 Okay. First of all, let me just say, welcome, everybody. Thanks for stopping by. We're trying a new internet service, so we'll see how this works out. And what we're talking about today is I think sometimes a lot of people, they like to focus too much on the negative aspects of government and politicians, and who wouldn't, because there's just so much negativity out there. But I think there's a lot of things that are positive and things we should take note of. And what I'm talking about is there was another conference by Governor Ron DeSantis from Florida. And we had covered, this was one of his press comments that he did like a couple of weeks ago, where he talked about just how evil CBDCs are. And I thought it would just be one thing, like a one and done type of thing. But then just a couple of days ago, he was at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference, and he talks about the same thing. And what I like about these things is that when people come out, especially politicians in high ranking positions, they come out and they talk about the evils of CBDCs. It's not like this is something that is underground and something that is like tin foil hat, conspiracy theory type of craziness. It kind of gives it a little bit of a legitimacy. And what he talks about here, it's only 50 seconds. So just take a listen real quick. Let me make sure you can hear the audio correctly with this one. Take a listen here. And one of the things we're going to ban in Florida this year is the idea of a central bank digital currency that they're trying to do. This is something where they want the Fed to control a digital dollar. And guess what will happen? They're going to try to impose an ESG agenda through that. You go and use too much gas. They're going to stop it. They're not going to honor the transaction because you've already bought more than what they think. You want to go buy a rifle. They're going to say, no, you have too many, too many of those. You can't do it. So it's ceding the power of our financial freedom to a central bank, which does not have our interests at heart. So I think all states need to band together, need to say we're not doing this central bank digital currency. And we're going to let you be in charge of your own finances. I can tell you, I like that being in charge of your own finances. It makes a lot of sense. I think it's one of the big reasons why we got into crypto, Bitcoin, digital assets. So when he talks about these things and he says, you know what? With the CBDCs, we have to get rid of them. And of course, we're not going to move forward. I understand that a governor of just one state can't stop a tidal wave of CBDCs coming in. Just doesn't work like that. If the government wants to come out here and say, you know what? We're going to CBDCs. Well, tough luck, Florida. And every other governor that comes behind him or in front of them and says, we don't want that. However, I think it's a step in the right direction. And then also, I know people were a little bit concerned about the Fed now coming out in July, which is the ability for the Fed to settle transactions and deliver monetary units directly from the Fed itself. And we actually covered this in a video, I linked in the description as well. And we talked about it and we said, the Fed now is not a CBDC. Let me say that again. The Fed now is not a CBDC. Of course, you know, people were disagreeing and like, no, it actually is. No, it's not. And then some people would say, well, it's on the rails of a CBDC. Yes, potentially it is. But this is actually from Caitlyn Long. And Caitlyn is a founder, CEO of Custodial Bank. She has been on Wall Street for 22 years and pretty big proponents of Bitcoin. She goes, look, Newsflash, Fed now is not a CBDC. It's a big risk for July. And she says, there's probably more problems brewing. But this is not a CBDC. And even the Fed had to come out and say, look, is the Fed now replacing cash? Is it a central bank digital currency? No, it's not related to digital currency. Fed now is a payment service. The Federal Reserve is making available for banks and credit unions to transfer funds. So that sounds great, right? Sounds fantastic. Great. I have a sigh of relief. Well, not too fast, because even the Fed now isn't a CBDC. And we talked about how it is. And I want to understand that this wants to ban CBDCs. Here's the thing. Here's the reality. The CBDCs are going to come. They're probably going to make their way onto it. But again, like I've said many times, if they come out with a CBDC and they don't, and actually gets through Fed now, and it brings it out, how long before you think that people who are like, oh, great, I have no idea about other aspects that I can use a crypto or digital asset or get out of these rails before they start shutting things down. Again, I believe it all takes place, and it just takes a little bit of time for them to screw it up to where they start shutting off accounts to where people are like, why do I have this CBDC digital currency? And maybe there's something else that I can do. Me personally, I don't mind when it rolls out. If it actually does roll out, I think it is. I think it'll just be a disaster waiting to happen. But I could be wrong. I'm interested in about that in the comments section. And also to follow up on a little bit of positivity as far as politicians and Congress, because they're not all against us. This was an interview with Laura Shin from Unchained Podcast, and she interviewed Tom Emmer. I didn't know, I know Tom was in, was a congressman, I know he was the house majority whip. And he said, look, Gary Gensler, and he's a huge proponent of Bitcoin as well. He said, look, Gary Gensler was a bad faith regulator. He's been really positive for Bitcoin, but here's what he says. He goes, this guy in my mind is a bad faith regulator. He's been blindly spraying the crypto community with enforcement actions while completely missing the truly bad actors. And if you need a little bit of like a graphical representation of what Gary has done so far, as far as like protecting investors, it's all summed up in this meme that I made that, well, I was actually helped out. But this is what Gary has done so far. He has protected you against taking with Kraken. So congratulations. And Tom comes out here and says, you know what, I just don't think he's doing a great job. This is what he's protect you. And this is what hasn't. So on these parts, we can say, well, great, there's all other politicians that are actually positive for crypto. Also, what about government itself? Well, there was a bill from Arkansas, which passes a right to mine, a right to mine Bitcoin bill, Arkansas. And here's what we got. USA of Arkansas has passed the bill that aims to protect the local right to mine crypto. And that's all crypto, not just Bitcoin, any kind of proof of work. Records indicated that the bill was passed by the house and sent on April 6. It was enrolled and sent to the governor's office where it requires approval on April 7, which will get Arkansas data center to act to 2023 aims to prevent local governments from imposing certain restrictions on crypto mining activities. So again, we can talk about the negative aspect about how government's working against us. But remember, I know this is very naive to say, but it is true, the government does work for us, not the other way around. And then one more thing to consider, which is even if the government comes at us and comes at the crypto and digital asset space and try to shut things down and they want to do legal actions and use all their might, there's still options for us. We're not in a communist society yet. And this gives me hope. So Coinbase asks for about half a million dollars to cover the fees costs from the insider trading case. You don't remember about a year ago or so, can't remember when it was exactly, but the SEC brought a case against two brothers who were inside trading at Coinbase. And Coinbase helped out the SEC because they were trying to do the good work. And they go, hey, I know that we did all that. And now that we're at each other's throats now, why don't you pay us for all the work that we did? So on a letter dated April 3rd, a lawyer representing Coinbase asked for restitution to cover the costs that occurred during the investigations by the SEC. 400 grand would cover five grand jury subpoenas served on Coinbase with 65 total requests and 60 grand and lost wages for employees. So again, remember, just because the government comes at you doesn't mean that you're going to lose. I will remind you that Mark Cuban beat the SEC for insider trading. That case was years ago and beat them pretty handily. So it's not like just because the government comes after you, you're going to lose automatically. So these types of things give me hope. And then also, speaking of legal, legal community accepts XRP verdict by May 6. Lawyer meets SEC is one valid claim. So every time I hear anything about the XRP verdict or the Ripple should be the reliever Ripple verdict as the SEC is suing them. I always think to myself, yeah, right. When that happens, we'll also get a spot Bitcoin ETF to come right along with it. Translation at sarcasm. I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon. But I found this interesting as to the logic. It's not really warped, but it does make sense. And Bill Morgan, regulator, actually Bill Morgan, yeah, yeah, excuse me. Bill Morgan is not a regular. He's a pro XRP lawyer, excuse me. And he states, the SEC may be right about investors buying XRP with the exception of Ripple winning the ongoing case against the SEC. And what he said is this, the regulators claim acknowledges investors may be banking on Ripple's legal endeavors to reap gains rather than the company's business efforts. Because this all comes out of the Howie test. If you have an expectation of profit based on the work of others, that could potentially constitute a secured lawyer surprise. But I found this interesting. They said, well, it's not that the XRP army is waiting for the endeavors of the business and what they do with Ripple. What they're saying is because that there was a lawsuit brought against Ripple that the XRP holders are stating that they're actually waiting for revenue to come because of the efforts of this lawsuit. If it turns out to be positive. So it's like the SEC can come at you and go, okay, we're going to sue you. And you say, okay, well, we're not a security. But because of our efforts that we put forth for our lawyers and our time and our money, that will raise the price of XRP if we win, which is true. So he states, paradoxically, the SEC may be correct about investors relying on Ripple's efforts, but not because of Ripple's business efforts or sales of XRP, but it's legal efforts defeating the SEC's lawsuit shouldn't be successful, which let's be honest, between us. If Ripple wins this case, I'm pretty sure XRP is going to go up. And I'm pretty sure, well, I'm just guessing, I don't know. But I'm guessing that a lot of people have probably picked up XRP because of the fact that they feel that they're going to win this case. And that, of course, is one of the Howie prongs. And that's just not coming from me. That's a pro XRP lawyer. So sound off in the comment section and we'll go from there. And lastly, just to finish up, I know there's been a lot of talk about Ethereum probably will drop a hefty amount because of the upcoming Shanghai upgrade. And just so you know, it's April, is it April 7th today? April, oh, sorry, April 8th. So this actually happens roughly on April 12th. And this is a report which says, state Ethereum withdrawals could take weeks after the Shanghai upgrade. So there's just one more, one more piece of the puzzle. I'm not going to read it, but it just pretty much goes down to it's going to take a long time. If people want to unsteak and sell out, it would take a little bit of time. I personally don't think it's going to drop too much because most of the people who were staking their Ethereum at the point years ago, they're going to be underwater. So what's the point of selling right now? I mean, if you want to do that, be my guest, but I don't see the whole point to it. So all these things that we talk about, I see some pretty positive parts to it. And also, if we take a look over here in the cryptiverse, see just how far we're undervalued as far as the market itself. The fair market value is still almost $2 trillion, $2 trillion. Now, we're at $1.1 trillion. Upper band is $15 trillion. We're going to hit that. But again, I think we're still pretty undervalued. The current risk as far as Bitcoin goes, still 0.4, which is pretty low. Ethereum, 0.5, a little bit higher. What about ADA? It's got to be low. Yeah, 0.2. VNB, much 0.4. Solana, it's got to be low. Yeah, 0.2 and so forth. And also, if we take a look at indicator summary, as far as risk, which takes a look at price metrics, on-chain and social metrics, we're still at a pretty low point, which doesn't mean anything. We could fall out, fall to the floor tomorrow. But I got to tell you, right now seems like it's a pretty undervalued. But that doesn't mean it can't go lower, just what the metrics say. And then lastly, lastly, I will just say this. For all the things that we're trying to do, if you're a Bitcoin investor or a Shiba Inu investor, or, I don't know, take your picks, investor, you're going to pick the wrong one at some point. No investor that I know of personally has a 100% track record, not even Warren Buffett. So just be aware of that. And the things that you do your own research on, you're still going to get kind of screwed over. And there's a lot of people out there that are going to do those things. And here's a great story. This is just a minute. I want to share it with you. This is a tech CEO for a company called Frank. And if we always talk about do your own research, do due diligence and all that great stuff, right? Well, this 31-year-old who was named Forbes 40, Fantastic 40 and 40, whatever it's called, she scammed JP Morgan out of $175 million. So if you think that those guys didn't do a ton of due diligence before she ripped them off, I think I got a bridge to sell you. But just take a listen to this. Let me just stop my screen again just to make sure that you can actually hear this about a minute. Just take a listen. This morning, Charlie Javis, founder of the financial and non-profit Frank, could be facing up to 100 years in prison accused of defrauding JP Morgan Chase out of millions. Frank kind of represented that as a name because it just meant honest. Federal investigators alleged Frank was a fraud. They say 31-year-old Javis, who made the prestigious Forbes Magazine 30 under 30 list, didn't scam students but scammed the bank. By falsely and dramatically inflating the number of customers of her company claiming 4.25 million customers or users when the real number was under $300,000. So there you go. Look, if JP Morgan can't get it right and all the people that get screwed over can't get it right, there's going to come a point where something's going to happen where it's just not going to go your way. So I'm just here to tell you that it happens the best of us, do the best to the best of your abilities, do your own research and move forward. And that's what I got for you. Don't beat yourself up too much. And lastly, lastly, before we get a little chat, is if you haven't signed up for Dan Teach's Crypto, it's 100% free. And I've been hinting at some things that we're going to be rolling out. So just if you're a member of my free website, check your email inbox today or tomorrow. And that's it. So look, that's it for today. So if you like today's video, give it a thumbs up, consider subscribing. 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