From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of AWS re-invent 2020. Special coverage sponsored by AWS Worldwide Public Sector. Welcome to theCUBE's coverage of AWS 2020. This is specialized programming for the Worldwide Public Sector. I'm Lisa Martin and I'm joined by Mick Baccio, the security advisor at Splunk. Mick, welcome to theCUBE virtual. Oh, thank you for having me. It's great to be here. So you have a really interesting background that I wanted to share with our audience. You were the first CISO in the history of US presidential campaigns with Mayor Pete. You were also the branch chief of Threat Intelligence at the executive office of the president. Tell us a little bit about your background. It's so interesting. Yeah, those. And I'm a Goonid Def Con and I teach lockpicking for funsies. Working for Mayor Pete as a CISO of the campaign was a really, really unique opportunity and I'm glad I did it. I'm hoping that, you know, on both sides of the aisle, no matter what your political preference, people realize that security and campaigns kind of need to be married together. That was an incredible experience and work with Mayor Pete and I learned so much about how campaigns work and just the overall political process. And then previous to that, being at the White House and Threat Intelligence for all branch chief there, working over the last election, the 2016 election, I think I learned probably more than any one person wants to about elections over that time. So, you know, I'm just a security nerd that kind of fell into those things and here I am and really, really, really just fortunate to have had those experiences.  But election security, when I saw that you were the first CISO for Pete and Buttigieg, that was so recent.  Why are they just recently starting to catch onto this? I think it's like security on a campaign and security anywhere else. And credit to the Buttigieg campaign, there is no federal or mandate or anything like that that says your campaign has to have a security person at the head of it or any standards to implement those securities. So, you know, the Buttigieg campaign kind of leaned into it. We want to be secure. We saw everything that happened in 2016. We don't want that to be us. And I think more campaigns are getting to that point. Definitely, you saw recently a Trump campaign, Biden's campaign, they all had a lot of security folks in and I think it's the normal now. People realize how important the security is to not only a political campaign, but I guess the political process overall. Absolutely. We've seen the rise of cyber attacks and threats and threat vectors this year alone, ransomware occurring every one attack, every 11 seconds or so I was reading recently. So give me an overview of what the biggest threats are right now. Two elections and I think the election process in general.  I've just got a weird background and done some really unique things. So I always attack the problems like I'm a security nerd and it comes down to, you know, that triumvirate the people process and technology. People need, had to have faith in the process, faith in the technology, need to have a clear source to get their information from. The process to me, I think this year, more than previous elections highlighted the lack of a federal uniform standard for federal elections. State to state, we have different standards and that kind of leads to confusion with people because, hey, my friend in Washington did it this way, but I'm in Texas and we do it this way. And I think that standard would help a lot in the faith in the system. And then the last part of that, the technology, you know, voting machines, campaigns, like I mentioned about campaigns, there's nothing that says a campaign has to have a security person or a security program. And I think those are the kind of standards for, you know, just voting machines that needs to be a standard across the board that's uniform so people will have more faith because it's not different from state to state and it's a uniform process. I think our whole country could have benefited from more uniform processes in 2020. But one of the things that, like I did my first mail-in ballot this year, always loved going and having that in-person voting experience and putting on my sticker. And this year I thought, in California, we got all of our, but there was this massive rise in mail-in ballots. I mean, think about that insecurity in terms of, you know, getting the public's confidence. What are some of the things that you saw that you think needs to be uniform going forward? Again, I think it goes back to when you look at, you know, you voted by mail, you voted absentee and your ballot was due by this date. You know, where I live voting absentee, it's due by this date or needs to be received by this date. And I think this year really highlighted the differences between the states and I'm hoping that election security and again, everyone's done a super fantastic job. CISA has done incredible this year. All their efforts were working with election officials, secretaries of states on both sides of the aisle. It's an incredible work and I hope it continues. I think the big problem with election security is, you know, the election's over. So we don't care again until 2022 or 2024. And I think putting something like a federalized standard whether it be technology or process, putting that in place now so that we're not talking about this in two or four years, I'm hoping that momentum continues. What would your recommendation be from building security programs to culture and awareness? How would you advise that they start? So one of the things that when I was on the Buttigieg campaign, you know, like I said, we was the first person to do security for a campaign and a lot of the staffers didn't quite have the background or professional background to work with a security person or know, you know, why, what I was doing there. So my hallmark was, you know, I'm trying to build a culture heavy on the cult. You got to get people to buy in. I think this year when you look at what Krebs and CISA and where the team over there have done is really find a way to tell a security story in every facet of the election, whether it be the machines themselves, the transporting the votes, accounting the votes, how that information gets out to people. Websites, they started like rumor control which were amazing, amazing efforts. The public-private partnerships that were there, I had a chance to work with MJ and Tanya from AWS, some election projects. I think everyone has skin in the game. Everyone wants to make it better and I hope that momentum continues.  And I think that will get rid of a lot of confusion. When you talk about culture and you mentioned specifically cult, do you think that people and agencies and politicians are ready to embrace the culture? Is there enough data to support that this is really serious? We need to embrace this. We need to buy in, as you said. I hope, right? I don't know what it could take. I'm hoping so. After seeing everything, you know, being at the White House from that aperture in 2016, seeing all of that, I would, you know, think right away, oh my gosh, 2018 the midterm, if we're gonna be on the ball, that really didn't happen like we thought it would. 2020, we saw a different kind of technical or I guess not as technical security problem. And I think I'm kind of shifting from that to the future. People realize, and I think both sides of the aisle are working towards security programs and security posture. I think there's a lot of people that have bought into the idea, but I think it kind of starts from the top. And I'm hoping it becomes a standard. So there's not really an option. You will do this just for the security and safety of the campaigns and the electoral process. But I do see a lot more people leaning into it and a lot more resources available for those people that are. Talk to me about kind of the status of awareness, of security needing to combat these issues, be able to remediate them, be able to defend against them. Where are folks in that awareness cycle? I think it ebbs and flows like any other process, any other incident or event that happens. And from my experience in the infosec world, normally there's a compromise, there's an incident, a bunch of money gets thrown at it and then we forget about it a year or two later. I think that culture, that awareness comes in when you have folks that would sustain that effort. And again, on the campaign, even at the White House, we try to make everyone a part of security.  I can lock down your email at work, I can make sure this system is super, super secure, but it's your personal threat model, your personal email account, your personal social media, putting more security on those and being aware of those. I think that awareness is growing and I see more folks in the security community just kind of preaching that awareness more and more and it's something I'm really, really excited about. Yeah, the biggest thing I always think when we talk about security is people. We're the biggest threat vector and what happened eight, nine months ago when so many businesses in any public sector and private went from on-site, almost maybe 100% on-site to 100% remote, people suddenly going, I've got to get connected through my home network, maybe on my own personal device and didn't really have the time of so many distractions to recognize a phishing email just could come in and propagate. So it's that the people challenge, it always seems to me like that might be the biggest challenge besides the technology and the processes. What do you think? I, again, it goes back, I think it's all part of it. I think people, I've looked at it slightly, a friend of mine made a really good point once. He was like, hey, people are going to click on the link in the email. It's just, I think 30% of people do, it's just the nature of people. After 20 some odd years in InfoSec, 20 some odd years in security, I think we should have maybe done a better job of making that link safer to click on, to click on, to make it not malicious. But again, it goes back to being aware, being vigilant. And to your point, since earlier this year, we've seen attacks increase exponentially, specifically on remote desktop protocols from COVID related themes and scams and ransomware targeting healthcare systems. I think it's just the world's getting smaller and we're getting more connected digitally. That vigilance is something you kind of have to build in your threat model and build into the ecosystem when we're doing everything. It's just something, you know, I equate a lot to, you've got junk email, you're opening your email box, you got some junk mail on there, you just throw it out. Your email inbox is no different and just kind of being aware of that a little more than we are now might go a long way. But again, I think security folks, we need to do a better job of kind of making these things safer because malicious actors aren't going away. No, they're definitely not going away that we're seeing the threat surfaces expanding. I think it was Facebook and TikTok and Instagram that were hacked in September. And I think it was an unsecured cloud database that was the vehicle. But talking about communication, this is we talk about culture and awareness, communication from the top down to every level is imperative. How do we embrace that and actually make it as standard as possible? In my experience, you know, from an analyst to a CISO, being able to communicate and communicate effectively, it's going to save your butt, right?  I need to be able to communicate that effectively to my leadership who was going to be non-technical people. And then that leadership has to communicate it out to all the folks that need to hear it. I do think this year, just going back to elections, you saw a lot of rapid communication, whether it was from DHS, whether it was from, you know, public partners, whether it was from the team over Facebook or Twitter, you know, it was a lot of activity that they detected and put out as soon as they found it.  And I think it just goes back to making sure that the people have access to it whenever they need it and they know where to get it from. I think a lot of times you have a compromise and that information is slow to get out and, you know, that delay just creates a confusion. So it clearly, concisely and it find a place for people can get it. Absolutely. And how do you see some of these challenges spilling over into your role as the security advisor for Splunk? What are some of the things that you're talking with customers about right now that are really pressing issues? I think my role at Splunk, it's super, super weird because I started earlier in the year, I actually started in February of this year and a month later, like, hey, I'm hanging out at home. But I do get a chance to talk to a lot of organizations about their security posture, about what they're doing and about what they're seeing. And, you know, everything, everybody has their own, everybody has a special snowflake, some are more special than others, credit to Billy. But people are kind of seeing the same thing. You know, everybody's at home, you're seeing an increase in the attack surface through remote desktop. You're seeing a lot more phishing.  Zoom, WebEx, I've got like, I don't know, a dozen different chat clients on my computer to talk to people. And you're seeing a lot of exploits kind of coming through that. Because of that, people are more vigilant, people are adopting new technologies and new processes and kind of finding a way to move into a new working model. I see zero trust architecture becoming a big thing because we're all at home, we're not going to go anywhere and we're online more than we're not. I think my circadian rhythm went out the window back in July. So all I do is sit on that computer more often than not. And that constant authentication, just to, you know, make sure those assets are secure that we're accessing from our work resources. I think that gets worse and worse. Or it doesn't not worse rather, but that doesn't go away no matter what your model is. Right. And I agree with you on that circadian rhythm challenge. Last question for you. As we look at, one thing we know, this uncertainty that we're living in is going to continue for some time. And there's going to be some elements of this that are going to be permanent. We hear execs and many industries saying that maybe we're going to keep 30 to 50% of our folks remote forever. And tech companies that are saying, okay, maybe 50% come back in July, 2021. As we look at moving into what we all hope will be a glorious 2021, how can businesses prepare now knowing some amount of this is going to remain permanent? It's a really interesting question. And I'll be on, I think I know the team here at Splunk, it's constantly discussions that they're having are constantly re-evaluating, constantly changing, you know, friends in the industry. It's, I think businesses and those executives have to be ready to embrace change as it changes. The same thing that the plans we would have made in July are different than the plans we would have made in November and so on. And I think just having a rough outline of how we want to go. The most important thing, I think is being realistic with yourself and what you need to be effective as an organization. I think, you know, if 50% folks going back to the office works in your model, it doesn't, but we might not be able to do that. And I think that constant ability to adjust a lot of companies kind of has thrown into the fire. I know my background is mostly public sector and the federal space has done a tremendous shift. Like I never, well, rarely got to work remotely in my federal career because I did secret scroll stuff, but like now the federal space is just leaning into it. Just they don't have an option. And I think once you have that, I don't think you put Pandora back in that box. I think it's just we work remote now. And that's just a new, it's just a way of working. Yep. And then that couldn't be more important to embrace change and change over and over again. Make it's been great chatting with you. I'd love to get digging into some of that secret squirrel stuff. I know you probably have to show me.  Thank you for sharing your thoughts on election security, people, processes, technology, communication. We appreciate it. All right. Thanks so much for having me again. My pleasure. I'm Lisa Martin. 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Hey everybody welcome to the Saturday livestream. So today what I want to talk about is when you take a lot of risk there's a lot of reward. Unfortunately there's a hell of a lot of stress to go along with that and what I'm talking about today is is this the time to really go on and go on heavy and we're gonna get to take a look at what it could be and we're gonna take a look at the safe reason or the safe values and then some of the more risky plays moving forward and what I'm gonna try to be doing. So first of all as you all may know it was a hell of a week I would say it was pretty good for a lot of different cryptos that are out there. Now as you know I own quite a bit of different cryptos and digital assets. Bitcoin being the the heaviest hold used to be 75% but as the alt start going up that percentage actually does dwindle and I had expected that even though I've been dollar-cost averaging Bitcoin since 2022 but that's just what it is but this week was especially eye opening especially with what is actually going on. Now we've seen a bunch of meme coins pop off we've seen some AI plays we saw web3 gaming just explode and then even today I mean look let's avalanche up 11% for the day itself 1.5 4% from Shiba you know look at ICP internet computer protocol which probably has one of the worst charts of all time for where it was before to where it is look at this just unbelievable it started off at $461 now it's all the way down to six bucks but hey everybody likes a comeback and looks like it's doing pretty well and actually we had talked about the timing so it already comes out of timing now look what I'm gonna say today in this video tomorrow which is Sunday we could see a 50% drop this crypto welcome to crypto if you're new congratulations you pick probably the best time to be here but tomorrow could be awful the next couple weeks could be fantastic nobody really knows for sure but where we are at in the cycle it looks to be that this may be the time to take more risk now I gotta tell you right now I can't give financial advice not your dad obviously you can do whatever you want to do but when I'm looking at these things I'm like you know this could be a time to get a little more riskier if your time horizon is present and you can understand the risks that are involved so we actually talked about this I mean my buddy Jerry V Hall on Sunday's video and we said hey is this the time to get risky and of course this week was fantastic so if you took profits congratulations I personally sold a chunk of my bonk and we talked about that yesterday and it was just good timing I said the same thing yeah we could drop off the cliff tomorrow we didn't so I want to show you is I want to take a look at just the simple safe dollar cost average versus lump sum and to make this really quick I'm not going to dwell on this too much here's the numbers I took Bitcoin Ethereum XRP Corano Avalanche Doge polka dot and chain link and this DCA simulation I want you to do this I want you to work with this yourself so there's a link in the description it goes to Ben's website into the cryptoverse it's 10% off the first month but this tool right here is 100% free I would like you guys to sign up and to use this and see what I'm talking about but you can see like if we DCA over time it did pretty good actually and we're talking about and I'm not talking about you know a ton actually sorry this lump sum I'm talking 10 bucks a day 10 bucks a day and how much it would be versus if you lump sum 5,000 now why did I pick 5,000 bucks for a lump sum it's because when you lump sum starting 2019 December 15th because in the four year cycle that's pretty much where we're at we're a year before the having which at that point in 2019 now we're here in 2023 a year before the having or not a year but the year of the having we know that having is like in four months or so but if we go forward to like May or something like that May 5th 8th 9th summer on there you're roughly investing $5,000 look at that you're investing $5,000 and 10 bucks a day for less than two years December December about a year and a half I mean you're up massively dogecoin you're like 880 $800,000 I mean you can see the numbers right but what if you just said you know what if I'm gonna spend 5,000 10 bucks a day to this point in April and who knows what it's gonna be the big blow off top nobody knows but if I'm gonna spend 5,000 what if I just said the hell with it I'm just gonna spend 5,000 bucks here I'm not gonna put any more money in I don't care 5,000 bucks right now and this is what you get I'm just gonna show you the numbers DCA from again December 15th 2019 to somewhere on the top May 21 now we know the top was November but you're not gonna nail the top neither am I but look at these numbers this is crazy doge if you d if you dollar cost average you'd be really good almost a million dollars and you wouldn't invest in 5,000 ADA 100,000 actually I'm gonna do this I'm gonna see this one by one dogecoin is 968,000 if you DCA if you drop five grand on December 15th 2019 you'd have 1.3 million a lot more stress maybe look at ADA you would have had 101,000 if you were to lump sum of just 5,000 $243,000 DCA deeth 65,000 lump sum 138,000 DCA chain link 43,000 link 125,000 Tron 33,000 lump sum 68,000 bitcoin or excuse me XRP 30,000 and even with the nonsense with the SEC you'd have 35,000 which is I guess not too bad actually it's like 2,000 more so that's not really a big point and then bitcoin 24,000 bitcoin 41,000 with lump sum dot 13,000 dot lump sum is 68,000 Avax 13,000 DCA Avax 36,000 so again do with that what you want with that information but some people will say well you should always lump sum you should and then there's a I forgot the guys the gentleman's name but he's been making the rounds for the different podcasts and he said he goes out of all my history of investing I figured out that just lump summing is the best thing to do regardless of time and I have to disagree with him greatly on that one because if you lump sum at the top the height the height the height of bitcoin you're down right now it's all about time horizon perspective obviously I think we will probably hit the all-time high and go beyond it but if you're sitting on November 2021 and buying bitcoin roughly $67,000 you're underwater but if you're dollar cost averaging during the height of the bull run you wouldn't feel so bad because you can keep dollar cost averaging I guess you do the same exact thing but what's the point right at the height of the bull run that's very that's very risky and very dangerous but at this point as we're going into a bull market I can see it I can see lump summing now I will tell you like this and that's the whole title for the video today the more gains the more stress so if you decide to employ this strategy go you know what that sounds pretty good I'm going to lump sum I'm going to put everything into let's say bitcoin right just know that again tomorrow we could have a 20% drop 30% drop and we see those drops specifically we get into bull runs and you'll see it 28, 32, 44 percent it just happens but when we go and go heavy usually the gains go pretty well now again can't be said but for me I'll probably doing what's called value cost averaging so I'm dollar cost averaging right now so along the way if I happen to come into some extra funds maybe I'll just drop those into bitcoin and instead of like DCI just my 10 dollars a day or whatever I do I put a little bit extra and that's called value cost averaging essentially taking the whole sum and bring those up into parts or at some point maybe I do a little bit of a lump sum but I think the the lower down you go for these alts the more risky it can be but I just showed you that it can be quite lucrative unfortunately the risk is there so let me just think about that in the comment section I can see how lump sum has its place at this point in the cycle I do not see how it had a point or had its place in 2021 but I can definitely see it and just want those options for you so let me just think about that in the comments and then also this has been making the rounds today uh NFTs and the flippening and this is from cryptoslam.io and you can see right here it's uh it takes a look at the NFT sales volume and this is I want to say this is daily yeah well you can do 24 seven days or 30 days we'll just take a look at 24 hours and you can see that's bitcoin NFT sales volume this didn't exist before ordinals and now it's crushing it uh wow 83 million 576 thousand that's pretty good and then there's this thing called wash percentage wash percentage is if you're in traditional equities even into uh into crypto wash trading is illegal in traditional equities uh wash trading you can actually I'm not going to say much about it because I don't want to ruffle any feathers but wash trading essentially it's the same person you're selling and buying the same person or there are two people that are in cahoots as you might say and they're kind of bouncing things back and it's uh yeah is what it is but wash percentage on ethereum and polygon is pretty damn high almost 50 percent on polygon 27 percent on ethereum and everything else it doesn't really exist except for zora I don't know what the hell that is but uh on this one you can see that you know a lot of wash percentages but what's interesting is that solana has sales volume of 21 million 134 thousand and it beat out ethereum 10.7 now before you start yelling at the screen and say but rob that's just ethereum not the l2s you are exactly correct that is very true so if we take a look at uh the sales and I'm not gonna I don't want to add because here's the total and here's the wash I I mean the wash is the wash is what it is right but if you add on ethereum a 10 polygon at one immutable at 904 thousand I don't know I'm at those arbitram I don't see any old twos it's still higher 10 million 11 million so on so forth but if you add on ethereum total plus polygon plus immutable plus oh it's still more so it doesn't really it's forget what I said it doesn't really matter so it's not double but it has overtaken ethereum in nft sales and that is one indicator that you can take a look at and go huh maybe solana has a use case however to keep it fair and balanced uh just so you know as far as tvl ethereum is still eating everybody's lunch it's still at 54 tron is at 11 and a half percent finance smart chain 6.5 arbitram and four ton for telegram well connection with telegram four percent solana is only two almost three percent avalanche is one polygon one optimism third chain and others is down here and uh but things are changing I just want you to notice this right here this is a ah he want to does this let me go on here this is the block data hmm let me do this more precisely aren't okay and we can see just what kind of tvl we have for everything that has to do with uh these chains in particular we can see that in january 12 2021 ethereum it was only a theorem 96 but in a short amount of time roughly a year it dropped like well 42 41 or somewhere around there and then you had a finance smart chain avalanche terra remember that polygon solana solana three percent huh interesting and for a year it was kind of losing a bit of favor but then it kind of bounced back but you can see even here it's still roughly and theorems actually were gained a little bit it's at 61 now but times have changed a little bit but as far as tvl goes theorem's still the top it's still the top of what we have however it will say that this time has gone on we've seen a lot of these narratives play out and one of the narratives was meme coins and I did quite well on meme coins and it's straight up gambling but don't worry about me i'll be fine it's only like 0.001 percent of my portfolio it's not like i'm yoloing in to buy uh bonk uh to to ride me in the promised land it's just straight up it's just fun just gambling but for the djens that are out there just so you know this is uh steven he's the one that told me about bonk actually in early november and he talks about solana rotation from meme coins like bonk into solana nft is going to be epic i'm betting more a meme culture with great community aesthetics this is why at chads wtf will seem in retrospect the most obvious play ever and i was like what's the chads well this is chads it's a meme coin i excuse me excuse me sorry sorry it's it's an nft play just so you know and here's the website you can check it out but you have to understand that these nfts like we just took a look at maybe it does rotate rotate into it but i have to tell you if you're looking for the most risky play you can possibly make if you think meme coins are risky have fun with these so nfts are like super risky but again more a heck of a lot more stress and just so you know and like you can get into this and i think chads is on i think they're like number 15 16 yeah there they are and their their floor price is what is their floor price it's nine uh nine solana which would have been like roughly two thousand dollars at the at the peak but now as long as only 70 bucks so but it's still quite a bit and then i think uh this is the most stuff here you can take a look at a link in the description but just be aware that with everything comes risk this was a tweet that i just saw before we started the show from hasus martinis and he said and actually i'm gonna i'm gonna read this one from xir f u nft trader just got drained please go revoke all approvals for nft trader contract now red alert at red alert at board apiott club apparently uh his wallet was uh connected and maybe he signed something he shouldn't have and hasus lays it all like this this should be a wake-up call for everyone if you have nfts and d5 protocols do you trust it anything can be hacked they're only safe in your cold wallet nft trader smart contracts are hacked revoke these asap millions have already been drained any revoking these foreign contracts you don't trust so when we talk about this stuff we're like what sounds good that sounds good but just remember it's not how much you make it's how much you keep and for these types of things it gets pretty crazy when that happens but again more risk more reward that's up to you and lastly it's not all fun and games on this channel i don't want to rise everybody up to the hopium sphere to where they can moon out remember there's trash out there remember safe moon ah i remember safe moon it was safe and it's going to the moon well apparently it's going into bankruptcy and i think uh we had talked about this a couple of days ago but uh now this was from December 14th they're filing for bankruptcy and i remember this being everywhere and then you know coming out and all the different people were talking about i'm like that doesn't sound like that doesn't make any sense to me regardless it's going for bankruptcy so just remember that a lot of these products that you like and love don't marry them because they'll sell you out in a heartbeat naturally what it comes down to just be aware and that's what's happening and then before we get into the q and a just want to remind everybody that's uh over on my second channel dandigen we did a deep dive into the launch pad that is 10 set and tomorrow we'd be giving away uh five oops this is the wrong one we'll be giving away 5000 tokens 5000 10 set tokens and i'll do the drawing live tomorrow all you gotta do is watch this video and then now there's a link in the description to uh tweet out or retweet and i'll draw those the same thing we did yesterday with the tandem and we'll go from there that's it for today so look like today's video put a thumbs up consider subscribing everything we talk about is time sensitive now what we'll do is we'll get into a little uh q and a i'll answer all your questions and i can see there's a boatload of them and we'll go from there but if you gotta take off go enjoy saturday it's a beautiful day here in portorico i can't wait to get to the beach let's get to it do a little q and a hey panda pie everybody beardies here teslas here ca blockchain breakdown okay all right and a lot of other well the usual suspects i can see mad cow a lot of wrenches thanks wrenches i appreciate you i am dca avalanche boy avalanche did a great job didn't it especially this week sweet marion joseph did fantastic really did but i mean there's a reason why a lot of these different platforms and games and web three have actually chosen them because they do what they say they're gonna do let me show you something as a matter of fact you guys know i like arbitram l2 very good play solid people talk to them many a time and uh it was looking pretty good but i gotta pull it from here hold on one second i want you guys to see this so arbitram just had a little bit of a problem let me pull this up with an outage crazy right so i should have talked about this but i forgot about it oh rob probably didn't talk about it because he has a bag that's probably true but no no no i just truly forget about this arbitram suffers partial outage amid traffic influx so this just happened was this today summer 15th the 16th today 16th this was just yesterday late 1245 uh so we talked about solana having their outages well hey here you go it l2 does have one i say and why did this happen it happened because there was a significant surge in traffic resulted in a partial partial outage of layer 2 the problem involved arbitram sequencer sequencers are key components of layer 2 networks serving to process in order transactions and blocks in this case for a therium outage lasted nearly two hours according to arbitram status page we're working to resolve as quickly as possible provide a post more as soon as possible have a look at that i didn't know that arbitram sequencer suffered a two-hour in early june as well arbitram is a therian's layer 2 encompassing two minutes blah blah blah blah that's it so yeah so i gotta tell you that doesn't instill a ton of confidence in me or arbitram maybe just a big little glitch but uh you in the in the comments right now let me know your favorite token or crypto that has an outage in the last year or so has anybody not had an outage i know there's a couple of them so let me know in the comment section because i gotta tell you if you have an outages now there's two ways to look at it you can look at it like this like well good thing that wasn't in the bull market because now you can fix whatever there was the problem and the second thing you can say is well that doesn't look too good when the bull market comes because maybe we'll never fix it hopefully they do i'm not married to anybody so hopefully it's uh it gets fixed and my bags can be sent we'll see uh and john says cardinal has not had an outage that is very true danny garcia says dot has not had an outage excellent danny again it hasn't all right rob we've seen the scam ai ads on youtube has been airing saw one charles h yeah we just talked about this yesterday as a matter of fact and i want some of your wisdom is telling you to go a fake website how can youtube air these scams it's a funny thing we talked about this yesterday i actually tweeted this out i tweeted out to youtube youtube answered they said we're doing we're doing the best we can possibly can to get rid of these scammers and then nothing so i don't know it's kind of like those uh when congress tries to pass a law to uh ban the representatives to uh actually trading stocks for some reason every one of those bills never gets passed it's amazing to me that they really try though like ah maybe not today maybe not tomorrow but soon a bunch of liars or whatever yeah ben terricott says arbitrage price didn't suffer at all maybe i should have covered it more hi rabble so your back is feeling better it is my time to medicine before i start the show so i do pretty good but yeah i should probably start drinking more oh look at this guy coming over here to gloat so if you don't know me and simon have a bet this etf actually gets approved in january looks 99 percent like it could i'm in the one percent camp i had to wear some i have to wear a shirt which i bet simon so it wasn't on him simon i am ready hopefully if this does happen you'll have your studio up and running and we can do this in a nicer place james good to see you good to see you james uh blockchain breakdowns opinion question what major coins of last cycle do you think will not make it this season reach new all-time high next cycle it's a funny thing actually let me pull this up we took a look at now this isn't it we took a look at it from the last cycle in 2017 now maybe i can't find it hold on master spread proposals ah this is the one did it all-time high look at this so we took a look at from 2017 and 2021 how many of those coins actually from the top 53 how many of those coins hit their all-time high in 2021 and let me know if you remember any of these coins iota dash nem nem was number 10 on december 2017 pretty much the top remember uh bit connect oh i do it was a straight up scam lisk waves stratus bit and you know i'm not going to bore you but i don't remember any of these i mean i do but i just they're very they're fitting quick quickly from 2017 to the high of that cycle to the 2021 high you know only 11 out of 53 hit their all-time high 11 that's 20% actually you can't see it because of this sorry 20% so for this next one to answer your question which ones could actually hit their all-time high from 2021 i have no idea but if history is any indicator it's not going to look good for the top 50 from 2021 so that's why when i see new narratives coming out i'm like maybe i should take a look at that and i've always said i'm not always that but i think that the narratives themselves are ai dex's web3 gaming moving into the next cycle but we'll see uh that did to do danie says if but if he did dc air buckhouse about it's still a great return most of them danie's right and that's just it um when i was putting this together i was like should i even say this because you know it might it didn't really matter because i was thinking about like should i say this because it might confuse people or it might make them stumble but i have to give you the best information i possibly can and the data is there the data is you know when you lump sum obviously if you would have lump summed in i don't know november 2022 it'd probably been the greatest time of all time right greatest thing of all time well we didn't we missed that but you'd have to wait a little bit because there was some ups and downs actually that was mostly bitcoin and most of the uh of the lows but now that we're here a year later we're we're closer to and we're already in a bull run we're closer to a blow off top than we were before so i think it's a little bit i think it's a little bit safer again tomorrow we could drop 50 i have no idea but danie's right even if you just just say you know what great video but i'm not going to do it you keep dcing you still saw those numbers those numbers were still solid so it doesn't only matter what you do and before anybody asked me well rob what about this probably that project i'm telling you right now most everything that you guys buy it's probably gonna do pretty good you could throw a dart at coin gecko and whatever it hits you're like whoa 10x or 2x or 1.5x whatever else the real thing is and i've said this time and time again it's are you gonna be able to sell are you going to be able to sell this because i can guarantee it even if you're this is your second cycle or your third cycle or sweet mary joseph is your fourth cycle um probably a little better but a lot of you even me included are going to screw this up we're not going to sell the perfect top we're not going to sell because we think well if it 20x maybe you could 40x and we're going to screw up that's why we have to stick to the plan whatever your plan is my plan is very simple well simple for me link in the description why and when i'm selling 80% of my crypto in 2025 i should really rename that as 2024 2025 because it could be 2024 because of the indicators hit i'm out and as a reminder uh once those indicators hit and i sell 80% i will do a video and i will say i sold and i sold this much i'm not gonna tell you how much i made that's ridiculous that's it for me and i step away from this channel so i will step down during this bull run say thank you so much i appreciate your time and i won't come back and tell the bear market because you don't need me in the bull market the only thing that you don't if you're here right now you don't need me so that'll be it and then i'll come back when the bear market comes because i think that's when people need a little bit of uh you know reminder that hey things suck right now they don't suck forever maybe you should dollar cost average and maybe we're not even hit the bottom bottom because the bear markets have many uh different layers to it so that's the plan and then i'll get to do something else maybe it'll be a tour guide here in Puerto Rico that's probably my that's my next job i think i'm going to i'm going to sell when ben grows his hair long i doubt that's going to happen unless unless he grows out his beard also rob what's your top two dexes well isn't uniswap let me tell you i use orca all the time and jupiter and uh trader joe i like those they're very fast very easy some people said that uh one person said you didn't have a good experience but i i've had a pretty good experience because i don't so like i use my tanzum card and i just shoot over some slana into my phantom wallet and then i do my trades that i need to do i take it off and it's very fast it's very very cheap i just did a uh a video for benji bananas benji bananas is a is a web 2 game it was uh put on the apple and uh android store in 2013 has over 50 million downloads and they went from web 2 to web 3 with the hell of animoka brands so i did a video on that it's a fun game it's like it's hyper casual and uh i was doing the video and i had to buy the the pass to actually accumulate because it's a play to earn type of game to accumulate these tokens and they have it they have it on open sea and the pass is cheap the pass is like 50 bucks 55 bucks somewhere around there and it lasts a lifetime right and you can start earning great the freaking fees for ethereum was 27 dollars it was half roughly of what the pass was and i'm like this is not happening but i mean it is what it is and people say well i'll pay for that are the most people going to pay for it no i think i think everybody wants it uh fast easy and cheap if we do that we're going to nail it what's jupiter glad you asked and jupiter if you're going to sponsor my channel i'm going to let you don't you worry so this is jupiter and uh what's i mean it's just it's just a dex what i like about this dex though you know i like the dollar cost average right so you can dca and let's say you're like i've got i'm gonna i want to put 0.25 solana and i want to buy you can buy guac i guess you can buy bonk you buy whatever i don't know i want to buy that every day over 12 days or whatever i think the maximum i think we talked about this was 28 oh well like it won't because but it's the max of 20 or 30 days and you can just put this in and as long as your uh wallets connected and of course i use a hot wallet which i don't store a lot in there so just be aware uh you can dollar cost average it's uh works pretty well it's fast it's easy and uh that's jupiter all right i'm a virtual tour guide i'd rather be a physical tour guide show people the waterfalls maybe do kayaking stuff like that that'd be fun when my back gets healed i'm gonna go try to go to the beach today see some friends playing volleyball and see what happens defy travel this is probably what we don't we may not need you in the bull what a voice reason which will be appreciated especially for those that still need a little hand holding nope i appreciate you traveling but here's what's gonna happen everybody here you guys already know what to do here's already the veterans i don't want to deal with a tourist anymore i mean i don't i don't want to deal with because here's what's gonna happen i'm gonna lay it out for you we're gonna give this bull run there'll be a bunch of people who are now trader geniuses and they know everything about crypto and the day that i say i'm selling everything or 80 they're gonna call me a boomer and they're gonna say well good job you moron and then they're gonna say you know you're a paper hand weakling and uh i'm gonna ride this up for 10 20x and i'm like oh no fun and that's it and then of course i got to deal with that stupidity and then of course everything else is gonna come about whatever bad happens it's the seed is planted in the early bull run and it germinates in the in the height of the bull run and it gets exposed in the bear market take a look at voyager take a look at celcius take a look at block fi take a look at fcx all that trash is going to happen it's going to be different it's going to happen again i don't want to deal with it so i think the best thing i can do is just say i sold here probably i'm not going to hit the top you can do whatever you want with that see in the bear market and i take a little break uh when will jupiter be listed on coinbase that's a good question chair i'm not for sure i am not for sure yeah the shall in says it right i hope everyone has a cold wallet that has never touched any smart contracts any dex's can other smart cards may done other wallets you know what shall you write you're exactly right and the video that i did for tangem i did a section on there where i showed you how to connect to a dex i'm going to take that out i'm going to do that today i'm going to re upload it and we'll do a watch along um because i don't think we should do that good point okay i won't be buoyed hand in Russian you guys are my bullies you guys are my bouncers so what i should do is just hand out just a ton of branches for everybody and then just everybody get blocked nah that wouldn't be as fun rob i've shown up every day with the same uniform since november 21 darren's right just like the military you just show up with the right uniform every day and you get promoted that's pretty much the secret make sure to use pulse chain of ease yeah rob to use engrave want to switch from ledger funny enough engrave just reached out to me so i will probably do a video about them and let you guys be the be the judge of that yeah so i got um that ellie pal is going to send me other one of their upgrades and uh i need to do the uh the tangem mary christmas jenette it's number five it's right with tessa bonk is skyrocketing along with fp token luna tourists have already here yeah you're done with tourists or someone i can deal with those tourists i just can't deal with the smart alec i know everything new people that come in they're annoying as hell do you know what's funny we all used to be those people remember those days ah those are good days when you came in you're like bro diamond hands hold on forever never gonna go down a million to the moon when lab remember that stuff ridiculous i mean it is came real first thing your channel uh i'm welcome hopefully it beats your expectations i'm watching your videos almost every day now i think you're doing a great job thanks storm i appreciate icp went long 20x and wow we're gonna go in icp low 29 months ago wow icp is pumping really should do a deep dive in that one if you don't know people who are big into uh internet computer protocol they told me they tell me that the reason why it dumped so hard is because this was the this is what they tell me i can't verify this yet the reason why it dumped so hard sam bakeman freebe was backing solana and wanted that to really be the next great thing and it became the next great thing at the expense of he didn't want any competition and he sunk icp by fud or whatever he did and uh at the longer i've been in this in this space i can tell you that if you have the right market makers and you have the right people on your side you can do anything in this market and when gary's don't tell gary this but it is easy to manipulate prices don't tell gary but it's true you can do that if you have the right people and enough people do a lot of things but it's not like the banks don't do it it's normally jp morgan didn't do that with spoofing of precious metals it's not like they don't engage in money laundering but either here or there does that dunk and don't it's uniform count yes yeah bonkers uh gabriel says hey rob you're talking about indicator from when to sell can you explain again about it really it's simple it's it's pretty simple um the one of the indicators first there's a website you should always aid like to peruse look into bitcoin because if everything starts with bitcoin we know everything starts with bitcoin right bitcoin pops off first and all the alts follow it's not like pepe coin pops off first and then bitcoin follows there are some exceptions so when you take a look at like what i'm just looking for when when there's a when there's a top there's a couple different charts you can look at and let's see the first one you can take a look at the pile multiple well this is just bitcoin minor revenue essentially like this so it's divided the daily issuance of bitcoin by 365 days and you can see that it's been pretty darn pretty close to accurate down here in the green is when it's kind of safe to buy when he gets in the red kind of where it's getting overheated and you kind of see that it's just one aspect right didn't do a good job in 2017 or tell you to me see me 2021 just hit that so it wasn't the greatest but oh it did do a great job it was the price cycle top let me rule this out to 24 hours it did a pretty good job it's when the 111 day moving average crossed over 350 day moving average times two and you can see that in 2013 it pretty much and again this is looking retrospectively uh but in 2013 it did a good job in 2017 it pretty much nailed it in 2021 did okay you got the 53,000 not the 60 or 58,000 not the 67,000 but i'll take that so that's just one and then the big one is time and risk bands which would be bends let's see so bends some of his stuff is free some of his stuff is paid the thing i'm going to show you right now is paid risk so look at this so as we go into these these risk bands and it's just it's just the time of which bitcoin is in these these super high overblown risk bands here's the price of bitcoin here we are today this is you let's turn on 0.9 and 0.8 and you're going to see that did a pretty good job hit most of the peaks so when we come over here this is 0.9 you got the 61,000 pretty good is it perfect now it's not perfect that's why you have to kind of roll these all together and kind of see which one's the best option because at this point if you if you're just relying on like fear and greed index we're going to be at extreme greed from here to here to here to here to here so use a bunch of different ones and just go yeah if i get to like 60% of top i'll be pretty happy and that's about it so but again watch that video it explains a lot better than what i just did delta tide he did make it good question mark uh maybe you should stay under in the bull run and do live vids with chat no because then people will say well he's still here so you know maybe if i should hold on i want people to really think about it like um you know when i sell i want people to think well maybe this isn't a good idea for me to sell somebody that you know i know sells and he's been around for a while so maybe it's something to really look into instead of me just going hey i sold but i'll be back tomorrow and we're going to talk about this next great meme coin or something so i don't think it's a good idea for me by the way yesterday's ledger alert when connecting daps resolved it should be ledger had an issue with connecting the daps and i got to tell you don't if you're going to use a cold storage device like ledger just don't connect the daps there's no real i mean there's reasons for it if you want to do like bld genny and stuff but the whole point of a cold storage wallet is that it's air gapped and you know you don't have a connection to the internet because when you have a connection to the internet with these daps you can sign something goofy and silly and all of a sudden gets drained so as i understood it this was two days ago they said it was going to take 24 hours i said wait 48 hours also cleared all the cookies in your browser that's what their recommendation was and then go from there it should be so remember these are daps if you're connecting to like to do this to like move your whatever crypto to a centralized exchange that's a centralized exchange it's not really a dap that's not a dap so you should be just fine doing those things so we the next east perhaps could coin icp and did i miss anything that's a weird good question fred first time follow then for three years nine nine percent bitcoin great job one percent link if i lumped some today what ten coins would you choose well to lump some let's be honest the narrative really is going to be i mean the narrative is is salon is kind of eating up everything so if you lump some you got to go bitcoin i would go bitcoin again someone gave me ten thousand dollars and said lump some this ten thousand dollars the easiest play will be bitcoin but it's not going to give you the best returns right we know that we know that if you're here for the tech or off the left if you're here for to make massive gains you might want to do a little bit old coins but again the farther you go risk it is so let's just say i'd go if i did have 10 000 i lumped it let's say let's take four coins right i'd probably do ethereum because i think that would do pretty well it's not going to be magical i would probably go bonk because if you want to make massive gains that's massive risk why not i would do icp you want to go massive risk because why not again what you saw was at 460 it's at six six dollars now i would do gosh i'm not going to say cardano because it kind of wasn't the top 10 so any of the top 10 it's hard to really make massive massive gains someone has gave me 10 000 i can just do whatever i want with it i just gamble it away um what would be a really oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah probably um immutable because the web3 narrative and then um there's a one really risky play i'd get a hypercycle but that's super risky that's an ai play it's not even really listed yet so that's uh super risky conservative bitcoin ethereum solana and something else i throw in there probably cardano who knows ben's website is way too expensive you get 10% off the first month just saying i have shadow i've got it back to out of my front door okay wall street picker says if there was a dog fight between bonk doge and sheba who would win based on merit not hype doge you know doge just had his 10 year anniversary last week and spend the top 40 for 10 years i don't think many cryptos can say that maybe bitcoin can that's about it man this is risky i sold my bitcoin i'm going to play with low cap satisfy with 2x to 3x on a bulk sum of cash and bitcoin now it's dj time you could do that it's super risky but you know i always remember this there was a guy i met in one of the meetups we did here in porto rico last year and he showed me his portfolio and this was when things were really really low and it was it was and he showed it was a he was his metamask wallet yeah and he had like a million dollars worth of just these crazy s coins i've never seen before in my life and he's like you know if one of these pops off he goes i'll have 10 million dollars he goes so that's that's my strategy i'm like you don't want to do any bitcoin he's like i got a little bitcoin but this is the this is my uh my moon bag i'm like damn that is ballsy you can do it but it's just super risky but anyhow take it for what it's worth this is the day that we took a look at and that's it for today so everybody again is a reminder links in the description for 10 set the deep dive video the launchpad which i like that launchpad because they've got a lot of interesting products coming out gaming which is gonna be pretty good and then also they also do airdrops and staking all that good stuff and i'm giving away 5 000 10 set tomorrow for the live stream so stop by that's it for today thanks so much for hitting up the stream i appreciate it and i'll see everybody on the next one have a great day everybody bye


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