DFINITY's, quote, "bad marketing" for ICP actually shows a massive position of strength. As soon as you get this idea inside your mind, everything changes. I'm going to penetrate your mind with this idea like Bobby O did. Bobby O made a fantastic video with this basic idea that I'm simplifying here and communicating to the masses. The basic idea is that DFINITY's marketing is so brilliant, and comes from such a position of strength, that I didn't even put all of this together myself until Bobby just explained it. I'm like, this makes complete sense. Wow, everything. If you get the right ideas in your head, if you have the right information, everything will make complete sense to you. And you will be able to relax, be at peace, and not sweat the ICP price. In fact, you'll be able to say, thank you. Thank you for this price.
So let me tell you what most people think is going on with ICP, and I'm going to show how ridiculous and obviously wrong that is. Most people look at DFINITY and think there's some incompetence, because all you see is this marketing from all the rest of these foundations throwing around as much money as they can, trying to make their voice as loud as possible. Because they're coming from a position of weakness. All these other crypto foundations have paid all these people on exchanges and made all kinds of payments. All kinds of money changing hands behind the scenes to get people to talk nice about them, to get influencers to put "100x" next to their coin on their thumbnails. All of that is coming from a position of weakness. If you don't buy the coin, there's nothing else anybody outside is going to care about. In my view, they're all Ponzi schemes, even Bitcoin and Ethereum. Massive positions of weakness. Vitalik Buterin is talking about how the fees are down, the revenue is down 99% on Ethereum, and he's out here talking about the most ridiculous stuff today. All these other coins are in a massive position of weakness. They're like the snake oil salesman. If they're not out there marketing, if they're not out there selling, they're finished.
The dating analogy: strength versus weakness
I'll make an analogy in dating, because I'm going to talk about this more on my Jerry Banfield dating stream later today. I'm also putting these out as blog posts. I have some fantastic content, and my live streams are starting to get some momentum there. I just realized this in dating terms. This is just like what I've done in my dating life. In my dating life, I was in this position of weakness, feeling like I needed to go out there and hunt women down. I needed to be on dating apps, have a matchmaker, and try to pick up women in person. A few weeks ago, I'm like, this is stupid. I don't need a woman. I do need to make some money. And I do need to offer value that makes money, which means lots of YouTube live streams. Then I have a Skool community at Skool, where we do group calls with Blockchain Pill and Scouse Will. I invite you to get in there and join us. This is what I need to be focusing on, not trying to get women. I don't need a woman to date. I do need to make money. And to make money, I need to give massive value to all of you.
So I stopped all my efforts to try to get women. I switched to a position of strength, where I'm not asking a woman for a phone number, I'm not asking a woman out, I'm doing nothing. Now, what happened when I did that? I literally had two, so I was born in '84, you can do the math on that, I have had two women in their 20s invite me out to do things, invite themselves over to my house, come spend hours at my house, cook for me, hang out, and have fun. Now, there wasn't any sexual activity, because I am not there with these women at this point, and they did not escalate that. I'll talk more about that in my dating stream. But I had two women over in their 20s who invited themselves over to my house, had fun, cooked for me, and it was awesome. And I realized, holy cow, this is what is happening with DFINITY's marketing. They are in such a position of strength that they're actually trying not to get more marketing and attention right now. And this just blows people's minds.
Why George and others attack ICP
Why does George from Crypto's R Us hate ICP so much? Probably because he's been paid, and probably because he signed a non-disclosure agreement where he has to take that approach. That's my most probable scenario for that. He's probably been paid to do it. Now, that's not financial advice, and I have no proof of that. That's just from my experience signing NDAs. If you want to look at why people are doing things that seem obviously wrong and ridiculous out in public, well, because somebody paid them to do it. So that's the first thing I would check with anybody who has an audience. Do DFINITY's disclosure laws create an aura of obscurity? Let me tell you what I think is really going on.
DFINITY's technology pulls governments and enterprises in
DFINITY is in such a position of strength with their technology. Their technology is so strong that what seems to be happening is that governments and enterprises are coming to them. Like how I mentioned the dating analogy so you could keep this easy to understand, how women literally have been inviting themselves over to my house. I've made no effort. I've not texted them first, not called, not asked. They've literally been inviting me to do stuff and coming over to my house. And these are women that lots of men would be very happy to have come over to their house. That's what DFINITY is having. They are having governments and corporations asking them, please help us figure out how we can advance, how we can use this technology. Now, we see very clear evidence of that with Pakistan and Switzerland.
But you might ask, okay, well, if that's what's happening, why wouldn't DFINITY broadcast it all over? That is what you would logically think, right? Why? Because all you care about is your wallet and the price pumping. But you need to put yourself in DFINITY's position. They have something really valuable. They have this technology that solves major problems in the world, cybercrime, AI, huge solutions. They're the only one that is in a position to help governments and companies get set up with this technology. So from their point of view, imagine, are any of you overwhelmed? Are any of you so busy you can barely do everything, barely handle everything? In crypto, some of you might have some spare time. But imagine some of the periods in your life when you've been so busy you can barely keep up.
My theory is that DFINITY is so busy with incoming requests. They are getting paid from governments and from companies. They're getting paid to consult and to figure out how they can build this stuff. They have all kinds of money coming in from consulting, from setting this up, from preparing to help governments like Pakistan and Switzerland. And it seems like they have a number that they are not able to talk about, because all this stuff, they all sign non-disclosure agreements, because they want to explore this without a bunch of pressure, without a bunch of headaches and questions. DFINITY, to me, looks like they are maxed out. They do not want more governments or more companies coming to them right now, because it seems like they already have a line of governments and companies who are very interested.
Imagine back to dating to simplify that. Imagine if I had a line of 10 women waiting to come into my house and spend the day with me. I would not want to tell anyone else about that, because you can't handle any more. And that, to me, is DFINITY. They don't want to blast this all over the place. They know the game is already rigged in their favor. They know the rest of crypto is crap and likely going to zero. They know they have the solutions for the future, and they have constant reaffirmations and assurance, because governments and companies are knocking down their door saying, please help us figure out how we can build our infrastructure around this, because we're tired of getting destroyed with cybersecurity. We've invested a ton of money in AI, and we want to make profits. We want to be prepared for the future.
Perfect the product first, then market it
Perfect the product first, and then market it. That's what ICP is doing. DFINITY is perfecting the product. They actually seem to have plenty of money and no need to get more adoption, and they don't seem at all interested in playing the game that the rest of crypto Twitter and all these other marketers are playing. So this means that you should look at it, and this is not financial advice, and I have a ton of ICP. To me, I look at it that we're in such a position of strength that ICP will pump when DFINITY is ready for it to pump, when the governments and enterprises have got enough of everything set up, where they're confident they're ready to scale this up, where they've got it built so they don't have to do a ton of work to onboard and help governments get set up, where they can afford to handle a lot more clients. In other words, they don't seem to care that much about the token price.
Because of that, yes, it makes it easy for entities that are desperate to hide ICP from the rest of crypto retail's prying little hands. Because if crypto retail sees what this is, and sees how little all these other coins and foundations have, crypto retail is going to put massive spot sell pressure on all these other coins. As soon as crypto retail realizes all these other coins and foundations are fundamentally weak, that they have nothing, that if you saw how little they have and how desperate they are for you to not find out how weak they are, which is why they have to constantly posture, you'd dump all their tokens in a heartbeat.
You'd see that everybody outside ICP is basically lying, frauding, misleading, and saying anything to get you to buy their token, because all they care about is themselves, their houses, their cars, and their family, and they don't give a darn about anybody else. It's all about them. I talked to a woman yesterday who's not in crypto at all, and she said, "Isn't crypto just for people who are broke and greedy, who are trying to chase the same kind of people that go to the casino?" And I'm like, yes. That's the thing. When a regular person who's not involved in crypto, whose life is not at all about technology or any of that from what I can see, she still sees the truth. The masses see the truth about crypto.
Listen to the people inside the ICP ecosystem
Bobby O said this, and I encourage you to be a member of Bobby O's channel. Get all his members-only videos. I absolutely love watching them. Blockchain Pill also came out with a video we did from the live stream, which is edited and looks beautiful today as well. Watch, ICP creators never listen to anyone outside the ICP ecosystem. They're so full of it. They're so paid. They're so view-chasing. They're so shallow. I see, from the inside, what it looks like to create content like this. I've faced my own motivations. I know what it looks like from their point of view pretty well, and what things they're saying based on being willing to do anything to get views and get paid, with no concern at all for how it affects you. If you listen to people outside ICP, all they'll do is talk about the price.
And you can see, DFINITY doesn't seem to give a darn about the price. The game's already over. They've already won. They have governments and enterprises banging down their door, desperate to get this technology set up so they can stop getting hacked into oblivion, stop getting ripped off and spied on and stolen from by the existing system. So if you know you've already won the game, if you've got people lined up outside your door, it's such a position of strength that price doesn't matter. The price will take care of itself in time without any marketing. That's what you really need to internalize, that the price for ICP will take care of itself in time without anything needing to happen.
Watch the cycle burn rate and finalization rate
Once some of these governments come online, the signal, to me, is when you see that burn rate start to go nuts. When you see the cycle burn rate start to go nuts, that is one of the best signs that this thing is about to blow. Like that Kesha song, this place about to blow. When you see that cycle burn rate start to go off, that's just going off. Right now, you don't see anything happen, because governments and enterprises take a long time to get this stuff set up. But right now, the finalization rate is 188 blocks a second. This is an indication that things are being set up. Why would you need 188 blocks a second on one blockchain? You don't need that if there's nothing else to it. And DFINITY doesn't fake their metrics like a lot of these other coins do. That's how desperate some of these coins are, they fake their metrics. They will do anything to convince you that they're worth having, worth buying, because they're in a position of weakness.
But what is going on with this finalization rate, the block rate? Look at how much the finalization rate has gone up over the last year. A year ago, it was like 80 blocks a second. It's now up to 100 blocks a second. That is an indication that infrastructure is getting built. You set up the subnets, you get everything running before you start putting a bunch of stuff on it. And even once you start, like I have four or five websites. My friend who came over yesterday, I just rebuilt her entire website on ICP with AI in less than an hour. Most of the time we weren't even doing anything. That is what we're looking at with ICP. You're looking at web development companies possibly moving all their clients over onto ICP, because you can literally use AI to just rebuild the website, stick it on ICP, and save a ton of money. This infrastructure is absolutely dominant. If you're not seeing that, look deeper. Think about the big problems in the world. Watch some more Bobby O videos. Stop watching all these YouTubers that are giving you shallow, unresearched information that doesn't make sense when you put the big picture together.
The price being low is your window to accumulate
In my experience, the price being low is your chance to accumulate, but the price can blow up at absolutely any time with no warning. Once it blows up, your opportunity to accumulate cheap as heck, which today I would define as around $2.22, is gone. I might need to take some more money and put it into ICP today. I don't think you're going to get much warning, because DFINITY seems to keep things very secret and then tease little things like AI notes. But then all of a sudden, what's going to happen? Something's going to kick off. The cycle burn rate is going to shoot through the roof. All kinds of ICP is going to be bought in order to pay for that. ICP is suddenly going to start to get very scarce on exchanges. Then the price may shoot up suddenly from $2.22. You could be looking at it going, in a period of a few weeks or a few months, to somewhere over $100.
Once that happens, these other cryptos are in a position of weakness, and ICP, with the truth being revealed, is absolutely going to destroy the rest of these cryptos. My theory is that the next crypto bull market is going to be ICP only. Once the truth of this comes out, that all these other cryptos are tricking, lying, and have nothing useful, and that DFINITY and ICP are in such a position of strength, everything else is useless by comparison. Everything else is a massive liability. On my crypto reviews channel, I'm going to review ICP in my next video, like I did yesterday when I took apart Solana. The data for Solana is so shoddy. And this is not something that's secret. You can literally ask AI. Tell AI to give you a no-nonsense review of Solana, to look into all the data, and this is what it'll give you. The people with money are using the most advanced AI models, like me. I'm dropping $300 a month right now for these different AI models, and the research they do is incredible. This is getting more and more obvious. AI and these higher-level thinking models are starting to sift through the nonsense of all these useless crypto coins. And the smarter AI gets, AI knows this is it, too. That means you have a limited amount of time, and you should be thankful that you can buy more ICP cheap as heck.
Because I remember Bitcoin at 170, and as messed up as Bitcoin could be going forward, I don't think Bitcoin is ever going back to 170. There are certain times when you get this opportunity, and it is gone, and you will get no notice. It's like, I didn't realize I was going to stop having sex, and then I had this conversation with my ex, and now I haven't had sex since November 2nd. And that was a one-night stand, I wouldn't do that again. More about that on Jerry Banfield dating. But there were signs. There were all kinds of signs. After 15 years of having sex every day and every other day, I had very little warning. I might have prepared differently. I might have had a side piece or something. I didn't prepare. And all of a sudden, boom, it's gone, just like that. That's going to happen with ICP. You're going to be sitting around, and people are going to be whining and complaining about the price. As soon as the price goes up, almost all the whining and complaining is going to go away. The whole thesis for ICP, the only thing against it at this point, is the price. So when the price objection goes away, it's over. And you're not going to be able to get it at this point.
ICP reminds me of Tesla
Yes, ICP does remind me of Tesla. Tesla was constantly in the shitter, useless, seeming to go nowhere for quite a while. And look how utterly dominant Tesla is now. ICP is the same setup, to me. People just are, it's sitting right here in your face. My ex actually bought some Tesla super cheap and was onto that before everybody else was. I had a Tesla pre-ordered in 2016, but I ended up canceling it and getting a Toyota, because it was faster and I didn't have to wait a year to get a Tesla. But I was very aware of Tesla a decade ago, before hardly anybody else knew about it. I just consistently am into tech stuff before everybody else. I've been in ICP three years at this point. Bobby O is even further ahead.
Your time is limited. Every day the price is down, say thank you. Say thank you that God, or whatever you believe in, or you as a source, whoever your guides are, that this opportunity is sitting here for you. Because I wouldn't be surprised if the price is $20 by October. That could very, very easily happen. You could have one single announcement. One single announcement could send the price to $20. But remember, does DFINITY want the price to go to $20? Because as soon as that happens, picture the amount of inbound stuff they're going to have to deal with after that.
Why DFINITY cut the developer grants program
Why did they cut things like the developer grants program? I know James Allen was so hurt over the grants program, and I was hurt over it for a while too, even though they did give me $25,000 at the beginning of 2024. They weren't handing very many of those out, and I was the top ICP content creator, and yet they just got rid of those programs. Why? Now, people who say incompetence will be like, oh, they're so broke they can't afford them. From my point of view, they're like, we don't need these programs. We've got enough people, governments, and enterprises coming to us. We have so much stuff coming in that we don't need to be looking for anyone else.
Borrowing on crypto isn't taxable, and that's the beauty of it. When ICP pumps, it looks like I can actually use liquidity, whatever it's called. I could just take a loan against my ICP instead of even selling it. Then if it dumps after that, I get to keep my loan without repaying it. If it goes up a whole bunch more, I just repay my loan and I get all my ICP back. It's incredible. So be careful who you listen to. One of the most important decisions in life is to consider every single person you listen to.
Only listen to people who are worth listening to
That's why I am obsessed with making my entire life, my entire personality, everything I do, about being a person who's worth listening to, who genuinely gives a darn about you, who's not just saying whatever I need to say to get paid. The person you see on stream is the same person people see in real life. My whole life is about taking care of myself, being an authentic person, and being a person who is worth listening to.
So be careful. Cut people who are not worth listening to out of your life. Stop watching these crypto YouTube and Twitter people who are full of it and waste your time talking charts, waste your time talking useless narratives. Stick with me, stick with Bobby, stick with Blockchain Pill, Michael W. Duffy, and Zero to Hero. We've got you. We're in position. If you want to go deeper on all of this, I've put it all together in my ICP Crypto playlist, and I'd love for you to come learn with us inside my Skool community, where we do group calls together and work through this in real time. Don't mess this up.