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Would you wait 10 minutes to make an in-store purchase? Probably not. However a typical bitcoin transaction can take between 10 and 20 minutes. All that may be set to change soon. Bitcoin Latinum (LTNM), a new Bitcoin fork, is gearing up to launch in Q3 2021, closing several gaps in the current Bitcoin blockchain.

BITCOIN and ETH have bottomed...........GOLD is dead (I lowered it to neutral as noted above)..........BITCOIN is back above $35K AND back above the DJIA......ETH is back above $2IK.......and S&P 500 (yadda, yadda yadda) hits new highs (again)

Until recently, financial advisors were severely limited in the value they could extract from their software, but new, more flexible technology has the potential to simultaneously catalyze growth, lower operating costs and improve the client experience.

The deal pipeline is filling in the fintech space, chief of which includes Visa flexing its muscle in Europe’s open banking industry. Kids are gaining access to financial apps sooner than later, thanks to one UK-based challenger bank. In addition, a couple of German fintech startups are looking to gain a foothold in the US market while the IPO pipeline keeps growing. Andreessen Horowitz has made a key hire and is doubling down on crypto despite a murky regulatory environment.

What's new? CHINA......first its Elon Musk and then here comes China.........China stomps its big foot and basically shuts down BITCOIN mining in China causing BITCOIN to plunge (down 25% week on week).........Panic hits the crypto market, BITCOIN trades under $30K.........ETH drops under $2,000 (off 30%+ week on week)

Most advisory firms want to scale, but not all of them can. One of the biggest obstacles to scaling is not having the right technology in place, said Adrian Johnstone, Chief Commercial Officer at Practifi, a business management platform for financial services firms.

Fintechs are increasingly coming into their own, with investment banks hunting ways to rub shoulders with the digital crowd. In the past week, JPMorgan made a splash with a fintech investment while the IPO pipeline is filling in the U.S., as well as globally. PayPal is upping the ante for merchants as it boasts its prowess in the competitive payments landscape, while central bank digital currencies are all the rage.

Elon Musk changed his tune.....now comfortable with BITCOIN if mined "in a green way."...looks like he likes the $35K level, too.....Michael Saylor (MicroStrategy) floated a $500M bond to buy more BITCOIN.....filed for $1B secondary stock offering to.....you guessed it.....buy more BITCOIN

A bevy of deal activity kept the fintech space in the spotlight once again. The pipeline of startups set to hit the public markets after Marqeta made a splash on the Nasdaq last week is building, and SPACs are still hot to trot. Payments platform Stripe has launched its own AI-fueled identity product, while the buy now, pay later trend continues to gain momentum.

KEEPING SCORE; SO FAR BITCOIN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CLIMATE POLLUTION,MONEY LAUNDERING, CRIME, RANSOMWARE, COLLAPSE OF FINANCIAL STABILITY, MARRIAGE/RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS (OK, that's mine)....whatever.