 Ito nangyari. I mean, if you were watching the news last month, not a lot of movement in the crypto space. Actually, October was a very positive month for crypto, for Bitcoin, for Ethereum prices. Pero ngayon, just in the past day or so, big lang bumagsak and we'll talk about that in a little bit. But let's play the ad first, bago ko makalimutan. Pus-90 kailaw na windows. Pero saan ko hukuan ng legit windows? Daming options, daming prices. Aka nito. Goody na lang. May cdkeyovers.go. Wadalilo ko ng order. Search for the software you need. Add to cart. Dahan ka sa payment options nila. Wala pang 5 minutes. Finished. May legit, working cdk ka na para sa windows mo. Gamitan lang awing code para makakuhapan ng discounts. Kaya kung nagahalap ka ng legit, mura at original software. Check out cdkeyovers.com Sa up, Moniker. Sa up, Zedekaya. Okay naman yung audio. I'm using just technical note. I'm experimenting with using the Godox lav mic which I usually use for the videos. I do have a Elgato wave 1 here. Pero wala siya stand. So if you notice when I do live streams, parang I'm always holding it. And according to rin, I look like naka-ok ako. So I'm trying to experiment with using this now. Although the wave 1 is still very useful if I need to do voice over for videos. It's nice to have my hands free though. And also I can manipulate like I need to check my notes up here, my other monitor and things like that. Sa up, Reven Jan. Maybe you should focus on your job. I mean, this stream won't be going anywhere. Actually, I don't anticipate a lot of viewers. It is a alanganin hour right after lunch on a Wednesday. But I did want to get to... I did want to do this stream early or right now actually. Para masabi ko na bumagsak yung prices before the stream. As our regular viewers know, I'm medyo always an optimist. And then when I do the episode, usually parang medyo mababa yung prices. So I'll say na, oh, time to buy. And then baka na po yung episode, the prices would drop pa sa more. So I really wanted to do this video, this stream now. Habang bumabagsak palang siya. Or nagsimula na yung price fall before the video. So that I can honestly say that walang co-incidents to. Like it didn't drop after the stream. It was already dropping prior to the stream. Sop, Ren. Sop, Dark Side Chan. Sop, Zenin. Sop, Kenny G. Let me go back to the... yun. So... Ah. Sop. You know, I'm not super... I should really start going on to the discord more often. There's just so many things going on. And I also don't know the ins and outs of discord. Like when I go... When I turn on my discord account for Hardware Sugar, parang dami notifications and stuff. I do know it is a very active server. And that's thanks to the efforts of Rocky, Ren, Jay, and everybody else on our staff who work on the discord or who really... It's not even work for them anymore. Parang it's like they genuinely... Yeah, they take their free time and they like hanging out in the discord. Which I might do... I would do also if I still had some free time left to me. Pero, yeah, I do want to check into the discord more often. So... What's going on? Why are prices down? And it's just been in the past day or so. Actually, yun. We'll talk about it in a little bit. Noong last month, October, magandaing performance on Bitcoin, magandaing performance on Ethereum. I have some numbers that we'll share later. Pero for the most part, it was pretty stable at around 20K over slightly above 20K. Which is a reasonable floor. I mean, we didn't... I didn't think it would much go beyond that. Although recently, in the past day or so, FTX, which is the third's world, the third largest exchange in the world, apparently may reports na nakakaproblema with withdrawals. So people have been trying to withdraw from them tapos mabagal several hours. And then to compound that, so FTX is the exchange. I'm not too familiar with it to be honest. I don't use it for my own trading. Although apparently it's the third-largest in the world. FTX is the exchange. They also have a coin of their own called FTT. Tapos itong si Binance, I notice like the younger kids like to call it Binance. So I'm just going to call it Binance. I don't know. When I first heard it, parang yun pronunciation sa akin Binance. So unless jaw mismo, comes to tell me na Binance yun. I'm just going to go with how it sounded like in my head. So Binance, apparently owned a bit some shares before in FTX. And they received FTT because of those shares. So you know, overtime they accumulated FTT also. Binance tweeted. And I can't, it's not clear to me if they tweeted before all of the liquidity problems. Liquidity meaning basically cash on hand. So people are wondering now liquid pa ba, may cash on hand, may crypto pa ba on hand yung FTX kasi na hirapan nga sila sa mga withdrawal. It's like if you went to a BPI and then suddenly the teller couldn't give you, couldn't transacure withdrawal kasi wala ng para yung banko. For exchanges, for banks, liquidity is a big thing because customers are always concerned na do you have the, I gave you my crypto, I gave you my cash, do you actually have that on hand if I want to withdraw it? Obviously nobody wants to be the last guy to withdraw na wala ng lamban yung, wala ng pera yung banko. So it's unclear to me if Binance tweeted this before or after the reports of FTX's liquidity problems were going on. But Binance apparently tweeted na we will start to sell off our FTT. And they position it as parang it's just a routine kind of post because Binance, at least based on the reports I read had already sold off its shares in FTX and so selling off the FTT was just a natural consequence of that. Parang they were just doing, since nag-exit na kami sa FTX mag-exit na rin kami sa FTT which is the coin of FTX. And so they tweeted that and so that sent everybody into like a tailspin parang there were rumors already of FTX's liquidity problems plus you have Binance basically the top dog now in crypto saying that they're going to sell off FTT. So it really sent prices or interest in FTX, the shares of FTX and the price of FTX tumbling down. They refuted. At the sooner of FTX, Sam, bankman, fried, freed which is called Sam. Sam of course tweeted na everything is fine Binance is just trying to take advantage of the situation although I guess that might have been I guess as an indication that the liquidity problems or liquidity concerns came before the tweet from Binance. Sam said everything was fine we have enough money to cover everybody's withdrawals and the withdrawal queue is starting to catch up so the time that you're waiting for a withdrawal is starting to come down. So there was a whole public spat between sorry I'm just going through the I'm just going through the pulig Yes they are very much so Yes feel free to post it in the PM forum or the Discord server There was this one Hindi lang sa Discord dropping the programmers pretty much a bully even in real life So I'm just going to leave that comment up here So everybody's concerned now about FTX the third world's largest crypto exchange that doesn't have the money on hand and I don't like if you're a customer, and that's really like a chicken and egg thing when it comes to bank runs, exchange runs na they might be solid at first but if everybody wants to withdraw at the same time and even big banks are only required a certain percentage of liquidity it's not like the banks can keep 100% of the funds they receive on hand at all times because they won't make money banks make money of the interest rates when they lend it to other people not from just holding the cash of other people So even banks, major banks are required only a percentage to keep on hand and that's valid liquidity but the problem with a bank run with an exchange run is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy once may blood in the water so to speak na oh shit parang ito exchange na to may problema, tatangaling kuhuning ko na pera ko then even though it didn't have any problem before when a majority of its users want to withdraw the funds withdraw the crypto withdraw the money then even though there wasn't a problem before magkakaroon na talaga ng exchange run or bank run So that's where things were and then medyo nagsasagutan si Zhao, the owner of Binance and si Sam, the owner of FTX sa Twitter and you know, Twitter is like a whole thing and then the whole daming drama about Twitter itself but people also using it to respond passively aggressively to each other and in the latest twist which only was like 12 hours ago or something Binance has stepped in to buy FTX and then we have Sam, the owner of FTX thanking Binance so these two figures in crypto Sam and Zhao were publicly going at it on Twitter but now that Binance has stepped in to buy FTX suddenly it's Sam saying thank you to Zhao and saying this is best for everybody and Zhao himself saying that our most important consideration are the users, the clients of FTX so it's been a really whirlwind kind of thing for the FTX saga with the current news being that Binance will be buying FTX Why is the price down of all major currencies crypto being around 18.4 as we speak when in October it was around 20 20.5 basically people don't like uncertainty especially with crypto and everything with crypto is magnified in traditional markets like the bond markets or the stock market yes of course people react to news people react to uncertainty but even more so with the crypto space and I mentioned before that's why I like it parang everything is time stand kung bagsak, bagsak talaga pero kung akit, akit talaga it's really crazy times I try to stay away from the drama to be honest I try not to trade based on the prevailing wins of the day so I do try to go for value options long term prognosis but but um yeah this was like a big this was like a major shake up in the crypto space no one likes uncertainty so I do think that's why the prices are down I'm not familiar on this one what is the library case hang on let me check ah there's a secru oh it lost its case ah that's actually good news I'll take a look at this more often I mean I'll take a look at this more in depth when I go online so apparently the library is a blockchain based file centering and payment network and but it lost an sec case in the states there was no ICO so library didn't and then ah so since they since library lost its case before the US SEC now there are concerns that XRP or Ripple which also has a case before the US SEC might meet a similar fate sorry let me just to clarify technicalities it was the library people against the US SEC before a third party judge um and the judge cited in favor of library what this although it was a district court although I can't imagine the US SEC so it wasn't sorry this is a trial court so there is the court of appeals or para na circuit circuit court of appeals after that before the US SEC so the case was basically that the US SEC alleged that library sold unregistered securities it's a big debate now in the legal world whether crypto is considered a security in the traditional sense like a share of stock for instance um the crypto guys like to argue that no because they want to argue that they're not covered by the same regulations as securities it is a open ended question now although traditional legal analysts will side with a viewpoint that crypto is a security it does share some basic things um or but uh because a lot of people it's personally I think the problem also stems from the fact that there is a cryptocurrency and then there are coins which are treated as shares for example in an ICO in initial coin offering even the terminology ICO very similar to IPO or initial public offering of shares that's where I think a lot of people get tripped up lawyers and non lawyers alike because there are projects na cryptocurrency lang talaga for example like bitcoin and then but there are cryptocurrencies which have a collaborative aspect where you and these are usually dows or um deregulated things where you own a coin and that coin is also a representation of your share in the project that you can use it to vote one coin one vote or whatever ratio or proportion of um that the founders have agreed upon and that's where things become tricky so in that case it does become more like a share rather than uh rather than a currency like what we're used to but you know a lot of currencies don't have that share or coin aspect bitcoin for example I mean you might have one million bitcoin or how many other bitcoin in the world but since it's decentralized you won't um you won't none of your bitcoin can be used to vote on anything it is a bit different though because what I mean by decentralized is na there's no one organization calling the shots for bitcoin unlike in decentralized but there are decentralized projects where there is one non-stock non-profit usually organization and everybody who owns coins can vote when there are proposals they can propose things they can vote on things um more akin to a traditional corporate structure um but yeah see the terminology gets confused a lot decentralized coin versus actual crypto and I think that's where so the legal world is only now starting to come up with precedents and rulings and things like that basically magulot um and that fuels the uncertainty around crypto in general so yeah that might be another reason why crypto prices have tanked right now Saap ITX addict ay I do admit like I don't want to fall into that trap again I do admit that the prices now are quite attractive in October it was around 20, 20.5 so we're at 18.4 now so that's a legit 10% gain right there you buy now 18.5 you wait until it hits 20 or so and yeah I mean that's around slightly below 10% gain yeah I I am tempted to buy but pa dito mayor but um yeah so that's the major news right now in the crypto space FTX having liquidity problems or having perceived liquidity problems Binance saying that oh I'm gonna we're gonna start selling off our holdings in FTX which is the coin of FTX and then everything culminating in Binance announcing couple of hours ago that yeah you know what we're just gonna go buy FTX the owners of Binance and FTX going at each other over Twitter but now that Binance has said that they're gonna buy FTX Sam the owner of FTX seems to be Hunky Dory with everything thanking Binance for stepping in so wild up and down crazy but you know I say crazy times in the crypto space but when is it not crazy right I mean there's always something last month was an aberration where I said same same for the crypto space let 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the main thing really was Binance and FTX and FTT and JAU and I'm going at each other and the resulting fracas basically dragging markets although the library ruling was a pretty good news tip thank you one de har just two two news tidbits for me aside from that apparently Chinese intelligence agents so basically like Chinese spies were caught last month this is not super new news I think it was I think I saw this I saw this last month or a couple of weeks ago I was going to include it in the podcast and if you do have a regular podcast now every friday please do check it out if you're looking for tech news that's a bit less in your face about the jargon or local things like local meetups local content creators so our weekly podcast tech show but friendly drops every friday I was going to include this on one of the episodes but then I thought let's just include it in crypto watch because it's better two Chinese spies were caught in the US trying to obtain information about the US government's case against Huawei so the US government is against Huawei I think supposedly for espionage or their hardware had back doors which would allow Chinese intelligence access to whatever data is flowing through that hardware so matagal na itong caso na ito against Huawei the US government doesn't use Huawei products anymore but there is a suit against them and then apparently Chinese spies were trying to gather information so they tried to buy basically parang lumapit sila sa US DOJ? Was it a DOJ? Well, he was posing as a DOJ tried bribing a US government official for information parabang pare ano pa paano naman, pa kawin to naman what information does the US government have and is it going to use in the case so they tried to bribe a US government official although it looks like it was an entrapment the US government official was just posing as having information about the Huawei case and it brings it into the crypto space because the Chinese agents were offering to buy the information offering to pay the US government official in bitcoin and actually it was paid $61,000 worth of bitcoin was transferred into tranches first was $20,000 and then the second one was $41,000 finally patalagin bitcoin that's a government official parang buy bust basically but instead of drugs it was supposedly US confidential US information about the case against Huawei and the purported Chinese spies were even or there were chats saying that you can have the bitcoin exchanged in casinos in Las Vegas I can I can show you how to do it it's very anonymous there and things like that so nata ko lang ako na governments are all big on let's ban crypto because nefarious people use them like drug deals on silk road and things like that kidnapping guns for hire as a store of value because they are nominally untraceable crypto is often frowned upon by legitimate organizations including governments but it works both ways you can't ban crypto because it's bad for society but then your other agents other organs of your government are using it also for bribery for nefarious ends and then notorious because it's in China and it cracked down on crypto but I guess it hasn't stopped them from using it to try to entice government officials of other countries and actually this flows nicely into the next bit of news China the government is a bitcoin whale whale is the term for if you have a lot of holdings in one particular crypto according to Yong Zhou who is the owner co-founder of crypto quant which a lot of people follow they have data like this that the Chinese government has around 3.9 billion dollars worth of bitcoin from seizures from I don't know they bought it nung baka uso pa yung bitcoin sa kanila I mean when it you know the official stance was that wasn't anti crypto so although that value probably has gone down because that value was assessed prior to the latest price drop so that value has gone down but that's a staggering amount of bitcoin they also have in other currencies soon soon I've already I am yes I've already authorized rent to buy it and then we'll just reimburse her yeah what is this what it is if ever you want to but you don't want to so do I still have to do it ay I'll just take a quick tech question ask ko lang about the temporary files at windows bali 500GB yung SSD ko ang bilis ko may nang gigabyte yes if it's in temporary files like temporary internet files you can delete all of those files if you need to free up space for your drive so yes if it's in folders like temp temporary internet files and things like that can't be deleted without any problems or any concerns you might not want to delete the cookies just for your convenience the websites that you go to track you using those things so baka for your convenience you don't want to delete the cookies and they're really very small so they won't make an impact basically on a 500GB drive where is where is sup guys sir I explained that I wanted to do it now para di ako masise na bumagsak yung prices after the stream so the price is already dropping prior to the stream so I did want to do it now and then the schedule just kind of worked out because my kids are asleep now and I haven't had lunch yet so I was just working all throughout the day haven't had lunch yet but now seems like a good time may na yung amainit yung balita na so I just wanted to kind of like jump on the news and then anybody who wants to watch later can on the replay but like a confluence of factors like led me to like yeah let's do crypto watch now so according to crypto kuwanko founder kiyong ju aside from the Chinese government holding 3.9 billion dollars worth of bitcoin they also have 833,000 ethereum that's around roughly 1.2 billion dollars and then several other unnamed digital assets so most of this is probably from seizures but if they wanted to bribe people with bitcoin they certainly have a large war chest to go about doing it that $61,000 worth of bitcoin was just a drop in the ocean of bitcoin that is open to the Chinese government and again it's kind of realizing that they would still have this considering that yung other anti-crypto alabakang that's their stance that we're just going to hold on to this until the end of the world basically we're not going to touch this I have no idea what the Chinese government wants to do with that although interestingly they're allowing Hong Kong to come up with pro-crypto legislation Hong Kong basically lock in step now with the Chinese government after the takeover during the pandemic nominally it was supposed to be two systems one country policy regarding Hong Kong but the Chinese basically renegged on that and used the lockdowns and the pandemic last year as an opportunity to really tighten its grip on Hong Kong so there is no independent legislature anymore in Hong Kong you could argue there hasn't been one for a very long time but geopolitically China has subsumed or has absorbed Hong Kong back into itself which is kind of surprising now that the Hong Kong legislature is signaling that they might be issuing pro-crypto regulations or issuing regulations that make it legal again to trade crypto or things like that perhaps China experimenting with a policy that sige Hong Kong is still nominally an independent entity or you can do things in Hong Kong that you can't do in China so parang Vegas in that sense or certain states do certain policies certain states in the US since they're federal the states can have different laws that are different from the federal government from other states and perhaps China is experimenting with that here in Hong Kong where may come up with regulations kuno that will be pro-crypto which is very contrary to the public stance of the main Chinese government so an interesting time to be observing that scene like will Hong Kong allow crypto exchanges again although the Chinese government is no stranger to crypto and holding crypto because they are one of the major holders the news article the news even goes on to point out that they hold more than micro strategy or there's one company like two years ago that made a big splash na we're going to be investing in crypto in bitcoin for the long term micro strategy or things like that somewhat along those lines for the name so the Chinese government even holds more than a bullish company but if this whole news about bitcoin and things like that the drop in bitcoin value has gotten you depressed and you don't want to look at your holdings which to be honest, I have days like that where I like I just don't want to look at my coins because everybody is still down it might be small comfort to note that andresine andresine the noted virtual the noted venture capital firm in the states they do have a crypto fund and it lost it lost $4.5 billion reportedly 40% of its value in the first half of 2022 so even if very smart guys because you know if you're in vc you're supposedly very smart or you know you're playing around with a lot of money a lot of analysis supposedly goes into that so even if a top tier VC firm like andresine wondering how you pronounce this first name andresine Horowitz well andresine and then Horowitz can screw up or can misjudge the markets that to that to that extent then it's okay to give yourself a pass it's really very hard to jump in at the right time and jump out at the right time and even if the if it happens to the professionals then it can happen to us too but as I always say with crypto those are just paper losses just hold on to them you never know like douche coin look at this goddamn douche coin um it plummeted like a couple of months ago I remember because I sold out because I was thinking it'll never attain its previous because elon is basically over it there's no intrinsic value in it it's just a meme coin basically but now with elon back in twitter suddenly douche coin is up up up so general advice with crypto sorry this is not an advice show let me just be very clear about that because I don't want to get in trouble legally or whatever my personal take on the news and my personal experience also trading with crypto that um you never can tell they're just paper losses so when don't like number one don't put in money that you can't afford to lose number two if you're losing don't panic usually the best avenue is to just hold it and two years down the line check it again let's see baka naman improved na siya but definitely don't put in your life savings definitely don't put in the money you set aside for your kids tuition things like that pampakain mo actually that's why I'm not eating now kasi wala nang pera kasi bumagsaking bitcoin so trabaho nalag muna bago lunch because there is no lunch but don't yung conting amount lang it's really like a gamble and it's just like poker you try to place your bets where you think at the time that you think but yeah you don't push everything you don't gamble everything when you're playing for fun gunon din sa crypto um well you know rendering you don't really need I'd go for more for size for 10k you can get maybe a 27 inch that would be decent you don't need a high refresh rate monitor for that one so yeah I'd go you could probably get like a 27 inch although hardware sugar um we aim more towards gaming so our monitors are a bit pricey but because they hit like 165 hertz for 24 inches things like that um yeah our 27 inches are like 20,000 24,000 because now they are 165 hertz and they're from ASUS but you could probably get a decent 27 inch for around 10,000 pesos wait for the lazada and the 1111 sale coming up usually a lot of good deals there um we do have a recent video where we did the three cheapest gaming monitors on lazada they were around 6000 or so for 24 inches so you could probably get a 27 inch for around 10,000 if you're lucky with the discount um yeah so that's the news I just wanted to also go through some numbers to round out the stream because prior to all of this kaguluhan with FTX and library ruling crypto prices were pretty good actually and this is seen in October I'm just going to read off key points from I trade usually with Kraken which is a crypto exchange and they send me monthly reports on their take on the crypto prices that's generally where I do like to read off their information on crypto watch because they do have good info like for example in October bitcoin gained 6% historically October is a positive month for bitcoin and roughly it gains around 15% usually last month it only gained 6% Ethereum gained 20% for last month so 20% on any investment is pretty darn good 6% also I mean you can get um I think at TD now is around 4.5% this is Singapore rates like you can get a time deposit in Singapore 4.5% for 6 months but if you had done it at the right time you do that in one month with bitcoin but again it's always like getting it right mean coin I mentioned douge coin douge coin had a huge uptake last month it gained 114% crazy you never know what Elon Musk is going to do and like andami ripples like with what he does so douge coin he had an interest in it before suddenly he's back in the news buying twitter and douge coin is way up because it's all speculation basically that Elon's attention will eventually turn around to douge coin I haven't seen any specific news that he has any plans for douge coin but you wouldn't know that from the price NFT market still down open sea average daily users and average daily transactions fell by 11% and 14% respectively month on month not a good look NFTs were really big a year ago maybe but interest has really dried up except for reddit reddit has been doing well with its NFTs because you can dress up the avatars your avatar on reddit I'm not a big reddit user but I was just following the news that they monetized very well and I think it's an interesting it's an interesting news story because I read it not really known as a financial or crypto company kind of an old legacy company even kind of old media company but it took its time with NFTs it tailored it to the usage of its users to how its users, what its users like, what its users appreciate how they really interact with the avatars and now they have a booming NFT sideline so I think that's an example of not jumping in right away but using the technology kung san bagay yung hirap kasi when you jump on the bandwagon it's like oh everybody crypto oh everybody NFT pero hindi naman bagay sa use case mo but in this case reddit took its time it didn't jump in right away to actually use NFTs for something na bagay for personalized hats or whatever na sa avatar which people really have a connection to have an affinity if you're a heavy reddit user you see your avatar a lot it's your avatar literally like how other people can see you on the platform so there's an incentive to use that NFT even for speculation hindi lang oh I'm gonna buy this because 10 days later it's gonna be 10% it's gonna rise by 10% mas organic yung approach to the NFT which I think a lot of companies can learn from na not just jumping on the bandwagon but using the technology to provide value for their users so props to reddit for doing that and they are bucking the negative trend of NFTs value and losing interest or people losing interest in the NFTs just scrolling through the report from kraken ah yeah bitcoin difficulty also went up in october it hit a new all time high there was actually a slight decrease in september by around 2% but it hit an all time high in october meaning minors are back for bitcoin interest is back up in bitcoin so actually all of the usual internal signs were good for bitcoin except ngayong yung nakagulu si ftx and then binance now stepping in so I can't agree with itx addicts now it's a good time to buy but when have you ever watched the crypto watch show where I don't say that right ethereum doing well the next so the merger went well now ethereum is using proof of stake the next upgrade which is supposed to be in 2023 so they're starting to do the tests for that already in fairness to ethereum you can really see that it's there's a plan there's a progression and they're trying to make things better actually they're trying to improve the volume of the transactions that the network can process because that's really the major stumbling block aside from legitimacy and things like that it's like the volume of transactions because the fastest coin now pales in comparison to the number of transactions that visa and mastercard can do in one second so for long term market acceptance that's really one thing that needs to be solved by any cryptocurrency and ethereum is working hard on that what else I was reading about like so there was like a Solana based decentralized platform mango and in October 11 last month it suffered a 100 million dollar exploit so wild wild yung crypto space I mean it's really creative and it's really exciting to watch but you can really lose your pants on it so that was the big news that was the big news for me from Binance and I can give you the link to the discord server how to 4090 this is the discord server actually about the 4090 so then you and I'm going to cover this in textual but friendly this friday there are reports now of even 4090s with the native plug so not the adapter anymore but the native 16 pin plug not the adapter anymore with the 3x8 octopus octopus chant tendrils even those with native plugs have experienced fires or damage to their 4090 I think the latest news was like there have been two reported at least although a lot and then Johnny guru of course there a well respected PSU guy I already weighed in it's really difficult and there has been no news from nvidia about this initially it was the it's in the adapter and if you severely bend it then that greatly increases the chance of a fire or some other damage but with reports coming in that there are reports coming in that 4090s even with the native 16 pin plug are experiencing trouble that brings everything into question again although again this is a very small minority of users and basically the only advice that everybody seems to agree on is to make sure that the connectors are really secure like they're really tight in there it seems like no brainer advice to make sure that it's plugged in correctly but it can be very difficult especially depending on your build, depending on how tight everything is to really make sure na nakasaksak yun properly that seems to be the only major advice now that people can agree on we've done 4090 builds now in the shop thankfully nakonood nobody has reported any problems yet sorry it's 5 now we've done 5 4090 builds in the shop so far no one has reported problems yet but that's the general consensus na really make sure you got the wires plugged in still tight there like 6x6 todo I have been there have been a lot of updates about cyberpunk I do want to actually jump back in and try to see what's going on with it but maybe Christmas na and damiang news about cyberpunk so I'm trying to remember the only thing that stuck with me was na you can have different apartments now but apparently there have been a lot of other play enhancements to cyberpunk with the latest patches and then interest is at an all time high with the cyberpunk show or Netflix and then with the new patch na makes playing it a lot better down now so I have been interested in it I think it's referring to a central bank digital currency or basically crypto issued by governments crypto issued by fiat looking into what the UK has been doing usually it's China who is big on this with their digital yuan although the digital yuan is only available now to the Chinese so it's not available on the open market at the moment I haven't looked into what the UK is doing I'll make a note to check that out pretty much what ITX Addict said it also depends on the price really usually you can find 6600 XT cheaper although yung ngayong 306 TTI performance wise, kahit mas mahal it would outpace a 6600 XT generally maybe the price is worth it to you the lower price of the 6600 XT is worth it because it usually is kind of a big jump in terms of pricing between the two generally you have a video now where we check GPU prices and CPU prices and we'll update that every month the initial video wala pang AMD GPUs but since I was wrongly criticized on the internet for not including the AMD GPUs and for being an Nvidia fanboy fine we'll include some invidious AMD GPUs and in fact if you look at the spreadsheet it's open to the public and I update it in between videos that spreadsheet is updated so you don't need to wait for a video about it to check it out I have started tracking GPU prices there and if there's one take away from that GPU pricing is really variable depending on the shop so it's really hard to talk in generalities na generally yeah okay the 306 TTI is more expensive but then you can probably find the shop that is an exception or very close to an exception wala talaga uniformity masyado yung GPU prices at least sa atin and it's been an interesting experience tracking the prices I don't use hardware sugar information because I want to keep it unbiased or whatever prices everybody gets heated up about prices so parang wala remove hardware sugar from that equation so any information I use in that video is publicly reported from different shops I don't use my data information like alam ko naman yung dealer price nyan X pero yung shop na toh ginawang Y parang ganon I don't use any of that one of the information is available publicly then we just collate it but it's a real pain in the ass to collate actually kasi yung websites nung ibang shops is are really not that great UI is terrible the filters are terrible in fact I had to go back and redo some stuff kasi mali pala yung filter nila like invidia cards pero hindi pala lahat nung invidia cards nila available hindi lahat nung invidia cards nila lalabas dun may mga cards na labas sa filter even though they're invidia cards so I had to redo the thing anyway it's a long story real pain in the ass but for GPU prices you might want to check out that spreadsheet it is linked in the video description of that video I think it was a video 2 videos ago mga ba mga ba nga ba talaga yung GPU prices it's one of the more recent videos super easy to find it and then nandun yung link of that google spreadsheet nandun sa text description na maybe we can do all of them we can do wedge, we can do roi we can do joker and we can do wash although there is one store there na I think joker is the one with the good 4080 but there's one store there roi atas, sobrang pangit nung inventory nila like GPY, CPY I don't know how they're still in business but they're one of the largest pirakasikat na stores dito sa atin so pili ko hindi updated yung website nila which is again another gripe I have against other stores what kind of, tapat basic na updated yung website and we do that at hardware sugar even though we're a very small store it's a little tempted but let's get first 200K before we get to see what the giveaway will be or we can make it now and then we can make it now and then ibigay lang pag 100K para may incentive din that's true and that's another issue I have with dami kong issue about the sites of other stores is that pa minsan they listed as available pero hindi naman sold out pala because we got feedback na for one customer who inquired with that particular shop and but the so sometimes they list it even though it's not available sometimes they list it as limited and you're not quite sure what that means so you have it on stock but I should buy it now kasi baka mabusan na so it's a mess and I don't enjoy the sites of our competitors and it's not because they're competitors I mean generally I like looking at tech in general but it's just that the UI is really kind of bad sapcha so that's it for crypto watch to be fair I haven't seen that one itong apat na pili ko okay pa naman at least their sites are up review mo na yan kaisa this one I had a notice to be honest that's it for crypto watch episode 15 thanks for joining me if you're joining me on a replay I hope that you were able to take advantage of the price drop because it has the price kind of stabilized now let me check drop down slightly it's around 18.3 now Ethereum is around 1.3 I would buy now okay, I'm going to go have lunch guys thanks for tuning in on the channel our latest video yesterday was yung yung UPS video although if you're watching me at 3 in the afternoon you've probably already seen the UPS video Rocky my brother will be coming out with a sequel to his well-received 200 pesos video so his most recent video was tech accessories worth less than 200 pesos now I think he upped the price to 750 or something so that was a well-received video so we're leaning into that so yes this is a good point by moniker yung hirap to actually I'm already thinking god willing will expand to another branch how would we do the inventory both from a back end point of view and the front end point of view that's also something we're considering and that's a good point but also more opportunities stay safe