Chaka’s Note: On Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET, Daily editor Teeka Tiwari will hold his first crypto training session of 2019. Interest in his event has been huge—with nearly 40,000 people already signed up to attend. And to prepare you, we’re running special evening editions of the Daily until Wednesday night. In these issues, you’ll find Teeka’s classic insights on the cryptocurrency market. You won’t want to miss them… You Can’t Kill Bitcoin By Teeka Tiwari, editor, Palm Beach Daily Satoshi Nakamoto is the most unstoppable man in the world. President Trump can’t bully him with tweets. And Fed Chair Jerome Powell can’t inflate his currency away… The Federal Trade Commission can’t fine him. The IRS can’t audit him, either… In fact, the World Bank can’t sanction him. Interpol can’t even arrest him… He lives beyond the reach of governments. Now, if you’ve never heard of Satoshi Nakamoto, he’s the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin. No one really knows his true identity. Some people claim to be him. Others say he doesn’t exist. But it doesn’t matter… You see, Satoshi Nakamoto represents something much greater than one man. He’s an icon for decentralized, pseudo-anonymous networking. And that’s what separates “true” cryptocurrencies like bitcoin from corporate knockoffs like Facebook’s Libra… U.S. Government Targets Libra At over $529 billion, Facebook is the fifth-largest U.S. company by market cap. And with a net worth of $62.3 billion, CEO Mark Zuckerberg ranks eighth on Forbes’ Billionaires list. Yet despite his massive resources, Zuckerberg is no match against the U.S. government. Let me explain… Earlier this year, Facebook announced plans to launch its own crypto, Libra. As I’ve said before, Libra won’t be a “true” decentralized crypto. It’s merely a digital coin pegged to a basket of major currencies (like the dollar and euro). But while bitcoin is still too volatile to use as a daily digital currency, Libra could pose a legitimate threat to the U.S. dollar. Here’s what I wrote recently: Facebook has a global userbase of nearly 2.4 billion people. Libra’s adoption would be almost immediate if it launched today. It would become the world’s most widely used currency overnight. And imagine if Facebook negotiates with advertisers to give Libra users 5–10% discounts on all their products and services. How would governments or central banks compete with that? They can’t—which is why they want to stop Facebook. And we’re seeing that come to pass… In a rare instance of bipartisan unity, liberal U.S. Representative Maxine Waters and President Trump both condemned Libra. Waters demanded Zuckerberg appear before Congress, saying Libra will allow Facebook to “wield immense power that could disrupt” governments and central banks. And President Trump took to Twitter, saying Libra “will have little standing or dependability.” The Federal Reserve, French Finance Ministry, and Bank of England have also come out against it. Now, we don’t know whether Libra will succeed as a product… The market should decide that. But if the feds have their way, it may never get the chance. In July, lawmakers proposed a bill to ban Big Tech firms from issuing their own digital currencies. According to Reuters, the “Keep Big Tech Out of Finance Act” could impose up to $1 million in daily fines. But as hard as they may try, governments can’t shut down true cryptos like bitcoin… | Recommended Link | A 3 Minute Call From Teeka Is About to Change Your Life The call lasted three minutes… But what Teeka Tiwari told one of our firm’s top executives left him stunned. On the spot, he arranged for you to “meet” with Big T for a LIVE online cryptocurrency event and free Q&A session on September 18 called: 5 Coins to $5 Million. Teeka will pull back the curtain on five tiny cryptos that trade for as little as $0.01… and could turn $500 into as much as $5 million. To prove it, Teeka’s going to tell you the name of his top pick during the event. | | | -- | Why You Can’t Kill Bitcoin Whoever Satoshi Nakamoto is, he designed bitcoin to be a truly decentralized network. It doesn’t rely on one central point of control. This model makes the blockchain much more secure than the internet. You see, data isn’t stored in one location. Instead, it’s distributed across an entire network—making information much harder to hack… Without getting too much into the weeds, no individual person runs the bitcoin blockchain. It’s peer-to-peer, with no intermediary. Each node (computer) in the network retains a copy of the blockchain ledger. And the bitcoin blockchain has thousands of nodes across the world. So to kill bitcoin, a government would have to shut down every single one. Remember, these nodes are in scores of countries. It’d take a concerted international effort—costing billions of dollars in resources and manpower—to destroy bitcoin. And if even a single node survives, it can restart the whole shebang. Unlike Facebook, there’s no bitcoin corporate office the feds can raid… no CEO to haul in front of Congress or into court… and no central point of command you can behead. Governments simply can’t browbeat the pseudonymous Satoshi into submission. Even China—with one of the more repressive governments in the world—has tried to ban bitcoin. Yet trading still flourishes there. Russia, Vietnam, and Colombia have all tried and failed, too. And don’t just take our word for it. Even U.S. Representative Patrick McHenry says bitcoin is impervious to government influence. Here’s what he told CNBC recently: I think there’s no capacity to kill bitcoin. Even the Chinese, with their firewall and their extreme intervention in their society could not kill bitcoin. The Enemy of My Enemy Crypto sentiment has been negative lately because of the heat Libra’s taking. Investors fear lawmakers will push for sweeping regulations that’ll not only kill Libra—but stifle all cryptos, too. It’s true… Regulators have a tendency to overreact. And we’ll likely see more negative headlines. But the bitcoin genie has been out of the bottle for years now. There’s no way to put it back in. And consider this… While Facebook and bitcoin aren’t necessarily aligned, it’s in Facebook’s best interest to lobby for a more accommodating crypto regulatory environment. In other words, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I expect Facebook to use its massive resources to influence global regulatory regimes. If it succeeds, it’ll be good for crypto. And even if regulators do kill Libra, it won’t really change anything. Governments still don’t like crypto. Big whoop. We’ve been dealing with that for almost four years now—while adoption of digital assets continues to grow at a record pace. Like all the other “end of the world” events, this will pass. Crypto prices will recover… and the worrywarts will look for something else to obsess over. In the interim, just do what we always do: Be rational, build positions in great projects, and let time do the heavy lifting for us. Let the Game Come to You! 
Teeka Tiwari
Editor, Palm Beach Daily P.S. Be sure to mark your calendar for this Wednesday, September 18. I’m hosting my first LIVE crypto training session of 2019—5 Coins to $5 Million. I’ll be pulling back the curtain on five tiny cryptos that could make you millions… in as little as 10 months. And it’s all thanks to a lucrative phenomenon that we won’t see again until 2024. (Plus, I’m even giving away the name of my new No. 1 crypto pick.) I’m inviting you to attend for free, so join me on the path to becoming a crypto millionaire.
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