BTC Sessions - Bitcoin PLUMMETS On Double-Spend FUD ep140
Episode Date: January 21, 2021📰 Bitcoin drops on Double Spend FUD - mainstream news misinterprets a normal function of Bitcoin https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/bitcoin-price-double-spend-flaw-critical-report-...suggests-2021-1-1029990921 📰 Craig Wright threatens lawsuits over anyone hosting “his” Bitcoin whitepaper https://cointelegraph.com/news/craig-wright-ultimatum-take-my-bitcoin-whitepaper-down-or-face-lawsuit 📰 Trillion-dollar asset manager BlackRock places SEC filing for Bitcoin futures buying. https://www.btctimes.com/news/blackrock-may-engage-in-bitcoin-based-futures-contracts 📰 New Chainalysis report exposes the insane degree of FUD fueling the Bitcoin and crime narrative. https://www.forbes.com/sites/haileylennon/2021/01/19/the-false-narrative-of-bitcoins-role-in-illicit-activity/?sh=192ce3133432&fbclid=IwAR1Il5bs9HFSiSVla_drB94IWSn66r31QXmw-a5PoWXKRHrcqoFblaZ83cM 📰 Captain Obvious Former Canadian PM Stephen Harper acknowledges Bitcoin’s potential as a future reserve currency. https://www.coindesk.com/former-canada-prime-minister-stephen-harper-bitcoin-reserve-currency 📰 Bitcoin Stands Alone: NYDIG CEO says big financial institutions only have one “crypto” asset in mind. https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/91500/big-institutions-are-only-interested-in-bitcoin-says-nydig-ceo 📰 The mayor of Miami is seeking a partial treasury reserve allocation in Bitcoin. https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/91405/miami-mayor-bitcoin-btc-investment-plan-city-treasury-reserves SUPPORT THE SHOW: LEDN Bitcoin backed loans – get $25 free https://bit.ly/397rlLN Get Wasabi wallet for Bitcoin privacy https://wasabiwallet.io/ Cobo Vault: secure your Bitcoin! https://bit.ly/2GgMFlH BillFodl: get your wallet backups in solid steel. https://privacypros.io/ Bitrefill: use Bitcoin to purchase gift cards https://www.bitrefill.com/buy/?code=O04UMic9 LIGHTNING tips: https://tippin.me/@BTCsessions
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What is going on, everyone.
Welcome to the show.
I hope you are having a great Thursday.
We got some fud to deal with today.
We're seeing articles that Bitcoin has been double spent.
Does this break Bitcoin?
Is it all over?
Is Bitcoin dead?
What do you guys think?
What do you think I'm going to say?
Oh my God.
And there's so much more.
We've got Craig Wright.
He's back being a patent troll again, being his own idiot.
So we got lots to cover today.
So I hope you guys are doing well.
As always, I am Ben with the BTC sessions.
And this is your daily session.
Okay, so let's get in here.
Let's take a look at where we are in the market at the moment.
So as I was saying, we did.
We did have a dip recently.
I think, you know, at least part of it can be attributed to the fud.
Not all of it because Bitcoin does its thing.
By the way, if you're new here, if you're new here, let me explain some things.
2017, when we're on our bull run, we saw, I think, seven different pullbacks of close to 40% over the course of that when it went from like $1,000 to $20,000 in a year.
So these kinds of dips are commonplace.
You don't need to freak out about this stuff.
In fact, Bitcoin could drop, you know, if it were to drop to even like, I think, $25,000
that's still within that 40% range.
So, you know, take these mini dips, these dips for ants with a grain of salt, not a big deal.
Anyways, right now, we're sitting around $31,880 some odd dollars per.
Bitcoin, it did drop as low as pretty much close to 31,000 even. Right now, for a single US dollar,
you can pick up 3,135 sats. Not bad. Not bad. I might pick up a few of those.
88.6% of all Bitcoin that will ever be mined has currently been mined. And in terms of fees right now,
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Sats per byte.
If you're willing to wait an hour, around 58 sats per bite will do you.
So, yeah, not bad.
And, you know, we've been kind of peeking up.
I don't know if this will be the, who knows?
Nobody knows exactly where it's going to go.
But we are going to dispel some fud around the price as it relates to the mainstream media news that we've been seeing lately.
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But with that, let's dive into what the fud is going on right now.
So, okay, I'm going to preface this.
going to read this article first so you can see what the normies are reading and freaking out over
or really like to be real this is the kind of news that years back when I was getting into Bitcoin
probably would have scared me because I would have no idea what is going on. So we'll read it
and then we'll actually decipher the reality of what's happening. Okay. So the headline here on
business insider is Bitcoin falls 11% after we're
report suggests a critical flaw in the cryptocurrency called double spend may have occurred. That sounds pretty spooky.
The Cliffs notes here, it says Bitcoin fell as much 11% on Thursday after a report from Bitmax research
suggesting that a critical flaw called double spend had occurred in the Bitcoin blockchain.
Double spend is a highly feared scenario where a user is able to spend their Bitcoins more than once.
A double spend event has not been confirmed, and Bitmax has given mixed messages.
Okay.
Yeah.
So they talk about this.
They talk a little bit about Janet Yellen and her fud, which we'll get to momentarily.
That probably also contributed to the dip.
But they said they saw a double spend.
Bitmex did.
They potentially saw a double spend.
And again, listen to more of the way they explain it here.
Double spend, again, when you can spend Bitcoin twice, it is a feared and dire scenario for the digital asset.
And the blockchain was thought to have solved the issue when Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper in 2009.
Early attempts to launch a digital cash system were ultimately halted by vulnerabilities that would have enabled double spending and undermine faith in the system.
Okay. So again, it gets into, okay, I got to.
read this last paragraph because it gets so fudworthy. If the double spent did in fact occur,
it could be a fatal blow to the popular cryptocurrency, indicating that the flaw Nakamoto set
out to solve remains a vulnerability that could crush confidence in the asset. Oh man, this is so bad.
And once you realize what has happened, you'll realize how awful this article is and the total lack of research that this person did to put it together.
Anyways, so what happened is Bitmax noticed that some coins had been spent to two different addresses.
Now, there is no extra Bitcoin created.
It's not like somebody had coins, spent them, and then spent them somewhere else, and then both recipients have the coins.
What happens in Bitcoin is miners are basically putting together blocks of transactions to add to the Bitcoin blockchain.
So it's like they're updating the ledger of who owns what, roughly every 10 minutes.
every once in a while, two miners on opposite size of the globe sometimes will put together a block of
transactions at the exact same time or pretty close to the same time.
And some of those blocks, sometimes you'll have two different blocks that have slightly
different transactions.
Sometimes they'll include something and not include something.
Or sometimes an individual will spend some Bitcoin and say, actually, I need to move it over
here instead. So they'll do, we'll explain it in a minute, they'll do what's called an
RBF or placed by fee transaction attaching a higher fee and trying to spend again to a different
address. Now, keep in mind that only one of these blocks will end up being the official
kind of Bitcoin ledger. And the other one will be canceled out. So no matter what,
even though coins technically for a short period of time may be spent to two different addresses,
after the next block of new transactions is built on top of one of them,
that will kind of finalize where that money goes.
So it's kind of like you're fairly certain where coins are going to be,
but the longer and the more transactions that are built on top of it,
the more certainty you have around the finality of that transaction.
transaction. And I'm going to read something here from a great book. I recommend you pick it up,
especially if you're learning about Bitcoin and you hear terms and you don't understand them.
This is called the Bitcoin Dictionary, a reference and primer for Bitcoin.
It has over 180 terms and explanations by Ansul Lindner. Lindner. Anyways, this is it right here.
Okay. So what happened just today or within the past 24 hours? It's known as an orphaned block. And it's exactly as I described, two miners mined a block, basically at the same time that were slightly different. And both are valid within the rules of Bitcoin, but only one gets built upon by other miners. And that kind of chain of transactions continues on. The other one was valid, but is now disavowed because that's the direction we're going.
So let me just read this description here.
An orphaned block, it is a valid block submitted to the network, which is ultimately not built upon by the following blocks of transactions.
Orphan blocks are somewhat rare in Bitcoin.
They occur when two miners solve a block at almost the same instant.
These two valid blocks are each seen first by different groups of nodes in the network.
Until the next block is found, the network consensus.
is technically split.
The split is remedied with the next valid block.
Okay?
So again,
what he's saying is both of these options are valid
until one gets built upon by more miners
and add more transactions
because it becomes prohibitively expensive
to go back and build upon the other block
and try to catch up to the other chain
to make what you're doing valid.
So more or less,
this happens in Bitcoin.
this is actually how Bitcoin functions.
And the whole point of Bitcoin is to come to consensus on who owns what.
And the longer you wait on a transaction, the more certain you are that there is consensus
about who owns what in terms of that particular set of Bitcoin.
That's why for very large transactions, it is often recommended that you wait six Bitcoin
confirmations or six Bitcoin blocks of transactions before considering.
it final. So if you're buying a cup of coffee or something like that, Lightning Network is already,
you know, you've locked up Bitcoin on a network on top of Bitcoin. So you're not having to worry
about that. But for a small transaction of, you know, 10, 20 bucks, you're probably going to be
fine with a single, single confirmation, even like 100 bucks. But if you're buying a million dollar
house, you're going to want to sit and wait for those six confirmations before you give away the
house is kind of what I'm getting at. Anyways, just an awful, awful demonstration of how little
research goes into this stuff and how like the amount of worry in this. It's like the person
just heard about Bitcoin was like saw that for a moment consensus had not been reached,
reached on a particular transaction and twisted it around into its own.
Oh, my God, Bitcoin is dead.
Unbelievable.
It's an exact replay of the kind of stuff we saw in 2017.
Unreal.
Anyways, so in the end, Bitmec said, on closer inspection,
this is likely to be an instance of RBF where the lower fee transaction won.
So RBF, as I said, can be used in a lot of different wallets.
you have the option in Blue Wallet.
And that's where you send a transaction and you say,
actually I want to do this instead.
You tap the transaction.
You can attach a higher fee and either send it to the same place or somewhere else.
Okay.
So if that happens,
it's not guaranteed that the higher fee transaction will get through,
but it's more likely to get through.
Okay.
Anyways, this was such.
a nothing burger. It's hilarious.
Let's move on to more.
More Fudd here. This time out of Janet
Yellen. Now Janet Yellen used to be head of the Federal Reserve in the United
States and she has been appointed head of the treasury by the new Biden administration.
And she's doing the old Bitcoin is for criminals FUD.
Again, we heard a lot of this 2017. What year is it?
Let's read. Speaking at a Senate Finance Committee hearing today,
Janet Yellen, President-elect Joe Biden's pick secretary of the Treasury, stated
cryptocurrencies are a particular concern when it comes to criminal activity and terrorist financing.
Yellen continued, I think many cryptocurrencies are used, at least in a transactional sense,
mainly for illicit financing.
And I think we really need to examine ways in which we can curtail their use and make sure that
anti-money laundering doesn't occur, or that money laundering doesn't occur is what she meant to say,
through those channels.
Again, and I will, hats off to the author here, Haley Lennon, because she realized how stupid this was.
But she said, this isn't the first time the cryptocurrency industry has heard this misconception
and done a collective eye roll.
Yellen may believe cryptocurrencies are used mainly for illicit financing, but the data shows
otherwise. The majority of cryptocurrency is not used for criminal activity, according to an excerpt
from Chainalysis 2021 report. In 2019, criminal activity represented 2.1% of all cryptocurrency
transaction volume, which was roughly $21.4 billion worth of transfers. In 2020, a year later,
the criminal share of all cryptocurrency activity fell to just 0.34%, which is around $10 billion.
worth. Now, let's compare in contrast with the legacy financial system. According to the UN,
it is estimated that between 2% and 5% of global GDP, which is between $1.6 and $4 trillion annually,
is connected with money laundering and illicit activity. And they're worried about $10 billion and
dropping used with Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
Like, are you kidding me?
Get your own house in order before you start pointing fingers here.
It's crazy.
Let's another, another, again, to do with physical cash and traditional payment methods.
If we really want to focus on where the money is, we should look at government-backed fiscal
fiat.
According to a 2020 report by Swift, cases of laundering through cryptocurrencies,
remain relatively small compared to the volumes of cash laundered through traditional methods.
Just last week, FinCent announced a $390 million enforcement action on Capital One for engaging
in both willful and negligent violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and its implementing regulations.
Yeah. So, I mean, it's the pot calling the kettle black.
and it is it's the amount of hypocrisy here of somebody from the traditional finance system pointing to
cryptocurrencies and saying you're laundering money is laughable laughable I tell you oh my god
okay one more one more story that is going to further anger me and then we'll get into some of
the positive stuff but we got to dispel the fud you guys if you're new here learn to hate this
face. This is Craig Wright and he is a fraud. He has pretended to be the creator of Bitcoin for a number of
years and he's been caught in lies more times than I can count on my fingers and toes, my friends.
He has filed multiple lawsuits against multiple people for saying that he is not Craig Wright and
he is yet to have any litigation end up in his favor. And yet he persists. So let's read a little bit
about what he's doing now.
Legal threats by self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto, Craig Wright, have caused one site to remove
what he claims is his Bitcoin white paper, but others are refusing to give up so easily.
Craig Wright, the Australian computer scientist who claims to be the Bitcoin inventor,
has threatened legal action against the owners of two Bitcoin websites whom he accused
of stealing his white paper and other intellectual property.
As announced on January 21st, Bitcoin.org, along with another website, Bitcoincore.org, had received allegations of copyright infringement from Craig Wright's lawyers.
The council reportedly claimed that right as Bitcoin inventor Sishin Nakamoto was the legal copyright holder of the Bitcoin white paper and he owned the Bitcoin name and trademark, as well as the two websites listed above.
The announcement said yesterday, both Bitcoin.org and Bitcoincore.org received allegations of copyright infringement of the Bitcoin white paper by lawyers representing Craig Stephen Wright.
In this letter, they claim Craig owns the copyright to the paper, the Bitcoin name, and ownership of Bitcoin.org.
Again, they also claim that he is Satoshi Nakamoto.
He's the creator of Bitcoin, original owner of Bitcoin.org.
blah, blah.
Anyways,
so while the owner of Bitcoin.org,
known as Cobra,
pseudonymous,
has stated his refusal
to be intimidated by the threat
of what they've called false allegations,
the owner of BitcoinCore.org
has already thrown in the towel.
Oh, God.
What?
Again, I recognize that these guys
don't want to bother themselves
and have to deal with legal things
while they're coding.
But holy God,
I think Cobra has a point here.
He says,
according to Cobra,
they're co-accused,
they're co-accused over at BitcoinCore.org
acquiesced to the request of Craig Wright's lawyers almost immediately.
Cobra's announcement said,
unfortunately,
without consulting us,
Bitcoin Core developers scrambled to remove the Bitcoin white paper
from BitcoinCore.org
in response to these allegations of copyright infringement,
lending credence to these false claims.
The Bitcoin Core website was modified to remove the references of the white paper.
The local copy of the white paper PDF was deleted.
And with less than two hours of public review, the change was merged.
By surrendering in this way, the Bitcoin Core project has lent ammunition to Bitcoin's
enemies engaged in self-censorship and compromised its integrity.
This surrender will no doubt be weaponized to make new false claims,
like that the Bitcoin core developers know CSW to be Sadochi Nakamoto, and this is why they
acted this way.
So let this be clear.
I'm happy to maintain the big.
Okay.
So anyways, the owner of Bitcoin core, he came out and he was like, I'm not going to die on
this hill.
I've got more important work to do.
He said, I'm happy to maintain Bitcoin core and the code, but I will not personally be
a martyr for Bitcoin.
It's up to you as Bitcoiners to protect it.
And to that point, how did Bitcoiners respond to Craig Wright?
Well, I think one of the best feeds to follow on this is Arthur Van Pelt or Peltanaut in this case on Twitter,
as he's been documenting all of the Craig Wright debauchery that's happened over the past number of years.
Again, he's retweeted a lot of good threads on this.
A notorious fraudster has once again made headlines for bullying the Bitcoin.
community with legal threats. We wanted to remind you all that the Bitcoin white paper is
MIT licensed, free for anyone to read, learn from, and host. We will host the white paper
at Bitcoinmagine.com slash Bitcoin PDF. Again, the Bitcoin Wiper is now,
White Paper is now proudly hosted on the Square Crypto website. And it's just a list of people
that are now hosting the white paper on their own websites,
because how do you do that?
I think my favorite one,
and I got to pull it up for you guys,
because this is so great.
Umbrole.
Umbrole is open source software
that allows you to run your own node,
basically on like a plug-and-play node.
So I've got one running behind me.
I've done a tutorial on how to do this.
A lot of fun, cool apps that you can download.
ways, these guys are kicking ass and taking names.
They're doing very well at the project.
It's a real service to the Bitcoin community, what they're building.
Anyways, what they did is they created a downloadable app so that you can host your own copy
of the Bitcoin white paper on your umbral node.
So this, they said, let's take it a step further.
And they tweeted out this screenshot of the upcoming app that you can download.
download on your umbral node. It is so, so funny. Hopefully this picture loads. Okay, here it is.
Bitcoin white paper. Host the original Bitcoin white paper on your umbral. Host your own Bitcoin.
I like LMAO. Try taking this down. Fantastic. Excellent troll, you guys. And speaking of which,
on my website today, I put up the Bitcoin white paper.
So anybody that wants to download it there or look at it there, you can,
BTCSessions.ca.c.c.a. It's right on the main page.
And I wrote the Bitcoin white paper. Read the original paper that started it all,
authored by the anonymous creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto.
No one is sure who he is, but he is most definitely not Craig Wright.
Check it out.
Anyways, let's move away from the FUD.
Craig Wright is of a fraud just to finish up with that thought.
And let's move into some other stuff.
Okay.
This from BTC Times, BlackRock funds may engage in Bitcoin futures and SEC filing suggests.
So BlackRock, the world's leading asset manager with $7.43 trillion dollars in assets under management.
This is the largest asset manager.
earth, they're showing interest in getting involved in Bitcoin in some way, shape, or form.
So the filings with the SEC indicate that the asset manager is looking to enter the Bitcoin
futures market as they read that certain funds may engage in future contracts based on Bitcoin.
The filings elaborate Bitcoin is a digital asset whose ownership and behavior are determined
by participants in an online peer-to-peer network that connects computers that run publicly,
accessible or open source software that follows the rules and procedures governing the Bitcoin
network commonly referred to as the Bitcoin Protocol.
So some of the meat of this comes at the end of the article.
While the filings are not a confirmation that BlackRock's entities are going to buy Bitcoin
futures.
These types of filings often proceed ventures into the space and at the very least help pave
the way for BlackRock's funds to add exposure in the future.
Now, the executives there have shown interest in the past, and they've been quoted as saying,
so who is it, Rick Reeder, he's the CIO.
He said, Bitcoin is here to stay, and it may take the place of gold to a large extent
because it's so much more functional than passing a bar of gold around.
And Larry Fink, the CEO previously has said Bitcoin has caught the attention and imagination of many people,
still untested pretty similar pretty small market relative to other markets these big giant moves
every day it's a thin market can it evolve into a global market possibly so they seem to be
getting quite interested in bitcoin at least in dabbling in bitcoin and i should clarify the
futures markets that they're looking at are cash settled okay so not actually settled in bitcoin
Moving on here, the former Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, he listed Bitcoin as a possible replacement for the U.S. dollar for a World Reserve currency.
Now, don't freak out here. Don't get too excited because it's kind of clear that he doesn't super understand Bitcoin.
But kind of cool to see that it's being mentioned in this light as a, well, yeah, this could maybe happen.
it's definitely not scoffed at anymore.
So Stephen Harper, an economist and the former Prime Minister of Canada said Bitcoin could
potentially see use as a reserve currency, but it isn't going to supplant the US dollar's
international role.
So he said, unless the US becomes a catastrophe, it's hard to see what the alternative
is to the US dollar as the world's major reserve currency.
Other than, you know, gold, Bitcoin, and I guess a whole bad,
basket of other things, right? I think you'll see that the number of things that people use as
reserves will expand, but the U.S. dollar will still be the bulk of it. Yeah. So again,
it's interesting because he goes on to talk about what it's good for. He said it's, he seems to
think that it's effective as a, what did he say? Where is it? I'm just trying to find. He said that
it was not good as a unit of account or sorry he said not good as a store of value but good as a
medium and exchange and a unit of account which i would argue kind of the opposite right like right now
store of value is what bitcoin is closest to attaining and then after that becomes medium of exchange
and unit of account i would think somewhat in that order but not the opposite you don't have a
you don't have a unit of account that fluctuates a lot and consider that a store of value.
Yeah, anyways.
So I think that he kind of has it backwards, but nonetheless, cool to see him mention it as a potential replacement or a potential world reserve in some form.
This from the block, big institutions are only interested in Bitcoin, says the,
NYDIG CEO.
In the latest episode of The SCo, the NYDIG chief executive Robert Gutman said that most of
the series investors he's speaking with are only interested in the largest crypto by market
capitalization, which is Bitcoin.
Quote, 100 out of 100 of the last conversations I've had with investors seriously looking
to allocate, let's say, over $50 million.
$100% of those conversations have been about Bitcoin and 0% of them have been about any other
crypto asset, he said.
In Gutman's view, the interest in Bitcoin is tied to the macro backdrop of the previous
year when central banks globally took an aggressive monetary policy approach to address
obviously the virus and everything.
That's revealed some of the unique characteristics of Bitcoin as an alternative reserve
asset for firms.
quote, the idea of an open source money, that's a really powerful idea and solves, in our opinion, a fundamental societal change.
Gutman's firm, NYDIG, offers custodial and trading services to an array of financial firms, including insurance giant mass mutual, and they've been buying Bitcoin.
So interesting to see.
And one more kind of fun, again, just kind of along the Bitcoin as a reserve asset note, the Miami.
Miami mayor wants to put some of the city's treasury reserves into Bitcoin.
Now, again, this is kind of, I think, I would be surprised to see this happen off the bat,
but kind of interesting because up until now, we've seen institutions and we've seen, you know,
individual companies and investors look at Bitcoin as a reserve asset, but not any form
of government really yet.
but here we see a municipality and maybe it starts there.
Maybe it starts with cities and then it grows to states and then it grows to nation states.
Just saying, you know, this is the first little step through the door as a single municipality being interested in doing this.
Anyways, reading here from the article, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is considering putting some of the city's treasury reserves into Bitcoin.
Quote, we are looking at the possibility of diversifying our investment portfolio.
and having and holding a percentage of our investment in Bitcoin, Suarez told Fox business in an interview on Thursday.
Quote, if I would have done it last year, I would have made 200% plus return.
So I would have looked like a genius.
Suarez says he wants to make Miami one of the most crypto forward and technological cities in the country.
To that end, the city is looking to create a regulatory framework that makes it the easiest place in the U.S. to do business in terms of cryptocurrency.
Quote, we're looking at the laws from Wyoming, Wisconsin, and New York, a regulatory environment,
and we have a tremendous amount of interest in tech right now, he said.
So we're looking at a variety of things from being able to make payments in crypto,
in Bitcoin in particular, to be able to pay your taxes, being able to pay fees to the city.
Now, I think he's more on point with putting city reserves into Bitcoin than accepting it as a form of payment in taxes.
Because realistically, from my standpoint, if I have the choice to pay a government taxes in either the scarcest asset that humanity has ever seen or shrewd bucks, like worthless printed paper fiat that's being debased by trillions of dollars at the pace we're going at right now, I'm going to dump the dollars.
So, I mean, I guess it makes sense for him.
Like if somebody pays that way, then sure, why not?
But I think it's probably more prudent for him to focus on the reserve asset aspect and maybe give a discount for paying in Bitcoin.
That could be good, right?
Somebody converts their dollars to Bitcoin and then pays and then he gets a scarce asset in the reserve of the city.
Yeah, much better.
Yeah, and that might help people along the way to potentially paying their taxes in Bitcoin.
Maybe. Maybe that's how you do it.
Anyways, guys, I'm going to wrap up there.
This was a fun one today.
There was some interesting shit going on.
I don't know what you guys think, but that was a lot of fun.
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BTC sessions.
With that, I'm out.
Have your guys,
have yourselves a wonderful day,
a wonderful evening,
wherever you may be.
And I will see you guys next time
for your daily session.
Total by Bitcoin.
