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https://cointelegraph.com/news/vitalik-buterin-outlines-endgame-roadmap-for-eth-2-0
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/2/22814849/badgerdao-defi-120-million-hack-bitcoin-ethereum
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/fidelity-physical-bitcoin-etf-starts-trading-in-canada
https://cointelegraph.com/news/vitalik-buterin-outlines-endgame-roadmap-for-eth-2-0
https://cryptobriefing.com/sundaeswap-promises-first-functional-dex-on-cardano
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Speaker:And all information presented on this podcast is for informational purposes only.
Speaker:Now that we have the legal stuff out of the way, let's jump on in.
Speaker:Welcome to the Generational Wealth with Cryptocurrency podcast.
Speaker:I'm your host McIntosh.
Speaker:And today we're going to talk about why I'm in cryptocurrency.
Speaker:All right, guys, we have got lots of news this week.
Speaker:I do want to talk about briefly about why I'm involved in cryptocurrency.
Speaker:And my reasons will probably not be exactly your reasons, but I hope to give you some
Speaker:idea of why you would want to be involved in crypto, maybe some food for thought.
Speaker:So before we actually jump into all that, I do want to go ahead and talk about maybe
Speaker:the biggest news of the week and involved over the weekend.
Speaker:I think it was Friday.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:We had a lot of news together after a while, but over the weekend, we had a big dip in
Speaker:the crypto market.
Speaker:Some might call it a crash and that crash, that dip has caused quite a bit of panic.
Speaker:And I want to talk about that for a few minutes.
Speaker:I was very happy when one of our listeners, who happens to be a friend of mine, contacted
Speaker:me shortly after all this kind of went down and said, hey, I was nervous, I think maybe
Speaker:scared a little bit, but I bought the dip, so to speak.
Speaker:Don't know if that was her exact words, but that's what she did.
Speaker:And that is the right attitude.
Speaker:Now I personally didn't have any money to buy the dip.
Speaker:I had already done my DCA, my dollar cost average for the month and I just didn't have
Speaker:any left.
Speaker:So I had no way of doing that.
Speaker:If I had any money, that's when I would have done it.
Speaker:Let's see.
Speaker:So it looks like the 3rd of December, starting at about noon and then it went, yeah, starting
Speaker:at about noon on the 3rd, so that was Friday, I was correct.
Speaker:So starting about noon on Friday, the market started going down and it was Bitcoin before
Speaker:this started going down.
Speaker:So we were at 57,634 then, and it went all the way down to a mind-boggling 41,900 on
Speaker:Bitstamp, which happens to be where the chart is that I'm looking at.
Speaker:So that's pretty similar to what we saw on all the exchanges.
Speaker:There was a very big long wick during that 4-hour timeframe, that last 4-hour timeframe,
Speaker:and it went right back up, it kind of looks like maybe a firecracker that has a really
Speaker:long tail to it, which is good.
Speaker:It kind of indicates that, obviously, well, we went really far down, but then they bought
Speaker:it up.
Speaker:Bulls stepped in and bought the bottom, so to speak.
Speaker:Now for the couple of days after that, yes, it has been rising.
Speaker:We are back up at this point.
Speaker:Today, it actually almost touched 52,000, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker:It's down a little bit right now at 50,600.
Speaker:So we definitely took a dip.
Speaker:There's no doubt about it.
Speaker:There's all kinds of chatter about, is this the top?
Speaker:Are we now in the bear market?
Speaker:I don't believe so.
Speaker:But I said that last week.
Speaker:I said it probably the week before.
Speaker:I still do not believe that we're in a bear market.
Speaker:The fundamentals are still there.
Speaker:During this dip, we had an incredible amount of buying from whales, people who have large
Speaker:amounts of Bitcoin.
Speaker:One of the questions that came up, of course, is what caused this?
Speaker:The analysis shows, most likely, that it was caused by people being over-leveraged.
Speaker:What does that mean?
Speaker:When somebody uses leveraged trade, they put in a certain amount of coin or money and they
Speaker:multiply that with what they call leverage.
Speaker:So leverage could be 1x, meaning no leverage, 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x.
Speaker:It goes as high as 100x, which is crazy ridiculous, meaning for every $1 move it's 100 times magnified.
Speaker:Which sounds great if the price is skyrocketing, but it's terrible when it goes the other way
Speaker:against you because you get liquidated, your trade gets cashed out, you lose all your money
Speaker:very quickly.
Speaker:So they think that this crash, in large part, was caused by a large number of liquidations.
Speaker:Now, I saw one source and I don't have it, so I can't speak to the veracity of this.
Speaker:I can't tell you that this is true or not, but this kind of thing would precipitate this.
Speaker:So somebody apparently sold $180 million worth of Bitcoin at the same time.
Speaker:The market had been kind of going sideways for several days, if I recall correctly.
Speaker:It was just kind of in this real tight band, so it was kind of bouncing up and down.
Speaker:It wasn't going up, but it wasn't going down.
Speaker:And basically, they dumped $180 million of Bitcoin on the market and depressed the price.
Speaker:Bitcoin is a huge market, but that much of it at one time on one exchange, yes, that's
Speaker:going to depress the price.
Speaker:And that actually started a liquidation event of people who were over-leveraged, people
Speaker:who were on the edge.
Speaker:And then when they got liquidated, so they lost their bets, so to speak, that started
Speaker:a cascading effect that went on for basically eight hours.
Speaker:Now, what I have seen is the statistics that roughly $2 billion worth of trades were liquidated
Speaker:during that timeframe, longs, what they call longs, people going long on Bitcoin, oh, it's
Speaker:going to go higher.
Speaker:If it goes higher, I make more money.
Speaker:So this is just another example, and there's a long history of these in the market.
Speaker:You need to be very, very careful when you're trading, especially when you're trading with
Speaker:leveraged assets.
Speaker:I'm not going to be a person to sit here and tell you not to use leverage when you're ready,
Speaker:but people not being ready is what precipitated all this.
Speaker:So we end up roughly $10,000 lower, come back out of it, we're still not back, and we're
Speaker:certainly not near the top.
Speaker:So why are you so bullish, McIntosh?
Speaker:Because I understand that people are still holding.
Speaker:There's statistics, there's data that shows that people are not selling.
Speaker:Institutions are coming online.
Speaker:There's news every day about institutions buying more Bitcoin.
Speaker:It's basically gotten to be a non-event.
Speaker:So there's all of these things, and I'm not going to go through all of them, but there's
Speaker:all of these reasons why I believe that this is on the top.
Speaker:But if it is, so what?
Speaker:What did I say a few weeks ago?
Speaker:I said, be prepared when the top happens.
Speaker:Be prepared for the bear market that will follow.
Speaker:Now this actually, what we do see going on, some people argue, and I tend to agree with
Speaker:this, that this plays into a longer, what they call a longer cycle.
Speaker:Because traditionally, we've had a four-year cycle.
Speaker:It's starting to look like this may lengthen out.
Speaker:If we get back above our all-time highs, 68, 69K, and the cycle continues, the bull market
Speaker:continues, then it most assuredly will be a longer cycle.
Speaker:Now whether that's a month, two months, three months, a year remains to be seen.
Speaker:But that would not be a bad thing.
Speaker:That ultimately means we'll end up at a higher price, and it ultimately means, it should
Speaker:mean that when we do enter that bear market, that it's a shallower market.
Speaker:That's a shallower fall.
Speaker:Remember, back in 2017, we fell, or 2018, during the end of that bull market, we lost
Speaker:in some cases, very near 90% of like, ETH and Bitcoin.
Speaker:The altcoins, the other altcoins were even worse.
Speaker:I don't think we're going to go that far down, especially if this market lengthens out.
Speaker:It does not mean there won't be buying opportunities.
Speaker:I would, you know, we may revisit 50K with Bitcoin, maybe, I don't know.
Speaker:Time will tell, but it will be a buying opportunity when it happens, not a reason to panic.
Speaker:Okay, so that's some of our news.
Speaker:I do want to kind of jump into the meat of this.
Speaker:Why am I in crypto?
Speaker:It's a good question.
Speaker:I've been involved in crypto for quite a while.
Speaker:I got involved back in 2013, originally.
Speaker:Well, I've been in continuously since 2013, essentially.
Speaker:For a long time, I was what they call a system administrator, managing systems, servers,
Speaker:in data centers, now on the cloud, that kind of thing.
Speaker:And I heard the buzz around Bitcoin probably, I would suspect, in late 2012, certainly in
Speaker:early 20...
Speaker:Well, I think I bought my first Bitcoin like in January, February, somewhere in that first
Speaker:quarter of 2013, it was probably 2012.
Speaker:And the technology behind it fascinated me.
Speaker:I didn't understand, maybe we, none of us did, well, there was information there.
Speaker:I didn't understand all the implications behind Bitcoin, because Bitcoin was the only thing
Speaker:available at that time.
Speaker:I just liked it from a technology standpoint.
Speaker:I thought it might do well, you know, it had already gone up quite a bit at that point.
Speaker:I wasn't making a whole lot of money at the time, though, so I bought a little bit, played
Speaker:around with it, ultimately kind of just didn't really do a whole lot, unfortunately.
Speaker:I wish now, of course, that that were not so, but it is what it is.
Speaker:I got a lot more active a few years later when I had more money.
Speaker:I was very involved in the 2016-2017 bull run.
Speaker:And of course, in 2018, when the market fell apart, I've explained before, you know, I
Speaker:kind of froze, I didn't know what to do, I didn't have good guidance at that time.
Speaker:And I just froze.
Speaker:I didn't sell my assets, which was in some cases was good.
Speaker:I had things outside of basically everything outside of Bitcoin and Ethereum did not weather
Speaker:that downturn.
Speaker:Fortunately, most of my assets were in Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Speaker:So even though I went a span of basically several years, my assets did OK.
Speaker:Now, I missed a huge opportunity.
Speaker:I could have been buying, buying, buying during that time.
Speaker:But to be honest, I guess I didn't have the faith or I would have been doing that.
Speaker:I didn't have the belief in what was going on.
Speaker:And I got busy with life.
Speaker:I had other things going on.
Speaker:Well, you know, I certainly kept up with things.
Speaker:And when things started getting going, I kind of pulled up the accounts and dusted things
Speaker:off and got going again.
Speaker:But I got involved, I guess you could say with the right people.
Speaker:And I got my head on a little more straight this time.
Speaker:And I understand a lot more about what's going.
Speaker:Some of this is just frankly experience and some of it's hard experience.
Speaker:I mean, it just is.
Speaker:You will lose money if you're in this market long enough.
Speaker:You cannot go, you know, from zero to a million dollars without some bumps along the way.
Speaker:Sorry, I wished I could tell you otherwise.
Speaker:But anyways, we've done a lot better this time.
Speaker:And I have a good plan so that when the bear market comes, when we reach the top, you know,
Speaker:I know what I'm going to do and I'm not really going to tell you what I'm going to do because
Speaker:what I do may be different than what you should do.
Speaker:We've discussed, we have several options, you know, you may choose to sell at the top
Speaker:and then buy back in.
Speaker:If you can time it, that's difficult.
Speaker:You can choose to hold.
Speaker:You could just choose to do what I did, hold, go all the way through the bear market and
Speaker:then start buying again.
Speaker:I do not recommend that.
Speaker:What I do recommend if you're going to hold is that even as it goes down, because frankly
Speaker:we don't know how long or deep this bear market is going to be, just keep buying.
Speaker:You buy Bitcoin, you buy, and I would buy solid assets, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano maybe,
Speaker:maybe some of these others.
Speaker:You've got some very strong level two assets that are coming on things like Polygon, you
Speaker:know, some, some networks and tokens like that, that are actually doing things.
Speaker:So I'm going to just discount things like Shiba, things like Flokeinu, things like what
Speaker:is it Dogecoin until they have something that they're doing, they will most likely do what
Speaker:all of the other tokens did during the last bear market, they will disappear.
Speaker:So I would keep that in mind.
Speaker:But what I would do is I would be buying these assets when they're at these bargain basement,
Speaker:you know, fire sale prices.
Speaker:You could have gotten Bitcoin for $3,500 like less than two years ago, which is ridiculous
Speaker:because here we are at 50,000 thinking the world is sending.
Speaker:I mean, think about that.
Speaker:It's kind of crazy.
Speaker:So do yourself a favor, and if you're not going to sell and then buy back, what I would
Speaker:do if I were to do that, I would sell and buy back and then I would dollar cost average
Speaker:so to speak.
Speaker:I would keep buying at those bargain prices.
Speaker:Build your wealth.
Speaker:You can, you can build true wealth during that downturn.
Speaker:You can make money during a bull market.
Speaker:You can build true wealth during that downturn.
Speaker:Keep that in mind.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:So that's kind of the history in a nutshell, but that doesn't really explain why I'm in
Speaker:crypto.
Speaker:I'm in crypto because I believe in what it allows.
Speaker:Max Keiser is maybe not my most favorite person in the world, honestly, but he says it's unconfiscatable
Speaker:wealth.
Speaker:The government can't take it away from you, whatever government that may be.
Speaker:And I'm not talking necessarily about the US government.
Speaker:I'm talking about any government.
Speaker:You have the keys.
Speaker:The keys can be in your head and nobody can take that away from you.
Speaker:And it's not a physical item necessarily.
Speaker:So you can leave, go somewhere else, reconstitute your Bitcoin, so to speak, and move on with
Speaker:your life.
Speaker:So that's a very freeing thought, especially when times are uncertain.
Speaker:So that's one reason.
Speaker:I believe that crypto in general, Bitcoin, Ethereum specifically, I believe that they're
Speaker:inflation hedges.
Speaker:Right now, a lot of countries around the world are going through periods of inflation.
Speaker:The United States is certainly, I've mentioned in the news just recently, it was announced
Speaker:were six and a half percent.
Speaker:It's a lot higher than that.
Speaker:Go look at house prices.
Speaker:People think house prices are going up because of demand and that's part of it, but it's
Speaker:not.
Speaker:It's because of inflation.
Speaker:Assets go up based on inflation.
Speaker:That's just the way of it.
Speaker:So houses are going up, land is going up, right?
Speaker:Even vehicles are going up.
Speaker:A vehicle really isn't an asset, but it's considered to be that.
Speaker:Okay, so that's another reason.
Speaker:I do see this as a way to build my wealth.
Speaker:We have a traditional IRA type account.
Speaker:We have other investments, but this is a wealth building tool for me because I believe over
Speaker:time.
Speaker:Historically, Bitcoin has certainly shown it's gone up.
Speaker:I don't think that's going to stop.
Speaker:I don't think it's going to go to zero.
Speaker:I don't think Bitcoin tomorrow is going to drop to $30,000 tomorrow.
Speaker:And if it does, two weeks after that, it may be at 60 and people will have another episode
Speaker:about is it risky?
Speaker:And maybe I should have done that one first, but this volatility makes people think that
Speaker:it's risky, but just zoom out, just zoom out.
Speaker:Look at the long-term view.
Speaker:Is it going up?
Speaker:Is it going up and to the right?
Speaker:Well, of course it's going to the right.
Speaker:It's going up though.
Speaker:Yes, it dips.
Speaker:Yes, it jogs.
Speaker:Yes, it does all these crazy things, but that's because it's trying to find its true value
Speaker:and its true value is dependent upon other factors such as inflation in the United States
Speaker:or in other countries around the world.
Speaker:As long as there's inflation, Bitcoin is going to go up.
Speaker:As long as the Ethereum network is growing in usage, and let me tell you something, don't
Speaker:listen to these people who tell you, well, Ethereum's got too high fees and therefore
Speaker:it's going to stop growing.
Speaker:Baloney.
Speaker:The reason why the fees are high is because it's so popular and that is being worked on.
Speaker:I've talked about that in the past.
Speaker:It too will come to pass.
Speaker:Those will be resolved as we move into Ethereum too.
Speaker:Ethereum as an asset is so far ahead of these other altcoins, it's not even close.
Speaker:Go look at a market cap chart.
Speaker:I was looking at one earlier and I don't know the numbers off the top of my head, but it's
Speaker:just like 5X above the next asset, the next token.
Speaker:So that's just FUD.
Speaker:Don't listen to it.
Speaker:The Ethereum network is not going to shut down.
Speaker:So as long as it continues to grow, it's going to continue to gain in value.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:What else?
Speaker:Why else am I involved?
Speaker:I'll tell you why.
Speaker:Well, I'll tell you two more reasons and I'll stop there.
Speaker:We could probably do this all night.
Speaker:I'm going to tell you one and then I will wrap up with probably my most important one
Speaker:and it may be strange to you and that's okay.
Speaker:Bitcoin specifically, you cannot print Bitcoin.
Speaker:Bitcoin has to be mined.
Speaker:There's a set number of Bitcoin.
Speaker:There will never be more than 21 million Bitcoin and so on and so forth.
Speaker:Unlike any economy in the world right now, I don't know of a single country at this point
Speaker:who's tied to a gold standard.
Speaker:They print money, which literally means they go print money.
Speaker:I mean, that's not, that is exactly where that's coming from and it's worthless and
Speaker:it's based on, in my opinion, a reality that is no longer there.
Speaker:And at some point over the next few years, we're going to have economies reset, maybe
Speaker:basically every economy in the world, every major economy.
Speaker:And that's going to be a very tough period in my opinion.
Speaker:And if I can avoid that, or if I can at least soften that, then I'm doing what's best for
Speaker:my family and I.
Speaker:Final reason.
Speaker:So I'm somebody who tries to help other people and I've done that in a number of ways in
Speaker:my life and it's not relevant to this discussion, but I want to help people.
Speaker:There is a proverb that goes back to the 1800s that says, if you give a man a fish, he's
Speaker:hungry again in an hour.
Speaker:If you teach him to catch a fish, you do him a good turn.
Speaker:If you teach a man to fish, you'll keep him fed.
Speaker:He can be fed for his lifetime, essentially.
Speaker:If I give him a fish, he'll be hungry again, you know, later that day.
Speaker:And a lot of charity is done, certainly for the right reasons, but it doesn't teach the
Speaker:man to fish, it gives them a fish.
Speaker:One of the issues that we've got in the world today is that a lot of people have no ability
Speaker:to save.
Speaker:The percentage is like 20 to 30%.
Speaker:They have no access to banking.
Speaker:They're called the unbanked.
Speaker:I go to the bank, put money in the bank, they take care of it, it's insured, so on and so
Speaker:forth.
Speaker:There's a lot of value to that.
Speaker:Somebody who doesn't have a bank in their town, in their village, or even in the city
Speaker:nearest them, they don't have that same ability to save.
Speaker:You can only put so much money under your mattress.
Speaker:You don't have access to any type of, you know, interest bearing accounts or, or whatever,
Speaker:to have ways to make money off of your money that you save.
Speaker:If you're in a country that's inflationary and you're saving money, it makes it that
Speaker:much more difficult.
Speaker:Bitcoin and these other assets like Ethereum help to solve this.
Speaker:We're seeing this with the Lightning Network.
Speaker:We're seeing this in places like El Salvador, Africa.
Speaker:People are gaining the ability to save money and ultimately this will be life changing.
Speaker:And that is actually what I'm most excited about.
Speaker:It levels the financial playing field.
Speaker:Now, somebody in America who's maybe, I don't know, has a, has a white collar, so-called
Speaker:white collar job, yes, they're going to make a lot more money than somebody in Sub-Saharan
Speaker:Africa who lives out in a small village.
Speaker:But giving those people the ability to save money at least gives them a start.
Speaker:And that is actually the thing, the single thing that makes me the most happy, if that
Speaker:makes sense.
Speaker:And I am looking to become involved in some of these projects that are helping people
Speaker:to do that.
Speaker:Things like the Lightning Network.
Speaker:Not because I can make a lot of money off of the Lightning Network, but because I can
Speaker:help build a resilient system that allows people to cheaply and easily send money wherever
Speaker:through a peer-to-peer transaction, so person-to-person without an intermediary, can be done from
Speaker:a cell phone and also gives them the ability to access, you know, to save, save those satoshis
Speaker:in that case.
Speaker:I do believe that that's teaching someone to fish, not giving them fish.
Speaker:And that's much more helpful.
Speaker:So those are the reasons that I'm involved in Crypto.
Speaker:Now, your reasons may be different.
Speaker:I hope those gave you some food for thought, though.
Speaker:Let's move on to the news.
Speaker:Don't want to go too long tonight.
Speaker:And there was a lot of news, Wednesday night, last Wednesday, the Badger DAO, so DAO, Digital
Speaker:Autonomous Organization, was hacked.
Speaker:Unfortunately, this is part of the growing pains of Crypto.
Speaker:Now, I don't know exactly what the Badger DAO is.
Speaker:It's an organization that they're put together for a purpose.
Speaker:I had no money in this.
Speaker:I don't, you know, I don't really know a whole lot about what they're involved in.
Speaker:This says that they're a decentralized, of course, automated organization focused on
Speaker:developing infrastructure and products in order to simplify the overall use of Bitcoin
Speaker:across Ethereum, along with many other blockchains.
Speaker:I don't know what that means.
Speaker:I'm sorry, I don't.
Speaker:But people stole $120 million of cryptocurrency, and that's a lot of money.
Speaker:A lot of it actually came from an organization called Celsius, which was another service.
Speaker:And I don't know, I don't know exactly.
Speaker:But the vast majority of this actually was Celsius money, I believe.
Speaker:This was a hack that was done through the interface, through the, you know, through
Speaker:the web interface.
Speaker:And I don't, I'm just giving you the bare details.
Speaker:I don't really understand all the ins and outs of this.
Speaker:Unfortunately, this is the kind of thing that happens.
Speaker:It is a reason why you should always be careful.
Speaker:Don't put a bunch of money into anything that doesn't have a long track record.
Speaker:And I would always, I mean, we've talked about this.
Speaker:I would always split up my pool, so to speak, my money, don't have everything in one place.
Speaker:This could happen.
Speaker:I don't know if these people will get their money back.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:It's interesting because because of the transparent nature of the blockchain, they know where
Speaker:the money went.
Speaker:They know what wallets it went to, but you can't, that's kind of the end of the road.
Speaker:You just, you don't know.
Speaker:So I don't know that they'll get this back.
Speaker:So I would be, you know, just, just be careful.
Speaker:Got to be careful out there, but that was some of the news this week.
Speaker:That was the earliest news Friday.
Speaker:We already talked about kind of, we had the big drop over the weekend fidelity, who's
Speaker:one of the largest money asset managers, I guess, in the world launched a spot, a Bitcoin
Speaker:spot ETF and mutual fund in Canada because they can't do it here in the United States.
Speaker:Interestingly enough.
Speaker:Now, I understand that US citizens can actually access that, but it's certainly not as easy
Speaker:as if it were here in the United States.
Speaker:We got an Ethereum update that actually happens tomorrow night, I believe.
Speaker:So this would be the next update after EIP 1559, which was the change that went in that
Speaker:started burning ETH basically, which has gone really well.
Speaker:So this is, this is the next major update to Ethereum that will be taking place tomorrow
Speaker:night.
Speaker:Also, Vitalik recently, Vitalik was the creator of a, basically the creator of Ethereum brains
Speaker:behind it, so to speak, there was a number of people involved, but he wrote the initial
Speaker:white paper, so on and so forth.
Speaker:So he has actually kind of road mapped out what it's going to take to get to ETH 2.0.
Speaker:Again, this is going to increase our scalability, lower gas fees, higher throughput, etc, etc.
Speaker:It doesn't give dates and times, but these are the things that are definitely in our,
Speaker:in the future for ETH and by future, I mean, we're going to have major steps happen next
Speaker:year getting there towards this.
Speaker:I think you'll see specifically with Ethereum, Ethereum has always had this idea, you know,
Speaker:they're constantly improving the code and that is basically directly contradicting what
Speaker:Bitcoin does where they literally only upgrade every few years, right?
Speaker:We just had the big SegWit upgrade, which I think was the first one in four years for
Speaker:Bitcoin.
Speaker:It's quite a contrast.
Speaker:Arguments can be made either way.
Speaker:I think as long as these roadmaps, as long as these improvements are done thoughtfully
Speaker:with lots of testing and you know, I think it will be, it will be okay, but it is a different
Speaker:thought process.
Speaker:So I will make a link to that article as well in the notes.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:So next Cardano had a major development with the release a couple of days ago on the test
Speaker:network of what they call Sunday Swap, which is at the first DEX decentralized exchange
Speaker:on Cardano.
Speaker:So that was a big deal for them.
Speaker:The token has actually gone up of course, since then, as you would expect Cardano needs
Speaker:Cardano has been lagging, I guess, because I don't know, because they're just being very
Speaker:methodical.
Speaker:I think over the long run they will do very well.
Speaker:Of course, they're one of these top assets already in terms of value, but I do think
Speaker:that that will continue to go up, but they need to get stuff out there and this is a
Speaker:first step.
Speaker:So it was good to see that I'll make a link to an article about that in the notes as well.
Speaker:And then finally, I did want to link to this isn't necessarily news, but this is an article
Speaker:that I came across.
Speaker:It's actually on vice.com.
Speaker:It's not really a place that I frequent, but I just kind of happen to come across this
Speaker:and I want you to actually read this to protect yourself.
Speaker:This person lost $400,000, almost everything that they had on a single Robinhood bet, meaning
Speaker:trade apparently.
Speaker:They did everything wrong and it's very interesting to read through this article and kind of put
Speaker:yourself in their head.
Speaker:They did everything wrong, but as a trader, as somebody who's been involved in made trades,
Speaker:I understand where they're coming from and I use these type things to help keep me in
Speaker:the right frame set.
Speaker:When a big event like what just happened happens, do I have either the liquidity in place to
Speaker:take a massive downswing because these things happen.
Speaker:It happened in March of 2020.
Speaker:What a year and a half ago during the start of COVID, because of COVID, everybody's like,
Speaker:oh, this is going to affect everything and the market dropped like a lot.
Speaker:It does happen.
Speaker:I will tell you one of the things that may cause another severe drop and honestly, just
Speaker:to go back to the market for just a minute, I think we will go back up.
Speaker:We very likely may dip back down again before we go up.
Speaker:We've got things that are there.
Speaker:The US stock market hasn't been doing very well.
Speaker:You've got the Evergrande situation in China, which has gotten worse.
Speaker:They are saying that we have no money left, essentially.
Speaker:The things are not in a good situation and frankly, at any minute, something could happen
Speaker:and it could trigger another one of these.
Speaker:You always have to be careful.
Speaker:If you just don't have a huge amount of liquidity, you need, and by liquidity, I mean like a
Speaker:pool of assets that you can take that drop, that $10,000 Bitcoin drop and not your trade
Speaker:not get delevered or liquidated or you can use stop losses.
Speaker:Oh, if I drop, let's say I'm sitting at 51, if I drop below 47 or 50 or whatever that
Speaker:level is that you're setting, it automatically gets you out of the trade.
Speaker:Those are called stop losses.
Speaker:If you don't have those things in place, you will get wrecked.
Speaker:So reading through articles like this, and I'm going to post this article in the notes.
Speaker:I'm not going to read through it.
Speaker:It's a long article, but I would highly recommend that you click through it and read this.
Speaker:It's well worth the 10 minutes or whatever that it's going to take you to read because
Speaker:I'm afraid there's a lot of people out there like that.
Speaker:Well, maybe this isn't that long an article.
Speaker:It probably won't take you five minutes to read, but I'm not going to read it on here.
Speaker:It's too long to read.
Speaker:It's very worthwhile while reading though.
Speaker:So I would strongly encourage you to do that.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So that's the news for the week.
Speaker:I hope everybody's doing okay.
Speaker:I hope you did the right thing and bought the dip that you didn't get liquidated.
Speaker:I tweeted, I said, I'm actually going to bring this up.
Speaker:When this happened Friday night, it was actually early Saturday morning, I think at that point.
Speaker:So I tweeted this, I said, well, first of all, I said, bang, there went 99% of the leverage.
Speaker:Maybe now we'll go up.
Speaker:And that leverage was actually holding the market back.
Speaker:I believe that.
Speaker:So it's not a bad thing in terms of the market.
Speaker:It's bad for people when they get deleveraged, when they get liquidated like that.
Speaker:And right after that, I said, if you were liquidated, I'm sorry.
Speaker:It hurts.
Speaker:I've been there, which I have been.
Speaker:I've lost.
Speaker:I've been liquidated before.
Speaker:I've lost.
Speaker:I've lost trades.
Speaker:I said, learn from the experience.
Speaker:It doesn't mean that crypto is bad.
Speaker:It means crypto is extremely volatile.
Speaker:And I said, if you ever leverage again, ensure you use appropriate stops or have enough liquidity
Speaker:to take the dip.
Speaker:So keep that in mind.
Speaker:If you're not comfortable trading, don't trade.
Speaker:Certainly don't trade anything that you can't afford to lose.
Speaker:Do not be trading your entire portfolio.
Speaker:And don't come to me for trading advice.
Speaker:I'm not going to give it.
Speaker:I don't because if you ever make a wrong trade, you could come back and blame me and I'm just
Speaker:I'm not up for that.
Speaker:It's not my gig.
Speaker:I do trade and I've done okay.
Speaker:But that's not the point.
Speaker:The point is these are long-term assets that will set you free if you give them enough
Speaker:time.
Speaker:So first of all, you need to be treating them as investments.
Speaker:And one final thing, I hope you noticed last week, this was last minute, but I got some
Speaker:new toys.
Speaker:I got Christmas a little early.
Speaker:I added a couple of software compressors to my setup and Native Instruments is the maker
Speaker:of these.
Speaker:And oh my goodness, it was really easy to set up.
Speaker:And I could not believe you may not care what I sound like, but it was like night and day
Speaker:when I turned these things on.
Speaker:So I will be using them from here on out.
Speaker:I really, really like them.
Speaker:They're basically based upon some vintage studio compressors that were used quite frequently
Speaker:and probably still are in some studios for vocals.
Speaker:I'm very frankly self-conscious about the way I sound and it really helps what I hear,
Speaker:what I listen to myself.
Speaker:So y'all get to come along for that.
Speaker:I hope you enjoy it.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:So anyways, that's that.
Speaker:We'll wrap things up.
Speaker:Thanks for being here.
Speaker:I hope this has been helpful.
Speaker:I would love to hear from you on Twitter, which I just mentioned.
Speaker:I'm at McIntoshFinTech and you can reach me by email at mcintosh@genwealthcrypto.com.
Speaker:Of course, the Generational Wealth website is at genwealthcrypto.com.
Speaker:Now go out and make it a great week.