 So as we roll into the upcoming Bitcoin halving, there's a lot of questions about profit taking and when to do that. And of course, the different products that are out there. I got to tell you, it's a very nuanced position. So what I want to do is just do a video that I feel is critical to learn about. And we're going to talk about the half and half method. And before we start, I'll just say this, that there is a massive difference as far as profit taking between the established crypto individual assets versus the new crypto projects that are coming in. And this could be everything from Bitcoin L2s, that could be from AI, from deep end, even from meme coins. There is a massive difference between the ones that are coming in, which I believe were in the Goldilocks timeframe right before the Bitcoin halving, as opposed to say like a Bitcoin and some other blue chip altcoins that are there. So to get into this, and I don't know how long this will be as far as like when people are watching this video. So just as a point of reference, today, we are in the first week of April 2024, the Bitcoin halving is just a couple weeks away, roughly around April 20 or so. And Bitcoin today is just under 68K. The total market cap is 2.6, roughly trillion. The theorem is at 3,300 and BNB and everything else is, you know, in this range. But again, the market cap itself is all just under 2.7 trillion. So that's just a little point of reference. Let's talk about the half and half method, as I call it. And really it comes out of this, is how stressed do you want to be? Because it can be very simple. We can just hold in diamond hands, or we can make it very easy on ourselves. Look, there's a reason why when you turn into these videos, I'm pretty much the same person all the time. I don't get really overly excited. I don't get overly down, pretty even kilter across the board. And the reason is because I learned a couple of things from screw ups and mistakes and what I should do and what I should have done. So the half and half method goes like this. Once you double X, and again, big difference between established projects and new projects. I'm talking about new projects right here on this video. Once you double X, whatever you put into it, you're going to take the profits of half. Now, these aren't really half of profits because if you put in $100 and it goes to $200, $100 you take off is not the profits, the $100 is just your money. And the rest of it is just you're playing with house money. So there's really no stress. When a 2X is again, you take profits of a half. When a 2X is again, take profits of half. And you repeat this until established or the crypto becomes an established crypto in your mind by different metrics. And that could be a whole plethora of things. Or everything just gets exhausted and it doesn't double X anymore. And it just goes into oblivion, which is what 99% of the cryptos that are out there are doing. So again, big difference between established cryptos and new ones. If you're talking about established cryptos, I did a video where I talk about why and when I'm selling 80% of all my cryptos. There's a link in the description. And every one of my videos in the thumbnail looks like that. It's about 25 minutes or so. Just so watch that for the more established cryptos are taking profits. But for this one, we're talking about again, the early risers. So this is half and half method, you know, just taking profits forever, essentially, if you can. And here's an example. So let's say you have 100 tokens of whatever that new crypto is, right? And you buy them for a dollar. So you have $100 worth of tokens, whatever that is. And then let's say the token skyrockets to $2. And of course, you sell a half and you leave a half. So you don't have profits right now. It's you have $100 of essentially the house money. And you have $100 back in your pocket and you have a loss of anything, no stress. Then let's say that so you sold half. Now you have 50 tokens and it goes to $2. You're like, okay, well, of course, you got $100. Now let's say it rockets back up and it doubles again to $4. So you're going to sell half and leave a half. You got a profit of $100. Congratulations. Now you got 25 tokens at $4. And it goes to $100 or $100 worth. Let's say it rockets up again and doubles to $8. You're going to sell half and leave half. You got another profit of $100. Again, very easy to do. There is absolutely no type of stress. There's another caveat here. If you say, you know what, once it double x's and I've taken my initial money out, I'm going to tell it to 4x or 6x or 8x. I can't tell you what to do. I'm just telling you what I do, which is the half and half method. So I just want to bring it out there. Then also, if you're want to take a look at what I've invested into as far as like the more risky plays, you know, we have our secondary channel Dan Degen and everything I invest into, there's a link in the description and it's called the 5% Degen plays. And you can find a spreadsheet of everything I've invested into and the profits and losses going from there. So everything is transparent as you possibly can. So talking about that and why I put this video out at this particular time point is because I think we're in the Goldilocks timeframe. In the last having around May or so or May 20th, May 2020, around May 11th or May 12th, that was the last Bitcoin having. Now we're in April, 2024. And it was around this time that a lot of good projects launch. And I think we're in that same time point again. And at that point, you had Matic, Axie Infinity, Solana, San, Shiba Inu, Gala, Avax. And yeah, you had your Terra Luna, which did magnificent, but crash spectacularly because it just wasn't sustainable. So what I want to take a look at is these eight different examples, Solana, Axie, Luna, which is now called Luna Classic. Because again, even though Luna went to zero, you could have made some fantastic gains just using the half and a half method. Avax, Shiba Inu, Audius, which is a project that's not really well known, UMA. And a project that is a meme coin called Machi Big Brother because not everything works out. So when we go over this, I'm just going to tell you, I'm going to preface it with this. This is what I've learned over the timeframe, which is this. You're going to want to get an early. You want to take profits early. You want to create your own piggy bank. And we'll explain that. And then a little lesson I learned was pigs get fed and hogs get slaughtered, meaning it's okay to be a little greedy. Don't let anybody tell you different. It's fine. But when you get to be overly greedy, to where you're like, you know what, if this is just a 10X, then I can wait for an X50X or 100X. That's when everybody loses. And you're not a loser because you're listening to this video right now. I think you're going to do quite well. And again, taking profits on established projects, DCA in and out versus new projects, and what that means. So what I'm talking about getting early, like we just talked about for the lessons learned, one of the easiest ways of course is launch pads. Now I work closely with a launch pad called TenSet. There's a number of ones out there. There is Cdefy. There's Dowmaker. There's always different ones that are out there. And you can look into it, but it all pretty much works the same. If you want to figure out or find out about how TenSet works, this is pretty much a duplicate of what the different launch pads are doing. There's a link in the description and I explain how the launch pad works, how to set yourself up and go from there. So let's talk about the different projects that are out there. So for this one, we're talking again about new projects. Take a look at this one. Historically speaking, this is from August 6, 2015. It started at $2.83 and it went within roughly 12 hours. It drops precipitously below $1. I think we're at $0.68. So if you look at something like this and it kind of went sideways for the next month, two months or so. So from $2.83 to just above $1, of course in crypto, what does that mean? It's a scam, because when we take a look at these projects and we see a drop off for a month or so, that's obviously a scam. Come on, what are you talking about? No. So it's a theorem. And in August 6, 2015, it started at $2.83 and that's what it was listed at. And then it went down and then for quite some time, it was just above $1. So again, we take a look at the half and half method. Putting yourself in the mind frame of this is a new crypto going back in time. I don't know what a theorem is going to do. It doesn't make any sense. And at that point in time in 2015, every Bitcoin holder was saying the same thing. Every other crypto project out there, the only thing it is is a scam. It is an S-coin. The only thing it is there for is to take money from you from investing into Bitcoin. I personally don't believe that. I think there is a lot of room for altcoins. I believe that they are the future. And I do believe also that 98, 99% of them are trash. And that's why it's so important to do this half and half method. So let's say for Ethereum, again, you don't really know it, you invest $100, right? And you didn't get in at the very tippy top because you're like, you know, you just didn't stay up all night and hit that $2.83. Let's just say you got it at a buck, right? You paid $1 for Ethereum. So you paid $1 for Ethereum and you got $100 tokens. You got $100 Ethereum. Great. As soon as it doubled or 2X'd, which would have been about three months or so, you would have sold half of that. Like, you know what? I'm good. I sell half, took out my original funds. It's still 2015. I don't know what's going on with crypto. I got 50 tokens left. Then a double X to $4, which was roughly two weeks later. So if you would have done that, you would have felt like, hey, look, I just, you know, made a couple hundred bucks and pretty happy. And then this now becomes your own personal piggy bank because as Ethereum goes up, and of course it goes down a little bit, but you're above your minimum threshold of a dollar. If you would have held it, I mean, all the way through, and you just said, I don't have whatever. I don't really care. 25 Ethereum at today's price of $3,375 would have been worth $84,000 if you would have held all the way. Now that's quite a long time. I must admit this is in 2015 going all the way to 2024. So if you want to do that, but again, you could have sold one Bitcoin or excuse me, when Ethereum gets to a thousand, when it got to $2,000 or even $5,000 or $4,400 or $4,700 roughly in 2021. And you could have treated this as your own personal piggy bank to whenever you absolutely needed the money because you bought Ethereum at a dollar and you just waited. And that's where stress-free profit-taking comes from. Now, let's take a really deep dive into this. And what I want to take a look at is the supply schedule and how much it was actually offered if you got it early. Remember one of the rules? Get in early. Get in as early as you can. So when you're talking about seed rounds and pre-seeds and the public sales and stuff like this, this was actually at CoinGecko and it says, what are the funding rounds for Ethereum? We had $31,725,918 Bitcoin, valued around $18 million back then, was raised in the Ethereum crowd sale on 22nd of July, 2014, funded by public investors. $60 million were sold at an average price of $0.31. Now, back then there wasn't any launch bets. Now they do. But let's just say you got in at the average price of $0.31. Let's just round down. Just say $0.30 keep everything whole. So you invested $100 and you paid $0.30 per Ethereum. Again, you have no idea what this is. You get $0.30 and $0.33 tokens as soon as it doubles from $0.30 to $0.60 you sell. Which of course when it launched you could have been easy money because it launched at over $2 and it went down to under $1. You could have doubled it, taken your money out, no stress whatsoever. Now the tokens you would have had after you took out half, it's $166. And then when it doubled, $1.20. And if you would have waited all the way till today, again I don't think you would have, but if you did, you would have 83 tokens at $280,000 again. You could have kept, you could have treated this as your own piggy bank along the way. This is why it's important to get in as early as you possibly can. Look at this point, $25 versus $83. $25 versus $83. Getting in kinder early, getting in really early. Just an example to take a look at. And then of course, I know things aren't lost on me, people would say, but Rob, why don't I just diamond hands and never sell? You could, you could definitely do that. And again, if you would have, again invested $100 at the price of a dollar, you would have 100 tokens. 100 tokens at today's price would have been $337,000. Pretty good, but you would have had to wait like nine years. And then of course, that same, that same price point, if you just would have sold and had no stress, you would have had 25, 84,000. Let's say you got in at 30 cents, right? And you said 30 cents, and you diamond hands all the way, and you saved up, and you said, hey, I'm not going to sell until today for some reason, I have 333 tokens that'd be worth $1.2 million. What that's so can 1.2 million. But if you would have sold, it would only have 280,000. So Rob, what are you trying to tell me? Because this seems like I could just do this and be okay. Here's the thing. Ethereum and a lot of the different cryptos and digital assets that make it are few and far between, especially as we go through these cycles. Some people say that the cycles aren't going to exist anymore because of the Bitcoin ETF. Some people say Bitcoin's going to a million dollars, which will bring all the altcoins up. I've been hearing that same song and dance since I got in 2017. Could be reality, couldn't be reality. But again, there's a reason why you watch these videos and I'm the same person. I have no stress. And the reason is because when I get into a position, I'm always making sure that I'm just playing with the house money and not my own money and take it out. If I miss out on 1.3 million, but I still have 300, 400,000 dollars in profits, I'm still doing okay. And that's where it's up to you. I can't give you financial advice on a financial visor. I'm just telling you what I do to make your life a little bit stress-free or as much as I possibly can. So going through all those examples, let's break down Solana. So Solana, pretty good, right? Today it's roughly 170, 180 dollars. And again, I found this information, the average price in 24th of March 2020 for the public auction was 22 cents. So let's say you invest 100 bucks and you get it super early. You're really happy. You got 22 cents. That's 454 tokens. So then when it doubled the price of 44, you sold half. You got your money out. Now you've got house money and you got 227 tokens just laying around. And when it doubled X, that would be 88 cents. And you could have sold at that point and you'd still have 113 tokens. So you would have doubled your money plus 113 tokens. At today's price, you're looking at $23,000. And all they had to do was just hold for like three years. So it's just one of those things. Now, of course, if you would have held 4 and 44 tokens, obviously you'd have a little bit more. But again, stress-free. How about Axie Infinity? Same thing. Axie Infinity, the funding around, it looks like average price of 10 cents. That's pretty cheap. So let's roll that in. You have $100 and the price paid is 10 cents. That's 1,000 tokens. You waited to double 20 cents. Now you got 500 tokens. And of course, now you're playing with house money. Of course, it doubles again at 40 cents and you sell and you've doubled your profits. Everybody's happy. And you still have 250 tokens at the end. And as time goes on, you treat it as your own piggy bank. But even if you would have waited till today at $11.03 for Axie, it'd still be worth $2,700. Now, if you would have taken profits over here in 2021, when it was 50, 75, 100, 125, all the way up past 150, this is what I'm talking about is you could have just created this as your own piggy bank to use it whenever you wanted it to be. Or if you're just like, I don't care. I'm going to diamond hands it. Sure, you can do that. But again, at today's price, $2,737, which is important of why you should understand cycles. How about this one? Taraluna Classic. And I love this one because people always associated to say, well, Taraluna was awful and everybody lost everything. Not true. Not true whatsoever. So if we take a look at the early public rounds, it's not here. I couldn't find anything about it. But thankfully here on the island in Puerto Rico, I know a couple of cryptologies and they told me how much it was as far as when they got into the private round. So it was around a dollar and less. But I can't use that data because that's just hearsay. But I wanted to choose something just make it simple. Let's just say that this was the listing date, May 7, 2019. It listed at $0.3027. Let's just say for some reason, everything went wrong for you. You didn't get on the early round. You just didn't understand. You couldn't get into it. And you're just like, forget it. I'm just going to buy it when it comes out. And let's just say you paid $0.30. So the investment was $100, $0.30. And you got 30 tokens. Okay, everybody's happy. So you got 30 tokens of Taraluna. And it was not even called classic at this point because it hasn't collapsed. So you're like, okay, I'm going to wait for it to double. And it doubles to $660. Now you had to wait a little while for it to do that. But you did sell. Now you got 15 tokens and it's all house money. It doubles again to $1320. And you sell half. And now you doubled your money. And you still got 7.5 tokens of Tara. And of course, it's not looking too good for quite some time. Even if everything goes to zero, which it did, roughly, because Taraluna Classic right now is worth $0.000 something. You had seven and a half tokens, you're like, eh, whatever. Didn't work out for me. But thankfully, I invested into Solana and Ethereum and Bitcoin and other things. I'm not so bummed out. Instead of having people who roll their entire life savings and diamond hands it because they hear that's the thing to do and lose everything. I'm trying to help you avoid that. How about Avalanche? Pretty good project. We take a look at the funding. Average price is $0.50. It says here $0.50, $0.50, $0.85. Let's just take the average of $0.50 and go from their nice round numbers. Now, let's say that you're getting pretty sassy. You're like, you know what? I'm doing pretty good. I'm going to put $1,000 in this time. So $1,000 price paid is $0.50. You have 500 tokens. And of course, you wait for it to go from $0.50 because that was the average round. And when it first launches, boom, $0.006 at this point, you're like, I'll probably just sell it $0.006 or maybe you sell it $3 or $4 or whatever else it is. That's the great thing about getting it early is you got it here early in the public sale option B. And that's why it's so important to get it early as opposed to coming to the actual listing for everyone. And now you're having to buy it at $6, $3 and it kind of goes up and down. But you don't have to deal with that because you got into it early. You got into a launch pad. You got to it. And now you're feeling pretty good. And that's where you could say, instead of 2Xing, you could 4X or 6X doesn't matter. But let's just say you sell these tokens, you wait for it to double it to $1.00, great, $2.50, doubles again, great. Now the tokens that you had after that essentially 4X, you have 125 tokens left. So 125 tokens left at today's price, you'd still have $6,437 for getting the fact that you could have sold at 75 or 100 or 125 in the massive bull run. Even if you mess that up, you still have almost $6,500 on a $1,000 investment. Not too shabby. How about Shiba Inu? This one's a little bit more difficult because this was essentially one of the very first meme coins. And Dogecoin of course was the first. Now we have Doge and then Shiba Inu and some other ones. But 50% was for Uniswap liquidity and 50% was allocated to Vitalik Buterin. Vitalik Buterin actually burned 90% of his supply on May 17, 2021. So once you burn that, of course, the price goes up. But he also donated a ton to India during COVID. So when we take a look at this, take it with a grain of salt because this is how much it was. So let's just say that you got shook. You're like, I don't really know about this one. You pay $100 at the very beginning. The price paid is 0. whatever that is. And you get 67 billion tokens. So you wait for it to go to 0.001. It doubles to 0.003 because it was 0.01758 or whatever it was. Now you're doubled to this. So then the tokens, you have a $33.5 billion, 2X price is that, and then tokens $16 billion. So again, you can sell whenever you want to, but this one was massive. And I will just say that, per the numbers, even if you would have held, and again, stress-free, you sell one and a half, you sell another half when you have to because you're like, hey, I just want to have this little bit of profits. And you waited until today, that $100 that you put into Shiba Inu is now worth $477,000. It's not too bad. And then Audius, which is, I wanted to include someone that aren't really well-known. This one, there was no real public round that I could find. But I just wanted you to be aware of some of the things that are coming out there. You're going to hear a lot of names, a lot of people, a lot of partnerships. You're like, oh, this one's going to be good. This Audius, they're investors were chain smokers, Jason Derulo, Steve Ioki, Katie Perry, Nas, Pusha T. And of course, there was also investors of Binance Labs, strategic Pantera Capital, Blockchain Ventures, Coinbase Ventures. So when you hear these things, you're like, this one's going to do well because of name recognition, utility, and da-da-da. Wait, same thing. You hear about this, you want, you go balls deep, $2,000. You pay 10 cents, pretty good, not too bad, right? You get 20,000 tokens, then it doubles, you take it out, then you get 10,000 tokens, you take that out and 40 cents. Now, you got 5,000 left, right? 5,000 left at today, you didn't make much, $1,000. Now, you could have sold it $2 or $3, but this one didn't really do that hot. Now, I'm just here to warn you that even though you've got a lot of people behind it, it doesn't mean it's guaranteed to go to the moon. And then lastly, one of the last ones, UMA, again, one I'd never heard of in my life. You do $100, the price, it's $1.35 that you paid, so you get 74 tokens. As soon as it goes to doubles and valuation of 270, you sell half those tokens, you got 37, and then when it doubles again to 540, you still got 18.5 left over. You're doing pretty good, and you sell those 18.5 because you waited because you just couldn't figure out that the bull run is when everybody should be selling, and the bear one is everybody should be buying, and you get 81 bucks. So congratulations, not a big deal, but it took you a lot of time. And then lastly, I'll just say my favorite one, Machi Big Brother, which is another meme coin. And I've got into the meme coins, I've done okay on some, and some they didn't do so hot. So Machi Big Brother, I just wanted to bring this everybody's attention. I started off at this was 3pm or 1500 hours on 29th of March. I thought it was a genius because I made like 30 or 40 bucks within like two hours. And then on the third or fourth hour, it was rug pulled and everybody sold everything. So sometimes you don't even get that 2x and you're just going to lose everything. So just be aware that just because I talked about these things and it makes sense for stress-free, sometimes you don't even get to the 2x, but when you get to the 2x, think about selling. That's all I'm saying. So remember this as we finish up. The lessons learned are get in early, take profits early, create your own piggy bank so you can be stress-free. Pigs get fed, greedy hogs get slaughtered, and take profits on established projects. There's a big difference between DCA in and out. Again, links in the description for that 80% video versus the new projects, which is what we are talking about here. And that's it for today. So look. If you like today's video, give it a thumbs up, consider subscribing. Everything we talk about is time sensitive, but that's it for this session. I appreciate you stopping by and I'll see you on the next one.