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Ask for Anderson at any drugstore. Now for Mr. Keen and The Case of Murder and The Star of Death. Our scene opens in a large and fashionable home in a New York suburb. A dinner party has been in progress. But now the three guests have gathered in the library, where the host, Mark Adams, observes with some amusement that they're all looking forward to a surprise he's been hinting about. A surprise he is soon to reveal to his regret. What is this remarkable surprise you have for us? Yes, what's the big secret? You've got something up your sleeve, old man. Oh, no doubt about it, I have, Paul. As a matter of fact, that's why I invited you all to dinner this evening. Then please don't keep us in suspense. I shan't eat this, my dear, but first, a prelude to my little exhibit.  Tell me, what's your favorite stone? Well, Mark, I suppose most women would prefer a diamond, but I'm partial to sapphires. Big ones. What are you getting at, Mark? Paul, you're as well known a collector of precious stones as I am. What would you say was the greatest sapphire in existence? The Star of Death, of course. Star of Death? What a dreadful name. Would you like to see it? You mean you have the Star of Death here? In this box, on this table. What? I sold over three-quarters of my own collection of jewels to buy this sapphire from the Hancock estate, but it was worth it. See for yourself. There. Oh, look, love. Really, it's magnificent. Oh, it's beautiful, Mark. When I said I had a treat in store for you, I meant it. What happened to the lights? Put the lights on, somebody. Well, wait, Hyal, I'll find the switch. Here it is. Someone must have accidentally brushed against the wall switch and turned the lights off. Mark, the sapphire. It's gone. The Star of Death is gone. Very well, I can go along with a joke. Will the one who took the stone please replace it in the box on the table? Look here, a practical joke is one thing, but that sapphire is worth a fortune. Mark, I... Just a moment, David. Someone in this room is evidently a fool or a thief, but I'll give him or her a chance to save face. I'm going to put the lights out once again, and when I turn them back on, I'll expect to see that sapphire replaced inside this box with no questions asked. Otherwise, I'm calling the police. You'll have just five seconds while I turn out the lights. Here goes. Remember, five seconds. Out! Mark! Let me out that light switch. Mark, he's on the floor. I'll touch him, Edith. He's dead. My father had been stabbed to death with a letter open to Mr. King, taken from the desk. He was murdered for that sapphire, the Star of Death. I read about the case this morning, Kay, in the newspapers. My partner Mike Clancy brought it to my attention. Sure, it was one of the strangest cases in years. All three suspects were arrested, boss. But the police don't know which one murdered Mr. Adams and stole that sapphire. Where were you at the time of the tragedy, Kay? Away for the weekend at a friend's house. Who dared it only take him my advice? I begged him not to buy that sapphire. Why were you against his buying it, Kay? You've heard about the stone, I'm sure, Mr. King. It's history. It's horrible. That's how it got its name, the Star of Death. Three people died while it was in their possession, all violently. Father was the fourth victim. Tell me something about your father's guests. Who was present that night? There was Edith. Edith Sims. Father was very fond of her. I even think there was a possibility he might have married her. He'd been very lonely since mother died two years ago. And the other guests? Paul Datley. Is it Jewel important like father was? They were close friends. And Mrs. Loretta Wainard is a well-known socialite, a widow. She's very rich, Mr. King, and she'd never have any reason to steal. And that was all? Yes, Mr. King. The servants had all left for the night. No one else was there but father and his three kids. The Jewel apparently was never found on any of them. No, Mr. King. All three persons swear they're innocent. And well, it's hard for me to believe that only one of them could have done a thing like that. How's it strike you, Mike? Well, it's a puzzler, Mr. King. Sure, what happened to the sapphire? It couldn't have just disappeared. No, Mike, and yet I'm sure all three suspects were thoroughly searched by the police. Mr. King, couldn't it have been someone else? A thief who sneaked into the house? It's possible, Kay, but I doubt it. By the way, who described the details of the murder to the police? All three of father's guests. And their stories were identical? In every detail. Will you help me, Mr. King? I have faith in the police naturally, but this case is so mysterious. You're the most famous investigator in the country. And if you could work with the police... I'll try my best, Kay. And I'll also try to recover the stolen sapphire for which your father was murdered. Oh, thank you. I suggest you go home now and wait for my call. I'll want to look the house over. But before I do that, I think I've got an idea. What is it, boss? It's rather unusual, but if Lieutenant Hale of the homicide squad is willing to cooperate with me... maybe Mark Adams Killer will pay far more for that sapphire than he ever bargained for. But what's your suggesting, Mr. King, is it dangerous? I know that, Lieutenant Hale. One of your three prisoners is a killer, but I doubt if you'll ever find out which one is guilty unless you release all three. But what good will that do? That sapphire, the Star of Death, hasn't been found yet, has it? No, Mr. King. Then it must be hidden somewhere. Obviously. Very well. Your police officers were with the three suspects from the time they left the Adams' house. Isn't that right? In other words, the sapphire is still inside the house. Exactly. But we've searched the place thoroughly, Mr. King. The murderer wouldn't have been foolish enough to stab Mark Adams to death if he or she didn't have an excellent hiding place for the sapphire. Then how will we get the stone? We'll let the killer find it for us and expose himself at the same time. Sounds like a good idea if it works. You can have the three suspects trailed by your plain clothesman, but I prefer you wouldn't. Any slip-up would make the killer suspicious and spoil my plan. All right, I'll go along with you, Mr. King, on one condition. What's that, Lieutenant? I'm going to station the man at all the airports and railway terminals. I don't want my pigeon to fly the coop. I'm sure your pigeon will stay right here, Lieutenant, until he has his hands on that sapphire, the Star of Death. And when he reaches for it again, we'll have our hands on him. This is the library, Mr. King. The room where Father was murdered. All right, Kay, we'll examine it thoroughly for any trace of the missing sapphire. Well, I'll go over it with a fine tooth core, Mr. King. Good, Mike. I suppose that heavy desk has been gone through, Kay. At least a thousand times. The police looked under the carpets and opened up the upholstery in the chairs. There isn't a spot in this room that hasn't been searched. Isn't that the door, then? Yes. Excuse me, Mr. King. Mike. Yes, boss? Never mind the search. After what Kay has just told me, I'm sure we'll have to wait for some kind of a break. And we may be getting one right now. How so? I've been expecting the murderer to make some excuse to return to this house for the stone. Let's see who's at the door. Mr. King, this is Paul Dudley. How do you do, Mr. Dudley? Mr. King, this is a great pleasure, sir. I'm very glad to know you. My partner, Mike Clancy. How do you do? Pleased to meet you. Mr. King, Lieutenant Hale at police headquarters told me you were responsible for my release. I thought you'd be here with Kay Adams and I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your confidence in me. That's quite all right. The murder was a shocking thing and Mark Adams was my friend. But I trust the police now realize who the guilty woman is. Oh, you believe they have the killer? Naturally. That's the only reason they let me go, isn't it? And who do you think she is, Mr. Dudley? Edith Sims, of course. Oh, no. Edith Sims. It's a horrible thing to say I know Kay, but I... I know more about Edith and your father than you do. Just what do you know, Mr. Dudley? I know Edith was poor, Mr. King, and she wanted to marry Mark. I also know he'd made up his mind not to marry again because of his daughter, Kay. I see. Sounds like more company, boss. Yes. You stay here with Mr. Dudley, Mike. I'll go to the door with Kay. This way, Mr. King. Is it true, Mr. King, that Edith Sims is being held by the police for father's murder? No, Kay. No one's being held at the moment. Kay, darling. Oh, Edith. Are you all right? I know how you must feel, dear. When your father died, everything I lived for went out of the world. This is Mr. King, Edith. Mr. King, he's investigating father's death. May I ask what brought you here, Miss Sims? I came to comfort Kay, Mr. King. And I want to stay a few days, darling, here with you. We can console each other, perhaps just a little. Of course, Edith. That woman isn't here, is she? What woman, Miss Sims? Loretta Waynard. Oh, no. No, she isn't. Oh, thank goodness. Why are you so relieved, Miss Sims? Oh, did I sound relieved? I didn't mean... Please, Edith, tell Mr. King everything you know. He's here to help me. Well, I... I have no right to say this, Mr. King. But then I have no right to hold it back. I overheard Loretta Waynard quarrel with Mark Adams. On the night he was murdered? Yes. They were in the study just before dinner. Loretta told him she'd learned that he wanted to marry me, and she said he was out of his mind. They must have been closer friends than I thought. Loretta despised me, I know it, but I didn't care. It was what she said to Mark that hurt. And what was that? She said a man would be better off dead than married to a fortune-hunter like me. Mark became angry, and she apologized, Mr. King. Miss Sims, would you wait inside for me, please? Here's my partner, Mike Clancy. I want to have a word with him in private. Come with me, Mr. King. Very well. Oh, boss, we... Seth Brazovus, another customer. Yes, Mike, and I believe this one will be the last. The third and last guest at the dinner party where Mark Adams was murdered and a fabulous sapphire stolen. I'll open the door. You are Mrs. Loretta Reynard? Yes. Is Kay Adams here? I came to pay my respects in her bereavement. Please come in. My name is Keen, Mrs. Reynard. Mr. Keen, the famous investigator? Well, this is a lucky coincidence. I'd heard you were investigating Mark Adams' murder, and I was coming to see you. Why? Because I know who murdered Mark. I realized it after I left police headquarters. I remembered a remark at dinner. The night Mark was murdered. Paul Dudley said it, Mr. Keen, and I remember his exact words. What were they, Mrs. Reynard? He said he'd give anything for possession of that sapphire, the Star of Death, and that it was a jewel any man would murder for. Did Paul Dudley know Mr. Adams had it in his possession at the time? I couldn't say, Mr. Keen. But I'm telling you the truth, and Edith Sims is my witness. Very well. We'll give you a chance to prove it now. Miss Sims is inside, along with Mr. Dudley. Will you join them, Mrs. Reynard? Certainly. I'm quite willing to make that statement to Paul's base. Well, Mike? Sure, we've got to find Jigsaw puzzle on our hands, boss. Each one accuses another, and their stories are all equally strong. The thing to do now is to find out who's lying, Mike, and put our hands on that fabulous sapphire. And when we do, the Star of Death can claim another victim when the killer gets the electric chair for murder. In just a moment, we'll return to Mr. Keen and the case of murder and the Star of Death. Meanwhile, here's a marvelous new scientific discovery that actually helps prevent cavities in your teeth. Yes, actually helps prevent cavities. It's colonnose anti-decay tooth powder with ammonium iron, greatest dental discovery since the invention of the toothbrush. Discovered by a great Midwestern university, this scientific ingredient reduces the lactobacilli bacteria in the mouth to help prevent harmful tooth decay. New colonnose is the first world-famous dentist to offer ammonium iron and retain its pleasant, midi-flavor and popular price. 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For Mark Adams was murdered for the Star of Death, a fabulous sapphire that Mr. Keen believes has been hidden inside the Adams' home by the killer. Now the three people who were with the victim at the time of his death are in the house, along with Kay Adams, the victim's daughter, and as Mr. Keen and Mike gather them together in the room where Adams was murdered. We seem to have reached an impasse in the mystery of Mark Adams' death, ladies and gentlemen. All three of you are under suspicion of murder. Just a moment, please. Mr. Dudley. Well, Mr. Keen? You told me a few moments ago that in your opinion, Edith Sims committed the crime. Paul, how could you say such a thing of me?  That isn't true. Mr. Dudley is also among the accused. You mean someone says that I'm the murderer? Loretta Waynard. Why, I'll not. Take it easy, Mr. Dudley. The boss wants me to keep this conversation on a friendly level, so to speak. And, lastly, Mrs. Waynard joins the list of suspects. What? Who could have blamed me for it, Mr. Keen? I did, Mrs. Waynard. Edith, you. I overheard what you said to Mark. You told him he'd be better off dead than married to me.  How dare you say that? How dare... Mrs. Waynard. She tripped over the rug, Mr. Keen. She struck her head against the floor. She's unconscious. Would you carry her inside, Mr. Dudley? I'll call a doctor. No. I'll be all right. I don't need a doctor. She's coming around. Better see that she rests for a few minutes anyway. Here, let me help you, Mrs. Waynard. In spite of what you said about me, I'm not angry with you. Help her in here, Paul. All right, Keen. There's a studio couch in this room. Mike, I just noticed something. What was it, boss? Just before Mrs. Waynard tripped, I saw Paul Dudley bending over the desk, looking at something. But there's nothing on that desk but a blotter and a pen, Mr. Keen. Wait. Don't examine it now. I think someone's coming. Kay Adams said there was some water out here, and I thought Mrs. Waynard... Oh, here's a picture on the table. How's she feeling, Mr. Dudley? A little better. By the way, Mr. Keen, I'm remaining here in the Adams' home for the night. I live upstate, and the next train is very late. Kay Adams has offered me a room. I see. Excuse me. Well, that's two of them, boss. Miss Sims made an excuse to stay here, and so is Paul Dudley. I'm also quite sure that Loretta Waynard will be too ill to go home this evening. That makes three suspects. All trying to stay here in the house where that sapphire is hidden. Come over to this desk again, Mike. I want to see what interested Mr. Dudley a moment ago. Well, it's a very fancy desk, sir. Look at the leather coverant. It's kept in place by nail studs. And one of those studs seems to be loose. Yes. This is the one Paul Dudley was... Mr. Keen, when you touch that nail head, a secret panel opened on the side of the desk. Look. Yes. And look what it contains, Mike. Sense preservice. It's the sapphire, the star of death. The most magnificent jewel I've ever seen. We'll take possession of it for the time being, Mike, and close this secret panel again. Don't say a word about this to any of them. As far as they're concerned, the sapphire is still missing. Sure, and one of them is going to get a surprise, boss. That's what I'm counting on. That secret panel in the desk is an ingenious contraption. It must have been specially made for someone... Well, do you think Mark Adams had it made, Mr. Keen? No. If he'd known about that secret panel, he'd have looked there the moment the jewel was missing. Well, then who could have known? That desk's original owner. Mr. Adams probably bought it from someone else. But his daughter cared, no, sir. Possibly, but I don't want to ask her in front of the others. I'll wait for an opportune time. Are we staying here for the night? Everyone else seems to be. We may as well join them. Well, what's the next move, Mr. Keen? We've found the star of death, Mike, but we still have to find our killer. Frankly, I think I can almost do that now, but let's wait for overwhelming proof. And I wouldn't be surprised if we obtained that proof tonight. Mr. Keen! Not so loud, Kay. I hope I didn't awaken you. No. No, I've been trying to read. Are the others asleep? Apparently, all but Mike Clancy and myself. He's in the library waiting for me.  I didn't get a chance to talk to you alone, otherwise I'd have asked you this before. Where did the furniture in this house come from? Did your father buy it himself? No. It came with the house when we bought it. How long ago was that? Two years, Mr. Keen. And who sold it to you? Father never told me. I was in school in Switzerland at the time. Where's the deed to the house? That would give the person's name. Why, the deed must be in Father's safe. And where's that? In Father's study. Do you want a combination, Mr. Keen? If you know it, Kay. I do. Left one, right six, left four, right nine. I just jot that down. All right, Kay. What are you going to do, Mr. Keen? I'm going to put my hands on your father's murderer. Mr. Keen? Yes, Mike. Put the lights on here in the study. Did you get what you were after, boss? I have it right here, the deed to the house with the seller's name on it. Everything seems to have worked out according to my suspicions, Mike, but there's one more thing we have to do. What's that? It's going to throw a scare into a few innocent people, but it's the only way to get final proof. You go upstairs, Mike. Knock on every bedroom door and spread an alarm that the house is on fire. Boss, are you joking? No, Mike, I'm serious. Don't behave as if anyone's life is in danger at the moment. Just say the fire's in the cellar and they have plenty of time to leave. Then tell them that the fire has burned the telephone wires and that I've left to get the fire department. And where will you really be, Mr. Keen? I'll be in the library waiting for the killer to recover that sapphire, the Star of Death. Now, take it easy, folks. There's nothing to get alarmed about. Mr.  All right, now. Come on, this way out. I'll put the lights on, Mrs. Wainard, so you can see that secret panel a little better. Mr. Keen! I was expecting you to drop by for the sapphire. Don't move, Mr. Keen. I see you've got a gun. You planned this. There isn't any fire. You tricked me, Keen. I began to suspect you this afternoon, Mrs. Wainard, when you tripped and fell at the psychological moment. While you were shouting at Edith Sims, you saw that Paul Dudley was interested in the desk. He noticed that loose nail head by accident, the one which opened the secret panel, and you distracted his attention and mine by falling suddenly and pretending to be hurt. So I did, Mr. Keen. Secondly, I found this deed. You were the one who sold this house and all the furniture into Mark Adams, so naturally you must be the one who knew about the secret panel in that desk. When you murdered Adams, you knew you would be searched for the sapphire you stole. So you hid it there. I sold Mark Adams this house because I lost my money, Mr. Keen. And I'm the kind of a woman who needs lots of it to live. He paid you quite a sum for this house according to the deed. $150,000. But I'm used to having millions, Mr. Keen. You must be quite a gambler to get rid of it so fast. Yes, I love to gamble on anything. A roulette wheel, a race horse, and the turn of a card. I also like to live the way a woman of breeding is accustomed to live. That's why I wanted that sapphire. No woman of breeding I ever knew was a cold-blooded murderer, Mrs. Wainard. The star of death isn't inside that secret panel, Mr. Keen. I know it isn't. Which means you have it. Perhaps. Turn it over to me. I'm not playing games now, Keen.  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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.  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.  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.  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?  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.  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.  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.  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.  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.  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.  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 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.


Alright Virgo, now you have to communicate. Compromise, forgive, work it out. Alright, let's see what's going on here. Somebody wants to communicate with you, try to come to compromise, forgive, work something out. Oh yeah, somebody's very serious about this. Yes, very serious. Ace of Wands, Knight of Swords. Want to try to have some type of new growth, put everything in the past put the past in the past and try to work on something here Virgo. Okay, Death card could be a Scorpio. Definitely wants to talk to you. Okay, wants to have some, like I feel like this person, whoever they are, is very serious about putting in the effort and making something work here with you. Okay, there's definitely going to be some text messages. They want to work something out here. They hope that you forgive them. They're willing to compromise with whatever needs to be compromised. They're not going to be a taker and be selfish. Figure out a way to make something work here and yeah, look at that judgment. That Scorpio energy again could be Aries, this person. Well it's Pluto, so take back that Aries thing. I don't know why I said that. Well, maybe it is. So this is reconciliation. Everything coming out, somebody's having like a huge awakening kind of moment. Maybe they were very judgmental towards you and said some things that work a bit off the cuff and now they would apologize. They're very serious. They're coming in very direct. So I feel it's going to be direct communication. They want to take charge of this. And so in January maybe everything that you're listening right now is like what? I don't get it. This could happen later where you guys get in some kind of argument or fight. And this person immediately like let's not go to bed angry. Let's not go to bed mad. They try like no, let's try to work this out. Well, they give you your space.  Nope, we're going to talk about it. I'm really sorry. Let me see here. Let's try to like replant these seeds and building them up. Okay, and just continue on this journey that we're on. Okay, so yeah, are you going to have like yeah, there's going to be some kind of breakdown, some kind of like argument or a fight of some sort with someone. That's three times the Scorpio card is here.  I don't think any sign gets three cards. Death card is definitely Scorpio. Judgment is, well, you know why I forgot that's why because they're planet ruled like one card will be say, for example, Scorpio, but the tower can also be Aries. Okay, that's why I said that and judgment is Pluto. The tower can be Aries and Scorpio because it's Mars run, it's ruled by the planet Mars and judgment is ruled by Pluto. Which Pluto keeps things very secretive, but judgment isn't opening up. So that's a huge change. I feel like something gets said either to you directly or you push back and say something. Okay, or you defend yourself or whatever the case might be in January and there's definitely like, we have two text bubbles here. So it could be over text, something gets said or doesn't get said or whatever it might be or it's taken wrong. Texting is just terrible because people just kind of project how the other person is feeling through text. Do you ever see that meme, that guy? He's like, I don't know. You have to look it up. There's like two guys texting each other and they're reading the text in two different ways and the one guy on the one side is like really happy and loving and the other guy's really angry so he's thinking everything his friend is telling him he's being mean but it's not what's happening. So when you're texting with someone, you're missing all of the inflections in the voice you're missing the facial behavior. Texting is great if you're just going to send a cute little emoji or you're going to make some plans it's not good for having a deep conversation, it's not because people reject or the misconstrues. So that's why again me with my go beating around the bush here, that's why I feel like there may be some kind of communication through text or someone sees someone's text to another person and it is taken out of context. That's what I feel like happens here in January. Text or comment or some type of written word, written communication and another person is like no no no they open up about it. Somebody opens up about what they saw, what they read, what they thought and it's like can we just not another person opens up and tells the truth about what it actually was or what was meant. So January there's a little bit of a blip on the radar but then it's like okay no we're going to communicate and try to work it out, try to forgive even if something was not misconstrued and it was intentional, that's the part of the blip on the radar. Why does Dunkin Donuts still have these Christmas ornament coffees, isn't Christmas over so even if it's not intentional and something happens that's found out or something gets said that was hurtful there is this forgiveness, let's work it out, let's talk, let's try to figure stuff out here let's compromise, let's try to understand the situation I went the long way with that. It's not what you're thinking this is someone's all up in fantasy I'm just hearing it's even about someone not replying to a text because of ghosting, thinking someone is ghosting okay so it's kind of like if someone has their phone off right and you send them a text and they don't respond ever to the text because they had their phone off I guess and it doesn't go through or something along those lines it's this everything being based on this communication it's like someone ghosting it's not what it is, it's not what it seems to be that's what I'm saying somebody's like oh this person like they may have been off or out no wifi I'm hearing or maybe they don't have they might be someone who runs out of minutes they have a pay phone kind of thing like pay card buy minutes or something like that yeah that's really these readings I swear somebody has like some kind of disaster the power goes out where they live somebody's trapped they're kind of stuck in a bad situation they can't respond there's just all this misconstrued BS it gets better to be patient wait and find out what's going on okay the three of cups seeking support from friends so Virgo if you are this if you are the Virgo that's kind of like I don't understand what's happening they didn't reply nothing's going on or this was said or that was said and you're feeling kind of down talk to your friends don't get on you know your text in game and start freaking out to somebody just take a step back breathe try to get some logical thought process going if this is an emotional situation try to bring some logic into it connect with the people who can give you good support not don't connect with people I say this all the time and I say this out of experience I have a friend that's like hating on the opposite sex they can't keep a relationship they struggle in their relationships they're super insecure do not go to them for love advice okay do not seek love advice from people who you know have had a long term successful relationship that's my advice to you do not go to friends same sex friends about the opposite sex go to the opposite sex about the opposite sex because I can tell you for sure sometimes the opposite sex and yeah I'm speaking sex here not gender sometimes the opposite sex like men for example might get the text and then forget to respond because they're watching the game it's that stupid right and I'm not saying that that's what the situation is but and I'm not saying that's cool but it sometimes it is what it is right and and and if that's not cool with you that's fine you deal with the way you need to deal with it but go to your people if you need that support because you're feeling sad or you're just regretting reaching out or regretting something that you said go to your people who are going to uplift you so that you walk away feeling better about yourself and the person that you love right um not someone who's going to tell you oh you need to get away from that person because they're this and that because the person who telling you that never sorted out their own issues right that's just a little I feel like a big sister sometimes here I need to stop doing that but I can't help it um so yeah that's your advice there seek out the support of mature people who've had long term like that have wisdom experience okay because I feel like whatever the situation is things are going to be okay I feel like um you and this person are going to talk about stuff and um sort it out come to like a good place with things um but you got to open up and like not I don't feel like you're going to be that person who's like you know taking the sword and slashing them you know like a pirate I feel like you'll be more once you get yourself kind of because you might be feeling a little trapped and secure about it once you get yourself sorted I mean there will be conversation between the two of you and this person you know will tell you what happened or why they said what they said or didn't reply at all or why they acted the way they did and you'll be able to like talk about how you felt about that and then you know there's forgiveness and I feel like this person you know wants is hoping that there will be forgiveness and you guys can just keep getting back to consistently working putting effort into the relationship Aries right there okay so I'm feeling pretty strong with this whole Aries Scorpio Mars Pluto stuff going on here okay and it doesn't mean like if that's not your person's sign could be a Capricorn right you too seems like can't let go of each other you might have a little bit of toxicity and that relationship that needs to be dealt with some patterns need to be changed in the way you interact with one another yeah there's the blessing the opportunity will come about where you guys will have that opportunity to connect and make the plans that you need to make to try to keep things going forward I feel like this person definitely you know it may be both of you it could just be on your end it could just be on theirs where they're the ones who are like what do I do what do I say I really screwed up or I messed up or Virgo's really upset because it didn't reply or something happened you know and they're seeking support from their friends but either way it's like yes let's try to work through this it's a it's a speed bump I just have something funny the other day why are there why is there enough tar and pavement for speed bumps but there's not enough for potholes to answer that question because that's the question that's my question alright let me say look yeah and then you guys will be able to like start over put the past in the past and begin a new chapter here you know finish so it's kind of like reading a book and you just get to the the nasty parts of the book you know and then turn the page and now we're on a new chapter here everything's going to be fine it's going to work out the communication is going to come hey you 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