 Welcome to Digital Asset News. Take a top stories in cryptocurrency and digital assets, and a big amount of bite-sized pieces. Today, we're going to go over three stories and I'm going to try to explain my best way possible why time really is on your side if you are right here for the cryptocurrency and digital asset market. So first thing we're going to take a look at is the Ethiopian Education Minister confirms Cardano blockchain partnership. On top of that, we'll take a look at when the Bitcoin bull run could potentially end. And finally, we're going to finish up with Alex Becker. So this doesn't make any sense to you right now, but stick with me. It's all going to come together in just a little bit. So first up, I just want to talk to you about this new partnership that's been opened up with Cardano, IOHK and Charles Hoskinson. They're going to be bringing forth digital ID to different countries in the continent of Africa. And this is just one thing that was put out to be talked about as far as what's going on with that whole partnership. And this was a big thing because Charles was pretty ticked off yesterday. If you want to check out his channel, he goes into detail why he was pretty ticked off at CoinDesk for not covering it and pretty much questioning it and calling him a liar. Hey, that is what it is. It's super entertaining if you want to watch it. But this is actually from CoinDesk. And they do get little digs in here, but I thought it was interesting where they did actually say, yeah, it's true. But I mean, how could you not? Ethiopian Education Minister confirms Cardano. So what is this all about? And how does it pertain to time? I'll tell you in a second. So Ethiopians Minister of Education confirmed government is working with IOHK, the company behind the Cardano protocol on a blockchain based system to track student performance in the African country schools. And it says here O'Connor. And when he's talking about O'Connor, he's talking about, this is John O'Connor. John O'Connor. IOHK is director of African operations. And he told CoinDesk, the company is only beginning to develop the code for this project and does not expect to launch anything before January 2022. So this in its entirety is going to be a great thing, but it's going to take a little bit of time just like with Cardano and everything that they actually do. So down here, just to follow up, it says, this is what's going to happen. Five million Ethiopian students will receive a Cardano blockchain based ID that will allow the ministry to track their academic performance. My curious said, Thursday, and 750,000 teachers will get access to the system. And then a little dig at the end, of course, was CoinDesk says, and Cardano has jumped 9% since April 26, the day before IOHK announced the Ethiopia project. And on a 24-hour basis, it's down 0.8% to a buck 35, which I actually tweeted out yesterday. I was like, it's pretty amazing to me that the foundation, Cardano Foundation come out and said, hey, we're going to be working with the Ethiopian government, different countries in Africa, and we're going to bring forth some really great things that can help out this entire nation to bring them into not being underserved and unbanked and really in the 21st century. And on top of that, they're also going to be giving them or talking about partnering up with a platform that brings mobile service and internet throughout the whole content or parts of the country, I guess. And I said, it's amazing that that comes out, the price drops 1.4%, but Elon Musk tweets about Dogecoin and the price skyrockets. I'm like, what the heck is going on? And this is what I'm talking about as far as like time. Time is really on your side. So if you're early into Cardano, you're early into Bitcoin, you're early into all these things, this is the earliest you can possibly get. People don't even realize just how early we are. I mean, we've been around, crypto's been around for quite some time, and people think that it's just like that. I mean, look how long it took the internet, look how long it took something like Netflix to come around when the internet was actually born. The internet came around in the mid-90s, and it took us quite a little bit of time to bring forth Netflix, which is a pretty simple thing, just to stream services. Now we're looking at blockchain of how it's going to change everything. So it's going to take this much time. But the real question is, how does that affect you as far as an investor? I'm going to get to that in a second. So next up, this is Willy Woo, and he talks about when the Bitcoin bull run will end. And he says, as far as price predictions, he points to last year's Bitcoin having another factor that he believes will continue to push the value of Bitcoin of several fold. He predicts Bitcoin's momentum will end in December. This is kind of like how I see it. Some people think that it's going to actually, some people say that the bull runs already over. I think that's preposterous. I think it really hasn't even really hit its stride. And we're only, I mean, just, this is April 30th, April 30th, and we're not even May 1st. So I'm like, I think we got a little bit of time to go. And as time, and some people will say, well, no, it's going to be in February 2022. I don't know. So to me personally, as an investment opinion, that investment advice, thanks Digital Day for that one. I think he had a lot of time. Anyhow, to finish up, he says the last one where he talks about these bull runs, the last run was 2017. It took us from $1,000 per Bitcoin to $20,000. And it tends to peter out around the fourth quarter around December. So ballparking December. And he thinks that Bitcoin will go from $300,000 to $400,000 range. It might even go higher. I think while he was a little crazy, I have a prediction of $150,000. That's the most conservative I can possibly get. So again, what does it have to do with everything that has to do with time and how early you are? I'll get to that in a second. I watched a video from Alex Becker. He don't follow Alex. He's one of the guys that I recommend on my YouTube recommendations. He's a funny guy. And he's got some pretty good stuff out there. And this one, he was very serious. And Alex just got into crypto not too long ago. So he wasn't around 2017. He pretty much got in 2020. I think last March, he talks about 2020. And he's like, look, the people that made it, the people that are rich in this video, he talks about here, $6K into $20 million out. The people that are rich are the ones or the people that have made the most in crypto are the ones that are already were rich in the beginning. And they made a ton of money in their business. And they put that into crypto where they have like a hundred thousand, a couple of million just to play around with, which most people don't. And he said, that's how they are filthy rich as far as crypto goes. And he's right. He's right. And he talks about it in this video. And I'll be watching it where he thinks he says, if you build a business about yourself, then it's probably the best option for you. And totally, totally true. But there's a flip side of that. And the flip side of that is that, yes, I'm like, I mean, my businesses have done very well, maybe good amount of money, very happy, everything's great, right? And the thing is though, is that you have to remember that some people, actually a good amount that you probably don't hear about too much, they made a lot of their money in crypto. But the way they did it was just straight investing, buying and holding. And I talk about these four-year cycles all the time. Can you imagine, back in the day, if you could have gotten into, well, here's an example. This is Bitcoin. But if you got an Ethereum early 2017, that was like five or 10 bucks. Imagine if you put $1,000 into that, $5,000, $10,000, I mean, which is, I mean, even if you borrowed against something and got it, you would have been out like a bandit. You'd be very, very rich right now. Let's say that you just held, let's say in the beginning of 2012, you bought Bitcoin at 14 bucks or something like that. Where would you be right now? And this is just people who just held and held and held. And these are the four-year cycles I talk about. 2012, there's always a halving every four years for Bitcoin. And then the alts follow that. So you get all the time high, which here was $1,100, dip reset. Same thing happened in 2016, 2017, 2020, and now here we are in 2020, and then off we go. So for me, I'm going to do pretty well this cycle, because I have been dollar cost averaging all the way since about right here. Matter of fact, I kind of screwed up and I didn't sell any as things are going down, but I dollar cost average the whole thing. And this one's going to be pretty well, but here's another thing. If you're here right now and you just got in, what's stopping you from just being an investor and holding and just saying, hey, time's on my side, because guess what's going to happen? If the other two bull runs hold true, I think this one will hold even truer as we go forward. I think if you can just hold on again, again, this is investment opinions, not an investment advice, it's going to happen again. It's going to happen again, and we're going to have another bull run in 2025. So if you are dead set about making a ton of money, this bull run, it's going to be very difficult. I mean, you can trade your way to success, but is it going to be life altering money? For some it is. And everybody's different. My goals are not your goals and vice versa. So when you take a look at this and you're like, okay, when Alex talks about the most people get the riches because they were already rich, that's true. But guess what? The people that built those businesses, those weren't overnight businesses. Those took time and whatever those people were doing. And the same thing holds true for the crypto currencies last summer. There are no get rich quick schemes, but I can tell you right now, if you can just have the mentality of saying, you know what, I want to get into a position, I want to get into a project that I believe in the team, I believe in the people, I believe in the project of what is going on, and I want to just sit around and just set it and forget it. That's where a good amount of money is made. And that's where really if you look at some of the richest people out there, they're just investors, they just buy and hold. If you're looking at businesses or properties or stocks, or in this case, cryptocurrency assets, and the last thing I will say is this, where else can you do this? Where else can you make this type of gains? Because I can show you something. Let's take a look at the S&P 500, which is the top 500 stocks globally or around for these huge businesses. And of course, they change all the time because they're the top 500 businesses that are there. Now, 20% is Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, and the other one, we have the one. So that's the majority of it. But look at this right here. This is the last day. This is how much the S&P 500, if you just put it into, it's just the next of all these top businesses. And these are the ones that pretty much are the best as far as safety goes. If you look at a day, well, five days a month, six months, I don't care about this, let's go for a year. So in one year's time, you could have gone from 28.30 to 4,100. Wow. Wow. What is that? Let's take a look at five years. You could have gone from $2,000 to 4,000. You could have doubled your money in a whopping five years. So in all honesty, let's go to max. So how about this? In May 1, 1981 to 1991, in 10 years, you could have gone from $132 to $300. So when I talk about, I'll finish this up on my little rant. When I talk about all these investments that you can make the most, and that's where a lot of money is made, the S&P 500 was earth-shattering and great, and people thought they were making fantastic gains and everything else. But where else can you invest into an asset like a Bitcoin, like an Ethereum, like a Cardano? And maybe you don't get super filthy rich for this bull run. But if you just hold on for a little bit, just wait a little bit, there's one right around the corner, just like a party bus. And that's really all it really comes down to. Anyhow, so look, if you found value in that video, give it a thumbs up. I really appreciate it. 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