 Welcome to Digital Asset News. Take a look at top stories in cryptocurrency and digital assets, and bring them on to bite-sized pieces. Today I just want to do a follow-up and talk to you why Theta has been growing by leaps and bounds, and it really does have to do a lot with this. It was just granted a second US patent for ultra-high transaction, micro payments to support, decentralized video, and data delivery. On top of that, we'll take a look at Theta Swap, a decentralized exchange, and why I think this could be potentially huge, also because of all these outrageous Ethereum gas fees. We'll take a look at what is going on there, and then I want to follow up with a cryptocurrency project that has partnerships with things like Uber, Lenovo, Sega, Lego, Nike, Adidas, which we talked about in Trinity Trading, which I just can't believe I haven't seen this before. We'll talk about those two things, but first, take a look at what's going on into the market. First, it is March 19th, and we just followed up with the tax story and the story about Morgan Stanley. Again, I think it's going to be huge for institutions just to look and go, we've got to get in. We've got to get in. If these things don't make you FOMO as far as institutions go, I don't think anything will. Again, I think an ETF could actually happen. We just did a story about this a week ago, but hey, that could be wrong. We'll find out. Bitcoin, what do we got today? We just talked about this, not too bad. Again, it's around 15, almost 59,000. The market cap's around 1.8 trillion. Is that amazing, 1.8 trillion? Think about it. We were just excited about a year ago when we hit 200 billion. I remember I was like, ooh, 200 billion. We're finally making our way up. Now, if it goes below 1.5 trillion, we're like, what the heck is going on this crazy market? At some point, I was talking to my friend George yesterday. At some point, we're going to be talking about like, wow, can you believe we're at 5 trillion already? Wow, can you believe we're at 8 trillion? Wow, can you believe we've matched the market cap of gold? Wow, can you believe we actually passed the market cap of gold and we're at $15 trillion? That's amazing. These are the things right around the corner. Look, in 2017, we weren't, we were kind of close to it showing like $840 billion, but that was the top out point because the roads weren't built. The infrastructure wasn't made. The institutions weren't there. People really couldn't get it. On-ramps and off-ramps kind of sucked. But here we are, all that hard work for three years. And if you were here back then and you're here now, congratulations, because this is the fruits of your labor, really it is. Anyhow, Bitcoin theorem, everything's pretty much the same. But if you take a look here, Uniswap is up. I don't know why. Try to use Uniswap today. These almost crushed me. They couldn't even get the transaction going, whatever. But Theta token. Theta token, I've been talking about this for months now. I learned this from Digital Dave and he talked about Theta. I took a look at it real deep dive and it just totally made sense. I like things that work, that do things and have a great team behind them and have a great vision. And this is where you get. You get a token that wasn't even in the top 200. All of a sudden it goes up and here we are, oh my God, we're number 14 already. So this could be, I mean, I had a price prediction around 20 bucks and I think that's way low for what Theta's going to do. So let's just take a look at what's going on and why this is really jumping up so much. First up, when you get a U.S. patent, it takes a long time. You can actually go through the process and like, you know, put the paperwork in, but it'll just be sitting there for a while. But when you actually get granted a patent, that's a long time coming. So this is what happened on, when was this, March 15th, which was, gosh, four days ago. I just totally missed it. I didn't even know this actually happened. I was like, huh, Theta's going up. I just thought it was because it was the project people were finding. But again, there's always something behind the story. So U.S. patent number, blah, blah, blah. Methods and systems for blockchain incentivize data streaming and delivery over an essential network was granted on March 15th. So what they're trying to do is actually pay you for cashing your bandwidth to be used through Theta. And I think that's the big thing. So like right now, like I always say, like, what are you doing right now? You're watching me. What do you do? What do you mean a lot of, what do a lot of you have done throughout the year if you were furloughed or if you were working remotely? Well, you probably use Zoom. You probably do a lot of different things online. And that takes a lot of bandwidth. And I don't think it's so much as like, I mean, Zoom is one thing. But here in YouTube land and every other place that streams service, you got your Netflix, you got your Amazons, you got your Hulu and all that stuff. Also, when I say that these kids in their Hulu, but it just goes to show you that like, all these things are going to take a massive amount of bandwidth. And to really get like an HD, a 4k or something like that, a streaming service, you're going to need a lot of different things that are allocated all the way around. So that's pretty much what Theta does. But the thing is, is that for them to do that, they have to be able to pay people, people like you and me, just to run a node or to download some software. And that's exactly what's going on here. And they got to be able to pay them. And when they pay them in, usually to you. We'll talk about that a bit. So this new patent focuses on the unsolved need to design a unique and trust the payment system powered by blockchain. It builds on their first patent, which was methods and systems for a decentralized data streaming and delivery network, Theta, which was granted September 8th, 2020. So again, when we talk about if we're early or if we're late, we are so early. Walk down the street right now and ask anybody about Theta. Ask people about Bitcoin, they probably know it. Okay. And Ethereum, maybe. But if you start talking about like, hey, do you know about Chainlink? Hey, do you know about Theta? Hey, do you know about Tomato Coin, which I have two million. I just minted those on Cardano. It's a joke. But no one knows that. So when you think about like how early you really are, this is the big thing. So imagine what it is right now. Imagine what all the bandwidth that is going to be used in a year, three years, five years, and the price point that Theta could be at. So if you're like me, haven't accumulated this for a long time. This is a long time coming. Anyhow, and also lastly, before I go on, just so you know, I thought this before, I'm super biased in this channel. Like everything I talk about is pretty much things that I own. So if I don't own it, I rarely talk about it. And I know people say I'm not biased. Everybody's biased. So that's just how it is. Anyhow, content delivery networks are predicted by Cisco to carry 72% of internet traffic by 2022. They play an important role in distributing web content, streaming video data, and by providing a backbone infrastructure to deliver data streams and users. Sure, we just talked about. But here's the concern. So to do all that stuff, it costs a boatload of money to do those types of things. So imagine like all the infrastructure that you have to build. Imagine Google, they have to build YouTube and the servers and everything else. They have to actually just store that and actually put it out to the people, which I mean, they collect a lot of money, but that takes a lot of money to do. So how do you cut down costs? Because that's what all companies are doing. Well, you do something like with data and just say, hey, everybody download this, and we're going to use your unused bandwidth. And we'll pay in this little T-Fuel stuff, which wasn't worth much three months ago. Now here we are, T-Fuel rocketed up by like hundreds of percent in no time. So to overcome such bandwidth limitations, the user share redundant or unused computing bandwidth storage resources, incentivizing users to actively share available resources, require a secure and minimally delayed payment method that is compatible with the decentralized nature of this network. That's the second patent. Therefore, there's a need to design a payment system for decentralized data streaming with support for high, ultra high transaction speed. And then it goes to some other stuff. So that's what's going on. And I think this is one of the things that kind of moves the markets. When you get a patent on you, I think it's a pretty big, pretty big move on top of the fact that this was also launched, ThetaSwap. Now, take a look at this and you have to connect your wallet. And I'm very leery about it because when it does this, it takes me to the ThetaWallet for a Google Chrome extension. I just, every since I've been hearing about these hacks and things like that, I'm just like, can you do it a better way than that? I know I'm sure it's the right one, but I'm very cautious and very reserved. So I'm like, I'll check it out with it. But I mean, this only makes sense because this was a transaction I tried to do just a couple of days ago. And here was my transaction fees. So I was trying to do this kind of swap. And it was like, it was like 52 bucks I wanted to spend. But the gas fee was 53. So the total was 105. And that's insufficient funds. If you're new to crypto, this isn't normal. This is, well, I guess it has a normal for quite some time, actually, I'd say like three to six months, maybe longer. But ETH 2.0 is coming out in maybe some time. And there's an EIP 1559 that's going to come out in no time. And maybe these fees will go away. I don't think so. But we will see. So growing pains, that's all I can tell you. So there's that. I think that was another prime indicator. And then if you want to take a look at what this all is, and you want to earn T fuel and stake everything, you want to stake your Theta, all you have to do is go to ThetaToken.org, which I'll link that in the description below. If you want to find out the video of how to stake, I made one over there at DanTeachersCrypto.com. It's a 100% free website. You can check that out. I give all the information that I can, possibly free. The reason I did it was because there's a lot of people in the world that can't afford a membership. So why would I charge for it? It's just pretty simple. I put the information out. Easy. And then you can just, this is the whole thing. So when you go to ThetaToken.org, it says download a Theta Edge node to participate, click on Join Today. And you can either do one of two things. A Theta Guardian node, which is Guardian node, earn T fuel by staking Theta. Or a Theta Edge node where you can earn T fuel by caching popular streams. And here's the enterprise value error nodes, which have like a ton of Theta. Google, Sony, Samsung, Binance, Blockchain, Gumi, Gummy, how do you say it? That's also a big reason. And then on top of that, I talked about this before, but with ThetaToken, you got people like Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube. And that's a great advisor pretty much. And then of course, Theta Mainnet 3.0, where everything gets an upgrade is coming in 33 days. So as time goes on, I can only tell you, I think the price of Theta will go up. Not financial advice, but I will probably buy a little bit more myself, even though I'd accumulated much in the past. So let me know what you think in the comment section. Do you think this is Theta could be a game changer? It could be a great thing? Or do you think it's just a passing fat? Let me know in the comment section. Let's move on to our next piece. So next up, we had covered this yesterday on Trinity Trading. And that's where I do trading, which I don't ever do. Only with, it's me, Alex Maschioli from Trade the Chain and CJ from Record Rebellion. We each have our own little function. I do fundamental analysis weekly, I might add, week. And then Alex does sentiment analysis and CJ does technicals. Those guys are great. And they just take a look at what is moving the market. And the two that we found, one was harmony. And the second one was StormX. And Alex has been chewing my ear off about this thing forever, at least a couple of months now. And I'm like, yeah, look into it. Yeah, I'll look into it. And I just didn't because I get busy. I mean, I just get busy. So with StormX, it was one that came up as really popping and coming out. So I'm like, okay, fine, I'll put a little money into it. And then late last night, I was like, maybe I should probably look a little bit deeper into what this thing really does because it was just a small little trade. But I have to tell you, I gotta tell you, I gotta tell you, if you believe in utility, and you believe in function, you believe in Metcalfe's law, where all the different connections, the more connections that you have, the more your the value, however you want to designate value as will increase. This I think is a winner. It's been around since 2014. It's well featured there. It's not a big thing. But the crazy thing is that they've got all these partnerships with all these different companies. So what does this do? So it's just like that, that app, Honey, I don't know where you're, where you're listening, if you are in Bangladesh, if you're in Melbourne, if you were in, you know, London, I don't know if you have one called Honey. I think Honey was only in the United States. I think it was actually so sorry. But Honey, you just put it on your your browser and every place you went to go shop, whatever you bought, it would give you like little cashback, which is pretty cool, right? Just didn't have to do anything. And it would just be like cashback money, right? Well, Storm X does the same thing, except it's crypto back. And it's pretty substantial. And this is all the place you can go. So I'm listening myself, like, I just bought some, some, like he's a couple of weeks ago. And I was like, shoot, I could have gotten crypto back for doing that. That would have been awesome. But of course, I missed out because why? So I had too busy. I didn't listen to Alex. So anyhow, so it does that. And the big thing was, well, first of all, how does it work? How does it work? And of course, the lower that you have, the more cashback that you get. Also, you can stake it for like, see, there's 17 or 18%, which is pretty high. But anyhow, for just like the Voyager loyalty program, just like the Binance loyalty program, just like all the different loyalty programs that are out there, this is what will give you some of those factors. So like this, you need 3000 Storm X to unlock just the 1.25 cashback reward, which is great, whatever else, right? 1.25 on top of whatever it is, right? Silver, 31,000. That's 1.5x. Gold is 310,000. It's pretty good. You get 2x cashback rewards plus 25% for introduction. And a bunch of other things like, I don't know who's got 6.2 million something, but whatever, right? If you do, good for you. 3.5x, 7%. So where was it? There was this one where like, over on, I think it was the Adidas site, and you got like 6% back or something like that. So then you get a multiplier with that and then so on and so forth. So again, there's more to it. I'm sure I'm not doing it justice, but I just wanted to go over and tell everybody about it because it's like CJ talks about, right? You know there's something going on. So like Soros says, invest first, do research later. So I'm just giving you like a little piece and snippet of it. I invite you to do your own research, but I invested a little bit yesterday and I will be investing more. I'm also going to check out that interview that Alex had with the CEO and maybe I can get him on here to talk about Storm X. But yeah, I mean, to me, it only makes sense that people are going to buy stuff, right? You're going to buy stuff. So if you're going to buy stuff and you have a product that's been around for quite some time that has already been proven, which has 700 different partnerships that you can implement right now and you can download the darn thing on Google Chrome or the App Store and put it on your phone and then just get crypto back. Like why wouldn't you do it? I'm going to do it right now. Actually, I should do a video and show you exactly how it's done. And I don't see why this wouldn't work out. Now, there's a lot of tokens. I think it's like a billion types of things of billion types of billion types of billion amount of tokens for the, not just a circulating supply, but the max supply. So that's one of the factors that doesn't really excite me. But again, if you're talking about globally, and then also what we're just talking about, you know, honey, the one I was taught, I said, you know, where you put it on your browser and you get to, you know, get cashback, that was acquired by our friend PayPal for $4 billion and they are just in America. So the thing about StormX is they are global and they have, you know, millions of users. So who knows where this could go to. And PayPal is already doing a lot of things with cryptocurrencies and digital assets. So who knows? I have no idea. Again, this is not financial advice. This is something that I see and I will be investing into a little bit more and you probably hear more about it as I talk about it. Again, biased. That's the truth. All right. So look, that's it for today. I want to say I've made it all this way. Thanks for sticking with me. I appreciate it. If you liked the video and you got some value out of it, give it a thumbs up. That'd be fantastic. 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