WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.559 --> 00:00:12.439 Welcome to the Thinking Crypto podcast. You're home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. 2 00:00:12.519 --> 00:00:15.199 If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the 3 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:18.760 thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast 4 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:22.839 platform such as Spotify or Apple, please leave a five star rating and review. 5 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:26.000 It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, 6 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:28.800 let's start by taking a look at the price of bitcoin. We are 7 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:33.679 still waiting on confirmation that bitcoin is heading upwards in the micro In the short 8 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:36.679 term, From a macro standpoint, we are any uptrend. We are in 9 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:40.039 a bull market. We are anticipating higher highs. But in the short term, 10 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:43.679 we're waiting for a bitcoin to validate that this is a reversal move to 11 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:47.840 continue to hire highs. And if it is, I'm expecting a price point 12 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:51.679 between eighty five to ninety thousand as the next target. So we'll have to 13 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:54.799 be patient and let things play out. But right now, Bitcoin as of 14 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:59.359 the time of recording is at seventy five and forty nine dollars. If we 15 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:02.759 look at the d wine the daily chart, it has some green candles, 16 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:06.760 but they look very weak, so I'm hoping the DXY, the Dollar Currency 17 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:11.680 index keeps breaking downwards, and that will be incredibly bullish for risk assets like 18 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:15.159 bitcoin and crypto. So that's what we're waiting to see, folks. We 19 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:19.319 need confirmation and let this play out. As I said in yesterday's podcast, 20 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:23.799 my hope is that we enter April with very bullish momentum as we head to 21 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:29.799 the having and bitcoin heads to eighty five to ninety eighth k between that range, 22 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:34.519 maybe higher before it does another pullback. So exciting times ahead. We 23 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:38.439 just got to be patient. Now let's look at the top trending coins on 24 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:41.480 social media. This data is brought to you by Santiment, which is a 25 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:44.920 great partner of the channel. You can get a lot of cryptometrics on santiment. 26 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:47.799 If you want to sign up for a pro account, you can and 27 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:51.480 get a discount with my referral link in the description as well as the code 28 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:56.040 thinking crypto. The first trending coin here is Nexso, so Nexto is the 29 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:59.280 platform where you can do crypto lending and so forth. I think they're doing 30 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:02.560 a marketing camp heres that are trending as number one. Coming in at number 31 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:07.759 two is Internet Protocol ICP, with good positive sentiment. Number three is Anchor 32 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:13.639 on Ethereum, also with strong positive sentiment. You got Civic coming in at 33 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:19.039 number four, which is CBC with strong positive sentiment as well. Cody comes 34 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:23.759 in at number five with decent positive sentiment. Vello comes in at number six 35 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:28.520 with positive sentiment as well. Like Coin comes in here at number seven with 36 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:31.560 decent positive sentiment. Its negative sentiment is pretty high at thirty six percent, 37 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:36.000 but a positive is at forty four. But it's trending due to the coup 38 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:38.120 coin case, which I'll share the news with you guys a little bit later. 39 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:45.639 Number eight is pack protocol PAC coming in with positive sentiment, then tether 40 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:51.599 USDT on Avalanche with a very high positive sentiment, and finally number ten Stellar 41 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:55.560 luhmans XLM coming in with positive sentiment as well. So those are your top 42 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:59.919 trending tokens on social media once again, this is brought to you by Sam. 43 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:02.080 All Right, folks, let's jump into the news, and first up 44 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:06.159 is the cou coin news, which I'm sure many of you heard. Prominent 45 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:12.039 global cryptocurrency exchange cu cooin and two of its founders criminally charged with Bank Secrecy 46 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:16.560 Act and unlicensed money transmission offenses. So guys, what's the TLDR here? 47 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:23.240 What happened here? This is the continued cleanup of the legacy crypto exchanges. 48 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:27.960 We saw Binance got hit with similar charges, right, and this is because 49 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.520 back in the day, in the wild west of the crypto days, in 50 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:35.560 the early days, these exchanges were not doing kycaml So KYCS is know your 51 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.199 customer, AML is anti money laundering. You could go sign up for the 52 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:42.960 exchanges. You didn't have to share your idea and verify and you can trade, 53 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:46.680 right. I remember using the platforms like that. It was how things 54 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:50.560 were set up. Now, as the market matured and things progressed, we 55 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:55.039 saw many of these exchanges started integrating KYC and AML. However, the regulators, 56 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:58.759 they will go after you for the years that you weren't doing it. 57 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:01.800 We saw that with Binance and Finance had to pay billions. So here you 58 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:05.080 know coup coin and two of its founders getting charged and so on and so 59 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:09.960 forth. So is this bearers for the market. Absolutely not, it's actually 60 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:15.360 bullish. It is once again the cleanup because we're on the rocket ship getting 61 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:19.480 ready to go to higher prices, and we saw if Binance that news didn't 62 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:24.839 affect this market. Right, even in a bull market, it didn't affect 63 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:29.399 the market at all. It was actually positive because it's the removal of risk 64 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:33.319 to anything that could be detrimental to the price. So this is good clean 65 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:36.839 up, getting the exchanges in order. They're not shutting them down. They 66 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:41.519 can still operate. Just pay your fine. You did some sort of crime. 67 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:44.399 You're going to pay the time, right. But the market keeps moving 68 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:47.680 forward, so we are eliminating risk and many of these exchanges are coming in 69 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:53.839 line with the regulations. And once again it's preparing us for the next move 70 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:58.600 and for this acid class to keep growing. And we're seeing Wall Street banks, 71 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:01.720 stock exchanges and much more a getting in. So that's the TLDR here, 72 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:04.560 guys, I don't even need to read through the details. It's just 73 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:09.439 a cleanup. They're going after any platform that didn't use kyc AML, so 74 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:15.519 uh really, it's good news. Now. Something very interesting came out of 75 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:18.439 the complaint from the CFDC about what cou coin was doing, and Jake Trafirsky 76 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:24.160 highlighted it here. He said, hidden gem in the CFTC's coucoin complaint. 77 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:29.959 Usually the SEC and CFDC pretend they aren't in a turf war over crypto. 78 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:35.759 Today, the CFDC is openly attacking the SEC's supposed investigation of Ethereum. This 79 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:43.120 may seem minor, but is actually pretty savage interagency drama by DC's standards. 80 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:50.199 So they highlighted specifically. CFDC highlighted specifically commodities Ethereum and like coin. Folks, 81 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:55.279 It's what we've been talking about on the podcast and why we could see 82 00:05:55.319 --> 00:06:00.399 a lot of problems here with these ETHEREMYTF and I've been referencing that the chair 83 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:03.839 of the cftc Rosslyn Benham, went before Congress and said he doesn't know what 84 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:10.680 the SEC is doing. Why is Prometheum custodying etherrem as a security Both agencies 85 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:15.720 helped to approve the futures etf right. Etheroreum was given a non security clearance 86 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:21.160 by Bill Hinman in a previous administration of the SEC. So what's happening here, 87 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:26.079 folks, and we're seeing some butting of heads. This is this might 88 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:30.839 force Congress to act now. Eleanor Terrat of Fox Business added to what Jake 89 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:35.199 said. The timing is more significant here given what is going on at the 90 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:42.279 SEC, but worth noting the CFDC also called ether and light coin commodities in 91 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:46.560 its lawsuit against Binance last year. So the SEC is looking pretty dumb here 92 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:49.480 because given all the history and all these things that have been taking place. 93 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:55.439 But we know the game here, folks. They want to roadblock the etherorem 94 00:06:55.519 --> 00:07:00.360 ETF. Gary's trying to classify etheroreum as a security. He's taking his orders 95 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:04.920 from Elizabeth Warren, who's of course controlled by the banking incumbents who are getting 96 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:10.279 disrupted. We saw two senators send a letter to the SEC saying no more 97 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:13.839 ETFs, right, And I told you guys, they didn't just wake up 98 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:16.759 and dream that up all of a sudden. That's a plant, that's a 99 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:21.360 strategy, and most likely Elizabeth Warren is behind it because these two senators were 100 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:28.199 Democrats. So we got a battle here, folks. And is this gonna 101 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:32.600 get messy now? Eleanor Turrett is also reporting that she's hearing rumblings on the 102 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:40.639 institutional level about possible interest in a like COINYTF like COINYTF go figure, guys, 103 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:45.040 I mean like coin right now on the market cap is at number twenty 104 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:48.360 two. There hasn't been any major developments. They're not doing much right this 105 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:53.040 project almost seems dead. I'm not saying it's dead, but it almost seems 106 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:56.879 that way from an optic standpoint. Charlie Lee is nowhere to be found. 107 00:07:56.879 --> 00:08:01.120 He's the founder, right. They forked Bitcoin's code and a little bit faster 108 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:05.279 of a proof of work token here, So I don't know, but it 109 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:09.319 may be the reason why it's popping up is because like coin is proof of 110 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:13.319 work and they're figuring maybe they can get that through because Bitcoin is proof of 111 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:16.199 work and that you know, pretty much like coins a copy of it. 112 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.680 So we'll see. But I don't think there's gonna be much demand for like 113 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:24.920 coin, right. Not a lot of people are interested in it. Don't 114 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:28.000 get me wrong, my like coin holders and community. I'm not hating, 115 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:33.279 but let's be honest, right, you got tokens like Salona, Cardono and 116 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:37.840 even meme coins are getting all the mentions and the spotlight versus like coin. 117 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:43.559 So this is interesting. So Eleanor says here, the logic is that because 118 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:48.039 of like coin's functional similarities to Bitcoin, the SEC may be more inclined to 119 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:52.600 approve it, possibly even more so than eth. Last week, Coin based 120 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:58.399 Derivatives announced plans to launch CFTC approved futures for dochecoin, like coin and bitcoin 121 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:03.600 cash on April first, next Monday. I wonder if that's an April fool's 122 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:09.720 joke right on April first, But look, I think this like Eleanor is 123 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:13.080 reporting here. It could be they're just trying to get as many coins through 124 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:16.399 even if there's not much demand. But I think Ethereum is what the market 125 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:20.039 wants as number two, right and from the Institution's black Rock clettery Fink and 126 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:24.360 all these guys, they want the ethereum's bodytf But maybe this is a way 127 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:28.759 to force the SEC's hand. It's just a chess move. It's not so 128 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:31.679 much that they're gonna make a ton of money off of the like coin etf 129 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:35.440 It's a chess move to force the SEC's hand and to hand Gary against her 130 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:39.879 another loss. And if he wants to go to court, he's easily gonna 131 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:46.360 lose that because light coin very similar to bitcoin. So things are getting very 132 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:52.559 interesting here, folks. Now let's move ahead regarding the ethereum as a security 133 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:56.600 or not a security situation, and the CFTC and the SECU battling right the 134 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:01.960 house. Financial services members of KUNG are waking up to this, and I 135 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:05.840 think this etherorem situation, if Gary continues it, it may force the hand 136 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:13.000 of Congress to get regulations through. So the Financial Services GOP folks tweeted out 137 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:18.799 the following. Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee and House Agriculture GOP sent 138 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:24.279 a letter to SEC Chair Gary Gainster urging his agency to clarify its position with 139 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:31.799 respect to the special broker Dealer license Prometheum's custody of Etheroreum. So they put 140 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:37.320 out an infographic here Republicans are holding SEC chair against their accountable But this is 141 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:41.080 all just talk. Man. They got to send a subpoena. Patrick McHenry, 142 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:45.399 if you're listening, subpoena this man and start cutting his budget as it 143 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:48.120 relates to crypto items. Don't get me wrong, the SEC has to protect 144 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:52.159 investors. There are scams out there, but he's clearly not going after scams. 145 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:56.600 He's going after the good actors. And there's a clear agenda to kill 146 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:00.279 as many of these crypto startups as possible. Now. Congressman Tom I'mber, 147 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:03.440 who I've had in the podcast multiple times, retweeted this news and said the 148 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:09.279 SEC and the CFDC have an extensive record asserting that Etherorem is not a security 149 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:13.840 So why this Prometheum and SEC registered broker dealer planned to custody eth and he 150 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:18.679 said, I led the letter with the Financial House Financial Services Committee and my 151 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:22.480 colleagues to Garyginster to get some answers. Let's see what they come up with. 152 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:24.799 But I think they got to take the gloves off, just like the 153 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:30.000 crypto industries taking the gloves off and suing the hell out of scumbag regulator Garygainster 154 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.799 and the SEC. Now quick way from our sponsor, folks. 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Link will be in a description or folks, we 164 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:20.120 got some bitcoin spot ETF news. So hash decks apparently now got its bitcoin 165 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:26.159 ETF live. It took a while and they put out a press release here 166 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:31.519 saying title end hashdacks announced trading of US spot bitcoin ETF. Eric Balchunis a 167 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:37.879 Bloomberg said the ticker symbol is DeFi. He says, they finally and officially 168 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:43.080 make it to the starting gate Spot Bitcoin ETF number eleven. The getting is 169 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.559 so good right now. I could see this one getting some bites if the 170 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:50.879 fee is competitive despite being so late. So, folks, no one wants 171 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:54.519 to miss the train. Here. Game theory playing out and the demand for 172 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:58.519 bitcoin and crypto acids will continue to grow. We are still in the early 173 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:03.960 innings as RIA and wealth managers get educated about these ETFs, the fees, 174 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:09.840 who's the custodian and so forth. I recently had Rick Edelman, the RIA 175 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:13.559 guru and you know the Wall Street legend, and we talked about this and 176 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:16.600 he walked through the process of how arias will be looking at bitcoin atfs and 177 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:22.360 offering into their clients, and he expects billions to flow through from rias to 178 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:26.840 the et aps. Now let's move ahead. Solana welcome Circle cross chain protocol, 179 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:33.840 so Solana developers can natively swap USDC tokens with Ethereum and other ecosystems. 180 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:37.720 So we're seeing interoperability being built for different blockchains. It's pretty incredible. Guys. 181 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:43.200 Look, I'm not the biggest Salona fan. I do have some soul 182 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:46.639 tokens, but Solana has had a lot of downtime, and I hope they 183 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:48.440 fix it right. I'm not wishing them bat or anything like that, but 184 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:52.399 when I see you have these many downtimes over the years, it's not a 185 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:58.919 good sign. But they are very fast and they continue to get a lot 186 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:03.320 of development activity and folks building on them. So I have to keep it 187 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:07.399 honest, right and fair. So Solana has been ripping, They're getting a 188 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.200 lot of liquidity, a lot of people building mean coins, and much more 189 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:16.240 on them. So Circle, the issuer of popular stable coin USDC, has 190 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:22.320 partnered with Solana to bring its cross chain Transfer Protocol CCTP to its blockchain system. 191 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:28.039 CCTP is designed by Circle to enable the secure transfer of USDC between different 192 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:33.200 blockchain ecosystems using the native mint and burn process. This means that Solana developers 193 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:39.080 can can now natively swamp USDC tokens from Etherreum, and other EVM compatible ecosystems, 194 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:43.759 including Arbitrum, Avalanche based Optimism, and Polygon. It will also be 195 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:50.720 compatible with non EVM blockchains. CCTP first integrated with a non EVM chain in 196 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:54.639 October last year when it partnered with nobyl It's a Cosmos based token protocol to 197 00:14:54.679 --> 00:15:01.440 bring us DC natively into the Cosmos ecosystem. As Noble itself is integrated with 198 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:07.840 Cosmo's inter Blockchain Communication Protocol, CCTP is also functionally compatible with all COSMOS chains 199 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:13.080 that are connected with IBC. So, folks, this is great to see. 200 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:18.279 I am very bullish on Circle and USDC and what they're doing. Circle 201 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:22.759 issues. Of course the second largest stable coin that is USDC, Tether being 202 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:26.519 the number one with USDT. But you know the competitions heading up between these 203 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:31.919 stable coin issuers, and you've got PayPal has their own stable coin. And 204 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:35.960 could USDC be used by the government as the digital dollar. I think it's 205 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:39.879 possible. That's certainly certainly a possible scenario, but we'll have to wait and 206 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:43.200 see what the government decides to do. Now, speaking of stable coins, 207 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:48.519 we've got news area de Tether looks to build the next generation of open AI 208 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:52.360 models with new data division. The AI job postings come after a six hundred 209 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:56.399 million dollar AI infrastructure investment Tether made in the fall. Now, many of 210 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:00.759 you may have seen my recent interview with the CEO OH with Tether, and 211 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:03.919 that is Paulo r. Do Emo. If you haven't seen that, it 212 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.440 was published eight days ago, be sure to check it out. We touch 213 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:11.679 on AI. We talked on everything related to stable coins, can usdt DPEG, 214 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:15.600 what's going to a feature of it look like? And is AI a 215 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:19.679 threat? And much more so, he talked about Tether going beyond stable coins 216 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:23.320 and looking at other business models. So we're starting to see some of these 217 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:29.279 things come to fruition here. So the new division named Tether Data is looking 218 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:33.759 to hire an AI engineer and ahead of AI research and development. According to 219 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:37.519 Tether's job recruiting website, here's a quote. Our goal is to build a 220 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:41.879 next generation of open AI models, leading innovation in AI through an accessible, 221 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:48.039 transparent, and privacy preserving approach. To job post, things read so very 222 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:52.639 interesting. Feather's got a lot on their play They're making a lot of money. 223 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:56.240 They're the world's largest stable coin issuer, so we'll see what else they 224 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:00.360 do next. It's pretty fascinating to watch this play out. And in my 225 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:06.680 interview which Paolo we talked about, Canter Fitzgerald's CEO, Howard Lutnik add Davis 226 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:11.160 twenty twenty four giving a massive endorsement a Tether, saying they have the money, 227 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:14.000 they are fully reserved, and if you go to Tether's website, they 228 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:18.599 have audits and they have been doing quarterly attestations. So Tether I think has 229 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:23.039 righted the ship after maybe in the early days, the wild west of the 230 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:26.799 crypto days, things were not in order, but I think things are in 231 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.720 order now, so pretty incredible. What's happening, well, folks, that's 232 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:33.799 the news. Let me know what you think. Leave your thoughts and comments 233 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:37.039 below, hit the thumbs up button, hit the five star rating on the 234 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:41.119 podcast platforms. Folks, don't forget. I'll be at DC Blockchain Summit twenty 235 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:45.079 twenty four. This is happening in May May fifteenth and May sixteenth. If 236 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:48.759 you want to attend, you can check out the links in the description to 237 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:52.240 go get tickets. 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