I call this talk streaming money, and if you're watching Bitcoin from the outside, if you're engaged in Bitcoin, but don't have the time to spend to watch every new technical innovation that is being created with Bitcoin, it's hard to see what's happening behind the scenes. And what's happening behind the scenes is a lot. A lot of very interesting work. Bitcoin today is not Bitcoin as it was in 2009. It's continuously changing with new technologies being introduced. And the pace that new technologies are being introduced keeps accelerating. One of the most fascinating aspects of Bitcoin that was introduced towards the end of 2015, which I'm very, very interested in, is the introduction into Bitcoin of a time function. So what this new invention did is it introduced time function to transactions, the ability to control the timing of when a transaction can be redeemed, when it can be spent. That particular invention is called check lock time verify, which is a very engineering word for something very powerful. And at first, when you look at it, you think, okay, great, so I can put my money, I can lock it, and I can say this money can be withdrawn for 90 days. Okay, if some of you have problems with addiction to shopping, or a materialist consumption kind of attitude, and you can't save money unless you lock it away, that could be useful. Okay, you could use it just like that, just lock my money away for 90 days. And the nice thing about the Bitcoin network is that when you put a condition like lock it away for 90 days, it's locked away for 90 days. There's absolutely nothing anyone can do to undo that particular constraint. But if you look at this time dimension purely from the perspective of locking an individual amount of money, you're missing the point. Because what's really interesting about this is that it creates a whole new set of applications that allow you to manage the time dimension of money. And this is a game changer. And most people haven't really noticed that things are going to get very interesting, very fast in some of the new developments in Bitcoin. One of the first applications that uses check lock time verify and check sequence verify, which are the two time-based constraints, is a technology called state channels, or payment channels, or more broadly, lightning network. How many of you have heard of state or payment channels here? Okay, so that was about 15 or 20 hands. How many of you have heard of lightning network? Okay, great. That was about 75% of the audience. And how many of you understand lightning network? We got a lot of this, myself included. Okay, very complex technology. So what I want to do is briefly describe this technology and then give you a perspective on something much, much deeper that can happen with this technology. So bidirectional payment channels allow you to do transactions between two parties that are not recorded directly on the Bitcoin blockchain, but essentially mean exchanging promises that have a time dimension. And then setting up this bidirectional payment channel where I say, okay, I'm going to put 10 euros away to communicate with this, let's say it's a bartender, it's a bar, right? So I'm going to put 10 euros in a multi-sig account. And then we're going to set up a payment channel between us. And we're going to say, okay, I buy one drink. That's let's say one euro. It's a very cheap drink. And so now I'm going to sign a transaction that says of those 10 euros that we have in a multi-sig together, I'm going to give one euro to you and nine euros back to me. Hold on to that transaction because I'm not done drinking. Great. Five minutes later, I say, that was a lovely drink. I want another one. I'm going to make a new transaction. This one is going to cancel the previous transaction, which we still haven't broadcast. And it's going to say, well, now I'm going to give you two euros out of the 10 and I'm going to get a refund of eight. Now hold on to that transaction. It invalidates the previous one. The bartender, if they want to submit it, they submit it. They get their two euros. But when they do that, I also get my eight euros change. So I'm happy. They're happy. We can both walk away from this transaction anytime we like. And we now have transferred this money, but none of it's yet on the blockchain. Now this is a really, really good night. So I'm going to have another drink. And now I sign a new transaction that says I'm going to give you three euros. You give me seven back. And we keep going back and forth like this until eventually I say, okay, I want to close my tap. The last transaction we have, maybe four or five euros in drinks, five euros refund, is the transaction that actually gets recorded on the blockchain. So we did four transactions, but only one to start and one to end were recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain. And that's really interesting, because in the process of doing that, I could create as many transactions as I wanted, and I could make these as small as I wanted, because we're not paying a fee for them. We're only paying a fee for the final balance. So I could be transmitting very, very small amounts in this payment channel. Bidirectional payment channels are really interesting technology. But when it gets even more interesting is when you combine multiple bidirectional payment channels to create a routed network. So I'm sitting there with my friend and I'm having drinks and they're having drinks and we have two payment channels to the bar, right? And right now I owe five euros to the bar and my friend owes maybe six euros to the bar and we decide to play a game of pool. And so I start a game of pool with my friend and we place a bet and we say whoever wins, it's five euros. We're going to place the side bet on our game of pool. So we start playing pool, great.  So I lose badly. My friend might also be a hustler in pool and hiding this. So I lose very badly. Okay, so now I owe my friend five euros. Well, I could pay directly and start a new payment channel with my friend. But here's what I could do. I could go to the bar and say he owes you five or let's say he owes you six and I owe you five.  Great. So now we've got two payment channels. I close mine paying extra to the bartender and he closes and signs another transaction to pay less for my friend. Essentially I've paid my friend but without having any direct connection with them, right? Now take that and imagine connecting tens of thousands of payment channels together on a network that is routed where I can basically go out and discover the network and say, that guy, I want to give him a tenth of a Bitcoin. Now I'm not connected to that guy but he's connected to that guy. That guy is connected to this guy. This guy is connected to that guy and I am connected to that guy. So I will give you one euro but only if you give it to him who only if it gives it to him, only if he gives it to my final destination. And when the euro arrives at the final destination, you get paid, which then means they get paid, which means they get paid, which means they get paid, which means I paid them, right? And that's Lightning Network in a nutshell, right? Lightning Network is just a series of Bitcoin transactions that we exchange among each other. And here's where it gets funky. Because the really interesting thing about this is that the speed at which I can process these transactions, these transactions that are fully formed Bitcoin transactions guaranteed by the Bitcoin network, any one of the parties can walk away at any time. We don't have to trust each other. We can take the last transaction, which is the most valid one. We can submit it to the network and close all the channels anytime we want. So we always have Bitcoin acting as a judge to ensure that all of our transactions we've exchanged are secure. But now we can do them as fast as we can process elliptic curve signatures as fast as we can process transmitting these payment transactions and how fast is that? Milliseconds. And we can do them for amounts that are as small as one Satoshi. So now I can transmit Satoshi's in milliseconds across a network of tens of thousands of participants that are all connected at a layer above Bitcoin. Stop there for a second. Take some questions. That's really good. So in the legal terms, it's an assignment of claims. It's a series of IOUs. It's a series of forward-looking promises. But the thing is that if a party doesn't deliver on their forward promise, they can't collect on the promise that's coming to them in a routed network. So you extend these promises out to your final destination. They provide the unlocking code that rolls it back so that everybody gets paid. So you don't have to trust anybody in between. If someone doesn't fulfill their promise in between, you just start a different route to get to your destination. No one can take money without fulfilling the terms of the contract. It's a system of smart contracts. So you don't need to trust any of the other participants. In fact, if this is properly implemented, you have no idea who the other participants are. You just say, I'm paying Alex a tenth of a Bitcoin. Find me a route. Great. It takes 233 hops to get there. I don't care. Just like you have no idea how your TCP packet actually got to Google, you don't care. It's the same system. In fact, it's better because the first implementation of Lightning Network that we're building is based on onion routing like Tor. So every connection is encrypted, which means that when you receive a Lightning Network promise, you have no idea if the person sending it to you is the person who started the transaction, or it's someone who's just relaying it from someone else. And you have no idea if the next person you're sending it to is the end of the transaction, or they're going to relay it somewhere else. You have only one hop information. And so it also massively increases privacy and anonymity. Let's take some more questions. Yes, this is a smart contract. This is smart contracts using three technologies in Bitcoin. One is multi-signature technology. The other one is check lock time and check sequence verify, mostly check sequence verify, which is relative time from the previous transaction. And a new invention called hash lock time contracts, which is a way to forward a promise that can only be unlocked by a secret. Yes. So these are smart contracts using Bitcoin. Correct. Why would an intermediary want to do this? For a number of reasons. One of the reasons they would want to do this is because using this also involves participating in the network. So you just do it because you want to use the Lightning Network. Another reason you want to do it is because you can collect a fee. So part of the option there is to make very, very small fees payable to intermediaries if you want. And you could then select the route that gives you the lowest fees, or the route that gives you the lowest latency, and you can use a whole marketplace of services to implement that. Yes, this would introduce transaction fees, but you can talk about transaction fees on a whole different scale. Because you're not required to fill a capacity that is very limited, which is a one megabyte block, the fees that are likely to be used for something like a Lightning Hub are going to go close to the marginal cost of delivering that service, which is tiny, tiny. So you're going very close to zero. Anybody who charges high fees will get pushed out of the market by people who charge much lower fees, and if nobody else wants to do it, I'll do it. Yes. Yes. Well, you don't settle any of these hops on the blockchain because actually what you're doing when you're using a big route, so the question was, sorry, let me repeat the questions, if you use a route that's less costly but has more hops, won't that introduce more settlement costs on the blockchain? No, because as you, in fact, when you create lots and lots of hops, what you're doing is you're cancelling out bilateral obligations between the parties involved in the hops. So if now instead of, you know, Party 2 owing Party 3, now they owe a bit less, so you can actually balance out all of the settlements, it will actually reduce the settlements on the blockchain. We don't know yet how this is going to play out in terms of scalability, but I'm very excited. Let's take two more questions for lightning. Without on-chain scaling, won't this push a transaction fees away from the miners, and therefore compromise Bitcoin's long-term decentralization and scaling? No, it won't, because for every payment channel, you need an anchor transaction, which is the one you set, you use to set up the payment channel, and you need a settlement transaction if and when you decide to close the payment channel. And so you still need transactions, what it expands is the ability of doing a lot more transactions in between those two. Yes, so there is the possibility that it's too expensive to go between channels, in which case we're also going to need to scale up the core Bitcoin blockchain layer, which I think is inevitable. We're going to do both. This is not about a choice between scaling on one layer or another. It's about scaling at every layer. What these technologies do is they offer you leverage. So when you scale one megabyte on the lower layer, that effect is multiplied by a thousand on the layer above. So you can have this multiplier effect. Last question on lightning. Will lightning network be compatible with Bitcoin Unlimited? That is entirely up to the Bitcoin Unlimited developers to choose whether they want to introduce that. If they introduce segregated witness, and they've already introduced Check Lock Time Verify, then yes, you can run lightning network on top of that. You can run lightning network on top of Ethereum. You can run lightning network on top of any cryptocurrency that enables the three basic primitives of checking hashes, multi-signature contracts, and lock time, time-based controls. So it's a network that can be overlaid over anything. All right, great. So now we have a basic understanding. I hope everybody's got a basic understanding. The lightning network is this thing that can be layered on top of Bitcoin, creating these bilateral obligations that allow you to stream money at a different scale in time. Here's the bit that no one's noticed yet, which is that when you change the medium, the message changes. When you change the granularity of time, very strange things start to happen. Right now, we think of money primarily because of the containers of money. The containers of money control the way we think about money. So each type of container for money imposes certain restrictions on how that money is used, and we tend to think of money in terms of the containers it comes in rather than as its pure form of transmittable value. All of that to mean this. If it takes three to five business days to make a bank transaction, as it does in the slowest banking country in the world, which is the United States, if it takes 24 hours to make a banking transaction, if it costs certain money, those things affect the behavior of people who are using money through the system. How many of you here are paid by salary? How many of you receive your salary automatically through a bank account? That's almost three-quarters of the audience. Great. How often do you get paid once a month? Why? Now, this is a question we haven't really considered. What is the nature of paying? Why does it occur at monthly intervals? Why do we chunk money at monthly intervals? This is a very good reason. This is money acquiring the characteristics of its container, the medium of banking payments, the accounting systems, the ability to pay employees, are constrained. It gets expensive to make transfers more often using the banking system. Let's look at some parallels in history before. Right now, we are living on the internet in the era of streaming. Streaming has become one of these enormously powerful concepts that is changing the way we consume various things, the way we experience various things on the internet. For example, MP3 music is disappearing. Why? Because I don't want to hold 30,000 MP3s on my mobile device when I can stream them in real time from a provider. How many people here have stopped storing MP3s on their mobile devices and used the streaming service? That is 75% of the audience. This concept didn't exist 10 years ago. A lot of us who were involved in the internet recognized that at some point, the value of storing the data versus streaming it live would switch, and no one would store their own music collection. In fact, now, a lot of the value comes from the editorial, the curation, the DJ, the playlist. If I take my 30,000 MP3s on my laptop and I hit shuffle, bad things happen. Why? Because I have a very broad multi-genre music collection. I may go from Tchaikovsky to Iron Maiden to Justin Bieber in three minutes. That may damage my psyche, especially if I end with Justin Bieber. Okay, I don't actually own any Justin Bieber, but just as an example. The bottom line is that we now value not the permanence of music, but the experience of music. It has changed how we experience music. The same thing happened with videocassettes. Remember when you had to go to the store and get a videocassette? For anybody who is on the 30, a videocassette is this plastic thing that you had to rewind, kind of like a DVD, only suckier. Now, if you experience movies that way, it changes your experience, right? You have a limited catalog, you have to consider very carefully what you buy, you experience it in a different way. You actually sit down through a whole movie and enjoy it. Now we have streaming video, we've changed our expectations. It hasn't just changed our expectations in terms of using Netflix. The really important impact is with the emergence of things like YouTube. We have gone from experiencing video content in an hour and a half to experiencing video content in 15 minutes to now experiencing video content in 30-second vines and Insta videos. That experience is completely different. Something happened there when you changed the container that changed the actual experience of video. Now you could start experiencing video in much smaller amounts. It could be created by a whole lot of people you've never met who didn't have any production values and still sometimes be quite surprisingly good. Streaming video changed the nature of video. Streaming music changed the nature of music. What happens when we start streaming money? Now think about this for a second.  Now, this has some really important implications. If you think about it purely from the perspective of salary, now you're working real-time. Money becomes a real-time thing and its nature fundamentally changes. I watched this video the other day, which was a team at a university that created a camera that could take one trillion frames per second. Then they shined a beam of light through a plastic bottle. You see that video and the beam of light suddenly changes into this chunk of light that is moving through the bottle. You can actually see individual photons clump together a pulse of light moving through a bottle. Our experience when sped up is quanta. It's discrete units, but in our everyday experience it's not. It's a wave, it's a flow. Nature is like that. What happens when you change the time dimension of money and you convert it from something that is packetized, that is discrete, that we've been used to dealing with for generations now in chunks of monthly payments and quarterly accounting, and maybe for lucky daily payments. Now take it down to milliseconds. When you do micropayments over milliseconds, the term cash flow takes on a whole different meaning. Cash is a flow. It's a continuous stream that has no meaning as an amount. Imagine doing accounting in businesses on a real-time basis based on flows of money coming in and flows of money coming out. We have not even scratched the surface. Until now we appreciated the fact that Bitcoin and systems like it converged all of the networks of payment that we have in our world. Just like the internet converged all media onto a single network, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies converged payment networks. Today we have payment networks that are big for governments to pay each other, payment networks that are small for us to pay each other, payment networks that are for consumer to business for retail, payment networks are for small amounts, payment networks are for large amounts. If you were here before the internet, and I certainly was, we had communication networks for sending photos, we called them facts. We had communication networks for sending letters, we called it telex. We had communication networks for sending voice, and we called that the telephone. And the internet brought all of these together. Bitcoin combines the ability to do transactions from the level of a microtransaction all the way to the level of a giga transaction. So it's compressed the space of payments so that a single network can support making payments worth billions to making payments worth pennies. That's compressing space. Now with this new introduction of a time dimension into Bitcoin, we are going to compress time. We are going to open up a completely new dimension to money that allows us to address money as minute flows that flow continuously and can be aggregated and split as streams. And when I say streaming money, it's going to take 15 years for us to really understand what that does. What that does to human payments, what that does to corporate payments, what that does to border payments, what that does to the nation state. I don't know what that will be yet, but I do know one thing. It's going to be big. And that's what streaming money is. Thank you.


Hey guys, it's Nate A.K. the foot account. Welcome back to the channel. It's Monday, so you know what that means. We're taking a look at the market outlook for this week in FIFA 21. We got the foot birthday promo in full swing. Team one of foot birthday, we'll have team two this coming Friday. I wanna talk about more of the SBCs we could be seeing this week and how the market is down bad. The market is really low, especially after yesterday. The third day in a row of lightning rounds, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, all with lightning round packs opened. Now I think we should be done, right? Usually they only do lightning rounds on the weekends if they do all three days and they did this weekend. We have had so much supply on this game in the past few days. We had the Ozil SBC yesterday. We saw some 83s, 84s and a few 85s go up in price. I'll talk about that. Talk about fodder in general because again, more SBCs coming this week and supposedly these next two SBCs at least have been quote unquote leaked. So we'll see if those are actually true or not in the next coming days. And just talking about this promo in general of what I think the market could be doing this week and potential for maybe some icon SBCs as well. So looking through this page right here again, we know what foot birthday is all about. We know we're getting two different teams. There's gonna be another one on Friday. We're gonna be getting these foot player SBCs that are teased in the news section. The engagement streak rewards if you guys are doing those daily SBCs, those are continuing to pop up and you can get those. But as it looks on here, there's not a lot to go with this promo, right? We know what is coming with this promo, right? The 12 days of foot birthday player SBCs and we continue to move along from foot 09 to FIFA 21. Today is gonna be FIFA 12, foot 12 with that intercar design leak, I guess, not leak, but hint that they're giving us. Now I don't know if they're gonna drop an SBC today because of course, this promo is gonna be 14 days long. So they're gonna have to take two days off in here somewhere since it says here on the main page 12 days of foot birthday player SBC. So I don't know if Mondays are gonna be their days off, but if it's not, today we should be seeing a Vidal. I believe it is a Vidal SBC and a lot of people are investing in links for this, specifically the main man Parasich. Now yesterday pre-content drop, Parasich went from 475,000 coins all the way up, 375,000 coins up to 410K and after that panic selling and extra supply that we got today, this Parasich is down bad like the rest of the market is and this was over invested and the crazy thing was is that when you looked at a lot of these cars that were getting listed up today on the market when this price was dropping, I think Parasich dropped percentage wise basically more than all the other foot birthdays did purely because there was people who invested and they panic sold because they saw that card going lower. There's a lot of like second owners like this second owner tradable, whether that was somebody who bought the card today and maybe like 300K and is now selling it for a big loss because they just wanna get their coins back. So there was a lot of that that happened. Now if we don't get the Vidal SBC, I think this Parasich will rise further on to Tuesday. If we don't get that today on Monday cause there'll be more hype of course to invest in those. But let's talk again about what could be today on Monday because just earlier on Sunday, we had the mid or prime icon pack that was dropped, right? That expire that is no longer out in the game. So we have no icon upgrade SBCs out in FIFA right now. Now of course we have a lot of player SBCs. We have a lot of individual icon SBCs and we have the player picks, right? And the player picks are what really everybody in this game right now is focusing on because that is ways that they can craft SBCs, ways they can possibly pack these promo cards. This is where all the hype in the game is at this time. It's the 81 plus player pick pack. It's behind my camera, you couldn't see it. But you guys know, right? This 81 to 87 player pick is literally useless, right? Why would you turn in three less rares at a chance of having a card rating cap at 87? Like no, unless these are somehow cracked for fodder, I don't think it's worth it. I think the 81 plus is better anyways. I don't see a lot of foot birthdays being packed out of these, but these are good in their OP and they're very, very popular. So people are gonna be putting tons and tons of coins into these this week to either pack the foot birthday cards or to just get good value SBC fodder. You can do one of these for like, what is it, like 67, maybe 8,000 coins a pop. And as long as you're getting an 84 or above, which is decently average among these player picks that pops a lot, you're getting good SBC fodder. So tons of people are doing SBCs this week. The player of the months, these player SBCs were getting every single day or almost every day, the icon moments. And I do think there is a possibility since this promo is all about SBCs, that EA could be dropping a icon, repeatable SBC today on Monday. Monday has been the day where they've done that in the past, either Sunday or Monday. They gave us the 86 plus double upgrade yesterday too. And that, if I'm thinking from EA's terms, I'm thinking man, I just gave people the 83 times 10 over the weekend. I gave them 81 plus player picks and we gave them an 86 plus double SBC and three days of lightning rounds. People's clubs on FIFA right now are stocked with fodder. They're stocked, right? People have invested in fodder. People have club stocked fodder. So people have fodder in their clubs a lot right now. A lot more fodder than what it was like two weeks ago or one week ago even heading into this promo where everybody was just, the clubs were dry, right? So this would be a perfect time for EA to drop a prime icon repeatable and a non-repeatable one time icon moments upgrade. I feel like that's the next step with the icon SBCs because we've had the mid or prime SBC released I think three times now. First time it was non-repeatable and then two times repeatable if I remember correctly. And the prime icon upgrade I think has been released once maybe twice, but I feel like they should take the next step now since we're in basically the beginning of April. They might be dropping the prime icon upgrade repeatable and the icon moments SBC for one icon moments player. I think that could be coming today or sometime this week. And if it's not this week, I can understand it too because of course they've got all these player SBCs going on as a part of for birthday but I feel like it's EA, right? They're gonna have a chance here to take a lot of fodder off of people's clubs and get people to drain their coins on an SBC like that. So that could be an SBC that I could see give you the coming today, maybe Tuesday or at some point this week. Now I don't know, some people have been asking me will they drop more icon players? For the way that EA has been doing this this year maybe they're changing it now that we're getting towards the end of the year but this is the most ever icon SBCs for individual players that we have had at one time. There's actually a lot. I think there's nine with Wright, Zambrata, Schmeichel, Rue Costa-Balloch, Carls-Puyol, Nedved, Cliverts, Macalely, I think that was all of them. I think that's nine, right? They've released three sets of three. I honestly would feel a little surprised if they release more players this week because I feel like this is a lot for them to have out. The way they're doing it this year they like release a few, let them expire for like a month. We don't get any SBCs, then they release more. Hopefully they're changing that. Hopefully they're releasing more as we are of course getting towards the end of the year but I just feel like they might cool it on these for a little bit. Maybe focus on the foot player SBCs, foot birthday SBCs. But in terms of the fodder, I wanna take a look because we have had some supply today and some of the stuff has dropped down with more lightning rounds and with the 86 plus. This court twice, 62,000 coins at the moment. I believe he was 67K, 65K and he dropped down on Sunday. And right now of course, as it is in early Monday hours he is around the 62, 63K price range for 89s which is down from actually where they were on Friday and Saturday because people invested in these cards hard core. Hard core on Friday with lightning rounds. So just kinda how I was expecting it and mentioning it for this weekend, I kinda felt like the higher rated fodder was just gonna kinda stay flat or maybe drop down a little bit after I saw all the investing. So honestly, with it being, we're coming off of a weekend with a huge amount of supply for higher rated fodder and for lower rated fodder. 83s, 84s are in demand all the time for these SBCs they keep dropping, right? Ozil, I think Ozil, Palacio and Podolski are all in like the 200K range. 137 for Ozil, 178 for Podolski and 197 for Palacio. Those are all kinda covering your 83, 84, 85 rated squad SBCs, right? Like it's not really expensive SBCs. The most expensive ones that are out right now people are doing are the moments icon SBC for the players and then like the play of the months for Messi and Abape. So, you know, higher rated fodder since it's dropped down a little bit like we just saw, like the 89s have dropped down a couple thousand coins. 86s, you can probably get under 30K. That's a W. De Bruyne is 93K. Allison Terstegen, 80,000 coins. How much were these guys on Saturday? I wanna see this. They were 84,000, 85,000 at some points. These guys went down in the 70s for a slight bit. So, you know, if you can get some of these on bid, it might not be a bad time at all. If you're not looking to like make huge profit right away, of course, if they would release an icon moments SBC one time, non-repeatable today or any time this week, I do think you would see some of this higher rated stuff bounce up for a little bit before people, of course, started selling off the stuff that they invested in and then doing that SBC. So, maybe it's now, it could be a time for a club stock on some of this stuff and informs specifically because if you go to golden forums on this page and click at some of the cheapest ones, a lot of these cards have dropped back down, right? 12K for some of these even really, really low rated informs, these guys have gone to 20,000 coins when we get party bags, which I do expect to get this next week. Then of course, you know, some of your 84 rated cards are down at 30,000 coins a pop, which seems expensive, right? Which seems expensive, but you guys know what these players were at earlier, right? Some of these guys were like 50K plus with their links. You know, so Leibold, Banford especially, I like those two guys a lot because of the links that they do have. So maybe, you know, buying, I bought a Leibold today at 30K. I just club stocked that, you know, boom. Whether that's an investment for you or whether it's a club stock for doing SBCs for cheaper, buying a couple of these informs is gonna be something you could do right now too. Cause I feel like we had this whole weekend with supply and with packs and with a lot of people focusing on the packs and lightning rounds and opening saved up packs and all that sort of stuff that now you are seeing that SBC fodder we're kind of turning the page into another week where it's gonna be more SBCs and less supply during the week this week. So that's why I'm kind of mentioning SBC fodder at this time. Now trading with icons is something for me that has been actually pretty profitable recently. I'm down on a Rivaldo right now cause I bought this earlier at 125 and he's about 127 right now. But I flipped my Javi that I bought at 155. I flipped that for, wow, there's one at 16. I flipped it for 1.67. I got out just in time before he kind of dropped down a little bit lower but these cards are still fluctuating. They got supplied a lot this weekend and every day before the content dropped there is a little bit of panic on these icons. So that's a place on the market where I would seriously keep my eyes on watch and of course these full birthday cards right? These cards are down bad. Big time supply today on Sunday and of course weekendly sell off and people just focusing on the packs right? That's one thing I'm worried about with the market this week is that everybody's gonna be focused on the upgrade packs, crafting SBCs that just like we saw during the first couple of days or after like the big time promos came out with what if the first week and the future stars promo, I just feel like all of the attention turns towards the upgrade SBCs and the packs and that takes away from the market and you see a lot of cards that you would initially think were going to rise. They don't really have as much of a rise because everybody is focused on the SBCs.  Lucas Mora is also kind of chilling around the one million coin mark, which is crazy considering this guy was both these Sane and Mora cards were at 1.3, 1.4 million coins on the weekend. Ferland Mendy is 800,000 coins. Hermoso is under 200K, Vardy of course 800K, Parisich is down just so much, Anaki Williams. Now for the most hyped players in this team, I do think there is an opportunity where you will be able to see some of these cards rebound particularly well through the week this week. Now I'm watching Parisich of course because of those inter links and I do feel like there is potential for him to bounce back up from there. But also I'm kind of liking some of these really, really meta cards from inside this team, right? This is Anaki Williams, 348, this guy and Sane are in my opinion the top two most hyped cards, 1900 thumbs up, five star skillar with the pace on this Anaki Williams. This Sane literally bounces around like crazy already. Thiago's pretty hyped up as well, but I think it'd be between these three cards as the most hyped ones in this promo. But honestly, you know this when he channed 42K for a 95 pace Bundesliga striker with Leipzig links that is very OP this year in FIFA, 2100 upvotes, right? It might not be a bad shout, even though tons of people were gonna pack this card this week to just buy one and put it in the club or use it in your team as a super sub and see his price potentially go up a little bit because some of these more rare cards that are very hyped up even though people are focusing on the SBCs I do feel like some of these guys will bounce up into the week since a lot of the supply should be ending. Now, if we would get an icon upgrade SBC today you would probably see more panic and that's the biggest caveat I think for me this week is that if we did see some sort of icon moments SBC or like a player pick SBC too like for icon moments cards or just icon cards in general that could be a problematic area that I would think to see more of these foot birthday cards dropping on the market. But other than that, I do think it's gonna be a very interesting week with these cards. I really feel like Sanne has a lot of hype. I've heard that many people are hyping him up. I tried him last night in Weekend League. He was pretty fun, but I'm of course, I'm not even gonna finish my Weekend League this weekend. I'll be completely honest with you. Like look how rare this Sanne card is, right? If I go to 1.1 mil, I know it's late night market time. This guy has one page, dude. One page to 1.1 mil. So I'm gonna keep my eyes on this card potentially try to flip one or two of them if there is a potential for that coming up in the next couple hours or so. But honestly through this week the hype is literally just gonna be on these upgrade packs. And that confuses me a little bit too because right now what you have is people are viewing these player pick packs as a way to actually craft SBCs and to do them for cheaper, which it is true in a sense, but it just puts everybody's mindset on SBC fodder and crafting SBC cards and getting these players that are in the SBC section and not on the market. And that's why I think the market this week, even though we have a lot more coins on the game from all the saved up packs being opened, it just does not seem very hype for what we have compared in the impacts. Like people aren't opening these 81 plus player picks to get the foot birthday players. They're opening them to get fodder to do these foot birthday SBCs. So that's where I really think a lot of the hype is gonna be maintained this week. Now I'm really curious to see what SBCs we do get throughout. The rest of this week, of course, you can check it here on the front screen. They're showing the themes, right? It's supposedly Vidal today. It is supposedly Mangala, right? It's the Valencia French center back from foot 13. That is the quote unquote leaked SBC. And then for foot 14, I'm really not sure. I don't know if we'll give another German bundesliga card, right? If it could be Marco Royce, because FIFA 14, that was kind of one of his card. I think you had a center forward card in FIFA 14. That was pretty good. Possibly Peace Check, possibly Emre Chan, we don't know. But right now, a lot of the German links are doing incredibly well. There was a bit of panic selling on Sunday when the player picks first came out. And a lot of cards that moved around. This card in particular was one that we really saw huge movements on. This guy was 190,000 coins on the weekend during the weekend league, and he's right back there. But he was 163 this morning pre-content drop on Sunday, or yesterday morning, sorry. I think, honestly, so many people were afraid of the impact of that 81 plus player pick, or they wanted to sell their stuff so they could get coins to do that player pick SBC. Then it just dropped a lot of that stuff and you're seeing a lot of it rebound. So just keep your eye on some of that Bundesliga, German link stuff, Kimmetz, Goretzka, that new house card, the Neuer special cards, like I mentioned, just because that's where a lot of the hype is. And a lot of this stuff, dude, I mean, I have to show you guys these prices, right? 563 for Ronaldo, 511 for Abape, 390 for Neymar. It is now for 900,000 coins. You can get your hands on two of the best and most meta players in the game, Neymar and Abape. So big price drops on a lot of this stuff and that's purely from the supply that happened this weekend and people choosing to use other players over Neymar and Abape and sell some of those cards to complete icon SBCs or to do player picks. So that's why I feel like you're seeing a lot of these movements happen on the market. A lot of special cards are low too. Again, you can kind of gauge the hype on some of these. Look at Jalph Felix, right? 484, that is so low for that card. Now, Neuer is up 45, that is up for sure. You can see that.  Right now, I've been trading with them too because they've been fluctuating a lot too. I bought this at 155, I bought this at a mil flat, I bought this at 1.62 and this was at 1.05, but you're seeing a lot of these prices drop down because you're seeing people interested in the SBCs more than anything else. I actually bought this at 1.27 and he went to 1.37 earlier, but I was not able to get a sale. So I'm looking at a tax loss on my Rivaldo unless I can get a cheeky bounce back and price on that card into Monday. I'm probably gonna hold onto that one, potentially trade with some of these foot birthdays and maybe look at some of these icons again a little bit more too because a million coins for the Sonic card with how rare that he is with the amount of people that wanna try him out, it just seems a little bit outrageous to me. I do feel like some of these cards just have to bounce back a little bit. So we're really watching to see if we get icon packs this week. Now honestly, for the rest this week, you know, what do I expect for every day this week? Probably just more of those daily footplay SBCs, maybe some pack supply SBCs, but I feel like a lot of the supply on the fodder has come already. So that's why I was recommending a club stock, not really an investment, but a club stock. Like I'm probably gonna do Ozil and Podolski tonight because they're coming in at, you know, Ozil's 138K. That's the cheapest that he has been since he came out. And I only really see more SBC hype coming and these cards possibly going up. So that's kind of how I'm feeling right now about the mark with the SBCs and stuff like that. And that's the market outlook for this week, right? Of course, we have man of the match items that are out until next Saturday as well, which is interesting. They put them out for an entire week. There's only five man of the match cards. They're not even that high. But watch out for Fernandinho and Chilwell because those are actually some of the cheapest 86s on the game right now. But let me know what you guys are doing this week, right? We're gonna be uploading some pack opening videos because we're gonna be hitting some packs because player picks are pretty cracked. And yeah, it should be a fun week this week for sure with the player picks, with the SBCs and all that stuff coming out. But I'm curious to see beyond the foot birthday themed stuff, what EA drops this week in FIFA as we head towards team two coming on Friday. So that's my opinion on the stuff that's gonna go on this week in FIFA 21. If you have any questions, of course, drop them down below.  It's been Nate the Foot Accountant. I will catch you guys later. Peace.


Thank you, Mr. President. President Macron and the Sergio Mattarella, Madam President-designate and elect now of the European Commission, Ms. von der Leyen, Minister President of the Federal Land of Hessen, Excellencies, Madam Lagarde, and, of course, Mr. Mario Draghi. And also, I address my warm words to the family of Mr. Draghi. The links between your hometown of Rome and Frankfurt are obvious, I think, to all. The Limes is only a few kilometers away from here. The traces of Roman life are to be found everywhere here in this region. And even the Rathaus City Hall, the Frankfurter Römer, and also the Römerberg of Roman Hill in the heart of the Old City. Well, close aliquin testimony to the close cultural and intellectual bonds with the Eternal City. And basically, you, dear Mario, continue in the well-established tradition of the Romans, who leave traces here wherever they've been. For this indeed is what you have done during your tenure, these eight years as President of the ECB, not only here, but in the whole of Europe. And you have guided the ECB, indeed, through turbulent times in which the weaknesses, but not only the weaknesses, of the immobile aid bear. I remember very well how we met in Frankfurt eight years ago, shortly before you assumed office. We met here in Frankfurt. And immediately after the inaugural celebrations, the first joint crisis meeting was scheduled. And many more were to follow. These were not easy times. And the markets at the time were actually betting on the collapse of the eurozone. Today, eight years later, we are far away from this. The trust of the market players in the euro and the euro area has long since returned. Monetary area, currency area is still not without problems, but it has become much, much stronger than before the European sovereign debt crisis. And under your leadership, the ECB has given an important and, indeed, crucial contribution to the stability of the euro area as one of the instruments in the overall orchestra of the euro area, and also as an independent institution. And this cannot only be measured in figures and data, but also in the fact that so many of our citizens in the member states approve of the euro and, indeed, support it. And during your tenure, the ECB has given a crucial contribution to stability of the euro area. You've been able to do that first, because you are an independent institution. And because of this independence of the central bank, you have been able to fulfill this job. And you are actually in line with a long and tried and true tradition, a tradition we have here also in the Bundestag. Sometimes independence is always also, in a way, a protection when you're not in agreement with what policymakers pursue. But this independence is also an essential pre-exit for a central bank to fulfill its prime objective, namely, ensuring price stability. And as a guarantor for price stability, that, indeed, is the only thing that will be ensuring the acceptance of the citizens. We have to be able to defend this independence also, and in particular, in economically difficult times. You, dear Mario Draghi, have never allowed for any doubt regarding the independence of the European central bank. You said, for example, in a quote, we are not forced by anybody. We are independent and make our own judgment. And that's it, end of quote. Secondly, during your tenure, the ECB has made significant strides in further developing email. On the one hand, because you and your colleagues have stood up, resolutely, for the euro on the international stage. I remind all of us of the jewel in July 2012. Within our mandate, the European Central Bank is ready to do whatever it takes to uphold the euro. And this is probably one of the most significant sentences we will remember from your term in office. As usual in Germany, the Federal Constitutional Court has immediately sort of seized the matter and looked at this sentence and also evaluated your analysis of the situation and the consequences of it and actually decided that it was in agreement with it. So the European Southern debt crisis made completely new demands on all of us. The banking union was such an answer that was needed. Never again should individual banks drag down whole member states. And thanks to the ECB, we were able to implement the first steps on building up the banking union very quickly. At the time, we decided to install the oversight mechanism for a systemically important bank at the ECB and that immediately shows also the trust that we place in the ECB as a capable institution for the whole of the union. And further steps will have to follow for building up and enhancing the banking union. We need also a couple of market union in Europe, and you've constantly warned us of the necessity of that. But the ECB has also always said where there are the limits of its possibilities and its mandate for monetary policy may achieve quite a lot, not everything. And the ECB cannot relieve governments of their responsibility to do their homework on strengthening competitiveness of the individual countries. And this is why you, time and again, in the European Council, enjoined member states to live up to their responsibilities. This is particularly true in economically good times. They have to be used for structural reforms so that we do not always, as regards our fiscal and economic policy in crisis mode, but that we act preemptively and strengthen foundations for future growth. Thirdly, a prime objective of the ECB was and continues to be a stable euro, thanks to the banking union, to the European mechanism, a rescue mechanism, ESM, and the strengthening of the stability pact. The euro rests on a far more solid foundation than only eight years ago, but there is also room for further improvement. We have to go one step further with this new EU budget instrument for competitiveness and convergence and the strengthening of the ESM. Particularly convergence is of crucial importance for the eurozone because we have to see and acknowledge that over the past few years, we have not been able to achieve convergence to a necessary extent. And with the creation of this new budget instrument on the basis of the most recent Franco-German proposals, we adopted the central cornerstones to make this happen, and we hope that we shall be able to adopt this in December once we have also the financial perspective. And, Madam President-Elect, we will have to work on this and the Commission will have to work on this, and we have all of this on solid ground. And, ladies and gentlemen, we have to acknowledge that the euro is far more than a mere currency, generally fulfilling the functions one generally associates with a currency. The euro is maybe even more than the Schengen agreement at any rate on par with Schengen, a central symbol of the irreversibility of the European integration process. And this is why Germany and the city of Frankfurt are so proud to be home to the European central bank. The rise of Frankfurt as one of the most important financial centers of Europe, obviously there are also competitors, but it is nowhere exemplified more clearly than in this impressive building in which we are gathered here today. It is visible from afar, yet integrated in the Frankfurt skyline and shows very clearly that the ECB is part and parcel of this city. And for the first time that the ECB is established, there will be a female president very shortly at the helm of this institution. And let me say, dear Christine Lagarde, I am delighted that such an admin and personality is taking over from Mario Draghi. You will shoulder in your capacity as president responsible task and this in exciting times. And I wish you a steady hand at the helm of this institution and every success. And you, dear Mario, well, it may well serve perhaps as a consolation in leaving office that you leave the leadership of the ECB in such capable hands. I would like to thank you most warmly for your passionate commitment to your office. And you have ensured the institution, the independence of this institution of the ECB, filled it with life, strengthened the monetary union. In so doing, you have given outstanding service to Europe. You have never shirked away from controversy. And you have ensured also the stability of this currency of the Euro area. And these are truly large footsteps that you leave behind and that are also important for the city of Frankfurt. Thank you very much and all the best to you personally.


Without further ado, we will move to the first of our speakers and this is covering Phase 2 and 3 update and it's Dean Harris from Homes England. Hello, Dean. Hi, chair. Hello, everyone. I'm going to try and share my screen just bear with me a second. So just quick updates on Phase 2 and 3. In the update, I'll be covering Phase 3 planning, the heritage annex and central one. In terms of Phase 3, this falls into two parts, 3A to the south of Norstow, 3B to the north. Together these will deliver the final 5000 homes of Norstow along with three primary schools and a local centre. Outline planning applications were considered by Southcams Planning Committee in January and February, just recently, and were approved subject to completion of Section 106 agreements to secure 40% affordable housing and approximately 90 million pounds worth of community benefits. In terms of the heritage annex, I suspect many have heard of the heritage annex which is planned next to Norstow House or Frampton Road. This is just an update on the kind of latest position. So the annex is a partnership project between the Cambridgeshire County Council, National Highways, Homes England and the Longstanton and District Heritage Society. It will be home for artefacts from the A14 works, Norstow Archaeological Works and the LDHS archive. So everything from mammoth tusks to Roman pottery to REF uniforms and everything in between. There's a new modular design based on reused shipping containers and this is in for planning at the moment. The decision is expected anytime and Luke might be able to update us in his presentation afterwards. The subject to get in planning permission, the plan is to start on site this spring and with the quick build enabled by modular construction, open towards the end of this year. So here's just some general kind of images of the annex with Norstow House in the background. The exterior is designed to kind of harmonise with Norstow House with vertical timber cladding. The inside is considered as kind of simple and clutter free with the focus being on the artefacts and interpretation. And obviously the hope is that this will be an important community resource delivered this year. And then central one, this is an initial phase of Norstow Town Centre. As explained at a previous meeting, we're currently seeking a development partner to help us deliver this. I wanted to share a short video that's going to hot off the press with you that shows the proposal in more detail. So here's Norstow as it is more or less at the moment, looking from phase one south towards phase two and central one. Central one is springing up here in colour next to the secondary college. So the schools on the left here, central one is around in green, yellow and red. The green is the residential component, the homes, here's some apartments, four or five stories and just moving around to some more conventional houses here, and then we're going to take a look at the terraced and semi-detached two and three story. We're then going to zoom in to the heart of central one and the flexible market hall, which is a kind of key component of the central one, for independent retail, food and drink, incorporating workspace. The block with a convenience store on the ground floor, it may or may not be a Sainsbury's, maybe a Tesco's, Lidl, we don't know yet, but the intention is there will be a convenience store on the ground floor of that block. And South Cams are to deliver the Civic Hub here. Financial contributions being made by Homes England to deliver library health and community space on this site in the red building. And then the videos are pans round to some areas earmarked for parking, initially surface parking in the long term, potentially multi-story car parking, as you might imagine in a town centre. Here's a temporary car park whilst the multi-story is potentially being built and that temporary car park will be developed in time. Open space is an important part of central ones and community gardens and neighbourhood play area and the town park in time. And then the camera zooms out to show how this all fits together central one within phase two, phase one in the background. The final thing to say is just about kind of time scales. The intention is to seek a development partner this year, apply for detailed planning and start on site towards the end of next year. So the first facilities being delivered from 2024 through to 2027. That concludes my presentation. I don't know if there's been any questions come in, Chair. Happy to answer those, I'll pick them up towards the end. Okay. Thank you, Dean. Yeah, we've got one question at the moment and I would encourage anybody to, if you have any questions for Dean, can you put them in the Q&A now? The one question I've got, Dean, is, are there any plans to place, sorry, I'll start again. Are there any plans in place to monitor the rare breeding birds in phase two with avocets and little ring plover currently showing signs of breeding? Both are schedule one species that bred last year. Thanks Chair. We do have ecologists that are appointed and on site. I suspect the questioner knows a lot about this subject, judging by the quality of the question and I'd suggest that the questioner kind of keep in touch with us and really as to that kind of intel because that's really useful for us to know. Obviously it's exciting and good news that these areas are attracting this kind of wildlife already. That's fantastic. What we don't want to clearly want to do is to disturb them whilst we're concluding the works. So, yeah, we do need to be mindful of that. Okay, sorry, I should have said at the beginning that was from Hugh Venables who asked that question. Okay. The next question is from Martin Smith. When will SARW open? Thanks Chair. Southern Access Road West is the north of Access Road. The road works on the B1050 are on schedule and we're targeting end of April for road opening. I can't offer a specific date. I have attempted to kind of leave a specific date out of our contractors without success. So towards the end of April is my best offering really at this point in time. Okay. Thank you. And the third question from Richard Barenbrink. Can you share the video link please? I can. I will send it to Catherine after the meeting and she can circulate that with the papers or put it on the internet website. That's good. Thank you. Another question from Hugh Venables. He says I sent an email recently with more details. I think this is linked to the first question about the birds. I sent an email recently with more details and happy to keep in touch. So he's just basically saying, yeah, let's talk. No, absolutely. I have seen that email that I've shared with colleagues. So very grateful for it. So absolutely. Okay. Thank you. The moment, Dean, that looks to be the last question. Just give it. I'll just just give it a few seconds in case. No, I think if anyone else has questions for you, Dean, we'll ask them to put them to you at the end of the end of the end session. Okay. So thank you, Dean, for now. The second.


There's one particular product that a lot of people wish they had and those that already do have it, a lot of them wish that they could change it. What do you mean? Before I give you the answer to what that product is, let me elaborate a little bit from what I just said in the beginning. One, a lot of people wish they had it, so there's high demand. And two, people that already do have it wish they could change it, which equals even more higher demand. And a lot of different variations. And what I'm talking about is hair. The irony. Obviously, I don't have a lot of it, but a lot of people wish they had full heads of hair, some with a few unique twists. Now, right now you might be thinking dropshipping hair. It's kind of weird.  But no, we're not going to be necessarily dropshipping hair, but we're going to be talking about dropshipping wigs. In this video, we're going to cover some of the best suppliers for you to source your wigs from and guaranteed there's a few of these that you have not heard of. So make sure you stick around. But not just that. We're also going to give you some of the best wig products to offer your customers some of the most trending bestselling and high demand items out there. So if that's something that interests you and you want to learn how to make a few bucks selling hair, then make sure you stick around all the way to the end. Now, dropshipping wigs has a lot of benefits. For one, there's consistent demand year round. Like I said, people are always wanting to change their hair. Sometimes they don't want to do it permanently. So instead, they'll opt in for a wig rather than actually altering their hair. Okay, how much do I bid for this wig? A lot of the times there's actually people that don't have hair or some people that need hair, which unfortunately for one reason or another can't grow it themselves. In which case, they turn to wigs and in a lot of these cases, a lot of people aren't going to have just one or two wigs. Most of the times they're going to have a few different styles. Aside from that, there's also seasonal opportunities as well. So in certain seasons, certain times of the year, the potential to sell these products increases by a lot. One of them in particular being Halloween during Halloween, the majority of the population dresses up and in a lot of those different costumes that they wear, they need to change their hair. So Halloween is the perfect example for a seasonal opportunity to get increased sales. There's also a huge product variety. There's a ton of different lengths, different styles, different colors. The variation possibilities for wigs are absolutely endless. Now because there's so many different styles of wigs, that also means there's a lot of different quality points. What do you mean? Meaning some are going to be higher quality. Some are going to be lower quality, both of which are completely okay to sell. Remember that for certain times. One thing to keep in mind is, let's say going back to Halloween, a lot of people aren't going to necessarily care about the quality of the wig itself. They just want to wear something in which case you can sell a lot of cheaper wigs at a lower price. Or if you want to cater to a more high-end customer base or start making some more money per transaction or per sale, then you can also target a different customer base who's looking in particular for more permanent wigs. Now with that being said, let's go ahead and check out some of the best places that you can source your different types of wigs from. And the first one we're going to cover is the AutoDS Marketplace. So to get access to this, all you have to do is simply sign up for AutoDS. And if you don't have an account right now, that's no problem at all. You can start the trial period for just $1. Now, once you create your account and you're signed on, just go ahead and navigate over to the Marketplace. And once you're on here, my personal suggestion is always go for AutoDS suppliers. These are going to be the fastest and with the best quality. Now, once you switch over your supplier down here in the search section, just go ahead and type in wigs. So once this looks up, you can see that there's quite a few different selections related to wigs or wig products. So you can see here, there's a few different ones. You have some curly hair. You have a Wednesday Adams cosplay one. Quick note, quick suggestion. If you are offering cosplay items, don't go with the actual names of the characters. So don't say Wednesday Adams or don't say the Adams family. Say something along the lines of Gothic Girl TV show or something like that. This will help you get around or just completely avoid any copyright issues that might come across the actual name. Never thought about that. Now, one huge added benefit to actually using AutoDS as one of your suppliers is the fact that it easily integrates to any one of your dropshipping stores. As long as you're using Shopify, Etsy, eBay or Amazon, you can easily integrate with your selling platform and automate your entire business. So check this out. One of the biggest time saving tasks that you can do with AutoDS has to be importing products. If you've done this before, you know that uploading one or two different products is fine. That'll take maybe 10, 15 minutes. Maybe a little bit longer. But if you start to get into five, 10, 20, 30 products a day, you're going to be spending hours on land, just uploading products, saving different images, copying over descriptions, copying over titles, uploading everything again, rewriting everything. It gets to be very, very time consuming. So being able to automate that entire process is going to save you a ton of time. It can easily make two hours of work into 30 minutes. So in order to do this, all you have to do is up here, just go ahead and click on your stores and just click on out of store. Here you'll be able to choose from a few different platforms. And once you have that set up, all you have to do in order to import products is click on import draft. That's all there is to it. Now, once you import the draft to your store, all you have to do is simply click on the draft section over here and you'll see your item right here. So just let's go ahead and click to edit. And then on this page, you can change literally anything you need to. So you can change the title. You can add it to any collections. If you're using Shopify, you can change any tags to keep track of different analytics. You can change your shipping method. Here you have a few different options. You have cheapest, cheapest with tracking and fastest with tracking. My personal recommendation always go with cheapest with tracking because it's going to be for one, the most efficient and two, you're going to have a tracking number. The rest of the information, like the country location, the city it's coming from or the brand aren't really that important. So you're never really going to be touching those. Aside from that, you also have the description. You can go ahead and edit your description on here. Now, another really cool feature of the AutoDS Marketplace is that you have integrated AI. So you can use AI to optimize your description or you can also use AI to optimize your title. Then if you click on over to the variants section, you can see all of the different variations you have available. Here you can also change the pricing. You can also change the pricing based on a dollar amount based on your fee percentage. Or you can just outright set the sell price of whatever you want it to be. So if you want this to sell for $35, all you have to do is type in 35 and you'll see that your total profit is $20 up here and your buying price is $13.95.  You can edit, add, or delete and the item of specification. And one last thing that I want to touch on is if the pricing for these products for this wig ever changes, then AutoDS will make the necessary adjustments on your store. So if this goes up by $5, you can set it to go up by those same $5 on your store so you don't miss out on any profits or potentially lose money. Up next we have Amazon.  On top of that, they also have some of the best customer service practically ever. So that's why we have Amazon on this list. Amazon is one of the best suppliers you can use to have the fastest shipping with some of the highest quality items. They're trusted globally and they are gonna have also some of the more competitive pricing. Before we continue any further, if you're enjoying this video and if you're enjoying all of the content and information that I'm providing, please make sure you smash that like button. Also make sure you hit that subscribe button and ring that little bell notification so you don't miss out on any future dropshipping videos. Walmart is up next and this has to be one of my favorite retail suppliers hands down. They have this thing called the price match policy which is absolutely amazing. If you haven't heard of it, simply put what it is is whenever you make a purchase, the next day the same item can potentially go on sale. If it does happen, let's say you make a purchase for one of these wigs. Let's say this one right here. You can see that it's 29.99 normally. Let's say you purchase it at 29.99 but then the day after it goes down to 18.99. You're going to be thinking, oh, I should have waited an extra day and I would have made a couple of extra bucks. But with Walmart, that's not a problem at all. All you have to do is simply reach out to them, let them know that you made the purchase, give them your order number, some information and they'll refund you the difference. Price match guarantees are absolutely amazing. It can really help you make a few extra bucks even after you made the sale and sourced your product. Aside from that, they also have some really fast shipping. They have two-day shipping depending on your order amount. They also have some outstanding customer service if there's ever any issues with any of your orders. You can reach out to them. They'll help you out with whatever they can and they have some of the biggest varieties for products pretty much ever. So you can find anything that you need at Walmart and you can even just make them your main supplier and source the majority of your products from them. Next up we have one that absolutely everyone knows about in the drop shipping space and that is AliExpress. AliExpress has an outstandingly enormous variety of products. You can find anything that you need on there and they have some pretty quick shipping. A lot of people say, oh, don't source from AliExpress because they have over one month shipping. It's gonna take maybe 30 or 60 days for you to get your product. While that might be true for some sellers on here, for the vast majority, that's not the case anymore. Long gone are the days of 30 or 60-day shipping. Most suppliers nowadays are offering at least one to two week shipping. This is all you have to look for. Free shipping, 11-day delivery. Of course, sometimes there are gonna be a few restrictions. Sometimes you're gonna have to meet a minimum but for the most part, shipping on AliExpress has gotten a lot better than it used to be. You can also see the different reviews for all of the different products that are on here and you can see how many have been sold. So you can use this as a sort of social proof to see what's actually selling and what's trending. AliBaba is up next and on here you are gonna find a lot of sellers that actually sell in bulk. But that doesn't mean that you're not gonna find dropshipping-friendly suppliers or more importantly, manufacturers. On AliBaba, there's tons of manufacturers which means you can have your products customized. Now, if you do wanna have your products customized, a lot of the times there is gonna be a minimum order amount. But if you have a product that's selling, let's say for example, you found that red wig we just looked at earlier and you're actually selling a lot of them, you're noticing that a lot of people are purchasing it, they're happy with it, you're getting good reviews and it's a consistent flow of income or a consistent flow of sales. Then you can go to a website like AliBaba, you can look up for a manufacturer and you can have them make that same product with your own specs. So you can have them change a few different things, you can make the wigs a little bit longer, make them a little bit shorter, make a few different variations and you're even able to customize your packaging. If you work with a manufacturer, you can essentially start your own brand. Now, if you do wanna check out AliBaba and you're not ready to purchase in bulk just yet, you can still find some dropshipping-friendly suppliers by simply clicking on Ready to Ship. Once you click on here, you're gonna see different products with different minimum order amounts. Some are gonna be three, some are gonna be four, some are gonna be 20, but a lot of them are only gonna require one. Up next on number six, we have Banggood. Now, one very unique thing about Banggood is the fact that they are their own suppliers. So everything that you purchase from Banggood is gonna be shipped from a Banggood warehouse. They don't have different sellers around the world shipping out different items or different manufacturers. They have different warehouses located in different parts of the world that are all owned and operated by Banggood themselves. So you can rest assured that the quality you get in one country is gonna be the same that you get in another. Aside from that, on Banggood, you have a huge product catalog and whenever you sign on, you're always gonna be prompted for some sort of discount. They're always running some sort of promotion. There's always a coupon.  Remember, like I always say, a dollar saved is a dollar earned. Up next, we have CJ dropshipping with a huge product library. They also have this really cool feature called product sourcing. Product sourcing is whenever you don't have a particular item that you can source from CJ dropshipping, let's say you found it on AliExpress, you can go ahead and reach out to them over at CJ dropshipping and let them know that you wanna source that particular product from the CJ dropshipping platform. Just like that. In which case, they'll go ahead and do what they gotta do and they'll add that product for you. So you can start sourcing it from CJ dropshipping. Now, for some of the highest quality items and for some of the items that you can potentially sell at some pretty good markup prices, you have to be sure to check out Etsy. On Etsy, you're gonna find tons of handmade and handcrafted items. Handmade and handcrafted items, people are willing to pay a lot more for. Now, I know when it comes to wigs, that's a little bit of a gray area. Some of these aren't necessarily handcrafted, but a lot of them are gonna be a lot higher quality than you're gonna find in some other suppliers. In particular, because a lot of the people that are selling on Etsy are small businesses. So it's either gonna be one person or a small team of people fulfilling orders. And in which case, since there's gonna be a lot more personalized attention to the orders, you have a lot better quality assurance than you would in, again, a lot of these bigger companies. Etsy is also gonna offer you some of the quicker shipping along with some of the better customer service. You're gonna have a lot more personalized attention on Etsy. All right, so now we're gonna start with some of the suppliers that are specific for wigs or extensions. So check this out. Right now we have private label extensions. Here you can find a little bit of everything. So you can find weaves, lashes, cosmetics, clippings, tapings, and more. So what this means is you're gonna have a much wider variety of items to be able to offer your customers. Not just a wider variety of items, but a wider variety of items that all complement each other. All of these products typically are purchased in conjunction with a lot of these other products. So check this out. A lot of times somebody's gonna buy a wig and they'll buy some eyelashes to go along with it. Not only that, but they can easily purchase some cosmetics. In which case, you're gonna have a supplier that you can go to and purchase everything from all at once. So that way, you don't have to source your products from different suppliers and just have a bunch of different boxes go to your customers at different points and times. Private label extensions also offers, as their name states, private labeling. And they also have a variety of resources so you can start to learn more about their products. Pretty Hair Drop Ship is up next. And for this company, in order to take full advantage of their drop shipping program, you are gonna have to sign up to become a member. There are, however, a lot of different perks to becoming a member. For one, you get wholesale prices. So you're gonna have some of the best pricing for these types of products. Two, they help you create your own website. So that way you don't have to stress so much about creating a website that's centered around wigs or extensions or just hair in general. And they also offer private labeling services. So you can brand these products as your own and start to create some brand identity. Ever Beauty Store is up next. And they have quite the lineup of different products and accessories. They also have some of the faster shipping and some really good customer service. We also have Virgin City Hair, which has a very easy to navigate website. And they have quite a few different variety of products. Not only that, but if you look under Shop Hair, you also have a drop shipping program for hair extensions. Not to be able to gain access to their drop shipping program, you are also gonna have to purchase a membership from them. So if you want a bit more information on that, just check out the website or just send them a message. Hair Couture is next with wholesale pricing on a wide variety of products, not just wigs. So they have wholesale pricing on extensions, clip-ons, top pieces, which would be pretty much just a whole piece of hair, wigs, ponytails, and a bit more items. Aside from that, to help you out, they also have a color chart. This is one thing that I haven't seen in some of these other suppliers, which can really help you and your customers in choosing the right shades of wigs. GL Hair is next, and they actually have a pretty unique service that I haven't seen any of these other suppliers offer. So they have a color match service for your hair. So let's say you're using GL Hair as one of your suppliers for your wigs. If your customer has a question about which color is best to match, then you don't have to guess it for yourself. You can actually have an expert do this for you. So all you have to do is request a picture from them, request a couple of pictures, maybe two or three from a few different angles, and then send it in to GL Hair themselves. Then from there, they'll go ahead and match that with the perfect color with their extensions. That in itself can be a perfect selling point, something that not everyone else offers. Aside from that, they also have a trade application so you can become a partner of GL Hair themselves. And last but not least, we have Euphoria One. Now Euphoria One has a bit different type of hair or wigs than some of these other suppliers. So what they're doing is they're actually specializing in different types of, I guess you can call them exotic hairs. So you have Indian 4A hair, Brazilian hair, Russian hair, and ultra thick Russian hair, along with Slavic Russian hair. Now this is very specific, so this is something that can really help them stand out or help you stand out from the rest of the crowd that are also dropshipping different types of wigs. Now those are some of the best suppliers that you can source your products from. If you want a bit more information on them or just dropshipping wigs in general, just remember to check out the description below. The link to a relevant article is there. Now with these, we're gonna go through them a little bit quick because there's really not too much to say about them. They're all pretty self-explanatory. So the first one that we're gonna cover are long blonde wigs. These are one of the most common types of wigs that are sold and one of the ones that are most high in demand. In particular, layered wigs. So that means they have different layers of hair. In particular, layered style wigs. Number two is clip-on bangs. I know a lot of women that love having bangs but they don't wanna dedicate actually having the bangs themselves. So sometimes they want them, sometimes they don't. In which case, clip-ons are the perfect accessories. Short bob hair wigs are also a huge must for your drop-shipping store. These are the ones that are primarily used during the Halloween season. These come in a ton of different colors and styles. I've always had a problem pronouncing this word but balayage, I believe it's pronounced. But balayage hair extensions are up next at number four. Then at number five, we have straight-laced front wigs. In particular, made with human hair. People are always gonna pay more for human hair. If your supplier offers real human hair wigs, make sure you jump on those. Do not sleep on those types of wigs because those are the ones that sell at the higher prices. Now, going away from wigs for a quick second, you can also offer eyelash extensions. Now, eyelash extensions are gonna come in a ton of different variations, different quantities, different styles, different materials. Some are gonna be made from real human hair, some are not. And just like wigs, this can totally affect the quality and the price. So if you can offer as much as possible, then go ahead and do so so you can reach a wider demographic of people. Of course, we can't forget kids and kids always like to have fun with their hair. Sometimes they wanna do some crazy colors in their hair, but parents don't wanna actually paint their kid's hair that color. In which case, parents opt in for some colorful hair extensions. Curly brown glueless wigs are up next. And what these are are simply just curly haired wigs that can be put on without any glue.  Again, straying away from some wigs, you can also offer a wig accessory kit. Something to be able to take care of your wigs, to be able to keep them clean and in good standing condition. Another really popular item that's actually pretty unique is a dreadlock extension for both men and women. Ponytail extensions are also another huge seller. Again, in particular made with real human hair and wavy heat resistant synthetic wigs. So what these are are just naturally wavy wigs that are not gonna lose their shape. Sometimes they can, they'll start to straighten out a little bit, but in which case they can be heat pressed again or heat rolled and they won't break or lose any quality because they're heat resistant. Hair extensions with a transparent wire are also another huge seller. So what these are are just simply pieces or patches of hair. They're all gonna vary in length, quality style, you know, all that stuff. But in essence, what they really are are just little patches of hair that are clipped onto somebody's existing hair. Now what the transparent wire does is it simply makes it invisible or harder to see. These are temporary, you're able to take them off, put them back on and a lot of people actually use them on a day to day basis. Sometimes when they go to work, when they go out, whatever the case may be. I like your wig. Now it's not just kids that also wanna have some colorful hair sometimes. It's also adults. Some people love to have colorful hair. They like to have unique hair or they simply like to have some different hair also for Halloween. In which case, long rainbow hair wigs are another must have for your drop shipping store. And last but not least, you have wig caps. Again, this is not necessarily an actual wig but more a wig accessory. What this will do is tuck in any existing hair so that way nothing sticks out or stands out whenever your customer is wearing their wig. This is actually the perfect add-on to any product that you're selling on this list. And those are the top wig suppliers and wig products that you can be selling in your drop shipping store for pretty hefty profits. Huge thank you for watching, especially if you made it all the way to the end. Remember, if you want more information on drop shipping wigs or drop shipping wig suppliers, make sure to check out the description down below. There's gonna be a link to a relevant article down there. Again, huge thank you to everyone for watching, especially if you made it all the way through. If you did, that means you enjoyed this video and you enjoyed watching me just ramble on different types of hairstyles. But if that is the case, make sure you smash that like button, hit the subscribe button, ring that little bell notification. And with that, my name is Mario with AutoDS and I'll catch y'all next time.


That's lovely, well done. It's a brother Ray and some old Christmas song. We had 60-25,000 for your WhatsApp and your text and as I say, if you're watching us we're streaming live on our social media pages and we're delighted to say that we can now announce, Jimmy, can't we, that Monday the 19th of December we will be having our live, is our first Christmas show to do outside, isn't it? First, yeah, first one to do. So we're doing, our show is coming from Blake's Bar, our sponsors here on the programme and it's in the main street in Lerner County, Brinnett venue. Kevin has a great spot down there and we're looking forward to Monday the 19th and you are welcoming, you're coming and joining us for the crack. The line-up, Jimmy, we have put together is... I suppose we've got a lot of people over here messaging us to Paul around coming on so we've done these here in the studio, so we're turning people, new people, a chance as well so we could fill the place 10 times over musicians. Oh, is that a doubt? Do you want me to go through some of the names? No, I please, yes. We have Avril McNamee on keyboard, beautiful keyboard player so she'll be doing a few tracks and keyboard. Avril was up with us a few months back, absolutely amazing. Amy O'Connor who's from initial one, young, open coming musician. She was amazing that night. Amy was up with us not so long ago and we said, no, would you please come up and do your Christmas show. So we have, we've avril, we've, I was going to say Kevin Blake, but Kevin is... No, Kevin's not. Is he Molly Singh, does he? You can ask him. We have the brilliant Mark Doherty from Carandona and Mark is just amazing. Great years being from Mark, isn't it? Absolutely brilliant. We have Mark McLean and the Redneck Hillbillies. Ho, ho, ho. So that'll be... What a crag of non-ells. With Neil Kemi who's folk about from initial one again. So initial one's getting a good air in this time. Absolutely. And we have the one and only Paul Tully who's back on the music scene. Yes, Paul is Paul Tully. I'm delighted that Paul Tully's joining us because that was a big one getting Paul. Because he's... Lot of money. He's moving the gas, you know, he makes a turn around. We have the amazing Tanya McCool. Yes. And we also have a beautiful, great track group who play every Monday night in Blakes. James Gallar and his two sons that are going to play a couple of tracks for Christmas. So it's kicking off at seven o'clock, Paul. Yes. Did you tell Brunham? There's no GA program between you. Somebody tell him, please. If he's listening now, he knows, though.  No, I'll tell you what, Brunham. You can come down on the rails for the crack, down on the Blakes. But it's an open door, everyone's welcome. I'd love to see everybody there. We'll be there five earlier on Kevin Fury, Joe Duffy will be supporting us, helping us, technical guys. We'll have a big team here in the background. I don't know, no expense for her. This morning is the week of Christmas, great night to come into the bar and we'll be there for three hours. Well, we'll be broadcasting for three hours. We'll probably be there a bit longer after the show's finished. Lot of people are asking, is there tickets and all this kind of crack? It's not, but what advice is to come early? No, no, no. Come down to the crack. Come on, I'm sure. If you're popping by doing a bit of shopping or if you're thinking to come and do it, come on on down and pop in. And we have loads of merch. We have got Monday Night Sessions merch. We have t-shirts, we have t-shirts and we have loads of t-shirts that we just couldn't give away. And spence? Oh, we'll have spence. Oh, we'll have pence too. You're sponsored by somebody. Oh, we'll have pence, Monday Night Sessions pence. For them, I'd like to write. We've got them and it's going around amazing. I'm genuinely looking forward to it. Well, just looking at your friends in Kilmercran and they're listening to Paul McDevitt. Oh, that's Eileen and Ryan. No, Eileen, yeah. Ah, of course, Eileen. God, I was talking about you. I see. Come with you Sunday again. And she said keep them coming. Paul, she said you're some kid. Eileen, did you see my video up? Did you see me cooking already? She did. She was asked me on Sunday would you play Bruce Springsteen? The new album, but I said you don't like the new album. No, I heard you seeing that on the radio. I hope Springsteen didn't hear it. But Eileen, I will play it. It doesn't matter if I hit it or not. I don't hit it. No, you don't hit it. No, I don't hit it. I lost Springsteen. Well, of course I will. I'll write it down the back of my hand. As long as I don't lost my hand. But Eileen, I'll do that for you. I promise you. And thanks very much. As always, I secretly have people's support. Did you hear that album of Springsteen? I like it. Did you hear it? Yeah, and it was funny. I heard you saying that. I'd better not say it. It looks a little bit mad. Do you know what I'm thinking? Maybe I'm wrong. I think it's a sloppy album of covers. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Maybe I'm wrong. You know what I mean? But I'm a huge fan of Springsteen. She said she saw your cookery video. It's amazing. Did Eileen see it? We're going to do a Monday night cookery session in the show as well. If you're talking to me, I'm too live in the TV thing. Eileen Murphy doesn't know we're taking an hour of his content. The cookery section. Bacon with Paul and Jimmy on a Monday night. And you just see it. No, I was doing. People didn't think I cooked that, you know. But I did do it. I know you did. My Mrs sitting in there trying to do it as if she's in charge. But we had a lovely steak bar. People were listening and they were going, What's going on? What do you see? We have a minute to the news and we can't go for an hour break. We can't play music. We can do some summarise that now because Monday 19th December. Monday 19th December, put it in your diary and come on down. Eileen, come you down too. She's on the upper road and kill McCrannell. She's at home as a footballer all the way to McCrannell. Is there no? She's half tank. She's never been walking down the road on her own. But Eileen, I promise you now, I will write down here, Bruce Springsteen for Eileen this Sunday or this Saturday. I sent you a text, didn't I? Did you send me a text? The name of the song. What's the name of the song, Eileen? You might text us and we'll diariot here in the Valls system here in Highland. My system. What song was it again, Paul? Is it One of the Strong Survive? Leaving Stravan now when I was a text. You sent me last. Is that the one essential? Oh, I have to say, thank you very much indeed. Marty Frill, it was Marty's 50th last night and we're all down in Arena 7. Me, Jimmy and Father partied on and you have to guess who was carried out. Anyway, news at 9 o'clock. We'll talk to you another Saturday. Don't do it.


The rules around personal branding have changed. 2020 introduced new ways of selling to clients and communicating to our communities. And our brands have had to pivot as a result. Everything that happened in 2020 has affected our personal brands from Zoom meetings, to Clubhouse, to Black Lives Matter and Cancel Culture. Yes, we're going to talk about these things today. So stick around to see what has changed for personal branding in 2021. I'm Itzlianne and just when I thought I had to handle on my own personal brand, 2020 came along and threw a big old wrench into everything. It completely changed the way I perceive myself, the way I manage crisis and challenges and the way that I nurture my community. There's a lot to unpack about what happened in 2020 and how that's affecting our personal brands in 2021. And we're going to try and tackle that today. But before we dive in, don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel and click on that little bell to be notified of new content. I post videos about personal branding each week and I don't want you to miss out on a thing. And stick around to the end of the video. I'm sharing one bonus tip about something you can do with your brand in 2021. And my friends, it's a gooder. So here are some considerations for building a strong personal brand in 2021. Number one, the belief that you actually have a brand. One of the fundamental principles of personal branding is believing that you have a unique and distinct personal brand separate from your colleagues and organization. You have an offering for your clients that only you can deliver in the way that you can and that should be celebrated. Before you do anything else, trust that you have an incredible gift to be shared with your community. I did a video about the importance of personal branding not too long ago. You can check out that video right here. Consideration number two, get to know yourself. If 2020 brought us anything, it was time for some deep reflection on who it is that we are and our belief systems. Those reduced distractions created white space for all of us to consider who we want to be and what we want to project through our brands. In fact, I did another video about the eight areas of your personality that you can dive into to find things to amplify about your brand and you can find that video again right here. Tip number three, be consistent with your time and talent. Again, if 2020 brought us anything, it was the way that we build community differently and in most cases, that meant online community. So showing up regularly for your community online when they can't meet in person is going to be critical for growing your brand in 2021. Being available at the same time in the same place starts to create trust with your community and they're looking for that consistency in their lives as everything else may be spiraling out of control or in chaos. Consideration number four, and this comes as no surprise, master the virtual. A number of our industries have had to move online and away from those in-person formats. So learn to master the technology that you have at hand to connect and engage with your community. Consideration number five, master the social. Again, with the absence of in-person meetings, we need to meet in other ways and social media is a great place to bring together people. LinkedIn is probably the most prominent social media platform if you're in a B2B environment but if your audience is hanging out on other platforms, learn to master that platform as well and show up for your people. Consideration number six, show empathy. 2020 brought out a number of different emotions and affiliations in our beliefs. Being kind and being respectful of one's opinions on really any number of topics will help you create stronger relationships throughout the year. Respecting that each of us has a unique journey as we go through seasons of abundance and seasons of scarcity, that will become your competitive advantage. Consideration number seven, keep your brand respectful. In the same vein as showing empathy for varying opinions of your potential clients, show compassion by keeping your brand respectful of all individuals from all walks of life. If you have personal beliefs that can be seen as hurtful or controversial, consider the potential consequences of being open about those beliefs when you're building client relationships. Choose to amplify the aspects of your brand that are compassionate, empathetic, and of service to your community. And here is the one bonus consideration as you build your brand in 2021, and that is to be inclusive. Inclusive of race, inclusive of color, inclusive of gender identity and sexual orientation, 2020 shed so much needed light on many of the ways that our brands can impact individuals from all walks of life. So coupled with empathy and respect, create a brand that you can be proud of, one that is full of compassion and full of love. If you plan to play a bigger game with your personal brand in 2021, I would love to hear from you. Please jump in the comments, let me know what consideration that you would like to focus on as you head into this new year. To learn more about personal branding, please check out my personal branding playlist here. And please stay in touch as you travel along your personal brand journey here in 2021. I'd love to hear how it's going and I wish you all the best as you develop a strong and compelling personal brand. Bye for now.