge is inclined to allow the plan to go ahead. Now one interesting line of discussion are the implications for the spot ETF applications that are outstanding. Adam Cochrane writes, Now, speaking of ETFs, Bitwise filed an amendment to its spot Bitcoin ETF application on Monday, adding 40 pages of research on Bitcoin market structure. The research aimed to preempt arguments from the SEC, which could be used to reject the current batch of ETF applications. Bitwise claimed to show that Bitcoin futures are the primary market for price discovery with spot prices following futures. According to Bitwise, this would mean that the well -regulated CME futures market should be the primary consideration when looking for evidence of market manipulation. They argued that this trading venue should count as a regulated market of significant size for market surveillance purposes. As part of their argument, Bitwise also cited a previous study from 2019, which suggested that Bitcoin's spot market mainly consisted of fake volume, making the relative size of the regulated futures market much larger in comparison. Regarding the price impact of futures, Bitwise found in 2021 that futures markets accounted for between 52 .97 % and 68 .03 % of Bitcoin's price discovery. Now this isn't the first time Bitwise have dropped large amounts of Bitcoin research on the SEC to dispute their claims. They have produced at least two 100 -page -plus reports in support of previous Bitcoin ETF applications. Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hogan explained his firm's strategy in a Twitter thread stating, That's the happy case. The question is, what happens if the SEC appeals the court decision? In short, we return to the status quo. We're back to needing to prove that the CME Bitcoin futures market leads price discovery over the spot market such that it can serve as a regulated market of significant size for the purpose of surveillance. Unfortunately, existing filings do not include substantively new arguments or research addressing this question head on. Until now, today's amendment aims to address point by point each of the major objections the SEC has raised in prior disapprovals for spot Bitcoin ETFs. In particular, we try to clear up the significant confusion around the growing body of academic literature on price discovery in the Bitcoin market and demonstrate that every well -designed academic study supports the finding that the CME is significant. So friends, there you have it, a little bit of hacks, a little bit of the SEC objecting to something that seems reasonable from the outside. In other words, a quintessential 2023 crypto day. Appreciate you guys listening, as always. And until next time. Peace.
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The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Rep. French Hill and Sen. Tom Cotton on opposing the shutdown
"Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt, another gold bump in honor of Senator Goldbars Menendez. I'm joined by Representative French Hill from Arkansas. Representative Hill is one of the smart guys because he's on the Intel Committee. That's handpicked and the Republicans are always serious about that. He's also on foreign affairs and financial services. Our old friend John Campbell used to serve on financial services. That's one of the smart committees. So Representative Hill, welcome back. Good to have you. But you are a Vanderbilt grad, so we're not going to talk about football. Seriously, you lost to Wake Forest and the University of Las Vegas. Does that, how does that go down with the Commodore Nation? Well, it's we're always waiting for golf season. Congressman, the House is going to come up with a solution or the government's going to shut down. What's it going to be? Look, Hugh, if we want to be strong, if we want to lock in the wins that we got in the debt ceiling negotiation, when we put forward a plan that actually cut spending year over year, change the regulatory focus, encourage more people back into the workforce, we need to pass these 11 remaining appropriations bills. And that was not gotten to over the summer, even though now think about this, Hugh, even though each of those bills is written at a spending level below the debt ceiling deal and each one locks in conservative policies. It's really so frustrating to me that those have been delayed from coming to the House floor, including twice over the last week by a handful of members when they're missing this big picture. Lock in the wins, cut spending, reduce regulations, get more people back in the workforce, get the spotlight back on Joe Biden's failures and off of the House. Congressman Hill, I don't expect you to speak ill of a colleague, but I can. Congressman Gates wants to be governor of Florida. Congressman Maryland native Matt Rosendale wants to be senator from Montana. Ralph Norman, Congressman Ralph Norman wants to be senator from South Carolina. Going to run against Lindsey Graham. And Congressman Dan Bishop wants to be the attorney general of North Carolina. So I understand self -interest. Those guys have no interest in governing. But do they really want to bring down the Republican majority? Because they're going to get crushed if they do this. Right. But by this kind of of tactic, you're going to end up with a Biden Schumer clean debt ceiling deal and with spending levels, certainly at the Biden McCarthy level, but weaker policy, weaker policies. Because in order to be the strongest negotiator, get the most conservative win, we need to pass the appropriations bills. That's why McCarthy's plan this week of trying to get the rest of the bills across the floor, at least 70 percent of discretionary spending, plus plus a four week short term stopgap spending measure measure that cut spending, repeat cut spending for that one month and put border in the spotlight by putting H .R. two on. There is no conservative that should vote no on that. And this is just arguing against ourselves. It's a huge mistake. Now, Congressman Hill, I call him now St. Kevin. I've known the speaker for a long time, and now I'm going to have him nominated to be considered for sainthood because that is a difficult caucus to deal with. When you've got four members who are leading the Nuckelhead caucus and my buddy Ken Buck wants a CNN contract, there really isn't any appeal to their self -interest. How do you move them? I mean, are you going to have to use Democrat votes? And can and can Speaker McCarthy remain speaker if he uses Democrat votes? Well, I think that's what we have to try every single day to put a bill on the floor and find out that, as you say, this small group is the tyranny of the tiny, as I describe it, is violating the majority of the majority because they're going to hurt the conservative cause. They'll cause us to lose the House. And that's certainly not in the interest of the conservative cause when we're on the cusp, potentially of beating Biden in the presidential election and winning the Senate back. It's ridiculous. You know, if former President Trump gets reelected and the House switches to Democrats, they will impeach him in the first week. Do these allegedly Trump supporting congressmen. And it's Norman. It's Maryland native Matt Rosendale is running for Senate in Montana. It's Ralph Norman and it's Matt. Have they heard from the former president that he wants to be impeached again because they sure are acting like they want him impeached again? Well, look, they don't even they spend what he says now. President Trump last week said use the power of the purse to get control of Joe Biden's two trillion dollars of extra spending. I agree. That's what the debt ceiling does. And that's what these spending bills do. And that's why we have to get them across the House floor. He did not say he Trump did not say shut the government down and act like knuckleheads. He said, use the power of the purse to get the most conservative deal. Get this country back on track. I agree. That's what we could do if we had those four people assist us get these bills across the floor this week. Well, I just their their incentives are to get ink. And I mean, their incentives are not the incentives to govern. And I don't know how hot it gets in the caucus. Can you tell us that our members of the caucus about had it with these guys? There's nothing you can do because they're running for statewide office. But if they had it and expressed it. Well, I think they have had it and expressed it in blunt terms, including calling them out that if you vote against the rule on the House floor, you're working with the minority party. You're working with Democrats when you do that. That is not acting as a member of the majority. And I think you're seeing the country respond to look at Moody's comments yesterday, look at the VIX up to day three percent. Look at the 10 year Treasury rate up over four point five percent. This is going in the wrong direction when we should be taking a win right now of cutting spending 24 over 23, getting better rules and regulations in place, countering Joe Biden's bad policies. And as I say, encouraging more people back to work through our welfare reforms. These are classic conservative Republican wins. And we're squandering the opportunity. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is kind of a Republican specialty in the House. So let's let's focus on that for a moment. When do you get a test vote today or tomorrow on whether or not the four will move or they will stay for? They've got more than four right now, but you've got serious people like Chip Roy are not playing these games. Will the Freedom Caucus bring whatever persuasive influence they have to bear on them? Well, we're going to bring a rule. The rules committee met Friday and all day Saturday, so we'll be bringing a rule up either tonight or early in the morning. That will be the first test case to see if we can move these spending bills, which includes state and foreign operations spending, which is at one point seven billion below twenty nineteen levels.
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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Bull Market: What No Ones Telling You!
"Anytime you start making paper Bitcoin, or paper silver, or paper gold, and what do I mean by that? Futures, ETFs, stuff like that, that creates paper version. That's not actual spot, right? So anytime you do that, yes, the same money that comes in to buy it, so that they can actually short it, and they could keep it down with unlimited money and unlimited leverage, they could keep it down indefinitely, or until they scoop up as much as they want, when everyone loses interest, and then it takes off. What's up, everybody? Good morning, good afternoon, and good night wherever you're tuned in from. Welcome to another Saturday edition of the Alpha series here on Discover Crypto. My name is Kelly Kellum. Welcome to the show. If this is your first time, and I hope to guarantee that it's not going to be your last time, we've got an excellent guest lined up for you today. Mr. Jesse Olson is going to be breaking down what it means to cut the noise out of all these narratives from FUD and HOPE. Look at the chart, let the chart do the talking for you. So without any further ado, let's go ahead and dive in right to our guest. And I want to ask him a question right up front. Jesse, first off, thank you for being here, but do you think we're still going to get another bull run, bull runs like we've seen in the past, or do you think all these new institutions coming in and big money players coming into the market are going to change the dynamic of what a bull run is in Bitcoin? What's your thoughts? What's up, Kelly? Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. And we should have some fun here. Coming from a trading standpoint, right? I'm going to come from a trading standpoint and a point of view. When I first got the first bull run, right, 2020, 2021, I was still learning. And yes, I was doing pretty good 2021, really good. But the whole time I was saying this, I was like, please give me one more bull run after this, right? Please give me one more. I'm not 100 % certain that we get another bull run like we did on the last one. And I'm not as optimistic with the big institutions coming in. And I wasn't back in 2020 and I wasn't in 2021. Because coming from options, I know that manipulation is in there because they want to make money. They have billions, if not trillions of dollars. They've had algorithms for, I don't know, 12, 15 years or longer that are probably where us retail folk are at now, right? And they have the money behind it, right? So when futures were created end of 2017, I think Bitcoin started to become more correlated. Then there's trusts like GBTC. And if there's ETFs and stuff like that, I think it will become more correlated. I think it's amazing for traders, right? I just don't think that if I'm wrong, I hope I'm wrong because I will do much better, right? I will do much better if we get a massive bull run. But if we don't, it's because it will become more of a trading thing than it will be a long -term great. I just, you know, it can't be that easy. And if it is great, we'll all be there, right? I'm trading Bitcoin. I'm trading it with leverage. I welcome that. I make way more money on a long position with leverage than I do on a short position because, A, the leverage you're gaining profit and the coin value is going up. But on the short side, the coin value isn't going up, it's going down. So I collect more coins, but the coin value isn't going up. So first and foremost, I do want another bull run and I beg for another bull run so all my snipers can participate and they can make money as well and change their lives. But I'm not certain that it's going to happen. And I would be surprised if they allow it to happen. If big companies are coming in, you know, I don't know. We'll see. It'll be interesting to see. But we'll be there if it does and we won't be surprised if it doesn't. Put it that way. Now, Jesse, I have to say how much I appreciate people that are in this space that bring a balanced view because everybody thinks it's just going to go up, up and away, especially considering the fact that we have the halving right around the corner. Do you think the halving is going to be the primary driver of if we do get a bull run? Do you think the halving really truly is going to have an impact on price action? What's your thoughts on this? I have a couple of thoughts on it. So one, I think the halving will still play a factor, right? If all things are the same, if the same, you know, if the one there's a couple of things that could hurt it. Right. So Bitcoin has never Bitcoin came out after the 2008 crash. Right. So it's never experienced a dot com bubble crash. It never experienced 2008 crash. I have. I went back to zero. I lost everything. So for me, the up only left me a long time ago. Right. Like, I know it's not up only when I thought it was up only in my mid 20s. Right. So for me, a couple of those things. I do have hope for Bitcoin. I do believe on some level they'll be able to manipulate it and suppress it. If you look at gold and silver. Right. Gold and silver should probably be $30 ,000 an ounce by now for gold. And silver should probably be $1 ,000 per ounce by now. And because of paper, silver and gold should probably suppress it. Right. So I believe those are probably should be worth a lot more. The one positive with Bitcoin is anyone can go buy spot Bitcoin much easier than silver and gold. Right. I've bought silver and gold and they deliver it to you in a weird package and it's heavy. Right. It's not easily transportable and all that stuff. So there are some positive about Bitcoin. Right. So, you know, who knows what the agendas are? I don't. That's why I stick hyper focus to the charts, because I don't know what the backroom deals are happening. I don't know the narratives. I don't know any of that stuff. I'm not a top point one percenter making those decisions. So the only thing I can do is trade the charts. But, you know, going back, if we do get this bull run, I do have some reasons why, you know, like you said, you brought up one hundred fifty thousand. I do have a couple of reasons why that I could see Bitcoin hit one hundred and ten, one twenty five and maybe even top would be like one hundred forty thousand dollars. But that's a lot of what ifs. So, you know, we will take it level by level and swing trade the heck out of it all the way all the way up in the bull run. If we get another bull run, that's kind of like the topping that I would see price it. So now I appreciate that answer. And I'd like to shift gears here for a second, because you've been trading for years, years before Bitcoin was even around. And I'd like to dive into that experience a little bit and throw it back to the beginners out there, because we do have beginners that are out there still right now. But disproportionately, as we get new bullish impulses, especially in Bitcoin or the rest of the altcoin markets, we're going to have a huge number, a huge influx of new people into the space. So what would you say if you had that? Maybe not a secret sauce, but a beginner's pack, a beginner's sort of encouragement and the need to knows and the need to uses for people that are starting from scratch. Maybe they don't have a pro trading view account. Maybe they're not buying one of our indicators of one of your indicators or some of the many paid indicators out there. There's a lot of free tools. So what would you say for beginners getting started today or at any point in the future? Where do they start? How do they dive into this? Yeah, definitely. I mean, you know, first and foremost, like before this, I would say salvage as much capital at first as possible. I feel like the faster you want to jump in to make money, the faster you are going to lose money. So it sounds generic that, you know, learn first. Right. But say you already passed, you're going down discovery road and you're trying to learn and develop your own strategy. Right. Well, if you're on trading view, for example, you can get a relative strength indicator for free. If you're on trading view, free platform, you can get the MACD indicator. I think that's the most commonly used for beginners is the MACD indicator. And just before you do anything else, just study it and study it some more and then back test it and develop a strategy based off of your back test. There's an amazing replay button on trading view that you can go back and kind of after you develop a strategy, you can easily go back and hit the replay video and see what that, you know, how that kind of plays out in the past. It doesn't mean it's going to happen in the future, but you can get an idea over time of back testing with the replay button. That's probably number one. And then paper trade. I know it's not exciting. I know I didn't do it. I jumped head head first. I would have five digit wins followed by five digit losses. And it was brutal. Right. And I've never had a six digit loss, but I've had six digit wins. But I've had five digit losses and it wasn't until the five digit losses that made me like I made five digit wins with basically hardly any strategy whatsoever. And that was probably the worst thing that could happen. The best thing that could happen is that I had the five digit win loss and it made me go back to the drawing board. It made me reevaluate my whole life. What am I doing in trading type of thing? That aha moment. And that's when I really went obsessive on the charts and developing my own strategy. I saw other people's strategies out there. And when I would back test it, I went through a phase where I back tested so many other people's strategies. I would just say, didn't work. This doesn't work for me. This doesn't work for me. And every strategy could work differently for different people, especially on different timeframes. So develop something that works for you. Find a timeframe that works for you and your lifestyle. Some of our snipers, they can't do swing trading on the daily chart. They don't have the patience for it. They're scalpers. They're day traders. So you got to know yourself too. And then at that point, as you're graduating from paper trading and back testing, the next level is maybe risk some lunch money. The amount of money you and I would go off for like a nice lunch. And if I were to buy your lunch, I don't even think twice about it. Like something that I'm not even going to lose sleep over. Then I talk about doing lunch money. Then maybe you do lunch money with leverage or blah, blah, blah, or a little bit more money with spot, right? So you got to take it in levels and kind of make it a systematic approach. And if you treat it like a business in those levels, that's when you're going to have a better chance of making it. Otherwise, if you jump straight in and you want to go 50 X leverage, no strategy, no experience, no back testing. I guarantee you blow up account. I guarantee it. One of the things I say is like, if you're, if you're trying to double down, like you were doing well, right? So a couple of things that I've talked about in coaching is that, and by the way, I don't do live coaching anymore. I have recorded coaching, but I don't do live coaching. It's just too much time and energy. But when I was doing those live coaching calls, we talked about this and we talked about that. You know, every time you win a trade, if you're treating it like a business, you pull out, for example, I pull out my personal strategies. I pull out 50 % out of that trading kill and I take it out of the digital world and then go maybe put it in the physical world or diversify in some other way. Right? So you're always taking a piece off, always taking a piece off. And one of them, one of the students is like extremely young. Right. And, uh, I, I said, Hey, what are you gonna do with your winnings? Right. He crushed it. And I was actually jealous of his trade. He, he actually nailed it on high leverage. And I'm like, I'm like, go buy your mom something nice. Right. So not only take like money off the table, but it's the whole mindset. If you're not taking money off the table on each trade, what happens is you're up. Like you were say, you know, $50 ,000, $100 ,000, $10 ,000, $1 ,000. Maybe you're brand new. You're up $1 ,000. And that's the most you've ever had. You want to flip that into $10 ,000, right? Then you want to flip that into a million dollars. And that's, and that's what you just fell into that same example you just gave you fell into that mindset. And you only can do that by learning the hard way. So what you have to do is be more systematic about it. And after a win, fighting the urge of going back in and instead of going all back in, you're, you're pulling some out and then you're, you're, you're going at the new, every trade you have to treat as brand new and instead of jumping in and out is everything lining up on the charts, just like it did the first one, you nailed the first trade. And a lot of times this happens when you're, I talk about it, you'll have like nine winning trades in a row and we're human. We're not robots. I'm not a robot. I know I'm most likely to have a bad trade after I've had nine in a row. Why? Because my confidence is so high. I've skipped steps, right? So if you skip steps because your confidence is so high, that's when you're most likely going to have your next loss. And if you forget to put, and if you make a mistake on that, you forget to put in a stop loss. You do too high of leverage. Next thing you know, you're having a major setback and a change. It sets you back not only on financially, but mentally. So be cautious. Once you are making the wins and you are winning like nine times in a row, you're going to have a loss. And usually it's because your confidence is so high, not because you're, you've been on a losing streak, right? So just want to point that out. And it was based off what you're kind of talking about. You're winning. It was the bull run. And then all of a sudden you went all in with more leverage and took a $70 ,000 loss. So you learn from your mistakes, right? Yeah. Well, I got to say, I couldn't agree more with you on all those great places to start for beginners and how utilizing a lot of those free tools that are available to you to get started, to understand the mechanisms of all these tools that you're going to be utilizing when you're doing price analysis and trying to figure out when to buy and when to sell. It's not just about looking at price action. It's about looking at those underlying data sets that can give you an edge as to when trends are going to shift. So with that being said, I have to say, Jesse, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for taking your time to share your thoughts with us and your lens on this market. And everybody, if you want to see more of Jesse, throw one in chat, comment down below, hit that like button, hit that subscribe button, ding the bell. And if you would make sure you head over to Jesse J -E -S -S -E -O -L -S -O -N, find out so much more about him here, all kinds of different content he shares on a daily basis, really breaking down charts. He even has his own Market Sniper Academy right here at MarketSniper .Pro. You can also find out more information on BitLab Academy right here at Academy BitLab. Follow me, of course, at Kelly Kellum, K -E -L -L -Y, K -E -L -L -A -M. Make sure you check out bitlabacademy .com. We have all the tools and courses and strategies and the community that can really help you dive into this space and understand what is going on. Self -custody, trading fundamentals, psychology of trading, on -chain analysis, candles, candle patterns, indicators. There's so much in here as a point. Join us here in BitLab Academy. You can still use our coupon code GIVEME30 for an additional 30 % off your first month. I hope to see you in there in the Discord and over on the BitLab Academy daily YouTube stream right here at youtube .com forward slash at BitLab Academy. I'll see you there. I hope you all have a wonderful day. Have a wonderful weekend. Get out of the charts and we'll see you in the next video. Adios.
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"Welcome back to The Mining Pod. I'm your host, Will Foxley. For those just finding this podcast, I'm a former Bitcoin journalist turned podcaster and filmmaker, mostly focused on the Bitcoin mining space these days. I'm excited to bring back The Mining Pod for yet another year of great interviews and shows. We took a summer break per normal, but we're getting back into it with a stellar lineup of guests, including US Bitcoin, Auradigm, Chain Reaction, Brains, and more. If you'd like to be on the show or have a guest idea, please email me at williamatblockspace .media. There's going to be some new things with the show as well. For one, the show is now completely independent. Formerly, the show was owned and operated by Compass Mining. Compass will be a sponsor from time to time, but the show is now owned and operated by myself. I want to thank Compass Mining for their investment in getting The Mining Pod where it is today, and we look forward to having them on the show. As part of being independent, the show will now have ads in the pre -roll and mid -roll for all shows. I want to thank our sponsors for this quarter for paying the show's bills. Our first episode will be coming out tomorrow. Thanks for listening. P .S. I'm giving away one month of hashrate from an S19J Pro to celebrate another season of the podcast. Simply subscribe to the email list in this episode's show notes to be included in the raffle.
Mark Levin
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The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Store of Value and Proof of Work with Ben Justman, Founder of "Peony Lane Wine" - September 18th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right, all right. Good morning to all of you Cafe Bitcoiners. Happy Monday. It is time for another awesome week in Bitcoin. Man. It is so cool getting up on a Monday morning. You know, most people are like, oh, God, it's another Monday. They don't even want to get out of bed. They're dragging ass. They're like, oh, but Bitcoiners are like, let's go. All right. Good morning to all of you, Lisa. Good morning, Peter. Good morning, Mickey. Morning. Good morning. Don Bay Terrence. Good morning to all of you. Shout outs to my cobart in the audience. Joe Carla. Sorry. Hi, guys. Alex, the other Alex, there is another Alex. Alex talks tweets. She works at Swan. Shout out to you. You're welcome to come up. She does some amazing stuff. I'm not there's other people in the audience here who work for Swan. I'm not going to talk to you because you guys have some semi names. I don't know. Anyway, morning, Jacob as well. Welcome back from your golf excursion or the weekend. Tone vase morning there on you an invite. I just found out I'm on a panel with tone vase for Pacific Bitcoin. I'm moderating tone vase and Pierre Richard and Jimmy song. That's awesome. And I guess our mission is to talk about shit coins. So for whatever that's worth. All right. Welcome to Cafe Bitcoin episode four hundred and thirty six. Shout outs to our supporters on Fountain and Noster Nests. Our mission for this show is to provide the signal in a sea of noise, teach the other seven billion people on this planet why there's hope because of this bright orange feature we call Bitcoin. Today's show, we're going to be discussing BTC performance versus other assets. There's a tweet Saylor put out with a really interesting chart. We'll be talking about that. United States interest payments are at insane levels and the near perfect energy arbitrage of Bitcoin later today. We have Ben Justman from Penny Lane Wine coming on the show. Very excited. He's an example of the Bitcoin circular economy. So you've got people who are craftsmen making really fine high end things and they're selling them directly to big winners. And man, I love to see it because this is the future. Like we're moving away from this entire consumer rush, rush, rush, get on the hamster wheel, make money that is constantly devaluing and then spend it on shit that you're going to replace one month or one year from now because it's garbage. But that's the entire consumer economy system. It's insane. But Bitcoin is switching that. I think we're going to flip this thing completely on its head. How long will it take? I have no idea. But I think it's coming. Anybody have any opening comments you want to make before we start digging in here? Just that the coffee and the Bitcoin charts are hitting hard this morning. So let's go. Yeah, what's up with that? I saw there was something like, I don't remember the exact stat, but the open interest has is skyrocketing, I guess. We went from twenty six, what is this, five ish to twenty seven thousand two hundred and thirty ish per Bitcoin right as of right now this morning. Lisa Huff, what did you do? You know, I missed the days when Bitcoin was actually volatile, like I am excited to see that it moved and I was also excited to see that it moved down last week. But as for me personally, Alex, what you said is correct. Bitcoiners were ready to get up and do it. And in the last several months, I have, because of Bob Burnett's lovely wife, Lola, I heard a comment that she said she made about health and fitness. She said you have to approach it like it is your lifestyle. Yeah, kind of kind of changes things up. I'm raring to go at like five o 'clock in the morning. Start workout, just went to Pilates. That's my whole life story, guys. Now you know it. Nice. I like it. I think it's awesome. Like I've shifted also because now I'm on the East Coast. So the showtime starts differently for me now. And I have time first thing in the morning, get up and go do physical things. And man, it's it's been amazing. It's been awesome. You've got to exercise for life to keep your life long and healthy. It is a lifetime thing. And finding something that you enjoy doing while you exercise is critical to that. Personally, since I'm on the West Coast, I make my bed and it's a successful day before Cafe Bitcoin. And I am not qualified to discuss anything, just so everybody knows. It's all good. Shout out to Mike Germano in the audience, throwing you an invite if you would like to come up here and obligation to do so. Alex, good morning. Welcome. I think this is the first time you've been up here now. Hey, good morning, everybody. Yeah. Thanks for inviting me up. This is a lot of fun. I'm always listening while changing diapers in the morning and doing the whole mom thing before I clock in. So thanks for having me. Yeah. What are you excited about in Bitcoin and with Swan and with everything? What are you excited about? Wow. That's a loaded question. But I mean, short term, I am stoked on Pacific Bitcoin coming up. I sent out an email blast this weekend. Hopefully many of you guys received it. And I heard you mention your panel, Alex. And the description in the email of that panel is... So the title is Shitcoin Slayers, but that's pretty awesome. And basically, shitcoiners are shaking in their boots and stand no chance against Alex, Tone Vays, Jimmy, Pierre. There'll definitely be some fighting words and not some subtle jabs. It's going to be an awesome talk. Yeah, just a lot of good stuff in the pipeline for PB. Hope to see you guys there. Tone Vays, good morning. We're on a panel together. Good morning. Yeah, I saw that in the email that you were sending that over. Yeah, so that's great. Do you guys know which day that would be? That first day or second day? I have no idea. I just literally just found out myself because I got the email just like everybody else. It's funny, right? They're like, they don't even tell me. Yeah, no, it's good. I actually tweeted out just last night. Ethereum had a brand new weekly low 12 -month close against Bitcoin. And that is a very weak TA symbol for Ethereum. And it's already going down a little bit today as well. So I think, yeah, shitcoins are in a bit of trouble. But the weird thing is, though, have you guys seen what is going on over in Singapore right now with token 2049, which pretty much has become the biggest shitcoin conference in the world? It is crazy. That conference is so scary to me. It tells me that shitcoiners still have an unreasonable amount of money. And maybe the bear market's not over yet. I don't know if anyone's seen the party videos from there. No. What I wonder about is, in this next cycle, are they tapping Asia? Are you going to see a lot of shitcoin conferences over in Asia? And are they going to be gigantic? Oh, I was going to just say probably. But the scary thing is that that conference was massive. And they're renting out sweets with the best views of the... Let's get some context. Let's get some context. What do you mean by massive? What does this mean? What does massive mean to you? Numbers? Do you have an idea of a number of attendees kind of thing? I don't. I'm assuming 5 ,000 to 10 ,000 people. I wasn't going to watch that much. But it was like the after party, right? Like renting out the most expensive restaurant in Singapore. Getting front row seats or the best views of F1, a race that was happening the day after the event. If you just do the hashtag token2049 and just look at their after parties, I don't think anyone really cares. It seemed like a borderline Bitcoin 2022 or one of their older ones. It was insane. And based on how well the shitcoin community is doing, I'm like, man, this bear market may not be over yet. Well, Tone, they're long on other people's fiat, but that tells me they're short on their own tokens. That's why they're spending so hard. It's possible. Is Ethereum ever going to make new highs against Bitcoin? Nope. No, no way. And I said that on a show. I was on Ben Cohen's podcast and a lot of his audience is apparently shitcoiners. And I said that no shitcoin has ever made a new high versus Bitcoin in the following bull market of Bitcoin. Like it's never happened. Actually, I did find one exception. That exception was Doge. But that's because of Elon Musk. It's not because of anything Doge did. And BNB, right? No, BNB never really pumped in the 2017 market because it was just launching then. So BNB's high is the 2021 bull market, and that will never be surpassed. In the case of Ethereum, it's the 2017 bull market. In the case of Litecoin, it's the 2013 bull market. So if a token has been around for like a full year before the bull market, that is its ultimate high. Like it never breaches it. Ethereum will never break its 2017 high. No way.
Mark Levin
Fresh update on "one month" discussed on Mark Levin
"Obviously you can DVR the programs if you're not sure you'll be able to watch it live we're going to have Chip Roy on and Peter Twitzer on Saturday we're going to have Senator and Stephen A Smith is my second guest on Sunday so I hope you'll DVR and record the program if you can't make it but they're very compelling shows I really want to dig into this budget stuff I've been through the shutdowns for decades and decades many of you have been to their shutdowns and then their shutdowns and the media reporting already even in friendly media has been horrendous so if you wanna follow me through this and we'll break it one down step at a time please stick with us and you'll know more than anybody else be radio 77 radio 77 WABC this week That's pretty Now you know what companies looking out for you when they actually upgrade your service and don't charge you for it this is great news and for new and current PureTalk customers PureTalk just added data to every plan and is including a mobile hotspot with each one with no price increase whatsoever Now if you've considered PureTalk before but haven't pulled the trigger take a look again just $20 a month for unlimited talk text and a 50 % more 5G data plus mobile hotspot just 20 bucks a month folks this is why I love PureTalk that also happens to be veteran owned And only hires the best customer service team right here in America most families are saving almost $1 thousand dollars a year while enjoying the most dependable 5G network in America Now pound 250 and Mark say Levin to make the switch to PureTalk and you'll save an additional 50 % of your first month Again dial pound 250 say Mark Levin and make the switch to my cell phone company PureTalk today WABC traffic
Abundant Encounters
God Puts His Signature in the Sky for Us to See
"I've never seen this before, but it seems like God opened the ark on Noah's birthday. Maybe I'm wrong about this, but it says in Noah's 601st year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah lifted the hatch, looked out and saw the dry ground. I just think that's so sweet that the Lord was thinking about him. People obviously lived a lot longer before the flood. There's all kinds of ideas and stuff about that, but Lord, we just focus on you. We thank you so much for your presence. There's this beautiful idea that, you know, in this action that God has taken, maybe even in your life, you know, I've met multiple people that have said that rainbows show up in their life at opportune moments, where God's like letting them know. What an awesome encounter that could be. You know, what an awesome encounter for New York on September 11th recently. It's just incredible that God really does. He just puts his signature, as the Passion translation says, in the sky for all of us to see. Thank you so much, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Sometimes you just need to take a minute to feel grateful. Just feel it. It's not because we're so rotten or anything, but the Lord delights that we delight in his creation, the things that he does. So when we do that, he's up there smiling and experiencing such joy. As we experience joy over his creation, he delights in us delighting in him.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Andrew Klavan (Encore Continued)
"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show with your host, Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the show. Today, we are actually doing something a little different. We've done it before. We are airing my conversation from Socrates in the City with the extraordinary Eric Metaxas Show. Andrew Klavan. One of the best ever. If you want more information, go to socratesinthecity .com. And now, here is that event. But in Paradise Lost, Milton is trying to show that there's a difference between rebelling against a king, which he had done. He had endorsed the beheading of Charles I and had to run for his life after Charles II came in. And he was trying to show that Paradise Lost is his attempt to show the difference between that and rebelling against God, which is rebelling against goodness and creation. And so that idea, well, how do we now rebel against kings and rebel against the church and yet not rebel against God, was where Wordsworth and Coleridge kind of started without even knowing it. They didn't know they were doing this. I mean, Coleridge might have. He was so brilliant. But they wrote this book called Lyrical Ballads, which transformed English poetry. And it's a book in which they sort of say, we're going to show how the imagination in collaboration with reality transforms and enchants reality and how it brings even the smallest of people nobility. And they basically reinvented this Christian ethos through nature, through looking at nature, which they didn't, like I said, Coleridge knew he was doing it, but Wordsworth, I'm not sure, actually understood. Wordsworth ended his life as a Christian, but it took him a long time to come there. And they sort of passed this journey on to John Keats, who was the greatest English poet since Shakespeare. He lived 25 years. He had about one month, about six weeks of writing some of the greatest poetry that has ever been written and then got tuberculosis and died. And this period of great creativity, I just want to say this one thing because it's so fascinating to me. His brother had died of tuberculosis. His was poetry getting terrible reviews. He was poor. He had a cough. He's probably starting to think, oh my God, I'm getting tuberculosis. He's absolutely depressed. He can't write. He's taking a walk in Hampstead Heath, and he looks up, and who's coming toward him? Coleridge. And Coleridge takes him on a 40 -minute walk during which Coleridge never shuts up. He just talks ceaselessly, and suddenly this poetry comes pouring out of Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode on a Nightingale, Ode to Autumn, the greatest poetry since Shakespeare. And then he dies. And the poetry is about, almost all of it is about, okay, there is this beautiful eternal thing out there, and here am I in this world of death and pain. How do I cross the barrier? And he tries to do it through art, through the Grecian Urn. He tries to do it through the imagination, and he can't quite do it. And one day it just happens to him in his Ode to Autumn. He just writes this perfect poem where the observer and the scene meld into one. And he doesn't know it's Christianity, but that's what it is. I wonder, I constantly wonder, what if he had lived another 25 years? What would he have seen? He understood that the soul was immortal. He understood he's the one who said beauty is truth and truth is beauty, which can only make sense if that beauty is connecting us to something beyond ourselves. That's the only way that makes sense. And I just don't know what would have happened to him, but he didn't live, and basically the romantics fail. They kind of fade away, and this materialism that rules our lives now, where we think like, oh, you feel like a man? Well, we'll cut your body into a man costume and you'll be a man. And at the same time, you say, well, I feel this is immoral. You'll say, no, you're wrong. Follow the signs. Well, actually, that's the link, right? In other words, maybe I'm oversimplifying the romantics and the whole period, but what happened is feelings became paramount so that reality becomes subjective and whatever I feel is it. Well, it's a weird binary because the idea is the basic, if you boil theism down to its most basic idea, it's that matter has meaning. If I torture a child, that's bad. It's not bad because we all agree it's bad. If everybody in the world said it was great, it would still be bad. That's the idea that there is a supernatural, something above the nature. If that's gone, then not only do your feelings mean everything, your feelings also mean nothing, and that's where you get this kind of confusion from the left. Yes, if you feel like a woman, I can cut up your body and you'll be a woman, but if you say cutting up someone's body to make them a woman is wrong, so it's just your subjective feeling. That doesn't mean anything. So it's this kind of double paradox where your feelings become everything, but they are nothing. Well, that's the problem with that thing we call reality, right? I mean, it's kind of like it's a stacked deck. God created reality, and if you can convert people to reality, they will be led to him if they're gonna be intellectually consistent. Okay, so one of the things that I just loved about this book, and there's so many things, but you bring these figures to life. When you describe Coleridge and Keats and all of them, and I realize that's something that also had fallen out of fashion by the time that I was in college in the 80s, where we didn't seem to care about these figures as figures, and you sort of, you bring them to life, so in some ways, it's not a novel, but there are a lot of fun stories in this book about amazing, crazy, brilliant people trying to work these things out in their lives and in their art. Well, if you think about it, Britain is an island the size of Oregon, and on it in this one generation, or it's two generations, but it's the same time, is Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Keats, and Byron, the six greatest poets in the English language besides Shakespeare and Milton, are all living together on this island, and so they're all nuts, because they're poets, right? They're wild men, they're falling apart half the time. Coleridge is an absolute ruin of a human being. Byron is screwing everybody, male or female, he can get his hands on. Shelley wants to be doing that, but isn't quite, and then, and one of the people that I deal with is Mary Shelley. One of my favorite chapters in the book is on Frankenstein, because here's Mary Shelley who adores Shelley. She adores this man she's run off with. He's left his wife, and she's run off with him, and she adored and worshiped her father, and now she adores and worships Shelley, and he's basically treating her, as Byron and Shelley treated all the women they came in contact with, he's basically treating her like crap, and he believes in free love, and he doesn't know why she's so depressed when her children die. He's depressed that she's not paying attention to him, and she writes this book, Frankenstein, where she says it's about a man who tries to steal God's thunder by creating life, but I point out that we all create, people create life. We create life of the things that we have. What Frankenstein, what Dr. Frankenstein does is he creates life without a woman, and her nightmare is essentially the nightmare of femininity, the female aspect of life, and femininity and womanhood becoming obsolete, and if you follow, she invents, in that moment, she invents science fiction. She really invents the modern genre of science fiction, and if you follow science fiction, so much of it is about that.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from Don't Miss The Massive Friend.Tech Airdrop.. (How To Qualify)
"FriendTech is back. Last week everyone was saying it was dead but today we're seeing volumes shoot through the roof, we're seeing transaction volume go parabolic, all off the back of new airdrop information which I'm going to share with you today. So we're going to go through exactly what the FriendTech airdrop is, how you can get involved if you're interested and go through some of the maths behind it to work out how much users or recipients of the FriendTech airdrop could potentially make. Let's get straight into all the alpha in today's show. In case you don't know what FriendTech is, it's essentially a social fire platform that allows you to buy shares or keys in your favorite creators. These creators can then have private group chats where they share all sorts of exclusive information like crypto alpha, photos, etc. So basically think of it like a private gated like telegram group except instead of paying like a monthly fee you simply have to hold a creator's keys that you can purchase using ethereum. Now of course it's super lucrative for the creators because they can essentially make money off the trading fees that are generated by people speculating on their platforms and it's also super lucrative for the project because they're obviously making trading fees from the platform and it's seen FriendTech make over five million dollars within its first month which is one of the most successful startups of the last few years technically from a crypto revenue perspective. So why is it having a resurgence again today? Well essentially we have new details on the airdrop. So first I want to go through the data. There is now 14 million dollars worth of TVL locked in the platform. You can see over the last couple of months this has continued to increase so despite volumes dropping off for FriendTech as we can see there was a clear lull towards the end of August into early September. The TVL has maintained fairly positive so there has been I guess net inflows into the platform as people bridge ETH onto the platform to speculate on creators but in terms of transactions we can see that we've started to see an uptick again over the last few days so it was super popular and everyone was talking about it on the 20th of August. It started to slow down a little bit into September but it's getting right back up there again in terms of transaction volume and as I said before five million dollars in revenue collected this month by FriendTech. Now here is the very interesting bit. The reason everyone is getting back onto FriendTech and getting super excited about it again is because of the potential airdrop and we've seen over the last week how FriendTech has actually chosen to distribute points. So we can see the leaderboard of all the top holders so we can see Christian, ETH, Racer, the founder has 192 ,000 points, some of the well -known key figures on crypto twitter, Hasaka with 160k, Kobe with 160k, Zhu Su with 71k. These guys are the ones that are leading in points. Now how do you actually get points? Well there are a few ways. Refer people to the platform, that's how you can accumulate points. You can launch your own key and trading volume comprises a percentage towards your total airdrop every single Friday because they give out the airdrops every Friday but it's just been revealed that actually the most important component of earning points is not actually trading volume but it's holding volume. So it's the amount of total keys that you hold on the platform denominated in ETH which is of course the main currency of the platform. So Caleo did a tweet he said I'm up to 17 ,500 points here's what I've learned. FriendTech's rewarding collectors at a higher rate than creators. Trading volume on your keys does matter but more than anything else FriendTech is waiting portfolio value. I've had multiple members of my chat who have higher portfolio values than mine but much lower key prices outpace me in coin farming. So essentially this indicates that FriendTech is waiting a higher airdrop percentage towards the people that are simply holding creators and investing in creators keys. Super interesting. So what will this translate to in terms of a dollar amount in an airdrop? Because you know points of points they don't actually mean anything. What could the points potentially be worth? Well I did some maths and I looked through some of the key models and it appears to me that the most likely suggestions for a potential FriendTech price vary between like 50 cents of one dollar. So if we take like the conservative angle and say that 60 cents will be the price of the token if it launches and we have no way to tell we're just kind of going off the amount they raised versus the amount of activity on the platform. But let's say they are worth 60 cents then what you would see is if you hold one ETH worth of creators across the platform a $210 worth of ETH yield per week so that equates to around a 0 .13 return per week. So to put that again if the token launches at 60 cents a conservative estimate the airdrop would equate to $210 worth of ETH per week per Ethereum in tokens that you hold on the platform. So that equates to around 0 .13 percent return per week on your ETH. If you you know make that an APR so make that a yearly figure that's around 600 percent per year. Now you can see David G in front of us did the calculations if the token's worth a dollar. He said that that equates to 0 .21 ETH per week which is compounded 1100 percent APY and at two dollars per point you would make 0 .42 ETH per ETH of keys held over a given week which is 2200 APY. So what is this telling us? Well basically FriendTech is one big yield farm. That is the biggest value prop for the platform right now and that's why creator volume is starting to uptick and that's why key prices across the board are starting to uptick because people are staking their ETH on FriendTech to earn these points because now they know that holding creators is the number one prerequisite for an airdrop and they're saying if I put one ETH into creators on the platform I'm going to be receiving between 0 .13 percent if it's a 60 cent token and 0 .4 percent if it's a two dollar token when the airdrop finally happens and this basically makes it like a yield farming opportunity in essence if you're working out those calculations based on a potential airdrop. So it's super interesting and of course as a result a lot of creators have skyrocketed. Look I'm going to show you my FriendTech price for example. I don't really promote this. I don't really shill it. I do a little bit of posting to my group just to talk people on there and have some fun but I'm not like you know super serious about content on there like other creators are and even my keys went from a floor price of 0 .08 all the way back up to 0 .22 today. Now this has happened obviously because a lot of people are now buying into creators because they want to stake their ETH on the platform for a potential airdrop but it's coincided with something interesting. It's coincided with a lot of platform upgrades because when the platform first launched it was essentially unusable like it was a piece of trash and to an extent it still is a piece of trash but it's getting a lot better. They added photo integration. Soon they are going to be adding live streaming. They've added replies so creators can reply directly to chats instead of just seeing one log of chats on the feed. So it is getting better and the platform over time is becoming a lot smoother. Like comparing my user experience today compared to the first day that I used FriendTech it's been a monumental increase in usability and if they can continue this pace of shipping code and continue this pace of upgrading the platform then I think we're actually going to have a decent product. So to all the FriendTech bears I don't think like there's an explicit reason to be like super bearish on FriendTech. You could be super bearish on like creators pricing potentially being overpriced in the short term but in terms of the platform itself I think it's a cool concept and they're continuing to improve it and clearly the airdrop has you know given people a huge incentive to get back onto the platform. By the way for people asking what I'm going to do with my FriendTech I mean I'm just going to continue chatting to people in there maybe posting some alpha and if the platform gets better I will look at you know wrapping up my posting or offerings over there right now. I just want to make promises on there right now and say I'm going to do all this stuff you know if the platform can't actually justify me doing all that stuff. So I'm just going to wait and see but for now I'm talking to people in there I am you know hanging out with my community in there so that's basically you know what I'm offering over there for the people that have been asking me on Twitter what I'm doing over on FriendTech. So what can you do sitting here watching this video well I mean I think there's a certain element of risk if you're depositing Ethereum now into the platform solely to airdrop farm because you know you don't want to buy creators keys and then get dumped on and get an airdrop but it's still not enough to make up for the losses capital losses that you made on the ETH. So be very careful if I was airdrop farming on the platform and I'm not like explicitly going out of my way to airdrop farm but I'm doing it inadvertently through the ETH that I already have on the platform I think I have like one to two ETH on the platform.
Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
A highlight from Ricardo Salinas: Mexican Billionaire on Bitcoin, Building Wealth, Capitalism and Legacy
"This is not a question of left and right, it's free and slavery. It's freedom and irresponsibility or irresponsible theft. Welcome to the Coin Stories podcast, where we get to explore the future of money, business, technology and Bitcoin's revolutionary promise to boost economic prosperity around the world and mend our broken financial system. I'm Natalie Brunell, and I'm here to learn with you. This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only, none of the discussions should constitute as official investment advice, and you should always do your own research. Please make sure to subscribe to the show so you don't miss out on any new episodes. This podcast is made possible through partnerships with companies I trust, and I'm very picky about who I choose to partner with, so I hope you take the time to listen to the ad reads throughout the show. Thanks for joining me, and if you like this type of content and want to see more of it, make sure to hit that like button. All right, it's time for the show. Ricardo, first of all, it is such an honor. Thank you so much for taking the time. Thank you, Natalie. I just learned, actually, that Ricardo Salinas -Pliego, it's because the first last name is your father, second is your... I didn't know that that's how you worked in Mexico. Well, in Mexico and in general, Latin countries, we have this big family tradition and a way to respect the families, to recognize that your mother also counts. Love it. I love that. Yes. Well, I want to hear a little bit more about your upbringing. I want to start the story at the beginning. Can you tell me what it was like growing up here in Mexico? I was a very bad boy. You were a bad boy? Very bad boy. Very unruly and like a savage, wild guy looking for adventure. Why? I liked adventure. What can I say? In terms of your understanding of money, what was your sense of money growing up? Did you feel always comfortable? I was always poor. Okay. I had no money. I hate that feeling. Yeah. It's terrible. As a matter of fact, I have a story about that when I think I might have been like 10 or 12 years old, and my father sent me out on a trip to Disneyland and to the US, and then fly across to New York and the World Fair, and he gave me $100 for a one -month trip. I think after three days, I spent it all, and I spent the rest of the trip feeling like a beggar with my other friends who had more money. It was a terrible feeling. I don't like it, and I'm not planning on going back to that. Did you always strive to achieve great wealth? What was your path in terms of achieving success in your career? Well, it took me a long time, because even though I started working first on my own, then with other companies, and my father offered me a job in his company, and that company belonged to my grandfather and my father, and it was their company, not my company. I started working for them, and both of them, especially my father, they're very stingy, miserable with their money, so they pay me a miserable salary. Then after the 80s, disaster here in Mexico when, as I mentioned, the price of the dollar went from 20 pesos to one dollar, to today, which is 17 ,000 pesos per dollar. But in the 80s, just between 1982 and 1988, it went from 20 to 3 ,000. So everybody was wiped out.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1237. Crypto Market Crash | Altcoin Update
"All right, so let's break into some altcoins today, take a look at a deep dive on several projects out there. Maybe this is the bleed off that we've been looking for. Is this an entry point? We'll break all that down for you guys today. If you're thinking about altcoins, you don't want to miss this one. My name is Paul Baron. Welcome back into Tech Path. Before we get started, I want to thank our sponsor, and that is iTrust Capital. If you're doing a long -term holding, one of the places you can go into crypto long -term holding, whether you're doing altcoins, Bitcoin, Ethereum, is over at iTrust Capital. Very easy to join. All you have to do is click our link down below. It's going to give you access. And if you do decide to get started over there, you're going to get a $100 funding reward. So make sure and check that out. All right, let's get into a couple of things here today. Part of this will be a lineup of altcoins, many of which are really struggling right now, mostly because of Bitcoin now in the $25 .5 range right now. Let's take a look at the chart and just see where Bitcoin is currently trading as we film this. Dipping into the $25 .6 range right now with a wick. So we've got a little bit of a movement down. This is on the 4 -hour right now. Sentiment, if you've been tracking our CPI, then you probably saw this coming for quite some time, even all the way back to the 29th when we had down sentiment on that little spike that was starting to show up. So it has been at least giving a little bit of an indicator that the markets have seen a downward sentiment. With analysts pointing at that this may be a really rough September, are there going to be some opportunities here? So we're going to break in to a lot of those to take a look. I'm going to go to this first tweet right here. This, of course, is Coinbase Wallet. All about that base launched in August. Monthly recap on Coinbase Wallet for all your needs on BuildOnBase. Lots happening, basically. This is all over now. Absolute, I think, huge success for what Coinbase has done with base as a blockchain. And it has really showed out in terms of the amount of projects that have been flowing within it. When you look at some of the on -chain analysis here, daily active users, they're on base. You can just kind of see the explosion that has occurred during August. And this isn't really the end of it. We will most likely see a strategic rollout with base and Coinbase's efforts to continue to help foster this industry, which I think is a grand master plan with what they're trying to do over there. Further into this, here's, of course, the current data on the total value locked right now. Almost half a billion dollars. So when you look at the growth right here of base, very, very significant overall. Now, some of the most recent spike right here is a little bit because of what Airdome is happening here. So this, of course, is another DEX. The interesting thing is there's a lot of projects that are starting to go in this direction. I don't think base is going to slow down at all. All right. So one of the other things that you can take a look at here is, of course, the total base users now cracking over one million total users. Very significant. But again, a lot of opportunity here for a massive growth. But remember, this is just the first month, and we've already started to see base as a significant player in the market. So think about that, all EVM and Ethereum -based lineup. If you look at Coinbase, the stock, currently on the, let's go over here to the daily and squeeze in a little bit because it is slipping right now, Coinbase is around 77 after it kind of got that little bit of rise right there. This has been mostly because of some of the legislative wins that we've seen in the marketplace this week. Only bad news this week was the fact that we've got the ETFs that push back, which of course is what we've seen with the overall crypto markets pushing down. But Coinbase seemed to have stabilized slightly, even though I do still anticipate that this is still going to take a little bit more time to get their lawsuit out of the way. Obviously, that'll be a factor. The other thing that will come into possibly indicating some movement for Coinbase stock as well as the markets is going to be a potential stablecoin regulation. We'll talk about that as well as we go along here. Another point I want to hit on right here is huge win, long live DeFi. This of course, founder over at Uniswap. One of the things that is interesting, a longtime fear of mine has been a bad legal interpretation of our complex technical industry. This of course has now all changed with the U .S. courts holding up the arguments that they, along with many other industry proponents, have felt that this has been kind of a selected scenario of what decentralized finance is all about. And it held up in a court of law, one step removed from the Supreme Court. So that is a pretty significant adjustment. If you look at Uniswap in general, it of course responded in kind in terms of overall Uniswap daily transactions, which is good. Uniswap the token, not performing quite as well. But at least the point is, is that we've got the framework of what's happening in crypto moving in the right direction, especially when you think about DeFi in general. Let's take a look at the current token right now, Uniswap down. This is on the daily. So sliding fairly consistently over the last few weeks as Uniswap continues. Now the question is, is this one of those that you would look at maybe a long term opportunity on? I don't know. It's not one I hold and it's not one that we keep it in the CPI and we measure it constantly. It does have a current downtrend on sentiment, but it is one that we're always watching. So definitely happening and taking a look at it. Love to get your feedback on some of the tokens that you are holding and that you're looking at possibly entries on. Make sure to comment down below. Always love to get that. Robinhood, of course, is now buying back their stock from San Bank Refreed. This is going to all happen during a litigation approval by the U .S. courts that is handling the bankruptcy and also the scenario that's playing out with FTX. So the good thing is, good news is Robinhood and their FTX days are behind them. So that's, I think, a good win for Robinhood in general. Robinhood also on the heels of the Uniswap win is now bringing DeFi users in and they're adding 200 plus Ethereum and Polygon tokens. So that in itself is another big win for Robinhood. Now, remember, Robinhood is one of the most active crypto exchanges, mainly because of Doge. But the opportunity here, I think, will start to really fly into more DeFi opportunities for Robinhood. Remember, they just launched their DeFi wallet. There's a lot happening there within it. If Robinhood would ever get past that $5 ,000 daily transfer fee or transfer limit on things like Bitcoin and other major assets, I think they would probably do much better. But right now, that's kind of the scenario that plays out on it. If you take a look at hood, the stock, we'll take a look. It is moving and responding slightly here. Not doing too bad. Holding at $11 right now. Up pretty much on the month right now, all the way back, if you look all the way back into February, that's about where we were back then after that little bit of a climb. The good thing is the trend line is definitely on a slight up range for the year. So interesting, one, is if you're hedging the crypto markets, some of the stocks that we watch, of course, is Coinbase, MicroStrategies, Robinhood, and a handful of others when you look at some of the mining stocks out there. But overall, interesting play for Robinhood. Again, Robinhood, I think, is going to get very active. Once that these markets start to loosen up, Robinhood will most likely be one of the key players. All right, of course, if you didn't catch our Chainlink video, make sure and check that out. A couple of things within the Chainlink scenario is the fact that these experiments that have been conducted on SWIFT were all done on Ethereum and successful, additionally Avalanche. So interesting aspect to that. If you look at Avalanche currently right now, definitely not coming out. It's definitely at one of its lower points right now, under $10.
Psychic Christine Wallace Healing House
Is Your Partner Serious About You? Look Out for These Red Flags
"Let's move into how to determine someone is serious about you. Now as you know, of course, it takes a little time in the beginning to really know, you know, you have to kind of play things by ear for the first month or two. And I believe that in around the third month, you need to start, you know, observing the person's actions, the type of communication, and if there is consistency over time, you know, it can happen that for the first month or two, everything is wonderful, everything is wonderful, a lot of people might call that the honeymoon phase, but it's in the third month that, like I said, you should really start paying attention to this stuff. So does your significant other reach out to you, respond promptly, maintains communication, showing that he values staying connected? That's a good sign. That's a sign that this person is serious about you. You shouldn't be in a situation where you're, you know, you have steady communication for a little while and then suddenly communication is a hit and miss. And if this person is not reaching out to you after sending a message, like waiting till the following couple of days, a day or two, then that's a little bit of a red flag I'd say, you know, sometimes, you know, for an entire day, there can be legitimate excuses, but you do want to be with someone that generally gets back to you in the same day or at very least the following day or following early day the next day. So, you know, if the person doesn't have a good excuse as to why a whole day had passed without them making an attempt to reach out to you, like I said, that is a red flag. And I guess this part goes without saying. The person needs to make an effort to spend time with you, to spend time together, quality time, even if it means adjusting their schedule or making some small sacrifice to spend time with you. Because at the end of the day, you know, all of our lives these days are super busy, bombarded with work or whatever you've got going on in your life. Uh, time is a big thing for all of us nowadays. We don't have much of it for leisure time. So we're, in order to connect with people, yeah, we're going to have to probably not do something in order to be together. So if they're putting in an effort to spend quality time with you, then that means something. Another one, introducing you to people, important people, for example, close friends and family. That's definitely indicating that this person values your presence in their life. You know, anyone after three months, two or three months, if you don't know who the best friend is or met the parents and all of that, if they're not talking about future plans that involve you, that, that's a red flag. So they should be like demonstrating, uh, that they envision a long -term connection with you.
Food Addiction, the Problem and the Solution
From Fuzz Brain to Divorce Rage: Theresa Wright Talks Food Addiction Withdrawal Symptoms
"A moment about withdrawal from our foods. I know that when I got abstinent, and I did the drive -through, I did the donuts, I did all of that, and at 57 years old, I weighed 203 pounds. I'm now 70 pounds, yeah. It took me a while to get in here. But I recovered from alcoholism and got sober and then began using food and sugar in a big way. So at 57 years old, I even said the denial was that I still did not think I was that bad to get into a recovery program. Now I know I need to, and the powerlessness is not helplessness. But I did have to withdraw from my foods. I had to withdraw from the volume addiction. I had to withdraw from the sugar, sometimes flour with people. Talk about the withdrawal, the irritability, and the brain fog when people, before they start eating the way you tell them they need to eat, what they can expect. Well, you know, I've done a lot of careful study of my clients, and I'm actually applying to do a research project with Drexel University on the fact that withdrawal exists as a physical response to taking all the drug foods out of your food then. In the beginning, in the first three or four days, people have headaches and diarrhea alternating with constipation, and they have strong cravings, and they're hungry all the time. And along about the end of the first week, people have anxiety and irritability and mood swings, and they feel like they can't live their life this way. And then along about two weeks, I hear from my clients that my whole body aches. Do you think I have fibromyalgia? No, I don't think you have fibromyalgia. I think you're in withdrawal. And they're tired, and they're nauseated, and the food cravings are awful. And later on, they have fuzz brain. They just feel like their brain is foggy, and that's because the body is replacing the brain cells and fixing the brain cells and reconnecting them. And so they can't think quite clearly for a while, and then suddenly, their mind is clear as a bell, and they know what they need to do, and they're off. And then they have the fuzz brain again, and it comes back. And then they know what they need to do, and they move. And then they become furious. I have had people threaten to divorce their spouses on the 19th day of abstinence. There is this rage that comes out of nowhere and beats you up and makes you feel like you can't stand yourself, and you can't stand anyone else. After that, the fatigue, like I'm walking up a hill, need to eat my peanut butter is what my clients say. I'm so tired, and my brain is fuzzy, and I just tell them to go to bed, take a nap, drink extra fluid, wash this stuff out of your body. Somehow food addicts don't drink enough water. You need half your body weight in ounces of water. You've got to wash that stuff out of your body, because if you don't, the kidneys send it to the liver where it's recycled into fat cells. So you have to focus on drinking enough water in that first month. And then people get chest congestion and coughing. They think it's COVID, and it could be at this point in life, but sometimes it's the body replacing lung tissue, and the extra lung stuff is coming up, and they have fatigue.
Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
A highlight from Coping With Cravings
"Can you relate to this? You've made a commitment to yourself and maybe even to your family that you aren't drinking anymore You are consistently reminding yourself You're gonna be more committed than ever you've started some morning rituals to keep you on track and you know in your head this time has to be different and So far you've done pretty well. Maybe you've made it a week or a month. Maybe even a few months Then one day you're cruising through your day minding your own business Out of nowhere you're hit with a craving for a drink and it's powerful You try to tell yourself to ignore it distract yourself You think it'll go away But it feels like it's getting stronger and the stronger it gets the more you start to panic All the thoughts flying through your head a thousand miles an hour. What am I gonna do? How am I gonna get through this is one drink gonna kill me? Should I just have one? Should I not have one? Should I call somebody? Cravings can be one of the most challenging pieces of living a sober lifestyle romanticizing the past romanticizing the drink the nostalgia of it and All the comfort it once gave you all of this together can create an emotional whirlwind Over the last 15 plus years I've helped literally thousands of people completely change their lives and get out of this unhealthy relationship with alcohol in dealing with cravings is a part of the process for all of us You're about to listen to something a little different on the show today It's not our typical guest interview format and don't worry. Those aren't going anywhere We're just taking an episode to bring you something even more special. I think We have some incredibly talented people in the recovery alcohol -free podcast world And today's guest is one of your favorites. We have Jill teats from the sober powered podcast She is a fan Favorite in the podcast world and an inspiration for countless people on their journey to sobriety and she and I got together for an episode specifically to talk about Cravings you're gonna hear our personal experiences with cravings how we got through them And you'll probably be pretty surprised when you hear how different it was for the two of us. We had very different experiences We'll tell you what was challenging we talked about the importance of feeling safe during this journey and this part of the journey and we also talked about some of the dangers of Experimenting with non -alcoholic drinks and these drinks might seem totally harmless and sometimes they are but they can also trigger memories and trigger feelings of being left out or feeling different and all of that together can trigger cravings and all of that Can derail your progress? Let's dive in Hey everybody, welcome to the addiction unlimited podcast where you get to learn everything you want to know about addiction and recovery I'm your host Angela pew co -founder of Kansas City recovery life coach and Recovering alcoholic to learn more about me You can listen to episode zero on your podcast app or find us on the web at addiction unlimited calm Hi Angela I'm so happy that we're doing this collaboration today I know this is super exciting totally outside the box different from our norm But yeah, I'm super excited to get into this conversation and I thought a perfect topic for us was cravings because I see that coming up over and over and over on social media and people struggling to get through the first like Week or the first month because cravings are just kicking their butts.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1379: Bitcoin Will Reach $400,000 Next Halving Epoch
"In today's show, we're going to be discussing Bitcoin analysts eyeing a V -shape Bitcoin price bounce as the RSI hits a five -year low. I'm also going to be sharing with you a new Bitcoin bull cycle metric, which bought them before 70 % gains. We'll also be discussing mysterious Bitcoin wallet becomes the third largest Bitcoin hodler in under three months, now at over $3 billion. We'll also be discussing the trader who nailed the 2018 Bitcoin price floor predicts the bear market bottom for crypto. I'll be breaking down his outlook. We'll also be discussing Guggenheim predicts a $400 ,000 Bitcoin price prediction, as well as Blockware. They share that the Bitcoin price can reach $400 ,000 during the next halving epoch. I'll be breaking this down for you. 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 Cryptonewsalerts .net. Welcome, everyone. Just joining us. This is podcast episode number thirteen hundred and seventy nine. I'm your host, JV. And today is August twenty second, twenty twenty three. And naturally, we have lots to cover. Unfortunately, the market is continuing on its downward spiral. We just broke that twenty six K resistance, as you can see here. And our market watch, we've got Bitcoin currently hovering just above twenty five thousand eight hundred dollars. We have Ether barely holding on to sixteen hundred. So the million dollar question becomes, how low will she go? And checking out CoinMarketCap .com, the crypto market cap barely holding on to that trillion dollar milestone, with about twenty eight billion in volume. In the past twenty four hours, we have the Bitcoin dominance at forty eight point four percent and the Ether dominance at eighteen point nine percent. And checking out the top one hundred crypto gainers for the past week, virtually nothing, and maybe just a handful, just a sea of losses, very unfortunate for the entire crypto market and checking out the crypto greed and fear index. Of course, we're still in fear today, rated to seventy eight. Last week was a fifty three neutral and last month a fifty four neutral as well. So there you have it. I mean, I've been taking advantage of this recent dip. I mean, sub twenty six thousand dollar Bitcoin seems like a bargain. If you're to ask me, let me know in that live chat. And now let's break down today's Bitcoin technical analysis and check out the charts and what is happening right now in the markets. Bitcoin stayed stubbornly anti trend today, August twenty second, as twenty six thousand became a magnet for the intraday Bitcoin price action. And again, we're just currently dropping right below it. And regarding the RSI readings, here's what someone had to share. At this stage, it feels like a game of chicken to see who is going to make the move to break the chop, according to material indicators. Now analyzing liquidity on the Binance order book, he also notes that a broad lack of liquidity, increasing the potential for a sharp move in either direction. Quitting the analysts here, the market is waiting to see if more bid or more ask liquidity is going to be attracted to the range. So far, we're seeing small amounts of bid liquidity ladder up from twenty thousand closer to the active trading zone, but no liquidity of any size new or moved has been stacked into the range, defending the price from the lower low. The implications were nonetheless potentially very serious for the bulls with the lower low apt to risk even a twenty thousand support going forward. Quitting the analysts again, needless to say, printing a lower low on this time frame has macro implications. Printing two lower lows would push the Bitcoin price to sub twenty thousand dollar levels. So a great question. How many of you are anticipating the Bitcoin price action dropping below twenty thousand? Let me know. Now zooming out, hope remain that Bitcoin can rescue its overall uptrend. So it's not all doom and gloom. In a dedicated video, we had crypto analyst Mikal van de Poppe shared that on the twelve hour time frames, the RSI measured less than nineteen at the time of writing near its lowest level since the twenty eighteen bear market bottom. Daily levels were similar, reaching their lowest since the March twenty twenty no vid crossmarket crash, quitting him here. Every time we see such a move, you get a sort of V shape recovery back up and it finds equilibrium on the higher floor. And he also added it was very likely that Bitcoin can stage a comeback to focus on twenty six five or more next as the outlines here in this chart. He also shared that the current Bitcoin price action reminds me of September twenty twenty absorption and slowly grind higher here for a while. And I can see this play out similarly. So there you have it. What are your thoughts? Do you feel we're likely to continue downwards, potentially sub twenty thousand or even touch in as low as twenty thousand? Or do you feel we're likely to continue climbing back up as the analysts on the ladder shared? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments. Right down below. Now let's discuss a new bull cycle amongst us right now. Shall we check this out? The Bitcoin metric that nailed the pit of the twenty twenty two bear market says this uptrend is still intact. Let's go and a new post. The creator of on chain analytics platform looking to Bitcoin shared some good news in the form of Bitcoin's realized cap huddle waves metric. Let's go. While last week's 10 percent Bitcoin price dip has up ended some of the on chain landscape, the our huddle is one of the metrics taking the longer term view of what remains a timely bull market. This metric takes existing huddle waves data, which groups the Bitcoin supply when each coin or specifically the unspent transaction outputs last moved and waits it by the realized price. An example of the price at which it last move, quoting them here, peaks in younger age bands, highlights the periods where they have a proportionally higher realized value waiting relative to the older realized value age band, said Philip Swift. And he also shares this is important to note, as it indicates that the market is prepared to pay higher values for Bitcoin today and in recent times versus historical norms. This can be a good indicator that the market is becoming overheated. What are your thoughts now? Currently, the bands of coins that last moved three to six months ago are rising, a phenomenon coming to the start of the Bitcoin's previous bull markets. And on the topic of the August drawdown on Bitcoin Swift thus concluded that the recent price dip is the context of a much bigger bull trend, quoting him again here, three to six months band trending up as new money comes back into the market equals new bull cycle. Let's go. Now, our huddle has an impressive record when it comes to Bitcoin price phases. Back in December of last year, when Bitcoin was circling its two year lows of 15 six, which is the current market bottom, Swift used this metric to call the end of the euphoria among Bitcoin's speculative investor cohort, which he labels Taurus. He stated that that time that the market is likely now at these cycle lows, which means maximum risk reward opportunity, which I discussed in great detail yesterday. I said there's way more reward than risk currently in the market. And beginning in January of this year, Bitcoin began a new uptrend that delivered 70 percent gains just in quarter one. And since then, investor composition has changed with the short term huddler entities holding Bitcoin for one hundred and fifty five days or less, reducing their overall exposure to their lowest since November of twenty twenty one. And the latest dip nonetheless increased pressure on those remaining speculators, but almost 90 percent of the short term huddler coins now held at an unrealized loss. But I also like to point out that also the smart money, which are the whales, are continuing to accumulate. So even though the short term investors are the paper hands selling their Bitcoin potentially to BlackRock or MicroStrategy, whatever big corporate interests out there, the smart money is continuing to huddle. And as you know, we like to follow the smart money with that being shared, fam. Now let's discuss this new wallet, which came out of nowhere and has now accrued over three billion dollars worth of Bitcoin in less than three months. Who do you think owns this wallet? Well, let's look into it and discuss it, shall we? A mysterious Bitcoin wallet has surged up the ranks to become the third largest huddler of Bitcoin in the world in just over three months, with the timing sparking some wild theories about its owner. According to data from crypto statistics platform Bitinfo Charts, the wallet address first received Bitcoin on March 8th, and over the course of the next three months and two weeks, the wallet had accrued a staggering one hundred and eighteen thousand BTC worth over a billion dollars at today's current prices. Now, the rapid and significant accrual of Bitcoin within a single wallet addresses has attracted its fair share of conjecture naturally on X. Some users suggest it's most likely a crypto exchange moving their funds, while some more radical members have posted and more wild theories suggesting that Black Rock is the prime suspect. As shared here, this unknown address has accumulated over three billion dollars worth of Bitcoin in the last three months. The prime suspect, my first major transaction, which was thirty four hundred Bitcoin, occurred on May 16th, 2023, almost exactly one month later, on June 15th, when Black Rock filed for spot Bitcoin ETF. Now, very interesting, right? Now, the current largest Bitcoin wallets in the world, according to Bitinfo Charts, are reportedly owned by Binance and Bitfinex and are Bitcoin cold storage wallets. The unknown Bitcoin wallet comes in third place and is then followed by another Binance cold wallet in fourth place. Now, Black Rock made waves in the crypto market, as we know, June 15th, filing an application for the spot Bitcoin ETF product that, if accepted by the SEC, will be the first of its kind in the United States and completely change the game. Black Rock's applications sparked a wave of filings for similar spot products from a horde of other Wall Street heavyweights, including Fidelity, Invesco, Wisdom Tree and Valkyrie. The prospect of a spot Bitcoin ETF whipped crypto analysts into a frenzy, sharing their bullish predictions for the price of Bitcoin with Fundstrat's head of research, Tom Lee, suggesting that Bitcoin can reach a price of one hundred and fifty to one hundred and eighty thousand dollars per coin following the halving event scheduled to be in April 2024, which is now officially less than nine months out. What are your thoughts, though, fam? Let me know in the comments. And at the end of the show, I'll be reading everyone's comments out loud. Now let's discuss before we get into very bullish price targets, including this four hundred thousand dollar prediction, which is the main topic for the day. First, let's discuss where's the Bitcoin price likely to bottom out, according to this top analyst. Let's discuss it. The trader who accurately called Bitcoin's twenty eighteen bear market bottom is forecasting how the entire crypto market can carve a price floor for this cycle. Synonymous analyst Bluntz, what a username, love it, shared on social media X that he closely is looking at the total market cap of crypto, which is the total chart. Bluntz says he sees the total chart losing about 15 percent of its value before crypto assets can witness a significant bounce, quitting him here, looking at total paints, the clearest picture of them all and far more than looking at either ETH or BTC on their own based off the total chart. I do believe the June lows still need to be swept before calling bottoms, but it will probably be the last good buying opportunity of the next few years. So seize the moment, fam. And as you can see in this total crypto market chart, you can see we're currently sitting at just barely above one trillion. He sees us dropping before rising to one point four trillion dollars. So it appears that he expects the total market cap of all crypto to plummet to roughly eight hundred and eighty billion, wiping out one hundred and twenty billion off the current market. The analyst is a popular practitioner of the Elliott Wave theory, which we commonly cover here, an advanced technical analysis approach that attempts to predict the future price action by following crowd psychology that tends to manifest in waves. Bluntz says that his prediction is based on a model that outlines an asset's potential correction after a steep rally based, quoting him here, based off simple Elliott Wave model, viewing the rise from the lows as an impulsive move and our corrective wave from the highs being around 70 to 80 percent complete. Now, let me know if you agree or disagree with the crypto analyst. Do you think the crypto market cap needs to shed another one hundred and twenty billion before we rise back on up? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below. Now let's discuss Guggenheim's seven I'm sorry, four hundred thousand dollar price prediction. Scott Minard, who is their CIO. He originally made this prediction, I believe towards the end of twenty twenty one. Now, unfortunately, he has had a heart attack and he passed, so he's no longer with us. He literally died in December of last year. But nonetheless, he still made this prediction. So we're going to cover it and then we're going to discover the outline metrics from Blockware and their four hundred thousand prediction for the height of this cycle for the next halving reaching the epoch, which is also interesting because they're also suggesting a four hundred thousand dollar price action per coin. Then we'll dive into our live Q &A. So here we go. This was again, this article was dated, as you can see here, January 18th, twenty twenty one. So this is roughly just over two years ago. And at that time, Bitcoin was trading just above forty one thousand dollars. So here's the prediction coming from Scott Minard, from Guggenheim, a large, large asset manager. I think one thing that we are seeing is the sudden interest in retail. We are moving into a speculative frenzy and perhaps it's time to take some money off the table. Now, the debate around Minard's two opposite comments for Bitcoin sparked curiosity amongst the crypto community when he said time to take money off the table. And he also added on this tweet, it was before it became X, it was right Twitter. So he shared Bitcoin's parabolic rise is unsustainable in the near term, vulnerable to a setback. The target technical upside of thirty five thousand has been exceeded time to take some money off the table. And just at that time when he made that tweet, Bitcoin entered a strong correction. And over that time, Bitcoin tested support at thirty thousand twice before resuming back northwards and also talking about the positive side, back to the four hundred thousand price prediction. The Guggenheim CIO said that Bitcoin is becoming a favorable asset class slowly. That's right. And still remains positive on the Bitcoin price action for the long term, quitting him here. The other side of that is demonstrating that crypto is becoming much more mainstream. The four hundred thousand dollar price I talked about was based off the supply of gold in the world and crypto in a lot of ways is more attractive than gold. Let me know if you agree or disagree. I absolutely agree that Bitcoin is way more attractive than gold and comparing it to the yellow metal market. Minard said that Bitcoin comes with additional benefits like portability and ease of transactions. And note that Guggenheim Partners is already seeking five hundred million dollars worth of exposure to Bitcoin via the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, which is the GBTC product, the largest HODLer Bitcoin in the world. They currently control over four hundred thousand BTC. So this will be a 10 percent exposure to Bitcoin from five billion Guggenheim's macro opportunities fund. The investment giant's proposed SEC filing shall become effective January 31st. And when asked Minard of if any of their funds have been allocated into Bitcoin, Minard hinted that they are still waiting for the SEC to approve their proposal. He added that if client demand picks up, they would possibly consider some allocations. And he also revealed that some small private Guggenheim funds have done some allocations, quoting him again, and some of our private funds, we have already purchased it. I recommended it to somebody. So if you believe what I said, that it'll go to four hundred thousand dollars per coin eventually, then two percent of your portfolio will be 20 percent before this is all over. So there you have it. Let me know if you agree or disagree with Scott Minard. And again, rest in peace. The dude had a heart attack at the end of last year and is no longer with us. And with that being shared now for our main story of the day, and that's the block where outline prediction of a four hundred thousand dollar Bitcoin price, along with the math to back it up. Now, this is pretty awesome. And again, shout out to everyone today in our live chat. I appreciate everyone's support. Shout out to Blockware Solutions as they shared on X how Bitcoin can reach four hundred thousand dollars per coin during the next halving epoch brought to you by Blockware Intelligence. Here we go. Twenty twenty four halving analysis, understanding the market cycles and opportunities created by the halving. Unlike other commodities, Bitcoin has a predetermined algorithmic supply schedule, which cannot be changed. There are multiple factors contributing to the cyclical nature of Bitcoin's price, including network adoption and the macroeconomic environment. But the most impactful is the mining subsidy halving. Yeah, that's right. Bitcoin's market cycles are unique due to its fully transparent block chain, providing market participants with more granular information than any other asset class. And moreover, the predictable supply schedule further impacts the psychology of market participants and example demand. So number one, halving's reduce the sell pressure. Miners are the primary force of sell pressure on the price of Bitcoin they receive, although the newly issued Bitcoin and the majority of which they must sell in order to fund operating expenses for their mining operations, the weakest miners on the network are eliminated and sell pressure is significantly reduced. The price of Bitcoin begins drifting up and a new wave of adoption then begins and assuming a thirty five thousand price action after the halving, the U .S. dollar value of Bitcoin mined per year can drop from eleven and a half billion to five point seven billion dollars. That is one hundred and sixty four thousand two hundred and fifty Bitcoin less mined every year, more than MicroStrategy's entire Bitcoin treasury. Now, after the inefficient miners capitulate, the profit margin increases for surviving miners, which further reduces the sell pressure. So based on the post capitulation hashrate estimate, this would result in a two point three billion dollar reduction in annual sell pressure from the miners. Now, number two, halving brings new demand with supply being diminished. Demand is the only remaining variable determining the market price of BTC. Many market participants understand the supply side dynamics at play due to the halvings. Historically, this has led to a surge in demand in the months following each halving, as evidenced by on chain data. We'll be checking out these charts in a little bit and do the positive sentiment market participants prepare to deploy capital at the first sign of upward momentum. Now decreased supply plus increased demand equals strong positive signal for the price appreciation. Number three, the halvings cannot be priced in. Despite their predictable nature, halvings cannot be fully priced in before they occur. A higher price today would result in more miners coming online, introducing additional sell pressure and limiting the price appreciation. And moreover, the weakest miners, those with old generation machines and or high operating costs, are the first to unplug post halving. The elimination of these miners significantly reduces the sell pressure as they were selling most of their Bitcoin to fund their operations. Lastly, there are some market participants that believe halvings are bad for the security of the Bitcoin network as the diminishing block subsidy reduces the amount of miners making Bitcoin more vulnerable to an attack. And when halving successfully occur, these doubters are proved wrong and positive sentiment increases. Now, number four, Bitcoin cycle volatility and historical performance. Bitcoin's extreme volatility is a side effect of its halving shocks and rapid global adoption, resulting in four distinct stages within each halving cycle. Stage one, the halving, stage two, the bull market, stage three, the bear market and then stage four, recovery. And while Bitcoin is often criticized for its extreme volatility on a long enough time horizon, its volatility is solely to the upside. Keep that in mind. Now, nobody who has ever bought Bitcoin and held it for more than five years is down on their purchase. That's worth repeating. Nobody who has ever bought Bitcoin and held it for more than five years is down on their purchase. So in a long term, how long is that? Holla in the live chat. And for each epoch, the price of Bitcoin has increased by the following amounts from the halving to the next bull market top from 2009 to 2011. We had a 584 X increase in price action from 2012 to 2015, 92 X from 2016 to 2019, 30 X and from 2020 to 2024, 7 .7 X. And now number five, diminishing returns may not be the case going forward. Some question the bullishness of these halvings as the stock of existing Bitcoin grows relative to the amount of new bitcoins being mine. This is a common perspective, but it may be incorrect. Less than 10 percent of the existing Bitcoin have moved in the last month. A large majority of Bitcoin is held by users unwilling to sell at today's price. Now, the small amount of bitcoins that is moving and being traded is what determines today's price. There is a baseline of demand and from Bitcoin are saving for the future. The reduction in sell pressure becomes more pronounced, each halving after Bitcoin more than doubles in price. This indicates that halving induced reductions in sell pressure could become more extreme and potentially lead to larger bull runs in the future. Now, 2024 will be the first halving where the supply of Bitcoin available for trade decreased since the previous halving. And during spring of 2020, the percentage of the outstanding Bitcoin available for trade was at an all time high, indicating the Bitcoin was over becoming more abundant. However, this trend had reversed over the last three and a half years. And as the new bull market begins, there will be less Bitcoin available than the previous cycles. The first halving this has ever occurred. And assuming the price of thirty five thousand at the date of the halving, a four hundred thousand dollar cycle top would break the trend of diminishing returns, which is a reasonable expectation due to the two billion having supply shock and increasing scarcity, a liquid BTC supply on the exchanges. Now, number six, juxtaposition with gold. Gold is an asset similar to Bitcoin and that they are both non -sovereign stores of value. However, when juxtaposed, Bitcoin poses far more desirable attributes. Facts. Number one, Bitcoin is absolutely scarce, while gold is only relatively scarce. That's true because with gold, you can continue mining a new supply, adding to the overall supply each and every year with Bitcoin. There could never be more than twenty one million Bitcoin. And number two, Bitcoin is more portable, divisible, fungible and is less vulnerable to rehypothecation by centralized custodians. Facts. So after the 2024 halving, the inflation rate of Bitcoin will fall under one percent, which is less than half that of gold. Now, four hundred thousand dollars per Bitcoin would put the market cap of Bitcoin just beneath the parity with gold. Let's go. Can't wait for a twelve trillion market cap for the king crypto personally. Now, given the bullish catalysts induced by the halving, we believe this is a fair estimate for the top of the coming Bitcoin cycle. Now let's take a look at some of these charts, which they shared. This first one shows you the Bitcoin price issuance with the 90 day moving 90 day change issuance. And you can see, you know, the different metrics here in the different colors. And then let's go to their next chart here. It shows you entities net growth with a 30 day moving average. You can see the surge in demand and just continuing to move on up like clockwork. And then in this final chart here, we can see the Bitcoin price all time highs for each cycle, which is separated, which you can see here. Yes. So, I mean, if history doesn't repeat, oftentimes it shall rhyme. So I cannot wait. And I'd personally love to see a four hundred thousand dollar price action. And this shows you the hash rate, which just continues to climb, reaching all time highs, making the Bitcoin network more secure than it's ever been before. And they also shared an interesting update, which I might as well read that as well right here. Part two. Let's read a touch of this and then we'll dive into our live Q &A. What machine and electricity rate will Bitcoin miners need to survive this twenty twenty four halving? Check it out. There are three distinct phases in the time before, during and after the twenty twenty four Bitcoin halving. We've got number one, the pre halving, number two, the post halving and number three, post capitulation. Number one, the pre halving before the twenty twenty four halving, all miners will be operating at a profit but are likely selling at least enough Bitcoin to cover their operation expenses. Miners with the most efficient machines and the lowest energy rates have the lowest Bitcoin breakeven prices. And the miners with higher breakeven prices are either unprofitable or forced to sell at a higher percentage of the Bitcoin that they mine in order to cover their operating expenses. And also it includes what's minor and Avalon equivalents, which are size adjusted for the percentage of the total network hash rate. Now let's discuss the post halving after the twenty twenty four halving. Many miners will become unprofitable since miners have already made significant capital expenditures for mining Bitcoin infrastructure and are locked into energy contracts. They are unlikely to turn off immediately. So instead, they will try to continue operating for as long as possible, hoping the Bitcoin increases enough to make them profitable again. Now, unless Bitcoin price appreciates quickly, the extreme margin compression will begin to force inefficient miners offline. And number three, the post capitulation following the capitulation of inefficient miners difficulty will adjust down, lowering the breakeven prices for surviving miners who will become even more profitable. So there you have it. I mean, shout out again to Blockware. Awesome analysis on their outline of the Bitcoin price going to four hundred thousand dollars per coin at the epoch of the next halving, which again is right around the corner next year. Let me know if you agree or disagree in the comments right down below. And don't forget to check out CryptoNewsAlerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
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"Bitcoin is currently breaking down from one of the major trends that it set all the way back in January at the start of this year. So with a Bitcoin breakdown on the cards, what does this potentially mean for altcoins heading into September, which is historically the worst month for cryptocurrency? In today's show, we're going to be going through the data to break down what's going to come next for altcoins. Is going Bitcoin to continue to lead the pack? And are alts any chance of recovering anytime soon? And of course, off the back of that, when is the right time to buy? Or is it simply just worth sitting out of the market right now and letting things play out its course? We're going to answer all those questions and more in today's show. Smash the like button if you're excited. It's going to be a massive stream. And let's just get straight into the metrics here. So we could see right in front of us that Bitcoin is along this major trend line that it is just starting to break down from at the $28K level. Now, it isn't a confirmed breakout yet because I am looking at this on the daily. And there's also a similar chart on the weekly that I am eyeing. So let's see how it reacts over the next couple of days. Sometimes Bitcoin does week under this level, as we've seen back in June and back in March. But we do want to see where Bitcoin closes here because if we get a close below this level, then you can start to target the $200MA on the daily. And of course, that major support level at $26 .5K as potential targets for Bitcoin. Once again, not panicking just yet, but we do need to see how price actually reacts around this area if we are to get a continued breakout. Bitcoin, however, is not operating in isolation. You can see the NASDAQ 100 right now is also breaking down. After it had a really nice rally since the beginning of the year, the NASDAQ ran up 49%. So a lot of investors are starting to panic and get worried about these recession fears that are spreading around the market. But what you have to realize is, I mean, it rallied 49 % and it's had a 7 % pullback. In my opinion, it's very normal behavior for these markets. But it is interesting to note from a pure technical perspective, we are now starting to get a trend reversal, which is being exemplified by the breakdown here of this diagonal trend on the NASDAQ. And we also can see a similar trend forming on the S &P, with it also just starting to show signs of weakness, also breaking below its diagonal support. Of course, Bitcoin being a risk asset and largely correlated to these assets has also seen a pullback in tandem with the stock market. And it's quite interesting, when the stock market was rallying, Bitcoin was doing nothing. It was moving sideways after its spot ETF rally. But now that the stock market's starting to pull back, well, this is where we're seeing the Bitcoin Pearson correlation, which is a measurement of Bitcoin's correlation to equities and gold, actually starting to tick up. Meaning that Bitcoin is now increasingly becoming correlated again with the stock market after the stock market has had a correction. Kind of sucky that it didn't hold up relevant strength with stocks coming down. But nonetheless, that has been the case for Bitcoin starting to show a little bit more strength. So what does all of this mean for altcoins? Well, what we've seen over the last few days is dominance beginning to spike again, and a lot of altcoins bleeding heavily versus their Bitcoin pairs. So just going on to CoinGecko at the moment, and we're going through this list, we can see that many of the major alts for the week are down a lot more than Bitcoin. So using Bitcoin as a reference, down 4 % alongside Ethereum, we can see like Solana down 6%, Cardano down 8%, Doge down 11%, Polkadot down 5%, Polygon down 12%. Like a lot of these are in the double digits, Uniswap, etc. We can go down the list and see most of them are between like 6 % and 12%, even though Bitcoin's only down 4%. So the altcoin market is showing relative weakness versus Bitcoin on these dips. And I think due to the major trend of dominance, as you can see in front of you, the trend for dominance is clearly bullish. And as long as this is the case, altcoins versus Bitcoin are likely to continue to bleed for some time. We'll get into when this can reverse in just a minute here. But firstly, what is the reason for this? Why are altcoins showing relative weakness versus Bitcoin? Well, the first reason is when investors start to get a bit worried, when sentiment just starts to shift a little bit like it is at the moment, extremely risky assets like altcoins, they tend to be the first that investors sell off in order to protect themselves. So just the general de -risking across altcoins is what is currently being exemplified in the market right now. But that isn't happening in isolation. That's happening off the back of huge regulatory changes with the Binance lawsuit currently underway. We see they actually filed for an amendment of the SEC case. This is ongoing and this is going to be a huge storm in the crypto industry that continues to brew for, I think, months and potentially even years to come. Now, of course, we will start to get some definitive answers on securities law throughout this case. But I think a lot of altcoin investors have started to de -risk just relative to Bitcoin ahead of some of the outcomes from this case. And we do think that we can see here a discovery storm may be brewing between the SEC and Binance as we start to see lots of documents being emerged from Binance. It's going to cause periodic elements of FUD. And obviously, there's still those big questions like what altcoins are securities, what altcoins aren't securities. The XRP case was in favor of the alts. And we did see a very nice response off the back of that. But I think the market's now realizing, well, there's still a little bit to play out on the regulatory front. Coinbase, however, looks slightly better positioned than Binance in order to beat this regulatory storm, considering the US actually allowed them to deploy their financial market futures fund, which is going to be eligible for US customers, meaning US customers will be able to trade futures on the Coinbase exchange, which is quite interesting. Now, which assets are going to be allowed? Let's wait and see. But it's kind of weird. If Coinbase wasn't going to have a better outcome than Binance during their lawsuit, then why would the US approve this new exchange? You've got to ask the question. I think Coinbase, as a public company that has shown to be a little more compliant with US policy, is being favored, I guess, by the SEC. So those are two of the major reasons why the altcoins are performing worse. But there's also the major elephant in the room here, and that's the Bitcoin spot ETF. And unlike altcoins, Bitcoin has a direct supply and demand side factor that is driving its performance and drove its performance during that run up that we saw last, or July, just one month ago. And that's, of course, the Bitcoin spot ETF. So the Bitcoin spot ETF, because it's kind of like a Bitcoin native related catalyst, it doesn't have a direct effect on the alts until we see an approval, and then maybe we can start looking at an Ethereum ETF. But right now, the narrative is very much still with Bitcoin with the spot ETF taking place. So you have a combination of things, investors starting to go more risk off as they just start to worry about recession fears, investors starting to go risk off in the midst of some of these lawsuits that we're seeing from Binance and Coinbase. And then also the fact that Bitcoin has favoritism in the market's eyes due to its spot ETF specific catalyst. And we can see these are some of the key dates that we have to watch, of course, the next major deadline for the SEC happening on September 1st. And then some of the other deadlines now being pushed towards next year, like ARK, which is set to be reevaluated in January. So I doubt we do get a response here in two weeks in September from the SEC. I think they're going to kick the can down the road and delay it again, which could see things be pushed into October and maybe even further into November and early next year is what some pundits are anticipating. Percentage wise, Bloomberg analysts still think the percentage of a spot Bitcoin ETF is over 60%, but we may just have to wait a little bit longer. And I think that's why the market's getting a little bit impatient now and we're starting to see a sell off from Bitcoin because the biggest catalyst in the market that pumped the price of Bitcoin in June and July is now no longer a catalyst until we get a concrete change in terms. And that would obviously be an approval or a rejection of the Bitcoin spot ETF. So let's go back to dominance. Let's look at what's happening in the Bitcoin dominance to work out. Look, what could be next for altcoins? Because there's history that can show us potentially a path here for altcoin performance over the next few months. So the first thing to note is that dominance did break above its major level at 48 % earlier in the year. We, of course, have covered that on the show. Interestingly, it actually rejected off the 200 MA on the weekly at the 52 % region. We did see a slight altcoin run. And then over the past few days, we've seen a little bit of a reversal. But what is clear here is that the dominance trend is still upwards. And until we get a concrete reversal, I mean, one can only assume this is going to continue for the foreseeable future. Now, could this end up being a reversal? Yes. But right now, it just looks like a simple pullback in dominance. And until you start to see a double top forming, I would be skeptical. I would wait to see how Bitcoin dominance reacts around that level. That's going to be super crucial. But what's happened in the past with Bitcoin dominance? Well, this red line here, this vertical line, this line and this line in front of us are the lines that indicate the Bitcoin halving. So the halving happened in April 2020. And then the next halving is scheduled for around March to April 2024. Dominance is interestingly following a very similar pattern this cycle versus last cycle. And although it's only one data point, I wanted to bring it to your attention. So we can see here in May 2019, dominance started to increase before reversing in September and altcoins outperformed leading into the halving. We can line it up with this year being a pre -halving year as well. The exact same month, May dominance started to shift to the upside as we saw dominance shifting to the upside in 2019. And then we are also starting to see potential signs of a reversal taking place. Now, this isn't a confirmed reversal yet. But we know that the last reversal we got was in September 240 days before the halving. This time, we can see that we are starting to reach that level. So will that mean that we pull back in dominance and altcoins perform from September onwards? I wouldn't be so sure because although history repeats, it doesn't, sorry, although history rhymes, it doesn't always repeat. And I don't think one data point is really enough to assert that, okay, just because dominance followed a similar pattern last cycle, it's going to follow another pattern. Because last cycle, we didn't have the spot ETF. We didn't have all these regulatory issues. We didn't have recession fears. We were, well, we did have recession fears around, you know, the pandemic. But it was quite different because we had a quantitative easing environment versus a tightening environment now. So I wouldn't be so quick to draw a conclusion. But just broadly speaking, right, historically, dominance has shown to rally into halvings, and then altcoins tend to outperform post halving more significantly. So although we did see an altcoin outperformance into the beginning of the halving, the real altcoin performance didn't happen till about a year post halving. So I think any major big altcoin performance, although you may see a reversal pre halving, the big moves will come post halving. And that is generally what I think we can expect as traders because Bitcoin dominance still being in an uptrend, I think you've got to establish that that trend can continue. Now, how long will it continue for? Right now, what I'm doing as a trader is really tracking the ETH BTC chart. So this is a chart that I've had since the start of the year. And I've been tracking ETH's performance versus Bitcoin. And what we can see is that it has been in a downtrend basically since the FTX collapse last year. But this downtrend does have a support line. And the support line that I'm eyeing is the 0 .055 level in tandem with the 200 MA on the weekly, which should also start to tick downwards as price starts to come down a bit more. So I think we're going to see a confluence of a few support levels is 0 .055 zone. And if that lines up timewise with what we typically see with Bitcoin leading into halvings, this could mean that we see an Ethereum Bitcoin temporary bottom because I don't know how long the uptrend will last, but at least a bounce around, let's say, October, November this year. Now, this is rough data. It could happen later. It could happen sooner. But the trend that we've been following has not really changed. So my thoughts on ETH BTC haven't changed. I think Bitcoin will continue to lead into the end of this year. And then we should see a reversal sometime maybe towards November, maybe towards October, anywhere in this blue box here. And that should, we're going to get the signs at that point of a strong bounce because we're going to see a strong reaction at this 200 MA. We're going to see a strong reaction at horizontal support as well. What's very interesting about this is this timeline potentially lines up with the performance of Bitcoin because Bitcoin typically has its worst month in September. So we can see that Bitcoin corrections have always happened in August slash September of the pre -halving year. We saw it in 2012. We saw it in 2013. We saw it in 2019. And we're seeing it again now. And if you look at the Bitcoin monthly returns, September comes out as the worst month averaging a minus 5 % return or a minus 70 % total return for September. Every other month is positive. September is by far the biggest outlier here with six of six, the six latest months for September performance all coming in the red territory. So if you do line that up with the chart here and just come to the assertion that September could be a red month for Bitcoin, then that also makes sense on the ETHBTC chart. Because if Bitcoin ends up dropping and altcoins have these risks that we previously discussed with the lawsuits and, you know, the selloff happening, then we could maybe assert that alts will bleed harder than Bitcoin during this period. And this September selloff could speed up this trend here, this scenario that results in us hitting these targets on ETHBTC. So if we want to just do a bit of maths here to get down to the support level, it's around 12 .26%. That could be the amount that alts because ETH is synonymous with a lot of altcoins, bleed versus BTC. And that would also see dominance correspondingly push up into this 54 % region, which is also a major resistance level for dominance. As we can see, it was support and may flip into resistance because this was a previous key level for dominance. So pretty interesting that everything's kind of lining up around this September period to be potentially a period that altcoins bleed but also a period where we see a reversal. So that is very, very interesting. Now, what I want to get into now is if this scenario does play out, and if we do see altcoins starting to significantly bleed over the next couple months and continue their bleeding, and then we do see a reversal, what are the best altcoins to accumulate for that reversal? So that's something I want to discuss now. What alts am I eyeing? Because, of course, these are creating big opportunities. Altcoins bleeding versus Bitcoin, every percent that they bleed is going to be an additional return on the way up. So the further an altcoin goes down, the more returns percentage -wise it's going to do on the way up if you can buy in a rough accumulation period because you're never going to get it right. But if you can time it in a rough window where you're getting close enough to the bottom, then you're putting yourself in a good position to take advantage of the multiples on the way up if you invest in quality. So I want to get into like what that quality looks like and some of the narratives that I'm looking at are for the scenario because for me, this period is an accumulation period. If we do get the altcoins bleeding a bit more, like I think we will, and if we do get ETHBTC starting to reach the support level and bleeding more, which I think we will, then I think that'll be a good opportunity to continue stacking altcoins. Yes, we're not going to time the bottom exactly. But if we get a general zone where we think that altcoins are good buys relative to Bitcoin, keeping dominance in mind, then I think that could be really good buying opportunity setting ourselves up for the next cycle. So let's talk about those alts. But just before we get into those alts, I want to give you a quick reminder that we're currently doing a one Ethereum airdrop every single week for liquidity providers on SmartX. So SmartX is a DEX platform that is essentially solved or mitigated the negative effects of impermanent loss. So impermanent loss is typically when you experience capital losses on your LP positions when you have two different assets that are moved together in price. But SmartX, they have a calibration mechanism which enables these LPs to actually retain their value relative to what you would have with a typical LP where you would lose to impermanent loss. So it's, I think, attractive for LPs. And off the back of that as well, they've got huge farming multipliers. So we can see 10, 20, 30 X multipliers on their farms, which are resulting in APRs of, I mean, pretty much the highest in the market right now. On their native pairs, it's 89 to 100 percent. On their USDC pairs, like Arbitrum, for example, it's 23 percent. But we actually teamed up with them to do a giveaway of one Ethereum, one airdrop every single week for liquidity providers that provide a minimum of $50 liquidity into any of these pools. So if you do provide $50 into Arbitrum, Polygon or BNB, any of the pools in any of those chains that I just listed, then you will be eligible as long as you deposit a minimum of $50 into one of those pools for our one ETH airdrop every single week. And I'll be doing my airdrop this week. So link in the description to access that airdrop over on SmartX. And good luck. Hopefully, well, I was going to say hopefully we get a winner, but we will get a winner because I'll be drawing it. But I hope you win. I hope, you know, good luck to everyone that is getting involved in that giveaway there. All right, let's get on to my plan now. So the first thing I want to establish is that I buy Bitcoin every single month. I've explained this in previous shows. That doesn't change. The only thing that changes is the amount that I put in and the variability between Bitcoin and Ethereum. So when Bitcoin is showing strength like it has been recently, I've been DCA -ing heavier into Bitcoin. And when Ethereum starts to show strength, like we see in this chart, if we do get a reversal or a breakout of this diagonal trend, then I'll start to go heavier ETH on my DCAs versus Bitcoin. But my goal is to have a really strong Bitcoin and ETH portfolio. Now, on to the altcoins. I'm looking for altcoins that I really understand and I'm looking for altcoins that I truly believe in. So I believe it's so important as a crypto investor to pick the narratives that you have conviction in. If you understand DeFi and you have a good understanding of the market dynamics, you should prioritize that sector. If you really understand crypto gaming and you're a gamer and you really understand the value proposition there, you should look towards those projects because it's so important in this market that you only hold things you actually have conviction in. Because if we do get some sort of altcoin reckoning and alts continue to bleed versus Bitcoin, let's say they go down another 50%, are you going to be fumbling the bag at the bottom? Or are you going to continue to lower your cost basis by buying more? Now, in order to have the conviction to buy more, you've got to really believe in what you're buying. So right now is the time to get your list together of the projects that you really want to buy and really want to accumulate because if we do get altcoins that start to bleed, you're going to know exactly what you want to buy. Now, I'm going to talk through a few of the things that I'm looking at buying. The first thing is GambleFi. I think Robert's the leader here and I'm continuing to add to my role position as we go lower. Hopefully we get sub 10 cents again, but maybe 12 to 14 cents. I'll do a bit of DCA and I'm also keeping my eyes on new casinos. So that is something that I'm looking at. I think GambleFi still has some room to run and I'm always on the lookout. The next sector that I'm looking at is L2s. I'm heavily interested in this EIP 4844 narrative that, as you can see in front of you, is going to reduce the cost of gas fees significantly on layer 2s. I think this will be a catalyst for layer 2s heading into that event. And because that event is happening in December, if we do get the timeline lining up with an altcoin reversal, let's say September, October, maybe even November, I think because these have the strongest narrative in the market, they could bounce the most in the immediate terms. They become attractive propositions from that perspective. Now, which L2s am I looking at in this narrative? Well, I think a lot of them can perform well, but for the safer mid to large cap plays, I think Arbitrum around a dollar is starting to become an attractive look. I also think Optimism is an attractive look considering their partnership with Coinbase, Debank, Mantle, et cetera, as you can see in front of you. So those are two I'm watching. The other thing I'm watching is unique narratives like privacy. So one of our show sponsors, Tommy, has a suite of privacy products. One of them is Dopp. Now, this one I'm really interested in because it essentially enables you to transfer assets without having to reveal those assets to the public. So you can have an NFT in your wallet, for example, that you want to show off to people. But you might also have Ethereum in that wallet that you don't want to show off to people. And you can essentially choose what you want to disclose and choose what you want to enclose. So I think privacy next narrative, I'm sorry, next cycle is going to be a big narrative. I don't think we've fully seen protocols come to life. So I'm always on the lookout for new protocols in this sector and Dopp's one of them. I think they have a token sale soon. But of course, do your own research. They are a show partner. But the reason we're partnered with them is because I think it's a really cool trend and one that I'm actively on the lookout for. And Tommy's essentially their mothership, which launches a lot of these products. So that might also be something to look into as well. If you're interested in DeFi, I think Frackshare could be something to look at. It's very interesting. They've got exposure to not just the stablecoin, decentralized stablecoin trend, but also liquid staking. They're actually one of the fastest growing eth liquid staking providers, if not the fastest on the market. So Fracks is definitely what I'm looking at. And what I'm trying to do is just back teams that have shown the proficiency to continue to ship great products and great code over the duration of the bear market. Fracks has been one of them and actually just integrated with KiberSwap today. And we're seeing them continuously innovate. So they're a good one, but always bet on teams that it continues to innovate. Now, this video isn't a shill. I'm not showing my bags. In fact, I barely own any Frackshare. This video is to give you the idea that I'm starting to look at narratives to accumulate. This video is to give you the idea that you need to start looking at the sectors and concentrating on the sectors that you want to scoop up if we do get an altcoin record. Because I don't think it's good enough to sitting on the sidelines and saying, oh, wait, because then the dips will come and you don't know what you're buying. So I'm not saying these are all the tokens I'm buying. Of course, there are more tokens. There are some I'm not going to mention in today's video. But the point is, now is the time to start preparing. And if Fracks is one of them, add that to your watch list. Solana as well. If you believe in the L1, the Altair 1 thesis, I know the L2 narrative is super strong right now, but if you think there will be other proprietary L1s that can perform really well, then maybe look at something like a Sol, which has a really strong dev ecosystem and has a lot of great DeFi product shipping. You could get a good look at this at even lower prices. I think TraderXO posted a chart showing a $14 support for Solana. Scary stuff. But if you're in a position where you believe in it, then $14 would be a big opportunity for you. And you probably wouldn't panic when we get down there. Another one that I'm looking at, coincidentally, another sponsor of the show is OpenExchange. I'm actually looking at buying some OX tokens just because I think, look, they have had a huge run up. And I'm not going to give you financial advice as to whether to buy or not to buy because they are a show partner. However, I am looking into this because I think I really like what Carl and you were doing. Look, I know it is a kind of contentious subject because it's kind of like a hated narrative in the market, right? But I do see the value here in a new exchange that has the propensity to list new coins super quick, gain traction super quick and ship code super quick. And OX has been an interesting development because they've introduced this staking function, which you can see in front of you, which enables you to earn yield on your asset, reduce fees on the platform, as well as earning airdrops. So just the staking, you can earn access to their airdrops. As we can see at the moment, they're currently running their Justin tokens airdrops as part of their real world asset RWA initiative. So this is one that I'm looking into. And it's not just the token, it's just a platform in general that's showing growth. So I'm always looking for platforms in this market that are showing growth, even in the midst of a bear market. And OX, irrespective of the fact they're a show partner, has shown this. But of course, do your own research, not financial advice. I want to make that clear that I'm just giving you examples of narratives that are performing well, and you can look into them in your own time. But don't get too caught up in what's popular and what's not. Like look in front of you. Some of the most hated coins, Robit, Unibot, are OX. These have been some of the best performers over the last few weeks. So don't always get too caught up in what's popular and what's trending online. Sometimes, especially on Twitter, the tokens that are hated actually end up performing the best. So just remember, the market doesn't care about your bias. And if there's an opportunity to make money and your goal is to make money, well, try and take that opportunity irrespective of what the market thinks, because it's crazy. Some of the most loved coins have been the worst performers. Some of the most hated coins have been the best performers. And you always want to be on the lookout for outliers. The other one is Pepe and Meme coins. If you're trying to left curve next cycle, then you may get good looks into accumulating Doge and Pepe at historically low levels. Pepe hitting prices we haven't seen since the early days of its launch and Doge also retracing after that Elon pump. So needless to say, there is a lot of opportunities out there. But now's the time to refine your watch list. Now's the time to pay attention. Because if we do get a bleed from altcoins, you want to make sure you have a plan to accumulate these also potentially generational prices. And I get excited about the opportunity of getting some of these entries because I know what's going to happen next cycle. And we've seen this time and time again, where when people start to get despondent when they lose hope, when they think there's never going to be another cycle. That's when they get surprised. And yes, we don't know exactly when it's going to be. We don't know if it's going to line up exactly with last cycle. We don't know when but we know that if you have conviction, and you stick around and you invest in quality, you're putting yourself in a much better position to benefit next cycle. And I'm really excited about the opportunities that we're going to get potentially over the next few months to accumulate and maybe even into Q1 next year, things are delayed a little bit because you can never predict exactly when the market's going to run. But you can start positioning. And to be honest, if we've got six months of accumulation here, I wouldn't be too mad because that's six months longer that we get to stack. But we could see an acceleration over the next couple months. And for that reason, I would really keep my eye on the charts that I showed you today. Bitcoin dominance, but more importantly, that ETH BTC chart, please, please, please chart it. And I'll, of course, give you updates on that chart on the show, because that's going to tell us when we want to go heavier into alts. I'm starting to scale into narratives I believe in, but I'm not going too heavy yet until we get the alts bleeding a little bit more, then I'm going to go more aggressive. But I'm just waiting for that really red day in the market. And then I'll start to position. But of course, I stick to my normal DCA plan and I've already started accumulating some quality coins and starting to stack up a little bit. But yeah, still have a lot of stables ready to deploy. So that is my update. Hope you guys enjoyed the video. If you did, let me know in the comments below that you enjoyed it. Smash the like button and I will see you tomorrow. Peace out.
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"Welcome to the podcast of first presbyterian church of gulfport, mississippi to learn more about our church our beliefs And our pastor, please visit fpcgulfport .org Throughout the old testament god made a series of incredible promises Promises that defied his people's expectations And in his time he fulfilled every last one of them in today's study of first kings 8 We'll consider the god who always keeps his promises Including those that he's made to you and I You know one of the very lowest or worst times for god's people Occurred back in the book of numbers is in the wilderness god's people were in the wilderness now Why were they in the wilderness? Well, they're in the wilderness because that's where they chose to be You see if you remember the story god had told them I have made you i've created i've set aside for you a promised land It's yours go for it And so they sent in spies to check it out to see what it was like to see if they indeed could take it However, when the spies reported back the majority of the spies said no way They said the land is great. No problems there. The land is great the problem is There are giants there. The problem is we're just a bunch of people in the wilderness They've got cities like jericho with walls that are high. They've got armaments. They've got soldiers who stand one and a half times above us God may have told us to go there, but we can't because we'll die And so they spent their time in the wilderness. And in fact a whole generation died out Of that level of distrust or lack of confidence what god told them to do So they're wandering in the wilderness. That's what made the book of numbers so sad They're in a place No one wants to go doing things that they shouldn't be doing and they do it for a whole Generation and they did it based on fear They did it on the basis of that. We just can't do what god has told us to do We know god is strong. I mean, of course, he's strong. Look what he did to pharaoh. He brought all those plagues 10 of them and yet And yet he won't do that for us. I mean he did it back then but You know that was then this is now They had enough faith to remember moses. They had enough corporate honesty to know what happened In their recent past and yet they didn't have enough faith to think that what god did in the past had any bearing on What he would do in the future god says go into the land. They say no We'll die despite the fact That one generation earlier god had literally swapped the armies of pharaoh under the red sea that god had brought down all these plagues If you're god, you're thinking to yourself, you know, I think i've made a pretty good case for myself Am I willingness to protect you? What are you doing? But the people were were fearful They're anxious God had made them a promise They just doubted his ability to come through on it Is that where you're at matters of faith a whole generation of israelites That's where they were at They had enough faith to believe god was there Do you believe god's there I hope so The problem was not that they didn't believe he was there And their problem was not that they didn't believe he'd done some really cool things a long time ago. The problem was They didn't think they would come through for them in this particular instance. No matter what he had said. They knew he'd promised They just doubted the reliability of that promise and for some of us That's our concern We don't doubt god exists. We know he's there Sometimes we doubt whether he loves us enough to count us in that promise And other times we just doubt whether he's actually going to do the very things that he said that he was going to do Well today's text we're seeing psalm is stopping the presses. He's taking the people by the lapel He's shaking him and saying dear heavens. Do you see what god has done? Not a word failed Of what he said not a word not a syllable has failed what he said he would do And he made some of the most amazing promises You could possibly make to people who are in no position to believe that they'd ever be received He told abram old abram and old sarah that they'd have a not just a kid But a progeny the more numerous than the stars in the sky It was a promise seemed unbelievable to fulfill and he fulfilled it to a t He's done everything that he would say he would do and the reason that was important for them And the reason that's important to us is because he's made you a promise, too He's made you a promise about your future And the question is can he come through will he come through In today's text psalm wanted to encourage his people and god wants to encourage us that the answer is yes Let's look at the first couple verses. Let's start with verse 54. Then. Let's work our way through the balance verse 54 And so it was when solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the lord That he rose up from before the altar of the lord from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up To heaven All right. Let's stop there in the verses immediately preceding today's passage The temple was done it had taken a while But the temple is now done and king solomon if you read earlier in chapter eight, he had prayed a lengthy prayer That's okay. He had a lot to say so he praised this lengthy prayer and during this prayer. He'd recounted god's faithfulness Sometimes that's okay, too We pray to god and we thank god and we remind god of what he already knows the things that he's done And by virtue of us reminding him of what he already knows we remind ourselves of what we need to hold on to going forward So he prayed this lengthy prayer and then he rises up and stands but as he stands he swivels And he looks out a bunch of folks whose faith was probably like a sine curve Ups and downs from person to person maybe from day to day maybe from hour to hour Solomon was looking at those who had doubts and anxieties not that different from those that many of us had He's also looking at some folks that he knew to be hard -headed You ever read moses experiences in deuteronomy ministering to god's people just hard -headed people David had had the same experience psalm and already as a young king. He had seen the same thing the people are hard -headed They not only tended to reject a lot of things that the prophets and leaders said But they also tended to reject what god had said, but god had still been faithful That was part of his prayer. Thank you god You've been so faithful we've been such such goofs we've done all the things we shouldn't do we've really messed up But you've never let us down You fulfilled everything to a t meanwhile. We're just staggering around the wilderness Even as they'd come into the promised land It's still their faith was like a sine curve and psalm praises says god. Thank you that you don't operate the way that we do Thank you that your promises are reliable So in verse 54, he wraps up this prayer and now again as he swiveled to talk to the people He wants to both encourage them and to challenge them. Let's see what he says in verses 55 and 56 Verse 55 then he stood and he blessed all the assembly of israel with a loud voice sang Blessed be the lord who has given rest to his people israel according to all that he has promised There's not failed one word of all his good promise which he promised through his servant moses If someone were to make you a promise What's the first thing your brain does? So it makes you a promise. What's the first thing you do? Well, here's the first thing I do You think through and you say well what other promises have you made in the past? Because I think i'm going to adjudicate Your ability and willingness to come through on this particular issue On the basis of whether you came through on other issues If someone makes you a promise you immediately you can't help it you think of the track record You think is this a reliable source? Of information promises and the like we consider a new promise in light of what has been done with the old ones Well in verses 55 and 56 Solomon says look there are still better promises yet ahead if you think that this promised land is cool Just wait till you see what is yet to come there's better promises of a better land. There's a better moses coming down the road There's all sorts of stuff in the future that we have to hold on to By faith and in order to believe those promises of that outcome you need to look back and ask Did god come through and what he already said he would do and in verses 55 and 56 he says yes He says look god said some amazing stuff in the past And he delivered he delivered on things that seemed impossible for him to fulfill and so with a loud voice in verse 55 He basically tells the people he says You are the most fortunate of all people because your god Unlike the gods of the philistines and the canadites and the moabites and the amorites and the hitites and the jebusites and every other Ite he says unlike them your god has an unbroken track record Unlike the pagan prophecies and pagan gods of stone and marble and wood That have failed consistently habitually That have let down the very people who have bent the knee to them unlike those people You have a god who came through on every last thing he told you he would Blessed be you and blessed be the name of the lord And he wanted them to remember some of the things that god had done in fact, that's healthy. That's why we read the book That's why we study the old testament And the new as we understand we remember what god has done and how that applies to us We think about the things he did how amazing they were and if he did those amazing things Maybe yet there'll be a resurrection from the dead. Maybe yet We'll all go to heaven. Maybe yet all the things for the future will be fulfilled if he's done all these things in the past You know, as we said some of the things that god promised Defied expectations and the belief of everyone who heard them at the outset I already mentioned abraham and sarah You take the old couple tell them that they're going to have a child and they've been barren all these years and where time has passed Sarah's reaction. I was just to laugh it seemed utterly implausible God made them a promise that seemed utterly implausible and yet he he came through Psalm looked out and saw the descendants He saw the fulfillment of this one promise Think even further back think of noah god promised to this one guy this one Paragon of virtue and just a sea of apostasy and unrighteousness he says it's going to rain But you're going to make it because you're going to build a boat However, it's not going to be just any boat You're going to build a boat big enough to fit all the creatures within the creative realm within it now dear heavens If there is a promise that just defies expectation and belief that it could ever be fulfilled. This is it Of course noah trusted god and went about building a boat in god's time It was filled with animals and god's time the rain came God made a promise that defied expectation then then he fulfilled it Just after the time of when they entered the promised land they came up to the city that god's people You know, they crossed the jordan they come in. All right, so we're in the promised land. Uh -oh. Uh -oh What's that big city with a big wall just right over there? Oh my stars. We made it across the jordan We're in the promised land, but now surely we're gonna die God says no, I promised you got this you got this I got this i'll take you through this And they're like, well how we don't have any weaponry We barely made it across the jordan. We've been in the wilderness. We don't look at that wall And god says hey and rolls up his sleeves. So this is proverbial sleeve so to speak and says tell you what Just march around the city playing the instruments in the light Do that. Sometimes the wall is going to come down who would believe that? Well, they did And god responded God made a promise and god delivered Back in deuteronomy 12 god had said this he says when you cross over the jordan and dwell in the land Which lord your god's giving you to inherit and he gives you rest from all your enemies all around so that you dwell in safely Then there will be the place with lord God your god chooses to make his name abide in deuteronomy 12 written during the time of moses long time before solomon God says this is going to be a future you're going to have a place and there's going to be a temple and in that temple My name will abide well again Psalms looking out at people who had anxieties about what would god do in the future and he says, please Look what he did in the past Please if you have anxiety about what the future holds if you have trouble believing Aspects of what the future the promised future to the church as a whole or use an individual, please Look at what he did in the past and see how he came through and understand. Nothing's impossible In fact god honestly a hundred percent delights in doing things you don't expect in ways that you wouldn't expect That's just the way he operates So he says here just hear the promises evaluate the promises against promises of old and understand That there is a track record that you can turn to whenever doubts strike whenever these concerns come to mind So in verses 55 and 56, this is what he's saying and he goes even further than that He says not only has god fulfilled all his promises, but not a word of them has failed It's not like he did everything in the abstract that yeah, he delivered, you know largely what he said he was going to do You're at a contractor If a contractor is going to build a house or you know Put up a shed or doing a number of different things and they go out They start to work on the thing and so forth and then when you're done you look and you say well He did largely what he said he was going to do. I mean, I don't love everything It's not all perfect, but it largely honored what he said That's the way most contracts with most individuals and everything work largely they're fulfilled Solomon says the contract the covenant the promises that god has made. It's not just that he fulfilled them largely He fulfilled them to the letter not a word had failed of all the impossible things That god told his people to expect unbroken track record. Let's look at verses 57 through 60 verse 57 And so may the lord our god Be with us as he was with our fathers May the lord god who did all that stuff long time ago to people that generations earlier May he do to us as he is done with them May he not leave us nor forsake us that he may incline our hearts to himself to walk in his ways to keep his commandments And statutes and judgments that he commanded to our fathers and made these words of mine with which i've made supplication before the lord Be near the lord our god day and night that he may maintain the cause of a servant and the cause of his people israel As each day may require god is the god of every day of your life Not just god of this whole thing or god of when you're finally saved and on the other side. He's god now Whatever you're doing today this week He is the god of this day verse 60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that there is a lord That the lord is god and there is no other All right. Let me ask you a different question. I asked one earlier. Let me ask you something different Have you ever had someone that you've loved or trusted? Leave you Have you ever had someone that you've loved or trusted leave you volitionally Have you had someone that you've loved or trusted walk away from you or reject you Neglect you although you needed them There's few heartaches for those who can relate to that There's few heartaches as great as being left by those that we love It can be just heart -rending to have someone's presence in your life there for a season and then in a different season in your Life when you desperately need them They're not there If you've experienced that You may find that even months or years later that the hole hasn't gone away It still hurts With that said notice what solomon said in verses 57 through 60 He said may the lord our god Be with us as with our fathers. May he not leave us or ever forsake us You know the gods of the pagans disappeared at times They went off and did their own thing, which is why elijah mocked bale and the others perhaps your god is sleepy We need to wake him up is what he told on mount karma what he told the prophets of bale The pagans had gods that could go away for a season the greek same deal That gods would be busy up on mount olympus, maybe they'd care for you one day maybe they wouldn't But here solomon tells his people and god tells us That he's with us just as he was with our fathers just as he was with moses Whether you're here your name is bob or stew or frank or fran God's with you. God's with you every bit as much as he was with moses That's an encouraging thought because We don't feel like moses most of the time But his presence is with us his presence is with our church And so solomon says, you know if we understand that and we cleave to him our future is bright It's so bright because the right man is on our side the man king. Jesus The right man is on our side, you know, even if the whole world should turn against you Which given enough time it might Even the whole world should turn against you. God won't even if every other promise is broken If even if every loyal friend breaks ranks with you in the time that they come god won't And when you're hurting in that midnight hour when you feel all alone, he says i'm with you And we got this together I'm with you and we got this. All right, let's look at our last verse verse 61 our last verse So now he's encouraging the people about how to respond to these promises and god's presence and the like verse 61 He tells the people and you can imagine his hands that he says it he says let your heart therefore Be loyal to lord our god Let your heart therefore be loyal to lord our god to walk in his statutes and keep his commandments as it is this day This is a benediction of sorts it's a blessing It's also an exhortation And in this exhortation king solomon tells people what he told them previously He says if we believe all this to be true if we believe there is a god in heaven if we believe that he loves us If we believe he's told us how to live Then the evidence of that belief is not simply what we profess with our mouth the israelis profess things all the time That wasn't their problem It's what they did with it how they acted how they responded Remember, we've talked about the difference between orthodoxy and orthopraxy orthodoxy is the easy part orthodoxy is just accepting propositional theological truth And saying amen. Amen what's harder is going out those doors and acting accordingly So solomon he puts his hands out and says hey Aaa Be careful to be loyal to our god and to keep his statutes his laws and his judgments Let me ask you do you remember you remember what your first car was? I got in trouble. I talked about cars recently What was it pinto? Was that what it was something like that? I got in trouble I called out a car and someone said that was my car. So i'm not gonna do that I'll call out my first car. My first car was a brown mazda b2000 pickup Man alive they were a lot smaller and they're making pickups these days pickups these days or something else You know, I had this little thing going down the road and like so I had this mazda b2000 pickup now I did love the car. It was my first car So of course, I loved it and I waxed it and polished it and shined it and like at first Then I went to college and still had the car and I had other priorities or other things that interested me other pursuits for my time and suddenly it wasn't even just a lack of washing the car Other things like I don't know oil changes just things that you just should do, you know, the common sense stuff I was like nah this This car hasn't let me down before right? I mean, I didn't give it an oil change in the last month So it probably doesn't need this one month. Well kick that forward a while. What happens i'll tell you what happens It ends up with me on i -5 north of eugene oregon on the side of the road having Say flipped a rod. I'm those you know cars better. I don't know what happened bruised a rod broke a rod Whatever there was a rod involved and it stopped working And so the car stopped working and it never drove again. That was it I kissed a goodbye it went on a tow truck and it was and it was gone We tend to prioritize the things that are important to us It's easy to ascend to propositional truth when it's right in front of us the people there at that time With the new temple and the hurrahs and you know the celebrations and the dinner on the grounds They were having back in this day. The people were excited. It wasn't hard to get them excited It wasn't hard for them to get amen and all that the hard part was in nurturing and caring For that which god entrusted to them down the road and for prioritizing the same things through their actions that they prioritize with their lips Right here and the sad thing was that they wouldn't When I say this is the high point of israel's history up to this point i've been it What does that imply? It implies that things got worse Which they did God made a promise I got you I got you in your future And they had made promises to the differences. They didn't keep theirs And so they backslid in the most egregious of ways to the point to the sad point as we studied in our review of ezekiel Last year whenever it was To the sad point that the same god who came to dwell in this temple in first kings chapter 8 would leave it and ezekiel 10 He would depart the temple leave it as ikabat empty of his glory There's things that have been trusted to matters of faith if you're a parent if you're a father There's things that have been entrusted to you to look out after your loved ones to nurture their faith To take care of their faith to take care of your own faith so that it doesn't get broken down on the side of the road When life circumstances throw you a curveball, which is inevitable There's bins in the road. You can't see coming So The way that we grow and sustain our faith is by immersing ourselves in the faith by doing what god has Said all right before we wrap up or in closing here I want you to notice at the very end of verse 61 He says something interesting and at first when I looked at this text a few years ago I missed it, but I don't want to miss it today verse 61 He said let your heart therefore be loyal to the lord our god to walk in the statutes and keep his commandments And then he adds these four words as at this day Solomon knew the people's history He wanted them to have that particular day emblazoned on their mind to do that Which they had promised to do that day in the time yet to come and yet As we said just a moment ago They wouldn't Roughly 400 years later after this text That day would be a distant memory and they would have forgotten it 400 years later there would be no more cheering There would only be what we call lamentation There would only be disaster Roughly 400 years later as we said before god's glory would depart the babylonians would show up. That's a bad trade They gave up the glory of god. They received the babylonians Ezekiel 10 says this the glory lord departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim and the cherubim mounted up from the earth in his sight Same temple look Can that happen to a church to a denomination a nation? Yes, yes, and yes It can happen if we don't keep the first things first It can happen if we don't prioritize that which we're called to prioritize It can happen if we stop trusting god and start trusting ourselves It can happen if we ignore what god has said in his word And start coming up with our own precepts and following the wills and wants of our own hearts In this passage that we've read today Solomon god through psalm is reminding the people that hey, there's some intentionality i've made you a promise and yet and yet There is a degree of intentionality on your part That your future is going to be heavily predicated upon. What will it be? What will it be are you going to be zealous to do the very things that you promised me on First kings 8 that you promised you say you're going to do you say amen. Amen. Are you going to do that? You won't if you're not intentional about it and in time In time the temple might be empty and in time churches or denominations can follow suit and if you don't think that's possible Go to europe Go to new england Just see places that once not that long ago resonated that once With at least a cultural religiosity And all likelihood of something far stronger now be turned to just empty husks of what they once were If it could happen in israel if it could happen in europe if it happened to england it could happen in the bible belt Our responsibility Is to cling to that which god has delivered us once for all through the saints And to champion no matter what the world tells us no matter what's going on in the culture around us Let the culture go to the wind This is what we're called to adhere to and salman put it before the people in an old testament context Said do this and live The same is true for us Let's pray Join, dr. Toby holt and dr.
Crypto Camel Podcast
A highlight from Tron, Learn About Exchange Safety And The El Salvador Bond hype
"Support for crypto camel is provided by you, the listener. We couldn't make this show come to life without your support. So make sure to subscribe on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcast. We love our community to chat about what upcoming cryptos are next to go to the moon and what hidden gems are going to be the next big thing. Hey, welcome to another episode of crypto camel. Today's episode we want to cover a few things including Tron's cross border payments, the bonds happening in El Salvador and some deposit risk when it comes to cryptocurrency exchanges. We want to help our listeners out there just to know the facts about what's going on when you make deposits onto an exchange. So let's start with that and you know with what's happening with Sam Bankman -Fried recently and some of the security risks that you hear out there all the time. Let's kind of dive into the nitty -gritty of what's going on with these exchanges. Basically, where does your money go? Once you've deposited some cryptocurrency onto an exchange, where does it actually go? I mean, one would expect that these funds will be held in your name as a liability with safeguards in place to make sure that you can withdraw them when you wish. However, this is not necessarily the case. Take FTX for example. You know, the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman -Fried allegedly treated customer funds as if they were his own, tipping billions into Alameda research. So FTX would use those assets for their sister company and hedge fund and then find themselves in a position where the hedge funds had lost all their money and then that leads to there being no assets for the clients to withdraw. Now, some of these exchanges are, you know, good custodians and some are not. Basically, we could talk about Celsius as well and before its collapse in July of 2022, Celsius was allegedly using money from new customers to pay off attractive yields promised to other existing customers. And Celsius was caught and basically off guard by treating their clients' money as if it was their own. And crypto opponents in the US, House of Representatives like Brad Sherman, basically characterized this behavior as an endemic on the cryptocurrency ecosystem. So what are all the other crypto exchanges actually doing with your money if they're not outright frauds? Can you trust exchanges to safeguard your funds? There are hundreds of cryptocurrency exchanges across the globe spanning from more trustworthy to outright fraudulent. And the crypto market tracker CoinMarketCap tracks 227 of these exchanges, with among them have an approximate 24 -hour trading volume in July, around $181 billion. And Adrian Silzoni, the CEO of Australian crypto exchange Independent Reserve, he says that consumers should always be mindful of the distinction between the business model of an exchange versus a broker. An exchange usually keeps its customers' assets directly in its own storage. This means they can't really use those assets to make extra profits for themselves. And Silzoni explains that Independent Reserve has enough liquidity on the platform so that when you place an order on the exchange, you are trading against another customer. On the flip side, brokers may entail counterparty risks to the other exchanges by holding customers' crypto assets on the exchange to earn some extra money. Now, this helps the broker rake in more funds, but it also puts the customer at risk. Brokers cannot earn a return using clients' assets without taking a risk. And with a brokerage -type business model, when you place an order, that platform has to essentially run off in the background to acquire the assets you want. A counterparty risk is when there's a chance that another party involved in a contract might not hold up their end of the deal. It gets riskier when a broker keeps customers' funds or assets on another exchange because that exchange goes bust. The customer assets could go down the drain as well. It's a word that would probably send shivers on the spines of the executives' Australian -based crypto Digital Surge, which found itself in hot water right after FTX went down. Basically, the Australian -based broker went into administration after it had transferred 23 million worth of its assets to FTX just two weeks before the whole collapse happened in November 2022. Digital Surge managed to pull off a lucky escape with a bailout plan. However, it did involve directors Daniel Rudder and John Lehman personally chucking in $1 million into the mix. Crypto lender Blockfine and Crypto Exchange Genesis weren't so lucky. Both ended up filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to being exposed in FTX. So while an exchange has fewer avenues to generate profits compared to a broker, it prioritizes the safety of funds. And if a crypto broker is storing client assets on another exchange, such as Binance, for example, the broker should be transparent with the client. If anything were to go wrong with Binance, the assets would be hard to retrieve. In the case of crypto exchange Bank of the Future, it's clear that as a registered visual asset service provider, it has to have disaster recovery and all client's assets should be distributable at all times, even if the parent company goes down. So securities registration holds an exchange at a higher standard, and it sets policies in place that need to be tested against them regularly. Securities registration basically requires an exchange to hold those assets and maintain comprehensive records verifying the customers, the real owners of the assets, as well as the exchange being subject to regulatory inspections. Now Coinbase and Binance's recent legal troubles with the Securities and Exchange Commission stem from allegations of operating an unlicensed securities exchange, meaning both weren't held to record keeping and safeguard requirements that a license would mandate. And so what happens after you deposit funds into a crypto exchange? So what actually happens when you deposit, say, $50 or $50 ,000 into an exchange and buy some crypto? Well, in the exchange model, where users trade directly with one another, it's like one on one deal, where your digital assets order is executed, your money goes straight to the person you're buying them from, the assets stay within the exchange throughout the whole transaction. When it comes to the broker's type model, you're buying assets from the broker directly. So the broker takes the money and uses it to acquire the assets you want. Essentially, they're playing matchmaker between your money and assets. The asset is then generally held on another exchange, regardless of whether your assets are hanging out on the exchange where you bought them, or with a counterparty linked to the broker you used, they will call home either a hot wallet or a cold wallet. storing Now, customer assets in a combination of hot and cold wallets is the common way that exchanges store your money. A hot wallet basically is connected to the internet and allows for quick transactions. On the other hand, a cold wallet is stored offline, and it's secure and keeps your crypto safe from hackers. So in most cases, independent reserves, 98 % of them, it's held offline in a cold storage vault managed by the exchange and the rest in a hot wallet in the exchange. So basically, I mean, it's really important to know what the details of the exchange that you're working with and how they're storing your money, how they were doing the transaction, and whether they're an exchange or a broker. 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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from The TRUTH about Sam Altman and WorldCoin
"Set summer in motion with the most adventurous Honda vehicles yet, like the Passport and Pilot Trail Sport and the Ridgeline, built for better off -road performance and engineered for more adventure. Summer is here. For a limited time, well -qualified buyers can get a 3 .9 % APR on a 2023 Honda Pilot, a 2 .9 % APR on a 2023 Passport and a 0 .9 % APR on a 2023 Ridgeline. Buy online, reserved from select dealers, or visit your local Honda dealer today. See dealer for financing details. My worst fears are that we cause significant. We, the field, the technology, the industry, cause significant harm to the world. I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. Artificial generalized intelligence. If you haven't heard of that before, well, I'll bet you probably have even heard of or used Chat GBT, midjourney or any one of the dozens of AI tools that have been taking the world by storm this year. In this video, we're going to be taking a closer look at the man behind the curtain, the mysterious wizard of Silicon Valley, Sam Altman, and we're going to be getting to the truth about him, his companies, what they're building, and, most importantly, what it all means for you and the future of humanity. This might be the most important topic in the world right now, so we want to make sure to bring the BitSquad up to speed. Let's get it! Welcome to BitBoy Crypto! My name has been today. We're doing a deep dive on the king of AI, Sam Altman, finding out what this awkward -looking startup junkie is really all about. Samuel Harris Altman grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He got his first computer at the age of eight. This was back in the 90s when computers were still using dial -up and Pets .com. In 2005, young Samuel dropped out of Stanford after one year studying computer science, co -founded LÜT, location -based social networking mobile application. Go ahead and smash that like button and turn on the channel notifications, which puts you in the BitSquad. Make sure you stay up to speed with the latest crypto news so you don't drop out of all the best gains in the next bull run. But as the CEO of LÜT, LÜT Altman raised over $30 million in venture capital at the business -savvy age of just 19 years old. Imagine being so rich, you think it's a good idea to give $30 million to a 19 -year -old. Anyways, LÜT failed to gain traction, but Sam was still able to sell it in March 2012 to the Green Dot Corporation for $43 .4 million. Not bad for a first -time failed startup. Just one month later, the dropout failed. The founder co -founded another company, Hydrazine Capital, with his brother Jack. And in February 2014, Sammy's startup was named president of Y Combinator. In 2014, Sam claimed that the total valuation of Y Combinator companies has amassed 65 billion. Their catalog is much more impressive than Sam's resume and includes Airbnb, Dropbox, Coinbase, Instacart, OpenSea and Stripe, among countless others. Altman set a target for Y Combinator to fund 1 ,000 new companies per year, which is so many it makes it seem like Sam is just slinging more and more bad ideas at the wall to see what sticks. In 2015, Altman donated $10 million to start Y Combinator Research, a nonprofit research lab that Sammy funded to research basic income, the future of computing, education and building new cities. All these topics seem related, almost like they're part of a larger plan. Sam co -founded OpenAI with Elon Musk in 2015 and in 2019 announced that he would be stepping back at Y Combinator to focus on being CEO of OpenAI. OpenAI has several products including Doll -E, a generative text -to -image AI tool, Whisper, an AI -driven speech -to -text tool and Codex. But the most famous AI tool that OpenAI built is called ChatGPT. A generative AI tool that returns text, images or videos in response to user input prompts. Now, you input your like and subscribe to the channel to get the latest in crypto news. About 27 % of y 'all aren't subscribed. I don't get it. Now, I don't have time to get into exactly how all this AI stuff works, but just from some basic understanding, generative AI is a broad term for any AI system that primarily creates content. Large language models or LLMs are a type of AI system that works with language and draws from a large set of data and computational power. These can create a foundational model which is a term for AI systems that can be applied to a range of purposes. So ChatGPT is a foundational generative AI model that's based on a large language model. Okay, so sorry if that was confusing. I think this stuff is pretty cool, and it's important to understand what all these geeks are talking about with this stuff. I got to research it. I guess they know it intuitively. Moving on. ChatGPT was so popular that it reached 100 million users just two months after launching in 2022, which set an all -time record for user adoption. In response to this unprecedented user demand, Microsoft, a longtime investor in OpenAI, decided to increase their investment and extend their partnership, announcing in January 2023 that they would be investing an additional $10 billion into OpenAI. By now, you might be wondering, Ben, that's all great, but what does Sami have to do with crypto? Back in 2019, when he stepped away from Y Combinator to run OpenAI, Altcoin Altman also co -founded Tools for Humanity, the company building a global IRIS -based biometric cryptocurrency system called Worldcoin. What is Worldcoin? Well, according to Sam, Worldcoin was conceived as a prototype for universal basic income, which Sam sees as inevitable due to the rise of the technology that Sam keeps building himself. Also, it seems like if he would stop building all these things, then we won't have to depend on him to protect us from them. So weird. Sam tried to keep this project quiet at first, probably because it sounds so evil, but the idea simply is this. Users get paid in Worldcoin in a wallet they can use in the Ethereum ecosystem and runs on Optimism's tech stack. WLD tokens will be claimed by people and to verify your identity and unique personhood, Worldcoin wants to scan your IRIS using a super evil -looking silver camera called The Orb. I swear you can't make this stuff up. Worldcoin has a kiosk in Barcelona, offering free french fries in exchange for scanning your IRISes. Good thing I only eat freedom fries. Some offer a $10 rebate on purchases. Some offer a chance to win a new car. Where's Bob Barker when you need him? But whatever paltry bribe Sam Altman and his Worldcoin henchmen are offering, I guarantee you that it's not worth it. Details on this project are still deliberately being kept under wraps, but basic human intuition should tell you whatever they're up to, it's dystopian at best and an evil conspiracy to control the world at worst. My friends at Altcoin Daily said it well. Your eyes will be scanned. You will give up your biometrics data. You will accept your UBI and WLD coin. Sounds like exactly what the World Economic Forum has been planning for years. The scariest part? It's working. Hundreds of thousands of users are being quietly onboarded to Worldcoin in exchange for one of Sam's silly little bribes. According to Nansen, Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution, Optimism Arbitrum surpassed in daily transactions for the first time since January. The spike in activity began on July 24. The same day Worldcoin token went live on the Optimism mainnet. Although Worldcoin is careful to try and hide this information, they definitely do not advertise what's really going on. If you look close at the privacy deep dive section of their website, you'll see they say they're collecting a lot more than just users' irises. They need lots of data to make sure that the orbs are trained to recognize eyes regardless of who had scans. Initial scans targeted mostly children in developing countries like Chile, Indonesia and Sudan. I'm all in favor of decentralized digital identity, but there are a ton of great projects that are working on solutions for that. And none of them have relied on this creepy system of bribing poor children in third world countries so they can harvest their biometric data. There has to be a better way. Now, if you're like me, this kind of behavior by one centralized company, especially a company run by Sam Altman, the man trying to build the world's first AGI, it should worry you. Apparently, it worries European regulators too. Last week, French privacy watchdog group said the legality of this collection seems questionable as to the conditions for storing biometric data. They're coordinating their ongoing investigation with German authorities as well. Britain's information commissioner's office also confirmed that it was making inquiries. Even Ethereum co -founder Vitalik Buterin warned Worldcoin has major issues and pointed out that iris scans could inadvertently expose a person's sex, ethnicity and maybe even their medical conditions. Talk about a privacy risk. How many of you incels living in your mom's basement want people to know that you never even had sex? Oh, that's not what they're talking about? Despite what seems to be nearly universal concerns about Worldcoin's operations, Altman says they're going strong and onboarding one new verified person every eight seconds. That's a bull run. A bull ride. Crazy to think about, but at that rate, it would take them five years to get to 20 million users. So Altman's plans to 5X Worldcoin's onboarding capacity, well, it's going to be done by the end of the year. And now we get to the most interesting part of the story to meet anyways, and that's Altman's ongoing and highly public feud with the Dogefather himself, Elon Musk. A short version of how this conflict started is in 2018, Elon approached the other founders of OpenAI and expressed concern that the company had fallen hopelessly behind Google in the quest for AGI. Musk proposed that he take over OpenAI in order to catch up. The other founders rejected his bid. Musk eventually left the company and withdrew his funding. Altman eventually took over, and the two have been in competition and even some conflict ever since. When Chat GBT launched in November of 2022, OpenAI instantly became the hottest name in tech. Musk was reportedly furious. In December 2022, Musk pulled OpenAI's access to Twitter's data, ending a contract sign before Musk acquired Twitter. February 17, Elon tweeted, OpenAI was created as an open source, which is why I named it OpenAI, non -profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source maximum profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. On March 15, he tweeted, I'm still confused as to how a non -profit to which I donated about $100 million somehow became a $30 billion market cap for profit. If this is legal, why doesn't everyone do it? That's Bill Gates. He does it. Altman finally fired back in an interview saying about Elon, I mean, he's a jerk, whatever else you want to say about him, but I think he does really care, and he is feeling very stressed about what the future is going to look like for humanity, which is very interesting because a lot of this sounds exactly like conversations I had with Sam Bankman -Fried around the time of the FTX collapse. Things he said about me to me and to other people was he knew that I really cared about the stuff that I was talking about, but I just was going about it the wrong way. Very eerie similarities there. The reason for their dispute though seems to come down to both men wanting to prove themselves. Elon wants to be the man who took down Google and Twitter, and Altman seems to just want to make up for the fact that his first startup would fail. He tweeted in February, I failed pretty hard in my first startup. It sucked! And I'm doing pretty well in my second. The thing I wish someone told me during the first one is that no one else thinks about your failures as much as you do and that as long as you don't psych yourself out, you can try again. It's crazy the two guys with such big brains can be still so small -minded. So we talked a lot about Sam Altman, but what's the takeaway here? What's really at stake in this story? Well, I think it goes back to where we started. Fear. Altman is a prepper. He said in 2016, I have guns, gold, potassium, iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force and a big patch of land and big shore I can fly to. What is he prepping for? Well, he doesn't say. But the key is the answer to that question was asked in Congress on May 16, 2023. What's his biggest fear? My worst fears are that we cause significant. We, the field, the technology, the industry cause significant harm to the world. I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. So it's clear that Sam is consciously aware of the risks of what he's doing, but he's doing it anyway. He's taking an attitude of technological determinism, the idea that anything can be done will be done. So why not do it first? Why not create the tools for a dystopian nightmare future and then have all the power you need to avoid it right there in your hand? There's just one problem with that. If you believe in technological determinism, you also believe that the path of technology is the same for everyone, which means that anyone else could go down the same path and beat you to the prize at the finish line. And what's that prize? Well, if you ask Sam, artificial general intelligence, AGI, which means a piece of software that combines solutions to new unfamiliar tasks, basically code that can actually think. It's likely that the creation of such a piece of technology would lead to what's known to sci -fi nerds as the technological singularity, got in a box. The singularity refers to a point at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to humanity and civilization. OpenAI published a paper in April concluding that the latest OpenAI model exhibits many traits of intelligence, including abstraction, comprehension, vision, coding and understanding of human motives and emotions. In June, The New York Times published an article alleging that many leaders of Silicon Valley are becoming concerned that the singularity may already be here, and we just haven't realized it yet. Altman himself stated during his recent appearance on Lex Freeman podcast that he believes that multiple teams will create AGI while working on different projects in different parts of the world at roughly the same time. In other words, Sam isn't just worried that he won't get to the singularity first. He's worried that even if he does, his creation still won't be enough to save him from itself. And that's Sam Altman's worst fear. Sam once tweeted, AI is the tech the world has always wanted, but we don't want it if it means we have to let him scan our eyes and unleash something on mankind that has the power to take over every aspect of our lives before we even realize we've lost control. Let me know down below in the comments what you think about Sam Altman and his plans to control the future of civilization. And let me know what you think about AI and which projects are using it in creative ways that might give them an edge in the next bull run. And most importantly, Sam Altman vs Sam Bankman -Fried in a cage match, who wins? That's all I got. Be blessed. BitBoy out.
WTOP
"one month" Discussed on WTOP
"Sports at 25 and 55 powered by Red River, technology decisions aren't black and white. Think red at 6 25 Ben raby with his tonight to where you want to start. We're counting down a first bitch at national spark Nats and cubs, Mackenzie gore among the early season bright spots for the Nazis three and one on the year coming off a big win last week in New York. We'll see how he handles the cubs tonight. Chicago the best hitting team in the national league, the Nancy also placing starter Chad cool on the injured list with a foot issue, Yankees placing Aaron judge on the ten day injured list. Meanwhile, where one month into the big league season and all those rule changes, having a desired effect, the sample size growing teams are hitting more games or moving along quicker, average game time first month of the year, two hours, 36 minutes down from three O 5 a year ago in league wide, stolen base attempts in the first month also up 40% and up to their highest total in 25 years, NBA playoffs, game one, Celtics, and 76ers. Joel embiid remains out for Philadelphia, team hopeful he could return for game two Wednesday, and in the Stanley Cup playoffs one more game 7 coming up tonight. Tough act to follow from last night's game 7s, but they'll give it a try to Devils and rangers in New Jersey. Ben rabi WTO sports. Thank you, Ben, coming up after traffic and weather several big stories, including how to close the fiscal cliff we may be nearing another collapsing bank is being picked up by one of the huge investment banks. All that ahead at 6 26. Success
Big Time Baseball
"one month" Discussed on Big Time Baseball
"I think that could be a factor with all the injuries that he has and everybody else in the pitching almost everybody else. Yeah, I mean, so many surprises to this point. I mean, we never saw the rays doing this, but I mean up and down pirates, I mean, to me they're the biggest shock. I gotta put the white socks in that category. Nobody's for them. I mean, I think we could see Oakland doing this. And I don't think we're shocked that Kansas City and Colorado are off to rough starts, but the White Sox and I don't know if you saw Tony the GM recon came out and said he takes to blame, which I think was the smart thing to do, and it was the right thing to do. I don't know if he's right about it. I don't know if it is fault, but I mean, to me, looking at that team and for the first time, I didn't pick them to win the division, but I certainly expected him to be better than they were last year, which was 500. You know, on paper they look fantastic. And I just sent a note to Jerry reinsdorf saying, you know, I'm sorry about what's going to your team on paper. You have a great team and he emailed me back right away as he always does and says the game's not played on paper. And we're very quick. And he's absolutely right. I mean, to me, to me, that's the most shocking thing we've seen so far. I don't know about for you. Pittsburgh's right up there though. Yeah, man. You've got to take my next two questions away. The recon thing is interesting because it's an old school approach, right? You try to take the attention off your ball club, put it on you, but in the day and age of social media, I don't know that it's as effective as it was in the past, right? Because players are exposed to so much more and can be, you know, people can get to the player so much easier than they could have in the past, I don't know that this move works. And you look at, as you said, you look at that roster, there really is no reason why, you know, I get its baseball and, you know, things don't always go as but 7 and 20. This team is way too talented. Way too talented to be 7 to 20. You start to wonder what's going on on the inside. Because this is now two years in a row. Now they weren't this bad last year. Right. But that's a play. They regret, like, this team is, as you say, I'm shouldn't be a 7 and 20 team. Regardless of whether the game is played on paper or not, this team is too talented, but something is clearly wrong. Well, yeah, I agree. Something's clearly wrong. The injuries have been bad this year. They were last year, but that doesn't explain 7 and 20. And all these, I mean, I was watching last night and they lost another one run game to Tampa, a rosarina went above the wall, Tampa does whatever necessary to win every game. And it seems like the white sucks are the opposite. It's something about the chemistry is not right. I do think that's it. You know, obviously they lost Jose Abreu was one of the best guys in baseball and one of the best leaders. You know, I don't know if that's it. I mean, no one would have thought that last year their chemistry was great as it was at 81 and 81, but this year there's something missing. No doubt about it. All right, now you kind of alluded to it. I think I know your answer. But most surprising start to this year, I mean, we just finished talking about the White Sox, but I don't know that I could see the pirates where they are, and I certainly didn't see the Cardinals where they are right now. Who do you have is the most surprising start? Good right Benny. Yeah, I'm right there with you. I mean, to me, that division looks upside down at this point. A little bit of a pleasant surprise, but I think they've been generally been a good team, good organization for a few years. Cardinals are a stunner. I mean, to have a team with Ariana and Goldschmidt and all those talented young players and be this much of a at least early going disaster. I mean, that to me is stunning. I mean, the pirates, everything going right for the pirates. They locked up a player long term for a $100 million deal. They brought up through Maggie who played 1154 games in the minor leagues. I don't know if you saw that I got a standing ovation and then he got his first play in the majors was a pitch violation, a time violation for accepting the standing ovation. Something's got to be done about that, but pirates and the Cardinals take out the White Sox for a second, pirates and Cardinals, two most surprising teams so far for me. Yeah, we need a common sense law on the whole standing obey. It's the second time this year. Bellinger got it earlier. Now this young man gets one. It just doesn't make any sense. But that's neither here or there. Let me ask you a question, because Brian Reynolds was, he seemingly was pretty set on getting out of that place. Was it the money or was it the start and maybe the vibe that he has in that locker room having been there through spring training? Because I imagine the pirates, their offer, I mean, I'm sure it's come up a little bit, but they had to be trying to lock this guy up for a long period of time. What do you think was on his mind when he changed it? Well, the offer was definitely better because I reported that with 76 million. So he's up to 10 million extension. They're calling it one O 6.7 7 5 counting this year. So the offer is definitely better. It's always about the money. Not to pick on him. It's always about the money, but I do believe the story that he wanted to be in Pittsburgh, even when he made the trade demand. Did you ever do that when you want to be someone you make a trade demand? It's unusual thing. Before, right? Because it's about the negotiation. They probably knew they weren't going to trade them. And it was just a way to get it out there that I'm not too happy with what the offer is. It was all, I think all about the negotiation. I believe he liked Pittsburgh. He feels like he fits in Pittsburgh. People tell me I don't know him. He's been great there. You know, some people aren't cut out for New York, Chicago, LA, maybe. I don't know, maybe he feels a Pittsburgh is the right spot for him. If he does, more power to him, I think it's great for baseball and certainly great for the pirates to see them doing this and to see them locking up a guy for a 100 million now. We've got three teams left. I think that I've been signed a guy for a 100 million Oakland, Kansas City. And again, it's our White Sox, never done a 100 million, which is a little bit of a surprise. They tried with Machado, and I think they tried with a few others, but never quite sealed the deal. Yeah, shout out to Brian Reynolds for playing and negotiating strong as he did there because he got where he won it. What he wanted and he's where he wants to be. I think that's the ultimate goal. That's going to do it for this episode of big time baseball. Make sure you subscribe, like, wherever you get your podcasts. Hit that auto download, too, as well. So as soon as it hits the podcast scene, you're able to get it immediately. Until next week for myself, John hayman, get you next week. All right, thanks.
Big Time Baseball
"one month" Discussed on Big Time Baseball
"A lot of issues that strengthen and meds team was supposed to be Scherzer and Verlander right now haven't seen Verlander yet. Hopeful sure just had a number of different things. He should be back Monday, boring a rain out. He's supposed to miss ten games with the band, so Monday is the date that's projected. It is pouring here as if we do this right now, so I'm not sure if they're going to get the games in today and tomorrow. Did you happen to see David cones tutorial on rosin and sweat? Did you see this? I didn't see it. No. Baseball a night. He basically gave a tutorial of what happens when you sweat, rosin. And what happens when you put alcohol in on your hands? And his test ended up proving out that that alcohol only basically enhances that stick and so, I don't know, Major League Baseball's got to come up with a legitimate answer to this problem. I think because you can't kick guys out if they are using things that are literally on the field. Right. And he washed his hands. He said, with alcohol at the time, right in front of an MLB official. We went over this last week, and I said, it was an all star pitcher who told me that alcohol only makes it stickier. I mean, you would think she was a know this and but you know, I don't know. I mean, he's watching his hands with the alcohol in front of the MLB official, you know, I still think to suspend somebody, you got to have 100% proof, not circumstantial evidence, no matter how much how much circumstantial evidence you think it is and of course Phil cousin was doing his job, MLB's intention. Correct. I don't know. I'm still not convinced this was the right result. And I don't know whether I think they need to attack your ball. That would help. If not, I would have to have a lamp station in every ballpark. Good luck. I know it's expensive, but you know, it's not my money, so I'm willing to spend it. I just thought it was interesting that David Cohen took the time on national TV to kind of run us all through exactly how it works because I don't think very many people understand the whole chemistry of rosin sweat and in this case alcohol, but I thought that was interesting. He soon to return and that mets rotation will get a little bit stronger as he returns and it'll get a lot stronger as Verlander as he returned. We had a rematch of the World Series of last year, Phillies, Astros look like Aaron nola kinda got back on track and yesterday's ball gave he's now two and two, but it was fun to see these two, then it was really as you would expect a matchup of nola and Valdez going up against our very low score and game three one ball game. Yep, two excellent pitchers two teams that I think are excellently finally starting to show it. They're over 500. Now I believe. So they're on a hot streak. You know, that was one of my quote unquote bad predictions at this point where I have them winning that division, the braves. I mean me and you both teams look great. The braves look great. The rays look great. Maybe the J's, you know, basically that's it. So we'll see what goes on there. But you know, in terms of nola, that's huge for him because he's a free agent after the year. And you know, this market, you've got some pretty good pictures. Obviously, tani right there is a free agent and you've got a few very, very good ones, but nola is near the top of that list off to a rough start. They didn't make them an offer in the winter. Did not come close to signing him. And, you know, that platform here is huge. I mean, it can make a difference between a $250 million deal and a, you know, maybe, you know, something far far less. I mean, I don't want to say how low it could go, but certainly could go up to $250 million or something in that category. Yeah, you know, he is, he is a very, very talented pitcher. And he's certainly going to have to pitch at that level at the Phillies are going to, you know, do what you and I think they can do, which is when the division without him pitching at that level, I don't see it really happening, but they'll soon get Bryce Harper back as well. So things are trending in the right direction. You know, you look at the standings throughout baseball. Outside of the Tampa, the Tampa team that is kind of separated itself, divisions are even are either really, really close from top to bottom or their top heavy. And with like two teams at the top of the division kind of running away with things, it's been quite weird to see how this early portion of the season is gone. The one thing I'll say about nola is the east dependable. He makes those stars. You know, that's a guy. I don't know the team. I never will own a team. That's the kind of guy I'd like to sign. Guy who I know is going to make a car at every 5 days. You know, obviously that question. I don't know, he's very talented, but not nobody's as talented as the Grom, but as I said, throwing that hundred miles an hour, the grums even got to a 102. It's tough sometimes.
Big Time Baseball
"one month" Discussed on Big Time Baseball
"Yeah, listen, I think forearm is generally a precursor. That all times, but most of the elbows. So hopefully. Because quite honestly, it's really good for baseball when he's healthy and pitching it's a must see start every time he takes the rubber, it's just been unfortunate he hasn't been able to stay healthy over the last couple of seasons and now he's kind of having these hiccups and by the way the rangers plan some good baseball right now. Thompson that division. And so you hate to lose a guy like that. But you can't say that this wasn't a possibility when it signed. I mean, all the signs were there that this could happen. Yeah, I mean, one thing to be fair and some people will say, I haven't always been fair with the Grom as I often have called him America's highest paid part time worker. There have been a number of pitching injuries throughout baseball. I think more than ever before. Unfortunately, that trend is really bad and it's not only to grow them, you know, I mean, look at the Met staff, you know, right now you've got only sanga right now pitching out of the first 5 guys that they plan to be in the rotation. And I mean, they're not alone, you know what I mean, white socks, many teens decimated by injuries. So to be fair, it's the Grom's not alone, but it certainly has been going on for a few years for them. It raises question on the way teams have gone about pitching, right? I mean, going back to the 70s, 80s, where you had guys pitching 200 plus injuries, 200 plus innings, excuse me. There weren't as many injuries. And although technology has gotten better, we seem to know a lot more about the elbow and shoulder and all of those things, injuries just continue to go up. It seems like it's not going the other way. Yeah, I think it may just be, I mean, teams have been more careful in terms of the number of innings. And I still don't think that can hurt. I'm not sure that it's helping. I will say, I do think that extra velocity probably is a thing. You know, I mean, back in the day, 30, 40, 50 years ago, you know, the average fastball was maybe 91 miles an hour, 92 miles an hour now. The average is 94 miles an hour plus. And that may not seem like a big difference, but I think the arm is not really built to go in that direction. If you'll notice the women's softball, which I do watch on TV, underhanded, they don't have those kind of injuries. It's that overhand throw that it's really not built for. And, you know, a lot of these guys in the average is 94, but there are a lot of guys throwing 96 plus and those guys seem to have more injuries. So I'm just speculating, I'm not a doctor. I'm only playing one on the podcast, but that'd be my guess with the problems. Both of us are playing doctor on the podcast and that's okay. Listen, I always hear John smoltz voice in my head about redlining, right? It's like a car when you keep running that to the red line, eventually your car breaks down, right? And there's something to be said about learning how to push close to that red line, but not getting there. It just seems like we're these injuries are just continuing to go up. Let's move to another injury. Not a picture this time, but we'll stay in we'll go to New York. Air judge gets an MRI on his hip, Yankees waiting on results, listen, this is the reigning MVP, certainly don't want to miss a guy like this. They're already missing Giancarlo Stanton who was pretty tart on himself when it came to the injury. Missing those two big guys. We've seen this story before from the Yankees. When those two guys are out of the lineup, it's just a different ball club. Yeah, I mean, to this point, they're in the bottom half on runs on OPS. They were like 18, something like that and runs at OPS at this point as we do this podcast. So that's not good, and that's with judge. I mean, he carried this team second half last year. This year, they're offense has been kind of spotty. Obviously those two with injury questions right now, judges, hopefully for their sake not as serious as the Stanton Andrew just going to keep him out several weeks. You know, badgers out has been out all year, Donaldson has been out most of the year to this point. You know, their offense is really hurting and they obviously need him. He'll miss a few games that we don't expect him to play this weekend. He did get the MRI. He did not have the results immediately, which is a little weird. I mean, I get my results pretty quickly. We're now talking about a $360 million player. You would hope they'd get the results quickly, but they're hopeful. Now, again, hopeful doesn't mean it's true. They're hopeful it's not too serious. And he may be misses, you know, I think a week they'd be happy with her ten days or short IL stand, I think they'd be happy with that. If it's less than that, they'd be ecstatic, but he didn't feel it was too serious. He didn't really feel a tear pole or anything like that. Just tightness, that's the least what's been reported without him. They are obviously not the same team, so this will be a big thing for the Yankees. Well, here's to here's to health for Aaron Jess. I want all the stars healthy playing the game of baseball. Because it only brings more attention and more eyes to it. Let's stay in New York. A couple of things. You kind of mentioned it a little bit early in the midst. Whole rotation is depleted at this time. There are two big dogs in that rotation. One's out due to the suspension. One's out due to the injury, Verlander though, it seems like it's coming back at a strong rehab start. What are you hearing on the Verlander friend? Yeah, I mean, he had a big game for the rumble ponies, not the same as we know, you know, obviously the pictures of the miners are not the same. I mean, what did tatis have in 1800 OPS in the minors? Nobody's going to have that in the majors, right? It's a different game. He didn't look good, more importantly, he felt good. You know, that's a big plus for the mets rotation right now. You know, I did say it transitioned into euphemism. Quintana out for several months, caressed for trying to work his back, but he's way back, but he's got to elbow spur bones for that's not great. Scherzer had the side issue, even before that start in LA where he was, quote unquote, caught with the sticky stuff. You know, they've got issues all over the place. Saying this has been the one healthy of the 5 guys that they expected to be in that rotation from the beginning and he's had some issue with control. It's got 18 walks right now in 26 innings. Right now, I guess McGill is probably been the most successful Peterson has been healthy at least, but he's really been hit by that long ball as he was last night with Matt Olsen and three run home run in The Rain shortened braves victory.
Big Time Baseball
"one month" Discussed on Big Time Baseball
"Baseball. I'm your host Tony gwyn junior. Alongside my co host John haman and a little bit going on here and as we get towards the end of April, Major League Baseball continues to try to expand the game worldwide. They are playing a two game set in Mexico City, Padres, giants, this is John, this is one of those things where Major League Baseball continues to try to grow the game and Mexico City has been one of the cities we've heard that is at least in conversation to maybe have a major league team near one day. Yeah, no, I think it's great that Major League Baseball is trying to grow the game and playing games outside of our country. I think that's awesome. The WBC was huge. That was fantastic. You know, I still think the next two spots and you know, I mean, it looks like Las Vegas is going to be taken up by Oakland, but you know that's not a done deal yet. The most obvious spots for me for expansion are Nashville and Las Vegas. If Oakland goes to Las Vegas, they will need one more spot. You know, I'm not sure what Mexico City's chances are. A lot of competition, you've got Portland, you've got Salt Lake City, you got Charlotte. There are a lot of Montreal. A lot of places want an expansion team. We shall see, I do like the idea of 32 teams eventually. We'll see what happens with Oakland that could throw a monkey wrench into things. Yeah, up into this point, first game is here today at four O 5 mountain time. And I say everything up to this point has gone as good as you could expect. The city has been terrific. I'm here currently now getting ready for a game one tonight. It's really been a pretty cool experience. And I think the players themselves have been able to enjoy it a little bit. There was an off day, obviously yesterday, a weird Friday off day, very, I don't know that I've ever seen a Friday off day in Major League Baseball. But because it's only a two game set, they were able to do that. So I think the players were able to kind of maybe unwind a little bit, take their hair down and enjoy themselves a little bit. But today, you get back to the action and we'll see how these two games go. Highest altitude, almost 8000 feet here in Mexico City, the dimensions down the line I believe are three 25 to down the line to 400 to zero field for an offense like the Padres that has really struggled. This could be a good thing for them. Yeah, it could be positive. This is before your time, Tony not in mind in Mexico City Olympics. I remember there were records due to that altitude. I think it was bob beamon jumping 29 feet, two inches, something like that. And I don't know whether they decided not to count it or what, but it was unbelievable. And I was 7 years old. You were not born yet, but we saw in Colorado was like before they put the human door in, you know, maybe it's going to be a lot of offense. I think all of these excursions to remote countries are other foreign countries have been successful. The one that I would have a question on was London where the offense would really get out of control. And I'm not sure why it did there, but we'll see in Mexico City will be interesting. Maybe soda can bring that average up from what one 80 to two 80 if he has a nice series to get there. What we think it may be. It would certainly be a welcome site among some of the things that has happened here outside the game there's been some wonderful clinics that both teams have been able to put on and share with the kids here in Mexico City. So it's all in all, it's been a pretty terrific experience and I think a win for Major League Baseball. Let's get back to the states and talk a little baseball. I think I felt like you predicted this when the signing happened for the Texas Rangers. But Jacob de Grom exits his second start already this season. This time it was due to forearm tightness. Now I believe it was a risk issue the first time, you might be able to connect the dots here as we have risk now forearm, this can't be something that the rangers are not concerned about. Let's say that. I mean, it's clearly got to be concerned. You never want to hear anything connected to the arm. I mean, the Grom I was in spring training with him. He was just getting back. I think he had a side thing going on there at that moment. You know, obviously he just had a lot of different injuries over the past couple of years before that he'd been relatively healthy and two times Cy Young winner, but certainly over the last couple of years were red flags and I mean, Texas is the one that was willing to take that gamble on. I mean, what I would say is the most talented pitcher in baseball when healthy. So I mean, you know, it's a gamble, high risk, high reward. And they certainly understood that going in. And so far through what a 5 or 6 starts, he's shown exactly what you would think he's been brilliant when he's been able to pitch and he's had some now I think is the third issue counting spring training. You know, hopefully this is not a serious one, but you hate to hear forearm because that to me sounds often like a precursor to elbow. You hope not. He's already had Tommy John once, so you really hope that it's not elbow. I was watching that game. I was thinking he's only throwing 99. This really isn't him, but he did it a hundred, I think, a couple times, maybe, but, you know, a normally when some strong 99, that's pretty good, but for him, he wasn't quite on his best game, although he certainly was almost unhittable, even on his second best game. Hopefully for the rangers sake, this is nothing too serious, just another one of those little things that subtracts him
WGR 550 Sports Radio
"one month" Discussed on WGR 550 Sports Radio
"No, Never. Never. He hasn't impacted one play all camp. That was there was a fun moment. Josh Allen's press conference yesterday. What happened there was to give you context. Josh is speaking to the media inside the tent. And just out of nowhere behind me, you hear this voice Say his Mario Addison Been what do you reckon? Practice or something Terrorizing terrorizing you? It was Mario Addison asking Josh l on that and, like a few of us didn't know it was going out. He's kind of behind the cameras, and then you look at its Mario and then Josh saw who it was, And he said no, He hasn't done a thing in camp so far, and it was kind of a funny moment for everybody there so Just kind of gives you an idea of this team, and that's an offensive player, Defensive player of the relationship. Um, you know they when it's time to work, it's time to work. But this this group has fun. There's no doubt about that. You see that every day we tweet out videos, things that they do practice stuff like that. We haven't seen any viral dancing videos. Yeah, yeah, but they're coming for sure, Probably Friday. It's usually pregame right that the last the last practice of the week 80305 58 885 50. To 5 50 w G. R. I want to take a call here a good question that Frank has and Williams will go ahead, Frank. So I'm concerned about this covid thing with the players. You seem to not want to take the shot vaccine. Um, they have paid my weekly. Don't think it's a 17 game checks is a famous again physical, But are they gonna miss a check? I don't believe so, Frank. From what I've read and what I know my knowledge of this and I'm going to leave some space for me to be a little wrong here because everything is kind of, you know, fluid, and there's a lot of info but from what my understanding is If players miss a game because they're on the covid list, they still get paid. The only way they would not get paid is that the game is actually canceled. Yeah, I actually just to double down on that The NHL last week came out with their covid protocols and said, for every day in unvaccinated player misses For for being a close contact or testing positive. They are forfeiting that day stay and whoever NHL by the way you ever tweeted that out, said That was a step above what the NFL did. So I didn't think the NFL did know from my understanding, Frank. The players will get paid regardless. If they're on the Covid list and miss a game. I don't It doesn't matter Vaccination status. The only way any player would get not would not be paid as if the game is actually not played, and that's everybody. Thanks for clearing that off. All right. Thank you. Appreciate the phone call 80305 58 885 52 5 50. Lou, I think want to challenge us a little bit here. Rochester. What's up, Lou? Higher. So, um, Joe, I think you're over selling. Um, A Rogers is performance last year for them to be over, Alan. Alan and Rogers both had teams that were 13 and three Alan almost had a 14 and two team, but for that have skin Hopkins miracle. Allen was player of the month. Two months to Rogers. There's one month Um Alan Last it based on Politics. That's not true. I don't know what you mean Aaron Rodgers through 48 Touchdown passes against five interceptions. Well, Rogers Rogers, who was responsible for one of US three losses, one of the themes three lashes in Tampa Bay after at 14 knots and me. Roger. Are you talking about in the playoffs? No, no, The early early gang. I don't know what you mean by politics, but I can't and no way Aaron Rodgers was incredible. Last year he threw for 48 touchdown passes and five interceptions. And, yes, Josh was great, too. There's no doubt But he didn't have. He didn't have an overall better you're going. I'm sorry and tell me who's got a better infrastructure around them because the answer is absolutely Josh empirically empirically. Alan had better statistics and won the fantasy player. Uh, year. The board isn't based on fantasy football. It's based on real football and people vote on it. Look, if you Hey, Josh Allen got votes. Josh Allen got votes and that's okay. You could you could think if you were a voter. You could have voted for him. I would not have over Aaron Rodgers. There's another point. Okay, Rogers had all pro running back and then I'll call tight end. Okay. All right. I got it. I got it. Yeah, Yeah. We can do this debate all day. Lou. I get it. You would have voted for Joshua and I would not have over Aaron Rodgers. I would not have either. And like the tight end, Tanyon had a lot of touchdowns. But like 30 receptions And if you start coming at me with how good your running back is, then I mean, I don't even want to, And I don't even know what he wants because of politics meant I don't really know what that means. But whatever. Hey, it's cool, Lou you want if you would have voted for Josh, that's great. I mean, I think he's an outstanding here. An amazing year. I would not have voted for him over Aaron Rodgers for the M V P. I think the Aaron Rodgers was the rightful winner of last year's league MVP, Alright this year. Joe some amazing stats about teams and finishing and all that kind of stuff, right? So Balti, Pittsburgh Steelers and Washington football team last year. Won their division after missing the playoffs in 2019, All right, But here's the most incredible thing. At least two teams. Have actually won their Division one division, not just playoffs. Every 17 of the last 18 years after missing after missing the players the previous season, So in 17 of the last 18 seasons, at least two teams have gone from no playoffs to winning the division. Who are the most likely candidates this year, So I don't love any options. Really out of the A F C. Now this is just to make the playoffs or is this the win? The division will blossoms We'll go. No, no, This is just missed the playoffs. You could be eight and eight. You can win 10 games. Who Who wins the division this year, right after missing the playoffs last year. You have the playoff list in front of you. I I have the standings in front of me, and I can remember. Okay? Yeah, I have actually has the playoffs to tackle next to it to make the playoffs. I like the Chargers. But I'm not picking them in any world to finish over Kansas City. That's the rub here..
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"one month" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"It's all the different kinds of hits that you can get. That's more straightforward. When you're talking about this kind of failure cycle you have to make some choices unless you're allowing for more than four things. I guess like the first question is do we allow for more than four things. What about what about four. Do we find ourselves bound to ben because we have four on the other side because there's so many the thing are there are a lot more things in this case right so yeah anyway inobound by the number of plate appearances that you should at an a game so five things than the odds are even longer. That's this is a fair point. But i don't think i would take strike out out of here. Struggled seems like an important kind of out to account for in a cycle in an outs cycle rate. Because we fred about strikeout so much is the most reliable way to to secure an out right. It's the it's the kind of out that the pitcher is in the greatest control of now. Maybe that's an argument for it. Not being part of the out cycle but it is like a a it is the most reliable means of getting the hitter out so it seems strange to not allow for it here. Yeah i was thinking of this as like a batted ball cycle than elka cycle. Because they're so many outs that you could potentially make so many different kinds of outs. And so i was thinking of while you get your grounder. You've got your fight ball. You've got your popup or foul out in this case and then you're missing your line out so you know i know. We're in the era of of measuring things down to the degree. But if we're going with the the four big batted ball types that you could find on the batted ball tab on fan crafts. I guess maybe bunt would be another one. You could kind of lump that with some others. i suppose but that's sort of what i was thinking. Although in that case it wouldn't even have to be out necessarily like you could mix some outs and some more positive outcomes just as long as you had the full. Mix of batted balls. So that's kind of the way. I was approaching this. There are other types of cycles. I mean people talk about like the natural cycle you know. Does it matter whether you have the hits in the standard cycle. In order of increasing total bases or not kelsey mckinney at defector came up with what she called the saint cycle not long ago. So this is a cycle of selflessness. So this is a five outcome thing hit by pitch walk sacrifice bunt sacrifice fly and productive out safer cycle and i think elias ran the numbers for calcium and found that only three players on record had ever actually achieved the same cycle. Tim flannery as morales and biff polka roba. And maybe that is partly because it's a five out bearing thing so that limits your sample somewhat. But that's kinda fun. One and i guess if you wanted to go with some sorta out cycle as you're proposing this made me think of ron. Right whom we have discussed on podcast..
KLBJ 590AM
"one month" Discussed on KLBJ 590AM
"Positive for marijuana is she has accepted a one month suspension. Here she is today on Good Morning America. Maybe to try again. I want to take it flew from my action. I know what I did. I know what I'm supposed to do. Um, no, no, I'm allowed not to do And I still made that decision but not making an excuse are looking for any empathy in my case. But just, however, in the position of my life, finding out something like that, something that I would say it's probably one of the biggest things that have impact me. Relatively and negatively in my life when it comes to dealing with the relationship. I have my mother. So she's referring to, she said She was using marijuana as a coping mechanism. After finding out that our biological mother had passed away. She's a Texas She's from Texas from Dallas. What $2 Carter than went to L s U, So she's she's a Texan. And did you watch that whole interview she found out from a reporter. I have being interviewed. Here we go. Yeah, had interview scheduling my agent. I knew I was happening. Interviewed. I knew going as an interview like even I was just thinking open our normal interview and then on the interview to hear that information comes from a complete stranger. I was definitely triggering was definitely no shocking, said. It's just like, how are you to tell me that no offense against him at all. He just don't have a job, but definitely that send me in the state of mind in the state of emotional panic alarm here. I still have to go out and put on a performance. Strange fruit. Compete on Yes, definitely trigger. And from there, just blinded, blinded by emotion Mad in her. Honestly, I can't hide myself so at least and sometimes. Well, you're trying to have my pain. 2021, at the same time, at the same time, like opioids are not being sued their winning court cases or having to pay like billions of dollars and wrongful deaths. Every other major sports is like recognizing the the actual medicinal uses of that, instead of actual pain killers that you can get addicted to. I love the fact that she came out she owned it. It's not an excuse. It's a very traumatic thing in her life or logical mother dies. I'm trying to separate all of that. And saying Why in the hell is we'd labeled as a performance enhancing drug to begin with. Well, do they? Do they call it performance Enhancing because he d or whatever. Yeah is on the banned list. And I don't get it because it is so prevalent in our society, especially with athletes, You know, Listen, it's not all malt shops and letters sweaters anymore. People smoke marijuana, who are some of the top athletes in the world. And look if it's really on the performance enhancing list. What are we doing here? Look, I'm in Vegas a month ago, I had one of those gummies. I could barely get back up to the room. Now she played cards pretty. Didn't you say he dominated? I made it up there with some cash up that much, But yeah. Ran 100 M. And what? 10 seconds. Uh, I don't think so, man. But look Here and I don't want to be the worst guy ever here. I agree with 100%. Why are probably going to agree with you? Why are we even testing? What are we doing here? Uh, but she knows the rules. She said that I agree with, you know, right, you know, and you're trying to go to the Olympics. You can't do these things and you're putting yourself in peril. And I cannot. I can't even imagine her situation with the news that she had there. When you do those things, you know this is these are the consequences this what happens? I agree. 19 plus states. It's legal to recreational e smoke weed in this country Now Oregon, where she was for the trials. It's illegal. So, look, I agree with you, Jay. But at the same time reinstate her right now. I mean, didn't we have Michael Phelps taking belong? Rips and everything? You know what I'm saying? Like, I just don't even want to think that this is some weird double standard going on. I just think that Unfortunately, maybe this is the national conversation we had to have about this and just the ridiculousness of it. Reinstate her now. Don't think they can do that. I mean, I agree. I would say I wish they could. What? Why are we goofing off with this whole thing so antiquated? It is so antiquated with putting marijuana in that list of banned substances. I'm not a marijuana user, but acknowledged that there's ton of people out there athletes look at the NBA look at Can I have those companies back then you can have those coming back. They didn't work. Major League Baseball N B A I'm sure there's some golfers out there, you know? Yeah, I think. Yeah, I think I mean, they play on greens, man. Yeah, Right, man. I would say it's probably a similar, you know, percentage of the population as just the general populace, And there's a large group of people who enjoy those things for recreational purposes. But you mentioned veto, You know, opioids and all of all the different painkillers that they're willing to shoot you up with that are are legal and are doing tremendous damage to your body are way way. A more habit forming than marijuana. And those things are fine yet we're still going to suspend people. Uh, you know, for smoking weed help, she can get reinstated. She can still be she will still try to qualify for the relays. They haven't done that yet in the qualifying well and and as I understand it as she suspended for 30 days, and that's backdated to the point where she was tested, and so she will be The 200 M. She could run the relies heavily. She could be in the four by 100 M relay at the Olympics August the sixth Because she could be reinstated by then. I don't think I mean, if you have rules on the books right now, saying, this is the penalty. I don't know how you how you reinstate. You know what? You know What before that, is she still uh An amateur. Can she get paid? Yeah, I say, Hey, I know we have a lot of listeners in Colorado. I say any state where this is legal, you pull your resources From the companies the dispensaries and you pay her to just showcase her speed. Like just pay for her to fly to a track. And and let her run 100 M. But that woman does you know what I'm saying? That's the silliest thing I've ever heard. It's not great PR problems Sensory. No, it would be like I mean, it's this cockamamie that we're going to boot her from the Olympics interest even brought up to Jen Psaki, the president's press secretary, She said the White House does not get involved, of course, President Biden said Reefer madness. No, he didn't say. But no this is I think this is this is touched a nerve all around the country because again, it's 2021. And thank you and it's It's unfortunate. Just traffic updates, calendar master as well seriously. It's unfortunate that she well, she's getting getting really, really Punished for this when a football player is busted. What do they miss Four games, and then they play with the 12 more games that year, and then they're back for 16 17. Now the year after that, with an Olympic athlete, you know She was once every four. These 10 seconds were like the most important 10 seconds for her to run for four years. And so it's It's extra devastating for her. She actually doesn't really have that tax, she says. Quote. This is just one games. I'm 21. I'm very young. I have plenty of games left in me to compete in and I have plenty of talent that backs me up because everything I do comes from me. Naturally, no steroid know anything. This incident was about marijuana. After my sanction is up, I'll be back and Damian Lillard homes. A lot of athletes have come to your aid. I'm sure Ricky Williams will, too..
KTRH
"one month" Discussed on KTRH
"This is one month 132 incidents of Poop on train cars. That's up from 118 the previous month. 27 reports of trains covered in poop. 26 trains with vomit inside 21 soaked in urine and six cars with blood. That's just inside the cars. Not to mention what you got to go through to get to those things. Yikes. Traffic and weather next first, though so to weight loss program. Broad graduated the soda weight loss program. It works. It works for Ramon. It worked for me work for producer Kenny. It worked for everybody here who has tried it. If you are ready to shed the weight if you get started now, what do we have middle of June? July, August, September, middle of September. You will be a whole different person going into this fall going to fall football season. You look like a whole different person. How much weight you have to lose. But if you just need to lose 20 or £30, you can do it quickly. You know, the average man is losing somewhere in the neighborhood of £5 a week. The average woman is losing 2 to £3 per week. That's better than most programs. It's better it's built on good nutrition, by the way, Sound nutrition It's not hard to do. You won't be hungry. You won't have cravings and you'll have the things you'll need to be a success. One of them being accountability. You never have to leave your home for a meeting. You do everything with them over the phone. They send you 80% of the food that you eat. You just follow the program. And take their advice, and you will be very, very successful. So does stands for state of the art go to sort of weight loss dot com. Click on the nationwide tap in the top left hand corner and get started. So the weight loss dot com traffic and weather together.
WBSM 1420
"one month" Discussed on WBSM 1420
"First month dial pound 250 and say, Get H 20 for this exclusive offer and start saving today. No The biggest stories on the south coast from the WBS M newsroom, This is WBS amuse. No injuries have been reported in a major house fire on Read Road in Dartmouth that started just after 11 A.m. Today read Road was closed from Route 61 95 for 100 hours, Crews from Dartmouth and Westport battled the flames. According to early reports from unseen witnesses in W. B. S. M radio host Brian Thomas. Family members were able to evacuate out the rear of the building is the front quickly went up in flames. It's unclear how many people were inside. The cause of the fire is also unclear. New Bedford. Police are currently seeking 27 year old resident Cassandra Martinez Fernandez in relation to a stabbing incident on June 9th that is circulating via video on Social Media. Police said that others involved in the incident have been identified and that the investigation is ongoing. A crash hold to traffic on 1 95 westbound in New Bedford near the route 1 40 exit earlier this morning, according to Chris Arsenault from our sister station fund, one of seven who was at the scene. One vehicle could be seen in the woods with broken glass on the road. Scanner Chatter reported at least one person being taken to ST Luke's Hospital. State Police have yet to confirm any details on the crash. New Bedford City offices and libraries will be closed to the public on Friday, June 18 As the city observes the Juneteenth holiday, city officials announced today the Buttonwood Park Zoo will remain open. Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States specifically the date that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, where finally notified of their emancipation more than two years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Last year, June 10th was designated an official state holiday in Massachusetts. Commemorations are planned for Juneteenth weekend in New Bedford on Tuesday. City offices will.
The Wellness Business Podcast
"one month" Discussed on The Wellness Business Podcast
"Just like shannon sooner rather than later so shannon will once again. I wanted to say particularly. I think this is ben amazing for me to hear how you're using workshops. Everyone does it a little different. I love that you've systematized everything. And that you have just brought in messenger. You have an appointment setter that you have all these things and that you are so willing to test and fail and tweak and try new things that's always an inspiration Here on the podcast for kathleen. And i personally and we are just so honored to have you. Here is our guest in q. Again so much for having me on. I love talking about this stuff because we can't model what we haven't seen and i think for people. It's really important to see real examples and i love for people to go back and listen to the other episode and then kinda come see how far we have come since you know just making all these changes and learning and failing and consistently getting backup. So that's so true because a lot of change in a couple of years so other than Actually shared a lot of great tips on episode ninety six but yeah there has been a huge change in the entire structure of your business. What you're doing what you're offering and definitely a huge change in your revenue so we are so so thankful to have you on the podcast Just so appreciative that you're willing to share everything and be an open book and share your processes and numbers with us And for listeners. It to we have our show notes page so to find the link stat shannon share today including her website and her instagram. As well as our podcast you can go to. Wb podcast dot com slash. Two zero seven and shannon. You know maybe we're going to have you back again at here too and you can share some more tips. Yeah absolutely all right. Thanks for joining us today. And thank you again shannon. Take care and we'll see you next week. Thank you for listening to the wellness business. Podcast for show notes in three resources. Visit wb podcast dot com..
The Wellness Business Podcast
"one month" Discussed on The Wellness Business Podcast
"The flash sale with the recipe book for thirty seven dollars and then you also have is is it based like a online where they can order their supplements through some human. The name of it again is like full script script. It's a newer ish company. It's called well of eight. Yeah so we useful script we use. Well a but We i kinda like customer service of well of eight a little bit better. So i've kind of gone that route. Yeah and it's nice especially when you're coaching people and they already have to buy the supplements. I give all of my clients a discount. So they feel like they're getting a good value and then we are able to keep a lot of the revenue coming in and it continues to build because as we have more and more clients they continued order even if they're not working from us working when this at the time and then so what is the alumni program. What is is that something they do once they're done with the four-month per gram. Yes so after. They go through our signature program. The alumni program is set up right now and i know that this will kind of change It was kinda birthday because people kept saying well. We want to continue working with you. I was like. I don't have another way. So they come in. They pay a monthly fee and they can pay for additional services like doing a dutch test or doing an oath test or an h. Tma or something like that and then with that we give them a personal protocol to follow that includes diet lifestyle supplementation and they can implement it and we do a lot of group coaching. They do get one one on one coaching with myself or One of our other success coaches all right. They've got your main program and then you have a continuity that they can sign up for yup and what is and what is that per. I think you mentioned that was a you earned fourteen hundred eight dollars from that. How much is that per month for each person so we launched it in february so we had our Like our founding membership Started at seventy nine dollars. It's going up to now. It is one hundred fifty dollars a month. Amazing you have this complete system in place now. Yes that is fantastic. Okay that's so good so just a quick side note shannon. How many success.
#CreateYourEarthLife
"one month" Discussed on #CreateYourEarthLife
"Twenty is a lot of work creating pins it can take an hour to create many pins and then you post it to however many boards. So the cool thing. This is something that nobody really talks about release. They haven't found the cool thing about pinning is like you can make one pen and post it to six different boards and that's considered six pins so you know i make ten pens and i post it to six boards. That sixty pins usually what i'm saying. So there's like this little loophole. It's still a lot of work. all right. the next thing to do is increase podcast episode. So like i said at the beginning. This is going to be season two and i'm going to be increasing the podcast episodes to twice a week. I'm going to be doing a bowl an episode that is pertaining to a blog. Post that i recently posted. And then i'm going to be doing an episode. Doing bible study prayer in prayer. 'cause i got what i want to do is share the the word of god and that's what god wants us to do and i hope it helps you hope it helps you grow your faith in hopes you become closer to god take entrepreneur business bootcamp class hosted by jennifer alwin. Allwood allwood her. Name's jennifer all. What if you haven't checked out yet. She is on. I tuned spotify. She has her own show on there. As a podcast. She causes the jennifer all would show. She has great christian entrepreneur tips. She's nice she's been in the business a long time. She has a lot of great skills. And i've learned a lot from her. So i'm taking her bootcamp clause which i am seven minutes late currently because i wanted to make this podcast episode and excuse me I am going to be the last thing. oh wait. what's the last thing here. There's two more things. I'm going to be doing this now. The one of them is the prayer journal. Pdf that free for email. Subscriptions all i have is a pop up so when you click on one of my blogs a pops up. I'm gonna make it more accessible. And i'm going to put in links and i'm going to have a landing page which is a page where you just fine. The prayer journal sign up. I believe i need a little more research. But that's what i've read so far and the last thing is i'm gonna finish the pdf webinar. Whatever that i would like to sell the only thing is. I just want to perfect it and i just of course want to grow trust with people so they see like this is where i came from. This is where gods what she has done works. I can trust her. I want to buy this product so that may take a couple of months. So i can prove myself with my blog. Post with my podcast and everything. Alright guys that's all i have for today. I hope this helps christian bloggers so you are feeling hopeful and you are understanding. That is okay. If you're not super successful in the first month two three four five six by the six month you should be bringing in some money though. And that's going to be my expectation. Because that's what i've read so far like usually people three to six months and start making money so anyways please pray for me. Please help me out with this. Let's do a little prayer right now..
#CreateYourEarthLife
"one month" Discussed on #CreateYourEarthLife
"Cre- earthly podcast with myself. Your host geneva prudhomme and today. I'd like to see that we are going to start a new season so my first season which isn't even considered a season it. Just start posting podcast. It was more of like new age stuff. That's my pass before. I was saved by jesus so there are some people that still listen to my first episode and fair warning like it is not appropriate. And she's very of the world Which may encourage you to to it. But you could definitely see the difference of how i am now in how i was then and then my actual first season of the podcast was me being a newborn christian and now i would like to buckle down a little. The the biggest difference about this season to that we are going to be doing is it's going to be. It's going to actually be very similar from the newborn christian phase. But there's going to be more bible study. There's going to be more prayer and there's going to be more education around christianity and around. God i know. That's basically what i do. But there's going to be a little bit more depth because now that i have my blog then i'm going to be doing podcasts. That are based off my blog posts because my blog i work very hard on and i think there's a lot of great knowledge there that i would like to share with you guys in some people. Don't wanna read. They just wanna listen so why not. Connect them both. And then if you don't feel like listening start this time i'm gonna skim it over there. You go also. I will be sharing christian entrepreneur tips and that is what today's episode is on. I am going to be sharing my first month. Analytics with you guys for my blog so you may start with new this. This is not what i'm interested in. But i'm willing to share that today for this episode is specifically for christian bloggers. I'd say or people that are supporting christian blogger so you can have an understanding of what it's like that you can be very successful as a blogger but it doesn't happen overnight. It doesn't happen in one month or two months or three months from everything that i've read it happens in about three to six months you start having in common. It's like a year to two years before you can make a decent amount of income. So i want to be honest and i wanna share my journey and i want you guys to be able to trust me. So when i start teaching entrepreneurs hips when i star i. I'm writing a pdf right now. I want to have a class a video class or something so things in the works right now where. I want to teach people on help. People learn about being a christian entrepreneur. And i just feel like. I have an entrepreneur spirit. I feel like that is my calling. And that's what god wants for me and that's why i have no doubts. It's gonna work out but it is a little deceiving the first month. So let's jump into it. Let's talk about it. It has been about six weeks since. I launched my blog. I have six or seven blog posts at the moment i am just finishing up the first month of blogging analytics blog. Post which is what. We're talking about today and i said let's start off with my business strategy so what i decided for business strategy for marketing was one two three tick talk videos a day. Thirty pins.
Joey's Totally Tech
"one month" Discussed on Joey's Totally Tech
"But when you get to like the Hulu the fifty dollar one month you know and then Youtube tv stuff like that. That's where you've got multiple channels choose from and you could watch live tv right on the internet. You know also the video on demand that i really love. I mean i could watch all elite wrestling dynamite. Which comes on wednesday nights. Because anytime i walk i'm not always available so watch live you know Do for like what is it. Dvr has been out for a game. Like when i first got dvr. Wow this is incredible. Record onto be at home to watch whatever i want but now as they have a special piece of equipment use a cell phone or a tablet or computer.
WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"one month" Discussed on WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"Up to $35 up your first month of the treatment order by February, 10th for delivery by Valentine's Day. Talking tough with Tiki and Tierney. I think with Matt let Ford didn't do was think about that specific scenario. What happens if we score? What happens if we kick the field goal? It's obviously a much easier proposition to try to go score and stop Tom Brady from getting in scoring position than it is to kick the field goal and stop Tom Brady for him Simply getting a 1st 1st down. He really underestimated two of the greats of all time, his own and then Tom Brady, Cheeky and Tierney three Eastern Noon Pacific afternoons on CBS Sports Radio. Afternoons with Tiki and Tierney. If you're the Rams, they have the number one defense and so you got to take advantage of that. And Jared Goff was not going to get them there. Matt Stafford. I have no doubt that he got in there one other time. But dear golf was stagnating. He couldn't throw the ball downfield in that frustrate and Sean McVeigh because he knows that his offense can click on all cylinders. If you got a quarterback who is not afraid and as accurate throwing the ball downfield, jerkoff doesn't possess that. Kiki and Tierney three Eastern Noon Pacific afternoons on CBS Sports Radio. A television show that defined a generation high is that more Hey, what is going on here? I'm talking, of course about saved by the bell. Whether you tuned in when it first aired, or Kat reruns on cable hungover everyone has seen saved by the bell. Everyone except this guy. Hi. I'm Mark Paul Gosselaar. But you might know me better as Zack Morris Proud. Bayside Lion Tiger. Come on. I knew that. Did you? Listen, I haven't watched an episode of Saved by the Bell since I left the set over 25 years ago. I didn't watch it when it was on either. I've never seen what fans assure me is one of the greatest shows of all time. My name is national Driscoll. Unlike Mark Paul, I've seen every episode Join us as I revisit Bayside High for the very first time. I've got the world's biggest expert and we can have guests. You know, I'm still friends really good friends with some of the people who made the original show. What do we call it? Zach to the future. Listen and subscribe for free on radio dot com apple podcasts or.
WMAL 630AM
"one month" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"He and D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser spoke to members of the National Guard earlier today and thank them for their work last week. We're gonna make sure that you're taken care of, but it's important that you take care of us and take care about democracy and take care of this wonderful United States of America. Several 1000 troops will be deployed ahead of the inauguration next week. Prince William County School Board is considering a plan tonight that would keep most students out of the classrooms until April. I have made the argument that we should have been invite now, I will concede to make that argument this evening board Chairman Barbour Latif believes getting shots into the arms of teachers is the key to reopen in classrooms, he tells mornings on the mall. Let's consider delay now from our original February early February for one month. One month gives us time to see how we deployed the vaccine. The county has had the highest positivity rate for covert in all of Northern Virginia. But Latif notes, the lower grades have been opened without a problem. John Matthews on W. M A. L and W m a l dot com and Governor Hogan has announced that the Maryland Department of Public Health confirmed two cases of covert 19 in Maryland, caused by the new stars. Kobe to variant strain called Be 1171 of the two people had traveled internationally. It's believed that person spread it to the other infected Maryland residents. This is the strain from the UK and while it is not been shown to make people's thicker or cause more death, it is more easily passed Others. The good news is Dr Stay. The vaccine will be just as effective against it as theory journals strain of the virus. Hogan says it's critically important to continue to follow standard public protocol and safety measures, including mask wearing hand washing and social distancing. W M. Male news time is 804. I'm sharing Reardon and now Here's your W M A l traffic and weather from the Hadeed carpet cleaning traffic center Langley Park. We're still seeing the inner loop of the Beltway. You slow from right about University Boulevard to get around. The accident that is mainly on the shoulder between University of New Hampshire Avenue. We're also keeping an eye on Route one of Lorton at Giles Run Road, the North bound lanes remain closed. They're filtering two way traffic through the south bound lanes now.