 So today the big story is actually hidden behind a couple of different layers I need to peel back and it's really all started with a spark and that spark was an email that was sent to me by a Subscriber we talked about the things that he's doing trying to get into crypto and digital assets and how he's kind of spinning his wheels So we're gonna take a look at this best kept secret and we're gonna take a look at form present New York stock exchange Talking about different things about digital assets We're gonna take a look at how Paxos is going to become a bank and finally we'll finish it all off with Cardano Being able to set payments via Shopify or WooCommerce, which I think is actually huge So we'll take a look at those things the first take a look. Let's go on the market today. It is April 25th 10 a.m very beautiful day here and It looks like we are in a sort of a recovery, which is kind of weird because usually on the weekends You see a bunch of people just dumps especially on Sunday But hey, we got dumped on Thursday and Friday, which I think The big reason was because Joe Biden present Joe Biden at states came out and said hey We're gonna start to raise taxes on capital gains from 20% to 39.6% Then also people showed me some rumors where he was talking about taxing cryptocurrency by 70% and like that's stupid So that is just rumor fud everything else. I'm gonna dignify that I also heard a rumor that it's gonna be 90% Or maybe even a hundred percent. That's how rumors start. They're dumb So just stick to the facts and I think we'll be okay. So remember It's it's all what actually can be passed in the Senate and the House of Representatives So we'll see that actually goes through Anyhow total market cap 1.88 almost at 1.9 trillion. Take a look at the coins Bitcoin I believe is actually at above the D thousand so I know people were talking about well It's gonna go to 45 then 40 then 25 I mean if you look at technicals sure, I'm not a big TA guy. So, you know, someone in my comment section So you know what 70% of time it's right every time. I was like, yeah makes about sense. Yeah, yeah anchor man So Bitcoin is up 2% 24 hours theorems up. I mean everything's up. It's a pretty great day And if you bought the dip congratulations, that's really what it comes down to you have to really like Robert Art said over on my Twitter account He goes, hey, you got to train your brain to look for these red dip days and just say that's time I buy because it is the exact opposite of what's really going on and that's That's the big stuff 25% for Tara man 70% for pancake swap watch out X speaking of watch out XRP is up 9% for 24 hours. Congratulations. That's looking pretty good above a dollar now Let's take a look at if you're a big trader, which I am not Which you could look at this is trade the chain sentiment analysis link in the description all that good stuff and Look at mithril theta fuel that makes sense T fuel sky coin storm X Troy and red coin And you're looking at with 90% assurance that they're gonna go up 6.8 6.8 5.8 3.8 and 3.4 Again, that's all for you traders. All right, so let's jump into Really, let's start off with the email actually before I do that. Let me just start off with If you've noticed in my comments section, it's been much cleaner now not as many scammers and spammers So we did trial with these guys to reach out to us. It's a brand new company called YouTube guard And if you are a youtuber and want to clean up the space for the scams and spams because it's impossible to do it by yourself Take a look at these guys. I get absolutely no compensation For them. It's just if you want to sign up and check it out There is a link in the description There's one yes shape for me in mullet. Let me If you scroll down Right here in the red above follow Dan says you have a YouTube channel Here's the website the code is Dan you get two weeks for free and maybe we can start to really clean up this space because it is Ridiculous, it's just awful. So if you look actually in my comment sections It's looking a lot cleaner than what it was you just get thumbs up couple of replies and That's it. So check those out and that's all about if you are a youtuber All right, so this was the email that I got and this is what I was talking about peeling back the layers So the big thing is guy says, hey, here's my story. He's living in California. Oh, sorry and Just talks about, you know, I'm in profit. I've saved some money. I got a little bit over a hundred thousand at the moment It's pretty good As you know, I can't invest for a house here in California He says your last video inspired me. I hate the idea of feeling like a slave while having a nine-to-five job for a lifetime Like know your opinion about what else I can do to take it to the next level since current capital It's not gonna save me from the five to nine job and that's true. So real quick. What he's talking about is a Couple of days ago. I put out of actually knows yesterday I actually created the video like three or four days ago, but I Scheduled it yesterday and just it was a quick video about two minutes and talks about why I created the digital asset news channel And the big thing I talked about was well first of all was boredom But I talked about how crypto is really one of those opportunities that for me Made a lot of sense and I can't give you financial advice. This is all about my journey and what I'm doing My goals are not your goals. So when I talk about these things You have to remember that it's all about, you know, what I'm doing do your own research I should just be the one of many people that you should take a look at when you continue on your journey for cryptocurrency and It really does come out of this. I mean in this day and age. I don't see why More people aren't talking about crypto. I mean people talk about crypto as a joke They talk about it as just this some stupid thing that's gonna go away They talk about dogecoin as like it's for children and toddlers and in reality some of it really is because it's horrible Investing quite honestly. There's nothing really behind it. There's not really a big team. There's not really, you know Any new partnerships? There's I mean, it's just it is what it is and if you invest into it Hey, good for you. I don't care and you could have made out like a bandit if you bought at the right time It's all at the right time. I'm not a big gambler. I'm just an investor But if you're looking at for for some things like I have 10xed Everything not everything can't say that most things in crypto since I started to invest in 2017 And I wrote it up. I wrote it down and I'm not the business losing money So I just kept dollar cost averaging from 2017 2018 20 19 20 20 even in 2021 and I don't know where you can go and some of those. I mean, there's more than 10x some are, you know Substantial and to me, I always think to myself, where can I do this? Like I mean, I have a business. I have businesses, you know, the online and the Amazon business the sports facility and and the different properties, but I can't 20 30 x in five years Okay, I can't 50 x anywhere. The only place that I can do that is here So I don't understand why there is such a reluctance to talk about cryptocurrency as a digital assets as it is an actual viable Investment vehicle. I mean we are Changing the tide here, but that is just what I see and this is the problem So I'm listening this, you know, this this email and this Article popped up former president of New York Stock Exchange says crypto space is the best kept secret in the world And the reason I think why they're keeping this this secrets and here's the thing We all know about crypto and digital assets because we talk about it all day long But here's the here's the rub is that if you go on the street and I talk to us all the time When you talk to somebody who they don't know about Bitcoin, they'll probably know about dogecoin for for Pete's sake I don't understand why but we started talking about you know, Ethereum and Cardano and storm x and all the different ones that I Am biased on because I own them They're like, I don't know you're talking about and then if you start talking about, you know Bitcoin about why they're like, oh, that sounds like a good stock. They have no idea So again, it's the best kept secret that is just out there in plain sight And I think it's up to us to kind of change the narrative anyhow, and this is proof. So Farley Farley was the president of New York Stock Exchange Group which owns a New York Stock Exchange great and He wanted to say this. I think the Chris the crypto space is amazing right now Notwithstanding the press it's gotten I think it's the best kept secret in the world and maybe the history of the financial markets. Look 2021 is gonna be a huge year and doesn't matter about these dips and peaks and valleys. It's gonna be huge and I don't see the bull run is not over Right now. I just think that's ridiculous. That's my opinion for me do your research, but to me I see it for a happening for a very long time. Maybe Somewhere I think it's gonna end between September and Then February of 2022 don't know when that is but that's just how I see it And he states and then moving on he states defy exchanges are doing much of what coinbase doing today And then he says finally with regard to the crypto asset class. He said I think it's fascinating I think it's here to stay. We're past the point of no return and I mean For all these things of this guy's talking about for the New York stock I mean these are our traditional finance place players when you take a look at this You're like, why isn't this really getting the big press that it really should and why is it that people focus on? the Dumbness of our of our market like like the dogecoin and the irrational investors and the tiktokers who are saying that Dogecoin's going to a thousand dollars hint It's not because you can't have a quadrillion dollars or whatever It's gonna be 20 trillion dollars into into dogecoin or whatever it is They just focus on that and that's the problem with the mainstream media and that's why you're probably here Cuz you're probably sick of that narrative and you watch shows like this or shows like a coin bureau or alex mask you earlier You mean alex becker with his nonsense over there, but and crypto no It's all those guys hasho she all the guys I did digital day from crazy for cryptos all the guys that I love to watch Maybe that is it and I just again I just think that if more of this information would get up would get out We'd probably be in a much better state because people understand like hey, this isn't for kids This is like the next big wave and we should probably get on to it anyhow That's it for that piece. Let me change the comments section. Let's move on to next piece. So next up I like this one. It's boring But it's huge and once when when you get crypto and banks in the same sentence people like they just fall asleep But this again is proof of how early we are So packs has become the latest crypto company to score OCC the office of the comptroller approval for a bank charter and What's this is Brian Brooks is old position now he's out States here pack so's isn't the first crypto firm to receive conditional approval from the OCC true Anchorage and protago protago. I'm gonna say it both generated garnered approvals from the bank regulator early this year It is however the first to receive acceptance for a so-called de novo application which allows it to set up an entirely new bank New bank a crypto bank. That's big Ultimately packs those plans to operate to trusts by the end of next year one under a national bank charter one under a New York Bit license and they have to do this until everything pretty much transfers over and they might they may stay both open But it really doesn't matter. This is the momentum. I'll get to that in a second So it says why a bank why a bank why go and be a bank for pack So as you're doing just great partnering up with PayPal and having you know You're you're nice gravy train with biscuit wheels and I said look With a nod from the OCC packs those has clear Nationwide authority to operate nationwide authority according to bursting this means for him to custody dollars and crypto alike Off-road stablecoin services across the country and run an exchange on the national level if it so chooses and remember this place Paxos has a bit licensed from New York. So all your New Yorkers are get shaft Well, now you're good to go when you have another exchange plus a bank plus you can put your money into it Plus you can pay your your rent and your different automatic payment processing for your mortgages and everything else And just whatever you want to do and then exchange from dollars to crypto seamlessly. That's the thing But to fulfill its conditional approval Axis has to execute the business plan submitted to the OCC Over the next 18 months. So this is the thing This is how early we are, right? Banks are gonna get blockbustered because they're not gonna go in this direction because they're not innovators That's just how it is you see some banks that actually get it on our on board and the other banks like the HSBCs We're like, you know what we're not gonna like this and we're gonna try to stifle innovation. Good luck with that So when you have Paxos like this going you know what no big deal We'll become a bank and we'll take crypto and we'll take dollars We'll take everything else just like you are used to in traditional sense And we will bring it over here now some people say well, how dare they do that because crypto isn't for that We're gonna self-bank look your goals aren't my goals Somebody else's goals aren't your goals or my goals and they need that bridge to kind of get comfortable with what's going on I don't care how it happens. I do not care if you want to hold everything on a ledger You go right ahead, but if somebody else is like, you know what I need the banks really that I just want to You know really get into it then I'll understand it later. Sure enough Different strokes for different folks. So in this case, I'm all about it and especially with me like I mean my businesses I need a bank. I need a bank to pay everybody because they're not taking Bitcoin yet So what are you gonna do and he had to finish up One client that's based in this particular choice is PayPal Which partner with Paxos to roll out crypto features on its planet and subsidiary Venmo's platform Through a conditional bit license as a full bit license holder Paxos handles the purchase and custody of Crypto for PayPal. So again, I think this is very big if you have Paxos who partnered up with PayPal and PayPal wants to become that type of bank because PayPal isn't a bank We can almost use it, right? But you can't do a lot of different things, especially like business accounts But almost so if they have that it's just that next step And I think I see the whole plan of why they got into crypto now because they're like Well, we don't just want to make a lot of money We want to be the next big financial system and wipe out these old legacy systems to bring forth the new one That's just my thoughts. What do you think in the comments section? I think it's huge Again, I try to make it as interesting as possible because banks people like banks But that's what I see and yeah, let me know and let's move on to our last piece so this one Since we have our own Cordano staking pool and I am super biased on Cordano because I hold it surprise People always talk about like hey, nobody's building on Cordano so far. No one's really doing much with Cordano All right. Yeah, you got me and but no one's really having too much with Cordano Well, now you can do you can use that as far as like Cardano as far as payments on Shopify or Woo Commerce, which is pretty great now We can do that with PayPal and then when they start to integrate with the merchants Which I think they did in the United States With Bitcoin Bitcoin cash a three-man litecoin. Well now Shopify on the other end which has I want to say over Gosh, 300 million type of merchants globally. Now you can use Cardano. What's going on? So crypto pump payment processor now payments recently announced it has integrated support for Cardano Which means their plugins for various e-commerce solutions such as Shopify can now accept Cardano And this is from Jeremy Fister project manager at Cardano. He says hey, thanks really appreciate it Which is like hey, thanks for integrating us to like, you know, these hundreds of millions of different merchants really appreciate that and Says one of the first merchants to announce was of course Cardano Supreme which says merchant stuff for that and I thought it was pretty cool because it's like well look at that You can actually, you know choose your your currency it can be I think it's think they have PayPal on regular And now they have Cordano which makes a lot of sense then another one just popped in called overland of the Americas And this is bridge much of what it looks like you've got to your your total you can pay in PayPal I guess they only have PayPal or now payments and you can just do it like that and I was like what the heck's overland the Americans it's like a It's like a blog post or something like that where they travel across the continental United States also into Mexico and South America It's just kind of interesting. So like hmm, maybe that could be one more case and again I know that Ethereum is kicking the tar out of Cardano right now because they don't have smart contracts, but just remember in August When the Alonzo hard or Alonzo upgrade goes into effect, there's your smart contracts and we will see what happens I'm a big believer in Cardano. I'm a big believer in Ethereum. I'm believe we're an avalanche now and Tezos and all the smart contracts platform I own them all and the reason why is because I don't know which one's gonna be awesome And which was just gonna be great So I hedge my bet and we'll see which one wins the war But I think there's a lot of room for a lot of different segments and yeah, that is it for today So first of all, if you watch that all the way in thanks Appreciate it. Thanks for stopping by if you liked it. Give it a thumbs up. 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