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Permanent Chaos (1/?)

Pairing: MGK x Female!Reader

Warnings: Swearing 

Word Count: 2.8k

Part Summary: Y/N is a newly famous actress from a popular TV show and she’s willing to do everything in her power to maintain her perfect image as “America’s Sweetheart.” 

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The limelight is a hard place to be under. It’s draining to constantly be on display. Day in and day out I feel as though I’m always looking into a mirror. However, a mirror is replaced by people’s eyes. I see myself through other’s eyes. Being sat on a slippery plastic stool while being watched by millions of Americans before they head off to work is an excellent way to start my day. Perhaps if I keep telling myself that I’ll eventually believe it. Savannah glances down at her cards then continues with the interview.

“Let’s go back to a year ago, if someone approached you and said “you’ll be the most sought after girl in America,” would you had believed them?”

I shake my head “not all.”

If only she knew how absent I am in the current moment. I’ve answered similar questions a million times these past few months. All the exact same questions within the same routine.

“Now, being as famous as you are, how do you cope with your newfound fame?”

There it is, famous. A better-sounding word than popular. After all, adult life is nothing like high school… right?

“I don’t particularly like the word “famous.” When people say “you’re famous!” What they really mean is “a lot of people know you!” At least people think they do.”

She studies me, intrigued by my honest answer, perhaps too honest. “You’re saying America doesn’t know the “real” you? Including your fans?”

I shrug, I can only imagine Nicole’s face right now. My usual bubbly and charmingly excited personality didn’t wake up with me at three this morning.

“I believe they know whatever version of me they’ve created. For some, I’m that girl from the cover of that one magazine they saw in line at the grocery store. For others, I may just a name without a face. That’s the thing about being so-called “famous.” I’ll never have the chance to meet every single person who has ever read an article about me or has seen paparazzi videos. They’ll only see those tainted versions of me. They’ll never have the opportunity to know me personally and make a valid judgment for themselves.”

Savannah hums, her eyebrows scrunched up. “How do you feel about that?”

I sigh, the words settling within me. “It’s disappointing.”

If only they all knew the truth, the reality of it all.

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After the interview for the show, I fly straight back to Los Angeles from New York. My schedule has been worse, but I never miss the chance to complain to my manager. Thankfully, Nicole is a mother of tween girls and a ten-year-old boy so she knows how to take my childish whining. Once we’re landed in LAX I countdown the minutes until I can return to my bed.

“I don’t understand why you insist on wearing heels on the plane,” Nicole nags me.

“Because you never know who you’re gonna meet! Best to dress nicely just in case!”

It’s been a rule of mine since I first discovered my style and began to wear makeup, never go out in public without looking and feeling confident. I’ve learned that people can sense when others don’t feel confident and take advantage of that.

“I doubt your Mom would like it,” she nags.

“Well she’s not in California is she?” I fire back but snicker slightly.

My momma’s absence was bitter-sweet, in the beginning, now it’s all sweet. When we have our luggage, Nicole leads me through the airport to where the car is picking us up.

“You may want to put on your sunglasses now. We’re about to cross the line,” she warns.

I grab my glasses out of my purse like she instructed and slide them on. She was right, as soon as we cross over that taped line it’s a free-for-all for the paparazzi.

“Y/N!” “Y/N!”

“HEY! SHOW US A SMILE!”

The yelling doesn’t bother me as it used to in the past. Now, it’s the clicking. The clicking from their cameras. A constant *click* *click* *click*, from each of the thirty cameras. Nicole attempts to create a path for me by walking ahead.

“HOW WAS YOUR TRIP TO NEW YORK?”

“Good, thank you” I reply politely with a smile toward the tile floor.

I try to manage a balance when it comes to paparazzi. They have their job and so do I. Following me, taking pictures or videotaping me is their job. As long as they respect me, I will respect them. Nicole says it’s good for my image. My image wasn’t the first reason I was nice toward them, I was being myself. Nowadays, I’m hardly myself. I have my name, Y/N Voss, but it no longer feels like my name. The paparazzi are not used to getting easy responses out of people because there’s a long pause before the next question.

“WHEN DOES FILMING START BACK UP FOR THE SHOW?”

The question comes from a different voice but that doesn’t keep me from answering.

“In two days!” I gleam, looking forward to returning to set.

“CAN YOU GIVE ANY INFO ABOUT THE NEW SEASON?”

I chuckle a little but think it over. I agreed in my contract not to give out spoilers but there is a little info I was told I can let out. Plus, I’ve only seen the script for the first episode so I don’t know too much.

“I can say that Hollyn will have a bump start this season but no worries,” I answer vaguely but with interest.

Nicole and I manage to reach outside and she guides me down the sidewalk to where the car is supposed to pick us up.

“RUMOR HAS IT YOU’RE DATING SOMEONE! CARE TO COMMENT?”

“I’m very much single,” I laugh, finding the topic humorous. “Not enough hours in the day to share them!”

There are always rumors that I’m dating someone though none of it’s true.

“YOU LOOK GREAT TODAY Y/N!”

“YOU ALWAYS DO!”

“Thanks, boys!” I give my appreciation. 

The driver gets out of the front and pops the trunk. Nicole informs me to get in the car and let her worry about our things along with the driver.

“WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR THE SUMMER?”

I open my door but pause to answer the last question. “Work, of course, but I also want to have some fun.”

“HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!”

“SEE YA LATER Y/N!”

They all hurry to get some last shots and I grant them a couple of seconds.

“You too! See you guys later!” I wave goodbye then climb into the car.

Nicole gets in a minute later and gives the driver the address. “You did great back there,” she compliments.

“Eh, it was nothing. I was only answering their questions.” I remove my glasses and get settled in as best as I can for the hour drive home.

She pulls out her binder full of scheduling material for me.

“Yes, but you were willing and kind. The public and media appreciate that! You’re becoming America’s Sweetheart!”

I would never admit it to Nicole but that title she keeps pushing makes me anxious every time I hear it. None of this was planned, it was thrown at me. Please don’t misunderstand me, I’m grateful for what I have but geez! When everyone is telling you a whole country adores you, how are you supposed to handle that? Especially at eighteen. It was no more than a year ago I was back in South Carolina and just another girl in high school. Now, I’m supposed to be “America’s Sweetheart.” I’ll play the part but it doesn’t make the job any less intimidating.

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My best friends/co-stars, Sam and Penelope, meet up with me for dinner to celebrate my first night back in town after the press tour. The three of us have been dividing our time around the country working on various projects between filming the show. Any time we can all get together is a gift.

Ever since I’ve known Sam Merka, girls flung themselves at him. Even I’ll say it, he’s a good-looking guy. If Grant Gustin had a younger brother, it would be Sam. I don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea, we’re just friends. A sibling sort of bond. Since he’s eight years older than me, he likes a big brother.

Though Penelope is older too, one can’t tell since I tend to act more mature. I’m jealous of her sun-kissed long blonde hair and dark brown eyebrows. We all kinda got thrown into our friendship. Having to play life-long friends an hour after meeting for the first time was, to say the least interesting. Five years later, and we are like three peas in a pond. A mini family to have each other’s back in the big city.

For dinner, we agreed on The Nice Guy, an Italian place in West Hollywood. The most important aspect of the place is the amount of privacy it grants. The interior is a lounge, super lowkey, with booths, couches, and coffee tables but there are no photos allowed. Since no photos can be taken that means the three of us and others can enjoy ourselves in peace. Sam called dibs on being designated driver as per usual as the “bodyguard” for us girls. The paparazzi tend to hang out around the restaurant because it’s a well-known spot for celebrities.

“Maybe we can slip past them,” Sam says optimistically as we exit the car.

He meets me around the front and Penelope joins us after getting out of the backseat.

“HEY! HEY! HEY!”

From in front of the restaurant, a ripple of cameras begin to take notice of us.

“IT’S THE KIDS FROM THE SEASONS OF LIFE!”

“Yep, we really snuck past them!” I tease Sam playfully.

He huffs, annoyed with the situation. Sam loves his job but hates the lack of privacy aspect. He isn’t a fan of crowds either which I can understand. However, he’s great at masking it behind his charming smile. It’s what we were trained to do. Yet, Sam is better at managing a crowd mentally overall than I am. He understands how they affect me sometimes. The swarm of photographers rushes up to us. Sam leads the way toward the restaurant door. Penelope remains close, keeping a hand on my forearm to stay together. The cluster follows us down the sidewalk to the building.

“SAM! SAM! HEARD ABOUT THE GQ PHOTOSHOOT! CONGRATS ON GETTING THE COVER MAN!”

Sam chuckles next to me, “thanks, dude!”

“PENELOPE! RUMOR HAS IT YOU’LL BE SWITCHING OVER TO THE BIG SCREEN!”

“Exactly, it’s a rumor!” She replies a matter-of-factly.

The *click* *click* *click* and the flashing lights in the dead of night never fail to overwhelm me. Though, Nicole has told me I never appear overwhelmed when I interact with them. I force on the brave and confident face. I’m not me when I’m in front of cameras or important people, I’m Y/N Voss. I’m two very different people.

While I’m lost in thought, I get stuck when one photographer gets too close to my face with his camera and blinds me for a second. Sam and Penelope don’t notice my absence amongst the chaos until another photographer barks at the other to back off. Then, I feel Sam’s hand slip into mine and he protectively escorts me toward the door with determination.

“ANYTHING YOU TWO WANT TO SHARE ABOUT HOLLYN AND ELLIOT FOR NEXT SEASON?”

Hollyn and Elliot are Sam and my’s characters from The Seasons of Life, the show we star in together. Our characters have been on again off again for the past two seasons. According to the last season’s finale, the two are currently together, but of course, the season ended on a cliffhanger so their relationship isn’t very stable.

“Sorry guys, can’t share anything!” Sam answers, sounding a tad irritable.

“ANYTHING IN REAL LIFE? YOU TWO WERE BOTH IN NEW YORK THIS WEEKEND!”

“That’s true, but we never have the chance to meet up!” I reply nicely.

Press events for last season have come to an end and work officially begins in no time! Downtime for me is filming and it couldn’t come at a better time. I’ve missed being home in Los Angeles. Living out of a suitcase and sleeping each night on a plane isn’t the best way to live, at least for me. We finally reach the doors and I thank the heavens.

“Oh my gosh! There’s no way!” I hear what sounds like girls squealing and I slow down to see where it’s coming from. My hand slips from Sam’s as he goes on. When he’s determined to get away from the paparazzi, he can ignore the voices. Yet, when he notices that I do not follow he finally stops.

“Excuse me!” A girl calls amongst the clicking and shouting.

The paparazzi move aside a tad and create a path for me to see two young teens jumping up and down. They must be around fourteen I’m guessing, younger than me at least. I approach them to see what’s the matter. I can hardly see anything with all the bright lights.

“Hi! How are you?” I greet but once I get closer and cover my eyes with the flashing lights, I recognize them. “Sarah! Emma! How are you two?”

These two have been some of my biggest supports. They run a Youtube channel and create content about their reactions to episodes of the series. Somehow they manage to make appearances at any events relating to the show. I’ve met them numerous times at events, so have other members of the cast. Besides being two of the sweets girls in the world, they’ve created a fan page for me on Instagram and Twitter.

“Good, good!” Emma replies eagerly.

“It’s been so long since we last saw you!” Sarah adds.

“It really has! When was the last time we saw each other? During the press tour?”

They nod in unison as though they’ve rehearsed it.

“Well, group hug!” I hold out my arms and they gladly accept.

“Can we get a picture?” Emma practically begs, bouncing on her heels.

“Of course!” I take Emma’s phone and hold it out to the crowd of paparazzi. “Could one of you take our picture by chance?”

Many of the guys offer and I select a random one in front of me.

“Squeeze in tight!” I tell the girls as I stand between them and we wrap our arms around each other.

“One, two, three!” The man takes a couple of shots and hands, Emma, back her phone.

“Thank you!” The three of us say together.

We all hover over her phone to check out the pictures.

“So cute!” I awe at the photos.

“Y/N...” Sam places his hand on my back to usher me along.

“Oh, my-” Emma covers her mouth.

“Sam!” Sarah’s jaw is to the sidewalk.

“Hey girls!” he charmingly smiles.

He’s had the chance to meet them a few times while on the press tour and at other various events. I was there to introduce them which was one of the most entertaining moments of my life. I thought the girls were going to faint!

“Can we ask a quick question? It’s for our channel!” Sarah nervously bites her lower lip.

“Yeah, yeah, anything for you guys!” I answer without hesitation.

Sam wraps his arm around my waist while we’re talking to the girls and I don’t think much of it but the cameras begin to go nuts. The men behind them don’t say a word since we’re occupied but there they go *click* *click* click*.

“Is there any hope of you two getting together IRL?” Emma questions intently without hesitation.

I press my lips together with amusement and turn my head to Sam. He has the same look of pondering the question. He squints his eyes at me and then the two of us turn to the girls.

“Just friends,” we answer in unison.

“Best friends!” Sam adds playfully.

“Best friends forever ever!” I one-up him.

The two girls laugh with us, but it’s clear they’re a little disappointed.

“Well, I still bet on you two,” Sarah confidently points out.

Sam and I get a kick out of it. Our viewers want us together too.

“We better get going, our moms are waiting,” Emma informs us.

“Okay, quick hug!” I order and the four of us group hug.

We say our goodbyes and when the girls disappear the men behind the cameras start yelling.

“YOU’RE GREAT Y/N!”

“HOW DID YOU KNOW THEM?”

“Their names are Emma and Sarah. They run a popular Youtube channel, Twitter, and Instagram accounts for the show. Super sweet girls those two!”

“DO YOU KNOW ALL YOUR FANS?”

“I try to! I know a good amount!” I grin proudly.

Sam guides me into the restaurant and his hand never leaves my back. All of it is platonic of course, nothing more. As I told the paparazzi before, there isn’t enough time in my life for me to share any with someone.

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notable moments from The Nigerian Job

(PART ONE)

leverage 1.01

note: there are A LOT of scenes in this one, but they are all important in one way or another in terms of notability, character-building, etc

Dubenich: I’m sorry Mr. Ford, sorry, I know who you are I’ve, uh, excuse me. I’ve read all about you. I know for example that-that when you found that stolen Monet painting in Florence you probably saved your Insurance Company what 20-25 million dollars. Then there was that identity theft thing and you saved your insurance company I don’t even know how many millions of dollars but I just know that when you needed them… What happened to your family is the kind of thing--

Nate (slams glass down): You know that part of the conversation where I punch you in the neck nine or ten times? We’re coming up on that pretty quick.

- - - - -

Dubenich: I’m serious. Look, look at the people I’ve already hired. Do you recognize any of these names?

Nate (going through file): Uh, yeah, I’ve chased all of them at one time or anoth-- Parker? You have Parker?

Dubenich: Is there somebody better?

Nate: No, but Parker is insane.

Dubenich: Which is why I need you.

Nate (laughs): No. I’m not a thief. (closes file)

Dubenich: Thieves I got. What I need is one honest man to watch them.

- - - - -

Hardison: I’ve been doing this since high school, bro, I’m Captain Discipline.

[Flashback]

(New York City Hotel, Five Years Ago)

Manager: They came straight from the airport and up to their room.

Security: So you never actually saw any of them then.

Manager: No, but the credit card numbers checked out.

Security: Break it down!

(Doors open to reveal Hardison sitting on a couch drinking orange soda while three beautiful women dressed as Princess Leia fight with lightsabers)

Security: Does that look like Mick Jagger to you?

Hardison: This is not the room you’re looking for.

what a fucking GEEK oh my god

like, his flashback is so tame compared to the others???

like, his version of criminality is hanging out with cosplaying pretty girls and watching them fight with lightsabers, all under the guise of pretending to be mick jagger

- - - - -

Hardison (holding up an earpiece): It’s a bone-conduction earpiece mic, works off the vibrations in your jaw.

(Hardison tosses it to Eliot who holds it to his ear)

Hardison (whispering): You can hear everything.

Eliot: You’re not as useless as you look.

eliot being subtly impressed with hardison is my religion

- - - - -

Hardison: I don’t even know what you do.

[Flashback]

(3 Years Ago Eliot, wearing glasses and drinking from a mug of tea, enters a room full of men in Belgrade, Serbia)

Eliot: I’m here to collect the merchandise.

(Most of the men pull guns. Eliot takes a long sip of his drink. Outside, the windows flash with gunfire. Moans and the sound of a body falling fill the air. Inside, Eliot calmly takes another drink. One man sits at a table surrounded by bodies that litter the ground. He places a baseball card on the table. Eliot smiles)

am I the only one that wants to know the context of this???

- - - - -

(Parker drops down between Eliot and Hardison, hanging upside down from scaffolding)

Parker: Can I have one?

Hardison: You can have the whole box.

(Hardison holds the box of comms up for her. She takes one and pulls herself back up)

Eliot: What are you going to do when she finds out you live with your mom?

Hardison: Age of the geek, baby. We run the world.

Eliot: You keep telling yourself that.

(Parker puts the comm in her ear, smiling)

ot3 moments from day one baby

also eliot goes from ‘baby’ to ‘oh god, I’m baby’ in 0.0000005 seconds

- - - - -

[Flashback]

(19 Years Ago in Kansas City, a ten year old Parker stands in her living room watching her foster parents fight. The foster father turns to Parker, holding a stuffed bunny while the foster mother stands in the background, crying)

Bill: You thought I wouldn’t find this? You don’t get bunny until you do what I say. So be a good girl or, I don’t know, a better thief. (walks out of room)

Foster Mother: Bill!

(Parker walks outside and down the walk. Behind her, the house explodes. She hugs her bunny and smiles)

for the LONGEST time I thought she blew up the house with her foster parents until I saw that john rogers confirmed they weren’t home at the time

also this gives HEAVY insight as to how even the smallest part of Parker’s childhood was

abusive, emotionally manipulative, etc

- - - - -

(Parker adjusts her repelling gear, caressing it as if it were a lover)

Parker: Last time I used this rig, Paris, 2003

Nate: You talking about the Caravaggio? You stole that?

- - - - -

Eliot (examining earpiece): Is this thing safe?

Hardison: Yeah, it’s completely safe, it’s just, you know, you might experience nausea, weakness in your right side, stroke, strokiness.

Eliot (puts earpiece in): You’re precisely why I work alone.

shut up eliot you’re about to be so far gone for them it will be amazing

- - - - -

(Parker dives off the roof)

Parker: Yeehaaaa!!

(Eliot and Hardison run to the edge and watch her fall)

Eliot: That’s twenty pounds of crazy in a five pound bag.

what’s the opposite of foreshadowing? because I’m thinking about the long goodbye job and it’s reference to this (also the SIGNIFICANCE in that episode in how both hardison AND eliot repeat this line, finishing one another. because they both are on the same wavelength by that point, so in tune with one another and in constant awe of parker.)

- - - - -

parker just ??? drops the fucking glass ??? onto the sidewalk below ??? like ??? what if it hits someone ???

- - - - -

Nate: Okay, you got any chatter on their frequencies?

[Electrical Room]

Parker: No. Why?

[Unfinished Office]

(Nate checks records)

Nate: There’s eight listed on the duty roster, there’s only four at the guard post.

[Electrical Room]

Parker: I can’t even tell how many guys are in the room. How can you tell who’s who?

[Unfinished Office]

Nate: Haircuts Parker. Count the haircuts.

[Electrical Room]

Parker: I would have missed that.

[Unfinished Office]

Nate: What?

[Electrical Room]

Parker: Nothing.

mastermind father and daughter in episode ONE

- - - - -

we love to see eliot beat up four guys in the time it takes hardison’s bag to fall to the ground

- - - - -

Eliot (empties gun and smiles): That’s what I do.

(Hardison looks impressed. Behind him, the door clicks open. He and Eliot smile and enter the server room together)

the FLIRTING ENERGY in this scene

- - - - -

Eliot: Did you give them a virus?

Hardison: (chuckles) Dude, I gave them more than one virus.

hardison doesn’t half-ass, pass it on

- - - - -

Parker: Problem. Those guards you ganked?

[Electrical Room]

Parker (looking at monitor): They reset all the alarms on the roof and all the floors above us. We can’t go up.

[Hallway]

Eliot: Every man for himself then. (starts to move away)

Hardison: Go ahead I’m the one with the merchandise.

[Electrical Room]

Parker: Yeah, well I’m the one with an exit.

[Unfinished Office]

Nate: And I’m the one with a plan. Now I know you children don’t play well with others but I need you to hold it together for exactly seven more minutes. Now get to the elevator and head down. We’re going to the burn scam.

[Elevator]

(Eliot and Hardison enter an elevator and begin changing their clothes)

Hardison: Going to Plan B.

[Unfinished Office]

Nate (packing his things): Technically that would be Plan G.

[Elevator]

(elevator doors open and Parker runs in. She begins changing while the men look away)

Hardison: How many plans do we have? Is there like a Plan M?

[Unfinished Office]

Nate: Yeah, Hardison dies in Plan M.

[Elevator]

Eliot: I like Plan M.

there are SO MANY things about this scene I want to discuss but here are the top ones:

1- nate calling them out as children? amazing

2- eliot and hardison canonically changed in the elevator together BEFORE parker dropped in, but they weren’t necessarily looking away in a backs-turned way when she came in (when they were still getting finished getting dressed)

3- parker being completely nonchalant changing with two men in the elevator? she must not really care about being naked in front of other people (as seen later in what I think is the morning after job (?), for example)

4- the boys look away to be polite but there is definitely interest in BOTH of their faces

5- so this is what the burn scam entails

- - - - -

parker takes shotgun while the two boys are in the back. I need to see the scene of them awkwardly sitting together in the back. possibly bickering.

- - - - -

Nate: All right, all right. The money will be in all your accounts later today.

Hardison: Anybody else notice how hard we rocked last night?

Eliot: Yeah, well, one show only, no encores.

Parker: I already forgot your names.

Hardison: It was kind of cool, being on the same side.

Nate: No, we are not on the same side. I am not a thief.

Parker: You are now. Come on Nathan, tell the truth. Didn’t you have a little bit of fun playing the Black King instead of the White Knight, just this once?

(they all walk away in different directions)

smh you’re all 0.000005 seconds away from becoming a family

“no encores” my ass

+ I love how hardison is the FIRST one to (immediately) bring up how awesome they worked as a team

- - - - -

(Nate walks slowly down a toward a large room where voices are coming from)

Hardison (holding gun): You mind telling me what happened to the designs?

Eliot: What makes you think I know what happened? Stupid.

Hardison: Look, forget you man. You did it when we were coming down from the elevator.

Eliot: Yeah, that makes sense doesn’t it? You had the file every second.

Hardison: Hold up Kujo, I did my part, I transferred the files.

Eliot: You better get that gun out of my face...

Hardison: What did you do?

Eliot: …or else I’m gonna feed it to you.

Nate: Hey!

(the men turn, Hardison pointing the gun at Nate)

Eliot: Did you do it? You’re the only one that’s ever played both sides.

Nate: Yeah, you seem pretty relaxed for a guy with a gun pointed at him.

Eliot (looks at Hardison): Safety’s on.

Hardison: Like I’m gonna fall for that.

Nate: No, no, actually he’s right, the safety is on.

(Hardison looks at the gun and Nate grabs it)

Nate (to Eliot): You armed?

Eliot (shakes head): I don’t like guns.

(Eliot looks pointedly past Nate’s shoulder. Nate turns, pointing the gun at Parker who is holding a gun on him)

Parker: My money’s not in my account.

(She walks around Hardison, raising her gun as Nate lowers his)

Parker: That makes me cry inside in my special, angry place.

Nate: Okay, Parker. (slowly reaches out to lower Parker’s gun) Now did you come here to get paid?

Hardison: Hell no. Transfer of funds man. Global economy.

Eliot: It’s supposed to be a walk away. I’m never supposed to see you again.

eliot could have IMMEDIATELY taken the gun away but it made hardison feel safe so he was humoring him

and how easily nate took the gun away? interesting, for a former insurance agent

“you armed?” “no, I don’t like guns” eliot sweetie I love you

also parker’s entrance tho

- - - - -

Nate: Then the only reason you guys are here is because you didn’t get paid. And you’re pissed off. (laughs) As a matter of fact the only way to get us all in the same place at the same time is to tell us that we’re not. Getting. Paid.

(a look of realization goes through the group and they all start to run. Nate opens a garage door and directs them out. Hardison trips on the stairs and Eliot pulls him to his feet)

Nate: Come on, come on, get up. Let’s go, hustle. Go.

(the others exit and Nate looks back to see a ball of fire headed toward him)

eliot: I hate you all, I work alone, I don’t care about any of you

eliot 0.000005 seconds later: hauling hardison off the ground so he doesn’t die in an exploding building because ‘I guess he’s by boyfriend now’

- - - - -

Nate: Have we been processed?

(Eliot waves ink covered finger tips at him)

Eliot: They faxed our prints to the State Police.

[Hospital Room B]

Hardison: Yo, if the staties run us man, we’re screwed.

Parker: How long?

Hardison: Thirty, thirty-five minutes depending on the software

- - - - -

Nate: Parker! Get me a phone. What we’re going to do is, we’re going to get out of here together.

Eliot: This was a onetime deal.

Nate: Look guys, here’s your problem. You all know what you can do, I know what all you can do, so that gives me the edge, gives me the plan.

[Hospital Room B]

Parker: I don’t trust these guys.

[Hospital Room A]

Nate: Do you trust me?

Eliot: Of course. You’re an honest man.

Nate: Parker, Phone.

[Hospital Room B]

Parker: This is gonna suck.

(she sticks her fingers down her throat and bends over)

Hardison: Oh. Hell no

the amount of times eliot brings up that it was supposed to be a one-time thing is HILARIOUS considering just how fast he imprints on them lmfao

also how they all immediately trust him, I’m soft

- - - - -

(Parker nods compliantly. The doctor and nurse leave the room. Officer checks her handcuffs then leaves. Parker and Hardison hold up the phones they stole. After a quick glance, they switch phones. Parker holds up the keys she stole and tosses them to Hardison before standing up and talking to the vent into the next room)

domestic pardison

- - - - -

(Hardison leads Eliot to a police cruiser that Nate and Parker are already inside of. As Hardison guides Eliot into the backseat he hits Eliot head on the top of the door frame. Eliot turns and growls at Hardison)

Hardison: Walk it off. Walk… get inside. Get inside.

(Eliot gets in the car)

I love chaotic (pre)boyfriends

- - - - -

Eliot: I’m gonna beat Dubenich so bad that even the people who look like him are gonna bleed.

Parker: You won’t get within 100 yards. He knows your face. He knows all our faces.

Eliot: He tried to kill us.

Parker: More importantly he didn’t pay us.

Eliot: How is that more important?

Parker: I take that personally.

Eliot: There’s something wrong with you.

okay to be fair eliot at least is open to and listens to parker’s reasoning before concluding she’s crazy

- - - - -

Eliot: What’s in it for me?

Nate: Payback, and if it goes right a lot of money.

Parker: What’s in it for me?

Nate: A lot of money, and if it goes right, payback. Hardison?

Hardison: I was just gonna send a thousand porno magazines to his office, but, hell yeah man, let’s kick him up.

these characterizations are so on point

- - - - -

SOPHIE’S INTRO LMFAO

+ how everyone else is horrified but nate just looks entranced

- - - - -

[Flashback]

(In Paris seven years ago, Sophie is cutting a painting out of a frame with several empty frames nearby. The door burst open and Nate enters with a gun in hand)

Nate: Freeze.

(Sophie grabs her gun and shoots Nate in the shoulder. He responds by shooting her in the back. They both clench at their wounds)

Sophie: You wanker!

so are we, as a fandom, EVER going to talk about this scene ???

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(so apparently there’s a 250 text block limit for posts on tumblr so I guess I have to make more than one post for this now. the following part will be reblogged on this post immediately after. reblog that version instead please lol)

Note: This video won’t play for anyone outside of the UK.

“Anthony, I wanna kick off with a big one. You’re Sam Wilson, AKA The Falcon - how the heck did that happen?”

Anthony: “Erm, well, I, I got lucky. I got very lucky. I - I’ve always wanted to be a part of the MCU since the first Iron Man. And, you know, when they uh, some - saw some of my other stuff, they called me to LA and I had dinner with the Russo brothers and it kind of worked out.  I was like: ‘All of you, just don’t be an asshole!’”

“That was their one note, their first note.”

Anthony: “That was it - don’t be an asshole.”

“What do you like most about your character?”

Anthony: “Uh, the fact that he’s a normal guy. You know, if you think about it, he was just a guy out for a jog, and Captain America was like: ‘You’re a good guy - I want you to be an Avenger.’ What?! Like, you know it’s ,it’s - that’s something no-one expects, That was a hell of a jog. Like, what happened if he never went on that jog? He would never have met Black Widow, who is the love of his life. He would never have got to go on adventures with Captain America, who is is best friend. And now he would never be dealing with all this craziness with Bucky. who is his arch nemesis. (interviewer laughs) All from one jog.”

“One jog. And that line: “on your left” - it must be a nightmare for you. You can never be to the right of anyone ever again.”

Anthony: (laughs once) “Very true, and its interesting because you can always tell when somebody’s about to say it. And, you know, it’s the build up, and the build up is like: ‘No, don’t say it. Should I say it? Can I say it? What would he say if I say it? Okay, ’on your left! Ha-ha-ha.’ (interviewer laughs) And it’s never a girl - it’s never a girl. It’s always some 40-year-old dude who, you know, it’s always some 40-year-old dude.”

“Yeah. I get it.”

Anthony: “If it was a pretty girl and she’s like ‘On your left’, you’re like ‘Yes you are.’”

“Good move, I’m glad it works. (Anthony laughs) Let me say this to you - would you say you might have the most uncomfortable costume in the MCU, when you’re wired up, I mean?”

Anthony: “I - I think I have the costume with the most pieces. I have about, - hoo -, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight - I have like, twelve pieces to my costume. And it just goes on layer after layer after layer and it, it can be, um, a bit much but actually, it’s pretty uh, comfortable. I mean the backpack is the only off thing - that’s maybe like 15 pounds, uh, the whole piece; the harness that it goes on. But nah, I’m - I’m pretty comfortable with mine. It’s just when I’m doing stunts I usually rip through the crotch of my pants.”

“There’s this great bit in the blooper reel where you crash into the ground right in front of Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man.”

Anthony: “Right.”

“Ah, great days. (Anthony laughs) What would you say are your favourite Falcon moments on the big screen so far - and I do have suggests if you’d like them?”

Anthony: “One of my favourite moments that made me go ‘Holy shit!’ was in um, I wanna say it was in Winter Soldier. When the Harriers are coming up, and I go under the Harrier and the, the missiles are following me and I do a barrel tuck and they hit the Harrier and I come back out. For me, that was the first moment I was like: ‘This is amazing!’ Right? And my second one, my all-time, my all-time, is this first sequence in episode one. The first ten minutes. That was the second time when I saw it, when I saw myself and I went: ‘Holy shit!’ (interviewer laughs quietly) So those two are probably my top moments.”

“For me, I can’t resist the moment where you say in Civil War: ‘So, you like cats?’ (Anthony laughs) And with Bucky himself: ‘Can you move your seat up?’ (Anthony laughs) Love it. Even the: ‘Everybody’s got a gimmick now’ - you’ve got all these lovely little lines.”

Anthony: “Right.”

“Good-looking guy in the sunglasses, And what I love seeing, the behind-the-scenes footage for this new show, it’s that it’s called ‘Bromance’ on the clapper board. (Anthony laughs once) And I know you’ve been asked a million times about your friendship with Sebastian, so here’s my tack. How would you describe him in three words?”

Anthony: “Uh - boring. Introverted. Er - I feel like shy is the same thing so I won’t say shy. I’ll say boring, introverted and um, a great sense of humour.”

“Love it. I’ll accept it.”

Anthony: “But he’s literally the most boring person I’ve ever met in my life.” (interviewer laughs quietly) 

“All right, between the two of you, who breaks, who corpses and laughs most on set between the two of you?”

Anthony: “Oh - I would say it’s a 50/50 split. Like, when we’re on set, and that’s why I say he, he has a great sense of humour - when we’re on set, he always does something in some kind of way to just, you know, crack me up. It’s - it’s really funny. You know him with like - there was one day when he was putting the arm on, and you know, the process of putting that arm on is quite disgusting. So, (laughs aloud, interviewer laughs silently) he’s putting the arm on the, the - so they use KY Jelly to get the arm on, right? -”

“Yeah, the lube.”

Anthony: “ - So he has to dip his arm in the KY Jelly and slide it into this arm, and he puts - and he does this (slight moving motion) and a glob of KY Jelly just goes (motions glob hitting his face, then laughs, as does the interviewer). Never fails. Never fails.”

“Never not funny. I - I would imagine the whole staring contest bit would be enough to set me off. Like, I wouldn’t be able to keep a straight face.”

Anthony: “Yeah, that was good editing because that whole sequence - we literally just went at each other for about ten minutes (laughs) and they just cut it down to what it is.”

“Love it. And I’d like to thank you on behalf of all Marvel fans for holding up and basically powering all of the gag reels for, what, close to ten years now. (Anthony laughs) Are there any ‘Cut the cheque’s’ in the blooper reel for this show?”

Anthony: “You know, I don’t know. I don’t even know. We can do a whole episode that’s just bloopers. Like, we had a lot of fun on this show, dude. There - between you know Sebastian, Daniel Bruhl - ”

“Yeah.”

Anthony: “ - Even like, there was some stuff, you know, Emily VanCamp did - it was just like - it was just co - comic gold, like just comedic gold. And none of it made - because, because we’re not doing a comedy. Like, if we were doing Guardians of the Galaxy, all that shit would be in the movie. But, I - I wish they’d take all of this stuff and cut like a one-hour comedic version of this show. It, it would be - it would break the internet.”

“Oh God, I now really, really want that. (Anthony laughs) What would you say are the weirdest, most surreal things you’ve done promoting a Marvel movie or this TV show? Because I’d like to suggest reading out thirst tweets, an escape room and mean tweets. I mean, I don’t know whether Catchphrase with J.Lo was part of that? (Anthony laughs) There must’ve been moments where you’re going: ‘Is this really happening?’“

Anthony: “I would say the, the weirdest thing, um, when we went to um, China, for, uh, Civil War, we - there are only like seven chefs in the world that can cook, uh, uh, pufferfish because of poison- ”

“Of course.”

Anthony: “So, we go to this restaurant and the chef’s like, uh, you know: ‘As, as a, as a sign of gratitude, I made you guys some pufferfish.’ And we’re like ‘Oh wow, isn’t that danger, like - that’s dangerous’, and he’s like ‘No, no. There’s only seven people in the world who can cook it and I’m one of the seven.’ So we’re like: ‘Okay.’ So we all go to eat this pufferfish and our mouth is like tingling and numb. He’s like: ‘Oh well, you know, the art is to leave a little bit of poison in so you can taste it.’”

“Great.”

Anthony: “I’m like: ‘Not a good idea, homeboy. Not a good idea.’ But Singapore, we um, we uh, got to stand - I think it was the Opera House - and they like, set the whole city on fire with fireworks. It was insane. It was literally - the entire city was on fire.”

“Amazing. God, those were the days. (Anthony laughs once) Can I ask you, would your press - you know, I know you’ve done pranks over the years, but has Nishka, your wife’s friend made an appearance?”

Anthony: (laughs) “She has not.”

“I - I love her. (Anthony laughs) I’ve got to tell you I love her. What mementos have you taken home over the course of the films and this TV show? Do you still have that poster of yourself as the Falcon up in your house?”

Anthony: (laughs) No, but I do, um, there’s - there’s a few things. Once you get into the series, you’ll see, uh, from my house, um, I’ve, I’ve - there’s a record record player. Jacked that. I’ve been trying to get - they’re fighting me on it - I’ve been trying to get my wings, ‘cos I’m like: ‘The wings have changed every movie, so you should give me the old wings.’”

“The little pigeon ones? The little quail ones?”

Anthony: “That’s what I’m saying - the little three-foot ones like that. That’s the ones I want. So, I’m working on that, uh, but our prop team, uh, my man Russell and uh, Travis, they are - the angriest little dudes on earth and they watch everything - it’s impossible.” 

“Well, what do fans say to you though, typically, when they see you on the street? We’ve already discussed ‘on your left’, but do they just walk up to you and start playing Trouble Man out their phones? Like what, what are they doing?”

Anthony: “The funny thing is most of them walk up to me and think I’m Don Cheadle. (laughs) They literally go: ‘Hey man, I love you as black Iron Man!’  I’m like ‘Er...’ Or they’ll say: ‘Aren’t you the guy in Iron Man?’ I’m like ‘Err...’“

“Not so much.”

Anthony: “Like literally, once a day, someone comes up to me and asks me if I’m Don Cheadle. Which it could be worse.”

“I love those bits in the bloopers where you say - ” (You want Wesley Snipes or Denzel;. ‘Denzel.’ ‘Done. Roll sound.’ blooper plays and both laugh)

Anthony: “Two very different things, man. Two very different things.”

“Two very different things. Okay, here’s another big question. What advice would you give to your younger self, before you got this role, to prepare yourself for a life as the Falcon?”

Anthony: “Er, enjoy it. I think a lot of times I, I missed the opportunity to just step back and enjoy it. Because so many people have so many expectations of you just because they saw you in a movie. Like, you know, it’s - it’s like being a pretty girl at a bar. You know, when one guy offers you a drink, that’s cool, then the second guy, then the third guy, it’s like ‘Yo, I just wanna chill for a minute.’ You know, so a lot of people feel entitled to your time and your energy, you know?”

“I get it. I get it. And you talk about that in the show as well which I kind of love, even in the first episode - there’s that discussion of an ownership of you - ”

Anthony: “Right.”

“ - because you’re an Avenger.”

Anthony: “Right.”

“There’s lots - there’s lots of stuff in this new series which feels really, really true. How does it feel working with Malcolm Spellman about that?”

Anthony: “Um, you know what? Malcolm has a great voice as a writer, and he was 100% in tune with how I felt and, you know, what I wanted this character to, uh, convey. Uh, he was really wonderful, man. I mean, he and Kari, they held no punches. They really went at these characters and this story, and they wanted to shine the light on what it means to find your new normal. What it means to live post-Blip and how that is very similar to how we’re going to be living post-Covid when we’re all vaccinated. So they held no punches and I’m proud to say they both did a great job and Malcolm was really, really great with capturing our voices - Sebastian and mine. Uh, when we would give him notes, they would come right back spot on. And you know, it was - it was really impressive. I’ve never had an experience like that with a writer.”

“Do you guys miss, even just a little bit, Chris Evans being on set - just to get that laugh where - where he punches your shoulder and leans in a bit? (Anthony laughs) I’ve missed that so much.”

Anthony: (laughs) “Of course. Look, Chris is, you know - the three of us we were - are - very good friends and we talk all the time. Chris was always the most fun, the most supportive, the most loving human being when you spend time with him. So of course you know, we - we always want him on set, we always want him with us.”

“And what’s it like knowing that your co-star is the kind of guy that will say on, like, was it Jimmy Kimmel or Fallon? - he describes working with you like ‘riding a psychotic horse into a blazing stable.’ (Anthony laughs) And you’re like ‘Okay, cool. I’ll see you tomorrow at work then.’ (Anthony laughs) 

Anthony: (after FWS clip plays and he laughs) “I can see that, I can see that. I told you, look, Sebastian is the most boring person on Earth. I’m - I literally think he sits in his living room and talks to his plant. There’s nothing; I’ve - I’ve sat outside of his room, or in the lobby, or outside the hotel, waiting for him to come out, so I can follow him and stalk him and see where he goes. I, I - I’ve never seen anything like it. He’s a hermit, so of course he would think I’m a psychotic horse; of course.” (interviewer laughs)

“I think what he does is he goes to, like, in that Bucharest scene in Civil War, there’s a big tray of plums, and he just spends the day picking them. He goes ‘This one?’”

Anthony: “Probably. Probably. He’s the only dude, when we were in Prague, he has a 106th birthday party for Bucky. That’s cool - but he, he didn’t invite anybody. So he had - he had a birthday party for himself by himself.”

“A cake, 106 candles, himself?”

Anthony: “Sebastian Stan everyone.” (claps, interviewer follows)

“On that note, Anthony, thank you so much.”

Anthony: “Thank you.”

“Have a great rest of your day. Cheers dude.”

Anthony: “Thank you. Have a good one.”

A Place To Call Home: Vacation

Summary: The Ackles and Padaleckis are heading to the beach for a two week long family vacation. The reader invites TJ along and is surprised to learn someone else may have beat her to the punch…

Masterlist

Pairing: Jensen x foster daughter!reader (with TJ)

Word Count: 10,300ish (whoops)

Warnings: language, little implied smut

A/N: Takes place approximately 2 years after the end of A Place To Call Home and after the reader has finished college...

“Hey guys,” asked your dad quietly, skirting back from first class squatting down in the aisle, looking at both you and TJ. “How’s it going back here?”

“Arrow stole my window seat and Zeppelin insisted TJ watch Transformers with him so...lovely,” you said, shaking your head at TJ who was sandwiched between Zepp and Shep across the aisle.

“Mom and I and the other guys really appreciate you two watching the little guys on the flights for us,” said Jensen, giving you a smile. “So much so we figure before you two go insane back here, we’d let you know that the villa we’re staying in has a separate cottage. We thought maybe you and TJ would want to maybe take that for-”

“Yup,” you said nodding your head. “This is the best flight ever. We’ll even watch ‘em on the way home, won’t we TJ?”

“Yes. A million times yes,” he said with a fast nod, your dad chuckling.

“Didn’t think you two would mind a little privacy,” he said, giving you a smile and raising an eyebrow at TJ. “Appropriate privacy.”

“Of course,” he said. You shook your head, scratching the back of it when your dad looked back to you. He rolled his eyes and smiled as he stood up.

“Alright, we’ll see you guys in a few hours,” he said. “Have fun sibling sitting.”

“Do we have all of ‘em?” asked Jared, yawning as your parents grabbed the rental cars at the airport. “How many kids are there? I forget.”

“Six small, two large,” said Gen. “So, eight total.”

“We’re graduated from college and we still fall in the kids category?” you asked, waving you to you and TJ.

“I think one of the large children is acting up again,” teased Jared.

“I put Jared and Jensen in the large children category, hun,” said Gen, giving Jared a smirk. “Still debating on TJ at the moment although he’s more mature than those two put together.”

“Come to the dark side, TJ. It’s fun here,” said Jared with a nod, watching you scowl at him.

“Yeah but Jensen…you know...” said TJ.

“Fair point,” said Jared, corralling Odette when she started to wander off. “Everyone under 6’ 5” must stay in a ten foot vicinity at all times at the airport, Ms. Odette.”

“Dad, it’s pretty outside,” she grumbled, waving her arms around. “I wanna play. Please?”

“As soon as Uncle Jensen and Aunt De get the cars, we are going to the resort and we can play,” he said. “Promise.”

“So, right now,” said your dad, handing a set of keys to Jared and one to TJ. “Small kids with your parents, luggage goes with the big kids.”

You saw Tom and JJ look at one another, Jensen rolling his eyes.

“Over twenty is a big kid today, kiddos,” he said.

“But I’m ten and Tom’s eleven,” said JJ. “Double digits.”

“It’s cool if they ride with us,” said TJ. “Really.”

“Alright, alright. Let’s just get there so we can relax for minute,” he said.

“Awesome,” you said, TJ smirking the whole time as you put your luggage into the back of the open top jeep, JJ and Tom practically bouncing out of their seats.

“Alright, buckle up and we will be there in about half an hour,” said TJ.

“You two good back there?” you asked. You got hums and a pair of thumbs up, TJ laughing as he pulled your sunglasses down over your face. “Well let’s get going. I am so driving this next time we go out by the way.”

“Might have to fight me for it,” teased TJ. It didn’t take long to get away from the airport and start to smell the ocean in the air and feel the sun on your skin. It hadn’t been hard for your dad to convince you to take this year’s big vacation to the caribbean after last year’s fiasco. It had been his choice to try camping and after one night of roughing it with three bouts of stomach bugs later, you packed up and checked into a hotel not too far down the road and spent the rest of the two weeks relaxing with a nice room to come back to at the end of the day.

Unfortunately TJ hadn’t been able to get the time off with his internship to come with you but now he was working at the firm under the guy that had ironically designed your parents house, and they were very flexible with time off.

“I’m so glad my parents said yes that you could come this year,” you said, glancing over at him as he drove, his left arm hanging on the edge of doorsill, a warm breeze in the air carrying a pretty scent through it.

“I’m glad they invited me,” he said with a smile.

“They invited you?” you asked. “I invited you.”

“Oh. I remember your dad asking me if I wanted to come like a week before you did. I was away for spring break at my parents and he called me up,” he said. “I figured you were excited and wanted to talk about it in person was all.”

“I talked to them about it after...they invited you...now I’m suspicious,” you said, peering over your shoulder at the SUV behind you your dad was driving.

“I’m sure they just wanted to know for planning rooms and stuff,” he said.

“Or he could like...be planning to murder you in foreign country,” you said.

“Seriously?” said TJ. “Your little sister and like cousin are in the car.”

“We watch lifetime movies when Y/N babysits,” said Tom.

“She’s got a point, TJ. The perfect crime,” said JJ.

“These children are going to be vandals when they grow up thanks to you,” said TJ, shaking his head with a smile. “What else does Y/N have you guys watch?”

“I let ‘em watch Supernatural sometimes,” you said, TJ’s jaw dropping. “So what if the rule was like thirteen? They can watch some stuff. Like bloody mary. Ain’t that right JJ? You loved that one.”

You spun around with a smirk, JJ shaking her head, Tom rolling his eyes.

“Or like hookman,” you said, his head dropping back. You laughed and TJ started to giggle.

“Vandals and traumatizing them. Best big sister ever there,” he teased.

“Dude, that stuff’s in the handbook,” you said, reaching back and ruffling both their heads. “They know I love ‘em. It’s our little secret.”

“What about like...the stuff that’s a little more...grown up?” asked TJ.

“No. No. That’s why you watch the show ahead of me now. I can not have another Jared and Gen season 4 couch incident,” you said, shaking yourself out. “Seeing dad was bad enough but that was full on…”

“What?” asked Tom.

“It’s an episode you’ll never see and for good reason,” you said. “You’ll thank me someday.”

“Hey, you know what? You guys are pretty lucky to have Y/N. I’m an only kid. I would have loved having a big brother or sister around. It can get pretty lonely,” said TJ.

“But now you got us!” said JJ. TJ laughed and agreed with her but you only bit your bottom lip. You didn’t realize you were still smiling when you got to the resort, your dad grinning at you when he saw your face.

“Somebody looks like they’re in love,” he said, Arrow taking off with your mom ahead of him.

“Yeah,” you said, grabbing you bag from the back, helping JJ with hers before you gave her a hug. “Pretty awesome little sis right here.”

He was quick to take a picture of you two, nudging you to hold back once everyone started heading inside.

“You okay?” he asked.

“Yeah. We were just talking in the car and TJ was talking about siblings and how the kids are lucky to have them and she made a comment like TJ’s part of our family so he’s got ‘em too. I don’t know. I’m…” you said. “Why’d you invite him on vacation?”

“It was a family vacation,” he said. “He’s part of the family.”

“Really?” you asked, your dad nodding with a smile.

“You’ve been best friends with the guy for four years, you’ve been dating for two and he comes over for dinner like six days a week. I think it’s okay if we call him part of the family at this point,” he said. You smiled, getting one in return. “I assumed you wanted him to come.”

“Oh, I did,” you said. “S’nice that you invited him is all.”

“I know. I’m also not going to murder him because yes, I watched that lifetime movie too,” he said.

“Well good cause then it’d be a whole thing to deal with..” you said, getting a chuckle from him.

“It’s why we act and make beer in this family. Whole lot easier,” he teased, tilting his head at you. “Speaking of making beer, mom says she’s creating a new position at the brewery. Full time, Monday to Friday. Someone to help with the business and design side of things, run social media. It comes with benefits, pretty kick ass salary, very flexible time off…”

“I told mom I’m taking it,” you said. “A big part of my duties will also be designing the farmhouse for the new restaurant and getting that up to code. I get to use that degree for something after all looks like.”

“You’re going to be a boss, not just a beer server anymore. You want that?” he asked. “You’ll be making decisions with all the owners.”

“It’s sort of called The Family Business so it makes sense that family runs it,” you said. “I want this.”

“Oh my...it only took you like five years to get that the plan was for the kids to run it someday,” he said with a laugh. “Whew. We were getting nervous for a minute there.”

“You guys were waiting for me to ask about a job?” you said. He shrugged, giving you a smirk.

“There’s always been a job there for you. Duh. Of course we were waiting for you to ask,” he said.

“You two are partially evil you know,” you said.

“But we’re nice evil, kiddo,” he said, giving you a hug, getting a strange look from a guy walking by. “Come on, let’s go be weird inside.”

“I don’t know if it’s possible for you to not be weird that long. You might actually combust from restraining yourself,” you said, smiling at him.

“I learned it from watching you, tall munchkin,” he said. You rolled your eyes and headed inside, handing over your bags to someone before everyone was being led off to your own private corner of the resort.

You parents and the Padaleckis thanked the people that brought your bags, you and TJ watching the kids take off to explore the villa.

“Guys, guys,” said your mom, Gen whistling before they got too far. “You three boys are sharing a room on the right. You three girls are right next door to them. Tom, JJ, us adults will be upstairs, Pads on the left, Ackles on the right. Any problems, come get any one of us, okay?”

“Where are TJ and Y/N going to sleep?” asked Arrow.

“Backyard,” said your dad. The kids scrunched up their faces, Jared nodding. “I know, sucks for them. But they’ll just be sleeping out there so during the day, those guys are still in charge too. Okay now take off you scoundrels. And no going near the pool or the beach without an adult out there.”

All six pairs of heads nodded before they were gone to their rooms and you were tugging TJ outside. You hummed as you both spotted the short path to the cottage off to the side.

“It looks beautiful,” you said, both of you wide eyed as you entered. There was a small kitchen and sitting room in the front of the house, and a huge bathroom and  bedroom with a perfect oceanfront view in the back, your bags already inside. “Wow.”

You stepped outside onto the small deck out there, looking around and seeing nothing but beach.

“This is so private. Isn’t it gorgeous?” you asked, looking back over your shoulder.

“It is,” he said, a hint of pink on his cheeks.

“Are you blushing TJ?” you teased.

“You should see how beautiful you are,” he said, smirking as he stepped out beside you. “That’s a very pretty sundress for a girl that doesn’t like dresses.”

“It’s the caribbean,” you shrugged, TJ humming as he wrapped his arms around you, resting his head on your shoulder as you both stared out. “Want to go swimming?”

“Mmm, for sure,” he said, kissing your cheek before he pulled back. You went inside, digging through your bags for your swim gear, TJ with swim trunks in hand when there was a knock at the door. “Come in.”

“Hey,” said your dad, raising an eyebrow when he walked inside to the bedroom. “Wow, this place is nice. Just wanted to let you guys know we were thinking be ready to go for dinner at six? Little formal, not too formal. You probably need a dress shirt or polo TJ, a dress or nice shirt for you, honey.”

“Sounds good. We were going to go for a quick swim,” you said.

“Alright. Be safe. I think that’s the plan for us too. Oh and try not to spend all your time tucked away in here,” he teased, glancing at you and then your open suitcase. You kicked it shut, turning and looking at a picture on the wall when you saw him realize what he’d seen.

“Isn’t that a great picture?” you said. “That’s a great-”

“It’s a box of condoms. Guess what? You’re not the only one to pack some,” he said. You closed your eyes and shook your head, a loud laughing echoing from him. “Well I know where to come if I run out.”

“Sorry, I think...nope I definitely hear mom calling me right now,” you said, grabbing your phone. “I should totally take this and get away from here asap.”

“Oh so you don’t want to hear that you guys can order whatever you want for room service from here? Like we're paying for everything?” he teased.

“...Continue,” you said.

“Don’t blow our retirement fund but you guys want some wine, late night dinner, go for it. You’re both responsible,” he said. “Okay? Have fun on your swim guys.”

“Alright,” you said, your dad pausing on his way out, turning to TJ before he shook his head, biting back his comment.

“I need a beer,” he sighed. “Six sharp for dinner you two.”

“Gotcha,” you said, groaning when he left. “Oh my god. Never answer the door again.”

“I’m okay with that,” he said, peeling off of his short sleeve henley and shorts, shimmying out of his boxer briefs as he started to pull on his swim trunks.

“Remember the first time we were naked in front of each other?” you asked, leaning against the wall as he pulled up the shorts.

“Yes. I remember a whole lot of avoided eye contact and awkwardness and then I actually looked at you and thought, fuck she is smokin’ hot and beautiful? How’d I land this girl?” he said, walking over, peeling the straps off your dress until it slid off your body.

“You were always hot...then you got all muscly,” you said, patting his arm with a smirk as you grabbed your bikini and started to change.

“Well you do have a thing for big arms apparently,” he teased.

“True. I got a thing for sweet boys too,” you said, spinning around and showing your back to him. “Tie me up?”

“Y/N, you scoundrel,” he fake scoffed as you smacked his chest. He tied the strings together across your back and behind your neck, brushing your hair behind your ear when you spun around. “I love you, dork.”

“I love you, dork,” you said, giving him a peck on the nose.

“No nightmares last night?” he asked. You shook your head, TJ smiling wide. “S’been awhile since you had one. Must be a new record.”

“It is,” you said, resting your head on his chest. “Been feeling pretty good since that meltdown at finals week. I feel...safe.”

“I wouldn’t let anyone hurt you,” he said. You giggled and looked up at him. “S’why I got big and strong you know.”

You raised an eyebrow, TJ shrugging.

“Seriously? I thought you were trying to impress my dad or something which you totally don’t have to. He loves you,” you said.

“I like knowing I make you feel safe,” he said. “I like knowing I can keep you safe if I have to and are you blushing Y/N Ackles?”

“Shut up,” you laughed, grabbing his hand. “Come on, let’s go check out that pool.”

“Honey?” asked your mom from her chair by the pool, TJ showing Zepp how to flip into the water along with your dad at the other end. “Did TJ start working out more recently?”

“Your boyfriend’s like hot, Y/N,” said Gen, your mom whacking her arm. “What? He is! I remember him being smaller.”

“He joined crossfit about six months ago,” you said. “I tease him about being a jock now.”

“I guess we’ll have to see if JJ follows in tradition of choosing a man that goes smaller to strong,” joked Gen. “Always sweet though.”

“She probably will,” said your mom. “I think we got a few more years before boys come into the picture. Let ‘em enjoy being kids.”

Gen hummed and stood up with a stretch.

“True. So glad I got a while before Odette’s dealing with that. It’s getting late. We better get ready,” she said.

“Why don’t you wear that white dress with the little bowtie front?” asked your mom as she stood up. “That’s plenty pretty for the restaurant. I think TJ will like it.”

“He likes everything I wear,” you said. “Like everything.”

“They normally do,” she said. “We’ll meet you out front, okay?”

“Okay. We’ll be there.”

You gave TJ a smile at the table, looking him up and down in his white dress shirt and khaki shorts. You were vaguely listening to the conversation your parents were having, the kids seemingly passed out for the most part after the day of travel.

“I don’t think they’re listening to us,” you heard, your head whipping around, TJ’s doing the same. You saw four pairs of smiles as they were standing up. “We’re going to head back to the house guys.”

“Alright,” you said, some of the kids getting treated to rides back on the walk, Arrow walking over to TJ with a smile.

“You want a ride, pipsqueak?” he asked, bending down and scooping her up. “Did you like dinner?”

“Yeah,” she yawned. “You smell good.”

“It’s cologne,” he said.

“Daddy wears that sometimes,” she said, resting her head on his shoulder as you took his other hand and started the walk back. “TJ?”

“Mhm?”

“Can we build a sandcastle tomorrow?” she asked.

“Sure,” he said. She nodded and started to snore after a minute, TJ chuckling quietly.

“It seems you have a way with the Ackles women,” you said.

“Oh yes. You all fall asleep on me,” he said. “It was a long day for a seven year old.”

“Thanks for carrying her,” you said.

“S’no problem.”

“Thanks guys,” said your dad after you dropped off Arrow in her room. “We were going to have a drink by the pool if you want to join us.”

“Sure,” you said when TJ nodded. “I want to put on something warmer first.”

“No rush,” he said.

The second you sat down on the bed to take off your sandals though, you groaned, TJ doing the same.

“Sleep?” you asked.

“Sleep,” he said.

You grabbed your phone and texted your dad, tucking yourself into TJ’s side before he could even respond.

“Morning,” hummed TJ when you stirred awake. You stretched out, sighing into the sheets. “This bed is amazing.”

“I know,” you said, rolling over to catch the clock. “It’s already ten. We should probably get up.”

“Tomorrow we should get breakfast in bed,” he said.

“I like that plan,” you said. “Let’s go grab something from the resort and then we can head down to the beach.”

“Alright, alright,” said your dad, bending over and putting his hands on his knees. “Dad needs a break.”

“What are you, old, Ackles?” teased Jared, kicking around the soccer ball more with you and JJ.

“Yes and I’m not twisting my ankle two days into this thing,” he said with a huff. “Beer break.”

“I’ll take one of those,” you said.

“Beer, beer, lemonade,” said Jared, pointing at JJ, getting a nod. “Hey, Gen, De! What do you guys want for drinks?”

“We’re a delivery service now?” said your dad.

“Can I get a mojito?” asked your mom.

“I’ll have one too!” said Gen, Odette asking for grape juice.

“Let’s go find a waiter,” asked your dad. You headed more towards the resort area and eventually found one, getting everyone’s orders in as they said they’d send them over for you. You and your dad took a break at the resort bar in the air conditioning, glad to be out of the sun for a minute.

“JJ’s getting good at her dribbling, better than me now,” you said.

“I know. I could handle when you were better but the ten year old kicking my ass makes me question the old man comments,” he said.

“You’re barely 46, dad,” you said.

“Hot 46,” said a pair of women that walked past, giving him a wave.

“I think I threw up in my mouth a little,” you said.

“Hey, I’m hot 46,” he said with a smirk, puffing his chest out.

“You’re something alright,” you said, laughing when the fruitiest and brightest pink drink you’d ever seen was sat down in front of your dad.

“Courtesy Mr. Hanover,” said a waiter appearing from nowhere, a double of whiskey set down in front of you. The waiter questioned himself but you took the whiskey, smiling at your dad as the waiter left.

“Careful. I think TJ might like you,” you teased.

“Hey, mine came with a little umbrella,” he said, plucking it out and sticking it in your hair. “You guys crashed before us last night.”

“We were tired. Mom mentioned bonfire tonight?” you asked.

“Mhm,” he hummed, sucking on the straw until you saw half of it gone in ten seconds. You grabbed it away and asked for some water for him. “Hey, I’m thirsty.”

“What are you? Freshman on her first spring break? That thing has so much alcohol in it,” you said.

“Tastes like kool aid to me,” he said, taking a sip of the water, reaching for his drink again when you pulled it away.

“Do I have to have the talk with you?” you asked. “Pace yourself?”

“To use your words from that conversation, I won’t let the boys take advantage of me,” he deadpanned, cocking his head as wiped the sweat off your face. “So how’s Mr. TJ enjoying himself?”

“He’s good. I think he’s a little awestruck. He forgets we…” you shrugged.

“Have money? Well that’s because we don’t give you guys everything you want,” he said. “And you hate shopping thank god.”

“You gave me what I wanted,” you said, taking a sip of the pink drink, catching the soft smile on his face.

“We could live in a cardboard box and you’d be happy kiddo. You got different wants than most well off twenty somethings,” he said.

“I know,” you said, swinging your feet off the end of the bar stool, one of your flip flops falling off.

“Proud of you,” he said with a smile.

“What’d I do?”

“Just proud of you is all,” he said with a shrug. “You’re getting all grown up.”

“Yeah. Still feel like JJ’s older than me sometimes,” you said, his head cocking. “She doesn’t hesitate. She goes for stuff and I still overthink things so much.”

“Well...first off she’s ten so her problems consist of who sat next to who at lunch and the fact she can’t braid her hair,” he said. “You had slightly different priorities at ten. You missed that phase.”

“I can’t even braid my own hair good,” you mumbled.

“Y/N,” he grumbled.

“I know,” you said.

“Honey. Why do you think we go on big family vacations? We want you to get to have those chances to be a kid. We’re all just big kids. Case and point, you know what we get up to when the little kids aren’t around and someday they’ll get in on the secret too,” he said.

“Just feels funny sometimes,” you said. “I feel like a fake grown up, you know?”

“Yup. One hundred percent yup,” he said, taking his pink drink back. “Fake it til you make it.”

“Okay, I think we get you back to the beach before I have to divulge this new beverage of choice information to Uncle Jared,” you said.

“I will disown you,” he said

“No you won’t,” you said with a smirk, grabbing the drink and chugging the rest of it down.

“Got me there,” he said. “This time, you’re on my team.”

“Hey, Y/N?” asked JJ while you walked up to the house from the fire you were having on the beach that night.

“Mhm,” you hummed, holding open the door for her before she took off to the bathroom. You headed to the kitchen and started to grab some snacks and drinks to bring back down. You were nearly packed up when she came back.

“Can I ask a question about being brave?” she asked. You spun around, giving her a smile.

“Being brave? Isn’t that more dad’s department?” you teased. “Yeah, shoot. Everything okay?”

“Um...well...I didn’t want to come up to the house by myself,” she said. You tilted your head as you headed out the backdoor, JJ a little close as you walked across the deck area. “I don’t like the dark.”

“I don’t like the dark either,” you said. “But I do like nighttime.”

“Isn’t that kind of funny?” she asked.

“A little,” you said, slowing your walk back, stopping when you were halfway between the house and the beach, taking a seat on the step. She sat next to you, lifting her head up when you looked up. “S’quiet at night. Peaceful.”

“Stars are pretty,” she said.

“Yeah, they are,” you said, buming her shoulder. “You know, it’s okay to be scared of the dark, especially places you don’t know. This place is safe though. You don’t have to be scared here.”

“I know. I keep waiting to get older so I’m not scared of stuff, like how mom and dad let you do stuff by yourself and you don’t have to ask permission to sleepover TJ’s,” she said.

“I’m a lot older, JJ,” you said. “It’s part of growing up...and part of that is learning you don’t ever stop being completely scared of stuff. You learn more though so it doesn’t seem so bad.”

“Yeah but how are you brave?” she asked.

“Only time you can be brave is when you’re afraid,” you said. “It’s like how dad used to be afraid of public speaking.”

“No he didn’t,” she scoffed.

“Yeah, he did. But he did it, even though he was scared, and now he has so much fun at conventions. Sometimes it’s just something that takes time, like not being afraid of the dark,” you said, looking around. “Like how it’s pretty dark right now but you don’t seem scared.”

“I guess...I’m not,” she said, looking around, giving you a smile when she turned back.

“See? Nighttime ain’t so bad,” you said.

“Yeah, it’s pretty,” she said with a nod, staring at you, that same look she’d been giving you more and more lately.

“JJ, if you want to ask a question, go ahead,” you said softly.

“If something ever happened to mom and dad...would me and Ro and Zepp go to a foster home like you did?” she asked. You smiled and shook your head, glancing down at the beach.

“No. No. Mom and dad...they have it all squared away so grandma and grandpa would take care of you guys and I would be a guardian along with them,” you said.

“A guardian?” she asked.

“Yeah. It means I’m an adult, not your parent, but I’ll take care of you like a parent would. Before I was adopted, mom and dad were like guardians for me,” you said. “You’d stay at home, same school, all that.”

“You’d take care of us?” she asked.

“I’m your big sister. I’d do anything for you guys,” you said, giving her a hug.

“Why’d your mom and dad not do that for you so you didn’t have to go to foster care?” she asked.

“I didn’t have much for blood relatives. My parents were only kids and my other grandparents were all gone before I was born. But they had a plan, some of their friends said sure if something ever happened to them they would take care of me,” you said.

“They lied?”

“No, I don’t think they lied,” you said, leaning back against the step behind you, propping your elbows up. “They just...weren’t prepared to take care of a kid.”

“So you went to a foster home?” she asked.

“After I got out of the hospital, yeah,” you said with a nod.

“Was it scary?” she asked quietly. “The car crash?”

“I don’t really remember a lot from that night. I hit my head in the accident so stuff is fuzzy. But I remember glimpses from inside the car and yeah, it was scary. It was really scary,” you said.

“Who took care of you?” she asked.

“There was this police officer. Dougie. He was probably Uncle Jared’s age. Big strong guy but super friendly. I crawled out of the car around the time he got there. It was pitch black and raining and I was crying and everything hurt...and he just picked me up, sat me down in the backseat of his car with him and he was just quiet. He put a blanket around me and sat there and held my hand and he never left my side until we got to the hospital and the doctor’s had to look at me. He even came to visit me the next day,” you said. “Other people were there and stitched me up but Dougie took care of me that night. I can remember Dougie.”

“What happened when you got better?” she asked.

“Well I met with some people when I was in the hospital, including Cole,” you said. “They went over some stuff with me. Cole went out of his way to help with all my parents stuff and arrangements and all that. A week after the accident, he took me to my first foster home. There were about eight other kids there,” you said. “I had to share a room with three other girls. All I wanted to do was cry so that’s what I did.”

“But then you got happier?”

“No,” you said, shaking your head. “I didn’t get happier until I came to our house. I didn’t want to admit it but that first day, I knew mom and dad were different and they were good, all you guys were.”

“I remember when I got in trouble that time, when I told you to go away around Christmas?” she said. “Dad said you had mean mom and dads before.”

“You know he wasn’t talking about no hugs and kisses, now, huh,” you said. She nodded, looking over at you. “Someday I’ll tell you more but you’re too young right now for that.”

“I won’t tell anyone,” she said. “Promise.”

“No, kiddo. I get that. I want you to-”

“Mom and dad are good so I’m not afraid,” she said, blinking at you a few times. “Just a little. Please?”

“...I used to be very afraid of touch, from guys, like dad. My first birthday party, when I’d been here a week, he held my hand to try and walk with me to the kitchen and I ripped right out of it because I was afraid...because that’s what I learned in foster care. Not all of them were like that and I do not want you to have the wrong impression. It helps a lot of kids. It helped me with finding mom and dad. But some places are bad and someday you can learn why I ended up in those ones but-”

“If you were in bad ones, why’d you come to us?” she asked.

“Because Cole helped me and when they tried to make me leave, stuff happened and I got to stay home,” you said.

“You were afraid of dad?”

“That was a long, long time ago,” you said, smiling as you heard a whistle from the beach. “But he was slow and gentle when I’d forgotten that’s how you’re supposed to be treated. We have really amazing parents, JJ. Even you helped me way back then.”

“Me? What’d I do?”

“Honestly, I have no idea. Just know I love you, squirt,” you said, giving the top of her head a kiss. “You want a piggyback ride?”

She hopped on your back and you nearly stumbled forward, picking up the basket and carrying it down to the beach with a grunt.

“I forgot how heavy she is now,” you breathed out when she climbed off and took a seat. You handed out the drinks, your mom grabbing you when you walked past.

“Everything okay?” she whispered.

“Mhm. Just a little bonding time,” you said. “We’re all good.”

“Never have I ever?” asked Jared, your mom shaking her head. “Oh, they know you guys get up to stuff. We all heard about the couch make out session. Oh, I got it...first time you snuck out and got caught.”

You’d heard both your parents stories before as they told them, Gen patting herself on the shoulder for technically only getting caught by the family dog.

“What about the youngin’s? TJ?” asked Jared.

“Oh come on. It’s TJ. He probably never even snuck out,” said your dad.

“Junior year of high school. Went to the end of year party. Asked out Hallie Knicks. I got completely rejected but I did manage to get drunk and walk home straight through the front door. My parents thought I was playing a prank on ‘em,” said TJ.

“Wait you snuck out, came home drunk, admitted it yourself and got off scot free?” asked Jared.

“Yup,” said TJ.

“Shit. I want your parents,” said Jared. TJ chuckled, everyone turning to you, your parents wearing big smirks. “Out with it, kiddo. When’d you ditch these dorks?”

“No, the game is first time you snuck out and got caught,” said your dad, raising an eyebrow. “Which we never did…”

“I never snuck out at their house,” you said with a shrug. “First time I was ten.”

“Ten? Whoa, don’t be telling JJ that,” said your dad.

“What’d you do? Go to a friends house?” asked Jared.

“Tried to runaway. Didn’t get far. Cop brought me back twenty minutes later,” you said, digging your feet into the sand, letting it fall through your toes. “Not a good night.”

You glanced up, the conversation dying out, your dad squeezing his beer bottle as he narrowed his eyes at the fire.

“Hey mom? How’d you fall in love with dad?” you asked.

“Jensen stole her from the mental ward,” teased Jared.

“At least mine’s not a demon,” he said.

“Demons have more fun,” said Gen.

“Yeah, yeah,” said your dad, your mom rolling he eyes with a smile. “So dad and I got a job on the same movie…”

“Wha?” you mumbled, lifting your head off TJ’s shoulder.

“Come here,” he said quietly, lifting you out of the beach chair, your arms going around the back of his neck. The fire was still going, your dad and Jared sitting there, laughing about something. “Let’s put you to bed.”

“Night, Jared,” you mumbled.

“Night, Y/N.”

“Night, dad,” you breathed into TJ’s neck, half asleep already. “Breakfast.”

“I remember. Breakfast in bed tomorrow,” said TJ. “Let’s get you put away, sweetie.”

He carried you all the way back to the cottage, helping you wash off the sand from your feet before he plucked off your clothes, threw one of his tees on you and threw the covers over you.

“You’re not coming to bed?” you said when he headed back for the door.

“In a little while. I was going to stay up a little more if that’s okay,” he said.

“Mhm. Love you.”

“Love you too, Y/N.”

The next two weeks flew by and you were seriously considering begging that you come back the next year.

“Sucks that we have to fly home tomorrow,” you said, moving slowly to some sweet music after dinner, TJ a far better dancer than he gave himself credit for.

“Yeah,” he said. “This has been nice. More than nice.”

“Want to cross something off the bucket list tonight?” you asked.

“Last time you said that, I was swimming in the ocean butt naked in the middle of the night when a piece of seaweed about gave me a heart attack,” he teased.

“Ah but we have the memory of you squealing like a little girl forever now,” you said, biting your bottom lip to hide your smile.

“What do you got in mind troublemaker?”

“Firewalking? Are you insane?” asked TJ.

“You’ve met my family so it’s quite possible,” you said, pulling him over with you. “It’ll be fun.”

“You are insane, woman,” he said, waving you to go first. You stepped up and put down your foot, feeling the heat but you walked across normally and hopped off into the sand, TJ blinking slowly at you.

“Your turn babe,” you said with a wink.

“Okay, okay, okay,” said TJ, walking a little faster, a bit more of a wince on his face but he made it through, a big huff of air escaping him. “The things you do for love.”

“Loser.”

“Loser,” he said, throwing his arm over your shoulders. “I had a dance to finish with you if I recall correctly.”

“Mind if I cut in?” you heard from behind you an hour later, TJ smiling as he stepped away and headed for your mom across the way. “Having fun tonight?”

“Yes, dad,” you said, moving a bit slower with him. “Guess what?”

“What?”

“I haven’t had a nightmare in over two months,” you said, a big smile on his face. “Well...one of those ones. I keep having this weird cat one though...”

“We’ll take it,” he said, spinning you around. “I’m glad to hear it. You seem happy lately.”

“After that epic meltdown I had finals week a few months ago, I tried to think about what you said and...I’m happy. Maybe not everyday and I know I’m just in this nice sweet spot right now but I’m not so scared of the rest of my life I guess. I got a pretty good one, you know?” you said.

“Yeah. Nice to hear you say it though,” he said as he moved around. “Mom’s already making plans to come back.”

“Oh we are so coming back,” you said.

“Figured you wouldn’t have a problem with that,” he said, looking across the way. “Think TJ will want to come with?”

“Yeah,” you said. “He seems less nervous around you. You guys talk or something?”

“Just guy stuff,” he said. He looked up at the dark sky above you, humming to himself. “I told mom I’m taking the rest of the year off.”

“Really? You’ve been busy since the show ended,” you said.

“I did 15 seasons of the show and then been busy with movies...I think I deserve a little time off,” he said with a smile. “Maybe mom and I’ll take a little time just for us if you wouldn’t mind watching the kids for a little while?”

“Never,” you said.

“Thanks, kiddo,” he said, kissing the top of your head before he broke off. “Go dance with your boyfriend. This is one of those moments you remember when you’re my age.”

“You’re not old dad,” you said.

“Yes! She finally said it!” he said with a fist pump.

“TJ? There’s a senile old man over here I need to get away from,” you said.

“I’ll take him,” said your mom, skirting over to your dad.

“Of course you will,” you said, grabbing TJ’s hand. “Want to head back to the cottage?’

“Yes please.”

“Alright,” said your dad, plopping down on the couch back in Austin the next night. “Kids are finally down.”

“TJ, where’s your sweatshirt?” you asked, rubbing your arms in the ice cold house. “Someone left the AC on.”

“I left it on the couch,” he said, munching on some pizza from the kitchen. The flight home had been long and it was late, everyone in bed and you were secretly just waiting for TJ to get his butt in bed so you could go to sleep too.

You grabbed the sweatshirt and tossed it on, shoving your hands in the pockets to get warm. You felt something odd though and pulled it out, holding up the square object for a few seconds before it clicked what it was.

You spun wide eyed towards the kitchen but TJ was already in front of you, snatching it out of your hands.

“Is that…” you said, swallowing as you looked up at him. He smiled and nodded, starting to bend down when you jumped up and threw your arms around him.

“Not even gonna let me ask, huh?” he teased.

“Sorry,” you said, peeling away for a moment as he got down.

“So...I was totally going to do this down there…” he said, glancing at your sweatshirt. “But I forgot my sweatshirt here.”

“You dork,” you said, smiling hard.

“Your dork for as long as you’ll have me. Would you marry me?” he asked.

“Yes,” you said, TJ standing up and opening the box, slipping on the ring. “Did that really just happen?”

“I think so,” he said. You gave him a big kiss, his hands cupping your cheeks before you were laughing too hard and had to pull back. “Hey now, no take backs.”

“No. Never,” you said, grabbing his hands. “Never.”

“Good,” he said, kissing you again. “Love you.”

“Love you,” you said, biting your bottom lip, getting another hug before you realized your dad was poking his head around the stairs to the TV room, whipping it back around when he saw you. “You can stop hiding dad.”

“Just giving you two your moment,” he said, giving you a smile when he came back in. He smiled and nodded at you both, rubbing the back of his neck. “I’ll uh...well I’ll see you two in the morning, hm?”

He hummed as he walked past, his smile turning to a smirk as he glanced around the corner back at you.

“He knew, didn’t he,” you said, looking to TJ.

“I asked,” said TJ. “He’s known about two weeks.”

“I’m going to guess it was a yes?” you asked.

“Well-” started TJ, your dad shaking his head. “Just guy stuff really.”

“Yup. Night, kids. We’ll go out to breakfast or something,” said your dad, looking you up and down and then at TJ. “I think you’re in good hands now.”

“Yeah. I am,” you said, grinning back at TJ. “Night dad.”

“Night kiddo.”

Jensen’s POV

“The kids finally going to bed?” asked De when I walked in our room. I hummed and sat on the edge of the mattress, crawling under the covers and hitting off the light. She rolled over and pulled my arm around her shoulders, nuzzling into my right side. She was warm and soft and there was still that little flutter there. “Jensen?”

“Yeah. Everyone’s heading to bed,” I said, giving her a light squeeze. “I love you.”

“I love you, hun,” she said, nestling her head on the pillow, taking a few deep breaths. “He finally did it, didn’t he. You got that look.”

“Yup. We got a son-in-law on the way,” I said, smiling at her.

“What was her reaction? You see it?” she asked.

“I think some of that weight she carries just went away for good. Not all of it but...she was happy. She’s happy,” I said, closing my eyes. “She’s happy.”

“You can cry, Jens,” she said gently.

“I’m happy too,” I said.

“Not every day your oldest girl gets engaged,” she said. “To one of the arguably sweetest men on Earth.”

“He’ll take care of her,” I said. “He already takes care of her.”

“We did good. You did good,” she said. “Set an example of what she deserves.”

“I guess we did, huh? Not too bad for two people who had no idea what they were doing,” I said.

“Eh, we figured it out eventually,” she said. “Let’s sleep. I have to wake up early and make some celebration cupcakes or something now before breakfast burritos.”

“You excited? You got a wedding to plan,” I said.

“Yeah,” she said. “Just wish we got her sooner.”

“You always say that,” I said.

“Still true,” she yawned. “Night. Wake me up if any other life changing developments happen.”

“Eh...maybe,” I teased, earning a playful whack on the chest. “You know I do that on purpose right?”

“Tease me? No. I haven’t figure it out yet,” she deadpanned, leaning up for a moment.

“Night, De,” I said, pecking her lips. She smiled and slid back into bed. Her breath evened out quickly and I started to drift, running over the conversation that’d been playing over and over for weeks now.

“Hey,” I said when TJ came back down to the beach after carrying Y/N to the cottage. “Someone forget a phone?”

“No, wanted to stay and hang out a while longer if that’s cool,” he said. I hummed, Jared looking back and forth between us.

“I’ll uh, give you guys some privacy,” said Jared, patting my shoulder. I almost stopped him but he smirked. “I got some of my own fun to be had.”

“Don’t whine too much for Gen,” I shot back, Jared giving a light punch to my arm as he stood up. TJ stood up and took a seat closer, grabbing another beer and cracking it open, drinking down about half of it before he peeled his eyes away from the fire. “Something wrong?”

“No,” he said, shaking his head. “No. I’ve been having this conversation in my head for...a year and I still don’t know how to start.”

Oh.

Oh.

He…

“You want to marry her, don’t you?” I asked.

“Yeah,” he said, nodding and giving me a smile. “Yeah, I do. I really fucking do.”

“Well...get to the asking permission part. Worst that could happen is I say no,” I said. He looked like he forgot how to blink.

“If you say no?” he asked.

“Why don’t you ask and find out?” I said. I knew I sounded like an ass but this was important. I knew he didn’t want to screw it up but-

“I’m not asking permission to marry, Y/N, Jensen,” he said. I raised an eyebrow, leaning forward in my seat.

“Well what are you asking?” I said, tilting my head at him.

“Am I good enough for her?” he asked. I scrunched up my face, closing my eyes before I held up a hand. “Am I? I know she can do better but do you think I’m good enough? She would say yes to me?”

“TJ,” I said, sitting back in my seat, running my hand over my mouth. “You know her. I mean really know her. You have her trust and unconditional love. She doesn’t give those out to just anybody. She doesn’t tell just anyone about everything she’s been through. You’re in a very elite club.”

“I don’t...I am asking you, her dad, on this but am I a good enough man for her?” he asked. “Please. Yes or no. That’s all I want.”

“I don’t think you’re good enough,” I said, his gaze dropping to the sand. “I think you’re better. You’re pretty close to perfect for her, probably the most perfect for her if it exists.”

He lifted his eyes up, a little wide, a little hesitant but he quickly gave a short nod.

“TJ...I know I mess with you sometimes. It’s one of the joys of being a father to girls. But...if you wanted to marry Y/N, I’d be pretty happy with that,” I said.

“Okay,” he said quietly, leaning back in his chair. “Okay.”

“Okay,” I said, taking a sip of my beer. “I guess that just happened.”

He let out a quiet laugh, glancing over almost shy like now.

“What?” I asked.

“You know you set a pretty high standard,” he said. “When it comes to Y/N.”

“Ready to keep it up the rest of her life?” I asked.

“If she let’s me,” he said, sitting back in his chair.

“You’re gonna get the hang of this real easy,” I said with a chuckle.

“Jensen,” he said.

“Yeah, kid?”

“Is it normal to fall in love fast?” he asked.

“How fast?”

“Second week of freshman year,” he said. “She wore this yellow tank top and faded shorts and her hair was in this pretty side braid and she was going on about making a study group for Biology and I just thought, fuck me. I love this girl. What the hell are you doing, TJ?”

“Still feel that way?” I asked.

“Oh yeah,” he said.

“It don’t go away either,” I said. He smiled and nodded, looking up at the stars for a few minutes. “Ask all your burning questions. Secrets safe with me.”

“Why’d you adopt her?” he asked.

“Cause we loved her,” I said.

“Yeah but...I don’t know,” he said.

“A piece of paper doesn’t make someone family,” I said. “I think you know that.”

“Then why?” he asked.

“A couple reasons. It makes things easier legal wise. It helps for medical reasons, if De and I were ever in an accident, if Y/N was, stuff like that. But we knew what it meant to her and to us,” I said.

“What’s it mean to you? I know her side,” he said.

“She told me for her it meant she couldn’t be thrown away. For me, it meant she couldn’t be taken away,” I said.

“I don’t follow,” said TJ.

“Say you had a kid, a daughter. Best day ever, right? She comes home and you spend the next seven months or so watching her grow, loving her, being a dad to her. That’s your baby girl. You’d do anything for her. I know you know what I mean because of Y/N but kids...kids are even more special. So you got this girl you’d give the world for and she loves you even if she can’t quite say it yet. But she does and you know she does. How do you think you would you feel if someone came to your front door and said they were taking away your baby girl and there was nothing you could do to stop it?”

“I’d say that’s my kid and I’m calling the cops,” he said.

“What if a cop was one of the people there to take her?” I said.

“But it’s my kid and I didn’t do anything wrong. Isn’t that kidnapping?” he asked.

“Felt like it. I never felt more helpless in my life than the day we almost lost her. I was pissed. More than pissed. But technically, they could take her and I had no right to make her stay,” I said.

“That was the stuff with the chick at the office,” he said.

“I hope you never have to know what that feels like, TJ. For a split second, it was even worse because for one little second-“

“She thought you asked them to take her back. I know. She feels guilty about thinking that sometimes,” he said. I gave him a long look, shaking my head when he shrugged. “You know how she is.”

“Yeah,” I said.

“So you adopted her so no one could take her away again?” he asked.

“It shouldn’t have been on her to be the smart one and figure out what had been going on. I got lucky she’s smart and the fact she was ready to get some closure on the accident. If she hadn’t saved her own ass, we wouldn’t be talking right now,” I said.

“Maybe it wasn’t. But she’s not a damsel in distress either,” said TJ.

“No. She’s certainly not one of those,” I said with a smirk. “Still though. I’m her dad. It doesn’t matter how old you get. Your parents still want to protect you.”

“I get that. I get the whole adopting so she’s yours thing too. But I just feel like, say Y/N didn’t know that stuff and she did get taken away...I have a feeling you still would have wound up as her dad,” he said.

“I guess I’m not following now,” I said.

“You’re joking, right?” he asked.

“Nope,” I said.

“Alright. Say your kid gets taken away and you can’t do anything about it. Say you wait until that kid turns eighteen and becomes an adult, you know, has more rights about who they want to speak to and hang out with. You’re telling me that you, super dad over here, wouldn’t try to get in touch with her again?”

“I think I would have fought for her to stay. But even if I lost, doesn’t mean I’m not her dad,” I said. “All that matters is what she thinks and she wanted me so she’s got me. Again, I don’t need a piece of paper to tell me that. All it did was make things a little easier for me. For her, it eased some worries so she can have it.”

“I know there’s this big packet in her closet in this duffel bag she keeps in there. Only thing in it. You gave that to her on her adoption day. Adopting her means more to you than you’re saying,” he said.

“TJ. I love her to death. She’s my daughter and you’re gonna be my son in law so I know you love her to death too. What are you trying to get at?” I asked.

“I don’t know. Just...I guess I wanted to hear that you adopted her not just for her but for you too,” he said.

“Why is that important to you?” I asked.

“Isn’t the point of having kids because you want them? Isn’t that like the selfish part of it?”

“TJ. If we had wanted another kid, there was a far easier and cheaper way to go about it. Being a foster parent and adopting her? Yeah, that’s one of the most selfish things I’ve ever done. I did it for her but I did it for me and our family too,” I said.

“Good,” he said, taking a drink.

“Oh, well glad I got your permission on it,” I laughed. “I got a question for you, Mr. TJ. You gonna take a year to ask her?”

“Shut up,” he said, biting down a smile. “No. I wanted to ask her while we were here. Packed the ring up in my sweatshirt and had it all ready to go cause I was going to put that in my carry on, not risk losing that. Guess who remembered he left his sweatshirt on the back of the couch at your place when we were on the runway?” he said.

“Wow. I bet you had it all planned out, super romantic down here,” I said.

“Yup,” he said, shaking his head. “So there goes that plan.”

“Word of advice. If she loves you, I mean really loves you, it doesn’t really matter how you do it. Try to put in a little effort you know but this is Y/N we’re talking about,” I said.

“I want it to be special. She deserves that,” he said.

“It will be, no matter how it happens. TJ. Since we’re having a moment and all that, can I ask why you went after a girl like Y/N?” I asked.

“She’s my best friend,” he said.

“I mean once you knew about stuff, why didn’t you ever treat her differently?” I asked.

“Because it didn’t matter, it doesn’t,” he said.

“You’re gonna do just fine,” I said, giving him a smile.

“Fine?”

“She asks stuff like that sometimes. Normally at three in the morning but just to be aware,” I said.

“I know. When she stays over-“

“Don’t need to know,” I said.

“Sometimes we talk or just sit in bed and don’t say anything,” he said.

“Good. PG rated cuddling is awesome,” I said with a nod. “Anything else?”

“No. Just can’t wait to ask her,” said TJ. “You tip her off though and you’re dead to me.”

“Hurt her and they’ll never find your body,” I said with a smile.

“That goes for you too,” you said.

“I can agree to that,” I said as I stood up, giving him a smile. “Grab that cooler for me when you head up.”

“I ought to head to bed actually. I got a date in the morning,” he said.

“Well enjoy it,” I said, patting him on the back when he got up. “Night, kiddo.”

“Jensen?” he asked. I hummed, TJ looking down for a moment. “Thanks. For you know...I’ll be good to her, if she lets me.”

“You already are,” I said, giving you a smile. “Goodnight, TJ.”

“We did good,” I said, closing my eyes, rolling over to face Danneel. “We did real good.”

A/N: Check out The Video & The House timestamp here!

the fog will clear up | shawn mendes

chapter 13/?, university au, shawn x goth oc

AN: sry its short and definitely a filler im sry its boring but it helps build up stuff thatll happen next ok ok im sry

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masterlist | playlist

Annalise woke with a start. She was wide awake immediately. There was no room for sleepily rolling around the sheets, her eyes weren't heavy like always. She didn't know what dying and coming back to life felt like, but she was pretty sure it felt something like that. She had a weird urge to go for a jog.

Staring at the ceiling, Annalise reached towards the nightstand next to her, intending to grab her phone. Her hand touched the bottle, and she picked it up anyway, reading the prescription label.

Annalise Flores SERTRALINE 50MG TABLET Brand name: Zoloft

"You don't waste anytime, huh?" she murmured before setting it back down. Then, she grabbed her phone and checked the time.

8:47am. A new fucking record. Annalise rolled out of bed, unable to stay still.

In the 2 hours she had to kill before work, she tidied up the dorm, ate a decent breakfast, took a shower, and got started on the course work she had to make up. The energy levels were through the roof, she had never been so on edge and productive at the same time. Why wasn't she put on sertraline sooner? Sure, she felt hyperaware and borderline anxious, but that was apart of the process of getting on a new antidepressant. She was getting things done this way. Sure, she jumped when the lock on the door jiggled, but she was up and running anyway!

If she wasn't, she wouldn't have seen Stella entering the dorm. She was surprised to see Annalise on the couch, looking like a deer in headlights.

"Oh… I thought you were asleep. I'll, uh, I'll come back."

"No, wait!" Annalise sounded a little too frantic, but it did stop Stella from leaving. "Uh, come sit down! Please!"

Stella narrowed her eyes slightly as she went to the couch. At least she was willing to listen.

"I, uh, I'm sorry," Annalise began, rubbing the back of her neck. "I'm sorry for what I said. A stupid guy isn't the only good in my life. I have you. You matter to me, and I'm sorry for making you feel like you don't." She really couldn't stop herself from rambling. "I miss you. I miss seeing you here between classes, and I miss your optimism because a bitch could use some of that. And, and I'm sorry for the negativity I've brought in here. I'm working on it now, I swear. Just… come back. Come home… because bro, you're my wife, dude."

It could have been funny, but there was nothing funny about the way she said it. Her eyes were wide and pleading, and she was rubbing her hands together. Stella merely blinked her hazel eyes, nearly overwhelmed by that string of words.

"Look at you, expressing your emotions," she said after a while. "I can see why you hold it back."

Annalise nodded rapidly. "It's my first day on a new medication. Got me all sorts of hyped up, but I'll mellow out in a couple of weeks. And I'm taking therapy seriously again!"

Stella was surprised. "Oh, I see. Well… I've missed you too. Bro…"

"Bro?"

"I'll come home too. Camila's bed is too small for the two of us."

"Bro…"

"I know. I have to update you on all that."

"Br-"

"Okay!" Stella broke out a smile and stood up. "Dame un abrazo, puta."

That was much easier than Annalise had anticipated. She stood up and hugged her best friend, relieved. Stella wasn't one to hold a grudge, nor was she as stubborn as her roommate. It was another person to cross off the list.

~

Shawn had social media mainly to get his music out there. Yes, he interacted with his friends on Snapchat, and some fans on Twitter. Most of the time, Shawn just tweeted when he had new music coming out. He didn't check any of his social media very often, not even to stalk Ann's accounts because she was rarely on her's. He didn't even have his notifications on, purely to keep himself from the possibility of getting too attached to the opinions of random strangers online.

That was why he woke up that morning to a number of texts from Camila.

"SHAAWWNWNN"

"SHAWN IM LKTERSLLY BALD RN"

"CHEKC UR TWITTER RIGHT NOW!!!!!!"

"YOIR FOLLOWERS!!! AAHSKSKSK"

"SKSKSK SHAWNMM IM SCRAMING"

So to Twitter he went. Shawn rubbed sleep out of his eye as he went to his profile. He had around 10k to begin with, that he built up on his own over the last couple of years. He nearly dropped his phone on his face as he read the new number.

50.2k

"What… the fuck?" he breathed out as he sat up in his bed. He scrolled through the list, making sure this wasn't a series of spam bots.

His mentions were just as wild, and it explained the sudden blow up.

@hollaestor: @shawnmendes hiii bella told me to follow you

@samxriv: @shawnmendes i am free to hang out on tuesday to hang out when i am free

@gisellenjh: @shawnmendes bella sent me here and im glad she did! loving your music!

And there were plenty more like that. There were so many tweets, Shawn couldn't even get through all of them. It was making his head spin. There was only one Bella he knew about too… He just couldn't spell her last name. Thankfully, her handle was just @bellasanti, and it was the first one to pop up when he typed it in the search bar.

Right under Bella Santiago's name and the blue checkmark were the two little words: Follows you. Shawn refreshed the page ten times before it sank in. This YouTuber, who has over 2 million followers, somehow found Shawn's music… and she liked it. She liked it enough to tweet about it… 3 days ago.

@bellasanti: underrated spotify artists: @shawnmendes. give him a listen. send him some love. truly talented guy💖

Shawn had only overheard Bella's videos when Ann was watching them in the other room. He never really watched any of her content. But he wanted to pass out at the fact that she took the time to listen to his music and tweet about him. He wanted to jump on the bed. He wanted to call-

He texted Camila back. "Wtf why did no one tell me sooner?? This is so crazy!!!!!"

"We thought you knew and you were keeping it from us!! LMAO congrats rockstar!"

He couldn't believe it. His follower count was rising. He was getting emails from Spotify saying his songs were being added to many different playlists.

@shawnmendes: @bellasanti wow thank you so much! Love you bella❤

He deleted the last bit before tweeting it. Holy shit. Shawn lied back down on the mattress, completely breathless.

How does someone like Bella Santiago find Shawn out in cyberspace? What Spotify rabbit hole did she go down that led her to him? How many of his songs did she listen to? How many songs did she save to her library? How many of those playlist emails were from her? Shawn had so many questions.

~

There were two things Annalise noticed when she was out on the courtyard after Biology. The first thing was a table on the side of the walkway, with a handmade banner hanging off the front. It read in big letters: Shawn Mendes: Live at The Cameron House. Brian, Alessia. and Camila were all sat on the same side at this table, talking to a student who was interested in the little display.

"The lounge called back," Annalise muttered to herself.

The other thing Annalise noticed was Patrick sitting under a tree nearby, reading a book. She went to him first.

The last time she had spoken to Patrick was when they cut up flowers together. He was never one to explicitly state when something has upset him, and he has seen Annalise in a depressive episode before. Annalise knew him well. Patrick kept his distance because he didn't like the negativity around her, and he couldn't afford any more of it himself.

"Hey," she greeted.

His blue eyes tore away from his book to meet her gaze. "'Sup?"

"Trying to be less fucked in the head," she told him.

Patrick nodded in approval. "Cool."

That was all that was needed for the two of them. Content, Annalise turned and went for the table. A small line had formed when she wasn't looking, so she waited behind the last person. However, with three people running the thing, Annalise got to the front fairly quick.

"Oh, she actually showed up," Brian chimed, amused.

"Meaning?" Annalise asked.

"Thought you were too pissed at Shawn to care about his show, that's all."

She swallowed the pit of annoyance, discovering that even more people knew about that. Brian is his friend, though, of course he'd know.

"Selling tickets or something?" Annalise turned her attention to the two girls.

"Yeah! Ten dollars a piece!" Alessia explained.

"Cool, I'll take one."

Just as she opened the flap on her book bag, Camila spoke up.

"Wait. I'm pretty sure Shawn said he wanted to buy you your ticket himself."

Annalise rolled her eyes. "Well, he's not here and I can do things for myself." She pulled out her wallet and paid her own goddamn ticket.

Camila breathed out a laugh. "Are you ever gonna let him do anything nice for you?"

None of your fucking business.

A new thought occurred to Annalise. "Why are tickets being sold for this show? Aren't his gigs usually free?"

"There's more production going into this one," Brian told her. "The lounge gave him the option to make it a ticketed event, and we need to make back what we already put into it. So now, it won't be a performance, it'll be Shawn's performance."

Shawn already knew how to make an audience his bitch, but…

"Alright then." Annalise shrugged and then accepted her ticket and receipt from Alessia.

The ticket alone was already quite extravagant. There were little red roses designed around the edges. This boy really loved his fucking flowers.

"I'm guessing rose petals will fall from the ceiling or something?" she guessed with a chuckle.

"I was given strict orders to not spoil anything," Brian told her, folding his arms.

The two had a mini staredown until Annalise shrugged again. "Whatever."

Then, Camila piped up again, suddenly excited. "Ooh, Ann did you hear? Bella Santiago followed Shawn on Twitter!"

"She what?" Annalise stupidly replied.

Camila practically squealed. "She gave him a shoutout too! He's blowing up on Spotify! Isn't that awesome?"

Annalise wanted to say something, but her brain wasn't quite caught up yet. So she just walked away.

The other three students watched her leave. Needless to say, they were confused.

"Is she ever gonna be happy for him?" Alessia wondered.

"I think she was excited?" Camila said tilting her head.

"I can't believe Shawn is going through all this trouble for that," Brian said with a scoff.

"I can still hear you!" Annalise called over her shoulder as she kept walking.

All three of them went red in the face, embarrassed. Brian would have made a comment about her being a vampire with supersonic hearing, but he didn't want to be called out again.

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Hey Fabs

Let me tell you about another thing I'm weirdly obsessed with: "Are You the One?" the MTV dating show designed for mathematicians and cast with...not mathematicians.

Okay, so how it works is there are ten men and ten women (all het goobers) thrown together in a house, and told, "Someone in this house is your perfect match!".

 How are these perfect matches determined?  Science!  That is the actual explanation they give, which is good enough for the contestants, but I am left with questions.  I mean, surely it's from some sort of questionnaire they all took in pre-production, and if they all discussed their answers they could figure it out.  But they're not going to do that.

Someone in the house is their perfect match, and they have to figure out who.  They spend the episode pairing up and having drama, then at the end of the episode, either the men or the women (it alternates each episode) take turns picking someone from the other gender who they think is their perfect match.  (And sometimes one dingus just messes it up for everyone.  It is not treated like a group activity, even though it should.  For example, sometimes one lady will be really into a dude even though everyone but her is convinced he's found a perfect match with someone else, and they are having a nice drama-free sexy time off by themselves.  If pining lady gets to pick a man first, there's more drama going down and jilted lady has to pick some rando from among the remaining guys.)

Then!  After they’ve officially paired off and made their guesses, the host tells them not WHO were the perfect matches, but HOW MANY perfect matches they got.  So after all the drama and worrying, they get an answer like "4" and have to go from there.

The best episodes come right after they get "0." And they're all sent home knowing whoever they thought was their match was not.  They are shook.  And regretful. Some rage against God because surely there's a mistake and Brant is their soulmate!

The only other clue they get is at the half way point of the episode, where they can send one couple to the Truth Booth.  In the Truth Booth, the couple put their hands on a fingerprint/palm sensor that scans their DNA with a green light to say if they are perfect matches.  Science! It's amazing! This gives them a yes/no answer. 

The rules about who goes to the Truth Booth are such that there's some sort of contest for either the men or women: who can pull a heavy thing through mud the fastest or who knows the most trivia about their housemates, etc.  The three most winningest winners get to pick a partner and go on a group date, while the rest of the house votes which of the three couples should go to the Truth Booth.

They do not seem to understand that they can throw 90% of the challenges and set it up to send a couple that would statistically give them the most helpful information.  

Because that's the other thing!  If they get all ten couples correct, they get $1,000,000.  They often discuss what they will do with a million dollars.  They do not understand that they get a million dollars AS A GROUP.  They have to share with 19 other people.  They each get $50,000, which is not shabby, but will also not buy your mama a house.  But they have to get all ten couples correct, so they really ought to work together, but that's silly, because fuck Brant!

So anyway.  What I love about this is that it's all probability and eliminating options.  It turns into a big math problem that the contestants are completely incapable of solving, but you, at home, can figure it out.  I love that the best way to go about this is to be really formulaic in your picks, sometimes picking someone you don't click with to eliminate some possibilities.  Be real strategic and level headed about it.  And they're not your soul mate anyway!  This is an MTV game show!  But no!  They don't have the ability to run the numbers (they aren't allowed pencils until the last episode p, and then only if it looks like they won't get it.) so they just go with their gut and double down on wild nonsense.

So the most joyful thing (for me.  A nerd) is to watch along with the spreadsheet that some other nerd at home has prepared, which says that it's definitely either Erica & John or Erica & Chris, and Erica's like, "Steve is my bae!" And the house sends her and Ruddy to the Truth Booth where she's upset because she's not there with Steve, her bae, and the rest of the house is disappointed that they got no useful information, and Ruddy's pleased with himself because he knows (in his heart) that Erica's not his match, but he got to go kayaking with her in a bikini!  Score!

Why You Should Be Grateful That Miraculous Ladybug Is Out Now Instead Of 2008

Ok buckle up kids cause this is gonna be a long one and its gonna get wordy and grandma might ramble a bit. Fellow old timers feel free to chime in if I missed anything.

Disney Channel? You Mean Sh*ty Channel!  

Most of you were too young to remember this but from about 2006-2012, before the advent of Phineas and Ferb and Gravity Falls, no one over the age of about twelve point five would ever admit to liking anything on the Disney Channel. Yes that’s right the Disney Channel, the literal embodiment of what might happen to you if you took about fifty cups of Red Bull mixed in with exactly 50 packets of Splenda. Edgy tweens and even edgier teens across despised The Disney Channel with all they, no we, had. Its shows and unfortunate stars were the butt of every single joke, degraded in ways that probably would not be cool now, and boy oh boy if you actually watched The Disney Channel you kept it on the down low. Considering that Miraculous Ladybug is now being distributed by Disney when not on Netflix, the hypothetical switch from Nick to Disney would have been the show’s death sentence. Don’t believe me? Look what happened to Naruto when it moved from Cartoon Network to Disney.

I Will Go Down With This Ship And You All Are Going Down With Me! 

If you think the whole love square plus bonus Kagami and Luka are riling up the fans then oh boy I have some news for you. Ten years ago would have been TEN MILLION times worse. This was back when the Twilight craze just kicked off and let me tell you the dynamics of the Edward/Bella/Jacob triangle made its way into fandoms everywhere. Multishipping and polyamory did not exist. You had your OTP sail or sink til the end and damn every single motherf*er that got in your way. Another shipper? Start an argument on your site of choice and watch it blow up to epic proportions as others joined in. Sometimes your hatred was so strong that you resorted to creating immature anti shipping fanart and fanfic with a long detailed description on how much that ship sucked. If there was rival love interest in canon? Vilified beyond reason in fanworks. If they had no bad traits, ka pam! Let’s create one. Already a bit of a jerk? Now they’re the devil and should go to hell. Especially if said character was female, because hey the average teenage girl back in 2008 had a sh*tton of internalized misogyny. And how you said would this apply to Miraculous Ladybug if it came out ten years ago? There would be intense infighting among the shippers of the love square itself. You had to pick one side and stay with it, even if they’re both the same two people. And don’t get me started on all the love triangle AMVS that would feature Adrienette feat  Kagami and Luka. There would be dozens of: Thinking of You by Katy Perry, My World by SR-71, or Facedown by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.

Click Out and Close The Laptop! 

Ok let’s be mature about this guys. Once a show gets an audience with a demographic of teen and up, certain fanworks (they used to be called lemons) will pop up. Back in 2008, it wasn’t common knowledge to most teenagers that it was highly illegal to depict explicit underage smut. Most sites did not have a good filtering system, and even if you weren’t one of those people lying about your age to gain access to mature content, the likelihood that you’d stumble upon something you didn’t expect, want, or prepared to see was very high. However, with that being said, most people then, like now upon finding out that Adrien and Marinette are both 14, would agree that our lovestruck duo are way too young to even consider engaging in activity beyond kissing.

It’S NoT A PHASE MoM!

2008-2009 was the height of emo and scene. If you happened to not be what most media consider to be in the “popular crowd” at your school, then you knew someone who was and get acquainted with the music, looks, and all that goes along with it. And if you have a character who dresses like a cat, wears black, and looks edgy enough for you, Ladybug would get sidelined to the point where everyone believes that Chat Noir is the main character. Or even better: Adrien himself gets sidelined because he looks too preppy and because he’s not sad enough. And oh that’s not even touching upon the sh*tstorm that would happen once Luka would get introduced. You think everyone is fawning over Luka now? Ten years ago there would be no escaping from him. Everyone and their OC would have been paired up with Luka because there is actually a hot emo guy on tv. If the creators decided to poll the fans and ask who they thought was the most attractive dude, Luka would be in the first three spots. Any episode without Luka would be deemed to be unwatchable. Deviantart stamps with Luka that flash song lyrics from Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, My Chemical Romance, Evanescence, Hawthorne Heights, Linkin Park, AFI, Green Day, and all the other bands I wish I could add but can’t would take up the bio on everyone’s deviant art page. Someone would photoshop Luka’s head on Gerard Way’s body and call it the sexiest thing that ever existed. I am serious dudes, you should be glad it’s not 2008. I’ve been there.

And that’s the end folks. Excuse me while I reach for my glass of wine and drain it.

A Tale of Three Toms

(aka, how they butchered everything to save this guy)

(anti-tom)

Just a brief chronicling of the different versions of Tom’s story. 

Season One: Who Does He Work For?

I think the original plot outline went something like this - 

Red realizes something is up with this guy in Liz’s life. He gets wind of passports under false names, etc… He realizes this guy is attached to one of his enemies. But he can’t bear to just take him out because Liz is so in love with him and happy.

In their initial ideas for the pilot, they thought of scenarios where it starts with Red killing Tom, then coming in and revealing everything later, post-death. But they clearly decided that letting him live and revealing it more slowly over the course of season one was more interesting. And I think it was. 

But they needed a reason then that Red wouldn’t just outright kill him, so they had the ‘well Liz loves him and Red can’t bear to hurt her’ excuse. Which I never thought was adequate, but whatever. That was their way to keep this war going through season one so there could actually be a war in season one. 

So after doing as much as he can on the outside, Reddington surrenders and works to expose her fake husband and use the FBI to smoke out his employer. He doesn’t count on Liz stubbornly refusing to see what’s in front of her face. He figured they would work together on this. He fully intends to end Tom once his employer is known, and that part pretty much holds up. Once Red knows about “Berlin” he goes to put a bullet in Tom.

There was also talk of killing Tom in 1x17, but I’m not sure of the context of that. Apparently they decided to wait until the last episode.

So it started out as an excuse really to get Red back into her life. To have a show. Some enemy of his has gotten so close to her that Reddington can’t stay away any longer. She’s in peril without knowing it and he has to be there. 

For Liz, it’s a story about shattering that little fake life, revealing the truth under the carpet, confronting that truth, and making choices. What do I do now that the scales have fallen from my eyes? Do I embrace destiny or run from it? 

Is it all too much? Do I crumble? Or can I maintain and rise above? 

Tom’s purpose is pretty fulfilled. 1x22 with his dastardly deeds reaching their crux, handing over the task force, using her to take out Reddington, then briefly apologizing (maybe there was a shred of him that came to care for her after all, oh how tragic) and then whispering a dying secret in her ear that will lend intrigue in the future, is a pretty fitting end to that whole story. Time to wrap it up and move on to other things. 

Or not. 

Obviously near the end of season one they’d started to rethink their plan and someone said they should save him. So. How to go about doing that?  

Season Two: Twisted Love

I’m not sure that Red being the one who inserted Tom into Liz’s life was part of it at first. I don’t usually complain about that addition though (if it was an addition) because I actually love it. I think it adds so much more weight to scenes like the hand-holding scene in 1x6 when you know Red is sitting there eaten up with guilt for starting all this.

If it was original, I think it was a fairly simple thing. Red hired him to be Ezra, someone offered him way more money to double cross Red and Tom took that job and married Liz. Red finds out, and the rest is history. 

But now they’re saving Tom’s little life. How to make him palatable then to the audience? 

Oh, I know. He actually did love her the whole time. This whole thing was because he loved her, actually. 

Did you know that if someone is in love that excuses everything bad they’ve ever done ever? Well, now you do.

They could have very easily gone with the idea that Tom fell for Liz eventually. And that once he realizes how much damage he’s done, he feels bad and works toward redemption. And maybe someday he’ll be worthy of her love again. I could have actually bought that. But nooooo. They had to pull this crap that doesn’t make sense at all and makes Red look like a total douche canoe.

It made total sense to kill Tom in 1x22, but I actually love the ‘Red hired him’ reveal, and I love Liz’s 2a arc. So, in my perfect world, Red kills Tom in 2x8. 

Rather than meet him in a diner and give him money (apparently? which made exactly zero sense) it would be a twofer. Red kills Berlin, then kills Tom. The season one enemy is dead. Fitch’s death becomes the new reason Red must stay in Liz’s life. 

After all, the entire reasoning behind Red not killing Tom no longer applies. Tom is out of Liz’s life. Red tells him to never come back. Well, then, kill him. I mean, the excuse the writers used is gone at that point. Letting him walk is pure desire to keep the character, nothing more. It makes no in-show sense.

So, back in my ideal scenario, Red’s guys grab him off the street and put him in the Reddington death chair. But maybe before Tom dies, he says that line, ‘you know, for what it’s worth, I never told her about us. Not one word.’ Then Red shoots him. And his cheek twitches. And now we’re all like, ‘whaaaat?’ 

I mean, that would have been perfect. 

Anyway. 

Back in the stupid canon world, suddenly Tom’s passports are government-issue and not forged and they came from Reddington. They give him The Major backstory (that part is fine). He’s a twisted f**k who can kill a man in cold blood and feel no remorse whatsoever, but it was to ‘save Liz’ so she should totally be grateful and take him back. 

Oh, and he actually did marry her out of love and that whole deal, and the entire story of season one basically is just flushed down the toilet. The whole journey meant nothing. But hey, it’s fine because Tom and Liz are sleeping together. Woo hoo!

Oh, and Tom suddenly has amnesia about his and Red’s back story and he thinks Red is just using her to have an FBI task force. Which makes Tom look incredibly dumb.

Oh, and the dude who whispered that her father was alive suddenly knows jack diddly squat about Liz’s backstory and family and it will never be mentioned again.

But hey, boat sex. Woo hoo!

Season Three - Four: Little Lord Fauntleroy

So after building up a whole thing where Tom is burned with his handler and burns his passports and just wants to buy a boat and live a normal life, and he actually leaves, they have him come right back. Because why not? 

I still remember my reaction to that. I was like, ‘really? right away with this guy?’ I mean, I figured he’d come back eventually. After he’d all ‘changed’ and stuff. Even considered that he and Liz might end up together at the end, but this? Why?

So Tom secures Karakurt and it’s actually kinda fun watching him go undercover, so I’m like, okay, whatever. And never thought in a million years they’d actually have him and Liz getting back together. I thought this was some unselfish thing of him realizing he’d screwed her life up bad so he wanted to help her but she wouldn’t just randomly take him back. If they were going to get back together, they’d have to earn it. Tom would have to earn it. 

Or not. 

Tom had to run, he couldn’t stay. But now apparently he can. He can stay for months in the same town under the same name with the same woman. A deaf, dumb and blind tracker should have been able to find him.

Oh, and he kept the ultrasound picture from season one. And he really really wants a baby. And he and Liz are a thing again. And are you kidding me with this crap?

I totally expected Tom to turn out to be shady again. I was expecting him to be on the side of whoever it was that was now after Liz. I was expecting something ten times more interesting than a microwaved love story. 

Or not. 

But then I hear that there’s a spin-off. Oooooh, that’s why. That’s why he’s still here. Okay. 

So now Liz ‘dies’ and Tom’s story takes the forefront. His mother shows up. The seeds of the spin-off are sown. Turns out he’s not a street rat after all, he’s actually a little spy prince. Aw. yeah, that’s not unbelievable at all. (that was sarcasm, by the way)

Scottie is unlikable with the sexual harassment right off the bat, and nothing really warms me to her. Aside from her reaction to getting shot in the arm being funny. 

And now suddenly Tom’s not some guy who fell in love and all that. No, suddenly his story is intricately connected to everything else. Stretching all the way back to his babyhood. 

Again, not unbelievable at all. /s

Suddenly he was adopted out, not running away from foster homes (which destroyed about fifty percent of any sympathy I could have had for him). And on the spin-off he magically is the Ressler of the team with a shiny conscience.

They gave him Liz’s story. Suddenly he is the child with the super secretive crazy parents, only it’s reversed because he’s the one holding that card. Liz is…. idk, a person just happy to have Tom in her life I guess.

They build it up that Tom wants a normal life. But then they have to turn around and build it up that he wants back into the spy life. And they give him a family and a kid, but then if the spin off was successful they probably would have had to change that whole thing, so what was the point of it?

Now, since Tom was actually in love the whole time, they have to come up with some other reason Red re-entered her life. Katarina elements, whatever that means.

And it’s all a big, giant mess. (I do think those elements existed though and that Red feared Tom worked for one. Because he’s immediately asking about the fire. But that still doesn’t jive with their season two story. But whatever.)

Parting Thoughts

Anyway, the spin off fails. Now what? Do they keep trying to make this guy fit?

Thankfully, no. They give him an eight-episode send off. He can go out trying to get the truth to Liz. It’s super tragic. And they’ll use that to impact Liz and Red’s relationship again. 

They never fully redeemed Tom. They put a bandaid of ‘love’ on his character. But continued writing warning after warning coming out of Red’s mouth about how Tom would do what he does. Tom won’t change. Tom is reckless and dangerous, etc… And they actually showed Tom being reckless and dangerous. So at least it kind of fits. 

The writers let their love for this character taint everything else. I don’t think there’s any way to heal the damage done to Liz’s character, as I don’t think they even realize there’s damage. But at least he’s finally gone. 

I’m mildly hopeful. 

And look, this is me. I’m sure the vast majority of fans don’t feel this way. Don’t remember half of any of Tom’s stories. So, yeah. 

BITCOIN TO ZERO OR $1,000,000!!! Chamath Palihapitiya, Day of Reckoning

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

And we’re alive, yes. Welcome to another episode of Good Morning Krypton. Here on Ivan Ontake, we are, of course, broadcasting life straight out of Stockholm, Sweden. And we do the show each and every day at 8 a.m. Central on Summerton. Yes, I come to like an atomic clock each and every day. Look, we have so much to discuss. Bitcoin breaking seven K. Also, we have this binary situation in Bitcoin. Either become super successful or it doesn’t become successful and it will be easy for governments to pursue it and to really try to take it down. So we’re going to have both bullish and bearish perspectives on the matter, because I think it’s very important that we covered the interest from Shamas, Bill IP Diop, Bill Uppity, sorry for butchering the name, but you know, this guy is one of the people who started Facebook. Since then, he has left this whole Facebook community and really started to work against them and saying how bad and how hurtful Facebook has become compared to original days. And now he is working a lot with technology. He is early bitcoin investor. And he basically has this idea that he either will go to a million or we go nowhere. And it’s so important to discuss because, look, the grandiosity of our plants are very big. The grandiosity over plants are huge. And we have to realize that that either we are successful or we’re not successful at all. There is no middle ground with Bitcoin, really, if you think about it, there is no middle ground. And many of you who are watching right now on islands don’t think that’s gone. Fleshlight Noel Redzepi, why it’s blagged, but because we couldn’t get the screens working. I told the guys here on I don’t think that Fleshlight is got to be saurus or rush out or something. They’re trying to mess with our stream. But you know what? It is Monday and nobody messes up my Mundus, not even the powers from from the establishment. And then all this creates I don’t have to fix them. Now, we do have some Mundie motivation from the Fed. And that’s the best thing about crypto in the bout and about the Internet. You have so many means, you have so amazing many Meemaw’s and many of them are so funny. So let me see if I can play to you. This basically fed pumping like crazy and the Powerwall is pumped. Obviously he’s pumped for action. And the. When I saw this, it will so find it. It’s also funny because it’s true. Whenever we have a new day, whenever we have a new a new week, we will see more action from the Fed and the look. If you watch this video, you’ll also also get the sound. I don’t want to use the sounds here, but there’s like Hardrock when he does it. And look, what’s important right now is to look at the bullish situation. We are very bullish right now. We are pushing 7 K, we are establishing quite well above it. And, you know, the 7 K has been this area of resistance. And if we can just establish ourselves above it, we might have a clear path to 8-K and above Bob. After that, I want to cover an important report about institutional adoption of crypto. Basically how Group 2 is right now performing in terms of institutional investors and wealth managers. And it’s very big and very important because we are growing a lot and at the same time we’re still so early. So there’s a lot of upside potential. Finally, I want to talk about Mr. Krystof. You know, many of you know him already. He’s extremely bearish on Bitcoin lately. I want to talk about it. He’s basically saying that, hey, just like Swiss bank accounts were shut down by the US and the Swiss bank account today, you know, is not the Swiss bank account. You add just that 10 years ago before the financial crisis, they changed a lot. How the Swiss bank accounts work because they had to comply with U.S. regulations. So we’re going to discuss this argument. That’s the same thing is going to happen to crypto. So Mr. Clifftop says it a lot and I keep reading his Twitter, so I want to comment on that. After that, we’re going to talk about maker Dow. We’re going to discuss some Fiat, programmable fiat, because you know that we have a lot of initiatives from all kinds of countries when it comes to building digital cash. And it has both to do with just national currency, but also just programmable fiat in terms of all for you not being able to do everything you want with the money. So, for example, if you have insurance and you get paid from insurance, they want to know that you’re not going to spend money on something else, that you’re actually going to go and buy a new car if the car crashed or whatever. Or if you get welfare, they want to know that you don’t go and buy something not useful with it. You buy food. Now, obviously, it becomes very totalitarian very quickly and we’re going to discuss it. So we have a few projects here I want to highlight to you in regards to this programmable fiat space. And basically governments trying to create money that they can program and they can really, really control. But that means, I guess, welcome everyone who is watching this. Like, how are you all doing? Welcome, everyone, on Idol Datacom Slash live. If you are watching on YouTube, you have already missed the livestream. We’re only we’re only left Schmoo. And I don’t take dot com slash live. Why? Because we’re taking this matter matter into our own hands. We’re not being some kind of vassals to some kind of platform. We’re only livestreaming. Here you have to go to Armenta dot com slash line right now. Subscribe. Their enablers enable delegate implications. If you’re watching here already. Just do it, dude. Right now, everything that I just told you. And welcome everyone in the chat. I see group to Yoda. Bernard Lee her fall as Latin forever. Krypto Vader. Guys, how are you doing, Michael? Gulp. Welcome, welcome, welcome, man. So amazing to see the chat. Really. The chat is amazingly, amazingly active today and that is exactly how it should be. What’s important right now is that we’re close to the having. Look, the whole situation with us jumping one order of magnitude with each hubbing can not be ignored, just like Plan B says. So Bitcoin has been oscillating about stock to flow value of seven thousand dollars for 2.5 years. SNAP. Now we’ve been around 7.5. Even when we went to 20K, you know, that stopped the flow really had a target of seven K. So we really overextended in 2017 18 we went to 20K. You remember that? And obviously we pulled back and now we been also seeing around 7 K for two and a half years. And just like before 2016 hubbing we were at three three hundred dollars just and before that we’re at six dollars. So as you can see, usually we jump one or two orders of magnitude from six to three hundred and and now from three hundred to seven thousand. So as you can see here, we basically did them and we add that that we went from once to hundreds like from single digit to hundreds, they would from hundreds to thousands. And probably this time around we’re going to tens of thousands. We’re doing another order of magnitude. And look at the end that we’ve got to have the end goal. And the end goal is that Bitcoin is significant part of the entire financial ecosystem and macro economics and everything in the world needs to have some kind of new reserve world currency like we discussed yesterday. All of this empires come and go. There is a world reserve currencies come and go. But but, but but what’s different right now is that we do have a united world in terms of commerce. We all want to trade with each other. It’s very frustrating when you have a currency that simply bans the full country because of sanctions or whatever is very frustrating for you as a merchant. I mean, why if you have a good that you want to buy, but you happen to be bored. You happen to be born in a country that is severely under sanctions. We cannot do business. And obviously the current currencies are being used for all kinds of political reasons. And therefore, the world needs a neutral, apolitical, a political mandate. And that’s going to be bitcoin or or we’re going to have the same issues we have today. We’re going to have the same problems. This Fiat experiment we’ve been handling for the past decades is coming to an then. And just like we’re speaking on by bit, we’re pushing seven thousand one hundred. So it’s doing extremely well today. Bitcoin now looking at the coin GEKO Web, the following situation right now we have bitcoin at seven thousand nine dollars on there by bit. We’re almost at seven thousand one hundred dollars. So as you can see, is being extremely, extremely bullish when it comes to future platforms and derivatives. While if you take average spot, we’re still just above seven K now. At the other top ten cryptocurrencies, we have the phone situation, a theorem, 0.8 percent up SRP zero point nine at Bitcoin, Casula point eight. So all in all, quite upwards. Quite amazing market, but nothing dramatic yet. We might see dramatic we might see dramatic moves once once this resistance really gets crushed and resistance is around seven K, but even though we’re above it, we need to close guys. We need to close the day above it. We’ve to establish ourselves. We need to basically signal to the market that, hey, 7:53 is in the bad guys. It’s in the bag and we’re ready to go higher. And if you’re chasing this, you can use by bit. So if you go and you check the link below, you will find bybee’s. If you’re watching on YouTube, you will see best crypto deals or best deals link. So click there. You’ll get there by bit link and you get free margins when you start there. And also you will find remix, remix and Vibert are very similar. But on Fenwick’s you can do gold, Lt.-Col and dazzles tracing and link trading. But on bybee’s you have more volume and you have more liquidity. So look, you got to have both at the end of the day because it’s good to diversify. So the advantage here is you get more coins and more assets. Advantage here is that you get more liquidity, but it’s good to try both. Now, once you start speaking sorry, once you start realizing the significance of the financial control that you and they are all being living under him, you simply go quickly to Bitcoin. I saw this news. I’m sure many of you have seen this. I’m sure many of you have seen this guy pleasant. GREENE A big YouTuber was talking about how Western Union banned him for life. So he was having a business working with Western Union. And just imagine this. This frustrates me the most. The fact that you have this unproductive business in old business, they have this unproductive pieces, pieces of old business. Don’t really do a lot. It is the payment providers. It is the payment processors that really are just shifting bits in their database. I mean, obviously the whole issue is that they do have their platforms built on outdated dinosaur infrastructure where they have to integrate with the banks. They have to have permission. They have to have all of these connections to even get started. Do you think if you sit at home in your underwear, in your living room, in your bedroom, do you think you can start the new PayPal or the new stripe, even if you’re the greatest programmer? You have the greatest programming experience and team. You won’t be able to do it. But but if you’re sitting in your underwear, you can start. Most of the businesses you could have started Google, you could have started Facebook, because it’s all about just building a product that works well here in the financial space. It’s a cartel. It’s a closed club. So there is no way to even enter it. All right. So that is the issue. You have this unproductive chains in the value chain, in the production chain. There are just taking out a percentage to rent seekers, by the way. So and it’s coming to mainstream now. People are getting tired. Do you think this guy would even speak about Bitcoin if he wasn’t banned from Western Union? No. And he mentioned bitcoin that bitcoin could be a good solution for his business. So at the end of the day, we are moving towards the situation where more and more people start to question. I mean, guys, do we even need all of you? You ban me. You are taking huge fees. Like many of them do, enormous fees. And so why do we need them? The issue is, of course, the situation with the with the customers. The customers are not really using Bitcoin yet. So does the issue for merchants. They’re not only forced to use all of these service providers because they are they are forced to to use the old banking infrastructure. They could use crypto. But it’s just that the customer the customer is not there yet. The customer is not there yet. Guys, we’re pushing 7.1. I seen the chat chat going. While you mind seeing that we’re pumping, we are doing that towards 7.1. Now let’s talk about Shamas. Sharma. Byerly. Happy to man. My amazing name. Amazing. Is it Indian or Pakistan or what is this, guys, if you know about this culture. Let me know in the comment section, in the chat. What kind of name is that? But Shamas Bilin Hoppity is a billionaire, right? He was one of the founders early employees in Facebook. He was one of the most important people in the early days of Facebook. And since then, he has shifted completely. You know, if you haven’t seen all of these videos where he talks about how social media is destroying us, destroying our lives, you should check it out. He has a very, very important video that people have made. Basically, they took different interviews from him and they they’ve created this video. And by the way, guys, in the chat, if you find that LinkedIn chat, I will share it on the screen. And if you all right now in the chat can find it. And right now, he’s also very heavy in Bitcoin. He has heavy bags. And his bags have been performing quite well because he bought at $80 and basically said that at one point he controlled five percent of Bitcoin supply. So we’ll see if that’s true or not. But all in all, he was on Pompe interview. All right. He was talking about the situation with Bitcoin and how we either go to 1 million or we don’t go anywhere. We either are successful. And success in our case means that we are truly, truly global. We are a reserve currency. We’re used as this neutral, apolitical power in the space or or probably if we’re gonna struggle a lot and we’re going to struggle a lot both when it comes to adoption. But when it comes to regulation, you know, it’s very easy to shut down something that is not successful. Imagine the Internet. Imagine how it is to shut down the Internet today. Impossible. People love the Internet. They use it every day. So success and wild, wild mass adoption is the only protection against the government intervention and against somebody tyrannically trying to ban your Netsch does the only prevention. Now, if you have a technology that gives people power, but it’s not really getting up to speed, it’s not really getting big. Then this, of course, very easy to shut down. So that’s kind of the way for bitcoin. Either we become big or or just like Mr. Kristoff says, like we’re going to discuss later on, this video is gonna be like with Swiss bank accounts that they’re going to try to do their best to shut them. But hey, Lizzie, let’s discuss it when we come to that topic. Now, what’s important is that he talked Shamas talked about the fact that we’re driving slowly, but we are driving towards a cliff and this cliff is inevitable. And obviously, he’s speaking about the monetary madness that has been going on right now for the past decades, if even since Nixon. Basically, this whole man has started with Nixon, removed the connection to gold and ended the Bretton Woods. So we’ve been driving slowly but surely towards this cliff, also known as day of reckoning. Really? That’s why I have it in the title at the end. Going to have a day of reckoning in the financial system. And then we’re going to drive much, much faster down that cliff or down that hill and at the end if we’re going to have a huge brick wall. So when you see all of this trillions being printed out of thin air, out of nowhere, we are driving down the hill. And the question is, when is that brick wall gonna come? And the really it’s a question that nobody can answer. If you don’t look at this close to, there is no way to re predicted. But you can look long term. You can predict long term, short term, who knows whether it’s going to be tomorrow or in a week or in a month. But long term, it’s inevitable if you really study it. For example, if you watch the channel, you know already a lot about what’s going on in the financial system. We’ve covering all kinds of topics every day. So that’s you guys. That’s very, very key. And so the path dependence for Bitcoin is if it looks like the basement is likely. So that’s the currency, the basement of dollar. It will really emerge as a flight to safety. And here he basically says this title, the title of this video that, look, it’s either zero or it’s millions. That’s where we’re going. And that’s what’s important to note, is that the chance of bitcoin succeeding has increased dramatically during the past weeks. So let him, by the way, zoom in on my face now that we are in the darkness, now that we have the screens completely destroyed by an unknown power. We’re going to do like this. So it’s a bit more intimate. So it’s a bit more direct. So it’s a bit more. More like this. OK. Yes. So you understand the following that with the everything that has happened during the past few weeks, we’ve seen an unprecedented increase in the success of Bitcoin in the potential of Bitcoin succeeding. So basically said in the article that that probability went maybe from 1 percent to now 5 to 10 percent. Can you imagine basically a ten x increase in probability of bitcoin succeeding because we didn’t really know how far we would go and how fast in terms of monetary policy and in terms of money printing. So that is exactly what’s happening. I see people in the chat saying that I have a halo. Yanga. So welcome to the evangelical church. Welcome to the evangelic church everywhere. That’s true. That’s true. Right, right. Right. So look, one digital currency is deemed safe by government. Bitcoin will move this shil book, Chiluba. That’s that’s for sure. That’s for sure. And it’s going to happen. The small countries, guys, the small central banks. They see the situation with the US dollar. They’re not liking it. They’re absolutely not liking it. And they see their opportunity, just like we discussed why the central banks will fall into Bitcoin. It’s just a question of time. They will formally in. To Bitcoin. You know why? Because they will see their opportunism. And at the end of the day, we will be having a game of musical chairs. It’s all about musical chairs. You don’t want to be the kid without a chair. It’s really some of the most traumatic memories many people have from childhood. You know, you’re playing this game of chairs and chairs are running out. There’s always one guy without a chair. You know, that you don’t want to be that guy. You’re trying to grab a chair as fast as you can. But it’s a good life lesson for the central banks because, look, once you have 1st central bank, it’s gonna be a small one is gonna be like Bermuda or some of the small ones. They get adopted first. They gonna move towards Bitcoin being in the reserves first. Why? Because they have nothing to lose. Look, they’re not incumbents. They’re not established. They’re not one of these banks that has already a lot of success. And they the guys like ECB, the Fed, they have most to lose while the smaller guys have most to win. So they will be the first one. And that is when dominos will start to fall. Then you have other banks like Bank of Japan also considering, hey, maybe we should buy a bit before the price goes up even more. And then it becomes who is the last guy, who is the last guy to get into bitcoin as a central bank? And there you have the musical chairs because the guy at the end, he will not get the chair. He will be buying bitcoin so high it will simply be impossible for him to get any kind of influence in the world with with that central bank. So, look, we are changing. We are changing the way manual works. We’re changing the way finance works. And it is inevitable. Yes, it’s inevitable. So I hope you understand now the reason why I have Bitcoin to 0 or a million is because, look, if we are here at 5 K still in 5 to 10 years, I think it’s gonna be easier, is going to be way easier for governments to take action because obviously they don’t want bitcoin. Obviously they don’t. There’s no way to shut down bitcoin, but it’s very, very possible to make it this weird thing that nobody wants to touch. And that’s so important that we really spread the education right now. And what’s good is that people are getting interested. We are in a very good trajectory and even big institutional investors are very interested in bitcoin. And that’s the next topic. Guess we’ll be talking about the institutional adoption of digital assets trading report. All right. That’s going to be the next thing. And how are you guys doing in the chat? Let me hydrate. Man, I need to call the screen guys so they can take a look. I need to call the screen guys. All right. All right. All right. You know, these screens, usually it’s like the screens on the airport. So I have to call the airport guys that do the screens for the airport to go in and fix it in the studio. For some reason, the first it seems like like the first screen that’s getting the signal is not getting it. I don’t know. Yes. They have been serving well for over two years. So that’s something I wish they lasted a bit longer. But look, what we’re seeing right now is the situation with Bitcoin being a digital asset that many serious traders look at and wealth managers. Thank you. Thank you so much for the compliment. Edward, nice haircut. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So what basically we have right here is a serving a research done by seeing me and Bitstamp and released this equity management intelligence that did it. But they did it inclination with some NCM me where they looked at what investors want. What is the state of institutional investing in Bitcoin? How is it going and what is the progress? Now, this is very important. I’m going to just talk about the important things. This is the most important thing in regards to to this research, and that is that there is a demand for bitcoin exposure, but there is not a lot of opportunities. So as you can see, you have Europe, North America and the AP Apex or Asia Pacific. Now, what’s important is that on this screen right now, we’re seeing adoption rate demand to broaden digital assets, scope and adoption rate relative to the demand. So basically the purple chart is how much there is demand to be exposed to Bitcoin as a wealth manager, as a serious investor. Now, the yellow line right here is the orange one. Is it how much you can actually do it? What kind of possibilities you have? And you see that in Europe, the demand is much larger than the possibility. Basically, there is so much more demand to invest than the industry can offer and open up in North America. The same thing. And in Asia, the same thing. So it’s very clear that there is more demand than we even have infrastructure to to handle right now. At the same time, you do have a lot of fears, a lot of concerns as well that still aren’t cleared. So number one concern for international investors is it is about security and the cost is the fact that you can be hacked. The fact that your custody might not be as safe as you think. And custody is a particular concern. And you can see this chart right here basically showing you all of the different concerns in this chart right here. Security of the exchange being the biggest one. Then you have counterparty risk with the exchange. If the exit scam or something happens or they get hacked, then concerns over custody. Basically the same thing, concerns over AML, KYC, not that big. By the way, concerns over a million ways it is there, but not that big. And finally, fear of reputational damage also. I mean, what kind of reputational damage? If anything, you will get reputation. You will lose reputation if you are too ignorant to even try. Bitcoin. That’s where you lose reputation because your clients, the clients that you’re managing the funds for, they’re going to come to you and ask, how the hell did you miss? Ninety nine million percent interest. I trust you with the money. What am I paying for? Nine million percent in bitcoin. And we missed it and we missed that asset. And I’m here with the stocks that have fallen 30 percent in the past month. And you didn’t take my money out of the stocks. And also you didn’t buy Bitcoin, which went up 9 million percent. That is how the customers are going to speak to their wealth managers. So it’s only it’s only one way forward for all of this wealth managers. It is to get exposed to bitcoin as soon as possible. And look, many of them are thinking in those in those patterns, of course. So here’s another chart, basically summarizing all of the different concerns. What’s important is also to ask yourself, what is the number one thing for all of these investors when they’re looking for a platform, when they’re looking for a platform to trade and to invest? Well, it’s not user experience. They actually care about that. They care about. Number one, liquidity. Number two, integrity and security, ease of connectivity. So that you don’t have to call to the traders. You can do everything in computer, for example. You don’t have issues with placing orders and so on, so forth. Thestructure, very important speed and performance. And then only then do you have user interface and user experience. So it’s not that important. The most important thing is obvious liquidity. So that is why you have Betamax. One of the ugliest exchanges on the market still being used a lot, even though they’re not very ethical in how they handle the situation to to to big extent. And even though they have not very precy why they have liquidity, that is basically the only thing they have right now. So they also listed the different exchanges like Bynum’s bith makes Bitstamp. What kind of exchanges are are people interested in? A bit makes. By the way, one of the hires because they have so much liquidity. So you see it’s still the liquidity is number one. You got liquidity. And the same is, of course, for digital assets. When you’re trading an asset, you want liquidity, but you also want volatility. You want to beat the volatility as well. So, guys, this is basically the report. And to conclude, I want to say this. I want to say this. We have a lot of opportunities and we still haven’t even started. So our survey suggests that the digital assets market is on the top of the cusp of significant growth. All right. From traditional trading firms, look, we’re still just on the cusp. On the cusp. Current adoption rates are relatively low, still low. People are interested. And 97 percent of all of the wealth managers that participated that are still not in crypto, they will reconsider within the next two years when they have better cars to do, when they feel more safe, they will reconsider. And 45 are planning to revisit the idea in six month or less. So, look, when they start when they come, it’s also going to be musical chairs. Really, Bitcoin is the perfect analogy for all of this musical chairs, because as soon as one of them gets into bitcoin, you see other all other Wolf managers, they all speak to each other. It’s a close community. They’re all networking. So you see a guy getting into Bitcoin. Another guy gets formal. He also gets into Bitcoin. It’s like this is this is usually invest in whatever startup, in whatever venture there is a friend invested in. They get formal. They get formal. Look, if you get formal, you haven’t seen the v.c formal yet, just like this. By the way, forward into old coins in 2017. But that was more Asia. That was more eastern. This is here. We’re talking about western and eastern like everyone. So you’ve got to understand, whenever they start, it’s going to be a very big inflow is gonna be a very big inflow because it’s once again game of musical chairs all over again. All right. So that was the second topic. We are on fire. For some reason, this screen issue gave me so much motivation to do this, a show with even more with even more intense energy. Man, it feels good. It feels good. It’s like I don’t like one little look. I wake up. I have my script. I have everything for bread. Then some kind of like small detail is not working like the screens. So like I saw it look, should we will have the screens for some reason. It looks kind of good with black as well. But yeah, they are here so we should fix them. But let me know how it is with only black. Basically black mold you get dark. Mold gets exactly like I like I saw you guys writing in the beginning. This is dark mold for good morning Krypto. Oleg’s as he means the screen. I know, man. I miss the screen, too. I mean, this green screen. No, no, no. Not green screen. Not green screen. I need this to do to feel premium. Look, I come here every day. I cannot come to a green screen that it looks like some kind of, you know, some kind of garage or something, some kind of basement. In this to be nice, to do nice screens. So that’s why I’m not doing green screen. I have done green screen in the past. I’ve tried. But it’s just that look, it’s I don’t feel like a professional when doing that. I need to feel like a professional. All right. Moving on, guys. Moving on. We’re talking about Mr. Kristo. Big shout out to Mr. Cristol, by the way. Go subscribe to his channel. I would like I would like to talk about his concerns about Bitcoin being regulated. And he’s very bearish. Look, if you read his Twitter, it’s very bearish. We’re gonna not really perform well, according to him in these times, especially because the government is gonna come after Bitcoin. So he’s saying that you guys remember that they tweeted a post a few days ago where I said governments will come after Bitcoin like they did with Swiss bank accounts, with Swiss bank accounts. And that’s happening right now as well. He’s saying because we saw this lawsuit yesterday that we covered on this screen. Look, have covered on this on the show. What’s. I’m thinking too much about the broken screens on the show. We covered this lawsuit yesterday. And he is basically saying that, hey, look, they’re gonna come. It’s a question of time. Elik, largely, largely. I do think that there is not a gun that can begin to regulate the gun to regulate like crazy because look at India and India. They tried to ban the central bank, tried to ban it. All right. And so when they did, what happened was that the Supreme Court stepped in and said that this is not OK. Look, this is a liberatory. You’re breaking liberties so you cannot ban bitcoin. But they can try of course, try to regulate it like crazy. Like crazy. So that’s what probably will happen if and only if we don’t have massive, absolutely massive success until 2030. That is basically the deadline that I set until 2030, because it’s like with all other tech there is disruptive that is making the establishment a bit uncomfortable. It’s way easier to shut down something small, something that has just a few users. And you can also say that they’re using it for illegal activities. It’s easier to sell the ban to the general population and therefore you have a limit on the amount of time to make this bigger, to make this worldwide. The good thing is that the guys over in the traditional financial industry, they’re helping us. They’re helping us the most. Themselves, by the way, the malls themselves. Because I think when you see stuff like this, like smart money and this is a project by its year to every and look, basically this is for insurance for insurance use case. I’m going to show it to you here. And they’re wanting to create Fiat. Fiat that is programmable in the way that when you receive a payment, for example, whether it is an insurance claim or whether it is that you receive welfare from the government, they want to be able to program it and say, for example, you cannot spend this money on anything except except food and the rent because you are on welfare. So you’re getting a welfare check. We want to ensure that you don’t go out and buy like, I don’t know, like some kind of leisure. You don’t go into vacation with that money. So when so when that happens, you will see people really feeling that Hema is digital payments. How can they do digital payments without without having all of this mess? And does Bitcoin? So does Bitcoin. That is open cryptocurrencies. Now we have another important, important development from the EU with European blockchain, the serious infrastructure also. Look, there are few use cases they really like. One of these cases is digital cash. Another use case is, of course, this whole programmable money for insurance or for welfare and for taxation, obviously, automatic taxation. And the third one is that that is the first one. That is the first one. Digital casualty program, welfare. And the second one is identity. So when it comes to identity, there is this project, Finzi, that seems to be focusing more on identity and that it is basically starting in Finland and began to have the financial sector and the industry sector altogether coming together and running a hyper ledger network. So know this permission based networks like hyper ledger, they can run their own their own permission ledger on which they going to try to launch this project with decentralized identities so that they instead of having your passport and your identity, just being in your passport is also on the blockchain. It’s also like everywhere else. And if you go to a hospital and you don’t live in the country where you have that hospital, they will still get all of your information because you have that identity. So they will be able to fetch that information associated with you from other from other hospitals, like, for example, for example, you get the point, basically. Sovereign identity, decentralized identity. So, look, gets a lot of things are happening. I’m going to pay more attention to everything that is going to be going on in this traditional space. Why? Because honestly, I didn’t think they would have so much going on. I did not think they would have so much. But lately, I’ve been speaking a lot with the corporate side. You know that one of our alumni is in our academy is the head of blockchain at Ericsson. So he gave us a lot of insight in about what they are doing and what they are working with. And they are working a lot with both open but also permission based blockchains. And so I’ve been speaking a lot with that side. And look, it’s more than you can expect. Obviously, it has nothing to do with the type of crypto and blockchain where we’re speaking about normally. But it’s important to keep an eye on. It’s important to keep announced the as head of blockchain at Ericsson, a multi billion multinational company. Our our academy is Leweni. You took the business master class and really, really became successful in the corporate world. And look, it’s our three is hyper ledger and ar3 core. They’re very big. And also you have all of discussed them all discussed. And projects like Finzi running on top of hyper ledger and or like smart money, which is kind of its own. It’s not necessarily that they’re eating even using blockchain. And all of this is still in the research phase and all of this is still super early. So we’re going to see exactly what comes out of this. But what’s important is that we do see McKinsey estimating that it’s going to be until 2023 that all of this corporate projects really start showing something that really go from idea to implementation and and the adoption in the traditional corporate space. So we’re going to keep an eye on delegates. It’s important. It’s important because, look, there are also opportunities there. If, you know, crypto and many of you guys, of course, want to go full time crypto. And this is kind of on the border, what is crypto and what is not crypto. But there are many opportunities. Look, it’s a multi, multi billion dollar industry just educating all of the corporates about about what it is and how it works. Now, it’s a hundreds, hundreds of billion dollar industry when it comes to the implementation space. But obviously, you got to ask the ethical question. I mean, what kind of future you want to see. So at the end of the day, what’s important is to focus to solve this, to solve this with open, permissionless and end global cryptocurrencies. So that’s key. Yes, that’s absolutely, absolutely mega key in our current environment. So I guess that is how that is. That was the topics I wanted to cover today. Also, we have another one, the bolt maker, which is also quite important, and the maker, Dow Foundation, basically want to remove themselves from the equation. On Thursday, they had this call where they discussed how is going to be. And the fact that they have different plans. So Plank one is that they’re going to have elected better paid contributors and they then make the improvement proposals. And all of this basically needs to remove the Maker Foundation from the equation. They basically don’t want to play a central part in the maker and die ecosystem. Why? Because we have a lot we have a lot to do in terms of decentralization. Make it that ecosystem could be even more decentralized if we remove if we remove the foundation. And also, I think it’s very good and very nice for the members of Microdot Foundation, because, look, they don’t need to be under pressure. They don’t have to be under pressure because they’re kind of the head of this big successful project. Like, for example, room Roon Christensen, I think is your vision or something room. Christensen I mean, obviously, he doesn’t want to be the face of all for this whole digital, digital, global, stable, quiet revolution without any central entity. So that’s why that’s why I think look, guys, I’m going to throw a quick text and I’m going to tell the guys who did the screens to to come as soon as possible. I want to do it right now because it’s 9 a.m. in Sweden. And I want just to make it fixed very, very quickly. And then we’re gonna do Q&A. So just give me a minute. To go do some push ups, guys. Got a five, five minute, 15 minute, five second push up. Let me just sit. Man, we’re going to get that fixed. Doo doo doo doo doo. Bird, OK. brotton. Perfect. All done, all done. Yes, let’s do it. We have the chat. What are you guys doing? Let me try one thing. I don’t want to mess up too much, but I’m just gonna do it as as an experiment to shut it on and shut it off again. So, yeah, I have the screen here. Yeah, it’s. Is it working? Not yet, anyway. Let’s do the Q&A. Yes, let’s work on that. How are you guys doing in the chat? It’s midnight here. Can you do push up to. Yeah, you can do tomorrow as long as you the bishop. It’s OK. You can do it tomorrow. Questionable statement. Be very, very careful. Careful. Taking the next step forward. We’re on the edge of a cliff. Well, I don’t know if you’re speaking about the current situation with with with the car driving down the cliff and the fact that we have a brick wall somewhere there down the cliff. But yes. Be very careful, guys. Decentralized, autonomous organization. Yes. That is the Dow. That is the day, though. What would you call the oral topic before you talked about maker Dow? Man, I don’t know, Nate. So what topic we talked about make Dow. And before that, we talked about the the Fiat, the programmable Fiat. You can call it programmable fiat. A corset. So nice. Thank you so much for doing this timestamps, by the way. And guys, if you wanted to timestamps, please check the link below. If you’re watching an amateur at the com slash live. You find this link to join timestamp group. So we’re gonna organize this a bit better in the group. Let’s see. I’m getting a beer belly again. Should go running around Fabricio. Is the lockdown on lockdown? It’s very difficult to not get a bit overweight. I can tell you that. But it’s important to work out. That’s what I’m telling you to do. Some pushups on mining. Ivan, you think it’s always interesting in 2020? Is it okay or too late? Well, it’s all about what you might get. You guys don’t only mind bitcoin. Go to what? To mine dot com and figure out what you should be mining. And you can input basically your configuration of mining and then you will get the different like coins you can mine then. Yeah, it’s it’s important. And you can input your your electricity and everything. But look, it’s a very small margin business. It’s not really it’s not really a quick return. You got to also be believing in the future of crypto. And the price appreciating in the future, if you don’t believe if you just want to mine and dump instantly, it’s not going to work out for you very well. Because in that sense, you understand that the market for mining is so efficient because it’s so easy. You literally plug it machine into the outlet and you start mining. So it becomes very, very professional very quickly. So you got to be investing a lot and there are many people also investing a lot. And there are all these smart merchants. People are trying to push the margin. They have a bit better infrastructure, a bit cheaper, cheaper electricity. But look, mining is a business with very small margins. And so whatever coin you pick, by the way. So the only thing you have is the price appreciation in the future. If you want to have like big rewards, it’s only if you believe that the prices are going to go up. And that’s the only way it makes sense to mine. That is why miners are mining at a loss. In many cases, they’re mining on credit. They’re mining on loans. Why? Because they believe in the future. And that’s why the hash power doesn’t go through the floor. When we have a bear market, then the and the prices go down, prices, hashrate still go up because we have better machines with better equipment, we have better A-6. That’s one. But also that the miners are just the for the future. They’re not really dumping a lot. So, yeah. Did you watch Pompe interviewing season? I didn’t. Not not lately. I think maybe in the past. Oh, man. Let’s see if the guys have answered. Oh, yes, they can. Yes, yes. Man, they can come quickly. That’s a good man. The screens. Oh, what’s up with the timestamps, Nikola? Well, we’re doing timestamps. That’s when people watch on YouTube. They can click around. Do you have non-native students who have joined your academy and become a blockchain manager? Yes, we do have nonnative students, for example. Look in our testimonials. Go check Asymptote out here that come and look, for example, of this video about Juleanna. He had not progams, she had no progam experience, joined the academy and now works full time as blockchain developer. So you can watch this full video, how you’re adding blockchain. Blockchain was very new. There was a lot of fundamentals because by the time I. Anyway. Anyway, you can watch the full video, go to kazimir down to the com. Also watch this one. I mean, this one is really a true sign of the success of our academy. I mean, we’re so proud for Joumanah. He works as the head of blockchain in the multibillion dollar Swedish corporation. Ericsson man. I mean, this is this is amazing. This is what we work for. My name is and Francesa and I belong to Ericsson. And I have the pleasure to lead the blockchain forward. For example, you know, when I started in anyway, say you can check yourself. Look, it’s a lot. It’s a lot. A global citizen. Ivan, what is hash bar? Look. Good question. Is the fundamental. Good question. Hash power is how fast we tried to guess the next block collectively. So look, when you’re minding, you’re basically guessing random numbers and you’re hashing that random number with the contents of the block you’re trying to put into the blockchain. All right. So what does this mean, hashing? It means that you run an algorithm that produces a unique fingerprint for that particular block together with the random number. So you need the unique fingerprint for this data collectively. Now, the network has certain rules that you to guess until you get a certain number or a certain fingerprint below below the threshold of difficulty. Now it’s getting a bit technical. You go to Kazimierz, that commu will learn the way better. But I explained to nontheless. So. So you understand that the only way to mine the block is to guess a bunch of numbers. And then each time you get a number, run this hashing algorithm that will produce a unique fingerprint. Until that fingerprint is low enough. That fingerprint is a number. It needs to be below a certain threshold. The only way to get it below a certain threshold is to just guess and run the algorithm again and again. There is no way to predict. There is no way to predict what kind of random number or the so-called nonce, like Vassily says, what it needs to be. You can only guess so. Each such guess and each such run of the algorithm hashing algorithm is basically a you run the hash. So you run their hash. Now hash rate is how many of this guesses we can do collectively as the network, like all deminers, everyone. How many guesses we can do per second. So that is that is hashrate. And look, it’s so big. I don’t even remember like what kind of fight you measure meant to do this. One hundred and thirty six quantrill and hashes per second. So this was in March like the second. So it’s not like the the latest ListString the late. So look we’re talking about quintillion s of these guesses and you understand that’s per second. That’s per second. All right. So you know that it takes six hundred seconds on average to produce the next block to produce because it’s ten minutes. We have ten mean blocks block time, man. Why is it not working? So this basically means that if you have the accurate is like it’s it’s around that number is around that number that we saw on Google. So it’s a what is it. One hundred and thirty six quintillion. That’s per second. Now you’re going to take one hundred and thirty six quintillion times. Times six hundred to get the average amount of guesses needed to to mine the bitcoin block. So it’s one hundred and thirty six quintillion. That’s the hash rate per second times six hundred seconds for ten minutes. And then you get the number of guesses need that the number of times we throw around short-run fifty six to guess the next bitcoin block to get that into the blusher. Nate please email contact that. I will take this call. Thank you so much. Truly appreciate you. I truly, truly appreciate you. OK. I guess that does it. That’s it. Quentin not Quantic. Quintillion. Quintillion. Thanks. Thanks. Are you planning to introduce economic or financial classes? Yes. That’s the next Caesar. Does the next thing we basically need to create the course that explains to Bitcoin from the perspective of the Bitcoin standard. So that’s that’s that’s a very important jimmying. That’s when Superjet, too. Man, I hope tomorrow. We’re so close. If you’ve visited the space yesterday, you already saw that we have it working like it’s working, but it’s still baijiu. But if you’ve visited like during yesterday in the evening, you saw that we had like Super Chesil read it, but it’s so close. Can you see a screen actually are on there just showing off exactly the full moon they’re on and we see a full moon. Ivan needs an economist. Well, we don’t. We need to do a course. Michael teaches a course on the Bitcoin standard, basically, and we need to produce it because it’s a very important course to get people into the mindset of the financials of Bitcoin where you’ll be able to do crypto showboat. Yes. And from the beginning. No, but Ververs soon. Yes. We have everything. It will. You gonna you gonna have like if you gonna have Tron, you gonna have look at enough. We’re gonna have bitcoin because then we’re going to have with zero confirmation or we’re going to have lightning. But man it’s easier with if we’re going to do if the first. Maybe we will do Tron. I don’t know, maybe if Justin some wants a stake in our chat he can purchase and we can do trump payments. I’m joking. I’m joking. Thanks, Ivan. You are the pope is the halo is the hill. Look, you’ve got to find some positivity in the in the situation of the screens going bananas and they are bananas. But I don’t. That’s the good thing, is that the airport screening guests are coming. Okay, guys, thank you so much. Thank you so much for being here yet again. Guys, if you’re watching this on YouTube. I don’t know what you’re doing. I don’t know what you’re doing, to be honest, because you got to go to. I don’t know that com slash line. You’ve got to subscribe right there. You see read subscribe button. You see ellerson. They bolt. You’ve got to press alerts. You’ve got to press stations for telegram. And when you’ve done that, then you truly join the evangelic church. Welcome to the evangelical church. Bob. But Emeritus, says Latham forever. Anyway, guys, thank you so much. I really appreciate that you made it so amazing Monday. Let’s get it started. Final motivation from from the Fed. Let’s see if I can get the sound man and the sound in this. Yeah. Let’s go, guys. Monday, motivation fund. Wait, wait, wait. You don’t see. You don’t see it. Let’s go, let’s go. Yes, yes, yes. That was the sound. I don’t know why it didn’t work. I don’t know why it didn’t work in the beginning. But that is basically the motivation for Gerald Fowler. Yes, yes, yes. Monday, guys, I see old tomorrow, 8:00 p.m. Central European Time. Have a good day and goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. This.

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BITCOIN TO ZERO OR $1000000!!! Chamath Palihapitiya Day of Reckoning

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And we’re alive, yes. Welcome to another episode of Good Morning Krypton. Here on Ivan Ontake, we are, of course, broadcasting life straight out of Stockholm, Sweden. And we do the show each and every day at 8 a.m. Central on Summerton. Yes, I come to like an atomic clock each and every day. Look, we have so much to discuss. Bitcoin breaking seven K. Also, we have this binary situation in Bitcoin. Either become super successful or it doesn’t become successful and it will be easy for governments to pursue it and to really try to take it down. So we’re going to have both bullish and bearish perspectives on the matter, because I think it’s very important that we covered the interest from Shamas, Bill IP Diop, Bill Uppity, sorry for butchering the name, but you know, this guy is one of the people who started Facebook. Since then, he has left this whole Facebook community and really started to work against them and saying how bad and how hurtful Facebook has become compared to original days. And now he is working a lot with technology. He is early bitcoin investor. And he basically has this idea that he either will go to a million or we go nowhere. And it’s so important to discuss because, look, the grandiosity of our plants are very big. The grandiosity over plants are huge. And we have to realize that that either we are successful or we’re not successful at all. There is no middle ground with Bitcoin, really, if you think about it, there is no middle ground. And many of you who are watching right now on islands don’t think that’s gone. Fleshlight Noel Redzepi, why it’s blagged, but because we couldn’t get the screens working. I told the guys here on I don’t think that Fleshlight is got to be saurus or rush out or something. They’re trying to mess with our stream. But you know what? It is Monday and nobody messes up my Mundus, not even the powers from from the establishment. And then all this creates I don’t have to fix them. Now, we do have some Mundie motivation from the Fed. And that’s the best thing about crypto in the bout and about the Internet. You have so many means, you have so amazing many Meemaw’s and many of them are so funny. So let me see if I can play to you. This basically fed pumping like crazy and the Powerwall is pumped. Obviously he’s pumped for action. And the. When I saw this, it will so find it. It’s also funny because it’s true. Whenever we have a new day, whenever we have a new a new week, we will see more action from the Fed and the look. If you watch this video, you’ll also also get the sound. I don’t want to use the sounds here, but there’s like Hardrock when he does it. And look, what’s important right now is to look at the bullish situation. We are very bullish right now. We are pushing 7 K, we are establishing quite well above it. And, you know, the 7 K has been this area of resistance. And if we can just establish ourselves above it, we might have a clear path to 8-K and above Bob. After that, I want to cover an important report about institutional adoption of crypto. Basically how Group 2 is right now performing in terms of institutional investors and wealth managers. And it’s very big and very important because we are growing a lot and at the same time we’re still so early. So there’s a lot of upside potential. Finally, I want to talk about Mr. Krystof. You know, many of you know him already. He’s extremely bearish on Bitcoin lately. I want to talk about it. He’s basically saying that, hey, just like Swiss bank accounts were shut down by the US and the Swiss bank account today, you know, is not the Swiss bank account. You add just that 10 years ago before the financial crisis, they changed a lot. How the Swiss bank accounts work because they had to comply with U.S. regulations. So we’re going to discuss this argument. That’s the same thing is going to happen to crypto. So Mr. Clifftop says it a lot and I keep reading his Twitter, so I want to comment on that. After that, we’re going to talk about maker Dow. We’re going to discuss some Fiat, programmable fiat, because you know that we have a lot of initiatives from all kinds of countries when it comes to building digital cash. And it has both to do with just national currency, but also just programmable fiat in terms of all for you not being able to do everything you want with the money. So, for example, if you have insurance and you get paid from insurance, they want to know that you’re not going to spend money on something else, that you’re actually going to go and buy a new car if the car crashed or whatever. Or if you get welfare, they want to know that you don’t go and buy something not useful with it. You buy food. Now, obviously, it becomes very totalitarian very quickly and we’re going to discuss it. So we have a few projects here I want to highlight to you in regards to this programmable fiat space. And basically governments trying to create money that they can program and they can really, really control. But that means, I guess, welcome everyone who is watching this. Like, how are you all doing? Welcome, everyone, on Idol Datacom Slash live. If you are watching on YouTube, you have already missed the livestream. We’re only we’re only left Schmoo. And I don’t take dot com slash live. Why? Because we’re taking this matter matter into our own hands. We’re not being some kind of vassals to some kind of platform. We’re only livestreaming. Here you have to go to Armenta dot com slash line right now. Subscribe. Their enablers enable delegate implications. If you’re watching here already. Just do it, dude. Right now, everything that I just told you. And welcome everyone in the chat. I see group to Yoda. Bernard Lee her fall as Latin forever. Krypto Vader. Guys, how are you doing, Michael? Gulp. Welcome, welcome, welcome, man. So amazing to see the chat. Really. The chat is amazingly, amazingly active today and that is exactly how it should be. What’s important right now is that we’re close to the having. Look, the whole situation with us jumping one order of magnitude with each hubbing can not be ignored, just like Plan B says. So Bitcoin has been oscillating about stock to flow value of seven thousand dollars for 2.5 years. SNAP. Now we’ve been around 7.5. Even when we went to 20K, you know, that stopped the flow really had a target of seven K. So we really overextended in 2017 18 we went to 20K. You remember that? And obviously we pulled back and now we been also seeing around 7 K for two and a half years. And just like before 2016 hubbing we were at three three hundred dollars just and before that we’re at six dollars. So as you can see, usually we jump one or two orders of magnitude from six to three hundred and and now from three hundred to seven thousand. So as you can see here, we basically did them and we add that that we went from once to hundreds like from single digit to hundreds, they would from hundreds to thousands. And probably this time around we’re going to tens of thousands. We’re doing another order of magnitude. And look at the end that we’ve got to have the end goal. And the end goal is that Bitcoin is significant part of the entire financial ecosystem and macro economics and everything in the world needs to have some kind of new reserve world currency like we discussed yesterday. All of this empires come and go. There is a world reserve currencies come and go. But but, but but what’s different right now is that we do have a united world in terms of commerce. We all want to trade with each other. It’s very frustrating when you have a currency that simply bans the full country because of sanctions or whatever is very frustrating for you as a merchant. I mean, why if you have a good that you want to buy, but you happen to be bored. You happen to be born in a country that is severely under sanctions. We cannot do business. And obviously the current currencies are being used for all kinds of political reasons. And therefore, the world needs a neutral, apolitical, a political mandate. And that’s going to be bitcoin or or we’re going to have the same issues we have today. We’re going to have the same problems. This Fiat experiment we’ve been handling for the past decades is coming to an then. And just like we’re speaking on by bit, we’re pushing seven thousand one hundred. So it’s doing extremely well today. Bitcoin now looking at the coin GEKO Web, the following situation right now we have bitcoin at seven thousand nine dollars on there by bit. We’re almost at seven thousand one hundred dollars. So as you can see, is being extremely, extremely bullish when it comes to future platforms and derivatives. While if you take average spot, we’re still just above seven K now. At the other top ten cryptocurrencies, we have the phone situation, a theorem, 0.8 percent up SRP zero point nine at Bitcoin, Casula point eight. So all in all, quite upwards. Quite amazing market, but nothing dramatic yet. We might see dramatic we might see dramatic moves once once this resistance really gets crushed and resistance is around seven K, but even though we’re above it, we need to close guys. We need to close the day above it. We’ve to establish ourselves. We need to basically signal to the market that, hey, 7:53 is in the bad guys. It’s in the bag and we’re ready to go higher. And if you’re chasing this, you can use by bit. So if you go and you check the link below, you will find bybee’s. If you’re watching on YouTube, you will see best crypto deals or best deals link. So click there. You’ll get there by bit link and you get free margins when you start there. And also you will find remix, remix and Vibert are very similar. But on Fenwick’s you can do gold, Lt.-Col and dazzles tracing and link trading. But on bybee’s you have more volume and you have more liquidity. So look, you got to have both at the end of the day because it’s good to diversify. So the advantage here is you get more coins and more assets. Advantage here is that you get more liquidity, but it’s good to try both. Now, once you start speaking sorry, once you start realizing the significance of the financial control that you and they are all being living under him, you simply go quickly to Bitcoin. I saw this news. I’m sure many of you have seen this. I’m sure many of you have seen this guy pleasant. GREENE A big YouTuber was talking about how Western Union banned him for life. So he was having a business working with Western Union. And just imagine this. This frustrates me the most. The fact that you have this unproductive business in old business, they have this unproductive pieces, pieces of old business. Don’t really do a lot. It is the payment providers. It is the payment processors that really are just shifting bits in their database. I mean, obviously the whole issue is that they do have their platforms built on outdated dinosaur infrastructure where they have to integrate with the banks. They have to have permission. They have to have all of these connections to even get started. Do you think if you sit at home in your underwear, in your living room, in your bedroom, do you think you can start the new PayPal or the new stripe, even if you’re the greatest programmer? You have the greatest programming experience and team. You won’t be able to do it. But but if you’re sitting in your underwear, you can start. Most of the businesses you could have started Google, you could have started Facebook, because it’s all about just building a product that works well here in the financial space. It’s a cartel. It’s a closed club. So there is no way to even enter it. All right. So that is the issue. You have this unproductive chains in the value chain, in the production chain. There are just taking out a percentage to rent seekers, by the way. So and it’s coming to mainstream now. People are getting tired. Do you think this guy would even speak about Bitcoin if he wasn’t banned from Western Union? No. And he mentioned bitcoin that bitcoin could be a good solution for his business. So at the end of the day, we are moving towards the situation where more and more people start to question. I mean, guys, do we even need all of you? You ban me. You are taking huge fees. Like many of them do, enormous fees. And so why do we need them? The issue is, of course, the situation with the with the customers. The customers are not really using Bitcoin yet. So does the issue for merchants. They’re not only forced to use all of these service providers because they are they are forced to to use the old banking infrastructure. They could use crypto. But it’s just that the customer the customer is not there yet. The customer is not there yet. Guys, we’re pushing 7.1. I seen the chat chat going. While you mind seeing that we’re pumping, we are doing that towards 7.1. Now let’s talk about Shamas. Sharma. Byerly. Happy to man. My amazing name. Amazing. Is it Indian or Pakistan or what is this, guys, if you know about this culture. Let me know in the comment section, in the chat. What kind of name is that? But Shamas Bilin Hoppity is a billionaire, right? He was one of the founders early employees in Facebook. He was one of the most important people in the early days of Facebook. And since then, he has shifted completely. You know, if you haven’t seen all of these videos where he talks about how social media is destroying us, destroying our lives, you should check it out. He has a very, very important video that people have made. Basically, they took different interviews from him and they they’ve created this video. And by the way, guys, in the chat, if you find that LinkedIn chat, I will share it on the screen. And if you all right now in the chat can find it. And right now, he’s also very heavy in Bitcoin. He has heavy bags. And his bags have been performing quite well because he bought at $80 and basically said that at one point he controlled five percent of Bitcoin supply. So we’ll see if that’s true or not. But all in all, he was on Pompe interview. All right. He was talking about the situation with Bitcoin and how we either go to 1 million or we don’t go anywhere. We either are successful. And success in our case means that we are truly, truly global. We are a reserve currency. We’re used as this neutral, apolitical power in the space or or probably if we’re gonna struggle a lot and we’re going to struggle a lot both when it comes to adoption. But when it comes to regulation, you know, it’s very easy to shut down something that is not successful. Imagine the Internet. Imagine how it is to shut down the Internet today. Impossible. People love the Internet. They use it every day. So success and wild, wild mass adoption is the only protection against the government intervention and against somebody tyrannically trying to ban your Netsch does the only prevention. Now, if you have a technology that gives people power, but it’s not really getting up to speed, it’s not really getting big. Then this, of course, very easy to shut down. So that’s kind of the way for bitcoin. Either we become big or or just like Mr. Kristoff says, like we’re going to discuss later on, this video is gonna be like with Swiss bank accounts that they’re going to try to do their best to shut them. But hey, Lizzie, let’s discuss it when we come to that topic. Now, what’s important is that he talked Shamas talked about the fact that we’re driving slowly, but we are driving towards a cliff and this cliff is inevitable. And obviously, he’s speaking about the monetary madness that has been going on right now for the past decades, if even since Nixon. Basically, this whole man has started with Nixon, removed the connection to gold and ended the Bretton Woods. So we’ve been driving slowly but surely towards this cliff, also known as day of reckoning. Really? That’s why I have it in the title at the end. Going to have a day of reckoning in the financial system. And then we’re going to drive much, much faster down that cliff or down that hill and at the end if we’re going to have a huge brick wall. So when you see all of this trillions being printed out of thin air, out of nowhere, we are driving down the hill. And the question is, when is that brick wall gonna come? And the really it’s a question that nobody can answer. If you don’t look at this close to, there is no way to re predicted. But you can look long term. You can predict long term, short term, who knows whether it’s going to be tomorrow or in a week or in a month. But long term, it’s inevitable if you really study it. For example, if you watch the channel, you know already a lot about what’s going on in the financial system. We’ve covering all kinds of topics every day. So that’s you guys. That’s very, very key. And so the path dependence for Bitcoin is if it looks like the basement is likely. So that’s the currency, the basement of dollar. It will really emerge as a flight to safety. And here he basically says this title, the title of this video that, look, it’s either zero or it’s millions. That’s where we’re going. And that’s what’s important to note, is that the chance of bitcoin succeeding has increased dramatically during the past weeks. So let him, by the way, zoom in on my face now that we are in the darkness, now that we have the screens completely destroyed by an unknown power. We’re going to do like this. So it’s a bit more intimate. So it’s a bit more direct. So it’s a bit more. More like this. OK. Yes. So you understand the following that with the everything that has happened during the past few weeks, we’ve seen an unprecedented increase in the success of Bitcoin in the potential of Bitcoin succeeding. So basically said in the article that that probability went maybe from 1 percent to now 5 to 10 percent. Can you imagine basically a ten x increase in probability of bitcoin succeeding because we didn’t really know how far we would go and how fast in terms of monetary policy and in terms of money printing. So that is exactly what’s happening. I see people in the chat saying that I have a halo. Yanga. So welcome to the evangelical church. Welcome to the evangelic church everywhere. That’s true. That’s true. Right, right. Right. So look, one digital currency is deemed safe by government. Bitcoin will move this shil book, Chiluba. That’s that’s for sure. That’s for sure. And it’s going to happen. The small countries, guys, the small central banks. They see the situation with the US dollar. They’re not liking it. They’re absolutely not liking it. And they see their opportunity, just like we discussed why the central banks will fall into Bitcoin. It’s just a question of time. They will formally in. To Bitcoin. You know why? Because they will see their opportunism. And at the end of the day, we will be having a game of musical chairs. It’s all about musical chairs. You don’t want to be the kid without a chair. It’s really some of the most traumatic memories many people have from childhood. You know, you’re playing this game of chairs and chairs are running out. There’s always one guy without a chair. You know, that you don’t want to be that guy. You’re trying to grab a chair as fast as you can. But it’s a good life lesson for the central banks because, look, once you have 1st central bank, it’s gonna be a small one is gonna be like Bermuda or some of the small ones. They get adopted first. They gonna move towards Bitcoin being in the reserves first. Why? Because they have nothing to lose. Look, they’re not incumbents. They’re not established. They’re not one of these banks that has already a lot of success. And they the guys like ECB, the Fed, they have most to lose while the smaller guys have most to win. So they will be the first one. And that is when dominos will start to fall. Then you have other banks like Bank of Japan also considering, hey, maybe we should buy a bit before the price goes up even more. And then it becomes who is the last guy, who is the last guy to get into bitcoin as a central bank? And there you have the musical chairs because the guy at the end, he will not get the chair. He will be buying bitcoin so high it will simply be impossible for him to get any kind of influence in the world with with that central bank. So, look, we are changing. We are changing the way manual works. We’re changing the way finance works. And it is inevitable. Yes, it’s inevitable. So I hope you understand now the reason why I have Bitcoin to 0 or a million is because, look, if we are here at 5 K still in 5 to 10 years, I think it’s gonna be easier, is going to be way easier for governments to take action because obviously they don’t want bitcoin. Obviously they don’t. There’s no way to shut down bitcoin, but it’s very, very possible to make it this weird thing that nobody wants to touch. And that’s so important that we really spread the education right now. And what’s good is that people are getting interested. We are in a very good trajectory and even big institutional investors are very interested in bitcoin. And that’s the next topic. Guess we’ll be talking about the institutional adoption of digital assets trading report. All right. That’s going to be the next thing. And how are you guys doing in the chat? Let me hydrate. Man, I need to call the screen guys so they can take a look. I need to call the screen guys. All right. All right. All right. You know, these screens, usually it’s like the screens on the airport. So I have to call the airport guys that do the screens for the airport to go in and fix it in the studio. For some reason, the first it seems like like the first screen that’s getting the signal is not getting it. I don’t know. Yes. They have been serving well for over two years. So that’s something I wish they lasted a bit longer. But look, what we’re seeing right now is the situation with Bitcoin being a digital asset that many serious traders look at and wealth managers. Thank you. Thank you so much for the compliment. Edward, nice haircut. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So what basically we have right here is a serving a research done by seeing me and Bitstamp and released this equity management intelligence that did it. But they did it inclination with some NCM me where they looked at what investors want. What is the state of institutional investing in Bitcoin? How is it going and what is the progress? Now, this is very important. I’m going to just talk about the important things. This is the most important thing in regards to to this research, and that is that there is a demand for bitcoin exposure, but there is not a lot of opportunities. So as you can see, you have Europe, North America and the AP Apex or Asia Pacific. Now, what’s important is that on this screen right now, we’re seeing adoption rate demand to broaden digital assets, scope and adoption rate relative to the demand. So basically the purple chart is how much there is demand to be exposed to Bitcoin as a wealth manager, as a serious investor. Now, the yellow line right here is the orange one. Is it how much you can actually do it? What kind of possibilities you have? And you see that in Europe, the demand is much larger than the possibility. Basically, there is so much more demand to invest than the industry can offer and open up in North America. The same thing. And in Asia, the same thing. So it’s very clear that there is more demand than we even have infrastructure to to handle right now. At the same time, you do have a lot of fears, a lot of concerns as well that still aren’t cleared. So number one concern for international investors is it is about security and the cost is the fact that you can be hacked. The fact that your custody might not be as safe as you think. And custody is a particular concern. And you can see this chart right here basically showing you all of the different concerns in this chart right here. Security of the exchange being the biggest one. Then you have counterparty risk with the exchange. If the exit scam or something happens or they get hacked, then concerns over custody. Basically the same thing, concerns over AML, KYC, not that big. By the way, concerns over a million ways it is there, but not that big. And finally, fear of reputational damage also. I mean, what kind of reputational damage? If anything, you will get reputation. You will lose reputation if you are too ignorant to even try. Bitcoin. That’s where you lose reputation because your clients, the clients that you’re managing the funds for, they’re going to come to you and ask, how the hell did you miss? Ninety nine million percent interest. I trust you with the money. What am I paying for? Nine million percent in bitcoin. And we missed it and we missed that asset. And I’m here with the stocks that have fallen 30 percent in the past month. And you didn’t take my money out of the stocks. And also you didn’t buy Bitcoin, which went up 9 million percent. That is how the customers are going to speak to their wealth managers. So it’s only it’s only one way forward for all of this wealth managers. It is to get exposed to bitcoin as soon as possible. And look, many of them are thinking in those in those patterns, of course. So here’s another chart, basically summarizing all of the different concerns. What’s important is also to ask yourself, what is the number one thing for all of these investors when they’re looking for a platform, when they’re looking for a platform to trade and to invest? Well, it’s not user experience. They actually care about that. They care about. Number one, liquidity. Number two, integrity and security, ease of connectivity. So that you don’t have to call to the traders. You can do everything in computer, for example. You don’t have issues with placing orders and so on, so forth. Thestructure, very important speed and performance. And then only then do you have user interface and user experience. So it’s not that important. The most important thing is obvious liquidity. So that is why you have Betamax. One of the ugliest exchanges on the market still being used a lot, even though they’re not very ethical in how they handle the situation to to to big extent. And even though they have not very precy why they have liquidity, that is basically the only thing they have right now. So they also listed the different exchanges like Bynum’s bith makes Bitstamp. What kind of exchanges are are people interested in? A bit makes. By the way, one of the hires because they have so much liquidity. So you see it’s still the liquidity is number one. You got liquidity. And the same is, of course, for digital assets. When you’re trading an asset, you want liquidity, but you also want volatility. You want to beat the volatility as well. So, guys, this is basically the report. And to conclude, I want to say this. I want to say this. We have a lot of opportunities and we still haven’t even started. So our survey suggests that the digital assets market is on the top of the cusp of significant growth. All right. From traditional trading firms, look, we’re still just on the cusp. On the cusp. Current adoption rates are relatively low, still low. People are interested. And 97 percent of all of the wealth managers that participated that are still not in crypto, they will reconsider within the next two years when they have better cars to do, when they feel more safe, they will reconsider. And 45 are planning to revisit the idea in six month or less. So, look, when they start when they come, it’s also going to be musical chairs. Really, Bitcoin is the perfect analogy for all of this musical chairs, because as soon as one of them gets into bitcoin, you see other all other Wolf managers, they all speak to each other. It’s a close community. They’re all networking. So you see a guy getting into Bitcoin. Another guy gets formal. He also gets into Bitcoin. It’s like this is this is usually invest in whatever startup, in whatever venture there is a friend invested in. They get formal. They get formal. Look, if you get formal, you haven’t seen the v.c formal yet, just like this. By the way, forward into old coins in 2017. But that was more Asia. That was more eastern. This is here. We’re talking about western and eastern like everyone. So you’ve got to understand, whenever they start, it’s going to be a very big inflow is gonna be a very big inflow because it’s once again game of musical chairs all over again. All right. So that was the second topic. We are on fire. For some reason, this screen issue gave me so much motivation to do this, a show with even more with even more intense energy. Man, it feels good. It feels good. It’s like I don’t like one little look. I wake up. I have my script. I have everything for bread. Then some kind of like small detail is not working like the screens. So like I saw it look, should we will have the screens for some reason. It looks kind of good with black as well. But yeah, they are here so we should fix them. But let me know how it is with only black. Basically black mold you get dark. Mold gets exactly like I like I saw you guys writing in the beginning. This is dark mold for good morning Krypto. Oleg’s as he means the screen. I know, man. I miss the screen, too. I mean, this green screen. No, no, no. Not green screen. Not green screen. I need this to do to feel premium. Look, I come here every day. I cannot come to a green screen that it looks like some kind of, you know, some kind of garage or something, some kind of basement. In this to be nice, to do nice screens. So that’s why I’m not doing green screen. I have done green screen in the past. I’ve tried. But it’s just that look, it’s I don’t feel like a professional when doing that. I need to feel like a professional. All right. Moving on, guys. Moving on. We’re talking about Mr. Kristo. Big shout out to Mr. Cristol, by the way. Go subscribe to his channel. I would like I would like to talk about his concerns about Bitcoin being regulated. And he’s very bearish. Look, if you read his Twitter, it’s very bearish. We’re gonna not really perform well, according to him in these times, especially because the government is gonna come after Bitcoin. So he’s saying that you guys remember that they tweeted a post a few days ago where I said governments will come after Bitcoin like they did with Swiss bank accounts, with Swiss bank accounts. And that’s happening right now as well. He’s saying because we saw this lawsuit yesterday that we covered on this screen. Look, have covered on this on the show. What’s. I’m thinking too much about the broken screens on the show. We covered this lawsuit yesterday. And he is basically saying that, hey, look, they’re gonna come. It’s a question of time. Elik, largely, largely. I do think that there is not a gun that can begin to regulate the gun to regulate like crazy because look at India and India. They tried to ban the central bank, tried to ban it. All right. And so when they did, what happened was that the Supreme Court stepped in and said that this is not OK. Look, this is a liberatory. You’re breaking liberties so you cannot ban bitcoin. But they can try of course, try to regulate it like crazy. Like crazy. So that’s what probably will happen if and only if we don’t have massive, absolutely massive success until 2030. That is basically the deadline that I set until 2030, because it’s like with all other tech there is disruptive that is making the establishment a bit uncomfortable. It’s way easier to shut down something small, something that has just a few users. And you can also say that they’re using it for illegal activities. It’s easier to sell the ban to the general population and therefore you have a limit on the amount of time to make this bigger, to make this worldwide. The good thing is that the guys over in the traditional financial industry, they’re helping us. They’re helping us the most. Themselves, by the way, the malls themselves. Because I think when you see stuff like this, like smart money and this is a project by its year to every and look, basically this is for insurance for insurance use case. I’m going to show it to you here. And they’re wanting to create Fiat. Fiat that is programmable in the way that when you receive a payment, for example, whether it is an insurance claim or whether it is that you receive welfare from the government, they want to be able to program it and say, for example, you cannot spend this money on anything except except food and the rent because you are on welfare. So you’re getting a welfare check. We want to ensure that you don’t go out and buy like, I don’t know, like some kind of leisure. You don’t go into vacation with that money. So when so when that happens, you will see people really feeling that Hema is digital payments. How can they do digital payments without without having all of this mess? And does Bitcoin? So does Bitcoin. That is open cryptocurrencies. Now we have another important, important development from the EU with European blockchain, the serious infrastructure also. Look, there are few use cases they really like. One of these cases is digital cash. Another use case is, of course, this whole programmable money for insurance or for welfare and for taxation, obviously, automatic taxation. And the third one is that that is the first one. That is the first one. Digital casualty program, welfare. And the second one is identity. So when it comes to identity, there is this project, Finzi, that seems to be focusing more on identity and that it is basically starting in Finland and began to have the financial sector and the industry sector altogether coming together and running a hyper ledger network. So know this permission based networks like hyper ledger, they can run their own their own permission ledger on which they going to try to launch this project with decentralized identities so that they instead of having your passport and your identity, just being in your passport is also on the blockchain. It’s also like everywhere else. And if you go to a hospital and you don’t live in the country where you have that hospital, they will still get all of your information because you have that identity. So they will be able to fetch that information associated with you from other from other hospitals, like, for example, for example, you get the point, basically. Sovereign identity, decentralized identity. So, look, gets a lot of things are happening. I’m going to pay more attention to everything that is going to be going on in this traditional space. Why? Because honestly, I didn’t think they would have so much going on. I did not think they would have so much. But lately, I’ve been speaking a lot with the corporate side. You know that one of our alumni is in our academy is the head of blockchain at Ericsson. So he gave us a lot of insight in about what they are doing and what they are working with. And they are working a lot with both open but also permission based blockchains. And so I’ve been speaking a lot with that side. And look, it’s more than you can expect. Obviously, it has nothing to do with the type of crypto and blockchain where we’re speaking about normally. But it’s important to keep an eye on. It’s important to keep announced the as head of blockchain at Ericsson, a multi billion multinational company. Our our academy is Leweni. You took the business master class and really, really became successful in the corporate world. And look, it’s our three is hyper ledger and ar3 core. They’re very big. And also you have all of discussed them all discussed. And projects like Finzi running on top of hyper ledger and or like smart money, which is kind of its own. It’s not necessarily that they’re eating even using blockchain. And all of this is still in the research phase and all of this is still super early. So we’re going to see exactly what comes out of this. But what’s important is that we do see McKinsey estimating that it’s going to be until 2023 that all of this corporate projects really start showing something that really go from idea to implementation and and the adoption in the traditional corporate space. So we’re going to keep an eye on delegates. It’s important. It’s important because, look, there are also opportunities there. If, you know, crypto and many of you guys, of course, want to go full time crypto. And this is kind of on the border, what is crypto and what is not crypto. But there are many opportunities. Look, it’s a multi, multi billion dollar industry just educating all of the corporates about about what it is and how it works. Now, it’s a hundreds, hundreds of billion dollar industry when it comes to the implementation space. But obviously, you got to ask the ethical question. I mean, what kind of future you want to see. So at the end of the day, what’s important is to focus to solve this, to solve this with open, permissionless and end global cryptocurrencies. So that’s key. Yes, that’s absolutely, absolutely mega key in our current environment. So I guess that is how that is. That was the topics I wanted to cover today. Also, we have another one, the bolt maker, which is also quite important, and the maker, Dow Foundation, basically want to remove themselves from the equation. On Thursday, they had this call where they discussed how is going to be. And the fact that they have different plans. So Plank one is that they’re going to have elected better paid contributors and they then make the improvement proposals. And all of this basically needs to remove the Maker Foundation from the equation. They basically don’t want to play a central part in the maker and die ecosystem. Why? Because we have a lot we have a lot to do in terms of decentralization. Make it that ecosystem could be even more decentralized if we remove if we remove the foundation. And also, I think it’s very good and very nice for the members of Microdot Foundation, because, look, they don’t need to be under pressure. They don’t have to be under pressure because they’re kind of the head of this big successful project. Like, for example, room Roon Christensen, I think is your vision or something room. Christensen I mean, obviously, he doesn’t want to be the face of all for this whole digital, digital, global, stable, quiet revolution without any central entity. So that’s why that’s why I think look, guys, I’m going to throw a quick text and I’m going to tell the guys who did the screens to to come as soon as possible. I want to do it right now because it’s 9 a.m. in Sweden. And I want just to make it fixed very, very quickly. And then we’re gonna do Q&A. So just give me a minute. To go do some push ups, guys. Got a five, five minute, 15 minute, five second push up. Let me just sit. Man, we’re going to get that fixed. Doo doo doo doo doo. Bird, OK. brotton. Perfect. All done, all done. Yes, let’s do it. We have the chat. What are you guys doing? Let me try one thing. I don’t want to mess up too much, but I’m just gonna do it as as an experiment to shut it on and shut it off again. So, yeah, I have the screen here. Yeah, it’s. Is it working? Not yet, anyway. Let’s do the Q&A. Yes, let’s work on that. How are you guys doing in the chat? It’s midnight here. Can you do push up to. Yeah, you can do tomorrow as long as you the bishop. It’s OK. You can do it tomorrow. Questionable statement. Be very, very careful. Careful. Taking the next step forward. We’re on the edge of a cliff. Well, I don’t know if you’re speaking about the current situation with with with the car driving down the cliff and the fact that we have a brick wall somewhere there down the cliff. But yes. Be very careful, guys. Decentralized, autonomous organization. Yes. That is the Dow. That is the day, though. What would you call the oral topic before you talked about maker Dow? Man, I don’t know, Nate. So what topic we talked about make Dow. And before that, we talked about the the Fiat, the programmable Fiat. You can call it programmable fiat. A corset. So nice. Thank you so much for doing this timestamps, by the way. And guys, if you wanted to timestamps, please check the link below. If you’re watching an amateur at the com slash live. You find this link to join timestamp group. So we’re gonna organize this a bit better in the group. Let’s see. I’m getting a beer belly again. Should go running around Fabricio. Is the lockdown on lockdown? It’s very difficult to not get a bit overweight. I can tell you that. But it’s important to work out. That’s what I’m telling you to do. Some pushups on mining. Ivan, you think it’s always interesting in 2020? Is it okay or too late? Well, it’s all about what you might get. You guys don’t only mind bitcoin. Go to what? To mine dot com and figure out what you should be mining. And you can input basically your configuration of mining and then you will get the different like coins you can mine then. Yeah, it’s it’s important. And you can input your your electricity and everything. But look, it’s a very small margin business. It’s not really it’s not really a quick return. You got to also be believing in the future of crypto. And the price appreciating in the future, if you don’t believe if you just want to mine and dump instantly, it’s not going to work out for you very well. Because in that sense, you understand that the market for mining is so efficient because it’s so easy. You literally plug it machine into the outlet and you start mining. So it becomes very, very professional very quickly. So you got to be investing a lot and there are many people also investing a lot. And there are all these smart merchants. People are trying to push the margin. They have a bit better infrastructure, a bit cheaper, cheaper electricity. But look, mining is a business with very small margins. And so whatever coin you pick, by the way. So the only thing you have is the price appreciation in the future. If you want to have like big rewards, it’s only if you believe that the prices are going to go up. And that’s the only way it makes sense to mine. That is why miners are mining at a loss. In many cases, they’re mining on credit. They’re mining on loans. Why? Because they believe in the future. And that’s why the hash power doesn’t go through the floor. When we have a bear market, then the and the prices go down, prices, hashrate still go up because we have better machines with better equipment, we have better A-6. That’s one. But also that the miners are just the for the future. They’re not really dumping a lot. So, yeah. Did you watch Pompe interviewing season? I didn’t. Not not lately. I think maybe in the past. Oh, man. Let’s see if the guys have answered. Oh, yes, they can. Yes, yes. Man, they can come quickly. That’s a good man. The screens. Oh, what’s up with the timestamps, Nikola? Well, we’re doing timestamps. That’s when people watch on YouTube. They can click around. Do you have non-native students who have joined your academy and become a blockchain manager? Yes, we do have nonnative students, for example. Look in our testimonials. Go check Asymptote out here that come and look, for example, of this video about Juleanna. He had not progams, she had no progam experience, joined the academy and now works full time as blockchain developer. So you can watch this full video, how you’re adding blockchain. Blockchain was very new. There was a lot of fundamentals because by the time I. Anyway. Anyway, you can watch the full video, go to kazimir down to the com. Also watch this one. I mean, this one is really a true sign of the success of our academy. I mean, we’re so proud for Joumanah. He works as the head of blockchain in the multibillion dollar Swedish corporation. Ericsson man. I mean, this is this is amazing. This is what we work for. My name is and Francesa and I belong to Ericsson. And I have the pleasure to lead the blockchain forward. For example, you know, when I started in anyway, say you can check yourself. Look, it’s a lot. It’s a lot. A global citizen. Ivan, what is hash bar? Look. Good question. Is the fundamental. Good question. Hash power is how fast we tried to guess the next block collectively. So look, when you’re minding, you’re basically guessing random numbers and you’re hashing that random number with the contents of the block you’re trying to put into the blockchain. All right. So what does this mean, hashing? It means that you run an algorithm that produces a unique fingerprint for that particular block together with the random number. So you need the unique fingerprint for this data collectively. Now, the network has certain rules that you to guess until you get a certain number or a certain fingerprint below below the threshold of difficulty. Now it’s getting a bit technical. You go to Kazimierz, that commu will learn the way better. But I explained to nontheless. So. So you understand that the only way to mine the block is to guess a bunch of numbers. And then each time you get a number, run this hashing algorithm that will produce a unique fingerprint. Until that fingerprint is low enough. That fingerprint is a number. It needs to be below a certain threshold. The only way to get it below a certain threshold is to just guess and run the algorithm again and again. There is no way to predict. There is no way to predict what kind of random number or the so-called nonce, like Vassily says, what it needs to be. You can only guess so. Each such guess and each such run of the algorithm hashing algorithm is basically a you run the hash. So you run their hash. Now hash rate is how many of this guesses we can do collectively as the network, like all deminers, everyone. How many guesses we can do per second. So that is that is hashrate. And look, it’s so big. I don’t even remember like what kind of fight you measure meant to do this. One hundred and thirty six quantrill and hashes per second. So this was in March like the second. So it’s not like the the latest ListString the late. So look we’re talking about quintillion s of these guesses and you understand that’s per second. That’s per second. All right. So you know that it takes six hundred seconds on average to produce the next block to produce because it’s ten minutes. We have ten mean blocks block time, man. Why is it not working? So this basically means that if you have the accurate is like it’s it’s around that number is around that number that we saw on Google. So it’s a what is it. One hundred and thirty six quintillion. That’s per second. Now you’re going to take one hundred and thirty six quintillion times. Times six hundred to get the average amount of guesses needed to to mine the bitcoin block. So it’s one hundred and thirty six quintillion. That’s the hash rate per second times six hundred seconds for ten minutes. And then you get the number of guesses need that the number of times we throw around short-run fifty six to guess the next bitcoin block to get that into the blusher. Nate please email contact that. I will take this call. Thank you so much. Truly appreciate you. I truly, truly appreciate you. OK. I guess that does it. That’s it. Quentin not Quantic. Quintillion. Quintillion. Thanks. Thanks. Are you planning to introduce economic or financial classes? Yes. That’s the next Caesar. Does the next thing we basically need to create the course that explains to Bitcoin from the perspective of the Bitcoin standard. So that’s that’s that’s a very important jimmying. That’s when Superjet, too. Man, I hope tomorrow. We’re so close. If you’ve visited the space yesterday, you already saw that we have it working like it’s working, but it’s still baijiu. But if you’ve visited like during yesterday in the evening, you saw that we had like Super Chesil read it, but it’s so close. Can you see a screen actually are on there just showing off exactly the full moon they’re on and we see a full moon. Ivan needs an economist. Well, we don’t. We need to do a course. Michael teaches a course on the Bitcoin standard, basically, and we need to produce it because it’s a very important course to get people into the mindset of the financials of Bitcoin where you’ll be able to do crypto showboat. Yes. And from the beginning. No, but Ververs soon. Yes. We have everything. It will. You gonna you gonna have like if you gonna have Tron, you gonna have look at enough. We’re gonna have bitcoin because then we’re going to have with zero confirmation or we’re going to have lightning. But man it’s easier with if we’re going to do if the first. Maybe we will do Tron. I don’t know, maybe if Justin some wants a stake in our chat he can purchase and we can do trump payments. I’m joking. I’m joking. Thanks, Ivan. You are the pope is the halo is the hill. Look, you’ve got to find some positivity in the in the situation of the screens going bananas and they are bananas. But I don’t. That’s the good thing, is that the airport screening guests are coming. Okay, guys, thank you so much. Thank you so much for being here yet again. Guys, if you’re watching this on YouTube. I don’t know what you’re doing. I don’t know what you’re doing, to be honest, because you got to go to. I don’t know that com slash line. You’ve got to subscribe right there. You see read subscribe button. You see ellerson. They bolt. You’ve got to press alerts. You’ve got to press stations for telegram. And when you’ve done that, then you truly join the evangelic church. Welcome to the evangelical church. Bob. But Emeritus, says Latham forever. Anyway, guys, thank you so much. I really appreciate that you made it so amazing Monday. Let’s get it started. Final motivation from from the Fed. Let’s see if I can get the sound man and the sound in this. Yeah. Let’s go, guys. Monday, motivation fund. Wait, wait, wait. You don’t see. You don’t see it. Let’s go, let’s go. Yes, yes, yes. That was the sound. I don’t know why it didn’t work. I don’t know why it didn’t work in the beginning. But that is basically the motivation for Gerald Fowler. Yes, yes, yes. Monday, guys, I see old tomorrow, 8:00 p.m. Central European Time. Have a good day and goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. This.

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BITCOIN TO ZERO OR $1,000,000!!! Chamath Palihapitiya, Day of Reckoning

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And we’re alive, yes. Welcome to another episode of Good Morning Krypton. Here on Ivan Ontake, we are, of course, broadcasting life straight out of Stockholm, Sweden. And we do the show each and every day at 8 a.m. Central on Summerton. Yes, I come to like an atomic clock each and every day. Look, we have so much to discuss. Bitcoin breaking seven K. Also, we have this binary situation in Bitcoin. Either become super successful or it doesn’t become successful and it will be easy for governments to pursue it and to really try to take it down. So we’re going to have both bullish and bearish perspectives on the matter, because I think it’s very important that we covered the interest from Shamas, Bill IP Diop, Bill Uppity, sorry for butchering the name, but you know, this guy is one of the people who started Facebook. Since then, he has left this whole Facebook community and really started to work against them and saying how bad and how hurtful Facebook has become compared to original days. And now he is working a lot with technology. He is early bitcoin investor. And he basically has this idea that he either will go to a million or we go nowhere. And it’s so important to discuss because, look, the grandiosity of our plants are very big. The grandiosity over plants are huge. And we have to realize that that either we are successful or we’re not successful at all. There is no middle ground with Bitcoin, really, if you think about it, there is no middle ground. And many of you who are watching right now on islands don’t think that’s gone. Fleshlight Noel Redzepi, why it’s blagged, but because we couldn’t get the screens working. I told the guys here on I don’t think that Fleshlight is got to be saurus or rush out or something. They’re trying to mess with our stream. But you know what? It is Monday and nobody messes up my Mundus, not even the powers from from the establishment. And then all this creates I don’t have to fix them. Now, we do have some Mundie motivation from the Fed. And that’s the best thing about crypto in the bout and about the Internet. You have so many means, you have so amazing many Meemaw’s and many of them are so funny. So let me see if I can play to you. This basically fed pumping like crazy and the Powerwall is pumped. Obviously he’s pumped for action. And the. When I saw this, it will so find it. It’s also funny because it’s true. Whenever we have a new day, whenever we have a new a new week, we will see more action from the Fed and the look. If you watch this video, you’ll also also get the sound. I don’t want to use the sounds here, but there’s like Hardrock when he does it. And look, what’s important right now is to look at the bullish situation. We are very bullish right now. We are pushing 7 K, we are establishing quite well above it. And, you know, the 7 K has been this area of resistance. And if we can just establish ourselves above it, we might have a clear path to 8-K and above Bob. After that, I want to cover an important report about institutional adoption of crypto. Basically how Group 2 is right now performing in terms of institutional investors and wealth managers. And it’s very big and very important because we are growing a lot and at the same time we’re still so early. So there’s a lot of upside potential. Finally, I want to talk about Mr. Krystof. You know, many of you know him already. He’s extremely bearish on Bitcoin lately. I want to talk about it. He’s basically saying that, hey, just like Swiss bank accounts were shut down by the US and the Swiss bank account today, you know, is not the Swiss bank account. You add just that 10 years ago before the financial crisis, they changed a lot. How the Swiss bank accounts work because they had to comply with U.S. regulations. So we’re going to discuss this argument. That’s the same thing is going to happen to crypto. So Mr. Clifftop says it a lot and I keep reading his Twitter, so I want to comment on that. After that, we’re going to talk about maker Dow. We’re going to discuss some Fiat, programmable fiat, because you know that we have a lot of initiatives from all kinds of countries when it comes to building digital cash. And it has both to do with just national currency, but also just programmable fiat in terms of all for you not being able to do everything you want with the money. So, for example, if you have insurance and you get paid from insurance, they want to know that you’re not going to spend money on something else, that you’re actually going to go and buy a new car if the car crashed or whatever. Or if you get welfare, they want to know that you don’t go and buy something not useful with it. You buy food. Now, obviously, it becomes very totalitarian very quickly and we’re going to discuss it. So we have a few projects here I want to highlight to you in regards to this programmable fiat space. And basically governments trying to create money that they can program and they can really, really control. But that means, I guess, welcome everyone who is watching this. Like, how are you all doing? Welcome, everyone, on Idol Datacom Slash live. If you are watching on YouTube, you have already missed the livestream. We’re only we’re only left Schmoo. And I don’t take dot com slash live. Why? Because we’re taking this matter matter into our own hands. We’re not being some kind of vassals to some kind of platform. We’re only livestreaming. Here you have to go to Armenta dot com slash line right now. Subscribe. Their enablers enable delegate implications. If you’re watching here already. Just do it, dude. Right now, everything that I just told you. And welcome everyone in the chat. I see group to Yoda. Bernard Lee her fall as Latin forever. Krypto Vader. Guys, how are you doing, Michael? Gulp. Welcome, welcome, welcome, man. So amazing to see the chat. Really. The chat is amazingly, amazingly active today and that is exactly how it should be. What’s important right now is that we’re close to the having. Look, the whole situation with us jumping one order of magnitude with each hubbing can not be ignored, just like Plan B says. So Bitcoin has been oscillating about stock to flow value of seven thousand dollars for 2.5 years. SNAP. Now we’ve been around 7.5. Even when we went to 20K, you know, that stopped the flow really had a target of seven K. So we really overextended in 2017 18 we went to 20K. You remember that? And obviously we pulled back and now we been also seeing around 7 K for two and a half years. And just like before 2016 hubbing we were at three three hundred dollars just and before that we’re at six dollars. So as you can see, usually we jump one or two orders of magnitude from six to three hundred and and now from three hundred to seven thousand. So as you can see here, we basically did them and we add that that we went from once to hundreds like from single digit to hundreds, they would from hundreds to thousands. And probably this time around we’re going to tens of thousands. We’re doing another order of magnitude. And look at the end that we’ve got to have the end goal. And the end goal is that Bitcoin is significant part of the entire financial ecosystem and macro economics and everything in the world needs to have some kind of new reserve world currency like we discussed yesterday. All of this empires come and go. There is a world reserve currencies come and go. But but, but but what’s different right now is that we do have a united world in terms of commerce. We all want to trade with each other. It’s very frustrating when you have a currency that simply bans the full country because of sanctions or whatever is very frustrating for you as a merchant. I mean, why if you have a good that you want to buy, but you happen to be bored. You happen to be born in a country that is severely under sanctions. We cannot do business. And obviously the current currencies are being used for all kinds of political reasons. And therefore, the world needs a neutral, apolitical, a political mandate. And that’s going to be bitcoin or or we’re going to have the same issues we have today. We’re going to have the same problems. This Fiat experiment we’ve been handling for the past decades is coming to an then. And just like we’re speaking on by bit, we’re pushing seven thousand one hundred. So it’s doing extremely well today. Bitcoin now looking at the coin GEKO Web, the following situation right now we have bitcoin at seven thousand nine dollars on there by bit. We’re almost at seven thousand one hundred dollars. So as you can see, is being extremely, extremely bullish when it comes to future platforms and derivatives. While if you take average spot, we’re still just above seven K now. At the other top ten cryptocurrencies, we have the phone situation, a theorem, 0.8 percent up SRP zero point nine at Bitcoin, Casula point eight. So all in all, quite upwards. Quite amazing market, but nothing dramatic yet. We might see dramatic we might see dramatic moves once once this resistance really gets crushed and resistance is around seven K, but even though we’re above it, we need to close guys. We need to close the day above it. We’ve to establish ourselves. We need to basically signal to the market that, hey, 7:53 is in the bad guys. It’s in the bag and we’re ready to go higher. And if you’re chasing this, you can use by bit. So if you go and you check the link below, you will find bybee’s. If you’re watching on YouTube, you will see best crypto deals or best deals link. So click there. You’ll get there by bit link and you get free margins when you start there. And also you will find remix, remix and Vibert are very similar. But on Fenwick’s you can do gold, Lt.-Col and dazzles tracing and link trading. But on bybee’s you have more volume and you have more liquidity. So look, you got to have both at the end of the day because it’s good to diversify. So the advantage here is you get more coins and more assets. Advantage here is that you get more liquidity, but it’s good to try both. Now, once you start speaking sorry, once you start realizing the significance of the financial control that you and they are all being living under him, you simply go quickly to Bitcoin. I saw this news. I’m sure many of you have seen this. I’m sure many of you have seen this guy pleasant. GREENE A big YouTuber was talking about how Western Union banned him for life. So he was having a business working with Western Union. And just imagine this. This frustrates me the most. The fact that you have this unproductive business in old business, they have this unproductive pieces, pieces of old business. Don’t really do a lot. It is the payment providers. It is the payment processors that really are just shifting bits in their database. I mean, obviously the whole issue is that they do have their platforms built on outdated dinosaur infrastructure where they have to integrate with the banks. They have to have permission. They have to have all of these connections to even get started. Do you think if you sit at home in your underwear, in your living room, in your bedroom, do you think you can start the new PayPal or the new stripe, even if you’re the greatest programmer? You have the greatest programming experience and team. You won’t be able to do it. But but if you’re sitting in your underwear, you can start. Most of the businesses you could have started Google, you could have started Facebook, because it’s all about just building a product that works well here in the financial space. It’s a cartel. It’s a closed club. So there is no way to even enter it. All right. So that is the issue. You have this unproductive chains in the value chain, in the production chain. There are just taking out a percentage to rent seekers, by the way. So and it’s coming to mainstream now. People are getting tired. Do you think this guy would even speak about Bitcoin if he wasn’t banned from Western Union? No. And he mentioned bitcoin that bitcoin could be a good solution for his business. So at the end of the day, we are moving towards the situation where more and more people start to question. I mean, guys, do we even need all of you? You ban me. You are taking huge fees. Like many of them do, enormous fees. And so why do we need them? The issue is, of course, the situation with the with the customers. The customers are not really using Bitcoin yet. So does the issue for merchants. They’re not only forced to use all of these service providers because they are they are forced to to use the old banking infrastructure. They could use crypto. But it’s just that the customer the customer is not there yet. The customer is not there yet. Guys, we’re pushing 7.1. I seen the chat chat going. While you mind seeing that we’re pumping, we are doing that towards 7.1. Now let’s talk about Shamas. Sharma. Byerly. Happy to man. My amazing name. Amazing. Is it Indian or Pakistan or what is this, guys, if you know about this culture. Let me know in the comment section, in the chat. What kind of name is that? But Shamas Bilin Hoppity is a billionaire, right? He was one of the founders early employees in Facebook. He was one of the most important people in the early days of Facebook. And since then, he has shifted completely. You know, if you haven’t seen all of these videos where he talks about how social media is destroying us, destroying our lives, you should check it out. He has a very, very important video that people have made. Basically, they took different interviews from him and they they’ve created this video. And by the way, guys, in the chat, if you find that LinkedIn chat, I will share it on the screen. And if you all right now in the chat can find it. And right now, he’s also very heavy in Bitcoin. He has heavy bags. And his bags have been performing quite well because he bought at $80 and basically said that at one point he controlled five percent of Bitcoin supply. So we’ll see if that’s true or not. But all in all, he was on Pompe interview. All right. He was talking about the situation with Bitcoin and how we either go to 1 million or we don’t go anywhere. We either are successful. And success in our case means that we are truly, truly global. We are a reserve currency. We’re used as this neutral, apolitical power in the space or or probably if we’re gonna struggle a lot and we’re going to struggle a lot both when it comes to adoption. But when it comes to regulation, you know, it’s very easy to shut down something that is not successful. Imagine the Internet. Imagine how it is to shut down the Internet today. Impossible. People love the Internet. They use it every day. So success and wild, wild mass adoption is the only protection against the government intervention and against somebody tyrannically trying to ban your Netsch does the only prevention. Now, if you have a technology that gives people power, but it’s not really getting up to speed, it’s not really getting big. Then this, of course, very easy to shut down. So that’s kind of the way for bitcoin. Either we become big or or just like Mr. Kristoff says, like we’re going to discuss later on, this video is gonna be like with Swiss bank accounts that they’re going to try to do their best to shut them. But hey, Lizzie, let’s discuss it when we come to that topic. Now, what’s important is that he talked Shamas talked about the fact that we’re driving slowly, but we are driving towards a cliff and this cliff is inevitable. And obviously, he’s speaking about the monetary madness that has been going on right now for the past decades, if even since Nixon. Basically, this whole man has started with Nixon, removed the connection to gold and ended the Bretton Woods. So we’ve been driving slowly but surely towards this cliff, also known as day of reckoning. Really? That’s why I have it in the title at the end. Going to have a day of reckoning in the financial system. And then we’re going to drive much, much faster down that cliff or down that hill and at the end if we’re going to have a huge brick wall. So when you see all of this trillions being printed out of thin air, out of nowhere, we are driving down the hill. And the question is, when is that brick wall gonna come? And the really it’s a question that nobody can answer. If you don’t look at this close to, there is no way to re predicted. But you can look long term. You can predict long term, short term, who knows whether it’s going to be tomorrow or in a week or in a month. But long term, it’s inevitable if you really study it. For example, if you watch the channel, you know already a lot about what’s going on in the financial system. We’ve covering all kinds of topics every day. So that’s you guys. That’s very, very key. And so the path dependence for Bitcoin is if it looks like the basement is likely. So that’s the currency, the basement of dollar. It will really emerge as a flight to safety. And here he basically says this title, the title of this video that, look, it’s either zero or it’s millions. That’s where we’re going. And that’s what’s important to note, is that the chance of bitcoin succeeding has increased dramatically during the past weeks. So let him, by the way, zoom in on my face now that we are in the darkness, now that we have the screens completely destroyed by an unknown power. We’re going to do like this. So it’s a bit more intimate. So it’s a bit more direct. So it’s a bit more. More like this. OK. Yes. So you understand the following that with the everything that has happened during the past few weeks, we’ve seen an unprecedented increase in the success of Bitcoin in the potential of Bitcoin succeeding. So basically said in the article that that probability went maybe from 1 percent to now 5 to 10 percent. Can you imagine basically a ten x increase in probability of bitcoin succeeding because we didn’t really know how far we would go and how fast in terms of monetary policy and in terms of money printing. So that is exactly what’s happening. I see people in the chat saying that I have a halo. Yanga. So welcome to the evangelical church. Welcome to the evangelic church everywhere. That’s true. That’s true. Right, right. Right. So look, one digital currency is deemed safe by government. Bitcoin will move this shil book, Chiluba. That’s that’s for sure. That’s for sure. And it’s going to happen. The small countries, guys, the small central banks. They see the situation with the US dollar. They’re not liking it. They’re absolutely not liking it. And they see their opportunity, just like we discussed why the central banks will fall into Bitcoin. It’s just a question of time. They will formally in. To Bitcoin. You know why? Because they will see their opportunism. And at the end of the day, we will be having a game of musical chairs. It’s all about musical chairs. You don’t want to be the kid without a chair. It’s really some of the most traumatic memories many people have from childhood. You know, you’re playing this game of chairs and chairs are running out. There’s always one guy without a chair. You know, that you don’t want to be that guy. You’re trying to grab a chair as fast as you can. But it’s a good life lesson for the central banks because, look, once you have 1st central bank, it’s gonna be a small one is gonna be like Bermuda or some of the small ones. They get adopted first. They gonna move towards Bitcoin being in the reserves first. Why? Because they have nothing to lose. Look, they’re not incumbents. They’re not established. They’re not one of these banks that has already a lot of success. And they the guys like ECB, the Fed, they have most to lose while the smaller guys have most to win. So they will be the first one. And that is when dominos will start to fall. Then you have other banks like Bank of Japan also considering, hey, maybe we should buy a bit before the price goes up even more. And then it becomes who is the last guy, who is the last guy to get into bitcoin as a central bank? And there you have the musical chairs because the guy at the end, he will not get the chair. He will be buying bitcoin so high it will simply be impossible for him to get any kind of influence in the world with with that central bank. So, look, we are changing. We are changing the way manual works. We’re changing the way finance works. And it is inevitable. Yes, it’s inevitable. So I hope you understand now the reason why I have Bitcoin to 0 or a million is because, look, if we are here at 5 K still in 5 to 10 years, I think it’s gonna be easier, is going to be way easier for governments to take action because obviously they don’t want bitcoin. Obviously they don’t. There’s no way to shut down bitcoin, but it’s very, very possible to make it this weird thing that nobody wants to touch. And that’s so important that we really spread the education right now. And what’s good is that people are getting interested. We are in a very good trajectory and even big institutional investors are very interested in bitcoin. And that’s the next topic. Guess we’ll be talking about the institutional adoption of digital assets trading report. All right. That’s going to be the next thing. And how are you guys doing in the chat? Let me hydrate. Man, I need to call the screen guys so they can take a look. I need to call the screen guys. All right. All right. All right. You know, these screens, usually it’s like the screens on the airport. So I have to call the airport guys that do the screens for the airport to go in and fix it in the studio. For some reason, the first it seems like like the first screen that’s getting the signal is not getting it. I don’t know. Yes. They have been serving well for over two years. So that’s something I wish they lasted a bit longer. But look, what we’re seeing right now is the situation with Bitcoin being a digital asset that many serious traders look at and wealth managers. Thank you. Thank you so much for the compliment. Edward, nice haircut. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So what basically we have right here is a serving a research done by seeing me and Bitstamp and released this equity management intelligence that did it. But they did it inclination with some NCM me where they looked at what investors want. What is the state of institutional investing in Bitcoin? How is it going and what is the progress? Now, this is very important. I’m going to just talk about the important things. This is the most important thing in regards to to this research, and that is that there is a demand for bitcoin exposure, but there is not a lot of opportunities. So as you can see, you have Europe, North America and the AP Apex or Asia Pacific. Now, what’s important is that on this screen right now, we’re seeing adoption rate demand to broaden digital assets, scope and adoption rate relative to the demand. So basically the purple chart is how much there is demand to be exposed to Bitcoin as a wealth manager, as a serious investor. Now, the yellow line right here is the orange one. Is it how much you can actually do it? What kind of possibilities you have? And you see that in Europe, the demand is much larger than the possibility. Basically, there is so much more demand to invest than the industry can offer and open up in North America. The same thing. And in Asia, the same thing. So it’s very clear that there is more demand than we even have infrastructure to to handle right now. At the same time, you do have a lot of fears, a lot of concerns as well that still aren’t cleared. So number one concern for international investors is it is about security and the cost is the fact that you can be hacked. The fact that your custody might not be as safe as you think. And custody is a particular concern. And you can see this chart right here basically showing you all of the different concerns in this chart right here. Security of the exchange being the biggest one. Then you have counterparty risk with the exchange. If the exit scam or something happens or they get hacked, then concerns over custody. Basically the same thing, concerns over AML, KYC, not that big. By the way, concerns over a million ways it is there, but not that big. And finally, fear of reputational damage also. I mean, what kind of reputational damage? If anything, you will get reputation. You will lose reputation if you are too ignorant to even try. Bitcoin. That’s where you lose reputation because your clients, the clients that you’re managing the funds for, they’re going to come to you and ask, how the hell did you miss? Ninety nine million percent interest. I trust you with the money. What am I paying for? Nine million percent in bitcoin. And we missed it and we missed that asset. And I’m here with the stocks that have fallen 30 percent in the past month. And you didn’t take my money out of the stocks. And also you didn’t buy Bitcoin, which went up 9 million percent. That is how the customers are going to speak to their wealth managers. So it’s only it’s only one way forward for all of this wealth managers. It is to get exposed to bitcoin as soon as possible. And look, many of them are thinking in those in those patterns, of course. So here’s another chart, basically summarizing all of the different concerns. What’s important is also to ask yourself, what is the number one thing for all of these investors when they’re looking for a platform, when they’re looking for a platform to trade and to invest? Well, it’s not user experience. They actually care about that. They care about. Number one, liquidity. Number two, integrity and security, ease of connectivity. So that you don’t have to call to the traders. You can do everything in computer, for example. You don’t have issues with placing orders and so on, so forth. Thestructure, very important speed and performance. And then only then do you have user interface and user experience. So it’s not that important. The most important thing is obvious liquidity. So that is why you have Betamax. One of the ugliest exchanges on the market still being used a lot, even though they’re not very ethical in how they handle the situation to to to big extent. And even though they have not very precy why they have liquidity, that is basically the only thing they have right now. So they also listed the different exchanges like Bynum’s bith makes Bitstamp. What kind of exchanges are are people interested in? A bit makes. By the way, one of the hires because they have so much liquidity. So you see it’s still the liquidity is number one. You got liquidity. And the same is, of course, for digital assets. When you’re trading an asset, you want liquidity, but you also want volatility. You want to beat the volatility as well. So, guys, this is basically the report. And to conclude, I want to say this. I want to say this. We have a lot of opportunities and we still haven’t even started. So our survey suggests that the digital assets market is on the top of the cusp of significant growth. All right. From traditional trading firms, look, we’re still just on the cusp. On the cusp. Current adoption rates are relatively low, still low. People are interested. And 97 percent of all of the wealth managers that participated that are still not in crypto, they will reconsider within the next two years when they have better cars to do, when they feel more safe, they will reconsider. And 45 are planning to revisit the idea in six month or less. So, look, when they start when they come, it’s also going to be musical chairs. Really, Bitcoin is the perfect analogy for all of this musical chairs, because as soon as one of them gets into bitcoin, you see other all other Wolf managers, they all speak to each other. It’s a close community. They’re all networking. So you see a guy getting into Bitcoin. Another guy gets formal. He also gets into Bitcoin. It’s like this is this is usually invest in whatever startup, in whatever venture there is a friend invested in. They get formal. They get formal. Look, if you get formal, you haven’t seen the v.c formal yet, just like this. By the way, forward into old coins in 2017. But that was more Asia. That was more eastern. This is here. We’re talking about western and eastern like everyone. So you’ve got to understand, whenever they start, it’s going to be a very big inflow is gonna be a very big inflow because it’s once again game of musical chairs all over again. All right. So that was the second topic. We are on fire. For some reason, this screen issue gave me so much motivation to do this, a show with even more with even more intense energy. Man, it feels good. It feels good. It’s like I don’t like one little look. I wake up. I have my script. I have everything for bread. Then some kind of like small detail is not working like the screens. So like I saw it look, should we will have the screens for some reason. It looks kind of good with black as well. But yeah, they are here so we should fix them. But let me know how it is with only black. Basically black mold you get dark. Mold gets exactly like I like I saw you guys writing in the beginning. This is dark mold for good morning Krypto. Oleg’s as he means the screen. I know, man. I miss the screen, too. I mean, this green screen. No, no, no. Not green screen. Not green screen. I need this to do to feel premium. Look, I come here every day. I cannot come to a green screen that it looks like some kind of, you know, some kind of garage or something, some kind of basement. In this to be nice, to do nice screens. So that’s why I’m not doing green screen. I have done green screen in the past. I’ve tried. But it’s just that look, it’s I don’t feel like a professional when doing that. I need to feel like a professional. All right. Moving on, guys. Moving on. We’re talking about Mr. Kristo. Big shout out to Mr. Cristol, by the way. Go subscribe to his channel. I would like I would like to talk about his concerns about Bitcoin being regulated. And he’s very bearish. Look, if you read his Twitter, it’s very bearish. We’re gonna not really perform well, according to him in these times, especially because the government is gonna come after Bitcoin. So he’s saying that you guys remember that they tweeted a post a few days ago where I said governments will come after Bitcoin like they did with Swiss bank accounts, with Swiss bank accounts. And that’s happening right now as well. He’s saying because we saw this lawsuit yesterday that we covered on this screen. Look, have covered on this on the show. What’s. I’m thinking too much about the broken screens on the show. We covered this lawsuit yesterday. And he is basically saying that, hey, look, they’re gonna come. It’s a question of time. Elik, largely, largely. I do think that there is not a gun that can begin to regulate the gun to regulate like crazy because look at India and India. They tried to ban the central bank, tried to ban it. All right. And so when they did, what happened was that the Supreme Court stepped in and said that this is not OK. Look, this is a liberatory. You’re breaking liberties so you cannot ban bitcoin. But they can try of course, try to regulate it like crazy. Like crazy. So that’s what probably will happen if and only if we don’t have massive, absolutely massive success until 2030. That is basically the deadline that I set until 2030, because it’s like with all other tech there is disruptive that is making the establishment a bit uncomfortable. It’s way easier to shut down something small, something that has just a few users. And you can also say that they’re using it for illegal activities. It’s easier to sell the ban to the general population and therefore you have a limit on the amount of time to make this bigger, to make this worldwide. The good thing is that the guys over in the traditional financial industry, they’re helping us. They’re helping us the most. Themselves, by the way, the malls themselves. Because I think when you see stuff like this, like smart money and this is a project by its year to every and look, basically this is for insurance for insurance use case. I’m going to show it to you here. And they’re wanting to create Fiat. Fiat that is programmable in the way that when you receive a payment, for example, whether it is an insurance claim or whether it is that you receive welfare from the government, they want to be able to program it and say, for example, you cannot spend this money on anything except except food and the rent because you are on welfare. So you’re getting a welfare check. We want to ensure that you don’t go out and buy like, I don’t know, like some kind of leisure. You don’t go into vacation with that money. So when so when that happens, you will see people really feeling that Hema is digital payments. How can they do digital payments without without having all of this mess? And does Bitcoin? So does Bitcoin. That is open cryptocurrencies. Now we have another important, important development from the EU with European blockchain, the serious infrastructure also. Look, there are few use cases they really like. One of these cases is digital cash. Another use case is, of course, this whole programmable money for insurance or for welfare and for taxation, obviously, automatic taxation. And the third one is that that is the first one. That is the first one. Digital casualty program, welfare. And the second one is identity. So when it comes to identity, there is this project, Finzi, that seems to be focusing more on identity and that it is basically starting in Finland and began to have the financial sector and the industry sector altogether coming together and running a hyper ledger network. So know this permission based networks like hyper ledger, they can run their own their own permission ledger on which they going to try to launch this project with decentralized identities so that they instead of having your passport and your identity, just being in your passport is also on the blockchain. It’s also like everywhere else. And if you go to a hospital and you don’t live in the country where you have that hospital, they will still get all of your information because you have that identity. So they will be able to fetch that information associated with you from other from other hospitals, like, for example, for example, you get the point, basically. Sovereign identity, decentralized identity. So, look, gets a lot of things are happening. I’m going to pay more attention to everything that is going to be going on in this traditional space. Why? Because honestly, I didn’t think they would have so much going on. I did not think they would have so much. But lately, I’ve been speaking a lot with the corporate side. You know that one of our alumni is in our academy is the head of blockchain at Ericsson. So he gave us a lot of insight in about what they are doing and what they are working with. And they are working a lot with both open but also permission based blockchains. And so I’ve been speaking a lot with that side. And look, it’s more than you can expect. Obviously, it has nothing to do with the type of crypto and blockchain where we’re speaking about normally. But it’s important to keep an eye on. It’s important to keep announced the as head of blockchain at Ericsson, a multi billion multinational company. Our our academy is Leweni. You took the business master class and really, really became successful in the corporate world. And look, it’s our three is hyper ledger and ar3 core. They’re very big. And also you have all of discussed them all discussed. And projects like Finzi running on top of hyper ledger and or like smart money, which is kind of its own. It’s not necessarily that they’re eating even using blockchain. And all of this is still in the research phase and all of this is still super early. So we’re going to see exactly what comes out of this. But what’s important is that we do see McKinsey estimating that it’s going to be until 2023 that all of this corporate projects really start showing something that really go from idea to implementation and and the adoption in the traditional corporate space. So we’re going to keep an eye on delegates. It’s important. It’s important because, look, there are also opportunities there. If, you know, crypto and many of you guys, of course, want to go full time crypto. And this is kind of on the border, what is crypto and what is not crypto. But there are many opportunities. Look, it’s a multi, multi billion dollar industry just educating all of the corporates about about what it is and how it works. Now, it’s a hundreds, hundreds of billion dollar industry when it comes to the implementation space. But obviously, you got to ask the ethical question. I mean, what kind of future you want to see. So at the end of the day, what’s important is to focus to solve this, to solve this with open, permissionless and end global cryptocurrencies. So that’s key. Yes, that’s absolutely, absolutely mega key in our current environment. So I guess that is how that is. That was the topics I wanted to cover today. Also, we have another one, the bolt maker, which is also quite important, and the maker, Dow Foundation, basically want to remove themselves from the equation. On Thursday, they had this call where they discussed how is going to be. And the fact that they have different plans. So Plank one is that they’re going to have elected better paid contributors and they then make the improvement proposals. And all of this basically needs to remove the Maker Foundation from the equation. They basically don’t want to play a central part in the maker and die ecosystem. Why? Because we have a lot we have a lot to do in terms of decentralization. Make it that ecosystem could be even more decentralized if we remove if we remove the foundation. And also, I think it’s very good and very nice for the members of Microdot Foundation, because, look, they don’t need to be under pressure. They don’t have to be under pressure because they’re kind of the head of this big successful project. Like, for example, room Roon Christensen, I think is your vision or something room. Christensen I mean, obviously, he doesn’t want to be the face of all for this whole digital, digital, global, stable, quiet revolution without any central entity. So that’s why that’s why I think look, guys, I’m going to throw a quick text and I’m going to tell the guys who did the screens to to come as soon as possible. I want to do it right now because it’s 9 a.m. in Sweden. And I want just to make it fixed very, very quickly. And then we’re gonna do Q&A. So just give me a minute. To go do some push ups, guys. Got a five, five minute, 15 minute, five second push up. Let me just sit. Man, we’re going to get that fixed. Doo doo doo doo doo. Bird, OK. brotton. Perfect. All done, all done. Yes, let’s do it. We have the chat. What are you guys doing? Let me try one thing. I don’t want to mess up too much, but I’m just gonna do it as as an experiment to shut it on and shut it off again. So, yeah, I have the screen here. Yeah, it’s. Is it working? Not yet, anyway. Let’s do the Q&A. Yes, let’s work on that. How are you guys doing in the chat? It’s midnight here. Can you do push up to. Yeah, you can do tomorrow as long as you the bishop. It’s OK. You can do it tomorrow. Questionable statement. Be very, very careful. Careful. Taking the next step forward. We’re on the edge of a cliff. Well, I don’t know if you’re speaking about the current situation with with with the car driving down the cliff and the fact that we have a brick wall somewhere there down the cliff. But yes. Be very careful, guys. Decentralized, autonomous organization. Yes. That is the Dow. That is the day, though. What would you call the oral topic before you talked about maker Dow? Man, I don’t know, Nate. So what topic we talked about make Dow. And before that, we talked about the the Fiat, the programmable Fiat. You can call it programmable fiat. A corset. So nice. Thank you so much for doing this timestamps, by the way. And guys, if you wanted to timestamps, please check the link below. If you’re watching an amateur at the com slash live. You find this link to join timestamp group. So we’re gonna organize this a bit better in the group. Let’s see. I’m getting a beer belly again. Should go running around Fabricio. Is the lockdown on lockdown? It’s very difficult to not get a bit overweight. I can tell you that. But it’s important to work out. That’s what I’m telling you to do. Some pushups on mining. Ivan, you think it’s always interesting in 2020? Is it okay or too late? Well, it’s all about what you might get. You guys don’t only mind bitcoin. Go to what? To mine dot com and figure out what you should be mining. And you can input basically your configuration of mining and then you will get the different like coins you can mine then. Yeah, it’s it’s important. And you can input your your electricity and everything. But look, it’s a very small margin business. It’s not really it’s not really a quick return. You got to also be believing in the future of crypto. And the price appreciating in the future, if you don’t believe if you just want to mine and dump instantly, it’s not going to work out for you very well. Because in that sense, you understand that the market for mining is so efficient because it’s so easy. You literally plug it machine into the outlet and you start mining. So it becomes very, very professional very quickly. So you got to be investing a lot and there are many people also investing a lot. And there are all these smart merchants. People are trying to push the margin. They have a bit better infrastructure, a bit cheaper, cheaper electricity. But look, mining is a business with very small margins. And so whatever coin you pick, by the way. So the only thing you have is the price appreciation in the future. If you want to have like big rewards, it’s only if you believe that the prices are going to go up. And that’s the only way it makes sense to mine. That is why miners are mining at a loss. In many cases, they’re mining on credit. They’re mining on loans. Why? Because they believe in the future. And that’s why the hash power doesn’t go through the floor. When we have a bear market, then the and the prices go down, prices, hashrate still go up because we have better machines with better equipment, we have better A-6. That’s one. But also that the miners are just the for the future. They’re not really dumping a lot. So, yeah. Did you watch Pompe interviewing season? I didn’t. Not not lately. I think maybe in the past. Oh, man. Let’s see if the guys have answered. Oh, yes, they can. Yes, yes. Man, they can come quickly. That’s a good man. The screens. Oh, what’s up with the timestamps, Nikola? Well, we’re doing timestamps. That’s when people watch on YouTube. They can click around. Do you have non-native students who have joined your academy and become a blockchain manager? Yes, we do have nonnative students, for example. Look in our testimonials. Go check Asymptote out here that come and look, for example, of this video about Juleanna. He had not progams, she had no progam experience, joined the academy and now works full time as blockchain developer. So you can watch this full video, how you’re adding blockchain. Blockchain was very new. There was a lot of fundamentals because by the time I. Anyway. Anyway, you can watch the full video, go to kazimir down to the com. Also watch this one. I mean, this one is really a true sign of the success of our academy. I mean, we’re so proud for Joumanah. He works as the head of blockchain in the multibillion dollar Swedish corporation. Ericsson man. I mean, this is this is amazing. This is what we work for. My name is and Francesa and I belong to Ericsson. And I have the pleasure to lead the blockchain forward. For example, you know, when I started in anyway, say you can check yourself. Look, it’s a lot. It’s a lot. A global citizen. Ivan, what is hash bar? Look. Good question. Is the fundamental. Good question. Hash power is how fast we tried to guess the next block collectively. So look, when you’re minding, you’re basically guessing random numbers and you’re hashing that random number with the contents of the block you’re trying to put into the blockchain. All right. So what does this mean, hashing? It means that you run an algorithm that produces a unique fingerprint for that particular block together with the random number. So you need the unique fingerprint for this data collectively. Now, the network has certain rules that you to guess until you get a certain number or a certain fingerprint below below the threshold of difficulty. Now it’s getting a bit technical. You go to Kazimierz, that commu will learn the way better. But I explained to nontheless. So. So you understand that the only way to mine the block is to guess a bunch of numbers. And then each time you get a number, run this hashing algorithm that will produce a unique fingerprint. Until that fingerprint is low enough. That fingerprint is a number. It needs to be below a certain threshold. The only way to get it below a certain threshold is to just guess and run the algorithm again and again. There is no way to predict. There is no way to predict what kind of random number or the so-called nonce, like Vassily says, what it needs to be. You can only guess so. Each such guess and each such run of the algorithm hashing algorithm is basically a you run the hash. So you run their hash. Now hash rate is how many of this guesses we can do collectively as the network, like all deminers, everyone. How many guesses we can do per second. So that is that is hashrate. And look, it’s so big. I don’t even remember like what kind of fight you measure meant to do this. One hundred and thirty six quantrill and hashes per second. So this was in March like the second. So it’s not like the the latest ListString the late. So look we’re talking about quintillion s of these guesses and you understand that’s per second. That’s per second. All right. So you know that it takes six hundred seconds on average to produce the next block to produce because it’s ten minutes. We have ten mean blocks block time, man. Why is it not working? So this basically means that if you have the accurate is like it’s it’s around that number is around that number that we saw on Google. So it’s a what is it. One hundred and thirty six quintillion. That’s per second. Now you’re going to take one hundred and thirty six quintillion times. Times six hundred to get the average amount of guesses needed to to mine the bitcoin block. So it’s one hundred and thirty six quintillion. That’s the hash rate per second times six hundred seconds for ten minutes. And then you get the number of guesses need that the number of times we throw around short-run fifty six to guess the next bitcoin block to get that into the blusher. Nate please email contact that. I will take this call. Thank you so much. Truly appreciate you. I truly, truly appreciate you. OK. I guess that does it. That’s it. Quentin not Quantic. Quintillion. Quintillion. Thanks. Thanks. Are you planning to introduce economic or financial classes? Yes. That’s the next Caesar. Does the next thing we basically need to create the course that explains to Bitcoin from the perspective of the Bitcoin standard. So that’s that’s that’s a very important jimmying. That’s when Superjet, too. Man, I hope tomorrow. We’re so close. If you’ve visited the space yesterday, you already saw that we have it working like it’s working, but it’s still baijiu. But if you’ve visited like during yesterday in the evening, you saw that we had like Super Chesil read it, but it’s so close. Can you see a screen actually are on there just showing off exactly the full moon they’re on and we see a full moon. Ivan needs an economist. Well, we don’t. We need to do a course. Michael teaches a course on the Bitcoin standard, basically, and we need to produce it because it’s a very important course to get people into the mindset of the financials of Bitcoin where you’ll be able to do crypto showboat. Yes. And from the beginning. No, but Ververs soon. Yes. We have everything. It will. You gonna you gonna have like if you gonna have Tron, you gonna have look at enough. We’re gonna have bitcoin because then we’re going to have with zero confirmation or we’re going to have lightning. But man it’s easier with if we’re going to do if the first. Maybe we will do Tron. I don’t know, maybe if Justin some wants a stake in our chat he can purchase and we can do trump payments. I’m joking. I’m joking. Thanks, Ivan. You are the pope is the halo is the hill. Look, you’ve got to find some positivity in the in the situation of the screens going bananas and they are bananas. But I don’t. That’s the good thing, is that the airport screening guests are coming. Okay, guys, thank you so much. Thank you so much for being here yet again. Guys, if you’re watching this on YouTube. I don’t know what you’re doing. I don’t know what you’re doing, to be honest, because you got to go to. I don’t know that com slash line. You’ve got to subscribe right there. You see read subscribe button. You see ellerson. They bolt. You’ve got to press alerts. You’ve got to press stations for telegram. And when you’ve done that, then you truly join the evangelic church. Welcome to the evangelical church. Bob. But Emeritus, says Latham forever. Anyway, guys, thank you so much. I really appreciate that you made it so amazing Monday. Let’s get it started. Final motivation from from the Fed. Let’s see if I can get the sound man and the sound in this. Yeah. Let’s go, guys. Monday, motivation fund. Wait, wait, wait. You don’t see. You don’t see it. Let’s go, let’s go. Yes, yes, yes. That was the sound. I don’t know why it didn’t work. I don’t know why it didn’t work in the beginning. But that is basically the motivation for Gerald Fowler. Yes, yes, yes. Monday, guys, I see old tomorrow, 8:00 p.m. Central European Time. Have a good day and goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. This.

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BITCOIN TO ZERO OR $1,000,000!!! Chamath Palihapitiya, Day of Reckoning

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And we’re alive, yes. Welcome to another episode of Good Morning Krypton. Here on Ivan Ontake, we are, of course, broadcasting life straight out of Stockholm, Sweden. And we do the show each and every day at 8 a.m. Central on Summerton. Yes, I come to like an atomic clock each and every day. Look, we have so much to discuss. Bitcoin breaking seven K. Also, we have this binary situation in Bitcoin. Either become super successful or it doesn’t become successful and it will be easy for governments to pursue it and to really try to take it down. So we’re going to have both bullish and bearish perspectives on the matter, because I think it’s very important that we covered the interest from Shamas, Bill IP Diop, Bill Uppity, sorry for butchering the name, but you know, this guy is one of the people who started Facebook. Since then, he has left this whole Facebook community and really started to work against them and saying how bad and how hurtful Facebook has become compared to original days. And now he is working a lot with technology. He is early bitcoin investor. And he basically has this idea that he either will go to a million or we go nowhere. And it’s so important to discuss because, look, the grandiosity of our plants are very big. The grandiosity over plants are huge. And we have to realize that that either we are successful or we’re not successful at all. There is no middle ground with Bitcoin, really, if you think about it, there is no middle ground. And many of you who are watching right now on islands don’t think that’s gone. Fleshlight Noel Redzepi, why it’s blagged, but because we couldn’t get the screens working. I told the guys here on I don’t think that Fleshlight is got to be saurus or rush out or something. They’re trying to mess with our stream. But you know what? It is Monday and nobody messes up my Mundus, not even the powers from from the establishment. And then all this creates I don’t have to fix them. Now, we do have some Mundie motivation from the Fed. And that’s the best thing about crypto in the bout and about the Internet. You have so many means, you have so amazing many Meemaw’s and many of them are so funny. So let me see if I can play to you. This basically fed pumping like crazy and the Powerwall is pumped. Obviously he’s pumped for action. And the. When I saw this, it will so find it. It’s also funny because it’s true. Whenever we have a new day, whenever we have a new a new week, we will see more action from the Fed and the look. If you watch this video, you’ll also also get the sound. I don’t want to use the sounds here, but there’s like Hardrock when he does it. And look, what’s important right now is to look at the bullish situation. We are very bullish right now. We are pushing 7 K, we are establishing quite well above it. And, you know, the 7 K has been this area of resistance. And if we can just establish ourselves above it, we might have a clear path to 8-K and above Bob. After that, I want to cover an important report about institutional adoption of crypto. Basically how Group 2 is right now performing in terms of institutional investors and wealth managers. And it’s very big and very important because we are growing a lot and at the same time we’re still so early. So there’s a lot of upside potential. Finally, I want to talk about Mr. Krystof. You know, many of you know him already. He’s extremely bearish on Bitcoin lately. I want to talk about it. He’s basically saying that, hey, just like Swiss bank accounts were shut down by the US and the Swiss bank account today, you know, is not the Swiss bank account. You add just that 10 years ago before the financial crisis, they changed a lot. How the Swiss bank accounts work because they had to comply with U.S. regulations. So we’re going to discuss this argument. That’s the same thing is going to happen to crypto. So Mr. Clifftop says it a lot and I keep reading his Twitter, so I want to comment on that. After that, we’re going to talk about maker Dow. We’re going to discuss some Fiat, programmable fiat, because you know that we have a lot of initiatives from all kinds of countries when it comes to building digital cash. And it has both to do with just national currency, but also just programmable fiat in terms of all for you not being able to do everything you want with the money. So, for example, if you have insurance and you get paid from insurance, they want to know that you’re not going to spend money on something else, that you’re actually going to go and buy a new car if the car crashed or whatever. Or if you get welfare, they want to know that you don’t go and buy something not useful with it. You buy food. Now, obviously, it becomes very totalitarian very quickly and we’re going to discuss it. So we have a few projects here I want to highlight to you in regards to this programmable fiat space. And basically governments trying to create money that they can program and they can really, really control. But that means, I guess, welcome everyone who is watching this. Like, how are you all doing? Welcome, everyone, on Idol Datacom Slash live. If you are watching on YouTube, you have already missed the livestream. We’re only we’re only left Schmoo. And I don’t take dot com slash live. Why? Because we’re taking this matter matter into our own hands. We’re not being some kind of vassals to some kind of platform. We’re only livestreaming. Here you have to go to Armenta dot com slash line right now. Subscribe. Their enablers enable delegate implications. If you’re watching here already. Just do it, dude. Right now, everything that I just told you. And welcome everyone in the chat. I see group to Yoda. Bernard Lee her fall as Latin forever. Krypto Vader. Guys, how are you doing, Michael? Gulp. Welcome, welcome, welcome, man. So amazing to see the chat. Really. The chat is amazingly, amazingly active today and that is exactly how it should be. What’s important right now is that we’re close to the having. Look, the whole situation with us jumping one order of magnitude with each hubbing can not be ignored, just like Plan B says. So Bitcoin has been oscillating about stock to flow value of seven thousand dollars for 2.5 years. SNAP. Now we’ve been around 7.5. Even when we went to 20K, you know, that stopped the flow really had a target of seven K. So we really overextended in 2017 18 we went to 20K. You remember that? And obviously we pulled back and now we been also seeing around 7 K for two and a half years. And just like before 2016 hubbing we were at three three hundred dollars just and before that we’re at six dollars. So as you can see, usually we jump one or two orders of magnitude from six to three hundred and and now from three hundred to seven thousand. So as you can see here, we basically did them and we add that that we went from once to hundreds like from single digit to hundreds, they would from hundreds to thousands. And probably this time around we’re going to tens of thousands. We’re doing another order of magnitude. And look at the end that we’ve got to have the end goal. And the end goal is that Bitcoin is significant part of the entire financial ecosystem and macro economics and everything in the world needs to have some kind of new reserve world currency like we discussed yesterday. All of this empires come and go. There is a world reserve currencies come and go. But but, but but what’s different right now is that we do have a united world in terms of commerce. We all want to trade with each other. It’s very frustrating when you have a currency that simply bans the full country because of sanctions or whatever is very frustrating for you as a merchant. I mean, why if you have a good that you want to buy, but you happen to be bored. You happen to be born in a country that is severely under sanctions. We cannot do business. And obviously the current currencies are being used for all kinds of political reasons. And therefore, the world needs a neutral, apolitical, a political mandate. And that’s going to be bitcoin or or we’re going to have the same issues we have today. We’re going to have the same problems. This Fiat experiment we’ve been handling for the past decades is coming to an then. And just like we’re speaking on by bit, we’re pushing seven thousand one hundred. So it’s doing extremely well today. Bitcoin now looking at the coin GEKO Web, the following situation right now we have bitcoin at seven thousand nine dollars on there by bit. We’re almost at seven thousand one hundred dollars. So as you can see, is being extremely, extremely bullish when it comes to future platforms and derivatives. While if you take average spot, we’re still just above seven K now. At the other top ten cryptocurrencies, we have the phone situation, a theorem, 0.8 percent up SRP zero point nine at Bitcoin, Casula point eight. So all in all, quite upwards. Quite amazing market, but nothing dramatic yet. We might see dramatic we might see dramatic moves once once this resistance really gets crushed and resistance is around seven K, but even though we’re above it, we need to close guys. We need to close the day above it. We’ve to establish ourselves. We need to basically signal to the market that, hey, 7:53 is in the bad guys. It’s in the bag and we’re ready to go higher. And if you’re chasing this, you can use by bit. So if you go and you check the link below, you will find bybee’s. If you’re watching on YouTube, you will see best crypto deals or best deals link. So click there. You’ll get there by bit link and you get free margins when you start there. And also you will find remix, remix and Vibert are very similar. But on Fenwick’s you can do gold, Lt.-Col and dazzles tracing and link trading. But on bybee’s you have more volume and you have more liquidity. So look, you got to have both at the end of the day because it’s good to diversify. So the advantage here is you get more coins and more assets. Advantage here is that you get more liquidity, but it’s good to try both. Now, once you start speaking sorry, once you start realizing the significance of the financial control that you and they are all being living under him, you simply go quickly to Bitcoin. I saw this news. I’m sure many of you have seen this. I’m sure many of you have seen this guy pleasant. GREENE A big YouTuber was talking about how Western Union banned him for life. So he was having a business working with Western Union. And just imagine this. This frustrates me the most. The fact that you have this unproductive business in old business, they have this unproductive pieces, pieces of old business. Don’t really do a lot. It is the payment providers. It is the payment processors that really are just shifting bits in their database. I mean, obviously the whole issue is that they do have their platforms built on outdated dinosaur infrastructure where they have to integrate with the banks. They have to have permission. They have to have all of these connections to even get started. Do you think if you sit at home in your underwear, in your living room, in your bedroom, do you think you can start the new PayPal or the new stripe, even if you’re the greatest programmer? You have the greatest programming experience and team. You won’t be able to do it. But but if you’re sitting in your underwear, you can start. Most of the businesses you could have started Google, you could have started Facebook, because it’s all about just building a product that works well here in the financial space. It’s a cartel. It’s a closed club. So there is no way to even enter it. All right. So that is the issue. You have this unproductive chains in the value chain, in the production chain. There are just taking out a percentage to rent seekers, by the way. So and it’s coming to mainstream now. People are getting tired. Do you think this guy would even speak about Bitcoin if he wasn’t banned from Western Union? No. And he mentioned bitcoin that bitcoin could be a good solution for his business. So at the end of the day, we are moving towards the situation where more and more people start to question. I mean, guys, do we even need all of you? You ban me. You are taking huge fees. Like many of them do, enormous fees. And so why do we need them? The issue is, of course, the situation with the with the customers. The customers are not really using Bitcoin yet. So does the issue for merchants. They’re not only forced to use all of these service providers because they are they are forced to to use the old banking infrastructure. They could use crypto. But it’s just that the customer the customer is not there yet. The customer is not there yet. Guys, we’re pushing 7.1. I seen the chat chat going. While you mind seeing that we’re pumping, we are doing that towards 7.1. Now let’s talk about Shamas. Sharma. Byerly. Happy to man. My amazing name. Amazing. Is it Indian or Pakistan or what is this, guys, if you know about this culture. Let me know in the comment section, in the chat. What kind of name is that? But Shamas Bilin Hoppity is a billionaire, right? He was one of the founders early employees in Facebook. He was one of the most important people in the early days of Facebook. And since then, he has shifted completely. You know, if you haven’t seen all of these videos where he talks about how social media is destroying us, destroying our lives, you should check it out. He has a very, very important video that people have made. Basically, they took different interviews from him and they they’ve created this video. And by the way, guys, in the chat, if you find that LinkedIn chat, I will share it on the screen. And if you all right now in the chat can find it. And right now, he’s also very heavy in Bitcoin. He has heavy bags. And his bags have been performing quite well because he bought at $80 and basically said that at one point he controlled five percent of Bitcoin supply. So we’ll see if that’s true or not. But all in all, he was on Pompe interview. All right. He was talking about the situation with Bitcoin and how we either go to 1 million or we don’t go anywhere. We either are successful. And success in our case means that we are truly, truly global. We are a reserve currency. We’re used as this neutral, apolitical power in the space or or probably if we’re gonna struggle a lot and we’re going to struggle a lot both when it comes to adoption. But when it comes to regulation, you know, it’s very easy to shut down something that is not successful. Imagine the Internet. Imagine how it is to shut down the Internet today. Impossible. People love the Internet. They use it every day. So success and wild, wild mass adoption is the only protection against the government intervention and against somebody tyrannically trying to ban your Netsch does the only prevention. Now, if you have a technology that gives people power, but it’s not really getting up to speed, it’s not really getting big. Then this, of course, very easy to shut down. So that’s kind of the way for bitcoin. Either we become big or or just like Mr. Kristoff says, like we’re going to discuss later on, this video is gonna be like with Swiss bank accounts that they’re going to try to do their best to shut them. But hey, Lizzie, let’s discuss it when we come to that topic. Now, what’s important is that he talked Shamas talked about the fact that we’re driving slowly, but we are driving towards a cliff and this cliff is inevitable. And obviously, he’s speaking about the monetary madness that has been going on right now for the past decades, if even since Nixon. Basically, this whole man has started with Nixon, removed the connection to gold and ended the Bretton Woods. So we’ve been driving slowly but surely towards this cliff, also known as day of reckoning. Really? That’s why I have it in the title at the end. Going to have a day of reckoning in the financial system. And then we’re going to drive much, much faster down that cliff or down that hill and at the end if we’re going to have a huge brick wall. So when you see all of this trillions being printed out of thin air, out of nowhere, we are driving down the hill. And the question is, when is that brick wall gonna come? And the really it’s a question that nobody can answer. If you don’t look at this close to, there is no way to re predicted. But you can look long term. You can predict long term, short term, who knows whether it’s going to be tomorrow or in a week or in a month. But long term, it’s inevitable if you really study it. For example, if you watch the channel, you know already a lot about what’s going on in the financial system. We’ve covering all kinds of topics every day. So that’s you guys. That’s very, very key. And so the path dependence for Bitcoin is if it looks like the basement is likely. So that’s the currency, the basement of dollar. It will really emerge as a flight to safety. And here he basically says this title, the title of this video that, look, it’s either zero or it’s millions. That’s where we’re going. And that’s what’s important to note, is that the chance of bitcoin succeeding has increased dramatically during the past weeks. So let him, by the way, zoom in on my face now that we are in the darkness, now that we have the screens completely destroyed by an unknown power. We’re going to do like this. So it’s a bit more intimate. So it’s a bit more direct. So it’s a bit more. More like this. OK. Yes. So you understand the following that with the everything that has happened during the past few weeks, we’ve seen an unprecedented increase in the success of Bitcoin in the potential of Bitcoin succeeding. So basically said in the article that that probability went maybe from 1 percent to now 5 to 10 percent. Can you imagine basically a ten x increase in probability of bitcoin succeeding because we didn’t really know how far we would go and how fast in terms of monetary policy and in terms of money printing. So that is exactly what’s happening. I see people in the chat saying that I have a halo. Yanga. So welcome to the evangelical church. Welcome to the evangelic church everywhere. That’s true. That’s true. Right, right. Right. So look, one digital currency is deemed safe by government. Bitcoin will move this shil book, Chiluba. That’s that’s for sure. That’s for sure. And it’s going to happen. The small countries, guys, the small central banks. They see the situation with the US dollar. They’re not liking it. They’re absolutely not liking it. And they see their opportunity, just like we discussed why the central banks will fall into Bitcoin. It’s just a question of time. They will formally in. To Bitcoin. You know why? Because they will see their opportunism. And at the end of the day, we will be having a game of musical chairs. It’s all about musical chairs. You don’t want to be the kid without a chair. It’s really some of the most traumatic memories many people have from childhood. You know, you’re playing this game of chairs and chairs are running out. There’s always one guy without a chair. You know, that you don’t want to be that guy. You’re trying to grab a chair as fast as you can. But it’s a good life lesson for the central banks because, look, once you have 1st central bank, it’s gonna be a small one is gonna be like Bermuda or some of the small ones. They get adopted first. They gonna move towards Bitcoin being in the reserves first. Why? Because they have nothing to lose. Look, they’re not incumbents. They’re not established. They’re not one of these banks that has already a lot of success. And they the guys like ECB, the Fed, they have most to lose while the smaller guys have most to win. So they will be the first one. And that is when dominos will start to fall. Then you have other banks like Bank of Japan also considering, hey, maybe we should buy a bit before the price goes up even more. And then it becomes who is the last guy, who is the last guy to get into bitcoin as a central bank? And there you have the musical chairs because the guy at the end, he will not get the chair. He will be buying bitcoin so high it will simply be impossible for him to get any kind of influence in the world with with that central bank. So, look, we are changing. We are changing the way manual works. We’re changing the way finance works. And it is inevitable. Yes, it’s inevitable. So I hope you understand now the reason why I have Bitcoin to 0 or a million is because, look, if we are here at 5 K still in 5 to 10 years, I think it’s gonna be easier, is going to be way easier for governments to take action because obviously they don’t want bitcoin. Obviously they don’t. There’s no way to shut down bitcoin, but it’s very, very possible to make it this weird thing that nobody wants to touch. And that’s so important that we really spread the education right now. And what’s good is that people are getting interested. We are in a very good trajectory and even big institutional investors are very interested in bitcoin. And that’s the next topic. Guess we’ll be talking about the institutional adoption of digital assets trading report. All right. That’s going to be the next thing. And how are you guys doing in the chat? Let me hydrate. Man, I need to call the screen guys so they can take a look. I need to call the screen guys. All right. All right. All right. You know, these screens, usually it’s like the screens on the airport. So I have to call the airport guys that do the screens for the airport to go in and fix it in the studio. For some reason, the first it seems like like the first screen that’s getting the signal is not getting it. I don’t know. Yes. They have been serving well for over two years. So that’s something I wish they lasted a bit longer. But look, what we’re seeing right now is the situation with Bitcoin being a digital asset that many serious traders look at and wealth managers. Thank you. Thank you so much for the compliment. Edward, nice haircut. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So what basically we have right here is a serving a research done by seeing me and Bitstamp and released this equity management intelligence that did it. But they did it inclination with some NCM me where they looked at what investors want. What is the state of institutional investing in Bitcoin? How is it going and what is the progress? Now, this is very important. I’m going to just talk about the important things. This is the most important thing in regards to to this research, and that is that there is a demand for bitcoin exposure, but there is not a lot of opportunities. So as you can see, you have Europe, North America and the AP Apex or Asia Pacific. Now, what’s important is that on this screen right now, we’re seeing adoption rate demand to broaden digital assets, scope and adoption rate relative to the demand. So basically the purple chart is how much there is demand to be exposed to Bitcoin as a wealth manager, as a serious investor. Now, the yellow line right here is the orange one. Is it how much you can actually do it? What kind of possibilities you have? And you see that in Europe, the demand is much larger than the possibility. Basically, there is so much more demand to invest than the industry can offer and open up in North America. The same thing. And in Asia, the same thing. So it’s very clear that there is more demand than we even have infrastructure to to handle right now. At the same time, you do have a lot of fears, a lot of concerns as well that still aren’t cleared. So number one concern for international investors is it is about security and the cost is the fact that you can be hacked. The fact that your custody might not be as safe as you think. And custody is a particular concern. And you can see this chart right here basically showing you all of the different concerns in this chart right here. Security of the exchange being the biggest one. Then you have counterparty risk with the exchange. If the exit scam or something happens or they get hacked, then concerns over custody. Basically the same thing, concerns over AML, KYC, not that big. By the way, concerns over a million ways it is there, but not that big. And finally, fear of reputational damage also. I mean, what kind of reputational damage? If anything, you will get reputation. You will lose reputation if you are too ignorant to even try. Bitcoin. That’s where you lose reputation because your clients, the clients that you’re managing the funds for, they’re going to come to you and ask, how the hell did you miss? Ninety nine million percent interest. I trust you with the money. What am I paying for? Nine million percent in bitcoin. And we missed it and we missed that asset. And I’m here with the stocks that have fallen 30 percent in the past month. And you didn’t take my money out of the stocks. And also you didn’t buy Bitcoin, which went up 9 million percent. That is how the customers are going to speak to their wealth managers. So it’s only it’s only one way forward for all of this wealth managers. It is to get exposed to bitcoin as soon as possible. And look, many of them are thinking in those in those patterns, of course. So here’s another chart, basically summarizing all of the different concerns. What’s important is also to ask yourself, what is the number one thing for all of these investors when they’re looking for a platform, when they’re looking for a platform to trade and to invest? Well, it’s not user experience. They actually care about that. They care about. Number one, liquidity. Number two, integrity and security, ease of connectivity. So that you don’t have to call to the traders. You can do everything in computer, for example. You don’t have issues with placing orders and so on, so forth. Thestructure, very important speed and performance. And then only then do you have user interface and user experience. So it’s not that important. The most important thing is obvious liquidity. So that is why you have Betamax. One of the ugliest exchanges on the market still being used a lot, even though they’re not very ethical in how they handle the situation to to to big extent. And even though they have not very precy why they have liquidity, that is basically the only thing they have right now. So they also listed the different exchanges like Bynum’s bith makes Bitstamp. What kind of exchanges are are people interested in? A bit makes. By the way, one of the hires because they have so much liquidity. So you see it’s still the liquidity is number one. You got liquidity. And the same is, of course, for digital assets. When you’re trading an asset, you want liquidity, but you also want volatility. You want to beat the volatility as well. So, guys, this is basically the report. And to conclude, I want to say this. I want to say this. We have a lot of opportunities and we still haven’t even started. So our survey suggests that the digital assets market is on the top of the cusp of significant growth. All right. From traditional trading firms, look, we’re still just on the cusp. On the cusp. Current adoption rates are relatively low, still low. People are interested. And 97 percent of all of the wealth managers that participated that are still not in crypto, they will reconsider within the next two years when they have better cars to do, when they feel more safe, they will reconsider. And 45 are planning to revisit the idea in six month or less. So, look, when they start when they come, it’s also going to be musical chairs. Really, Bitcoin is the perfect analogy for all of this musical chairs, because as soon as one of them gets into bitcoin, you see other all other Wolf managers, they all speak to each other. It’s a close community. They’re all networking. So you see a guy getting into Bitcoin. Another guy gets formal. He also gets into Bitcoin. It’s like this is this is usually invest in whatever startup, in whatever venture there is a friend invested in. They get formal. They get formal. Look, if you get formal, you haven’t seen the v.c formal yet, just like this. By the way, forward into old coins in 2017. But that was more Asia. That was more eastern. This is here. We’re talking about western and eastern like everyone. So you’ve got to understand, whenever they start, it’s going to be a very big inflow is gonna be a very big inflow because it’s once again game of musical chairs all over again. All right. So that was the second topic. We are on fire. For some reason, this screen issue gave me so much motivation to do this, a show with even more with even more intense energy. Man, it feels good. It feels good. It’s like I don’t like one little look. I wake up. I have my script. I have everything for bread. Then some kind of like small detail is not working like the screens. So like I saw it look, should we will have the screens for some reason. It looks kind of good with black as well. But yeah, they are here so we should fix them. But let me know how it is with only black. Basically black mold you get dark. Mold gets exactly like I like I saw you guys writing in the beginning. This is dark mold for good morning Krypto. Oleg’s as he means the screen. I know, man. I miss the screen, too. I mean, this green screen. No, no, no. Not green screen. Not green screen. I need this to do to feel premium. Look, I come here every day. I cannot come to a green screen that it looks like some kind of, you know, some kind of garage or something, some kind of basement. In this to be nice, to do nice screens. So that’s why I’m not doing green screen. I have done green screen in the past. I’ve tried. But it’s just that look, it’s I don’t feel like a professional when doing that. I need to feel like a professional. All right. Moving on, guys. Moving on. We’re talking about Mr. Kristo. Big shout out to Mr. Cristol, by the way. Go subscribe to his channel. I would like I would like to talk about his concerns about Bitcoin being regulated. And he’s very bearish. Look, if you read his Twitter, it’s very bearish. We’re gonna not really perform well, according to him in these times, especially because the government is gonna come after Bitcoin. So he’s saying that you guys remember that they tweeted a post a few days ago where I said governments will come after Bitcoin like they did with Swiss bank accounts, with Swiss bank accounts. And that’s happening right now as well. He’s saying because we saw this lawsuit yesterday that we covered on this screen. Look, have covered on this on the show. What’s. I’m thinking too much about the broken screens on the show. We covered this lawsuit yesterday. And he is basically saying that, hey, look, they’re gonna come. It’s a question of time. Elik, largely, largely. I do think that there is not a gun that can begin to regulate the gun to regulate like crazy because look at India and India. They tried to ban the central bank, tried to ban it. All right. And so when they did, what happened was that the Supreme Court stepped in and said that this is not OK. Look, this is a liberatory. You’re breaking liberties so you cannot ban bitcoin. But they can try of course, try to regulate it like crazy. Like crazy. So that’s what probably will happen if and only if we don’t have massive, absolutely massive success until 2030. That is basically the deadline that I set until 2030, because it’s like with all other tech there is disruptive that is making the establishment a bit uncomfortable. It’s way easier to shut down something small, something that has just a few users. And you can also say that they’re using it for illegal activities. It’s easier to sell the ban to the general population and therefore you have a limit on the amount of time to make this bigger, to make this worldwide. The good thing is that the guys over in the traditional financial industry, they’re helping us. They’re helping us the most. Themselves, by the way, the malls themselves. Because I think when you see stuff like this, like smart money and this is a project by its year to every and look, basically this is for insurance for insurance use case. I’m going to show it to you here. And they’re wanting to create Fiat. Fiat that is programmable in the way that when you receive a payment, for example, whether it is an insurance claim or whether it is that you receive welfare from the government, they want to be able to program it and say, for example, you cannot spend this money on anything except except food and the rent because you are on welfare. So you’re getting a welfare check. We want to ensure that you don’t go out and buy like, I don’t know, like some kind of leisure. You don’t go into vacation with that money. So when so when that happens, you will see people really feeling that Hema is digital payments. How can they do digital payments without without having all of this mess? And does Bitcoin? So does Bitcoin. That is open cryptocurrencies. Now we have another important, important development from the EU with European blockchain, the serious infrastructure also. Look, there are few use cases they really like. One of these cases is digital cash. Another use case is, of course, this whole programmable money for insurance or for welfare and for taxation, obviously, automatic taxation. And the third one is that that is the first one. That is the first one. Digital casualty program, welfare. And the second one is identity. So when it comes to identity, there is this project, Finzi, that seems to be focusing more on identity and that it is basically starting in Finland and began to have the financial sector and the industry sector altogether coming together and running a hyper ledger network. So know this permission based networks like hyper ledger, they can run their own their own permission ledger on which they going to try to launch this project with decentralized identities so that they instead of having your passport and your identity, just being in your passport is also on the blockchain. It’s also like everywhere else. And if you go to a hospital and you don’t live in the country where you have that hospital, they will still get all of your information because you have that identity. So they will be able to fetch that information associated with you from other from other hospitals, like, for example, for example, you get the point, basically. Sovereign identity, decentralized identity. So, look, gets a lot of things are happening. I’m going to pay more attention to everything that is going to be going on in this traditional space. Why? Because honestly, I didn’t think they would have so much going on. I did not think they would have so much. But lately, I’ve been speaking a lot with the corporate side. You know that one of our alumni is in our academy is the head of blockchain at Ericsson. So he gave us a lot of insight in about what they are doing and what they are working with. And they are working a lot with both open but also permission based blockchains. And so I’ve been speaking a lot with that side. And look, it’s more than you can expect. Obviously, it has nothing to do with the type of crypto and blockchain where we’re speaking about normally. But it’s important to keep an eye on. It’s important to keep announced the as head of blockchain at Ericsson, a multi billion multinational company. Our our academy is Leweni. You took the business master class and really, really became successful in the corporate world. And look, it’s our three is hyper ledger and ar3 core. They’re very big. And also you have all of discussed them all discussed. And projects like Finzi running on top of hyper ledger and or like smart money, which is kind of its own. It’s not necessarily that they’re eating even using blockchain. And all of this is still in the research phase and all of this is still super early. So we’re going to see exactly what comes out of this. But what’s important is that we do see McKinsey estimating that it’s going to be until 2023 that all of this corporate projects really start showing something that really go from idea to implementation and and the adoption in the traditional corporate space. So we’re going to keep an eye on delegates. It’s important. It’s important because, look, there are also opportunities there. If, you know, crypto and many of you guys, of course, want to go full time crypto. And this is kind of on the border, what is crypto and what is not crypto. But there are many opportunities. Look, it’s a multi, multi billion dollar industry just educating all of the corporates about about what it is and how it works. Now, it’s a hundreds, hundreds of billion dollar industry when it comes to the implementation space. But obviously, you got to ask the ethical question. I mean, what kind of future you want to see. So at the end of the day, what’s important is to focus to solve this, to solve this with open, permissionless and end global cryptocurrencies. So that’s key. Yes, that’s absolutely, absolutely mega key in our current environment. So I guess that is how that is. That was the topics I wanted to cover today. Also, we have another one, the bolt maker, which is also quite important, and the maker, Dow Foundation, basically want to remove themselves from the equation. On Thursday, they had this call where they discussed how is going to be. And the fact that they have different plans. So Plank one is that they’re going to have elected better paid contributors and they then make the improvement proposals. And all of this basically needs to remove the Maker Foundation from the equation. They basically don’t want to play a central part in the maker and die ecosystem. Why? Because we have a lot we have a lot to do in terms of decentralization. Make it that ecosystem could be even more decentralized if we remove if we remove the foundation. And also, I think it’s very good and very nice for the members of Microdot Foundation, because, look, they don’t need to be under pressure. They don’t have to be under pressure because they’re kind of the head of this big successful project. Like, for example, room Roon Christensen, I think is your vision or something room. Christensen I mean, obviously, he doesn’t want to be the face of all for this whole digital, digital, global, stable, quiet revolution without any central entity. So that’s why that’s why I think look, guys, I’m going to throw a quick text and I’m going to tell the guys who did the screens to to come as soon as possible. I want to do it right now because it’s 9 a.m. in Sweden. And I want just to make it fixed very, very quickly. And then we’re gonna do Q&A. So just give me a minute. To go do some push ups, guys. Got a five, five minute, 15 minute, five second push up. Let me just sit. Man, we’re going to get that fixed. Doo doo doo doo doo. Bird, OK. brotton. Perfect. All done, all done. Yes, let’s do it. We have the chat. What are you guys doing? Let me try one thing. I don’t want to mess up too much, but I’m just gonna do it as as an experiment to shut it on and shut it off again. So, yeah, I have the screen here. Yeah, it’s. Is it working? Not yet, anyway. Let’s do the Q&A. Yes, let’s work on that. How are you guys doing in the chat? It’s midnight here. Can you do push up to. Yeah, you can do tomorrow as long as you the bishop. It’s OK. You can do it tomorrow. Questionable statement. Be very, very careful. Careful. Taking the next step forward. We’re on the edge of a cliff. Well, I don’t know if you’re speaking about the current situation with with with the car driving down the cliff and the fact that we have a brick wall somewhere there down the cliff. But yes. Be very careful, guys. Decentralized, autonomous organization. Yes. That is the Dow. That is the day, though. What would you call the oral topic before you talked about maker Dow? Man, I don’t know, Nate. So what topic we talked about make Dow. And before that, we talked about the the Fiat, the programmable Fiat. You can call it programmable fiat. A corset. So nice. Thank you so much for doing this timestamps, by the way. And guys, if you wanted to timestamps, please check the link below. If you’re watching an amateur at the com slash live. You find this link to join timestamp group. So we’re gonna organize this a bit better in the group. Let’s see. I’m getting a beer belly again. Should go running around Fabricio. Is the lockdown on lockdown? It’s very difficult to not get a bit overweight. I can tell you that. But it’s important to work out. That’s what I’m telling you to do. Some pushups on mining. Ivan, you think it’s always interesting in 2020? Is it okay or too late? Well, it’s all about what you might get. You guys don’t only mind bitcoin. Go to what? To mine dot com and figure out what you should be mining. And you can input basically your configuration of mining and then you will get the different like coins you can mine then. Yeah, it’s it’s important. And you can input your your electricity and everything. But look, it’s a very small margin business. It’s not really it’s not really a quick return. You got to also be believing in the future of crypto. And the price appreciating in the future, if you don’t believe if you just want to mine and dump instantly, it’s not going to work out for you very well. Because in that sense, you understand that the market for mining is so efficient because it’s so easy. You literally plug it machine into the outlet and you start mining. So it becomes very, very professional very quickly. So you got to be investing a lot and there are many people also investing a lot. And there are all these smart merchants. People are trying to push the margin. They have a bit better infrastructure, a bit cheaper, cheaper electricity. But look, mining is a business with very small margins. And so whatever coin you pick, by the way. So the only thing you have is the price appreciation in the future. If you want to have like big rewards, it’s only if you believe that the prices are going to go up. And that’s the only way it makes sense to mine. That is why miners are mining at a loss. In many cases, they’re mining on credit. They’re mining on loans. Why? Because they believe in the future. And that’s why the hash power doesn’t go through the floor. When we have a bear market, then the and the prices go down, prices, hashrate still go up because we have better machines with better equipment, we have better A-6. That’s one. But also that the miners are just the for the future. They’re not really dumping a lot. So, yeah. Did you watch Pompe interviewing season? I didn’t. Not not lately. I think maybe in the past. Oh, man. Let’s see if the guys have answered. Oh, yes, they can. Yes, yes. Man, they can come quickly. That’s a good man. The screens. Oh, what’s up with the timestamps, Nikola? Well, we’re doing timestamps. That’s when people watch on YouTube. They can click around. Do you have non-native students who have joined your academy and become a blockchain manager? Yes, we do have nonnative students, for example. Look in our testimonials. Go check Asymptote out here that come and look, for example, of this video about Juleanna. He had not progams, she had no progam experience, joined the academy and now works full time as blockchain developer. So you can watch this full video, how you’re adding blockchain. Blockchain was very new. There was a lot of fundamentals because by the time I. Anyway. Anyway, you can watch the full video, go to kazimir down to the com. Also watch this one. I mean, this one is really a true sign of the success of our academy. I mean, we’re so proud for Joumanah. He works as the head of blockchain in the multibillion dollar Swedish corporation. Ericsson man. I mean, this is this is amazing. This is what we work for. My name is and Francesa and I belong to Ericsson. And I have the pleasure to lead the blockchain forward. For example, you know, when I started in anyway, say you can check yourself. Look, it’s a lot. It’s a lot. A global citizen. Ivan, what is hash bar? Look. Good question. Is the fundamental. Good question. Hash power is how fast we tried to guess the next block collectively. So look, when you’re minding, you’re basically guessing random numbers and you’re hashing that random number with the contents of the block you’re trying to put into the blockchain. All right. So what does this mean, hashing? It means that you run an algorithm that produces a unique fingerprint for that particular block together with the random number. So you need the unique fingerprint for this data collectively. Now, the network has certain rules that you to guess until you get a certain number or a certain fingerprint below below the threshold of difficulty. Now it’s getting a bit technical. You go to Kazimierz, that commu will learn the way better. But I explained to nontheless. So. So you understand that the only way to mine the block is to guess a bunch of numbers. And then each time you get a number, run this hashing algorithm that will produce a unique fingerprint. Until that fingerprint is low enough. That fingerprint is a number. It needs to be below a certain threshold. The only way to get it below a certain threshold is to just guess and run the algorithm again and again. There is no way to predict. There is no way to predict what kind of random number or the so-called nonce, like Vassily says, what it needs to be. You can only guess so. Each such guess and each such run of the algorithm hashing algorithm is basically a you run the hash. So you run their hash. Now hash rate is how many of this guesses we can do collectively as the network, like all deminers, everyone. How many guesses we can do per second. So that is that is hashrate. And look, it’s so big. I don’t even remember like what kind of fight you measure meant to do this. One hundred and thirty six quantrill and hashes per second. So this was in March like the second. So it’s not like the the latest ListString the late. So look we’re talking about quintillion s of these guesses and you understand that’s per second. That’s per second. All right. So you know that it takes six hundred seconds on average to produce the next block to produce because it’s ten minutes. We have ten mean blocks block time, man. Why is it not working? So this basically means that if you have the accurate is like it’s it’s around that number is around that number that we saw on Google. So it’s a what is it. One hundred and thirty six quintillion. That’s per second. Now you’re going to take one hundred and thirty six quintillion times. Times six hundred to get the average amount of guesses needed to to mine the bitcoin block. So it’s one hundred and thirty six quintillion. That’s the hash rate per second times six hundred seconds for ten minutes. And then you get the number of guesses need that the number of times we throw around short-run fifty six to guess the next bitcoin block to get that into the blusher. Nate please email contact that. I will take this call. Thank you so much. Truly appreciate you. I truly, truly appreciate you. OK. I guess that does it. That’s it. Quentin not Quantic. Quintillion. Quintillion. Thanks. Thanks. Are you planning to introduce economic or financial classes? Yes. That’s the next Caesar. Does the next thing we basically need to create the course that explains to Bitcoin from the perspective of the Bitcoin standard. So that’s that’s that’s a very important jimmying. That’s when Superjet, too. Man, I hope tomorrow. We’re so close. If you’ve visited the space yesterday, you already saw that we have it working like it’s working, but it’s still baijiu. But if you’ve visited like during yesterday in the evening, you saw that we had like Super Chesil read it, but it’s so close. Can you see a screen actually are on there just showing off exactly the full moon they’re on and we see a full moon. Ivan needs an economist. Well, we don’t. We need to do a course. Michael teaches a course on the Bitcoin standard, basically, and we need to produce it because it’s a very important course to get people into the mindset of the financials of Bitcoin where you’ll be able to do crypto showboat. Yes. And from the beginning. No, but Ververs soon. Yes. We have everything. It will. You gonna you gonna have like if you gonna have Tron, you gonna have look at enough. We’re gonna have bitcoin because then we’re going to have with zero confirmation or we’re going to have lightning. But man it’s easier with if we’re going to do if the first. Maybe we will do Tron. I don’t know, maybe if Justin some wants a stake in our chat he can purchase and we can do trump payments. I’m joking. I’m joking. Thanks, Ivan. You are the pope is the halo is the hill. Look, you’ve got to find some positivity in the in the situation of the screens going bananas and they are bananas. But I don’t. That’s the good thing, is that the airport screening guests are coming. Okay, guys, thank you so much. Thank you so much for being here yet again. Guys, if you’re watching this on YouTube. I don’t know what you’re doing. I don’t know what you’re doing, to be honest, because you got to go to. I don’t know that com slash line. You’ve got to subscribe right there. You see read subscribe button. You see ellerson. They bolt. You’ve got to press alerts. You’ve got to press stations for telegram. And when you’ve done that, then you truly join the evangelic church. Welcome to the evangelical church. Bob. But Emeritus, says Latham forever. Anyway, guys, thank you so much. I really appreciate that you made it so amazing Monday. Let’s get it started. Final motivation from from the Fed. Let’s see if I can get the sound man and the sound in this. Yeah. Let’s go, guys. Monday, motivation fund. Wait, wait, wait. You don’t see. You don’t see it. Let’s go, let’s go. Yes, yes, yes. That was the sound. I don’t know why it didn’t work. I don’t know why it didn’t work in the beginning. But that is basically the motivation for Gerald Fowler. Yes, yes, yes. Monday, guys, I see old tomorrow, 8:00 p.m. Central European Time. Have a good day and goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. This.

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i’ma yell at the songs that debuted on the billboard hot 100 this year okay

So I’m gonna try to make this post every week because I’m trying to establish some routine for the tumblog, have some point to my social media? Which basically means I’m gonna keep track of every song that blows up enough to get on the Billboard charts and update the Top Ten of 2017 every week so I don’t have to endure the nonsense that was a Hot 100 of 2016 chart that didn’t have “Black Beatles” or “Bad & Boujee” YA GOOFED, BILLBOARD so anyway this’ll be a fun thing to do for two months

i’ma skip the 1/7 chart because there’s still christmas music on there? but i’m considering everything from that point on a 2017 track.

14 January 2017

71) "Moves," Big Sean

The more time I spend with Big Sean, the more I understand what other people might have been seeing in him that has kept him in the collective consciousness this whole time. Like, we gave him enough chances to practice, and he got good! It's impressive! Not everyone gets good!

79) "Seein' Red," by Dustin Lynch

I was gonna make a stink about how typically red lights mean 'stop,' and that is a notable omission in a song about a dude who fantasizes about red, but you know what, this is about as inoffensive as bro country gets. It's not good? But it's not obnoxious, and that hits the ceiling I have for bro country. I would like to point out: in the pre-chorus, bro says "drive this Chevy like a Cadillac." Fun fact! The Cadillac-brand automotives are manufactured by General Motors, which also manufactures Chevrolet-brand automobiles! That is so weird how, in this simile, two cars being manufactured by the same company are being compared! Probably just a coincidence.

80) "iSpy," by KYLE ft./Lil Yachty

This is the bounciest trap single I've heard since "Trap Queen." "I'm just like DeRozan/If I shoot it, it goes in." And just like DeMar DeRozan with his anachronistic game based around an elite mid-range jumper, I don't know how this song works so well, but goddamnit if it's just a pleasure to hear! Both parties have really nice self-deprecating senses of humor, and the hook is the sort of daffy most novelty singles could only dream of achieving. This song is charming! I never thought I'd describe a trap song as charming, but I absolutely fucking love this. What a peculiar little treat!

90) "Think a Little Less," by Michael Ray

I was gonna do this whole thing where I inferred certain beliefs Michael Ray has about women's right to their own bodies given that he has a 100% serious song called "Real Men Love Jesus" and wonder why someone who isn't pro-choice would insist a woman "kiss a little more, think a little less." But you know what? Maybe Michael Ray's cool. Maybe we owe Michael Ray the benefit of the doubt. So I'm not gonna do that whole thing. I'm just not gonna talk about this song anymore because hoo boy is it ever not worth talking about.

95) "No Flockin," by Kodak Black

Imagine making the beat for this song and realizing it has to go to Kodak Black. Hey: I have an idea for a reality show, and y'all can tell me if this has been done, but it's 14 unsigned rappers in a battle to determine who gets to be the first to rap over a new Just Blaze beat, and like in the first episode Just Blaze brings out whatever hip-hop luminaries are at a stage in their career that they have to appear on reality shows (P. Diddy for sure, I bet they could get Cee-Lo, and I can't imagine Salt or Pepa saying no) to affirm that this isn't just some beat Just Blaze made ten years ago that he's pulling out for that executive producer credit, anyone who gets this beat has a hit on their hands, and with the right rapper, it's a no-brainer instant classic. 14 unsigned rappers fighting for one Just Blaze beat in the reality rapping competition we so sorely need.

96) "Timeless," by A Boogie Wit da Hoodie ft./DJ SPINKING

The way the drums come in is really cool. The way he goes off-beat in the bridge, I don't know how into that I am? But I respect that he is making choices.

98) "Way Down We Go," by Kaleo

Gotye 2017 is pretty cool! Nothing will ever top the original, of course, but still a far sight better than Gotye 2015.

99) "Hate U Love U," by Olivia O'Brien

...wait is this j -- okay, well, i guess it's enough to know we can calculate gnash's VORP. this song goes from a 3 to a 6 without that dude.

100) "Shaky Shaky," by Daddy Yankee

This is garbage, but it is incredibly acceptable garbage. It's jubilantly insipid.

21 January 2017

92) "Sober Saturday Night," by Chris Young ft./Vince Gill

So as far as bro country dudes go, this one actually has a decent voice. If pressed, I might be able to pick his voice out of a lineup a week from now! That doesn't mean this song isn't dreck -- oh wow, you stopped partying because a girl left you, how terrible, he's not even drinking! you guys! so sad! -- but, y'know, it's nice to have some variety.

93) "Beibs in the Trap," by Travis Scott

Hey! A song I already know and mostly enjoy! Awesome time-save, right there!

94) "I Got You," by Bebe Rexha

...no thank you

95) "The Weekend," by Brantley Gilbert

oh god this chucklefuck. "Tick tock, I'm on the clock, and I feel like this job's just 9 to 5'n my life away." Brantley Gilbert is 32. He released his debut album when he was 24. Assume he went to all four years of high school and graduated at 18. His Wikipedia page says he has been an active musician since 2005, when he would've been 20. I never knew any 19-year-olds with office jobs but, okay, let's give him the benefit of the doubt, afford him the chance to have worked a shitty temp job while he was gigging or trying to make songwriting happen. He has six years, from when he was 18 to 24, to have worked a 9 to 5. Like, you would think this wouldn't matter to him these days, right? Because he's 32 now, and he has a job he probably likes as a county music star, he has a purported net worth around $10 million, you'd figure he wouldn't be thinking about the time he wasted at his dead-end job. So unless he's just had this song hanging around since he was 23 and is just now getting around to it, how am I supposed to believe this tattoo boy truly ever felt miserable at a 9-5? See, the problem with bro country is, it's dishonest. It comes from a deeply cynical place. This song does not come from a place of deeply felt experience or bold artistic statement, it is a song about something that happens to other people that he and Big Machine can then sell to those other people, and that is just such a profoundly disappointing thing. I promise one day I'm going to talk about something I love as much as I talk about something I don't much care for.

100) "Water," by Ugly God

I love this name you have chosen for yourself! The song... Well, still. What a good name to have picked! You are wearing a sweatshirt that says Hentai and I am proud of what you have been able to achieve in your life's time.

28 January 2017

1) "Shape of You," by Ed Sheeran

"Hey, 2010 Bob!" "Well, hello, Bob! from the future! Been a couple days!" "Been a couple years, actually." "Ha!" "Time travel jokes." "Well, what'd you come here to tell me? Last time, you came from the magical world of 2013 to tell me about all the new Pokemon you had. What does the future have in store?" "In 2017, the best male pop stars alive will be, in order, Bruno Mars, The Weeknd, and Ed Sheeran." "...Um?" "Also Trump becomes president." "What, like Donald?" "I also have new Pokemon for you!" "Oh, dope! But like Donald?" "Oh yeah, and he like instantly becomes a monstrous dictator, too." "...The Apprentice dude?"

6) "Castle on the Hill," by Ed Sheeran

Like legit tho, it's 2017, Ed Sheeran dropped a song with heavy (heavy) U2 influence, and I 100% don't mind it. I also laughed out loud at "Me and my friends have not thrown up in so long, we're so grown." Like this is all he's ever been, but he's a lot better at it now than he was when he started, and he’s become, like, kinda dope?

77) "Location," by Khalid

Always good for someone's long-term prospects when the song gets a Wikipedia page before the singer or any of the five other credited writers, or the three producers. Are the three producers and six songwriters all separate entities? I don't know and won't bother verifying, because all Wikipedia tells me is that nine people worked on this song, and also that when Khalid "heard the beat play, the words flew out," two information bitlets that don't conflict at all. The end product isn't the worst thing I've ever heard, I might end up with this dumb song stuck in my head for a jillion years, but it is just kinda... like, there. There's no climax or anything, it's just, "Send me your location. I'll wait. ...There it is. Coo'." Like fuck, dude, have an emotion or something.

89) "Drinkin' Too Much," by Sam Hunt

There is no way of knowing if I actually heard Sam Hunt's "Drinking Too Much" or not. All's I know is, I'm like 90% sure I heard a bro-country/trap song, and I am not okay with it. Absolutely not. Fuck you, and fuck whoever gave these songwriters a Future tape. This is unacceptable. I don't know who told you you could, but you shouldn't have.

100) "If the Boot Fits," by Granger Smith

BRO COUNTRY CLICHE COUNT Well the word boot is in the title of the song (1), and it's also a part of the chorus so we’ll make that (2), and apparently people come to his shows holding fucking cowboy boots (3) uh-huh yeah totally real America right there, the song begins with the phrase "small town" (4) and a patriarchal admonishment to have the daughter home by midnight (5). Granger Smith, you are 38, you should not be dating women with CURFEWS. Christ. "I wanna watch the sun rise through the pines with ya." Campin' sounds country as fuck (6) and watching the sunrise, it's not specifically a bro country cliche? But it's still a cliche (7). "My carriage is a 4x4 400 horse Chevrolet." Are yo -- okay, (8), and you know what (9) because he specified the horsepower and (10) because he specified the brand, ARE YOU... sure? Granger? Jordan Schmidt? Andy Albert? Mitchell Tenpenny? Frank Rogers? Are you guys okay with what you're doing? Do you go to bed satisfied that you have put good in this world? Are you sure this is what you were put on this earth to do? "My carriage is a 4x4 400 horse Chevrolet." My stars! "Let me show you how a country boy treats a lady." (11), man, that's just a classic. This song isn't even three minutes long, and it manages to pack in that much bad. I don't even care that I spent so much time thinking about something I hated, because you know what, bro country is still a scourge must needs be purged from this earth. Bad things happen when people like me say nothing. MAYBE THERE ARE BETTER FIGHTS TO START BUT THIS 38-YEAR-OLD BOY IS WASTING EVERYONE'S TIME.

4 February 2017

7) "Paris," by The Chainsmokers

Consider Armando Galarraga. He had, quite literally, a negligible major league career from 2007 to 2012. There is a statistc called Wins Above Replacement, or WAR, which purports to calculate exactly how many wins any major league player is worth as opposed to some schmoe a team could pluck from the minor leagues. Armando Galarraga ended his career having accrued 0.4 WAR, going by the website FanGraphs' calculations of the stat. For four years, Armando Galarraga essentially was the replacement player, the guy teams played because they didnt have anyone else. But on 2 June 2010, he was perfect. Not perfect. FanGraphs assigned his game a score of 94, Galarraga only posting three strikeouts, getting most of his outs via grounders. But perfect in the way that baseball defines it, in that he pitched a complete game and retired all 27 batters he faced, plus an extra batter because Jim Joyce made a mistake and baseball, in 2010, didn't afford opportunities to review close calls. No one disputes that Galarraga retired every batter he faced, we all collectively agree Armando Galarraga pitched a perfect game, and this player, who otherwise had a completely unremarkable career, never even pitching in the post-season despite playing for a highly competent Detroit Tigers team for three seasons, did this one beautiful thing and made himself unforgettable. The next time he pitched, he threw five innings and gave up a two-run home run to Mark Kotsay, and no one was disappointed because they were pretty sure they had an idea of Armando Galarraga's true talent level. This song is meh, is what I'm trying to say.

43) "T-Shirt," by Migos

Fun fact! Production of this track was handled by an entity named XL and the duo of Nard & B, who also produced a track for Future's 2014 album Honest called "T-Shirt!" This "T-Shirt" is a different song from Future's, I listened to both and can confirm that they are different, but my question to you is: are they?

77) "Not Afraid Anymore," by ft./Halsey

Why does having sex with Halsey sound like God and Satan fighting for control of all that is? Like, the grand sense of self-importance which Halsey brings to the table really served "Closer" well, because that song needed someone to insist that we're NOT. EVER getting older. The way she growls those words to the end? I could cry, it’s so good. But on this song, it's like, y'all know sex is fun, right? It doesn't always have to be like this? You're prolly gonna have it again, maybe calm down about it for a second? And more importantly, was I supposed to come into this song knowing what "hit the sin" means? I Googled that phrase. It doesn't even yield the AZ Lyrics page for this song. This phrase doesn't exist, dawg. Is. Is it the butt? You need to explain these things which did not hitherto exist!

88) "Despacito," by Luis Fonsi ft./Daddy Yankee

The thing about Latin pop is, it's a world I only understand through what gets shown to me on the Billboard charts, and that's unfair to that world, because Latin pop is a much nicer vision of the world than American pop. This is such a nice song! The way he sings DES. PA. CI. TO. is incredible, Daddy Yankee doesn't get too "Shaky Shaky" on this (I'm not even gonna try to judge Daddy Yankee as a rapper given how out of my depth I am in terms of any music evaluation, but he seems on point), it just, it hums along at a nice clip. Also the English translation of this song I found says this song has the line "We will do it on the beach in Puerto Rico 'til the waves scream 'Dear lord!'" THIS IS A SONG ABOUT FUCKING SO RIGHT THAT YOU MAKE THE OCEAN NERVOUS. GOD YES.

95) "Not Nice," by PARTYNEXTDOOR

So, here's the peril of wanting to listen to and have opinions on all the new pop music, apart from forcing myself to have reactions to things that may not be reflective of my true feelings: I will sometimes have to look at this and think, well what do I do about this? It's a nice song. I really dig the beat. I don't mind the dude's voice. The lyrics aren't wholly offensive. But like. I gotta say something about it, right? "Um, maybe I will try the party next door, thank you for the suggestion." That'd be a killer line, but I don't dislike this song! But no one wants to hear “don’t dislike.” I have to go one way or the other. Kaizo level or troll level. 1000 degree hot knife or Frozen Ana Elsa Trolls. I can’t just be a person who hears something and forgets it. Everything has to matter. This needs to matter for it to be content.

98) "Black," by Dierks Bentley

I've long defended Dierks Bentley as one of the good ones, but, um, you know it takes two people to fuck, right dude? Okay, insist she make your world go black. What are you gonna do for her? Whatcha bringin' to the table, Dierks? I used to work guest service at a Target store, and my man, if you wanna do an even exchange, best believe you oughta bring your receipts. "DRUNK ON A PLANE" NOTWITHSTANDING I do not for a second think the quality of your dick is so unimpeachable that you can make demands like this!

99) "Down," by Marian Hill

This is nice! Like, in the alternate universe where Harry Potter didn't blow all the way the hell up but still got big enough for a CW adaptation, this would definitely be the theme song. That's what this song is, a quirky jam for a very British teen soap. I really dig this, this is a refreshing change of pac -- Oh. Oh, okay, so that's a thing you decided to do. Alright. Well, we had some fun here. I appreciate that you are trying to accomplish things, and I acknowledge that others may find you succeeded.

So these are the top ten singles of 2017 so far:

10) “Seein’ Red,” by Dustin Lynch (yeah it’s bad, but there’s only like 17 songs, there’s one song on this list i’d be 100% okay with still seeing in the top ten in december) 9) “Moves,” by Big Sean 8) “Down,” by Marian Hill 7) “Timeless,” by A Boogie Wit da Hoodie ft./DJ SPINKING 6) “Beibs in the Trap,” by Travis Scott 5) “Castle on the Hill,” by Ed Sheeran 4) “Way Down We Go,” by Kaleo 3) “Shape of You,” by Ed Sheeran 2) “Despacito,” by Luis Fonsi ft./Daddy Yankee 1) “iSpy,” by KYLE ft./Lil Yachty