Yo-yo, what up? What up?
Good morning. Good morning, MG.
What day? What day is it?
It's Wednesday. Whoa.
Hump day, right? Is that hump day?
Wednesday. Hump Day.
Wednesday June 5th, 2020 look at that another beautiful day to
have a beautiful day. The sun is shining, sorry
shining in Montreal, Canada. Here I go my Co host in the
house Tyler Mando. How you guys doing this morning?
Good morning. I'm doing amazing man, how are
you? Fantastic.
How you doing Tyler? Doing well.
It's overcast here, but how could you be gloomy when the
boomers are buying all the Bitcoin?
Yeah, to the tune of a billion jillion dollars, billions,
billions and billions and billions and billions.
Now you love to see it. You love you love to see when
the boomers are are piling into our our Bitcoin absolutely love
to see it. So it is what do we got for
y'all today on the show today, today.
I mean, look, as usual, daily market report crypto macro, all
that good stuff. I mean it's looking good.
We held up above 70 K this time Mando, will this be the big
breakout? Let's see that let's see that
will this be some people seem to think no, you know, you got on
some side. I saw Mando quote tweeting on
some saying, yeah, you know, it may go lower because that's how
it happens. You chop suey and then you pump
and then you got the other side of the of CT more on the no
straight up, you know, so I'm I'm on that side.
So so we'll, we'll, we'll see where we're at.
In this case, FDX reaches $200 million tax time with the IRS.
You have B&B hitting an all time high, not a solo timeline
talking about it, which I find really interesting.
I saw Kaleo a few other people mentioning it, but it's actually
pretty wild talking about not a lot of coins hitting highs.
Solana and market cap now B&B as well and Bitcoin, of course.
So love to see that. What else do you got?
You got a bunch of stuff going on, Starkwear paradigm, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, big inflow day, nearly a billion
dollars in one freaking day at $70,000.
So even at even at a billion, even at 70 K, the boomers like
are a Bitcoin. And then Tyler's top five today
will go out with Tyler, but I'm sure he's got a whole lot of
stuff to talk about today as usual, because I mean, shit, you
know, stuff is popping right on time now.
We even have Vitalic. We have Vitalic boys weighing in
on the the celebrities right now.
I didn't expect to see this the first thing I woke up this
morning. Vitali, you mentioned in the
studio and you're going to talk about it today, but I didn't
even wake up thinking, hey, Vitali's going to give us two
cents on the celebrity meme coin Meadow.
But he did it's. Just a wild take, like we'll,
we'll get into it, but it's just a wild one.
We'll, we'll get into that. So we're being right.
We're, we're, we're being railed back in to talk about it, you
know, Phantom offering big jobs, etcetera, for, for, for, for
reply guys, yadda, yadda, yadda. And then we'll be joined a
little later by Redbeard, the great red beard Benny, good
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Basel. Go figure.
In Switzerland, taking off Sunday personally and getting
there on Monday morning. But Ragweda is doing an event on
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Can you dig it? Yeah, So GM, we, we did have a
strong day yesterday, particularly on the Bitcoin
side. So Bitcoin saw just shy of 900
million of inflows. It's the second highest net
inflow day I think ever for the ETF.
So a very, very big figure, obviously driven by Fidelity,
BlackRock. And this kind of culminates, I
think this is now 16 straight days of inflows and just doing
the math in my head, it should be around 3 billion of, of
inflows over that period. So a huge, huge period of of
inflows and you know, it's good to see it's picking up.
I was kind of, I was kind of surprised at how big that
because before that if you look at what we've been seeing, it's
been kind of 50 to 100 for the whole of the last week.
It's been just quiet small inflows.
And this, this is very, very large.
So yeah, very, very good for ECF inflows there.
And there Bitcoins kind of rallied back up to that the top
end of that range. It's it's kind of hit, hit it
again. It it hit it, it, it actually,
it actually did hit it again. Here, let me pull up my
astrology ratings. See, it's.
Really. For probably 12th time it hit
71.3, retreated again. It's kind of wild how many times
it's hit that and then and then now we're kind of hanging out
just above 70 K Interesting. It was mainly Bitcoin.
So he said ETH has kind of still been hanging out, hasn't really
kicked on. EPTC has kind of headed a little
bit lower and Solana has had a a decent day back, I think like
172. But yeah, this felt like a
Bitcoin liberally. And then I would say memes are
mixed, like they're kind of where they they're not
underperforming, outperforming. They're kind of where they've
been Pepe's kind of where it was with is kind of where it was mug
kind of where it was. So there's I think the top three
people kind of have eyes on and then you just have random ones
which are just like up a crazy amount.
I think that Tyler will get into some of those.
But yeah, it's I would just say memes are mixed.
And then all coins, all coins actually have have interestingly
not had the most terrible week or so.
Like while memes slow down, you should take a look at, you know
that gaming coin that you have in your wallet.
Like gaming's had an OK week. Interestingly, like a bunch of
different coins are up a decent amount and then you saw quite a
lot of things in the ETH ecosystem, even the D5 ecosystem
have a decent week. So this has not been a bad week
for altcoins. It's basically what I'm saying.
It's been it's been quiet, but quiet for salon.
Well, salon has kind of bounced back, but like this is the
environment where B&B has come back up and everyone's like, how
the hell is this at 700? Like there's a bunch of altcoins
where you're looking at them and going like, oh, actually, like
they've moved in the last week while meme coins have slowed
down. So you've seen a bit of an
altcoin rally, I'd say, and that in particular is things like
gaming different L ones like Tong coin or or yeah, I can find
two different different smaller L ones moved.
BNB obviously got the most of the headlines and then and then
maybe just some AI stuff has moved.
So yeah, go check out whatever alts you own.
They're probably they probably had a decent week 1 meme coins
and and even some of the majors have been quiet apart from apart
from Bitcoin in yeah. No, go on, go on.
I was going to double down the BNB stuff which is crazy, but go
on. Yeah, well, that is kind of the
big one of the biggest stories here.
Like it's caught a lot of people off guard.
Remember this was this was getting threaded down to to 0
this time last year, the the sharks were circling with a 5050
page thread on why it's a massive scam and then kind of
hung out at 200. There was all that talk about
they have all these loans at 200 that are about to go under and
then now it's at 700, so. You mean Adam Cochran's 500
tweet threads? Is that what you mean I.
Didn't name any names. There is a lot of speculation
that this is partly due to the fact that CZ is in is in jail
right now. So he may have been sitting on
the offer of selling BNB over this, over this period and
suddenly now it's absolutely ripped.
I don't think it's that. I think BNB finance, if you look
at the actual data well. Look at this chart.
It was really being challenged for market share like this time
last year, like every single month it was like, oh, these
people are gaining, gaining, gaining on Binance.
And then it's it's switched it right round.
The fact that it seemingly has been given not a staff of
approval, but it's not been shut down over past actions meant
that BNB has really come into its own.
And you've you still see huge amount of users on BNB even
during the like the depths of the bear.
BNB sees decent users mainly on the gaming side of things.
And obviously gaming, you get a lot of bots.
So it's difficult to work out like who's actually using BNB,
but it's definitely more Asia focused.
But yeah, back up at 700. Remember, this is kind of so so
why would you own B MB? B MB is kind of is a chain.
So obviously there back at the last cycle, it was where a lot
of the meme coins were happening, right?
Pancake swap that. Was crazy.
Right. Was like the number one place
for memes. That was the Solana basically of
the last cycle. Like you had coins every single
5 minutes. And there have been some memes
this cycle on Pancake that have done a lot of BMB, which have
done OK. The other thing is gaming.
They have a huge amount of games and BNB is like the ecosystem
for a ton of those different games.
And then the third thing is the launchpad.
So, and this is probably one of the one of the main things or
was the main thing, the launchpad coins have not done
that well this cycle. But generally you have to stake
your BNB to get a chance at a new coin coming out.
So similar to what Jupiter's doing at the moment with the,
you know, with the LFG launchpad, like if you stake
your Jupiter coins, you get access.
So you get like launchpad partner coins by staking it.
So there's, it makes sense, you know, even if you're not using
it, there's, there's different ways.
Even if you're not using the chain, you could just own it and
then hopefully get new coins as they, as they get issued.
It would help if some of their coins didn't go to 0.
But at the moment, you know. It would help if some of those
coins didn't go to 0. They, they put a lot of crap and
they've, they seemingly have tried to clean up their acts and
maybe even now the idea they're going to try and launch like
better coins has been something that's maybe.
A. Little bit higher so so it makes
it a a stronger, a stronger case.
So B and BS really been a slow creeper of a story.
But that literally since C ZS conviction, which was November,
maybe last year. That was just before the Bitcoin
ETF was approved, right? So maybe December or November.
Yeah, that that's not a 3X, just doing a 3X.
Impressive, man, it's impressive.
I mean, just this week, the weekly candle's $100 candle on
on being me thus far and and the weekly so far, it opened at 600
on the dot. So, so it's that's not bad.
You look at it three months ago it was trading half of that.
So so it's. You've been following this not
coin thing as well. Yeah.
You want to go more into that? Yeah, so not coin is like a is
the ton coin effectively meme coin and it might have some like
gaming applications as well. But this thing's gone really
wild. It has since over the last
month, it has done a 4X or 5X over the last month.
It's now at two 2 1/2 billion. Yeah, it's the corner of like
Telegram games. Like it's insane.
There's so Andrew at the crypt. He's actually been following it
for a long time and he's been writing about it and actually
six hours it was another article about it and it's actually
insane. Like that community is crazy,
dude. Like there's literally the most
the second or third, first, second or third.
I forgot top three most viewed article in the crypt last month
was an article with not coin that they ended up because he
wrote about it, then ended up sharing it in their telegram,
the group, whatever, and the article went crazy.
So that's how it went on my radar last month.
Should have bought it, right, because I saw I saw the stats on
the media and I was like, dude, it's the most read article, even
more read than the Solana meme coin that of like burning
himself. So, so yeah, so I don't know.
Did you did you buy that one Mandel?
Because that's, that's crazy. No, I mean, I didn't think a
meme. This is essentially a meme coin
that's gone to like 2.1 billion. It's not included in a lot of
the meme coin list, but that's kind of how this is.
And actually the Telegram founder, similar to like Shib
where Vitalik got some, the Telegram founder owns like a ton
of this. He was like he was given to him
like something like 5 to 10% of the supply.
So he's like half shilling it. But yeah, ton hadn't been listed
on Binance yet, at least for futures and then not coin got it
listed first. So you've got a huge amount of
interest. And then I think Tonkorn is now
been listed for futures. But that E whole ecosystem, if
you're talking about like, Oh yeah, we're all we all do, like
Solana ETH, that's kind of a Bitcoin ton and BNB, they're
slow focus, man. They're just, they've been going
this cycle and they're they're doing well.
So definitely need to pay attention.
They're Asian cookers, bro, like fucking it's cooking out there
in Asia. Like a lot of people are
involved in Taun, like Andrew Kent was talking about it a lot
early on. But when I was out there in Hong
Kong a couple times, they like it there.
They like the coin. They like they like the coin.
I mean, Telegram is the main app.
Like no, it's just WeChat everything.
But you know, Telegram is the app, right?
It's the it's a super app. Did you guys watch the I hate to
watch it? The Carson, it's Carson Turner,
right? Carson, Tucker Carlson Tucker
Carlson interview with the Telegram founder.
I I haven't seen it, but I know his story pretty well.
But yeah, it's. Impressive.
A lot of because he's obviously based in in Dubai.
I think a lot of people out there did well from the initial
launch. Like it like it was also, it's
like a big foundation launch and everyone did well because
remember Ton coin Telegram? I tried to do a coin in the past
and it got done for being an ICO.
And then then they went down this like foundation route, like
the kind of more above board route that people go down and a
lot of people cooked. A lot of people cooked.
And you know, it's got hundreds of millions of users.
Telegram. Yes.
It's like the equivalent of. I don't know if WhatsApp had a
coin or if. But bigger because it's bigger
than WhatsApp. I miss had a coin, you know like
this thing and this thing could really be a big deal.
The only, the only real risk is if yeah, there is a lot of talk
about the fact that after after Tiktok, Telegram will be next as
the thing that could be banned because it's a Russian, it's a
Russian founder living in the UAE.
And and the actual algorithm behind the the security, you
know how it's like end to end encryption and WhatsApp and you
feel safe about that. But actually the government
could just say to Facebook, hey, give me the data.
The idea is that they're not. They're not able to crack their
encryption and it's far more difficult to get that data out
of Telegram so. Are you making conspiracies up
again? No, this has been talked about a
lot, which is weird as well because this guy, if you
actually know his story, he got kicked out of Russia for
refusing to give this data to Putin.
He refused. And then essentially then Putin
just like kicked him out and he took the data anyway.
But but yeah, he's it's, it's funny that you know, the US is
going to come after him, but. Yeah, I mean, it's impressive
what's happening there. So there's plays, there's plays
everywhere. But but it's good to see another
coin finally make an all time high.
You know, it's been a while, you know, like we've been talking a
lot about how it's just Bitcoin. Yeah, Solana did market cap.
I get it, you know, and now and now with with BNB cooking.
I just love the whole thing of like BNB Actually, Binance was
never insolvent. They did well.
CZ only got hit with like four to six months.
Nothing BN BS at all time high. It's like peak bear market.
You have like Adam Cochran, Mike Alfred, all these big people
like spreading so much fun like Mando.
You actually used to go at it on the show and even on the
timeline when you're like, dude, like this is bullshit.
Like you're like, you know, like causing even more like thought
on the timeline around this stuff.
And turns out it ain't so bad after all, isn't it?
Right. So, so I just thought that was
ironic, you know? Yeah.
I mean, Cochrane basically was got caught being super long FDX,
right? And then basically had recency
bias and just thought everything was the next FDX and yeah, and
it wasn't so wrong again. But yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, anyways, that was funny. The other thing and I I want to
go to you Tyler on the on the on the on the Tyler top five and
everything are going on. But did you guys see Gary
Gensler was on TV this morning and he had to answer a question
of why there shouldn't be a bulk ETF.
You guys got to watch this clip. I.
Did see this as I went. Went live, you hear?
Is a natural. And.
Osmosis, these are trading. Hold on, this is great. 2
millions of dollars these things are trading.
Shouldn't we have it? Shouldn't we have some sort of
product? Let me let me say something more
broadly about the crypto markets right now without prejudging
anyone. These tokens, whether they're
the ones Jim listed or other tokens have not given you the
disclosures that you not only need to make your investment
decisions, but also that are required by the law.
It's a basic concept in our securities market.
We the SEC tomorrow we're turning 90.
Happy Birthday SEC 90 and. What President?
Roosevelt did is he created this Commission to oversee that you
the investors get disclosure and in the crypto markets they
aren't giving you that disclosure.
And secondly, that exchanges like like here, this floor of
the New York Stock Exchange, I love.
That check against fraud. Manipulation.
Pretty much explain to people why they can't be a bunk ETF and
and apparently Kramer was on there acknowledging the fight as
a Kramer coin. But not only that, out of that,
I'm not going to play the whole clip because like 2 minute clip,
but it. Looks like 150 and he's talking
about Roosevelt passing regulation.
Roosevelt. Roosevelt had had the foresight
to think of crypto here like it's just a wild thing.
He could not look more boomer than a guy who looks 150 going
on TV and saying hey remember Franklin D Roosevelt?
He gave us the tools to regulate fucking Gensler coins, isn't?
That dude. I know dude.
Like the the unbelievable like fallacy in in what you're what
you're talking about here. Like, it's just so wild to have
that stance. He also had yes he was on squawk
bar saying note that he pivoted from all tokens to securities to
tokens lack proper disclosure. So worth noting that pivot and
then obviously he started like telling people why there can be
other ETFs. But then theory Maximus here
mentioned should also be pointed out.
They confirmed ETF approval and made it clear the S ones are are
being worked on for those pushing narrative that the SEC
may deny the S1. So again, again, Gansler's
showing his hand here and almost like not almost he changed the
narrative again, like straight change.
And then of course pointing out the 90 year old thing.
So you know what's funny? He actually pointed out the
whole flaw. We're still operating with a 90
year old rule. For today's, you know,
cryptocurrency anyways, Tyler. How old was Roosevelt when he
came up with that rule? Roosevelt must.
Roosevelt died I believe around that time.
Like he, he died early, right? He died just after World War 23.
Exact of 1933. So how old was Rule 50?
Five when he came up with that. So a 55 year old man in 1933
came up with a rule about Gensler coin?
Like what the fuck are we talking about here?
This is. So absurd there's no other
words. Go on, Tyler.
Let's hear from you. Tyler, what?
What do you make of of Gary Gensler, what Mando's talking
about? And let's hear what you got in
store for us today. But what do you make of this
conversation you've been having? Yeah, I mean, it's with, with
Gensler, he's just, he's trying to find something, right?
Just to, to stay in the forefront of the conversation.
And now it's disclosures and, you know, not warning investors
enough. I I, I'm just kind of tired of
this rhetoric at this point. Ready for on to the next
chapter. It's it's funny that this is
happening at the same time and he's talking about the SE CS
90th birthday to Salt Lake City or, or two days ago after their
botched debt box case that they lost and and everyone quit or
got fired so that they're not having the the best week over
there at the SEC. Yeah, it's.
Yeah, there's a whole. Yeah, I saw there's like a I saw
more bad. I mean, they're look, they're
they're they're I'm I'm really curious to see if they're going
to end up like just getting hammered on all the lawsuits
with with the different exchanges and stuff or if
they're just going to like kind of let go on that because it's
not looking great. It must be grim work at this.
Imagine waking up in morning, going to work at the SEC knowing
that you have like an army of online people, trolls just like
hanging on you all day long. It's something else.
But anyways. Yeah.
So I mean, I was kind of living that life for a little bit at
the end of my consulting career, I got deeper into like risk and
compliance and it was helping institutions set up anti money
laundering programs. And I just, I got, I just got so
caught up in the details, you know, you just go through the
motions on a daily basis. And then I had this kind of this
epiphany. It's like, is this, this is what
I wanted to spend my time doing this like setting up all this
red tape. It like doesn't even make sense.
It doesn't even prevent, you know, the, the mass money
laundering that's already happening in the financial
system. And I went down deep into the
crypto ramp hole. And of course, now, now I'm here
in a pretty big 180, but I mean, I can't imagine exactly what
that life is like because because I've lived something
similar and it's not, it's not fun.
It's not fun. Oh, man, Tyler.
Speaking of, I mean not fun. Speaking of fun, Speaking of
fun, because this stuff we got, the rest of the stuff is fun.
What the hell is going on on the timeline?
Tell us, what's the big top five?
Yeah, I mean #1 Mando hit like Bitcoin runs to 71,000 on
massive ETF inflows and then we saw BNP outperform reaching
$700.00 and $100 billion market cap with CZ in jail.
Next up, mother past 100 million hit a new all time high at 120
million market cap. Leading Vitalic of all people to
weigh in on the celeb meme coin craze.
Spoiler, he doesn't like it. We saw punks in NFT world fall
below 38th for the first time in years.
So that's the big headline there.
In broader crypto, we've got phantom and along the the meme
coin lines, they're hiring a social media intern focused just
on memes and reply guiding for 120,000 to 140,000 per year.
And just like the most apartment sign of the times.
And then in broader in the meme coin market, we've got Floki.
Floki up 22% after DWF Labs promised to market make it with
12 million bucks. We saw this beer token jump 100%
to 500 million and that makes it like a top 12 meme coin.
I've seen no one talk about it. Multiple runes are up 40 to 100%
Over on Bitcoin though, Dog the leader is taking a breather.
So that's that's the quick rundown.
The leader is taking a breather. What a what a rundown.
So let's, I mean, dude, let's start from the top.
Let's talk about the celebrity meme coins again.
His mother went over 100 mil. It is like $98 million, dude,
congratulations. Seriously, to everybody who
cooked up that tray because I don't, I know there's a lot of
people who made money on that tray because whether you bought
at the Lowe's in the middle, you, you, you probably made
money on the way up. But, but let's see, we are, I'm
going to bring red beard up on here too.
Red beard because red beard is like a red beard is, is our
chief, you know, left curve officer here.
But but Tyler run me through what's going on with Vitalic
here. Was celebrating the Bitcoin
ETFs. The talk was arguing against
celebrity meme coins. So he responded to a Chris
Berniske post talking about the mother token breaking into value
creation. The talk replied and I'm quoting
here. I'm feeling quite unhappy with
this cycles celebrity experimentation so far.
Financialization is a means towards an end.
I can respect if the end is worthy.
Like healthcare, open source, software, art, etcetera.
Financialization as the final product.
Puke emoji. Ashton and Mila's Stoner cats
was vastly more honorable than anything we've seen from this
2024 celebrity meme coin era. At least there was an actual
show being funded. How do we push things in a
better direction? So pretty wild response there
from the talk, especially tagging in the Stoner cats,
which was shut down by the SEC. He did go on to list a set of
features that celebrity product should have for him to respect
it, like having a public good or a goal, having a fun mechanic
beyond just trading like a Dow boating system.
And then it lasts 10 years or more and his north star as he
laid being a project where happy.
Even if the tokens go to 0. It's a pretty high bar and one
that not many projects. Do we?
Do we think Iggy Azalea has a 10 year plan?
Motherhood. I mean, is there a single person
in the space with a 10 year plan?
Maybe, Maybe Vitalik. I guess I.
Got a 10 year plan? Very fair, but just I'm.
Fucking right you mean I lost me.
His his blizz, the ball points is just.
I think, I think epic. Epic, yeah.
Mendel, what is your tenure plan?
What is your tenure plan for for the Epic Duck?
Yeah, we're going to do ATV show.
It's so weird he brought that up, right?
Like firstly he was in like the promotion fridge.
Do you remember when like he was like explaining Ethereum to to
those guys and then and then they also got done by the SEC
that this is the same Stoner cats.
So the SEC came in and said, hey, you guys were selling
securities and they had to basically take the money or give
the money back or something like that, right?
They settled. Yeah, they settled.
Yeah, that's exactly what happened and they sold 10,000
NTS for $800.00 so that they raised $8 million.
Like this was not like a charitable organization by by
any stretch. Those NTS are worth 0 after the
season desist. I, I like Vitalik, like I think
he's a great, great guy, but he has created permissionless
technology and he, I often find his poster often like he's not
happy with what people are doing with that permissionless
technology. Like, oh, no, don't do this.
Like, because I think the original, if you go back to like
what originally the theorem was meant to be about, was it was
like a new form of like, it wasn't just about money, it was
about politics. It was about like government,
the idea of dowels, the idea of doing things for public goods.
And increasingly, you know, people are on there and just
tokenizing celebrity meme coins and or pictures of apes.
And he just says like, no, I don't understand why you're
doing this. You just got to chill man, like.
You just people. Aren't doing what you think
they're going to do. Doesn't make them bad like
you've made permissionless technology.
Hold on, hold on, hold on. I could have.
Did you guys read this? I saw that, but I didn't know
what it was in reply to because I've got Mando on notice, so I
saw that. Oh my God.
They put, they put, they put cats on screen.
She's put cats on screen. That's that's I.
See, I see, I see. That's that's clever.
No, no, the host opinions are not just their own here, they're
everybody's. It's a.
Joke it's, but it's not like it's too serious.
That's a good one. Yeah.
I mean, hey, who says that she's not going to take, like, build
something out of this now that it's over 100 million straight
up, she could pivot. She's got something now.
Mother's over 100 million. Dude, mother is at 99.2 million
right now. I know, I know.
And guitarist is bringing more attention to it.
Like I feel like the more he goes on these tirades it it's
almost like it just. Like.
Yeah, I mean, it's it's definitely good for it.
I don't see, I don't see how it hurts the coin, Right.
Like, it's probably pretty good for the coin.
Tyler, how are we doing on the celebrity meme coin, Meadow?
I mean, you, you sent us another one yesterday.
It looks like there's a there's a new housewife in town.
Yeah, the the celebrity meme coin meta has expanded to Bravo,
the the television network and the Real Housewives.
So folks may not know this woman.
I believe her name is like Sandy Armstrong or something.
But you will know the meme she launched the it's Wyack wyac
woman yelling at cat. You will actually 100% recognize
the meme. It's the woman who's like across
the dinner table from a cat and she's just yelling at and her
friend is holding her back. I, I never knew who, who the
people were in that in that meme photo.
I guess I'm not plugged in enough to the housewives scene.
I'm going to have to correct that mistake.
But apparently it is that this real housewife and she went on
our Instagram yesterday and like, she's not hacked.
It seems like she is behind this.
The, the boys, the trenches have done a little bit of due
diligence on this. Apparently her husband is a
lawyer. So folks think that the the rug
risk is a little bit lower on this one because because of that
fact, top owner owns 9%. I don't believe they've touched
any of it yet. So there's some questions around
around that, but it's it's up like 1000%.
Oh my God, Oh my God. Full disclosure, we definitely
aped into that one, but I didn't know 'cause you guys were
talking about this yesterday. Oh wow, it's nothing that's
$5,000,000 Look at that. I didn't know that that was the
woman behind this meme, 'cause this meme is famous, right?
Like yelling at the cat. It's.
An incredible meme like meme dynasty.
You know he does the incredible videos.
He actually posted a thesis about meme coins tied to this
yesterday and he he looked at all the things that need to
check a box for a meme to do well for him.
Like one is the attention factor, one is being able to
like replace it and put new characters into the meme to make
it have like a longer shelf life.
Like this one does that like you, you know, you can replace
anything with the cat and it's just the woman yelling at, you
know, whatever the like the straw man of the day is.
I mean, of course this is all like low micro cat meme, so I
understand what you're getting into and all that, but I mean,
it's a good meme. I was laughing at several of the
memes yesterday. Yeah, it's hilarious.
I mean, we're going to see. I was talking to someone
yesterday who was saying that ever since the mother thing,
they actually have like a bunch of celebrity agents trying to
reach out to them and like, you know, try to get involved.
I I, I would obviously be careful, but I wouldn't be
surprised if there's like a bunch of like a bunch of
celebrities or ABCD, maybe not a yet, but you know, we probably
go off the ranks, right. Mando, like that start probably
like 18. Yeah, they, they all want to
make. Let's be honest, they're in it
for the money and that's totally fine.
Like we know that are we all? That's what I said.
I'm not, I'm not even thinking moral.
Like you said, you can't take the moral high ground on the
space. Like it's like it's kind of
whack, right? So it's like, but there's going
to be a place 101 dude, mothers at 100.
I dude, I I can't believe I put it out of my bag.
I can't believe I listened to the timeline.
I never listened to the timeline.
I never. I never.
No other bag is back broke, and this one's a little bit more
painful for me because I rotated out of it.
It says Zach through Zack Morris.
It's just grinding back up. Oh, Benny, are you still in your
Zack Morris or what? Benny.
Benny's like the Chief resident best lettervist on CT.
Wow, I bought the dip. You did.
Benny sent us a message like 30
mils saying like yo I like it, I like it here.
I told you I liked it. I liked it at the bottom over
there. I like it.
It tastes a different, it takes a different like style of like
it takes a different breed of life curvest to be like yo this
coin's down 70% because like a million other coins that
launched since I like. It I told you GME also I like it
at the bottom. I said the GME sold coin at the
bottom. I was like, this is good.
I like the liquidity. I mean not I'm going to say
things that sound like I know what I'm talking about, but I
want to be very clear that I have no clue what I'm talking
about. Aren't you the I saw throwing
darts at their daughter today? It wasn't.
That wasn't darts, that was a Chinese star.
I want to be very clear. Yeah, you did.
You are throwing darts at your kids.
I mean, do you do this with your with your kids, Tyler?
When? When the wifey's on?
I mean, look at this. Oh boy, yeah, I'm I'm not sure
we've gotten this extreme just. Let me let me break, Let me
break. Let me break this down for a
second. Break it down for us.
There's a blood cuddling screen there.
Yeah, well, so you see the the red panda on top of her head, I
was supposed to hit the red panda.
And as you can see, my son is protecting my daughter and she's
protecting herself. So there's there's no harm that
could come of this. It just happened to be that I
may have gotten very close to her, her head.
And my wife is away and I thought it would be a good idea.
I got this new toy for them that we would try this out.
So she hasn't seen this video yet so.
It's really fun actually. My girlfriend has one of these
at the country house. It's.
Completely safe. Completely.
They are safe. Shouldn't have lost an eye or
anything like that. I just want to be very clear.
Yeah, please don't call like chat support, chat services or
anything. Speaking to me, though, you
brought it up. I mean, Tyler, that was one of
your top five yesterday. We didn't have time to go on it.
So what what's the latest on here?
Because it's it's been, it was crazy to see someone someone
ate, you know, 10,000 soul on that.
That was the headline. So right after, you know,
E*Trade mentioned that they're going to potentially de platform
roaring Kitty, we saw someone come in and buy effectively
10,000 soul worth of GME in one clip.
It was $1.6 million and sent it single handedly to 300 million
bucks that buy. I mean, it's not looking great
on a on a short term time horizon since the tokens down to
what like 8090 million, but it's got a new Wick there.
There's a new Wick to fill if you are in the the GME army.
It feels like it's so much tied to just the broader like Roaring
Kitty and GME saga. And I feel like it's almost like
a prediction market in some ways.
Like is he going to be able to pull it off?
If he's able to pull off the trade, the token will do well.
I guess you're you're out here as if he does get D platform or
something that probably sends the token.
Where are we on the GME saga? It's up.
It's up today. 10 points. Like is he where?
Where are we? What's the latest?
Has he been posting his position still?
Like what's? He's still got them.
He's obviously there's been a
lot of controversy about whether yesterday it was both down, but
they're up again today. They're short term options as
far as I'm aware, right? Like they're going to expire
relatively soon. So what do you think?
Do you think they expire in the money or or KBM still thinks
he's he's going to get done but. I I, I I I'll.
I love my boy KBM. You know how much I love it.
I take the other side of KBM, though KBM does not compute with
the left curve. He doesn't grant it.
He can't left curve. He's he just it's just he's not
capable. Yeah, it's it's it's it's not in
his computation to left curve doesn't work.
So if and actually if he does left curve, that's when we know
we should sell everything. Get out.
That's the top signal. You know he KBM and left curve.
It does not, and he's great trade.
Coinbase launched their smart wallet.
Now. Yeah, they just launched it 4
minutes ago. Holy.
Shit. Smartwallet So now you'll be
able to train any meme coin on Coinbase, right?
Here we go. That's Oh my God, I really hope
there it is, There it is. Everybody needs to be ready for
that. What's going to happen now?
There it is. Let's watch this.
Let's watch this 32nd ad. Wow, 6 minutes ago, I guess.
Breaking news, Tyler, for your top.
That's tomorrow's top. But introduce this smart wall.
Let's look at it. One chain summer one.
Chain Summer. Hey Tyler, I'll go to you first.
What does this mean for our bags?
Seems bullish right? The barriers are just being
broken down right? It's like more and more barriers
are are broken down the connecting the connection to
your Coinbase account plus all like access to basically all the
tokens and like, you know, perhaps in this like gasless
environment like that's going to be nice.
Fuck. I I was just checking to see if
any of the the base meme coins are ripping but they're not
really. Apart from Jesse Polluk, I I
think this is. Actually like bearish for base
coins. It's like, I think part of the
the base coin thesis was that it's just it would be given like
preferential treatment to Coinbase users to coin can just
trade anything I got. I don't really know that the
base ones stand out. I mean, they have Solana on
there. They have every single coin,
right? But you know, it's yeah, Solana.
They're watching with Solana. Yes.
Interesting. Yeah, Yeah, They announced that
like a month or so ago. Aliens if people.
Can. Buy the duck.
Yeah, and you're wearing, you have the Coinbase blue on your
background. I don't know if that was meant
to be. Are you trying to send us a
signal? Are you going to get the duck?
You know? OK, Please be careful y'all.
And yeah, I do have a fat bag. I I think multi chain is the way
to go now. I think Epic should be on ether
soul. I have I have a call with some
Bitcoin people on Thursday. Let's.
See. OK, OK lads.
OK, OK lads, OK, OK. Oh my God, I love that.
I love that you're talking. About.
Jesse did run a good media campaign yesterday on the back
of this. Yesterday was the first day of
on chain summer. You have MF record that went
like absolutely crazy. I think it was up like 50% of
the day or something at some point.
That was hard to see. So look, it looks like we're
going to have quite a quite a busy summer and a lot, lot, lot
of great stuff going on on on that front.
Tyler, still with you here. I mean, we covered Vitalia
Bitcoin ETFs quickly on the fantasy top update.
What? So what's going on that front?
Because there was an update yesterday on the burn stuff,
right? Yeah, a couple things.
In fancy top worlds, they introduced this burn.
Burn two hero cards of one level and you can get one card back of
the same with you get like a .5% chance of pulling something at
the next tier Bob. So you burn 2 comments, you're
most likely going to get a comment.
You can potentially get a rare. You can do this at every level.
So you can burn 2 rares and then.
Get another rare, perhaps get an epic, so on and so forth.
They also give out those legendary cards or that the hero
cards. So for Oak you you should be you
should go check your wallet. Make sure you do the claim.
You will have some shiny new cards at your disposal.
The the market seems to like it. Like My Portfolio is is up 3040%
off the bottom. I mean, it's done a nice job of
cleaning up the floor. There's been some Telegram
screenshots going around of what the future looks like.
It looks like they're scrapping this league model.
They're gonna run multiple different tournaments
concurrently in different styles.
So like a common only a stars cap tournament, like setting
like you can do one legendary, one rare, one epic, different
rules and you can enter as many as you want.
So that they're kind of like opening it up, running more at
the same time. I I'm ready for it.
I I think that's a great move. Like I've I've hated this.
We're opening your pack live. Sorry guys.
Go click them. That's so funny.
What are the odds? Sorry, I packed my own fucking
card. My own card reward.
It's me. Oh, that's that's, that's your
hero card pack. So you're going to get all all
throat cards. So you're going to get all
comments. You're going to get a rare and
an epic. OK, sorry, I didn't mean to do
that here. I didn't thought I was going to.
That's hilarious. The.
Sound of it. OK, so that's the latest there
and you say that they're changing things, so I'm curious
to see. I ended up 3000 and 30 seconds
in the main tournament. What did you do?
I finished 70th. Oh, that's good.
Yeah, I got 560 blast gold. OK, let's.
Pull a few good cards. So happy with the results and I
think they've got a lot of gold left.
So the next there's only three weeks left yeah to to give it
out so. What's the blast gold price side
guys? What's the revised like stats
blast gold price now? His is $7.32 mine is is 10
bucks. OK, Oh, ten, I like yours
better. I like I like your blast gold
price much better. And last but not least, but you
know, kind of, I mean, Speaking of blast, we don't have to go
over it much more. But Packman, I don't know if you
want to touch on that. You had a good you had a really
good video that went out live the other day about explaining
the validate validator stuff. But dude, 4th AirDrop and it's
clockwork foolish unlock. Look at that.
I get it's here. It unlocked here.
Literally clockwork you just have to buy or or you lever long
up on Wasabi anytime the pack moon AirDrop is about to go out
'cause it just it spikes and it's basically at all time high.
If we break, it's been trading in this like ±20% range for
basically the last 30 days. If it breaks out from here, I
think we're going to see it move and there's just nothing else to
buy on blast like the NFTS are are largely pretty weak.
The memes are pretty weak. If you want to speculate on
something it it's packed. When they've got the validator
model, which seem people seem to like, it's going to keep drawing
attention. That's going to be going for a
while. It's a good coin like the coin.
I like the coin. Yeah, we do like the coin.
And it's really interesting what's going on.
I see a lot more people. I saw Danny actually talked
about yesterday see phrase so an automax self people when people
get involved. It's I mean it's looking really
good. It's looking ripe for aggressive
move up. So we'll see.
Anyway. It is, though all the tokens
look Sandy. I like it all my my coins, your
bags like a girl eats so fucking you're on.
I don't care. Like everything is looking
really good in the last, but I already talked about it was a
Phantom thing, $140,000, you know, to be a Phantom intern.
And then I want to talk to you, Benny, about about a whole bunch
of stuff that that that we've got going on together.
But you know what, I want to talk to you guys about this for
a minute. That's why I went back to it.
When I was in law school, I used to do all this like social media
management and stuff. Like the time I got started and
then eventually built my own agency and became an
entrepreneur. When I dropped out of law
school, I really told people there's going to be a day in
like 10 years. I said, right, so we're almost
at the 10 year mark where there will be an era where meme makers
and social media managers will make more than lawyers.
And so when I saw this yesterday, I was like, Oh my
God, it's happening. Like you have entry level job,
remote social media associate, what the F you know what I mean?
Like So what five years ago, like when I got going on
Instagram in 2014, right? It was not a no way there's
something called a social media associate that exists right?
Paid 120,000 United States dollars dude, that's like 180 K
here OK to be responsible for managing our Twitter and Reddit
communities to help us grow. So look, all that means, all
that means is for just like shit posting right online to get paid
this much, two years of qualification, community
management, not even 10 years, two years, two years of using
social media, which every single kid in America has at this
stage, right? If you're over like 20, you've
been on this for over 2 years. Strong understanding of crypto.
Of course not that narrows it down a little bit, but there's a
lot of good like shit posted on the timeline and, and, and I
don't know, I think it's, I think it's just so interesting.
It's remote, it's fascinating to me.
This is like this is a massive paradigm shift, right?
It it is, and it makes sense to me like one as as a participant
in this, in this in the crypto Twitter space, like if the the
social media intern is good, that makes me think a little bit
more highly of the brand. It's the same thing in meme
coins, right? Like the epic duck Twitter is is
hilarious. Like that made me want to double
down on that, that token and people also like, I'm going to
defend it a little bit. It is a time intensive job.
Like it, it's being a reply guy and like being there for like
the, the, the, the right moments means that you're kind of always
on. You're kind of around the clock
checking in on this stuff. And it is it the most stressful
or, or intense work? No, but you are like terminally
online. So it is a very full time job.
Yeah, it is. I mean, Mando, you would know
because you're pretty much an intern yourself.
Who? Knows who knows if I'm the duck
intern or not, Yeah. Who knows.
And no document and do not give burn.
Any ideas? It's definitely not getting a
raise and I. Do think these jobs are tougher
than you think? Like, well, like, yeah, they are
tough. Being good, being good at social
media is not like I, I, I know like, you know, being good
Gladiator. That's what CG says, but he's
crazy. It's not that hard.
Like there's that's why there's creators or dime a dozen.
There's a lot of creators. I mean, we have 100 on our
network, but how many of them are like really big at the top
end, right? A lot of people are aspired to
be bigger creators or good witty with memes.
I'm not even that crazy good with memes and stuff, but you
got like, it's just being witty. And as a matter of fact, it
helps the brand grow like they're paying this much.
First of all, that job post got 400,000 views.
So media and marketing wise, Phantom already made that money
back, OK, They already made that $100,000 back on just that.
Putting that out there, you could argue maybe even half and
then and then that if they hired the right person, then I'm super
bullish for the company because in crypto we judge you not based
on the tech that you build. We judge you based on how good
you are tweeting. So you know you can have that.
You know, you can have that. So with that, you know, what
does that say about the duck man, though?
I mean that does mean the ducks should be higher because the
intern of the duck is really incredible, right.
So you absolutely love to see it.
You know what we we need to get? You know what we got?
We got to get the, the, the, the right.
Actually, no, I shouldn't even say this because it's going to
give tabs and Sims too many ideas.
I'm going to get like, dude, I shouldn't even talk about this.
We're going to get way too many requests for for new salary
changes here at Rugrido the crypt.
So maybe let's let's skip that conversation going to the next
next one, so. Anyways, we've already had that
combo, don't you worry. Shut up, sieves.
So anyways, it's like. Like I'm at the frog meme, you
know? It's like, what did you just say
to me? Your mouth, your mouth.
I don't have phantom money. I don't have much money Phantom
raised how much money they've got in their in their treasury,
but we definitely do not have phantom money anyways.
Last but not least, Benny, you are here not to talk just about
a beautiful meme coins, which you are like Betty's are going
to be one of the best left curve traders I know.
But but we're here to talk about Art Basel and Basel,
Switzerland, which getting back on the road on Sunday, I'm
traveling to Switzerland, saying to Zurich and then driving to
Basel and we're going to be presenting the our house with
art Meta officials. So big thank you, big, big, big
thank you to art Meta official because they're the people who
made this happen. Of course, I spare studio for,
you know, allowing us to make this happen as well as a
partner. So talk to us, Benny, what's
going down in Swiss next week? Because you you created quite
the panels. Yeah, so I mean, we're going to
go from meme coins to art, which to me is on equal footing and
levels obviously in this community, obviously everybody
feels that way. So.
But you know, to me, we do need to take some time to understand
that we also have other things besides being coins in this
community, which is digital art. So this year some amazing people
have put something together called the Digital Art Mile.
And that is for anybody who doesn't know Yorg, he also is
known as Snow Crash in the community, right?
That's his Twitter. And I think the, to me, one of
the things that speaking to Yorg and a lot of others is that
it's, there's this sense of wanting to make sure that while
we do have fun with meme coins and NFTS and all these things
that, and I, I do think it's part of the culture and we
should never be ashamed of who we are and what we're doing.
I think it's super important that there's this, there is this
cultural side of digital art that has emerged in our
community. And we need to sort of make sure
that the outsiders don't just keep looking at us as left curve
meme coin traders, but also as individuals who are facilitating
and supporting and being patrons of amazing artists in our space
as well. And essentially, essentially
that's what the digital art mile is.
Art Basel is one of the largest art get togethers in the year.
Basel for probably many of you don't know is not in Miami.
The event Basel is Miami, but there's also this place called
Basel that's in Switzerland. I think Mando knew that.
I'm not sure Tyler did an arch directional guy so.
Catches trays. Because I'm.
Sorry, I did not know that actually.
So there you go. See, I guess that, right?
And Mando knew that because he's European and I feel like I'm
European. And it's enough.
But the the Art Basel in Basel is very different to the Art
Basel in. Miami correct.
So like the first time in the. History that they allow digital
art. So it's a big.
Deal all like freeze but. It's a little, it's usually very
more traditional, less I would say parties like they have in
Miami, more art focused. And kudos to everybody who put
this together, Yorg and others that are putting this together
for sort of trying to infuse digital art into this, into this
event. And I think it's gonna go very
well. I'm very excited.
The partners there are amazing from Rug, Tezos Yuga, the
there's the crypto partners. There too.
The punks, there's a great partner that's working with with
Rug called Osprey Studios, which is Alistair, who is a premier in
my opinion, In my opinion, amazing type of human being who
cares very much about art. Look.
Look is beautiful man. Here, there, there I am.
That's me and the person on the left we should talk about.
His name is Seed Phrase. I don't know if anybody know.
Now, Danny is gonna be there. And I think Danny is an
incredible ambassador of this space, one of the best
collectors in this space. So basically, the panels we're
trying to put together are very exciting there.
Some people I think that people haven't heard from, you know,
like Martina Negro, who's gonna speak Ozone's gonna speak from
one of one. There's some very, in my
opinion, some fascinating people and it goes on all week, which
is amazing. So there's, you know, digital
art. Miles put together incredible
panels the whole week showcasing a ton of good art.
I think it's it's it's something we should be paying attention to
and focusing. So and, and to me, one of the
best conversations that's going to happen is between Ick shells
and Sasha Styles. It's going to be a one to one
artist talk and it's going to be the two of them talking about
they're sort of, I don't know what time that is, but that's
the. It's on the this one, it's this
one, it's the one at 11:10 AM. There you go, technology.
Perfect, which I think it's incredible day.
And they're both incredible, incredible artists.
To hear them speak about what they're, you know, their lives
here and you know what they're doing next.
And you know, to me, I think that these artists need more of
a platform. We need to hear what they're
saying. I, I think that there, you know,
I, I go on the timeline every day and it's just arguments
about what's important, what's not important, who's important,
who said the most important things and what AI is, what AI
isn't. And I, I, it's kind of, I feel
like we're getting lost in the weeds a little bit here.
And it just this is we're, we're like, in my opinion, at a nine
innings of a digital art renaissance.
I think we're just getting into the second inning of it.
I think the first inning was this, you know, world of new
collectors and sort of what's what has value, what doesn't
have value? How do we, how do we buy things
to make money? Now I think we're getting into
the second inning where it's like, OK, we need, we have a
little bit of a lead, but like we're our pitcher gave a few
runs now and we're like, we have to catch up.
So now we have individuals who are buying art because they want
to buy art. Obviously all art has some kind
of monetary value to it, but we're at least coming to that
sense of what a real collector is or what a patron is.
And, and, and I think that's super important to the space.
And I think that if you, if people are focusing on some of
the new collectors now, they're very much focused on that.
So I think the digital art mile is kind of marrying all that
together. And I, I, I, I hope that people
can come, if not what I really hope from this is that this kind
of excites us to do more things like this and, and get a little
bit more, you know, have a little more interesting
conversation. You know, I speak to a far or
it's far who's probably the biggest artist on ordinals and,
you know, shout out to him who you know, he, he he here's a
perfect example. Someone who cares very deeply
about art has a tremendous background, like in some of the
Ivy League schools that he's worked at and been to.
And you know, he understands the importance of on chain and
that's everything to him. But realizing that we need to
find a way to, to, to marry all this together.
So I think that the digital art model is gonna to, is really
gonna help focus that. And I, I like, I, I care very
deeply about the success of this.
I, I think that there's some tremendous artists in our space
that need the world needs to see.
And these are the types of events that, you know, one of
one and, and shout out to them and Lucas and Ozon, who worked
so hard, who are gonna be there strong.
And, and like I said, Jorg and Rog, who, who's really
supporting this and, and, and many others and that we need to
get this message out. And if we don't, then we're not
doing our due diligence. It's fun to make money on meme
coins And I, I know it's all part of the game and we should
do that. And I again, I, I, I've been
saying it's one big industry, you know, there's different.
Pockets of it. There's different pockets and
you know, I just went to consensus and chatted to Sam
Yuan, who did a tremendous job there.
And when who, you know, that team, they, you saw the pockets,
right? There was art, there was defy,
there was, there was meme coins, there was gaming, you know,
parallel and forgotten ruins. Both had booths there and people
were like lined up to see. So we're, we're doing all this,
it's all working. The ecosystem is growing, but we
also have to remember that sometimes we need to take
ourselves just a little bit more serious.
But I, I think the, my, my thought process is we should not
be embarrassed of who we are. We should not be, we should
never, we should never steer away from the fact that we're a
bunch of misfits and that we are different.
And to me, I believe that the traditional art market is
looking at us and peeking through and being like, Hey,
what's going on over there? Because we're different.
If we were the same, then they wouldn't be interested.
So we need to, we need to constantly not change who we
are, but we also need to realize that we need to start sort of
like working with others. You know, sometimes you don't
love your cousins, right, or your brothers or your sisters,
but you gotta work with them, you know, you find common
ground, you know? So I think that that's sort of
the idea here and I'm pretty excited, so.
I love that. Thank you for all the help on
that front. You know, when it comes to art
behind the scenes on the rug radio side, we always go to
Benny. So Benny's the one who created
the entire thing with four, with us, with Asprey.
So it's beautiful. I love to shout to Jen.
This graphic cooks the whole. Yeah, this.
This is the night. This is one of your best
graphics. I think it's the best graphic
we've ever put out, Percy speaking.
I mean, the green is just. Yeah, the green, I think that's
from a digital art mile. Well, did.
You know, I don't know if I could show you a picture talking
about green at Asprey Studio. Ollister has a giant jade rock
that's like the size of my head and I I, I touched it with my
head and I feel that it started the meme market to go up so.
Yeah, I think you you touched the big jade rock with your head
and started the market. I think I think I started.
I think so too. I think so too.
I oh, Sims says He's held that rock.
He was at Aspirate Studio also not long ago for a meet up and
he actually held that rock so the.
Rumor is is that Sims held the Rock and then his wife got
pregnant that night. That's that's what I've heard.
So I'm just saying that Rock has tremendous deny.
Any of. This.
There you go. See, that's true.
You guys are so funny. So anyways, if you're in Art
Basel, we have a great programming for you.
Like it's going to be, I'm really excited for.
It's just really different also for the type of events we do.
So it's like 10:00 AM croissants, coffee, you know, we
always do vibes. Apparently I'm doing a welcome
remark at 11:00 AM, Great panels. 11:00 to 11:00 to to
2:00 PM. Then we have a great lunch in
partnership with Yuga and the crypto punks, et cetera.
And then the crypto punks have taken over.
And it's a crypto punk event on the back of that for the rest of
the afternoon, followed by screening of the movie.
What the punk, because the place has a movie theater, which is
Super Six. It's gonna be our house, Art
Basel in Switzerland. Super excited for that.
It's been a while, It's been a whole like 3 weeks since our
last event and, and, and then, and then we'll be doing this
with the crypto punks and everything through there and.
And, and everybody should take a look at the people who are
panelists. You should follow them.
Mimi, for instance, who is brilliant and a professor and a
great curator. Just everybody on that list from
Echo. And, you know, I can't remember
everybody who's out there right now, but just it just.
My, my only thing is, if you can't be there, follow those
people on Twitter because they have a lot to say, especially if
you, if you do love art, then there's something to say about,
you know, finding the right people in this community.
And I think that there's tremendous people who are trying
to build quietly. And we've seen that with John
Karp and Greta, what they just did in, in Lisbon.
And I think we're going to see more of that.
And I, I so, so if you can't be there, follow these people on
Twitter and, and if you know, get to nothing.
And, and we, I think we're also launching a coin called Basil,
right? Is that happening right now?
And pump that fun. Oh yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Chill.
Basil dot inu. OK.
OK chill chill chill chill chill chill chill.
In case of an investigation. Dude, I I ain't launching no.
Coin it's ripping right now. Basil Inu, get involved.
Get involved. Get.
In Frazil Inu. Frazil Inu is ripping, dude.
I love that. Listen, listen, everything
ripping, everything. My coin.
Did you see? Did you see last?
Night. I know we're supposed to talk
about art, but I don't know if you saw these as someone made a
coin about what these did and then it ripped like 4 million.
Yeah, I saw. I mean, I was, I didn't.
I was at dinner with the cracking folks because they're
in town. But I man.
But you love how Farooq was that?
I was just like I was at dinner with the cracking folks.
He loves. He loves that he just.
Like you love that, I'm just saying.
I was at dinner with A. Part at dinner I was just I was
just hanging out after. Work all week.
Vitali came over. He needed to use the toilet.
I'm not cool. I'm not.
I'm not building something big enough on the the theorem for
Vitali to acknowledge me yet. Not yet, not yet.
You know it's a 10. Year plan.
We're not, we're not. We're not big enough from an
Ethereum company. Talk about artists, talk about
Vitalic. You know, by the way, he does
love art though, so I don't know if you saw he met with Yatrada
in in Africa and they had. Stick.
Yeah, you should check out on her timeline.
Joey Elliott and her posted it. It was pretty incredible, their
story, you know, in general, but getting to meet him and talk
about all things related to Africa and blockchain and stuff
like that, pretty awesome. So.
That's that's really cool. I mean, hey, Vitalik wants to
finally acknowledge, you know, one of the largest media
companies that was born out of Ethereum.
And come on, Snow, he's welcome. To but I feel I feel like the
day, the day that Vitalik. What?
Oh, I thought I lost you guys the day my computer went funny.
Day Vitalik acknowledges bat soup.
Yum. In my opinion, in my opinion, I
think that that's it, that that's when we know we've.
We've reached. Earlier because to me, bat soup
Yum is pretty much like the the quiet hero that we all have in
this in in our community. I mean, barring that, he's 85
years old, can have that at his chair, which is really, you
know, but he's working on that. He's he's been exercising a
little. Lately, what's that painting
behind you? Oh, so this well, this is a this
is a squiggle that but let me. Know that one we know.
Eric, Eric Drew that one. OK, this is this is actually my
great, great grandfather. Yeah.
He was he was in the the Prussian army.
He looked, he looked like linen. Right there the linen meets.
Bread. Yeah, it took.
He actually the the story is that alone he took on a whole
horde of Cossacks and he saved his village.
So that's my great, great grandfather.
Is that Lenin though? There's a grand grandfather's
Lenin. He.
Took on a hold of Cossacks by himself.
All all by himself, literally like that's that's I mean, this
is I don't think I can look that up.
So. Wow, what an honorable great
man. A wild story.
Does he bite? Does he own Bitcoin though?
So he doesn't because he's he's dead.
He lived 500 something years ago.
But he did leave me there. I.
Don't know if you're bullshitting me or not, but I
just don't even know what this is.
That's how I learned how to play the.
Oh, here we go. Here we go again, Sims.
Here we go again. Here we go, guy.
Give us a. Horde of Cossacks that sounds
like. Leave us off, Leave us off with
the song. Let's close the show with the
song Benny. Everybody wants to buy meme
coins. Nobody's buying art except
Danny's seed phrase. But now Coinbase got rid of
those, so Danny needs to change his name from seed phrase to
passkey if we don't know what that is.
But one day, when beam coins finally go away, maybe then your
NFTS will be worth something. It's.
Beautiful. Wow.
Just absolutely beautiful.
Absolutely beautiful. I mean, the crowd is cheering.
The crowd is cheering. I've been working on that one
for a while actually, so. Congratulations.
I love that song, Benny. I wish I would see you in Miami.
I'm sorry, Basil. See, See.
Like you see the mental thing, like the mental gymnastics of
having to explain. I've had to explain like 50
people that. Yeah, I'll tell you a quick
serve before we go. I, I, I met someone in the
traditional art world who very, you know, big writer.
And I said to her, yeah, I'm gonna go to Basil.
And she said, oh, I'm going also.
So I said, I said, I can't believe they'd do it in Miami
twice. She started laughing at me.
You know, But never be embarrassed for the fact that
we, well, we don't have to know a little.
Season Switzerland. OK.
And Switzerland, this on the map?
Yeah. So which is which is my point
here, which I just want to say that the very important message
I feel like I want to leave you with all is with art,
especially, you know, we don't all have to have PhDs and
experts, right? We could love what we collect
and our gut could tell us. And I think these new crop of
collectors always try to learn more and be part of it.
You're, you're never going to be, you know, the biggest
collector, but it doesn't matter.
You're never going to be the historian.
But to me, events like this that are happening in Digital Art
Mile and more that we're going to have, This is how we build.
So get to it. And as Mando would say, make
your buys great, but make your cells epic.
Yeah. I do say that.
A lot. It's it's definitely do it that
way. So with that, if you're in
Montreal, come check me out. I'm headed right now cracking
Williams F1 fan zone. I'm going to be out there
interviewing Alex Albin, you know, Williams racing F1 driver
on at 2:45 PM Eastern Standard Time.
So I'm excited for that. So come see your boy.
Come see your boy. The guy who owns a restaurant
across the street, He owns the French Bistro.
Say he's going to Saber champagne for us.
So if you're there, if you like champagne, like F1, if you like
cracking crypto, you know, come through.
I'll be there today, tomorrow after tomorrow, vibing with the
squad with that, I have a good feeling about our coins sending,
you know, higher today, higher tonight, higher tomorrow.
Benny, thank you for coming entertaining.
Thank you for meeting. Both on the left curve and on
the right curve side. Appreciate you.
Shout out to the digital art mile Art Meta for allowing us to
partake, for allowing me to be ambassador, but also rock radio
and to crypt to partake in in in the festivities of next week.
Can't wait to be there. And with that, with that, with
that, we'll see y'all tomorrow morning, 10:00 AM Eastern
Standard Time for another episode of Formal hour on rock
radio. Let's go.