 Hello everybody, welcome to NFA live and today because of the fact that guy and And then are out doing Lambo shopping. We have some special guests We have we have Jessica who is not Nick and she is a horseman for your Jessica welcome back Good to be back. How you doing Rob? It's fantastic. I'm doing great. We're gonna talk about all today So I'm super excited about this one and Nick the CEO of Coin Bureau is here. Hey guys work Glad to be a Rob. Thanks for having me on a long time a fan of NFA live and finally be a hero on the stream So yeah, I'm glad to be and hopefully I can share some insights with your audience man Yes, this is gonna be good. So there's gonna be because so usually when we do this, you know, we're we talk You know, we have a pretty good balance today It's gonna be very de Jenny ish and then we're gonna talk a lot about alt coins Which could be for great for some not so great for others But what I wanted to just go over is just have you guys and just some quick questions Which we have four of them and I want to get to the Q&A, which is everybody's questions So if you guys have questions right now just drop them in the chat We'll get to them But the first question that and I'll go through all four of these and then we'll answer them So I want you to guys because you have been in these cycles a long time and I wanted to ask your opinion like how this Bull cycle and of course the bear cycle right before it how it differs Or is the same as the other ones you guys have been through that's the first one the second one is I want to show everybody your your personal Crypto portfolios now I can't show everybody everything because that would just be insanity But I want to talk to you about your top three and then some of your ghost picks And then also the third pick that you guys have in your portfolio Did it become the third pick in your portfolio because you just bought it really early and I just appreciated massively Or is it because you're actively accumulating that specific alt coin the next one I'll talk about Dubai because you guys live there I don't understand the appeal so you guys have to break it down for me And then also I want to talk about coin Bureau Club Which is the things that I take a look at right when I'm really getting into some like deep dank alts and What you guys have done as far as like the new one coming up and of course Some ones you guys have some hits and misses that you guys have done and then we'll do a little Q&A so That was a long explanation. Let's start off. So Nick since you are our premier guest today I want to start with you. So Nick. Yeah, how long have you been in crypto? What is the bearin bull and just kind of break it down for us? Yeah, so I started I think I really just got into crypto like early 2017 and so that was just before the like the 2017 bull cycle and I'd be near I've been accumulating from that stage in the sense that Initially straight in crypto like Ethan and Bitcoin, but then started accumulating from 2017 In terms of the 2017 cycle It was my first cycle obviously was crazy the concept that you could basically Make games of 10 to 20 X on any sort of asset, especially coming from trade for myself. It was just foreign to me So this that cycle was dominated if you recall back It was the 2017 ICO cycle where you know where they're basically all these ICOs are raising the likes of tears So awesome all these other ones some of these ones that are hot back to those days like with numerous different pop popping off And I got it. That was excited as well. You could make like Everyone was launching ICO in those stages or an Ethereum and that was the big meta Bitcoin CME futures first launched in 2017 late 2017 or if all the date was this sometime in December 2017 Which kind of marked the top of the previous bull cycle So that was an image and I like I think I made a few gains on some altcoins I made like massive gains on like ripple. I think like a 20 20 X or something And yeah, that was just it was a crazy to me that this could be done in crypto and then I went off That was like hooked. I was like wow in love crypto and then obviously Okay in 2018 bear market and the 2018 bear market was a tough one to the extent that It was my first one. So you're asking so and at that stage It wasn't that much adoption in crypto There wasn't that many people if there was much more than the previous cycles But there wasn't as much as we've seen in the 2021 or the 2022 bear market So at that stage you kind of like have to ask yourself or you have to reinforce to yourself That is actually really this industry's really got a future and you know at that stage you'd still have doubts in your mind But so still ready to be new in it so it was difficult to You know convince myself that but I mean at that stage I was still fascinated by technology as well You know, and you know, it's still fascinating to learn as much as possible Which is what we're doing at the coin Bureau And then the 20 in terms of the next cycle 2020 And the 2020 cycle was defi summer So that was also really fun Then I did a lot of degenerate degeneracy on on-chain defi mechanics a lot of early farming the food tokens If you recall back to those days when you could form then they first of the air drops, you know the comp air drops the The uni air drops and all that I got involved in the defi summer And this is obviously around COVID and I think people just doing all this defi degeneracy after a locked up in their houses Then came 2021 cycle, which was which was the meta was NFTs, obviously So all these cycles follow a different methods that drive the cycle 2021 cycle we had our Dubai yacht party on the exact day that I think Bitcoin hit its previous all-time high. So that marked the top so that's a good top signal and Yeah, then obviously we had to collect them off to that subsequent You had Luna and Luna was like a massive massive thing for crypto, right? Like it decimated like a lot of the defi ecosystems. It brought down a lot of the C5 decks And eventually, you know, if you can look at it in terms of what it did to bring in down FTX And that's bear markets the 2022 to 2023 bear markets was a lot harder Than the 2018 bear market for me And that's because although there was a lot more awareness of crypto currency a lot more people involved in crypto currency and people could Sort didn't really doubt it per se in terms of the apathy was in that market and how much had decimated the crypto industry It was really tough and also at this that stage like, you know, growing a crypto business It's not just about the markets when it was in 2018 cycle was still a small team and all that kind and you know Still manage and you know, whereas in the 2023 cycle, it's like you got a lot of Commitments and everything as crypto business. We thankfully, you know, well capitalized all that But you know, it's also when you have to worry about it as a business itself is tied to the markets And that's why their markets can be kind of scary if you especially if you fully in crypto and as a company And then this cycle I would say it's it's a really exciting because obviously it's completely different right now dominated by the ETFs It's the Crypto really now is in the mainstream because people love all strikes can get involved in crypto and buy Bitcoin through an ETF There is no longer any questions about its mass adoption coming in terms of at least from an investment perspective So this cycle, I feel it's it's a lot more exciting than the previous ones Where they will see the altcoin seasons that we've seen in the past in terms of the Bitcoin I don't necessarily We can I don't necessarily think that but it's just yeah, it's been it's been a crazy experience so far So it's definitely the most exciting cycle yet But yeah, all of these cycles have their own nuances and stuff and the methods that drive them And now one of the methods of course in the alcoons size is the degeneracy going on the mean points And it's not really enough to use just these mean points and it's kind of crazy as well because I think back to the 2017 cycle some of them You know people when they're raising in ICO it's your rate, you know that go and raise Five million for an ICO with sketch with a white paper There wasn't too well-specced out and people are like complaining about that like this is crazy What's going on? How can they do this? And then now in this cycle, there's people on Twitter really be raising 20-30 million for a mean coin with no white paper sending directly to an address not even a smart contract And it's like, you know, you know, let's make money. So yeah, it's just crazy man. It's been crazy Ryan man Before okay, excellent. Excellent. So Jessica before we beat before I ask you the same question Narratives talk to us real quick about Nick about what you see as narratives because you talked about DeFi summer you talked about NFTs So what do you what do you see right now as a narratives? And before we jump and we get away from the degeneracy I just want to remind everybody that this was just put out today by BNB chain So if you think that mean coins are going away and telling you right now, I think there's it's you're gonna be surprised They just came out and said we're thrilled announce the BNB chain meme innovation battle We're a million dollars up for grabs exciting opportunity for developers and creators to showcase their creativity And compete for amazing rewards. And this is all about memes So Nick real quick just tell us what you think like the next narratives are outside of the meme coin craze because that's gonna at some point go away I mean quick craze. I mean just to quickly expand on that I think that it's interesting to note that like meme coins are There's actually capital allocators, you know, those guys actually thinking about investing mean points and mean points are important for the growth of a crypto ecosystem You know, there's the avalanche fund that avalanche innovation fund Which cultural innovation fund which wants to invest 20 million dollars in mean points and mean points drive demand on the network because they drive Obviously people are getting excited and invest in the mean points. It drives demand and transaction and that basically then drives capital And drives liquidity So there is a utility from mean coins on the in the ecosystem and that is driving it So I don't know if it's going to necessarily go away anytime soon because if people can realize that mean was bringing retail then to provide This liquidity to an ecosystem and excitement and people want to but and then obviously more excitement and more attention But gets more exciting more attention. That's how these ecosystems grow. So there is definitely The importance of the mean points within ecosystems now in terms of the other narratives are exciting like obviously Game fires and exciting one, you know, I'm sure you you you've written a game fire I think that in terms of the cycle what's really exciting is The potential for games that are actually playable games like games have been first as games And games people would play irrespective of where there was any sort of crypto economy those games are launching soon and Given the science of the game in the ecosystem in terms of how many people actually game This could be one of the few that allows for massive adoption of cryptocurrency to a larger audience a massive audience And a very engaged audience So game fires another one. Then of course, we've also got like deep in I think the deepened deepens as well because it's one of these narratives that basically one of these ecosystems in crypto Where you can actually uh, it's separated out from just the financial gimmickary, you know You know most funds people think about Defy like it can be alien to them whereas deep and is actually utilizing blockchain technology and this technology to In physical networks that people can use on the day to day It's on these many projects we talk about that we probably will talk about that are growing up in the deepened space um you and then I think that uh Those are probably the two and then AI is obviously really exciting now. It's now Whether AI itself in terms of the projects that are do the technology they build in is cutting edge AI that uh is That's questionable, but as a narrative it's exciting because obviously AI as Topic right now just in terms of people who are looking at it more broadly in terms of the AI ecosystem if you think about for instance, they can't really invest in any sort of AI listed stocks right now apart from potentially in video and videos where they're going up like Like 10 or 20 x so it's basically like they think about where where can I get exposure to AI of some description That's in cryptocurrency because the tokens listed and a lot of these AI cryptocurrencies are Rolling up right now around the AI narrative meta And sometimes these AI some of these AI projects also You know share a narrative of deepened as well because they develop in infrastructure and tech And solutions that can be utilized for AI compute as well So yeah, I think those are my three top narratives For the school cycle Sounds good. Okay So that comprehensive and I'm going to take it from uh question mark. Okay. Let's let jessica speak sounds good. So That was great because it's it's good to hear like the narratives like I I'm with on most of those definitely for sure And it's always interesting to see like what people saw in 2017 like I saw But jessica you've been around longer than us So tell us like what the what's the same what's the difference and what the narratives are moving forward So I started investing in 2017 also which is experiencing different bull Cycles for different reasons and 2017 for me actually was the main season that I was investing in altcoins. That was my altcoin season. Actually, I wasn't full-time in crypto yet. So I was still Experiencing it as a tradfire reporter and that was the year from a portfolio performance standpoint that I had the most gains 2021 I was working full-time Two separate jobs in crypto for two separate media companies And I think I was so exhausted by covering the crypto news that I was mostly just holding btc So that from a standpoint of lessons learned for the market cycles Guys don't just over hedge into btc for this market cycle out So the ones that are going to perform and are going to help your portfolio gain the most over the market cycle So that is one lesson that I will leave and I know we'll get to that a little bit later when we talk about portfolios But that was one thing whenever I look back at my different portfolio performance I'm like, yeah 2021 just didn't deliver you've got to you've got to allocate and diversify And and then Rob, what was the second part of the question? Oh, sorry So the second part of the question was the narratives because like like niggin me We're on the same page like as far as like with ai and and stuff like that and then gaming web3 gaming What else do you see? So I actually think deep pin is the main one and I think it's really easy to overlook certain You know, you've got to look into the ecosystems that will provide the the deep end platform So one of the projects that I um Definitely kind of like fairly largely exposed to is Solana right now Because I think if you dive into the Solana ecosystem, there's so many different sub categories of different deep pin narratives there So Solana is a main ecosystem layer that can help really Kind of support the chain and then when you dive into it projects like honey hive mapper I think it's a really interesting one that will come out Which is essentially a decentralized google google google mapping Um So deep pin is the main one that i'm looking into and I think once you start to dive down that rabbit hole There is enough projects and platforms to cover I think one other thing that I would recommend for everyone that is watching is don't try and have a Overpopulated basket of currencies and tokens that you're looking into don't over complicate it too much You can't keep your eye on everything at once it's better to have Six or seven projects that you watch closely you follow their discos you're really avidly involved in their community You can keep an eye on their socials If you have too many you can drop the ball on one or two of them and end up You know fumbling the bag and I would say it's better to keep fully focused eyes on the prize Then over complicate it. There's there's too many cryptos out there. You can't you can't keep your eye on everything But but jessica that's why we like even everything because we there's A Well, how about this before we before we I get to your portfolio And really says what is deep and I think for some of us like in these situations we because we're in a day in a day out We don't take a step back real quick. Can you explain what deep in is everybody? Yeah, so stands for decentralized physical infrastructure I'm going to use the con the example of hive mapper with the ticker honey because that's something that is On my watch list if you guys are on coin bureau club, you will see But that's really interesting because it brings the real world asset of something tangible You can buy this physical box that you connect into your car for around 500 us dollars That will help you make physical google map replica Examples so you can have You can essentially drive around the us and it can map where you've been and keep a more up-to-date version of google maps Oh, look at that. See perfect. Thank you. This is why Dream team right here And then you can earn tokens so you're incentivized as a user for recording if you are Driving around you can earn points and tokens in a decentralized manner So to use the platform there's benefits that it's more up-to-date than google maps And then also you're incentivized from getting on board early because you as a token holder get the rewards And this is I think what people are going to start to expect moving forward is People are going to start to expect to be incentivized in one way or another for Using a platform and contributing to an ecosystem And I know we mentioned kind of world mobile sometimes as well on the show rob If we look at what mickey warkin says, which is you know, if we're going to expand the sharing economy to add into tokenization imagine airbnb But imagine being rewarded in the early stages of airbnb For contributing to the ecosystem and getting on board early because you have been a token holder in airbnb Or the same for uber if you got on board early and you had a larger token portfolio Because you were one of the early You know sharers and advocates for this platform Would not make so much more sense and really reward the seventh or eighth driver of uber Which essentially is what we're seeing when it comes to decentralized token versions of the platforms Yeah, well said well said, you know what I think uh, I mean these deep pins I think are gonna pop up and what's great about it I see is that like in just an ai and nick was talking about this looting this as far as ai and dpn There was a report from veterans. I think or it was uh all street journal I forgot which one They talked about if we are taking a look at the gpu or the compute for the entire globe of what is actually needed To do the things that we want to do right now Which would be to make text a video to do everything that we have to do with artificial intelligence And so like you know help us to run our world there is a we're at a percentage of under I think they said under five percent of what we actually need So those gpu's which nick alluded to for nvidia and the different manufacturers is not enough and then to actually maximize that Compute or computational power. I think that's the big play for crypto to come in and actually say hey If you're not using this computational power, we need this for these other companies So let us use this we'll pay you a token use the gpu's and move on from there The question is like which which is going to be the right one and there's so many out there I think it'd be very big. Okay. That was my little rant off on AI why I'm so excited about it Let's break into your portfolios. Shall we this is fun? I like this part because everybody wants to know like rob. What are you investing into? I am investing into nonsense sometimes, but If we take a look at the pros here and I can't show everybody everything This is from coin bureau club and I took it all out and I was interesting to see that Jess you always talk about bitcoin ethereum And I think you see say Solana sometimes here and there, but it's number three So my question is how did it become number three? Did you actively say, okay? I'm going to start You know from nine dollars on when I bottomed out I'm just going to buy ten thousand dollars worth of it or even slowly accumulating and are you still accumulating? Then we'll get to nix Which is actually he's in the slownup ecosystem with injected Uh, so from my side with Solana, it's a little bit of both. So I accumulated quite heavy Solana in october 2023 I think there was a combination of factors. There was the pre-build-up to the breakpoint conference, which was taking place end of october And I had a little look and I thought, you know this time last year the previous 2022 breakpoint conference of Solana was just after just before the ftx implosion You know, so that was just a really tough time for the Solana ecosystem Since then quite a lot has happened and I was thinking, you know, the narrative is going to be a little bit different This time around I personally love cryptocurrency events is a good indicator for how the community is kind of rolling forward and I quite like to You know purchase a little of a token in the kind of one month build up to a conference Because if there's a good news breakout, you'll typically see a little bit of a market pump not financial advice It's just something I like to do with a non trader that likes to invest in a few outcoins So that was something that I was keeping an eye out for. We also had Austin Fadera, which is the head of strategy for Solana Come on coin bureau clips and he was talking about some of the examples of specific projects that are being built on the Solana ecosystem and The UX and UI of Solana is just really good You know, if you look at people that are coming into the space in 20, this is 2023 I was kind of looking at it from a retail Newbie perspective, which is look how well Solana performed in 2021 Look at the UX and UI of Solana projects in 2023 Look at the narrative they're looking to build onboarding now And if people are having to choose between the likes of ethereum or Solana to build on I kind of was thinking, you know, it's kind of like a tight You know pros and cons there are people that have been in crypto earlier that I like well, you know You can't compare the two but if you look for the newbies This is kind of the narrative that I was expecting to see a little bit more of We also had Raoul Pal come on coin bureau clips and he is a huge Solana ball So he was talking about fire dancer coming up, which was going to reduce outages in increased transactions per second And that was part of my accumulation. So from around $16 Solana. It was a pretty good play actually Hey real quick before I get to you Nick Uh You said something about Hedera and Solana Oh, so Austin Austin Hedera Austin Hedera the head of strategy at Solana Hedera's Great fantastic. Okay makes more sense. I'm like, well, there's there's a scoop. All right So thanks so much that makes a lot of sense of why of course you get into Solana and UI UX and you know making the battle But it's a good play ethereum and Solana Hey, you know, some people hate Solana some people hate ethereum and never gonna get everybody to agree on that But it's your portfolio. That's what counts. Nick same thing here if we're taking a look at I like your I like both your work actually, but this looks pretty good And then you also have helium on here for for a detent in the watch list. So yeah, we'll talk about injective and why injective Yeah, I've been a long-time injective bull and we're going to injective ninjas. They're called ninjas in the community ninjas Yeah, so yeah, I've been holding it how that for a long time. Ever since it came out in 2020 We were one of the first channels the calorie injective actually When it launched and at that stage I was really excited about the project itself in terms of what they were building at that stage It was just a cosmos-based dex, right? But I like the I was at that stage is like I was bullish on interoperability narrative Which was cosmos was big on then and an interoperable dex cost defile equality Protocol so I was bullish on it then and and held it for a long time Obviously through the previous ball I mean through the previous bear everything just watched it go almost. I was like, okay Well, you know, I've either as a binary bet like I believe in the project and I've very I spoke to the I spoke into the team I interviewed the CEO actually like two two weeks ago It's on the front of your eclipse, but yeah, it was I was really fascinated with technology and over the past year in terms of What they've been building I became more more bullish. I mean they diversified away from just The focus was initially just oh a cosmos-based dex to now a completely open protocol for DeFi, right and they've Launched now in terms of the cosmos ecosystem has become one of the biggest players. There's lots of DeFi dex Dexes that have been launching on there He lexes images them at their primary perplex. They've got liquid staking. They've got NFT marketplaces So, yeah, I'd hold it for a long time and like last year. I injected was the first I think it was end of last year or this year was one of the first projects or cryptocurrencies From that had broken through its previous all-time highs in the previous cycle Um, so yeah, the reason it's made of such a large proportion right now. It's not because I've been a Q I mean, obviously I've been keeping them a little bit towards the back end of earlier of last last year But a primary proportion portion of the stack Uh came from early investment And yeah, I'm still I'm super bullish on it. I'm not looking I'm staking it obviously So I'm getting a lot of airdrop opportunities within the cosmos ecosystem now Which is great because you know cosmos is really doing well In terms of lots of projects launched on there the whole idea of sovereign chains and modularity and that So, yeah, I think that that's why it makes a large portion of my current portfolio And uh, yeah, I can and in terms of helium why it's my watch list Well, I mean, it's like it's probably one of the most exciting in terms of the Deepen projects has had the most uh physical most growth in terms of like actually as a product Like they've launched their T-mobile network and their partner with T-mobile to launch their physical infrastructure in Miami and it's grown a lot in the past So really up there There was a panic report that basically said that helium could have at least a hundred thousand subscribers Uh by this year in terms of like for their mobile networks. And then the whole idea of uh, he would end is obviously these decentralized People operate these decentralized nodes and mobile networks And uh, yeah, the T-mobile T-mobile is growing a lot. The T-mobile subscriptions are growing up. So that's why it's my watch list I haven't picked it up. I think it's an interesting deep in play. It's kind of like a debate book analogous to world mobile token So, yeah, I mean that's why it's my watch list. I haven't picked it up yet But it's an interesting deep in play Yeah, it is interesting and like I mean to talk about helium because I Because everybody wants to know they want to know like well, what is the utility? What does it actually do and a lot of these products don't do Anything yet and we can take a look at just a lot of these needs. Let's be honest Some of these layer twos as well But we take a look at helium and I have I have some healing was very very small I didn't get I didn't go and I think as heavy as you guys did but I mean they have you can actually sign up for a telecommunications plan and I think it's unlimited text talking data and that actually happens right now and they've got mobile miners All over the country and then also if you're talking about you know Because people say well helium and then they'll also talk about with world mobile like jesse you just you mentioned I mean they're breaking into the united states. I think they just put in their nodes Their physical ones in renown avada and across across the u.s So it's interesting especially with you know taking a look at those altcoins and who knows what'll happen I mean, I'm pretty excited about this upcoming bull run, but who knows I guess that would lead me to uh my next point is Dubai so we talked a lot about altcoins and what's going on actually no no sorry sorry sorry There's one more thing I wanted to mention before but before we move on can I just give a shout out to your team for on their portfolios sage is that he said His portfolio is 100 big one which is great. I mean him I mean him and ben They probably love they'd love to have a show together But then my man here dan head of research I had to shrink down his section from the coin bureau club because he had so many tokens And I'm like dan's the kind of guy should be on my channel So I just want to give you uh two of your members a shout out for their massive amounts And I think that's important man. It's important to have uh diverse perspectives from the team because it's like you don't want to have just one you know singular uh narrative plus one singular investment pieces it's important to have Perspectives from everyone and I think that's what's cool about it It's like you get your different flavors of people in the coin bureau club when they want to get different perspectives from people and we can We can share and argue these points differently as well. So it's cool. I think it's it adds the flavor, you know And just to add there's like a little bit of friendly competition in the office as well So every time injective hits a new all-time high Nick's office will be playing some loud garish crypto pumped up tracks If you'll see another kind of crypto token You'll be like, okay, you know, either like guy is holding it or dan is holding it top gainer to the week You know, one of them is like happy as larry sitting at their laptop. So you can tell exactly what prices or markets are at But what yeah, exactly what music is emanating from my office You know what that's if you think about that's how we should all be like everybody who's watching this video right now I think we should all be because I know like like jessica when I don't know if you have injective in your in your portfolio But i'm sure when you hear the music like hey good for nick and then of course, you know with with guy The role that ever comes, you know, you know goes up massively and be like, ah, good for guy I think that's like I think we should be a little bit better better as far as like a community to go Hey, yours. I don't own it, but yours one up. That's fantastic. Good for you, man I would like to see more of that, but it's very hard moving forward in this book Do you ever see that clip by Ivan on tech? It's a classic clip now It's been around the one where you got to respect the pump Yes, yeah, you respect the pump that is the typical that's how we should be and respect the pump It's good karma. You got to respect other people's pumps. Don't be like don't be hating on anyone's pumps, you know Well said well said He lets I'm gonna let's let's mix things around I'm gonna go to the do buy question last because this I think will really play into it Which would you were talking about, you know, what you guys do and the amount of research that you do let's talk about some of your plays that you have over there a coin drill club and I just want to talk about actually the last four And I watched these videos that were interesting. You have ai oz And guy was like, yeah, it's gonna do pretty well. This was on March 15th And if we come over here the 15th, it's not actually not too bad since that time now It's down 1.4 percent today But I mean that's just how it goes and then go like these are one and this is why I like to To to watch the video because I don't these aren't on my radar I don't know what these are and without you guys doing the research on time for that That I'm glad you guys do it because I'm like, oh goldfinch March 22nd Still pretty good. I mean you're looking at sub Well sub four now we're four six. We're not too bad and then layer ai you guy talked about this one I'm like, hey an ai play because ai play is all going to do awesome, right? He's like, you know, let's be careful with this one big damn if he wasn't right so On these three it's good, but no one's perfect, right? I mean there was this one a fetch ai And it was and I I had owned fetch ai and I like fetch ai But I saw that video. I'm like, you know long term play this could be pretty risky and about what it was And actually it's been kind of sideways But it's done up done up pretty well. And I think fetch. What is it jessica fetch ai Singularity and ocean protocol. I think they're merging, right? Yeah So it goes to show you but that's why I just want to say like I like what you guys are doing over there What is the next thing that you guys are focusing on as far as bringing in new content? Because I've never heard of these projects at all except for fetch Anybody can take that one Who wants to go? Okay, I mean I conducted So I think it's difficult, right? Which is like how we choose what kind of projects you're going to cover sometimes because I think it's a situation where We are trying the way that these projects have chosen obviously There's one of the features of the club is like obviously a member's votes, right? So members vote on there's a top choice of four different points Which a member can vote on and then the one that gets the most votes obviously is the one that we cover And that's that's that's basically why there's some of these picks have come and the problem does sometimes come into it when Obviously people hear about a coin that's been pumping. They've like la ai or what not a gold pension And they basically vote for it because I want to know it's worth covering And then when you do the digging you discover maybe it isn't worth really investing It's not necessarily positive a bullish outlook on it And some people get like agreed by that. So, oh, well, you know, I wanted to know what points to buy But the point of the club is not necessarily exactly what points to buy It's basically the study you want to know about these projects you want to cover them in without fail If we want to go and do our deep dive reviews And yeah, as you can see now, we've got our poll up there. Um, I think we need to Melt yeah, uh, I've met a team great great team Atlas navi is one that I think is on guys watch this and people are excited about that. Um, it's similar to um, I think uh, Hyde mapper just so it's it's it's interesting project pixels is one that we're another team member Kevin is excited on So, yeah, these are projects that basically the selection for the poll we we tried to bring as much of them as We tried to mix it up sometimes different narratives Maybe once a member's gonna can she can actually also as an old coins Channel in our discord cbc discord where people can suggest the choices they want And if enough people like it then we put it into the poll So we're trying to make it democratic and we're trying to give people a selection of different coins And then they can vote for it and now Especially with in what happened with uh goldfinch and layer iron once you do the dig and you realize Actually, it's not that of an exciting project. We don't think it's really Worth while people could slightly be agreed by that So what we're trying to do now is we're trying to also give it a little bit more of a dig into it Before we put it up for a poll so people can actually we know that the project should be covering Interesting the ones you want to actually take a look at as well So that's the how we're going to maybe tweak our vertices and going for it But um, yeah, I mean that's that's how the these coins are chosen and they are the criteria is they have to kind of like be Simply to small caps because that's the whole reason we've got the club That's okay. I got it because it makes more sense because i'm like, I don't know how you guys Would determine which ones it is because when I watched the videos like you guys go back like years back And you look at the different interviews like this was the one with that I was I was blown away by because you were taking a look at the actual founders And you did all you looked at all their all their public appearances and you're like we're telling you There's something a little bit off on this part, but this part is good. But so it makes people more informed. That's all it really comes down to Jessica, what about it? Well, this is the thing is that I think you've like you've said it really well There rob is like our head of research dan is just absolutely incredible at being able to go back Maybe five years to an interview that has 200 views and being able to deconstruct some of the points that are made And it's really hard for people to be able to first of all have the time but also be able to vet the narratives of Okay, is the founder able to pivot enough and have they pivoted with the times and with the narratives But there's also the boundary of pivoting too much And he's able to really kind of break down and deconstruct the project in a way that Not a lot of people in crypto can and I know when I first started watching coin bureau I've obviously been with the team for less than a year But when I started to watch them the coin reviews was something that was really Kind of how I got to know guy in the team and the fact that this is now a way that you can find those Low-cap gems is a pretty impressive Pressive entry point to get into and up your crypto portfolio and knowledge. So we have the the video reviews I think there is one coming out tomorrow or today nick. You can clarify on world mobile Tomorrow, which is going to be a good one. Yes. So that's one not to miss And then also one other thing that we can mention is we also do the coin bureau discord AMAs as well So we'll also invite people that are Representing founding team members of specific projects to come on board for a live AMA audio call with myself And if you are a coin bureau club member, you can ask them questions directly And that's also been a really great entry point because you can listen to interviews with these guys But the fact that you can ask questions In real time and hear their responses and then also ask them a follow-up question and that also get narrated to them is I think really important I think more people need to be doing it and needs to be accessible right now for people to be able to Can they take the heat of the questions that are being asked and can they handle it? Well, and do you like the response they've had? So we've had some great projects to come on board already We're super thankful for them to allocate the time to us. We've had the likes of mantel suey Babylon of come on board chilies And we have world mobile scheduled to come up soon and actually in only 10th of April We have peak which is another deep-in project which is coming soon So that's also a nice way that if you are looking to understand more about an ecosystem Or a specific project you can also ask the questions there as well I gotta tell you I mean, I can't agree more if you guys want to find more information about it I link this in the description for coin bureau club not affiliate link, of course But just to check it out and go from there and I got it. There is one thing I will say and I have to wholeheartedly agree In 2021. I remember there was a there was a project I want to say it's Orion protocol and it probably has changed names. I don't know But it was a friend of a friend like hey, this is gonna be really big. It's gonna be a dex and it's gonna be really fantastic Okay, let's get the the founders on. Oh, they're not they're not doxed. What do you mean? They're not doxed Yeah, we that is they're just don't want to and I'm like That's kind of shady, but I'll talk about it But I don't think it's gonna go too well and it didn't and they actually changed off their tokens And I put in like 5000 and of course I wasn't Being aware of it and of course because that token and it was just a big shift you think so Kudos to you guys for giving the people on to put a face behind the name Because there's too much trash going on in the crypto market. So I have to commend you for that one All right, so a lot of things have gone over. Let's finish up with just last question and we'll get a q&a the bot I don't get it I I I hear why don't you get it wrong? I just don't get it. What it's not to love. It's got it's got rose voices and bright lights 50 degree heats in the summer Exactly, so like Celsius Celsius exactly so like I live because I live in Puerto Rico It's beautifully right and then we we spend time in El Paso, Texas It's hot as hell there as well But the people are great and the food is awesome. They can't escape that place But tell me about this is from Elon Tray. This is and it talks about Dubai is not expensive And he's an I'm in the marina. Everything is half price of USA and Western Europe 30 bucks for a haircut and beer trip four bucks for shawarma And 300 bucks a night for a luxury apartment rental And I guess of course if you're comparing like I said, New York and Los Angeles Austin London, maybe it's uh, you know Cheap but other places not but Just tell the viewers why you guys are there because there's some people who have been hitting me up recently Like moving to Puerto Rico. You know, like what about Dubai? I'm like, I have no idea. That's why I got you guys Everyone wants to take that one. Jesse. Okay. I'll I'll kick it off. Okay. First of all I don't know where Elon is going for some snacks and for rental services I he needs to tell me where he goes because Dubai is expensive That is the only The only negative I would say about the place is it is pricey Like I have paid ridiculous money for a bowl of pasta before or a dinner or a tequila shot But that's a different story. It is an expensive place to go However, it is an amazing place when it comes to Safety the fact it is a cultural melting pot. There is people from every single region Which means the food is amazing that you can get everything delivered to your door within an hour the delivery services the accessibility for anything is very fast and effective You can tell that it is a new city. I mean when I was here Last year Dubai celebrated its 51st birthday, which has come in from like London It's just insane But you can tell you can tell by the effect of the effectiveness of the place If a building is 10 or 15 years old, that's considered old here You know, that's considered the old building which is almost on the way out Everything works in a very effective way. It's super safe as well I think compared to Europe at the moment. This is an absolute dream People can leave money under their mat for one month or leave the front door open and All of that fun stuff not us because we're in crypto But you know, it's um, it's a super safe place and I would recommend people to just try it I think there is a definite misconception about the place Um, and there's a lot of crypto content. There's a lot of crypto people that are based out here There's a lot of conferences that are taking place So if you people are looking to possibly move here and set up shop If you are looking to get a visa first of all, it's really easy to do But I would definitely recommend you to pop by pop by maybe the same time as a crypto conference So you can try it out. See what you think try and avoid summer because summer I think Nick, you're probably saying this as well. Summer is a little bit uncomfortable when it comes to Highs of like 55 degrees Celsius. I'm not sure what Just like just the middle but it um apart from that it's like you can hit the beach every weekend You know, it's that it's amazing. It is what you make of it Okay, I will take your uh, I will take a cue from your desk If you're talking about 50 or 55 cells, you're talking about 120 degrees plus Maybe a hundred you don't go outside and everything's got ac because everything works here It's not like in europe where there's buildings with no ac in your sweltering It sounds good. Nick. What do you got? What's the? Yeah, first of all, I see I can't have Unfortunately can't relate to elon trades points about the $30 haircuts because my hair is a bit more In terms of Dubai, I think that just touched on a lot of the points. I think that And more related to crypto for the crypto ecosystem specifically It's like it's like one of the most welcoming jurisdictions for cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency companies And maybe many people don't know that dubai is probably I think the only country in the for the UAE and device the only country or state that has Designated crypto regulations designated crypto regulator in the bar, right? So vara virtual asset regulator authority They actually did you know regulate the crypto currency space here and people try and companies can get these vara licenses Which gives them clarity and it allows them to obviously provide their services in the country And this is something we've seen more over the past two three years in other jurisdictions regulation by enforcement No clear guidelines. It's difficult for companies to actually operate in so to buy is becoming a crypto hot spot The amount of people that are moving in crypto is that is amazing like and it's just like that's what's cool because you In you're involved in an ecosystem and you immerse in an ecosystem of people like yourself that work in the same industry And that's part of the great benefit to buy from the crypto perspective Obviously another thing is the great location right time zone wise It's very good for dealing with people in different jurisdictions and in different time zones So you can easily deal with people in asia people in europe in the u.s Like it's straddles the world. So it's good for time zones travel as well as amazing obviously if you like to travel You easy access to africa asia You know the americas europe because emirates and the dubai airport It's like the most one of the best airports and airlines in the world So it can fly wherever you want. So if you like to travel if you travel for business It's a great place to do in that Um, obviously as just alluded to zero crime, right? So especially in other than number of different cities in the past and I would I think say the bias is safest Like you can literally leave phones on tables do it and Never been a victim of crime. Yeah Um, and then obviously I think it's dynamic international Multi-point-of-cultures, um, it's growing massively I mean the population growth has been crazy over the past two years There's obviously reflected particularly as just mentioned in terms of higher prices Obviously property prices have gone up rent has gone up, but that's a sign of people wanting to move here So I can say, you know, I'm I'm glad I moved here. I still enjoy I like to buy I'm in terms of your question if these things I could have done differently You know, uh, you learn a lot when you move here Especially on the business side of it because obviously when I moved you I moved the company over I set up a number of the businesses here And um, there's many things that would have done differently on the business infrastructure component like different What type of companies you choose to import what entity what jurisdictions you can incorporate in whether it's a free zone Or a mainland company specific things to do with divide businesses How do you organize bank accounts? How you deal with how you deal with types of visas like there's You know, it's a bit more bespoke visas that could be a better option for you I was actually working on a more Involved to buy video in terms of like a guide to moving to Dubai, which you're looking to true and point your clips at some point But yeah, I mean, I'm glad yeah, I'm happy I think that and you know as much as the people complain about the weather in the summer Yes, it is hot, but the infrastructure is amazing to be able to easily access anywhere with the air with air con Uh, and you can live here. I've lived here through summer. It's not that bad And the winters are amazing, you know, temperate climate and it's popping off So yeah, I think that people they get the perception of Dubai and I see some people commented on on the tweeter as well I think that um It's it does help to come and live here for a certain period of time because being a terrorist and living in It's being visited in a place for a week or two You don't get a full flavor of it and before I moved to Dubai into uh in 2022 I I lived out here for like three or four months when he was saying things up in 2021 And gave me a good sense of what the place is like as a local living here And speaking to a lot of different people get in and doing dyo on where you want, you know You know, dyo is also important if you move into a jurisdiction And you'll notice that of what everything I've said You're not a not a single time that I mentioned taxes because people always say taxes taxes to buy you need to do buy Because of taxes If you move into Dubai just to save taxes, you're not moving for the right reasons Uh, because you have to it's moving to a place. You're gonna live there. You have to Make it your home, uh, and you need to understand that you appreciate the other things for it So, yeah, that's that's my Dubai show That's a good. Well, that's a great show from both of you. I got to be honest with you And I will just say well, there's two things I would uh, this is a request on on my side I did a video where I talked about Puerto Rico and I did an initial one When I moved here in 2020 2021 I did an updated one where I I told all my screw-ups and what I would do and I give information for like CPAs and lawyers and real estate agents and how to incorporate and all that good stuff, right If you guys ever want to do or would do something like that for Dubai I think it would be a hit I think people would really want to to take a look at that especially just for a reference and I've actually had multiple multiple people and also in the uh, you know, ko l influencer YouTube space saying the same thing like hey Give me some information about Puerto Rico because I want to move there And I'm like and just like what you said If you move for capital gains reasons This is going to be a really crappy experience and you better make this your home because if not You'll go away and the last thing I'll say is like this Everybody who thinks like it's so easy to move and do these things In 2021 in Puerto Rico We have the highest amount ever in the history of Puerto Rico for the x-60 people who come here for for tax reasons and in 2022 we have the highest amount of rescind Recindication rescinding of the x-60 meaning everybody moved here They didn't realize what you guys just said about you have to make it your home and they all went back So if you're talking about this, you better make sure that this is what you want and go there and move That's it. That's my appeal So everybody that's it for today if you uh, we'll do a little q&a, but as a reminder Coin Bureau club and the coin bureau clips the links are in the description We can go from there before as I'm perusing through the the questions if you guys want to give any kind of Sage advice for the people who are in the crypto space right now moving in the bull market go right ahead I'll take a look for the questions Oh Nick do you have some because I think we've both gotten into mine 17. So you've probably got some Sage advice No one's got I mean, uh, I saw some guides here on I said, don't forget to take profits That's something that I haven't I uh, I have to yeah, you gotta take some profits, man You go and then I didn't do this in 2021. I didn't do this in 2017 I did four and I'll claim about my bitcoin stack I never took profits have been holding it for so long and I think that The thing is taking profits is easier said than done because it's related to people sometimes allow their emotions To to stop them from actually hitting the sell button because of the potential firmware they have And they they adjust their expectations up and um, although they had a target state profits out They'll just basically adjust that because I think they want something better. They want a nicer house They want a nicer car even though they reach their financial goals So I think set it and forget it and take profits is something that I hope to be able to do the cycle for sure I gotta agree Jessica, what about you? It's because and not only just and just one more thing To refer everybody. I mean you've not only have you been in the space for a long time You've interviewed some big I mean like CZ by Nance I mean personally interviewed him and of course, Raul Powell and you guys have added some great interviews But like you've been those for a long time. So any advice? Yeah, I think I would say make sure you understand the industry and the also ecosystem that you're investing in Because there is a lot of kind of firmware that you can ape into stuff without understanding And I think that is kind of rule number one Also, and my main one is don't assume you can trade Don't assume that you're a trader just because your portfolio is up Everyone thinks they are a mastermind when the markets are moving and everyone is up 10% on the week And one needs to watch videos on trading for dummies because everyone is a genius But then as soon as the bear market comes everyone realizes that yeah Actually trading is a true art and a niche and you can lose everything So take profits invest not trade and just kind of like Pay yourself along the way. Take it easy. Don't lose your head If you need to speak to your non degenic non crypto mother to get her to realign you and remind you to take some profits And I can also see and Riley 22. Oh, no, Simon's do it in the comments saying avoid Yeah, and avoid leverage then my things Exactly, you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna start a service where people just call me I'm gonna and the only thing I'm gonna say is take profits But Rob, there's this thing right here. I'm gonna say just take profits I'm gonna I'm gonna charge like 35 bucks a minute and uh, that's nice and you're taking profits too It's like that's all people really need to hear like just take some profits You know Rob says like he says uh, take profits before I dump on you Yeah I'm gonna dump on you to take profits and then and if I take profits, but that Rob's gonna dump I should take profits All right, let's get the questions. First of all, who's that MacGyver dude? So that would be nick and you can see you Yeah MacGyver Who MacGyver I need to check out MacGyver looks like actually Yeah, I'm like why why I'm like that does not look like me. I've been I've got some I've had some He does not look like me I've had some crazy comparisons in the past Yeah, exactly. Yeah, me too Where is Ben Ben and Guy are doing lambo shopping together. So hopefully yeah They make it out of there get their lambo They're taking color recommendations for the colors of their lambo So guys comment below what color you think Ben and guys They're also going to start a new live stream going to be called Carpool Karaoke with Guy and Ben And it's going to have it's going to have four baby seats somehow because Well, they the urus, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, martin says uh, I'm watching Hyde mapper section right now wondering about privacy issues probably mainly in the EU I mean as far as like privacy and Hyde mapper as I understand it I You have to purchase the actual Yeah, physical mapping device box you put it on your on your In your car and then use drive around and it uses that data just like what google did back in the day to map everything But as far as like privacy, I don't really I don't know what the privacy. I don't know if it's like I don't know if they like well, first of all, they're gonna have to track you So I think your privacy is like, hey, this is my information. That would probably be one of those things for To actually get paid so on that one. I don't know guys anything with that one I think it was an EU If you either you got to comply with GDPR if you don't the EU bureaucrats will come and they'll rip your camera off your Dashboard ASA. So yeah, and the EU you can't get by doing any of this Even if you're a crypto company that's operating a decentralized network, you've got to comply with GDPR So I assume that the collecting As I mean, it's like it's an opt-in kind of thing So I don't know exactly if you'd have to opt-in to collect your data for the higher for these Web dash gaps. So yeah, that'd have to be compliant with EU regulations on that I bet you just like I mean, we're I'm in the USA Land of the free but it doesn't really work like that. You have to KYC and AML everything I mean to collect those those rewards that you're doing. I'm going to guarantee you they have all your information and Let's see. Oh, this is a good one From rusty bot. Do you guys run any d10 or real world asset nodes or any actually any nodes? You guys run anything yourselves or in the or in the coin bureau hand Unfortunately, I don't think we do No, I think I runs a minor guys got a minor somewhere. Does you really like a big one? Well, I mean doesn't he doesn't actually physically run the run I know that he's bought shares in a mining machine somewhere in L. I am In your device, that's the city But no, I think and now I feel bad saying that because honestly, I think it is important to run a node Um In terms of like decentralizing the network if it's an Ethereum full node or a Bitcoin full node because obviously that's important from the from You know to make it the the network decentralized, right? But it's obviously you go to the machine keep the machine on all the time Uh, and uh, you know, it's a you you think to yourself. Oh, it's decentralized enough So what is one extra node going to make a difference? It's more from an idealistic standpoint Smaller networks smaller deep and plays. Yeah, we haven't started running nodes yet Yeah, I've got uh, we we run a Cordon mistake pool and also I have a node on playable, but that's about it. I just missed the uh the aether Uh deep in ai a white listing, but a lot of you everybody else got into it except me. So that's fine Eh And really says what are your future working opportunities the bureau after the bull run? How do you want to grow in the that's a good question? How do you guys want to grow in the future? Uh Intense all strategy or strategy and just like growth as far as like the office you guys Just dubai is going to branch out because I mean it doesn't really matter where you're at because you guys are global anyhow Yeah, yeah, maybe I can jump in I'll say you go We are hiring for a social media manager here in our Dubai office So if you are interested to work with the bureau You can reach out on twitter or on our website because we are currently hunting for the perfect candidate that Loves crypto as much as we do and also wants to come and work with us And guy in the office here. So if anyone's interested that's watching that wants to be full-time in crypto even more Join the clan bureau team That should actually pay in to be to be working with you and guys to be honest, yes Very nice Speaking of which uh, come you're alive 2024 Are you guys going to have that or what are you going to do or is that in the works are not happening? Oh Yeah, unfortunately this year. I don't think we're going to be planning the criminal life because we've got We're doing a lot of things around token 2049 Which is in two weeks time. So we're going to have side events and we never been there. I think that We could do it again at some point. Maybe in the future We were playing with other ideas like a virtual life conference and everything but the thing is more specifically from the UK angle UK has got new laws and crypto promotions Which are not necessarily conducive to running a live IRL event You'll notice of course that token 2049 is in Dubai this year Which is and it used to be run in the UK in London. So they moved So, yeah, unfortunately nothing planned right now in the calendar But obviously we do want to have it again and we want to try and make as many opportunities as possible to meet fans IRL So if anyone's can be in Dubai in two weeks of token 2049 we'll have to see you will be around as well Got it. Okay and then uh, let's see And then is living a second life grand theft auto life lambo cooking Although I that would make for a hell of a episode that's for sure You'll be a you'll be a great gti character then. Yeah Yeah, yeah Let's see. I think uh, let's see Does This guy buy everyone lunch in the office If he does he's probably poor because it's it's so expensive to buy food over there Yeah, and guy is actually on a health kick where he fasts every single Monday So Mondays are a tough day to be working with mr. Guy because you feel very guilty eating your lunch sitting opposite the poor chap While he's on a 24-hour food fast Nah, I've done that Very good to go. Yeah, yeah the screening coming from the greenery Well, that's why they played that's that's why you uh, you know, you play that music so much So you can't hear a guy screaming at everybody. How about this one? Uh thoughts on the asi merger. I don't know if we just talked about this recently Fetch ocean and uh singularity. Is this good for ai in general or what are your thoughts on this one? if anything at all Well, I know you had a video on this as well rob I think it definitely will bump them up in the rankings when it comes to the kind of market dominance of the separate ai tokens together coming As one um out of the three i'm more familiar with singularity net just because they've been around for longer I've interviewed bengut sort of a few times and we had singularity net and singularity dow on the discord Um, and this is actually before the announcement So maybe we should get them to come back on and share in a little bit more detail I think you covered it in a video rob. What was your what was your take? My thoughts were just like this is that I see this is going to happen more and more these different chains that are Maybe not struggling, but they have some strengths But they have I mean every business has some sort of weakness They're going to merge together and make themselves like a super platform I think it was a smart move because you know ocean and singularity and fetch they do something a little bit differently And if they can kind of shore up those weaknesses, they can you know move in the stratosphere I mean best as they possibly can also they have a they have a greater reward chest because the the combination of those three Platforms themselves would make them at 7.1 billion I think it was which would put them at like the 28 mark on the market cap So for them to do something like that is a smart move Especially they're like hey, we can do this this this this this this we have we have less weaknesses That was my thought process. I have a question on that this um because I was speaking to crypto seats about this as well and You know, how's he doing? I haven't seen him. He is great, man He actually lives on the same floor in the same building as me like by completely coincidence. It's crazy I just joined him for us at the crypto seat. Oh shisha shesham the other day Uh, so we just got crypto. Yeah, yeah, we just catch up and chat crypto watch at the marine abuse Um, but yeah, he was basically the question is like how are the teams going to talk? Talk about like is there one team that's going to be stronger? It's going to take it over more particularly like is it more like Was it really a merger or is one team going to emerge like the predominant team that's going to drive the project for it? Because look, how do they plan their delegations like that? I mean Like which were the stronger projects were taken over? I mean if you recall Like it's happened before crypto mergers. If you recall like polygon Like took on her knees back in the like in 2021 cycle. And that's how they got their zk Uh technology. Um, but yeah, I guess it's like how are the teams going to Work about a portion in duties or or growth or you know, because I mean, there must have been a stronger team there ocean friends I'm sure that Singularity from my perspective. I think singularity is probably got a more active team than ocean would have for instance No events to the ocean guys, but yeah Right. So like I mean they all do a little bit something different, right? Like so like ocean is like for decentralized apps Singularity is pretty much like all ai and then fetch ai is as something to do with with consolidation of artificial intelligence compute power But if you hit it on the head because for all businesses that are out there, this is really what it comes down to Nick you even talked about in 2017 the ico craig, which is just white paper and hope and everybody got into that But they there was nothing structurally behind it Moving forward these businesses these products actually have to actually do something and have real partnerships and have real utility And actually do the thing they say they do and so just going you know what it's coming It's in it's in beta it's going to happen this way It all comes down to partnerships and executions and if they if you can't do that you're going to go away So I would see it like I don't know what they're doing behind the scenes But you might say it's a pretty good play in the bull run But I would say like this when we get into the bear market what usually happens layoffs Decreased revenue and then of course what they say is like we got a lot of people Thankfully we merged now we can let those people I mean I hate to say that but I mean that's well It happens with everybody so yeah Streamlining as emerges in traditional companies always lead to that you're going to have some streamlining that's going on with the workforce So it's bloke. It's going to cut Yeah, and with that one we're we're past an hour. So I will leave that on that bummer of a note. Sorry everybody But just remember that We're we're getting it's okay volatile man. It's volatile the workforce is volatile as well Exactly. Yeah, so we're in a bull market things are going good I want to thank again. Jessica nick for being on the show enlightening again all the links are in the description So everybody, thanks so much for stopping by. We appreciate it and we'll see you next week. I think from ben's channel Yeah