Discussing not getting peoples expectations too high or too low when discussing the cryptocurrency community.

Leader ship in the blockchain space is putting forth a compelling vision of automation and crypto is at the forefront of this shift

While Bitcoin has been at 7000 for seemingly ever, the horizontal market we're seeing could continue or it could move violently in either direction. The strength of the other crypto projects out there speaks to the vibrancy of the crypto community and how so many other coins are building on top of the innovation that BTC introduced.

Some of the largest crypto influencers on this platform went down and many had all of their videos deleted in a wave of bans that extended across many of the largest crypto channels. A few channels are back-up now but the response was slow and muted, which leads to the question of if this happens again will it encompass all channels? This afforded a good opportunity to check out other decentralized video hosting services like LBRY.

Crypto tops Forex in most all categories, except in liquidity. With each month crypto order books get deeper and deeper, closing the gap.

With so many scam ICOs, which do I look to to find value? Even many that aren't scams are just copycats of others and are basically a white label version of another crypto project. Some crypto projects look like $100 worth of work and have set-up the valuation in the tens of millions, usually with less than $1 in daily volume. Know your crypto before you dive in!

The advent of the introduction of margin trading on many different crypto has been a well needed dynamic that can actually help crypto researchers to be able to cash in on their internet sleuth skills. There are many crypto projects that have sky-high valuations but exchange volume of a few hundred bucks and are ripe to explode. Regular crypto investors can benefit from the impending doom of these crappy through margin trading on many vibrant exchange platforms that are continuing to elevate the quality of crypto trading across the ecosystem.

The #HongKong fiasco goes to show how relentless that the Chinese government is when it comes to economic matters and crypto is not immune from this wrath. This week a Chinese exchange was not only shutdown but also raided and all of the employees that went to work that day were arrested. Comparatively the US, Canada, and Europe appear to be operating with a velvet glove when viewed from the prism of what China is putting pro-crypto consumers through!

If you're serious about crypto and meeting the movers and shakers, I suggest going to a crypto conference in your area. It's quite a bit different than a Meetup and you can rub elbows with movers and shakers that are making things happen in blockchain.

Zuckerberg's going to Congress today to testify on Libra and Facebook. Which direction will he go with Libra?