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Featured Guests

CEO Paul Snow &

Bill Murphy

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Show Highlights

• Bill Murphy of GATA.org returns to the show with fresh insights on the PMs sector.
• Palladium is key precious metal in the auto manufacturing sector used primarily for emissions reduction in gas engines.
• China and other BRICS nations are stockpiling the metal amid a global shortage.
• The price of Palladium recently reached parity with gold.
• Palladium's sister metal, Platinum is $400 less expensive and is an excellent substitute metal for palladium.
• The price differential may present an appealing arbitrage opportunity.
• Silver also has a highly inelastic demand curve with not just one key application but thousands of industrial uses.
• If BRICS manufacturers turn their focus towards silver, an epic short-squeeze scenario could erupt.
• Silver, arguably the "King of industrial metals" could ascend to parity with competing precious metals, 10-100 fold higher.
• Once investor's passion for paper assets evaporates a tidal wave of capital could flow into the relatively tiny PMs sector.
• Given that sources seem to indicate that most new money managers were inactive during the 2000 shares bust, the impact of a 3 sigma event could send reverberations around the global financial arena.

• Factom Blockchain CEO, Paul Snow makes his show debut with an overview of his unique distributed-ledger blockchain.
• Factom was built from the "ground-up," designed to restore transparency to distributed ledgers via a dual token system.
• FCT security tokens are separate from the daily operations tokens that resemble forever stamps.
• The Proof of Work (PoW) is similar to Ethereum Gas, versus Proof of Stake (PoS) such as BitShares.
• Factom brings blockchain immutability to the ledger system facilitating previously impossible services.
• Factom improves the real estate sector, restoring faith in transactions, such as loan origination, and closing.
• Another key Factom use case includes the Internet of Things (IoT) in homes and office networks.
• Analysts project growth in connectivity with mobile phones, laptops, desktops, TVs, kitchen and household appliances.
• Most IoT connected devices currently deploy few if any security features, representing a weak point of easy access.
• IoT networks are vulnerable to attack, creating a threat to the entire network.
• Factom is already working with the Department of Homeland Security to shield key camera and surveillance devices.
• Factom thwarts spoofing by highly sophisticated hackers.
• As such threats become more prevalent Factom will be positioned with first-mover advantage in the IoT eco-space.
• For added security and peace of mind, the Factom Protocol embeds data directly into the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains through the Merkle tree algorithm for merely $0.001 per ten minute hashing cycle, $1.00 per week, $52 annually.