Hey, Bankless Nation. Welcome to another episode of State of the Nation. This is the episode

where David and I get into the charts. Well, not just David and I, we brought a special

guest. Who do we bring on today's state of the nation, David?

Benjamin Cowan from Into the Cryptoverse, who is my favorite charter when I go and decide

this time to look at the charts and kind of just want to get myself grounded as to where

we are in the world. And charting, it's, it's this interesting word, right? Charting as

in like, you know, the candles that you see on, on a chart. But charting is also like charting

a course and like navigating a course. And so on the inevitable metaphor of going westward,

we're bringing in our, our cartographer to help us map out where we are in the world of

the markets. Where are we in this market's market cycle? Are there cycles even more at

all? So we're going to ask some pretty broad questions to Ben, our resident cartographer.

So where we are in the world of these charts. Yeah. And I, I don't look at charts very

often. It's kind of a, but it's, I do enjoy it. It's kind of like candy to me, David.

So it's like, I, you know, I, I touch it sparingly or it's all over the adults myself.

But what I love about Ben's work is that he looks at the, kind of the macro market cycle

as well. So it's not just like, what are we doing on the daily or what's the weekly looking?

But like big picture, where are we in this long term trend? So I know we're going to talk

about that. I know we're going to talk about the cycles. I know we're going to talk about

the dip that we have experienced just like right now as we're recording this. And then

I know we're going to talk about the close of 2021 because this is almost a year wrapped

up. And then what 2022 will bring? Everyone is curious about that. David, we've also got

some news in the bankless nation. So we dropped in episode with former CFTC chair, crypto

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