#had so much fun with greyscale + pops of color! and I think those colors are meaningful in some way

[sandu-zidian]

Most will only have one death. I will have two.

- Margaret Atwood, “Half-Hanged Mary”

[silentsockfeet]

okay it’s been a while since i last did one of these updates so here’s some stuff i’ve been working on for school! under the cut bc i have no self control and it got long 

so after the lamp we started working on a really intricate antique radio which was tough but a lot of fun too. we were taught how to start from negative space and build out from there. we also had to plan out mesh flow (basically just the organization of the lines) so that we’d have an easier time of putting everything together later

(and some photos for reference)

then my next assignment was to texture a bucket (the model was already given to us). so i used photoshop to make a color map (a map that just has. the colors.), a bump map (a map that adds depth to objects, making elements BUMP in or out of an object), and a specular map (which determines how rough or glossy an object looks). bump and spec maps are all greyscale. the lighter something is on a bump map, the more it pops out, and vice versa. and the lighter something is on a spec map, the more it shines, and vice versa. 

so here’s a rendered version of my final bucket:

there was also a week where we learned how to use substance painter to make textures instead of doing it in photoshop. substance painter is cool because it uses what’s called physical-based rendering to make the textures, meaning that you can literally paint the textures onto the object and the software shows you what it looks like in real time. with photoshop, i had to make edits, then upload the files into maya and attach them to the model to see what my bucket looked like, then go back to photoshop and make whatever edits i wanted, then rinse and repeat til i lost my mind. substance made it much quicker and easier. here’s a pumpkin i textured in substance:

(it doesn’t look as good bc i’ve been too lazy to sit down and learn how to render objects in substance. forgive me)

then after THAT we did another week of complex modeling where i made this toy wheelbarrow. this assignment was just about getting us used to modeling smoother, more complex objects. 

and now i’m working on my final project, which spans over three weeks. for the final we get to pick out a teapot from online and recreate it, so i found this one that i liked and then this past week was spent modeling it.

this was a fuckin BITCH to make let me tell ya, one of the requirements was that the spout had to be connected to the pot, so i had to figure out how to attach them without messing up the smoothness of the model. surprisingly that was pretty easy, the little doohickey on the end of the spout with its little thing sticking out to open it was what really kicked my ass. that and adding the finger dents into the handle. i don’t think any of those words make sense i apologize. i’m probably gonna do a more in-depth post on this pot later since it’s a longer project than usual. this week we’re doing the prep work so that next week we can start texturing

so anyways that’s what i’ve been up to lately! i’ve been working on a couple of side projects too but only one is finished and this post is already long so i’ll probably talk about those some other time. if you’re somehow still reading this, thank you for sticking through my rambling and shitty explanations

[shattered-mirror-fanfic]

HAHAHA! I’M EARLY THIS TIME! Anyways, before you read: This is your warning about how in this chapter there’s mentions of child abuse, blood, death and scientific experiments on a child. You have been warned.

Ao3 Link: Chapter below cut for those who read it here on tumblr: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32206135/chapters/84899077

The walk home from school was dull as always, walking along the grey path, connected to a grey street, little color in the world. Despite being only six years old, Desdemona had many responsibilities, especially after their soul fully developed. 

The routine was simple: walk home, get homework done, change clothing, get a snack, curl up on the couch with the snack, a blanket, and their favorite doll until their dad got home. Usually on Thursdays like this, Desdemona feared when their dad would get home because he would yell at them and have them turn off the tv and get in the car. This new addition only started when their mom disappeared. One day, at 3:20 when she was meant to get home, she didn’t show up. It wasn’t Des’s fault, they were only a child and their soul wasn’t even fully developed, they were only wondering what if’s, it shouldn’t be their fault that it became real. 

No matter, they had other worries. They didn’t have any homework so they went straight up to their room, changing out of the light blue and white uniform shirt and white shorts into a comfortable black and white striped t-shirt and brown overalls instead. They grabbed a blanket and pink axolotl doll from their bed and went downstairs again. Before going into the living room, they popped into the kitchen and grabbed a bag of cheese puffs from the pantry that were hidden away at their height so their father couldn’t confiscate it. There weren't many of the puffs left so they took the bag with them. They went to the living room and climbed onto the grey couch, covering themself and their plushie with the blanket. They grabbed the discarded remote and turned on the tv, pressing random numbers until they got to the cartoon channel. 

Seconds turned to minutes, minutes turned to an hour, and the front door slammed open as the episode faded to black. 

“Turn that tv off right now! Get up and get in the car, traffic was held up enough already!” The tall man who entered had yelled. Desdemona hated their father on Thursdays, he was always so mean and would only let Desdemona eat stale animal crackers that tasted both bland and too sweet. Regardless, the child slid off the couch and went to the door, putting on some boots and grabbing their father’s hand to be led to the car.

They were set in a booster seat and buckled in with the stupid animal crackers and doll. Their father slammed the door shut and got in the drivers spot, driving off down the road to their destination. 

Roughly twenty minutes had gone by when the car stopped outside of a large grey building located along a dirt path. Desdemona dreaded this place, there were no good people there, only mean men in big white coats. The place was bland and basically greyscale, no pictures or paintings anywhere, it was like a prison. Desdemona’s father led them to a room with only a bed, a few chairs, some counters and cabinets. Without instructions, Des hopped on the bed and waited, swinging their legs while their father sat in one of the folding chairs in the corner of the room. The child held their plushie tightly, letting their dirty blonde hair fall in front of their face, hearing only their father wishing for a normal child before three of the mean men in white coats came in and began their tests.

~~~

Souls develop in a human by the age of five, beforehand their souls are usually white, empty and still developing their traits. For Desdemona, their soul didn’t develop correctly, and by the time the trait showed itself, it was too late to guide their soul differently. It was malformed and full of hate and malice, the only things they were shown before, not an ounce of KINDNESS was present in soul tests, the only trait that had developed into a positive range was DETERMINATION, and even then, it was very weak, and couldn’t manage being the dominant trait on it’s own. 

It was very rare for souls to be malformed, and even rarer to have all but one trait be malformed. Oddities like these seem to be caused from one parent having a malformed trait, which in Desdemona’s case, could be their father having malformed kindness, after all, he was a “businessman”. It could be possible for a soul to be malformed in another way, where all the traits exceed limits, the soul exhibits all traits to an extreme and displays all the traits equally among the heart. But this has only remained speculation. 

~~~ “Des, wake up.” They heard their father say. There wasn’t a clock in the room, but even then, they knew it had been at least five hours since the doctors gave them the medication that put them to sleep. Desdemona sat up and saw their soul was exposed, it was black and inky, with a little dot of red on the side where a doctor most likely had injected raw determination into their soul to make it normal. 

“Sorry dad, I’ll be better…” The child weakly said.

“Listen Des, I know you hate me, I’m just still upset about what you did to your mother.”

“I didn’t do anything! It’s not my fault!” Desdemona cried. Their dad sighed and picked them up and carried them to the car, putting them into their seat before settling into his own and beginning the drive home. 

“We’re having mac and cheese again, and I want you to behave tomorrow and remember…”

“No showing my soul to anyone.”

“And if someone asks?”

“Say it’s determination and dodge other questions...”

“Good, sorry the tests ran a bit late, your soul is just needlessly complicated.” 

The drive was boring as always, the sky was illuminated with the end of a sunset, but it wasn’t anything. Des fell asleep in their seat, only waking up when the car drove over a bump that jolted the end of it. 

Tomorrow is another day.

~~~

Stepping onto the schoolyard was a chore, it was tedious, unnecessary, the educational systems flawed anyway, and yet it is still done because in our minds we believe that we would not make it anywhere without wasting time here. Desdemona wished they could just stay at home and learn from the internet where they only learn what’s necessary for a future career.

But, no, the elder gods demanded that all children (which is all people under 18) are required to attend hell to understand what awaits them if they step out of line. Unfortunately Desdemona was not one of the “gifted” ones that were made to believe that they were smart when in reality it’s just a facade to let the parents know which kid needs therapy before 16. 

In reality, Desdemona was just standing paralyzed at the school gates, knowing nothing excited them. They were tired, full of hatred, and bored. They looked around, seeing all the happy friends playing chase and other games, no one was alone, this saddened the blonde child at the gate. Until a new face appeared next to them.

“Hi! Who are you?! Names [REDACTED]! What’s yours?!” A boy excitedly spoke. Desdemona stared at the white-haired boy, stunned. Someone wanted to talk to me?

"My name is Des...Desdemona."

"That's a cool name! Say friend, what's your soul trait? Mine's determination!" The boy continued to speak. Desdemona stared at [REDACTED] before answering.

"Determination...at least I think…"

"Well can I see?" Before Des could say no, the teacher came out and called the kids inside for class time. "Hey, we'll talk after class ok? Bye friend!" And the boy left. He was always interesting.

~~~

The school day was done in an instant, and Desdemona found themself walking back home. The clouds greying above, making the air cold and damp.

"Desdemona! You should wait here until your father can get you! It's going to be a downpour!" They heard the teacher cry. They were only a little out of the gate, so it probably was best to listen. They walked back to the roofed area that the teacher was under, along with their new friend [REDACTED]. "I'll call your dads, do you mind waiting here?"

Two shakes of the kids heads and she left.

"Hi Dessie! Can I see your soul now?" Desdemona's new friend asked. They were conflicted, but ultimately, they trusted [REDACTED]. They pressed and hand against their own chest and out popped the pitch black soul. "Wow! I haven't seen a soul like that before!"

"My dad doesn't like me showing my soul…" 

"It's cool though! Don't feel bad!" The comment made Des smile, it was great to have a friend that accepts their oddities. The two talked about all sorts of child nonsense afterwards. About ten minutes had passed when the teacher came back out, her face was one of distress.

"Desdemona, your father will be here shortly, [REDACTED], I'll walk you to where your mother is, ok?" The kids nodded. They waited a few minutes until a car pulled up and out stepped Desdemona’s father carrying an open umbrella.

“C’mon Des, I have to take care of paperwork before eight.”

“Dad! Can my friend come over? Please?” The blonde child asked, running up to their father.

“What?! N-...fine, whatever keeps you happy, but you know the rules. Ma’am, is that ok?” The grown man asked, directing his attention to the teacher.

“Well, I would have to inform [REDACTED]’s mother, but if she agrees, then it’s fine.” The teacher responded. Desdemona smiled and ran back to give [REDACTED] a hug while the teacher pulled out her phone again. 

~~~

The ride home wasn’t dull for once, this time, it was fun! Desdemona and their friend sat and chatted the whole time, talking about the most random of things. When they finally got home, Des bolted upstairs to change into their usual after school clothes as fast as they could so they could get back to their friend. They could talk and play for the rest of their short lives the whole night! It was so much fun, and it was only sunset when Des’s father said that [REDACTED] had to get ready to go home. 

“Des, can I ask you something?” Their father asked, leading them to the kitchen while their friend was packing their bag still. 

“Sure!” They had left the kitchen and went to the empty backyard with only a tree and some bushes. 

“When did you think you could keep it a secret that you showed your friend your soul?” Des choked at the sentence. 

“Father, I’m sorry, he didn’t tell anyone and no one else saw!” The child spoke, tears forming in their dark eyes.

“Well that’s where you’re wrong, as your teacher saw and informed me when she called to ask if I could come to pick you up.”

“Dad! I’m sorry! I’ll be better! I can make it up to you!”

“Too late, Desdemona.”

~~~

When [REDACTED] finished packing his bag, he slung it over his shoulder and looked around, not seeing their friend at all. 

“Hey Dessie?! Where are you?!” He asked to the open room. I should investigate! And off he went, looking around in every room for their friend, he never saw them leave so who knows where they went! Only after going downstairs again and seeing his friend’s father walk into the kitchen from the backdoor with red hands, did [REDACTED] figure out where their friend was. 

Into the back yard he went! Only after sneaking by Des’s father and opening the slightly ajar door, did his smile and his heart sank. There, laying on the ground in front of the willow tree, was Desdemona, unmoving, and in a puddle of a dark red liquid. [REDACTED] rushed over to kneel in front of their now deceased friend. 

“Dessie...please wake up, why won’t you wake up?!” He shouted while tears formed in his eyes. “Dessie! Please! You’re my only friend! Why can’t you wake up?!” He shook his friend’s body and noticed the black soul, shattered in half. The boy grabbed it and held it close. “Please wake up! Please wake up! Please wake up!” 

Then, the feeling of [REDACTED]’s skin being torn off in pieces hit, and he let out a sharp cry of pain. The shards of the black soul soared up and [REDACTED]’s red soul was drawn out. “I need you to wake up!”

Silence…

The screaming had stopped, the black soul was absorbing new determination provided by the red one. [REDACTED] fell onto his side and let his eyelids grow heavy. 

The only other thing he could remember from that day were police sirens, an ambulance, and being paralyzed, forced to stare as his friend was covered in a white blanket, and carted off. 

~~~

That was the last of Desdemona, a child born with a destiny to die at the hands of a cruel father just because they had an imperfect soul.

Not even time remembers the life it took, the only one who could remember the blonde child was the one with their soul. The boy grew up on a quest to bring back their once friend, no matter how much their hate and death corrupted them. 

[scottmapess]

BITCOIN STIMULUS PUMP!!! $2,000 for USA?! Is THIS a TRAP?!? 🔥 BTC FIRE SALE!!! 🔥

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

What’s going on, guys? It’s K-Dub here with another episode of Crypto Zombie. Welcome back to the Channel. Hope you’re having a great day today. It is a beautiful green day in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency land. In fact, we actually had a crazy night last night. We got down all the way to six thousand four hundred and sixty four dollars. Massive blast off. Bitcoin got all the way up to seven thousand one hundred and sixty. And currently looks like we’re putting in a little bit of a mini flag over here. So lots of people getting excited out in the bitcoin and cryptocurrency land. So my question to you is, who bought with all their stimulus money? Was it you? Was it you? Did you do it? Is that why bitcoin is pumping, that everybody just dumped their stimulus checks into Bitcoin and cryptocurrency? Well, in all sincerity, I do have two things to say about that. Number one is the fact that we actually have this emergency money for the people act that’s being proposed, which would actually give U.S. citizens $2000 every month until the end of this situation, this health crisis is over. However, I do want to discuss the fact that some are saying that, you know, this big spike that we’re seeing in gold, this pump we’re seeing in Bitcoin, even the recent 20 percent, whatever it was, increase in stocks is a little bit of a buy the rumor, sell the news. In fact, they’re saying that maybe some people are just frontrunning it assuming that the economy is just going to absolutely spring back. And actually, once it reopens, things could potentially be worse. OK. So we do have to talk about that. However, on the bright side, according to this chart, the rainbow char, it’s kind of been going around the Internet. Again, it’s been around since 2014. If we look at it, it’s actually showing that currently Bitcoin is in fire sale mode. Essentially, now is the time to buy. So we’re going to get into all that today if that sounds good to you. Well, you know what to do if you’re not subscribed. Well, we do this virtually every single day. Definitely considering. And without further ado, let’s dive directly in to the charts now. Although this pump does seem pretty incredible for Bitcoin overnight, lots people getting excited. I do want to point out, unfortunately, that we are still being held down by the resistance. You can see right here, we touched it. We had one more touch again. And currently we are being held down. So this does mean that Bitcoin could push down, unfortunately, again, to retest the six thousand six hundred dollar level if we were to fall below that. We do have this trendline support, which from this level would put us around six thousand three hundred dollars. Now, I’m not going to go totally bearish. Obviously, you guys know I am a long term bitcoin bull. However, not only are we being held down by that resistance, but if we zoom in, we also have the major 50 day moving average resistance that we’ve been speaking about on the channel. And currently that is holding us down right now. And as you can see, we don’t have much more time to get to the end of this apacs. So essentially within the next 24 to 48 hours, we are looking for a major Bitcoin move. I said this yesterday. So we’re you gonna see some kind of a crazy breakout to the upside or potential breakout to the downside. Now, short term, I do want to once again point out that we have the seven thousand two hundred dollar level where the V.P. VR is. I’ve been talking about this for a long time and you could see the significance of it how right here we’re being held down. And that’s because it was major accumulation level back here basically from the end of November all the way to the beginning of January. Now, you can also see here, obviously, we have it again. And like I said, we do have the 21 exponential on the weekly coming down. Now, I originally was looking for around the seven thousand eight hundred dollar level. Bitcoin’s been kind of just hanging around doing its thing as it takes longer to get to these levels. Well, it looks like these two points are going to meet. So even if we are to get above the $7200 level, we still have a lot of resistance at around seven thousand six hundred. OK, so keep your eyes on those levels. But honestly, guys, as long as we can maintain above the 200 weekly moving average, the the basically this average has held bitcoin up since January of 2015. It’s never fallen below that. It did briefly we briefly fell below it during the crazy freakout with the pandemic, but we were able to actually successfully put the next bar above it. So basically, we don’t want to fall below five thousand six hundred dollars. And if we can get above the seven thousand two hundred and break the seven thousand six hundred dollar level, well, then I would say it is blue skies for bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Let me know what you guys think. Is this just a fake out? Do you think this is stimulus checks buying into bitcoin? Is it just Wale’s playing games? I mean, you can’t deny that we are hitting some of these very critical levels. Right. However, one thing I do want to point out, we have been talking about gold. We haven’t talking about bitcoin. And yes, gold is currently short term outperforming Bitcoin. However, in yesterday’s video, we discussed the fact that gold, for example, took 5000 years to get to a one hundred billion dollar market cap. Bitcoin did it in eight. Thanks for that, Dan McCardle. But keep in mind that when gold was at its. Bottom in 2015, it only pumped 65 percent to where it is right now in that same amount of time. Bitcoin has pumped over two thousand two hundred percent. In fact, if you guys don’t believe me, you could check out this interview that I did yesterday with the crypto LARC. Thank you so much for having me on the channel. It was awesome. Check this video out. We go into it. We’re talking about my portfolio. While Lark was very interested in Nahm, how I’ve gone very heavily into bitcoin. And yeah, so we were talking about the difference of gold and bitcoin and how we feel about it moving forward. Really fun interview. Always a great time talking to Crypto Lark, so definitely check that video out. I’ll drop it below. Popping up above. Yeah. Check it out after the video because we do have a lot of things to talk about. Number one being the fact that the fear and greed index is still an extreme fear. So you’re seeing a lot of people, even despite this recent poll, very afraid to buy into bitcoin. Now, granted, we’re not extreme fear, but what do they say? Right. Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful. In fact, if we actually go down here, you can see that during these time periods when Bitcoin does tend to fall sort of below the 20, you know, 20 out of 100 on the Fear and greed index, it is an excellent time to buy. And one other metric that’s been sort of circulating around the Internet again is the Bitcoin rainbow char. I’m sure you’ve seen this before. Lots of people reference this. However, you do notice that basically each color represents sort of when to buy into Bitcoin. No, keep in mind, this chart has been around since I think it was either late 2014 or early 2015, something like that. But it has basically held up even all the way to the twenty K peak. In fact, when we got to the twenty K Peak we literally went into a maximum bubble territory and we had a well a year and a half of basically declining prices. Right. Well you can see right now we are lower than the buy. We are actually in what is being called the fire sale level for bitcoin. So if you are a long term believer in bitcoin, you’re a bitcoin hodler. I mean, essentially, according to this chart and this chart dates all the way back to pretty much 2011, we are in optimal time for buying and accumulating bitcoin. And look, I understand that things could get worse with the economy. No one is a fortune teller even. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m just a crazy guy on the Internet. Right. But having a look at this compared to other times in history when you could buy cheap bitcoin if you’re new to crypto, if you’ve been waiting for the past three years. This is a blessing in disguise. No financial advice. You do whatever you want. But that being said, if you don’t believe that institutions are accumulating, we already showed you that the 48 hours after the dip, according to Coinbase retail was accumulating. Well, now Greyscale says it raised a record $500 million in their first quarter. You could basically see that this nearly doubled the previous quarterly high of about $250 million, which was in Q3 of last year. So they say that while Bitcoin weighted trust continued to be the company’s most popular product, and this is gonna make a lot of my altcoin fanatics out there happy. They also received record inflows for a theorem ether as well. So that’s pretty cool. So they say that they raised six hundred million across the whole of twenty nineteen with Thursday’s report showing the company raised $500 million in Q One alone. That’s a lot of money for people that are not interested in buying cryptocurrency and for bitcoin going to zero, right? They’re saying it’s likely that the twenty twenty inflows will exceed the year before. I mean they only need a hundred million more and they already did it right. They also reported that inflows surpassed one billion over a 12 month period. The company’s first billion dollar a year. This takes the total value of assets under management to 2.2 billion. That’s a lot of money, guys. Also, not to mention, if you just want to talk from a fundamental perspective, look at how this bitcoin hash rate is already recovering. After we had this crazy scare, people were panicking, worried about a minor death spiral, everything else. Bitcoin is already back to essentially what it was in the beginning of March and it doesn’t look like it wants to stop. So bitcoin is relentless. It is unstoppable. And you could see how we’re already having a massive recovery, proving once again that Bitcoin is the most secure network on planet Earth. Now, super quick, let’s talk about this stimulus deal. Right now. You’re having Representatives Ro Karna and Tim Ryan introducing what is known as the Emergency Money for People Act to provide additional cash payments to Americans that have been infected by the pandemic. So this would include a $2000 monthly payment to every qualifying American over the age of 16 until basically until employment returns to pre pandemic levels. Basically, they say this one time. Twelve hundred dollar check just isn’t gonna cut it. I kind of agree with that. Americans need sustained cash infusions for the duration of this crisis in order to come out on the other side alive, healthy and ready to get back to work. Now, not everybody thinks. What is going on right now with this recovery is a good thing. For example, oh, by the way, before we get into that, John McAfee, you may remember him as the $1 million or I’m going to eat my manhood guy. He says that don’t worry about it. It’s virtually a non-event. And by mid-May, he thinks that this whole situation is going to be over with. He says even in countries like Sweden, which are not on lockdown. He thinks that this is all going to go away. He says he’ll bet $1000 to anyone who thinks he is wrong. Well, $1000 is a very not as incredible of a bet as cutting off your manhood on live TV. But some people, for example, we do have Josh Brown. He doesn’t necessarily think that this is going to end well for everyone, in fact. He thinks that people that are buying into the stocks right now that are trying to front run all of these things, they are going to get massively burned. In fact, I want to play a clip from this super quick about his opinion about actually when the economy reopens, it could potentially be worse and we could see even more major sell offs in major asset classes, potentially stocks. And, you know, it could even affect Bitcoin. So I would play this clip super quick and then we’re going to wrap this up. A lot of things don’t make sense to me, Judge. I’m definitely struggling. And I would tell you that anyone who says they have more answers than they do questions is either lying or is so stupid that they don’t even know what they don’t know. So now you just had the best 15 day period for for the stock. The U.S. stock market going back to 1933. Twenty seven percent gain in 15 days. The last time that happened, FDR was in the White House. And Babe Ruth was on the Yankees. We have not seen a period like this. And there really is no playbook. And I have to tell you something that I think a lot of people are potentially getting wrong that could have huge consequences for how you invest in right now, which is we’re all talking about the reopening of the economy as though it’s a positive catalyst. Judge. What if it’s a negative catalyst? Hear me out on this. Try to imagine a scenario where people are faced with the choice of staying home or going to a restaurant and having to lift the mask up to put a forkful of food in their mouth. How many people are going imagine the airlines that you wouldn’t feel we’re just talking about. What if they have to fly half the amount of people in each flight? They’re going to have to charge twice the amount. How many people are flying? Unless they absolutely have to? Very few. So what if the governors begin to slowly? We’ll quote, we open the economy and they announce that state by state, people can start to kind of go back to their activities. And it’s a negative catalyst because people realize, oh, my God, so much has changed. I don’t know when we’re going to get the economy of twenty 19 back. So I do think a vaccine, whatever it happens, will be positive. But listen to what Scott Gottlieb just told you. The worst thing that can happen is we start to roll back some of these stay at home orders and all of a sudden people get a little too comfortable and we have a resurgence. What would that do to the stock market? Forget about the public health situation. What would that do to investor sentiment? I think would quash investor sentiment. So I’m as worried about everything else as I am about the idea of reopening the economy. And people are disappointed at how slowly things start to go back to normal, if at all. So let me know if you agree with Josh, if you think that maybe investors are sort of frontrunning this right now, you know, things are not going to be able to go back to normal. I would assume that it would take some time to get things back to the way they were. And let’s be honest, after something like this, you’re still going to always have that uncomfortability in public. You are going to still have people, like he said, that are afraid to go out and eat. You know, they’re going to have their masks on. Maybe they’re not going to want to fly. So even if these businesses open. Are they going to get the type or the amount of customers that they were getting before? It is something to consider. But considering that this is a bitcoin and cryptocurrency mostly channel, I do want to end on one sort of analysis of what’s been going on. And this is from Matthew Dib. He’s got over 12 years of experience in investment, equities, derivatives trading, et cetera. He’s the CEO of Stack Funds and he recently came out and had some opinions. So I just want to list off these four specifics about the situation. Number one, he says that Bitcoin really is still an uncorrelated asset, despite the fact that, you know, a lot of people are saying, well, it’s still correlated with stocks and stuff like that, although we kind of went over that in a video a few days ago where it sort of correlated, but it’s not 100 percent correlated. But anyway, he says, I think too many people are probably getting a bit too caught up in what’s happening day to day within the moves of Bitcoin. He says demand for bitcoin is definitely there. I just showed you that, by the way, with Greyscale. But he says, is it a green light for some of these investment companies that have been sitting on the sidelines? He says We think time is certainly approaching. He says if you’re a longer term investor, then we believe that around these levels. Is certainly a great place to get set in. And that that sort of ideology is quite consistent with investors that we’re dealing with at the moment. In fact, you know, just going back to this chart, it’s definitely the right time to be buying if you’re looking to, you know, essentially buy at some of these fire sale levels. Right. He then goes on to say, from our perspective, we still see the having as of the next six to 12 months as a really bullish catalyst for basically a pop of bitcoin. He says definitely over 10000 dollars again. Now, keep in mind, obviously, it’s not like, OK, Bitcoin is going to have and it’s just going to go to the moon. But you cannot deny the fact that we now have less Bitcoin flooding the market. We saw Bitcoin getting moved off exchanges. We saw Hollars moving it into their own wallets. Right. He warns, though, that it may take some time for Bitcoin to be stabilized. He says Bitcoin being the cheapest that we’ve seen in quite some time. However, it’s great. Take some exposure. Now, I can’t give you financial advice. He can give you financial advice and he says take some exposure now. So do what you want with that news. Also, we do have one little thing that’s just sort of mentioned. We have China’s two tier central bank digital currency. The digital currency slash electronic payment will be issued to workers in the city of Suzu. This May the employees will receive part of their upcoming transportation subsidiaries in the digital currency. So it is happening. Here you go. We have China coming out with our national blockchain. Now we have them coming out with their central bank, digital currency. And on that note, guys, I do want to remind you to definitely keep your crypto currency safe. I also want to remind you that Ledger is having their 27 percent sale for a family pack, which is either three hardware wallets. You can get a ledger, nano s or ledger, nano access. Pretty good deal, 27 percent off if you guys haven’t checked out my ledger. Nano S X, I’m sorry, tutorial. I will drop that above. And I do have links for this promotion below. And also thank you for everybody that supported me yesterday. I have been nominated for the crypto influencer. I know of the year award for twenty nineteen now. I actually did win the year before. Thank you so much. I you know, I’m not saying I have to win two years in a row. There’s amazing nominations on here, but I am on the list again. If you guys want to support the crypto zombie al-jarba link below, you can vote for me or vote for somebody else. Doesn’t matter. Just show some support for the community. Also, they do have something going on where they have. It’s a free event. It’s a digital event. But they have a VIP thing where it does help support Cauvin. If you’re interested, you can check that out. But that being said, that is it for me today. Thank you so much again for supporting the channel. You guys rock. Rocky. The reason that I do this every single day. Hope you’re having a OK time in quarantine. I know I’m going kind of bananas over here, trying to go outside, trying to breathe some fresh air. I went for a few hikes, but now they’re like closing down trails and stuff. I mean, it’s getting crazy out here. You know, New York. But that’s enough. I’m rambling. Love you guys. You’re awesome. Thanks for coming back. Do consider getting subscribed. My name’s K-Dub. This is Crypto Zombie. Until next time, stay crypto. And, of course, peace out.

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BITCOIN STIMULUS PUMP!!! $2000 for USA?! Is THIS a TRAP?!? BTC FIRE SALE!!!

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

What’s going on, guys? It’s K-Dub here with another episode of Crypto Zombie. Welcome back to the Channel. Hope you’re having a great day today. It is a beautiful green day in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency land. In fact, we actually had a crazy night last night. We got down all the way to six thousand four hundred and sixty four dollars. Massive blast off. Bitcoin got all the way up to seven thousand one hundred and sixty. And currently looks like we’re putting in a little bit of a mini flag over here. So lots of people getting excited out in the bitcoin and cryptocurrency land. So my question to you is, who bought with all their stimulus money? Was it you? Was it you? Did you do it? Is that why bitcoin is pumping, that everybody just dumped their stimulus checks into Bitcoin and cryptocurrency? Well, in all sincerity, I do have two things to say about that. Number one is the fact that we actually have this emergency money for the people act that’s being proposed, which would actually give U.S. citizens $2000 every month until the end of this situation, this health crisis is over. However, I do want to discuss the fact that some are saying that, you know, this big spike that we’re seeing in gold, this pump we’re seeing in Bitcoin, even the recent 20 percent, whatever it was, increase in stocks is a little bit of a buy the rumor, sell the news. In fact, they’re saying that maybe some people are just frontrunning it assuming that the economy is just going to absolutely spring back. And actually, once it reopens, things could potentially be worse. OK. So we do have to talk about that. However, on the bright side, according to this chart, the rainbow char, it’s kind of been going around the Internet. Again, it’s been around since 2014. If we look at it, it’s actually showing that currently Bitcoin is in fire sale mode. Essentially, now is the time to buy. So we’re going to get into all that today if that sounds good to you. Well, you know what to do if you’re not subscribed. Well, we do this virtually every single day. Definitely considering. And without further ado, let’s dive directly in to the charts now. Although this pump does seem pretty incredible for Bitcoin overnight, lots people getting excited. I do want to point out, unfortunately, that we are still being held down by the resistance. You can see right here, we touched it. We had one more touch again. And currently we are being held down. So this does mean that Bitcoin could push down, unfortunately, again, to retest the six thousand six hundred dollar level if we were to fall below that. We do have this trendline support, which from this level would put us around six thousand three hundred dollars. Now, I’m not going to go totally bearish. Obviously, you guys know I am a long term bitcoin bull. However, not only are we being held down by that resistance, but if we zoom in, we also have the major 50 day moving average resistance that we’ve been speaking about on the channel. And currently that is holding us down right now. And as you can see, we don’t have much more time to get to the end of this apacs. So essentially within the next 24 to 48 hours, we are looking for a major Bitcoin move. I said this yesterday. So we’re you gonna see some kind of a crazy breakout to the upside or potential breakout to the downside. Now, short term, I do want to once again point out that we have the seven thousand two hundred dollar level where the V.P. VR is. I’ve been talking about this for a long time and you could see the significance of it how right here we’re being held down. And that’s because it was major accumulation level back here basically from the end of November all the way to the beginning of January. Now, you can also see here, obviously, we have it again. And like I said, we do have the 21 exponential on the weekly coming down. Now, I originally was looking for around the seven thousand eight hundred dollar level. Bitcoin’s been kind of just hanging around doing its thing as it takes longer to get to these levels. Well, it looks like these two points are going to meet. So even if we are to get above the $7200 level, we still have a lot of resistance at around seven thousand six hundred. OK, so keep your eyes on those levels. But honestly, guys, as long as we can maintain above the 200 weekly moving average, the the basically this average has held bitcoin up since January of 2015. It’s never fallen below that. It did briefly we briefly fell below it during the crazy freakout with the pandemic, but we were able to actually successfully put the next bar above it. So basically, we don’t want to fall below five thousand six hundred dollars. And if we can get above the seven thousand two hundred and break the seven thousand six hundred dollar level, well, then I would say it is blue skies for bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Let me know what you guys think. Is this just a fake out? Do you think this is stimulus checks buying into bitcoin? Is it just Wale’s playing games? I mean, you can’t deny that we are hitting some of these very critical levels. Right. However, one thing I do want to point out, we have been talking about gold. We haven’t talking about bitcoin. And yes, gold is currently short term outperforming Bitcoin. However, in yesterday’s video, we discussed the fact that gold, for example, took 5000 years to get to a one hundred billion dollar market cap. Bitcoin did it in eight. Thanks for that, Dan McCardle. But keep in mind that when gold was at its. Bottom in 2015, it only pumped 65 percent to where it is right now in that same amount of time. Bitcoin has pumped over two thousand two hundred percent. In fact, if you guys don’t believe me, you could check out this interview that I did yesterday with the crypto LARC. Thank you so much for having me on the channel. It was awesome. Check this video out. We go into it. We’re talking about my portfolio. While Lark was very interested in Nahm, how I’ve gone very heavily into bitcoin. And yeah, so we were talking about the difference of gold and bitcoin and how we feel about it moving forward. Really fun interview. Always a great time talking to Crypto Lark, so definitely check that video out. I’ll drop it below. Popping up above. Yeah. Check it out after the video because we do have a lot of things to talk about. Number one being the fact that the fear and greed index is still an extreme fear. So you’re seeing a lot of people, even despite this recent poll, very afraid to buy into bitcoin. Now, granted, we’re not extreme fear, but what do they say? Right. Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful. In fact, if we actually go down here, you can see that during these time periods when Bitcoin does tend to fall sort of below the 20, you know, 20 out of 100 on the Fear and greed index, it is an excellent time to buy. And one other metric that’s been sort of circulating around the Internet again is the Bitcoin rainbow char. I’m sure you’ve seen this before. Lots of people reference this. However, you do notice that basically each color represents sort of when to buy into Bitcoin. No, keep in mind, this chart has been around since I think it was either late 2014 or early 2015, something like that. But it has basically held up even all the way to the twenty K peak. In fact, when we got to the twenty K Peak we literally went into a maximum bubble territory and we had a well a year and a half of basically declining prices. Right. Well you can see right now we are lower than the buy. We are actually in what is being called the fire sale level for bitcoin. So if you are a long term believer in bitcoin, you’re a bitcoin hodler. I mean, essentially, according to this chart and this chart dates all the way back to pretty much 2011, we are in optimal time for buying and accumulating bitcoin. And look, I understand that things could get worse with the economy. No one is a fortune teller even. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m just a crazy guy on the Internet. Right. But having a look at this compared to other times in history when you could buy cheap bitcoin if you’re new to crypto, if you’ve been waiting for the past three years. This is a blessing in disguise. No financial advice. You do whatever you want. But that being said, if you don’t believe that institutions are accumulating, we already showed you that the 48 hours after the dip, according to Coinbase retail was accumulating. Well, now Greyscale says it raised a record $500 million in their first quarter. You could basically see that this nearly doubled the previous quarterly high of about $250 million, which was in Q3 of last year. So they say that while Bitcoin weighted trust continued to be the company’s most popular product, and this is gonna make a lot of my altcoin fanatics out there happy. They also received record inflows for a theorem ether as well. So that’s pretty cool. So they say that they raised six hundred million across the whole of twenty nineteen with Thursday’s report showing the company raised $500 million in Q One alone. That’s a lot of money for people that are not interested in buying cryptocurrency and for bitcoin going to zero, right? They’re saying it’s likely that the twenty twenty inflows will exceed the year before. I mean they only need a hundred million more and they already did it right. They also reported that inflows surpassed one billion over a 12 month period. The company’s first billion dollar a year. This takes the total value of assets under management to 2.2 billion. That’s a lot of money, guys. Also, not to mention, if you just want to talk from a fundamental perspective, look at how this bitcoin hash rate is already recovering. After we had this crazy scare, people were panicking, worried about a minor death spiral, everything else. Bitcoin is already back to essentially what it was in the beginning of March and it doesn’t look like it wants to stop. So bitcoin is relentless. It is unstoppable. And you could see how we’re already having a massive recovery, proving once again that Bitcoin is the most secure network on planet Earth. Now, super quick, let’s talk about this stimulus deal. Right now. You’re having Representatives Ro Karna and Tim Ryan introducing what is known as the Emergency Money for People Act to provide additional cash payments to Americans that have been infected by the pandemic. So this would include a $2000 monthly payment to every qualifying American over the age of 16 until basically until employment returns to pre pandemic levels. Basically, they say this one time. Twelve hundred dollar check just isn’t gonna cut it. I kind of agree with that. Americans need sustained cash infusions for the duration of this crisis in order to come out on the other side alive, healthy and ready to get back to work. Now, not everybody thinks. What is going on right now with this recovery is a good thing. For example, oh, by the way, before we get into that, John McAfee, you may remember him as the $1 million or I’m going to eat my manhood guy. He says that don’t worry about it. It’s virtually a non-event. And by mid-May, he thinks that this whole situation is going to be over with. He says even in countries like Sweden, which are not on lockdown. He thinks that this is all going to go away. He says he’ll bet $1000 to anyone who thinks he is wrong. Well, $1000 is a very not as incredible of a bet as cutting off your manhood on live TV. But some people, for example, we do have Josh Brown. He doesn’t necessarily think that this is going to end well for everyone, in fact. He thinks that people that are buying into the stocks right now that are trying to front run all of these things, they are going to get massively burned. In fact, I want to play a clip from this super quick about his opinion about actually when the economy reopens, it could potentially be worse and we could see even more major sell offs in major asset classes, potentially stocks. And, you know, it could even affect Bitcoin. So I would play this clip super quick and then we’re going to wrap this up. A lot of things don’t make sense to me, Judge. I’m definitely struggling. And I would tell you that anyone who says they have more answers than they do questions is either lying or is so stupid that they don’t even know what they don’t know. So now you just had the best 15 day period for for the stock. The U.S. stock market going back to 1933. Twenty seven percent gain in 15 days. The last time that happened, FDR was in the White House. And Babe Ruth was on the Yankees. We have not seen a period like this. And there really is no playbook. And I have to tell you something that I think a lot of people are potentially getting wrong that could have huge consequences for how you invest in right now, which is we’re all talking about the reopening of the economy as though it’s a positive catalyst. Judge. What if it’s a negative catalyst? Hear me out on this. Try to imagine a scenario where people are faced with the choice of staying home or going to a restaurant and having to lift the mask up to put a forkful of food in their mouth. How many people are going imagine the airlines that you wouldn’t feel we’re just talking about. What if they have to fly half the amount of people in each flight? They’re going to have to charge twice the amount. How many people are flying? Unless they absolutely have to? Very few. So what if the governors begin to slowly? We’ll quote, we open the economy and they announce that state by state, people can start to kind of go back to their activities. And it’s a negative catalyst because people realize, oh, my God, so much has changed. I don’t know when we’re going to get the economy of twenty 19 back. So I do think a vaccine, whatever it happens, will be positive. But listen to what Scott Gottlieb just told you. The worst thing that can happen is we start to roll back some of these stay at home orders and all of a sudden people get a little too comfortable and we have a resurgence. What would that do to the stock market? Forget about the public health situation. What would that do to investor sentiment? I think would quash investor sentiment. So I’m as worried about everything else as I am about the idea of reopening the economy. And people are disappointed at how slowly things start to go back to normal, if at all. So let me know if you agree with Josh, if you think that maybe investors are sort of frontrunning this right now, you know, things are not going to be able to go back to normal. I would assume that it would take some time to get things back to the way they were. And let’s be honest, after something like this, you’re still going to always have that uncomfortability in public. You are going to still have people, like he said, that are afraid to go out and eat. You know, they’re going to have their masks on. Maybe they’re not going to want to fly. So even if these businesses open. Are they going to get the type or the amount of customers that they were getting before? It is something to consider. But considering that this is a bitcoin and cryptocurrency mostly channel, I do want to end on one sort of analysis of what’s been going on. And this is from Matthew Dib. He’s got over 12 years of experience in investment, equities, derivatives trading, et cetera. He’s the CEO of Stack Funds and he recently came out and had some opinions. So I just want to list off these four specifics about the situation. Number one, he says that Bitcoin really is still an uncorrelated asset, despite the fact that, you know, a lot of people are saying, well, it’s still correlated with stocks and stuff like that, although we kind of went over that in a video a few days ago where it sort of correlated, but it’s not 100 percent correlated. But anyway, he says, I think too many people are probably getting a bit too caught up in what’s happening day to day within the moves of Bitcoin. He says demand for bitcoin is definitely there. I just showed you that, by the way, with Greyscale. But he says, is it a green light for some of these investment companies that have been sitting on the sidelines? He says We think time is certainly approaching. He says if you’re a longer term investor, then we believe that around these levels. Is certainly a great place to get set in. And that that sort of ideology is quite consistent with investors that we’re dealing with at the moment. In fact, you know, just going back to this chart, it’s definitely the right time to be buying if you’re looking to, you know, essentially buy at some of these fire sale levels. Right. He then goes on to say, from our perspective, we still see the having as of the next six to 12 months as a really bullish catalyst for basically a pop of bitcoin. He says definitely over 10000 dollars again. Now, keep in mind, obviously, it’s not like, OK, Bitcoin is going to have and it’s just going to go to the moon. But you cannot deny the fact that we now have less Bitcoin flooding the market. We saw Bitcoin getting moved off exchanges. We saw Hollars moving it into their own wallets. Right. He warns, though, that it may take some time for Bitcoin to be stabilized. He says Bitcoin being the cheapest that we’ve seen in quite some time. However, it’s great. Take some exposure. Now, I can’t give you financial advice. He can give you financial advice and he says take some exposure now. So do what you want with that news. Also, we do have one little thing that’s just sort of mentioned. We have China’s two tier central bank digital currency. The digital currency slash electronic payment will be issued to workers in the city of Suzu. This May the employees will receive part of their upcoming transportation subsidiaries in the digital currency. So it is happening. Here you go. We have China coming out with our national blockchain. Now we have them coming out with their central bank, digital currency. And on that note, guys, I do want to remind you to definitely keep your crypto currency safe. I also want to remind you that Ledger is having their 27 percent sale for a family pack, which is either three hardware wallets. You can get a ledger, nano s or ledger, nano access. Pretty good deal, 27 percent off if you guys haven’t checked out my ledger. Nano S X, I’m sorry, tutorial. I will drop that above. And I do have links for this promotion below. And also thank you for everybody that supported me yesterday. I have been nominated for the crypto influencer. I know of the year award for twenty nineteen now. I actually did win the year before. Thank you so much. I you know, I’m not saying I have to win two years in a row. There’s amazing nominations on here, but I am on the list again. If you guys want to support the crypto zombie al-jarba link below, you can vote for me or vote for somebody else. Doesn’t matter. Just show some support for the community. Also, they do have something going on where they have. It’s a free event. It’s a digital event. But they have a VIP thing where it does help support Cauvin. If you’re interested, you can check that out. But that being said, that is it for me today. Thank you so much again for supporting the channel. You guys rock. Rocky. The reason that I do this every single day. Hope you’re having a OK time in quarantine. I know I’m going kind of bananas over here, trying to go outside, trying to breathe some fresh air. I went for a few hikes, but now they’re like closing down trails and stuff. I mean, it’s getting crazy out here. You know, New York. But that’s enough. I’m rambling. Love you guys. You’re awesome. Thanks for coming back. Do consider getting subscribed. My name’s K-Dub. This is Crypto Zombie. Until next time, stay crypto. And, of course, peace out.

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BITCOIN STIMULUS PUMP!!! $2,000 for USA?! Is THIS a TRAP?!? 🔥 BTC FIRE SALE!!! 🔥

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

What’s going on, guys? It’s K-Dub here with another episode of Crypto Zombie. Welcome back to the Channel. Hope you’re having a great day today. It is a beautiful green day in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency land. In fact, we actually had a crazy night last night. We got down all the way to six thousand four hundred and sixty four dollars. Massive blast off. Bitcoin got all the way up to seven thousand one hundred and sixty. And currently looks like we’re putting in a little bit of a mini flag over here. So lots of people getting excited out in the bitcoin and cryptocurrency land. So my question to you is, who bought with all their stimulus money? Was it you? Was it you? Did you do it? Is that why bitcoin is pumping, that everybody just dumped their stimulus checks into Bitcoin and cryptocurrency? Well, in all sincerity, I do have two things to say about that. Number one is the fact that we actually have this emergency money for the people act that’s being proposed, which would actually give U.S. citizens $2000 every month until the end of this situation, this health crisis is over. However, I do want to discuss the fact that some are saying that, you know, this big spike that we’re seeing in gold, this pump we’re seeing in Bitcoin, even the recent 20 percent, whatever it was, increase in stocks is a little bit of a buy the rumor, sell the news. In fact, they’re saying that maybe some people are just frontrunning it assuming that the economy is just going to absolutely spring back. And actually, once it reopens, things could potentially be worse. OK. So we do have to talk about that. However, on the bright side, according to this chart, the rainbow char, it’s kind of been going around the Internet. Again, it’s been around since 2014. If we look at it, it’s actually showing that currently Bitcoin is in fire sale mode. Essentially, now is the time to buy. So we’re going to get into all that today if that sounds good to you. Well, you know what to do if you’re not subscribed. Well, we do this virtually every single day. Definitely considering. And without further ado, let’s dive directly in to the charts now. Although this pump does seem pretty incredible for Bitcoin overnight, lots people getting excited. I do want to point out, unfortunately, that we are still being held down by the resistance. You can see right here, we touched it. We had one more touch again. And currently we are being held down. So this does mean that Bitcoin could push down, unfortunately, again, to retest the six thousand six hundred dollar level if we were to fall below that. We do have this trendline support, which from this level would put us around six thousand three hundred dollars. Now, I’m not going to go totally bearish. Obviously, you guys know I am a long term bitcoin bull. However, not only are we being held down by that resistance, but if we zoom in, we also have the major 50 day moving average resistance that we’ve been speaking about on the channel. And currently that is holding us down right now. And as you can see, we don’t have much more time to get to the end of this apacs. So essentially within the next 24 to 48 hours, we are looking for a major Bitcoin move. I said this yesterday. So we’re you gonna see some kind of a crazy breakout to the upside or potential breakout to the downside. Now, short term, I do want to once again point out that we have the seven thousand two hundred dollar level where the V.P. VR is. I’ve been talking about this for a long time and you could see the significance of it how right here we’re being held down. And that’s because it was major accumulation level back here basically from the end of November all the way to the beginning of January. Now, you can also see here, obviously, we have it again. And like I said, we do have the 21 exponential on the weekly coming down. Now, I originally was looking for around the seven thousand eight hundred dollar level. Bitcoin’s been kind of just hanging around doing its thing as it takes longer to get to these levels. Well, it looks like these two points are going to meet. So even if we are to get above the $7200 level, we still have a lot of resistance at around seven thousand six hundred. OK, so keep your eyes on those levels. But honestly, guys, as long as we can maintain above the 200 weekly moving average, the the basically this average has held bitcoin up since January of 2015. It’s never fallen below that. It did briefly we briefly fell below it during the crazy freakout with the pandemic, but we were able to actually successfully put the next bar above it. So basically, we don’t want to fall below five thousand six hundred dollars. And if we can get above the seven thousand two hundred and break the seven thousand six hundred dollar level, well, then I would say it is blue skies for bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Let me know what you guys think. Is this just a fake out? Do you think this is stimulus checks buying into bitcoin? Is it just Wale’s playing games? I mean, you can’t deny that we are hitting some of these very critical levels. Right. However, one thing I do want to point out, we have been talking about gold. We haven’t talking about bitcoin. And yes, gold is currently short term outperforming Bitcoin. However, in yesterday’s video, we discussed the fact that gold, for example, took 5000 years to get to a one hundred billion dollar market cap. Bitcoin did it in eight. Thanks for that, Dan McCardle. But keep in mind that when gold was at its. Bottom in 2015, it only pumped 65 percent to where it is right now in that same amount of time. Bitcoin has pumped over two thousand two hundred percent. In fact, if you guys don’t believe me, you could check out this interview that I did yesterday with the crypto LARC. Thank you so much for having me on the channel. It was awesome. Check this video out. We go into it. We’re talking about my portfolio. While Lark was very interested in Nahm, how I’ve gone very heavily into bitcoin. And yeah, so we were talking about the difference of gold and bitcoin and how we feel about it moving forward. Really fun interview. Always a great time talking to Crypto Lark, so definitely check that video out. I’ll drop it below. Popping up above. Yeah. Check it out after the video because we do have a lot of things to talk about. Number one being the fact that the fear and greed index is still an extreme fear. So you’re seeing a lot of people, even despite this recent poll, very afraid to buy into bitcoin. Now, granted, we’re not extreme fear, but what do they say? Right. Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful. In fact, if we actually go down here, you can see that during these time periods when Bitcoin does tend to fall sort of below the 20, you know, 20 out of 100 on the Fear and greed index, it is an excellent time to buy. And one other metric that’s been sort of circulating around the Internet again is the Bitcoin rainbow char. I’m sure you’ve seen this before. Lots of people reference this. However, you do notice that basically each color represents sort of when to buy into Bitcoin. No, keep in mind, this chart has been around since I think it was either late 2014 or early 2015, something like that. But it has basically held up even all the way to the twenty K peak. In fact, when we got to the twenty K Peak we literally went into a maximum bubble territory and we had a well a year and a half of basically declining prices. Right. Well you can see right now we are lower than the buy. We are actually in what is being called the fire sale level for bitcoin. So if you are a long term believer in bitcoin, you’re a bitcoin hodler. I mean, essentially, according to this chart and this chart dates all the way back to pretty much 2011, we are in optimal time for buying and accumulating bitcoin. And look, I understand that things could get worse with the economy. No one is a fortune teller even. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m just a crazy guy on the Internet. Right. But having a look at this compared to other times in history when you could buy cheap bitcoin if you’re new to crypto, if you’ve been waiting for the past three years. This is a blessing in disguise. No financial advice. You do whatever you want. But that being said, if you don’t believe that institutions are accumulating, we already showed you that the 48 hours after the dip, according to Coinbase retail was accumulating. Well, now Greyscale says it raised a record $500 million in their first quarter. You could basically see that this nearly doubled the previous quarterly high of about $250 million, which was in Q3 of last year. So they say that while Bitcoin weighted trust continued to be the company’s most popular product, and this is gonna make a lot of my altcoin fanatics out there happy. They also received record inflows for a theorem ether as well. So that’s pretty cool. So they say that they raised six hundred million across the whole of twenty nineteen with Thursday’s report showing the company raised $500 million in Q One alone. That’s a lot of money for people that are not interested in buying cryptocurrency and for bitcoin going to zero, right? They’re saying it’s likely that the twenty twenty inflows will exceed the year before. I mean they only need a hundred million more and they already did it right. They also reported that inflows surpassed one billion over a 12 month period. The company’s first billion dollar a year. This takes the total value of assets under management to 2.2 billion. That’s a lot of money, guys. Also, not to mention, if you just want to talk from a fundamental perspective, look at how this bitcoin hash rate is already recovering. After we had this crazy scare, people were panicking, worried about a minor death spiral, everything else. Bitcoin is already back to essentially what it was in the beginning of March and it doesn’t look like it wants to stop. So bitcoin is relentless. It is unstoppable. And you could see how we’re already having a massive recovery, proving once again that Bitcoin is the most secure network on planet Earth. Now, super quick, let’s talk about this stimulus deal. Right now. You’re having Representatives Ro Karna and Tim Ryan introducing what is known as the Emergency Money for People Act to provide additional cash payments to Americans that have been infected by the pandemic. So this would include a $2000 monthly payment to every qualifying American over the age of 16 until basically until employment returns to pre pandemic levels. Basically, they say this one time. Twelve hundred dollar check just isn’t gonna cut it. I kind of agree with that. Americans need sustained cash infusions for the duration of this crisis in order to come out on the other side alive, healthy and ready to get back to work. Now, not everybody thinks. What is going on right now with this recovery is a good thing. For example, oh, by the way, before we get into that, John McAfee, you may remember him as the $1 million or I’m going to eat my manhood guy. He says that don’t worry about it. It’s virtually a non-event. And by mid-May, he thinks that this whole situation is going to be over with. He says even in countries like Sweden, which are not on lockdown. He thinks that this is all going to go away. He says he’ll bet $1000 to anyone who thinks he is wrong. Well, $1000 is a very not as incredible of a bet as cutting off your manhood on live TV. But some people, for example, we do have Josh Brown. He doesn’t necessarily think that this is going to end well for everyone, in fact. He thinks that people that are buying into the stocks right now that are trying to front run all of these things, they are going to get massively burned. In fact, I want to play a clip from this super quick about his opinion about actually when the economy reopens, it could potentially be worse and we could see even more major sell offs in major asset classes, potentially stocks. And, you know, it could even affect Bitcoin. So I would play this clip super quick and then we’re going to wrap this up. A lot of things don’t make sense to me, Judge. I’m definitely struggling. And I would tell you that anyone who says they have more answers than they do questions is either lying or is so stupid that they don’t even know what they don’t know. So now you just had the best 15 day period for for the stock. The U.S. stock market going back to 1933. Twenty seven percent gain in 15 days. The last time that happened, FDR was in the White House. And Babe Ruth was on the Yankees. We have not seen a period like this. And there really is no playbook. And I have to tell you something that I think a lot of people are potentially getting wrong that could have huge consequences for how you invest in right now, which is we’re all talking about the reopening of the economy as though it’s a positive catalyst. Judge. What if it’s a negative catalyst? Hear me out on this. Try to imagine a scenario where people are faced with the choice of staying home or going to a restaurant and having to lift the mask up to put a forkful of food in their mouth. How many people are going imagine the airlines that you wouldn’t feel we’re just talking about. What if they have to fly half the amount of people in each flight? They’re going to have to charge twice the amount. How many people are flying? Unless they absolutely have to? Very few. So what if the governors begin to slowly? We’ll quote, we open the economy and they announce that state by state, people can start to kind of go back to their activities. And it’s a negative catalyst because people realize, oh, my God, so much has changed. I don’t know when we’re going to get the economy of twenty 19 back. So I do think a vaccine, whatever it happens, will be positive. But listen to what Scott Gottlieb just told you. The worst thing that can happen is we start to roll back some of these stay at home orders and all of a sudden people get a little too comfortable and we have a resurgence. What would that do to the stock market? Forget about the public health situation. What would that do to investor sentiment? I think would quash investor sentiment. So I’m as worried about everything else as I am about the idea of reopening the economy. And people are disappointed at how slowly things start to go back to normal, if at all. So let me know if you agree with Josh, if you think that maybe investors are sort of frontrunning this right now, you know, things are not going to be able to go back to normal. I would assume that it would take some time to get things back to the way they were. And let’s be honest, after something like this, you’re still going to always have that uncomfortability in public. You are going to still have people, like he said, that are afraid to go out and eat. You know, they’re going to have their masks on. Maybe they’re not going to want to fly. So even if these businesses open. Are they going to get the type or the amount of customers that they were getting before? It is something to consider. But considering that this is a bitcoin and cryptocurrency mostly channel, I do want to end on one sort of analysis of what’s been going on. And this is from Matthew Dib. He’s got over 12 years of experience in investment, equities, derivatives trading, et cetera. He’s the CEO of Stack Funds and he recently came out and had some opinions. So I just want to list off these four specifics about the situation. Number one, he says that Bitcoin really is still an uncorrelated asset, despite the fact that, you know, a lot of people are saying, well, it’s still correlated with stocks and stuff like that, although we kind of went over that in a video a few days ago where it sort of correlated, but it’s not 100 percent correlated. But anyway, he says, I think too many people are probably getting a bit too caught up in what’s happening day to day within the moves of Bitcoin. He says demand for bitcoin is definitely there. I just showed you that, by the way, with Greyscale. But he says, is it a green light for some of these investment companies that have been sitting on the sidelines? He says We think time is certainly approaching. He says if you’re a longer term investor, then we believe that around these levels. Is certainly a great place to get set in. And that that sort of ideology is quite consistent with investors that we’re dealing with at the moment. In fact, you know, just going back to this chart, it’s definitely the right time to be buying if you’re looking to, you know, essentially buy at some of these fire sale levels. Right. He then goes on to say, from our perspective, we still see the having as of the next six to 12 months as a really bullish catalyst for basically a pop of bitcoin. He says definitely over 10000 dollars again. Now, keep in mind, obviously, it’s not like, OK, Bitcoin is going to have and it’s just going to go to the moon. But you cannot deny the fact that we now have less Bitcoin flooding the market. We saw Bitcoin getting moved off exchanges. We saw Hollars moving it into their own wallets. Right. He warns, though, that it may take some time for Bitcoin to be stabilized. He says Bitcoin being the cheapest that we’ve seen in quite some time. However, it’s great. Take some exposure. Now, I can’t give you financial advice. He can give you financial advice and he says take some exposure now. So do what you want with that news. Also, we do have one little thing that’s just sort of mentioned. We have China’s two tier central bank digital currency. The digital currency slash electronic payment will be issued to workers in the city of Suzu. This May the employees will receive part of their upcoming transportation subsidiaries in the digital currency. So it is happening. Here you go. We have China coming out with our national blockchain. Now we have them coming out with their central bank, digital currency. And on that note, guys, I do want to remind you to definitely keep your crypto currency safe. I also want to remind you that Ledger is having their 27 percent sale for a family pack, which is either three hardware wallets. You can get a ledger, nano s or ledger, nano access. Pretty good deal, 27 percent off if you guys haven’t checked out my ledger. Nano S X, I’m sorry, tutorial. I will drop that above. And I do have links for this promotion below. And also thank you for everybody that supported me yesterday. I have been nominated for the crypto influencer. I know of the year award for twenty nineteen now. I actually did win the year before. Thank you so much. I you know, I’m not saying I have to win two years in a row. There’s amazing nominations on here, but I am on the list again. If you guys want to support the crypto zombie al-jarba link below, you can vote for me or vote for somebody else. Doesn’t matter. Just show some support for the community. Also, they do have something going on where they have. It’s a free event. It’s a digital event. But they have a VIP thing where it does help support Cauvin. If you’re interested, you can check that out. But that being said, that is it for me today. Thank you so much again for supporting the channel. You guys rock. Rocky. The reason that I do this every single day. Hope you’re having a OK time in quarantine. I know I’m going kind of bananas over here, trying to go outside, trying to breathe some fresh air. I went for a few hikes, but now they’re like closing down trails and stuff. I mean, it’s getting crazy out here. You know, New York. But that’s enough. I’m rambling. Love you guys. You’re awesome. Thanks for coming back. Do consider getting subscribed. My name’s K-Dub. This is Crypto Zombie. Until next time, stay crypto. And, of course, peace out.

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BITCOIN STIMULUS PUMP!!! $2,000 for USA?! Is THIS a TRAP?!? 🔥 BTC FIRE SALE!!! 🔥

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

What’s going on, guys? It’s K-Dub here with another episode of Crypto Zombie. Welcome back to the Channel. Hope you’re having a great day today. It is a beautiful green day in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency land. In fact, we actually had a crazy night last night. We got down all the way to six thousand four hundred and sixty four dollars. Massive blast off. Bitcoin got all the way up to seven thousand one hundred and sixty. And currently looks like we’re putting in a little bit of a mini flag over here. So lots of people getting excited out in the bitcoin and cryptocurrency land. So my question to you is, who bought with all their stimulus money? Was it you? Was it you? Did you do it? Is that why bitcoin is pumping, that everybody just dumped their stimulus checks into Bitcoin and cryptocurrency? Well, in all sincerity, I do have two things to say about that. Number one is the fact that we actually have this emergency money for the people act that’s being proposed, which would actually give U.S. citizens $2000 every month until the end of this situation, this health crisis is over. However, I do want to discuss the fact that some are saying that, you know, this big spike that we’re seeing in gold, this pump we’re seeing in Bitcoin, even the recent 20 percent, whatever it was, increase in stocks is a little bit of a buy the rumor, sell the news. In fact, they’re saying that maybe some people are just frontrunning it assuming that the economy is just going to absolutely spring back. And actually, once it reopens, things could potentially be worse. OK. So we do have to talk about that. However, on the bright side, according to this chart, the rainbow char, it’s kind of been going around the Internet. Again, it’s been around since 2014. If we look at it, it’s actually showing that currently Bitcoin is in fire sale mode. Essentially, now is the time to buy. So we’re going to get into all that today if that sounds good to you. Well, you know what to do if you’re not subscribed. Well, we do this virtually every single day. Definitely considering. And without further ado, let’s dive directly in to the charts now. Although this pump does seem pretty incredible for Bitcoin overnight, lots people getting excited. I do want to point out, unfortunately, that we are still being held down by the resistance. You can see right here, we touched it. We had one more touch again. And currently we are being held down. So this does mean that Bitcoin could push down, unfortunately, again, to retest the six thousand six hundred dollar level if we were to fall below that. We do have this trendline support, which from this level would put us around six thousand three hundred dollars. Now, I’m not going to go totally bearish. Obviously, you guys know I am a long term bitcoin bull. However, not only are we being held down by that resistance, but if we zoom in, we also have the major 50 day moving average resistance that we’ve been speaking about on the channel. And currently that is holding us down right now. And as you can see, we don’t have much more time to get to the end of this apacs. So essentially within the next 24 to 48 hours, we are looking for a major Bitcoin move. I said this yesterday. So we’re you gonna see some kind of a crazy breakout to the upside or potential breakout to the downside. Now, short term, I do want to once again point out that we have the seven thousand two hundred dollar level where the V.P. VR is. I’ve been talking about this for a long time and you could see the significance of it how right here we’re being held down. And that’s because it was major accumulation level back here basically from the end of November all the way to the beginning of January. Now, you can also see here, obviously, we have it again. And like I said, we do have the 21 exponential on the weekly coming down. Now, I originally was looking for around the seven thousand eight hundred dollar level. Bitcoin’s been kind of just hanging around doing its thing as it takes longer to get to these levels. Well, it looks like these two points are going to meet. So even if we are to get above the $7200 level, we still have a lot of resistance at around seven thousand six hundred. OK, so keep your eyes on those levels. But honestly, guys, as long as we can maintain above the 200 weekly moving average, the the basically this average has held bitcoin up since January of 2015. It’s never fallen below that. It did briefly we briefly fell below it during the crazy freakout with the pandemic, but we were able to actually successfully put the next bar above it. So basically, we don’t want to fall below five thousand six hundred dollars. And if we can get above the seven thousand two hundred and break the seven thousand six hundred dollar level, well, then I would say it is blue skies for bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Let me know what you guys think. Is this just a fake out? Do you think this is stimulus checks buying into bitcoin? Is it just Wale’s playing games? I mean, you can’t deny that we are hitting some of these very critical levels. Right. However, one thing I do want to point out, we have been talking about gold. We haven’t talking about bitcoin. And yes, gold is currently short term outperforming Bitcoin. However, in yesterday’s video, we discussed the fact that gold, for example, took 5000 years to get to a one hundred billion dollar market cap. Bitcoin did it in eight. Thanks for that, Dan McCardle. But keep in mind that when gold was at its. Bottom in 2015, it only pumped 65 percent to where it is right now in that same amount of time. Bitcoin has pumped over two thousand two hundred percent. In fact, if you guys don’t believe me, you could check out this interview that I did yesterday with the crypto LARC. Thank you so much for having me on the channel. It was awesome. Check this video out. We go into it. We’re talking about my portfolio. While Lark was very interested in Nahm, how I’ve gone very heavily into bitcoin. And yeah, so we were talking about the difference of gold and bitcoin and how we feel about it moving forward. Really fun interview. Always a great time talking to Crypto Lark, so definitely check that video out. I’ll drop it below. Popping up above. Yeah. Check it out after the video because we do have a lot of things to talk about. Number one being the fact that the fear and greed index is still an extreme fear. So you’re seeing a lot of people, even despite this recent poll, very afraid to buy into bitcoin. Now, granted, we’re not extreme fear, but what do they say? Right. Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful. In fact, if we actually go down here, you can see that during these time periods when Bitcoin does tend to fall sort of below the 20, you know, 20 out of 100 on the Fear and greed index, it is an excellent time to buy. And one other metric that’s been sort of circulating around the Internet again is the Bitcoin rainbow char. I’m sure you’ve seen this before. Lots of people reference this. However, you do notice that basically each color represents sort of when to buy into Bitcoin. No, keep in mind, this chart has been around since I think it was either late 2014 or early 2015, something like that. But it has basically held up even all the way to the twenty K peak. In fact, when we got to the twenty K Peak we literally went into a maximum bubble territory and we had a well a year and a half of basically declining prices. Right. Well you can see right now we are lower than the buy. We are actually in what is being called the fire sale level for bitcoin. So if you are a long term believer in bitcoin, you’re a bitcoin hodler. I mean, essentially, according to this chart and this chart dates all the way back to pretty much 2011, we are in optimal time for buying and accumulating bitcoin. And look, I understand that things could get worse with the economy. No one is a fortune teller even. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m just a crazy guy on the Internet. Right. But having a look at this compared to other times in history when you could buy cheap bitcoin if you’re new to crypto, if you’ve been waiting for the past three years. This is a blessing in disguise. No financial advice. You do whatever you want. But that being said, if you don’t believe that institutions are accumulating, we already showed you that the 48 hours after the dip, according to Coinbase retail was accumulating. Well, now Greyscale says it raised a record $500 million in their first quarter. You could basically see that this nearly doubled the previous quarterly high of about $250 million, which was in Q3 of last year. So they say that while Bitcoin weighted trust continued to be the company’s most popular product, and this is gonna make a lot of my altcoin fanatics out there happy. They also received record inflows for a theorem ether as well. So that’s pretty cool. So they say that they raised six hundred million across the whole of twenty nineteen with Thursday’s report showing the company raised $500 million in Q One alone. That’s a lot of money for people that are not interested in buying cryptocurrency and for bitcoin going to zero, right? They’re saying it’s likely that the twenty twenty inflows will exceed the year before. I mean they only need a hundred million more and they already did it right. They also reported that inflows surpassed one billion over a 12 month period. The company’s first billion dollar a year. This takes the total value of assets under management to 2.2 billion. That’s a lot of money, guys. Also, not to mention, if you just want to talk from a fundamental perspective, look at how this bitcoin hash rate is already recovering. After we had this crazy scare, people were panicking, worried about a minor death spiral, everything else. Bitcoin is already back to essentially what it was in the beginning of March and it doesn’t look like it wants to stop. So bitcoin is relentless. It is unstoppable. And you could see how we’re already having a massive recovery, proving once again that Bitcoin is the most secure network on planet Earth. Now, super quick, let’s talk about this stimulus deal. Right now. You’re having Representatives Ro Karna and Tim Ryan introducing what is known as the Emergency Money for People Act to provide additional cash payments to Americans that have been infected by the pandemic. So this would include a $2000 monthly payment to every qualifying American over the age of 16 until basically until employment returns to pre pandemic levels. Basically, they say this one time. Twelve hundred dollar check just isn’t gonna cut it. I kind of agree with that. Americans need sustained cash infusions for the duration of this crisis in order to come out on the other side alive, healthy and ready to get back to work. Now, not everybody thinks. What is going on right now with this recovery is a good thing. For example, oh, by the way, before we get into that, John McAfee, you may remember him as the $1 million or I’m going to eat my manhood guy. He says that don’t worry about it. It’s virtually a non-event. And by mid-May, he thinks that this whole situation is going to be over with. He says even in countries like Sweden, which are not on lockdown. He thinks that this is all going to go away. He says he’ll bet $1000 to anyone who thinks he is wrong. Well, $1000 is a very not as incredible of a bet as cutting off your manhood on live TV. But some people, for example, we do have Josh Brown. He doesn’t necessarily think that this is going to end well for everyone, in fact. He thinks that people that are buying into the stocks right now that are trying to front run all of these things, they are going to get massively burned. In fact, I want to play a clip from this super quick about his opinion about actually when the economy reopens, it could potentially be worse and we could see even more major sell offs in major asset classes, potentially stocks. And, you know, it could even affect Bitcoin. So I would play this clip super quick and then we’re going to wrap this up. A lot of things don’t make sense to me, Judge. I’m definitely struggling. And I would tell you that anyone who says they have more answers than they do questions is either lying or is so stupid that they don’t even know what they don’t know. So now you just had the best 15 day period for for the stock. The U.S. stock market going back to 1933. Twenty seven percent gain in 15 days. The last time that happened, FDR was in the White House. And Babe Ruth was on the Yankees. We have not seen a period like this. And there really is no playbook. And I have to tell you something that I think a lot of people are potentially getting wrong that could have huge consequences for how you invest in right now, which is we’re all talking about the reopening of the economy as though it’s a positive catalyst. Judge. What if it’s a negative catalyst? Hear me out on this. Try to imagine a scenario where people are faced with the choice of staying home or going to a restaurant and having to lift the mask up to put a forkful of food in their mouth. How many people are going imagine the airlines that you wouldn’t feel we’re just talking about. What if they have to fly half the amount of people in each flight? They’re going to have to charge twice the amount. How many people are flying? Unless they absolutely have to? Very few. So what if the governors begin to slowly? We’ll quote, we open the economy and they announce that state by state, people can start to kind of go back to their activities. And it’s a negative catalyst because people realize, oh, my God, so much has changed. I don’t know when we’re going to get the economy of twenty 19 back. So I do think a vaccine, whatever it happens, will be positive. But listen to what Scott Gottlieb just told you. The worst thing that can happen is we start to roll back some of these stay at home orders and all of a sudden people get a little too comfortable and we have a resurgence. What would that do to the stock market? Forget about the public health situation. What would that do to investor sentiment? I think would quash investor sentiment. So I’m as worried about everything else as I am about the idea of reopening the economy. And people are disappointed at how slowly things start to go back to normal, if at all. So let me know if you agree with Josh, if you think that maybe investors are sort of frontrunning this right now, you know, things are not going to be able to go back to normal. I would assume that it would take some time to get things back to the way they were. And let’s be honest, after something like this, you’re still going to always have that uncomfortability in public. You are going to still have people, like he said, that are afraid to go out and eat. You know, they’re going to have their masks on. Maybe they’re not going to want to fly. So even if these businesses open. Are they going to get the type or the amount of customers that they were getting before? It is something to consider. But considering that this is a bitcoin and cryptocurrency mostly channel, I do want to end on one sort of analysis of what’s been going on. And this is from Matthew Dib. He’s got over 12 years of experience in investment, equities, derivatives trading, et cetera. He’s the CEO of Stack Funds and he recently came out and had some opinions. So I just want to list off these four specifics about the situation. Number one, he says that Bitcoin really is still an uncorrelated asset, despite the fact that, you know, a lot of people are saying, well, it’s still correlated with stocks and stuff like that, although we kind of went over that in a video a few days ago where it sort of correlated, but it’s not 100 percent correlated. But anyway, he says, I think too many people are probably getting a bit too caught up in what’s happening day to day within the moves of Bitcoin. He says demand for bitcoin is definitely there. I just showed you that, by the way, with Greyscale. But he says, is it a green light for some of these investment companies that have been sitting on the sidelines? He says We think time is certainly approaching. He says if you’re a longer term investor, then we believe that around these levels. Is certainly a great place to get set in. And that that sort of ideology is quite consistent with investors that we’re dealing with at the moment. In fact, you know, just going back to this chart, it’s definitely the right time to be buying if you’re looking to, you know, essentially buy at some of these fire sale levels. Right. He then goes on to say, from our perspective, we still see the having as of the next six to 12 months as a really bullish catalyst for basically a pop of bitcoin. He says definitely over 10000 dollars again. Now, keep in mind, obviously, it’s not like, OK, Bitcoin is going to have and it’s just going to go to the moon. But you cannot deny the fact that we now have less Bitcoin flooding the market. We saw Bitcoin getting moved off exchanges. We saw Hollars moving it into their own wallets. Right. He warns, though, that it may take some time for Bitcoin to be stabilized. He says Bitcoin being the cheapest that we’ve seen in quite some time. However, it’s great. Take some exposure. Now, I can’t give you financial advice. He can give you financial advice and he says take some exposure now. So do what you want with that news. Also, we do have one little thing that’s just sort of mentioned. We have China’s two tier central bank digital currency. The digital currency slash electronic payment will be issued to workers in the city of Suzu. This May the employees will receive part of their upcoming transportation subsidiaries in the digital currency. So it is happening. Here you go. We have China coming out with our national blockchain. Now we have them coming out with their central bank, digital currency. And on that note, guys, I do want to remind you to definitely keep your crypto currency safe. I also want to remind you that Ledger is having their 27 percent sale for a family pack, which is either three hardware wallets. You can get a ledger, nano s or ledger, nano access. Pretty good deal, 27 percent off if you guys haven’t checked out my ledger. Nano S X, I’m sorry, tutorial. I will drop that above. And I do have links for this promotion below. And also thank you for everybody that supported me yesterday. I have been nominated for the crypto influencer. I know of the year award for twenty nineteen now. I actually did win the year before. Thank you so much. I you know, I’m not saying I have to win two years in a row. There’s amazing nominations on here, but I am on the list again. If you guys want to support the crypto zombie al-jarba link below, you can vote for me or vote for somebody else. Doesn’t matter. Just show some support for the community. Also, they do have something going on where they have. It’s a free event. It’s a digital event. But they have a VIP thing where it does help support Cauvin. If you’re interested, you can check that out. But that being said, that is it for me today. Thank you so much again for supporting the channel. You guys rock. Rocky. The reason that I do this every single day. Hope you’re having a OK time in quarantine. I know I’m going kind of bananas over here, trying to go outside, trying to breathe some fresh air. I went for a few hikes, but now they’re like closing down trails and stuff. I mean, it’s getting crazy out here. You know, New York. But that’s enough. I’m rambling. Love you guys. You’re awesome. Thanks for coming back. Do consider getting subscribed. My name’s K-Dub. This is Crypto Zombie. Until next time, stay crypto. And, of course, peace out.

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December 14th, 2017 CTP Archive

The archive for the Comic Tea Party chat that occurred on December 14th, 2017, from 5PM - 7PM PST.  The chat focused on Zaltera by Morgan Mudway (aka Tri).

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✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

Good day everyone~! This week’s Comic Tea Party is now officially beginning. Today we are discussing Zaltera by Morgan Mudway (aka Tri)~! (http://zalteracomic.com/) For those new to CTP, discussions about the comic are freeform, so please feel free to bring up whatever you wish. However, every 30 minutes I will be dropping in a discussion question to help those who would like a prompt. These questions are totally OPTIONAL to answer so pay them no mind if you wish~! Remember, constructive criticism is allowed, but the primary focus here is to have fun and appreciate the amazing comics that the community makes~! Each chat a top comment will be picked and featured on an ad for this chat, so let’s have a great discussion~!

With that said, let us begin with this first question~!

QUESTION 1. What is your favorite scene in the comic so far and why?

snuffysam

Hey everyone!

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

hey snuffysam~!

snuffysam

I'd say the latest chapter (prologue part 2), and the pages leading up to it. It really helps sell the point that there are multiple sides to this story.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yes. i really like how different in tone both prologues are as well. the first prologue came off to me as kind of aggressive and hostile. where the second part just feels more sorrowful and lamenting. and i think that works in a big way to show how each different species is

snuffysam

yeah that was a big aspect of why i liked it

wishjacked

I actually really loved that first prologue, I don't know if it counts as a single scene but I thought it was very masterfully written and, especially, drawn

I usually don't like BACKSTORY openings at all, but I thought it worked super well to show off the creator's skills and it definitely got me hooked.

also, hey guys!! long time no see!!

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

nice to see you as well wishjacked

wishjacked

oh yeah, very good point, Rebel!!

even the way the colors/greyscales were used contrasts the two stories really well.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yes. although i like theres a contrast between the prologues and actual story too. i think it helps the prologues really stand apart so you dont need to know theyre prologues. you can just guess from the visuals by comparison what they are.

the visuals are also just masterfully done

snuffysam

yeah i was impressed by the visuals throughout, but especially prologue 1.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yeah i was too. also partly because the writing was very good too. going in i was skeptical cause my experience is that the comics that tend to go the more artsy root suffer in the story department. i definitely didnt feel that way at all this time tho.

snuffysam

Even our main characters feel pretty well-developed, and they've only gotten one chapter of screentime each.

wishjacked

the page in the first prologue where the Zarians find their murdered child was one of the best I've seen, I thought it was a very difficult page to pull of visually and it hit all the right notes. that's been a recurring element through the art, though-- it says a LOT even when very little it actually happening. really, really wel done

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

oh that is a good page, though i liked it for a different reason. for me that was the moment where the two sides aspect was really hammered in. cause the wording was very specific in that all it says was "we found one of our children murdered in cold blood in the streets."

it does not say who murdered that child tho

its implied to be the avolians of course

but the fact theres no direct accusation is kind of telling

wishjacked

yes!!

I thought it was great that even though the first prologue was obviously biased, the wording IS always vague enough that everything can be read multiple ways!!

really keeps interpretation open, it keeps the tension going really nicely and keeps the prologues from feeling "finished" and unimportant

snuffysam

that's a good point. so did people at the time know the truth, and this is just a biased version of history? or were the zarians confused from the get go?

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yes. i really just think this comic nailed the vagueness as you say. cause this does help it reach its themes very easily. cause a lot of it definitely feels like they are stories being told by someone and not some objective narrator.

and thats a good question

id assume the zarians were confused from the get go

i mean the truth could be a lot of stuff

it could be that some zarian did it to spark a war, could be an avolian did it to spark a war, could have been an accident and no one would own up to it

very many possibilities(edited)

snuffysam

true true. there was probably even some propaganda involved

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yeah thats a good point

i mean its a story

so maybe never even happened at all

QUESTION 2. Some of the key themes in Zaltera revolve around historical revisionism, miscommunication, and the basic fact that history is written by the winners. Given this being the case, what do you think is the true story of events past? Did the Zarians truly leave their homeland because of an oppressive king? Were their accommodations truly so destitute and were the Avolians mistreating them as is claimed? Were the Zarians justified in taking the Avolian city? What do you think about the unicorns who the Avolians are taking refuge with? Do you have any other theories regarding the history lessons each respective culture is focused on?

(a bit early but were on the topic anyway)

snuffysam

It's interesting how the Zarians (claimed to be, at least) refugees in the Avolians's land, and now the Avolians are refugees in the unicorns' land.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yes i like this extra theme of history repeating itself. like it really makes you wonder if there'll be a war with the unicorns.

which i also like how complicated the situation is

on the one hand the unicorns feel a bit ridiculous cause they have no leeway for kids being stupid kids. but then on the otherhand as refugees, theyre kind of obligated to respect the culture status quo of the unicorns cause they are the ones who are guests. and the unicorns probably have a reason for banning violence so strictly.

its a really complicated situation that shows a lot of issues sometimes just come from cultural differences

snuffysam

And that brings up the question- how many of the issues between the Zarians and the Avolians were due to cultural differences?

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yes it is an excellent question. its hard to say without seeing them interact more. although it could be that perhaps the fire magic played a role. cause that seems to be the zarian speciality while the avolians seem to have mostly disdain for it. so maybe its actually a similar playing out. where, like the unicorns, the avolians were like "hey there no fire magic we dont care if your kids are kids no fire magic." and so the zarian grew disdainful cause to them it was a ridiculous rule

snuffysam

What if the kid in the Zarian history committed some serious crime? Something the Zarians would want to forgive (since they're just a kid), but something the Avolians didn't take sitting down. Kind of like what happened at the beginning of chapter 2 with the unicorns, but much more serious.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yes that could be entirely possible.

tho i imagine their death was not some act of justice

considering from the sounds of it there were fews witnesses to what actually happened to the kid

i mean heck

kid couldve just killed themselves on accident by misfiring a spell

snuffysam

it's possible. perhaps we'll see a war break out with the Avolians and the unicorns for similar reasons?

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yes it is possible. although the avolians might just get kicked out.(edited)

which maybe thatll spark another war with the zarians

cause they need their home back

snuffysam

could be. they already need their home back, after all.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

or a new home. which is why i also question the zarian account. like im sure their community had some issues of destitution, but what was the avolian situation? no matter how someone feels about refugees, they do put a burden on the system where they are taking harbor. like were the avolians being like "so hey theres this land over here where you could maybe make a new home" and then the zarians were like "eh maybe tomorrow." like, theres a lot of spitballing i could do, but i feel were missing a key component about what zarian life was like as refugees and how that was effecting the avolian system. cause its possible that the avolian resources were low or something like that too and the zarians were making those resources even more scarce or something.

Superjusting of Time and Space

OMG HELLO

Just thought I'd pop in real quick~

snuffysam

I suppose it is a bit odd that the Avolians apparently rescued the Zarians from dying in the desert, yet apparently they also treated them like hostages? How do you have both?

hey SJoTaS

Superjusting of Time and Space

Thanks for the warm greetings~

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

hi super XD

Superjusting of Time and Space

Hi Rebel!

snuffysam

for that matter, why would the Zarians mention the rescuing part in their already extremely biased history?

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yes those are great points that really stand out.

it could just be agenda related though

in that they didnt need to bias the rescue part but for some reason it was super important to make the start of the war biased

Superjusting of Time and Space

True

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

QUESTION 3. On the Zarian side is the figure of Azul who feels that the history he has learnt is wrong and biased. While most of the Zarian’s advocate violence against any Avolian, Azul wants to use diplomacy. Do you think Azul will be able to convince other Zarian’s to use a diplomatic method? Will the pressures of the throne eventually destroy his values? If Azul does manage to convince others of diplomacy, how might that affect his relationship with his brother Jade? Speaking of which, why was Azul’s father murdered and how might that affect his ideas for dealing with the Avolians?

snuffysam

Depends on who he talks to. Some Avolians will be willing to talk. Others, I imagine, will not.

I don't know if Asul'll be able to convince anyone major in the kingdom to see his way. It seems more like he's just going to go off on his own.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yeah. not that i have specific evidence but i feel azul is going to be forced to abdicate the throne in favor of his brother cause his viewpoints well be seen as too radical. like if i assume typical story flow and that the two outcasts, azul and tigfeather, meet, then i imagine that will not go over well. where he comes home is like "mom mom see i was talking to this avolian and were friends now and see everything isnt so bad." and his mom just is like enraged and like what is wrong with you

thanks napples

i am curious why the avolians keep skirting into the city though

snuffysam

try and gauge the opinions of the zarians? i feel like they should have a pretty good idea at this point though

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

idk. like id understand if the avolians were in a better situation. cause if they intended to take their city back then of course you have scouts to plan out the attack. but the avolians i dont think would be capable of a war where they made first strike

albeit

maybe this is part of the two sides thing

the avolians are scared of zarian pursuit so send scouts to watch for attack

and the zarians fear attack so kill the scouts

snuffysam

yeah, something like that

or maybe they're scouting for some resource that they can't get with the unicorns?

not sure what that would be though

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

could be possible

or maybe theyre just hoping the zarians leave the city out of boredom XD

snuffysam

that's possible. they still consider the zarians to be residents of their native homeland, iirc, believing every race has its place and all that.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

the other possibility is that these avolians watching the city are like a splinter cell who believe war is the only answer whereas the rest of the avolians took refuge with the unicorns and were like "nope were done with war"

snuffysam

didn't someone remark on how they lost a few more scouts? or am I misremembering?

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

id have to go back and re-read. its possible XD just theorizing and i might have missed it tbh

but on the point of azul i wonder why his dad was killed.

snuffysam

how long ago was the war?

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

thats a good question

ive been kind of vague on the timeline tbh

snuffysam

because if it was less than a generation ago, azul's dad may have just been killed in the war. as wars do.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

hmm

so at the beginning with azul the teacher says its been passed down through generations

so it wouldve been sometime ago

snuffysam

ah. so no then. unless she's referring specifically to the beginning of the story - since it's possible generations passed between then and the war.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

although the teacher also is using the diary of azul's great aunt

cause to be fair we dont really know their lifespans

id assume his dad wasnt killed via the war tho

snuffysam

yeah that's a fair guess

so i suppose there were avolian scounts who killed azul

's dad while he was trying to chase them off?

or maybe it was an accident, and the kingdom just pins it on the avolians like everything else

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

well i doubt it was a chase off. cause jade does specifically say he was killed for taking pity on them. so clearly the dad was making friends and trying to repair relationships.

crack theory

it was the unicorns all along

they killed the dad

snuffysam

that would be pretty big. what do they have to benefit from that though? wouldn't they want the avolians to make peace with the zarians so they can get out of their hair?

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

maybe the unicorns hope for mutual destruction and then they rule all the lands

didnt have to be violent

just manipulate others to be violent

its brilliant

snuffysam

i mean they do still have to directly kill people to instigate violence in this scenario. so it's not a completely non-violent takeover.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

close enough O_O

tbh i wanna go out on a limb and say it was zarian extremists who killed him. cause they didnt like he was going against tradition. so they killed him and framed the avolians, which i imagine the latter wasnt hard to do since i picture the ones coming around around were easily swayed back to the "they were right about the avolians all along"

QUESTION 4. With the Avolians our main figure is Tigfeather who is able to use fire magic. Her magic, which stands apart from other Avolians, is due to the fact that she, is in fact, a phoenix. What significance might there be to Tigfeather being a phoenix? How does this tie into the past history with Lady Rovira who ruled the Avol Kingdom? Will Tigfeather’s outcast nature make her more receptive to Zarian diplomacy, or will she perhaps help her people wage a war against the Zarians (or the unicorns)? What other ways do you think learning she’s a phoenix will affect her?

snuffysam

that sounds about right. ignore all the extreme burn marks over the king's face and body, it was the avolians.

my thinking is that she'll either be exiled or run away on her own, and then meet azul.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

i doubt shell be exiled but i could see her running away. especially now that she knows shes a phoenix cause it might give her new perspective on how the others treat her. or she may do it from more noble intentions of knowing that sticking around probably means her entire ppl are gonna get kicked out and have no home.

or

maybe

what if something happens to her brother

so she leaves to rescue him

but then azul is already there rescueing him

cue sitcom friendship

snuffysam

what if she accidentally hurts her brother? and she leaves because she doesn't want to hurt anyone else.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

oh that could be too

oh oh

whatd make sense in that scenario is she specifically goes to the zarians to learn to control her fire magic

since fire is their thing

snuffysam

ooh yeah that would make a lot of sense

how good is azul at fire magic? do we know?

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

hard to say but i imagine as crown prince he probably had good tutors

i mean that scene where he got angry at least showed hes capable of it

snuffysam

thats true. i wonder who would be angrier at azul and tigfeather's potential meeting (and friendship) - his family or hers?

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

id assume azul's if only because his is the royal family so thus they are the example and hes the one who has a dad dead. so far with tigfeather we havent really seen a vast amount of her feelings with the zarians(edited)

perhaps shes also inspired because she learns her ppl are biased

since shes learning "wait phoenixes are not bad"

snuffysam

she doesn't seem to care that much about questioning history like azul does. she really just wants to live her life.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

it could be inspiring tho.

to be fair

her leaving the avolians could be as simple as she wants to learn more about her people's origins in general

to understand why shes a phoenix

but ive just had a thought

what if tigfeather is rovira? cause its bugged me that rovira just died considering in all lore phoenixes do the whole bursting into flames and then theyre reborn

so what if tigfeather is the reborn rovira

snuffysam

i'm guessing there's a reincarnation aspect, yeah. hence why we haven't heard of multiple phoenixes being alive at once. how long ago did rovira die?

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

i dont think it was said but i wanna assume it was before the zarians which is the wrench in this theory. cause it doesnt sound like theyd lost their kingdom at that point

snuffysam

unless there were other phoenixes in between them. or maybe it takes a century or so for a phoenix to be reborn.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yeah either or is possible

rovira just might be the most notable phoenix

although id put money on the century reborn thing too if this is the case

as i just picture the end of this prologue being the gma going "btw you are lady rovira reborn so kind of are the hope of our ppl. so yeah. good luck with that."

and tigfeather is like what O_O

snuffysam

yeah i can imagine that would be overwhelming for her lol

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

but potentially another reason she runs away. is like okay better deal with the zarians i am the hope of our ppl. she meets azul and is like "dang it they arent these blatantly evil enemies"

snuffysam

maybe she'd run away from her destiny instead of towards it?

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

very possible too

i could see either or being plausible

on a different topic i wonder whats going on in the original homeland of the zarians. like...are there zarians still there? cause if the war was a long time ago the tyrannical king they ran away from must be dead

which what if they sparked the war. the avolians are like "so umm hey could you leave your homeland is doing way better now." and the zarians were like "but eww the desert"

snuffysam

i feel like some people were probably ok with the regime, and they stayed? and the thing about kings is that there's a dynasty, and his heir may be similarly bad.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yeah the heir could similarly bad. i dont rule that out. but dynasties also die out. so why im wondering what the state of things are.

not to mention has it been long enough for cultural diversion

snuffysam

true true. i don't think communication is particularly advanced though. Before the war, they may not have known if the king was alive or not, and after, they stopped caring.

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

yeah. tbh i dont think its much better so theres probably not a good way for them to know even now

✨🐱 RebelVampire 🐱✨

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