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Mindset Lags price
2016 bull begins
2017 euphoria
2018 Crash, Central bank reduces balance sheet
2019 bull begins
2020 Euphoria; Central Bank doubles size of balance sheet
2021 peak and crash
2022 crash transitions to the “Boring Low”
What I cover:
00:30 Boring low, Eurphoric high, crash, back to boring low
01:00 Don't listen to guys who draw lines on charts
01:40 Mindset lags price
05:30 History since 2014
07:30 Where are we now
10:00 When Boring Low started
10:50 Stay calm
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I forgot to mention Binance!
Binance is huge, but not decentralized.
I only invest in decentralized platforms.
Also forgot to mention Cardano.
Cardano has no applications and doesn't really work yet.
Forgot to mention!
00:15 Ethereum
01:15 Etherum Layer 2 - Optimism, Arbitrum, Immutable
05:20 Avalanche and Solana
09:20 Near
10:06 Polygon
11:40 Cosmos
12:50 Pokadot
13:55 Pulsechain
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Let's talk about your crypto portfolio.
Over the next 6 - 12 months I want to start transitioning my porfolio.
In this episode, I go through my exact strategy.
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
01:14 What I like
11:02 Locking the tokens up
16:48 Final thoughts
18:43 Outro
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Japanese Bond is pegged to .25% interest rate because the Japanese economy can not afford the interest payments on their giant debt if rates go much higher.
So they are printing yen to buy up the bonds.
It's like LUNA printing Luna to defend the UST peg.
If this breaks, its not $60 billion like Luna/UST.
Its more like 6 TRILLION!
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
00:38 Explanation of Japanese bonds
03:29 Why Japanese bonds exist
06:50 Should you be scared?
11:00 Outro
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Three mistakes I'm hearing from people regarding with dealing with this bear market:
1. You want to accumulate eth over the next several months
2. Thinking it's not going to go up soon
3. Waiting until it hits a certain price
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
00:10 Mistake 1
01:27 Mistake 2
02:45 Mistake 3
07:31 Think long term
08:30 Outro
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Can't print with high inflation
Bonds require printing
Base layer losing money
-pensions
-no where to hide
-real estate mortgage rates
ETH is quality and deflationary
go to quality
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
00:27 Problem with inflation
04:52 Have your money in safe places
08:52 Real estate
10:40 Outro
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Asking why a token or the market dropped or rose on one day is the wrong question.
Overall market long term market direction is caused by the central bank putting in or taking out liquidity. (printing money or not)
The correct question is whether the ecosystem and value given to users of your investment will be much larger in 3-5 years. If it will be, then its a good investment. And its best to buy when people are not eurphoric and after big drops.
The reason for those drops therefore is sort of irrelevant.
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
01:20 Why is Frax down
05:40 The right questions to ask
09:27 Final thoughts & outro
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Some people say tokenomics is the most important thing in a crypto project. Others say it's a waste of time and all that matters is the product fit of the protocol.
In this episode I give you my opinion on it.
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
00:19 What is tokenomics
01:23 Tokenomics is like marketing
03:49 Is this stupid?
05:53 Outro
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Frax Collateral is a bit of a rabbit hole.
In this episode I cover what I like and don't like about Frax.
Frax collateral today
https://app.frax.finance/amos
Curve 950 million (measures USDC that can be withdrawn)
Liquidity DEX's $300 million
($76 million is fantom curve and $50 million Frax in Tokemak https://www.tokemak.xyz/)
Investor 33 million (CVX and FPI Frax pool)
Lending 24 million Frax
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Luna collateral backing UST market cap
(I originally made a video recommending LUNA at $7 in August not October)
Oct 2021
2.5 billion UST
Luna 15 billion
Collateral 6x UST
10 months later
March 2022
UST 13 Billion
Luna 33 Billion
collateral 2.5X UST
Peak May 2022
UST 18 Billion
LUNA 30 Billion
Collateral 1.5x UST
About the Collateral
This collateral is Luna after going up 10x+ in six months.
Payment apps didn't work and Kwon didn't care
Validator value is UST and one app - Anchor over paying.
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Oct 2021
450 million Frax
Collateral 350 million of other tokens
USDC redeemed 85%
collateral 77% of Frax
10 months later
March 2022
Frax 3 Billion
Collateral 2.5 billion of other tokens
collateral 83% of Frax
USDC redeemed 85%
Peak May 2022
UST 2.6 Billion
Collateral 2.6 billion of other tokens?
collateral 100% of Frax
USDC redeemed 90% jumped during crash
About the collateral
ie. Curve and Uniswap
All on chain
USDC redeemed
Never lost its peg on chain
Not all perfectly are safe, but they are everywhere.
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
02:01 Luna
05:12 FRAX
10:17 Outro
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I changed my mind of FEI. With a stable coin, why have risk? There is no upside potential.
https://app.fei.money/
https://www.voltprotocol.io/
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
00:29 My concern
04:09 Volt
06:45 What to do when changing my mind
07:56 Final thoughts & outro
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You can earn yield on your Eth by staking it.
Yield will go up when merge launches to roughly 4% - 8%.
In this episode I cover how you do it.
In this video from April, I said ETH 2.0 might launch in Sept.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyKdTzUgXK4
More ETH vs BTC videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUThw5hf_V4Ar_NUcP7GkKGiNSdzEwDwK
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
01:30 Lido staking application
03:37 Should be safe but I'm not going all in on it
04:33 20-25% is a rough number I'm going to stake
06:46 Security of outsourcing staking
10:33 Final thoughts and outro
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What is going on with Yearn Finance. The price action has been exciting.
In this epidose, I update you on my current opinions.
Links I cover:
https://yearn.finance/#/vaults
https://medium.com/iearn/yearnv3-motivation-and-design-107840cb4844
https://www.yfistats.com/financials/IncomeStatement.html
https://gov.yearn.finance/t/yip-66-streamlining-contributor-compensation/12247
https://fixedforex.live/
https://twitter.com/bantg
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
00:40 What is Yearn?
06:02 Financials
13:30 The team
15:48 Is it a good time to sell now?
16:16 Outro
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We live in a multichain world!
Let’s figure out which layer one smart contract Blockchain crypto tokens will be the winners in the next bull run.
We need to research the fundamentals. Which Blockchains will have the most users, total value locked, applications, users, developers, etc.
Share links to statistics in the comments below if you can find them.
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
01:02 My idea
02:36 Type of data we want to see
06:02 Outro
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How does this crash compare to others. I have lived through 7 bubbles so I have some experience on this.
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
00:48 Is this normal
04:30 Nothing is alike
06:04 Time to accumulate
12:24 Final thoughts & outro
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Olympus DAO moral dillemma.
https://app.olympusdao.finance/
My video about apy rebasing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV5rnWcL2S8
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
00:29 How OHM works
05:49 Why is it interesting
11:14 I'm not sure it's for me
13:09 Final thoughts and outro
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I'm getting pushback on my idea that now is a good time to start dollar cost averaging into quality crypto investments.
In this episode I cover why this is historically a good move.
6 months into the bear already
+ ETH 60%
+ Avalanche -81%
+ Compound -93%
+ Maker -80%
+ Axie Infinity -88%
+ Solana -81%
+ Uniswap -88%
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
01:12 It's not about picking the low
02:28 Having a discipline to get in over time
05:29 There are so many unknowns
07:19 The central bank and institutional money
09:13 Try not to be stupid
11:28 Outro
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Warren Bufferr and Charlie Munger are anti crypto but they are some of the greatest investors of all time, so I study them and that is where I derive a lot of my philosophies that have treated me well.
In this episode, I share some of those lessons.
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
00:53 See who is swimming naked when the tide goes out
01:25 Its not a good year if you don't get rid of a best idea
02:28 Warren's investments often performed poorly at first
03:27 Punch card and bet big with conviction.
06:22 Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy
08:52 Just don't be stupid
10:06 Spend each day trying to be wiser than when you woke up
11:02 Use multiple mental models to think deeply
12:42 Outro
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Timing the market is like clubbing in Hollywood.
In this episode, I reveal what I mean.
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
00:45 How I get into the coolest clubs
01:52 When to get out of the club
03:13 Everyone wants time things exactly right
05:30 Outro
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One of the keys to my success has been following the 80/20 rule, which is the theory of within any system there is 20% that controls 80%.
If you know what the 20% is and you watch that then you can cut out the noise with the 80/20 rule.
What I cover:
00:00 Intro
01:19 Baseball story
03:50 Cutting out the noise
05:08 Final thoughts & outro
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