 Great. Welcome to Digital Asset News, the top stories in crypto, right now in bite-sized pieces. So today, a lot of things to go over as usual. The first thing we're going to talk about is before we start, there was two stories that just came up. So I want to serve this as a reminder. And one of those has to do with a friend of the show, Warren Buffett. Just kidding, he's not really a big friend. And second of all, we're going to talk about the potential merger for Ethereum as Vitalik Buterin comes out. And it says exactly when that could potentially be. And then also, we'll take a look at how a trillion dollar bank is halting crypto, but the brave ones, we're going to talk about exactly who those are as far as institutions are going to be the real winners in the end. Also, there's a good story about self-custody being the future of crypto. And this is not just from some fly by night. This is actually from Brian Armstrong and Coinbase. And then lastly, we'll talk about the token that hasn't even launched. And it has 6 million downloads for its app. Unbelievable. And then we'll take a look at some of the digital asset news DGEN channel, the DGEN plays and how those are actually playing out. And lastly, we'll go over the Q&A. And just so you know, if you're here for the live stream, this will be available to you right now. The Q&A, you can ask me anything. We'll probably go pretty long. But if you're watching the replay, just know that we now cut the Q&A portion and we uploaded it as a separate video. And I've explained exactly why we're doing that. But that's what's going on. So let's jump into it and start with a little market recap. And this is as a reminder that we timestamps below so you can skip ahead because I know time is sensitive. So let's just jump right into it. And here's what we got. So today, Saturday, it's almost noon here. El Paso time. And I mean, let's take the little, the little tiny win that we can, right? Bitcoin's up a little bit. And I want to say a little bit, I mean 1.8%. Not that big deal. Ethereum 1.9. Cardano up 5.3%. Binance coin 4.9. 4.2. And some people say it's not altcoin season. Not as kidding really isn't. But there's just little pumps here and there. 4% for polygon. Hey, I like that 5.6. I expect Ethereum to pump and I'm going to tell you why in a second. But just so you know, in traditional market, which I think is correlated, now the same thing, a little pump yesterday. Although it's not that, I mean, like pretty much went down to 3,800 and then bounced back. So I wouldn't call that a rally. I just, it'd be great for traders. And then the NASDAQ, the same type of, it's almost the same exact thing. If you take a look at it, there. I wonder what Bitcoin did yesterday. Just curious. This is just 24 hours. Now look at that. Well, looks a little different on this time frame than there is because they have to stop on Friday. Anyhow, that's what's going on in the market. Actually start. I want to talk about two, two stories. And this is just trying to put things in perspective for you. And one of those things is this, is that everybody talks about Warren Buffett, how he's a great investor. And he is, he's one of the greatest investors of our time. I'll just admit it. Now, he's just like us, right? He sometimes makes a little mistake. He passes on things because you can't win them all. You just can't. He's passed on Google. He definitely passed on Bitcoin. He actually made fun of Jeff Bezos on Amazon. And I missed that boat too. And the one thing you dig it into is Apple. And as successful as Warren Buffett and Brookshire Hathaway is, remember, you can't control everything and you're going to take the hits. So this was a story yesterday where on Buffett's, Brookshire Hathaway is taking a $30 billion hit on Apple and you thought you had a bet. So Apple shares are down 20% this quarter, just so you know. And Brookshire Hathaway had roughly 911 million Apple shares on March 31st. And that position is down about 30 billion cents then. Why do I bring this to your attention? I bring this to your attention because everybody's down in the dumps because like, oh, crypto is awful. And it's really, you know, I've lost so much. And for some, for Luna holders, I can definitely see where you're going with that one because that one I don't think is coming back. But the crypto market in general, usually bounces back over time. Now, not as fast as say like an Apple. But again, the one thing I like about Warren Buffett is that he can sit back and go, you know what, it's a long play. It's a long play. And I'm going to be here for a while. I take a look at the companies that have a fantastic team. They took a look at the price, the price earning ratio, the PE ratio. They see things that are undervalued and they invest into those companies that they truly believe in. I think that's the same thing that we're trying to do here with crypto and digital assets. But just know as great as a company is, as great as a crypto project is, you're going to have those down days. So don't beat yourself up over it. And that's the first one. The second one I want to talk to you about is this, because people are going to make a big deal about it. And sure, you're going to see it. But I want to give you the whole story. So this is from Watcher News. If you're not following those guys on Twitter, they've got some pretty good stories. A theorem co-founder of a tally-butter and confirms that the merge is happening soon. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon. And this is what was said. So, first of all, Watcher Guru, excuse me, their Twitter account says, just in Vitalik Buttermann confirmed the transition to proof of stake will likely happen this August. Then of course, there's always a story behind the story. This is what happened. A theorem co-founder of Vitalik Buttermann has confirmed that the blockchain network will complete its switch to proof of stake this summer. He made his declaration at the ETH Shanghai Web 3.0 Developer Summit, where he said that the merger is very close to happening. The theorem's transition to proof of stake has been promised for seven years now. So just put that into context, seven years it was promised. That's a long promise, man. I got to tell you, seven years is quite some time. I know people will say, but Rob, it's like changing the engine on a moving car. Sure. I suppose I'm not a developer, but sure has taken some quite some time. So this is positive. However, here's the story behind the story. During the summit, Buterman said this, if there are no problems, then the merge will happen in August. Let me say that one more time. If there are no problems, the merge will happen in August. But of course, there's always a risk of problems. There's also a risk of delays. And so September is possible and October is possible as well and probably November and final December. So look, you're going to hear a lot of that story today throughout the YouTubes and the Twitterverse and people are going to talk it up to be the greatest thing of all time. I am not holding my breath. If it happens in August, great. If it happens sometime this year, fantastic. If it happens next year, whatever. I'm just not holding my breath and the same thing that I do for the Bitcoin spot ETF, not hold my breath for that one either. I've been hearing that same song and dance for quite some time. So if you're going to go, if you're going to hear these stories, get the story behind the story before you say, you know what? I'm going to go in heavy because it's going to happen. No. Yeah, there's going to be delays, I think. And there's going to be a little bit of extension of what's going on. Let me just think about that in the comments section. Let's move on to the real stories, which is trillion dollar bank halts crypto, but the brave ones really do get it. So here's what's going on for all the Australian folks. This one's for you. So top Australian bank ceases crypto pilot amid market downturn. And I was hesitant to really lambast this whole situation because in all honesty, they're just doing what's best for them, the company, and moving forward. I think it's not a great decision for some of their customers, but it is what it is. And I will just say before we go on, who's Commonwealth Bank? That is the largest bank in Australia. Also, if you take a look at the total assets of CBA or Commonwealth Bank of Australia, from financial year 2012 to 2021, it's over, this is a mount. Let me blow this up so you can see it. Geez. Assets in billion Australian dollars. So it's over a trillion. So they're no slouches. They're doing a lot of volume. They got a lot of different assets. So good for them. So what's going on here? This is what's up. The bank became the first major financial institution in the country to allow certain customers to make in-app purchases through the ComBank banking app in November. And first of all, if you are from Australia, could you sound off and tell me if that is true, if they are like the biggest bank out there for Australia? Because I can only tell you what I read. And I think it's important we know that. So anyhow, CBA partnered with Gemini to leverage its crypto exchange and custody service, which was integrated into the app via API. So that's good. Makes it easy. But despite the pilot's overwhelmingly positive reception and popularity, current market woes, Terribby won them, have formed a major part of the bank's decision to halt its crypto services. And here's the thing, if we take a look back, this was just in March, March 22nd. So they just started this. Commonwealth Bank says crypto already mainstream. The bank has experienced a significant uptake of crypto activity on its app, since it first allowed users to buy and sell digital assets last year. CBA's managing director of blockchain and digital assets said feedback over the ability to buy crypto via the common bank app has been overwhelmingly positive. And here's the thing I think about this, is that I think people, they get into crypto and they say, well, that's a buzzword and that's awesome. I really want to get into it. But they don't know, they don't get the point behind it. And when they see the super volatility, they're like, this is scary. I don't like this. This isn't like the bonds that I fessed into, or even some of the S&P 500, even though, you know, if you're investing on Netflix, good luck with that. There's a lot of that. But I think these are the things that happen. And the bank probably got some negative feedback. And I think it really all comes down to education. I was on a roundtable discussion, John, Jerry, and some different guys. And Rob Nelson, who was the moderator said, he talked about how he thinks that the thing that will really push us into crypto for adoption is just on ramps. And I'm like, I don't think it's on ramps that really people need. I think more of it is education and investment strategy. Investment just education knowledge in general. I don't know about you, but my parents didn't teach it to me. And I didn't get that in the schools, America. And I didn't really get a lot of education growing up. And I had to do this all myself. So I think to me personally, it is probably a little bit of education here. And I don't know because as far as with the banks, because there was no follow up and they couldn't get anybody to respond from the bank. So that's the first part. That's the negative. So let's take a look a little bit at the positive. When I talk about the brave will be the ones that win in the long run. This is what I'm talking about. So we had covered the story yesterday. And this was Swiss asset manager Julius Baer, I's crypto and DeFi potential. Now, they have a minimal half a trillion assets under management. So not as big as that first bank, but there's just this quote from the CEO, Rick and Bakker nailed it. He drew parallels knowing that cryptos and DeFi all the same potential as the dot com bubble, which birthed the internet in various core services. And he said this, and I think this makes total sense. And this is what I talk about education in the mindset. They crypto DeFi will transform the financial sector over the next 10 years, 10 years, 10 years. And it's important for us to gain a strong foothold in this area. That's why it's exactly the right moment to invest in the long term potential of digital assets, 10 years, 10 years. So I don't know about you. I don't know if you have that time, but I can tell you, I don't know when everything's going to pop up. I'm not going to say that in 10 years. That's when of course crypto or Bitcoin will get a 10% bump. I'm just saying that in 10 years, this whole space will look radically different. Over the last 10 years, we went from a market cap of below $100 billion to over $3 trillion. And that was just the first part. If we take a look at the adoption rate for just the internet, even if you take a look at adoption rate for like electricity, there's a nice little S curve. And over time, you see that it starts out slow gradually and suddenly. So these are the people that get it. And then also to counteract the point of the CBA of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, here's a great little story. And this was actually from the thumbnail itself, which was the crash won't stop the industry says Morgan Stanley exec. That's her right there. She's head of growth. This is what was said. I thought this was pretty smart. So financial service experts are confident that the digital asset industry will bounce back quickly after the meltdown. And this is from Amy Oldenburg. That's the one right there talking on the panel. And she says, I don't think we're going to miss a beat here. And she is the head of emerging markets equity at Morgan Stanley investment management. And she said this in response to a question about how the situation might impact digital assets. She states though there will certainly be increased scrutiny around the stablecoin industry. Innovators will see this as an opportunity and appropriate regulation is going to help projects advance and onboard more users. So Morgan Stanley, if you don't know, they also have 1.5 trillion assets under management. So when we talk about the brave people or the ones that really get these institutions that have a lot of money to swing around, these are the ones that I'm talking about. I think this is a positive step. And of course, when I say the smart ones, I'm talking about people like that. So let me know what you think about that in the comment section. And then let's move on to our next piece, self custody. I think this was, it was, it was interesting where it came from. And I'll explain that in a second. So this is ledger VP, the ledger, one that you got. What are my ledger go somewhere on there? They talk about self custody. And I was hesitant to, to say this would be the big, the next big thing, but it really is a truth. So here's what we got. I first, I thought that of course, of course, ledger is going to say that self custody is a future because that's the whole thing that they do, right? Ledger wallet, cold storage, of course they're going to say that. But the surprise was this, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said he expects users to more seriously consider taking assets into their own hands. The exchange now offers self custody wallets. And soon we'll give users the option to do so directly through the app. And that was in a post. And he also said this, the products that the most crypto forward people are using today, like me and you, I mean, we know how to use a ledger and all those things. If you don't know how to use ledger and do all that self custody stuff, just go to digital, Dan teaches crypto.com, 100% free website. And in the very first chapter, I talk, I do a video series on how to do that. So anyhow, again, free. Oh, let me read that again. The products that the most crypto forward people are using today will be used by mainstream customers in a year. And by institution a few years after that, of course, we're frowning. We need to start integrating them today. So ledger unveiled plans to add a crypto wallet extension called ledger connect, which you know, kind of like your MetaMask, but like a little bit different. It's on Safari that will allow users to connect hardware wallets to web three apps, such as Ethereum and Solana. Interesting how they picked both of those, just saying security is likewise key when it comes to self custody, users will be alerted if an app is linked to past scams, hacked websites, or fraudulent smart contracts. I gotta tell you, that's a that's a winner of a design right there for ledger. If they can do those types of things. Now when you're connecting to things, I think this will help a lot of people because how many how many times you see it on Twitter or any other video that's out there where people just lose a bunch of money because there was a there was a scam. There was a hack. There was something with these with the fallible smart contract and then people lose all their, you know, cryptos. So if something like this could go through, that'd be great. I don't think MetaMask does that correct me in the comments section. So I like to see more of that. And lastly, and he said is he says it pretty smartly having something in your hand is essential for people the tangibility of it's really important because when I I've given some friends ledger wallet, I get my brother ledger wallet, you know, and they even use it. But when you have something in your hands, you say, this is my crypto, we know it's not. But it's like to get away from that that that feeling of like, well, this is the tangible part, this is where it is. I think it helps people to kind of move them into the whole concept. And of course, we know it's just the the private keys, the ledger itself is not contained in there. It's in the blockchain, the nodes and things like that. So I think it's moving in the right direction. I think this is, yeah, this could actually be a little bit more of a better idea than keeping things on exchanges and having things getting ripped off. Anyhow, I want you to think about that in the comments section. Let's move on to the last one. This one's pretty good. The token that hasn't even launched. And it's got 6 million downloads. Can anybody guess what that is? Let me smell it burn the comments. Bitcoin is king. Yeah. Guitar player Noah, they need a ledger extreme with crazy clothes play heavy metal. Okay, I'll say what it is. It's this one. It's called sweat coin. It hasn't even it's not even out. It's it's an app that's been available for the last three or four years. You could download I have it on my phone right now. It doesn't give you crypto yet. So this to me is pretty amazing. First of all, what is sweat coin? And I'll be doing a deep dive later. No, they haven't paid me to say anything about this because they haven't even launched it yet. But I will be trying to get as many tokens as I possibly can. So anyhow, what this app does, it's kind of like a step to earn or move to earn. It is mood earn. But kind of like stepping. That's what I'm trying to say. But for this one, you don't turn it on and just lives on your phone. All the different steps that you take, it gives you these sweat coins or sweat tokens. Right now, you can redeem those for different products that they've partnered up with like Apple products and beats and things like that. And it's pretty cool. I've had this for about six weeks now, maybe five, four, five or six weeks. And it works out pretty well. And I've taken the coins that I've been given. Again, these are just like, like traveler miles, I guess, and you can use those and you can do whatever you want with them, like you buy the little, like I said, like beats and stuff like that. But what I did was I just donated to the Ukraine situation. But I found it interesting that they already have six million sweat wallets. That's not that's not just the app. That's the wallets. Because what they're going to do is when you download this app, when they come out with their cryptocurrency, which I wanted to say is going to be built on finance, but I can't remember. For every sweat token that you have in your wallet, they're going to they're going to exchange that one for one for their crypto tokens. So I've been talking about this for like three or four weeks now, I said download the app and then accumulate as many different things, different tokens that you can just by walking around, hold your, if you take a walk, just use your, just take your phone with you, whichever it does anyhow. And when they do their TGE, their token generation event, they're going to swap for tokens, for crypto tokens, not just the ones like the, you know, little cutesy travel miles type of things. But there is one problem with this one. And I will just say this right here. Thanks Gary, protect me harder. So make sure to download the latest version of the app. And it's available in iOS. It's also available on Android. You will see a big crypto banner if you are in a territory area where crypto is supported newsflash Americans, you are not available. So sorry, America. However, before we, before everybody throws their hands up, like, oh, that's the worst thing of all time. That doesn't mean that it can't actually get into America. That's what happens with a lot of a lot of cryptos. They start off in different parts of the world. And then they slowly move into the other exchanges that are us based, and then you can do those things. So just so you know, if you want to do something like that, there is actually I'll show you in a second. Now let me bring this up. So in every one of my videos, look at nice, nice one. If you blow this up so you can see it. So in every one of my videos in the description, just scroll down, see where this is like little running man thing that there's like two things I have all the time. It's this one, sweat coin tokens. And I get like five, five tokens. If you can't stand me, then don't use the, the affiliate link. It's fine. But it takes you to the right, the, the right download for iOS or Android, whatever you got. And when you do that, then you can compete against me. And this is from Dingo. He sent me a message. And I'm crushing everybody as far as like steps, especially with my trip to Italy and the UK, like I'm killing everybody except for DG. So he caught up with me. So everybody who uses my, my link, they can compete against me in steps. Good luck beating me. You won't or maybe you will. I don't know. So yeah, I just take a look at that and go from there. So that's what we have as far as sweat coins. I love it. No, Tim, I'm not in Costa Rica. I'm in right now when I'll pass with Texas, but I do live in Puerto Rico, the close and Gabe, same thing. So before we, we take off, I just want to talk to you real quick about the D gen plays and actually let's, let's go back here. So I've got two channels and this one is just for news. And I'm very straight laced. I tell you, I give you the news as far as like the good part of the news and the bad part of the news. I actually start with a bad part usually, like we just talked about with the Australian bank kicking out all their users night, finish up usually with some good news so you can get some balance. So you don't just get a bunch of hope and then go, it's going to the moon. So that's this channel. The second channel is called Dan D gen. And I named it D gen for two reasons. First of all, I put a pull out on Twitter. That's what everybody said it should be called. And I wasn't going to do it, but I called it D gen Dan D gen because I want you to realize that you will probably lose all your money if you invest into these projects because that's what I think could potentially happen. And I don't want to say everybody come to me and go, oh, Robbie told me to invest in this thing. And now it went to zero. Sure. I do as much research as I can. So you listen, so you can watch and do your own stuff, right? However, here's the update for the last three projects that we, we did. And again, you can find, first of all, you can find the link to the second channel right here in the description, or if you just put in pink, yeah, just type in Dan D gen or digital asset news D gen and the channel will come up. Let me see here. Here's all the videos. And I did do a move to earn, but man, so last three that I've done, there is a spreadsheet. Again, you can find the spreadsheet in the description. And in that, the three that we have done the deep dives on, and I personally invested into, and also I do not get paid a dime from any of these, these projects. I have talked to them beforehand. And what they did was they gave me access to their CEOs, their CFOs, and any kind of light papers, white papers or different things that I needed so I can make an informed decision. I paid them to get into their token. So just we are 100% clear. I'm not, first of all, I'm not a pump and dump. I still hold, not all of it. I sold some against Okiishi and Everdom and fame MMA, but the majority I still hold. So again, so Kishi, just so you know, come on, why doesn't this thing blow up? No, I guess not. So it's going to be a little bit small. Sorry. Gensokishi was a, it's a pretty good game. And we did the review day in December 15th. Here's the link to the video. We got in at 0.015. We obtained a 333,000 tokens because we can't, because on these, on these, when you get into it, you can't buy a ton of them initially. So the price today is 75 cents. So, you know, it's a 50x gain. It's not bad. Everdom, not as good. We did the, the, there's a deep dive. We did this on February 15th. Got it in at 0.005, 200,000 tokens. Now it's two cents. Used to be like eight cents, but of course everything has gone down. So that's a 4x. All right. Then fame MMA token, which is my favorite. It actually went all the way up to 49 cents. 40, yeah, 47, 48 cents. Now it's at seven cents and 100,000 tokens and seven cents. The whole theme for all of these tokens, I just have, I want you to know, is that they have built-in communities. Gensokishi was already out on PS4 and Nintendo Switch and iOS and Android and had millions of players. This was a no-brainer. Everdom, they had teamed up with MetaHero and their whole community to bring in Everdom, which is a metaverse play, no-brainer. And fame MMA is, it's a mixed martial arts pay-per-view where they take influencers like TikTokers, YouTubers, and people who are on social media and they have them fight. I swear to God, it's what they do. This is in Europe. This is in Poland. Now they're branching out to all the parts of Europe. So they had like, you know, these influencers and on their contract, it was to promote this fame token. So this was a no-brainer. So probably the next one, if everything works out, I'll probably do a deep dive into sweat tokens. So these are the ones that are really doing well. And these are the first three that we did. Will we do mistakes and probably pick some losers along the way? Yeah, probably. That's the whole play for DGEM. But that's where we're at right now. Just wanted to bring it to your attention. I'm not a financial planner, obviously. Financial opinion, not financial advice. That's how we're doing thus far. 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