Okay. Now, without further ado, let's begin. Okay. Let's begin today's session, right? So anyway, anyway, right, before we begin, I always need to share with you guys a disclaimer that, you know, this webinar, this webinar is purely educational nature, right? So nothing, nothing covered in this webinar should be construed as investment advice and trading advice.   All right, guys, now, if you're, for those of you who are just tuning in, I encourage you to send your messages throughout the webinar. I literally have another screen that is open here. Monitoring your questions that are coming through. Right. So yeah, just take a chance to send it through. Otherwise, you know, I'm afraid that we might not have time to to touch on these questions towards the end of the webinar. Right. So yeah, just don't worry. Okay, just send your just send your questions through. All right. Now, guys, first and foremost, right, introducing your host for today. My name is Desmond Leung, you guys might have seen me around. I might see me around, you know, I write a lot of the research and analysis for TickMeal, you know, on the TickMeal blog, right? Some things, I guess, worth, where's my handy dandy pen? Yeah. Yes. Some things are just a really short introduction of me, right? I run the award winning research firm, Avers Fortune Group, and also the Forex Army, right? So we are finalists for 2019, 2020, and 2021 for best effects and equity research. So, you know, our team, we have a pretty strong team of CFA, CMT and CFTE accredited traders, right? And usually we, you know, we regularly advise banks, brokers and hedge funds. We have a special partnership with TickMeal where we try to bring you the institutional grade research, the institutional grade education, you know, to help you navigate the markets better. Right. So yeah, you know, I do some crazy indicators and EAs over at the Forex Army. And if you want to follow me on Instagram, you know, can check out comfy Desmond. So nothing interesting there, right? It's mainly me and my cat and me playing FIFA, right?  It's a very chill place, right? So yeah, you know, for those of you guys who want to check it out. Anyway, right, without further ado, let me tell you, let me share with you what's the agenda for today, right? So our agenda for today is, you know, we're going to cover, firstly, what is cryptocurrency, right? I can see Aruna already sending in a question, right? Whether Bitcoin currently has a bounce trap, and whether we think 40K, you know, is a bear trap. We'll take a look at that. Hopefully we can maybe throw out the webinar or towards the end of the webinar where I've got my charts prepared to share to share if you actually, how do you trade Bitcoin and what affects the price of Bitcoin? Right. So, so hopefully you get time to look at that. Right. For those of you guys who have been following the Tick Neal blog, right, we did call the bounce right above the 30K level. So if you got in on that, it's awesome, right? If not, there are plenty of opportunities, right? Plenty of opportunities, right? But in today's webinar, what we're going to cover is, you know, what exactly is cryptocurrency? What exactly is Bitcoin, right? We touched a little bit on Bitcoin mining, right? Because it traditionally is a pretty popular question, right? It's what is Bitcoin mining? What is the halving, you know, when the rewards get cut by half, right? What is it? Is it profitable? You know, we as traders, you know, always looking for ways to make money when it comes to trading, right? So, you know, is Bitcoin mining profitable, right? And of course, we look at some ways we can trade Bitcoin, right? Everyone knows we can trade Bitcoin on the crypto exchanges, but we will take a look at trading Bitcoin on Tick Neal later, okay? But anyway, I just want to share with you really quickly on what is cryptocurrency.   And they're like, okay, it's cryptography, you know, it's decentralized blockchain, right? And you're like, what in the world? They are just read, right? So today, I just take a little bit of time to explain to you. Yeah, take a little bit of time to explain to you on what cryptocurrency is. We got a question coming in from Janu saying that, you know, topics cryptocurrency agenda seems to be focused quite a bit on Bitcoin, right? So he's asking, you know, are you saying it's the same rules, features and risks that are related to other cryptocurrencies, right? So as you can see over here, you know, what is cryptocurrency? We don't just zoom in on the Bitcoin, right? We don't just zoom in on Bitcoin, we have Ethereum, we got Litecoin, we got Dodge, I'll get it, not Dodge, right?  But essentially, it is Bitcoin is just one of the cryptocurrencies, it is the most popular cryptocurrency, right? But that is not to say that there are not other cryptocurrencies around, right? So a lot of what applies to Bitcoin, understanding how Bitcoin comes about, the logic behind it, the way it is mined, it is equally applicable, you know, to Litecoin is equally applicable to Ethereum and Dash, right? So yeah, you know, I'm just making reference to Bitcoin as, you know, as more or less the leader, there are a lot of different altcoins out there, and there are some really, really exotic ways to treat them. I mean, if you dive deep enough, you know, you see there are a lot of pump and dump kind of schemes out there, you know, a lot of fake celebrity endorsements that try to push out the popularity and price of different altcoins, right? And in some way, I'm not sure if you guys have actually seen penny stocks before, you know, one of the penny stocks were very notorious in the past for, excuse me, yeah, penny stocks were very notorious in the past for stuff like pump and dump, right? So in some sense, all the many, many altcoins out there, you know, all the different ICOs, it being so easy to create like, like different kind of cryptocurrencies has made it actually very, very dangerous. Well, this pump and dump scheme is super, now super prevalent, seen everywhere. And the worst thing is that because of, you know, how, you know, the, the, there isn't really that strong a regulation in monitoring this kind of cryptocurrencies, especially a smaller altcoins, people can easily get away with it, right? But, and that is why in this case, today we're actually focusing on the slightly larger cap on cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash, in some sense even Dodge, right? And, and yeah, so we are looking at the functionality, how it's created, right? And what kind of gives it value, right? Because a lot of people out there, you know, when it comes to trading crypto, you know, we kind of just treat it as like any other commodity, any other instrument to be traded, right? So today's session, you know, hopefully in further sessions, right, we'll look at really not only the appreciation of crypto, but what drives its value, you know, from a fundamental perspective, what drives its value from a technical perspective and how we can kind of play the fluctuations, you know, how we can play the big moves, you know, how we can, you know, stay out of getting caught on the wrong side of Elon Musk, you know, kind of announcements, right? So it's exciting space, right? It's growing in huge popularity, and hence, you know, today's webinar, right? So first and foremost, you know, cryptocurrencies, yeah, and anyway, thanks for the question, Janus. Janus, right? So first and foremost, you know, the big question, right? You know, what is cryptocurrency? You know, first thing that I want to focus on it is that it's kind of, it's like digital or virtual currencies that is secured by cryptography, right? Cryptography. So the important thing is that cryptography, you know, it makes it hard to be counterfeited, right?  Essentially, in a nutshell, cryptography, right? You know, it's a matter of kind of protecting your information and communication through the use of code, right? So it makes it very, very hard for people to reverse engineer and kind of break it. So it's like a super duper secure system, right? So a large part of cryptocurrency is based on cryptography. So it makes it very hard, you know, to be counterfeited, very hard to, this very, very important term, like, you know, being able to double spend, right? And important thing that we want to take note of is that it's also decentralized network.  So the key question that comes in is wait, what is blockchain, right? Can you explain blockchain to me in a very, very simple form? You know, can you explain blockchain to me that, you know, I don't get lost within the first five words, right? All you need to know about blockchain is that, you know, it's a specific type of database, you know, it's just like putting multiple, where's my mouse, right? Multiple blocks together, right? That's why, you know, actually, for those of you guys who read the white paper, read the white paper on Bitcoin, right? There was actually no mention of blockchain. There was no mention of blockchain. Instead, the closest it actually went to was what we call a chain of blocks, right? So that was the closest to actually the mention of blockchain, right? But it's basically, you know, is most, most of the time, it's kind of used for leisure of, you know, of transactions, right? The important thing, right? The important reason why we're using blockchain is that, you know, we don't want a single person or group, you know, to have control over it. What does this mean? Okay. Who remembers, you know, what the Britannica was? Who, actually, who actually owned one of these encyclopedias, right? I'm curious, right? We didn't have audience over here. Who, and this gives me the idea of like, you know, which generations we come from, who actually owned, you know, one of these encyclopedias before? You know, who owned it, who didn't own it? Maybe you can, if you can share with me, right? You know, kind of give me an idea on, am I the only guy over here who actually owned an encyclopedia? Janus, yeah, he has one. Roshan is, yeah, Roshan, I can see you raising your hand. Don't worry.  Okay, no worries. I can see the people who raised their hands over here, right? Okay. Yeah. Okay. A couple of you guys do own an encyclopedia. So Britannica, right? Britannica, at one point in time, they employed over 100 writers, right? 100 writers, obviously, 1000 writers. And all they did was they tried to consolidate the world's information, right? And you can see how that is very dangerous.  So it is very easy to be manipulated.  So the problem with that, right, and that is just one topic.  If it's all controlled by a single company like Britannica, it's very dangerous because it's, you know, can be easily manipulated, right?  And that's why Wikipedia is an example of what we call decentralized exchange, decentralized database, right, where there are multiple people adding in their inputs into Wikipedia, right? This is not the best, okay, this is actually a pretty good example of what we call by a centralized and decentralized, right, centralized, the dangers of, you know, something decentralized is that everyone can control it. No, no, it's like there's a single person, a single company can control it.  Right, so that's the danger of it, and we'll be touching a little bit on that later but importantly, the one thing that I want to kind of share with you is that, you know, cryptocurrencies focus on like a decentralized exchange where, you know, there are multiple people, like everyone controls it, like Wikipedia is controlled by the people, right, Wikipedia is controlled by the people and versus Britannica which is just controlled by a single company, right, so you know, it's very importantly it's not controlled by central authority, so you know, it is theoretically, theoretically immune to the government interference, really seriously to improve my drawing, right, it's theoretically immune to the government's interference and it's immune to its manipulation, so you know, when I say manipulation, you know, I don't mean it in just a good or bad way, you know, manipulation, like, you know, you've seen how China can have a floating exchange rate, you know, they can pack their currencies, they can print more, you know, so that, you know, their exports are cheaper, you know, so those are kind of like currency manipulation on a small, large or legal scale, right, but cryptocurrency, you can do that, debatable in some sense, right, it might not be immune to government interference but you know, it might be immune to, might not be fully immune to crazy, to guys like Elon Musk, you know, and, you know, giving the ways almost being like manipulated to a certain degree, right, but as it further develops, you know, it will build up that kind of immunity, right, but this is also one of the things that actually affects the price of Bitcoin which is in the same way affects the price of, you know, fiat coins, fiat currencies, like the euro, the dollar, the Australian dollar, right, any news that comes on it, you know, can affect the price, right, but at least it's immune to like interference and manipulation. Okay. Now, we do want to touch on one important thing, which is like what exactly is Bitcoin, right, everyone knows Bitcoin. Okay, you know, it's like a digital currency, virtual currency. A little bit, that, you know, on the surface that might seem what it is, but what if I, what if I just kind of take it one level deeper and try to let you know the mean, you know, what exactly is Bitcoin to me, Bitcoin is actually, you know, it kind of changes the trust model.  The important thing about gold bars, right, back then is that, you know, gold bars and one of the reasons why it's still so popular today is that it has a limited value. There's only that number of that, that limited number of gold bars that can be mined in this entire world. And that is why, and there's one important distinction, it has limited value.   Right, go to barber, and, you know, maybe I give you a gold coin and stuff like that.  And how many grams of gold I like my haircut.   So the, if you think about like the real definition of fiat, if I'm not wrong, the Latin meaning behind it is that, you know, there is, is basically what's the word for is that value is given to it. Right, meaning, right, in this case, right, the central bank, the government decides that, you know, okay, this is $100. So, so you can actually take your goal and you can go into the bank and you say that, okay, instead of carrying around little go bars and like shopping, but chopping them up, a little bit hard to chop, but you know, chopping them up so that I can buy stuff right now I can just weigh the goal, right, and I can just go and exchange it for maybe a hundred bucks, $100. Right, I do my shopping, once I got $100 can go back and you know, I can exchange it for a goal. All right, so at the core of it, you know, it's all a issue of trust, you know, we started off at goal and then we start, we go to fiat currencies. Right, and, and you know, this day and age, you know, fiat currencies, you know, it's owned by anyone. Right, but you must think about it, think about it very, very carefully. There's a small distinction here. Previously, we were trusting something. Go. Now we are trusting someone, you know, not not exactly this guy, but you get what I mean the central bank, the government. Right, previously is gold, you know, just mine, you know that there's only that fixed number of gold in the world, which you can mine up, right, but now you're trusting this guy.  Right, and what is the downside of, you know, fiat currency? What is the downside of fiat currency? And if you zoom into it, right, there's one big problem. I run into two big problems. Firstly, it is centralized and who remembers our early example, which I was sharing with you guys on, on, on this, right, on the Britannica. Centralize. When something is centralized, when something is controlled by like a central authority, which is what the Britannica wanted to do in the past, you know, be the central authority to decide information. Right, there is dangerous to manipulation. There is dangerous to misrepresentation. There is dangerous to a lot of stuff. Right, they might just say who is Google right in today's 100 print of the Britannica encyclopedia. We decided to remove Google. Right, it's a fraud, you know, because Microsoft Bing decided to pay us enough money to remove Google. Right, so, you know, it's very dangerous in that sense where, you know, as if it's a central authority. Right. Okay, I got something coming in from Janu saying that I think everyone should be able to see to, you know, regarding the government right manipulations. What's happening this year with Bitcoin prices. And also other cryptocurrencies is result of decisions of China government they put serious restrictions on Bitcoin mining and trading in China, which seriously impact the crypto market and that is one thing which we will touch on towards the end of the webinar on what affects the prices of cryptocurrency. Right, so yeah, there are. There are ways that and this is not just recently guys, if you remember a lot of different. A lot of different. There are a lot of different news that has affected the prices of cryptocurrency on a government level on a company level PayPal deciding to accept crypto boom. Some banks decided to add allow crypto boom. You know, don't worry, don't worry. Right, I actually encourage this kind of questions along the way is great to see questions come true, you know, it facilitates discussions and you know that's what we want to do in this webinar. Right, so, so, so yeah, you know your point on this kind of manipulation. This is not like so called direct manipulation. Right, if you think about it is not really direct manipulation it is. There are. It's, you know, it's not like they're going in there they're deploying their supercomputers and trying to take over Bitcoin right but they're having things that make Bitcoin harder like and this is not only for China. Right, previously, you know, there are some countries like maybe Finland right there whether they welcome people to mine or you know they say hey, get off a country right. You know, you know your your mining is too expensive is not non sustainable all these kind of things you know it kind of affects the price of Bitcoin buys it isn't exactly if you think about it. When I think talking about manipulation. Right, let's just say what can a central bank do right a central bank can print money right can China can can China can the US can anyone print bitcoins. If you think about it know right can Google right can Google print bitcoins right so the interesting thing is like people are asking what if the big boys Google what the big boys and Google decide to mine cryptocurrency. Right, if you think about it guys. The when it comes to world of crypto. Right, the Bitcoin, the crypto mining network or Bitcoin mining network computing network is about 10,000 times a bigger than all of Google's you know computing network combined. So it's not much if you think about it. Right, and so you kind of don't need to worry that you know, governments are able to like print, you know, print currencies and I'm going to talk about stuff like inflation deflation slightly later. Right, but yeah it's you know, we're not deviating too much you know the central authority if you think about it over here. You know, fiat currencies has a central authority and the problem with that in a little printing machine that can print money. Right, oh, you know there is if you've seen it in the US right it's like how much how much money does the US own you know someone anyone take guesses. This freaking is so much right and every time they're in trouble right Oh, COVID has hit us what shall we do we are going to print more money. Right, a stimulus package print more money is more stimulus package print more money. Right and the more money you put into the system. Right the more money put in system what happens to the money you're holding. Right the money you're holding, you know, is worth less is the basic law of supply and demand. Imagine you're holding a you're holding an iPhone right iPhones are able to know able to hold is very very well. What if one day you know Apple just decides you know we're going to just because you want everyone to have an iPhone we're going to just give out free iPhones. Right, the price of iPhone would plummet right that's extreme kind of case but if you look at it look at look at fiat currencies that I know it happens so much right in fact it's the building blocks of what of what we use to even buy iPhones and stuff right when you need stimulus packages you just print money right and that causes you know the prices of the prices of cryptocurrency not the prices of fiat to decrease. Right so there's a downside of fiat currencies and is one of the reasons why Bitcoin is so popular because it's decentralized and you know it's limited there's actually only 21 million bitcoins that are allowed to be what's the word for it allowed to be so called printed. Okay, now importantly, some people are going to say wait what I cannot print I mean mine right so you mean there's a limited amount of bitcoins that can be mine. Yes, right. Bitcoins you know I started you know in 2009 you know the first block of Bitcoin right the first block of Bitcoin.  And what happens next is that the next one right the 210,001 right will give you half the number of bitcoins so you notice is you know divided by two right is divided by two is divided by two roughly you know by 24,000 140 right by the year 21 40 you know we should be out of bitcoins to mine. Right so so that's the important thing to take note of because later I'll be showing you some of the meaning of Bitcoin mining difficulties and stuff like that. Right but yes you know there is a limited number of bitcoins that can be mine in the world. Okay, important distinction right and if you ever heard of this thing called the halving right if ever heard of this thing called the halving right this is exactly what it means right where your bitcoins get half. Right you know from the from one block before from 50 it goes to 25 from 25 it goes to 15 from 15 not from 12 12.5 goes to 6.25 so it gets half and half and half until that's zero. Right so that's what the halving means when you see this is why means that means one block actually gives you half the amount of bitcoins right half the reward. Right so you know people tend to ask you know what it you know what exactly is Bitcoin mining.  Right because important thing that you need to take note about Bitcoin anyone can participate. Literally anyone can participate right so you know it's like today I decided to be a Bitcoin miner I can start trading I can start mining Bitcoin right away I can I can mine with my computer sometimes you can mine with your headphone right but yeah you know you can start you know there's no restrictions behind who can mine. However, how it works is that you know you need to guess a random number. You know that solves the equation generated by you know by the system and this guessing is done by your computer is not but it's not done by you this guessing is done by your computer. Okay so so because of that the stronger your computer right the stronger your computer the more guesses per second and hence the higher chances of winning. And I'm not sure if many of you guys right have have ever tried to buy a computer recently or try to buy a graphics card recently.  So damn expensive because so many people out there are you know they are buying computers they're buying GPUs they're buying CPUs they're buying all these different kind of graphics card to mine. Cryptocurrency right and and when that happens it causes it to be more expensive right so why is it happening because people want stronger computers. People want stronger computers because you know it helps them make more guesses per second and it gives you a higher chance of winning. And at the core of it at the core of it cryptocurrency mining you know basically basically you know it's actually meant to maintain the ledger in a decentralized manner.  Now what you're going to you're going to fill up the ledger right so you actually get to fill up the ledger in the Bitcoin network. Right so that's essentially what it does you know so Bitcoin mining you know it's not just like mining and stuff like like gold mining right a lot of it is draws parallel to you know mining gold because of this reason but essentially what you're doing right essentially what you're doing is you're trying to maintain the ledger in a decentralized manner right so remember I talked to you about the decentralized where is it you know the the the the decentralized manner. I don't have a picture here now mine right I don't have picture here but yeah you know it's meant to maintain the legend a decentralized manner. Okay, so that's the very very important thing that you need to take take note of on when it comes to Bitcoin mining. So some people ask you know this Bitcoin mining should should I get into it right should I should I start mining Bitcoin right. Can I make money with mining Bitcoin should I stop trading should I start mining Bitcoin right so. The important thing about the creator of Bitcoin is that when he created Bitcoin he he had this equation that was put into place which is you know the the more difficult it is to mine Bitcoin right the more power it kind of requires so it is self adjusting. Yeah it is self adjusting right so the reason why Bitcoin mining so Bitcoin mining in the past was a lot easier than it is now. Right Bitcoin mining in the past is a lot easier than it is now it's you know whether the first guys were mining cryptocurrency right they can mine with maybe their their laptops they can mine with a very very simple system right just like oh you know. You're watching YouTube and on the site maybe can mine some cryptocurrencies is very is very easy. Right but the more difficult it becomes the more people who come in to compete right the more power it requires and we just take a look over here. This is the competition you're up against now right like like like this superpower Bitcoin mining farms right these are the people you're against now. Right so your your little you know Intel you know Pentium Pentium 5 i5 i7 i9 kind of CPU can you use it to mine yeah you can do you send a chance probably not right because these guys are getting so many more guesses in there's so much more. Yeah it's like the matrix man Aruna is like a freaking matrix right so and so many of these around so many Bitcoin mining farms right so you know it is then a low chance in the views are very like consumer grade kind of. Mining thing right to. To compete right so but I was asking is there any handout for this webinar. I don't think that's a handout but I think this will be recorded for the YouTube series right so hanging there you know we'll. There might be there might be I can't confirm it right but anyway moving on from there is self adjusting so the smart thing about this right the super duper smart thing right that the Takishi. I can't pronounce his name so sorry right if you guys anyone can can spell out. You know a supposed creator of Bitcoin. If you can spell his name for me to be great I can't fully remember his name but but yeah you know it's self adjusting right and it's meant to actually create. Yatchamoto is it Yatchamoto I don't think it's Yatchamoto right as Takishi something right. Right but essentially no kind of creates a steady flow of Bitcoin to the system. Meaning that we you know we can be like the central banks out there you know we can just go in and just print.  That's inflation. Right do too much of that that's inflation so this guy is really smart right he was like.  A logic or algorithm to it that you know it makes it tougher to mind the more people are in it the more people want this. currency I need to create like a self regulating kind of equation mechanism so that people are not just print the hell out of it.  You know to mine Bitcoin right so that's a very very smart thing you did so you notice that's an inbuilt mechanism to Bitcoin that actually fights inflation.  Decide to mine right last time you know as a single person mining to now when there it is like a crazy number of people who are mining right it's roughly still about 10 a new block every 10 minutes. Right that's an important thing to take note of right and because of this right there's a flight to strong mining equipment. Right there's a huge flight to strong mining equipment and that's why I showed the super computers out there you know we have the you know we have the CPUs right we have the GPUs right I think now we have the. Is I or something right but it's it that there was one more CPUs to GPUs and then there's there's one more and now it's like. It is rich a sweet spot where a lot of Bitcoin mining farm a lot of cryptocurrency mining farms use it. Okay crypto mining pools right I'll be sharing a little bit on that later right but but anyway right one of the big questions that you guys might have for me is so is crypto. You know it's Bitcoin mining going to be profitable right and that's one thing I want to share with you guys there are. Personally personally if you were to ask me I don't think it's profitable at this point of time right but if you want the long answer the more detailed answer to whether cryptocurrency Bitcoin mining is going to be profitable. These are the important things that you take note of right you need to know the hash rate right whether Brock reward last time your blog reward was 50 bitcoins per block. Now it is what it is 3.5 or no less than 3.5 right you know it gets half and you get half half half half right so the blog reward is less and actually I get half it gets even lesser right we need to see the mining difficulty because the more people. The more people who are in it the more mining power that is required the more mining power that is required what happens the electricity cost increases. Right electricity cost increases your power consumption increases and this is legit power consumption you know you can run Bitcoin by you know getting a couple of hamsters run on the wheel and generate kind of you know electricity and stuff you know you need legit amount of power to consume it right and that's why there is in many of the in many kind of crypto mining pools out there right people actually tap on to.  Right so that's the danger of it right because power consumption of electricity cost is a big thing so much that it's actually put into the equation of the cryptocurrency profitability calculator. Right when you want to see whether you can make money the pool fees you know we need to see whether Bitcoin price you know imagine Bitcoin jobs to $1 right or maybe $10 over the you know tomorrow with Bitcoin mining be profitable. Not so much because you know your Bitcoin will be worth so much less right and you know along the way in a difficulty kind of increases so these are important things to take note of when it comes to where the Bitcoin mining will be profitable right and of course this is one big thing right. If you ever want to go see whether Bitcoin mining is profitable go search for Bitcoin profitability Bitcoin calculator. I think it's a profitability calculator you can put in stuff like you know what's your hashing power what's your power consumption go to your landlord as you know what's my cost per kilowatt. Right and you ask whether there's any pool fees that you are you know maybe you're putting together multiple people right then you can see you know what is your cost per day you know power is a power cost per day like you obviously need to see what is the price of Bitcoin what is the price of Bitcoin. Right and then you can see whether you know is it profitable or not right and trust me it's not so simple for it to be you know so called this profitable. Okay so yeah I do notice that you know your cost per day can increase and decrease right depending on you know what's your cost per kilowatt what's your power consumption what's your hashing power right the many different things that comes into determining the cost of Bitcoin. Bitcoin now whether Bitcoin mining be profitable at this point there are a few things out there there are. There are Bitcoin mining farms which honestly unless you go to a really reputable ones there are actually a lot of Ponzi schemes out there so please be careful right it's like. What do you call it Bitcoin mining clouds mine clouds right. Run like the wind you know if you actually see any of these Bitcoin mining clouds because most of the time they are Ponzi schemes they are multi million dollars Ponzi schemes right so stay away from them they are reputable Bitcoin mining farms which can invest in right you can also pay over the top for you know graphics card to create your own little mining farm right those are the different things that you can do right but yeah you know important things to take note of when it comes to Bitcoin mining personally I think. At this point is not that profitable to mine Bitcoin because if you really really really kind of want to make money from Bitcoin there are different ways to do that you know you can actually invest in Bitcoin you can trade Bitcoin right. Aruna right Aruna is asking you know what about Nordic countries where they have natural resources to power Electric City now would it not be profitable around there I mean yes it would be profitable if you think about it Finland you know some of the big popular places where people are you know. mining Bitcoin is profitable but that does not mean that does not mean it is you know it is free money right I mean there's a lot of people fleeing there but there is still a cost to cost to their power generation right you know there is. There is firstly the opportunity cost of using a mega what is it is you imagine you got a super big you know. We not say windmill but I say a water mill like generating power right there's opportunity cost of what if we just use this little power to power the entire town you know entire town in state. Right you see I'm mining Bitcoin so there's an opportunity cost there of course Electric City will always have a cost that's attached to it right so yeah you know it might have. It is not necessary more profitable but you know it's not necessary definitely profitable but it is more profitable if you go to places where Electric City essentially is cheap wow. If I need you need to slow down just let me know okay guys but anyway let's let's take a look at what affects the price of Bitcoin right. You know when it comes to Bitcoin that's one thing that always affects the price of Bitcoin is bad news. Bad news affects Bitcoin because bad news affects adoption. You know adoption of Bitcoin mean that people are less optimistic about Bitcoin which is true. Most things in life most stocks most currencies as long as it's bad news you know it gets affected but because Bitcoin you know people on Bitcoin always on age right. There are a lot of people who are always worried that you know if there's bad news Bitcoin might not achieve its what's the word for achieve its potential right and then you know people don't want to adopt it and then the price drops. So you notice I'm not sure if you guys follow it but you know how Elon Musk one day he was like yeah yeah yeah you know Tesla is going to accept Bitcoin and boom right because it's good news right. And especially good news that is tied to adoption right good news that is tied to adoption people are like awesome Tesla is adopting Bitcoin that is great for us the biggest manufacturer of EVs right. Going to you know accept Bitcoin and hence you know the price increases a lot right but in a moment.  On the PayPal platform boom prices go up a bank says that's great you know boom prices go up because you know a lot of this link especially particularly to adoption right so the next thing of course is you know. There's always a passive value the passive value of Bitcoin always swings because of this because of uncertainty because of bad news because it's kind of trying to jostle its way you know into the into the world of like being treated as seriously as fiat currencies right many of them says oh you know we have a central bank you know we. If you know we have a central bank you know you can trust the government who is backing your currency right so you know. Bitcoin is kind of like the the a little bit of the outsider right you know because Josh is way and say hey can you guys please take me seriously right. So yeah you know it's true that I would say is that Elon Musk knew exactly what he was doing in Bitcoin right so so it's funny thing no one can do anything to him. That is the amazing thing right no one can do anything to him he's he's taking Bitcoin for right right and it can make so much money from it right but of course over time. Right as more and more people adopt it just not just maybe Elon Musk right but you know if many many you know it becomes as. So many major figures major countries start adopting Bitcoin right then Elon Musk news won't affect it that much they'll be like yeah you know sure you don't want to adopt it but you know Neo and all the hundred are the. A thousand other big players all adopted so it's fine right but for now because Elon Musk you know for better for worse he. You know he's you know he's who he is right so he can move the prices very well and you know he can't say that for Tesla. Right his compliance department will slap him and say hey you know you're inside a trading and stuff but for cryptocurrency he's free to do that so that's the danger of it. Okay and it is true yeah Elon Musk knew exactly what he was doing so so it's what the other things that affects the price of Bitcoin. If you think about it is technical analysis more than anything else right cryptocurrency Bitcoin as a very very you know a lot of people. A lot of people treat treat using technical analysis even more than personally I feel is even more than you know the many fiat currencies out there the USD the euro the pound Aussie right so many people use Bitcoin use technical analysis to trade Bitcoin. You go to any you know Binance you go to any of these crypto changes you load the first thing that they show you is not OK here is the news on Bitcoin in the latest monetary policy meeting you know nothing about that. Right the first thing they show you is a chart the first thing they show you are indicators the first thing I show you is you know all of that stuff. Right so so importantly right you'll notice that you know cryptocurrency know and Bitcoin particulars hugely affected by technical analysis and and one thing I do want to show you let me see if I have it over here right is Bitcoin. Right so if you're falling following our block right we did actually call the bounce very nicely right we call the bounce very nicely from here for Bitcoin to bounce up right. Most people if you zoom in too much if you zoom in the one hour chart right if you zoom in the one hour chart you might be thinking what what you know you know Bitcoin is dropping like a rock right Bitcoin is dropping like a rock you know do we think it's going to rise. We're not so sure but if you look on the one day chart or even where am I you look on the one day chart. Right you notice right that price and this is very very basic technical analysis right you notice that price actually bounce up once bounce up twice bounce up three times bounce up four times and it's over here and that is why a lot of people will bullish over here. There are a lot of people buying because price you know it's not just any other level this level you know has been around since since the start of the year actually and people have it has not been able to break past this level right and that's why it should bounce very nicely and why is it slowing down over here right it's because if you just draw a resistance area over here. You notice right this is what we call an overlap resistance I'm just going to remove my drawings a bit but this is what I call overlap resistance right meaning that price reacted off this level it bounce off this level in a reacted it reacted right so this is a big. A big area to kind of look at there's a lot of resistance over here and that is why you're not seeing crypto just take off as it is right so there are a lot of you know there's a lot of. Selling that is going on over there right so there's definitely one important thing to take note of right i'm not sure if you know it but. But bitcoin yeah just give me a second yeah bitcoin. Just let me so it's had a key level over here I know one of you guys or some of you guys actually asked me to do a little bit of analysis on it. Shucks where's my if you follow the way I do analysis quite nicely. Let me just do a quick analysis on it I do notice 38% Fibonacci retracement very important level take note off right you can see that a lot because so many people use technical analysis when it comes to trading bitcoin. You notice how price you know when price drop down to here it reacted very nicely off the 23% right and I expected to react equally nicely over the 38% because this 38% happens to line up very nicely. With this overlap resistance right where price bounce off many times in the past. Okay important thing to take note of okay we can add in a little bit more Fibonacci but you will go crazy if I do too much on that right in future webinars maybe will touch a little bit more on advanced ways of doing Fibonacci support and resistance correlation each Moku trend lines we can do all that later. Okay, but yeah first and foremost what affects the price of Bitcoin right and you notice if we draw a trend line over here right there's already approaching approaching price over here. I expect there to see a lot of selling over here because people are going to be freaking out people are going to be freaking out when price come here you know people who bought here they're very happy there they're probably going to cash out over here. Okay we will need to see whether this big level gets broken right in trading institutional trading. This is what we call upside confirmation. We need prices to close strongly above this level and strongly above this descending trend line to trigger a move upwards right move to where maybe first to the 50% retracement right and maybe to the 61% retracement right but we kind of need to wait price before any of that happens we need to see the battle that is going on over here. Right so even though you might be bullish on Bitcoin doesn't mean that you hold it forever right you can hold it you know if you got in at a low. If you follow our block and you got in at the low and then you made money over here right now it's a good time to maybe cash out a bit and see what happens at this key key area. If it really breaks the you know if it really breaks the descending resistance if it really breaks the overlap resistance right if it breaks this level over here then we have a high chance of price rising up. Okay more than anything I would say you know cryptocurrency follows you know the technical analysis a lot so so do your own technical analysis when it comes to trading cryptocurrency right and many of you guys might be asking so what exchange do I recommend. Actually right interestingly. Tick Meal right Tick Meal allows cryptocurrency cryptocurrency trading through CFD so if even if you load the Tick Meal mp4 which I'm going to show you over here right look the Tick Meal mp4. You need to yeah you need to do this thing right click and click show all right and you can see and you can see you scroll down all the way to the bottom. You will see Litecoin you see Ethereum you know you can see Bitcoin right so you can actually trade Bitcoin on your Tick Meal mp4 which is super useful because you don't need to worry about you know finding exchange opening a crypto wallet which might be hacked and stuff right you know and you can actually trade it on a higher leverage right so. Do consider you know trading Bitcoin especially on Tick Meal. Okay now in future sessions what we'll do is we can we can look and monitor the prices of not only Bitcoin but we can look at Ethereum we can look at Litecoin we can look at all the different kind of crypto currencies out there how to navigate them how to trade them. You know personally for me you know how I'm havy havy havy into technical analysis so I can share with you how we can you know apply technical analysis very very advanced technical analysis that allowed us to to make. You know to to make to call the bounce from here all the way up to here right and we also called the drop from here down to here right so if you've been following the Tick Meal block and okay I can see you know where is the Tick Meal block. Go to TickMeal.com head over to mark you know under client tools head over to market insights or you can click on technical analysis right so when you click on technical analysis you get to see all the range of. You know technical analysis I do you can see those that were created by me right um yeah so you know we post a hell lot of technical analysis here on crypto and stuff like that so go check it out okay.  Numbers right for people who are staying all the way throughout the webinar right I do want to ask for one favor right now before before I move any further and and that is right if you don't mind right. If you don't mind just launch a poll for you guys right could you just give me a quick poll and let me know how do you find today's webinar one is to five you know don't worry you can it's anonymous so you can vote one. You can vote five right don't worry if you vote one I won't come and hunt you down and stuff right but at least let me know let me know how you found the webinar. Right where they found this format useful give me feedback right if you're because you know if you guys like it you know we can continue doing more of these webinars over time. You know where there's a cryptocurrency trading series technical analysis series you know fundamentals technicals you know kind of look at the look at the whole world of trading together but first and foremost you know of course take me kind of wants to know whether. All you guys find the webinar right so yeah do me a favor give me an honest opinion and if you want to please. Leave your feedback you know in the in the chat section right you can say that yeah you know it sucks I was hoping to see more crypto or Desmond want to see your cat you know where is your cat right so just let me know and I find ways. What's where for you to improve the webinar over time. Okay but thank you very much because I do see that almost 90% of you guys are saying that the webinar. You know you give it a good four to five. Thank you very much thank you very much. Yeah it's a more or less live and die by these numbers so you've been very merciful thank you thank you. Right so yeah I'm going to end the poll right now right I'm going to end the poll right now right because we've got a majority of people who have voted thank you very much for for voting right I can see 90% of you guys who voted four and five. Once again thank you very much right and and yeah you know if anything please please let me know right when it comes to. Where is the thing I'm going to show yeah if anything thank thank you very much for tuning into this webinar all the way right. Yeah tuning into this webinar all the way I can see that you know a good bunch of you stayed through all the way right I'm accepting questions along the way right now so if you have questions that you want to kind of shoot out at me. Now is a great time right water sharing that you know it's hoping to learn more how to enter good trades right that will that can cover that can come in on a technical analysis series right where you really drill down into the whole world of support resistance Fibonacci retracement extensions projections expansions correlations correlations escalators divergence chart patterns right hopefully in you know now that we covered the basics the cryptocurrency you know we can know those are some things that we can look at right in the future. But thank you. What are asking you know do robots help a. When it comes to trading robots right I recommend you to exercise caution some robots are not not designed to trade crypto currencies right. They might not be used to the same volatility the crazy amount of volatility that crypto has versus forex. Robots do help but you gotta do your own back testing first right if you know how to personally there's a whole nother topic on back testing but right off the top my head if you want to do robots right try to go for empty five empty five allows you to to use. Take my take back testing right allows you to have a multi core a multi-traded back testing kind of system so you can utilize more of your computer CPU power to do back testing. Right so it first if you want to use robots first and foremost back test forward test with what with empty five you can do it empty far by it's going to be a lot slower because empty four can only utilize a single thread. Okay I hope that answers your questions water right but yeah you know with the. I cannot say which robots will help some robots can definitely treat well but you do need to make sure you back test highly we've real take data not with fake data right your testing quality needs to be very high. Yeah I can see jealous saying that there should be more webinars like this presenting difference between various crypto currencies and their correlations. You know how value of Bitcoin affects value of other cryptocurrencies and all right looking for more. Webinars right so awesome right today is happens to be the very first webinar that we're doing for cryptocurrencies for take meal. It's nice to see that you know there's a very very good response. People like it right and I really appreciate it right so hopefully what how I like to always design this webinar since I like to take the feedback from from from you guys right and design the webinar. Accordingly right so if you want if I find that there's a lot of people who want to know the correlation between Bitcoin prices and for example you know I just can just pull it up really quickly here you know for example Bitcoin you want to compare the price of Bitcoin to ETH USD right on the same percentage skill right set so there you go you know you can see the prices of the correlation of of Bitcoin you know we've maybe in this example with Ethereum right so this was a very interesting time over here where. Bitcoin rose a bit but Ethereum kind of shot up right but you do notice that they kind of go up and down together right there are many tools that can use to really correlate the price of Bitcoin Bitcoin is the market leader so it does dictate a lot of prices along the way right but yes. Yeah hopefully over time we can look at the more exotic stuff you know dodge coin even right and how to trade it right but but yeah thanks for your feedback Janus tank for thanks for feedback Walter and Aruna right. But yeah. Any other questions that if you know if there are no other questions rather that you have for me I'd like to thank everyone I'd like to thank everyone for the for tuning in today for sitting through an entire webinar the attendance the attendance and the attention has been great so thank you very much right. I hope that you know this webinar help you better understand the whole of crypto right and you know if any questions you know feel free to send it through. Take me right on the support you know I do a lot of the analysis there so the you will one way or another the messages will come back to me. Okay anyway guys that that's it for me right thank you so much for tuning into this webinar I you know please trade safe stay safe and yeah I'm looking very young thank you. I have no idea why maybe I've got enough sleep this morning my cat allowed me to get a little bit more sleep. All right guys yeah thank you thanks for tuning into but on a meal right. And thank you very much Andrew right. That's it for me yeah even when great today man all right. Okay see you guys. Cheers and peace out guys peace out.


Hello everybody, Ian here. Welcome back to another book haul. We're going to be here a while, so grab some snacks, grab a drink, and sit down, and we're going to go over everything that I've found. Most of this is a library sale. In the warmer months, my library always has either fill a bag for a dollar, or they always have paperbacks for 25 cents and hard covers for 50 cents. But this time, they had some really good stuff that I've been looking forward to, and some stuff that I wanted to give a chance to. First and foremost, I'm going to get this out of the way. This is Eye of the World by Robert Jordan. I'm reading this with my buddy Jake LaFrance. Some of you might know him from stream. I'm already 557 pages into it on chapter 37, but I got this because I found all, I can't hold all these up at one time, but I found the first six books. So I got Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn, The Shadow Rising, The Fires of Heaven, and Lord of Chaos. I got all six of them for $1.50, so a quarter of a piece, and I couldn't pass it up. Some of them are in terrible condition, like, I think it's this one. Yeah, see, they're just, they're coming apart, but I can always take them together. And for a quarter of a piece, yeah, I can't really beat it. At the same time, same day, I found this because it looked, I like weird, and I'm trying to get fantasy another chance. You guys know me, I don't care too much for fantasy, but I'm trying to give another chance. So I got this one because it looked interesting. Tad Williams, Other World, somebody told me this was more sci-fi than fantasy because it deals with VR, but anyways, we'll give it a shot. My buddy, Linton, told me a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away that Sarah Douglas was good, so I grabbed the Wayfarer Redemption. This was another quarter. So that's the Wayfarer Redemption. And then we got this monster. I am collecting these in audiobook, the Brandon Sanderson Stormlight Archive books, but the book one was only a quarter at the library, so I grabbed it. I would read along with it. I think I even had the e-book because when the second book in this series came out, the e-book for this was only $1.99, and I grabbed that, so I actually have three different copies of it. But I'll be able to listen to the audiobook and read it, read this one, but I'm not actually going to start it until all 10 books are done. Yeah, it's going to be a while. So next up, I found Black Cross, which is one of Greg Iles' first books, I think. I'm not sure if this is a sequel to Spandau Crossing or Rising or whatever it's called. Sorry, Spandau Phoenix. But this is about the Nazis, and I believe his first book was about the Nazis also. Okay, next up, I couldn't pass this up for you, those of you that are like vintage 80s horror, this is a... I'm probably never going to read it, but the cover is amazing, so there you go. I'll show you guys my Paperback horror collection at some point in time, but right now, I don't like the hype train too much, and right now Grady Hendricks' Paperbacks from Hell has got everybody showing off their collection, so I'll wait until all that dies down before I show off mine. So again, Joyride, this is by Steven Crye, someone I've never even heard of. Alright, next up, something I'm super stoked about. Let's see here, trying to get all of them. So I found these two as I lay dining and sound the fury. I found these two one day, and then I went back a week later and I found Light and August and Sanctuary. The coolest part about these, sorry, is that, oh no, please don't bend, they're already in bad enough condition. They're all part of a set, well I don't think Sanctuary is, but you see the face? Yeah, cool. So I got that one. I'm reading Infinite Just right now with my wife, and once I get done, we will probably tackle the sound and the fury together, because it's one of those books you have to take a while with, and that's what we've been doing. We can go in through the tougher books together. The Devil and the White City by Eric Larson, Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that changed America. I have not read this guy yet, but I have his other one, what is it, Dead Wakes, something like that, about the Lusitania. And I'm really interested in this one. It's nonfiction, by the way. And I've heard nothing but good things about Eric Larson. Another one that was a quarter at the library is Franz Kafka's The Castle. I'm sorry, y'all. I'm hot. It's hot out here, and I've got to turn the air conditioning off so I can do these videos. So this is The Castle. I've not been able to get into the metamorphosis other than the audiobook, because of the way Kafka writes, but I'm willing to give him another chance, and this was only a quarter, so it's whatever, right? Next, I told y'all this is going to be a long video. So next up, this is one that the hype train kind of came through on, and I ignored it because of that. But this is All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda. I've heard some really bad stuff about this one, but I figured I'd give it my own chance, give it my own shot. Now, if you guys watched the vlog that I did about me spilling my coffee, this is one of the ones that got the brunt of it. I don't know if you guys can see that, but there's brown. Can they see it? They can't see it? Okay. Well, anyway, there's more stains on the side. I'll try to show you guys in another one. Maybe it'll come up better. Okay, next up, this one, this is nothing but some cover love. Winterwood by Patrick McCabe. I couldn't look at that cover, y'all. I couldn't pass that up. I think this was a 50 cents, because this is a hard cover. I'm not sure it might have been a quarter. I wasn't really paying attention. But either way, I mean, nothing else is going to look nice on the shelf. Look at that joker. It makes me think of Bone White by Ronald Malthy. Next up, I thought this was cool. The Ghost Map, the story of London's most terrifying epidemic, and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world. Do we need to do something? Okay.  I thought I was getting signals. Okay, it's National Best Sellers by Stephen Johnson, the author of Everything Bad is Good for You. I have no idea what this is about. It's the summer of 1854, and London is seized by a violent outbreak of cholera that no one knows how to stop. An epidemic spreads, a myveric physician, a local curate, and a local curate are spurred to action. So, not gonna lie. Once again, I got it for the cover, because the cover's really nice. This is got some really cool artwork. I don't know if you guys can see that. That's some really cool artwork on the spine. All right, next up, The Great Fire by Shirley Hazard. This is a publisher love by, because I love Farrer, Strauss, and Garot. I think it is. FSG, FSG Originals on Twitter. These guys published the grip of it. They published a lot of Victor Laval stuff. They are a terrific publishing company, and this one won the National Book Award. I'm not sure if this is fiction or non-fiction, but I am looking forward to it. This is probably one I'll get to pretty soon. The Great Fire of the Second World War has convulsed Europe and Asia. In its wake, Aldrich Lathes, an acclaimed hero of the conflict that spent two years in China at work on an account of world-transforming change there. Son of a famed and sexually ruthless novelist. Lathes began to resist his own self-sufficiency nurtured by war. Huh, interesting. So I'm guessing it's got to be fiction, right? I mean, that sounds like fiction. So, all right, now we're going to get into the new stuff, or the stuff for review. First, this is Haruki Murakami's newest collection, Men Without Women. This came out, I didn't even know this was coming out. I had this on pre-order, and I'm not sure if you can see it, but this is the one that I'm really upset about, because this one got the copy on it really bad. Almost the whole, it's not the spine, but almost all the paper is brown. But this one, I'm not too big on his short story collections, but of course I'm adding it to my collection because it's the same theme as the other books. All right, next up. Last two are for review. They were sent to me for review. And this one sent to me by Atria Publishing, Leave No Trace by Mindy...  Mindy...Migia? Mejia? Mejia? I don't know. Anyways, so I'm looking forward to this one. There is a book ahead of this one, Everything You Want Me To Be, but they said this is a standalone, so if you guys have read either one of these, but especially if you've read Everything You Want Me To Be, let me know if I need to read that one first. This one doesn't come out until September. I'm looking forward to grabbing it. I'm looking forward to reading it. I may be gonna grab the first one. I'm not sure. Okay, so last but not least, you guys might remember my review for Frederick Bachman's Bear Town. This is the sequel. Atria sent me this for review also. It's probably one of my more anticipated Reads of the Year because I enjoyed Bear Town so much. But yeah, so I know this was a longer video, and if you hung around, that's cool. I appreciate it. Let's see here. Is there anything else? I think that's everything. Let me know what you guys got this month. Know The Outsider by Stephen King is not here yet. I'm shooting this before it comes out. This video won't go up until Wednesday, but I'll be doing an unboxing and everything of that. Well, you guys will have already seen it because the video will already have been up, right? So what am I even talking about? Anyways, so until next time, I have been E, you have been U. There's been another book haul video. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye.


It's your boy Rich here with Ilky. We are at a fundraising event for Cystic Fibrosis. Let's see how my whole mango is appeared. It's a little bit of catchy chicken. You know what I mean? So let me know if you're trying to catch chicken. Come on. It's hard to tell, but that's right. I just got it on purpose. I'm on your side. I said like I told you, but it doesn't suit that. Come on. You having a good time? This is it. Look at your shirt, man. Okay, look at your shirt. Your shirt is tied up. It's all tied up. I just want to see some stand-up comedy going on. Before chicken. Tell it to my friends, no matter how early you wake up, there's a chicken somewhere. Up before you. Eating your mangoes. I tried, man. I said I'm going to put it on at 5 a.m. Put it on at 5 a.m. And here it is, guys. That's 4 a.m. I'm messing with you in the backyard. I'm awesome. How are you going to get the water? That's why I'm not going to go get you. I'm not leaving. What's up, sir? Where's my agent? She's late. What's up, man? Oh, man. Yeah, I'm trying to be an actor, man. Any actors out here tonight? I'm trying to be an actor somehow. Every time I meet them, I'm like, what do you do? I'm trying to get into acting. Yeah, me too. It's hard, man. I even moved here for a little bit. I moved here for a little bit. Then that's normal. That's why I met these guys. Can't find a place to record. Can't find a place to record. It's weak. Every time I find a nice spot, it's weak. Chinese dude. Buy the whole building and kick me out. I'm not racing. I'm not racing. I promise. I have, like, two Chinese phones. It's just that one dude. It's just that one dude, man. You got to be mad at me. It was hard, man. It was hard. For a while. Imagine, I had to live in a gym. What's up, guys? What's going on? Now, this gym... What is this called? Was in a tent. That's a seizure, I think. This is... Now, this tent... I like the American for the American. I just like having the... You like the jerky? You like the jerky? Yeah. The piece of beef jerky comes with an aftertaste. So, it's very nice. So, I'm still waiting. I feel like it's a meal. Like, a meal and a drink at the same time. Yeah. It's definitely the real meal deal. So, the same guys that were performing at 420 are all here. Instead of wearing hoodies and wearing hip-hop, they're wearing suits. They dressed up good. These guys are good. Thank you, brother. He's got some ribs. He's got some ribs. I was scared, but I stood my ground. I was stood my ground. I was like, I'm just scared to eat calories. And he said, come here, come here, come here, come here, come here, come here, come here, come here, come here, come here, come here.


How much do crypto exchanges make and fees in one day? We took open data from CoinMarketCath.com and the websites of crypto exchanges. The following numbers are a rough estimate. Polonius, owned by payments firm Circle, $171,000. Wex, the former troubled BTE exchange, $207,000. Kraken, who provides Bitcoin prices for Bloomberg Terminal, $500,000. Bitfinex, which is known for its close links with Tether, $1.06 million. GDax, a part of Coinbase, $1.34 million. Bittrex, its founders are Microsoft and Amazon alumni, $1.47 million. Binance, the largest crypto exchange in the world, $2.33 million. Quobi, once the largest crypto exchange in China before the shutdown, $2.54 million. UffBit, was launched by Kikautoc, the largest South Korean messenger, $2.62 million. What are your favorite crypto exchanges among these winners? Comment below. Cointelegraph, like, subscribe, and hodl.


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Learning to Talk by Hilary Mantell, narrated by Anna Bentink, Jane Collingwood, and Patrick Moy. King Billy is a gentleman. I cannot get out of my mind now, the village where I was born, just out of the curl of the city's tentacles. We were too close to the city for a life of our own. There was a regular train service, not one of those where you have to lie and wait and study its habits. But we did not like the Mancunians. Urban, squat and packed with guile, I suppose was our attitude. We sneered at their back-to-back accents and pitied their physiques. My mother, a staunch Lamarckian, is convinced that Mancunians have disproportionately long arms as a result of generations of labour at the loom. Until, but this was later, a pink housing estate was slammed up, and they were transplanted in their hundreds, like those trees plucked up for Christmas whose roots are dipped in boiling water. Well, until then we did not have much to do with people from town. And yet, if you ask me if I was a country boy—no, I wasn't that. Our huddle of stones and slates scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues had no claim on rural England where there is morris dancing and fellowship and oldie ale flowing. It was a broken sterile place, devoid of trees, like a transit camp, and yet with the hopeless permanence that transit camps tend to assume. Snow stood on the hills till April. We lived at the top of the village, in a house which I considered to be haunted. My father had disappeared. Perhaps it was his presence, long and pallid, which slid behind the door in sweeps of draught and raised the heckles on the terrier's neck. He had been a clerk by profession, cross-words whereas hobby, and a little angling, simple card games and a cigarette-card collection. He left at ten o'clock one blustery March morning, making his albums and his tweed overcoat and leaving all his underwear. My mother washed it and gave it to a jumble sale. We didn't miss him much, only the little tunes which he used to play on the piano, over and over, pineapple rag. Then came the lodger. He was from further north, a man with long, slow vowels, making a meal out of words we got through quite quickly. The lodger was choleric, his flash-point was low. He was very, very unpredictable. If you were going to see the shape of the future, you had to watch him carefully, quiet and still, with all your intuitions bristling.


proudly we hail from New York City where the American stage begins here is another program with a cast of outstanding players public service time has been made available by this station for your army and your Air Force to bring you this story the title of our story is routine patrol and it salutes the courage and daring that has become the trademark of the United States infantry our first act curtain will rise in just a moment but first young man why not let a thought for tomorrow be your thought for today right now your United States Army the senior service needs qualified technicians in such varied and interesting fields as radio radar meteorology photography and many many others yes you can be trained to do a job and acquire a skill that will be of great benefit to you for the rest of your life you can also take pride in the fact that you answered your country's call in time of great need why not let a thought for tomorrow be your thought for today visit your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station and enlist in the United States Army and now your army and your Air Force present the proudly we hail production routine patrol to the infantry soldier crouching in a foxhole life is a purely routine matter you stay where you are you move forward or you go back there are patrols artillery barrage is mortar fire and what's worse perhaps than all of these periods of intense nerve-wracking silence but after a while each day becomes like every other day this is a story of three soldiers who started out one night on a routine patrol rain it just never stops raining they say this is the rainiest season Korea's had in 87 years something about a war that brings on the rain I remember a Normandy hey sounds like trucks now a lot of trucks they must be reinforcing a relieving one well at least they're getting as wet as we are hand me the phone matelyn yeah yeah sir liverlips calling the great white father great white father great white father liverlips little action lots of trucks fooling around to our front hold it hey matelyn where would you say that was on a map say position five six seven and maybe eight positions five through eight on a map we'll have 81s on it in 30 seconds great white father explain to them jokers the range is at least 600 that's all we need is some 81 mortars coming in here with us I'll hook up so you can direct the fire over over and I wish this blind night was over too so far a routine action the rain that's routine the report of activity that's also routine and back at the command post the company commander's reaction is also purely routine question is what they're doing building up or pulling out one way to find out captain we need a prisoner gray your platoons and reserve sent out a patrol this isn't too much three men could handle it yes sir non-com would be just what the doctor ordered I'll get your patrol out there in 30 minutes good sergeant notify the outpost of patrol by moving out and spread the word along the foxholes they would pick a night like this 800 yards away in the solar of a ruined farmhouse the first platoon is spending a luxurious evening out of the rain you all think this is a rain man when it comes down in Florida I thought it never rained in Florida I'm supposed to be against some kind of law Rothblatt how'd you all like to go out on a patrol tonight I'd like it the same way I'd like a toothache patrol bite your tongue rebel yeah I got a feeling look why don't you roll into your sack patrol I wouldn't send a dog out on patrol and I'd like this lieutenant this is bad news roughly yeah he didn't get wet for nothing sergeant Gillespie yes sir sergeant the outpost reports unusual activity in the enemy lines vicinity of map positions five through eight captain wants a prisoner take two good men with yes try to guess the non-com we've alerted our lines to expect you to go out and come in start now sir soon as you can this range should be great help good luck Gillespie yes sir all right you heard the man Rothblatt this I could have won bets on Manson on a sergeant you don't want me I distinctly heard the lieutenant say to take a good man I get a couple extra clips for that Tom again Rothblatt trades somebody your m1 for a carbine patrol you did it your rebel you went and hexed us leave all your extra stuff here smoke a cigarette take off so far it's still routine a patrol is selected the members indulge in the usual griping weapons are checked the routes planned and the three-man patrol starts out just as they've started out many times in the past they reach their own front lines wave at a rifle team in a foxhole and carefully work their way forward toward the enemy lines I keep close can't see a thing in this lesbian is supposed to be mine's just up ahead I know I know I know Manson yeah just checking you didn't goof off on me why sergeant how you do carry on man they ain't nothing I'd rather be doing on a rainy night like that the dirt that's all we needed yeah I hope that don't start the music all the way up and down the line hey you think we've been spotted no no just somebody getting trigger happy now come on I'm moving to the right how about them trees going through there just what I had in mind look unless they're stupid and they're not they should expect the patrol to move in that way and litter the whole place with mines yeah I know I know we don't have any other way in come on only hurts for a minute wait a minute listen there it is a trucks all right a lot of trucks yeah the commies are up to something yeah but what that's the kind of curiosity that lands guys like us out here curiosity man that's what kills cats and people take me now I'm an expert on curiosity for no good reason at all I had to study Chinese at NYU the three-man patrol moves forward again at any moment they may be discovered perhaps the enemy will shoot first perhaps he'll challenge them and give them a chance to surrender the odds are about equal either way but it's all part of the job part of the routine soon the underbrush thins out and the three stopped to take their bearings sounds like action over there just keep behind those bushes work our way in Eddie can you peek around there yeah it's a truck that guy's getting off it what's he saying on rothblad no smoking the real trick and he is this truck must be bringing them guys out to the line can you see the marks on that joker's collar looks to me like he's a corporal good enough let's beg him yeah those guys are digging in how do you want to take our boy yeah that's no good they're all too close together look the first guy's coming back to the truck he's getting in yeah gonna have a little trouble pulling out you all know what I think there's a lot of action here which makes it good for us everybody's busy hey as long as we got to move forward why what should why what listen I think this guy's name was Chen let's see what happens Chen Chen doggie melly some sir kaito here it comes some sir now that's it I find some use for this boy later can you carry him Eddie yeah wait a minute I'll wear his hat that should be good enough in the dark yeah Chen and Eddie and I'll ride in a bag sit on Chen and keep low I'll drive all right let's get a move on all right we're all set how's Chen doing Chen should be asleep for a long time good we're off you know I think we're nuts I think Chen here is a pfc in their armor that's almost as good as a non column well if the worst comes to the worst we can always bring him back hey maybe we can bring back a now now now that'd be that'd be too much now I'll settle for a sergeant or even a corp road what are you slowing down for somebody's standing on their road waving at me looks like an officer well business is getting better all the time I gotta stop you know there's a neighbor Shishuma Shaza hands up buddy Margaret rough blood he's going for that what happened he was looking for some sergeant when I told him to put his hands up yeah that shoot was bound to bring him buzzing around to figure there's a patrol loose for sure yeah they won't figure on us heading further in I think we're trying to get back to our lines hey what's that up ahead that looks like a farm well pull in off the road manton you stay here with Chen Rothpat lets you and me take a quick peek through them windows uh-oh somebody must have heard them shots here comes half of the army let's pull Chen's hat down over my eyes are you guys hug the floor right they're leaving how'd you bluff that one off I told him I had some casualties in the truck well Chen is a casualty if you want to look at it wait a minute our guys are starting a barrage pull out of here Rothblatt where can we go we head back to the lines we'll get blown up you can't stay here either sergeant they must have this long house zeroed in we got to get off it you guys want to leave the truck what's going to happen to our boy get out of here that's the first thing which way right ahead hey serge we're way on the other side of their lines Manchuria's that way I don't care I don't want to get knocked off by one of our own 155 well if you don't care I don't care either all right then so let's know when we get to Shanghai I got a hunch guys just a hunch that this is a lucky night all I know is every minute we're going further away from home Rothblatt yeah what's that up ahead somebody's waving at you there's a car over by the side of the road do I stop for this guy well sure that's an officer we've got plenty of room oh I see now that car there has a flat tire hey he thinks we're stopping to give him a lift well ain't we here he comes oh brother no what it's a captain hands up captain get that pistol Manson buddy let him stay up in the front seat with you Rothblatt explain if he opens that yep that a blast him I I speak English good let's have a meeting of the mines here one word out of you and it's strike three let's go Rothblatt you you go the wrong way we'll point you out this America crazy he says we're crazy I think he's right listen what's the matter with it I don't know sounds like we're out of gas wait a minute let me figure out this dashboard that dial over there that must be the gas key no no that's oil got plenty of oil here it is yeah it would dry all right I didn't notice any extra can laying around anywhere's either hey grab him that he's trying to make a break hold it hold it hold it that won't do any guts my fault I took my eyes off him for just a second off the truck quick we're two head for them what size we can't try to get back now they'll be looking for us all up and down the line we can never sneak out now we couldn't go back anyways remember we still don't have a prisoner you are listening to the proudly we hail production of routine patrol will return to our story in just a moment it shall not happen here that is the unspoken prayer of every man in the united states army that is the unspoken reason for our growing military might but the time has come to speak the time has come to tell of that small phrase those five words it shall not happen here let us speak only to those young men of america who have not taken pause to think let's shout it in a voice that will reach into every city and village across the length and breadth of this great land young man you are needed you are needed to help preserve the peace you are needed to serve in your united states army to ensure for your loved ones that it shall not happen here you are urged to visit your local united states army and united states air force recruiting station today and enlist in the united states army the need is urgent do it today you are listening to proudly we hail and now we present the second act of routine patrol three infantry soldiers started out on what should have been a routine patrol to capture a prisoner preferably a non-commissioned officer one rainy night in korea getting into the enemy lines was easy as a matter of fact nothing seems to be stopping them as they steal further and further into enemy territory where do you figure we are now son well it beats me must have come a good 10 miles sides it's going to get light in a couple of hours and the honeymoon is going to be over wait a minute people up ahead take it very slow now oh man if it wasn't for this riot i see somebody yeah two of them the guys guys what's the matter look the one on the right that's our helmet our field jacket can't be it can't be just standing there talking hey maybe we don't know it and the war is over oh now what it's a car coming hey fellas do you see what i see it's a chinese colonel getting out and a united states officer is with him man oh man we're green hey somebody kick me speak english always oh yes hello colonel better better you man on the score you must speak english always if someone talk to you in our language you will not answer you must live english language get a load of this hey why don't we beg that turn yes sir that's our boy what's going on this must be a school where they train guys to impersonate americans shake a few of those jokers back of our lines and the fact could really be on a flyer oh boy what a setup he's alone in that car with just one man oh you man you'll be especially alert the general himself is in the area did he say a general it must be i know what you're thinking i know what i got a cool watch it that colonel he's looking this way that he can't see us who are those three men he can't huh he's got eyes like an eagle you man stand where you are oh don't get nervous nobody can make that our faces in this rain in the dark you get mysterious hey sarge let's play us our way out of here i want everybody to look at these three men how perfect they are in every detail faster bearing the way they hold their weapons the man in the middle notice his jaw it is moving up and down yes even adopted the barbaric half of chewing gum the three of you stay there i want the general himself to inspect you Joe driving over to the general's car hey why didn't you give us the high sign we could have brought home a car uh i got my site set on a general ran out margiles if you only wanted was a non-com all right let's bring in a general who knows i might make a promotion man i've been on patrols in my time but never nothing like this so this is where the commies train somebody's coming oh look who's sitting next to the crowd Eddie let's miss this up sing one of those rebel mountain songs oh i see what he means yeah yeah do as he tells you a birmingham jail house a birmingham jail i send all my letters to birmingham jail are you the three man kind of kind of told me about mm not bad that's the song you are overdoing it it does not sound authentic to me i doubt that americans could sing that way down with the tension uh-huh no something is wrong i don't think you would fool the americans you'll still give me the impression that you are masquerading in yankee suits let me analyze this i think i know yes you are just a little too perfect whoa get out of the car and find konokirong for me i want to explain this to him fellows it's now or it has to be never silence you will remain at attention and not talk amongst yourself while you are being inspected general will you all be kind enough to get into your car i'll cut you in half with this tommy gun what kind of insolence it was he says general i do not appreciate this joke you'll be caught muscled rough blood get him into his car quick yeah cut him in i'll prop him up on the front seat next to you rough blood now just drive and go like the wind nobody's going to have the nerve to stop a general's car you will never take my back alive general i get this gun in your back you pop off just one time yeah it sounds like our one five houses still going strong yeah in a way that's good most of these guys will be hugging the ground in the fox what the shell's kicking up about a hundred yards ahead stop the car we'll have to take a chance if we can get through the barrage didn't go much farther this way anyhow all right i'll keep your tommy getting nice and comfortable against the general's back Eddie the lines around here some ways well get off the road into the bushes lucky no one will hear us walking you will never bring me back alive now general don't irritate me there's the same woods we came in through hey wait a minute looks different there were some bushes yeah i think they cut them down and dug a fox hole to cover the approach he's right he set up a machine gun yeah that means we'll be spotted unless we can sneak up behind them and lob in a grenade i had a slug him i could see was opening his mouth to yell good deal rough blood okay we'll have to crawl along the ground and drag him with us eddie first off now you creep up and handle the machine gunners the artillery should cover the grenade right if it works out give us one of your bird calls we're hearing from me we'll work along the ground rough blood now you pull them by the hands i'll pull them by the feet that's it all clear let's go careful careful through here there's mines oh our boys becoming conscious what is the meaning where where am i oh cheer it up general half hour you'll be drinking fresh hot american coffee hey fellas i'm beat can't we just lay here and rest a minute okay sit down here's i figure we've got about 300 yards to our outpost what's the funny listen dimwit at your own machine gun i heard you laughing you won't take me now i know you won't take me listen to this guy combat fatigue fellas i think we'll have to slug him again and drag him with us gentlemen first please accept my compliments you are superb soldiers you came into our lines and captured me uh general that these were the of my own troops none of this soft soap is gonna get you anywhere but i cannot be taken my family would be disgraced oh things are tough all over i will not reveal information you'll realize that uh what do you think all this is gonna get you may i have your pistol sergeant oh sure sure leave one round in the chamber i would do the same for a general in your army i'll bet you would come on crawl by yourself of what drag you i'm sorry i cannot go with you it would have been better had you lent me your pistol hey look the rain has washed away most of the art here but next to him it's a mine come try to stop me i will take you with me and he grabbed him by the legs quick get away from him fellas he's crazy he's gonna lay down on that mine stop him yeah how you say he was a general yes captain and would you believe it we lost him at the last minute leave that sergeant how can i possibly believe such a fantastic story ridiculous captain sergeant gillespie corporal rothblatt and private manson are my three best yes yes i know look sergeant you'd only you told me you tried your best and you couldn't get a prisoner well sir uh we did manage to uh get our hands on a letter hmm yes here it is sir as you see it's a just to a major the town of uh shunyen let me have a minute i got some information here rothblatt sir you claim you can read this language what does it say well go ahead matter can't you read it no yes sir so it uh says uh yin fu must be the major's name funny way to start a communication your dog what's that rothblatt i'm just reading this sir you dog i understand you're orderly liberated a case of wine last week did you send me a couple of bottles since you it's a little hard to make out here since you were promoted to major you've become i don't know what this next word means sir i think he means a real gi i guess uh then he goes on says uh don't expect me to ask naya some gal i guess if she's got a friend next time we get to visit shunyen your thirsty buddy chang i'm sure this will solve all of g2's problems now listen here i want a prisoner do you understand yes sir get out there and grab the first regency understand yes sir this is just a routine patrol don't make a big thing on of it understand yes sir that's all all right let's go won't be nothing to this just routine plan ahead to get ahead there's sound advice for you young men of america and here's how you can act on that advice your united states army is offering a bright future in such interesting technical fields as radio radar electronics mechanics meteorology photography and many many others perhaps you're not qualified in any of these urgently needed skills well here's the answer to that the united states army through its many fine technical schools is prepared to train you in the field for which you show an aptitude now there's a great opportunity your opportunity to plan ahead to get ahead for full details visit your nearest united states army and united states air force recruiting station now this has been another program on proudly we hail presented transcribed in cooperation with this station by the united states army and the united states air force recruiting service this is kenneth banghardt speaking and inviting you to tune in this same station next week for another interesting story on proudly we hail