Tom here from LearnSystems and we're going to talk about running Sericata on PF Sense. Now, Sericata is an intrusion detection and intrusion prevention system. It is not the end-all to all of your security woes, it is not a security blanket you should just wrap around you because it's a little bit more complicated than that and it's also not a set it and forget it. So I'm going to talk about what is effective about Sericata, what is ineffective about Sericata and I'm not going to have the debate on here but I will leave you some forum links where you can go and debate about the Sericata versus Snort. I've preferred Sericata, I found it worked very well for all the use cases, I haven't very familiar with it. If you would prefer to run Snort, feel free to run Snort. This video doesn't completely apply to Snort, we're going to do everything in Sericata and as I said, look in the description below for some links where you can carry on the debate of which one you think is better with several other people who want to debate that. For now, I'm sticking with Sericata. Before we dive into this tutorial, let's first. If you'd like to learn more about me and my company, head over to laurancesystems.com. If you'd like to hire a short project, there's a hires button right at the top. If you'd like to help keep this channel sponsor free and thank you to everyone who already has, there is a join button here for YouTube and a Patreon page. Your support is greatly appreciated. If you're looking for deals or discounts on products and services we offer on this channel, check out the affiliate links down below. They're in the description of all of our videos, including a link to our shirt store. We have a wide variety of shirts that we sell and new designs come out well randomly, so check back frequently. And finally our forums, forums.laurancesystems.com is where you can have a more in-depth discussion about this video and other tech topics you've seen on this channel. Now back to our content and we'll begin right here. Sericata is a free and open source, mature, fast, robust network threat detection engine. That means it can look at the traffic coming in and detect threats and a lot of people start assuming, oh, this is what I need to help secure my network. Well, it can only detect threats and IDS versus IPS is intrusion detection system versus intrusion prevention system. And the really the difference is a checkbox whether or not you want to block the threats it determines. And before you're wondering why you shouldn't just block everything that it detects, well, false positives. False positives are what we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about how to tune the rules on this and how to set it up. But be aware that this is not a one and done type of process. Occasionally I have to go back and find the things that got blocked accidentally. This is just part of doing intrusion detection. And a lot of the reason for this is because the tools are becoming more and more blind to the traffic. As traffic becomes more encrypted, there's less information for it to use to figure out exactly what that traffic is. So this is where false positives come in quite a bit. So an encrypted piece of traffic happens to match the pattern of something and they do their best not to have false positives. But we have run into this ourselves. We've had things that are custom like some of the remote support tools we use that are running on a non standard port and Siracada will flag it and block it going, I think that is this attack. And right away, I can rule those out going, well, I'm not even running that software on here. And we also figure out ways we can repeat it by going, well, it looks like every time we open up this remote support tool into a file transfer inside of it, Siracada flags it and says, hey, I think this is a this type of attack, which then you have to tune the rules. And that's we're going to cover how to set it up and how to get these rules tuned. But I just want to preface all this before you go any further. This is not a check the box and it just works and makes your network more secure. Now the other side of Siracada where it's much more effective and what versus less effective is going to be if you have services you're running, and you have ports open. So I'm running a web server, for example, or I'm running a WordPress site and I want to put my firewall with some Siracada rules in front of it. Siracada is quite good at detecting some of the inbound potential problems that are coming in and pattern matching those because you have parts open. If you're just a home user, they limited amount of success you're going to have is because a lot of these devices on your network like your IoT network, they reach out through whichever protocols to get their data they need from whatever cloud servers they want to talk to. That's not something that provided unless it was not encrypted. It's not something Siracada is going to have an easy time deciphering what it is.  Either way, I think it's fun and it's a great learning process to do that. But like I said, I just want to preface this video with those caveats because that's something I did not do very well in my last video. And it is probably the number one question that people contact us about is, can I just set these and it fixes all these problems and makes my IoT safer? No, not really. But I do have an active network and we're going to show what false positives show up on a default install. So let's get started on that. We're going to go over here to my lab and install the plugin first. So we go over here to package manager, available packages, Siracada, install, confirm. So after this is installed, we're going to go through how to set up the rules. This is the important part for the rule setup is getting the downloads proper because the defaults right now, and I don't know if this was true back when I did the other video, but right now the default downloads don't work. So we'll go in here, and we're going to go over to updates. And right here, we have nothing in here yet. And what these are is the rules and signatures. And you can get a snort key if you want, I'm not going to do that for this particular video, we're just going to use the et open rules. So we have the et open rules. This is the snort free register. If you want to store those, we're going to do these ones here. Anyway, I guess we can hide the deprecated rules if we're not using any of those. But we do need a custom URL. Now here is the emerging threat free rule set that you can get. And the good news is as of right now here in August of 2020, this rule set works fine because it's the 5.0 rules. Sericata inside of PF Sense is running version five. So we're just going to copy this link, go over to our lab, paste in the custom download URL. Now in the future of using a different version, you want to match the version of Sericata with the version that you're doing here. So because we're using the five series, I put the 5.0 in here, if you were running some old version, you kind of get the idea from here that you can switch versions. That's important that you put that in there, because the default one that tries to download doesn't work. So we'll throw in that custom URL, go down here and hit save. Now down here at the bottom, I'll mention this is the blocking. It is up to you when it blocks something if you choose to turn on the blocking, not just monitoring, how long before those expire. One hour is not a bad idea. If you say never, you'll end up with things in the block list and you may have sites that get blocked, you may end up having them blocked permanently. We'll cover how things get blocked and how you can eliminate things in the block list, but it's at least let them expire. If you don't let them expire, sometimes I find at least troubles. So that's kind of just some housekeeping cleanup. If you wanted to say four days, that way if someone scans you, trips the trigger that would cause a block, that person then for some amount of time would not be able to do it again. It's usually a bot anyways, but you'll end up with a lot of these and it'll fill that up pretty quickly of all the blocks it starts putting in there just depending on how involved you get with the rule sets. So you want to go ahead and just set it to one hour. All right, now let's go over here to update. Let's update the rules. And this is pretty quick task goes down, grabs those rules that we put on there. If you had those snort subscriber rules, which it's something you can sign up for, you'll get those. So now we have the signature to hash and cool. Here's the rules updated and in there. Now, when you're doing these rule updates as well, it's got a timer so you can set how frequently you want these rules to update. I would say once a day is probably fine on here. That's under the rule setting. So we have that the rule saying for one day and maybe set this to one hour. So we'll just leave it like that. All right, next we have to set up the interfaces. So we'll go over here, interfaces, and we're going to add our first interface defaults to WAN. If you want to put this on the WAN, you're going to get a lot of noise. And by default PF sense out of the box is going to block all incoming ports. So if you put this on WAN, all the ports are blocked, but it's still going to sense all the noise of all the things that hit those block ports. So it's up to you if you want to put it on there. It's going to definitely take up some CPU cycles. It's definitely going to create some false positives because it's just well, not really relevant because someone scanning a port that's not even open makes for a lot of logs, but doesn't necessarily make for much actionable intelligence other than some people panic and go, wow, there's this much going on on the internet. Yes, there is. So we're going to put it on the LAN side. Now for each interface, you want to create a different rule category or maybe you don't. This is up to you. And my example here, LAN would be just normal LAN traffic and maybe we want all the rules applied to that. But let's say our guest network, we don't necessarily need blocking turned on for our guest network, but we're maybe curious about what things are going on in that network. So a guest network, maybe you turn all the rules on, but don't turn on any blocking. Now these are different things you may want to do on a per interface basis. But once you configure an interface, you can also clone those rules on there. We're going to cover both how that works. So it's kind of up to you on how you want to do that if you want to just enable all the rules for every interface or maybe have a less restrictive policy on your LAN and a more restrictive policy on maybe a specific secure network for your servers. Like I said, there's a couple different options. For this demo, we're just going to enable all the rules to make it quick and easy. So LAN, LAN, send alerts to the system log. Not necessary, but you can do that. Enable stats collection. You don't get any pretty graphs for the stats collection. It just logs some of the statistics and puts them into a log file in case those are interesting to you. You can have those. Enable TLS log. Now remember intrusion detection systems like Sericata are blind to the majority of the traffic that's encrypted, but it can at least log that a TLS connection was made. Maybe you need that, maybe you don't. It is also blind to files that were transported via encrypted TLS connections, but if they are not transported that way, you can enable file store. Make sure you have a PFSend system within space if this is something you'd like to do. And the same thing with packet logging. You can do full pcaps on these, but you have to have somewhere to put them. So make sure there's plenty of space if you choose to do that. Eve JSON log. Sericata will output selected logs in JSON format. And actually this opens up quite a few options, including sending them to assist log server, a reddit server. This is a methodology so you can export all the logs to something else for log parsing and further analysis. Maybe a different SIM stack that you have like a security system that does some analysis and all the generated data. That's what that options for. We're not going to be using Kills Autoscope of this. This, I do not recommend checking when you are first setting this up. Because when this box does it starts blocking the things it finds.  And when we show you how you tune the rules, you go through the tuning for at least maybe a week of usage. Tune the rules. If not, you'll end up being blocked constantly and then forcing yourself to tune the rules. A less pleasant experience, but it's up to you the method you want to follow. For me leaving this offered first week, you set up Sericata while you enhance all the rules. Probably makes the most sense. We'll leave all of these at default. There's some edge cases and I believe I've talked about on my Sericata Transparent Firewall video. You can find it on here for Sericata Transparent PF Sense. It's really cool. It works. There are some special tuning parameters from those. But for the rest of it, no, we're just going to leave everything else at default and hit save. So we create the interface on here. Categories. I was going to select all. Now, based on the global settings and what rules you pulled in there, which we did the emerging threat rules and the start GPL rules. You can go further and get the paid start rules if you want. And it will make more rules that show up here. And I checked the box on all of them. But warning by doing this, I now have the most potential for false positives. So what happens is the more rules that you check, you have to think about the rules that really matter to you.  But doing it on a per interface basis for like I said, if you had a server network, you go this is one I want really watched further and better versus my guest network, which I don't need that many rules. But like I said, these are some of the fine tuning that you can get in there. So we're going to hit save on this. Then we have our land rules over here. And these are just the details of those rules. So let me find one like that's got probably a lot, maybe the DNS rules, bot rules, active X rules, a lot of quite a few active X ones that tries to look for here. And what these are is the individuals. So you have the categories on the other page. These are a breakdown of all the details in those categories. So this is going to be what's enabled and what's disabled. And they have some notes inside of here, possible black ice printer device resource toolkit. But some of the reasons these are disabled by default, even though we checked them, you see those red Xs, that's because of the number of false positives they have. So they know that rule exists, but they also don't enable it by default. And it is up to you if you want to decide which rules to or not to tune on there. So that's pretty much it.  And if we wanted to duplicate this same rule set to another interface, once you have it set up and we're ready to go, you can just go to this little clone button here or add so I can add another interface and go through to setup again. But once you have maybe you spent some time tuning one of those interfaces, you can also just clone and choose land to and already has selected for me all the same rules. So that's the way you can easily, especially if you have like five different interfaces, spend time tuning one of them, get it all set up how you want and go ahead and clone that once it's all tuned. Now once that part's done, we're not going to save the second interface, you just click on the little start and it starts sericata on this interface. Now we're going to get over to the fun part, the rule tuning. Now one thing of note, and I just loaded sericata is I don't usually run it at home. And I just loaded it up on my system this morning in the lieu of this demo. And so I turned it on about looks like about 830 in the morning.  Now this is SG 3100 neck eight device. This is kind of the minimum I'd recommend that you have in order to run sericata. Now it is working fine at my house and it's able to handle this without much of a problem. But I just have a handful of devices and the kids are probably watching Netflix right now and playing some video games. It's something that you have to think about when it comes to scaling in here is yes, it can handle it on like an SG 3100 neck eight device. But if you really start turning a lot of rules on and use it over time and there's a lot of connections on your network, you may want to think of upping that a little bit. But you can see it does come at a cost of CPU cycles right away. Now I'm going to be redacting a lot of this because there's going to be so many IP address in here. So that's why those are blurred out. So what we have here is the WAN network. And this is why I said where you get a whole lot of things on here. Now I happen to be doing some torrenting, you know, seeding some isos for open source downloads and things like that. So we definitely see a lot of that inside of here. So you know, you get the stun protocol that is actually not for torrenting that is from let me look sink things server that I have running behind there. It's actually uses the natural reversal was stunned to contact out. So once again, we have an info session. And do I care about this? Do I know it's a false positive yet? Because I looked up what it was. So how do we get rid of that rule and how do we get rid of the annoyance of it being on there? Now by the way, I'm going to switch over real quick to the land side. We're going to see those same coming up again. So from and I know I'm blurring the IP addresses so you can't see this. When you do it from the land side, I get the internal IP address. When I did it from the WAN side, all I get is the WAN IP address and where its destination to its other public IP, making it a little bit less useful. When I look at this rule, though from the land side, it's easy for me to identify because I know what that particular IP address internally runs. So I can go, oh, I know that's running syncing. I know that server it's reaching out to is the syncing stun server for natural reversal. So I know it's good and I know internally. But by having that on there, on the land on the land side, like I said, much more effective you have it on the WAN side, all I know is the public IP address, which I already knew it's my WAN address and the other public IP address where it's going to, but that's not telling me what server behind my firewall did it. That's one of the other reasons that's important to have this on the land at the WAN. But now we can talk about getting rid of this rule. And we've done no tuning on the rules. I just turned them all on select all said yes. So we're going to go over here. And we'll get rid of this rule right here. We just click it. It spins for a second. All right. The state of rule has been modified Sericata live reloading with new rules was please wait 15 seconds for the process to complete before toggling additional rules. This is important. And how long it takes really depends on how fast the system is. For each rule you disable, you need to give the system time to reload the rule set before you start doing more of them where you can have the system. Well, I think I've seen Sericata crash if you try to do it real fast or just get stuck and not properly reload rule sets. So give it a second for each when you disable depending on the speed of the machine. Not a big deal. So now you see all these are yellow. What that means is they're not going to show up again, but they're now in the log history that they were there. So this is on the land side. Let's switch over to when they're not yellow. And the reason they're not yellow here is because all the rule tuning is on a per interface. This is why one of the advantages if you take the time to tune one interface and then clone it, all those rule changes you made and all those suppressions you did will follow that interface clone. If not, if I want to if I have the same problem repeating on multiple interfaces, well, I'm going to need to go through here and tune it on each and do interface and keep going through and keep going through. Also, this is one of the reasons I mentioned blocking can be really bad because if I had blocking turned on and these things have a method by which they want to say block and it's part of the rule set. So some rules are just notices, but some rules are like, all right, this is something bad and we're going to block this IP address. Well, when you start blocking everything, now you have the problem of sorting out what broke why certain things don't work. And especially if they're in a shared hosting provider where something else may reside, that's where those false positives and can really create a headache and a blocking. So tune the rules first. Now other things that are maybe less obvious. Let's go back over to the land side again. And by the way, this auto refresh is while you're watching this. So the default is auto refresh on as you change it to like 500 to show me 500 of the logs here when it goes. So it's always got plenty of information in here. So let's see what else do we have gplp to be bit torn transfer. Well, I know that is definitely what's going on there. So we're going to head and clear that one. All right, now that rules cleared. What other rules mean to clear? So sericata stream invalid timestamp. Now these can be tricky. It's more of an annoyance and right click copy or paste into Google or if you're using so you can do it like this in Chrome, search Google for sericata packet timestamp. And look, we land right here on the netgate forum. We're apparently and I've already seen this one enough that I know what it is. There's a problem with certain stream errors based on certain interfaces having this issue. Now this is where you're going to spend a lot of time and you're going to get an idea of what they actually do with these network operation centers and why when you buy a commercial firewall, this is a paid service to have intrusion detection and intrusion prevention properly working and set up. There is a team of engineers that spend a lot of time looking at all these errors, figuring out whether or not they're false positives and sending that data back and forth down the pipe. This is essentially what they do with a network engineering center, security operation center. You're going to find them going through looking at all these determining whether it's a real threat or just another piece of noise in the system and deciding whether or not that needs to be stopped and flagged as get rid of that rule. This is why it's not a set it and forget it type system. It is very important to understand that's what these engineers do. That's what you're paying for when you buy a firewall with a subscription service to an intrusion prevention system on it. And you're getting a more honed fee that they're looking at these and going through it and going, all right, we see this rule. We see this many people doing it. We realize they will dive deeper, maybe doing a P cap on it and go, all right, that is definitely not bad traffic. So just some notes on when you're looking at these. You do have to spend some time going back and forth to do this and going through figuring out which ones are real, which ones are not. So there's actually quite a few of them in here for this invalid act. So let's go ahead and suppress that one. I don't need it. All right. So here we're going to jump over to another system I have running Sericata, which is our system here. And because we host some web servers, we get some interesting things because, well, people like to bang away at them and try to figure out how they can get in, which does get a lot of these people blocked all the time. So this is specifically a network dedicated to where my servers are that run things like host my web services that we have public facing. And it's interesting to see just how many scans and we do block the people who scan us.  Then we have the poor intelligence, poor IP reputations. Those are in here as well. Specific attempt, someone tried to attempt and these are all those essentially false positives in some way. They tried something that doesn't exist. So this is web specific apps attempted Symantec secure web gateway RCE. This is what gets really interesting is that this is a remote code execution against the Symantec secure web gateway. And this is what you'll end up seeing a lot of if you have ports open, where Syracata has an incoming piece of noise that it detects going, all right, someone tried we recognize this attack pattern. This is a Symantec gateway endpoint exploit, you know, remote code execution that they tried against this, but failed because one, I don't have one, but Syracata blocked them anyways. Because if they're going to try that, they're going to try other things. These are botnet just hammering away. So this is where Syracata to me is a little bit, well, I should say a lot more effective, because it's blocking these constantly and looking for these type of threats. Now, even though these don't apply to me, what if something did, what if there was some flaw an Apache server, and I'm running an Apache server or an engine X server, and I'm running an engine X server in it detects that attack. This is where Syracata can be very effective. And to me much more valuable than trying to monitor IoT devices at my house or, you know, dealing with false information that it gives about the syncing tool that I have running going, oh, look, we found this or found that because one, eventually, there wasn't too many in there since running it this morning at my house. It wasn't too many false positives on there, but they do happen from time to time. But when it comes to running it on my server side network, that's where we have the most luck with it, I should say, or the most effective use of it because it goes through, it sees things that are potential attacks. And if it bought or an IP address is attacking you, you know, once, then it's probably attacking you in other ways. If it finds it, even though there's no response as in the RCE against the semantic gateways that I'll have when it goes, what else is on there it answered? So let me try again. Well, by Syracata blocking it, it blocks any further answers because that IP address just ends up in a block list on here and keeps them from scanning further. So this is where I think it's a lot better. But like I said, it's only limited because it still can't see into encrypted traffic. It just has to match these and we're still dealing with false positives on tools we use. So it's something we have to kind of be, you know, actively monitoring. Now the last thing I'll show you is the block list themselves. So that checkbox I mentioned where it turns on blocking, you can turn on blocking and you can go through and get rid of blocks if you want, because if they're false, just get rid of them here. If not, maybe you want to leave them here. And then as I'd say to earlier in a setup, for the default amount of time, you want to have those blocks on there. That's kind of an up to you. So maybe you want those blocks to last essentially forever, not forever. That is a up to you tuning portion of this to figure out how long you want to keep those things blocked for. But fair warning, sometimes due to shared hosting services, you may find something that gets blocked even by false, but then all of a sudden everything can't get to it. Now, the way it blocks inside a PF sense, if this IP address gets blocked, even though it was blocked on a separate network, such as my server network, it is blocked universally across all of them. So blocks will not just block the network that was attacked, it'll block all the networks on the way on because it adds a block rule in the system for that. So hopefully this is helpful for getting this set up and figuring Sericata. I just wanted to be clear, as I was in the beginning, it's not a set it and forget it. It does offer quite a bit benefit for things incoming. And if you have ports open and services running to examining those and maybe not guaranteed, anything is well, especially in security, not guaranteed at all. If there's a rule that does match a known attack, by the way, known attack is very important. These rule sets are always being updated depending on your update interval, you know, if you update it daily, I'm not sure just how often, but you know, as these rules come out, they're adding and adding cumulative adding more rules over time and they're always reactive. They have to know security researchers have to know about the threat, create a rule set for it that matches the pattern, push that rule out. Hopefully it doesn't match when it first comes out a bunch of false positives. So this is the tediousness of doing it. But this is also what network operation engineers and security operation centers, this is what they do is go through this and this is what those descriptions are for when you have a paid subscription on a firewall, which can be tedious. But hey, it's also a lot of fun and it's a great way to dive into network security engineering and learn about tuning Seracada. All right, thanks.


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This particular episode, although we do this particular show once a month where we talk about cryptocurrencies and if you notice down below sa video description, we actually put what the price of Bitcoin was at every episode. So this is the 24th episode. Episode 23 was last month February and Bitcoin was at around 52,000 roughly and now it's at around 68,000. So yung talon palang na yun, we'll talk about it like in the span of one month. I actually did the last crypto watch last Feb 15 and now it's March 18 so roughly just a month we've jumped in price around 16,000 dollars per Bitcoin. So we'll get into all of that. Is it still a good time to buy? Should you hodl as the crypto faithful like to say? Should you hold your crypto or should you sell it now? As I've talked about on the show before, I've really gone down the rabbit hole for this particular cycle of crypto. So nagsimula ako August 2023, I started slowly getting back into it. I always kept tabs on it but I wasn't actively trading until August 2023 and then talagang todo November 2023. Sap, magadang gabay sa klap talang ka. So yeah, got into it again August and then jumped into it like full heads on, jumped into it, fully down the rabbit hole, spending money, burning money, losing money November 2023. So I'll give a brief overview of that journey as well. But before all of that, let's hear from our sponsor. You knew it was coming. See you after the break. Maraming na kaming na tulungan. So web developer ako and content creator for a YouTube channel. And ngayon ganun pa rin ako pero activated na yung windows ko. Kaya akong naghanap ka ng legit, mura at original software. Man, I was just thinking about it that ad, we came out November 2022. So one year and a half na, mag-to two years na siya this year and then you notice Jay as he's given the GPU, it's a 4080. And then kakalabas lang recently ng 4080 Super. 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Like you don't need to buy from those stores but at least you have a ballpark figure of makanabayong 3060 ngayon, the 12GB version or makanabayong 4060 ngayon which is cheaper and faster than the 3060 but yon anyway. So to get into the meat of this particular episode, we'll go to CoinCodex so this is one of my favorite sites to just keep tabs on the market so you can log in, create an account and then you can, so these are all my starred currencies. So Bitcoin is at around 68,000, actually we had a big drop over the weekend so yung pinaka all-time high nung Bitcoin dati was 69,000, we breached that, bumagsak, we breached that again. The latest all-time high, just very recently like March 15, so that was like three days ago, sorry March 12, March 15, so less than a week ago was 73,000 per Bitcoin. So it's 73,000 US dollars per Bitcoin but now it has fallen, it fell, it's slightly recovered so actually the date went down to around 67, 66 pangata over the weekend. So we are about to start the US trading day, pro tip if you're trading from here in the Philippines the Asian trading day doesn't create trends so what you usually see in the US market it just follows, the Asian market just follows that. So usually I'm on the lookout kabag US trading time so just beg it at like New York time so 9 a.m. doon, 9 p.m. dito, so usually to look tayo nung 9 a.m. to around 3 p.m. so that's 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. hour time. If it's a particularly volatile day I really do try to stay awake and that's, I've gone down the rabbit hole this particular crypto cycle so nung in approve yung spot Bitcoin ETF like I was awake for that, for the drop because it was like approved, then fake approval then bagsak pala and all of that so it's, the Asian trading will not impact the US trading it takes its cues from the US trading so generally the market drop over the weekend itong Asian trading day natin so Monday 9 a.m. hour time it didn't recover it was barely recovered, hindi siya gagawan on trend. Right in CPU, still target to my miners to proof of work, $3 for a day max I guess there's still some coins that are still proof of work I mean obviously the big gorilla in the room is Bitcoin which is still proof of work but you can't use CPUs or GPUs for that anymore you could before like when I first started in crypto you could still CPU mine I mean technically you can but the process is so slow that the odds of you making any kind of money is very, very, very low so for Bitcoin now, proof of work just means that you have your computer running a program to validate transactions on the network it's basically doing work for the network for Bitcoin you use specialized miners now called ASIC miners and then the number two cryptocurrency in terms of market price market share rather is Ethereum but that move to proof of stake so in order to gain more Ethereum you need Ethereum and then you stake it you let the network use it kong baga so that's a big thing for Ethereum they move from proof of stake to proof of work right now there are still a lot of projects that use proof of work but nothing in the same, nothing in the same category like hindi anlayo nung volume, anlayo nung lakin nila so before people would mine Bitcoin and Ethereum because they are very profitable but the new altcoins now that still use proof of work there's nothing approaching that scale so basically hindi siya garon kasulit compared to if you mind Bitcoin or Ethereum the update is that the band has not gone into effect the SEC I believe the Philippines SEC gave Binance up to the end of February I think if I recall correctly I am actually a Binance user now long time viewers will remember I don't use Binance or I didn't have an account actually with Binance for a very long time my primary exchange is Kraken the link of which you can see also in the video description below and then I branched out the buy bit because they have interesting things like bought trading so again just a tidbit since this is crypto watch I have tried bought trading on Kraken sorry Kraken doesn't have it on buy bit and it makes you a lot of money especially if you use futures but only if the market is going up the bought is very very dumb if sideways you market or bababa yung market especially if you use something very aggressive like the futures bought so I am talking about like ridiculous like you can get a 50% gain if you give the bought some money over the span of several days but it's very high risk very high return because if you time it wrong you can also incur a lot of losses to your principal that's true about crypto in general like high risk, high return talaga siya and you could from one from 1,000 pesos you can shoot up to God knows what 1,000,000 whatever but you can also lose that 1,000 pesos so in a heartbeat in a flash so crypto is high risk, high return maslalo pa yung buy bit na bought na the futures because there are several categories of bought on buy bit so you can do the spot or the there's one that uses the Martin something approach actually have it on now futures martingale so there's a futures grid futures martingale spot grid and DCA but DCA is just dollar cost averaging basically just puts in money x amount over an y period of time so you know there's not really much going on there so basically the finance but I did get an account with finance because because I was trying to buy a coin which was not listed yet and then I had to do that not really through finance but it was through finance that I linked my wallet to pancake swap so this gets a little complicated but basically na scam ako I mentioned that since last November I've been really into crypto so I wouldn't necessarily do that before but basically yung nangyari may nago offer as usual sa telegram ui may maglilist sa finance itong pixel so there's a the coin is called pixel tutoka naman legit yung pixel ililist pero supposedly you could buy it pre-listing kung baga bago malist dun sa finance and it was like you get it for 12 cents and then it was going to be listed on finance at 50 cents but it was really kind of convoluted like I had to send money to this address that's why I had to get a finance account and well you probably can tell kung sandpupon tatagwento na ito scam pa la siya I got pixel but yung na as if you're familiar with pancake swap and things like that anybody can name any coin or token whatever the heck it wants so the pixel I got was not the pixel that was being listed and basically had zero value and so you know you weigh the odds you're like malaki yung possible return pero malaki rin yung chance na scam to so I'm not proud that I got scammed but I did put in only money that I was comfortable losing which I will not mention on camera but you know it was a little substantial but again it's like a poker game you weigh the odds we're not that great but at the same time possible na legit siya so I put in some money through my finance wallet I got transferred to pancake swap so I got scammed I lost all of my money on that particular transaction and lesson learned as with anything in crypto only put in money that you are 100% sure na okay lang na mawala but and result being I do have a finance account na I don't use it for a lot actually most of my trading futures and spot I do on kraken on buy bit it's mostly for the bots and for coins that are not yet listed on kraken I like kraken because the interface is easier to use I've been with them for years and their security seems pretty good plus their major exchange but they're not like a very very big exchange so they're targeted less by hackers and things like that so they're reliable, they're legit but they're kind of slightly under the radar for a big exchange the camera can't decide if you just focus on the enterprise or my face so I do use kraken for a lot of my trading okay I'll stop moving my hands para it won't autofocus kraken for my futures and my spot trading buy bit for bots and for tokens that I can't ma man, relax dv10 it's like I can't move anymore buy bit for coins like hbar, ondo, vet I mean there are so many different coins now yung kraken kasi mas conservative they don't list new coins as quickly as some of the other exchanges so that's why I won't buy bit so that I can buy some of the coins that get recommended to me which I'll get into later who recommends coins to me sorry, long story short Binance is still alive for now I have not seen any official communicate from the SEC that okay we're gonna go through with the ban just a little bit on Binance actually interesting in Nigeria the parang pinaka head dun was basically detained by sorry let me let me move it out of the way a bit this is actually the galactica and this is the the head guy of Binance in China in China in Nigeria actually got detained for like 2 weeks because Nigeria was super pissed off well basically it seemed like more of a shakedown oh we want you to pay us more to operate in our country so medroshady rin yung pag crackdown sa Binance na Nigeria but on the local news I have not heard anything yet about Binance na itututuloy na SEC Binance and again it's not that big a deal like you sa VPN kumatuloy ng app so you can circumvent the restriction or like me don't really trade who you know you can move to another exchange I'm happy with buy bit although the interface is very confusing actually although if you're familiar Binance mas analogos yung UI nung Binance sa buy bit yung Kraken kasi mas malinis e it's less overwhelming for newbies so that's why I like it also this one um I I don't know how prevalent this is because I'm not into it like I haven't fallen down this particular rabbit hole I don't know anyone else who has also like gotten into online gambling because hinipop na mga influencers I have seen some local influencers hyping up na you can bet on NBA games online and things like that mga rivalry I think but I've never tried it myself so hindi ko rin masabi I do have an old video from January or December I think where a gambling site invited me to try it out so they gave me tokens and in the two weeks I was trying it out for my review the close down sila so I didn't put in any money naman and it was an interesting concept kasi grave you could bet on cricket games in India on NBA games on NHL games in Canada I mean ang lawak nung mga games na pwede ka magpusta I don't even know parang I remember seeing UAAP but I'm not too sure um but it closed down after like in the two weeks that I was using it na closed down na lang yung site kasi they ran out of funding so as with they call it gaming because they call it gaming so that's how when PC enthusiasts say gaming PC gaming hardware PC monitor specs games things like that when other people say gaming especially legislators or things like that serious people they refer to gambling so gaming is regulated here but those are the casinos the physical casinos the online gaming I have no idea to be honest like do they have licenses from Padcor I mean that's the whole thing about Pogo di siya pwede sa China so they do the transactions like the servers are here in the Philippines and that's big money for the Chinese so much so that their money they're laundering it through Singapore there was a big scandal in Singapore like last month on like they traced hot money or you know illegal money to Singapore and parang yung Forbes Park ng Singapore doon nakatira yung mga Chinese and they made their money through Pogo operations here in the Philippines and when the Singapore police came in to their homes to arrest them like one of them jumped out of the window so nabali pa yung boton niya I mean it was like something out of a movie parang you can imagine they cracked down sa Forbes Park natin so that was a bit wild Pogo operations here so there is a lot of money being made through Pogo, through gaming through online gambling I have not done it like I haven't fallen down that rabbit 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hundreds of keys we are no different from any other customer hindi alam no CDKey na buwabili kami sa kanila occasionally we'll have a problem but yun nga napapalita naman that's actually what you should look out for hindi na it's not so much na walang problema it's that the rare times may problema madali naman ayusin they will issue a new key so yes, like I can honestly tell you like strike me down right now if lightning strike me down right now handa nang mamatay legit yung CDKey na yun again we have bought hundreds of keys from them um my personal computer is also activated by CDKey and that's one of the reasons why we still have them at sponsor because kung hindi sa la legit hindi ko sila papayagan magsponsor sa channel ko I mean it's just as simple as that I mean the money is good it helps with the operations of the shop but if you know the shop at all we can prioritize the trust of our customers of our users, of our viewers more than any money that we might get paid and I can point to numerous examples na some of the content we've done takot kami na mga kalit yung mga brands sa amin pero sigay go lang yung RMA percentage na mga brands sa mataas yung RMA requests namin so basically naisisira sila more than the other brands we put that in a video the MSI we do a lot of business with MSI but when their AIOs are failing we call them out we have put our money where our mouth is basically when we say that we value your trust of the users of the viewers of the customers we have proof we can point to all of those things and say na I don't care how much you pay us we're always on the side of the consumer in fact recently lang a PSU brand came to us unknown PSU brand sa like Corsair or Super Flower hindi talaga siya sikat we'd like you to sponsor our video we'll pay you money we'll give you the PSU, you make a sponsored video about it problema ko doon yung sponsored videos to be fair naman to the advertiser may control sila may editorial control they can say take this part out they can emphasize this it's not comfortable doing a sponsored video from an unknown PSU brand because we're always telling people that don't cheap out on your PSU you know nakakatemp na nabumili nung mura na PSU because you're dispens so much on the GPU on the motherboard and the CPU but a good PSU, a quality PSU is super important, the one I'm using now is FSP, another good brand so I told this unknown PSU brand I'd like to try you out I mean yung magandang at to find brands na hindi pagadon kasi kat pero maganda yung quality that's what I like finding because they're cheap but they're good so I mean like super flower is still cheap but good even though and only enthusiasts know super flower FSP medyo ka ron din Corsair good pero mahal Seasonic medyo ka ron na din so I have an open mind but I was like I don't want it sponsored just send us a PSU we'll test it, review it like normally and then that's it we get to keep the PSU because it's very useful in the shop for our testing benches but you don't have any control like we will say what we really think about the PSU and the brand was fine and the PSU came today and we'll start testing it so yung just as another example especially behind the scenes it's not very noticeable but yeah we really when we say that we put the trust of our users first we've left money on the table we have you know we could have earned a lot more if we weren't so picky about our sponsors and things like that but yung nga we feel na the trust of the users and the viewers and the customers is worth more than any monetary amount we are going to come out with one more sabliya magnaya good evening we are going to come out with one more video this month because we had a trilogy about crypto like what you need to know to trade crypto what you don't need to know to trade about crypto and those links are in the video description below and the last one in the trilogy coming out this month will be the people you should follow on twitter or on x that are sensible yung they post advice sometimes signals on what coins to trade but also just general thoughts about the market and that's really what was lacking in my trading ability I think medyo before I really got into it like mga November okay naman yung instincts ko but I didn't know like I'm not a big fan of TA technical analysis where you have the graphs and you think like okay ito medyo price discovery ito consolidation chop chop whatever I feel that's kind of like hokum yung medyo kalakohan pero actually a lot of good traders use TA I'm not into that so basically yung video na yung who should you follow on twitter if you're not into TA but who can give you good advice like do expect the market to go up in two weeks so expect the market to drop parang ganyan ano ba yung oi open interest on a particular coin overheated na ba yung leverage rates and things like that so stop kasi bolios so the third video in that trilogy will be about who you should follow on crypto twitter because they have been super useful to me so you take everything with a grain of salt but at least it gives you a ballpark like I'm gonna buy now kasi I think tama naman si one of the guys I follow is a doctor profit actually sobrang sobrang interesting and si doctor profit like he essentially his targets are pretty accurate so I follow crypto twitter every day and so in these are the people I think that you should follow also and read not necessarily to follow 100% follow their trading advice because they make sense and I have spent a lot of money following coins that they recommended and a lot of them worked out well so much so a lot of those crypto guys on twitter they have paid telegram groups and I belong to two so I paid actual money significant amount of money to join two telegram groups and legit sila when they give a signal like you should buy this you should buy that usually it's spot on so I thought that would be interesting because andami mga scammers din out there yung they just out to make a buck and things like that so who you should follow in crypto twitter to enhance your trading ability so that's coming out this week or early next week at the latest I did I watched it with my wife it was our first movie date together since like right before the pandemic right before lockdown we watched that Pixar movie na his dad died and his brother basically raised him and then he has he's trying to find a magic one that will bring his dad back to life but then he realizes matya may gamer fokus pang ayong movie na yun he realizes that actually his brother is older brother was the dad that he had growing up so in a way he doesn't need to know his dad because his brother did such a good job so like right before lockdown my wife and I watched that movie she was pregnant with our first born and looking back on it we were like what the hell were we doing like everybody's in lockdown there's this unknown virus spreading out throughout the world and it's airborne and here we are in a movie theater but you know that was our last movie and then jumped to god knows what three years almost four years later and then the last the next time we went to a movie together was Dune 2 which we watched last week like I will be like it was fine like Dune 1 was also fine for me but I I feel it's a little okay don't get me wrong I'm a sci-fi fan the first RTS like I really lost sleep over grade 5 ako Dune 2 and then if you think about the RTS then you couldn't even rope the units like maybe they left like a mouse and then drag multiple units to select them no no you had to do it one by one man move attack move attack and but Dune 2 blew my mind that the model that you have to harvest spice for money you're constructing on the rocks you can't build on the sand and then you sardukar approaching I loved I loved that game to death like in grade 5 in school I was just thinking about Dune 2 like what I would be doing in the missions when I got back to my computer after class so you know I grew up with Dune 2 eventually I read the book so you know I am a fan even though wala palatang ordos like for the Dune 2 game fans out there I only realized years later na they made the house ordos para you can have three options but Dune the book really just there is no ordos you just and my pet pee with the book is like they pronounce it short O like harkonin I don't know anybody like growing up who pronounce it harkonin it was those harkonin like long O because it's social kami harkonin but anyway Dune 2 it was just alright for me like I didn't feel it was too long but like I felt the palat was so dark I mean not like just you hard to see what was going on dark like which was also my complaint with Dune 1 and then Dune 1 they hyped up Zendaya so much but then like she had three minutes of screen time at least she has more screen time here so it kind of makes sense na she's like a major part of the cast so I had no problems with the movie I'm surprised it's doing as well as it's doing because it is very thick like the backstory like it's easy for me because I know the backstory so I understand why different characters are doing certain things but even for me like I couldn't understand why the hell is the emperor just being a sitting duck there and what like in the movie the sardukar are pansies man they are they are not elite at all if you play the book if you play the game and you remember the sardukar approaching like they're coming to wreck your base mga infantry troops lang yan na pero parang ang tindi na mga yan like ang tibay kung nap na mga yan so even up to this day when I hear sardukar approaching like thrill like chills like oh shit my base is gonna get wreck and but in the movie there's such pansies there's just swoosies I don't know what the what was the emperor doing just sitting there being like this target for Polatraties so I enjoyed it but like steady lang for me but I'm happy that it's doing well because maybe we'll get more sci-fi movies the director of course is into sci-fi talaga like he made the sequel to Blade Runner which I thought was an okay sequel also to be fair um yes that's all I have to say about that saplay ang magnaye actually the highest for bitcoin was 73 which was around a couple of days ago I can't remember March 15 or March 12 it has sunk down to 68 slightly below it's long all time high but matagal na green yung matagal na green yung portfolio ko but because I was actively trading in ya since November like todo um and my portfolio now is the highest that it's ever been like I've been through numero cycles but like hindi talaga all in um and I was just you know I was looking through the data because Kraken shows you like you're all time and it's in a graph like you're all time like you liquidated everything how much would that be in US dollars um basically my highest point I've tripled that so my the my my portfolio was at its largest actually ever all time high personal all time high ko was in um was when Bitcoin was at 73 and it was around triple of what my previous all time high was so yos sa sa up ergo so ya the active trading has been working but it's really been like a roller coaster like when I say active trading grab it talaga like you're watching the market and when the when the coins go down and it's really just simple multiplication and addition like when you go long like when you're using leverage to buy 10 Bitcoin and if you think 10 Bitcoin you know that's a lot but kaya naman ng capital mo sigay steady lang but like even you know 10 Bitcoin it drops $500 that's already 5,000 tamama ya I'm not too good at math but you know 10 times 500 it just drops a measly $500 and you know that's nothing a drop of $500 is nothing you're already paper loss of $5,000 the Bitcoin drops $1,000 you're paper loss of $10,000 and you really need a strong stomach like I cannot emphasize that enough like you know since November I've been actively like full down 110% down the rabbit hole I have been walking my kids and I've been checking the prices and PI big lang bumagsak I'm panic selling I'm panic buying just that Sunday yesterday I was scheduled I also read the church I was scheduled as lector that was 9am yesterday 8.30am I was in the car on my phone buying because dips are for buying I have never seen a price I don't like so you know I was frantically buying because you know it's theoretically intellectually you know that you probably have time to buy especially if it went down a lot but again you never know you never know when suddenly the prices go up you want to lock in those low prices um yeah it's and I'm not even a good trade I mean I'm not I'm not terrible but I'm not like elite status I usually trade in blue chip coins like ethereum, bitcoin especially naon yung sobrang aggressive ko talaga like November, December, January because I wanted capital malawang pero very little money on hand because a lot of my old money got sucked into it the coins when they were at their all time high di panagir cover di ko pa mabenta so I had very little liquid cash I could use them as collateral I could use them for my leverage in the futures but I had no working capital to buy spot and that's super important especially na bull market early you want to buy old coins at very low prices kasi akit talaga sila the futures kasi there are costs associated with them they're only really good for like short term bets it would be crazy expensive if you hold on to them for a long time so you want to do you want to do spot because a you don't run the risk kung bumagsak ok lang paper loss lang naman you're not wala kang tinaya wala kang leverage na tinaya dun kasi spot lang naman and yun there are no associated costs with it you just hold and it will go up the problem was nga November, December, January as super aggressive kasi wala nga ako capital but you know nakonwood sa awanon jos again, it's like poker you play the hand you try to position yourself well you play the hand as best you can and I was lucky enough that I was able to generate some working capital so yun bilin ako ng bilin ang mga spot na old coins but now I don't need to be that aggressive like I do have targets in mind but like the old coin market and lately they've rotated to meme coins that's why is on a tear like grabe yung soul niyan like that's one of my I bought a future at like it's like 105 but you know it was ping ponging up and down for so long na nung umakat lang siya slightly like maybe 108 binayenta ko na lahat das punyeta dun siya umakat talaga after that ping ponging like it went crazy man it went 120 150 200 now it's above 200 what's it at now um 207 it's at 207 so that is one of my regrets that I didn't yunga my stomach wasn't strong enough kasi I was holding oh can you imagine like I bought like futures at 105 now it's at 210 207 literally like 100% return if I had just had some balls and you know and held hodal lang hodal but at the same time yunga I'm not that lucky with soul it's like every time I get in malit lang yung gain or like I have a loss so that coin hasn't worked out for me I do have some spot soul which of course is up so that's good but grab yung features there I think that's one of my chief regrets so far this cycle but again you know you're cutting your losses you think okay I had a slight profit I don't know it's gonna go up but you know it went through the roof but yeah you at least yunga sometimes either you made the wrong call again poker or bad beat that one I made the wrong call like people were saying that's all probably rice but I was just sick of holding that coin like the stomach problems it was giving me when it dropped below 100 and I would buy more but it would just stay there and like oh my god damn so yung my chief regrets but now at the 207 it is going up really high so that's one of the things I lost out on but that's just like a long winded way of saying that I've noticed that a lot of my bets in the futures markets now are very blue chip and Seoul is probably a blue chip at this point but yeah I mostly stick to like Bitcoin and Ethereum at this point I do want to up up my old game because I think you can earn a lot of money there but I'm not feeling it yet I gotta be more comfortable and yung I was already very aggressive with Alts earlier like yung ama January and I got my targets naman because I was able to generate enough working capital which I'm still using to buy spot it is it is it is all time high na for Bitcoin kasi bolios but hodal hodal lang because people are thinking it's gonna go a lot higher this year hodal lang I'm kinda torn about the Disney Star Wars because a big Star Wars fan I thought there was a lot of potential there but yeah they really failed to stick the landing but I love Andor oh my god that series can't wait for season 2 Ahsoka was alright for me oh steady naman nice to see Ezra in the flesh I thought they did a really good job with Ezra like the character like who they who they cast to play Ezra like Subra on point apparently the Rogue the Rogue Squadron movie directed by the same director as a Wonder Woman apparently that's Paddy Jenkins apparently that's a go again I don't know how I feel about that because actually I'm not like Wonder Woman was alright but I thought yung aparan the ending was off and then the latest Wonder Woman same thing like basically you just want top gun na Rogue Squadron na Star Wars I mean how hard could it be and then you get wedged in the wedges old I mean come on man how can that be a flop it's true it's true the visuals are very like the sand crawl the sand harvesters and the ornithopters I love getting ornithopters like in damage to price tila like you know there's really flimsy ass things but you know just and then you couldn't even control them like you could just target them on something but like they made their fly or something it was like is there a flimsy kind of thing for what you were buying like how much it was in the game but I love seeing the ornithopters sa pan's Fausto I agree Kasey Bolios when you watch Doon Paan it's like you're really seeing it or like the vibe of the game I've only seen clips Patrick Stewart is in it and then the vibro fight so I've only seen clips I haven't seen the David Lynch version I think that it was David Lynch I saw a side by side comparison of Paul riding the sandworm and in fairness the 80s version not bad for what they had at the time compared to now not bad not bad you have to give it to the old school special effects guys that'll be like a meme token and like nobody will buy it and then like we'll need to get influencers like or go to pump up the price like oh you know you're buying the hardware sugar candy token pump and dump just kidding guys pump and dump is bad actually the doctor the doctor prophet is like my crypto jesus like no joke like grave yung grave yung calls niya he has a weekly report kasi called the Sunday report and then like some Sundays like I don't know what to do with myself and head with the money and like oh my god it's everything gonna go down like inaabangan ko yung Sunday report niya alright I gotta do an ad but I will get through all of the chat in a little bit so ad roll take two see you after the break hannapin ang reverse version na gusto mo piliin ang preferred pay pen friend ko wala pang 5 minutes na sizigit ka na para sa windows mo marami na kaming na tulungan dati said hindi purchase ko but now I'm found a love of my life dati ingmira sin walang purchase ang life ko but now I'm a world class Zumba instructor so web developer ako and content creator for a YouTube channel and ngayon ganun pa rin ako pero activated na yung windows ko kaya ako naghanap ka ng legit mura at original software check out cdkoffer.com check out cdkoffer.com check out cdkoffer.com they are legit I promise I use them all the time okay, let me go to the chat wait pa more Kevin Wong the expected so we're in a downturn now or about to reach the halving there might be a downturn but don't worry don't panic just hold on very roughly Bitcoin you can probably expect it to go at least up to 110 by late 2024 or early 2025 wala pa nga yung supply shock basically last January there was a financial instrument that was approved that makes it super easy for large scale investors we're talking about the pension funds the funds that are marketed towards the average American there was a financial instrument called the spot Bitcoin ETF that was approved for sale it became available to the public and so a lot of institutional investors are now getting exposure to Bitcoin but they need to buy Bitcoin from the open market and the supply shock is when all of those guys running the spot Bitcoin ETFs need to buy Bitcoin but there's only a limited number of Bitcoin especially more so pa after the halving where it's ingrained into the system that instead of X number of Bitcoin being generated per block that's divided by 2 that's why it's the halving so the numbers aren't right but to say you're getting 30 new Bitcoins generated per approved new block suddenly only 15 will be generated so the supply shock is supposed to come in around 6 months because tulituloy yung pag-bili ng mga institutional investors na yung Bitcoin and so far they can find it on the open market but in 6 months from now the Bitcoin supply is supposed to become very tight and God knows what Bitcoin will be but a very conservative figure is around $110,000 per Bitcoin by the end of 2024 or early 2025 that's around when I would consider advising people who have crypto to start selling it could go way higher than that that's a safe bet I would think and again this is all probabilities but there's a very high probability that you're going to see that price around late 2024 early 2025 so I would definitely hold until you see that price it might even come earlier August, I don't know God knows that's what I love about the crypto market it's really up and down it's like a roller coaster but if you see Bitcoin at around $110,000 then you might want to start considering selling but not before then I have both XRP is actually one of the long-term investment lists of a lot of the people that I follow on crypto Twitter I think with XRP it doesn't move until it does now so I do have some spot bags in XRP which I think are just slightly above in profit I think they might even slightly down now after the latest downturn but I bought that like a month ago so it just goes to show XRP is not really like a fast mover but when it does it's supposed to move though Saap, Mark Lewis My personal SSD is from Team Group the MP33 1TB Very good value for money You can get crew I also have a crucial MX500 now 1TB SATA SSD but for my NVMe I'm using the MP33 I get a lot of pushback actually a surprising amount of pushback when I post about Team Group SSDs particularly the MP33 model because even if you go by brand there's some models that are better quality than others like the BX of crucial you don't really want that you want the MX500 MP33 or MP33 Pro by Team Group I've had very good experience both for myself and for the shop but a lot of people online criticize me for it and I don't quite know why I don't know if they're getting like the cheaper models and they crap out but for me both on personal experience and the shop experience the Team Group MP33 very good value for money and the speed is pretty good of course you can go more expensive you can get Samsung although it Samsung has stumbled a little bit lately crucial if you want to get crucial what's their higher and what's their higher and yes SSDs have gone down in price again they kind of shot up now they're down again the P5 the P3 sort of the lower end the P5 is the NVMe from crucial that you want to get still cheaper than Samsung David Lynch is always trippy for the record I will not publicly cop to watching digital videos on the record off the record I have Hans Faustos PM Super I agree with Ergo just hold on up to 110K and then reassess because if the market has gotten so hot maybe that is a good time to sell but you never know maybe that's just like a stepping stone to further all-time highs at least for this cycle Pumb and Dumb guys Pumb and Dumb you can get them like we can get the latest ROG ultra wide I reviewed a few months back like a month or so ago which is the PG49WCD beautiful monitor like I mean I have the PG48UQ and yes this is the first time mentioning it on this stream OLED every if you watch any of my streams you know I love OLED I love my PG48UQ but the PG49WCD so that's ultra wide from ASUS grave grave I mean that's all I can say I don't regret buying the PG48UQ because I've had it more than a year na and I've had very good gaming moments with it but like if I were to buy an OLED now that didn't have this particular OLED the one in front of me the PG49WCD would be would be top of mind for me we're still trying to be honest Alistair we're still trying to we have to comply with paperwork before we can sell the SSDs but we'll let you know when they're on shelf again for me my advice is always if you can get a desktop PC like you don't need mobility which a gaming laptop allows you my vote is always get yourself a desktop kasi mas mura siya peso to performance like what you're paying for you get more performance because really gaming laptop they can have great performance but you're paying through the tooth you're paying tooth and nail for for the performance that you're getting kasi they really have to shrink down the parts and then the heat and then the battery so if you're getting a gaming laptop it's only because you really need the mobility like you're going out and you're doing editing on it you're not at home most of the time and so will it it fits your use case basically but if your use case is that I go to work I bring my kid I'm out most of the day but when I come home I do have access to a desktop for me that's still the best value for money hands down so a built a custom built PC always better if you na your use case doesn't need that mobility that high-end laptop allows you to have I did get a gaming laptop at the start of last year pa and then I did do a review it's from ASUS and I love that laptop but it's only actually I have it here with so I was charging it that's why I was down there that's where I keep my charging extension cords I love the laptop it allows me to do things like I can even do basic editing on it I can type scripts while I'm waiting for my daughter because I'm the akong hadid sundunong paganay ko so I'm out I'm away from my desktop a lot during the day so the laptop has allowed me to be productive I love the OLED screen so I can watch videos on it as well but I would definitely not game on it so at the end of the day my gaming is still front of my 48 inch OLED with my recently upgraded CPU I swapped out my Ryzen 73700X last December for Ryzen 9500X and editing is so much smoother like I cannot emphasize how much of a big deal that was like oh my god yung playback yun yung issue ko e like I'm not even like a super heavy editor because I don't put a lot of graphics or text or things like that but my thing is if playback is choppy ang hirap mag edit and the playback is so much smoother with the R95900X I still have my old 3080 still kicking along which I stole from the shop that was actually sent for RMA from a customer we bought a new one we gave him credit for the amount that he spent on the 3080 because the fan would spin intermittently it's a tri-fan model one of the fans puminsan di siya na spin but I'm like I don't care so I sold it from the shop and I've been using it ever since so thanks hardware sugar yeah so that's my current rig it's a 3080 the Ryzen 9 5900X you actually don't need it for gaming like a better CPU for gaming for the AM4 platform would have been the R7 5800X 3D but yung nga I wanted the multi-course for editing and it is ramdam na ramdam ko yung upgrade best upgrade especially for my workflow like now I mentioned I can do basic editing on this thing but sometimes I really wish it could do yung nga hindi siya criticism because it really wasn't meant for heavy editing but now I was like I was thinking should I've just spent a bit more to get a heavier editing platform but so far yung nga I'm really happy with ASUS 1 you can see the review video we have on the channel it was like couple of months ago Bitcoin was at 73 all time high a couple of days ago it has sunk now but dips are for buying really yung nga this isn't advice I'm just making kwento on what I've been doing and yung nga awan ang jos thank you crypto jesus I have made some money naman I do have specific targets in place one of the favorite things that people on crypto twitter like saying is generational wealth but also that if you have the money now then sell sell a little bit I mean we're always saying hodl hodl but you know if you've reached good ROI already convert some of that hawakan mo na convert it to USD USDT or yung tether na USD transfer some back home and sell it for pesos so that you baliwala lang yung gains mo kung paper gains din sila so like for me I have very specific targets for not the old coins na spot yung nga that's very clear when you buy them old coins na spot that's for holding up to the very end up to the top of the cycle but like when I'm in leverage when I'm using my futures account on kraken that's where you use your existing crypto assets as collateral you're telling kraken or you're telling the exchange that okay kung big lang bumagsak you can get my crypto so it's very high risk it's a very high risk endeavor so for those kind of things I I do have very specific targets when I close when I close my position sub adrian on TV na for me it's rising just because I am on the AM4 platform I have a soft spot for the underdog in my mind AMD is still the underdog both for CPUs and obviously for GPUs so actually my last platform was Intel it was an i5 4600K like fourth gen parts so over luma na nung PC ko dati before I upgraded to the AM4 R73700X so I have a little bias towards AMD in terms of CPUs but really Intel now AMD are sort of neck and neck the 14th gen is completely fine if you're an Intel fanboy it's basically boils down to can you find a good deal for that particular CPU and which one which platform are you more comfortable with yung gusto ko kasi sa AMD they really supported the heck out of their platform so AM4 simula pa nung rising all the way up to the 5000 series talagang AM4 so you can magaday upgrade pa Intel is more notorious for just keeping it at the most 3 generations 2 generations and then kila mo na magpalit nung motherboard so that's what I don't like about Intel AMD is on record saying that they're gonna support the AM5 platform just like they did the AM4 so that's another one of the reasons why I like AMD rising over Intel to be honest Ergo, I don't have one I'm a very I'm not a TA kind of guy so I'm more like a feels kind of guy although in general like the people I follow on crypto twitter are like generally the price goes up pre halving because people are buying to the hype generally the price drops what I am hoping for is that may kunting bounce pa kahit umabot lang nung 73 per bitcoin and then babagsak siya like that's my target we hit 73 again I'm gonna close my lungs on bitcoin okay now don't I say that but I might get tempted if the market is super hot in 74, 75 maybe but like yung pinaka stop loss ko like even if you go above that basically I'll keep rolling the guys the dice I'll keep playing pero stop loss ko if it drops down to 73 I'm perfectly okay with closing my lungs although I do have lungs that are pang 3 months away pa so I'll just keep holding those even kung akit babagsak siya and then dips are for buying so I don't really have a prediction for the halving itself I do have a very short term target hopefully in the next 2 weeks akit ulit tayo to 73 I'm happy I will close my short my short term long position on bitcoin once we hit around that price range and kung babagsak near the halving I'm perfectly happy with that more chance to fill our bags so no one knows the top I mean regardless of what analyst you follow or ano like they might get it baka makansyamba sila but I would be very wary of someone confidently predicting the top yung niya 110, 120 seems reasonable now but yung niya we haven't seen the supply shock yet from the bitcoin ETFs needing bitcoin that suddenly is very scarce in the market so nobody knows the top and I would be automatically wary of somebody who would claim na ano and again my advice like 110 that's a good position to sell out from but again you need to reassess when you're already there like does the market look like it's still gonna go up some more if it's a new PC like I would go with AM5 na but if it's like you're upgrading on AM4 like myself I had a rise in 7700X the AM4 platform still has a lot of legs you can go 5,000 series and there's a significant performance boost from the 3,000 to the 5,000 series Jonathan pointed out something actually that is very interesting to me kasi when I talk about futures basically I'm betting that it will go up when I talk about long I'm basically betting the market will go up if I say I have a short I'm basically betting that the market for that coin will go down but there's a funding fee and that doesn't go to the exchange basically there's a one is to one correspondence if I take out a long position on Bitcoin that means that somebody else took out a short position and if sorry hindi siya one is to one but if some but I have to pay if more people are in longs than shorts the people in the long position are paying the people in short positions that's the funding fee and as Jonathan mentioned it can really stack up like I've seen funding fees $50 so what $50 $50 an hour an hour man that will and that's just on my like to betrugin position sa I mean like serious investors can have they calculated kasi per hour $50 an hour after 10 hours you're like $500 $1,200 after a day $1,200 a day but I mentioned it's interesting because I actually have one position na I have it as a short on one coin and I don't care paper loss $10,000 paper loss $20,000 that's I'm okay with that because ang gada ng funding fee I will not disclose the coin or the or the funding fee and it really goes up or down like just today it was like $3 an hour I'm in a short that means that more people are in longs but $3 an hour maliit pa lang yun for this coin in a short and of course it also depends on how many coins you bought in that position so it's kind of hard to do the math with these hypotheticals but I do have a short position on this coin I've held it for a month and I am loving the funding fees for some reason people are crazy about this particular coin so the longs are always I've never had a negative funding with this coin people are gung ho so they are long on it and I have reaped the funding fee kasi yung yung very long term position ko this is kind of like a meme coin when the market drops like drops drops drops talaga babagsak rin tong coin na ko then I'll just sell it at a profit pa but I need to incur the the paper losses because the current price of the coin is above the price at which I shorted at so it is actually a very high risk game kung big lang umakyat to that I can't cover it anymore so I do need to keep track of it but I've been doing it for like a month already ang ganda no returns ko sa funding and it's really literally like I'm sitting back in the car waiting for my daughter and I'm like oh, one hour passed I made X amount of dollars and again it's basic multiplication anything times 24 24 hours in a day after a day you've earned like it's it's been pretty good to me this particular coin this particular strategy of deliberately having a short because other people are long on it and not carrying too much if it's in the negative right now it's negative actually in it's negative to the tune of like five dollar five figures in USD but again I don't care I'm pretty sure in the long run this kind of go down I hope it doesn't go up too much and Bitcoin goes crazy and right now I'm reaping the finance fees which are pretty good especially for everything is dominated in USD so you have the amount that you're making per hour times 24 hours in a day times what 55 for peso because we're that's one advantage living in the Philippines the peso USD rate also works in your advantage so um yeah that's it is very high risk um kasi nga you have to have enough leverage to cover the paper losses and kung makiat yung Bitcoin akit rin kung tung coin nato um but so far I've seen it I've been at a much higher paper loss and I'm currently on now so yun nga I've been riding the roller coaster for actually it's been three weeks palang wala pang one month um I started it pala as start of March but I am loving the finance charges from this coin love it ha and you never know next script to watch episode next month I'm like oh god I had to close my position I was at a loss um kasi the price skyrocketed di ko na makover but yun nga at the same time the way I figure it is I have to keep this the longer I have this position the more money I make and the more I can cover in case I really do need to sell it at a loss tiba so break even malang sana or pag naman sana let's keep it going yeah oh shoot my ROG Harpy Ace Mouse ano okay I thought it died but it just went to sleep pala sorry I can't sure why not it's a world WLD ito but again this isn't financial advice I'm just saying this is what I did I will not tell you at what price I shorted it at and actually I DCA'd it so it di siya isang bagsak like I was I I teared into it and I won't tell you how many coins I have but I will tell you that I love the finance charges on this thing wala pang negative finance like the entire time I've held it there have been more longs than shorts and for the amount of money that you're generating versus the risk that it might go up it is it has been very worth it for me so far and not financial advice but I can tell you that this is one of my long term plays I have been doing it for around 3 weeks so far sobrang okay siya it's currently around 9.3 9.4 medyo omakit siya after the bounce the ults have been getting a good bounce since yesterday since the drop so again I I'm not telling you because it does carry significant risk I'm just saying that so far the strategy has worked for me short world short it not so much because you want to gain a profit from closing the position you're going to hold that position God knows how long 6 months, 1 year just keep holding the longer you can hold it the more money you're going to get and again baka makataon nabig lang bumaliktad yung market ang dami nang shorts negative na because that can happen that can happen so before you start copying a strategy you should really understand the risks involved but for myself I am loving world I'm loving shorting world not because I'm expecting to close on the position anytime soon because I am making good money on the finance charges yun so that is it for crypto watch episode 24 if you're just new to crypto I really do suggest checking out the videos below like how to get into crypto what you need to know because I think it's a really good time you don't need to do futures you don't need to do anything crazy but just just buy Bitcoin and then hold it for like 6 months hold it for a year and then see you don't need to be like the super 24 hour down the rabbit hole kind of guy but nasasayangan talaga ako and I think of people who don't have exposure to crypto at this particular junction in time kasi it really looks like this year will be very good to crypto buy hold it but don't hold it too long that's a thing I see with a lot of investors not just crypto but also stocks bonds anything hudal lang sila ng hudal oh my in video stock is up 20% hudal lang but you only make money when you sell the thing you're not you're not an investor you're a trader when you're not investing in the company or the coin you're you're trying to make a buck of the price difference of whatever asset that is whether it's crypto whether it's stocks whether it's bonds so when I hear people say oh antasno return score that's all just paper gains at a certain point you need to sell them and that's my thing I really think a lot of people would have a good financial result if they bought Bitcoin now especially now when it's at a dip forget about it come back eight months later late 2024 early 2025 I think you will be pleasantly surprised with what it is but don't forget to sell pag 100-110 na reassess watch another crypto watch episode I'm not positioning myself as a financial guru or anything I'm just very clear that I am betting my own money I have been doing this for a long time I have gone full bore since November like I have paid money so that I can be a member of these private telegram groups and things like that I have lost money I've been scammed et cetera so all of those things again I'm not a financial expert this is just what I'm doing with my money and I think it would be profitable for a lot of people if they did something very conservative with crypto buy Bitcoin forget about it yun so thanks so much for watching crypto stuff doesn't get a lot of traction on the channel but I like doing it because I have been in the space for a long time and I really think it's something important that you should consider especially for this year if you're looking to amp up your portfolio true sell it into tether sell it into some other USDC some other stablecoin if you think you want to reinvest again but if you're just this is temporary money I don't need it for a year sell it into fiat make your buck make your pesos I will not guarantee but again what I'm doing my own money is that the odds are very good that what you put in now will be worth a lot more eight months down the line or something for full disclosure Ergo and I have been friends like bakada kami since high school so positive chats are not planted it's just that we know each other for so long and Robert and Ergo has been in the space for a very long time and I just wanted to end with a shout out that Ergo went to Manila Wednesday when did I tell Jay na inuman tayo Friday Friday next week let me know if you can he'll be in town that time bye guys stay safe I gotta go I gotta go I'm hungry bye guys oh tomorrow I might do another live stream or I might do we have a review on the Fitbit Charge 4 versus Charge 5 versus Charge 6 that comes out either Wednesday or tomorrow depending if I still have time to live stream tomorrow tomorrow will just be like behind the scenes hardware sugar we do it like once a month like behind the scenes in the video we've done this month but I think a lot of the behind the scenes for tomorrow will be about like my trip to China courtesy of Deep Cool which I really really enjoyed China man gotta talk about China alright but we'll try to talk about that tomorrow bye guys


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