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Yes, that's right. Caroline Allison, how could I forget? Gary says, I strap my phone to my dog and get 44,000 steps a day. I hope that works for you. Let's see. R.D., I just hope that question is a joke. Can you major change? I don't know what that is. Brody, if you had to guess, do we go to 28.5 or 24.5 in the short term? It all depends on escalation in the Middle East and what's going to happen. We talked about this three days ago about wars and how the market usually dips, but then it rallies significantly going all the way back to World War II. Usually what happens is we'll have a significant dip. So 24.5 could be on the table and then things rally in 28.5. Again, I can't control the events that are unfolding. The only thing I can control is my actions and reactions to them. So I just talk about the things that I possibly can. I know some people will say, well, how could you just talk about this? Why don't you talk about everything over there? I'm not a geopolitical expert. Again, I don't know exactly what's going on. So why would I talk about this? This is like the Sunday afternoon armchair quarterback. He talks about how Brady should have done this or somebody should have done that. All right, whatever. But yeah, to answer your question, if we see an outbreak, we'll probably have quite a big dip and then things will rally up again. That's it, especially with the Fed pausing rates. Meme says, I swed today a little something for the effort. Yeah, I'll give you one sweat coin. All you got to do is walk. Well, when I first talked about it was 1000 steps, you got one sweat coin. Now I think it's 4500 steps, you get one sweat coin. So that's my gift to everybody. All right, irrational. Hello. Yeah, look at that. First livestream in weeks. Congratulations, B-man. This wasn't as jam packed as the other ones. This one was kind of like just to kind of give people a little bit of a bump and elevation of mood and go from there. Wenla, I have no idea. Thank you. Remind Rob, much for your insights to have a like button. Yes, that'd be great. You know, it is amazing, though, this last one, this last thing that I showed just how accurate the funds rate is when we're looking at recessions. It just seems like we're just due, right? It's always the Fed's funds rate jumps up. Wow, look at that. 89. I didn't know it was that high, almost 10%. Then they break something and they pivot, and then we get a recession. And then the same thing. The Fed's funds rate runs up, they pause, and in this case, they pause, then pivoted, then they get a recession. And this one, the same thing, the Fed funds rate ramps up, they pause, then they pivot, and then recession. Same thing over here. Fed's funds rate goes up. There's a pause, they pivot, and then a recession. Same thing over here. I mean, Fed funds rate, they ramp up. Phase two, they're pausing. Phase three, they pivot. Phase four, recession. It seems like the most easy, I'm not a big chartologist, but even my genius, geniusness that is severely limited can figure that one out. But who knows? Rusty Bot. Today's SB, of course, wild type prostitutes with OKX accounts trying to get back money that was seized by China. Yeah, yeah, that was pretty crazy. And that's happening in our market. In some days, in the bull market, you're pretty proud to be in crypto. You're like, see, this is good stuff. But then as the bear mark comes in and this nonsense that happens, you're just like, what do you do? I work at McDonald's. W says, DCA, don't be like me and regret not DCing all year, waiting until one month ago. If you dollar-cost average for the next 10 months, you will stay in good position as long as you pick. Well, that's the last sentence. The last two or three words is true. Or four words, you pick great ones. Make sure you do that. That's the most important. But it's true. I'm dollar-cost averaging right now. And my only winners for this year are Bitcoin and Solana. But on Sunday, if you want to see what I'm dollar-cost averaging and which ones are down and which ones are up, just come back on Sunday. We do that every Sunday and take a look at it. And we use, we steal from Ben's website and use the dollar-cost average tool, which is free. So if you want to sign up for that, you can get our free crypto seven, please recap if you can, three X by having, I think we just talked about this, didn't we? So actually it was like a four X. So it was the funds rate. Back in the previous cycle, 2017, here's the funds rate right here in red. It goes up. And then as soon as they paused, this was at the low point of Bitcoin. It was $3,200. And they paused all the way over here. Actually, right here, it's 13,000. So they're in the whole time for the pause when the market's like, cool, that's not raising rates. Let's get down on this. Let's make some money. It went up, actually, four X. So that's your recap. You're welcome. Trademate says, Rob, why is near showing so much weakness? Just give me one dollar. I've been dollar-cost averaging near for this entire year, actually last year too. And in my opinion, of course, we can go lower, but I'm not for sure. So that's why I dollar-cost average some every day, some every week. And why is it showing weakness? I have no idea. Pick any project out there. Why are they showing weakness? Do they all suck? Are they all Ponzi's? No, it's just because we're voting. And we're voting because we're speculating. It's the same thing with Amazon when it went in the toilet back in the early 2000s. Jeff Bezos came out and said, it's very strange that we're going down so far because we keep building. We keep expanding operations. We keep opening up warehouses. We keep decreasing the actual delivery time. We're doing the right things, but yet the market has decided that our stock sucks. It's the same thing with crypto. Some are actually building the bear and doing the right things, and some are not. And it just seems like it doesn't matter because once we get into, as we move forward into the next bull market, we'll see which one's actually the right things, which ones did not. So don't know what to tell you. There's more sellers than there are buyers. That's a pretty good one. Render. Ah, the AI play, sure. Mr. Sunday Funday. Rob, you should ask Ben to make a try that allows how many people call you Dan. The higher it goes, the more we get a bear. Yeah, once we get into the bull market, everybody in the stream will call me Dan because they won't know my first name, which is great. I'll respond to Dan. And then of course, that's when we know that all the rookies and the tourists are here, which is fine. It's a big tent. You're welcome to come. He was just, I think people are too optimistic. I think we're coming down closer to 20K. I thought we're going to go to 12K, quite honestly. I mean, if you take a look at the past, like, look at this. This is my favorite bearish thing to show people when they get too bullish, cycle highs and lows. So again, this is November 2013, Bitcoin hit $1,000, a thousand bucks. Then roughly one year later, roughly 2015, a year and some change, two months, it was 172. That was an 85% drop. Then 2017, it was roughly 20,000 December. Then about a year later, 2018, which we just took a look at, it was 3,217. That's an 84% drop. Then we thought this was the bottom. In 2021, we hit 67,000. Then in June, all the chartologists and everybody in TA and everybody that didn't know anything about anything or even the smartest people out there were like, yep, this is the last chance you could buy Bitcoin under 20,000. Remember that? It was all over the place. That was June 2022. It was 19,047. Everybody was right. No, they weren't. They were wrong. It actually went down to 15,742, but I will remind you that from the high from 67 to 15,000, the timeframe is the same, roughly a year, right? 9th of November, 2021 to 9th of November, 2022. That's a year, 15,742, but that's only 77%. So 85% would be roughly 10K or 12K, just so you know. And yeah, that's my favorite thing to show people when they get too bullish. Why do I do it? Because I wanted people to have some balance. That's all. Hey, I heard your joker says I ordered my tangent cards. I'll be arriving today, excited. Oh, yeah. I'm just waiting for them to update the app so I can redo the video. Christian says Bitcoin is going up 15,000, no matter what. That'd be great. Because here's the thing. Does anybody think we'll stay at 15,000? Does anybody think that in 2025, 2026, that we won't see some, at least the previous all-time high? Just saying. Damn, I'm dead. Dan's fine. Alan, in the sense that hold the line, folks, we're going to try to shake us out. Could be. Oh, no. Ben just posted a video called the Cardano Outlook. I got to tell you, that guy is a glutton for punishment. Because I'm going to tell you, I'm pretty sure it's not like he's saying, you know what? Cardano's going to increase exponentially this year. Get in now. I'm just going to take a wild stab at it and say that Ben's video is going to be pretty negative on the price action of Cardano. But there's one thing I would like to remind everybody about, about Ben. The reason why he does those videos is because he's been where you've been, and he did the same thing you did. And he hates the fact that, that people have to go through it. When he can just, you know, you don't have to learn from mistakes. You can just learn from others mistakes. And he's telling you, like, look, this is what happened before. This is where I see things happening. And that's it. You have to remember also, when we talk about price action, that has nothing to do with the project themselves. Every project that you're invested into, not every project. A lot of the projects you're invested into, they're probably good projects. They're probably good people doing good things, trying to make things happen. Now, some are going to suck and some are rug pullers and just awful people. Let's be honest. I think the majority of people right now in the bear market are trying to do the right thing at the right time. So when we talk about the price might go down, it has nothing to do with the price itself. It could be awesome. I love Bitcoin. Bitcoin is great, obviously. But the price does not reflect the potential it has on the world economy and just having been a hedge against this crazy inflation. So just remember that. Peter says, 2020, let's see no highs. I hope so. Cardenza. All-time high, always during the bull no way we don't go above. I'll be honest with you, everybody. I'd be happy if we just went back to the previous all-time highs because since I've been dollar-cost averaging these last couple of years, I'm pretty happy to go back. Like, let's take Solana. What is Solana now? 23 bucks? Maybe 22? Let's see. Damn it. I'll always pass it. There. Number eight, Solana. Yeah, 21 bucks. I think it was worth like $224 at some point, something like that. So like, I mean, I'll take that all day long. And I buy this every day. And I buy Cardano. I buy Dogecoin, I buy Dot, Polygon, Chainlink, Avalanche, Cosmos, dipping into ICP potentially. Gotta do a little more work on that. Optimism, Arbitrum, Nier, of course Bitcoin. So yeah, like I don't don't happen, doesn't happen, but I'll be happy just going back to those all-time highs. I gotta tell you, just going back to the all-time highs of the previous cycle is great. It's a heck of a lot better returns than, say, like an S&P 500, just saying. Demetrius. Bare mark for the next 10 years. Who knows? BlackRock won't let Bitcoin hit $15,000 for long. No, but Gary will. I could ask him. Julio says, can you ask Ben to put on the Black Friday deal for his website? I can ask. Yeah, RedPandaPy says, anybody thought Bitcoin reached a dollar back in time back in the day? Oh, I'm going to have somebody on. We're going to go back home to Puerto Rico. And I've got a really good, really good guest who was doing things before even Simon Dixon, buying Bitcoin at, like, I don't know, two bucks or something. Something crazy like that. And I'm going to give you guys some perspective of just what things were like back then. And actually, I'm going to do it in my house. So that'll be a good interview. Yes. Well, remember, Shady, I mean, I try to do the best I can. Remember, this stuff is extremely risky. And a lot of these things will go to zero. And will the entire crypto market go to zero? I mean, sure, it could. I think it's unlikely, but we always have to plan for that. That's why we did the rules, right? The rules, the rules keep us in shape. It's all gone. Never invest more. You can afford to lose. That's why, like, even though I'm down and for the DCA does not affect me, I don't freak out. I don't sell too early. I don't, you know, do something crazy. Because the money that I put into it, it's like, I know I can lose it. And it's not going to crush me. Like, I didn't put, you know, my kids, well, kids are gone. But I mean, I didn't put the entire college fund into Pepe coin or something stupid. Everything's a scam. Don't use exchanges. As far as like, keeping your crypto exchanges, take them off. That's why I do, I've done three videos on cold storage devices on ledger, on tandem, and on ellipal. It's very simple to do. And, you know, don't use leverage. I mean, two to three X, I think it's fine, honestly. But 1500X, you're just playing with fire and then take profits along the way. And that's it. Those are the rules. Pantality is ridiculous. Don't listen to them. They're like Texas Longhorn Bulls, which is true. We took a look at it was, it was a document that they put out about about how Bitcoin should be your first choice. And then when you get into other altcoins, it should be something different. And it wasn't, it wasn't their crazy, you know, Bitcoin price predictions that they put out. I mean, they, I think they put out like price predictions of like 100,000, like last year or something crazy. I can't remember. But it was always a little bit and ridiculous. But it just, it really took a look at why Bitcoin will work, how it is different from say like gold and traditional equities, and how you can buy on the sub layer, kind of like how TCP, IP that built, that built the internet, how you could actually buy the base layer of the internet with Bitcoin and the nodes and the miners. And of course, everything that builds on top of that will be awesome too. So it was pretty, pretty good one. And that was, that was two days ago. You can find that in on my channel. And it just talks about fidelity. Just do fidelity and did you listen to the show come up. Brian said, Hey, Rob, how do you determine which value your stake with on near? So I did a video on that as well. You can look for it. You know what, all these things that I'm talking about, well, except for that recent fidelity one, there is a link in the description. And it takes you to this website, Dan teaches crypto. And then when you log in, it's free. It's 100% free. It's always will be free. And I don't even spam you. I just tell you when I update some things. And then in the module three, which is login members area, oops, actually be how do I module five, how do I stake my cryptos? How do I use the metamask wall? How do I use simple swap? How do I have to have the firmware? How do I stake theta and so on and so how do I stay Cardano? So all those videos are right there. So check that one out. Let's see. Harry Dent says it'll go to $3,000 and it goes way up. You know what I like about Harry Dent is that he never fails. He never met a catastrophe he didn't like. Every time I see that guy, it's the same thing. It's almost like Peter Schiff who talks nonstop about how gold's going to the moon and it's going to be awesome. You got to get in now and you got to do it. And you know what? He was right one time back when gold took off, but it's been pretty stagnant. Now I own gold and silver. I don't see a problem with that. But I do have a problem with everybody who's saying all the time that this is it. This is the time. This is the time because you know at one point they get it right. They'll ride that out for the next 50 years. That green screen looks very real today. It does looks pretty good. The only thing on his zero is my trust and purity. W says it right. The strong will survive as people want stability, people lose and people win. One thing I do know is when everybody hates crypto, good time to buy and has been proven. Yes. I remember very well, 2018, 2019. And it was you were the dumbest person on the planet for buying anything related to crypto. You were laughed at. You were ridiculed. And the same people that would laugh and ridicule you were the same people that were texting and calling you at towards the end of 2020 and of course 2021. And that's why like when people say you shouldn't dump on people, I have no problem dumping on people, especially the people that you know, you're going to deal with on Thanksgiving. Your families will be like, Hey, how's that crypto going? We heard about Sam Bankman freed and FTX. You get Bitcoin, the crypto at the price you deserve. And that's it. Ah, see. Yeah. There's a new report about Genesis and the loans that they were doing with FTX. I don't want to get into it. The whole situation snickets me, but it's a good reminder that, you know, even though we take a look at these individuals and these institutions, we think that they're good for us and they're going to do the right thing. Remember Sam spam, Bankman freed, how he would talk about how he's altruistic and want to just save the world. Well, behind the scenes, he was some megalomaniac who didn't care about anything. So remember, everybody's lying. And you have to assume that everybody's lying. Maybe even I'm lying. Don't trust me. Don't trust anybody. That's it. So look, everybody, thanks so much for stopping by. I appreciate it. If you liked today's video, give it a thumbs up, consider subscribing, all that great stuff. And then tomorrow I'm going to do something different. I think it's going to be a watch along and I'll explain it tomorrow. But that's it for today. Thanks so much, everybody. And I'll see you on the next one. Appreciate it.