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cost you anything. Well, folks,

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let's start by looking at the prices. Bitcoin currently still consolidating in that fifty

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to fifty one thousand dollars range.
If you look at the charts, nothing

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spectacular happening. However, one analyst
did highlight that Bitcoin is bullflagging, So

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you got this falling wedge setup that's
taking place and looks like it's about to

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break out. But we got to
let these things play out and give it

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time. One great thing I am
seeing is that the DXY Dollar Currency index

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is starting to pull back. It
looks like it had has hit its peak

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on this run up, So fingers
crossed that it is incorrecting because when it's

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going down, asset prices pump.
So this will be good for bitcoin,

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all coins as well as the stock
market. But you know, there are

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no guarantees here so we have to
watch these things closely and adjust our thesis

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based on the facts changing and what's
happening on the charts. Now eth is

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looking really bullish today. It crossed
over thirty one hundred dollars multiple times.

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Right now it's at three thou ninety
eight dollars and I'm expecting higher moves upwards.

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Here ral pal Macro investor share the
etherorem bitcoin chart, he said,

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the eight slash BTC chart is an
absolute stunner and ready for the next big

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move, the break of the mega
wedge. Let's see how this pans out.

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So we gotta be patient. We
got to let the market play out,

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let these rallies prove themselves. And
look, you also have to take

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profits where you can. I took
some profits on the fat token the fetch

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dot ai. I was up over
five hundred and thirty six percent. My

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plan is to take profits where possible, and then when the market pulls back,

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buy back in and then hold for
new all time highs. I'm not

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doing that with my entire portfolio,
just certain coins that are up significantly,

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that are ripping right. You got
renders also doing the same thing. So

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you've got to take profits where possible. Another factor that's bullish bitcoin is that

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the Great Scale GBT Trust has seen
the record lowest outflows since its conversion,

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so they're selling it has been ramping
down. That's a good sign because when

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you know it's ramping up and there's
a lot of selling, it puts sell

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pressure in the market. And even
though they may be doing this OTC and

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not on the market itself, it's
not news that you know you want out

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there, so great to hear this
is ramping down. That's a good sign.

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Now, as far as the coins
that are trending on social media,

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I want to highlight the data from
sentiment here, Cody. I actually don't

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hold this in my portfolio, but
it's getting the lion's share of social media

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trends, mostly positive sentiment. And
the reason being there's reports that the price

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has doubled in a week. It's
up over one hundred percent in the past

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week, and this is following the
introduction of a privacy enhancing feature known as

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garbled circuits. So once again,
I don't hold this token. I don't

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know much about this project, but
I want to share this data with you.

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Second is DBG. I actually don't
know this coin. Oh, this

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digitiite. Excuse me, I should
have known that digitide has been around for

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a while. Then you also have
thor chain Rune coming in a third,

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Ultra or UoS at fourth, the
gt protocol. I don't know about this

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project. At fifth, spell Token, at sixth Phoenix Global. As seventh,

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Cardono is trending pretty strong here.
I think it's seeing some nice price

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movements as well. You get Verge, and then finally fetch dot ai,

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which once again has been ripping.
That's a token I'm bullish on. It's

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an AI theme token. So that's
your latest and this was actually updated within

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the past thirty minutes. So that's
what's happening from a market sentiment standpoint.

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As far as the top all coins
trending. Now, guys, we've got

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big news. Brian Armstrong, CEO
of coinbase, tweeted out today interested in

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learning more about John Deeton as he
is going up against Elizabeth Warren. This

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is a big highlight of what John
Deeton's doing, and it could mean coinbase

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is ready to open its war chests
and give John Deeton a lot of campaign

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funds. We saw reports that coinbase
a sixteen Z to Wiggle Bosswins and many

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others were donating to the Crypto Superpack, and that fund is being used to

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promote or support crypto advocates within Congress
and different parts of the government. So

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Brian recognizing what John is up to
here is super important. I hope he

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comes out and supports them even more, backs them, and Coinbase does the

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same because Coinbase, once again they
got a huge war chest of capital.

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Well, not to mention just giving
John the visibility, right, Brian tweeting

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out it by John gets him in
front of one point three million people who

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may not have heard of him.
So really great to see this, And

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I think John's going to get more
support because he's fighting on behalf of the

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industry. And Elizabeth Warren we all
know, is the enemy of the entire

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crypto industry. She's formed what she
calls the anti crypto Army. So we've

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got a fight on our hands and
I'm supporting John. I've donated, and

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I will continue to amplify news around
him and his campaign. And we've got

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to support him. Guys, even
if we're not based in Massachusetts, we

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can retweet, we can donate,
and we can try to get the visibility

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to the people in Massachusetts, so
they're aware of what's happening here. But

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we saw just this past week Boston
dot Com and other major mainstream news outlets

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within Massachusetts are picking this up and
it's becoming a big story, all right.

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Moving ahead, newly released Satoshi email
reveal a treasure trove of early Bitcoin

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lore. I'm not sure how many
of you saw, but these early satoci

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emails are coming out, and it's
fascinating to get some insights into the personality

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and the things that have been said. It's very interesting. So one major

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takeaway was Satoshi didn't come up with
the term cryptocurrency and wanted to downplay Bitcoin's

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anonymity, so that's interesting. A
litany of insights into the early days of

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cryptocurrency were recently revealed when Bitcoin creator
Satoshi Nakamoto's earliest collaborator, Martin Malmi,

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published one hundred and twenty pages of
email correspondences between the two on GitHub on

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February twenty third. So I actually
have to go through all of these emails.

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I'm actually very intrigued by what was
discussed back in the day and to

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get a perspective on how Satoci was
looking at bitcoin, you know, outside

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of the white paper. Obviously,
the true identity of Nakamoto remains a point

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of conjecture throughout the greater cryptocurrency and
blockchain community. However, the emails recently

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published on GitHub by Malmi were initially
introduced as evidence in a London court brought

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by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance against
Craig Wright, who has claimed to be

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Knakamoto. So we all know Craig
Wright is a buffoon, a clown times

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ten. This guy needs to go
away. But these emails are just fascinating

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and there's a lot of nuggets in
there, so you guys can certainly go

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check that out. But here are
some other callouts. When asked how bitcoin

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my scale in the future, so
Toshi theorized the network would have a maximum

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of one hundred thousand nodes. Here
he goes into the calculation and the economics

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of the network at scale, notes
about fifty thousand nodes run the software today,

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so he was thinking one hundred thousand
nodes. So Toshi believed bitcoin mining

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would be less energy intensive than the
legacy banking system. Note this is by

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far his best new quote. Now
there's a quote here on the word cryptocurrency

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and that becoming a category which bitcoin
is in. In fact, one of

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the emails kind of took down the
narrative that Satoshi and you know whoever he

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or they are, created the term
cryptocurrency, when in fact they didn't.

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And per Satoci, here's a quote. Someone came up with the word cryptocurrency.

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Maybe it's a word we should use
when describing bitcoin. Do you like

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it? Interesting? Now? On
anonymity, he said, I think we

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should de emphasize the anonymous angle.
With the popularity of bitcoin addresses, instead

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of sending by IP, we can
give the impression it's automatically anonymous. It's

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possible to be pseudononymous, but you
have to be careful. So I think

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it's pseudononymous, right because you can
do some blockchain analysis and trace the wallet

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addresses and so forth. Sure you
won't get all the details, but there's

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some tracking ability here, and this
is why it's not great for criminals,

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right, And the facts of being
able to track this on the blockchain with

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different data analytics goes against a false
narrative that Elizabeth Warren has put out there.

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The email continues to essentially predict the
rise of blockchain forensics. Here's a

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quote. If someone digs through the
transaction history and starts exposing information people thought

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was anonymous, the backlash will be
much worse if we haven't prepared expectations by

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warning in advance that you have to
take precaution. So even sassoci here just

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got news here that eigenlayers one hundred
million dollar hall ignites a series of adjacent

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investments. So I don't hold this
token in my portfolio, but let me

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give you guys an update. The
company behind a theorem restaking protocol, Eigenlayer,

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announced a one hundred million dollar investment
this week from the coveted venture firm

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Andrees and Horowitz. The rays puts
Eigenlayer in a small group to clear nine

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figures in a venture round over the
past several months, joining the of Hong

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Kong Exchange hash key and interoperability platform
Wormhole. Folks, there's a lot of

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capital coming in, right, and
to get one hundred million dollars from a

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sixteen Z is huge. So Eigenlayer
allows ether that has been staked to secure

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the Ethereum blockchain and to be restaked
or used to secure other chains and services.

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A sixteen Z general partner Ali Yaha
said this vision to add revenue streams.

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The Ethereum's consensus mechanism has the potential
to change everything. Interestingly, the

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protocol is hoping to help build a
network of other chains and services secured with

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eigenlayer have drawn funding interest too.
Alt Layer, for example, announced a

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fourteen point four million dollar funding round
this week, co led by Polychain and

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hack vc. At Layer creates restaked
rollups which apply Eigenlayer's mechanism to the layer

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twos used to batch transactions on top
of the etherorem blockchain. So, folks,

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we are seeing investment, the building
out of the infrastructure, all types

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of new features, functionality, and
much more. So huge, huge adoption

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news here. Now let's talk about
alio privacy focus. Alio users concerned after

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KYC documents leaked to claim a reward
and Alio users must complete KYC slash AML

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to pass the Office of Foreign Assets
Control screening in accordance to Alio's internal policies.

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So this is the challenge that we
will continue to see privacy coins.

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I have no issues with them,
in fact, I think they're great.

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The problem, what I've been telling
a lot of people is that governments are

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going after privacy coins they want to
know everything. That's why KYC and AML

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is going to be a big part
of the future of crypto. Any on

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and off ramp is going to have
kyc AML, So it's going to be

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interesting to find a balance, you
know, where we want to have a

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blockchain encryptocurrency that is anonymous, but
it's going to be tough and I think

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it's risky to hold privacy coins.
Honestly, that's my opinion. I could

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be wrong, but I know the
governments are going to go after him.

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Now. Obviously, if you're not
doing any illegal activits, you don't have

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anything to worry about. And I
don't think the criminals will try to use

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it because blockchain analytics right usually they
are able to track the on and off

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rams as well. So decentralized blockchain
platform Alio has revealed some users information on

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February twenty fifth, According to reports
on x or Twitter, the platform focuses

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on zero knowledge ZkS cryptography and uses
a third party protocol for Know your Customer.

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A pseudononymous user by the name of
Oh, I'm not even going to

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try to pronounce that said alien mistakenly
sent KYC documents to his email. These

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documents include selfies and ID card photos
of another person, making him concerned about

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the security of his own information.
So this is a challenge, folks.

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And you know, if you are
going to invest in privacy coins, you

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have to take into consideration all of
these things, right, and how governments

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are going to perceive these privacy coins, how they're going to treat it,

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and I think they will be heavily
regulated. We see the direction they're headed

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in, right, folks. And
I don't know. I don't know,

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because for example, I'm a big
fan of Monaro and even z cash,

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but you know, holding them maybe
to make some money, sure, but

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just be careful what you do with
them because these governments they're not playing around.

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You don't want to get yourself stuck, you know, by the government

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government mistakenly flagging you as for someone
doing something bad or whatever it may be,

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and then you have a whole bunch
of problems. All right, folks,

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that's the news. Let me know
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