I'm trying to start it on my laptop. You can watch on the internet too. The Bitcoin Group, the American original. From the last 10 seconds, the sharpest sitosies, the best big courts, the hardest crypto currency talk. We'd like to welcome our panelists, Blake Anderson from Facebook.com. Sasha Scott Blake. Hi everybody, thanks for having me. Megan Lawrence from AirBits. Howdy. Tone Vades from Brave New Coin. Hi everyone. And Will Penguin also from AirBits. Hello, and I'm Thomas Hunt from the World Crypto Network. This week, issue 1, the price of Bitcoin hits 300 for the first time since July. Bitcoin is back baby. Well it leaves back to 300. The price it was in July of last year. We all watch the price, but as Andreas Antonopoulos warned on his Twitter account, Bitcoin is about much more than the price. And while it's fun, volatility, even while going up, leads to uncertainty. That said, after gaining 25% in one month, will this price trend continue? Megan Lawrence. Oh yeah, I think it'll continue for a while and then go back to us. But yeah, so I would agree that while it's great, because when the price rises, interest rises, just general interest. More people come out to conferences, more people want to learn about it. They're like, oh, we saw this happen when the price skyrocketed up to 1200 people. We're getting involved and they were really interested. They're like, oh, I can make money with this. I can use it. And then of course, the price drops and interest kind of declines. But I'm kind of a fan of less volatility. I kind of like that the price has been more stable recently, even though it has been lower. I think it's ultimately been a good correction. And I definitely have been a lot more stable prices. But I do like that it's up. I can't complain about that. Blake Anderson. Now, 25% in one month is nothing to sneeze at. So I think we're all definitely happy about that. I think that it's interesting to comment on the things that we know for sure. The block having is coming at some point next year. We should see a runoff as just the laws and supply and demand are going to dictate that we see a value increase. Isn't going to be as big as the Willy Botfield with the last half. Probably not. But I expect us to see a dial up in the drawback. So it's been sideways for a while. And we are always inching close to that having. So I think it wouldn't be too bad to get in on the four year investment horizon. You just stick with it. Tom Bay. So I think we just got up a little too far too fast. So I am expecting prices to come down a bit. Probably to the 300 area a little lower. And after that, I think it's looking good. I think we've weathered some of the hardest storms. Still got to get through the. The scalability issue. And other than that, that's probably the next big hurdle is scalability. Will pigment. Well, you know, you look on the long term. Of course, you know, as long as people still use Bitcoin, the price will continue to go off. So, but I kind of always default to. We're in here. Man here don't have been right so many times. About price trends and stuff. So yeah, I think maybe we've seen it. Go go high a little faster than maybe any of us may have expected. But yeah, this is going to continue. As long as people use Bitcoin, it will continue to gain value. And it's. It's. It's. I feel like it's just prime. It's a perfect position for the next wave of adoption is between three and five hundred. So I'm really interested to see what kind of happens in that range of Bitcoin's life span. Because the last time it's been extended time in that range is not a pretty selling. So now that there's a lot more infrastructure. I'm looking forward to seeing what that looks like on the way out. All right, exit question. Force prediction. Will payment. What is the price of Bitcoin this time next week? Same. Save. Save about three hundred. Around three thirty. Two forty two. Ooh, the correct answer is three seventy five three seventy five. Moving on to predictions or story of the week. Megan, do you have a prediction or a story of the week? Well, I guess my story of the week is going to be a personal one. I just relocated across the country to San Diego, a worker air business. It's been really exciting when I came right over to this conference. And it's been great to see such an awesome, you know, variety of speakers. And you know, especially as an example, that was awesome. And yeah, I mean, it's just I, it's been really great to be around. I was only like on people this week. And these kinds of events always really big rate my belief that Bitcoin was revived. So. Blake Anderson. Yeah, I was at a conference, Bitcoin investors. You guys may have heard of it. It was a great conference. A lot of people talked about the infrastructure limits on expanding Bitcoin. I thought it was great. People talked about security, which was great. When we have too long going by without the discussions, that's not a good thing. And these times when the price is down, that's where the work is. And that's something that's very important to remember that continually keeping up with security standards and things like that is important focus to maintain. So coming to this conference and having so many people being aware of that and working on it has just made me really happy. Tony, days. So I'm going to go with the prediction. The big news this week was the blockchain alliance where a lot of these Bitcoin companies about 15 of them are joining with regulators and more enforcement to kind of not just one big thing. And you also have these companies that are trying to map out users and the history of all transactions. And I think that whole side of the industry is just going to end really, really badly. I really think that those companies are just wasting investor money because the moment they find the way to identify users within a blockchain and Bitcoin space, and that's upgraded with the technology comes out that sets them all back to zero and stuff and scratch. So I'm kind of disappointed that these companies are actually getting money. I think there's better places to invest and investing in privacy is the future. Yeah. Will, thank you. I definitely want to echo the last comment. Tony just made it. I definitely agree that investing in privacy and security is the future. My story of the week is a blog post that came out today by Eric Warhees on moneyandstate.com. I asked a question earlier, a couple of them actually, one of the past couple days related to the whole Bitcoin versus blockchain narrative war that seems to be going on over the last year plus. It's been very interesting for me to watch and look at it through the lens of a propaganda war. And it's interesting to see through that lens. But I also like to apply Handling's razor to this as well and just analyze it from group psychology standpoint simply. I'm really interested to see how this will play out. And I just want to encourage everyone to read Eric's blog that just came out a couple of hours ago, maybe even less. Fantastic, clear, concise. It's lengthy, but it is just concisely put. What's up with this? This whole Bitcoin versus blockchain. And I just encourage each one of you to take a side and take a lot of blockchain and just defend it. It's up to you. I think if you do take a side and you're able to defend it, you'll be choosing a Bitcoin side. I'm interested to see how this will play out. I'd like to just put those earworms in your space. One more topic. No, no. No, out of time. It's already flashing us the times. So finally, a prediction. Everyone will have a great time at the Bitcoin investor conference. The Bitcoin investor conference, unlike other conferences designed for rich bankers and their cronies, will be a real chance for Bitcoiners to hang out and talk about the future of Bitcoin. Not the future of privatized blockchains that don't really offer the same advantages as a shared ledger of value. It's taken the banks a while to realize that they went to the wrong conference. Oh, proud of time. Until next time. Bye, bye.