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Hello everybody. Thank you for joining.
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It's Octa. It's Tuesday and it's also
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the first day of the Bitcoin conference
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and I'll recap that in one second. Uh
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very unusual, but let's get into the
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story. Thank you, Dirk Diggler and
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everybody from out there. Sean D, TND
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Tesla. This will be an interesting one.
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And this is called meltup and momentum.
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So let's stick myself down in the
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corner. We're going to touch on a whole
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bunch of interesting stuff and have that
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surprise Bitcoin recap. I put that there
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to remind myself to talk about it. And
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the Bitcoin conference day one is about
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as interesting as this disclaimer. In
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fact, I just saw a slide uh from the
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conference. It was very bizarre. It's
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like a Fizer advertisement. Anyhow, if I
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do find any good material from day one,
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I will recap it. I promise you that. But
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so far, nothing new. Let's get into the
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story. And from my Chirona, by the way,
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I love that
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song. It reminds me of my youth. I'm
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dating myself. I wish I'd found your
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channel
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uh and join Patreon sooner, but I am
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better off financially thanks to you and
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your team. Whoa. Awesome. Well, thank
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you for being part of the team. Anyway,
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let's get into the ugly news first of
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all.
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First of all, quantum FUD part 69. This
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just never stops. And I know magazines
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and such like to share fear, but just a
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reminder again everybody, the article's
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claim is about a potential 20fold
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reduction in quantum resources needed to
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break RSA encryption based on Google's
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research. However, remember the
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implication is that Bitcoin itself is at
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imminent risk
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uh in 3 to 5 years. Uh nope. Nope.
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That's both misleading and speculative.
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The current quantum computers are orders
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of magnitude too weak to threaten
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Bitcoin's ECDSA and practical attacks
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are likely decades away, not years,
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everybody. So, don't freak out about
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this stuff. And I'm really getting
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disappointed medium. And uh the Bitcoin
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community, as I said for a long time
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too, they will address those risks when
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the time comes and make sure the
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protocol is quantum proof. But for now,
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ignore these headlines. So other ugly
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news, I did warn you. This is a preview
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of Japan and what it means for the US
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30-year. A lot of people have been
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talking about the long bond long-term
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interest rates and how they are
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skyrocketing. We've seen what happened
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to Japan and the meltup by the way for
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Metaplanet 2 when everybody was
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panicking in Japan. They were FOMOing
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into Metal Planet that has recently come
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down to Earth again. But now a lot of
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people believe this is a sneak preview
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of what's going to happen to the US
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30-year yield
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because nobody wants bonds, everybody.
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Nobody. Nobody. And the only way you can
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sell them is to jack the coupons. Get a
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good return. But again, who would even
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touch a 30-year fiat tool? I mean, 30
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days is risky enough. But anyway, back
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to the news story. Now, I just lost
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myself, too. Uh, there I am. Boom. Okay.
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Uh, juggling. And also, this is actually
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pertinent to that 30-year bond because
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38% of US debt is going to be maturing
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and that means rolling into longerterm
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treasuries, 38%
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uh some people say about $9.2
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trillion, sometimes more depending on
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how you measure it, sometimes less. At
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least it is a lot. It's nearly 10
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trillion. And 5% or 10 trillion is
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massive on top of everything else. That
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is like half a trillion in
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interest. Absolutely crazy. Like you can
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rebuild every school, hospital, medical
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facility, animal shelter in the country
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many times over with that type of
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interest. So something's got to give out
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there. And
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uh it's just ugly. And even to make
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matters worse for Jerome Powell and this
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from Lzanne Saunders. The price index in
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US PMI has
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spiked. This is the index that producers
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actually pay for products. And when that
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goes up eventually the consumer price
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index goes up too. One precedes the
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other. This is the early indicator. When
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PMI goes up, CPI follows normally a
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couple months later. So remember,
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inflation is not controlled by the Fed.
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They can just destroy demand, not
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control inflation.
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Now, final piece of uglies for the day
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is token unlocks and and quite a little
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bit of ugly news, but we've got a lot of
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good news, too. Uh usual, I layer always
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in there, tribal in there, Optimus is in
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there again week after week. Sooie 1.32%
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unlock, dydx 1% unlock, and move 2%
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unlock. I won't dwell on this at all.
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You can pause and have a look here for
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yourself. These are the unlocks coming
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in the next seven days. Now, bad news.
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What a relief to get out of the ugly
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news. I always love this. Start with the
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bad news first and then get to the good
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news. The good news is always fun. Um,
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this is bad news for ETH holders.
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According to our friends at Coin Glass,
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no, Glass Note, sorry.
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They talk about the largest share of ETH
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market cap is about $123 billion worth
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of it just sits right above the 0 to 20%
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uh above cost basis and this cohort
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swelled in the region. uh the price
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level is about 2,300 to 2,500. Meaning
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that if there is a modest price drop in
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Ethereum down to those levels, that
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means a large chunk of the supply will
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fall into a loss. And despite the recent
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gains, Ethereum still is in a fragile
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position. That yellow
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area is highlighted here on the chart a
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large amount at zero cost. So it is
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fragile. Uh normally when people are
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very deep in the money and profit they
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can take profits but sometimes when
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people are very close to being in a
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lossmaking situation they can have stop
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losses there and they can exit their
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positions. That's what uh Glass Note is
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getting at here. Also good news. Woohoo.
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That didn't take long. Fear and greed.
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We are still in that greed zone. Not in
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the red zone which is nice because you
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can see we never spend that much time in
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the red zone. only about 5% of Bitcoin's
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life, crypto's life is in the extreme
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greed zone. And when that happens, it
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tends to be euphoric. And that's when
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you should take some off the table. So,
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we'll monitor this very carefully for
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you. Uh, crypto over the last 7 days
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versus Bitcoin. ETH up 5%. Binance up a
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bit, Suie up a lot, uh, Saul up a bit,
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etc. Um, Cardano down, Doge down, Doge
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down on news that it was actually going
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to move to the SPL Salana standard,
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which I'm wondering will that coincide
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with some of the stuff with X payments.
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I don't think so, but it is coincidental
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none the same
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nonetheless. In dollar terms, you can
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see here Bitcoin just shy of 110,000. In
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fact, it spent most of the day.
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Actually, we're just about to go to
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110,000 again
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on what exchange Bitstamp. Bitstamp is
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sometimes a little bit more expensive
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than others and doesn't refresh as fast.
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So again, call it 110,000. And you can
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see all the other assets pretty much in
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green in dollar terms for the week. This
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is compared to Bitcoin. Very different.
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Bitcoin up 4.12% for the last 7 days.
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And the monthly returns, turn my camera
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off again.
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up 17.3% so far in May. This is good
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news. May historically gains about
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19.7%. But remember March was negative.
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That's normally plus
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10%. Feb was negative 14.6%. It's
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normally plus average
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14.6%. And April only up 14% when
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normally it's up
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35.2%. Now we have the conference
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exactly happening. And normally Bitcoin
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pumps on the conference. There's a lot
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of excitement and then after the
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conference there's a little bit of
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drawback unless something really really
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outstanding happens. But either way May
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has been great. And June is normally
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pretty good too up 7 or 8%. And then
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July 8.3% and then August everybody's
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asleep. Nothing happens. And September
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the worst month of the year for
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Bitcoin. But remember we already had our
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worst month back in Feb. minus 15%
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almost driven by the tariff tantrums and
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other good news as to how things are
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actually getting better out there in the
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Bitcoin sphere. You can see here, excuse
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me, a slight tickle in my throat. Uh
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there have been huge Bitcoin outflows
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from Coinbase. They are the big red
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wicks down, the big candles down. There
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is more and more Bitcoin leaving
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exchanges going into Wales co storage
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which is good. It's hardening the asset
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and not saying supply crunch but
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definitely it's a positive news. Uh
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there was about I think it's 8,000
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Bitcoin left in a day. 8,000 not bad.
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And let's look at fund flows. We had a
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great killer week again. Uh $3.3 billion
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last week, pushing year-to- date flows
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to a record 11 billion. I'm hoping for a
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$40 billion year, but 11 billion is a
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good start. Remember, for two of those
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months, we had a pretty rocky time. A
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lot of people were very frightened,
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including the hedge funds. They were
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terrified and they went short and they
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got wrecked. Anyway, more on that later.
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In terms of asset byasset flows, couple
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of good things here. You can see uh
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Bitcoin obviously leading the pack. 2.9
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billion of flows. You could call it
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three actually. It's pretty close. Um as
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a quarter of the inflows for 2024. And
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some investors viewed the recent price
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gains as a shorting opportunity or a
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hedging opportunity. So when there's a
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big flow into Bitcoin, people like to
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lock in profits. So they buy the short
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Bitcoin fund as well, maybe to hedge. up
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12.7. ETH pulled in 326 million last
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week. That is big for Ethereum. Salana
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pulled in 4.3 million. Suie 2.9 million
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and XRP dumped 37.2 million. Um somehow
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XRP it has had a remarkable flow over
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the last year or so. But uh that is the
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largest outflow of XRP on record.
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Perhaps people now realize the gig's up.
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XRP isn't really a thing, but people
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still cling to dreams. Anyhow, moving
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on. We are still in Bitcoin season at
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20. Bitcoin still is smoking a lot of
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the other assets in the top 50 cryptos.
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And Caner Fitzgerald is Howard Lutnik
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who is the commerce secretary. his firm
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is launching their long promised in fact
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it was the last Bitcoin conference where
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they said they would launch their
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Bitcoin lending operation. Well, they
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just complete their first loan on this.
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It's a $2 billion facility which means
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they can lend out $2 billion worth of
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cheddar against Bitcoin. Remember as
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well Caner Fitz Fitzgerald custody over
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100,000 Bitcoin on behalf of Tether and
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Caner Fitzgerald is behind C which will
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become 21 as well. I get some get
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confused between No. Yeah. Strive asset
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21
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C. It's such a crazy day. Anyway,
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nothing is stopping Wall Street from
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jumping into this whole Bitcoin lending
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and the banks are coming too. All the
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big American banks too and Schwab is
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coming and Fidelity is already there.
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This will be crazy. And you know the
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good thing about
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this when you go to the previous slide,
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what was it? Slide number 17. The thing
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this
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one, can you imagine you can borrow
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against your Bitcoin? The most important
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thing when that happens is you don't
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have to sell it anymore. And when you
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borrow against your Bitcoin, guess what?
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You don't incur any capital gains taxes.
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And you can write off your interest.
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It's like a win-win. It's like a I used
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to call this middle class welfare. So
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enjoy it, ladies and gentlemen. But the
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point is, when you can borrow against
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your Bitcoin, you don't have to sell it.
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That'll make the supply even harder as
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we go forward. nothing but goodness and
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it's kind of like we're seeing all the
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stepping stones here to a very gradual
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meltup
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again. It's going to be huge. Now,
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treasuries are it. I've been saying
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treasuries are it since last year, but
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this chart shows you how much it's
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becoming it. And there was a dip in
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early April, I think, with the tariff
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tantrums. But now the number of Bitcoin
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whales with more than 1,000 Bitcoin has
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resumed its climb. reaching
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1,455 entities even as the price hits
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all new new all-time high. So the whales
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are not dumping. They continue to
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stack. And I believe these whales, these
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thousand Bitcoin plus they're not your
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typical Bitcoin whales. They are new
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treasuries. They are new sovereigns,
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etc. These are the people driving the
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bus right now, not retail investors. So,
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good news for the retail that got in
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early. And speaking of the SPR, TM,
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which stands for T
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Media, I don't say the word because
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people still
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have get triggered by that. So, that's
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why. But they are raising $2.5
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billion and they plan to buy Bitcoin
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with it. So, this is super super
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interesting and yet another treasury.
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But remember, the amount of money that's
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flowing into Bitcoin is insane on these
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treasuries. $2 and half billion dollars
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is substantial compared to what Michael
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Sailor does. Probably not that much, but
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again, more and more treasures are
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coming every single day. And let's talk
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about narratives in crypto. The privacy
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ecosystem is back. That's the top
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performer over the last month, which is
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exciting. And I hear you ask, what is
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privacy? Well, let's have a look at some
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of those names. uh in a second, but I'll
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turn on this one for a sec. This is the
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top 50 performers over the last month.
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Hype absolutely smoking it. Hype up
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117.3%. Making it very popular. Shout
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out to James Wyn who is playing a lot
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with Hyperlid and uh getting people very
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excited by the platform. XMR is there
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too. A Pepe ETH all had extremely good
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past 30 days.
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Uh other names that we know Salana is up
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20% over the last month. Bitcoin
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17.2% Athena 15% despite the tra
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inflation and the Tcoin at the very
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bottom right hand side has not done well
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despite the announcement of the
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Treasury. But again, it doesn't really
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matter. It's just more stackers of
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Bitcoin as we go forward. Now, who are
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the top privacy coins? These are the
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names.
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Got Monero, Zcash, and Dash. But look at
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the returns over the last month. Monero
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up 64%, Zcash
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64%. Not a coincidence. Dash
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12.9%. So, for some reason, privacy
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coins are hot. Maybe there was a lot of
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fear during the previous administration
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that privacy coins would be banned and
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blocked and if you use them, you get
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into trouble with the law. But under the
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new administration, at least in the US,
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people are less afraid. And this is
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probably why these coins are doing so
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well. So for all those that had Monero
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for a long time, it's your day in the
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sun. And Salana is becoming 100x faster.
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I did cover this in Alpenlow. I did a
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dedicated video last week on Alpenlow,
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but Mer is chiming in
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today saying it'll be the biggest change
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to Salana and they wrote a Helas paper
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on it too. how Salon's getting 100x
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faster, more stable, and we'll have much
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more validators because they've reduced
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the cost for a new validator
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dramatically. And yes, it's super
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exciting. And yes, it's coming this
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year. Yet another feather in the cap for
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this platform and other platforms and
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technologies continue to flood over to
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the black hole. Now, MetaMask
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is has launched today on Salana, and
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that's big because a lot of people are
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stuck on the ETH ecosystem with their
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MetaMask wallets. Actually, I wonder. I
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forgot. I still have stuff trapped on a
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MetaMask wallet. I need to figure out if
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this will help me get
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off. Yeah, we'll see. That could be
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interesting. Anyway, it's sitting there
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since 2021. Let's see if we can un
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unlock some stuff because I just
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remember MetaMask was so painful to deal
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with and hopefully now it's a lot
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easier. Anyway, the other big point of
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this is this could enhance the drain
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away from the ETH ecosystem if they have
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the connectivity. So, think of a wallet
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as kind of a gateway drug to get to a
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better, cheaper, faster chain. That
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could also happen too, just like the
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migration we've been seeing to the black
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hole for the last couple of years. And
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one thing, this is on my bingo card list
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for forecast for 2025 that I said DEX's
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would kill centralized exchanges and
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it's happening. And a lot of people
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think hyperlid is killing other dexes in
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crypto. No, it's not. All the pros that
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used to do per trading on centralized
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exchanges have left. they have moved to
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dexes and some of them are moving very
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large volumes like billion dollars in
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collateral etc to fund very very large
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positions but those positions
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traditionally were handled by
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centralized exchanges so I'm so pleased
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to see that this one is coming through
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so far for the year and remember I
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scorecard myself at the end of every
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year before I do my forecast for the
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next year and uh it's good to see this
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one in the bag Now this is another view
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of what's happening with centralized
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exchanges as well. This is the what's
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called the stable coin flow and you can
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see here very quickly centralized
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exchange stable stable coin balances are
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flowing very quickly all of a sudden to
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Salana.
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Not sure why. Maybe for trading purposes
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or maybe stacking purposes. But again,
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the centralized exchanges are losing the
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trading volume for
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per moving to decentralized exchanges
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like Hyperlid and stable coins are
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moving from sanitized exchanges to
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Salana blockchain. Very interesting. And
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this is on top of that other slide I
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showed you with the 8,000 Bitcoin
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leaving Coinbase in one day. I think it
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was slide 17. But other news regarding
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stable coins is CoinDesk confirmed
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Jeremy Aair announces Circle is going
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public with an IPO and uh we know that
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Tether is trying to get on shore as
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well. But why do we care about this?
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Well, this is great because this is the
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number one use case for crypto,
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especially within the eyes of the
00:20:28
government. And the other thing that I'm
00:20:30
very relieved of is because apparently
00:20:33
Coinbase and Ripple were in the game to
00:20:36
try bid on Circle. I did not want either
00:20:40
of that happening, especially not
00:20:41
Ripple. That would not be good for the
00:20:45
whole crypto space. But this IPO
00:20:47
announcement does not rule out an
00:20:49
acquisition, but it definitely suggests
00:20:52
Circle want to
00:20:54
IPO. They do not want to sell
00:20:56
themselves. And reports indicate um that
00:21:00
Camber would 24 million shares. The
00:21:02
ticker will be CRCL I think. And
00:21:05
hopefully they will make about $5
00:21:09
billion or in reserve or 1.75 $5 billion
00:21:14
from the IPO when they launch. So watch
00:21:15
this space carefully and that could
00:21:17
happen in the next month or so. Also,
00:21:19
Thailand um Thailand will now let
00:21:22
tourists spend crypto via credit card
00:21:25
and plans major financial reforms to
00:21:26
unify traditional and digital asset
00:21:28
markets. That's huge. So, a lot of
00:21:31
crypto people apparently go to Thailand
00:21:35
uh to live cheap and live off their
00:21:37
crypto bags and now they can spend their
00:21:40
crypto to support their lifestyles over
00:21:42
there too. So, that's great. And this
00:21:44
just the beginning, just yet another
00:21:46
domino falling in the cryptoverse, which
00:21:48
is wonderful. Stocks. Let's talk about
00:21:51
stocks real quick. Fear and greed 66.
00:21:54
It's funny cuz a stock and crypto fear
00:21:56
and greed was almost the same for about
00:21:57
two weeks, which I'd never seen before.
00:21:59
Fascinating. And stocks over the last 30
00:22:02
days. Pretty impressive. Uh you can see
00:22:05
here, you know, I I I have I am guilty
00:22:07
sometimes of making a little bit of fun
00:22:10
of the Apples and Googles, but they have
00:22:12
not had a good last 30 days, but
00:22:15
Microsoft definitely did. Up 18 12%,
00:22:18
Amazon 10%. Shout out to Jeff Bezos is
00:22:21
apparently getting married. And Nvidia
00:22:25
27%, Tesla 39% for the last 30 days. But
00:22:30
let's see what things have done over the
00:22:31
last 365 days. Again, Google and Apple
00:22:35
pretty much have gone nowhere for the
00:22:37
last year. Microsoft up 7%. So
00:22:40
therefore, in the last 30 days,
00:22:42
Microsoft went positive over the last
00:22:45
year. Nvidia up 30%. And remember,
00:22:48
Nvidia had a bonkers 2023 and 2024. So
00:22:53
that's big. Amazon 13 1.5%. Tesla
00:22:58
107.31%. Berkshire Hathaway 24.92%.
00:23:02
Mastercard 26%. Here are some of the big
00:23:05
big moves, big players uh over the last
00:23:08
year that are important to keep an eye
00:23:10
on. But again, follow the growth and we
00:23:13
have certain companies now going into
00:23:15
once again hyperrowth mode. First of
00:23:17
all, Optimus will be used in factories
00:23:22
before the end of the year. Shout out to
00:23:24
Herbert
00:23:25
Ang and uh he talked about he was
00:23:28
talking to Scott to Scott Walter I think
00:23:32
u very very savvy guy that sees things
00:23:35
that the average cat doesn't but he
00:23:37
believes humanoid robots the Tesla ones
00:23:40
will be working in the factory and he
00:23:42
predicts that they will start working on
00:23:44
if they're not already on the Tesla
00:23:46
Model X and S lines because you can see
00:23:49
the exact part that is a ball joint or a
00:23:53
Model X. I think I've seen something
00:23:56
like that under my car, too. But it also
00:23:57
looks similar to the Cybertruck one as
00:23:59
well. So, we'll see. But these things
00:24:01
are coming. Fit Fast and
00:24:03
Furious. Also, AI is key. Dubai, United
00:24:07
Arab Emirates have their own little
00:24:09
Stargate version, and they will offer
00:24:12
every citizen in Dubai a free chat GBT
00:24:16
account, which is huge. Also, they're
00:24:18
buying handover fist tons of Nvidia
00:24:21
chips and they're going to become an AI
00:24:24
first country just like Saudi Arabia
00:24:26
wants to as
00:24:27
well. AI is here. AI is going to explode
00:24:31
and these countries are very
00:24:33
forward-looking and they're investing
00:24:34
huge amounts of money to be the leaders
00:24:37
in the future. they want to pivot, you
00:24:39
know, from oil and energy being what
00:24:42
they export to AI being what they export
00:24:45
or being at least leaders in the region.
00:24:47
And that's a great first step as well.
00:24:50
Also, speaking of Nvidia is not slowing
00:24:52
down. A lot of people think their growth
00:24:54
is over. Uh-uh, it's not. And under the
00:24:57
new administration, under people like
00:24:58
David Saxs, they're going to open up new
00:25:01
ways in which Nvidia can get back to
00:25:04
selling chips in emerging markets that
00:25:05
were otherwise blocked, which included
00:25:08
Middle East and parts of Asia like
00:25:10
China, etc. So, that's all going to
00:25:12
really help. And we're talking tens of
00:25:15
billions of dollars of revenue that were
00:25:17
carved out under the previous
00:25:19
administration. And Starlink, one of the
00:25:22
Elon Musk companies, is coming to India.
00:25:24
And I'm jealous.
00:25:26
because they'll be able to get Starlink
00:25:28
uh for under $10 a month 8840 rupees
00:25:33
which would be a game changer and again
00:25:35
bring so much knowledge and internet
00:25:37
access to a very large country with 1.4
00:25:42
billion people. So shout out to our
00:25:43
friends in India as well. And final
00:25:47
really super bullish chart. Remember
00:25:50
everything is riskone. Markets are
00:25:52
flying today. Tesla's up 7%
00:25:57
$24. What else is moving fast? Um
00:26:00
Metaplanet back up 17%. Marathon 12%. I
00:26:05
know Fred is uh speaking at the
00:26:08
conference again. A good day. Sooie 6%.
00:26:11
CleanSpark nearly at 10 bucks. What a
00:26:14
what a trip that's been Nvidia up to 136
00:26:18
bucks. Saul 178. So things are moving
00:26:22
on. But remember, all this money is
00:26:24
still on the sidelines. It's only a
00:26:26
matter of time before they have to cut
00:26:28
rates and then people will go risk on
00:26:31
with this. A staggering $7.24 24
00:26:36
trillion is going to come looking for a
00:26:39
new home soon. We just need the rates to
00:26:42
come down and all this will be deployed.
00:26:44
But that shows you how much cash there
00:26:47
is slushing around in the system. I
00:26:48
mean, if you go back to the year 2000,
00:26:51
it was less than 1.5 trillion. Now it's
00:26:53
nearly 7 12 trillion. So all of that
00:26:56
we'll need to find a home and pump our
00:26:58
bags. And finally, Germany is winning on
00:27:03
one chart. Uh, another good piece of
00:27:05
news from Germany, but Germany overtook
00:27:07
Japan to be the country with the most
00:27:09
money and assets invested outside its
00:27:12
borders. I still don't understand why
00:27:14
the average German citizen doesn't own
00:27:17
stocks. They need to fix that. Some own
00:27:19
crypto, but this ends Japan's 34year
00:27:22
streak as a top creditor nation. Very
00:27:26
important. So, Germany, woohoo. And I
00:27:29
think uh Japan did lose its position as
00:27:33
the world's largest cred nation for the
00:27:34
first time in 34 years. And uh Germany
00:27:39
is back in the catbird seat. So woohoo.
00:27:42
Let's go. And meme dour. This is kind of
00:27:44
fun because it does affect the markets.
00:27:48
But I I saw this on bar chart. It was
00:27:50
hilarious. Days without changing
00:27:51
tariffs, zero. Uh but we have to admit
00:27:56
though the tariffs have been a gift
00:27:59
because they gave us a beautiful buying
00:28:01
opportunity earlier this year that we
00:28:03
are in position for which was good. So
00:28:05
again you just got to look through all
00:28:07
the all the nonsense find the signal and
00:28:09
the noise and execute based on your
00:28:12
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00:28:43
Again, I normally do a Bitcoin
00:28:45
conference day one recap, day two recap,
00:28:48
but nothing happened. I feel like I'm
00:28:51
repeating last year's show. It's not
00:28:53
even as good as last year by any
00:28:54
stretch. So, let's hopefully we'll find
00:28:58
some nuggets. Hopefully, it's a slow
00:28:59
start and then a very quick finish.
00:29:01
Fingers crossed we'll save the best for
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