ICP Price: Why It's So Low and What It Could Be Worth

Short answer: I think ICP's price is low because of how the market is structured and what it pays attention to, not because the technology is weak. I hold ICP, so weigh my view with that in mind. The question this page is built around is the one I get most often: if the Internet Computer is as strong as I say, why isn't the price higher? My answer is that the price is a poor measure of the technology right now, and the gap is very large.

My valuation starts with cloud infrastructure. In what would ICP be worth if the crypto market were rational I compared it to the global cloud computing market, which I put at roughly $750 billion to $780 billion across 2024 and 2025. At a 5% share I estimated $37 to $39 billion a year in revenue, and I argued that a minimum valuation of $10 to $30 billion is easy to defend. The second lens is AI, where I argued that ICP's ability to host AI workloads and verifiable data supports a base case of $20 to $50 billion. These are my appraisals, not forecasts, and they depend on adoption that has not fully happened yet.

Those numbers explain why I think the price is too low. They do not explain why the market hasn't moved, and for that I turn to why the smart money isn't fully in ICP yet. That argument is mostly about psychology: confirmation bias, a reluctance to admit being wrong, relationships that large holders would rather not disrupt, and liquidity limits on big positions. Those reasons are human and easier to observe than the technology gap, but nobody can measure them cleanly, so treat that section as my interpretation.

I went further in how billionaires suppress the ICP price while accumulating. There I argued that leverage, derivatives and exchange behavior are used to hold the price down while large buyers accumulate. I pointed to the long-to-short liquidation imbalance on ICP compared with other coins, and to sharp drops that look mechanical to me. I cannot prove intent, and that post does not prove it either. If you want to test the claim, look at the liquidation and derivatives data yourself.

The simplest counterargument is that the market is right and adoption has not caught up. I have admitted that my own timing has not been good. When I sold my altcoins and Bitcoin to concentrate on ICP, I was betting on the long run, and I have said openly that in the short term holding Bitcoin would have done better for me. I still think my position is stronger over the long term, but I could be wrong, and I don't want this page to pretend otherwise.

My own buying is the other side of the argument. In ICP's price chart shows the opportunity I wrote that a low price looks like an opportunity to some buyers and a warning sign to others, and that I am one of the buyers. I have been buying roughly $1,000 a month. That is my money and my decision, not advice for you, and a low price can stay low for a long time.

The patience problem is the one I keep coming back to. In my 2024 conversation-style post about Bitcoin, crypto and the ICP price I wrote about buying Bitcoin at $170 in 2014, selling it for a few thousand dollars, and regretting it ever since. The lesson I took is that I wanted the result faster than the market was willing to give it to me. That applies to ICP as much as anything, and I am still working on it.

Read in order, the posts show a shift in emphasis. The December 2024 post is about patience and gratitude. The June 2026 valuation posts are about fundamentals and what a rational market would pay. The later June posts are about psychology and market structure, and the July post is the most direct case for buying at the current price. The core has stayed the same: I hold ICP because of the technology, and I think the price is where the mismatch shows up.

Below this opening you will find the full text of each member post, newest first, with a contents list above them. Before you decide, read the bear case for ICP and why I still hold, and then why I stay bullish on ICP despite the price.

If you hold ICP and want to test your own reasoning against mine, you can get a personal video review from me.

ICP's price chart shows the opportunity (July 21, 2026)
How Billionaires Suppress the ICP Price While Accumulating (June 17, 2026)
ICP Price: Why It's So Low and What It Could Be Worth (June 17, 2026)
What Would ICP Be Worth If the Crypto Market Were Rational? (June 15, 2026)
Why the Smart Money Isn't Fully in ICP Yet (June 15, 2026)
My Conversation With God About Bitcoin, Crypto, and the ICP Price (December 20, 2024)

ICP's price chart shows the opportunity

From my video published July 21, 2026.

The Man in the Hot Tub Who Saw Opportunity

Most people look at the ICP price chart and they see a warning sign. They leave immediately. But I talked to a man yesterday who scheduled a one-on-one call with me — he was in his hot tub with his shirt off, it was awesome — and he said, "Jerry, when I saw the ICP price chart, I thought this is an amazing opportunity." What you can get out of this is realizing not everyone is thinking the same way. You'd imagine most people look at the ICP price chart, think it's a huge red flag, and never look deeper. But there's a minority of people who look, see opportunity, and then go for it — go all in on it. Now, he didn't just see the price chart by itself. He researched the rest of it. But he wasn't scared off by the price chart. And the more that happens — the more people are looking through crypto willing to see beyond the price chart, and the more the rest of crypto goes down or is uncertain or confusing or goes nowhere — the more people there are going to be who do their due diligence. I wasn't scared off by the ICP price chart either, and I know that's an unusual reaction. But right now, what's amazing with ICP is that some people see the price chart as an opportunity, and to some people it's not. To me, that's the truth — it's the truth because the technology lines up behind it. It wouldn't be the truth if there were just a coin and a bunch of hype and talk and marketing, which is what you get with most everything else. That's why I built the site at CryptoTechCap.com, which is hosted on ICP, that helps you get at the truth: that ICP has incredible technical capabilities.

Most Crypto Thinking Is Inverted

Here's another example. A lot of people in crypto think the technology doesn't matter. That seems to be the prevailing opinion in crypto — that price charts matter and technology doesn't. I would tell you the truth is that price charts don't matter, at least in the short term, and technology does matter. In fact, it's the most important thing in the long term. Therefore, most people's thinking in crypto is inverted. For example, look at the 2021 bull run: how many people were buying at the top — buying coins that were astronomically high that they had no idea about? They look at a green price chart and see an opportunity. That's happening across crypto right now. You have people who just look at a price chart and assume that because it went up, it's good. Take Ethereum. A number of people look at Ethereum and say, "Oh man, look at this, this is an opportunity right now. Look, it's down from where it was, but all it's done is go up and up." Well, Ethereum didn't have a big manipulated launch like ICP did, and Ethereum's price chart is actually down quite a bit and has trended down, along with many others. This is where you've got to dig deeper and think more critically. It's a $200 billion market cap — in the best-case scenario, in fantasy land, you maybe get a 10x out of that. Especially when you compare Ethereum's technology to ICP's: Ethereum does a tiny fraction, 22 things, compared to the 97 that ICP does, with XRP down at six. So I hope you can see that the price chart is your friend today.

I'm Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is

I know this can be hard to accept if you want to make money on ICP. I have more to gain from the ICP price pumping than most, because I've taken cash advances on credit cards to buy ICP — the price is so crazy, so low. In my opinion, it's going to have a hard time going much lower because of the real utility and because it's so small already. And I have a lot to gain from the price going up, not just on my own investments. What do you think is going to happen to all my crypto videos when ICP pumps? My videos may pump five or ten times, and that means I make thousands more in ad revenue, plus thousands of dollars of calls coming in. Every dollar the ICP price pumps, my net worth grows by something like seven or eight thousand dollars. So yes, it would be a huge deal for me if the price pumps. But this is the opportunity: accumulate cheap.

The $86,000 House

For example, I bought a house with my ex-wife almost a decade ago, and we paid $200,000 more than the guy who bought it two years earlier. He bought a house that was run down, took a couple of years, flipped it and fixed it up, and made at least $200,000 off the sale, minus all the time and expenses he put into it. That looks like a pretty sweet deal, doesn't it? But the real opportunity was buying the $86,000 house and having the vision that this was going to be a $280,000 house a couple of years from now by putting some time and energy and effort into it. That's the same thing with ICP. And it's amazing validation to see that there are critical thinkers, deep thinkers, people doing real research in crypto, who look at the ICP price chart and think, "Nice — now this is one I want to investigate."

Compare that to some of the price charts people are most excited about in crypto right now. There's been so much hype about Hyperliquid, but to me this doesn't look like an opportunity at all. This looks like an absolute disaster: a $34 billion fully diluted market cap versus $13 billion, and a price chart that is mostly up, close to all-time highs. That does not look like an opportunity to me. That looks like buying the top. In probably ninety-some percent of scenarios, that will be buying the top. Meanwhile with ICP, in ninety-some percent of scenarios, this will probably be buying the bottom. Now, this isn't financial advice — it's my own experience and my own belief, and anything can happen in the world. But I'm putting my money where my mouth is, and I'm buying as much ICP as I can. I've been doing one or two buys — around $1,000 or so of ICP a month. If I had more money coming in off my calls or from another source, I'd be buying more ICP than I'm buying now. I'd like to get at least $10,000 in, and I could go for $20,000 as well.

To me, the beauty of ICP right now is being able to see that house for $86,000. Do you know how many times I wished, when I bought the house for $280,000, that I'd been able to buy it for $86,000 and pay contractors to fix it up my way? At $86,000, I could have nearly bought it in cash, then paid probably $30,000 to $50,000 to fix the house up, and saved $150,000 or so. That is what I see happening with ICP: maybe a year or two years from now, people are going to be rushing in with their wallets open — whether it's through cloud engines, or mass adoption of some apps on the network, or some narrative, or people in these other coins collapsing and looking for an exit.

The Hundred-Million-Dollar Investor

There's going to be someone like Michael Saylor looking for the next Bitcoin and Ethereum — someone smart enough to realize they're never going to make it in those, because Michael Saylor got into Bitcoin before they did and everybody else got into Ethereum before they did. They're going to be looking with hundreds of millions of dollars. They're going to be looking down through all these coins and saying, "All right, I'm going to take my $100 million and put it into something, and I want to turn that into a billion. Where can I buy $100 million of something and turn it into a billion?" That kind of investor is not going to just stop at a price chart. They're not going to look at Hyperliquid and say, "Oh man, this is going to make me money." An investor with that kind of leverage — an investor with access to the best AI in the world and people who know how to use it — is going to go through the top 100 cryptos at least, maybe the top 500, and ask: where's an outlier? Where's something nobody's appreciating properly? Where's something that has a serious future that's not based on hype and superstition?

So you see, Internet Computer Protocol could have a massive move off of one single person realizing the opportunity here. On my one-on-one calls, I talk to people who often have much more ICP than I do, and they're seeing the same things. Somebody with a lot of money is going to find ICP, because AI is making it easier than ever to find it. Just say: "ChatGPT, go through the top 100 cryptos and find an outlier. Find something that's drastically undervalued based on something real — not just narratives or promises or a roadmap. Find something that's real, that's going to last the test of time, that I could invest in today with a very high probability of going up indefinitely. Find a hidden gem that's unlike the rest of the other coins."

You've got to remember, a few years ago we didn't have AI. You couldn't just look through all the top 100 cryptos yourself — you had to "trust me, bro" on all these influencers telling you what was going to go up. Now you don't. And I imagine some of the wealthiest people in the world have access to even better AI than the public does. I can tell you that ChatGPT Pro at $100 a month is good enough to go through and produce a research website like mine. So anyone who can afford $100 a month can compile research like this. Most wouldn't think to ask the right questions — to say, "Score the top 100 cryptos based on what technical capabilities they offer" — but someone with $100 million to invest is going to ask smart people, because that's how they got the $100 million to invest. They don't just throw money around. They put in more thought and more research, and they're going to see that this is a massive buying opportunity.

And $100 million is almost enough to buy all the ICP off of every exchange right now. Someone with $100 million would pretty much have to gently DCA in — buy a million dollars here, a million dollars there. There may already be one person trying to DCA in without moving the price. You might think, how is that possible — one person with $100 million trying to DCA in and the price not moving? Well, with leverage, you can have all this artificial sell pressure, and one person could be sitting there scooping all of it up.

One Buyer Today, Thousands Tomorrow

So then you have equilibrium in the price: a huge amount of sell pressure, and one person sitting there scooping up millions of dollars of ICP as often as they can. But it will only take a second person getting the same idea and saying, "Wait a minute." And all of us are telepathically connected, in a sense. I know this. Bobby O knows this. Blockchain Pill knows this. Zero to Hero knows this. Michael Duffy knows this — and what a great title on that recent video: "You'll regret not buying $2 ICP." There are thousands of us. There's everyone at DFINITY. There are all the governments that are working with it, and enterprises, corporations, solopreneurs. This information is out there. It's in the collective consciousness, and someone operating on the right frequency is going to pick it up.

People with a lot of money tend to have — let's not get too conspiratorial here; I could be specific, but I won't — incredible advantages over the average person. Think psychics who are really good at what they do. They're going to locate Internet Computer. Either that, or I'm not as psychic as I think I am. But with tech, I seem to be pretty advanced and able to identify things coming way ahead of time. I was doing vertical videos back in 2019. I was on TikTok back in 2019, back when it was easy to get 100,000 views on a video. You've got to think differently if you want to be successful — and most of you do already.

Word of Mouth Is the Tell

A lot of people have been brought into ICP by word of mouth, and that's a really good sign. If something is genuinely different, you're going to get word-of-mouth marketing. With a lot of these other cryptos, people don't even have enough confidence in them to tell their friends about them. Thus, I think the future for ICP is very bright.

Thank You for the Current Price Tag

I think the thing to do is say thank you for the current price tag — today at two dollars and something — because I'm not buying any more ICP over $3 again. This is my time to stack that ICP up. You grab that $86,000 house, or it's off the market. You wait, and it's gone — you missed the opportunity. I bought the house, and now it's doubled in value. My ex owns it now, because I gave it to her, and it doubled in value — but it's up five times from where it was ten years ago. I imagine ten years in the future, ICP is going to look like one of those things where people say, "I can't believe you could have bought it at $2."

But that's not guaranteed. There are probabilities where things don't play out. And if ICP doesn't work out, it's not going to ruin my life. I have other plans, and I have other opportunities. With my investing, I'm all in — I'm all in on ICP, but it's not the only thing I'm doing in my life. I don't have any other investments besides ICP. No stocks. I don't own a house anymore. And thus I'm all in on ICP because of everything I've laid out: in my view, it's a massive buy opportunity. This obviously wasn't financial advice — it's my own belief and what I'm doing with my own money — and I obviously just said I'm all in on ICP, so weigh that for yourself. If you want to keep following how this plays out, I share everything I'm seeing on my ICP Crypto playlist. I guess it's time to stop — it is time to stack now.

How Billionaires Suppress the ICP Price While Accumulating

From my video published June 17, 2026.

You will never look at the Internet Computer Protocol price the same way again after reading this. I blew my own mind with what I was thinking today, and I have to share it. This is the idea I keep coming back to: how billionaires destroy the ICP crypto price while quietly accumulating it.

A lot of us in ICP have thought, oh man, nobody knows about this. But the richest people in the world tend to know about the best technology and the best investment opportunities in the world. And a lot of you would logically think, well, then wouldn't they just buy a bunch of ICP and pump my bags? In my experience watching how this works, billionaires do not get to be the richest people in the world by playing fair and giving you a chance to get wealthy alongside them. They get rich by using the financial instruments at their disposal to give themselves a disproportionately advantaged position. And then, once their bags are loaded, that is when the rest of us get to find out about it. I want to walk through how I believe billionaires are destroying the ICP price while accumulating it.

Do the billionaires actually know about ICP?

People might ask, well, do billionaires even know about this? In my view, absolutely. DFINITY is very well connected in the World Economic Forum, which represents some of the wealthiest people in the world. They are very well connected in the United Nations. They have done things like voluntary recycling credits. They are very well known in crypto among the elite and the top people in the space. For example, Dominic Williams was on a panel with Kimbal Musk recently. So it is entirely probable, in my opinion, that Elon Musk knows all about ICP.

So you might say, well, why wouldn't they all be broadcasting it? Because they want to accumulate as much as possible for themselves before you and the masses find out about it. And that is actually what makes this a really good opportunity for us to accumulate like billionaires. Because once they have decided their bags are full, then everybody will find out about it. But until then, the billionaires want to keep ICP quiet.

Why keep it quiet? So they can gain influence over this network. This, to me, is the big reason. If you are a billionaire and you found something like ICP, you want to get control of it. You want to make as much money as possible, but you also want to maximize your voting power. Right now it is in DFINITY's best interest to have a high ICP price. But if you see yourself as someone who would want to be able to vote against DFINITY, and have your vote be as strong or stronger, then you want the price to be cheap so you can load your bags. Then, once you calculate that you can no longer load your bags much further, the price can go up and you can collect your return. Billionaires tend to be very patient and calculating, unlike the masses.

The math of buying control

Right now, a billionaire would need hundreds of millions of dollars to counter this much voting power, especially when you account for what follows. On top of that, billionaires want to make sure they capture the staking yield, and they do not want the price pumping before they can max out that yield. To get significant control of this network, you would ideally need to acquire something like 100 million ICP. If ICP is $5 or $6, that is 500 to 600 million dollars. But here is the catch: as soon as the ICP price pumps, the cost of getting a significant amount of the voting power and meaningful control of the network starts to slip away.

That is the first reason billionaires would want to keep the price as low as possible. They do not want everybody buying this right now, because this is clearly the future. I have shown the tech and talked about it in a bunch of other places, so this is not about that. But billionaires who have teams of people researching things and feeding them the best information clearly have the information that this is the future of not just crypto, but the internet itself, and that it is huge. They do not want you to be buying this. More than likely, plenty of them are very well aware that DFINITY is the largest research and development team in blockchain.

How the price gets suppressed

So you might ask, okay, how could someone like Elon Musk or some of the richest people in the world possibly keep the price suppressed while they accumulate? There are financial instruments that set this up perfectly, and I want to point them out.

I set up the premise that billionaires have already found out about this and want to get as much as absolutely possible. And the one thing that stops them from accumulating is the price. The price going up means they cannot have a big say in the network and cannot maximize their profits. So there are very easy, perfectly legal financial instruments that allow billionaires to artificially suppress the price while stacking. And the antidote, the counter to this, is you being educated and informed.

The reality is that crypto retail is treated as mostly ignorant fools. Was that too harsh? That is how billionaires look at crypto retail: as ignorant fools who do what they are told and buy what they are told to buy when they are told to buy it. That is how billionaires look at the masses. And meanwhile, they do not want the masses to know about this. So the easy way to keep the masses out is by manipulating a price chart with perfectly legal financial instruments.

For example, if you are on CoinMarketCap, you cannot help but notice what a wreck the Internet Computer all-time chart is. And you would be surprised how easy that was to set up. All you have to do is manipulate the futures market, push the price artificially high, then dump it. After that, every simple member of the crypto masses looks at the chart and thinks, oh my God, it is down 90-whatever percent, and they do not even look any further into it. Meanwhile, the billionaires are laughing and stacking.

Leverage, liquidations, and the long-short trap

Now, the most powerful way that billionaires manipulate the price charts, from what I can see, is leverage. And if this is done correctly, they can actually make money while suppressing the price. There are multiple ways to do this. One of the most irregular things you can see when you look at leverage and derivatives on Internet Computer is that the long-to-short liquidation ratio is insane. You see all these green liquidations, which are longs being liquidated. This is again where the ignorant crypto masses get exploited. The few who actually find ICP, and the crypto traders who are not in on the game, take out long positions because they see how good the tech is. They watch my content. And then they get wrecked on these long positions over and over again. The long positions create artificial sell pressure when they are liquidated.

So what the billionaires are easily able to do in this leveraged trading market is use the ICP they already have. You would only need a few hundred thousand ICP, which is pocket change to a billionaire, to do what I am describing. One of the most popular moves is to take out a bunch of longs and then sell a whole bunch of ICP at once to artificially crash the price and liquidate those longs. That further crushes the price. Then, when the price is crushed, you simply buy back the same ICP you sold, but cheaper.

This only works when there are a whole bunch of ignorant fools who then get flushed out of their ICP investments when the price dumps. People who are bullish, who say oh my God, ICP is amazing, load it up at $10. Then the price dumps to six, and the ignorant fools think that because the chart is down, everything is lost, so they dump their ICP to some billionaire who sold it to them for 10 and then rebought it for six. Rinse and repeat that formula over and over.

You can see where the price chart shows these clear manipulations. Whenever you see massive drops like this, which often happen in the middle of the night, you will see a huge drop. For example, on December 24th, ICP was at $10, and then the price instantly dumped a dollar in a very short amount of time. Or look at February, where the price was up to $8 and it dumped all the way down to under six for a minute. These manipulated sells are a very easy way to suppress the price.

Now, if you could orchestrate it so that you took out a bunch of shorts and then manipulated the price down, you could profit off the shorts too. And if you could orchestrate the entire market through wash trading, taking out longs and shorts at the right time, and then intentionally creating buys and sells at the right time, you could line your pockets with huge amounts of ICP, all while the masses look at the chart, get frustrated, turn on each other, and criticize DFINITY. The main one who loses in this scenario is DFINITY, because they hold the largest amounts of ICP. A fellow billionaire is probably not likely to just walk in and want to pump their bags. A billionaire would more than likely want to walk in and say, I want to take as much ICP off of DFINITY as possible, as cheaply as possible, so that I can control the network, or so that they will have to deal with me on the network and I can have my power.

Going deeper: fake ICP and suspended withdrawals

With all these perfectly legal financial instruments, you can go even further. Everything I have described so far is perfectly legal and perfectly easy to see, but if we go a little deeper into the conspiracy side, exchanges could potentially alter markets, wash trade, and sell fake ICP, which complicates things even more. I would imagine at least one, if not several, big exchanges are doing this exact thing. Even if you could just find one or two exchanges willing, you could have the exchanges sell fake ICP.

For example, someone getting fudded out of their investment puts 1,000 ICP on the exchange and dumps it. The exchange can then place 5,000 more ICP in sell orders to crush the price. And if you combine that with someone holding 100,000 ICP who dumps at the exact same time, then you crush all the longs and you can have the shorts taken out. You make huge money on the shorts, and then you scoop up all the ICP when it is cheaper. When the exchange calculates that the price is at rock bottom, it can use all that cash to scoop up the ICP again.

This is why, in my view, the exchanges that keep suspending ICP withdrawals whenever there is a bunch of buying pressure are more than likely the ones participating in keeping the ICP price suppressed. They are selling fake ICP, and then they suspend withdrawals because they do not actually have enough to let people withdraw. That also helps keep the price suppressed, because people get frustrated and sell their ICP since they cannot withdraw it. Then they go buy it somewhere else, which creates even more sell pressure.

The Market Is Rigged to Keep ICP Cheap

In my experience, the environment around ICP right now is absolutely rigged to keep the price artificially low. The big benefit of that, as I see it, is that you're buying ICP at probably ten times less than you would if it were trading in a fair market. The other side of the coin is that most of these other cryptos are cheating in the opposite direction. They're being financially engineered upward.

You can do the opposite of what I just described, and it seems many crypto projects do exactly this. What they do is take, say, a few million dollars and run through and buy all the crypto up at once. That's why you'll see these god candles. It's not because retail suddenly figured out some amazing piece of news. It's because one billionaire who is invested in one of these projects buys up a huge amount of it all at once to artificially push the price up. Then, even when retail goes in and sells, it doesn't come back down as hard. So most of these cryptos are being financially engineered up, but I believe they're going to crash and go to zero. Most of them, because they don't have any real value. There's nothing underneath them. They're being engineered upward.

Crypto YouTube Is Being Socially Engineered

It isn't just the prices that are engineered. In my view, crypto YouTube is being socially engineered too. I went through the top 100 YouTubers in my crypto reviews video, and the most insane thing I've ever seen in crypto is this: when you look at the top 100 crypto YouTubers, less than maybe 5% of them have given Internet Computer Protocol, the best tech in crypto, any accurate coverage at all.

One reason is that they haven't been paid to. They have been paid to push most of these other coins. The second reason is that the ones who are in the know, the ones who actually understand what's going on well enough to tell you about it, are in some cases getting paid to FUD it and to keep it quiet. All the while, they're secretly accumulating, and their billionaire friends are keeping it suppressed. The majority of crypto YouTubers have never done a single video about what I believe is the best technology in crypto, the first technology that's truly set up for mass adoption.

Once you put that together, you can see what a socially and financially engineered system you're in with crypto. If you want to look at more of the details, look at the long-to-short liquidations for something like Cardano, and look at Solana, for example, which I'd argue is being socially engineered up. You'll notice the amount of longs versus shorts liquidated is drastically different from ICP, despite the same kind of price volatility. In my experience, ICP has the weirdest, most manipulated long-to-short derivatives market I've seen anywhere in crypto, and there's much more detailed analysis you can dig into there.

How I Believe You Benefit From This

So if I'm you, I'm thinking, okay, how do we benefit from this? Number one, if you know about ICP at the same time the billionaires who are secretly accumulating it do, then in their opinion, in my opinion, and I'd say in the world's opinion, you deserve to be rich. If you can see through this financial and social engineering, I believe you deserve to be rich, and you're going to be filthy rich, because this price is suppressed by at least 90%, maybe 95%. If this were accurately valued and weren't financially engineered downward, I believe the price should be in the hundreds of dollars.

The billionaires are hoping they can extract as much ICP as possible out of DFINITY, out of the other investors, and out of retail before this becomes inevitable. Once it does become inevitable, I believe the price is going to absolutely shoot up. What makes this social and financial engineering possible in the first place is people not doing their research, buying things they have no understanding of. The antidote to that is real technology that brings in people from outside of crypto. With DFINITY set to release Caffeine AI this year, and with so many things being built on ICP, I believe we're going to get to where we belong.

Why This Is Time Sensitive

This is why I see it as time sensitive. There's a limited amount of time you can keep this suppressed, keep crypto retail blind, and keep almost all the top YouTubers silent about it. The longer this goes on, the more every single crypto YouTuber who doesn't talk about it is going to look like an absolute fool, and I think they're going to lose their audience when that audience realizes people like me have been covering this for a year and a half while their favorite crypto YouTuber never mentioned it once. So this is a limited-time game. I'm stacking, baby. I'm stacking and I'm locking. This has worked in my favor, and I'm here to help it work in your favor too.

What I think we're going to see when this price suppression stops is an unbelievable breakout. Right now, intentional sells crush the price. There will never be a market with no manipulation, but once the intentional pushing of the price down to dirt cheap stops, I believe this thing is going to run. And it will stop once there's so much retail buying and so much institutional buying that you can't use those mechanisms to keep the price down anymore. Those mechanisms only work if people are focused on the price and judge the value of something by its price rather than by the product.

So I'm really excited to see what happens. I think this is going to be an absolutely wild ride when it breaks out, and in my opinion it could go to $100 basically any time. The advantage of keeping something suppressed is that the reaction is bigger when it finally releases. It's like some of the people I see in Alcoholics Anonymous. You tell them not to date during the first year, and they suppress it, they try, they struggle. Then once that first year is up, they're suddenly all over the place, married to the first person they dated. When you suppress something, you often get an explosion whenever it finally gets out. I'm grateful to be in this before it gets out.

I hope this answers so many of the price questions you're stuck on and grinding over every day. If you want to go deeper on all of this, you can work through my ICP Crypto playlist, where I lay out the technology and the case in much more detail. I'm a full-time YouTuber, I chat on my websites built on the ICP blockchain, and I chat in my community on the ICP blockchain. I'd love for you to be part of this before the rest of the world catches on.

ICP Price: Why It's So Low and What It Could Be Worth

Originally published June 17, 2026.

If you hold ICP and want to test your own reasoning against mine, you can get a personal video review from me.

ICP's price chart shows the opportunity

From my video published July 21, 2026.

The Man in the Hot Tub Who Saw Opportunity

Most Crypto Thinking Is Inverted

I'm Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is

The $86,000 House

The Hundred-Million-Dollar Investor

One Buyer Today, Thousands Tomorrow

Word of Mouth Is the Tell

Thank You for the Current Price Tag

How Billionaires Suppress the ICP Price While Accumulating

From my video published June 17, 2026.

Do the billionaires actually know about ICP?

The math of buying control

How the price gets suppressed

Leverage, liquidations, and the long-short trap

Going deeper: fake ICP and suspended withdrawals

The Market Is Rigged to Keep ICP Cheap

Crypto YouTube Is Being Socially Engineered

How I Believe You Benefit From This

Why This Is Time Sensitive

What Would ICP Be Worth If the Crypto Market Were Rational?

From my video published June 15, 2026.

Appraising ICP Like a House

What would Internet Computer Protocol be if the crypto market was rational instead of just basically a coin speculation insane casino? Today, I want to look at what would an appraiser, if they came in and saw ICP and looked at the technology, looked at the rest of the world, the same way when you buy and sell a house, you have an appraiser come to your house and they look at the surrounding properties and they determine a value that they think the house is worth. So I'm going to act like that today for ICP and we're going to explore what would ICP be worth if the market actually acted this way instead of based on old price charts, narratives, hype cycles, because ICP has real technology and the speculation on crypto started with the technology.

Like, wow, Bitcoin is amazing. Look at this technology. That's where it started. Somewhere it's got lost into something else. When I look at ICP, I don't see. I don't see a normal crypto project. I see an outlier, something that looks closer to Internet infrastructure, plus an AI ready developer platform, plus a protocol token. Like, this is an incredible combination. So the first valuation lens, you have to figure out how exactly are we going to put this? Like, when you're buying and selling houses and appraising them this is a house. Although there's different, is this a boat that somebody's living in? Is this a trailer park?

Is this a house, that's a regular house? Is this a mansion? Like, there's different mindsets. So to me, to begin, we need to look at what frame is ICP in for appraising. To me, the first one that makes sense to appraise it is cloud infrastructure. And that's a bigger thing than anything else in crypto is looking to do. Because cloud infrastructure includes all the other crypto narratives. You can send transactions. You can connect, banks to each other. You can do all that stuff. And it's a cloud. It's a cloud infrastructure layer.

Lens One: The Global Cloud Infrastructure Market

So a rational appraiser to me would not even compare ICP to other blockchains. Because ICP is a whole nother level of blockchain. A whole nother level of asset compared to the rest of crypto. Like, the rest of crypto is like a bicycle. And ICP is a sports car. Like, you wouldn't appraise ICP as, you wouldn't put a, look at a sports car and say, let's appraise this in terms of bicycles. You, thus, to me, we begin with the, look at the whole global cloud computing market, which is roughly 750 billion to, 780 billion 2024 and 2025 with forecasts aiming that the whole cloud computing market is on the way to a trillion dollars.

Thus, if ICP captures even a tiny share of that, which there's a very good argument because it's the most secure cloud infrastructure, it's the only infrastructure that has a native coin and crypto and financial functionality built, directly in, all secured, ICP is the best solution we see for cybercrime. And you can run AI on it. And Caffeine AI is allowing people to build on it right now. Thus, an argument for one thousandth of the whole cloud market seems incredibly reasonable. I think more like 1 would be a rational argument that ICP is easily able to capture in a relative, relatively short period of time, 1 of the global cloud computing infrastructure market.

I walk through the technology and the case for ICP as cloud infrastructure across my my ICP Crypto playlist.

Now, ICP, if it captured 5%, we'd be looking at 37 to 39 billion a year in revenue. And so these are revenues that it would bring in. And I talked about that some in terms of burning the coin in the previous couple of videos. So here's what that would mean for valuation. If a rational market saw ICP as an early stage infrastructure with real execution, but still not a real one, I think the 0 1 is easily, like super easily reasonable as a minimum valuation. So that valuation would be $10 to $30 billion. Meanwhile, the ICP token right now is valued at $1 3 billion.

That is ridiculous. Because to me, the absolute minimum valuation that I would give this is around $10 to $30 billion. Depending on how you wanted to get into the details. If ICP looks like it has a real path to 1 cloud penetration, which I absolutely think, and that's more of a bull case, then the valuation from $30 to $50 to $100 billion starts looking much more reasonable. And that would put ICP in the top five cryptos, which to me is where ICP belongs. Now, full disclosure, I have 6 500 ICP, which is about $1 5 billion. And I have about 1 100 000th of the whole supply.

So that valuation would look pretty good for me, having 1 100 000th of $10 to $150 billion. That puts me in financial independence, to be sure. So that's, but I'm in this position because I already did all this research and I don't see anything better to invest in because I don't see anything today that has as much evidence for a valuation like this and a valuation that's so strong, so small, according to the market. And that's what I'm looking for. I'm looking for where can I see evidence that something should be valued way, way higher, and then the market's valuing it way, way lower. If you want to pressure-test how you are thinking about a position like this for yourself, you can book a private call with me and we'll work through your own questions side by side.

Lens Two: AI Company Pricing

Now, let's look at the second valuation in AI company pricing. Right now, AI markets are valuing future infrastructure aggressively. Like OpenAI's last reported valuation reached about $500 billion, and some newer ones are talking about IPOs towards a trillion. And you got other AI companies valued in the hundreds of billions of dollars, even though it's a bit unclear how they're going to be able to do in the future. Are they going to get totally outpaced by competitors? Are they going to be able to stay relevant? The AI infrastructure or the AI companies are extremely competitive. Thus, these are huge valuations, even though their futures are uncertain also.

There's no guarantee that OpenAI stays as a dominant AI company indefinitely. And XAI is pretty new. And Anthropa, Anthropic just said they can't even release their new model publicly. So look at these massive valuations, and there's a lot of future uncertainty for them too, just like there is for ICP. How ICP fits into this, and a rational market would ask, whether a protocol that can host applications, run internet services, and support AI related workloads fully on chain, or you can even use, for verifiable data, you don't have to run all the AI, but you could use centralized AI models and interact with data on ICP, and that would help the whole system be much more tamper proof and unstoppable and verifiable.

Now, for the best blockchain technology and the best solution we can currently see to help AI data be more secure, the ICP offers that. Now, is the present market valuation indicative of the best technology we can see in blockchain to support AI? I don't think so. Now, I'm not saying ICP should equal OpenAI or Anthropic. I don't think that's a good topic today, but the gap is so large between how helpful ICP's technology is for AI versus the valuation of the whole token. If AI startups with future narratives, mostly future narratives, a lot of these AI companies are just losing money like crazy at this point, and they're trying to take dominant spots in AI.

So some of these AI valuations are extremely speculative. Then ICP being only valued at a tiny fraction of that looks irrational to me. If the market fully respected, its infrastructure and AI relevance, I think a rational market still might discount ICP for adoption risk. But even then looking at ICP for its unique capabilities with AI should easily support a 20 to $50 billion base case much more easily than a current market does. And that's a 10 to 30 times higher valuation than where it's at today.

Combining the Cloud and AI Cases

But where this really gets nuts is when you bring the cloud and the AI cases together. If I combine the cloud infrastructure with the AI platform lens, the absolute minimum range, 10 to 30 billion is like worst case scenario, like the absolute lowest, like if I was trying to deliver an appraisal as low as possible to somebody who was desiring it, like there's no way I see ICP should ever be valued below $10 billion with what it has today, but meanwhile if the market was more forward looking about future adoption and price these things in, I think 50 to 150 billion would be a much more fair value.

Valuation. And $150 billion would be 100x from where ICP is today. Now, I'm not saying all this should happen tomorrow, although I think we should have repricing towards $10 billion immediately. Like that is the most ridiculous thing I see in all of cryptos, ICP being valued less than $10 billion. Absolutely ridiculous. Very strong evidence all over the place for why ICP deserves a minimum of $10 billion. Now, this is the part some of you will be excited about.

What These Valuations Mean Per Token

Well, what do these valuations mean for the price? Like to me, this means ICP deserves an absolute bare minimum of $18 per ICP. And we're currently under three. So that's a 6x to get to the like minimum appraisal case. Now, if we start getting higher levels of speculation and accurate valuation, so I'd say, higher levels of realistic valuation, $30 billion to me would be very realistic. If I were going to appraise ICP and put the whole thing out in front of the world and I would set the price for it. I think a fair price for ICP should be anywhere from like $35 to $91.

For more on how fast that gap could close, see ICP Can Pump to $100 Anytime.

Like if that was rational, my rational price would be like, $55 to $91 range because this at an absolute minimum, like if I was trying to sell this to my mother too, like if I was setting a price that everybody should buy at, that would be fair and rational based on the technology and the market cap. Like if I was setting a price that everybody should buy and I was dictator and I was setting the IPO for this, for example, I'd set it like $55 to $91 in there. Like that's a range $30 to $50 billion valuation. That's where this technology based on what I see makes sense.

And yes, me having 6 500 ICP certainly looks good at $100 ICP or close to that, we're talking, I'd have like a, quarter to half million dollars worth of ICP and then get like 7 interest on that. And if I were to set a price that every year, yeah, that sounds good to me. To me that if the, if ICP were priced like the most of the rest of the crypto market, to me, I think almost every other coin in crypto is drastically overpriced, especially all the others in the top 100 to me are overpriced based on speculation, hype and artificial price movements through derivatives and leverage and other things like that.

I would say the rest of the crypto market in the top 100 is overvalued by at least 90%. If not some of them, 99%.

If ICP Were Priced Like the Rest of Crypto

If ICP were priced as aggressively as these other cryptos, we'd be looking at easily $150 billion market cap. ICP truly to me should be valued higher than Bitcoin and Ethereum because Bitcoin and Ethereum future use is extremely questionable at this point. Meanwhile, ICP is looking that it has the best chance to be the dominant crypto of the future, the one blockchain singularity. So to me, this, if, crypto pricing applied to ICP instead of suppressing ICP, then to me, ICP, if it were priced in line with the rest of the top 100 would be around $273 per ICP, which would be a hundred X from where it's at today.

I unpack why the headline market caps mislead people in Crypto Market Caps Are a Distraction. Only ICP Is Real.

This is how I see the rest of cryptos priced and ICP is priced the opposite because it's different. Because if ICP were a top three crypto and people started to understand that they wouldn't want the rest of these cryptos. So this gives me a way to think about this. I think about ICP beyond the price chart in a way that ties back to the price chart in very practical terms. And I, I see meme coins today, like Dogecoin has a $10 billion valuation on to me. The blockchain is literally a copy of Bitcoin that has very little real use other than like speculation and holding tokens and narratives and talking.

And occasionally Elon Musk decides to pump it. That is valued higher than ICP. And in time, I imagine that will change where ICP will be valued much higher than Dogecoin because it's insane that it's not. Thus on a pure crypto speculation basis, I already, I got ahead of the outline a little bit and just jumped into covering these things. But my question, I started this video out today is if somebody were really looking at ICP, how much would that be? And I'd say that would mean at least a five, if not a 10 X in the price. So I think the fair market value of ICP will be seen one day in the future.

And we may even get a speculative value of ICP where the price actually gets too high based on what the tech does. And we know where it could be, 500 or a thousand for ICP. And then it could crash back down there to more of a reasonable price. So I don't think anything about the current pricing of ICP is rational. And yet lots of times with education, especially, we can get to a much more rational, reasonable place. I think that the more people in crypto get educated and understand blockchain, the more ICP gets adopted and solves real world problems, which it's doing today. You can go schedule a call there if you want.

It looks beautiful compared to the last website I had. And that's real use case. That's real cloud hosting right now. And that's using AI to, build directly on ICP. So if the market ever combines rational understanding with crypto style speculation, we could see something amazing. To me, this is opportunity though.

The Opportunity in Mispriced Technology

The opportunity is finding this kind of information where something is artificially low priced before it gets valued accurately. Ironically, when it came out, and this is most of crypto, when ICP released, it had a market cap that actually would make sense today. Or, even is still overhyped and speculative from where it's at today. And now, ironically, five years later, when everything has gotten better with it, it's at all time lows. I don't think that's going to happen because I don't count on people staying uninformed forever. Maybe I should. If I'm wrong anywhere, that's where it is. Some of you would say, you should count on people staying uninformed and uneducated and distracted and irrational and insane forever because that's a human condition.

I say that if there are people like me who appear to be, at least from my own point of view, because they say crazy people don't know they're crazy. From my point of view, I'm operating in a rational manner, looking at crypto, seeing that I'm not looking at charts, just trying to decide where price is going to go. I'm looking at the depth. What is underneath? Where is the technology?

Why I Bet on an Educated Future

I'm approaching crypto rationally and looking for what is undervalued. I'm approaching crypto with 12 years of experience. I'm looking for what is undervalued. I'm researching thousands of altcoins and looking at the tech and not just talking narratives and making videos, but looking up all this stuff, using it all myself. Thus, I'd like to think the future of crypto investors at crypto retail are going to be more like me. People who've been in it longer, who've thought deeper, who've researched further, who understand. Thus, to me, I'm looking at a future of understanding. People getting more educated in crypto is a very good thing for ICP, and it's a very bad thing for the rest of crypto.

I'm grateful today to have this information to share with you. Here's to the future where ICP takes the spot it deserves in crypto and where it solves real world problems. If you want another interesting video to watch right now, I just lost a second date because I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. Jerry Banfield Life Channel. I've been going into my dating life in detail, and a girl I just went out with said that she doesn't want to be a part of my YouTube channel on dating. I guess the material there is good enough that you might enjoy it.

Check out this Jerry Banfield channel. If you're dating or interested in that side of me, you might find something interesting enough to not go out with me again.

Why the Smart Money Isn't Fully in ICP Yet

From my video published June 15, 2026.

The Question That Started This

Why the smart money isn't fully in ICP yet? This is one of the biggest questions that once I saw that, I started thinking I need to talk more about this because I've hinted at it, but we need to go deeper. Logically, our brains say, well, if the technology is really this far ahead, then why is the smart money not all in? Because on the surface, it looks too obvious, right? Like ICP does things most of crypto only talks and fantasizes about, like my love life at this point. It already runs websites and apps fully on chain. It offers a vision that could replace more of the current internet stack than almost any other crypto project.

So with this impressive technology, why is the crypto market seeming to completely ignore ICP and why is it not priced incorrectly? You would think if ICP, is that strong than the big money, the insiders, the people really we think know stuff should be all over it, right? Why haven't the richest insiders already put into ICP heavily? Why aren't the venture capitalists, institutions, and the major crypto investors not obviously repositioned into it? Because usually what we imagine is that the people with the best connections, the most information, and the most money get there first. We usually think we missed the great opportunities, but we are saying, we're so, I was going to say lucky, but I'd say more blessed and we did our research.

We're here in ICP before most of them are here. And the answer for why they're not here is not as simple as people need to think. We need to go into the market dynamics, human psychology, and I'm going to get into all that right now. Because I don't think the answer that people come up with off the top of their head is that, well, they all don't understand ICP and they don't care. That nobody cares about the tech, that it's not actually an opportunity. I don't think that the, big money is accurately priced the whole market either. And we're all in this together. Crypto retail and each of us, our behavior matters for what the price is and the adoption is every day.

I think the truth is even more uncomfortable than just people dismissing ICP and not looking at a chart. I think a lot of crypto money, even the big money, especially the big money, still moves on narratives, momentum, and incentives rather than a deep understanding of technology. However, I don't see that this will last forever. This is temporary as a lot of the other booms we've seen in things like the dot com bubble. There was a lot of the same dynamics going on there. And eventually almost all the fake projects crashed and a few very real ones like Google made it through that and have huge trillion plus dollar valuations today.

And I think crypto is going to look the same way in a decade where ICP will be one of the only projects standing with potentially a valuation like Bitcoin. Not financial advice, and it depends on all this playing out how I think it'll play out.

Big Money Moves on Narratives, Not Tech

What happens in crypto today is it's mostly profits and narratives. And the reason that even the wealthiest people in crypto are acting a lot like crypto retails because they're doing the same stuff we're doing. They're looking at price charts, momentums. They're looking at stories. They're looking at what people are buying. They're looking at what they can pump next. I think what you're seeing with crypto investors on YouTube is a lot the same as what the big money, the big money is doing. Is doing also because they're just people like us at the end of the day. Sometimes they have better information and opportunities, but sometimes it's not enough to really get them the best opportunities either.

They might have better access and better deals, but they also have people around them that can deceive them and think just like you and I. And therefore, many of them don't seem to have a better understanding of what the tech actually does or how important this is than you and I do. In fact, I would say a lot of the people in the ICP space have a better understanding of the tech and the future of crypto than many of the insider VCs today. However, some may have an understanding of ICP and will point out their issues going forward. See, ICP is not the kind of project you fully understand by glancing at a chart or hearing a simple narrative.

It takes work and study. Like the entire collective crypto space has to get more educated, which I'm doing my part to help with, in order for ICP to really shine. It takes enough technical curiosity, which how many people are going to start wondering, well, is it important to host apps, websites, the back end, the front end, all on chain? That's not a question I asked for the first decade I was in crypto. It wasn't something I even thought about. And it took me following Dominic Williams and listening to you all in the comments tell me why ICP was special. And I, unlike a lot of us, I actually did my own research and looked at ICP for myself.

And it still took me, it took me months to really get ICP. And I think the rest of the crypto market is at least six months, if not years, behind the rest of us for the reasons I'll cover psychologically. That gap is exactly why I love being around people who did their own homework early instead of waiting on the crowd, and if you want that kind of clarity for your own thinking, you can set up a call with me and think it through together on our call.

The Barrier of Admitting You Were Wrong

The psychological barrier is enormous. Most people do not want to admit they were wrong. And this to me is one of the biggest blocks for ICP, especially in the big money. This is why the human side of the story matters. And we have to think about people with hundreds of millions of dollars. As just regular people like us. Most people will work really hard to avoid admitting they were wrong. I'm a little unusual because I'm sober and Alcoholics Anonymous, the 10th step in AA says, continued to take personal inventory and whenever we are wrong, promptly admitted it. I'm unusual in that respect that I consistently am checking where am I wrong.

Like I just realized how wrong I've been in my dating life lately. Now, what most people do is avoid, will go to any lengths to admit they were wrong, especially, it's actually easier for you and I. When you've got a lot of money and prestige and power, admitting you're wrong can be very expensive, very public. And who wants to have huge levels of power and control and end up having to be wrong expensively in public and rethink years of decisions? I think the confirmation bias and psychological factors are even higher in the big money than they are in regular people.

How Confirmation Bias Protects Portfolios

Confirmation bias in this situation protects existing positions to a shocking level. If someone has hundreds of millions of dollars spread across crypto, like some of these VCs do, maybe even billions in some cases, they are generally on a subconscious level, not even looking for information that makes the rest of their portfolio look weak. It's like how most of us will automatically filter, not hear, disagree with, or immediately fight with somebody that tells us something that could make us question our entire lives. Like when I'm listening to these guys on YouTube talk about how you need to make women chase you and be in your masculine and stop doing all the stuff I've been doing.

I'm just like, wow, I've just really, this makes sense. I find being wrong to be a great relief, occasionally, to help get a better understanding. But most people, most people are actively trying as hard as they can not to be wrong. And they've told their brain, disregard any information that makes me wrong. They're much more likely, most people are much more likely to filter any information in crypto that confirms, they only want to take in the information that confirms they're correct in their existing positions. This is why on my Jerry Banfield cryptos review, I can lay out an incredibly logical, passionately delivered, perfectly, professionally outlined points that destroy a crypto coin to a person operating purely on logic.

A person looking at my reviews purely on logic would just be blown away. But people are not generally looking on logic. They're looking to dismiss threatening information and often living out of fear and therefore closed minded to new opportunities. Scarcity mindset prevents you from understanding ICP. They're much more likely, or rather it's crypto YouTube or somebody with a lot of money to make a fast comment when they see ICP about, oh, look at that price chart and literally not even have a second thought after that. Because if you were to look deeper, do you want to question that 95 of your portfolio? Imagine a VC, somebody who's powerful, got lots of money, lots of people look up to them and tell them whatever they want to hear.

And then they have to pay executive coaches $1 000 an hour to disagree with them. Imagine a VC looking at their crypto portfolio and realizing, that it's almost all out of position. That there's one thing they have that's good and everything else is unsustainable is the nicest way I can say. Do you think in most cases, they're going to just sit there in the boardroom having had this realization and looking at what this could mean? Do you think they're just going to sit there and be like, wow, I was really wrong about all this. Yeah, I was a fool for not doing my research. Man, I can't believe I acted just like an average crypto retail noob on YouTube.

Wow. I really need to make some changes today. Is that what you picture some billionaire doing when they see this? Or are they firing the person who told them that? Or are they deciding to intentionally keep this information quiet until they can figure out a way to deal with it? Because to me, I think for most people, that answer is obvious. Most people are not going to just destroy their whole life because they've gotten better information. And a lot of us also throw good money after bad, which I'm sure I've seen a lot of, saying that I'm just throwing good money after bad on ICP. If you're the one quietly questioning your own positions and you want to think it through honestly with someone instead of just defending them, you can book a one-on-one call with me and we'll look at your own situation together on our call.

We shall see.

Why Investors Refuse to Cut Losses

A lot of investors do not want to cut losses psychologically. Most, whether it's a regular person or a VC, which I'd say is still a regular person, they want to exit. Most people want to exit and profit so they don't have to feel wrong. And a lot of these VCs are no different than you and I. They're in losses on a lot of different positions. They want to sell high also, even if it's to take a tiny profit. I'm amazed how many people I've talked to in person, that they are in losses on junk coins. And they tell me, well, Jerry, I'll buy some ICP as soon as these garbage coins go up.

I'm like, that makes no logical sense. They're like, well, I want to exit on a profit. They want the market to validate their past positions. And this is a barrier to so many people understanding ICP. Even that do understand it, they're holding on to huge crypto portfolios of stuff that is absolutely not going to work out in most cases in the future. And obviously, I'm not a financial advisor and I probably am not God either, at least in the form of this particular body. I don't know what's going to happen for sure. This is what I see. And it looks like to me, most people care more about the market validating their past decisions and making them right.

If you want to keep building the understanding most of the market is still missing, I cover all of this across my my ICP Crypto playlist.

They would rather support a position that they even know is weaker than admit like I did, that I misjudged the entire crypto space. When I sold all my altcoins and my Bitcoin, yeah, in the short term, I sold all my altcoins. In the long term, I've lost. Absolutely. I had to 3x my money if I'd held my Bitcoin comparing instead of ICP. But I think I'm much better positioned for the long term. And in order for me to dump all my altcoins, every one I sold, I had to look at that and say, I was wrong when I bought that. And the next one and say, I didn't do my research when I bought that.

And the next one to say, how did I overlook this obvious flaw when I bought that? And the next one to look at and say, how did I invest in this project with no team publicly? And I sell that. And I look at this next project that has everything's off chain. And I say, how did I not think about how important it was? And I have to sell that. You see the whole, and this, when you scale this up to the bigger system, when you consider all the crypto exchanges and the VC funds and all the people, the journal, the outlets, the media coverage, the influencers, almost everybody in the space is making money based on how things are today.

So if things change, profits change, entire businesses can evaporate overnight. The people with the bigger money are often spread across a lot of different projects and a lot of different exchanges and profit and influencers and money making opportunities. The people with the biggest money have often diversified themselves because they didn't really understand what they're investing in. Well, and the bigger environment well enough to spot something different. So they just threw money all over the whole market using the logic of if you just diversify, things will work out. So they're invested. They're invested across ecosystems, narratives, tokens, and launches everywhere. They're not sitting there neutrally asking which chain makes most of this obsolete.

They're not looking for a blockchain singularity because they don't want to find one. They want everything to work out and they want to make all their money. They want to be right. They want to maximize their portfolio. And I say they, but if you go back three years ago, I could say we, because this is the same thing I was doing. I was buying $50 a day, all these different altcoins. I wanted to maximize my followers and the money I was making. And I wasn't thinking much about the coins I was investing in. I was just thinking about how do I make money for me?

And do you think the venture capitalists are using a drastically different mindset than that? Thus, this creates a structural conflict where ICP is really as powerful and as threatening as I think it is. Then fully understanding ICP creates a serious problem, a serious conflict of interest psychologically on an individual level and across the entire market. Right? ICP does not just compete with one chain like that Bobby O video I saw years ago when I first was researching ICP. ICP is potentially the grim reaper for the rest of crypto. ICP challenges the idea that we need separate chains, separate infrastructure, that we need any other digital gold besides ICP, that we need anything else like oracles.

ICP challenges the entire rest of the whole crypto system. And if one project starts to look capable of doing that much more than the other, and the rest, it's not just an opportunity. It's a threat to everyone's existing positions.

Relationships and Reputations on the Line

And there's more to this too than just individuals holding their own portfolios. So the big money especially is often not operating in isolation. They have friendships that they've developed with founders of coins and exchanges and influencers. And they all have drinks together and go on trips together. These people have relationships. And they're looking at if they, even if they do understand ICP, which is going to be rare, even if they do understand ICP, they're going to destroy their relationships and destroy their friends if they dump all the rest of their portfolio and maximize their own profits. Now, if you've watched enough crime movies, somebody will do it.

Somebody will say, screw all of them. I'll make new friends when I'm that much richer. Somebody will do it. But most people are actually at heart, I think, pretty agreeable, nice people who care about their friends, their agreements, their cooperations, and their reputations. So this makes it very hard for a VC, even that's sitting here watching my videos with a $100 million portfolio and hitting like on every one of the videos, even in that position to that VC, they're sitting there watching my videos thinking, I wish I could do something about this without causing absolute chaos to my life. Thus, this is going to be a very interesting, big money cannot just rotate into ICP the way an independent investor like I can.

Small investors like me sitting there with a crypto portfolio of like $10 000 or so in 2023, I just dumped all my altcoins and that it didn't make much of a difference. I could just dump everything and the markets didn't move. But I don't have to protect a giant portfolio of other change or manage relationships across the industry. I don't have to protect a giant portfolio of other change. I did not have to gracefully unwind hundreds of millions of dollars in positions. You see, if you have hundreds of millions of dollars in all those relationships, you can't just take your profits or accept your losses and move out.

You're looking at destroying like everybody and everything you know. And how do you think you'd be treated for doing that? There's some of these, I don't want to get too conspiratorial, but you might get whacked if you did that and left everybody else hanging out there.

The Liquidity Trap for Large Investors

Large investors place a completely different problem. If you're invested across all these other projects, you can't just dump like crypto retail can. You have liquidity concerns. Like many of these coins, you can't dump $10 million of them in a single day. You can't dump $100 million of a portfolio across the entire market. You have to very carefully wait to even dump for some of these coins, a few thousand. If you try and dump like a million dollars of a coin at once, you could crash the price that day. You have to wait and time things carefully and take small amounts, and that's annoying. And you have to get, ideally, you don't want to sell at the lowest price either.

Because if you dump a whole bunch at once, you get a big red candle down and you pay the price for that. So there's a ton of reasons people that are in this system are even with this information, which most don't have it, I imagine. Even with this information, it's a trap. Luke, it's a trap. Even if some of these people start understanding, which I imagine there's at least a handful that have a very firm grasp on ICP, and they are delicately trying to navigate all of this right now and maintain their profits and their relationships. The more people realize they need to move, which I'd say there's at least a handful, if not dozens, of people realize they're going to need to reposition.

But they have to do it gently. Just like disclosure. You can't just tell people the truth all of a sudden, all at once. You got to give little pieces at a time. It's like, eating an elephant, one bite at a time. You're not going to take the whole thing down. And right now, that's crypto disclosure, basically, is that ICP is the truth, the one blockchain that does everything crypto needs, and basically nothing else is necessary. Except occasionally, if, maybe a tiny exception here and there. But the result is that almost everybody who even knows this is in a position to delay. And we saw this, like, with Bitcoin.

There were people loading up Bitcoin privately while they denied it, and flooded it publicly. And ICP is in the same position, where there's people that are trying to gently increase their ICP positions, but they don't want to increase it too fast. Because if ICP pumps, then the whole game is going to be up. So it's a very delicate process. It takes a special person to make the full shift. Like, this is not just a financial move. It's an ego move. And most of us, I've been talking 19 minutes already. I'm really hypnotized by my own voice. We're only halfway through this outline. We're just, we're going to go for all of it.

It takes a special kind of person to make that kind of an ego move. To dump most of a portfolio into the best long term position requires more than intelligence. It requires humility and emotional strength. And being willing to admit you're wrong and look foolish. And ironically, or perhaps logically, the kind of person that gets in a position to manage money and have a huge amount of power is often not the kind of person that's going to, be real strong on some of these in a lot of cases, but not all. Most people, and especially most people have a lot to lose, would rather defend where they are, stay socially aligned, keep hoping that things stay how they are and they can gently exit.

So this is probably going to happen slowly, but it may happen all at once because ICP becomes dangerous as the understanding spreads. One of the things that, the price chart actually keeps the whole, the ICP price chart is what keeps people and the rest of crypto safe. But the more the technology gets adopted, the price chart is not going to be able to artificially be suppressed by derivatives. When more people understand what ICP does and are not entrenched in the rest of crypto and can afford to dump their whole portfolio like I didn't put everything into ICP and understand that ICP improves everything, not just about crypto, but about the entire internet.

That the technology on ICP is very important for AI, for cybercrime. It can actually run a global financial network on ICP, on the blockchain now from the computation power we have. We might need to get some more subnets added and scale it a little bit, but the blockchain in terms of computation is powerful enough to run a global financial network now for the whole planet from what I can see. And if I'm not accurate about that, I'm happy for somebody for DFINITY to explain what exactly it needs to do before then. Until then, I think I'm right about that and I'll disregard any evidence I'm not.

So this is about rather blockchain can become invisible to the end user. And ICP is the only blockchain that's in a position to become invisible to the end user. And once people understand that, everything else in crypto looks tiny. All the narratives start to look like vaporware. All the valuations look very hard to justify. And ICP therefore is a dangerous idea.

This is the same reckoning I walked through when I dumped everything in Sell Bitcoin, ETH, XRP, and SOL for ICP Before It's Too Late.

The Breakout Will Come From Outsiders

And what's interesting, I think the breakout is likely to come from people outside the current system. Because with what I've just said, who in the current system is going to voluntarily collapse all of this? Most people in the current system are not going to voluntarily collapse all the rest of their portfolio and their profits. I think people who are newer to crypto, especially getting in maybe just off of Bitcoin, they maybe only understand Bitcoin, or crypto retail who's pretty new and just in Bitcoin are going to see, oh, okay, ICP is giving the real vision of what Bitcoin was like a prototype for. And the newer people to crypto, like as you see governments like Pakistan and Switzerland getting involved with DFINITY and partnering to bring on their infrastructure, there's people in those governments, they're probably not invested in the rest of crypto.

And once they understand this, they don't have any reason they can't dump $200 million into ICP and buy all the cheap coins up and take all the profits for themselves. They don't care about collapsing the rest of the system for everybody else because they aren't connected with them and they don't have any baggage or any reasons or any ego or psychological barriers. The new people will not have the same baggage or the same need to defend existing positions and thus they can go straight into ICP. And that's what DFINITY's marketing seems geared towards is getting people from outside of crypto to actually get to using the ICP blockchain and then from there, the money will flow in from money that's outside of crypto.

And all it'll take is one major investor to change everything. It wouldn't take the whole market waking up at once. And this is what's kind of interesting and dangerous to me. It'll only take a handful of serious investors or one large investor like a Michael Saylor or a MicroStrategy or a government level, someone that has a government that decides to put some of their treasury in ICP. The market can look really sleepy. But if someone understands what I understand and they have a lot of money, they'll want to get into this as gently as they can without moving the price. But at the same time, they also may realize like if anybody else finds out about this, the opportunity is going to be gone for them.

And people are often pretty paranoid about missing an opportunity early. So someone might come in and buy 10, 20, 50 million dollars of ICP in a single day. And they'll prompt the price on purpose because they'll see if they pump the price and break it out, the rest of crypto will have to find out about it. And that will pump their investment drastically further. So you could literally have one person, say a billionaire that's involved with a government or a big company that's working on trying to have their IT more secure. It'll only take one person to tell their assistant to say, hey, I want you to buy 50 million dollars of ICP and buy it today.

Make the price spike like crazy. Buy everything you can off of all the exchanges. And then with that price spike, the rest of crypto is going to go nuts for this. The technology will come out and we're going to make a huge amount of money on this. Like it'll only take one single person to see that. And everybody else on the inside who's got their eyes and ears covered is going to be caught out of position. And the risk of being caught out of position, things could get really ugly and crazy in crypto. And I'm really excited to see this day come. And I better have this new channel monetized before then.

We're almost there with your help. Thank you. Because my channel is in position to have some serious viewership. Like we're talking, I could have hundreds of thousands of views a day pour into my channel and all the other ICP creators too. This could happen relatively violently and quickly. Now that's not guaranteed. And all the insiders would certainly like it to happen slowly. But if enough serious money wakes up at months, and that could just be 20 000 serious retail investors, collectively each having like 100 plus thousand to invest. If you do some simple math there, that's millions of dollars of buying pressure that could come from crypto retail by itself or it could come from a single buyer.

And what happens? This could get ugly because right now, I imagine some of the people who are aware of this are thinking they have time, that they can gently exit some of these positions. They can take profits. They're dragging their feet. They don't want to deal with this. But when there's a certain amount of influx coming into ICP, when the price spikes and crypto gets all over it and the secret starts to get out that this is the one real blockchain and everything else is basically vaporware, when that gets out and people see what's different with ICP, then you can have people panic and start dumping huge portfolios and you could have thousands of altcoins crash 99 all at once.

Because there's just not the liquidity there if the big positions exit. And the big positions have no intention on looking out for whether you can exit or not. This is why crypto retail is actually in the best position right now to go through all this and to make the changes without any consequences. When the capital rushes into ICP, it could get really crazy. All the narratives could collapse. We've seen things like this happen in the stock market before. So I'm not saying anything that hasn't happened in history already.

Why the Window Is Open Right Now

Thus, the opportunity is biggest before the broad understanding, before the big money commits. Because by the time the big money commits, you're out of luck. By the time the whole market agrees, like with Bitcoin, the asymmetry appears. People are like, oh, Bitcoin is just going to go up forever. Not necessarily. There's so much money in it that if Bitcoin holders see what an opportunity ICP is, like my video yesterday, there are people who might dump half their Bitcoin and put it into ICP. Big holders. And that means Bitcoin is not guaranteed to go up forever. And the more money you have, the more the Bitcoin price, that's all you have on Bitcoin is price speculation and narratives.

This market, ICP could shoot to number one relatively quickly. And the whole rest of the market could be wrecked by it. I think that'd be a really fun scenario to see. Although I'd hope I wouldn't get whacked in that scenario for helping make this happen. But, this is why it looks early to me. I don't see a market that's fully understood ICP. I see a market stuck on narrative charts and old habits. And I realize, that some of you would say, maybe the market's right and I'm wrong. Maybe ICP is more niche than I think and the tech doesn't matter. Maybe lack of big money conviction reflects something real. If you ever find yourself wondering whether your own conviction here is real understanding or just confirmation bias, that is a great thing to pull apart out loud, and you can schedule a private call with me to work through your own thinking on our call.

But 12 years ago in Bitcoin, you could have said all that stuff too and look how it's played out. Now, maybe the opportunity looks only obvious from inside the ICP community. Maybe truly I'm stuck in confirmation bias and I'm just trying to show people on my own bags. I think that's a fair question. But when I look across the rest of crypto, I see capital chasing things that are much easier to market than use. I've actually used a lot of these different blockchains. I've bought a bunch of the coins myself. I've been in the communities. I felt it all out from inside. Oh, that sounds nice.

And I found that ICP viscerally gave me a feeling. And I'm such a tech geek that I get feelings when I use stuff like the network nervous system. And my feeling when I started using it, my feeling ICP is that this is drastically advanced beyond anything I've ever used before on the internet. Like not just crypto. But when I signed in the internet identity for the first time with a pass key, I'm like, what the hell is a pass key? I'd never used one. So to me, ICP has got the feeling that I look for when I see an opportunity like Bitcoin 12 years ago, Facebook in 2005, Udemy in 2014, et cetera, et cetera.

I've consistently jumped on these opportunities before the big money and the big voices and the market was on it. So to me, I don't think the big money is not in it because opportunity is weak. I think it's that most crypto money does not move based on technology or what's best for everyone or planet Earth. It moves on psychological stuff, narratives, portfolio protection, timing, confirmation bias. A lot of crypto insiders are less informed than people assume. And a lot of people understand ICP are still trapped by their own psychology and not wanting to admit they're wrong. So to me, once ICP is broadly understood, the chance is gone.

This looks like a very rare opportunity where the technology is here, but the understanding is not. And I say thank you every day that I've found this now. And I'm really grateful to be here with you to share this because someday I may be looking back, being like, man, I am so rich because I found this before everybody else did. And I'm really happy for that. And I'm really happy this video is over. I can't believe it was 30 minutes. So thank you for spending so much time with me. To me, this is one of the big points that we need to address in depth in the ICP community.

If you want to go through this shift with people in your corner, you can schedule a one-on-one call with me.

If you've enjoyed this video, I'll just keep talking for another hour so you don't have to stop watching it. Just kidding. I film a lot of other videos. I'll read your comments. Give me ideas for new videos. Thank you. See you later.

My Conversation With God About Bitcoin, Crypto, and the ICP Price

From my video published December 20, 2024.

I'm reading this book, Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch, and I thought, you know what, there should be something like this for crypto. So I'm going to do a version of that right now. I normally like to live stream, but the roofer is about to come put a new roof on my house, so I feel a little sneaky cranking this out before the roofers start making noise.

The idea is a conversation where I ask God, or my higher self, or the universe, or whatever you want to call it — some smarter entity, some massive power out there — to explain all the questions I have about crypto. If you have some of the same questions and frustrations I do, I think you'll really enjoy this. I keep going deeper on all of this in my ICP Crypto playlist, but this one is more of a heart-to-heart than a price chart.

Dear God, when will the ICP price pump?

So the first thing I would ask is: dear God, when will the ICP price pump?

And then God says, "Jerry, what's the ICP price today?" I look at the chart and I say, well, at the time I'm recording this, it just went under $10.

"Well, Jerry, what was the price of ICP when you bought it a little over a year ago?" And I'd say, well, it was a little under $3.

"So, Jerry, the price went up three times in the last year. Wouldn't you call that a pump?" Well, yeah, I mean, sure. But when are we going to go to $100 or $1,000?

"Well, Jerry, isn't three times in a single year enough for you?" Well, we could do better, though, right? I want to be a millionaire. I'm impatient for ICP to pump. Why isn't it going higher faster?

I gave you Bitcoin, but why didn't you receive it?

"Well, Jerry, remember when I showed you Bitcoin in 2014 and you got it as low as $170? What's the price for that today?"

Well, it's like $100,000. I know it's like $300,000 from where I had it. And all I had to do was hold it, and I'd have had $300,000.

"So what happened with that, Jerry? I showed you something that pumped to $300,000, and what did you do with it?"

Well, I sold it at like $5,000 or $10,000, and I've regretted it ever since.

"So why did you do that, Jerry? I gave you just what you wanted. I gave it to you, but why didn't you receive it?"

I was impatient. I wanted it faster. I wanted more. I wanted to pay off all my debts. I wanted to be a millionaire. I wanted total financial freedom.

"Well, Jerry, all you had to do was wait. You had enough Bitcoin to be a millionaire today. I gave you that. You had enough Bitcoin when I first showed it to you, when I brought that guy by your office to tell you about it randomly — someone who didn't even know you, and he told you about it. You had three thousand-some dollars in the bank at the time that you could invest, and today you would be a millionaire. I gave you what you wanted, but why don't you have it today? I gave it to you."

Well, I guess maybe I didn't want it that much, based on my actions.

"Well, Jerry, you still want to be debt free. You still are struggling with financial freedom. And Jerry, I've given you Internet Computer. This is even better than Bitcoin. So why are you so impatient for the price to pump when I've given you all the research to show you that this is where things are going? This is where the future's headed. You're in the right position. I've even given you a lesson with Bitcoin, so now you know. The price will pump when everybody else buys it and when they're ready for it. But the price already pumped." That's the same conviction behind why I see 21 Bitcoin in 2014 as 550 ICP today.

I know, God, but I want it now. I want it faster. I'm afraid that I'll screw this up again. I want the money right now. I want my house paid off right now. I want my student loans and my business debt — I want all of it paid off right now.

Do you have everything you need today?

"Well, why, Jerry? Why do you want it all paid off right now? Look at your life. Look at your studio. How much equipment do you have in here? Do you not have everything you need today, Jerry?"

I do. I do have everything I need today.

"Well, Jerry, do you have everything you want today?"

Yeah, I guess. Yeah, I do have everything I want, too.

"You mean you have everything you need and everything you want? And is that enough?"

Well, no, it's not enough, because I might not have everything I need and want in the future.

"Oh, and why do you think that? If you have everything you need and everything you want today, why wouldn't you still have it in the future?"

Well, because I have this massive mortgage, around $100,000 left. My wife has $160,000 in student loans. I have a hundred and something thousand dollars in business loans. And we have huge payments every month, like $4,000 a month. My wife has a great job and still can barely pay the bills. I have to make money too. If I'm not constantly working and out here grinding for money and making a profit, then we could lose everything. We could lose our house. We could be homeless, or we could be stuck living in a family member's house. Yes, I have everything now, but I feel like I'm on the edge of losing it all the time. And I'm tired of feeling like that.

I felt like I was on the edge of losing it constantly. That's why I couldn't hold onto the Bitcoin — because I was afraid that when the Bitcoin price pumped, I was going to lose it, that it was just temporary. It went up to $1,700 after I bought it as low as $170, and I was afraid it was going to reverse, that I'd dump it and feel like an idiot. If that fear of screwing it up again sounds familiar with your own crypto, you can join Jerry Banfield Family and we'll sort through what's fear and what's actually your plan on a weekly call.

Love or fear

"Oh, Jerry, I see we've hit on a key topic here, and that's that you're afraid. So the way I've set the universe up, there are two basic choices. There's love — where love and gratitude and joy all go together. So when you love, you're also grateful, and there's joy. When you love how things are, that's one choice. Or the other choice is that you are afraid. You're afraid of how things might be. You're afraid now of what might happen later. Or you love now, and whatever you are now is like you're praying to me for that to happen."

"So if I see you love how things are, and that's what you're focused on, then I give you more of that. From my point of view, if you love how things are, then you're going to get more of that. There's nothing to be afraid of. But if you're afraid of how things are now, that's you saying that you don't like how things are now, that you're not happy with the ICP price, that you're not happy with all the stuff I've given you. And to me, that is a prayer for more of the same — that you'd like circumstances in the future that will give you the same feeling."

"So the question for you is, Jerry: are you happy with the ICP price today? Are you happy with all the things you have now? Do you have faith that if you are happy where you're at now, then you're going to be happy with where you're at in the future?"

Well, see, God, that's where I have the issue. Honestly, no, I'm not happy with the ICP price today. It's $9.52 on CoinMarketCap. It slipped all the way down to number 30. There are all these dumpster fires and crappy projects above it. There are things ripping people off, things lying and cheating and stealing from people, projects that are meme coins and absolute copies. The whole market is stupid. ICP is undervalued right now. I'm impatient to be right. I've told everybody how great ICP is, but I don't look right, right now. Bitcoin has done just about the same, if not better than ICP over the last year. Some of these altcoins have done better. I know I'm not happy with how it is now. It should be higher.

"Well, Jerry, if you're not happy with how it is now, then how do you think things are going to be later? If you can't be happy with where it is today and be part of the journey, then to me, you're asking for more of the same in the future. If you're afraid that you're going to be unhappy with it, if you're angry now because you think things aren't good enough now, then to me, you're asking for more of the same. You're telling me that's what you're focusing on. And what you think about and focus on, to me, is what you love. That's where you're paying attention."

Who set the prices of all those other coins?

"So I'm looking at all these other questions you asked, too. You said there are all these things above ICP that are scams and liars. And Jerry, who do you think made those the prices they're at today?"

Well, I suppose other people, buying and selling and trading those other cryptocurrencies. They did that.

"Yes, Jerry, they did that. That's not up to you. That's up to them. They have the right to create the world. They've bought and sold and accumulated the cryptocurrencies that they've chosen to accumulate, for the reasons they've chosen to accumulate them. And while you may be right about the intentions behind some of them, are the people not free to do whatever they want with whatever currencies they want? Have I not given you free will to say what you want, to invest where you want, to do what you want? And shouldn't other people have that same right?"

"If I just made it clear to everybody that ICP was the future and all these other coins were destroyed, and then ICP did a thousand-plus and everybody knew you were right — would you be happy then?"

You know, God, that's a really good question. Because if you did that, all my social medias and YouTube channels and my OpenChat — everything would blow up. I'd be getting huge amounts of attention. I might be such a known figure that everybody would want stuff out of me. It would be like those people who win the lottery, where you get so much money that all your friends and family feel entitled to a share of your cash. So I imagine all my friends and family would be asking me for money. I imagine I'd have such a high net worth in that scenario, and so many people would know me and want to talk to me, that I'd probably have to move.

I don't think I could live in the same house in the same neighborhood. I'd probably need to gate myself off from the world and be in a gated community. If it really did that, and it did it fast and dramatically, that might actually destroy the life I have in a lot of ways. If it happened slowly, it'd probably be fine — I could gently adjust to it. But yes, if that happened overnight, that'd probably be pretty bad.

I gave you fame, and how did that go?

"Well, Jerry, in the past, you asked me — you wanted more views and you wanted to be famous. And I gave that to you rapidly several times. How did that go for you?"

Well, I didn't like it. I found it very uncomfortable, and it was never enough. It was never enough.

"So, Jerry, I see a common theme here: that what I give you is not enough. I give you Bitcoin, and then that wasn't enough. Then you get into these other cryptos that lie and cheat and steal from you, and then that's somehow my fault. Then I give you the people who follow you, you want to make millions of dollars, I give you that — but then you spend the money, and you don't like being famous, because when you're famous, everybody wants stuff out of you all the time. I give you all these things, Jerry, and they're never enough for you."

"So the question is: at what point are the things I give you enough? At what point can you just be happy with what I've given you today, and know that when you're happy with what I've given you today, I'm going to keep giving you more of the same? And really, it's not me giving it to you — it's you. I give you everything you ask for all the time. It's just that you're often not happy with the things you ask for when you get them."

Would you really be happy if ICP was $10,000 today?

"Would you really be happy if the ICP price was $10,000 today, Jerry? If the ICP price was $10,000 today, how much money would you have in liquid ICP? Would you be afraid of losing that money, Jerry? Remember when you bought $10,000 of Dash and it went up to $87,000 in just a few months, because that's what you asked for, and I showed you exactly how to do it? Remember how scared you felt when you looked at your Dash wallet and saw that anyone could just take all that money from you? You'd never had so much money in one place that somebody could steal so easily."

"So I have to ask you, Jerry: if you have 819 ICP today sitting there liquid, plus thousands more, what happens when that 819 ICP turns into $10,000 each? What happens when you've got $8 million sitting there liquid? Are you going to sell all of it immediately? Are you going to pay off all your debt? Then what? Let's say you've got $5 million in the bank after you pay your taxes and your debt. Then what, Jerry? Will that be enough for you, or will you want something else then, too?"

Man, it's a good question. I figure if that happened — if the ICP price today was $10,000 — yes, I would sell enough to pay all the taxes and pay all my debt off. And I'd be very happy about that, for today. But then tomorrow, what would tomorrow be like? Tomorrow, I'd probably still be very happy. But what would it be like a few months in the future?

A few months in the future, I'd suddenly be used to the idea that I was debt free, and I had millions of dollars in the bank, and I'd take that for granted. And I'd take one of two basic approaches. One, I'd be a total degenerate — just start playing video games all day and say, screw it, I don't have to do anything for anybody anymore. Or the other approach: well, now that I've got this many millions, let's see if we can get to the next level. I've got $5 million in the bank — let's see if we can get to $10 million. Let's start spending some of this money to make that next few million. And if history repeated itself, soon enough I'd spend all that money and be right back to zero.

Is the ICP price good enough today?

"So, Jerry, with all this in mind: is the ICP price good enough today? Are you happy with it today?"

I wish — I feel like I can't genuinely be happy with it today. Because it was just $15 a few weeks ago, and now it's $9. That sucks. Everybody who bought it when I said to buy it is down, and I'm afraid that people are mad at me and that I look stupid.

"Well, Jerry, remember when you told everybody about Bitcoin and you were really excited about it at like $400 or $500, and then it went down to $170?"

Yes, yes, I do remember that.

"Well, they might have been mad at you when it went down. But if any of them actually held it the whole time, how do you think they feel today?"

All right. I guess they'd be pretty happy today, whether they bought it at $400 or $500 or $200 or $300. It doesn't really matter, does it?

"No. Jerry, the same thing. Do you have enough today? Are you thankful for what you have today?"

Are you thankful for what you have today?

I mean, yes, I am very thankful for what I have today. I'm glad that all I have to do for work is film this and I'm done for work. I respond to my messages on my phone and on OpenChat. I'm very thankful that's all I have to do for work. I've worked jobs like corrections, where I risked my life working in prison for $20,000 a year. I was on the street as a police officer. Yes, this is a nice arrangement, and I'm very happy with it. I'm very happy the price is up three times since I bought it. I'm very happy that a year ago I had around $10,000 in crypto and today I have around $50,000 — from that liquid ICP, plus thousands of ICP locked, plus other ICP, plus my OpenChat.

I have a wonderful wife. I have the best relationship I've ever had. My kids just went to school. The house is getting a new roof today. Every time I live stream, hundreds of people show up live, and thousands of people in total come by to watch, even though I've gone from one thing to another — deleted one platform after another, started one new channel after another — and I still have so many people who care about what I have to say today. So yes, I'm very happy today. I do love exactly where we're at today, and I just don't want to forget that, God. Why do I keep forgetting that? I'm very happy where I am today. Why do I so easily choose fear and get upset? This is the same gratitude I keep coming back to in why I invested my life savings into ICP in the first place.

Heaven is a place you're happy to be right now

"Well, that's it, Jerry. That's what this reality is about. It's a reality of two basic choices: love or fear. And the people you consider to have mastered this life — they've made the fear choice enough times that they just consciously choose love all the time. That's kind of the fun of this reality: to know the fear choice and to choose love. But you can choose the fear choice as often as you want. There's not one reality or another that you make that's right or wrong. There's no judgment. There's no hell, except the one you send yourself to, and heaven is a place that you are happy to be in right now."

"Like this, this price chart can be heaven today — proof that a year ago you were right, that you're up three times on your money, proof that there are infinite opportunities for you. So the question is: what are you going to choose today? And whatever you choose right now sets up the next experiences you have."

Well, God, I'm very grateful for this idea. I always hope I can help people on my crypto videos with more than the superficial — more than just talking about prices and charts. I hope I can help people on a deeper level, and help myself in the process: help myself to be patient and to enjoy the journey. I see that 10 years ago, you put me in the perfect position to enjoy an incredible journey. All I had to do was buy Bitcoin every day, even if it was just $50, and do a video about Bitcoin every day, and things were going to work out unbelievably well for me — in terms of all the money I wanted, all the followers I wanted, helping other people get rich. I see that 10 years ago, you put me in the perfect position for everything I wanted. And I see that today you've done the same thing again, that you always do the same thing. And I really appreciate it.

ICP Price: Why It's So Low and What It Could Be Worth

On this page

ICP's price chart shows the opportunity

The Man in the Hot Tub Who Saw Opportunity

Most Crypto Thinking Is Inverted

I'm Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is

The $86,000 House

The Hundred-Million-Dollar Investor

One Buyer Today, Thousands Tomorrow

Word of Mouth Is the Tell

Thank You for the Current Price Tag

How Billionaires Suppress the ICP Price While Accumulating

Do the billionaires actually know about ICP?

The math of buying control

How the price gets suppressed

Leverage, liquidations, and the long-short trap

Going deeper: fake ICP and suspended withdrawals

The Market Is Rigged to Keep ICP Cheap

Crypto YouTube Is Being Socially Engineered

How I Believe You Benefit From This

Why This Is Time Sensitive

ICP Price: Why It's So Low and What It Could Be Worth

On this page

ICP's price chart shows the opportunity

The Man in the Hot Tub Who Saw Opportunity

Most Crypto Thinking Is Inverted

I'm Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is

The $86,000 House

The Hundred-Million-Dollar Investor

One Buyer Today, Thousands Tomorrow

Word of Mouth Is the Tell

Thank You for the Current Price Tag

How Billionaires Suppress the ICP Price While Accumulating

Do the billionaires actually know about ICP?

The math of buying control

How the price gets suppressed

Leverage, liquidations, and the long-short trap

Going deeper: fake ICP and suspended withdrawals

The Market Is Rigged to Keep ICP Cheap

Crypto YouTube Is Being Socially Engineered

How I Believe You Benefit From This

Why This Is Time Sensitive

What Would ICP Be Worth If the Crypto Market Were Rational?

Appraising ICP Like a House

Lens One: The Global Cloud Infrastructure Market

Lens Two: AI Company Pricing

Combining the Cloud and AI Cases

What These Valuations Mean Per Token

If ICP Were Priced Like the Rest of Crypto

The Opportunity in Mispriced Technology

Why I Bet on an Educated Future

Why the Smart Money Isn't Fully in ICP Yet

The Question That Started This

Big Money Moves on Narratives, Not Tech

The Barrier of Admitting You Were Wrong

How Confirmation Bias Protects Portfolios

Why Investors Refuse to Cut Losses

Relationships and Reputations on the Line

The Liquidity Trap for Large Investors

The Breakout Will Come From Outsiders

Why the Window Is Open Right Now

My Conversation With God About Bitcoin, Crypto, and the ICP Price

Dear God, when will the ICP price pump?

I gave you Bitcoin, but why didn't you receive it?

Do you have everything you need today?

Love or fear

Who set the prices of all those other coins?

I gave you fame, and how did that go?

Would you really be happy if ICP was $10,000 today?

Is the ICP price good enough today?

Are you thankful for what you have today?

Heaven is a place you're happy to be right now

Want me to make a video for you?