Why I'm Bullish on the Internet Computer (ICP) Despite the Price

I am still bullish on the Internet Computer (ICP), and as of October 29, 2026, the day of the biggest crypto hack ever, I am more bullish than ever. In Binance Hacked. ICP Is Crashing. I'm More Bullish Than Ever. I react to a suspected $5.8 billion Binance hack while ICP plunges. Centralized exchanges, and even Hyperliquid, are not decentralized where it matters, and hacks like this take the trash out of crypto. My evidence is my website: every page view is a query call on the ICP blockchain and every shirt checkout is an update call, payable in ICP, JBBJ or JERRY. When hackers stole my Google credentials this year, internet identity kept them out of my ICP. The lower the price goes, the more ICP gets burned for cycles. I sold about $9,000 of ICP near $3 and would happily buy it back cheaper. None of that is financial advice.

Before that, on October 20, 2026, I said ICP is the number one privacy coin by technology, as well as the number one AI coin and layer one. In ICP is Now the Top Privacy Coin By Technology I go through Dominic Williams's post about Mensa Protocol's Shielded ICP: every transaction private even from node providers, proofs made in your browser and verified on chain, pure cryptography rather than hardware. Zcash, Monero and Dash do privacy only, could have back doors, and a quantum computer could crack them. On ICP, privacy is one app on a full-stack blockchain, so no exchange will delist ICP over it. It also introduced my physical ICP challenge coin, sold off my site.

I have been bullish since April 2024, when I called ICP the best technology in crypto. My view has not changed: the technology is real, I use it daily, and the price sits far below what the network can do. ICP is the one crypto I believe runs the full stack on chain, from website and backend to data, apps and governance. I trade nothing else, check the price once a month at most, and only ask whether to buy more.

The case started in my April 2024 post, mostly about technology: ICP's research team, on-chain AI, HTTPS outcalls without oracles, storage at about $5 per gigabyte, and cybercrime as the problem the protocol could solve. That is when I first moved my website onto ICP.

By June 2026 the argument had moved to cloud infrastructure. In the altcoin I love after researching thousands I framed ICP as competing with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, with six terabytes of data on chain. In the only crypto worth buying on Coinbase I told people to move their coins off exchanges and lock part of their ICP for governance rewards, then 13.6% for eight years and 7% for one.

My June interview with Blockchain Pill, ICP Will Take Over Crypto, covers how I handle the price cycle: a third locked for two years, a third for a shorter term, and a third liquid. The two worst outcomes are never taking profit and selling everything; taking a little off at each level is healthier.

In July I wrote How I'm Constantly Bullish on ICP Despite the Price: the price and the reality do not match. On my checklist of 90 to 100 capability questions at cryptotechcap.com, ICP answered 97 yes and no other chain passed 33. The weak point: DFINITY can push any protocol upgrade on its own, and the chain probably could not run if the foundation vanished. I do not see DFINITY abusing that power; the Mission 70 vote is my evidence.

In October 2026 I went back to bull posting ICP after a public debate with Bobby O about whether ICP's technology or big tech's distribution will win. I still hold about 4,000 ICP and have sold, swapped or lost about 6,000. In I'm Back to Bull Posting ICP I said I would talk about it more honestly, with a disclaimer, and stop repeating my marketing criticism.

The posts below run newest first, back to the 2024 original. The bull case has stayed the same. The evidence has moved from features to use: my website, my browser games, half my site's payments arriving in ICP, a privacy protocol built on chain, and now a shirt preorder running as update calls while the biggest exchange got hacked.

For the other side, read the bear case for ICP and why I still hold. For how much to stack, see ICP accumulation: how much to stack and why. For a second opinion on your own ICP position, get a personal video review from me at https://jerrybanfield.com/review/.

Nothing on this page is financial advice. It is where I stand, and the posts below show how I got here.

On this page

Every post I have written on this subject is below in full, newest first, each under its own heading.

1. Binance Hacked. ICP Is Crashing. I'm More Bullish Than Ever. (October 29, 2026)
2. ICP is Now the Top Privacy Coin By Technology (October 20, 2026)
3. I'm Back to Bull Posting ICP (October 10, 2026)
4. How I’m Constantly Bullish on ICP Despite the Price (July 17, 2026)
5. ICP Will Take Over Crypto (My Interview with Blockchain Pill) (June 27, 2026)
6. The 1 Altcoin I Love After Researching 1000s: Internet Computer (June 17, 2026)
7. The Only Crypto Worth Buying on Coinbase: Why I Choose ICP (June 17, 2026)
8. Why I'm Bullish on the Internet Computer (ICP) Despite the Price (April 4, 2024)

Binance Hacked. ICP Is Crashing. I'm More Bullish Than Ever.

From my video published October 29, 2026.

We had the biggest crypto hack ever today on Binance, and I think it is awesome for ICP. I am happy to see this fake crypto industry burn. I am sad for all of you who are losing money. I have tens of thousands of dollars of ICP, and the value of ICP is plunging right now, which is good, because I can buy some more of it if I can get some more cash flow coming in on my website. I will sell you the shirt off my back, for real. That shirt is on there. So I am going to go through why, with this crypto hack today, the biggest in history, while the ICP price is plunging, I am more bullish than ever.

The biggest hack in crypto history

If you have not seen it, Binance is investigating a suspected hack for potentially $5.8 billion, and we do not even know what the actual losses are going to add up to. And yet crypto prices are plunging as people ask, oh boy, is this going to be the next FTX? It certainly could be, and we are going to find out. People are panicking and dumping everything, and this just happened. It could go down like it did when FTX went down: things crashed violently, stayed crashed for a while, and then stayed down.

The thing to learn from this, and why I am so bullish on ICP, is that right now crypto is mostly, not totally but mostly, based on centralized exchanges. Even things like Hyperliquid, which tout themselves as decentralized, are not actually decentralized in the most important parts. Some elements of the interface are decentralized, but the thing itself is not. Something like Hyperliquid could have the same kind of thing happen as Binance; it would just look a little different when it went down with them.

Crypto was built, and I got into Bitcoin in 2014, to eliminate the need for companies like Binance to sit there holding billions of dollars of other people's crypto. The centralized exchange model, the model of people just buying coins and leaving them on Coinbase, OKEx, or, God forbid, Crypto.com, is insane. Leaving coins on exchanges defeats the whole purpose of crypto. If you check your Coinbase app every day while they hold on to your coins, you might as well have a bank and just keep money in the bank. What we have crypto for, and what we need, is decentralized alternatives where people control their own assets instead of handing them all over, because you cannot have a big hack like this if people are all controlling their own assets. It is another example of "not your keys, not your crypto," but even that saying does not go far enough with our existing system. That is why I am so bullish about ICP in this environment.

Hacks are how the trash gets taken out

Here, to me, is the signal of what is coming in the future. Crypto is going to get hacked, socially engineered, and wrecked into oblivion, because almost all of crypto is fake, copy-and-paste, me-too blockchains, blockchains doing marketing that has nothing to do with what their real technology can accomplish. Most cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin and Ethereum, are used almost exclusively for trading, speculation, and transferring tokens. Solana and all of them except ICP are, from what I see, nothing more than trading, speculation, and token transfers. They slap narratives like AI agents on top, which I took apart in ICP Is the Only Real AI Coin in Crypto, and they tout transaction hype the way Sui does, but the truth is they are just sending tokens, trading, and speculating. The actual tech on everything besides ICP is trash. So all this trash should get taken out, and these hacks are going to be how the trash gets taken out. When people start getting fearful, asking more questions, and doing more research, hacks like this are a great opportunity for people to discover why ICP is not trash in the biggest scam industry on this planet right now, which is crypto. Although we could argue health care, but maybe that is a different video.

ICP is different, and it is intentionally suppressed across crypto because it is different. Kind of like me and my dating life. You can see my most recent Jerry Banfield dating video, where I literally channel my future wife. Gemini told me it is not going to endorse my unrealistic beliefs. Fine, I will just ask ChatGPT, and it is happy to endorse my very realistic beliefs. Gemini annoyed me worse than any of the haters today. How dare you. Back to the crypto. I have to make this entertaining, because crypto is so boring. Every Jerry Banfield video should be a little unexpected, because you could just ask AI to explain this stuff for you, and it is not going to be unexpected.

An entire business fully on chain

ICP is different, and as proof, you can go to my website. Yes, I will pitch my website, because this is what ICP can do that nothing else can do: build an entire website, an entire business, fully on chain. Why is that important? Because then I am not going to get hacked into oblivion, because my website is sitting on an actual blockchain, which nothing else in crypto can do. Near Protocol has to steal DFINITY's technology to even try to claim it can do anything close to ICP. Aptos wishes it could do anything close to ICP. Internet Computer Protocol is the real deal, and the more the rest of crypto gets destroyed, the more money and the more attention will inevitably go into ICP.

Now, I am not sure how fast that is going to happen. I am not promising timelines or making price predictions anymore. All I know is that I had a bit too much ICP relative to my lack of cash in the bank, so I sold about $9,000 worth of ICP at about $3, and I would be very happy to buy that ICP back for cheaper, which it looks like I am going to get the chance to do. But the technology behind ICP sits there, governments are finding out about it, and entrepreneurs like me are building on it, hosting websites on it, and telling everybody about it. And then AI might start. Claude in the command line interface is already building straight onto the blockchain, and they may upgrade it so you can skip the command line interface entirely. They might put a button in apps going forward that says "deploy to ICP," and it will fire it out. This is theoretical, but it could be happening anytime. It could fire out straight to the blockchain, straight to ICP. So I hope you have bought before that happens, and that is not financial advice. Real technology: only ICP has meaningful technology, and everything else is junk.

ICP is the bunker

This has been a great day for crypto, possibly an organized hack with FUD timing, since the biggest hack in crypto history happened at the same moment. I do not know why I even bother with an outline, because I know this stuff off the top of my head, but I want to make sure I make the points and put them up for you. At the same time, some of these companies are fighting back against things like Robinhood issuing debt-based stock tokens. To me, this is great. Crypto is imploding, and ICP to me is the bunker. It could absolutely go down. But ICP, in my view, is going to be the one thing that has a hard floor, because there is real tech behind it, there are people who know about it, and I imagine there are people who want to buy it cheaply. The further down it goes, the more real reasons there are to buy ICP. The further down everything else goes, the more reasons there are to sell it before it goes to zero.

So ICP is not just a coin. It is the future of the internet, until somebody else comes out with equal or better technology, or better marketing of equal technology. The future of crypto is building the next generation of the internet. That is what we need blockchain for, not for sending transfers. I have been trying hard not to swear for this whole video, for some reason, but forget it: the future of crypto is not just sending tokens, which is the whole argument of Most Cryptocurrencies Don't Need a Token. Mass adoption requires better technology, and you can see that for yourself on my website.

Query calls, update calls, and real business transactions

When you are on my website, you are causing a query transaction on the ICP blockchain. I have not announced this on my main channel yet, so I am slipping it to the ICP audience first. When you are one of the people who buys this Jerry Banfield 2026 Comeback Tour shirt, you can have your name printed on the shirt, limited to the first 50 names. And if you are one of the Founding 50, when you buy one of these shirts, you are generating an update call on the ICP blockchain. That is real technology that actually matters. This other stuff in crypto is not going to last. So when you go shopping, buy a shirt on my website, and you can pay straight in ICP. You can even pay in JBBJ, my meme coin on ICP, which just recently had a nice pump against ICP; I was trying to find the explorer page for it. When you buy something on my website, you are generating a meaningful business transaction on an actual blockchain. That is a huge deal compared to just sending tokens, because there are people all over the world who could use that functionality.

I am so bullish about ICP because ordinary people are not going to worry about exchanges getting hacked, managing complicated wallets, or losing private keys. Ordinary people think crypto is a scam and want nothing to do with it. A lot of ICP's marketing does not even mention the coin. When DFINITY puts out the technology and presents it, they are not talking about the coin. They are not at Davos pitching "buy ICP, price go up." They are talking about the technology. They are showing things, and Dominic Williams was talking about the self-writing internet more than anything else. I was talking about the self-writing internet more than a year ago, and now on my website the self-writing internet is not only a reality, but every day hundreds of people are coming to my site and interacting directly with the ICP blockchain, straight through Google, straight through Safari, straight off of YouTube and X. People are generating update transactions with no knowledge at all about crypto. That is how mass adoption happens, as I laid out in Crypto Mass Adoption Will Only Happen Through ICP: not people sitting on Coinbase hoping the price goes up.

So the more stuff gets hacked into oblivion, the more the rest of these cryptos are proven to be frauds, scammers, and liars who go out and lie about their technology. They cannot be that great at lying, because if I can figure it out, other people can figure it out, and the AI can figure it out. Unfortunately, the masses tend to be ignorant and the people at the top tend to be corrupt. I am trying real hard to be the shepherd. I am trying to help some more of the masses not be so ignorant and some of the people at the top not be so corrupt. ICP is the answer.

Internet identity kept the hackers out

When you have things like internet identity, which I use to sign in, ICP is so strong that when hackers socially engineered me and managed to steal my meme coin on Robinhood, they still could not get into my ICP, even though they were trying. That is what they really wanted. But I had everything locked down on ICP, so even though they stole my Google credentials, they failed to get into my ICP. I told that whole story in I'm Building My Business on ICP After Getting Hacked. How did you like that, buddy? You are not getting my ICP. This is why it matters: if crypto were all built out with people signing in with internet identities, it would be way, way harder for this kind of thing to happen.

If crypto were all built out with people signing in with internet identities, it would be way, way harder, if not nearly impossible, for this kind of thing to happen. So unfortunately, this is going to be a slaughter in crypto. Everyone who does not get this is going to get slaughtered financially, and hopefully that will not lead anyone to actual slaughter. I realize that when your finances are not going well, you can get some bad thoughts. To me, ICP is the answer.

The fire sale

I do not worry when I see the ICP price dumping as the whole rest of the market dumps. I see the ICP price dumping as the fire sale. In Call of Duty Zombies, you hit that fire sale and the box gives you the guns you want for $10 instead of $950. It is a great deal. ICP at less than $2.50 is an awesome deal, and I hope it goes down further. I want to get back up to $10,000 of ICP, plus have several thousand dollars of JBBJ, plus several thousand dollars of JERRY, and actually pay my bills. The problem is that without my bills paid, I am going to have to borrow money on credit cards to do any of that.

The opportunity here is to give people the convenience of traditional apps with less dependence on centralized infrastructure. This is what crypto is for. Obviously ICP does not eliminate every security risk, but it eliminates a whole bunch of them. So when the ICP price is crashing and the tech still works, this is a great chance for me to not give you financial advice. I sold some ICP at $3, and I swear, if it goes up to $10 right now, I am going to lose my mind all over my house. But now it is down below $2.50, and I am like, good, I will rebuy some and not be such a baby because DFINITY will not pay me what I am worth. I will build my own business. I am going to sell some t-shirts. So go grab this t-shirt. You can have your name on the front of the shirt, or your project, or whatever you want, and I am going to buy these and wear them all over town.

Timber

I think most of crypto is going to zero. Even Bitcoin is an utter junk coin at this point, which I argued back in Bitcoin Is a Lie, Crypto Is Fraud, and ICP Is Real. Ethereum has all these L2s and whatnot, but it is a house of cards. It is all going down, and I am yelling timber. But the lower ICP goes, the more the people who know about it and are on the inside are going to stockpile it. The lower the price goes, the more real technology gets adopted, and the more you can make money. The more the price of ICP goes down, the more ICP you have to burn to get cycles, and that means the more real adoption there is, the more ICP gets burned. It is just awesome, and it is a big part of why I wrote ICP Doesn't Need Crypto Retail to Explode in Price.

And yes, my heart goes out to you if your portfolio got hit today, right in the aorta. If you got wrecked today on your crypto portfolio, this is a chance to reevaluate things and YOLO into the JERRY and JBBJ meme coins. Cut that. This is a chance to look at why you are holding coins on centralized exchanges when they could get hacked and you could go to zero overnight. It is your fault if you know this information, you have crypto sitting on a centralized exchange, and you lose it. You were warned. That is why all my ICP is sitting on ICP. None of it is sitting on Coinbase, which is the same thing I told you in Sell Your Whole Crypto Portfolio for ICP. The world does not need more speculative tokens, like my meme coins. Hey, shut up. The world needs infrastructure that actually solves problems.

Stuck on ICP, stuck with two meme coins

I am not bullish on ICP because Binance got hacked. I am bullish because, in my view, the rest of this is going to zero, all of crypto. I hate the rest of crypto, if I have not made that obvious yet. Except my meme coins are cool. But the rest of crypto disgusts me. I even regret my meme coins to some degree; they are a distraction. I have lost thousands of dollars on my JERRY meme coin already, and I made a little bit on JBBJ at least. But I am just stuck holding those and stuck shilling those at this point so I do not look like a jerk. I ran out of bullets like a jerk. I am stuck. I have got these coins on my website, which is cool, but even with my own meme coins, I am just kind of stuck with them now. I cannot abandon them without being a jerk. And ICP's tech, I cannot abandon that either, not without some absolutely terrible alternative. There is nowhere else I can build a business like what I can do on ICP. I am stuck on ICP at this point. I am stuck on ICP, and I am stuck with my two meme coins.

Can't steal my joy

Sorry if you lost money on Binance. I lost $20,000 earlier this year, so I feel you; I know how it is. And it did not ruin my day. A woman I dated sent me a song one day, "Can't Steal My Joy," and I was thinking about that. I lost $20,000 when the hackers dumped the whole JERRY meme coin on the community. It took a while to fix that up, and the price is still in the gutter. But I remember that day thinking of that song, "You Can't Steal My Joy." I hope your crypto price going down never steals your joy. That is why Jerry Banfield is here, to help you find that joy in yourself.

So be a legend. Get on my shirt. You can have your name on my shirt, as one of the Founding 50, or as one of the Founding Five if you are a real baller. You can pay with ICP, and you can even pay with JBBJ or JERRY and get 10% off. How cool is that? This functionality on ICP is so quick. Did half this video turn into a sales pitch? I hope not. I was hoping this was entertainment. But look at this functionality. Wow, we really degenerated into comedy on this one. That is why you have to make videos these days that AI could not just make. The AI is not going to get this worked up about JBBJ and crypto payments. That is what is special about my videos. Look how cool this is: I have it set up right now so that if you pay with JBBJ, you get the discount. This whole thing was a JBBJ pitch. How cool is this? Set up to take payments with a discount. This is amazing technology, and Binance getting hacked is not going to take this technology down.

Something real in crypto

The more the rest of crypto is exposed as fraud, the more people are going to ask, is there anything real in crypto? And they are going to find Jerry Banfield and say, oh, thank God, something is real in crypto. Then ICP is going to go up a lot, and I will be a millionaire instead of being $200,000 in debt. It is going to be real good. I will bring my woman over from South Africa. I am going to be straight balling, popping kids out all over the place. This is my main channel now; it actually gets more views and more watch time than my other channel. But thank you to those of you on the ICP channel who got the foundation laid for this, and if you want to go back through all of it, it is in my ICP Crypto playlist. This channel may actually have gotten me a woman out of it. How about that?

This has been entertainment, and I really appreciate you watching. "Pop your head up!" I used to say that when I sniped people in Call of Duty Warzone. Nobody cares, Jerry. This is comedy entertainment. If you ever had to play my videos in court, they would say nobody would seriously think this was financial advice. Look at this guy. I am just trying to be friendly, just trying to entertain you, because so much crypto content is boring. Bye.

ICP is Now the Top Privacy Coin By Technology

From my video published October 20, 2026.

The Internet Computer Protocol is now the number one privacy protocol out there, because it is the only crypto where you can build full stack. You can build an entire website directly on the blockchain and make everything cryptographically safe and provable. You don't have the situation you can run into with other coins like Zcash, Monero (XMR) or Dash, where you could potentially have back doors. Here is one of the most amazing things happening with privacy on ICP right now. So if you're a big fan of Zcash, Monero or any of these other privacy coins, ICP is the future of privacy. I made the same case from a different angle in Monero (XMR) vs ICP: Why I Choose Internet Computer.

Here is Dominic Williams, to me the number one person worth listening to in crypto, the founder of DFINITY, who built the most advanced tech in crypto. My website at jerrybanfield.com is hosted directly on the ICP blockchain. Dominic wrote that this illustrates how you can build true cryptographic privacy on top of the Internet Computer. There are lots of privacy narrative protocols these days where operators have back doors, or which rely on weaker hardware based privacy, trusted execution environments (TEEs). Here you have real performance and privacy. With many of the old privacy protocols you are running a risk, especially that quantum computers can crack them in the future, plus the back doors.

Shielded ICP from Mensa Protocol

What you've got on the Internet Computer now is that Mensa Protocol has built what they are calling Shielded ICP. Every transaction is private, even from the node providers running the network. Your send history, balance and activity stay protected. They built it to go beyond SEV's limits using pure cryptography, so the proofs are generated in your browser and verified on chain. Nobody else can do this level of technology; it takes the Internet Computer Protocol's blockchain and computing power.

Everything on the chain itself looks like noise, but you can send privately and then you can withdraw. When you withdraw, it goes back to being public, but you can put ICP in from one address and take it out to another address with privacy. People are asking questions about this, and you can look on GitHub where they explain the basis for their privacy tech: research into fully homomorphic encryption and split signing, which was recently presented at the IEEE conference and is slated for public use next month. There's plenty of information out there on it. Pierre, the chief business officer at DFINITY, is checking it out.

One of the questions people asked is how this differs from a mixer or Tornado. The answer: first, creating privacy tools is not illegal. It is how people choose to use them. There are lots of reasons you could want private transactions. And it only takes about four or five seconds on an old laptop to do the cryptographic proof of privacy. It's not illegal, which is amazing (I said that several times). They've been working on this for quite a while, not something launched overnight, and they are building other things on here as well. I covered whether the base layer itself can be trusted in ICP Security: Can the Internet Computer Be Hacked?

One use case after another, including my own website

This is an example of how ICP's technology is a huge deal, and you're seeing one use case for it after another. It's privacy. It's governments wanting sovereign messaging apps. It's entrepreneurs like me saying, look, I'm tired of getting ripped off by third parties, and I'm tired of sending people to eight different third party platforms. I told that whole story in I'm Building My Business on ICP After Getting Ripped Off. So now on jerrybanfield.com I have this game, Top Jerry Banfield Fan. I'm grateful two people are competing for the top spot in it right now. The questions are so hard that I've only gotten 86 of them right myself. You can pay for anything on my website with ICP. That's just my website, one use case, a content creator building out everything on chain.

I also have this Internet Computer Protocol coin now that I just created, a physical challenge coin. This is the first coin ever. You can buy it and get it shipped to you with free shipping anywhere in the US, and a little extra for international. You can buy this straight off my website. That's just one single function I've built as an entrepreneur. Then you've got Mensa Protocol over here building Shielded ICP. They've spent four plus years building on the network, and it's so much easier to build on the network now. I'm grateful Dominic gave them a shout out.

So this is ICP: unique technology solving tons of real problems. We're just seeing the beginnings of the use cases, with entrepreneurs like me putting an entire business system on a website, and Mensa Protocol building an entire privacy protocol directly on here. What you should think about too is that anyone else could come along and build their own privacy protocol. In fact, with AI it'll probably be easier now that this is already out there for somebody else to just build their own privacy protocol if they wanted to. I could probably work this into what I'm doing somehow if I wanted to. This will inspire more and more people to build on here, as I laid out in why crypto mass adoption only comes through ICP.

Number one in privacy, AI and layer-one tech, but not in marketing

So if you love privacy coins like Zcash or Monero, the Internet Computer Protocol is definitely worth researching. To me, this is the future: being able to have privacy built into a much bigger blockchain and ecosystem, instead of individual coins with developers you can't see behind the scenes and entire blockchains that might have back doors. The future of privacy is being able to build directly on chain, provably private applications which then anybody can just use and integrate with ICP. And what's nice is that it's very unlikely you're going to have ICP delisted from exchanges over this privacy protocol. That's what's beautiful. These other privacy coins, privacy is all they do, and that makes them very vulnerable.

I say ICP right now is the number one privacy coin on the market. It's the number one AI coin on the market, as I argued in ICP Is the Only Real AI Coin in Crypto. It's the number one blockchain infrastructure layer one on the market. It's number one in almost everything that's important technologically, which is why I believe ICP Is Taking On the Entire Tech Industry. The one thing it's not number one in is marketing. That's why I'm out here talking about it, and why I Can't Stop Marketing ICP. I'm doing this as part of my full time living as a YouTuber, hoping to sell a game or two again today, or a product on my website, to pay for videos like this. You can find more of them in my ICP Crypto playlist. I've got an entire social network built on my website too: a chat community, so I don't need my own Discord, and direct messages. I've built all of this on my website, and I appreciate you visiting there and supporting me.

I'm grateful to Mensa Protocol (I fumbled the pronunciation a few times before landing on it) for building this on chain. I'm excited to see who uses it, and every one of these use cases is another chance for people to be buying ICP, swapping it, trading it and holding it. That's my opinion as someone who went all in on ICP, not financial advice. I hope to see you on jerrybanfield.com soon.

I'm Back to Bull Posting ICP

From my video published October 10, 2026.

Guess who's back again, Jerry's back, tell some men, guess who's back. All right, let me just skip to the point. I'm going to start bull posting ICP again, because I have to say Bobby O made an incredibly supportive post, and at this point I've sold, swapped, or lost 6,000 of my ICP. I put about 3,000 of my ICP into cash in the bank, which I think is a good idea when you've got as much debt as I've got right now: 90k in credit cards and a hundred and some thousand in business loans, about 220k total. I talk about that on my main Jerry Banfield channel. But I'm going back to bull posting ICP, and I have to give credit first to Bobby O. Well, first to Blockchain Pill, who tried to encourage me to relax heavily before all this. I didn't relax, and I went off on DFINITY about the marketing, as I shared in I Can't Stop Marketing ICP (Even If I Want To). The main thing I would not do again is repeat my point so many times. I think I'm in a better position now to talk about ICP honestly and to bull post it with some level of a disclaimer, basically.

At this point I'm still holding 4,000 ICP. I've got 300 locked up, plus 700-some in maturity, plus my website runs on ICP every day. And that website has all the information about ICP. Everything I have on ICP, including how to schedule a call with me about it, lives on one page of my website. None of this is financial advice, by the way; it's just where I stand.

Grateful for Bobby O and Blockchain Pill

I'm really grateful to Bobby O and Blockchain Pill for stepping up and supporting me when I really needed it. Blockchain Pill supported me a lot when he saw I was getting upset with the marketing. He was like, easy buddy, easy, just relax, be patient, take it easy. I covered how he stood up for creators in Blockchain Pill: ICP Under Attack and Dfinity Needs to Support Their Content Creators. And Bobby O has been extremely supportive after the fact, even while I've been putting out videos debating him. To me that says a lot about Bobby O and Alex. That really shows their character. Did the two of them start dumping all over me? No. And I really appreciate that. When things are challenging, you find out who your real friends are. When bottles are popping and Jerry's making it rain in the VIP, everybody's your friend for that time. Bobby's post really pushed me over the top. I'd already been leaning in this direction, but this is what pushed me over.

To me, the dumbest thing that could possibly happen is if, after years of bull posting ICP constantly, the technology did take off and the price did pump and I missed it. That would be the stupidest scenario I could possibly imagine. Like if, for some reason, as I pointed out in previous videos, big tech comes out with their own solution, which there's no evidence of currently. That doesn't mean it's not going to happen or that it's not possible; it's just not probable. The leap of faith on the downside is that big tech is going to come out with something like this, but technology like this can be very difficult to build. And the leap of faith on ICP is that distribution is going to get accounted for.

My debate with Bobby O on tech versus distribution

When I read the post Bobby made today, he had just posted it after I debated him on another post. He made a different post where I debated him earlier today, and this is pretty amazing. I also love the post he made about Sui. That was hilarious and extremely accurate, like something everybody needs to see. So here's what happened. I made a video talking about how big tech probably is trying to upgrade their infrastructure and come up with their own things that have something in common with ICP, but not necessarily the same thing. I went deeper on that question in ICP Could Rebuild the Internet—and Most People Would Never Know. I debated him on it, he responded to it, and his response was very intelligent. Yes, I'm comparing two things that are theoretical. ICP has the tech advantage, and big tech has the distribution advantage. The theoretical tech solution from big tech doesn't exist yet, and ICP's theoretical distribution arguably has more evidence for its possibility at this point. So we had a respectful debate there.

Then, just a little while after that, he posted a post on his website. I read it, and it said that if Jerry went back to bull posting, he would instantly become the main onboarder, especially if the price popped. My take is that I might as well just bull post the entire time before the price pops, while the price is in the dumps like it has been for what feels like forever now, but really has only been a little over a year. He said this is the most likely outcome, and I agree, this is the most likely outcome. So let's cut to the chase and stop the drama. And yes, I am a wild card. At the same time, we are super early. If this works out the way we hope it will, and the way the tech should go, then I love this, and in the future nobody will care a lot if you don't like Jerry. Because when people who are new come into ICP, they tend to respond pretty positively to me. Plus I have other channels building followers over there, and that post was on my vlogs channel. So my ICP channel at this point is actually not my biggest channel anymore, and it hasn't been for a long time, which has been great.

I read Bobby's post and I thought, this is my reply. I said, thank you, Bobby. This makes me want to go back right away to bull posting, since ICP is my top investment. I have two meme coins, but I've gotten wrecked. I lost a thousand dollars on my Jerry meme coin on Robinhood in the last few days, and I told that whole story in I Sold 1,000 ICP for JERRY on Robinhood. And I lost thousands of dollars from getting hacked. If I had left everything on ICP, they wouldn't have been able to hack me, because my Internet Identity was protected with much stronger measures than my MetaMask wallet was. And I'm so glad I did not connect my Google account as a recovery email, or they would have stolen my ICP account also.

James Allen said DFINITY should just pay me

Bobby also was talking about community leaders. What's even more amazing is that, and it makes sense because Bobby has been a member of this community since before I was, at the same time James Allen made a video saying that DFINITY should just pay me. That's the critical mass we've reached. I almost forgot that. Sorry, James, but James made a video that was very important to this whole thing also. James Allen was one of the top ICP creators before, and I reacted to his exit in James Allen Quit ICP: My Reaction After Doing The Same in 2024. He just made this video where he said, DFINITY, please pay Jerry Banfield. And this video came right when I needed it. I saw it right after tennis yesterday.

He said three things. One, DFINITY, you're making it look ridiculous not paying Jerry Banfield and your other top creators. Either set it up through the network or whatever, but this is looking ridiculous. That's what he said: it's looking ridiculous, just pay people. That's how marketing works. Take care of your people. These are your community leaders, whether you want them or not, so take care of your community leaders. And I felt very affirmed by that.

Two, he said, Jerry, you need to start being consistent. He said it a little more harshly than that, but his point was, you need to be consistent. And for most of the last three years I have been consistently bull posting ICP, except for those nine months where I deleted everything, and for the last month where I kind of went off on all the negatives on ICP. For the rest of that time, I've posted thousands of videos that were promoting ICP: hundreds that were directly promoting ICP, and hundreds more, maybe close to a thousand more, that were indirectly promoting ICP by dumping on other coins. It's like all of this just came together. I watched his video yesterday.

Oh, and three, James called out the ICP community in the video. It's similar to what Bobby did, except James was a little more harsh. He's like, y'all are cowards. You should support this man who has done so much to build up and lead this community, and you should support him getting compensated so he can be here and do what he needs to do for all of you. That's paraphrasing what he said, but he called out the community like, y'all are cowards, y'all are being ridiculous, y'all look like spoiled brats in this community. And I left feeling very validated.

A critical mass of support

Then I read Bobby's post today, and Blockchain Pill has remained supportive the whole time. Blockchain Pill especially was like, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. If you're in the metric system, maybe a hundred milligrams of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure. I've been talking with this woman in South Africa and she's got me thinking in the metric system. I read Bobby's post and it was just like a critical mass tonight.

And yeah, my bad posts are not going to have an impact on my long-term potential success. If anything, my reach hit record levels, and certainly record levels of people posting against me. But to be fair, I've had a lot of patience and understanding with many of you. I've certainly been hurt, but I've also tried not to read what you've written. So if you posted a bunch of critique of me, at this point I've never read it. I probably have no idea. And how had I not liked Bobby's post yet? Because I'm on a second account right now. This is my crypto account, so I certainly liked and shared the post from this account.

So at this point, yeah, the dumbest thing would be to stop. You could even call it the sunk cost fallacy psychologically. It's like, I've put so much into ICP, I'm not going to stop right now. It's not desperate enough. In terms of what's happening with ICP in the background, it's not desperate enough to stop. Things are progressing, like with the UNDP partnership, the Pakistan partnership, and the Chatty app. And at this point the benefit is that I have diversified, where my Crypto Reviews channel is not just going to shill ICP constantly. It is going to talk about reviewing other coins, MaxFi, my Jerry meme coin. And I've gotten back into JBBJ. I have to say the JBBJ holders have been incredible. JBBJ is my meme coin, the first meme coin I created, and it has certainly had some rough times. JBBJ was 120,000 JBBJ to one ICP back when ICP's price was way higher, so the JBBJ price over the long term tells its own story, which I'll get into next.

Over the last year or so since I launched JBBJ, yes, it did pump. At the highest it ran up to the point where one ICP would only buy you about 30,000 JBBJ. But back when I was looking at buying and had just launched JBBJ, the price was one ICP to 120,000 JBBJ. So JBBJ has really been through hell with me quitting on the meme coin, which I wrote about in I Tried Trading Meme Coins and It Was Horrible, Even on ICP, and the people who have held on to it have been amazing. I actually wonder if somebody at DFINITY might have grabbed some of it, because the top account holds 29 percent and has not done anything with it since they scooped it up. Some people actually sold recently after getting upset with me. But I now have five percent of the JBBJ, and I have a buy order in for 300 more ICP worth of it in case anybody tries to sell. I've been sitting there catching sell orders with my buys on this for several weeks now.

This is kind of amazing, how all of this happened. I'm super grateful for all of you who've stuck with me through this. I mean, I've lost a few hundred followers, maybe, out of the thousands I have. And by going off so much about marketing and about content creators, I may have missed out on the opportunity to get some kind of support from DFINITY. That's okay. I have a lot of other opportunities.

My ICP channel is one sixth of what I do now

My ICP channel is one sixth of the YouTube channels I have. My main channel has 10,000 watch hours on it. What has happened on my main channel has just been going off. That channel has passed and then doubled and tripled the ICP channel. It has made much more money than the ICP channel, the watch hours are much higher, and the growth is much faster. It's reaching a much bigger audience. But I intend to continue bull posting ICP, and I feel like I can do it much more honestly now, after a month of posts like Going All In on ICP Was the WORST Mistake I've Made in Crypto. I feel like I had the conversation we needed to have, and it's time to stop being hurt that Pierre unfollowed me, which I covered in Pierre Unfollows Me, Signals Lack of DFINITY Support for Marketing ICP. It's totally reasonable when you look at it, and after all, he only unfollowed me because he did follow me before. So that was nice. Pierre followed me, and Dominic Williams was following me on my X account before I deleted it.

Giving DFINITY credit for the $25,000 sponsorship

DFINITY has certainly appreciated my efforts, and they did pay me $25,000 after all at the beginning of 2024, which seems like a long time ago now. But that is the largest sponsorship I have ever received in the history of making 10,000-plus videos, and it came from DFINITY. So DFINITY, I will acknowledge that. I should have been saying that in all of my videos: they did give me $25,000 at the beginning of 2024, right before they ended the community grants program not long after. They have financially supported my channel directly via sponsorship more than anybody else has in all the years since I started on YouTube in 2011.

Going forward, I'm going to continue bull posting ICP, and I will acknowledge the debate Bobby and I had. I will acknowledge the distribution and the marketing more. I am optimistic, now that I've had this conversation, that DFINITY is going to somehow put systems in place to do some marketing that could bring better results than we've seen with things like the ICP hubs in the past, and more consistent support than we've seen with community grants. I laid out my ideas for that in ICP: We Need Better Marketing and It's Not All Up To Dfinity.

I use ICP every day and get paid in it

I build my website on ICP every day, as I explained in I'm Building My Business on ICP After Getting Hacked. I use the tech every day myself, and I know how good it is. I take payments in ICP. About half the payments on my website have come in ICP. I've got a new monetization dashboard straight on my website, which is cool: you can see the exact sales I've got, and the largest single payment came through ICP, which is awesome, because I love getting payments in crypto. Lots of the payments have come in crypto.

So I'm going back to focusing on my channels and not flipping out. I see it the same way with loved ones. At some point you do need to step up and tell loved ones if they're an alcoholic, a drug addict, etc. At some point it becomes enabling not to say what needs to be said. But I've said what needs to be said about the marketing. Same thing with loved ones: I've found it makes sense to tell somebody once, hey, I think you have a problem with alcohol, drugs, etc., you should go get help with that. But saying it over and over again gets to be cruel. So I've said what I need to say about the marketing. Everyone knows how I feel, that I'd love to see some amazing marketing here. I've already given my ideas on how to do that. I'm going to go back and put my head down serving this community, and whoever wants to support me, that's great. I have enough support in my life. I'll accept whatever pain comes with staying in the ICP community.

Dominic Williams is the number one voice in crypto to me

Dominic Williams: I'm so excited to get back to covering more of Dominic's posts, which I was kind of boycotting for a while. To me, Dominic is the number one voice to listen to in crypto in terms of somebody who has technical expertise, is in the middle of the industry, and has been doing this since I was in college or a little bit after I was in college. He's been doing this for a long time, and I've been doing what I do for a long time after that. Dominic is the one person in crypto who really changed how I thought about crypto and helped me see that the technology does matter. Dominic knows who I am, for better or worse. Dominic followed me, and Pierre supported, followed, and liked my posts for a while, so I'm really grateful. And I'm going to get back to work.

I love y'all. Thank you for going through this trial by fire with me, ICP community, and for having this showdown about marketing. And I'm not really creating videos for free either, because you all support me. I get paid from YouTube, and the only reason that YouTube channel has these analytics is because a bunch of you came over when the channel was tiny. I have an X account too that has gotten followers from the crypto community. You all started this channel. It wouldn't have gotten where it's at so far without you, and every video along the way is in my ICP Crypto playlist. So I'm going to get back to work, and I'll see you soon. Blockchain Pill, the MaxFi team, Bobby O, James Allen: love y'all, thank you. And to each of you I haven't named by name, come pop into my live streams and say hello so I can thank you there in person.

How I’m Constantly Bullish on ICP Despite the Price

From my video published July 17, 2026.

Brilliant Investing Is Finding the Mismatch

Here's how I'm constantly bullish on the Internet Computer Protocol as the number one crypto in my mind, especially based on technology, despite the price action. I know this is really difficult for a lot of you, because you look at the price and you think that the price invalidates everything else. But the most important thing I can tell you here — and this is not financial advice — is that brilliant investing, as I've come to see it, is figuring out where the numbers, especially the price, don't match the reality. Let that sink in for a minute. Brilliant investing is figuring out where the price does not match the reality.

With everything else besides ICP in crypto, the price does not match the reality because the prices are too high. Bitcoin's price is too high. Ethereum's price is too high. Solana and XRP are too high. XRP, Tron, Cardano, and all these other ones — their prices are all too high for the reality of what they can do. Meanwhile, ICP's price is too low for the reality of what it can do, as I show consistently now on my cryptotechcap.com website, where I run through 90 to 100 yes-or-no questions asking what your blockchain can do. Nobody answers more than 33 yes until you get to ICP, which answers 97 yes.

I've been really enjoying Zero2Hero's videos recently about the Swiss subnet and the interviews with the guy behind it. He literally said there's a large entity that should be getting launched within the next year or so, and that there are several medium to smaller ones — one is already live, and several more are about to go live. It takes about a year for a government, a big hospital, or an enterprise to do everything they need to do to onboard, even when they do understand the technology and are ready for it.

Am I broke and in debt? Well, I have debt, but I'm not broke. I have wealth for everything I want every day. The beautiful thing about ICP is that the price doesn't match its reality, and I stay bullish every day because I use it every day.

I Use the Tech Myself Every Day

I have cryptotechcap.com hosted on ICP. My new Jerry Banfield games platform, where I have browser games you can just jump in and start playing, is hosted directly on the blockchain. People used to talk about how developer-unfriendly ICP was — that's fixed now. I used Claude and made a game, and it's a fully on-chain game that you can play one hundred percent for free in your browser. Then, on top of that, I can do microtransactions.

My friend got so excited when I texted him the game — and he doesn't do anything in crypto at all. He beat me in it: he got to seven minutes. See if you can last seven minutes in this game. I've not been able to get past five minutes and thirty seconds. It gets real difficult at around five minutes, when all the mobs start spawning and firing stuff at you. And this is built directly on the ICP blockchain — I built it with Claude and uploaded it straight to the blockchain.

Now, why is that special? This is how I stay bullish: I'm using the tech myself. There's no other blockchain you can build this on. This is why the rest of the prices are inflated, and this is why ICP is so undervalued — because, according to the Swiss subnet interviews, there's a large entity that will be onboarding, and it just takes about a year for a government, a big hospital, or an enterprise to complete everything to onboard. There are three games total on the platform, all of them built with Claude and dropped on the ICP blockchain. And this is just me as a solopreneur — this is not me as a big business or something. It is so genuinely useful.

The opportunity is seeing that the price is the opportunity, whereas almost everybody else is just following the price. Looking at the price does not show you the opportunity. You will only see the opportunity by finding the mismatch between the price and the reality. And only ICP, to me, in crypto has a big mismatch between the price and the reality — at least in my opinion, and at least on the upside.

Deep Research with AI and My Community

I'm doing some incredible deep research right now with AI. I use ChatGPT Pro with an intelligent prompt that I gave it based on being in crypto for twelve years. It cranked out a 76-page document on all kinds of critical issues that Bitcoin is going to face, and a 56-page document on all the very problematic things you will face on Ethereum. Both of those are in my Skool community, and I'd love your feedback on an idea: I'm thinking of reducing the cost of the community and offering membership at a basic level without calls included, because I loved the community we used to have on OpenChat. Let me know if you think that would be a good idea. Then if you wanted a one-on-one call with me, you could just schedule that separately instead of the two being bundled together. I encourage you to start using the ICP technology every day.

Here's what's great in that community: yesterday I got a direct message from somebody who was panicking because they saw that Sonic got — well, the word was "hacked." To me, that looked like an inside job. It didn't look like something that happened organically — although, is hacking something that ever really happens organically?

Playing my own game again reminded me where it gets difficult: these mailboxes start firing envelopes at you once things build momentum. I think I need to make the weapons cooldown faster, so you can just be going guns blazing hella fast off the cooldown — that's probably the path I should have taken before. And the weapon kills off the envelopes too, which is great.

I'm Not Looking at Price Charts — I'm Living My Life

This is how I'm bullish: I'm not looking at a price chart today. I don't put any time into looking at price charts. Instead, I went out on the most incredible date last night. If you want a real heartfelt story — I'm over here trying not to cry on an ICP video — I met the most amazing woman at yoga earlier this week. She's at work right now, and oh my God, we had such an amazing date last night. I even canceled the matchmaking date I was supposed to be having.

On Jerry Banfield games, what I'm going to start doing is playing these blockchain games I've created, and then I'll probably advertise them and do inspirational videos and all of that off the ICP blockchain. The setup is just so easy.

The one thing you've got to be careful about is who you listen to, because almost everybody else does not know what the hell they're talking about. Almost everybody else is just taking in a bunch of junk information, and they're saying anything to get paid. You've got to be really careful in life about who you listen to. It's just like eating: I put that recent video out saying the carnivore diet is trash — at least from everything I can find, and that's my opinion, not medical advice. I eat whole plant foods because I'm really careful what I put in my body.

With dating, I've taken the same approach. I need to be really careful who I date, which has made dating in the short term difficult most of the time, because it's a string of "I'm not going to date you." But then when I meet the right woman, it's "I've got to date you, and I will do anything to date you — and I'm not going to do anything besides date you." I told the woman last night: look, I have other women I'm talking to, and I have other dates. If you're down to just date each other, we don't have to do anything besides hold hands right now — I'm not trying to go that direction — but I'm happy to just focus on you. That sounded good to her, so I don't need a label on it at this point. And I'm taking that same approach with crypto.

Meanwhile, my friend actually got to seven and a half minutes in that game, so I've got to keep up with him — at least get to what he got to.

Stop Looking at the Price

I would encourage most of you: do not look at the price. I end up seeing the price lots of times because I'm posting videos on X and tagging ICP, but when I was not creating crypto content, I did not look at the price most days. There were months — maybe a whole month would go by — where I had no idea what the ICP price was. If you want to remain bullish, make sure your investment thesis is correct. If you have ChatGPT Pro, have it do research on ICP and look deeper and deeper at the investment case. What you need to do is stop looking at price, stop listening to anyone who talks about price, and stop talking price charts. The price is not something you can control, and it's not something you can research.

What you can control is what a guy who talked to me yesterday is doing. He said, "I want to use Claude like you do and build stuff on ICP." I told him exactly how to do that, and I told him that's what you should be doing: build something on ICP, build a website on ICP, learn how to actually use ICP. Put time into using the tech. Don't put time into the price. If you're not creating content on ICP, there's no reason you need to see the price at all.

One thing I don't do is check the Coinbase app. How many of you are checking the Coinbase app? Do not use the Coinbase app. Stop looking at coin prices. And for me, I've stopped trading anything besides ICP — I know that sounds like financial advice, but it's not; it's simply what I do. Oh, and I think I'm going to beat my friend's record after all.

Check the Price Once a Month at Most

If you want to be happy, stop looking at the ICP price. If you want to be happy, quit thinking about it and maybe check the price once a month. And here's the thing: when you check the price, the only decision to make is, do I want to buy some more or not? Once a month, I decide whether I want to buy some more ICP or not. Right now, in my opinion, is the time to accumulate. I literally say thank you for this low price. This low price, to me, is not a tragedy — it's the opportunity itself.

While I was writing all this out in my head, I was also playing my own game, and — oh, come on, let's go — eight minutes! I beat my friend's record. The Jerry Banfield Family community would be a perfect place to post if you beat the leaderboard — hell yeah, maybe I'll even get a leaderboard built into the game. I did beat his record, though to be fair, he's playing on mobile.

This is how I stay bullish: I'm just playing this game in my browser, and it's hosted on the ICP blockchain. That's a big deal, because trying to host a game and then immediately monetize it would be difficult without ICP. What the tech can do matters. Infrastructure matters.

What's the Simple Way to Explain ICP?

Somebody asked, what's the simple way you'd explain ICP? It's the future of the internet — the infrastructure. Now, the problem is there are a lot of cryptos that go around lying about that. They go around saying they're the future of the internet, but they don't have the tech to back it up, and that's pointless. That's what a lot of these coins are doing. I watched Bobby O's Bittensor TAO review, where the Bittensor TAO guy goes around calling Bittensor TAO — and this is his word — the third big innovation after the internet and Bitcoin. He really said that: Bittensor TAO, the third big innovation after Bitcoin and the internet. To me, that is blatant lying. It is minor innovation at best. He talks in all these big analogies, but you never hear him nail down the details of any of it, because as soon as you ask for the details, it falls apart and it's a mess.

ICP is the truth. If you put Bittensor TAO and ICP side by side, Bittensor TAO is obviously a minor technical innovation that is practically meaningless going forward — all hype, no substance. Next to ICP, that becomes obvious. But if you don't understand ICP, and all you do is look at price charts and listen to people who have every incentive to misdirect you — to sell you their token, to make up anything to get you to buy what they're invested in — then you can be confused. So to me, one of the most precious things is finding somebody you can listen to who has integrity, who cares more about you than about how much of a paycheck you can be, and who is willing to find the truth, tell it to you, and make it simple.

The genius thing I've done in my crypto journey as a YouTuber is that I made the truth simple. Because I had all these one-on-one calls with people, I realized I needed to simplify my message. If I'm covering 50 different crypto coins a day, that's too complicated for my audience — my audience can't handle researching 50 cryptos and trying to tell them apart. The truth should be simple, and the truth, as I see it, is that there's one crypto that's not faking it, that has incredible technology, and everything else in crypto is basically crap. That simplification was the brilliant thing I did, and it came directly out of those calls. If you want to go deeper with me on that, you can schedule a one-on-one call with me directly.

The Truth Doesn't Change Day to Day

Meanwhile, in my game, I just passed ten minutes — we hit the next level — though I was about out of health. And here is why I stay bullish on a day-to-day basis: the truth doesn't change. The truth that ICP is the best tech in crypto by far does not change on a day-to-day basis. It doesn't change based on whether the price moves. It doesn't change based on some dishonest, naive, money-chasing, view-chasing YouTuber or X poster. If something is true, it doesn't matter how many people say it's false. Think back to when flying was new: a little over a hundred years ago, there were a lot of people saying flying was impossible, and it didn't matter how many people said flying was impossible, because today you can just get in an airplane. In the same way, it doesn't matter how many people go around saying that the tech doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how many people go around saying that ICP has no adoption, because I literally just loaded a website off the ICP blockchain and played a game running on the ICP blockchain. Somebody saying ICP has no adoption is either uninformed or a liar.

That's what I realized with InvestAnswers. I used to watch InvestAnswers, and I realized one day that he was intentionally misdirecting me as his viewer — there was no other way to explain it. You should have seen the shocking level of disgust and repulsion I felt when I did my own research and looked up the facts he had misled me on about ICP. His audience had asked him to compare ICP to Solana, and if he had provided an honest comparison, it would have made Solana look useless and terrible. So he fudged the numbers and intentionally dropped ICP's transactions from the comparison.

While I'm on it — dang, we got to twelve minutes in the game. Let's go! I'm sending this to my friend TK. Look at that — how'd you like that, huh? Wow, that was my best run. That 374,000 damage from the rainbow ray went nuts. But the point stands: it doesn't matter how many people are lying about ICP, and it doesn't matter how many people are clueless. It only matters what the truth is. The truth, in my view, is that ICP is the best tech in crypto by far. There's nothing even close — there's no comparison. And for the record, my X account is @jerrybanfield, and it's pretty consistent on what it says.

So that's how I stay bullish. I'm not scrolling price charts and watching people who don't know what they're talking about explain why ICP is finished. I'm playing games. I'm using the blockchain. I'm listening to Zero2Hero interview a guy on the Swiss subnet who tells you exactly what they're building for the future.

Questions People Ask Me

Can you help promote my dapp if I built it on ICP? The starting place would be to join the Jerry Banfield Family — I'm thinking of dropping the price to make it super affordable compared to what it is now. Then you could DM me your app and I could take a look at it, and if I liked the app, we could consider a sponsored video. The same goes if you want me to look at a specific crypto, like PAXG: the Family is where you can post a specific crypto for me to review. And do you think it would be nice if I dropped the membership price? It would be super affordable compared to what it is right now — let me know.

I had just an incredible date last night, and I filmed a video about it where I literally cried. It's just so nice, man — so nice to find someone else who can really receive what I have to give. I have so much real love and joy to offer, and it's so nice to find somebody who can handle that. And however nice I come across in my videos, I'm even nicer in person.

What about $100 ICP? I don't know — it could happen rather shockingly and rapidly. I'm not saying it would stay there, but I am saying we could go from around $2 to $100 ICP in a month or two, basically any time.

As for the haters, on some level they're challenging me to be better, and I'm motivated. I told the woman I was out with last night: when I've got my happy relationship — which we just got started yesterday — I'm going to post 200 videos about my dating content. Two hundred videos on how great my life is, how much I love dating, and here's how I got divorced and found another amazing relationship. I'll post 200 videos of "I told you so — and here's how I did it."

Another question I always get: a lot of people say ICP is extremely centralized, so what about that? I'll give you the best example for it in a moment.

Knowing What's Flexible and What's Not

Back to the woman I met: she's a Bible girl, and she's got the details. On our first instant date when I met her, one of the first things I said — maybe 20 or 30 minutes in, before she even talked about her faith — was that I don't need some authority figure like Jesus in the afterlife to tell me what to do. Then last night she told me the one area of concern she had for us was my faith. I said, look, my faith is pretty flexible at this point — I'm not absolutely locked in one direction. Now, other parts of me are not flexible: you've got to want kids, and not just mine but new ones; you've got to be healthy; I've got to find you attractive; and you've got to support what I do for my work, however that looks — be willing to talk about it, listen to it, and help me with it.

Reading the Bible for Her

Everything else about me is flexible, though. So I literally started reading the Bible last night. I figured, if Christianity is very important to her, I'm going to read the entire Bible — and I'm going to start in the New Testament this time. I tried starting in Genesis before and read maybe a hundred pages, and just starting in the Old Testament is difficult. So I started in the New Testament, and I like this much better. My approach was: don't go through just finding stuff to disagree with — try to take out the things that are really meaningful, find what's meaningful and what you can relate to. Last night I was reading the part that says wives, follow your husbands, and husbands, never be harsh with your wife. And I just started crying and praying. I prayed, please never let me be harsh with this woman. I was harsh with my ex, and I made amends, but it would be better — especially with a gentle, loving woman — to never be harsh with her in the first place. So I prayed, please let me just be gentle and loving. I had a really nice experience reading the Bible last night, and I thought, okay, this will work.

Somebody suggested I tell her that Jesus said we are God. What I did tell her is that I look at Jesus as a role model. Jesus shows you what you're capable of and how you can have an amazing life, and I try to live like that. If I live and act Christian, that's perhaps more important than — or reflective of — my actual beliefs.

Why I Don't Make Tutorial Videos Anymore

Would I mind doing a video on staking for APR on multiple accounts in the NNS? Maybe, but the problem is that tutorial videos often don't get that many views, and in my opinion, somebody else can do a tutorial video. That's a perfect video for somebody who really wants to grow and get an audience in ICP — I've already got an audience, and I appreciate all of you being here already. If you want my help with something like that, the thing to do is have a one-on-one call with me.

Let me tell you about one of those calls. I talked to a guy who had a lot of ICP — I don't think I've ever seen somebody with this much ICP before. I was just like, dang: this dude is getting more ICP every year in maturity than I have in total. Geez. He literally just paid to have a call, and he asked, can you make sure my following is set up? He had been manually voting because he wasn't sure if he was setting his following up right. So I went through it with him — it only took ten minutes — and I had him strip off all his following and just put me in on the three topics. It was super easy to do, and that's something you could easily do with me in a call as well.

I was really feeling this session today, and I've decided I definitely want to do one of these at least once a week.

Is ICP Extremely Centralized?

Now, back to the question I promised to answer: a lot of people say ICP is extremely centralized. Here's my honest take. On cryptotechcap.com, there is one area where ICP did get a "no" answer: can the founding foundation or core company not unilaterally upgrade the protocol? At this point, it is realistic to say that DFINITY could push any upgrade they want to. And could the chain realistically continue operating if the founding foundation disappeared? Probably not — although if somebody bought them out and replaced them, probably yes. If they just disappeared for some reason, no.

However, I don't see DFINITY abusing that position — and I got on a tangent, but let's go back to the Mission 70 vote. To me, what DFINITY did with Mission 70 was a really good sign: they allowed the community to vote on it, they stayed out of it, and then they followed the community vote. That is so much — that's all you could ask for on a major decision, and they followed the community vote. DFINITY is really listening well to the community: they went there, and they listened. I've also noticed Dominic Williams seems to be very responsive to the community — even though some of the community seems to disagree with me on things I really care about. And while they didn't give James Allen a grant, and I didn't get a grant either — I get that — they've given us tools, and tools are better than a grant. Being able to build my own website on the blockchain is worth more to me than a grant.

A Live Look at My NNS Voting Power

I have a lot of people who follow me on the Network Nervous System, which I'm very grateful for. When I go vote, about half a percent of the whole Network Nervous System vote moves when I place a vote. If I look at the dashboard, we can actually calculate that against the whole amount of governance voting power in the Network Nervous System. So I decided to test this out and see what it looks like in practice — I checked whether there was a proposal I could vote on right at that moment, which would be super handy, and yes, there was. Let's do this little flex. I reviewed the proposal and voted immediately, so the effect would show without any outliers. Before I voted, there was 11 million voting power applied to yes. I refreshed it in case somebody else had voted, clicked adopt, and — dang — 5 million voting power applied the moment I hit vote. Five million. You felt that, right? I can feel it. Right now, a little less than one percent of all the voting power on the whole blockchain is following me, and there are more people who have multiple followings, so that when I vote, it influences their vote without immediately triggering it.

Here's where that gets interesting. Dominic Williams proposed that if you were following someone, you could give them one percent of your rewards — just one percent. So if you got 100 maturity, you'd give the person doing the voting 1 and keep 99, which is much less of a cut than the maturity modulation takes right now. The maturity modulation is around 90 and really got stripped down, so if you're going to spawn your ICP, you've got to wait until it goes up toward 100 — catch those peaks, where you get about a week of it going up. Right now it's just in the crapper, which ideally stops too much ICP from getting spawned at once.

When Dominic posted that proposal, I was so enthusiastic. I thought, do you see, with 5 million voting power following me, how much ICP I would get? So let's calculate how much ICP I'd make off that. This is a nice thought experiment, because it really answers the question of how much DFINITY actually listens to the community — even when, in my opinion, the community should think things through more deeply. Right now about 42,000 maturity is distributed every day, and I move about one percent of that. Then you multiply by the one percent reward share — I missed that factor at first — and even at today's numbers, if right now you just gave one percent of your voting rewards to whoever you followed, and you happened to follow me, I would make about 4.2 ICP a day. Holy smokes — right now that would be less than $10 a day, so let's not pretend I'd be living large off it. But imagine ICP got to $100 — that would be around $400 a day I'd make by voting. And then every one of my votes would be well researched: I'd have people I would consult, I'd study everything, and I would put serious time into each one of my votes if I were making $400 a day for voting. Everybody else with followers would benefit the same way — it would be huge.

But the community absolutely dumped on that proposal on X, which to me is irrational. If you're going to outsource one hundred percent of your voting to somebody else, the least you could do — it reminds me of the Full Metal Jacket scene — the least you could do is give them a return, like one percent. Dominic listened to the outrage on X, which I wish he hadn't, and he didn't even end up proposing it.

Use Your Gifts Every Day

People tell me I'm great at explaining all the details, and that's a gift I have — it would be a crime if I didn't use it. I'm also grateful I took time writing books, though I've learned something humbling about them. One day I gave my book to random people out at the park where I live, and I gave one to my ex's sister. Then one of those random people happened to know my ex's sister, and word came back that my ex's sister said she should just throw that book out. I was all hurt — damn, why are you talking down on my books like that? But then I realized my books suck compared to my videos. Anybody can write a damn book, especially with AI. But being able to show up and talk through all of this live, off the cuff — not everybody can do that. If you have gifts to give to humanity, use them every day.

One more question came in: someone was surprised DFINITY's voting power is down to 21 percent. Well, DFINITY has essentially got their maximum voting power already, so the more other people stake their ICP, the more it takes DFINITY's voting power down by comparison.

DFINITY's Effective Voting Power and the Clarity Act

One more thing on DFINITY's voting power: they actually have much higher effective voting power than the raw number shows, because so many people follow DFINITY. Effectively, DFINITY can vote on things and almost immediately have them executed, since they have so many people following their vote. Someone also brought up a great point about the Clarity Act — if I remember right, there's a term saying a coin is decentralized if no one single entity has control over 20 percent of the network, which would mean DFINITY still needs to cut down about one percent to meet that. My question is whether that means 20 percent of the entire tokens or just 20 percent of the voting power, because the answer would depend on the exact definition. Either way, it's a good discussion point.

What Does the Yoga Lady Think About ICP?

Somebody asked what the yoga lady thinks about ICP. I haven't talked to her about ICP yet — we've only actually talked about three hours in person, though we've been texting. She's working basically all day today, and I miss texting her throughout the day. I'm planning to play tennis with her tomorrow, which I'm so excited about. I don't think she spends much time on YouTube, which is good — I'd rather she get to know me before she watches too many of my videos.

And to be clear, no, the yoga lady is not the yoga crush. Three years ago I had a crush on a woman at yoga who had a girlfriend. This woman I met now is very much single. In fact, somebody had just canceled a date on her last minute the day before I met her. I told her, I would never do that to you. It seems crazy — what are these dudes doing, just canceling dates with beautiful women at the last minute? That is crazy to me.

How Can You Integrate AI into ICP?

Another great question: how can you integrate AI into ICP in 2027? There are some LLMs you can put directly on chain, and you can use Claude to build things with AI directly on ICP. You could probably also use Claude or ChatGPT's Codex to bring some of the other LLMs into your code. That's exactly the kind of building I encourage — use the tech instead of watching the price.

Wrapping Up

If you want to go deeper with me on all of this, come join the Jerry Banfield Family and check it out. I'm thinking about restructuring it soon into a much more affordable basic membership, with one-on-one calls offered separately instead of bundled in.

I'm so happy to interact with you all like this, and I'm planning to keep doing these ICP conversations at least once a week. If you want more of them, you can find them all on my ICP Crypto playlist.

Now my kids are about to do a play that they've been working on for two weeks in summer camp, and I'm going to go watch it. Then I'm going to go tell my ex I've got a woman I'm dating. Let's go.

ICP Will Take Over Crypto (My Interview with Blockchain Pill)

From my video published June 27, 2026.

I had Blockchain Pill live for his first ever live stream, recorded on my channel as a video he'd also clip for X. So we got the best of both worlds: my live audience here, and the best audio and camera views going out on his side later. The whole point of the conversation was simple. We were there to talk about how ICP is the obvious future of crypto, and then we went down a few rabbit holes from there.

Blockchain Pill opened by laying out what he wanted to cover: how I keep my conviction high even when the price isn't moving the way we all want, what's happening in my day-to-day life, and some of the cool projects appearing inside the ICP ecosystem. I was ready for all of it. I'm all in on ICP right now, and I'm buying as much as I can. I just told everyone I'm going straight into the ICP command line with Claude Code instead of going through a middleman like Caffeine AI. Why go through a middleman when I can go straight into the command line? I'm even planning to build a whole new website on ICP for local offers, to try to get ICP out into my local community more.

Someone in the chat asked whether it's worth staying locked when the rates have come down so much and their maturity is sitting at 90 out of 100. At some point the maturity goes back up. It used to be 95 to 105, and they widened it to 90 to 110. I'm compounding my maturity right now, because when prices are cheap, you just compound the maturity so you increase your rewards later. When prices are higher, you stop compounding, take that maturity, and sell it. That's my basic approach. Someone else asked how DFINITY could take revenue from corporate web services that companies have used for years. Those companies run on their own infrastructure, but they pay to essentially secure all that money, and you can't just take that and put it on the blockchain the way ICP can.

Crypto degenerated into meme-coin mania — and that's the truth coming out

Blockchain Pill said something that had been on his mind for years. Three or four years ago he imagined that, looking into the future, crypto would be in a completely different place by now. Crypto used to be a space where innovation was the biggest thing. This cycle, it turned into meme-coin mania, with the actual technology projects, the decentralized-solution projects, pushed into the background. He pointed out that ICP itself started strong, running from around $3 up to $20 in its first six months, and then for the next couple of years it bled along with the rest of the space as people piled into meme coins and then into AI. He asked me what I thought actually happened.

I was genuinely excited about the innovation in crypto back then. You had Steem coming out as social media on the blockchain. You had Dash with privacy. You had Ethereum with smart contracts and DeFi. You had Cardano that was going to be better than Ethereum. One thing after another. But I think we've just realized they've been faking the whole time. Bitcoin was the real innovation. Ethereum improved significantly on that. Almost all the rest of these chains have done very little real innovation while massively over-exaggerating it, and people have finally found that out. They're all tricking, like sugar-daddy chains promising you can have whatever you want when they don't actually have it. They don't have innovation the way ICP does.

So when people degenerate into meme coins, that's actually people starting to see the truth: most of these blockchains are crap, and none of them are much better than Ethereum except ICP. The truth is prevailing. When I was in crypto before, I didn't dig that deep. You could get me with a tiny little narrative, like Steem, where I'd see upvotes and text on the blockchain and think it was fine, when really that "decentralized" social media was mostly hosted on Amazon and the centralized company controlled the domain. We've gotten smarter. We've seen through the fact that these coins have mostly been BSing the entire time. And the more people see that, the more they actually quit trying to innovate anything new, because at this point ICP has already won. If you're trying to work out for yourself whether that's actually true or just one more story, you can join Jerry Banfield Family and we'll talk through your own read on it, no hype and no pressure.

Blockchain Pill agreed that there are hundreds of layer ones and layer twos that are basically a copy of a copy of Ethereum, with zero adoption and zero innovation. People decided there was no reason to buy something like Matic when they could just stick to coins they actually knew, like Ethereum and Solana. But even Ethereum and Solana didn't manage a sizable new all-time high this time around, which is strange. He asked why people went chasing the AI wave, or AI and memory stocks, instead of finding a project like the Internet Computer that's actually innovating, especially when Dominic Williams has called ICP the third big innovation after Bitcoin and Ethereum.

It's taking people a while to get smarter and figure out what's really going on in crypto. Most people in person are extremely skeptical of crypto now. There was a euphoria in the previous cycles, in 2017, 2018, 2021, and now people are in a kind of dysphoria where they think all of it sucks and it's all speculation and marketing. People inside crypto think that, and people outside crypto think the same, which is why they never get in. But that means when they find something that's actually real, they're going to be really excited about it. I actually think people are so vulnerable right now, and so desperate for something real, that ICP could run to numbers that seem insane today, like $2,000 or $3,000. If insiders loaded themselves up on ICP and calculated that they had as much as they were going to get, that's exactly the setup. You can dig into more of how I think about all of this on my ICP Crypto playlist.

The "they" narrative

Remember a few years ago, when all the Bitcoin FUD narratives about how much energy it uses and how wasteful mining is were getting blasted across every major news outlet? China banned Bitcoin, Tesla had to sell some of its Bitcoin because it wasn't carbon neutral. Then where did all that go? Bitcoin didn't stop using the energy. The narrative just disappeared. From what I looked into, there were some steps taken to make mining more reasonable, like mining with volcanoes, but nothing to the extent that the entire FUD would just vanish unless it was largely fabricated narrative in the first place.

Blockchain Pill picked that up. When he says "they" are trying to hide ICP, people leave comments asking who "they" are. To him, "they" are the ones making the narratives and trying to lead people away from the real products and projects like the Internet Computer. He made the point that when people wake up to the fact that ICP exists and actually does what 99% of the other projects only claim to do, they're going to sell their entire bags, and all that money has to flow somewhere. Some goes to Bitcoin, some to Ethereum as the second big innovation, but a big chunk of it, coming out of those hundreds and hundreds of layer ones and layer twos, finds ICP. People underestimate how quickly ICP can grow. It's a roughly billion-dollar market cap project, which is nothing. He thinks it can fly right past the $10 and $20 resistance lines everyone draws, and that people will look back and wonder how they were ever scared when ICP was $2.

Blockchain Pill asked what I thought the "Ethereum moment" for ICP would be, the thing that finally makes people wake up to it. I think it happens when they calculate that their time is up on the rest of these coins, when they see there are enough people like us who've figured the game out, and that if enough more people figure it out, they lose. If I were them, I'd keep extracting as long as people stay ignorant, but I'd be watching closely, especially with AI, watching the conversations to see how many people have figured the game out. A few of us is fine. But once a certain level of the game is figured out, it's over. So I'd be watching the ICP announcements, and when certain things happen, like a government such as Pakistan getting its national messenger set up, or the cycle burn rate suddenly shooting up, that's the signal. Until then, if I were them, I'd be loading ICP this whole time, fighting it, trying to keep everybody out and keep it secret, and stacking, stacking, stacking.

Because look at it from their point of view. They can buy effectively infinite ICP at $2, get all of it, and be looking at a thousand-X just by pushing the influencer engines, pushing the exchanges, engineering it up. All the retail newcomers would be buying at 500, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000. Imagine the whole narrative engine in crypto pivoting toward ICP, and it has the real tech behind it. It could go absolutely insane. Then, if I were them, I'd start dumping all over everybody at two or three thousand, take huge profits, crash it again, and launch a bunch of new projects on ICP. Rinse and repeat.

The SNS launchpad

Blockchain Pill brought up a possible revival of the SNS, the Service Nervous System, which I called the best launchpad in the world a couple of years ago. As a product it's incredible: you take your app, decentralize it, hand control to the token holders, and it acts as a perfect DAO where the community votes on what happens to it, and you raise money through a kind of IPO. He noted that at least one successful project came out of it, OpenChat, which still functions and is still being worked on, while maybe 95% of the rest have failed. He asked for my outlook.

In an ICP bull market, the SNS could go insane. You could see 100 proposals a day, 100 launches a day, with people in full euphoria about all these projects built on ICP that are going to change the world. I know a lot of us are down on the price and waiting right now, but that's the most insane bull-market setup ever, because the truth is behind it. The flip side is that if I were them, I'd launch 10,000 BS SNS projects, market the hell out of all of them, and most would just be rug pulls. So the SNS is incredible for both: it's amazing for great projects, and it's amazing for making something that sucks look legitimate.

Blockchain Pill added the economic angle. As the ICP price rises, launching an SNS actually gets easier in dollar terms. If you're raising 100K or 200K for 20 to 30% of the token supply, and ICP is $500, that's only a few hundred ICP, whereas at $2 you'd need tens of thousands of ICP, which is much harder to find. So the higher the price goes, the more activity there is in the SNS and across the ecosystem. It becomes a flywheel that pulls people in from all over crypto, because that's where the money is. ICP becomes easy to bull-post because it has everything going for it. People naturally start asking why they'd go to Solana when everything's hosted on Amazon Web Services and goes offline when AWS does. That feeds the whole machine and everybody looks like a genius. But first, he said, we need the spark.

I think the spark is again about them seeing the time is up. It might be a DFINITY announcement that Pakistan's national messenger app is live. It might be the Swiss government getting everything running, or an enterprise making a big onboarding, or some big Bitcoin layer-two project. We've already seen a bunch of signs that people are building. It's probably going to be a handful of things all happening around the same time. And then you'll have bigger accounts picking up on it, because ICP has the best organic community in crypto relative to its market cap. It could be pretty sudden, and it could look like a lot of small stuff at first. I remember when Altcoin Daily actually bull-posted ICP, and I thought, whoa, this is a big deal.

That's a big account that usually talks about a bunch of junk coins, and all of a sudden there's an ICP bull post. So the spark will probably be several things that look small to us, because we've watched one major announcement after another get ignored. To me the cloud engines look like the platform for it, because there are already enterprises sitting there waiting for cloud engines. So the cycle burn rate absolutely shooting up could be one of the first signs of real, provable adoption, not just Bob.fun burning cycles. Whenever that burn rate goes nuts, now you have proof.

Don't sell too early — my Dash and Bitcoin regrets

And then it becomes an exercise in patience. Right now, while it's sitting at $2, you're thinking, God, I just wish it would go to $20. I bought a thousand ICP recently and I'm thinking, man, if that went to 20 I could pay my rent for the rest of the year. But if it flies to 20, you're going to wonder why you only bought a thousand instead of 5,000 or 10,000. I'm up to about 7,500 now. My brother roasted me on the phone because I told him I took a cash advance on my credit card to buy a thousand more ICP. The cash advance is 12% APR and ICP could go up 10X, so to me it's worth it.

But the real challenge is not selling too early or selling too much too early. That's why you have to have some of it locked up. Say I dumped my whole bag prematurely at a hundred dollars, and then it kept going to 2,000. If I had a meaningful amount locked, I'd still be getting a thousand or two thousand dollars a day out of my locked ICP at that price. That's also why I'm compounding my maturity now. To me, selling too early is one of the actual biggest regrets in this game. When I had Dash, I bought a thousand Dash at $11 and dumped all of it at 87. I thought I was a genius. Then it went to 1,300. You'd think making $77,000 in a few months would feel smart, but missing out on being a millionaire because you took a quick profit doesn't feel smart at all. A lot of people in ICP now are going to feel like idiots when it gets really high, because we'll have dumped so much of our bags. It's all relative: when you buy at $2 and it goes to 50, you tell yourself you'll sell everything and buy back lower, and then it goes to a hundred and you feel like an idiot. That, to me, is the real challenge.

The two-year lock versus the old eight-year lock

Blockchain Pill asked how I feel about the two-year maximum lock that replaced the eight-year lock. Even though the APY came down, he thinks two years is a reasonable commitment and eight years was a little much, especially since he's already been covering crypto for four years, so four of those eight years would already have passed.

I think they did a really good job with Mission 70 to make this more mass-adoption friendly. Eight years is forever. We could be dead by then. Two years makes it much fairer for everyone. I remember looking at the eight-year option when I first started on ICP. I locked for a year, but I was resentful because I was getting such crappy rewards compared to someone who'd locked for eight years. I realized I either had to go all in on eight years or just dissolve. A two-year maximum makes it much more reasonable, where people are happy to lock for two years and then just leave it locked. At any point you can get all of it, and it's easier to compound the maturity the whole time instead of trying to cash out. Eight years made sense for the very beginning of the network, but the average person is never going to get into something and lock it for eight years. I've locked dumb coins like Avalanche for a year off of almost no data, but you don't casually lock something for eight years.

How I keep my conviction: I use the tech every single day

Blockchain Pill asked how I keep my conviction high and my energy levels stable through a bear market like the one we're in, and whether I thought we'd bottom in October. He's a fantastic interviewer, because I wouldn't even think to talk about a lot of these things.

I keep my conviction high based on research and based on the learning experiences I've had in the past. When I bought Bitcoin in 2014, I was in the right place at the right time, but I didn't do enough research, I didn't look at the long term, and I didn't put it all together. What strengthens my conviction now is that I use the technology every single day. I just bought jerrybanfield.org, and I'm going to use Claude Code to crank out another whole website on ICP that I'll then advertise on Google locally. The hard part with something like Bitcoin is that it's just sitting in your Coinbase account while you hope it goes up. It's hard to keep conviction when you're not doing anything with it. But I use this tech every day, and even purely from a web-hosting standpoint it's a huge deal. I've looked for years for the best web host in the world, and ICP is the best by far, and practically free. I have almost a thousand blog posts on my website scoring 100 on Google's mobile page-load test, which is God-level frustrating to even approach on WordPress. To put something like that on a managed WordPress setup I'd be paying around $100 a month. It's nearly free on ICP. I've paid something like $15 in ICP and still have most of my cycles sitting there. So my conviction stays high because I'm using the tech myself and I can see it's incredible. Once people get to try this, there's no going back to the rest of crypto or the old web. This is so much more advanced.

Blockchain Pill said this was an important point: actually using something, and finding it solves a real problem you've had in the past, is an eye-opening moment, and web hosting on ICP is a perfect example of that. Then he wanted me to tell viewers about my community, because he said I'm doing an incredible job with it and he wanted the blockchain crowd to learn what the Jerry Banfield Family is.

What the Jerry Banfield Family is

A year ago I had an awesome community on OpenChat. There were hundreds of people in it who'd only paid about one ICP to join, and I thought, I need a community like that. The problem was that everybody outside of crypto couldn't really use OpenChat back then, because the ICP wallet was too difficult and getting ICP was hard. So I set up something for the inner-circle people who really want to be able to DM me. There are lots of people who watch the lives and want to tell me which video to watch next, and I want the people who genuinely care and want to support me to have that direct access, to DM me, to post a picture, to have access to everyone else who feels the same way. What a lot of us are lacking in our lives is belonging and community, and that's what I'm providing now. The most direct way to get it from me is to join Jerry Banfield Family, because this is not just about ICP. It's about building a life you don't need to escape from, across AI, crypto, money, and future tech, but it's also where you DM me about your dating life, ask about health, or meet up in person if you're in town in St. Pete. It's about having that inner circle. I realized I need that support too, and I need it from people who are continually invested. The trouble with the OpenChat community was that people paid one ICP and were then in for a year, so it wasn't people who were continually investing on an ongoing basis, and it got a bit too big.

I'd also get spam DMs from all kinds of people on OpenChat. So the Jerry Banfield Family is everybody brought together, very close. Joe Parys is in there, Sky and Will are in there, and several other people from the ICP community. I'm also going to start bringing in people locally from St. Pete and having some in-person meetups. I was praying about it, asking what I could give people that's most valuable, and a sense of belonging over time is genuinely valuable. That's why I named it the Family, like a Mafia thing: you join the family and you stay in indefinitely. We had a guy drop $390 to join for the whole year. It's $96 a month, or $960 for a year if you want to save money and support me up front. I see a lot of other YouTubers doing the same thing, selling Skool communities, including dating channels saying join my community and we'll help you out. I figured I need to have my own.

Blockchain Pill pointed out that as crypto picks back up, most of my audience comes from ICP and crypto, and he could imagine the group becoming a great place for alpha. He said that if we'd had this group before we discovered Tagger, people would have been able to share which projects looked undervalued and talk through them together. He framed it as the inner circle of Jerry Banfield, where you get direct access, you get to ask me questions, and you get to actually talk to me. He was kind enough to say that I take things seriously, that I do the research and don't do things half-assed, even with something like my dating life, and that I have a wealth of knowledge to give to people who actually open up and talk. He said he's excited to be part of the Family and looking forward to watching it grow into a cozy place for a lot of people, especially in the ICP community, and we agreed we're also going to do live streams inside the Family for people who want to tune into those.

Why my community is the one thing I sell

That alpha point matters to me, and I need to put more of this on the landing page. Going forward, it's very important to me that I don't get overhyped on certain projects out of self-interested profit motives, and I'm grateful for this community precisely because it's the one thing I sell. Having it protects me from getting into something like Tagger again. I got into Tagger thinking I'd bring the whole community, we'd all be one, we'd all promote it together, we'd all pump it, we'd all make money, and instead we all got ripped off. Now that I have the Jerry Banfield Family, I can look at everything else from the outside. When new projects launch on ICP, I can evaluate them objectively. If I'd had the Family before Tagger came along, I wouldn't have been nearly as bullish, because I wouldn't have had any reason to drag my community over there when I already had them in my own group, and I could have given much better, more honest reviews from the start. I want to stay centered on the people around me, and have us all in one place.

People will sometimes drop thousands of dollars on some awful coin. I'd rather they pay $96 a month, or $960 a year, and before they buy something, just DM me a screenshot of it. Give me a chance to roast it, or post it in the chat and let the rest of us roast it. The honest truth, though, is that a lot of us don't want to be talked out of our bad decisions. But we still need a place, a group where you can say "I'm thinking of dumping a bunch of money into this project, what do you think?" and have five people tell you "no, hell no, definitely not," and save yourself thousands of dollars. You can talk these things through with me in Jerry Banfield Family before you act on them. I'm also not going to review every tiny coin anymore. They all suck unless proven otherwise. That's the default now.

I don't try to time the market

Blockchain Pill asked where I think we are in this bear market and whether we bottom in October, with a relief rally or a straight trip down. I never try to predict the timing on this stuff, because if you're not one of "them," they're the ones who can set up timing on things. There was all this hype that 2025 was going to be a huge bull run, and crypto got destroyed. Literally the opposite of the expectation happened. So I don't try to time markets or charts. The only thing I look at is: am I buying ICP today or not? That frees my brain up, because the more you try to predict whether October is the month, the more you set up expectations, and then you over-stack now and get ready to sell, and what if ICP is $1.50 in October instead? I just ask whether I can buy more ICP today. It's at all-time lows, which is the best time ever to buy, and I let the market surprise me, because that's the most honest approach. The past price chart is finished, but none of us know what the future one looks like.

Blockchain Pill reminded me how fast things can change. When I'd taken my break from content creation, ICP was bleeding lower and lower, and then it ran from below $3 to about $10 in three days, a 3X move in a matter of days. He asked what that was like, hearing about ICP exploding through text messages. The funny thing is I'd hardly hear from anybody until ICP went up. I used to give out my phone number, and then my WhatsApp would blow up with messages about ICP, "Have you seen the ICP price?" while I wasn't even looking at it. As soon as the price dropped, my phone went silent again. That really showed me you need to do your research and have a long-term vision, because people got overexcited when the price went up and crushed when it came down. I did sell about 100 ICP at $9, and I'd sold most of my liquid ICP at five or six dollars when I deleted all my YouTube channels, which has worked out since I've been buying it all back at two. But I never touched my main stash. I never listed my account for sale. I've still got that 3,000-plus locked. The day-to-day price fluctuations shouldn't move you emotionally. If someone tells me I'm stupid because ICP went down while Hyperliquid went up 50%, I don't care about 50%. If I wanted 50% I'd do something else with my life. I'm here for 100X, for 1000X.

I want maximum laziness. I want to get in, do nothing, and not have to manage anything. That's what I realized with Bitcoin: the dumbest thing was that I literally had 60 Bitcoin, and I could have done absolutely nothing and been a millionaire. That's what I'm really here for in crypto, to do nothing and become a millionaire. But sometimes doing nothing is harder than doing something. It's so easy to find out about this project and then that project, and this narrative that's going to play out in the next few months, and the meme that's popular this week. There are so many traps in crypto designed to move you away from the gold and into the junk coins, and it's genuinely difficult to navigate.

That's why the long-term vision matters so much. When I look at ICP, I'm here for the next 10 years, Warren Buffett style: get into the right thing and just stay there forever. That's exactly what I should have done with Bitcoin. I remember selling 60 Bitcoin at $1,700, thinking it was fine, I'd just rebuy lower. Did I ever get to rebuy lower? Not in about nine years. So with ICP I don't want to get too overexcited when it runs to five, ten, twenty dollars. I'll feel great taking some profit, but I'd feel much worse missing out on the biggest gains. Can you imagine dumping all your ICP at $20 or $30 and watching it go to several hundred?

Take profits without selling everything

Blockchain Pill made the point that most of us shouldn't have dumped our entire stack at $20 this past cycle, but looking back, taking some profits there would have been smart. If you'd taken even 10% off at $20, you could have doubled your ICP stack now that it's trading at two dollars. The difficult part, he said, is that the moment you take profit out of one coin, you want to jump straight into another, chasing whatever you're hearing about next. His advice was to take that money off the table into your bank account, even hold it in cash, so it's harder to get it back into crypto, back into the casino. Don't dump your entire stack wherever ICP goes, but train the muscle to take a little off at 20, 30, 40, 50, 100, even just 1% or 2% at a time. He thought that's healthy, and I agree.

We ran a poll for the live audience on where they'd take serious profits on ICP, with options around $20, $50, $100, and $250. I'm glad I sold something like 17,000 or 18,000 dollars of ICP last year at five or six dollars, so I do believe in taking profits. That's why I run a three-tiered strategy now. The first tier is an indefinite lockup. If ICP went to a thousand-plus, that guarantees I'd be pulling something like a thousand dollars a day in maturity, so I can't miss out on the top. I believe at least one third of your ICP should be locked for two years, not dissolving, so you cannot miss out on insane profits. The second third should be locked shorter term, like the two-week lock I have, where I'm much more hesitant to lose my age bonus and stop earning my APR, so I just compound that maturity and I'm slower to pull the trigger. The final third is liquid. If it suddenly shoots to 10 or 20 dollars, I might dump that third, pay rent, pay down credit cards, and take those profits. If it then runs straight up from there, I still have so much ICP that I'm rich. If it comes back down, I stack a little more at 15, 10, 8, whatever it is. It's a delicate balance. The worst things you can do are never take any profit, or sell everything. Those are the two scenarios where you screw up.

Blockchain Pill put it well: the only way to actually see the coin trade at the top is if you don't sell the top, so you're going to round-trip some of it. If ICP goes to $1,000, he'll have taken profits many times along the way, with $100 being one of his big milestones for a sizable amount. But, as he said, ICP is $2 right now. If you put 5K or 10K in here and it reaches $100, that's 50 times your money. You're allowed to take some off the table and still be mega bullish. He thinks people will buy ICP at $500 the same way they buy Ethereum at a couple thousand today, because it'll make sense as a top cryptocurrency with all that value locked inside, and that we can't even fathom how high ICP could go if the only narrative becomes "ICP is crypto."

I like that narrative, because ICP is the truth in crypto, and I hope people can handle the truth. It's the real Web3 platform. If you have at least a third of it locked indefinitely, you can take that maturity and be guaranteed to sell the top, constantly. I have about 3,000 locked, earning roughly one and a half ICP a day, and I'm compounding it while the price is low. Even if I sell off the rest of my bag somewhere in the hundreds, that locked portion keeps selling the top every single day. As Blockchain Pill noted, if ICP hits $100, one ICP a day is about $3,000 a month, which in many parts of the world beats a salary. At one and a half ICP a day, that's around $1,500 a day at $100 ICP. I'd love to call my brother and tell him I paid off that credit-card cash advance I used to buy ICP with a single day of ICP maturity.

The reason I'm all in on ICP from now on is partly that I got my community into so much over the years. Collectively, the people following me have put tens of millions of dollars into ICP, and also dumped hundreds of thousands into other projects. Losing money on ICP is one thing, because that will almost certainly come back, but a lot of those other projects are finished and never coming back. I'd never again do what I did getting my community into all these different projects. Some of them on the SNS might at least get bought out, which gives those coins extra life.

That's actually a nice feature of the SNS, that you can buy out a project and take it over. But the real risk for me is fragmenting your investments, because we trend toward a negative bias. If you have five investments and one goes to zero while the other four do well, the one that went to zero hurts your feelings more than all the winners combined. So I just focus on ICP now. I had some EXE before but I sold it. I can't even be bothered to run my own meme coin anymore. It's a distraction. As far as meme coins go, EXE is the only one I'm holding on ICP. I have something like a fraction of a percent of it, and if it goes lower I might try to get up toward 1%, but that's my limit, to leave enough for everyone else who wants to accumulate. If there's one meme coin to do it with, and you like Bob and the Cloud Foundation, go with Cloud. But if you want a pure meme that doesn't revolve around a particular person, my bet is EXE, just for being the pure meme, and the community is still there after years of it being tough and difficult.

Blockchain Pill said the ICP community is very passionate, and that translates into the meme-coin space inside the ecosystem too. It's far more active than you'd expect for the market cap. You just add the ICP ticker to a post and you get two, three, four, five times the likes you'd normally get on X. He wanted to shout out everyone in the community, and so do I.

Enjoy this community while it's still pure

I encourage everybody to enjoy the community while it's where it is today. It's a pure community right now, full of people who are really here for the technology. It's going to get nuts when the price goes up. I remember back in 2023, I was just making regular ICP videos and all of a sudden my views went up 5X, every video getting 10,000 views, and it stopped within a month or two. Having this community now is precious. You might think we just need to pump the price, but there are downsides to that. Wait until it's not just me, Blockchain Pill, Bob, Mike, and a few others. Wait until all the big influencers come in making their ICP videos, and the community gets swarmed with new people ranting and going off in every direction. Some of us will feel nostalgia, like these were the best days. Some of us will feel like the future community got garbaged up and full of extractors, because when ICP blows up you'll have a ton of people bull-posting it while constantly launching their own coins and projects, here to make money off ICP more than to support the technology. So this might be the best, most pure, most organic state of the community we'll ever see.

Blockchain Pill agreed that money will be flowing everywhere. When ICP is $100 or $200, you won't need to spend a hundred ICP to take a sizable position in a meme coin; five or ten ICP does it, and the liquidity in the ecosystem will be incredible. He also agreed a lot of people and cabals from Solana, Base, and elsewhere will come to ICP to extract, because that's where the liquidity and the money will be.

I should say clearly, as both of us are obviously ICP holders: this isn't financial advice. None of this is me telling you what to buy. It's how I think about conviction, research, and my own decisions.

The live poll results came back with most people saying they'd take profit at $100, some at $50, and only a few at $20. That's serious conviction in the room; people aren't even interested in a 10X at $20. The average was probably around $120. I think $100 is a psychological level, and 80 to 100 dollars will be tough to break. But it only takes a narrative, only takes everybody else waking up to the fact that there's nothing else besides the Internet Computer, and it could go absolutely crazy, the same way Ethereum went from a couple of dollars to thousands.

What Bitcoin and Ethereum taught me about research and imagination

Blockchain Pill said the elders are wise because they've lived through more, and that I'm wise because I lived through Bitcoin without doing my own research, and through Ethereum without doing my own research. He thinks that if I'd looked into them the way I've looked into ICP, it would have increased my chances of holding, though he acknowledged it wasn't clear back then. Nobody was waving signs saying Ethereum was going to a thousand dollars. It was a gamble, and people didn't have that much conviction in Ethereum in the early days.

He's right. I remember getting my Ethereum wallet, the old kind you downloaded onto your computer, and taking my Ethereum off Coinbase. It was a huge deal when Coinbase listed their first crypto besides Bitcoin. I put it in a wallet and thought, okay, now I own something else, and I have no idea what to do with this. I actually used Bitcoin for a number of things back then. I got on a sketchy Bitcoin lending platform around 2015 or 2016, where you'd send a whole Bitcoin over and try to lend it, and the scraps of Bitcoin you'd lose back then would be worth more today than the whole thing was. But I didn't do enough research and I didn't think far enough into the future.

What I really notice, looking back, is that where a lot of us miss in our lives is that we're not optimistic enough. We don't see how good things could be. We're very good at seeing how bad things could be, and pretty good at seeing how incrementally better things could be, but most of us are deficient in imagining how amazing things could be. Our imaginations just stop. Blockchain Pill agreed that people tend to see the worst and don't focus on the good. At $200, I could easily imagine Bitcoin going over $1,000, but what was genuinely hard to picture was Bitcoin going over $100,000. If my imagination had been more open back then, that would have helped, but you're also vulnerable when you think that way, because you can apply it to the wrong scenario and convince yourself some junk coin or XRP is going to a thousand dollars and get sucked in.

So it's a delicate balance: you want that imagination backed and verified by research. That's what I love about ICP. When I think it could go back over seven or eight hundred, or to a thousand, I don't feel like I'm just letting my imagination run wild, because I've done a lot of research to validate that. That's the lesson from holding Bitcoin and Ethereum without enough research: I never built that deep, future-facing conviction. With ICP, I have.

The 1 Altcoin I Love After Researching 1000s: Internet Computer

From my video published June 17, 2026.

I've researched thousands of altcoins over the last 10 years in crypto, and I've found only one that I actually love. It's the one I put all my money into, because it has the biggest real-world use case. I want to explain exactly why, and I'll lean on several tweets from Kyle Langham of DFINITY to do it. Yes, the coin is Internet Computer Protocol (ICP).

Here's the clearest way I've seen it explained. Most of crypto is trying to compete with other cryptos. But ICP's competitors are not other cryptos at all. It isn't just a crypto. It's a platform that competes with big tech cloud: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud. It has built a platform where you can run everything fully on-chain, the first platform like that in the world, and to me that is huge. This is why, out of every altcoin, I believe ICP is the only crypto with a real, massive possible impact on the world, not just hype, speculation, meme coins, and token transfers.

Why ICP belongs in the cloud computing market, not the crypto market

Let's look deeper, because right now almost all of crypto is just talking change and wasting your time. Here, in my view, is the real opportunity. According to recent estimates, the global cloud computing market is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and it's on the way to over a trillion dollars. That's where ICP is relevant. None of these other cryptos fit into the global cloud computing market.

All the rest of crypto besides Internet Computer Protocol ends up building back on top of Microsoft and Google. They call it things like IPFS, but those nodes often route right back to the existing centralized cloud computing market. That's because any blockchain besides ICP can't do hardly any computation on chain. So they have to use centralized tech to run the websites, the wallets, the games, the NFTs, and the blockchain itself stays tiny.

ICP has made something different, and you can see it on the dashboard. There are six terabytes of data on chain. That's 10 times as much as on the Bitcoin blockchain, and close to all the other blockchains combined. ICP also does more computations every hour than all other blockchains do combined in a year. That's how powerful this network is. So it doesn't fit into the crypto market. It fits into the global cloud computing market. From what I see, ICP is positioned to be the fastest-growing player in this trillion-plus-dollar market, and that means far more growth potential than anything else I see in crypto, and what I'd call insane growth potential for something only valued at a few billion dollars right now.

The path forward: AI-generated apps deploying on-chain

Now look at the path forward for ICP. Another tweet by Kyle puts it simply: the path forward for ICP is AI-generated Web2 and Web3 apps deploying on ICP because of the ease of development, deployment, and maintenance. If I were you, I'd be thinking, wait a minute, other blockchains really have to use centralized tech? Yes. Hardly anything is on the blockchain itself. If you play a crypto game, it doesn't matter whether it's on Ethereum or some Ethereum so-called layer two; the game, the assets, and the website are all on centralized tech, except for some tokens on the blockchain. Everything else in crypto runs right back on centralized tech.

They don't want you to find that out, because once you see it, you realize ICP is the only infrastructure where you can access the blockchain directly through your own website. I can prove this. In my experience it's the cheapest, fastest, and most scalable way for me to host a website, and that's what I love about ICP. All the other cryptos talk about what they might do in the future, which they mostly won't deliver. ICP has delivered. The tech is here. You can use it. You can see it.

Take OpenChat, for example. It's a website, a Discord or Telegram-style community-building app, built directly on the blockchain. That cuts out the middleman. We don't have to go through Amazon or Google to host the actual website. With anything else in crypto, you go to a website that's hosted on centralized tech, which means whatever you're using is not actually decentralized, because whoever controls the website controls the user experience. So what is even going on the blockchain if the website is controlled by one single party? ICP is the only thing built where you can experience what crypto was really meant to be. I got excited about Bitcoin because of the idea of cutting out the middleman, but only ICP lets you execute that across the full tech stack, from the website to the backend, to the pictures, the videos, and the games. No other crypto can take this path. In fact, there doesn't appear to be any other technology in the world that can take this path right now.

Caffeine.ai and infrastructure secured by cryptography

That's why AI-generated Web2 and Web3 apps deploying on ICP matter. Soon they're releasing an app called Caffeine.ai, where you can just talk to the AI and it'll crank out a website on-chain, crank out an app, with the URL. The existing cloud infrastructure cannot do this, because that infrastructure is inefficient and insecure. It's not secured by cryptography. The big breakthrough ICP made is to take the whole infrastructure and secure it with cryptography, from the node machines in the network, which you have to vote in on the Network Nervous System that runs entirely on chain. The whole infrastructure is secured with cryptography, which I believe is the best solution we have to cybercrime. And cybercrime is massive for destroying the value of AI.

Right now it's hard to even take advantage of AI beyond generating images and things like that, because it's difficult for the average person to do anything except interact with centralized AI. If the average person wants to make a website or an application, AI isn't even that useful, because you have to go back to the centralized tech stack. This is a game-changing paradigm where you can go straight onto ICP and say, "Hey, I'd like to make an application like YouTube, and I want the like button." You just tell the application what you want, and the AI cranks out the code and puts it directly on ICP. Then, if you want to use the application, you need to buy and burn ICP to pay your web hosting bill, which gives ICP far more utility than any other crypto in the world.

Even Bitcoin, to me, is basically a meme coin, a speculative asset people hold hoping the price goes up. With ICP, you buy it and burn it to pay your web hosting bill. That's real utility.

Why Bitcoin developers are building on ICP

If you're into Bitcoin, there are major Bitcoin apps that have already been built and are launching on ICP. Right now Bitcoin developers hate building on centralized tech, but they have to. Almost all interactions with Bitcoin currently go through centralized tech. If it's a wallet, like a Ledger hardware wallet, that's a centralized company that built the wallet, and you access it through their software. If you're going to a website, who do you think is serving it? Right back on centralized tech. If you're trading Bitcoin on a crypto exchange, who's hosting that website, and whose app store is the app on? Almost everybody interacting with the Bitcoin blockchain isn't even touching the blockchain themselves. They're going through a centralized entity running on centralized tech to interact with Bitcoin, which to me removes the majority of the value proposition.

Bitcoin developers have been looking for a long time to build something on decentralized infrastructure itself. ICP has built the world computer, which can interact directly with Bitcoin, so developers can make Bitcoin apps on ICP that talk directly to the Bitcoin blockchain. Instead of going through a centralized third party with all the insecurities that come with it, you can use a crypto to directly control applications and send and index transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain, staying in a crypto environment the entire time. So the bigger Bitcoin gets, the more Bitcoin developers find they want to build their applications, the website, the database, and the interactions with the Bitcoin blockchain, on ICP. I've covered some of these Bitcoin developers building on ICP before, and I'll do another piece looking at more of those applications and developers in the future.

AI agents only make sense fully on-chain

Then there's all this hype about AI agents. Do you realize AI agents are worthless if they're hosted on centralized tech? The whole idea of an AI agent is to be customized, do what you want, and run with your data. But if you're running an AI agent on centralized tech, you can't trust that your data is secure. Even I wouldn't want to run an AI agent, like some Jerry Banfield chatbot, on centralized tech, because then a hacker could come in and mess with my agent and get it to tell people anything. My agent could secretly be hacked and be ripping people off of their crypto while they're asking it questions. ICP gives you an environment where you could run the AI agent 100% on-chain, executing in smart contracts, so you could be certain it would do what it's supposed to do. The more AI devs find ICP, the more it's going to keep getting built on.

And if you're not that hyped about the AI aspect, consider how big AI is. Go to Google Trends, look at worldwide web search over the past five years, and compare Bitcoin, crypto, and AI. A few years ago Bitcoin was actually bigger than AI, but that has recently changed. The future is trending heavily toward AI. Bitcoin has been trending pretty flat, with a recent spike, but only growing a little, while AI has been growing rapidly. Right now AI is about five times bigger than Bitcoin on Google web search. ICP is aiming at, and hitting, the position of the best technology that uses crypto and offers something unique in AI hosting and infrastructure, a market at least five times larger than Bitcoin.

If you multiply roughly two trillion by five, you're looking at ICP having an impact across cloud computing and AI with a potential market cap of 10-plus trillion dollars. That is so much bigger than anything else happening on any other crypto right now, hundreds of times bigger. And if you switch the data to YouTube search, you'll see that while crypto is a bit bigger there, it tells the same story: AI is way bigger than Bitcoin or crypto, and that's exactly where ICP is hitting. Recently there was even a video where Kyle and Dominic showed Caffeine AI to some big players in the AI industry.

Technology That Drops Jaws in the AI Industry

What I've seen is that the technology DFINITY built is dropping people's jaws in the AI industry. This is a big breakthrough in what's possible. Out of all the thousands of altcoins I've looked at, no other crypto has presented technology that I see as truly disruptive. So many of them use technical terms they've often made up or borrowed from other cryptos to get you to think they're smart and that you just don't understand what they're really doing. The hope is that you'll assume they must be doing something useful. From what I've seen, they're not. I've researched thousands of altcoins, and the main thing most of them are actually doing is talking. Are they delivering anything like this? No.

I watched a video where Kyle was talking about how DFINITY has demoed this technology. I don't think most of us in ICP, even as bullish as I am, fully comprehend how good things can go. I remember when Bitcoin went from $170 to $1,700. I bought at $170 when it touched the bottom on Coinbase, and at $1,700 I thought, wow, this has gone really well for me. Then it went to $17,000, and I thought, how did I not see how much higher this could go? Now it's over $100,000. If you'd told me when I was buying Bitcoin at $170 that one day it would be worth thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars, I just couldn't have believed things could go that well.

A Path ICP Is Walking Alone

This path forward for ICP is a path it's walking alone. None of the other cloud computing platforms can even do this without getting DFINITY's technology. Some people have asked me, well, aren't Google and Amazon going to fight ICP and try to kill it? From what I see, DFINITY has a kind of utopia here. What they're going to do is use this technology to secure their own AI. DFINITY has made a private version of this that Google and Amazon can use to put the technology on their existing infrastructure. The most popular use case I could see for that would be Google and Amazon starting to secure their own infrastructure against cybercrime and putting their AI on this technology. But ICP is essentially the public, open version that anyone can build on.

These cloud platforms like Amazon and Google want to be relevant in the future. Right now, cybercrime is weakening them to an unbelievable degree. If you know what you're doing with AI, there are so many use cases that require your data to be secure that you just don't want to run on centralized cloud. And the average person can't easily deploy an application with AI on their own. So to me, this is the future. We are all very privileged to be able to have this information before almost anybody else knows it.

Why I Believe ICP Is Where Wealth Gets Built in Crypto

My goal is to help. If you're in crypto today, I imagine you got here because you want to build wealth. In my experience and belief, the only place you need to be to build wealth in crypto is ICP. All other blockchains feel completely irrelevant to me by comparison. The rest of crypto, even Bitcoin, isn't even interesting to me anymore, because the potential use case and the value it can deliver to the world relative to its market cap just doesn't excite me the way ICP does. I believe ICP could have a market cap a thousand times where it's at today, and in the short term, easily 10 to 100 times where it's at today over the next year or two.

I've come to believe you've got to be in before this gets out into the general public, before everybody starts to know about it and realizes that you don't even need to think of ICP as a crypto. Think of it as the future of cloud computing. Cloud computing on crypto. That's how I think of it. This is the future of the internet, the way the internet gets built going forward. This isn't some crypto coin I'm hoping the price goes up on. This is a utility token that, in my view, has the most promising infrastructure behind it in the world.

I'm excited to help as many people as possible see this in time, because by the time most people figure it out, the opportunity as an investment will be gone. By the time everybody knows this, ICP's price will be so high that it's just like Bitcoin. It's too late to be talking about Bitcoin at $100,000. The time to talk about Bitcoin was 10 years ago when I was in it, when I was talking about it, when almost nobody thought Bitcoin was a good investment. Almost everybody thought it was awful, and I was in it then. To me, this is the next big thing.

IC Lighthouse and What the Tech Can Actually Do

One of the projects I want to highlight is IC Lighthouse DAO. This is an example of what you can do. All these other so-called decentralized exchanges outside of ICP call themselves decentralized, but the website isn't decentralized. If you're using a website running on centralized tech, that's not a decentralized exchange. With IC Lighthouse DAO, you get incredible functionality, and you can trade on it the same way you can on a centralized exchange. All you have to do is sign in with your Internet Identity. Then you can trade, and it's all on the blockchain. You can put in orders and trade all these different coins on ICP. I've swapped tens of thousands of dollars of Bitcoin against ICP there.

This is an example of what the tech can do. Nothing else could put an entire crypto exchange fully on chain. If your whole crypto exchange is not on chain, then in my opinion you're just wasting people's time and misleading them, because it's not actually decentralized. On ICP there are several exchanges like this. You also have ICP Swap. There's a new one, Kong Swap. There's Helix. This is the future of trading crypto, rather than sitting on some centralized exchange with a website hosted on centralized tech where they can manipulate things in the background. This is much more trustworthy, much safer, much more transparent, and much more secure.

This Is Not a Ghost Chain

What's so great is that you can look around and find all kinds of projects. Somebody said ICP is a ghost chain. That's probably false. There are big projects, like Gold DAO, decentralized exchanges like IC Lighthouse, and OpenChat. There are so many projects building directly on ICP. But unlike these other chains, ICP also has the cloud computing element built in. That's why the equivalent of paying your web hosting bill on ICP is burning cycles, and that is at all-time highs. The amount being burned, essentially the equivalent of paying your web hosting bill, is going up and up. It's up hundreds of times from earlier this year. That's not a ghost chain. That's the future. If you want to go deeper on how I think about all of this, you can explore my Crypto Reviews playlist.

The Only Crypto Worth Buying on Coinbase: Why I Choose ICP

From my video published June 17, 2026.

Out of all the thousands of cryptocurrencies they have on Coinbase, the only one I believe is worth buying is Internet Computer Protocol. I've researched thousands of altcoins. I've been in crypto for 11 years, and I've kept asking myself one question: what's the single crypto that is most worth buying and holding today for the long term? I don't care about all these other ones. What's the number one crypto that's most undervalued, the one with the most potential? In my view, it is Internet Computer Protocol, and next to it, nothing else looks worth buying on Coinbase.

Take Bitcoin, for example. In my experience, you're never going to get as high of gains in Bitcoin or Ethereum as you can get in ICP. If you haven't heard of ICP before, I'll give you a little look at it. If you have, I'll share some new things too. But right now, hardly anyone would look at the chart on CoinMarketCap and think ICP was the only crypto worth buying at less than a $3 billion fully diluted market cap. With the standard way of thinking in crypto, people would look at this and pass right on by. Almost nobody would see that this is the one crypto you could buy on Coinbase where, by buying it, you don't need to buy anything else.

Why I tell people to get their crypto off Coinbase

People consistently schedule calls with me, paying me hundreds of dollars an hour to talk. And they consistently have tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars of crypto sitting on Coinbase. They come to me asking, "Which of these are good?" And I tell them: only Internet Computer Protocol. And you need to get all of it off of Coinbase right away.

Here's where we urgently run into the problem with the rest of crypto. For example, I talked to an investor the other day with hundreds of thousands of dollars of ICP and Bitcoin. When I say you need to get it off of Coinbase, it's because that's not your crypto. If it's on Coinbase, it's their crypto. Unless you sell it and put dollars in the bank, or take it off the exchange, they have the keys, which means it's their crypto, not yours.

With ICP, I'm able to tell the guy, look, it's super easy. You sign up for a completely free internet identity that is linked to your devices, and that will be very easy for you to never lose. If you want my tutorial on that, search for Jerry Banfield Internet Identity. It shows you how to set all of this up for free, totally for free, 100% on the blockchain, which cuts out the middleman in crypto. This guy had already watched that video, so he had his internet identity set up. Then I could say, just take all your ICP, go into your portfolio, grab your address, copy it, and send all your ICP from Coinbase to that address. I walked him through it. I'm telling you this stuff for free; this guy paid hundreds of dollars to have the same thing told to him.

Locking up ICP for governance and income

Then I tell him, now what you want to do is lock some of your Internet Computer up. Whatever amount you want, but I would say at least 50%, for some kind of medium to long term. As soon as you lock that up, you get to participate in the governance of the network and you start earning. If you lock it up for eight years, you start getting 13.6%. If you lock it up for a year, you start getting 7% interest right away. What you can do is set up a tiered lockup where you have some for eight years, some for seven, six, five, four, and so on. You can be getting interest and then getting payments, which in my opinion is perfect for retirement.

Now, you could make the same argument about getting staking rewards with other cryptos. But here's what's special on ICP. You're not delegating your staking to a third party. You're not going through some centralized website or something like Ledger to access your ICP. On ICP, when you're participating in governance, you're going directly onto the blockchain, onto the front end, and voting in the interface itself, which you cannot do with any other blockchain I'm aware of. That's because ICP, to me, is the only crypto worth buying when you combine the technology and the market cap.

The technology gap with every other coin

Right now, all other cryptos rely almost totally on centralized tech to serve their websites, to pull prices and APIs from other centralized services, and then to do the heavy backend operations and data storage. These other cryptos are doing almost nothing on the chain itself. They're totally relying on centralized tech to serve the user experience, which is why, in my understanding, 99% of crypto transactions go through third parties, meaning you're not even on the blockchain. But on ICP, you are on the blockchain. You can completely cut out centralized tech with ICP. As I said in my video yesterday about a new blockchain-based internet, this is the future. The future is going toward a blockchain-based internet, and I believe only ICP can deliver that based on the technology. Therefore, nothing else on Coinbase looks worth buying by comparison.

You see how much the tech matters when you try to do something simple. When this guy starts pulling his ICP off of Coinbase, he now has a wallet with a recovery phrase that's secured with all his devices. On his iPhone and his computer, he also has the account. If he loses his recovery phrase, he can just use his iPhone to reset it, no big deal. If he loses his iPhone and his computer, he can use his recovery phrase to get onto new devices. It's the best account preservation and security technology I've ever seen. It totally cuts out third parties like Ledger hardware wallets, like Tangem, like MetaMask.

The problem with Bitcoin and Ethereum

The problem becomes immediate when he asks, "Okay, well, what do I do with my Bitcoin?" Here's the issue. With your Bitcoin, you're going to end up in most cases going through a third party, which to me eliminates the value of the blockchain. The whole point of the blockchain is to cut out third parties. Does anyone remember that from being an old-school Bitcoin person? I would download the entire Bitcoin blockchain on my computer, run the Bitcoin Core wallet, and then transact. That's cutting out third parties in Bitcoin. But if you're using a Ledger, a Tangem, or anything else besides the Bitcoin Core wallet, a third party is sitting between you and your crypto.

For example, your Ledger. If you lose your Ledger hardware wallet and you can't get another one for any reason, whether they go out of business, the country you live in bans them, or people keep stealing your Ledger wallet, you lose your crypto. If you're on MetaMask and you get code injected from anything malicious, and cybercrime is going up, you can lose your crypto. Even though it looks legit, even though your entire interface says it's legit, even though it's a transaction you tried to do, you can lose your whole MetaMask wallet, as has happened to many people.

So this guy is sitting there with hundreds of thousands of dollars of Bitcoin. I tell him, you can't leave that Bitcoin on Coinbase, because that could go to zero. If Coinbase is honest, you're good. But if they're not honest, they can sell your Bitcoin, they can trade your Bitcoin for you, all while it looks like it's still sitting in your account.

So the best solution I'm aware of right now, if you already have an ICP wallet, is to just put your Bitcoin on there as well. You can go to oisy.com and put your Bitcoin, your Ethereum, your ICP, your Solana, and your stablecoins all in one wallet, all directly on the blockchain. You're going straight into the blockchain without having to go through a third party. Now, in the case of Bitcoin, the Internet Computer Protocol blockchain does end up being a third party, because if the ICP blockchain goes down, you could lose your Bitcoin. It hasn't happened so far; it's the best tech in the world that I've seen, but it's still a third party.

But do you see the problem with Bitcoin and Ethereum? You can't even hardly transact them without bringing in a third party. ICP is the only thing I've found you can easily transact without bringing in a third party, without bringing in some website that's not on the blockchain that can be compromised, where you can lose all your crypto. In my belief, these other cryptos are going to get destroyed, all of them besides ICP, one way or another. Whether it's investors realizing they bought worthless tokens, or people's wallets constantly getting hacked and drained through one cybercrime or attack after another. The only option I see for these other coins is to bring their wallets onto ICP so they can't get hacked on their centralized websites, backends, and databases.

Tech versus market cap is the most out-of-whack thing I've seen

So to me, there's absolutely no crypto on Coinbase that has even a fraction of the potential that ICP does. The main reason I say that right now is because of what the tech can do versus the market cap. What the tech can do on ICP versus the market cap is the most out-of-whack thing I've ever seen in investing. In my opinion, this should be worth at least a thousand times as much as it is today.

Right now, I believe ICP has the biggest solution for AI. AI infrastructures are a disaster right now. They're a honeypot for hackers, and you can't trust them with your sensitive data. ICP has the best infrastructure in the world right now to put AI models on. ICP has the best infrastructure in the world right now, and I mean the whole world, for preventing cybercrime. And ICP has the only infrastructure in the world I know of where you can run end-to-end Web3, where you can have something like my OpenChat community. This is my Discord or Telegram equivalent, except it's directly on the blockchain. We're not going through third parties. This whole app is on the blockchain. It is so vastly superior to Discord or Telegram in almost every way, and I use it every single day. It has a token that gives it real ownership, where you can actually vote.

I'm grateful for that right now. With the DAO, I did a proposal yesterday saying, hey, I'll make 11 videos for you over six months. I was easily able to make that proposal for a few dollars, and right now the proposal is passing 20% to 1% to send thousands of dollars of OpenChat to fund it. That's real Web3, and this is what we need. We need real Web3. The only coin on Coinbase that's supporting real Web3, in my view, is ICP. It's the only coin where you can go use the technology yourself without having to buy any tokens, because you don't need ICP to transact on the blockchain thanks to the reverse gas fee setup.

The only tech I see onboarding billions of people

This is the only technology I see in the world that will onboard billions of people. There are a lot of apps that talk about it; this is the only tech in the world I've found that will actually deliver it. And you don't have to take my word for it. As soon as you have an internet identity, you can use Oisy to take your Bitcoin, your Ethereum, your ICP, all off of exchanges and hold it in one single wallet. Then you can use Chain-key Bitcoin and Chain-key Ethereum to do instant, almost no-fee swaps. You can provide liquidity too. Put Chain-key Bitcoin and ICP in a liquidity pair and, in my experience, you can make some real nice money off of that. And you can participate in the governance directly. This is the future of crypto.

If every video I'm making feels like it's saying the same basic thing, that's because it is. There's only one thing that needs to be said through the mountain of nonsense in crypto. There's a real-world computer that has the solution to some of the hardest problems and biggest opportunities humanity is facing: AI, cybercrime, and distributing ownership of the web through Web3. ICP solves for all three of these in one infrastructure, and no one else has a solution for it. It's not speculative. It is being executed on chain right now. It's not "maybe in three years they'll do this." It's on chain. You can see it. You can use it for free right now. If you want to go deeper into how I think about money and investing, you can explore my Crypto Reviews playlist.

There is no coin on Coinbase, and I've looked at thousands of altcoins over the last decade, that has 1% of the real value to it that ICP does. Now, here's the one caveat. If ICP was a thousand times what it is today, would I say it was absolutely the best coin, the only coin worth buying? Probably not. That's why I don't think Bitcoin's worth buying. To me, it's valued way too much versus what it can actually deliver. Everything else on Coinbase, in my opinion, is overvalued anywhere from 10 to 100 times. ICP is undervalued anywhere from 100 to 1,000 times. So I'm looking forward to the day I can say I told you so. Until then, I'm stacking and stacking this. And I'll see you in the buy orders.

Why I'm Bullish on the Internet Computer (ICP) Despite the Price

Originally published April 4, 2024.

I am still bullish on the Internet Computer (ICP), and I have been since April 2024, when I called it the best technology in crypto. The core of my view has not changed: the technology is real, I use it every day, and I think the price sits far below what the network can do. I do not try to predict where the price goes. What I can do is explain why I hold, how my thinking developed, and where I still have doubts.

If you are searching for my position in short: ICP is the one crypto I believe runs the full stack on chain, from the website and backend to the data, apps and governance. I have stopped trading anything besides ICP. I try to check the price once a month at most, and when I do, the only question I ask is whether I want to buy more. That is my opinion, not financial advice.

The case started in my April 2024 post, which was mostly about technology. I pointed to ICP's research team, on-chain AI, HTTPS outcalls without oracles, and storage at about $5 per gigabyte, and I said cybercrime was the problem the protocol could solve. That is also when I first moved my own website onto ICP.

By June 2026 the argument had moved from competing coins to cloud infrastructure. In the altcoin I love after researching thousands I framed ICP as competing with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, and pointed to six terabytes of data on chain. In the only crypto worth buying on Coinbase I told people to move their coins off exchanges and lock part of their ICP for governance and rewards, which at the time paid 13.6% for an eight-year lock and 7% for a one-year lock.

The June interview with Blockchain Pill, in ICP Will Take Over Crypto, is where I laid out how I handle the price cycle. I described three tiers: a third locked for two years, a third locked for a shorter term, and a third liquid. I also said the two worst outcomes are never taking profit and selling everything, and I agreed that taking a little off at each level is healthier than an all-or-nothing approach.

In July I wrote How I'm Constantly Bullish on ICP Despite the Price, arguing that the price and the reality do not match. I pointed to my yes-or-no checklist of 90 to 100 capability questions on cryptotechcap.com, where ICP answered 97 yes and no other chain got past 33. I also gave the weak point its due: DFINITY can push any protocol upgrade on its own, and I said the chain probably could not keep running if the founding foundation vanished. I still do not see DFINITY abusing that power, and I pointed to the Mission 70 vote as the evidence.

In October 2026 I went back to bull posting ICP after a public debate with Bobby O about whether ICP's technology or big tech's distribution will win. I still hold about 4,000 ICP, and I have sold, swapped or lost about 6,000 of it. In I'm Back to Bull Posting ICP I said I want to talk about it more honestly now, with a disclaimer, and that the main thing I would not do again is repeat my marketing criticism so many times.

The posts below run newest first, so you can read the latest view and then trace it back to the 2024 original. The bull case itself has stayed the same. The evidence I point to has moved from the protocol's features to how it is actually used: my website, my browser games, and the fact that about half the payments on my website have come in ICP.

For the other side of the trade, read the bear case for ICP and why I still hold. If you are wondering how much to stack, ICP accumulation: how much to stack and why covers that. If you hold ICP and want a second opinion on your own position, you can get a personal video review from me at https://jerrybanfield.com/review/.

Nothing on this page is financial advice. It is where I stand, and the posts below show how I got here.

On this page

Every post I have written on this subject is below in full, newest first, each under its own heading.

1. I'm Back to Bull Posting ICP (October 10, 2026)
2. How I’m Constantly Bullish on ICP Despite the Price (July 17, 2026)
3. ICP Will Take Over Crypto (My Interview with Blockchain Pill) (June 27, 2026)
4. The 1 Altcoin I Love After Researching 1000s: Internet Computer (June 17, 2026)
5. The Only Crypto Worth Buying on Coinbase: Why I Choose ICP (June 17, 2026)

I'm Back to Bull Posting ICP

From my video published October 10, 2026.

Guess who's back again, Jerry's back, tell some men, guess who's back. All right, let me just skip to the point. I'm going to start bull posting ICP again, because I have to say Bobby O made an incredibly supportive post, and at this point I've sold, swapped, or lost 6,000 of my ICP. I put about 3,000 of my ICP into cash in the bank, which I think is a good idea when you've got as much debt as I've got right now: 90k in credit cards and a hundred and some thousand in business loans, about 220k total. I talk about that on my main Jerry Banfield channel. But I'm going back to bull posting ICP, and I have to give credit first to Bobby O. Well, first to Blockchain Pill, who tried to encourage me to relax heavily before all this. I didn't relax, and I went off on DFINITY about the marketing, as I shared in I Can't Stop Marketing ICP (Even If I Want To). The main thing I would not do again is repeat my point so many times. I think I'm in a better position now to talk about ICP honestly and to bull post it with some level of a disclaimer, basically.

At this point I'm still holding 4,000 ICP. I've got 300 locked up, plus 700-some in maturity, plus my website runs on ICP every day. And that website has all the information about ICP. Everything I have on ICP, including how to schedule a call with me about it, lives on one page of my website. None of this is financial advice, by the way; it's just where I stand.

Grateful for Bobby O and Blockchain Pill

I'm really grateful to Bobby O and Blockchain Pill for stepping up and supporting me when I really needed it. Blockchain Pill supported me a lot when he saw I was getting upset with the marketing. He was like, easy buddy, easy, just relax, be patient, take it easy. I covered how he stood up for creators in Blockchain Pill: ICP Under Attack and Dfinity Needs to Support Their Content Creators. And Bobby O has been extremely supportive after the fact, even while I've been putting out videos debating him. To me that says a lot about Bobby O and Alex. That really shows their character. Did the two of them start dumping all over me? No. And I really appreciate that. When things are challenging, you find out who your real friends are. When bottles are popping and Jerry's making it rain in the VIP, everybody's your friend for that time. Bobby's post really pushed me over the top. I'd already been leaning in this direction, but this is what pushed me over.

To me, the dumbest thing that could possibly happen is if, after years of bull posting ICP constantly, the technology did take off and the price did pump and I missed it. That would be the stupidest scenario I could possibly imagine. Like if, for some reason, as I pointed out in previous videos, big tech comes out with their own solution, which there's no evidence of currently. That doesn't mean it's not going to happen or that it's not possible; it's just not probable. The leap of faith on the downside is that big tech is going to come out with something like this, but technology like this can be very difficult to build. And the leap of faith on ICP is that distribution is going to get accounted for.

My debate with Bobby O on tech versus distribution

When I read the post Bobby made today, he had just posted it after I debated him on another post. He made a different post where I debated him earlier today, and this is pretty amazing. I also love the post he made about Sui. That was hilarious and extremely accurate, like something everybody needs to see. So here's what happened. I made a video talking about how big tech probably is trying to upgrade their infrastructure and come up with their own things that have something in common with ICP, but not necessarily the same thing. I went deeper on that question in ICP Could Rebuild the Internet—and Most People Would Never Know. I debated him on it, he responded to it, and his response was very intelligent. Yes, I'm comparing two things that are theoretical. ICP has the tech advantage, and big tech has the distribution advantage. The theoretical tech solution from big tech doesn't exist yet, and ICP's theoretical distribution arguably has more evidence for its possibility at this point. So we had a respectful debate there.

Then, just a little while after that, he posted a post on his website. I read it, and it said that if Jerry went back to bull posting, he would instantly become the main onboarder, especially if the price popped. My take is that I might as well just bull post the entire time before the price pops, while the price is in the dumps like it has been for what feels like forever now, but really has only been a little over a year. He said this is the most likely outcome, and I agree, this is the most likely outcome. So let's cut to the chase and stop the drama. And yes, I am a wild card. At the same time, we are super early. If this works out the way we hope it will, and the way the tech should go, then I love this, and in the future nobody will care a lot if you don't like Jerry. Because when people who are new come into ICP, they tend to respond pretty positively to me. Plus I have other channels building followers over there, and that post was on my vlogs channel. So my ICP channel at this point is actually not my biggest channel anymore, and it hasn't been for a long time, which has been great.

I read Bobby's post and I thought, this is my reply. I said, thank you, Bobby. This makes me want to go back right away to bull posting, since ICP is my top investment. I have two meme coins, but I've gotten wrecked. I lost a thousand dollars on my Jerry meme coin on Robinhood in the last few days, and I told that whole story in I Sold 1,000 ICP for JERRY on Robinhood. And I lost thousands of dollars from getting hacked. If I had left everything on ICP, they wouldn't have been able to hack me, because my Internet Identity was protected with much stronger measures than my MetaMask wallet was. And I'm so glad I did not connect my Google account as a recovery email, or they would have stolen my ICP account also.

James Allen said DFINITY should just pay me

Bobby also was talking about community leaders. What's even more amazing is that, and it makes sense because Bobby has been a member of this community since before I was, at the same time James Allen made a video saying that DFINITY should just pay me. That's the critical mass we've reached. I almost forgot that. Sorry, James, but James made a video that was very important to this whole thing also. James Allen was one of the top ICP creators before, and I reacted to his exit in James Allen Quit ICP: My Reaction After Doing The Same in 2024. He just made this video where he said, DFINITY, please pay Jerry Banfield. And this video came right when I needed it. I saw it right after tennis yesterday.

He said three things. One, DFINITY, you're making it look ridiculous not paying Jerry Banfield and your other top creators. Either set it up through the network or whatever, but this is looking ridiculous. That's what he said: it's looking ridiculous, just pay people. That's how marketing works. Take care of your people. These are your community leaders, whether you want them or not, so take care of your community leaders. And I felt very affirmed by that.

Two, he said, Jerry, you need to start being consistent. He said it a little more harshly than that, but his point was, you need to be consistent. And for most of the last three years I have been consistently bull posting ICP, except for those nine months where I deleted everything, and for the last month where I kind of went off on all the negatives on ICP. For the rest of that time, I've posted thousands of videos that were promoting ICP: hundreds that were directly promoting ICP, and hundreds more, maybe close to a thousand more, that were indirectly promoting ICP by dumping on other coins. It's like all of this just came together. I watched his video yesterday.

Oh, and three, James called out the ICP community in the video. It's similar to what Bobby did, except James was a little more harsh. He's like, y'all are cowards. You should support this man who has done so much to build up and lead this community, and you should support him getting compensated so he can be here and do what he needs to do for all of you. That's paraphrasing what he said, but he called out the community like, y'all are cowards, y'all are being ridiculous, y'all look like spoiled brats in this community. And I left feeling very validated.

A critical mass of support

Then I read Bobby's post today, and Blockchain Pill has remained supportive the whole time. Blockchain Pill especially was like, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. If you're in the metric system, maybe a hundred milligrams of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure. I've been talking with this woman in South Africa and she's got me thinking in the metric system. I read Bobby's post and it was just like a critical mass tonight.

And yeah, my bad posts are not going to have an impact on my long-term potential success. If anything, my reach hit record levels, and certainly record levels of people posting against me. But to be fair, I've had a lot of patience and understanding with many of you. I've certainly been hurt, but I've also tried not to read what you've written. So if you posted a bunch of critique of me, at this point I've never read it. I probably have no idea. And how had I not liked Bobby's post yet? Because I'm on a second account right now. This is my crypto account, so I certainly liked and shared the post from this account.

So at this point, yeah, the dumbest thing would be to stop. You could even call it the sunk cost fallacy psychologically. It's like, I've put so much into ICP, I'm not going to stop right now. It's not desperate enough. In terms of what's happening with ICP in the background, it's not desperate enough to stop. Things are progressing, like with the UNDP partnership, the Pakistan partnership, and the Chatty app. And at this point the benefit is that I have diversified, where my Crypto Reviews channel is not just going to shill ICP constantly. It is going to talk about reviewing other coins, MaxFi, my Jerry meme coin. And I've gotten back into JBBJ. I have to say the JBBJ holders have been incredible. JBBJ is my meme coin, the first meme coin I created, and it has certainly had some rough times. JBBJ was 120,000 JBBJ to one ICP back when ICP's price was way higher, so the JBBJ price over the long term tells its own story, which I'll get into next.

Over the last year or so since I launched JBBJ, yes, it did pump. At the highest it ran up to the point where one ICP would only buy you about 30,000 JBBJ. But back when I was looking at buying and had just launched JBBJ, the price was one ICP to 120,000 JBBJ. So JBBJ has really been through hell with me quitting on the meme coin, which I wrote about in I Tried Trading Meme Coins and It Was Horrible, Even on ICP, and the people who have held on to it have been amazing. I actually wonder if somebody at DFINITY might have grabbed some of it, because the top account holds 29 percent and has not done anything with it since they scooped it up. Some people actually sold recently after getting upset with me. But I now have five percent of the JBBJ, and I have a buy order in for 300 more ICP worth of it in case anybody tries to sell. I've been sitting there catching sell orders with my buys on this for several weeks now.

This is kind of amazing, how all of this happened. I'm super grateful for all of you who've stuck with me through this. I mean, I've lost a few hundred followers, maybe, out of the thousands I have. And by going off so much about marketing and about content creators, I may have missed out on the opportunity to get some kind of support from DFINITY. That's okay. I have a lot of other opportunities.

My ICP channel is one sixth of what I do now

My ICP channel is one sixth of the YouTube channels I have. My main channel has 10,000 watch hours on it. What has happened on my main channel has just been going off. That channel has passed and then doubled and tripled the ICP channel. It has made much more money than the ICP channel, the watch hours are much higher, and the growth is much faster. It's reaching a much bigger audience. But I intend to continue bull posting ICP, and I feel like I can do it much more honestly now, after a month of posts like Going All In on ICP Was the WORST Mistake I've Made in Crypto. I feel like I had the conversation we needed to have, and it's time to stop being hurt that Pierre unfollowed me, which I covered in Pierre Unfollows Me, Signals Lack of DFINITY Support for Marketing ICP. It's totally reasonable when you look at it, and after all, he only unfollowed me because he did follow me before. So that was nice. Pierre followed me, and Dominic Williams was following me on my X account before I deleted it.

Giving DFINITY credit for the $25,000 sponsorship

DFINITY has certainly appreciated my efforts, and they did pay me $25,000 after all at the beginning of 2024, which seems like a long time ago now. But that is the largest sponsorship I have ever received in the history of making 10,000-plus videos, and it came from DFINITY. So DFINITY, I will acknowledge that. I should have been saying that in all of my videos: they did give me $25,000 at the beginning of 2024, right before they ended the community grants program not long after. They have financially supported my channel directly via sponsorship more than anybody else has in all the years since I started on YouTube in 2011.

Going forward, I'm going to continue bull posting ICP, and I will acknowledge the debate Bobby and I had. I will acknowledge the distribution and the marketing more. I am optimistic, now that I've had this conversation, that DFINITY is going to somehow put systems in place to do some marketing that could bring better results than we've seen with things like the ICP hubs in the past, and more consistent support than we've seen with community grants. I laid out my ideas for that in ICP: We Need Better Marketing and It's Not All Up To Dfinity.

I use ICP every day and get paid in it

I build my website on ICP every day, as I explained in I'm Building My Business on ICP After Getting Hacked. I use the tech every day myself, and I know how good it is. I take payments in ICP. About half the payments on my website have come in ICP. I've got a new monetization dashboard straight on my website, which is cool: you can see the exact sales I've got, and the largest single payment came through ICP, which is awesome, because I love getting payments in crypto. Lots of the payments have come in crypto.

So I'm going back to focusing on my channels and not flipping out. I see it the same way with loved ones. At some point you do need to step up and tell loved ones if they're an alcoholic, a drug addict, etc. At some point it becomes enabling not to say what needs to be said. But I've said what needs to be said about the marketing. Same thing with loved ones: I've found it makes sense to tell somebody once, hey, I think you have a problem with alcohol, drugs, etc., you should go get help with that. But saying it over and over again gets to be cruel. So I've said what I need to say about the marketing. Everyone knows how I feel, that I'd love to see some amazing marketing here. I've already given my ideas on how to do that. I'm going to go back and put my head down serving this community, and whoever wants to support me, that's great. I have enough support in my life. I'll accept whatever pain comes with staying in the ICP community.

Dominic Williams is the number one voice in crypto to me

Dominic Williams: I'm so excited to get back to covering more of Dominic's posts, which I was kind of boycotting for a while. To me, Dominic is the number one voice to listen to in crypto in terms of somebody who has technical expertise, is in the middle of the industry, and has been doing this since I was in college or a little bit after I was in college. He's been doing this for a long time, and I've been doing what I do for a long time after that. Dominic is the one person in crypto who really changed how I thought about crypto and helped me see that the technology does matter. Dominic knows who I am, for better or worse. Dominic followed me, and Pierre supported, followed, and liked my posts for a while, so I'm really grateful. And I'm going to get back to work.

I love y'all. Thank you for going through this trial by fire with me, ICP community, and for having this showdown about marketing. And I'm not really creating videos for free either, because you all support me. I get paid from YouTube, and the only reason that YouTube channel has these analytics is because a bunch of you came over when the channel was tiny. I have an X account too that has gotten followers from the crypto community. You all started this channel. It wouldn't have gotten where it's at so far without you, and every video along the way is in my ICP Crypto playlist. So I'm going to get back to work, and I'll see you soon. Blockchain Pill, the MaxFi team, Bobby O, James Allen: love y'all, thank you. And to each of you I haven't named by name, come pop into my live streams and say hello so I can thank you there in person.

How I’m Constantly Bullish on ICP Despite the Price

From my video published July 17, 2026.

Brilliant Investing Is Finding the Mismatch

Here's how I'm constantly bullish on the Internet Computer Protocol as the number one crypto in my mind, especially based on technology, despite the price action. I know this is really difficult for a lot of you, because you look at the price and you think that the price invalidates everything else. But the most important thing I can tell you here — and this is not financial advice — is that brilliant investing, as I've come to see it, is figuring out where the numbers, especially the price, don't match the reality. Let that sink in for a minute. Brilliant investing is figuring out where the price does not match the reality.

With everything else besides ICP in crypto, the price does not match the reality because the prices are too high. Bitcoin's price is too high. Ethereum's price is too high. Solana and XRP are too high. XRP, Tron, Cardano, and all these other ones — their prices are all too high for the reality of what they can do. Meanwhile, ICP's price is too low for the reality of what it can do, as I show consistently now on my cryptotechcap.com website, where I run through 90 to 100 yes-or-no questions asking what your blockchain can do. Nobody answers more than 33 yes until you get to ICP, which answers 97 yes.

I've been really enjoying Zero2Hero's videos recently about the Swiss subnet and the interviews with the guy behind it. He literally said there's a large entity that should be getting launched within the next year or so, and that there are several medium to smaller ones — one is already live, and several more are about to go live. It takes about a year for a government, a big hospital, or an enterprise to do everything they need to do to onboard, even when they do understand the technology and are ready for it.

Am I broke and in debt? Well, I have debt, but I'm not broke. I have wealth for everything I want every day. The beautiful thing about ICP is that the price doesn't match its reality, and I stay bullish every day because I use it every day.

I Use the Tech Myself Every Day

I have cryptotechcap.com hosted on ICP. My new Jerry Banfield games platform, where I have browser games you can just jump in and start playing, is hosted directly on the blockchain. People used to talk about how developer-unfriendly ICP was — that's fixed now. I used Claude and made a game, and it's a fully on-chain game that you can play one hundred percent for free in your browser. Then, on top of that, I can do microtransactions.

My friend got so excited when I texted him the game — and he doesn't do anything in crypto at all. He beat me in it: he got to seven minutes. See if you can last seven minutes in this game. I've not been able to get past five minutes and thirty seconds. It gets real difficult at around five minutes, when all the mobs start spawning and firing stuff at you. And this is built directly on the ICP blockchain — I built it with Claude and uploaded it straight to the blockchain.

Now, why is that special? This is how I stay bullish: I'm using the tech myself. There's no other blockchain you can build this on. This is why the rest of the prices are inflated, and this is why ICP is so undervalued — because, according to the Swiss subnet interviews, there's a large entity that will be onboarding, and it just takes about a year for a government, a big hospital, or an enterprise to complete everything to onboard. There are three games total on the platform, all of them built with Claude and dropped on the ICP blockchain. And this is just me as a solopreneur — this is not me as a big business or something. It is so genuinely useful.

The opportunity is seeing that the price is the opportunity, whereas almost everybody else is just following the price. Looking at the price does not show you the opportunity. You will only see the opportunity by finding the mismatch between the price and the reality. And only ICP, to me, in crypto has a big mismatch between the price and the reality — at least in my opinion, and at least on the upside.

Deep Research with AI and My Community

I'm doing some incredible deep research right now with AI. I use ChatGPT Pro with an intelligent prompt that I gave it based on being in crypto for twelve years. It cranked out a 76-page document on all kinds of critical issues that Bitcoin is going to face, and a 56-page document on all the very problematic things you will face on Ethereum. Both of those are in my Skool community, and I'd love your feedback on an idea: I'm thinking of reducing the cost of the community and offering membership at a basic level without calls included, because I loved the community we used to have on OpenChat. Let me know if you think that would be a good idea. Then if you wanted a one-on-one call with me, you could just schedule that separately instead of the two being bundled together. I encourage you to start using the ICP technology every day.

Here's what's great in that community: yesterday I got a direct message from somebody who was panicking because they saw that Sonic got — well, the word was "hacked." To me, that looked like an inside job. It didn't look like something that happened organically — although, is hacking something that ever really happens organically?

Playing my own game again reminded me where it gets difficult: these mailboxes start firing envelopes at you once things build momentum. I think I need to make the weapons cooldown faster, so you can just be going guns blazing hella fast off the cooldown — that's probably the path I should have taken before. And the weapon kills off the envelopes too, which is great.

I'm Not Looking at Price Charts — I'm Living My Life

This is how I'm bullish: I'm not looking at a price chart today. I don't put any time into looking at price charts. Instead, I went out on the most incredible date last night. If you want a real heartfelt story — I'm over here trying not to cry on an ICP video — I met the most amazing woman at yoga earlier this week. She's at work right now, and oh my God, we had such an amazing date last night. I even canceled the matchmaking date I was supposed to be having.

On Jerry Banfield games, what I'm going to start doing is playing these blockchain games I've created, and then I'll probably advertise them and do inspirational videos and all of that off the ICP blockchain. The setup is just so easy.

The one thing you've got to be careful about is who you listen to, because almost everybody else does not know what the hell they're talking about. Almost everybody else is just taking in a bunch of junk information, and they're saying anything to get paid. You've got to be really careful in life about who you listen to. It's just like eating: I put that recent video out saying the carnivore diet is trash — at least from everything I can find, and that's my opinion, not medical advice. I eat whole plant foods because I'm really careful what I put in my body.

With dating, I've taken the same approach. I need to be really careful who I date, which has made dating in the short term difficult most of the time, because it's a string of "I'm not going to date you." But then when I meet the right woman, it's "I've got to date you, and I will do anything to date you — and I'm not going to do anything besides date you." I told the woman last night: look, I have other women I'm talking to, and I have other dates. If you're down to just date each other, we don't have to do anything besides hold hands right now — I'm not trying to go that direction — but I'm happy to just focus on you. That sounded good to her, so I don't need a label on it at this point. And I'm taking that same approach with crypto.

Meanwhile, my friend actually got to seven and a half minutes in that game, so I've got to keep up with him — at least get to what he got to.

Stop Looking at the Price

I would encourage most of you: do not look at the price. I end up seeing the price lots of times because I'm posting videos on X and tagging ICP, but when I was not creating crypto content, I did not look at the price most days. There were months — maybe a whole month would go by — where I had no idea what the ICP price was. If you want to remain bullish, make sure your investment thesis is correct. If you have ChatGPT Pro, have it do research on ICP and look deeper and deeper at the investment case. What you need to do is stop looking at price, stop listening to anyone who talks about price, and stop talking price charts. The price is not something you can control, and it's not something you can research.

What you can control is what a guy who talked to me yesterday is doing. He said, "I want to use Claude like you do and build stuff on ICP." I told him exactly how to do that, and I told him that's what you should be doing: build something on ICP, build a website on ICP, learn how to actually use ICP. Put time into using the tech. Don't put time into the price. If you're not creating content on ICP, there's no reason you need to see the price at all.

One thing I don't do is check the Coinbase app. How many of you are checking the Coinbase app? Do not use the Coinbase app. Stop looking at coin prices. And for me, I've stopped trading anything besides ICP — I know that sounds like financial advice, but it's not; it's simply what I do. Oh, and I think I'm going to beat my friend's record after all.

Check the Price Once a Month at Most

If you want to be happy, stop looking at the ICP price. If you want to be happy, quit thinking about it and maybe check the price once a month. And here's the thing: when you check the price, the only decision to make is, do I want to buy some more or not? Once a month, I decide whether I want to buy some more ICP or not. Right now, in my opinion, is the time to accumulate. I literally say thank you for this low price. This low price, to me, is not a tragedy — it's the opportunity itself.

While I was writing all this out in my head, I was also playing my own game, and — oh, come on, let's go — eight minutes! I beat my friend's record. The Jerry Banfield Family community would be a perfect place to post if you beat the leaderboard — hell yeah, maybe I'll even get a leaderboard built into the game. I did beat his record, though to be fair, he's playing on mobile.

This is how I stay bullish: I'm just playing this game in my browser, and it's hosted on the ICP blockchain. That's a big deal, because trying to host a game and then immediately monetize it would be difficult without ICP. What the tech can do matters. Infrastructure matters.

What's the Simple Way to Explain ICP?

Somebody asked, what's the simple way you'd explain ICP? It's the future of the internet — the infrastructure. Now, the problem is there are a lot of cryptos that go around lying about that. They go around saying they're the future of the internet, but they don't have the tech to back it up, and that's pointless. That's what a lot of these coins are doing. I watched Bobby O's Bittensor TAO review, where the Bittensor TAO guy goes around calling Bittensor TAO — and this is his word — the third big innovation after the internet and Bitcoin. He really said that: Bittensor TAO, the third big innovation after Bitcoin and the internet. To me, that is blatant lying. It is minor innovation at best. He talks in all these big analogies, but you never hear him nail down the details of any of it, because as soon as you ask for the details, it falls apart and it's a mess.

ICP is the truth. If you put Bittensor TAO and ICP side by side, Bittensor TAO is obviously a minor technical innovation that is practically meaningless going forward — all hype, no substance. Next to ICP, that becomes obvious. But if you don't understand ICP, and all you do is look at price charts and listen to people who have every incentive to misdirect you — to sell you their token, to make up anything to get you to buy what they're invested in — then you can be confused. So to me, one of the most precious things is finding somebody you can listen to who has integrity, who cares more about you than about how much of a paycheck you can be, and who is willing to find the truth, tell it to you, and make it simple.

The genius thing I've done in my crypto journey as a YouTuber is that I made the truth simple. Because I had all these one-on-one calls with people, I realized I needed to simplify my message. If I'm covering 50 different crypto coins a day, that's too complicated for my audience — my audience can't handle researching 50 cryptos and trying to tell them apart. The truth should be simple, and the truth, as I see it, is that there's one crypto that's not faking it, that has incredible technology, and everything else in crypto is basically crap. That simplification was the brilliant thing I did, and it came directly out of those calls. If you want to go deeper with me on that, you can schedule a one-on-one call with me directly.

The Truth Doesn't Change Day to Day

Meanwhile, in my game, I just passed ten minutes — we hit the next level — though I was about out of health. And here is why I stay bullish on a day-to-day basis: the truth doesn't change. The truth that ICP is the best tech in crypto by far does not change on a day-to-day basis. It doesn't change based on whether the price moves. It doesn't change based on some dishonest, naive, money-chasing, view-chasing YouTuber or X poster. If something is true, it doesn't matter how many people say it's false. Think back to when flying was new: a little over a hundred years ago, there were a lot of people saying flying was impossible, and it didn't matter how many people said flying was impossible, because today you can just get in an airplane. In the same way, it doesn't matter how many people go around saying that the tech doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how many people go around saying that ICP has no adoption, because I literally just loaded a website off the ICP blockchain and played a game running on the ICP blockchain. Somebody saying ICP has no adoption is either uninformed or a liar.

That's what I realized with InvestAnswers. I used to watch InvestAnswers, and I realized one day that he was intentionally misdirecting me as his viewer — there was no other way to explain it. You should have seen the shocking level of disgust and repulsion I felt when I did my own research and looked up the facts he had misled me on about ICP. His audience had asked him to compare ICP to Solana, and if he had provided an honest comparison, it would have made Solana look useless and terrible. So he fudged the numbers and intentionally dropped ICP's transactions from the comparison.

While I'm on it — dang, we got to twelve minutes in the game. Let's go! I'm sending this to my friend TK. Look at that — how'd you like that, huh? Wow, that was my best run. That 374,000 damage from the rainbow ray went nuts. But the point stands: it doesn't matter how many people are lying about ICP, and it doesn't matter how many people are clueless. It only matters what the truth is. The truth, in my view, is that ICP is the best tech in crypto by far. There's nothing even close — there's no comparison. And for the record, my X account is @jerrybanfield, and it's pretty consistent on what it says.

So that's how I stay bullish. I'm not scrolling price charts and watching people who don't know what they're talking about explain why ICP is finished. I'm playing games. I'm using the blockchain. I'm listening to Zero2Hero interview a guy on the Swiss subnet who tells you exactly what they're building for the future.

Questions People Ask Me

Can you help promote my dapp if I built it on ICP? The starting place would be to join the Jerry Banfield Family — I'm thinking of dropping the price to make it super affordable compared to what it is now. Then you could DM me your app and I could take a look at it, and if I liked the app, we could consider a sponsored video. The same goes if you want me to look at a specific crypto, like PAXG: the Family is where you can post a specific crypto for me to review. And do you think it would be nice if I dropped the membership price? It would be super affordable compared to what it is right now — let me know.

I had just an incredible date last night, and I filmed a video about it where I literally cried. It's just so nice, man — so nice to find someone else who can really receive what I have to give. I have so much real love and joy to offer, and it's so nice to find somebody who can handle that. And however nice I come across in my videos, I'm even nicer in person.

What about $100 ICP? I don't know — it could happen rather shockingly and rapidly. I'm not saying it would stay there, but I am saying we could go from around $2 to $100 ICP in a month or two, basically any time.

As for the haters, on some level they're challenging me to be better, and I'm motivated. I told the woman I was out with last night: when I've got my happy relationship — which we just got started yesterday — I'm going to post 200 videos about my dating content. Two hundred videos on how great my life is, how much I love dating, and here's how I got divorced and found another amazing relationship. I'll post 200 videos of "I told you so — and here's how I did it."

Another question I always get: a lot of people say ICP is extremely centralized, so what about that? I'll give you the best example for it in a moment.

Knowing What's Flexible and What's Not

Back to the woman I met: she's a Bible girl, and she's got the details. On our first instant date when I met her, one of the first things I said — maybe 20 or 30 minutes in, before she even talked about her faith — was that I don't need some authority figure like Jesus in the afterlife to tell me what to do. Then last night she told me the one area of concern she had for us was my faith. I said, look, my faith is pretty flexible at this point — I'm not absolutely locked in one direction. Now, other parts of me are not flexible: you've got to want kids, and not just mine but new ones; you've got to be healthy; I've got to find you attractive; and you've got to support what I do for my work, however that looks — be willing to talk about it, listen to it, and help me with it.

Reading the Bible for Her

Everything else about me is flexible, though. So I literally started reading the Bible last night. I figured, if Christianity is very important to her, I'm going to read the entire Bible — and I'm going to start in the New Testament this time. I tried starting in Genesis before and read maybe a hundred pages, and just starting in the Old Testament is difficult. So I started in the New Testament, and I like this much better. My approach was: don't go through just finding stuff to disagree with — try to take out the things that are really meaningful, find what's meaningful and what you can relate to. Last night I was reading the part that says wives, follow your husbands, and husbands, never be harsh with your wife. And I just started crying and praying. I prayed, please never let me be harsh with this woman. I was harsh with my ex, and I made amends, but it would be better — especially with a gentle, loving woman — to never be harsh with her in the first place. So I prayed, please let me just be gentle and loving. I had a really nice experience reading the Bible last night, and I thought, okay, this will work.

Somebody suggested I tell her that Jesus said we are God. What I did tell her is that I look at Jesus as a role model. Jesus shows you what you're capable of and how you can have an amazing life, and I try to live like that. If I live and act Christian, that's perhaps more important than — or reflective of — my actual beliefs.

Why I Don't Make Tutorial Videos Anymore

Would I mind doing a video on staking for APR on multiple accounts in the NNS? Maybe, but the problem is that tutorial videos often don't get that many views, and in my opinion, somebody else can do a tutorial video. That's a perfect video for somebody who really wants to grow and get an audience in ICP — I've already got an audience, and I appreciate all of you being here already. If you want my help with something like that, the thing to do is have a one-on-one call with me.

Let me tell you about one of those calls. I talked to a guy who had a lot of ICP — I don't think I've ever seen somebody with this much ICP before. I was just like, dang: this dude is getting more ICP every year in maturity than I have in total. Geez. He literally just paid to have a call, and he asked, can you make sure my following is set up? He had been manually voting because he wasn't sure if he was setting his following up right. So I went through it with him — it only took ten minutes — and I had him strip off all his following and just put me in on the three topics. It was super easy to do, and that's something you could easily do with me in a call as well.

I was really feeling this session today, and I've decided I definitely want to do one of these at least once a week.

Is ICP Extremely Centralized?

Now, back to the question I promised to answer: a lot of people say ICP is extremely centralized. Here's my honest take. On cryptotechcap.com, there is one area where ICP did get a "no" answer: can the founding foundation or core company not unilaterally upgrade the protocol? At this point, it is realistic to say that DFINITY could push any upgrade they want to. And could the chain realistically continue operating if the founding foundation disappeared? Probably not — although if somebody bought them out and replaced them, probably yes. If they just disappeared for some reason, no.

However, I don't see DFINITY abusing that position — and I got on a tangent, but let's go back to the Mission 70 vote. To me, what DFINITY did with Mission 70 was a really good sign: they allowed the community to vote on it, they stayed out of it, and then they followed the community vote. That is so much — that's all you could ask for on a major decision, and they followed the community vote. DFINITY is really listening well to the community: they went there, and they listened. I've also noticed Dominic Williams seems to be very responsive to the community — even though some of the community seems to disagree with me on things I really care about. And while they didn't give James Allen a grant, and I didn't get a grant either — I get that — they've given us tools, and tools are better than a grant. Being able to build my own website on the blockchain is worth more to me than a grant.

A Live Look at My NNS Voting Power

I have a lot of people who follow me on the Network Nervous System, which I'm very grateful for. When I go vote, about half a percent of the whole Network Nervous System vote moves when I place a vote. If I look at the dashboard, we can actually calculate that against the whole amount of governance voting power in the Network Nervous System. So I decided to test this out and see what it looks like in practice — I checked whether there was a proposal I could vote on right at that moment, which would be super handy, and yes, there was. Let's do this little flex. I reviewed the proposal and voted immediately, so the effect would show without any outliers. Before I voted, there was 11 million voting power applied to yes. I refreshed it in case somebody else had voted, clicked adopt, and — dang — 5 million voting power applied the moment I hit vote. Five million. You felt that, right? I can feel it. Right now, a little less than one percent of all the voting power on the whole blockchain is following me, and there are more people who have multiple followings, so that when I vote, it influences their vote without immediately triggering it.

Here's where that gets interesting. Dominic Williams proposed that if you were following someone, you could give them one percent of your rewards — just one percent. So if you got 100 maturity, you'd give the person doing the voting 1 and keep 99, which is much less of a cut than the maturity modulation takes right now. The maturity modulation is around 90 and really got stripped down, so if you're going to spawn your ICP, you've got to wait until it goes up toward 100 — catch those peaks, where you get about a week of it going up. Right now it's just in the crapper, which ideally stops too much ICP from getting spawned at once.

When Dominic posted that proposal, I was so enthusiastic. I thought, do you see, with 5 million voting power following me, how much ICP I would get? So let's calculate how much ICP I'd make off that. This is a nice thought experiment, because it really answers the question of how much DFINITY actually listens to the community — even when, in my opinion, the community should think things through more deeply. Right now about 42,000 maturity is distributed every day, and I move about one percent of that. Then you multiply by the one percent reward share — I missed that factor at first — and even at today's numbers, if right now you just gave one percent of your voting rewards to whoever you followed, and you happened to follow me, I would make about 4.2 ICP a day. Holy smokes — right now that would be less than $10 a day, so let's not pretend I'd be living large off it. But imagine ICP got to $100 — that would be around $400 a day I'd make by voting. And then every one of my votes would be well researched: I'd have people I would consult, I'd study everything, and I would put serious time into each one of my votes if I were making $400 a day for voting. Everybody else with followers would benefit the same way — it would be huge.

But the community absolutely dumped on that proposal on X, which to me is irrational. If you're going to outsource one hundred percent of your voting to somebody else, the least you could do — it reminds me of the Full Metal Jacket scene — the least you could do is give them a return, like one percent. Dominic listened to the outrage on X, which I wish he hadn't, and he didn't even end up proposing it.

Use Your Gifts Every Day

People tell me I'm great at explaining all the details, and that's a gift I have — it would be a crime if I didn't use it. I'm also grateful I took time writing books, though I've learned something humbling about them. One day I gave my book to random people out at the park where I live, and I gave one to my ex's sister. Then one of those random people happened to know my ex's sister, and word came back that my ex's sister said she should just throw that book out. I was all hurt — damn, why are you talking down on my books like that? But then I realized my books suck compared to my videos. Anybody can write a damn book, especially with AI. But being able to show up and talk through all of this live, off the cuff — not everybody can do that. If you have gifts to give to humanity, use them every day.

One more question came in: someone was surprised DFINITY's voting power is down to 21 percent. Well, DFINITY has essentially got their maximum voting power already, so the more other people stake their ICP, the more it takes DFINITY's voting power down by comparison.

DFINITY's Effective Voting Power and the Clarity Act

One more thing on DFINITY's voting power: they actually have much higher effective voting power than the raw number shows, because so many people follow DFINITY. Effectively, DFINITY can vote on things and almost immediately have them executed, since they have so many people following their vote. Someone also brought up a great point about the Clarity Act — if I remember right, there's a term saying a coin is decentralized if no one single entity has control over 20 percent of the network, which would mean DFINITY still needs to cut down about one percent to meet that. My question is whether that means 20 percent of the entire tokens or just 20 percent of the voting power, because the answer would depend on the exact definition. Either way, it's a good discussion point.

What Does the Yoga Lady Think About ICP?

Somebody asked what the yoga lady thinks about ICP. I haven't talked to her about ICP yet — we've only actually talked about three hours in person, though we've been texting. She's working basically all day today, and I miss texting her throughout the day. I'm planning to play tennis with her tomorrow, which I'm so excited about. I don't think she spends much time on YouTube, which is good — I'd rather she get to know me before she watches too many of my videos.

And to be clear, no, the yoga lady is not the yoga crush. Three years ago I had a crush on a woman at yoga who had a girlfriend. This woman I met now is very much single. In fact, somebody had just canceled a date on her last minute the day before I met her. I told her, I would never do that to you. It seems crazy — what are these dudes doing, just canceling dates with beautiful women at the last minute? That is crazy to me.

How Can You Integrate AI into ICP?

Another great question: how can you integrate AI into ICP in 2027? There are some LLMs you can put directly on chain, and you can use Claude to build things with AI directly on ICP. You could probably also use Claude or ChatGPT's Codex to bring some of the other LLMs into your code. That's exactly the kind of building I encourage — use the tech instead of watching the price.

Wrapping Up

If you want to go deeper with me on all of this, come join the Jerry Banfield Family and check it out. I'm thinking about restructuring it soon into a much more affordable basic membership, with one-on-one calls offered separately instead of bundled in.

I'm so happy to interact with you all like this, and I'm planning to keep doing these ICP conversations at least once a week. If you want more of them, you can find them all on my ICP Crypto playlist.

Now my kids are about to do a play that they've been working on for two weeks in summer camp, and I'm going to go watch it. Then I'm going to go tell my ex I've got a woman I'm dating. Let's go.

ICP Will Take Over Crypto (My Interview with Blockchain Pill)

From my video published June 27, 2026.

I had Blockchain Pill live for his first ever live stream, recorded on my channel as a video he'd also clip for X. So we got the best of both worlds: my live audience here, and the best audio and camera views going out on his side later. The whole point of the conversation was simple. We were there to talk about how ICP is the obvious future of crypto, and then we went down a few rabbit holes from there.

Blockchain Pill opened by laying out what he wanted to cover: how I keep my conviction high even when the price isn't moving the way we all want, what's happening in my day-to-day life, and some of the cool projects appearing inside the ICP ecosystem. I was ready for all of it. I'm all in on ICP right now, and I'm buying as much as I can. I just told everyone I'm going straight into the ICP command line with Claude Code instead of going through a middleman like Caffeine AI. Why go through a middleman when I can go straight into the command line? I'm even planning to build a whole new website on ICP for local offers, to try to get ICP out into my local community more.

Someone in the chat asked whether it's worth staying locked when the rates have come down so much and their maturity is sitting at 90 out of 100. At some point the maturity goes back up. It used to be 95 to 105, and they widened it to 90 to 110. I'm compounding my maturity right now, because when prices are cheap, you just compound the maturity so you increase your rewards later. When prices are higher, you stop compounding, take that maturity, and sell it. That's my basic approach. Someone else asked how DFINITY could take revenue from corporate web services that companies have used for years. Those companies run on their own infrastructure, but they pay to essentially secure all that money, and you can't just take that and put it on the blockchain the way ICP can.

Crypto degenerated into meme-coin mania — and that's the truth coming out

Blockchain Pill said something that had been on his mind for years. Three or four years ago he imagined that, looking into the future, crypto would be in a completely different place by now. Crypto used to be a space where innovation was the biggest thing. This cycle, it turned into meme-coin mania, with the actual technology projects, the decentralized-solution projects, pushed into the background. He pointed out that ICP itself started strong, running from around $3 up to $20 in its first six months, and then for the next couple of years it bled along with the rest of the space as people piled into meme coins and then into AI. He asked me what I thought actually happened.

I was genuinely excited about the innovation in crypto back then. You had Steem coming out as social media on the blockchain. You had Dash with privacy. You had Ethereum with smart contracts and DeFi. You had Cardano that was going to be better than Ethereum. One thing after another. But I think we've just realized they've been faking the whole time. Bitcoin was the real innovation. Ethereum improved significantly on that. Almost all the rest of these chains have done very little real innovation while massively over-exaggerating it, and people have finally found that out. They're all tricking, like sugar-daddy chains promising you can have whatever you want when they don't actually have it. They don't have innovation the way ICP does.

So when people degenerate into meme coins, that's actually people starting to see the truth: most of these blockchains are crap, and none of them are much better than Ethereum except ICP. The truth is prevailing. When I was in crypto before, I didn't dig that deep. You could get me with a tiny little narrative, like Steem, where I'd see upvotes and text on the blockchain and think it was fine, when really that "decentralized" social media was mostly hosted on Amazon and the centralized company controlled the domain. We've gotten smarter. We've seen through the fact that these coins have mostly been BSing the entire time. And the more people see that, the more they actually quit trying to innovate anything new, because at this point ICP has already won. If you're trying to work out for yourself whether that's actually true or just one more story, you can join Jerry Banfield Family and we'll talk through your own read on it, no hype and no pressure.

Blockchain Pill agreed that there are hundreds of layer ones and layer twos that are basically a copy of a copy of Ethereum, with zero adoption and zero innovation. People decided there was no reason to buy something like Matic when they could just stick to coins they actually knew, like Ethereum and Solana. But even Ethereum and Solana didn't manage a sizable new all-time high this time around, which is strange. He asked why people went chasing the AI wave, or AI and memory stocks, instead of finding a project like the Internet Computer that's actually innovating, especially when Dominic Williams has called ICP the third big innovation after Bitcoin and Ethereum.

It's taking people a while to get smarter and figure out what's really going on in crypto. Most people in person are extremely skeptical of crypto now. There was a euphoria in the previous cycles, in 2017, 2018, 2021, and now people are in a kind of dysphoria where they think all of it sucks and it's all speculation and marketing. People inside crypto think that, and people outside crypto think the same, which is why they never get in. But that means when they find something that's actually real, they're going to be really excited about it. I actually think people are so vulnerable right now, and so desperate for something real, that ICP could run to numbers that seem insane today, like $2,000 or $3,000. If insiders loaded themselves up on ICP and calculated that they had as much as they were going to get, that's exactly the setup. You can dig into more of how I think about all of this on my ICP Crypto playlist.

The "they" narrative

Remember a few years ago, when all the Bitcoin FUD narratives about how much energy it uses and how wasteful mining is were getting blasted across every major news outlet? China banned Bitcoin, Tesla had to sell some of its Bitcoin because it wasn't carbon neutral. Then where did all that go? Bitcoin didn't stop using the energy. The narrative just disappeared. From what I looked into, there were some steps taken to make mining more reasonable, like mining with volcanoes, but nothing to the extent that the entire FUD would just vanish unless it was largely fabricated narrative in the first place.

Blockchain Pill picked that up. When he says "they" are trying to hide ICP, people leave comments asking who "they" are. To him, "they" are the ones making the narratives and trying to lead people away from the real products and projects like the Internet Computer. He made the point that when people wake up to the fact that ICP exists and actually does what 99% of the other projects only claim to do, they're going to sell their entire bags, and all that money has to flow somewhere. Some goes to Bitcoin, some to Ethereum as the second big innovation, but a big chunk of it, coming out of those hundreds and hundreds of layer ones and layer twos, finds ICP. People underestimate how quickly ICP can grow. It's a roughly billion-dollar market cap project, which is nothing. He thinks it can fly right past the $10 and $20 resistance lines everyone draws, and that people will look back and wonder how they were ever scared when ICP was $2.

Blockchain Pill asked what I thought the "Ethereum moment" for ICP would be, the thing that finally makes people wake up to it. I think it happens when they calculate that their time is up on the rest of these coins, when they see there are enough people like us who've figured the game out, and that if enough more people figure it out, they lose. If I were them, I'd keep extracting as long as people stay ignorant, but I'd be watching closely, especially with AI, watching the conversations to see how many people have figured the game out. A few of us is fine. But once a certain level of the game is figured out, it's over. So I'd be watching the ICP announcements, and when certain things happen, like a government such as Pakistan getting its national messenger set up, or the cycle burn rate suddenly shooting up, that's the signal. Until then, if I were them, I'd be loading ICP this whole time, fighting it, trying to keep everybody out and keep it secret, and stacking, stacking, stacking.

Because look at it from their point of view. They can buy effectively infinite ICP at $2, get all of it, and be looking at a thousand-X just by pushing the influencer engines, pushing the exchanges, engineering it up. All the retail newcomers would be buying at 500, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000. Imagine the whole narrative engine in crypto pivoting toward ICP, and it has the real tech behind it. It could go absolutely insane. Then, if I were them, I'd start dumping all over everybody at two or three thousand, take huge profits, crash it again, and launch a bunch of new projects on ICP. Rinse and repeat.

The SNS launchpad

Blockchain Pill brought up a possible revival of the SNS, the Service Nervous System, which I called the best launchpad in the world a couple of years ago. As a product it's incredible: you take your app, decentralize it, hand control to the token holders, and it acts as a perfect DAO where the community votes on what happens to it, and you raise money through a kind of IPO. He noted that at least one successful project came out of it, OpenChat, which still functions and is still being worked on, while maybe 95% of the rest have failed. He asked for my outlook.

In an ICP bull market, the SNS could go insane. You could see 100 proposals a day, 100 launches a day, with people in full euphoria about all these projects built on ICP that are going to change the world. I know a lot of us are down on the price and waiting right now, but that's the most insane bull-market setup ever, because the truth is behind it. The flip side is that if I were them, I'd launch 10,000 BS SNS projects, market the hell out of all of them, and most would just be rug pulls. So the SNS is incredible for both: it's amazing for great projects, and it's amazing for making something that sucks look legitimate.

Blockchain Pill added the economic angle. As the ICP price rises, launching an SNS actually gets easier in dollar terms. If you're raising 100K or 200K for 20 to 30% of the token supply, and ICP is $500, that's only a few hundred ICP, whereas at $2 you'd need tens of thousands of ICP, which is much harder to find. So the higher the price goes, the more activity there is in the SNS and across the ecosystem. It becomes a flywheel that pulls people in from all over crypto, because that's where the money is. ICP becomes easy to bull-post because it has everything going for it. People naturally start asking why they'd go to Solana when everything's hosted on Amazon Web Services and goes offline when AWS does. That feeds the whole machine and everybody looks like a genius. But first, he said, we need the spark.

I think the spark is again about them seeing the time is up. It might be a DFINITY announcement that Pakistan's national messenger app is live. It might be the Swiss government getting everything running, or an enterprise making a big onboarding, or some big Bitcoin layer-two project. We've already seen a bunch of signs that people are building. It's probably going to be a handful of things all happening around the same time. And then you'll have bigger accounts picking up on it, because ICP has the best organic community in crypto relative to its market cap. It could be pretty sudden, and it could look like a lot of small stuff at first. I remember when Altcoin Daily actually bull-posted ICP, and I thought, whoa, this is a big deal.

That's a big account that usually talks about a bunch of junk coins, and all of a sudden there's an ICP bull post. So the spark will probably be several things that look small to us, because we've watched one major announcement after another get ignored. To me the cloud engines look like the platform for it, because there are already enterprises sitting there waiting for cloud engines. So the cycle burn rate absolutely shooting up could be one of the first signs of real, provable adoption, not just Bob.fun burning cycles. Whenever that burn rate goes nuts, now you have proof.

Don't sell too early — my Dash and Bitcoin regrets

And then it becomes an exercise in patience. Right now, while it's sitting at $2, you're thinking, God, I just wish it would go to $20. I bought a thousand ICP recently and I'm thinking, man, if that went to 20 I could pay my rent for the rest of the year. But if it flies to 20, you're going to wonder why you only bought a thousand instead of 5,000 or 10,000. I'm up to about 7,500 now. My brother roasted me on the phone because I told him I took a cash advance on my credit card to buy a thousand more ICP. The cash advance is 12% APR and ICP could go up 10X, so to me it's worth it.

But the real challenge is not selling too early or selling too much too early. That's why you have to have some of it locked up. Say I dumped my whole bag prematurely at a hundred dollars, and then it kept going to 2,000. If I had a meaningful amount locked, I'd still be getting a thousand or two thousand dollars a day out of my locked ICP at that price. That's also why I'm compounding my maturity now. To me, selling too early is one of the actual biggest regrets in this game. When I had Dash, I bought a thousand Dash at $11 and dumped all of it at 87. I thought I was a genius. Then it went to 1,300. You'd think making $77,000 in a few months would feel smart, but missing out on being a millionaire because you took a quick profit doesn't feel smart at all. A lot of people in ICP now are going to feel like idiots when it gets really high, because we'll have dumped so much of our bags. It's all relative: when you buy at $2 and it goes to 50, you tell yourself you'll sell everything and buy back lower, and then it goes to a hundred and you feel like an idiot. That, to me, is the real challenge.

The two-year lock versus the old eight-year lock

Blockchain Pill asked how I feel about the two-year maximum lock that replaced the eight-year lock. Even though the APY came down, he thinks two years is a reasonable commitment and eight years was a little much, especially since he's already been covering crypto for four years, so four of those eight years would already have passed.

I think they did a really good job with Mission 70 to make this more mass-adoption friendly. Eight years is forever. We could be dead by then. Two years makes it much fairer for everyone. I remember looking at the eight-year option when I first started on ICP. I locked for a year, but I was resentful because I was getting such crappy rewards compared to someone who'd locked for eight years. I realized I either had to go all in on eight years or just dissolve. A two-year maximum makes it much more reasonable, where people are happy to lock for two years and then just leave it locked. At any point you can get all of it, and it's easier to compound the maturity the whole time instead of trying to cash out. Eight years made sense for the very beginning of the network, but the average person is never going to get into something and lock it for eight years. I've locked dumb coins like Avalanche for a year off of almost no data, but you don't casually lock something for eight years.

How I keep my conviction: I use the tech every single day

Blockchain Pill asked how I keep my conviction high and my energy levels stable through a bear market like the one we're in, and whether I thought we'd bottom in October. He's a fantastic interviewer, because I wouldn't even think to talk about a lot of these things.

I keep my conviction high based on research and based on the learning experiences I've had in the past. When I bought Bitcoin in 2014, I was in the right place at the right time, but I didn't do enough research, I didn't look at the long term, and I didn't put it all together. What strengthens my conviction now is that I use the technology every single day. I just bought jerrybanfield.org, and I'm going to use Claude Code to crank out another whole website on ICP that I'll then advertise on Google locally. The hard part with something like Bitcoin is that it's just sitting in your Coinbase account while you hope it goes up. It's hard to keep conviction when you're not doing anything with it. But I use this tech every day, and even purely from a web-hosting standpoint it's a huge deal. I've looked for years for the best web host in the world, and ICP is the best by far, and practically free. I have almost a thousand blog posts on my website scoring 100 on Google's mobile page-load test, which is God-level frustrating to even approach on WordPress. To put something like that on a managed WordPress setup I'd be paying around $100 a month. It's nearly free on ICP. I've paid something like $15 in ICP and still have most of my cycles sitting there. So my conviction stays high because I'm using the tech myself and I can see it's incredible. Once people get to try this, there's no going back to the rest of crypto or the old web. This is so much more advanced.

Blockchain Pill said this was an important point: actually using something, and finding it solves a real problem you've had in the past, is an eye-opening moment, and web hosting on ICP is a perfect example of that. Then he wanted me to tell viewers about my community, because he said I'm doing an incredible job with it and he wanted the blockchain crowd to learn what the Jerry Banfield Family is.

What the Jerry Banfield Family is

A year ago I had an awesome community on OpenChat. There were hundreds of people in it who'd only paid about one ICP to join, and I thought, I need a community like that. The problem was that everybody outside of crypto couldn't really use OpenChat back then, because the ICP wallet was too difficult and getting ICP was hard. So I set up something for the inner-circle people who really want to be able to DM me. There are lots of people who watch the lives and want to tell me which video to watch next, and I want the people who genuinely care and want to support me to have that direct access, to DM me, to post a picture, to have access to everyone else who feels the same way. What a lot of us are lacking in our lives is belonging and community, and that's what I'm providing now. The most direct way to get it from me is to join Jerry Banfield Family, because this is not just about ICP. It's about building a life you don't need to escape from, across AI, crypto, money, and future tech, but it's also where you DM me about your dating life, ask about health, or meet up in person if you're in town in St. Pete. It's about having that inner circle. I realized I need that support too, and I need it from people who are continually invested. The trouble with the OpenChat community was that people paid one ICP and were then in for a year, so it wasn't people who were continually investing on an ongoing basis, and it got a bit too big.

I'd also get spam DMs from all kinds of people on OpenChat. So the Jerry Banfield Family is everybody brought together, very close. Joe Parys is in there, Sky and Will are in there, and several other people from the ICP community. I'm also going to start bringing in people locally from St. Pete and having some in-person meetups. I was praying about it, asking what I could give people that's most valuable, and a sense of belonging over time is genuinely valuable. That's why I named it the Family, like a Mafia thing: you join the family and you stay in indefinitely. We had a guy drop $390 to join for the whole year. It's $96 a month, or $960 for a year if you want to save money and support me up front. I see a lot of other YouTubers doing the same thing, selling Skool communities, including dating channels saying join my community and we'll help you out. I figured I need to have my own.

Blockchain Pill pointed out that as crypto picks back up, most of my audience comes from ICP and crypto, and he could imagine the group becoming a great place for alpha. He said that if we'd had this group before we discovered Tagger, people would have been able to share which projects looked undervalued and talk through them together. He framed it as the inner circle of Jerry Banfield, where you get direct access, you get to ask me questions, and you get to actually talk to me. He was kind enough to say that I take things seriously, that I do the research and don't do things half-assed, even with something like my dating life, and that I have a wealth of knowledge to give to people who actually open up and talk. He said he's excited to be part of the Family and looking forward to watching it grow into a cozy place for a lot of people, especially in the ICP community, and we agreed we're also going to do live streams inside the Family for people who want to tune into those.

Why my community is the one thing I sell

That alpha point matters to me, and I need to put more of this on the landing page. Going forward, it's very important to me that I don't get overhyped on certain projects out of self-interested profit motives, and I'm grateful for this community precisely because it's the one thing I sell. Having it protects me from getting into something like Tagger again. I got into Tagger thinking I'd bring the whole community, we'd all be one, we'd all promote it together, we'd all pump it, we'd all make money, and instead we all got ripped off. Now that I have the Jerry Banfield Family, I can look at everything else from the outside. When new projects launch on ICP, I can evaluate them objectively. If I'd had the Family before Tagger came along, I wouldn't have been nearly as bullish, because I wouldn't have had any reason to drag my community over there when I already had them in my own group, and I could have given much better, more honest reviews from the start. I want to stay centered on the people around me, and have us all in one place.

People will sometimes drop thousands of dollars on some awful coin. I'd rather they pay $96 a month, or $960 a year, and before they buy something, just DM me a screenshot of it. Give me a chance to roast it, or post it in the chat and let the rest of us roast it. The honest truth, though, is that a lot of us don't want to be talked out of our bad decisions. But we still need a place, a group where you can say "I'm thinking of dumping a bunch of money into this project, what do you think?" and have five people tell you "no, hell no, definitely not," and save yourself thousands of dollars. You can talk these things through with me in Jerry Banfield Family before you act on them. I'm also not going to review every tiny coin anymore. They all suck unless proven otherwise. That's the default now.

I don't try to time the market

Blockchain Pill asked where I think we are in this bear market and whether we bottom in October, with a relief rally or a straight trip down. I never try to predict the timing on this stuff, because if you're not one of "them," they're the ones who can set up timing on things. There was all this hype that 2025 was going to be a huge bull run, and crypto got destroyed. Literally the opposite of the expectation happened. So I don't try to time markets or charts. The only thing I look at is: am I buying ICP today or not? That frees my brain up, because the more you try to predict whether October is the month, the more you set up expectations, and then you over-stack now and get ready to sell, and what if ICP is $1.50 in October instead? I just ask whether I can buy more ICP today. It's at all-time lows, which is the best time ever to buy, and I let the market surprise me, because that's the most honest approach. The past price chart is finished, but none of us know what the future one looks like.

Blockchain Pill reminded me how fast things can change. When I'd taken my break from content creation, ICP was bleeding lower and lower, and then it ran from below $3 to about $10 in three days, a 3X move in a matter of days. He asked what that was like, hearing about ICP exploding through text messages. The funny thing is I'd hardly hear from anybody until ICP went up. I used to give out my phone number, and then my WhatsApp would blow up with messages about ICP, "Have you seen the ICP price?" while I wasn't even looking at it. As soon as the price dropped, my phone went silent again. That really showed me you need to do your research and have a long-term vision, because people got overexcited when the price went up and crushed when it came down. I did sell about 100 ICP at $9, and I'd sold most of my liquid ICP at five or six dollars when I deleted all my YouTube channels, which has worked out since I've been buying it all back at two. But I never touched my main stash. I never listed my account for sale. I've still got that 3,000-plus locked. The day-to-day price fluctuations shouldn't move you emotionally. If someone tells me I'm stupid because ICP went down while Hyperliquid went up 50%, I don't care about 50%. If I wanted 50% I'd do something else with my life. I'm here for 100X, for 1000X.

I want maximum laziness. I want to get in, do nothing, and not have to manage anything. That's what I realized with Bitcoin: the dumbest thing was that I literally had 60 Bitcoin, and I could have done absolutely nothing and been a millionaire. That's what I'm really here for in crypto, to do nothing and become a millionaire. But sometimes doing nothing is harder than doing something. It's so easy to find out about this project and then that project, and this narrative that's going to play out in the next few months, and the meme that's popular this week. There are so many traps in crypto designed to move you away from the gold and into the junk coins, and it's genuinely difficult to navigate.

That's why the long-term vision matters so much. When I look at ICP, I'm here for the next 10 years, Warren Buffett style: get into the right thing and just stay there forever. That's exactly what I should have done with Bitcoin. I remember selling 60 Bitcoin at $1,700, thinking it was fine, I'd just rebuy lower. Did I ever get to rebuy lower? Not in about nine years. So with ICP I don't want to get too overexcited when it runs to five, ten, twenty dollars. I'll feel great taking some profit, but I'd feel much worse missing out on the biggest gains. Can you imagine dumping all your ICP at $20 or $30 and watching it go to several hundred?

Take profits without selling everything

Blockchain Pill made the point that most of us shouldn't have dumped our entire stack at $20 this past cycle, but looking back, taking some profits there would have been smart. If you'd taken even 10% off at $20, you could have doubled your ICP stack now that it's trading at two dollars. The difficult part, he said, is that the moment you take profit out of one coin, you want to jump straight into another, chasing whatever you're hearing about next. His advice was to take that money off the table into your bank account, even hold it in cash, so it's harder to get it back into crypto, back into the casino. Don't dump your entire stack wherever ICP goes, but train the muscle to take a little off at 20, 30, 40, 50, 100, even just 1% or 2% at a time. He thought that's healthy, and I agree.

We ran a poll for the live audience on where they'd take serious profits on ICP, with options around $20, $50, $100, and $250. I'm glad I sold something like 17,000 or 18,000 dollars of ICP last year at five or six dollars, so I do believe in taking profits. That's why I run a three-tiered strategy now. The first tier is an indefinite lockup. If ICP went to a thousand-plus, that guarantees I'd be pulling something like a thousand dollars a day in maturity, so I can't miss out on the top. I believe at least one third of your ICP should be locked for two years, not dissolving, so you cannot miss out on insane profits. The second third should be locked shorter term, like the two-week lock I have, where I'm much more hesitant to lose my age bonus and stop earning my APR, so I just compound that maturity and I'm slower to pull the trigger. The final third is liquid. If it suddenly shoots to 10 or 20 dollars, I might dump that third, pay rent, pay down credit cards, and take those profits. If it then runs straight up from there, I still have so much ICP that I'm rich. If it comes back down, I stack a little more at 15, 10, 8, whatever it is. It's a delicate balance. The worst things you can do are never take any profit, or sell everything. Those are the two scenarios where you screw up.

Blockchain Pill put it well: the only way to actually see the coin trade at the top is if you don't sell the top, so you're going to round-trip some of it. If ICP goes to $1,000, he'll have taken profits many times along the way, with $100 being one of his big milestones for a sizable amount. But, as he said, ICP is $2 right now. If you put 5K or 10K in here and it reaches $100, that's 50 times your money. You're allowed to take some off the table and still be mega bullish. He thinks people will buy ICP at $500 the same way they buy Ethereum at a couple thousand today, because it'll make sense as a top cryptocurrency with all that value locked inside, and that we can't even fathom how high ICP could go if the only narrative becomes "ICP is crypto."

I like that narrative, because ICP is the truth in crypto, and I hope people can handle the truth. It's the real Web3 platform. If you have at least a third of it locked indefinitely, you can take that maturity and be guaranteed to sell the top, constantly. I have about 3,000 locked, earning roughly one and a half ICP a day, and I'm compounding it while the price is low. Even if I sell off the rest of my bag somewhere in the hundreds, that locked portion keeps selling the top every single day. As Blockchain Pill noted, if ICP hits $100, one ICP a day is about $3,000 a month, which in many parts of the world beats a salary. At one and a half ICP a day, that's around $1,500 a day at $100 ICP. I'd love to call my brother and tell him I paid off that credit-card cash advance I used to buy ICP with a single day of ICP maturity.

The reason I'm all in on ICP from now on is partly that I got my community into so much over the years. Collectively, the people following me have put tens of millions of dollars into ICP, and also dumped hundreds of thousands into other projects. Losing money on ICP is one thing, because that will almost certainly come back, but a lot of those other projects are finished and never coming back. I'd never again do what I did getting my community into all these different projects. Some of them on the SNS might at least get bought out, which gives those coins extra life.

That's actually a nice feature of the SNS, that you can buy out a project and take it over. But the real risk for me is fragmenting your investments, because we trend toward a negative bias. If you have five investments and one goes to zero while the other four do well, the one that went to zero hurts your feelings more than all the winners combined. So I just focus on ICP now. I had some EXE before but I sold it. I can't even be bothered to run my own meme coin anymore. It's a distraction. As far as meme coins go, EXE is the only one I'm holding on ICP. I have something like a fraction of a percent of it, and if it goes lower I might try to get up toward 1%, but that's my limit, to leave enough for everyone else who wants to accumulate. If there's one meme coin to do it with, and you like Bob and the Cloud Foundation, go with Cloud. But if you want a pure meme that doesn't revolve around a particular person, my bet is EXE, just for being the pure meme, and the community is still there after years of it being tough and difficult.

Blockchain Pill said the ICP community is very passionate, and that translates into the meme-coin space inside the ecosystem too. It's far more active than you'd expect for the market cap. You just add the ICP ticker to a post and you get two, three, four, five times the likes you'd normally get on X. He wanted to shout out everyone in the community, and so do I.

Enjoy this community while it's still pure

I encourage everybody to enjoy the community while it's where it is today. It's a pure community right now, full of people who are really here for the technology. It's going to get nuts when the price goes up. I remember back in 2023, I was just making regular ICP videos and all of a sudden my views went up 5X, every video getting 10,000 views, and it stopped within a month or two. Having this community now is precious. You might think we just need to pump the price, but there are downsides to that. Wait until it's not just me, Blockchain Pill, Bob, Mike, and a few others. Wait until all the big influencers come in making their ICP videos, and the community gets swarmed with new people ranting and going off in every direction. Some of us will feel nostalgia, like these were the best days. Some of us will feel like the future community got garbaged up and full of extractors, because when ICP blows up you'll have a ton of people bull-posting it while constantly launching their own coins and projects, here to make money off ICP more than to support the technology. So this might be the best, most pure, most organic state of the community we'll ever see.

Blockchain Pill agreed that money will be flowing everywhere. When ICP is $100 or $200, you won't need to spend a hundred ICP to take a sizable position in a meme coin; five or ten ICP does it, and the liquidity in the ecosystem will be incredible. He also agreed a lot of people and cabals from Solana, Base, and elsewhere will come to ICP to extract, because that's where the liquidity and the money will be.

I should say clearly, as both of us are obviously ICP holders: this isn't financial advice. None of this is me telling you what to buy. It's how I think about conviction, research, and my own decisions.

The live poll results came back with most people saying they'd take profit at $100, some at $50, and only a few at $20. That's serious conviction in the room; people aren't even interested in a 10X at $20. The average was probably around $120. I think $100 is a psychological level, and 80 to 100 dollars will be tough to break. But it only takes a narrative, only takes everybody else waking up to the fact that there's nothing else besides the Internet Computer, and it could go absolutely crazy, the same way Ethereum went from a couple of dollars to thousands.

What Bitcoin and Ethereum taught me about research and imagination

Blockchain Pill said the elders are wise because they've lived through more, and that I'm wise because I lived through Bitcoin without doing my own research, and through Ethereum without doing my own research. He thinks that if I'd looked into them the way I've looked into ICP, it would have increased my chances of holding, though he acknowledged it wasn't clear back then. Nobody was waving signs saying Ethereum was going to a thousand dollars. It was a gamble, and people didn't have that much conviction in Ethereum in the early days.

He's right. I remember getting my Ethereum wallet, the old kind you downloaded onto your computer, and taking my Ethereum off Coinbase. It was a huge deal when Coinbase listed their first crypto besides Bitcoin. I put it in a wallet and thought, okay, now I own something else, and I have no idea what to do with this. I actually used Bitcoin for a number of things back then. I got on a sketchy Bitcoin lending platform around 2015 or 2016, where you'd send a whole Bitcoin over and try to lend it, and the scraps of Bitcoin you'd lose back then would be worth more today than the whole thing was. But I didn't do enough research and I didn't think far enough into the future.

What I really notice, looking back, is that where a lot of us miss in our lives is that we're not optimistic enough. We don't see how good things could be. We're very good at seeing how bad things could be, and pretty good at seeing how incrementally better things could be, but most of us are deficient in imagining how amazing things could be. Our imaginations just stop. Blockchain Pill agreed that people tend to see the worst and don't focus on the good. At $200, I could easily imagine Bitcoin going over $1,000, but what was genuinely hard to picture was Bitcoin going over $100,000. If my imagination had been more open back then, that would have helped, but you're also vulnerable when you think that way, because you can apply it to the wrong scenario and convince yourself some junk coin or XRP is going to a thousand dollars and get sucked in.

So it's a delicate balance: you want that imagination backed and verified by research. That's what I love about ICP. When I think it could go back over seven or eight hundred, or to a thousand, I don't feel like I'm just letting my imagination run wild, because I've done a lot of research to validate that. That's the lesson from holding Bitcoin and Ethereum without enough research: I never built that deep, future-facing conviction. With ICP, I have.

The 1 Altcoin I Love After Researching 1000s: Internet Computer

From my video published June 17, 2026.

I've researched thousands of altcoins over the last 10 years in crypto, and I've found only one that I actually love. It's the one I put all my money into, because it has the biggest real-world use case. I want to explain exactly why, and I'll lean on several tweets from Kyle Langham of DFINITY to do it. Yes, the coin is Internet Computer Protocol (ICP).

Here's the clearest way I've seen it explained. Most of crypto is trying to compete with other cryptos. But ICP's competitors are not other cryptos at all. It isn't just a crypto. It's a platform that competes with big tech cloud: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud. It has built a platform where you can run everything fully on-chain, the first platform like that in the world, and to me that is huge. This is why, out of every altcoin, I believe ICP is the only crypto with a real, massive possible impact on the world, not just hype, speculation, meme coins, and token transfers.

Why ICP belongs in the cloud computing market, not the crypto market

Let's look deeper, because right now almost all of crypto is just talking change and wasting your time. Here, in my view, is the real opportunity. According to recent estimates, the global cloud computing market is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and it's on the way to over a trillion dollars. That's where ICP is relevant. None of these other cryptos fit into the global cloud computing market.

All the rest of crypto besides Internet Computer Protocol ends up building back on top of Microsoft and Google. They call it things like IPFS, but those nodes often route right back to the existing centralized cloud computing market. That's because any blockchain besides ICP can't do hardly any computation on chain. So they have to use centralized tech to run the websites, the wallets, the games, the NFTs, and the blockchain itself stays tiny.

ICP has made something different, and you can see it on the dashboard. There are six terabytes of data on chain. That's 10 times as much as on the Bitcoin blockchain, and close to all the other blockchains combined. ICP also does more computations every hour than all other blockchains do combined in a year. That's how powerful this network is. So it doesn't fit into the crypto market. It fits into the global cloud computing market. From what I see, ICP is positioned to be the fastest-growing player in this trillion-plus-dollar market, and that means far more growth potential than anything else I see in crypto, and what I'd call insane growth potential for something only valued at a few billion dollars right now.

The path forward: AI-generated apps deploying on-chain

Now look at the path forward for ICP. Another tweet by Kyle puts it simply: the path forward for ICP is AI-generated Web2 and Web3 apps deploying on ICP because of the ease of development, deployment, and maintenance. If I were you, I'd be thinking, wait a minute, other blockchains really have to use centralized tech? Yes. Hardly anything is on the blockchain itself. If you play a crypto game, it doesn't matter whether it's on Ethereum or some Ethereum so-called layer two; the game, the assets, and the website are all on centralized tech, except for some tokens on the blockchain. Everything else in crypto runs right back on centralized tech.

They don't want you to find that out, because once you see it, you realize ICP is the only infrastructure where you can access the blockchain directly through your own website. I can prove this. In my experience it's the cheapest, fastest, and most scalable way for me to host a website, and that's what I love about ICP. All the other cryptos talk about what they might do in the future, which they mostly won't deliver. ICP has delivered. The tech is here. You can use it. You can see it.

Take OpenChat, for example. It's a website, a Discord or Telegram-style community-building app, built directly on the blockchain. That cuts out the middleman. We don't have to go through Amazon or Google to host the actual website. With anything else in crypto, you go to a website that's hosted on centralized tech, which means whatever you're using is not actually decentralized, because whoever controls the website controls the user experience. So what is even going on the blockchain if the website is controlled by one single party? ICP is the only thing built where you can experience what crypto was really meant to be. I got excited about Bitcoin because of the idea of cutting out the middleman, but only ICP lets you execute that across the full tech stack, from the website to the backend, to the pictures, the videos, and the games. No other crypto can take this path. In fact, there doesn't appear to be any other technology in the world that can take this path right now.

Caffeine.ai and infrastructure secured by cryptography

That's why AI-generated Web2 and Web3 apps deploying on ICP matter. Soon they're releasing an app called Caffeine.ai, where you can just talk to the AI and it'll crank out a website on-chain, crank out an app, with the URL. The existing cloud infrastructure cannot do this, because that infrastructure is inefficient and insecure. It's not secured by cryptography. The big breakthrough ICP made is to take the whole infrastructure and secure it with cryptography, from the node machines in the network, which you have to vote in on the Network Nervous System that runs entirely on chain. The whole infrastructure is secured with cryptography, which I believe is the best solution we have to cybercrime. And cybercrime is massive for destroying the value of AI.

Right now it's hard to even take advantage of AI beyond generating images and things like that, because it's difficult for the average person to do anything except interact with centralized AI. If the average person wants to make a website or an application, AI isn't even that useful, because you have to go back to the centralized tech stack. This is a game-changing paradigm where you can go straight onto ICP and say, "Hey, I'd like to make an application like YouTube, and I want the like button." You just tell the application what you want, and the AI cranks out the code and puts it directly on ICP. Then, if you want to use the application, you need to buy and burn ICP to pay your web hosting bill, which gives ICP far more utility than any other crypto in the world.

Even Bitcoin, to me, is basically a meme coin, a speculative asset people hold hoping the price goes up. With ICP, you buy it and burn it to pay your web hosting bill. That's real utility.

Why Bitcoin developers are building on ICP

If you're into Bitcoin, there are major Bitcoin apps that have already been built and are launching on ICP. Right now Bitcoin developers hate building on centralized tech, but they have to. Almost all interactions with Bitcoin currently go through centralized tech. If it's a wallet, like a Ledger hardware wallet, that's a centralized company that built the wallet, and you access it through their software. If you're going to a website, who do you think is serving it? Right back on centralized tech. If you're trading Bitcoin on a crypto exchange, who's hosting that website, and whose app store is the app on? Almost everybody interacting with the Bitcoin blockchain isn't even touching the blockchain themselves. They're going through a centralized entity running on centralized tech to interact with Bitcoin, which to me removes the majority of the value proposition.

Bitcoin developers have been looking for a long time to build something on decentralized infrastructure itself. ICP has built the world computer, which can interact directly with Bitcoin, so developers can make Bitcoin apps on ICP that talk directly to the Bitcoin blockchain. Instead of going through a centralized third party with all the insecurities that come with it, you can use a crypto to directly control applications and send and index transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain, staying in a crypto environment the entire time. So the bigger Bitcoin gets, the more Bitcoin developers find they want to build their applications, the website, the database, and the interactions with the Bitcoin blockchain, on ICP. I've covered some of these Bitcoin developers building on ICP before, and I'll do another piece looking at more of those applications and developers in the future.

AI agents only make sense fully on-chain

Then there's all this hype about AI agents. Do you realize AI agents are worthless if they're hosted on centralized tech? The whole idea of an AI agent is to be customized, do what you want, and run with your data. But if you're running an AI agent on centralized tech, you can't trust that your data is secure. Even I wouldn't want to run an AI agent, like some Jerry Banfield chatbot, on centralized tech, because then a hacker could come in and mess with my agent and get it to tell people anything. My agent could secretly be hacked and be ripping people off of their crypto while they're asking it questions. ICP gives you an environment where you could run the AI agent 100% on-chain, executing in smart contracts, so you could be certain it would do what it's supposed to do. The more AI devs find ICP, the more it's going to keep getting built on.

And if you're not that hyped about the AI aspect, consider how big AI is. Go to Google Trends, look at worldwide web search over the past five years, and compare Bitcoin, crypto, and AI. A few years ago Bitcoin was actually bigger than AI, but that has recently changed. The future is trending heavily toward AI. Bitcoin has been trending pretty flat, with a recent spike, but only growing a little, while AI has been growing rapidly. Right now AI is about five times bigger than Bitcoin on Google web search. ICP is aiming at, and hitting, the position of the best technology that uses crypto and offers something unique in AI hosting and infrastructure, a market at least five times larger than Bitcoin.

If you multiply roughly two trillion by five, you're looking at ICP having an impact across cloud computing and AI with a potential market cap of 10-plus trillion dollars. That is so much bigger than anything else happening on any other crypto right now, hundreds of times bigger. And if you switch the data to YouTube search, you'll see that while crypto is a bit bigger there, it tells the same story: AI is way bigger than Bitcoin or crypto, and that's exactly where ICP is hitting. Recently there was even a video where Kyle and Dominic showed Caffeine AI to some big players in the AI industry.

Technology That Drops Jaws in the AI Industry

What I've seen is that the technology DFINITY built is dropping people's jaws in the AI industry. This is a big breakthrough in what's possible. Out of all the thousands of altcoins I've looked at, no other crypto has presented technology that I see as truly disruptive. So many of them use technical terms they've often made up or borrowed from other cryptos to get you to think they're smart and that you just don't understand what they're really doing. The hope is that you'll assume they must be doing something useful. From what I've seen, they're not. I've researched thousands of altcoins, and the main thing most of them are actually doing is talking. Are they delivering anything like this? No.

I watched a video where Kyle was talking about how DFINITY has demoed this technology. I don't think most of us in ICP, even as bullish as I am, fully comprehend how good things can go. I remember when Bitcoin went from $170 to $1,700. I bought at $170 when it touched the bottom on Coinbase, and at $1,700 I thought, wow, this has gone really well for me. Then it went to $17,000, and I thought, how did I not see how much higher this could go? Now it's over $100,000. If you'd told me when I was buying Bitcoin at $170 that one day it would be worth thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars, I just couldn't have believed things could go that well.

A Path ICP Is Walking Alone

This path forward for ICP is a path it's walking alone. None of the other cloud computing platforms can even do this without getting DFINITY's technology. Some people have asked me, well, aren't Google and Amazon going to fight ICP and try to kill it? From what I see, DFINITY has a kind of utopia here. What they're going to do is use this technology to secure their own AI. DFINITY has made a private version of this that Google and Amazon can use to put the technology on their existing infrastructure. The most popular use case I could see for that would be Google and Amazon starting to secure their own infrastructure against cybercrime and putting their AI on this technology. But ICP is essentially the public, open version that anyone can build on.

These cloud platforms like Amazon and Google want to be relevant in the future. Right now, cybercrime is weakening them to an unbelievable degree. If you know what you're doing with AI, there are so many use cases that require your data to be secure that you just don't want to run on centralized cloud. And the average person can't easily deploy an application with AI on their own. So to me, this is the future. We are all very privileged to be able to have this information before almost anybody else knows it.

Why I Believe ICP Is Where Wealth Gets Built in Crypto

My goal is to help. If you're in crypto today, I imagine you got here because you want to build wealth. In my experience and belief, the only place you need to be to build wealth in crypto is ICP. All other blockchains feel completely irrelevant to me by comparison. The rest of crypto, even Bitcoin, isn't even interesting to me anymore, because the potential use case and the value it can deliver to the world relative to its market cap just doesn't excite me the way ICP does. I believe ICP could have a market cap a thousand times where it's at today, and in the short term, easily 10 to 100 times where it's at today over the next year or two.

I've come to believe you've got to be in before this gets out into the general public, before everybody starts to know about it and realizes that you don't even need to think of ICP as a crypto. Think of it as the future of cloud computing. Cloud computing on crypto. That's how I think of it. This is the future of the internet, the way the internet gets built going forward. This isn't some crypto coin I'm hoping the price goes up on. This is a utility token that, in my view, has the most promising infrastructure behind it in the world.

I'm excited to help as many people as possible see this in time, because by the time most people figure it out, the opportunity as an investment will be gone. By the time everybody knows this, ICP's price will be so high that it's just like Bitcoin. It's too late to be talking about Bitcoin at $100,000. The time to talk about Bitcoin was 10 years ago when I was in it, when I was talking about it, when almost nobody thought Bitcoin was a good investment. Almost everybody thought it was awful, and I was in it then. To me, this is the next big thing.

IC Lighthouse and What the Tech Can Actually Do

One of the projects I want to highlight is IC Lighthouse DAO. This is an example of what you can do. All these other so-called decentralized exchanges outside of ICP call themselves decentralized, but the website isn't decentralized. If you're using a website running on centralized tech, that's not a decentralized exchange. With IC Lighthouse DAO, you get incredible functionality, and you can trade on it the same way you can on a centralized exchange. All you have to do is sign in with your Internet Identity. Then you can trade, and it's all on the blockchain. You can put in orders and trade all these different coins on ICP. I've swapped tens of thousands of dollars of Bitcoin against ICP there.

This is an example of what the tech can do. Nothing else could put an entire crypto exchange fully on chain. If your whole crypto exchange is not on chain, then in my opinion you're just wasting people's time and misleading them, because it's not actually decentralized. On ICP there are several exchanges like this. You also have ICP Swap. There's a new one, Kong Swap. There's Helix. This is the future of trading crypto, rather than sitting on some centralized exchange with a website hosted on centralized tech where they can manipulate things in the background. This is much more trustworthy, much safer, much more transparent, and much more secure.

This Is Not a Ghost Chain

What's so great is that you can look around and find all kinds of projects. Somebody said ICP is a ghost chain. That's probably false. There are big projects, like Gold DAO, decentralized exchanges like IC Lighthouse, and OpenChat. There are so many projects building directly on ICP. But unlike these other chains, ICP also has the cloud computing element built in. That's why the equivalent of paying your web hosting bill on ICP is burning cycles, and that is at all-time highs. The amount being burned, essentially the equivalent of paying your web hosting bill, is going up and up. It's up hundreds of times from earlier this year. That's not a ghost chain. That's the future. If you want to go deeper on how I think about all of this, you can explore my Crypto Reviews playlist.

The Only Crypto Worth Buying on Coinbase: Why I Choose ICP

From my video published June 17, 2026.

Out of all the thousands of cryptocurrencies they have on Coinbase, the only one I believe is worth buying is Internet Computer Protocol. I've researched thousands of altcoins. I've been in crypto for 11 years, and I've kept asking myself one question: what's the single crypto that is most worth buying and holding today for the long term? I don't care about all these other ones. What's the number one crypto that's most undervalued, the one with the most potential? In my view, it is Internet Computer Protocol, and next to it, nothing else looks worth buying on Coinbase.

Take Bitcoin, for example. In my experience, you're never going to get as high of gains in Bitcoin or Ethereum as you can get in ICP. If you haven't heard of ICP before, I'll give you a little look at it. If you have, I'll share some new things too. But right now, hardly anyone would look at the chart on CoinMarketCap and think ICP was the only crypto worth buying at less than a $3 billion fully diluted market cap. With the standard way of thinking in crypto, people would look at this and pass right on by. Almost nobody would see that this is the one crypto you could buy on Coinbase where, by buying it, you don't need to buy anything else.

Why I tell people to get their crypto off Coinbase

People consistently schedule calls with me, paying me hundreds of dollars an hour to talk. And they consistently have tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars of crypto sitting on Coinbase. They come to me asking, "Which of these are good?" And I tell them: only Internet Computer Protocol. And you need to get all of it off of Coinbase right away.

Here's where we urgently run into the problem with the rest of crypto. For example, I talked to an investor the other day with hundreds of thousands of dollars of ICP and Bitcoin. When I say you need to get it off of Coinbase, it's because that's not your crypto. If it's on Coinbase, it's their crypto. Unless you sell it and put dollars in the bank, or take it off the exchange, they have the keys, which means it's their crypto, not yours.

With ICP, I'm able to tell the guy, look, it's super easy. You sign up for a completely free internet identity that is linked to your devices, and that will be very easy for you to never lose. If you want my tutorial on that, search for Jerry Banfield Internet Identity. It shows you how to set all of this up for free, totally for free, 100% on the blockchain, which cuts out the middleman in crypto. This guy had already watched that video, so he had his internet identity set up. Then I could say, just take all your ICP, go into your portfolio, grab your address, copy it, and send all your ICP from Coinbase to that address. I walked him through it. I'm telling you this stuff for free; this guy paid hundreds of dollars to have the same thing told to him.

Locking up ICP for governance and income

Then I tell him, now what you want to do is lock some of your Internet Computer up. Whatever amount you want, but I would say at least 50%, for some kind of medium to long term. As soon as you lock that up, you get to participate in the governance of the network and you start earning. If you lock it up for eight years, you start getting 13.6%. If you lock it up for a year, you start getting 7% interest right away. What you can do is set up a tiered lockup where you have some for eight years, some for seven, six, five, four, and so on. You can be getting interest and then getting payments, which in my opinion is perfect for retirement.

Now, you could make the same argument about getting staking rewards with other cryptos. But here's what's special on ICP. You're not delegating your staking to a third party. You're not going through some centralized website or something like Ledger to access your ICP. On ICP, when you're participating in governance, you're going directly onto the blockchain, onto the front end, and voting in the interface itself, which you cannot do with any other blockchain I'm aware of. That's because ICP, to me, is the only crypto worth buying when you combine the technology and the market cap.

The technology gap with every other coin

Right now, all other cryptos rely almost totally on centralized tech to serve their websites, to pull prices and APIs from other centralized services, and then to do the heavy backend operations and data storage. These other cryptos are doing almost nothing on the chain itself. They're totally relying on centralized tech to serve the user experience, which is why, in my understanding, 99% of crypto transactions go through third parties, meaning you're not even on the blockchain. But on ICP, you are on the blockchain. You can completely cut out centralized tech with ICP. As I said in my video yesterday about a new blockchain-based internet, this is the future. The future is going toward a blockchain-based internet, and I believe only ICP can deliver that based on the technology. Therefore, nothing else on Coinbase looks worth buying by comparison.

You see how much the tech matters when you try to do something simple. When this guy starts pulling his ICP off of Coinbase, he now has a wallet with a recovery phrase that's secured with all his devices. On his iPhone and his computer, he also has the account. If he loses his recovery phrase, he can just use his iPhone to reset it, no big deal. If he loses his iPhone and his computer, he can use his recovery phrase to get onto new devices. It's the best account preservation and security technology I've ever seen. It totally cuts out third parties like Ledger hardware wallets, like Tangem, like MetaMask.

The problem with Bitcoin and Ethereum

The problem becomes immediate when he asks, "Okay, well, what do I do with my Bitcoin?" Here's the issue. With your Bitcoin, you're going to end up in most cases going through a third party, which to me eliminates the value of the blockchain. The whole point of the blockchain is to cut out third parties. Does anyone remember that from being an old-school Bitcoin person? I would download the entire Bitcoin blockchain on my computer, run the Bitcoin Core wallet, and then transact. That's cutting out third parties in Bitcoin. But if you're using a Ledger, a Tangem, or anything else besides the Bitcoin Core wallet, a third party is sitting between you and your crypto.

For example, your Ledger. If you lose your Ledger hardware wallet and you can't get another one for any reason, whether they go out of business, the country you live in bans them, or people keep stealing your Ledger wallet, you lose your crypto. If you're on MetaMask and you get code injected from anything malicious, and cybercrime is going up, you can lose your crypto. Even though it looks legit, even though your entire interface says it's legit, even though it's a transaction you tried to do, you can lose your whole MetaMask wallet, as has happened to many people.

So this guy is sitting there with hundreds of thousands of dollars of Bitcoin. I tell him, you can't leave that Bitcoin on Coinbase, because that could go to zero. If Coinbase is honest, you're good. But if they're not honest, they can sell your Bitcoin, they can trade your Bitcoin for you, all while it looks like it's still sitting in your account.

So the best solution I'm aware of right now, if you already have an ICP wallet, is to just put your Bitcoin on there as well. You can go to oisy.com and put your Bitcoin, your Ethereum, your ICP, your Solana, and your stablecoins all in one wallet, all directly on the blockchain. You're going straight into the blockchain without having to go through a third party. Now, in the case of Bitcoin, the Internet Computer Protocol blockchain does end up being a third party, because if the ICP blockchain goes down, you could lose your Bitcoin. It hasn't happened so far; it's the best tech in the world that I've seen, but it's still a third party.

But do you see the problem with Bitcoin and Ethereum? You can't even hardly transact them without bringing in a third party. ICP is the only thing I've found you can easily transact without bringing in a third party, without bringing in some website that's not on the blockchain that can be compromised, where you can lose all your crypto. In my belief, these other cryptos are going to get destroyed, all of them besides ICP, one way or another. Whether it's investors realizing they bought worthless tokens, or people's wallets constantly getting hacked and drained through one cybercrime or attack after another. The only option I see for these other coins is to bring their wallets onto ICP so they can't get hacked on their centralized websites, backends, and databases.

Tech versus market cap is the most out-of-whack thing I've seen

So to me, there's absolutely no crypto on Coinbase that has even a fraction of the potential that ICP does. The main reason I say that right now is because of what the tech can do versus the market cap. What the tech can do on ICP versus the market cap is the most out-of-whack thing I've ever seen in investing. In my opinion, this should be worth at least a thousand times as much as it is today.

Right now, I believe ICP has the biggest solution for AI. AI infrastructures are a disaster right now. They're a honeypot for hackers, and you can't trust them with your sensitive data. ICP has the best infrastructure in the world right now to put AI models on. ICP has the best infrastructure in the world right now, and I mean the whole world, for preventing cybercrime. And ICP has the only infrastructure in the world I know of where you can run end-to-end Web3, where you can have something like my OpenChat community. This is my Discord or Telegram equivalent, except it's directly on the blockchain. We're not going through third parties. This whole app is on the blockchain. It is so vastly superior to Discord or Telegram in almost every way, and I use it every single day. It has a token that gives it real ownership, where you can actually vote.

I'm grateful for that right now. With the DAO, I did a proposal yesterday saying, hey, I'll make 11 videos for you over six months. I was easily able to make that proposal for a few dollars, and right now the proposal is passing 20% to 1% to send thousands of dollars of OpenChat to fund it. That's real Web3, and this is what we need. We need real Web3. The only coin on Coinbase that's supporting real Web3, in my view, is ICP. It's the only coin where you can go use the technology yourself without having to buy any tokens, because you don't need ICP to transact on the blockchain thanks to the reverse gas fee setup.

The only tech I see onboarding billions of people

This is the only technology I see in the world that will onboard billions of people. There are a lot of apps that talk about it; this is the only tech in the world I've found that will actually deliver it. And you don't have to take my word for it. As soon as you have an internet identity, you can use Oisy to take your Bitcoin, your Ethereum, your ICP, all off of exchanges and hold it in one single wallet. Then you can use Chain-key Bitcoin and Chain-key Ethereum to do instant, almost no-fee swaps. You can provide liquidity too. Put Chain-key Bitcoin and ICP in a liquidity pair and, in my experience, you can make some real nice money off of that. And you can participate in the governance directly. This is the future of crypto.

If every video I'm making feels like it's saying the same basic thing, that's because it is. There's only one thing that needs to be said through the mountain of nonsense in crypto. There's a real-world computer that has the solution to some of the hardest problems and biggest opportunities humanity is facing: AI, cybercrime, and distributing ownership of the web through Web3. ICP solves for all three of these in one infrastructure, and no one else has a solution for it. It's not speculative. It is being executed on chain right now. It's not "maybe in three years they'll do this." It's on chain. You can see it. You can use it for free right now. If you want to go deeper into how I think about money and investing, you can explore my Crypto Reviews playlist.

There is no coin on Coinbase, and I've looked at thousands of altcoins over the last decade, that has 1% of the real value to it that ICP does. Now, here's the one caveat. If ICP was a thousand times what it is today, would I say it was absolutely the best coin, the only coin worth buying? Probably not. That's why I don't think Bitcoin's worth buying. To me, it's valued way too much versus what it can actually deliver. Everything else on Coinbase, in my opinion, is overvalued anywhere from 10 to 100 times. ICP is undervalued anywhere from 100 to 1,000 times. So I'm looking forward to the day I can say I told you so. Until then, I'm stacking and stacking this. And I'll see you in the buy orders.