The Association of Resident Doctors River State Teaching Hospital has called off one week strike. The state president of the association Dr Ella George hinted on this after the association's emergency congress meeting in Port Hackett. Dr George said the state government has demonstrated commitment in addressing the nagging issues of the resident doctors. You know the processes for the domestication of the medical residency training act in River State has commenced with the chairman of the River State House of Assembly. They haven't received the document from us you know on the medical residency training act. You know the government has also promised you know to look into the issue of implementation of the wage adjusted. Commence 2019 okay to employ more resident doctors you know to bridge the gap you know as a result of the exit of doctors out of the country. What the doctors have decided to do is to return to work you know to give the government time you know to implement you know the things we have brought up and then for us also you know to help and reduce the pain you know and the sufferings of diverse people at this time. And government have given us the award that they are going to do the things that have been asked of that's the medical residency training act the COVID-19 inducement allowance and the proper placement of doctors and the various demands by doctors which were made and then we believe that we're holding them by the awards you know it's it's possible for government to default and it's also possible for government not to default but we are holding the River State government that they would not default and then because that would further create synergy between the association of resident doctors and government and it will help patient care because doctors will now we now know that oh their government are really the government of river state is really sincere hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates


The end just a little housekeeping for you going here because there is another seminar that starts at 1015 So we're going to need to clear out of here pretty quick unless you're sticking around for the communication seminar I'd like to introduce who we have a ground stage We have run manner the assistant national voluntary services director with me this morning I have Rich Tulfa who is the chair of the Interment Hospital voluntary services committee meeting. He's from Florida Carolyn Smalls with me from Georgia Jerome Washington's not up here with us right now He's on the committee as well from Nevada and Jose Garcia He's not here at the convention set to do some family stuff back home in Texas But I want to thank the committee for what they do They they're charged with a lot of stuff throughout the year and they do a great job at getting it done So thank you committee members for what you do each and every day and for your involvement in your local communities Thank you everybody. Yeah, thank you. Please give him a round of applause I want to thank each and every one of you for getting up right and early this morning to come down and join us to discuss the Voluntary Services Department and some of the things that we have going on at DAV So we'll go ahead and get moving along here You can see my farmers only profile pick up here We're charged with a lot of things you got bronze pretty mug shot up there as well and Katie Gepinger who's a supervisor of the department We're involved with a lot of things in voluntary services not just in the hospital, but in the community With DAV's involvement with the adaptive sports program And just raising awareness for DAV in general whether that's through our scholarship fund through recognizing outstanding volunteer for the year Just a variety of things our contact information is up there and when the seminar is all completed or conventions over all of these Presentations should be posted on the members only portal at DAV So you can log in with your membership number download this or do a hyperlink to it and utilize this presentation to your heart's content Here's the rest of the team. We have Ashley Pele She's responsible for our involvement with the winter sports clinic in the T tournament So she has a direct interaction with a lot of you as departments and chapters who help sponsor and support these events as well Those are corporate sponsors for both of those events. Holly Jackson marine veteran as my assistant Connie Kenny a lot of you had interactions with her her primary focus is the DAV transportation network from start to finish That's when we go to order vehicles get them decal to get them up and out and back out to you Nicole ends while she's a correspondent and her focus is on the local veterans assistance program So a lot of you LVAP coordinators probably here from her on a pretty routine basis I'll ask you to continue to send in your reports as timely as possible so we can keep up to date with those hours Pam hitting is relatively new to our team, but not new to DAV She's working with all the HSCs and gathering the hours for your volunteer drivers miles and veterans transported Chris Ripper is a Floats and does the same thing and then Odie Hall a lot of you have interactions with as a BABS rep or depth Or honorary rep so she does your certifications Everybody that I just called off is cross-training can do the exact same thing anybody else can do but You have good points of references for anybody that you're calling Let's talk about volunteer for veterans. We're really proud of this resource. It's new. It's relatively new still It's an online tool designed to help promote volunteerism in community We have a lot of great opportunities that are in there, but currently we're still lopsided We have more volunteers registered than we have veterans needs So if you know a veteran in your community who has access to a computer can utilize your computer Have them build a profile and volunteer for veterans and tell us what their needs are They can be as simple as changing a light bulb on your front porch To doing some minor home maintenance outside and I mean minor I'm not talking about doing a renovation of a bathroom. I'm talking about maybe Fixing a handrail on a porch or you know, maybe something something like that working outside cleaning out a flower bed Removing weeds Now those type of things it's designed to complement the current LVAP program that we have in existence today But it doesn't require you to do any more paperwork because when the job is completed in volunteer for veterans We run a report at the end of the month and import those hours So the individual volunteering receives credit for his or her time helping somebody in the community Again, this is primarily focused on getting involved outside of VA hospitals, but more in the community All right, so we have all kinds of great resources and things that are available for you Whether that's the DAB transportation network whether that's the youth scholarship program Resources for LVAP we have posters All you have to do is reach out to our team members and tell them hey I'd like to get a bro some brochures 25 of this 25 of that we'll send that stuff to you Now we spend a lot of money annually updating these resources and ensuring they're up to date that they have the information That's need they're fresh. They look great. They're extremely professional I was definitely saying with your scholarships if you're a representative in a hospital Take advantage of our posters that you can post up in a common area Have the brochures if you don't have the opportunity to brief the youth that are coming on and that information off to the voluntary services Chief and encourage them to advise the children volunteering it They might be eligible for the scholarship if they don't at their time to DAB Here's a bunch of links to the videos that we have done Withheld from Dan Clare the communication staff. There are how-to videos for volunteer for veterans We're going to show you a real funny one as we check a transition from me doing the presentation to Ron taking over But we have a video up here. It's a how-to register We have a video how to add an opportunity how to complete an opportunity and how to search for opportunity Opportunities, excuse me. They're very short two-minute videos that you can take back and share with your chapter I think we do ourselves a disservice by not sharing the information That's being passed on not saying everybody does that but we have all these resources and this is a just a Fire hose of information that's coming to you guys when you're here at the convention Please go back and take advantage of it. Check all these videos out There's a lot of time and effort put into that and I think they're very helpful and beneficial and again You can refer back to them or like quick two-minute videos That'll help you through the process of navigating this new resource this right here is an annual joint review and So what happens is in VA voluntary services? This is in the hospital We get a summary annual joint review one time a year and what we're finding is that sometimes these annual joint reviews When they come in they're not being signed off on by a representative there If you as a department have somebody appointed to be a representative It's imperative that they show up to these of these meetings They're quarterly meetings and this tells everything that's happening at that facility on a financial level from the chapter Department and on a you know volunteer level, so I have a headcount of how many volunteers are at I'll just pick on Tulsa, Oklahoma at this point They're not enough. They're not a Fender of not sending me this stuff, but I'm going to use them as an example So now I know what's going on in Tulsa now read these every one of these gets reviewed by me And I send a letter back to the program chief and let them think you know Thank them for sending me that and sometimes there are warning letter We don't want to lose our representation at these facilities So if you're gonna appoint somebody to be involved make sure they are able to make it to these meetings now life happens and I understand people get ill Or sick or if you need to do a change don't be afraid to send us to say hey We need to remove so-and-so and put some somebody else in we're glad to do it These joint reviews are very important for us as an organization because I can also track how much money is being donated by Chapter 12 in Michigan or whoever they're at so I know what's going on in those facilities This right here is a Form 20 And it's a little I know it's a little bit blurry. It's just the way we kind of stretched it out here But when we get these forms in From VABS they need to be completed in their entirety a lot of times I'll get an individual's name First and last name, but I'm missing the address Of a volunteer. How can I recognize he or she for their time if I don't get their address? And I know at VA they say I'm not asking for anybody social security number I've had a lot of emails. Well, is there a form out there? We've updated that form about five years ago But none of our DAV forms are going to request or ask for a social security number We understand identity theft is a big deal. We don't want that information I do ask for the date of birth if I can get it because if I have a common name like Thomas Smith I can't identify who that person is without the date of birth Again, if you can get the information from us during a meeting or directly speaking with the volunteer That's great. It just goes into our database so we know we can identify and recognize That particular individual for his or her volunteer activities. Nothing else Okay, this is the VA form 50 and this is the form that we get that says What they do in a monthly basis in DAV volunteer and voluntary services I cannot track or help veterans without getting these hours reported in 2018 there were nearly 25% of the facilities that end to report any hours for the entire year And I talked about this very same thing at midwinter and I had a bunch of people rush up at the end of the Conference say am I one of them? Am I one of them? We've talked to everybody Just continued to do the best you can at getting me this information and I'm gonna say in a timely manner I really really really need your help on getting all of our information all of the reporting Within 30 days And you know there are volunteers out there giving their most precious commodities that and that's their time And if I don't get that information in a timely manner, I can't recognize them We're doing a better job of getting our awards and our incentives out I talked to a volunteer here. He got a real cool made in America product all of our incentives remain in America very proud to say that and We had to figure out it's a wallet. It's pretty neat real nice leather wallet So get us that information in time to matter so we can update our records and make sure we recognize you as soon as possible Teamwork is essential to anything that we do as an organization So for DAV success, we have to work harmoniously with the individuals we come in contact with It's important for you to continue to be unified as an organization and help us continue to grow Volunteers should establish a good working relationship with program managers in the facilities the chiefs and other VA staff at their local facilities This goes a long way it carries our brand our reputation as an organization Key skills to being a team player include communication Listening being reliable and not forgetting to be respectful to others all things that we were taught as children and as servicemen and women You need to be a good volunteer and clearly communicate your ideas with everyone you come in contact with Just because we're doing something today this way doesn't mean that we can't find a better way to do it So if you have a good idea, don't be afraid to share it I had somebody come up and share an idea with me this morning We'll hold on to that idea and see if it's going to be something beneficial in the future But most importantly to be reliable if you say you're gonna be somewhere do your best to be there This will let your other Volunteers know that you're respectful and it means a lot and they have trust in you for what you're doing Here's a cool little video as we transition It's So I volunteer, you have the same opportunity to make this assignment and tell T.A.P. what happened. This is what protects both artists and completes the assignment. In the end, the flat tire never got fixed. Sergeant Richard Thompson, the swaster and volunteer tracker was hiding from the cats. But we did learn some valuable information. So now, you're ready to go out there and start as a volunteer for veterans. Thank you. We did receive five Academy nominations for that video. And I want to thank, again, the communications staff, more specifically, Austin Schaffner for getting that video done. He did all that himself. It took us a one day great video. I hope you enjoyed it. It's a resource that's available for you. It's meant to be funny, but there are, you know, it's a great way to show how easy you can actually get out and give back to somebody. With that being said, I'm going to turn it over to Ron Minner. He's going to push through the rest of this and we'll turn it over for some questions and answers. Morning. So what I'd like to talk to you about. Some of you that are in here, we're at the CNA orientation at headquarters a month or so ago. And we're going to kind of recap some of these program changes with regard to our volunteer recognition programs, which is our George Sill, DAB George Sill Award, or DAVA George Sill Award, and our Jesse Brown Youth Memorial Scholarship program that we have. How many volunteers are in here? How many of you are familiar with Jesse Brown Scholarship and the George Sill Award? I guess how many applications we got from around the country for George Sill recognition this year for convention? I might be going to tell you the number, but you're not too far off. And on a serious note, it's kind of a shame because you all know somebody at the hospital volunteering. We get our reports into the office and I think, John, every hospital in the country is represented with at least one DAB volunteer or one auxiliary volunteer. In most cases, it's a lot of them. And we're not going out and recognizing them. It may be because you don't know who they are. It may be that they're at a facility away from the one you volunteer at, but we need to do our part. We want to recognize our volunteers and make sure that we're given credit to all of you, and especially recognizing that volunteer that's selected by the committee when we get those applications in. So John and I were talking on our team and we figured, how can we change this? How can we make it easier for you to get that information to us? Because we rely on the departments when those commanders award announcements go out and we rely on the chiefs and program managers at the VA hospitals where they're tasked with so many other things. When they get our request for another application, it usually goes on the back burner somewhere. So we're going to try to make this as easy as possible for all of you. What we're going to do is, these are still going to be commander's awards. I want to point that out real quick. The Jesse Brown Open Application Period is going to begin on May 1st. And you're going to have all year until the following February 28th to get us nominations for the Jesse Brown Scholarship Applicants, or the youth volunteers. On the George Seale side of it, for DAV and DAV Auxiliary, we're going to take our top ten volunteers from every department. That's DAV and Auxiliary. We're going to send every department a list of those top ten volunteers. We're running this list based on who had volunteer hours within the current year that we're working at. That list will show you their current year volunteer hours and their lifetime hours. I'll help clear that is up there for you. Can you see that? You'll see on the far right in the top corner the lifetime VAVS hours, 10,295 in this example here. And then it's got the current year's volunteer hours, 731. And as you go down, they're all listed the same. It tells you what facility they volunteer at. So the idea is we provide you this information. We have access to these reports. We send you those top ten and we're asking the commanders and agitants from every department to establish, if you don't already have one, an awards committee. We want you to determine who that top volunteer is for DAV and DAV Auxiliary. Send that application for those two to us. We don't want an application for all of these. And hopefully at the end of the day, we have, what is it, 104 applications from every department. Auxiliary, one DAV, right? And then you can take those top two recipients for DAV and Auxiliary that you recognize. Send those to us. They become competitive with the other departments for the national award that we give away here at convention. I don't know if we can make it any easier. We hope that this is an easy way for you to have that information at hand and make a selection and send that to us. In turn, I would suggest recognizing those two that you send to us at your state department convention as your volunteer of the year, if you're not already doing that. Auxiliary, it'll be two separate reports for DAV and then the auxiliary report and it'll be the same. Youth volunteers. There's not going to be as many eligible youth volunteers, but we need to do our part to recognize them. That's our future. That's our future leaders. And they're going to carry the torch and they're taking that message on with them to college. And typically we receive a lot of feedback from them. And these become, you know, our torch bears and they're teaching other youth as they get older about those opportunities within the VA systems. And a lot of them become donors as they become more successful in life. And they remember what DAV did for them in providing that volunteer opportunity. More important than scholarship that they receive to allow them to go to college or university or some vocational school somewhere. Just want to make sure we do our part to recognize them. On this report, it does show the address. We had to take that out for the purposes of the seminar this morning. But when you get this, and if you need to contact them or get their application together, contact us at Heckwars. We will provide you with all the personal information that will allow you to reach out to those youth volunteers to get their information, submit those applications. We'll send you the top, how many every youth are eligible in the state. We want to say top 10, but there's times where you may only have five youth that meet the eligibility requirements. If you want to send an application for all five, please do. If you have two that stand out and you want to send those in, and they can still self nominate. So you're not keeping them out of the process. If you don't recognize them, then they can still go through the VA or self nominate themselves. You have the opportunity for the youth. There used to be a 100 hour minimum requirement within the application year. We've gotten away from that. It's hard. Some of these youth are working. They may not have transportation to go volunteer when they want to. So the requirement now is that they have 100 hours minimum lifetime to achieve that eligibility for the scholarship. We thought there would be a big change in the number of applications we received that made a little difference, but not as much as we thought. So again, we're going to send this report to every department as well. Hopefully the department folks and your awards committee, whoever you appoint, give us some viable candidates so the committee can really go through these and make sure we're selecting the right people. We've had some great folks receive the scholarship. You saw our recipient in the opening session and what a wonderful young lady she is, but there's so many more of them out there that we need to recognize and consider for these scholarships. So with the lifetime hour 100 hours, that's not just VADS volunteer hours. This is also LVAP or local veterans assistance program hours or a combination of the two to beat that minimum 100 hour goal to become eligible. And that's what you'll see on these reports here when we send those out to you. That being said, we need to make sure that we capture those hours. I know a lot of chapters go out. I've talked to some of the department leadership and some chapter folks. When you do a project within the community and you have the kids out there, we're not necessarily getting those reports and we get caught up in what we're doing, which is great. But then we forget to say, hey, we need to turn these hours in. And that's for you all as well. And that helps those kids become eligible and we want to track those hours and we want to have as much accurate data as we possibly can. So keep that in mind when you're out in the communities doing these projects outside of the VADS system, because those hours are sent to us automatically. And again, this is just an example. You'll have lifetime hours and for the youth and their current year hours for LVAP and VADS. Those will both be on the report. And they won't. Let me go back. If you notice in that middle column, that middle red arrow here, you'll see some adjustment in hours. So you may go down and this one here is stacked based on the most hours within the current year. If you go to the right column, there's no particular order there. That's their lifetime hours. So naturally we want to recognize people and thank them for what they've done in their lifetime. But when we're recognizing somebody in 2019, we want to recognize them for what they've done over the lifetime, but what they've done in the current year as well. It's also an opportunity for you to engage these volunteers if you don't know who they are, bring them in, figure out what the success stories are, and share that information and just keep building this program. So this application here, we have, it's fillable. You can print it and fill it out if you'd like. We've had to chop it up for you to be able to see it here, so it's going to be in several pages. Please fill this form out in its entirety as best as possible. We want to know as much information if you want to get something from a program manager at the hospital that's with these volunteers every day and or if you know some additional facts about them and their efforts, fill this out. We need that information to make a good decision and make sure we're recognizing those top candidates. Again, this will be two pages when you get the form, but we had to chop it up here so it was fillable. And we've changed who signs this form. I think in the past we had the program managers, the chiefs, the department manager, the department commander, and we were just asking too much and making it more difficult to get the results that we wanted. So as you can see, we're just asking for a commander's signature or someone from the department. And this does not preclude the program managers and chiefs from submitting this anymore. We're making it easier for you where we don't have to go out and get that signature and email those back to us. The George seal will still go out in November. I think the first week of November is our target to get that out. That line will be February 28th. Once you have that committee together, I hope this makes it easy. We can discuss this afterwards, but all we're asking is that you email those two candidates back during the application period. Jesse Brown Memorial Scholarship. Same thing. Fill it out in its entirety. We get a lot of people that will submit an application to us and they say, hey, what can I do to make my kid better than the other ones? Well, it's not a fair question. But what you can do is when they talk about what has volunteering meant to you, well, I went to the hospital and I helped some veterans. Well, we understand you do that when you show up. Tell us a story. What's something unique that you've learned or that you've witnessed and that you've been able to do? What kind of awards, what kind of difference have you made within that system and in the lives of those veterans that you volunteer for every day? We want to tell that story. We need it to be as descriptive as possible because we get some pretty good candidates as the committee will tell you and we want to be able to decipher those applications and make a good decision on those types of savings or who that should be. And again, we're not asking for all the signatures. We're trying to make it simple. This will be a two-page application as well and the email address for the submission is there at the bottom of the form. We're still going to be commander's awards. Don't misconstrue that. We're just changing how we solicit the awards and how we get that information back. And again, at the end of the day, we want to make this as easy as possible for everybody in here and all the departments.  And then every department, there's no reason why we shouldn't be recognizing a volunteer of the year at your state conventions. And then we have some of our good candidates there at National for the National Convention. These links are also online. As John said earlier, this presentation will be available for everyone. And you can go there and excuse me, get that information. When the announcements go out for the award and the open enrollment period, if you will, this information will be submitted again with that every department. I want to thank you again. We encourage you wholeheartedly to please work with us, work with yourselves and let's recognize our volunteers for what they do. They're out there every day. We thank you for what you do. And we want to make sure we recognize all of them and give them the credit they deserve. Thank you guys. Just to piggyback on that, and then we'll ask some questions with the youth. Make sure you tell us what they're doing in school. As you saw in the video, Hayley is a track star, 4.0 GPA. Make sure you put all that stuff in that nomination. That goes a long way. These kids are doing remarkable stuff and we don't want to just, like Ron said, focus on volunteerism. How are they acting in the community? What are they doing in their school? Are they in the choir? Those type of things are really, really good tidbits to add to that application. So we have a microphone right here and we have about 20 minutes for some questions and we'll clear out so Dan Clare can prepare for his presentation. Make sure everything's working. Yes, sir. And I want to do a challenge to each and every one of you in the room. I challenge everybody in this room to send me one nomination for any of these things this year. Can I get a commitment from you guys to do that? Can I get a commitment from you guys to do that? Please help us increase these numbers and we'll go ahead and start with the questions. Thank you. Yes, sir? No, sir. No, sir. We are in the process of building a new CRM system that we're going to implement here in the next 24 months. And so for the time being, we will continue to use DAV360 internally. And once we get this new CRM up and running, it's going to roll out in separate phases. We'll probably expand on that in a few years. But for the time being, just keep doing things the way you're doing it. Thank you, Paul. Yes, sir? Yes, there is. It's typically 14 years old. Some facilities have it a little higher depending on the level of care that's in that particular hospital. Check with your program manager at the facility. They have a guideline for that. As far as the LVAP program, I would say 13 is probably a good number to start. But I'll leave it up to the individual parents who are allowing their youth to volunteer at that point. Say your question. Repeat your question for me. I'm sorry. Yes, that's correct. If they're at a state home, you can do that through the LVAP program. If they're at a VA medical facility, they would need to do that through the VAPS program. So just get the form that enrolls them as a volunteer in our system, which was in this presentation, and submit their hours through the LVAP program if they're doing it at a state home. Thank you. Yes, if you're a hospital service coordinator, and that's your responsibility, that's what you want. Yes, and I would encourage you to fill out those forms and submit them to us so we can recognize those volunteers. Thank you. That's correct. It's typically there's not a VAVS rep there, and so we get that and then say that they missed all their meetings along those lines. And that's when we send a warning letter and advise you guys to find somebody who can fill that role so we don't lose our representation at that facility. That's typically I'd say 95% of the time a mistake. And you are saying that if a department has a VAVS rep, then that rep is responsible for making sure that they don't see it. That is correct. It's basically like a counseling session. I don't like using that term, but it's an interaction between the two to say what we've done good, what we can do better, and what are the goals for the upcoming year. Absolutely. Anything for you, John? Yes, ma'am. I'm also on a great stage with you. I just wanted to encourage the other BSOs that did in this program to get assistance with the outside with the bushes. Thank you. Major hospital volunteers there. My understanding is that the various schools were supported. Well, that goes back to our literature and talking about the scholarship program. If you can hand that stuff out or make it readily available where somebody can walk by and grab it, they can make their own informed decision about who they choose to volunteer at their time. I do visit with school counselors and talk to people throughout the country and we share that information. That's why we produce this literature. I would advise you to make a request to get some of our literature and share it with those counselors and let them share that information at will with those youth and they can make an informed decision about who they choose to volunteer at their time with and hopefully be eligible for our scholarship. Thank you. So just to kind of build on that. A couple of years ago we started just around the issue of when we put together a folder with just around information on all the high schools that we talk to the counselors. Many of these high schools require their students to have a volunteer hour for the graduated. So it's a great opportunity to talk about the DAB and to talk about this program and that's how you can get young people signing up in the VA at the hospital for the DAB. Thank you. Thank you, John. I appreciate that initiative. That's exactly what we need to be doing in our community. Thank you. Yes, sir? How do you get a correction to either a site on the website or missing shoutouts? Are you talking about for voluntary for veterans? It's just you should pick the department because it automatically rolls to the department. If you find something, you can send me a screenshot. I'll take a look at it and see if we can get it fixed. We'll definitely want to get that fixed New Hampshire, okay? We'll make a note of that and we'll talk to our IT viewer to get that turned up. Thank you. Yes, sir? Just have them come visit with us. We'll get done here and we'll help you with your problem. If there's not any more questions, I want to thank each and every one of you for coming in and joining us this morning. I hope you found this riveting. I know I love the video myself. Please take these resources back and mobilize them. Again, I want to thank the chapters and departments for their support and sponsorships of our adaptive sports program. If you're unaware of what we're doing in that avenue, please reach out to Ron or myself or Ashley Pele. We've got the T tournament coming up in less than 30 days in Central Iowa and it's a remarkable event and we couldn't do it without the support of the chapters and departments that are present at this convention. Thank you, everybody. Have a wonderful day.


So, I live on well water. My house is hooked to a pump that's in the ground over there that goes as a tank, and there's another pump inside that tank that fills up the bladder valve over here, which pressurizes to the house. And a few months ago, I had an issue where actually one of the bladder valves went, which caused the pump in the ground to keep on going until it broke, and those pumps are expensive. To get it replaced, it cost me close to a thousand dollars. So, I came up with an idea to set up alarms on it using an ESP8266, which is a little microcontroller about this big, cost about three dollars that hooks to my Wi-Fi. I've actually hooked two of them up, one to the pump in the ground and one to the pump in the tank here, and every time they turn on, the ESP comes on, the ESP8266 hooks to my Wi-Fi and logs that it turned on. And if the ESP8266 stays on for more than five minutes, it starts sending the alerts to my phone because the pump should not be running that long. Now, go to my second channel. I go into this a little more in depth. Go ahead and be sure to check out there. You can be one of the first, because I am sure, I am sure there's going to be comments about how I hooked this up to the high voltage from the house and how I used a Ziploc bag as a weatherproof enclosure for one of them and some Tupperware for the enclosure on the other. So, if you want, you could be one of the first people to criticize me.  Do it! Link in the description or at the end of this video. Head over there. I've got a lot of videos on hardware on my second channel. This is just one. Thanks for watching. I hope that you have a great day. Please visit FilmsByChris.com. That's Chris of the Cays. There's a link in the description. Here comes that link.


Now let's get into my favorite part, which is the Q&A. So let's jump into it. Shall we? All right Yes, my green screen is broke. There's no water in this Dynamic pool background that I have. There's a leak in my green screen So yeah, hey Bill Bones diesel cane Matisse tough times park Pack four. It's funny with all the crypto buys out there Thank you for like I'm covering what you own and owning up to when making a mistake on a coin the V Shopping coin for example. Trust me. I made a ton of mistakes I make tons of mistakes and that's just how it is. No one's gonna be perfect the ones that's Just sweep around the rug You gotta own it man, you know like when I was in the military you just when you made a mistake you're like I Messed that up. I'll make sure I do that again Make sure I'll do it better because you didn't correct your mistakes and people died It's very simple That was it Oh, this is a great question Do you drink beer from time to time and what do you like we have some amazing beers in Belgium? Gonna hit the bar later on to celebrate the VMT pump.  I'm not a big connoisseur of beer I'd like to drink beer, but I drink really crappy beers and those beers would be Miller Lights and Coors and here in Puerto Rico, Medalla, so I am not very cultured But I will drink any beer that is cold and that's pretty much about it Mullets here You know what that we should really have an indicator called the mullet indicator When we're starting to reverse things and we're getting more into a bullish territory Then mullet starts to make an appearance when mullet goes away, then we're in the bear market.  What do I do? This decision is for it. It's not important Just see what he's got to say. I'm done. This is just Q&A. I probably just go jump over there See what he's got going on See a meme is here fidelity is also any ability to buy crypto, but I couldn't be able to donate territories Puerto Rico not surprising Piper's here. What's up, man? Tesla's here Brandon's here. I'm telling you man. That's the thing. It's I think this is what I truly believe I think people make investing a little bit more complex and what it has to be and that Leads you to like kind of depend on them But like all the things that I talk about you can look this stuff up. You can find this on the news You can really just go about just you know, once you get the basics down, you know hold for a while it's not a it's not a loss unless you sell and Wait for the time to actually Sell your crypto with your assets or your real estate property as it appreciates Instead of taking it for a loss. That's pretty much the big stuff other than that just pick the right Project and if you don't know what the right project is Which is smart of you to think that way then just diversify. I think that's that that's a bigger option I know some people will say the Rob. You don't understand this guru told me that To make exponential wealth. I have to concentrate My investments into one investment and that's true But that's coming from the mouth of a winner who at one point one For his investment meaning they put into some investment. It paid off massively and they're like I did it I just concentrated my wealth into one Project and that was it. Let me tell you something a lot of people told me the same thing about Luna where they at now so When I take a look at that and then I always talk about my two favorites a dash of salt You're not making much on those Even though they sounded fantastic in the good old days and beardy wool test this EOS was supposed to be the next ETH killer So if you concentrate in that, where would you be? So I think I mean not to diversify too much But it's all up to you about what you want to do. I still diversify and I'm pretty much across different asset classes It's it's real estate and land and even some stocks crypto my businesses and You know staking and crypto so I Try to diversify as much as I can and try to pick the right ones, but I'll never I'll never get it right ever ever It's a good question.  It's I'm 50% sure we're gonna go up. I'm also 50% sure we're gonna go down I love the weekend so I can watch live streams During the week out of hiding my desk so my boss can't see me working not working because I have far more important streams to watch Well priorities. Let's say hey, J. H. I'm welcome as a financial advisor. I'll be just advice. It's not even It's not even Advice to you. It's just what I'm doing. That's about it Yeah, that's right. Hotski thinking me like you're despondent uncle Golfers here It's all good. Let's see That's good Always funny always funny my The people who watch me I have to appreciate your humor and all their vigilance. He never heard of them How do you feel about hex or pulsing I just never got into it and like some people say well, you know We're sure it's a scammer and da-da-da and I'm like well in all honesty Hearts been around a lot longer than some of the some of the fly-by-nights Exchanges that have come and gone so far and a lot of different products that are out there So I'm not gonna get into hex or pulsed chain. I know there's an issue right now with them He remember able to roll it out But I mean good luck for it. I'm just if I miss it. I miss it. I'm just not gonna invest in either of those two Just didn't get it to it Trust me. I'm gonna I'm gonna pass on a lot more than I'm gonna take up Yeah. Oh Thanks, the non-financial vice show. That's a fun show It's it's good See there you go.   I was thinking about this today so I'm at the beach today in Puerto Rico because it's nice here all the time. It's beautiful and I'm waiting for the people to show up for for volleyball and I'm just sitting there.   It's it's a heck of a lot easier To be in this situation and it is just to be constantly grinding and grinding grinding because probably you had a job You don't really like too much just guessing I used to be one of those people too But you know over time, you know, at some point you need to say, okay I need to work for myself. So you work for yourself, right? And you get into business start doing investments things hard to work out. It's good Then you start to find more challenges. But the whole thing is to get you off that That's uh That treadmill just never stopping be nicer if I could have more people down here That to talk crypto and things like that then everybody just kind of stuck Doing these things and you know, like the person that just talked about before just catching random live streams hiding from his boss Yeah Yeah That bottom is in see Well, Charlie said it Charlie blasts. That's a good name I'm pretty still counting his eos. I tell you not count his steps. You guys getting crushed on on sweat coin, huh? Any thoughts on our weave I It's a decentralized storage, correct, I think You know, it worked out pretty well for Apple worked out pretty well for Amazon web service AWS so sure why not why couldn't it take over especially if it's a Inexpensive and faster the thing is is it faster and is it a better product than what we have right now? I'd be a little bit safer. Just just to question them Do you hold? Oh, I do hold avalanche matter of facts Oh, I was a lot of stuff a lot of stuff I should have sold all the way but I never sell everything all the way because I just think like even in my old strategy Even the new one I'm not gonna sell every crypto It's out there because you have to take to account that there's gonna be a time when it gets blast off So why won't I hold on to it's like even if I sell? 80% of my Bitcoin and 90% of my Ethereum I always want to hold on to a little bit a little bit because I Know I'm not gonna time the top right so let's say This is not a price prediction Well, let's just say that Bitcoin goes to Let's say 250,000 like Tim Draper is touting which I think is ridiculous Tim Draper thinks it's gonna go to 20 250,000 by the end of this year Okay, sure, so let's just say it was a 250,000 in the next bull run which could be 2025-26-27-28. I have no idea. So let's say that I go. Okay. It's gonna 250. So I look at The basics right I look at PyCycleTop Nupl time and risk Mvrvz to your ma pull reserve risk. I look at all these things and I go, okay, okay 250 You know somewhere around there. That's what it is and I and I'm gonna sell Not all at once, but let's just say I sell 80% of my Bitcoin right If it go if it keeps going up And let's just say something crazy happens. Let's just say that BlackRock comes out and goes and says, you know what? We're gonna buy We're gonna invest heavily into it because we think Bitcoin is the future and then a couple more countries come out and say we made it legal tender and then Who knows maybe America comes somebody comes out and says we're gonna make it, uh, you know The world reserve currency Then of course 250,000 seems poultry. It seems ridiculous. Now all of a sudden it goes to 350 400,000 per bitcoin A half a million per bitcoin. Who knows something crazy happens. Well, good news I didn't sell all of it. I sold 80% Because if we're still looking at those cycles, that's probably where we're gonna go Rob is the only youtuber I can listen to at a regular valent without putting my airpods in when my husband's around.  I've only got so much breath left in me. Yeah That'd be not a bad idea Ah, Piper Matic Yeah, so that's one of my dollar-cost averages. I'm still micro DCing Like that's that's one thing like like me been in I think I We all uh disagree on one thing which is Actually, you know what Guess what? It's a great question. I'm gonna have those guys on So for NFA not financial vice is gonna be on my channel this thursday So it's me benefit of the cryptiverse and guy from coin bureau. So I'll ask both those guys What are you buying if anything and are you dollar-cost averaging or did you go on go and heavy Because they already know what I'm doing which is I am buying bitcoin every day And I'm buying altcoins every week and or once a month just depends on on the project And I'm doing what's called micro DCing. So instead of me paying like Buying like a thousand bucks worth of bitcoin every day. I just buy like 40 bucks It's micro micro stuff You never know So I'll ask them that question. That'll be a good one What's your opinion on it currently do you think avalanche is going anywhere? I'm upset because avax and h-bar are the only two coins. I can't put on my ledger Thanks.  You know, you can still take avalanche off Yeah, you can still think there's this website The anti-discrypto and uh, let me make sure I did this one Hold on Let's go to the home page Let's go to how do I how do I stay cryptos? It's a great question And I should probably show you the screen. Okay So sorry, I'm in module five. How do I? So I show you how to stake theta State cardano, here it is. Yeah, how do I stake avalanche? And you're going to put it on your own wallet and I'm going to show you how to do it So you can take it off exchanges and then of course, we've also got a couple different ones also How do I stake on stake polka dot and how do I stake on stake adam cosmos for passive income? That's it so again The anti-discrypto free don't even spam you I only send out emails Ah When I'm when I update the the videos on there Just on mars. This is black rocks and by olive bitcoin. Hey, they might These these are the things you just never know. So that's why I keep dollar cost out of you because I'm always like Either there's something bad. It's about to happen Something phenomenal is gonna about to happen. So something great happens, right? Where the heck that is, you know ceasefire in in in Ukraine, uh, uk gets their inflation under control Uh inflation here in the united states is is tempered and the fed reserve realizes it It starts to cut rates and quantitative easing all that stuff something good happens, right? Then I'm like, well worked out pretty well. Then if something bad happens Which is kind of why I think we're going the recession time more unemployment something around the corner. I think not for sure then I'm like, well I'm in micro dca. Now it's time to go dynamic dca, which is You know bitcoin's at almost 17 000. So once it hits 15 000, I increased by 10 percent. It's now instead of 40 bucks I put in 44 dollars a day And then it goes to 14 000. I had another 10 percent or maybe five percent Just depends and then 13 12 11 10 I still think we're going to go somewhere around between 10 and 12 before everything said and done and That's what I'll do so And yes cobra Is a very cool logo. I gotta tell you it's the uh that might be gi jo cobra and I want to say the decepticons Bitcoin having not too far away true. I think we're looking at Is it's august 2024? Or march 2024, I think it's one it is roughly it just it's all by blocks. It's not about dates. Oh jeng chao Cho is here Did you see the news on sec blocking binance acquiring voyager? I did History repeats itself the fed will drop the rates just as fast as they raised them See maybe money print will go burr 24. That's my opinion I like it. I hope you're right I like it a lot Yeah, unfortunately Molot bringing in Unfortunately the reality I need to say it So let me pull something up here macro other Uh employment I'm just gonna steal from ben's Website one more time. Sorry ben. I'm sure you'll be okay If you want to sign up for ben's website there's a link in the description. It's not an affiliate link he's just put it in there because I Steal all the time from it. So I thought that'd be generous enough. This is let's see the unemployment rate sweet marion joseph Oh, this is 2020. Okay, that makes more sense. I was like, what the heck happened here Yeah, so here's the unemployment rate Now we want it to go up. I mean for the For investors in the economy, it's Unfortunately, good when it goes up, but it's bad because people lose their jobs. Obviously, right unemployment rate 3.7 in october november 3.6 and unfortunately December 3.5. So it's going the exact opposite way. We thought it would go Yikes Yeah Ah Cobra minds. It's interesting so I was talking to one of these crypto og's here in portorico a couple days ago They are into some type of um, and I'll Once they give me the go ahead. I'll tell you exactly what it is, but it's using your your excess computational power of your computer to mine bitcoin I don't know Sounds interesting, but I think they've already done stuff like that. It never really worked Yeah Yeah guys talking about the year of the cbdc. I watched part of the video and cut it off, but It seemed like the cbdc's doesn't seem like to you like it's always just around the corner Like it's almost here. It's almost here. It's like it's almost always here and then You know, it's just like ai like how many times we hear about ai was going to change everything We're like, yeah, whatever and then chat gpt comes along and then everything just blows up um Resits There's one called crayon Midsummer, I mean these ai generated places and it's going to change everything speaking of which I think this is the time to invest because I was talking to uh, Michael he's the head Ah the head guy for uh ladies nft and we were talking about things and he said that some He had to generate a get code for his smart contract And he's got a team that he does it for that they that it works them And he said he said just for fun z's he goes. I dropped into chat gpt asked it to give me the correct Uh coding for whatever smart contract he's working on It spit it out within three minutes. He sent it over to his developers to double check it They said this looks good. Who did this and he said chat gpt and they said well, there goes our job in two years So again when we're taking a look at these things about ai it's going to disrupt everything everything everything What he says your micro dca is my max dca. Everybody's on levels, man H bars is no wallets to every I think almost all the products have their own projects You know, it's got a nice nice real smooth interface project. Uh wallet is uh near near protocol has it. I've been using that to You're able to put just like on, um, uh cosmos or adam No, no, no, that's not it avalanche well Near you're able to use your your your ledger your nano ledger to hold your your your keys As a third party custodian and then it's it's pretty neat because you can just when you access things you have to have your ledger connected So that's what I like to do for most of them Yes, yeah, I mean that's it you can use you can put avalanche in the ledger wall very true Cowboys or worse bills are pretty nice. Hope they win Cowboys, I like when the cowboys win because everybody's in a good mood in texas but Wait, no, they won't all right Yeah, ben talks about de-sing everyone below some sort of uh moving average and yeah, that's It makes a lot of sense what he's There's um, it's on his website Can't show it to you. Sorry Hey jeff Ah florida Jeff is hey, you made it. That's all it counts Oddly the market's got pumpy despite the lower unemployment rate Yeah, it's weird total ops of the projected norm in the price action versus data. I think people are tired of just sitting on cash It'll be true It'll be very true There's a project I can't even talk about that yet It's about uh tokenization of securities, but it's in it's in switzerland I'll talk about it when I can This is a good question from rob. What do you think of the logan paul coffee zilla drama? I think it's I think it's fantastic like a coffee zilla Does I'm just like man You never Like you try to keep on the straight and narrow So just make sure you're never on that guy's show So, uh, of course logan paul was caught By coffee zilla some nft zoo something or other. I don't know and uh, he pretty much Ripped off a bunch of people. That's really what it comes down to and then He coffee zilla did such a good job of exposing it That's logan paul wasn't able to make a solid rebuttal Video which he did and then he took it down and then he called coffee zilla and said i'm sorry And then he's he reached out to his community and said i messed up. I'm gonna make things right That's accountability. I mean, but here's a here's the here's the thing logan paul would never have done that if it wasn't for a guy holding his feet to the fire Which is coffee zilla.  So this is on this is everybody's preference It's like it's like beers Some people like a junk beer like me and some people are sophisticated and drink belgium beers some people like to You know dynamic dca Just randomly and somebody will just pick pick data points I personally believe we're gonna go to 10 or 12 k, but i've been wrong before So for me I kind of see like like 15 k is kind of like our floor right now Like everybody thought that june was the bottom. It wasn't the bottom Then november came along and that was the bottom in 2022 I'm still waiting from the bottom, but I still think around 15 k Maybe i'm wrong about that this 12 10 and 12 k. So I started at 15 k And I increased by 10 percent Then I go to 14 k and I increased on there 20 10 percent and 13 and 12 and 11 and 10 So at 10 k, you know, I'm I'm increasing my micro dcaing by up to you know 50 percent of what I what I've done so So i'm almost You know almost well one and a half times and then I just kind of wait for it to go down What I should do actually is 10 percent 10 percent then 20 percent Then 30 percent then 50 percent So it'd be up to 100 i would double it But again, it's up to you. It's up to you what you want to do. So I can't tell you that that's just what i'm doing Any advice tax info ftx? No but The guys from coin ledger will be coming on this month to talk to you guys about uh taxes Everybody's least favorite subject. I get it. I understand That's why I bring these people on to make it easy for everybody So remember like if you're a spreadsheet guy or gal have fun That's not me. So I just use coin ledger I stick it I API integration I stick in there. It takes about 30 minutes spits it all out Send it on my cpa done That's it but There are always exceptions and there's always questions like You know What do I do with celsius and voyager and ftx and block fi? How am I going to deal with that? What if I went on a boating trip and I lost all my bitcoin and it just flew out my hand into the water And away it goes and what should I do for these certain situations and and of course, how can I hold things back? and You know make pay less taxes. So i'm going to have the cpas in here They're going to answer all those questions We'll do a pre-recorded and a live session so you can ask as always questions and it's not just for america They do this globally in different countries not every country, but just show up and you ask your questions. All right Yeah, I was thinking the same I'll try to drop monday true the pool man It's a good name Why do you think bitcoin should go down to 12k? What if it goes right up from here? Great question What it goes right from here glad I was dcaing. So everybody who's been negative then They weren't right And I just stay in the middle and go. I don't know which one it is not that smart And i'm a crystal ball So I delicose algebra. Good thing at least I delicose ever something and I go up. But why do I think it's going to go down? I like to look at history And I just take a look and See to myself history doesn't always repeat perfectly But it's kind of an There are similarities. I I don't like that that that one phrase about it's uh history doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme I think it's dumb but um I just look at history to see where we're going and again I can just Look at this. This is where I see things So far This has been pretty accurate And it was funny because like I remember looking at four-year cycles back in you know The first four-year cycle when I got in 2017 I was like, I don't think it's going to repeat just perfectly like that because why would it repeat? We had all these institutions in here And the cme was going to do a futures contracts with with bitcoin. So that's going to go up and then John mccaffey said I was going to go to a million. So why would I why would these things repeat?  So here's here's what I think From top to bottom from 20 from the first four-year cycle Between everything starts with the halving 2012 the halving 2013 all-time high 2014 a dip 2015 a reset Reset years are the best time to invest Usually the low points and it starts to go up. So from top to bottom you had 85 percent then Yeah do this one The next four-year cycle 2016 was the halving 2017 all-time high 2018 dip 2019 reset 2019 reset year was a great time to invest With 84 percent Then we came over here and all the geniuses said June is the bottom All right, so again 2020 was the halving 2021 was the all-time high 2022 Was the dip where we think that we'd see the low point and 2023 is the reset again reset years are great time to invest No financial advice. That's just what it was in the past And we thought June was the bottom with and I thought it was weird because I'm like it's only 70 percent We're just kind of weird 84 85, but then I'm like, ah wait It went on November to 15 7 and that was 77 percent So I'm like, well if you just repeat these two time frames 85 84, I don't know. Maybe it goes 83 percent. Maybe it's 11 k. I don't know I think it's gonna be 10 k again And then just the macro environment doesn't Lend itself to say that we're going to go on some parabolic bull run Because only the economy can I mean we can't really sustain that look people are going to jump out of stocks There's I mean I here. Let me show you something I think called the buffett indicator And the buffett indicator is pretty accurate as well. There's a website. It's called longtermtrends.net and what it is It's a measure of the total value of all publicly traded stocks in a country divided by that country's gdp Okay So all the stocks roughly are 40 43 trillion somewhere around there all american stocks Gdp is around 21 trillion. So that's like 200 percent. That's where we're at right now But that's where we're at the all-time high. Excuse me So you can just see that Once we go above this mean which are 85 percent Things just start to taper off. So in 2000 when we hit way above It usually went by 50 percent. So it was 140 percent and went all the way down to 70 percent. Okay 2007 housing bubble right It was 105 percent and it dropped down to like 52 53 53 half roughly And then over here when we dropped to 200 percent we should go down to like around 100 percent half And we're just here I think we're super overvalued and look at this one. We're at 147 percent And that's right now In 2000 we were super over over evaluated And we're and we're above that still so the macro environment I don't think is going to lead itself to that and I think With no more quantitative easing for a bit now we're in quantitative tightening which we've never done before I might add quantitative easing all the time And then of course war on Ukraine whatever Supply chain issues sure Housing market bubble. Yes rates are up. Yes. Sure. That's it. So that's that's pretty much what comes down to why I think we could go lower There's a couple of things of why on the opposite side of where I'm more bullish and that I'll lead you to this into a block com and Perfect you probably want to see my screen what I'm talking about this Do you know How people are hanging on? This is the holder's time composition For people who have one bitcoin Or holders for not one bitcoin holders of one year plus of bitcoin of all wallets One year plus is the most You're looking at Let's just go back. This makes it easier for me Holders composition is 72 percent of one year plus people are holding if you held All the way till now 72 percent of you you ain't selling you're not gonna sell But you still got that that's sticky 28 percent and that's really all you need to kind of make things move around, right? 17 percent that's cute. That's great. That's fantastic, but you can still have it go down Also The other big thing that I like to I look at Is just This one I'm always talking about it but We're only at a hundred billion dollars from market cap and The stock exchange is a hundred trillion roughly. That's for All stock exchanges. That's japan shanghai hong kong euro next shings and new york stock exchange nasdaq money supply global debts 233 trillion dollars global real estate 280 trillion dollars like I think these people if they Are figuring out like hey, we might have this this 10 year stagnation like stanley drunken Miller talks about I don't know about a lot of other like the paul tutor jones talks about They're probably thinking to themselves. Well, if it's going to be that crappy. I'm not going to get returns Maybe I want to get a little risky at some point and just put like 1 allocate something into something like an emerging tech Maybe this will be it It's risky, but maybe so I look at those two things I'm like maybe that's the other other part But the other part still escapes doesn't escape me just the macro backdrop and that's it so So pull man. That's a long answer to one question true It's a dynamic green screen It goes dark when the lights move out so Jeff you dca and hold in your hand precious metals I don't Sorry to say It's all in my roth IRA through iTrust My brother though is smarter than me and he buys physical gold and silver So he's he's ahead of me on that one. I need to do that You know mark cuban had this had this this funny comment. He was on bill mowers podcast and bill bill maher was was saying that uh that he owns golden silver and uh He said uh, he said why would you hold golden silver?    They've done pretty well for a long time. I that's just how it is.  Come on Everybody knows that That's what in all movies are dystopian futures Coffee's delicious box of logan paul That would not be a very that would you know what? I would pay for that fight. I would watch that on Yes, I would watch that on pay-per-view for sure. I know who would win And it's not coffee zilla Logan paul's literally will be punching down Thank you coin ledger is amazing. It's very easy A piper is with the article essentially having a time been busy today, but I'll get to it diesel cane Rusty bot brings us together Uh, who would want to fight we think always on ender dates Well, if andretake is out of jail, it'll be They ate by a long shot Okay, so Matthias says hey rob your video and adam was great I heard several people talk about it as a good project But the tokenomics made it a bad investment does not number go up any thoughts the same thing with algorand actually what I'll do is um And somebody made a good comment. They said they said that uh the the we did a A video this morning. It was me jerry hall and cryptosito and we talked about adam or cosmos Crypto sito is and he lives in portugal, but he's from germany and he's really keen on cosmos and adam And I asked some I asked just the basic questions like you know, what is it?  But what I messed up on and somebody pointed out to me. They said rob you were not um You were not very careful on your questions. You should have asked them, you know, what what is the downfall? What are the problems? What are the tokenomics? And you know what? I was like, you're absolutely right I did mess that part up. So what I'll probably do is I'll bring token sito back on And we'll talk about it at some point and just talk about what are the what are the hindrances Of cosmos because I hear the tokenomics are an issue developers might be an issue And we're gonna dig into it. Maybe we'll get a developer from cosmos to come on. Who knows? But uh, yeah, every project has a problem in some way shape or form. I just did a poor job in highlighting that so Yeah, look at that someone admits they're wrong Robert that drew mark moss for a second. I'm way Way more handsome than mark moss. We're talking about Just getting mark moss. Good guy. Great channel. It's a ton of views. He used to live here actually I don't know why he lived to move to ronkone. It was out in the middle of nowhere I mean if you're a surfer and like to drink that's the place to be It's a great little like sleepy surfer town, but I'm like, I don't know why he moved out there. Now. He's in austin Good luck Dennis Spiculcans says taxes for masterworks investment If you have sold any of your art pieces like I haven't you have to understand masterworks is a long term Very boring The versification so if you sold something then you have a capital gain Well, or a loss, but mostly capital gain and in that situation then you're going to get a form from them a tax form Which states that this is your your revenue or how much you've you've gained you can give it to your cpa and go from there But if you haven't sold anything There's nothing to report Unless you're doing something else with trusts or whatnot, then you have to talk to your cpa Ocean X please show yes Coffee zealots is the whole group is I don't think he's he's Talks about how much of a scam it is. I think there are a lot of projects that are scams and he's a hundred percent right Let's be honest. How many um There's a great question. How many scams have you been a part of or not scams? Let's just say rug pulls And a rug pull also is when some shady developer shady shady, I said shady some shady developer Comes out and's like oh bad news Our project lead We had a hack and all of our funds are gone. So good luck everybody. Sorry, and they just drifted and it is You know drift away into oblivion How many of you have been a part of that? And coffee zealots right then And I gotta tell you there's a reason why people become bitcoin maxis Because of that situation in and of itself Oh, I love these I love I love trolls Josh shosh says stay poor this clown will be hating on us while we waited While he waited for 10k bitcoin. Let's do this a scammer. Well Josh you have to explain yourself I don't know if you're talking about me or somebody else, but I Haven't scammed anybody And as far as like waiting for 10k, I'm still dollar cost averaging down to that point. So I'm not telling you to wait. Let me make that myself 100 clear I'm not telling anybody to wait for 10k. I just think it will go to 10k I personally am dollar cost averaging still and will dynamic dca past 15k so Gustavo Santos, what do you think about the gemini issue? I think it's It's potentially the next shoe to drop You're not not aware Tyler Winklevoss one of the Winklevies Send out a letter genesis go look we've been shut down. I want to say 64 days or 84 days now from Genesis which is which is their Which is their gemini earn program which is in genesis which is a part of the digital currency group Which is also owned foundry And a little thing called grayscale and coin desk And they're saying look you need to open up withdrawals And you keep very sober you are running around and you're not Acting in good faith and we need to come to the table and figure this out very sober It's like I don't know what you're talking about me personally. I don't know how genesis is still a float I don't know why they're not in chapter 11 right now.  So I don't know how they're not out in chapter 11 now It's been a long time All right So what I think about the gemini issue. I think remember when I talked about bitcoin at 12 k or 10 k imagine if that contagion Which is really ftx contagion imagine if that contagion Has warmed its way into genesis already and then it warms its way into grayscale Now take a look at what would happen if grayscale had to do some kind of liquidation You know much bitcoin grayscale owns. Let me show you When we talked about this yesterday treasury There's a website called buy bitcoin worldwide.com forward slash treasuries what i'm gonna do Is i'll drop that in the chat You can see this yourself So bitcoin treasuries pa pa pa pa There's 65 entities in this and the percentage of 21 million is seven almost eight percent last update december 29 2022 So not too long ago Public companies that own bitcoin micro strategy Owens 132 000 which is almost 1 percent. It's about 0.63 percent and it falls off from there China apparently Owens almost 1 percent debatable, but I guess Ukraine owns 0.2 percent. I had no idea that And see mount gox 0.67 percent which every time that I hear about a dump some stupid News report about mount gox is dumping and it never happens, but whatever at some point it will grayscale bitcoin trust They have 643 000 bitcoin The percentage the percentage of 21 million about three percent Now I don't know if that three percent because that's I don't know they're talking about the percentage 21 million or the percentage of the circulating supply or the percentage of How much bitcoin is actually out there? Minus all the bitcoin that's been lost, but it's a boatload So the thing i'm trying to get to is this The gemini issue if it warms its way into genesis and it warms the way into grayscale And you get a big boatload or at least some of that bitcoin that gets put onto the market for sell pressure There comes your 12k and that's probably it. I could be wrong I stepped away for a minute Yeah, gemini my force dcg and chapter 11 as well. They should and they should liquidate, but i'm not a I will tell you this though Genesis came out and they hired moelles and co moelles and company. It's an investment bank and you know who who hired them for options Voyager Celsius I think block 5 can't remember But moelles and company is kind of like the kiss of death before you hit chapter 11 They're like, what's our options?  I think everybody can attest to that which I'm gonna remind everybody of one thing. This is gonna be very unpopular but who cares so Let's go back to looking at bitcoin and I've talked about this before You know everybody who's like diamond hands remember that term diamond hands. That was a good term great term And the people will tell you, you know, I'll never sell I'll never sell my bitcoin or my crypto because i'm gonna diamond hands this to oblivion And they could be right, you know, but if you're if your goal is to at some point hold as much bitcoin as you possibly can And you know about the cycles And here's another thing like If you need to sell because you're like, hey, I need to pay my bills. Why wouldn't you sell? I'm just I'm just asking the questions So when people are talking about like, oh, you know what? I'll never sell bro Well, that's a personal opinion about what you are going to do.  Let's see. Let's just turn turn turn off 10 years seven or nine years so what this is is For people who bought bitcoin From the time they they bought it four to five years later is when they move it Not that they're selling But they're moving it from the wallet to some of their wallet But what do you notice? You notice that These wallets start moving in four to five years When the price starts going up, right?  There's some very Very, you know straight forward straight as narrow people But I think a lot of them are liars Here's five to seven years same thing Here's seven to nine years Look, where is where is the concentration? all-time highs and then lastly 10 year plus even these guys sell Now I will preface it with this and that is that It's true. They're just moving bitcoin. They're not Putting on exchange and selling it. That's not what that data is showing It's just moving from one wall to the next. I gotta tell you Since 20 I've I've got Multiple ledgers and one has a couple of a good amount of bitcoin on it and I wasn't going to sell that and I've never just taken that ledger And moved my bitcoin even though it's been sitting around there for four years just for You know s's and gacles like hey, we're at all-time high. I probably should move this Well, it's been been sitting there just fine Usually if I'm going to move something it's I'm either going to sell it or I'm going to buy a good or a service Or maybe even some real estate. Don't tell my tax. Don't tell the IRS that I've never done that but I'm just saying So when people talk about oh, you know what bro diamond hands show them whale shadows and say You know what? I don't know which side you're on again. There's some good people out there There's some people that truly believe what they're saying, but there's some people that are saying that just to say it And I'm not that person I have sold I will sell again. I don't see why that's so so hard I'm going to sign up what I don't trust. That's pretty good Tremble paying it's a good picture. What platform is everyone used to buy crypto? I personally use coinbase and I use this thing called coinbase one is 39 bucks a month and that allows me to Not pay any fees of up to $10,000, which is pretty cool because like because I you know, I take profits and I buy every day And sometimes I buy multiple things on a day depending on the altcoin And uh, I get to waive all those fees. So for 39 bucks, uh, I do a lot Not buying now Well, I'm all it's not doing it We can sell Yeah, moss is a surfer Can a a u.s. Individual sign up for a cosmos account through a vpn I don't know what you're talking about there like because I don't I don't know because usually what I do is I just purchase cause I purchase on a coinbase and that's it And as far as like staking anybody can stake that's what's great Uh Put a bilimit. Yeah, that's a good idea Jane and cho says put a bilimit at 7k, but then you know, some people will say well, how can you put a bilimit in When uh, when you're not supposed to have anything everything on the exchanges You know, tom crown had a pretty good point. He said take everything off exchanges Except for the money that you need for your limit orders. I was like, well, that makes sense You know, if you wanted everything's a risk, right? So why not? I guess so Do you think grayscale bitcoin discount will improve? Now unless that etf gets approved and that's not happening. So no But I could be wrong Igor says when is the voyager debit card coming out? Hilarious So, yeah, that was one of my utmost mistakes voyager dgx Sucks because like, I mean at least I will say this at least with voyager They're a public trader company So when they put out that that document would say it's that they did a 640 million dollar loan of three hours capital with zero collateral I was like I like you guys, but that is dumb So went on did the video Two weeks before and that's actually when I did did those rules the rules that you see right underneath me all the time So then two weeks later they shut off with draws. So now Celcius I wish I would have got them sooner I did the video at like 11 o'clock and 11 a.m. And the 9 p.m. They shut off with draws But I got six figures stuck on there too. So I'm with you That guy's not in jail all right Cho says it's funny how sec is taking an action because of ftx implosion. It's weird Ironic and you know what's even stranger? Let me show you something it's strange that Gary Ginzer was investigating them Was investigating ftx for all this time and just couldn't pull the trigger for some reason or another And just let things go. So I'm like, what is that's your that's your job You're supposed to be able you're supposed to be the police officer and you just Couldn't pull the the trigger And now here we are but there was something else that Oh this one right here I was going to do clown news but I'll just show you guys this did you hear this article White House claims the meeting between spf and senior Biden officials were about the pandemic White House claims the meetings between spf and senior bed and officials were all about the pandemic Who better to talk about the pandemic Than a vegan philanthropist Makes sense bunch of liars Oh Yeah, no beef with james. I just talked to james yesterday Yeah, this is pretty much what it was rob guys versus james vise versus counter guys. That's pretty much what it came down to So we just separate everything gets a little more toxic in the uh in the in the bull bear market. So Yeah VPN yes permits extra station. Yeah, good good point Logan beard is This is not financial vise. You should be accumulating across the next six months Remember most recessions were not officially called told the market already about them I got I got to disagree and i'm going to disagree because even though i'm accumulating Can you go wrong in all honesty if you just said, you know what i'm just going to wait because What are the chances that some major fantastic news comes out probably slim I'm just kind of going against my biases and just putting a little bit of fun is in But in all honesty if you waited six months You probably be just fine You know and then let's say that bitcoin does go up. You think it's going to skyrocket to 100,000 50,000 30,000 in six months probably not I think you're gonna be just fine and uh, if you don't make you don't make it I mean if you don't make it, I mean I think that uh waiting six months is not the big thing. It's sitting out for the next three four five years or never investing I think that's That's a problem That would be a problem for me. Maybe not for you. I don't know Shakir Listen, are you buying alts now? What's your top five? I am buying alts and i'm buying Ethereum and cosmos and polygon and cardano and some other stuff chain link I forgot some other stuff, but you understand That's micro dcang. That's not putting up near like let's say that I buy $10,000 worth of ethereum a week In the past Let's say I did that Now i'm buying like a hundred bucks a week. I mean it's just a fraction 10 of what I would usually do And that's it And of course everybody could be like I used to buy 20 bucks a week Okay, well now buy five bucks a week. I think it's just this is all of what you want to do Yeah, clown news Tesla's is telling me and some people always get out they get upset when I when I when I talk about that about Like oh, you shouldn't you should do that because dollar cost average like look man I'm just gonna do what I do. You can do whatever you want to do.   No, I just hold it I should though, but Now i'm not a big gamer, but I see where gaming is going web 3 is going to be big at some point I think that's it I'll leave it with this I've learned the most important thing crypto is getting into a good honest community. There is nothing more critical to your success in this industry It's very tough to do very tough to find there's so few out there And uh joey's got a good point if you can find those hold on to them, especially the honest part a bunch of liars Anyhow, that's it for today. So look you guys like today's video thumbs up consider subscribing all that great stuff It's beer time. It's almost seven o'clock here. So thanks so much for stopping by appreciate it And I'll see you guys on the next one adios


A strong explosion in Makachkala may have been caused by the fall of a Russian missile. In the Russian Makachkala Dagestan, on August 14, a powerful explosion thundered in the building of a car service after which a fire started spreading to a gas station. As a result of the explosion, according to the latest data, 35 people were killed, among them three children, 80 people were injured, 11 were in serious condition. Local journalists in telegram channels write that the explosion occurred due to the fall of a Russian rocket, according to Ukrainian TSN media outlet. They noticed that a large crater had formed at the site of the explosion resembling a rocket's crater. Preliminary analysis suggests that a missile was fired from the side of the Caspian flotilla in a faulty condition which hit this place of refuelling and, plus, detonated on the ground. This can explain that part of the rocket hit the service station and part detonated into the building which is across the road opposite the gas station. The journalists write. Also footage of the first minutes after the explosion was published on the web, on them, an eyewitness speaks with emergency officials and claims that it was the rocket that was the cause. The journalists interviewed residents of neighboring Kaspiysk, located near Makachkala. It is from there that Russian bombers launch missiles towards Ukraine. According to witnesses, before the explosion on August 14, at about 2100, locals heard a noise similar to the sound of rocket launches. Some journalists believe that one of the missiles fired by Russian planes towards Ukraine did not reach the target but fell on Makachkala. On the evening of August 15, the investigative committee of Russia announced that the agency is considering a number of versions of the explosion at a gas station in Makachkala. One of them is a violation of the storage of agrochemicals Radio Liberty writes. According to investigators on August 14, at about 10 o'clock in the evening, a fire broke out in the car service building during car maintenance. The fire spread to a neighboring building, which could store flammable fertilizer as a result of which an explosion occurred. The 600 square meter fire was extinguished only four hours later.