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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to the latest episode from the

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Speaker 1: midweek edition of the coin Bureau podcast. Every week, I

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Speaker 1: pick out two of my favorite videos from coin Bureau's

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Speaker 1: chosen this week. Many of you have been in touch

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Speaker 1: This week, I've selected our videos on China's economic woes

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Speaker 1: and my top crypto tools for this year. I've talked

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Speaker 1: a lot recently about the problems facing the US and

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Speaker 1: But it's not just these economies that are facing serious headwinds.

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Speaker 1: The situation in China is also looking bleak, as its

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Speaker 1: trend downwards, and youth unemployment source to nearly all side

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Speaker 1: ends point towards an economic disaster for the People's Republic,

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Speaker 1: and the consequences of that for the rest of the

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Speaker 1: world will be severe. Here's everything you need to know. Then,

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Speaker 1: in the second part of the episode, I give a

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Speaker 1: rundown of some of the best tools I and my

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Speaker 1: There's a growing amount of information about crypto out there

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Speaker 1: on the Internet, but finding the most useful and most

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Speaker 1: where to look. I hope you enjoy listening to these

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Speaker 1: two pieces, and I'll be back talking crypto with Mike

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Speaker 1: very soon, so be sure to stay tuned, and if

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Speaker 1: social media too. One of the biggest risks to the

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Speaker 1: in China now. While there have been rumblings of this before,

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Speaker 1: So could this eventually lead to an economic storm which

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Speaker 1: start with the economic data that was released last week.

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Speaker 1: It gave perhaps the widest perspective on the state of

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Speaker 1: Now these are even more significant than retail sales, as

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Speaker 1: of course, the real estate sector. This is something we

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Speaker 1: make an easy profit selling the news. Ideally, you'd catch

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Speaker 1: an overview of the most active dows on popular smart

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Speaker 1: This makes it easy to spot proposals that have yet

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Speaker 1: early on a price move before the proposal is passed. Now,

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Speaker 1: the only thing our caution is that Massari's assessment of

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Speaker 1: then ask yourself whether it's something that could be passed

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Speaker 1: sought dows by changes in treasury value, token holders, and

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Speaker 1: see both discussions and proposals in real time on the

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Speaker 1: to give you an idea of how dows are doing

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Speaker 1: in general, be it by active voters or treasury balances.

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Speaker 1: Deep Doubt also lets you see which wallets are the

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Speaker 1: most active in crypto governance on the people tab. Interesting

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Speaker 1: stuff to say the least. Now, if you're wondering why

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Speaker 1: our video about that, using, of course, the link in

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Speaker 1: the description. Anyhow, the third crypto tool to add to

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Speaker 1: your belt is a couple of telegram bots, specifically the

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Speaker 1: ether drops bot and the token unlock Spot. The ether

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Speaker 1: drop Spot makes it possible to receive a telegram message

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Speaker 1: about changes to specific crypto prices when a specific coin

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Speaker 1: lets you track specific wallets. The ether dropped bot has

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Speaker 1: been around since eighteen and it supports popular e v

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Speaker 1: most of you, the free version should be more than enough,

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Speaker 1: should go without saying that having the ability to closely

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Speaker 1: coins and tokens, the whales, if you will. This relates

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Speaker 1: This is important because a large unlock almost always results

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Speaker 1: Token unlockspot shouldn't take more than two seconds to get sorted.

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Speaker 1: That's because there's only two options unlock info, which lets

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Speaker 1: and alert, which lets you set alerts for said coins

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Speaker 1: waiting to vest two specific entities, be it early investors,

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Speaker 1: This can help you get a better sense of how

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Speaker 1: video about the best crypto Telegram groups that will be

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Speaker 1: Dix and stable Fish. Funny names, I know, but these

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Speaker 1: That's because they both tell you where you can find

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Speaker 1: who don't know, you can earn passive income on your

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Speaker 1: protocol to earn interest, or providing it as liquidity for

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Speaker 1: this is not the same as depositing your crypto with

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Speaker 1: a centralized crypto platform to earn interest. As we've recently

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Speaker 1: seen with these centralized plat forms, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: When you lend out your crypto or provided as liquidity

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Speaker 1: on a dex, you technically retain ownership of those assets. However,

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Speaker 1: this doesn't mean that defy yields don't come with risk, because,

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Speaker 1: There's also a risk of censorship because of the Tornado

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Speaker 1: cash situation, but let's not go there. With that information

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Speaker 1: in mind. Coin dix is best for volatile coins and tokens,

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Speaker 1: and the website keeps track of DeFi yields on just

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Speaker 1: about every protocol on just about every smart contract cryptocurrency

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Speaker 1: there is. What's nice is that poindix lets you sought

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Speaker 1: protocols by yield and by total value locked, which makes

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Speaker 1: it easy to identify which yield opportunities are high risk.

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Speaker 1: be unforeseen risks at the blockchain level. Another thing to

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Speaker 1: be better off sticking to stable Fish, which tracks yield

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Speaker 1: opportunities for stable coins on most major smart contract cryptocurrencies. Logically,

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Speaker 1: that the actual yield might not be worth that much

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Speaker 1: in dollar terms. You can see what the yield is

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Speaker 1: in the mint and burn mechanism. The last thing you

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Speaker 1: a dedicated tab for fan tokens, which are becoming an

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Speaker 1: and that's n FT Nerds. N f T Nerds must

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Speaker 1: be one of the craziest crypto websites I've ever come across.

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Speaker 1: That's because it provides detailed data about n f T

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Speaker 1: mints and trades on ethereum in real time. I mean, seriously,

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Speaker 1: credit cards needed, because hey, this is crypto. Now. This

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Speaker 1: If you need help with that, you can refer to

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Speaker 1: my video about how to find quality n f T

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Speaker 1: or one word, and I'm also active on TikTok and

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Speaker 1: Instagram too,