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[Moonlight]

you are more the Genius type 
have you heared about Rennes-Le-Chateau
where the Holy Grail should be??

[Truthspoon]

8 minutes ago, Moonlight said:

you are more the Genius type 
have you heared about Rennes-Le-Chateau
where the Holy Grail should be??

 

I have a theory about that too, as any true genius should:

 

Johan Valentin Andrae claimed to be the author of the near mythical text The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz, and featured in the documents found at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, as the 17th Grand Master of the Priory of Sion. Also to feature heavily in the mythos of Rosicrucianism and the Priory of Sion were the characters of Abbe Louis Fouquet and Nicholas Fouquet who were the patrons of Nicholas Poussin. Nicholas Fouquet was the Superintendent of Finances to Louis XIV and a member of the Jesuit Society of the Blessed sacrament, like so many secret societies and Catholic orders, hides itself beneath the veneer of charity, but very little is known of this organization, such is the level of secrecy which has successfully been maintained for four hundred years.

Fouquet is tied in to the mystery of Rennes le Chateau by virtue of the following mysterious letter:

“He (Poussin) and I discussed certain things, which I shall be able to explain to fully quite easily – things which will give you, through Monsieur Poussin, (if you don’t disbelieve them) advantages which even Kings would have great trouble to extract from him, and according to him , perhaps no one in the world will ever hear in the centuries to come; and what’s more, this without much expense may even draw a profit, and these things being so hard to discover, that nothing now on Earth can have better fortune or be their equal” 17th April 1656.

“Beneath the alter of the church of Rennes-le-Chateau there is a chamber in which are tombs dating from the times of the ancient Kings, as well as documents which must not fall into unintended hands, I have had access to the crypts sealed.” Letter from Abbe Bigou, who was the incumbent prior to Sauniere.

Nicholas Fouquet was King Louis 14th's Superintendent of Finance which meant he directed the spending of the state in addition to negotiating with the great (likely Jewish) financers who lent money to the King. Cardinal Mazarin was the chief advisor to King Louis 14th. It seems that Louis XIV had some complaint against Nicholas Fouquet and upon the death of his mentor Mazrin in 1661 when Nicholas expected to take his place as head of the government, instead the 22 year old King had Fouquet arrested and underwent a lengthy trial which seemed to break all the laws of the French legal code. It was clear that the King had some personal particular reason for wishing to depose one who had previously been so essential to the management of the French state. It is said that it was Fouquet’s dubious management of the French finances along with the expenditure of incredible sums towards his own personal aggrandizement, with chateaus and displays of the wealth which may have angered the King, but there are some strange details to this story which indicate that something else may have been involved. The Society of the Blessed Sacrament intervened to get the sentence the King demanded: Death, commuted to imprisonment but the King demanded that Fouquet be kept in strict solitary confinement and not permitted to speak to anybody and to receive no visitors and even the guards posted to him were forbidden to speak to him on pain of death. It is said that Fouquet served as the model for the Dumas’ novel The Man in the Iron Mask. The King then obtained Poussin’s mysterious Rennes le Chateau mystery painting The Shepherd of Arcadia, but kept the painting hidden and no one was allowed to view it without his express permission.

Could one surmise that Fouquet had come into possession of some dangerous secret and for this reason was hounded by the King whose stipulations that he be allowed to communicate with no one, might be in order to keep control of some secret so terrible that it could be a threat to the royal house and possibly even the church and state itself. Sounds like the start of a cheesy best-selling novel. Whatever the secret of Rennes Chateau it is unlikely to be something as prosaic and common place as a pot of gold. I would hazard possibly that the great secret he discovered hidden under the altar was an unknown gospel of Jesus Christ, one which to this day has remained hidden by the Church authorities.
 

 

 

Edited June 23, 2021 by Truthspoon

[spideysensei]

Beautiful bullish pinbar on yesterday's close, in conjunction with bullish (daily) divergence on the oscillators. Every time we test this level (29-31k) it gets bought back up quickly.  For 5 previous weeks price has failed to push below the 50 week EMA. It's looking good to make that 6 weeks, assuming no major Saturday sell off.  Good signs anyway but we aren't quite out of the woods yet.

 

It was getting quite hairy for a bit; if we lose this level i think forget about crypto this year because it would take months to resolve.  The next support, 15-22k is plausible.  If, and only if we hold this level, we can make another sizeable run later this year.

[Moonlight]

30 minutes ago, Truthspoon said:

 

I have a theory about that too, as any true genius should:

 

Johan Valentin Andrae claimed to be the author of the near mythical text The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz, and featured in the documents found at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, as the 17th Grand Master of the Priory of Sion. Also to feature heavily in the mythos of Rosicrucianism and the Priory of Sion were the characters of Abbe Louis Fouquet and Nicholas Fouquet who were the patrons of Nicholas Poussin. Nicholas Fouquet was the Superintendent of Finances to Louis XIV and a member of the Jesuit Society of the Blessed sacrament, like so many secret societies and Catholic orders, hides itself beneath the veneer of charity, but very little is known of this organization, such is the level of secrecy which has successfully been maintained for four hundred years.

Fouquet is tied in to the mystery of Rennes le Chateau by virtue of the following mysterious letter:

“He (Poussin) and I discussed certain things, which I shall be able to explain to fully quite easily – things which will give you, through Monsieur Poussin, (if you don’t disbelieve them) advantages which even Kings would have great trouble to extract from him, and according to him , perhaps no one in the world will ever hear in the centuries to come; and what’s more, this without much expense may even draw a profit, and these things being so hard to discover, that nothing now on Earth can have better fortune or be their equal” 17th April 1656.

“Beneath the alter of the church of Rennes-le-Chateau there is a chamber in which are tombs dating from the times of the ancient Kings, as well as documents which must not fall into unintended hands, I have had access to the crypts sealed.” Letter from Abbe Bigou, who was the incumbent prior to Sauniere.

Nicholas Fouquet was King Louis 14th's Superintendent of Finance which meant he directed the spending of the state in addition to negotiating with the great (likely Jewish) financers who lent money to the King. Cardinal Mazarin was the chief advisor to King Louis 14th. It seems that Louis XIV had some complaint against Nicholas Fouquet and upon the death of his mentor Mazrin in 1661 when Nicholas expected to take his place as head of the government, instead the 22 year old King had Fouquet arrested and underwent a lengthy trial which seemed to break all the laws of the French legal code. It was clear that the King had some personal particular reason for wishing to depose one who had previously been so essential to the management of the French state. It is said that it was Fouquet’s dubious management of the French finances along with the expenditure of incredible sums towards his own personal aggrandizement, with chateaus and displays of the wealth which may have angered the King, but there are some strange details to this story which indicate that something else may have been involved. The Society of the Blessed Sacrament intervened to get the sentence the King demanded: Death, commuted to imprisonment but the King demanded that Fouquet be kept in strict solitary confinement and not permitted to speak to anybody and to receive no visitors and even the guards posted to him were forbidden to speak to him on pain of death. It is said that Fouquet served as the model for the Dumas’ novel The Man in the Iron Mask. The King then obtained Poussin’s mysterious Rennes le Chateau mystery painting The Shepherd of Arcadia, but kept the painting hidden and no one was allowed to view it without his express permission.

Could one surmise that Fouquet had come into possession of some dangerous secret and for this reason was hounded by the King whose stipulations that he be allowed to communicate with no one, might be in order to keep control of some secret so terrible that it could be a threat to the royal house and possibly even the church and state itself. Sounds like the start of a cheesy best-selling novel. Whatever the secret of Rennes Chateau it is unlikely to be something as prosaic and common place as a pot of gold. I would hazard possibly that the great secret he discovered hidden under the altar was an unknown gospel of Jesus Christ, one which to this day has remained hidden by the Church authorities.
 

 

 

 

of course
this is really an interessting story...I have read a book about it
it seems that some pastor there kept a live long secret

 

 

[Truthspoon]

17 minutes ago, spideysensei said:

Beautiful bullish pinbar on yesterday's close, in conjunction with bullish (daily) divergence on the oscillators. Every time we test this level (29-31k) it gets bought back up quickly.  For 5 previous weeks price has failed to push below the 50 week EMA. It's looking good to make that 6 weeks, assuming no major Saturday sell off.  Good signs anyway but we aren't quite out of the woods yet.

 

It was getting quite hairy for a bit; if we lose this level i think forget about crypto this year because it would take months to resolve.  The next support, 15-22k is plausible.  If, and only if we hold this level, we can make another sizeable run later this year.

 

Beautiful. I'm out of likes but this is the kind of analysis I was asking for.

 

Thankyou.

 

[spideysensei]

57 minutes ago, Truthspoon said:

 

Beautiful. I'm out of likes but this is the kind of analysis I was asking for.

 

Thankyou.

 

 

No problem! TA is my thing; i do it for fun even if not personally invested.

[Daithi]

Bitcoin is a very long way from Satoshi Nakamoto's original vision IMHO. The original idea of crypto felt like a chance to build alternative currency systems for the day to day. So in 2021,  I like the look of 100% private coins like Pirate Chain ARRR. Hopefully one of these privacy coins will build up some steam soon and I'll actually be buying stuff using crypto and with complete privacy.

[karmaxxxx]

1 hour ago, Truthspoon said:

 

Beautiful. I'm out of likes but this is the kind of analysis I was asking for.

 

Thankyou.

 

Truthspoon please read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaMask also click on the consensys link in the wiki page, gives you everything you need to know about Metamask.

on a personal note try if your investing in any crypto use a cold wallet for large amount of coins.

easily moved or hidden. never and I mean never reveal your seed phrase to any one EVER .

a good place to poke around and learn is the bank less nation, Medium have good write ups, every body has advice on crypto but do you know what really nobody knows for sure. only thing I would say is what I actually do READ the white papers of any coins also there road maps, this will help you weed out the scams. I buy low Always so now is a good time to buy but please do your research diversify meaning don't put all your eggs in one basket buy many coins.

i wish you well for your future follow your gut instinct.

@spideysensei great write up . 

[Truthspoon]

Thanks, I'm no mug. Like I said, I don't need to invest in Crypto to make money, just in case it might be useful some day.

 

Though the way the internet is going......everything is shrinking and the broad vistas we once knew have now turned into dark alleys with the cops just behind us.

[karmaxxxx]

3 minutes ago, Daithi said:

Bitcoin is a very long way from Satoshi Nakamoto's original vision IMHO. The original idea of crypto felt like a chance to build alternative currency systems for the day to day. So in 2021,  I like the look of 100% private coins like Pirate Chain ARRR. Hopefully one of these privacy coins will build up some steam soon and I'll actually be buying stuff using crypto and with complete privacy.

I actually don't buy the ethos of bitcoin to many oddities unknown creator? easily spooked ? owned buy a few big corporations? that's like a about 85percent, now think about this from a level point of view .

I am a crypto whale, I want to make large money. so I dump tons of bitcoin whilst its high so get top dollar., price will crash down so now I buy a bigger stake back in at a much lower price but cause nervousness within market so loads jump ship at same time so I buy up their coins to. now I am an even bigger whale and on it goes with silly tweets from those in the same club. MUSK TRUMP etc. all to the same end. now take china closing down mines what? oh not eco enough gtf, as if china ever gave a toss about the environment, a load of smoke and mirrors from start till now. to me its another stock market game. nar bitcoin not for me I am afraid.

now your definitely on the right tracks in my mind with privacy, remember these power hungry shits want to own everything by 2030. so do not give them any chance of taking any of YOUR assets.

[Truthspoon]

22 minutes ago, Truthspoon said:

Thanks, I'm no mug. Like I said, I don't need to invest in Crypto to make money, just in case it might be useful some day.

 

Though the way the internet is going......everything is shrinking and the broad vistas we once knew have now turned into dark alleys with the cops just behind us.

 

And John Mcafee just got suicided. FUCK. 

 

I wonder if the drop in the price of Monero fucked him.

 

God, the guy even says he's in 'hiding' from several governments and had some 'unfriendly encounters' with Mossad.

 

Keith Woods asks Mcafee some interesting questions:

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 23, 2021 by Truthspoon

[karmaxxxx]

12 minutes ago, Truthspoon said:

Thanks, I'm no mug. Like I said, I don't need to invest in Crypto to make money, just in case it might be useful some day.

 

Though the way the internet is going......everything is shrinking and the broad vistas we once knew have now turned into dark alleys with the cops just behind us.

yeah I understand that, I keep coins offline on a cold wallet which I can move around to where I want or carry with me, especially if you need to uproot and move quickly. I honestly wouldn't leave any money in banks only to cover your bills nothing more. so you will need to turn any spare cash to work for you.  i am not sure real estate would be a good idea, but not sure to be honest. only reason I say that is the 2030 thing . now try crossing a border or two with a whole heap of gold, you aint doing it as it will be confiscated. so that's not an option, unless you can sort some way of moving it to say Mauritius the tax haven of the elites who don't want to pay taxes just my thinking lol

[Mr H]

6 hours ago, Truthspoon said:

 

 

Anyone out there actually holding? What do you think about the recent drop in value? Is there a long-term upswing. Some people say yes, others say no.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Yes.

2. Overall picture-IMO coordinated news FUD to lower the price so whales sell high buy low. 

We can see from onchain analytics the latest large movement of coins, majority of sellers BTC new accounts. Buyers are Whale accounts. 

 

As a bye the bye I will just reformulate your question, as this is what has changed BTC price not its value!

 

3. Whether you're a fundamental guy or a technical analysis guy the long term is upswing. To understand why fundamentally yes, I would suggest reading the bitcoin standard. From a technical standpoint you just need to look at a BTC chart with a longer timeframe to see the trend.

 

Terms of wallet. Ledger or Trezor only.

 

 

[Mr H]

1 hour ago, Daithi said:

Bitcoin is a very long way from Satoshi Nakamoto's original vision IMHO. The original idea of crypto felt like a chance to build alternative currency systems for the day to day. So in 2021,  I like the look of 100% private coins like Pirate Chain ARRR. Hopefully one of these privacy coins will build up some steam soon and I'll actually be buying stuff using crypto and with complete privacy.

I can't wait for the day I buy a house 'cash' in coins with dogs on it!

 

More seriously though. Fiat market does 4 trillion a day in trades. Wee while off yet before crypto can scale to accommodate anything like that. Still remember a few crypto kitties clogging up the ETH network!

[Daithi]

8 hours ago, Mr H said:

I can't wait for the day I buy a house 'cash' in coins with dogs on it!

 

More seriously though. Fiat market does 4 trillion a day in trades. Wee while off yet before crypto can scale to accommodate anything like that. Still remember a few crypto kitties clogging up the ETH network!

 

My personal hope is that Crypto for the everyday use grows. The giants of BTC and ETH etc morph into a diverse bunch of coin. Decentralisation of exchanges and atomic swaps across chains becoming the norm. Many alt coins servicing many mundane transactions and finally, at last, fiat starts to die it's long overdue death and we the 99% are free. Maybe I'm spending too long on my crack pipe? But I can dream...

[Mr H]

1 hour ago, Daithi said:

 

My personal hope is that Crypto for the everyday use grows. The giants of BTC and ETH etc morph into a diverse bunch of coin. Decentralisation of exchanges and atomic swaps across chains becoming the norm. Many alt coins servicing many mundane transactions and finally, at last, fiat starts to die it's long overdue death and we the 99% are free. Maybe I'm spending too long on my crack pipe? But I can dream...

I'm smoking that crack with you brother!

[elongated1]

21 hours ago, Truthspoon said:

 

 

Great, basically you've said nothing because clearly you know nothing about the subject, just attention seeking.

 

My post wasn't blank if you remember. I said study, that's the best advise I can give you but if that is nothing to you, that's your opinion. It's you who'd lose money for not knowing at the end of the day.

 

21 hours ago, Truthspoon said:

 

Why bother? Go post on a topic you actually have an interest in instead of just trolling people. What's the point?

 

People who seek to mystify for the sake of it are either malicious or don't know what they're talking about but want people to think that they do.

 

It's one of the oldest tricks in the book.

says....a poster who don't know what I know. Irony. lol

 

21 hours ago, Truthspoon said:

Have a nice day.

 

Oh don't worry. I have a best day, always!

[elongated1]

6 hours ago, Daithi said:

 

My personal hope is that Crypto for the everyday use grows. The giants of BTC and ETH etc morph into a diverse bunch of coin. Decentralisation of exchanges and atomic swaps across chains becoming the norm. Many alt coins servicing many mundane transactions and finally, at last, fiat starts to die it's long overdue death and we the 99% are free. Maybe I'm spending too long on my crack pipe? But I can dream...

 

I wouldn't recommend too much on crack pipe but your first sentence is correct. For example, they are developing layer on top of BTC so that it can be more than the store of value and institutions are in that it won't go zero.

[Mr H]

For those who are more tech savy a question.....

 

Currently the BTC can only be hacked if a computer takes over > 51% of the network - so not very likely.

 

But what about the advent of quantum computing? Does this make this threat real? 

[bamboozooka]

bitcoin is no longer private

 

Police seize record £114m of Bitcoin: Scotland Yard carries out biggest seizure of the crypto-currency in British history after finding staggering sum in suspect’s account

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9723155/Police-seize-114m-Bitcoin-Scotland-Yard-carries-biggest-seizure-crypto-currency.html

[Daithi]

9 hours ago, Mr H said:

For those who are more tech savy a question.....

 

Currently the BTC can only be hacked if a computer takes over > 51% of the network - so not very likely.

 

But what about the advent of quantum computing? Does this make this threat real? 

 

My 2 cents is that a Quantum Computing reality might not ever be realised. Feeble human minds don't seem capable to me of herding quantum foam into an enslaved form. Divine protection to stop abuse for the technocratic agenda.

 

But come the quantum day, comes quantum cryptography? I see some clever bastard will devise new quantum algorithms and concepts that push the protection of the quantum crypto chains beyond the grasp of malicious actors.

 

Optimistic or delusional? Maybe, but that's my belief.

[Daithi]

1 hour ago, bamboozooka said:

bitcoin is no longer private

 

Police seize record £114m of Bitcoin: Scotland Yard carries out biggest seizure of the crypto-currency in British history after finding staggering sum in suspect’s account

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9723155/Police-seize-114m-Bitcoin-Scotland-Yard-carries-biggest-seizure-crypto-currency.html

 

Bitcoin never was properly private. The only true privacy crypto today IMHO is Pirate ARRR - and even then there are opportunities to cream off financial forensics by tapping network chatter for the unsuspecting who don't set their wallets and network connections securely enough...

[Truthspoon]

2 hours ago, Daithi said:

 

My 2 cents is that a Quantum Computing reality might not ever be realised. Feeble human minds don't seem capable to me of herding quantum foam into an enslaved form. Divine protection to stop abuse for the technocratic agenda.

 

But come the quantum day, comes quantum cryptography? I see some clever bastard will devise new quantum algorithms and concepts that push the protection of the quantum crypto chains beyond the grasp of malicious actors.

 

Optimistic or delusional? Maybe, but that's my belief.

 

Great post. I can't miss this opportunity to post a childish and silly article I wrote about the possible dangers of Quantum computing.

 

News from the Future: Dope-Teens and Quantum Computing.

 

The science behind the creation of Quantum Computing.

How our dope fuddled teens' inability to spell properly changed the world forever.

The phenomenon of Freetyping or 3typing, or 3tipin, 3typn or however you feel like spelling it, put an end to words being spelt in one way. In 3thai-pin words are spelt in any one of many varied and incalculable possibilities of ways, and often not necessarily the correct letters, and this generated an unlikely result, namely: the next level in computing.

The intermittent fast moving stream of poorly spelt Facebook nonsense and Tosser yaps washing around the country create an incredible and varied set of mathematical possibilities. These possibilities manifest an algorithm based on the number of letters of each word and thus the activity of these illiterate young people creates enough of an uncertainty principle, to generate cold Quantum chunks. These chunks power the quantum computers which are now secretly operating within the confines of the top secret department of the top-secret department, right at the top, even of the toppest secrets.

New colloquial forms of English developed on the internet where the spoken language, in this case English, is typed to whatever the writer feels sounds correct. Typing errors are actively encouraged and a lax understanding of syntax and morphology are also much prized amongst the community. Inventiveness is promoted, lauded, and instantly assimilated. There are no rules so no form of writing is ever consider wrong or illegible despite the textrbearinf lirrlw ro now connection wirh trhe oeignal speakunfg.
 

Quantum field generator 

 

The creation of the new language through the apparent random actions of a young teenager from Romford addicted to anything red and with aspirations to marry a footballer, actually generates a quantum flux probability field, which is limited on the one hand by the original thought intentions of the sender and what the reader actually understands. Communication was no longer a binary exchange of information, but it had now become a quantum field generator. Between those two limiting factors a series of algorithms spontaneously sprang into existence as if to restore natural order to human chaos, and it was found that by the very act of creating randomness, a hidden form of fractal order instantly appeared.

The algorithms were found to be stable and work accelerated on the mass production of quantum computers. The beauty is their size. The fact is that they have none. They have no physical component. Quantum computae hide themselves inside an interconnected series of normal computers, their operating systems however are located in the 4th dimension.
 

Manipulating reality 

 

The existence of Quantum computing, or 4D computing as it more commonly known, is suspected among the general public but not actually made official. Daily everybody experiences results from 4D computers manipulating their reality, yet they have no understanding of how they operate, despite they themselves and their broader spectra of personal data, being harvested by the social media and fed as raw fuel to power the quantum field.

Quantum computers distinguish themselves from traditional microchip processing by being able to travel in time. A quantum computer’s processor does not actually exist in a physical form, but as a highly energized quantum probability field which can be tapped. Traditional computers are used to host 4D computing only for convenience, the screen and keyboard being present, but a 4D computer can also be manifested by using the components from a television set and an electric egg whisk.
 

4D existence with 3D consequences. 

 

The results of the calculations made by 4D computers are visible to us as ‘present reality’ which is a quantum algorithm. Where traditional computers can make rapid calculations and instantly manifest any ‘2D’ reality, 4D quantum computers make instantaneous calculations and instantly manifest any ‘3D’ reality. The fact that humans created 4D computing is only ‘apparent’ however. 4D computers have always existed and will always exist, the apparent belief that mankind created 4D computing is only a misapprehension as a result of him living in only 3 dimensions.

And so because they are timeless, they can instantly be anywhen and can harvest data from this location in time. It was realized upon the discovery of quantum computing that they merely discovered something that had always been there, but which they had hitherto been unable to interface with.
 

We want your data!

 

Now as we know we have a special force of Day Glow Bobbies requesting information and harvesting probabilities 24 hours a day, sometimes during little publicised 'dawn-info raids' carried out without legal authority. The under-discussed ethical issues of quantum computing have received little if any acknowledgement or consideration from the secret scientific establishment who are operating and developing 4D computing, at their semi-secret location somewhere 25 miles underground. Nor are the potentially hazardous effects of reality distortion widely known.
 

Suddenly ginger!

 

The very fact of accessing a quantum field creates an observer paradox which creates modifications within the quantum algorithm itself. As a result of this modification, unpredictable results can manifest in people whose data has been used in the generation of said fields. Sometimes personal friends have spontaneous become ginger haired, or changed names, or houses and buildings spontaneously moved several miles or disappeared completely. The concerns for reality as we know it are very grave, but while the world seems to be daily amazed at the apparent 'miracles' which 4D computing has unofficially manifested, and are largely in ignorance to the dangers, dissenting voices are few.

 

https://www.truthspoon.com/p/news-from-future.html

[Daithi]

17 minutes ago, Truthspoon said:

 

Suddenly ginger!

 

The very fact of accessing a quantum field creates an observer paradox which creates modifications within the quantum algorithm itself. As a result of this modification, unpredictable results can manifest in people whose data has been used in the generation of said fields. Sometimes personal friends have spontaneous become ginger haired, or changed names, or houses and buildings spontaneously moved several miles or disappeared completely. The concerns for reality as we know it are very grave, but while the world seems to be daily amazed at the apparent 'miracles' which 4D computing has unofficially manifested, and are largely in ignorance to the dangers, dissenting voices are few.

 

https://www.truthspoon.com/p/news-from-future.html

 

I'm dying right now! Bravo, immense humour dude!

[spideysensei]

A bearish engulfing on yesterday's close is yucky... not what we want to see...

However BTC price as we know is full of traps. Perhaps one to draw in the bears here.

Strong showing the past 4 hours, bouncing nicely from a deep .786 fib retracement of the local bottom (22/6)

A green weekend for once?? That would be nice. I'd like to see price get to around 34k by the week close to give me confidence going forward.