 Welcome to digital asset news. Take a top stories and cryptocurrency digital assets and bring out a bite-sized pieces today I've got some pretty positive news about what is about to happen with Ethereum So first up Ether hits new all-time high as European Union's bank Chooses a theorem to issue two-year bonds and when I see stuff like this, I just cannot stop thinking myself Man, I think banks are really going to get blockbustered on top of that We'll take a look at Ethereum's price taps fresh new highs as ETH market cap eats away Bitcoin dominance And we're also going to take a look at how many transactions are being done as opposed to what's going on with Bitcoin and even PayPal and Ethereum is looking pretty fantastic. So we'll go over those two things and lastly we need to talk about what the heck is going on with this channel and The other channel down clips and where we're going to go and buy furcane So we'll take a look at those three things but first take a look at what's going on into the market So it is April 28th. It is early in the morning here and we've got Pretty solid stuff going on Bitcoin remains around 54 almost 55,000 Ethereum's hitting these all-time highs 2717 7-day average is almost 12% 24 hours up 3% 1 hour 1.6 Everything else is pretty much up XRP's down a little bit, but hey, I mean fantastic run so far Dogecoin 15% congratulations do a coin dogecoin holders fundamentals are sound and Sure, yeah, Monero up 8% 10% for Ave 2% 33% for Matic if you're a holder of Matic You can get a fantastic APY Just holding it over there on Celsius And that is a pretty great hole if you want to do stuff like that So that's what's happening in the market. Everything is good. We're around 2.1 trillion We had a huge drop-off, but here we are back and again Remember if you are new to the space just remember that in the traditional markets A dip of like, you know 5% 10% is like earth shattering but here in crypto We just call that a Wednesday and it's not a big deal So if you don't like the price just hang around a bit, it'll change for sure. Anyhow, let's jump into today's top story I'm going to move this story here where President Joe Biden United States is seeking 80 billion to beef up IRS audits of high earners So I'll release that later today, but that's a whole separate video. I wish I have to go over But let's talk about some good news right now. No big deal. Everything's fine. Ethereum This is what's going on. So the European Union's Bank chooses Ethereum to issue to your bonds and You know, if you take a look at it, you know, what what banks do and what crypto currency actually does You start to wonder yourself. Why do we need banks? I mean banks are some banks are great some most banks are awful quite honestly, they're not innovators and The ones that do innovate I think are the ones are gonna be around for a long time and you can see this with PC personal computing you can see this With entertainment and streaming services you can see this with browsers You can see this with everything if you stay relevant and you actually pick up the pace and innovate a little bit Or just kind of catch the tide you can be okay But if you don't and you just sit in the back and just go, you know what we're good I think people don't mind Transferring cash or transferring any kind of fiat around the world and waiting three to seven days I think they're fine with that I think they're okay with interest rates of 0.018% and I think they're okay with just waiting around and really not being able to use The cash that we have. I'm sure it'll all work out because it has before Unfortunately, that's not how it works and here's a prime example So the European Investment Bank the Luxembourg based lending arm of the European Union We'll be issuing a hundred million euros worth of two-year bonds due April 20th 2023 on the Ethereum blockchain Bloomberg reports and Take a look at the at the report. But first of all, just so you know bonds. They're just like IOUs. Okay, so like The government can issue bonds Corporations can issue bonds banks can issue bonds and just a way to like crowdsource and get money from everybody And there's different ways that they do it You can get interest rates by a bond very low interest rates mind you And it can be paid out at different levels Or different time frames six months or a year or five years or whatever else it is Along the way or it could be due at maturity at the very end of when the bonds are but this one is special It's all special now this one is special based on this This quick article over at bloomberg law Which is one they referenced and it says That's two-year notes and an inaugural sales of so-called digital bonds and harness power blockchain The notes have a zero percent coupon and will be registered in the public Ethereum blockchain So a zero percent coupon it means that they're not going to actually Give you any kind of interest along the way. It's just at the very end due at maturity so I don't have a Pass here to actually take a look at everything that's going on. But to me, this is what it looks like They're not issuing Ethereum You know, it's just they're using a public ledger the Ethereum blockchain And I find this fascinating in so many ways because You'll have like a permissionless and a permissioned. You'll have a decentralized and a centralized blockchain IBM one of those places that has a very permission-based Centralized blockchain that corporations can use and what the banks did here is they go, you know what? We're going to keep this out in the open We're going to issue everything and you can track it because you can track things on the On the blockchain ether scan, right? So with this one, I find it interesting that they they're doing it this way to keep it all open And it just goes to show you that the banks are like, okay Instead of us doing all this work and issuing and keeping and keeping records of all the different bonds that we that we have out there Let's just issue it on the blockchain, you know, kind of Eliminate some some different catastrophes that could happen or just information that could happen and just put it all out there And put it on Ethereum blockchain. There's also people doing this right now It was an article. I read it was a it was a mortgage group in Los Angeles. They are placing notes and What is it's different aspects of like the housing market So when you close on your house, they're actually putting it on the Ethereum blockchain All the information all the third party requirements and everything else I thought was like it's a pretty great idea and it actually cuts down costs tremendously because they're getting rid of the third party So maybe that's something right here But again, if you're a bank and you're like, well, we can do all these things But why don't you just use the blockchain because it's already been done. So On top of that, uh, their issuance issuance will be managed by giants such as Goldman Sachs Santander group and society general Uh, that's how you say it fatted in 1958 And one more thing right before I get this. This is not just some Small little podunk bank in the middle of nowhere. It was like, well, just throw it out there in the Ethereum blockchain. This is, uh, European investment bank one of the largest lending institutions in the world so When you have all these these banks really come and Come into roost and go, you know what we really need to get on top of this I think it's a pretty big deal for Ethereum and what's going on. I mean just for blockchain in general, right? So society general issued its first bond on the Ethereum blockchain to itself back in April 2019 In order to trial the technology and Santander also redeemed its own 20 million dollar bond In december so that Ethereum is applicable for debt security management. That's how you should do it, right? I know things, you know people complain about different projects taken way too long But uh in all actuality if you want to do things right sometimes you got to test things And you know make sure that it's going to you know, stand the test of time and it can actually Do such actions without losing people's money left and right. So I think it's a pretty great thing And that was uh, essentially the entire article and I know, uh, I did a uh a video not too long ago where I talked about Um Ethereum being a dumpster fire and everybody gave me a lot of trash for that But you gotta understand I just report the news and I didn't say it seems dumpster fire That's Charles Hoskinson that said that in interview. I thought it was funny and uh Here we are and the the biggest thing I talked about then was hey look, you know Uh, there is a lot of different things that uh that ethereum has to fix I think everybody can agree on that one of those being the gas fees And uh, that's just one of the the things that I pointed out and on top of that There's another article here, which we'll get into gas fees in a bit So ethereum's price taps fresh new highs ethereum mark cap eats away bitcoin dominance So on april 27th after climb more than 11% during the course of the week ethereum tapped an all-time high at 2706 and then it rose even higher on wednesday 27 36 per coin So we're at all-time highs everybody who owns ethereum is in profit congratulations if you hold ethereum. I personally do Uh, bitcoin's dominance is uh now below 50 for 92.2 All ethereum captures almost 15 of that dominance of the entire market And then this was I thought was interesting It states following ethereum's launch of the berlin upgrade on april 15th Ethereum users have noticed that gas prices have dropped considerably and i'm like well I've seen them drop a little bit But just to test this theory I just went to uniswap and I just tried to swap out a quarter Of of one of my ethereum's for I think it was for uniswap In general or maybe it was one inch just one was two and the and the gas fee was 4876 So i'm going to spend 679 but I got to pay 50 bucks almost for that and I did it for one ethereum It was 44 93 and I did it again for two ethereum and it was around 4876 So I mean if you're moving a lot of money, I mean 50 bucks for some people isn't a big deal 50 bucks for some people is a big deal. So it just depends on what you're trying to do And um, you know, hopefully they can fix that but if you see what's going on here With the banks using ethereum, you know, they don't need to do all these different You know wacky transactions just a one and done type of thing. So they're like, yeah, no big deal But if you're trying to buy, you know On an exchange like uniswap it is a kind of a problem. Hopefully we can get some kind of like zero fee Exchange or something like that at some point. That'd be awesome. But who knows so to finish up On the positive even though all those gas fees I talk about complain about, hey The total value locked in defy today is a colossal 63 billion in value So that means people are aim that gas fee with no problems They're like, you know what I see the future and I'm going to go for this and I don't really care I got to pay a little bit because it's going to be worth way more in the future. All right. Sure Well, bitcoin transactions settled 75 billion during the last 24 hours the ethereum network Processed 23.57 billion over the course Of a day So, you know, if you're looking at bitcoin ethereum, that's uh, you know, a third of the transactions all done the theorem I was still kind of surprised that the bitcoin transaction were 75 billion, but sure Maybe if you're doing other things, I don't know and then uh The last thing was I think the most eye-opening for me PayPal settled 936 billion in payments last year. So paypal It's pretty I don't know where you're where you're at, but in the united states, uh, paypal is pretty global except for southeast asian places like that, but uh, PayPal settled 936 billion almost a trillion last year Ethereum settled 1.5 trillion just last quarter. So imagine that Ethereum the transactions 1.5 trillion dollars in transactions. So if you're an ethereum miner Hey, I think you're making you're making like a bandit good for you And just to recap paypal's market cap is 310 billion while the eith market cap is 263. Actually, it's 311 billion today. So um Ethereum has just surpassed paypal as far as market cap is not amazing. So look I know I talked about uh Ethereum and I said as you know, I we talked about that that article and I said, hey, you know, there is some problems up there And uh, people like you shouldn't talk about about ethereum. Why not? There is problems. Uh, those those, uh, those gas fees do hurt a lot do hurt for some People like myself just a small-time player who's trying to dolly across the average. I can't do that anymore And um, that's one of those things now the banks and all those things not a big deal If they can just fix that small problem I think it'd be a pretty big pretty big deal. Actually, it's not a small problem For some people but for other people who have like the 10,000 100,000 A million in transactions 50 bucks is not a big deal and we'll see it all works out I personally have a price prediction of ethereum at 10,000 for this year people think that's crazy Some people think that's uh low just depends But uh, I still think you can do pretty great things and I still hold all my ethereum So let me just think of the comment section. Let's move on to our last piece, which was The direction of this channel I think this is uh, this is important because This channel Just like voyager Has gone through some growing pains from here here in there. I must be honest with you The news is great and it's it's fun to report the news But some days I'm doing this for over a year and a half And uh, some days I'm like, you know, I'd like to just cover some other things and do some other things because That's the the spice of life, right? Just to get out there and do things So we do this thing called, uh, trinity trading where I bring in alex masioli from trade the chain I bring in cg rykel from market rebellion and we just go over what we consider a good trade and I don't do much trading, uh, but uh, I dabble my my feed in every so often And every time we do one of these trades We let me blow this up so you can see it We actually record everything that we've done As far as the trade itself, so uh, we started this back in what was this january 6th So at the beginning of the year and these are all the videos that we've done and all the trades that we've done And we use sentiment analysis traded chain and we used, uh, uh technical analysis and little fundamentals, right? And you can see our profit and loss and so far we did pretty good Um, honestly, like what was the big one like this one the first one we did was really good maker not bad And this was what went up in the last two we did harmony and storm x Um went up 89 94 and a very short amount of time like the storm x was march 18th 330 p.m. For 1550 and then march 19th at uh, 700 or 1900 or 7 p.m. 94 And uh, that's it and we just did one yesterday Our people were really ticked off about this one It was waves and we talked about and we caught at 13 21 or 121 It was at 19 dollars roughly and then uh, I got out Uh quickly because I didn't really It was starting to take a nosedive I and I missed the top because I can't do that it's impossible and I made a whopping 7 percent And uh, people were a little ticked off about what we said and um, I just have to tell you This is there's a different mindset and I'm gonna make sure that I mention this every single time There's a mindset between a long-term investor Which is 95 percent of what I am and then the and then the traders who just want to get in get out Maybe make 5 percent 10 percent 20 percent if it's good And that's what we always talk about like, you know, do your own research and everything else So on this one it actually took a big dive after that I think it went down another 10 percent, uh, but It's one of those things where you know, it is trading and that's uh, what it is So it led me to the conclusion that This channel and our other channel Which is uh, Dan clips it has to have some direction and it has to have a foundation of which one does which Digitalized news clips is not a great channel It's not because it's what it is is just my assistant She just chops up all these uh segments that we do And she puts it over Dan clips and it's it's good for some but a lot of people, uh, they're like Hey, it's the same thing and now we have those markers Which you see at the very bottom along here where you can just click on those and go to the next piece the next piece So What's the point of that? Well, here's what we're gonna do So for digital asset news, I just want to focus on the basics just the news Just the basic stuff the things that uh, you know May not be that exciting, but some days it's good It just depends on on on what the day is and just keep it like at a very Basic to intermediate level and not too much right the trinity trading we only do that Every two weeks sometimes every three weeks So this will still remain the same if you don't want to watch trinity trading There's a big logo right there that says trinity trading It's in the middle of every one of the thumbnails that I do just don't watch it and uh I'll we'll do two a month. Maybe even one a month I don't know and then the other one for Dan clips What I want to start to do is to branch out a little bit more and look at more projects outside of the top 2030 and 50 and get some new up-and-comers That could really be a game changer for a lot of people also want to do more interviews and really kind of dig down into the more advanced stuff of cryptocurrency digital assets to kind of bring everything together So that's the direction starting right now is what we'll be doing and That's it. So Dan clips more advanced stuff And then digital asset news more basic For the people who just are coming in news talk about like maybe top 20 stuff. Maybe top 50 and that's it so To let me know what you think about That direction of the channel and that is it for today. So if you made this far Hey, thanks for sticking around. I appreciate it. Uh, go ahead and give it a like Start to subscribe a lot of things to talk about our time sensitive And that's it for today. 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