A new way of doing transactions how we can and interact with each other he spoke about a way that we no longer would be limited or controlled by people who never respected us anyway so i think some of the leftovers of the or residuals of this current environment is is is is kind of spilled over into this new world that were creating but thats going to thats going to go away also 2018 continues the i. C. A. O. Boom in fact more money was raised and 2018 then the epic amounts raised in 2017 in the 1st 3 months of the year a total of 6300000000. 00 is raised and i see. Q one saw 59 percent as many i. C. s raise capital as all of 2017 by september 2800. 00 there was over 13000000000. 00 raised for a. Mishal coin offerings these are genuinely magic internet money its just fabricated at a thin air sure because the market was beginning to deflate but people were not believing the bull market might be over so they were buying into it still quite aggressively and its always the case is that when these bull markets start to roll over the 1st 1020 percent drop is usually met with skepticism you know its just a little bit of a pause and well be right back to the shortly and money kept piling in of course and seem cheap if you like the 2021121600 extension 0 there were by this time in 2018146 Crypto Hedge Funds they exploded onto the scene and 2018 this compares to in 2012 there were just 9 crypto based hedge funds the correction in 2018 was in part due to the fact that we started to actually financial eyes because i mean in a negative way we started to have coin lending that wasnt backed by the actual coins we started to see i think ation come into and we havent even seen the big wall street money yet weve just seen wall street money from hedge funds on the edges but wait till the big wall street money comes in then its then then its actually going to be even more surprised suppressed at the price suppression comes from the fact that there are folks that are accepting a big point iou as if its the real thing when we store our big and in exchange what we own is not decline its of a quaint iou and we have no idea whether the exchange has as promised more of those than they actually have in their reserves but all that said i think in the long run though all of these firms who are playing this 3 card monte game with decline will end up being wrecked in the next bear market sure the Crypto Hedge Fund is a big again from wall street and they generally show up late stage in the cycle and theres a lot of activity. And a lot of easy money can be raised and a lot of bad bets can be made and a lot of tears can be shed and it all happens quite quickly and the evidence of this would be found in the lambo dealers marketing directly to crypto holders you know they would fully expect at that point lamborghini to come out with a model expressly for a bit going or as you know thats how much speculation that this was driving into the lamborghini market and. You know when you have the shots on the new lamborghini dealers talking about the latest investment craze dads generally top i remember in the 87 stock market they had a lot of reports of course dealers getting a lot of orders from the instant wealthy yuppies in 20 somethings on wall street of which i was one of them and that was the top of that market most people joining during the bubble cycle when our industry is an air force one on board people into this new thing. And then shortly often we get a crash and weve always seen in big corning typically. 80 to 90 percent correction in some cases. But eventually that drives out all the forwards and all the people that were meant to be here and we focus on building and making Better Technology and Better Solutions and better ways of them boarding and that eventually leads to another. Big point history is always going to new highs so you were also around during the dot com bubble and burst and during that time what a lot of ordinary companies did in order to attract that hysterical capital was they added dot com to their name whatever the company was they were just add dot com here were seeing at the same Time Companies starting to add block chain to their name Long Island Iced Tea company as a block chain to their name and what happens of course at the same time the price of their stock does soar on the news of them adding blocks into their. Well heres a crazy story from the Financial Press how people are like literally theres a mental breakdown here commodities expert is nonsense and ill never buy any 2 months later i bought stock in a fake block Chain Company that was exposed as a fraud and dropped 33 percent in a single day that was it was a lot tweeting about Dennis GartmanDennis Gartman is a very well known guy on wall street he writes the gartman newsletter lots of big banks here on wall street buy his newsletter for his expertise on commodities he was on c n b c 2 months ago dissing hard how because wayne is nonsense and ill never buy any well apparently he had to inform his investors that hes basically made a disasters that lost big time on riots a blot chain remember this it was like a Biotech Company that suddenly out of the blue changed their name to a riot block and that they were going to become a block Chain Company instead and their share price like soared. Anyway 2018 we saw block stream launched a Payment Processing system with retailers block stream also noted that lightning was live on main that with 60 nodes operating as of january 18th 2018 and should be considered in testing lightning is a way to move because its very very quickly its for payments so you can essentially spend your because instantly and with very minimal fees it is the key to opening up a circular economy where people can start earning and spending fluidly so Lightning Network is this new layer that has been built on top of that coin its actually very similar to the layers that comprise the internet itself where the base layer of the internet is this global flooding broadcast mechanism which. Would never be able to scale to the levels that we see today with the internet so instead of the way that the internet was scaled was by building other layers on top that make it more efficient specifically layers that allow you to route data so that it is going through a minimal number of nodes on that network to reach its final destination Lightning Network works in the same way where we are we are entering into a bit coy in the block chain as the base layer but then building a router the route of networks on top of it so that if you want to send a payment to someone on lightning instead of having to broadcast to the entire network like you do with bitcoin on the main block chain instead you are only talking to a few you know and really finding the shortest path to get to your final destination know that youre trying to pay every time youre broadcasting your transaction to the because network you talk to everyone its like if you want to go youre calling every single friend and saying im going out now but with lightning youre only talking to who you need to talk to when youre going to buy a coffee youre youre paying the person you want to pay in a channel running through a few other parties but its just one channel not to the entire network the way we look at this is that. Everybody collateralize in their apple shares or you know theres their stock in there or their gold purchase in india in big point is going to drive massive amounts of transactions onto the big block and if a 1000000000 people were going to try to do this next month this is them would collapse it couldnt handle it now whats great about what you were talking about lightning is that it provides a scale ability layer that levels the Playing Field for access right because bitcoin wasnt really designed to be a universal payment layer that everybody could just publish their 10. 00 transaction on to it cant handle it right because it is actually very inefficient but it was designed to be decentralized not efficient thats the price of the central is a. Lightning actually adds a layer of efficiency on top thats not decentralized per se but in theory is almost as secure and allows us to publish a 10. 00 apple share purchase using bitcoin for example and so we need that level of innovation to make this scale to millions of people thats thats why im super excited about some of these new technologies coming out. So you say that brings us to the end of the series if we could just let joe say merino walk away and say we decided to treat stuff post to a very special farewell. We walk along and. At this time to go back to the. Body. We were. The only thing i didnt enjoy was my eyes. My dancing. On ice. Well actually we nailed it literally. Paradise with a round into a round the experimentation field cultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants theres no question otherwise why would the Chemical Company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals. 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Well so Lightning Network solves the scale ability issue this is solved by slow builders who are building a Solid Foundation for the entire ecosystem of bitcoin big coin itself is layer one layer one needed to be secure safe and solid increasing the block size would have made it less safe than had we increase the block size now that the civil war is over Lightning Network can happen it can build layer 2 upon layer one just like our global system around us which is built upon gold which is layer one of the Global Financial system good analogy thats exactly right so you have the basic foundation a break on which a solid improve themselves with 99. 999 percent up down and now we have layer 2 transactions that are tied to bed coin and lightning is a good example of that in lightning and looks like its a winner on march 15 2018 lightning labs c. E. O. Elizabeth stark announced the initial release of l. And d. 0. 4 beta for developers with the intent of making it available for testing purposes on the mean big Queen Network prior to even decor and id always wondered you know why do you easily just say and money to people on the internet why is it so difficult you know if i hear a song i like just give that person say you know a dollar or read an article or a blog post or watch a video wise or not is native way value money on the internet. And im sure many of you know early you know the creators of the web envisioned in the early ninetys that there would be this native value and payment layer for the internet for 2 error code but it never came to fruition back then you know we had things like charming eke out. And there were a variety of potential proposals but at the end of the day they were centralized and of course as we know centralization comes all sorts of negative implications. So when i 1st heard about decline i thought wow ok heres finally this way for people to needlessly transact to finally you know to credit underrated the internet of money but of course it turns out you know the decentralized nature means that if you can have 5. 00 to 10. 00 transactions per 2nd because you want to maintain that the centralisation well thats not going to be able people to transact instantly immediately so much like a layered architecture of the internet the idea that equipment have this layered architecture made a lot of sense to me and kind of knowing about the way that the internet of all so thinking about the transaction layer from a quite in this native way to transact you know why is it so easy right now for me to send a photo in any out interoperable standard why dont we have this interoperable standard for money and value and thats really what i see lightning out so this is when the term reckless came around because it was very much like the very very early days of bitcoin especially the 2009 and 10 when there were all sorts of bugs being found a 184000000000 big quite imprinted its experimental there is a caution in the basic when world people dont for good reasons cause people to lose money. And so there there was this sort of Rebellion Movement against called the reckless mean that came up on. Twitter. And weve kind of been on the wreck the side of well not always encouraging customers but at least you know taking risks ourselves and i think that from a company standpoint you know the really reckless thing is not exposing your products to customers so that maybe you spend a bunch of money building something that nobody wants right well you know the culture of technology in america comes out of the Aerospace Business to a large degree and that gave us the. Test pilots and the astronauts and men living on the moon the builders of the cern particle accelerator in switzerland some would argue are being slightly reckless because they could in fact create a black hole in switzerland will gobble up all of our known reality right that seems reckless to me and yet they go ahead and do it because thats what we need to get to the next state of our consciousness and our global consciousness and our collective unconsciousness of whats bitcoin is a native currency of our collective unconscious our collective unconscious is also found on twitter where we all sputter and spout our words and i bring that up because jack dorsey in march of 20000 is revealed as investing in lightning labs Elizabeth Starks company he mentions lightning and that he likes it and so youre getting those visionaries those thinkers those more of a Silicon Valley big ideas guy starting to say and jack dorsey himself says that on stage at consensus that big queen is. Money for the internet and that its the future. So from april 2800 to august 28th the big coin Lightning Network had a monthly growth rate of 15 percent the number of nodes increased from 15023000 the number of channels increased from 4211000 we are seeing know the transition from big as a unit of account to. So as big going gets 200008 110000000. 00 per bitcoin people are going to be referring to this a toshiba which is 100. 00 millionth of a bit coin interims of the 2nd layer and the importance of that to be queen as a unit of account i think its quite interesting that brad sherman this week. Actually said. The u. S. Dollar is a unit of account and its i mean if you know how we ended up with the fiesta. So writing on top of gold that Credit System and all that stuff was built as a 2nd layer essentially on gold and yes that 2nd layer system whereby you know gold a sort of Foreign Office and the bank of england. That the nodes those are the nodes in the gold system that allowed this global trade to emerge but it was always subject to cheating because its a centralized ledger so now we have a decentralized ledger lightning and now big point because of lightning and thats the stuff that will follow it does allow the going to threaten the whois dollar as a unit of account i say you know because it is a millennial retirement account right like a lot of my friends is like no they dont necessarily have the traditional means they dont trust your additional Financial System and theres a good reason for that and its not just generational but you know a lot of us in the wake of say you know 8 and we say we dont trust these institutions and we know longer have faith in systems that previously you know people put a lot of faith into so you know my going to trust something that is backed by you know a global you know decentralized community and system that is not dependent upon any one nation so you are my going to back something you know that you know in the past you know had a lot of issues in may in the future you know fail in a variety of ways like im going to put my feet in the global the centralized technology at the end of the day right when gold was used as money people were able to hold onto a store of value and. Think about the long term think about the future and that in turn led to a much better way in which humans cooperate to one another lived in peace with the world where more creative where more productive accumulated capital got for its own and whereas you see the opposite happen in periods where money is destroyed because when money is destroyed you know money is not expected to hold onto its value so people dont save much for the future they dont think much of the future they start thinking more and more of the day to day existence and that entire focus of this is making whether its personal or with others shifts towards the short term more and more and that leads to more conflict than needs to you know short termism capital consumption and. Increasing consumption drop in the us and saving. A good asian all of it can almost situation but also the all aspects of individual life in terms of peoples focus on the short run versus the long run and so bitcoin is an astonishing achievement for me because its an Online Technology that is essentially open for everyone around the world to access that allows them to use the hardest money ever invented and therefore allows everyone to shift their time preference