 around. I'll answer any of your questions, the best of my abilities, and we can go from there. So that's it. All right. There was this one. This was a great piece. I highlighted this one. PandaPie says there was this news today. The senator who said Bitcoin can open the doors of corruption in El Salvador was just indicted. I think these might be, there was two senators that were indicted for insider trading. So good riddance. I got to tell you, if there's anybody who's a, who's the greatest trader of all time, for some reason, they're in Congress. Who to thunk it? Yes. Hey, Ben's chair is here. All right. Lisa, thank you. Oh, look at that. How you enjoying early access copia? I don't have early access. Anyway, I should look into that. Pepe's going to zero. Maybe there's always somebody who wants the YOLO into that for summer. Yeah. Panda's got a good one. He says, I heard Ben and Rob, I stake some cash, weight like a spider, the price of the token can come back to the, to my average price and start DCing til it's under my average price, which is 23K. It makes sense. Yeah, if your average price is 23K, maybe way little bits, wait till it goes underneath that, then start doing it. There's a lot of different ways to do these things, right? Let's see. Rob is in disbelief. Yeah, which is how it is. Mr. Popo says I'm like 90% down, but it's small micro cap. So hopefully a few of them moon on the next floor. You guys know that 75% of my portfolio is Bitcoin. So for that one, I've been dollar cost averaging since 2022. And I tried to, what's called dynamic DCA. You don't know what that is. Just go to the website. I show you what it is. And I'm still up on, I'm still up on a Bitcoin a little bit, but on some of those, like Polygon and Cardano, whew, I am down. And that's okay. For some reason, I heard somebody like something in the comments section goes, that's refreshing to hear a YouTuber say that they're down in their portfolio. Who the hell is up right now? I mean, like way up. I think there's always going to be some trader out there that's like, I'm beating the market. I'm doing awesome. Okay, free financial advice. It's not even that. It's just what I'm doing. I need stress for breakfast. PG says next below, I don't see how I will make any money. I made just about recover the life savings. I have lost so far on crypto. I'm saying, but I'm totally down worst life financial decision. Yeah. So for like this one, it depends on what happened to you. Like if you were like most of us, either you got into Voyager or Celsius or BlockFi or FTX, and that's all gone. Well, Voyager, you got 35% back, which is a pittance. And Celsius is still going through it. Man, I wish they would just liquidate. I know Simon Dixon wants to bring that new co-op and do all these things. I guess I'm not really excited about it, whatever. But you have to get through that. Everything that you lost, we all lost. All my funds are still there. Well, again, not Voyager. And thankfully, I didn't use FTX or BlockFi. And you have to go through that and then get into the next one. That's why I'm hoping that this next bull run, this will be the last bull run we'll have before massive regulation comes in. So there's no other place that we can get these types of gains, that's for sure. But it is risk. And of course, we could lose it all again. I don't really think so. Whatever. What we could be. Abandoned babies says, Rob is living in hindsight. Well, you don't know. You can't know where you're going until you know where you've been. And you can take a look at all the different factors right now. I thought there's some information to be gleaned from that, not that everything's there. Yeah, it'd be nice if everything repeats perfectly. I doubt it. Let's all admit our high buys. I bought Bitcoin around 50,000. Wasn't a much. It was dollar cost averaging. That's the thing. See, that's the thing that'll save you for dollar cost averaging is when you get to these crazy levels, and of course, everybody will look at you and go, oh, but it was so overbought and it was so simple to see. Was it? I mean, looking back, of course, it was. But yeah, once we got to the 60s and 60,000, like that's pretty high. And that was the whole point of me, dollar cost averaging the whole of the time. So go from there. Hi, Rob. Hey, Jean-Louis. SEC revoking approval for a Bitcoin features ETF sci-fi or possibility. It's all possible. Like I've said before, Gary is a Democrat. Not that there's anything wrong with being a Democrat. I have voted for Democratic people in my in my time. Also Republicans also independence. But he is on the side of the White House and the White House absolutely hates Bitcoin. They put out two reports and pretty much said that crypto of Bitcoin is awful. I didn't put these out that they did. And on the SEC right now, it's three Democrats and two Republicans. Hester Pierce being one of the Republicans. I think the next presidential election, we want to have Joe Biden in the White House and he absolutely hates crypto as well. So moving forward and they were going to have a pretty much a better time. And then people will say, well, Rob, you don't understand, then Trump will get in the White House. And oh, this is my least favorite topic, which should be politics. But just as a reminder, Trump wasn't too much of a big fan of crypto as well when he was in during this time. He always talks about how he wants the dollar to be strong. Moving forward though, he just had a very massive sale of NFTs and he owns a boatload of Ethereum. So maybe his stance is softened a little bit, but who knows. Excuse me. One step says, yeah, I always forget to say it's a good one. You only lose money if you sell. If you just sell, that's where it goes. And that's where I look at this and I'm looking at who's in the money and who's out of the money. There's a lot of people out of money. And I'm like, is that where you want to sell? You want to sell for a loss and get out of here? I mean, that happens every day. I'm not going to say it doesn't. But I think most of the people that are here are pretty much staunch investors and just know that time in is better than timing. I know. But again, some people will still sell. Alts will still fall. Maybe 20%, maybe 30%. Heck, maybe even 40%. I'm not for sure. But I don't really care too much about right now. I only care about the next year, year and a half to two years. That's what I'm really more focused on. But again, it's all up to you. If this isn't for you, I gave you an option to just hold off, maybe accumulate cash on the side and maybe get in around using these certain indicators that are free. Bicycle top and UPL time and risk are actually for the lower ones, MVRVZ, TRNA, Puell and Reserve. And looking at Bitcoin again, it's free. It makes it very easy. Look at the colors. When it's red, it's overheated. When it's green, it's pretty much capitulation. It's a big thing. So that's what I look at. All right. Ashley has a good question. Why are the transaction fees so much in the U.S.? The fees in the Netherlands are like 50 cents on 100 euros. I don't know if you're talking about Visa or MasterCard or Ethereum or Bitcoin. I'm not for sure. But for here, for my online business, again, I use PayPal and Stripe and it's roughly 2. It's between 2.99% and 30 cents per transaction or 1.99% plus 30 cents per transaction depending on the amount. So it's just, we just pay a lot for some reason. Same thing as like medications. For some reason here in the United States, we pay a boatload for medications everywhere else. It's very cheap. Dangerous Fox says, Gary's a very confusing guy. I watch his MIT lectures on blockchain. How do I believe the guy chasing down crypto is the same guy? Yeah. I even did a video on him like, this guy should be good for crypto because look at these MIT lectures. He knows exactly what he's talking about and he talked about Ripple and XRP and Bitcoin and Ethereum. It's like a pretty good deal. And all of a sudden, 180. And everything's awful. So again, when you're, when you start a new job, you kind of, kind of got to get in where you fit in. And I think maybe the White House just said to him now and go, look, this is what we want to have happen. And that's it. But no one, everybody believes that the spot ETF will be approved. And I'm the only one that says it's not. But again, it doesn't really matter. Look at the timeframe. When this happens, it's going to be in March of 2024. That's when they all get approved or denied. If it gets approved, great. I'm wrong. And I'm rich. Or it doesn't get approved. Great. I'm right. And my portfolio goes down a little bit. And then we have a Bitcoin having in May. So whatever, it doesn't matter. I mean, it'd be nice, right? Who knows? It's like in my gold coin. Well, there's one more, one more comment. Yeah, this is a good one. Sure. That's why we still still are a loner, right? Exactly. That's the big thing. Like, you never know, you never know which one it's going to be, which one's going to actually make it, which one's not. That's why, like, I diversify. And every Sunday, we do a live stream, I talk about why or which cryptos I'm actually purchasing and which ones are dollar-cost averaging and exactly why and how much I'm down. Because I think people see that like, oh, okay, well, I'm not the only one that's down. Just how it is. So, like, there was a question about taxes. Because the thing that I showed you, and I think in Germany and a couple of different other places, you have, I think Australia as well, correct me in the comment section. But if you hold your crypto for over a year, it's either no tax or very little tax. In America, we have short-term capital gains and long-term capital gains. And long-term capital gains is if we hold over one year, and it's much less than our short-term capital gains, because it's based on our tax bracket moving forward. So, yeah, even like, let's pull this up actually, right here. So, no, it's not right. Okay, so we do a May of 2020. And we invest $12,600. We'd have to hold it all the way, I may be very tempting right around, I think you could do that. Hold to May 21st, 23rd. That's a year. But you'd still be up massively, right? So, you have long-term capital gains, forget, it's like 15 to 20%. And then based on our states, the state that you live in, it could be more. California is like 7 to 9%. Hawaii is like ridiculous. But you'd still be up, and you still have to pay much less. Or, you know, there's different countries you can move to, but that's not something for this video. But yeah, I think you could do okay. Just wait a little bit. Sometimes it actually works out. Now, you wouldn't do so great here. But look, even if you waited over, what the heck is this? Oh, Solana. Yeah, look at that. If you held Solana, you had $5.2 million. Dojo, you'd have $1.3 million. As opposed to over here, well, you'd have Doja 3.1. Okay, you got me now. See, that's the thing. You never know. You never know, you never know. So, yeah, selling. All this is not selling a loss, but in smaller loss. Being a Democrat isn't a problem being a Gary is. Or you can just say like what most people say, I didn't leave the party, the party left me. Yeah, it's a capital game on a short term. Hey, look at that. In December, I've been holding Bitcoin for a year. Oh, card shark, yeah. One year in Germany, no capital tax. Not a bad place to go to. Food is fantastic. People are great. And the beer is phenomenal. Not a bad place to be. And that's it. All right, everybody. So that's it for today. This weekend, we're going to do a live stream. Again, I'll show you all the ones that I've bought so far, how much I'm down, how much I'm up. And we'll go from there. Also, we'll have as a special guest, Ms. Team Crypto, she'll be on with me on Sunday. Because if you want, if you want some positivity, there's no better person than to go from that, from this team. So that's it for today. So, everybody, thanks so much for stopping by. I appreciate it. Like today's video, thumbs up, subscribe, all the good stuff. Enjoy the weekend. And I'll see you guys on Sunday, maybe tomorrow, not for sure. Adios. Have a good day.