 Welcome to July set news to get top stories in crypto and a big amount of bite-sized pieces today. Just as the thumbnail suggests, there's a lot of shilling from people up top about what is happening in the Bitcoin and crypto market. And we're going to take a look at the top down approach and what I think is going on. We're going to take a look at the squares, big revenue maker, surprise Bitcoin. Also take a look at three prominent mayors in the United States and what they're doing as far as cryptocurrency. We're also going to take a look at a senior member of the Senate and what he is talking about as far as crypto and where things are going. We'll also take a look at banks and how they're actually getting on board. And finally, we'll take a look at another side of the coin and take a look at the gaming industry as far as crypto and digital assets. And we're going to talk about who's going to come on the show next week. So we'll get to all those things. But first, take a look at what's going on in the market. So today is a pretty great day. Beautiful here. Friday weekends here. Everybody's happy, right? Not only is everybody happy for the weekend. We're also happy because the market still maintains a nice slight buoyancy. And we've got 2.7 trillion. The sentiment is pretty much neutral because we don't really know if it's going to go a little bit down or a little bit up. But we know where things are going to go in the long run. And that's that's up. Now, if you're new to the crypto space, just be aware that this is super volatile. So if you see a 10 or 20 percent swing, don't go crazy. We just call it a Tuesday. Nobody really cares. That's just pretty much how that's just par for the course. Then we take a look at some of the big gainers for the day. Bitcoin's only run 61,000. There's not really too much going on there. 24 hour change. Binance coin is up bigly. Good for them. Everything else a little bit down in the last 24 hours, except for Shiba Inu making another pump. Good for you. If you hold on to Shiba Inu, I don't have any. But hey, some people get rich off that. Some people make like millions of dollars off that thing. But again, for the long run, I'm just a long term investor. That's not my style. And let's see what else. 31 percent for crypto.com. Fantastic. ICP and so on and so forth. So market's strong. Market's good. Everybody's happy. Why don't we just break into today's one of today's top stories? And that is Square's big revenue maker. And it really wasn't about so much about how Square is doing per se. Square is going to do just fine, whether it's crypto or digital assets or whatnot. But if we take a look at the past, you can really see just how massive this is. And I'll explain that in a second. So Square's cash app generated 1.8 billion in Bitcoin revenue and Q3. So good for them. But there's a caveat. So payments from Square set in its third quarter earnings letter Thursday that it's it's apt to cash app generated 1.82 billion dollars of Bitcoin revenue in the quarter and 42 million of gross profits. That's up 115 percent and 29 percent. You're over a year. And just so you know, they did say that this was a little bit of a slight decrease and they said this is because of the relative stability in the price of Bitcoin, which affects trading activity compared to prior quarters. Because, you know, you have to understand the exchanges and even cash happening like that, they're going to make a lot of money if you trade a lot. If you get in there and you move things around, you trade. You can make, I mean, some pretty great gains if you're a big trader. But I don't do that because I don't have. I don't really like to sit and watch candles and charts all day. I got other things to do. So if you want to make a ton of money that way, that's not this channel. But for this, they're saying, hey, you know what? We're down a little bit because there's a little bit of a decrease in people actually buying. And that's why you're going to see the different exchanges. List the Shiba Inus, list the Doge coins, list the whatever new meme coin is out there because they know people are going to trade it like crazy and they make a lot of money. But that's not the big story. The big story here is I want you to remember a couple of numbers. Cash App generated 1.82 billion of Bitcoin and 42 million of gross profit. That was in Q3, right? So if we take a little time warp and go back in time, just a little bit, on February 26, 2020, I'd cover this story at that point. And this is how big things are growing. Bitcoin drove half of Square's Cash App revenue in fourth quarter. Nobody, that's great. Whatever everybody's excited about that. But look at these numbers. Square reported Bitcoin revenues of 178 million between November 1 and December 31, Q4. 178 million in Q4. That's the revenue. You know how much the revenue was here? 1.82 billion of Bitcoin revenue. So let's compare that real quick again. Bitcoin revenue of 178 million and Bitcoin revenue of 1.82 billion. I'm no math genius. That's a pretty good spread. Also, the profits were 3 million. Again, 3 million profits here, 42 million. So now do you kind of get why these industries are jumping in? They really want to be a part of Bitcoin because there's a bunch of money to be made. And that's really what it comes down to. So all these changes and all the different banks that are looking around going, wait, wait, you're telling me that I can make that much just by adding one of these cryptocurrencies and not just Bitcoin. So as we move forward, we'll see it all plays out. But now you kind of understand a little bit more of like just how much money is really being out there. And that's a ton. Let me just think about that in the comments section. And then let's take a look at the politicians because they want to be a part of this train, too. So real quick, there was three mayors that came out. The New York mayor-elect, Adam, says he will take his first three paychecks in Bitcoin. Good for him and just a real quick snippet here. New York mayor-elect Eric Adams to Thursday would take his first three paychecks in Bitcoin and signals his attention to make the city the center of the crypto industry after he takes office in January. Hopefully he can get that bit license craziness to go down a little bit as far as the requirements because I mean, we have some super great industries trying to get that bit license from New York and they can't do it because they keep in turn out because there's so much data and documents they need is ridiculous. So hopefully he can say, you know what, let's just make this the epicenter. Let's just move forward because there's too much regulation right here. Let's break that up a little bit and so we can get things going. That is the mayor right there, mayor-elect. He doesn't take office until December, January. Correct me in the comments, but he's just he's just the mayor-elect of New York right now, but it's I like where he's going. Looks pretty good. Also on top of that, we know this guy, Suarez, Miami mayor to take his entire salary in Bitcoin. He's like, oh, yeah, you're going to take three paychecks. Hold my beer because I'm going to take the entire salary in Bitcoin. So Suarez is is on top of things and not to be outdone. And another Florida another Florida mayor says, I'm going to take them do the same thing. Jane Caster, the mayor of Tampa Bay, Florida, announced she will begin accepting her paycheck in Bitcoin and then not to be outdone, although this is a little bit earlier. You had Rand Paul, one of the senior members of the US Senate says, look, I think crypto should be the world reserve currency. Yeah, he said that. Check this out. Here's what I've started to believe now is that the government currencies are so unreliable. They're also fee on currencies. They're not backed by anything. The dollar has been more stable than most other countries. And so it is the reserve currency. I was by the way, this is the spiel that made you a rock star with young people, presidential. Well, I've started a question now, whether or not cryptocurrency could actually become the reserve currency of the world as more and more people lose confidence in government, losing confidence in government. Who would do that? So there you have it. Everybody is pretty much shilling from the top down with good reason. And I think price action to follow. And that just leads me to my last point, banks. And you've been following the show for quite some time or any length of time. You know that I believe that if banks don't change their tune on crypto, they'll get what's called I call what I call block buster, meaning they're going to be left into the dust. And this just goes without saying that this was an older article, but just as a point of reference, six billion dollar NCR opens Bitcoin purchases to 650 banks and credit unions. This was in June 30th and states 650 US banks will soon be able to offer Bitcoin purchases to an estimated 24 million total customers. Just like what we saw with the cash app. Why wouldn't they do it? It's a great source of revenue and people want it. It's your job as a business to not decide what people want, but to ask what they want and give that to those people. And this is what the people want on top of that's just an old story. That's BNY Mellon, which is one of the oldest banks in the United States to offer Bitcoin services and they really leave the charge moving forward. So again, it doesn't take rocket science to understand, but this is why these institutions and entities are here. So when you're talking to your family, friends and loved ones, just remind them like, look, I think it's a little bit out there. And you think I may be out there, but it's not just me. We've got mayors, we've got politicians, we've got huge corporations, we've got big banks and they're all doing the same thing. So you either get with me or you just let the train pass you by. Again, this is investment opinion on investment advice. But that's just what I do when I tell my family. And then lastly, I will just make mention of two things. Plan B, as far as like price action goes, he's been right with his with his TA so far. Remember, the price prediction he's talking about here is TA, not on his stock to flow. And he said August close of 47 K, did September 43 K. October, I think he said 64 K, but it was then he said, well, I was close, 61 K. And he said, look, my next targets are this November, 98 K or 98,000 in December, 135 K. I've always said I've always thought Bitcoin is going to be between 100, 150, 130 K sounds about reasonable to me. So why not? And then we have this little gym right here. This is from Glassnode. They talk about market cap rising faster than value settlement, meaning that they believe that Bitcoin is actually undervalued at this point. So if you put it all together and what do you think is going to happen as time goes on? Well, it's going to be a lot of price action and potentially Buddhism fireworks, which I believe are going to happen November, December. Let me know what you think in the comments section. This will be interesting. And lastly, we'll finish up with a little bit of gaming news and who I got on the show next week. So just real quick, gaming booms amid the metaverse hype. And on the show, I've been covering the traditional blue chip, Creepers, and digital assets. But in real life, I also do a lot of investments into real estate. I have an education online platform and also I do. Um, uh, we have a sports facility and also an Amazon business. But so to put them all together, I really like the whole terms of assets. And I like hard assets. I like assets. I even like metals, gold, silver, sure, I own some of that. And then as far as like real estate, investment real estate, short term rentals, Airbnb, Verbal, things like that. And I'm really excited about the metaverse because I think that that is the new, uh, place to get into as far as for virtual land. And I'll be showing you exactly, uh, the different lands that I purchased and why I purchased those significant, those areas and in what respect. But I just want to show you, if you think like, well, this is really a thing, check this out. So this was a nice little article about crypto briefing. They said October saw blockchain games make up the majority of activity in the DAP industry. 55% of unique active wallets toiling 1.1 million users interacted with gaming DAPs over the past month. And we take a look at this unique active wallets you see here in the dark blue. That's DeFi and DeFi was crushing it. It's been still doing well, right? But in June, 2021, it was it was the majority. Then he had games in this like purplish and then gray was NFTs. NFTs haven't really done a huge amount. I mean, but we hear about it all the time. But if we take if we take a peek behind the curtain, we also see that, hey, games or gaming or play to earn is becoming a pretty big industry. I mean, besides outside of Axie Infinity and what's going on. I think those two things I think play to earn is going to be huge. And I think the metaverse will obviously be huge, but it's the land. It's the land that you buy. It's the land that you own. The different things that you can do on that land because it really is the next big asset. So that is essentially what is going on there. And then lastly, I would say that next week, we'll have a couple of people in the show. We've got some pretty big ones or pretty good ones coming in. We've got Monday. We've got Simon Yu from StormX. And then we've also got Ken. He's the CEO of Meld, which is a nice little DeFi project where it's very interesting about how they positioned it. It was their first ISPO and also the way they lend things out. Also, on Wednesday, I'm going to be doing a series with Key Yong Ju from the CEO of CryptoQuant. It's all about on-chain analysis. And we're going to do a little education series about how to read those things, how to get into it, how to delve into it. So you are prepared when things start to move. And then also on Thursday, we got my man CryptoStash coming on. If you know CryptoStash, he's one of the guys in the description that I recommend to follow. He's been in the metaverse since like the beginning. I mean, he was the first one that I watched about NFTs, gaming and the metaverse. So I'm curious to see what he has to talk about, what may be the next big thing and where we could actually go to. And that is it. So look, if you enjoy today's video, go ahead and give it a thumbs up. But give it a like. That helps a lot. Also, subscribe. A lot of things are going to come fast and furious. So it's good to actually get all the best information or just good information that you possibly can. And that is it for today. So thanks so much for sticking with me. I appreciate it and I'll see you on the next one.