 So, today we got a couple of great stories about mass adoption and where we're going as far as legislation for cryptocurrency digital assets. So, first up, we've got Trevor Lawrence, who's probably going to be one of the number one or the top picks in the NFL draft. He just signed a deal with Blockfolio and will be paid in crypto. And at first glance, this is a great article, but when I really thought about it, being paid in crypto is just an awful, awful idea. I'll explain exactly what I'm talking about. So, we'll discuss that in detail then in some of the weirdest news today. US state passes a resolution commending Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin, and they pretty much just laid it out in the legislation. So, you know what? This is great, and it's essentialized, and we want more of it. So, if you think that, you know, the powers that be in the lawmakers really want to ban cryptocurrency, well, here's a great story about how that is false. So, we'll take a look at those two stories, but first take a look at what's going on into the market. So, today it is April 26th, and people always ask me, like, Rob, why don't you have another date? Well, there's two reasons. First of all, I do know the date most of the times, but sometimes I just kind of screw up the date, and then I get about a thousand comments are going, it's this day, it is this day, this date. So, to stop that, I always look at my phone just to make sure. Anyhow, April 26th, it's about 10 a.m., nice day today, and here's what we got. So, just so you know, we're doing pretty fantastic as far as the market goes, quite a rebound. So, I just want to commend everybody for buying that dip. I mean, if you did that, like, I always talk about buying a dip for myself, I can't give you financial advice. Again, it's always about, you know, finding different voices out there and making your best choice for what works for you. And I got to tell you, buying that dip was a pretty good idea for me, and it worked out pretty great because we had quite a monstrous, you know, just a big dump for a little bit after all that news about. First of all, there was Turkey and, you know, and not that they're banning cryptocurrency outright, but you can still use banks and everything else, but third party payment processors not using cryptocurrency. Okay. Then Biden came out with his tax plan, going to tax everybody from 20% to 39.6%. And then the TA people came in and said, oh, but you know, don't forget about the technicals. Sure. So, and all those things that all went together, it was kind of a bit of a dip. And we were under $2 trillion. Now we've been teetering, I think we're at like 1.86 trillion dollars. Now we're above like 2.01 or something like that. So pretty good rally, Bitcoin, up 5% for the day. That's pretty great. Ethereum, all, you know, I just saw it at 2,500, now it went to 2,043. But again, up 5%, 15% for the week, pretty great. Binance coin, XRP, watch out, a buck, 26. So that's pretty good. Sentiment analysis is pretty much up except for doge down a little bit and a little bit all the board. But I mean, that's great news and everything's good. But just the big thing for me is the sentiment. And just so you know, we're using trade the chain, sentiment analysis does all the scraping for you. And this is my big thing. Long-term sentiment is always bullish, very, not always, but still bullish. Daily sentiment, even though we're at neutral, but look at these numbers. We were at 32, 34, 36, and now we're jumping in the high 40s, high 50s. And when we get to 60, we become bullish like something like Uniswap. So again, I think 2021 is going to be a pretty great year. And that's where I see things going. And also one more thing, Solana is up 45% for seven days, 5% in 24 hours. And if you don't know Solana, that is a project that I wish I really would have gotten into. But I'm going to look at it a little harder look today. And you know, I always like to invest in people. And they've got, first of all, people like Tether, USDC, Chainlink are building on Solana. You've got people who actually come from the world of Microsoft, Google Dropbox, General Catalyst, Apple, they're all doing these things. And when I just take a look at that, and then they talk about transaction per second of 50,000, and then you can actually test their network to see if you can break it. This looks pretty good. And there's a lot of things being built on it. So network effect is in full effect. I'm going to tell you what to buy. I haven't even bought it myself, but at some point I probably will have to take a harder look and it probably goes up way higher. So that's what's going on. And then also if you want to take a look at, trade the chain, let me show you. Trade the chain. 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And you can find all their information again in the description and you get 50% off with the code. And a bunch of other stuff you might actually use, like an extra wallet or a stone book, things like that. Anyhow, all right, so we've got that. Let's move into today's top story, which is all about Trevor Lawrence. You know what Trevor Lawrence is? He's this guy. And he is probably going to be in the top five pick for the NFL drafts. If you're not from America, it's football and everybody loves football. Well, for most people, a lot of people like soccer, but most pipe or sport. But this guy here, black fellow, you can go, Hey, we understand that you are, you know, really in a cryptocurrency. He's like, yes, let's make a deal. So he's going to be a spokesperson and he says, don't pay me dollars, pay me in crypto works out great for everybody. Right. So when I see this, this article, the first thing I'm thinking of is, Hey, that's pretty cool. He's going to be paid in crypto. And I think about him like, man, that's a bad idea, but there's a caveat. And I'll get to that right after I talk about this story. So Trevor Lawrence, former store card back for Clemson and blah, blah. I signed a deal. Right. The terms of block boys deal with Lawrence were not disclosed hint. It's probably huge. Lawrence is only being paid in crypto for the endorsement deal. And this is just going to, you know, get people to talk like, Hey, this guy's coming out and he's getting paid in cryptocurrency. Then in May, 2019, Russell Ocomb, a pencil tackle for the Kelowna Panthers, said pay me on Bitcoin and actually paid him half of his 13 million dollar salary into Bitcoin in late December, 2020, when it was around $27,000, effectively doubling that half. So let me do some quick math. 7, 2020, January, 2021, February, March, April, I got this many fingers ups, that's four months and four months you have doubled your investment. That's truly amazing. I mean, where else can you do that? Where else can you do that? So I think when people start to hear about these, these athletes getting paid in cryptocurrency at some point, they might go, you know, some people might be a little bit jaded and like, that's stupid. Those young kids, I don't know what they're doing. But once you start to hear about these types of gains that they're getting, I think people are going to pay attention a little bit harder. And then it's just going to hit them from all sides. And like I talk about in marketing, you got to hear things seven to ten times before we actually jump all in. So this is just one more front of the, of the advancement of the war. Hitting people from all sides, they can actually get into this market before it really is too late. And then to finish up, it says recently the NBA team Sacramento Kings, as well as English Premier League soccer, Southampton have announced they would allow their players to be paid in Bitcoin if they chose to. Hopefully they did it. Other teams have started to accept Bitcoin and crypto as former payments like Oakland, athletics and the Dallas Mavericks. So, so that's all great. It's all fine and dandy, right? So what I'm talking about here, when I say to you, I'm like, man, that's a bad idea for to get your, your paycheck in crypto. Let's just, let's just take Bitcoin. It's just, it's just easier to talk about. So, I mean, I'm not going to talk about tomato coin or your Solana, you know, getting paid in that just, let's just take Bitcoin. For example. So most people throughout the world do live paycheck to paycheck. I don't know if that's you, but a lot of people do. So like this, if you got paid this Friday in Bitcoin, well, you would have been up 6% doing nothing. How great is that? Right? You get your paycheck. You're like, phew, Virginia's didn't have to squat. But here's the thing. That's if it works out right now. And then let's say a couple of weeks ago when there was a little bit of a dip of 5% between the time that you might have gotten paid. If you got to pay it Friday or Thursday, and then from the time you actually get to spend it on a Monday, because it clears in the banks, banks suck. We know that actually to pay your bills. That's a problem. And then here's the bigger problem, the bigger caveat is this. When you get paid in Bitcoin or cryptocurrency digital assets, it's a taxable event. So you know that if you get paid in that, and then you have to, you know, actually go through the process of cashing it out. Well, then you're going to be, you know, for these taxable events. And that I think is a problem. And of course, it's all about the gains and loss and everything else. So I thought to myself, I'm like, you know, in all honesty, I don't know if I really want to be paid in crypto right now. I know people are like screaming at their screen going, that's so stupid, why wouldn't be paid in crypto? Where's the thing? Why don't you just take that money and then just purchase it the other way? I don't think it's a really that big of a deal. And then if you really look at crypto and you look at like a savings account and like an investment, I think that Lawrence, Trevor Lawrence, I think, you know, he's getting paid for this deal in Bitcoin or in crypto. So I think for him, it actually makes sense because that's not his entire salary and he's going to be able to actually put it into and just save it up and let it build and he's got another salary and then he can pay all those bills and everything else. So I think it really just depends on what you want to do for, for as an investment vehicle, it works out pretty great. But again, if you're living paycheck to paycheck, you're like, geez, I don't know, especially if things go down, let's just say, for example, you get paid on a Friday and then on Monday, you know, we actually get to spend, it goes down to like 10% or 20% because, you know, that's just how cryptocurrency works. Imagine losing 20% of your purchasing power and you have a hard time to pay bills. I think Bitcoin is a great idea as far as like an investment, investments, putting into investment, but as far as the other thing, I don't think I would do it myself. Anyhow, let me know what you think in the comment section. Let's move on to our last piece. So, oh, actually, there was one more thing I want to talk about. And that is that if you're going to use these things, use crypto as investments, you don't have to pay a ton of money. Like, I know like, like people will ask me like, hey, I see these videos are people are putting like $5,000, $10,000, $100,000 into a crypto project. What, where does that leave me? I can't do that. So there's this great website. It's called BitcoinDollarCostAverage.com. BitcoinDollarCostAverage.com. I'll link in the description below along with my other links. So if you were going to, let's just say you started in 2017, which was December 17, 2017, that's when it was like really high. So let's just say that you put in, let's just say 25 bucks and you want to put it in weekly, which is to go there. So if you would have done that every single week, dollar cost average in. And just really didn't really look at it. Didn't want to trade it, didn't want to do too much. Today you would have 29,000. You would have put 4,400 bucks in seven, in like four years, right? And you've only would have spent 4,400 bucks, but you would have almost $30,000. That's just 25 bucks weekly. So let's say you did, geez, let's say you did 100 bucks every week. You would have spent $17,600. I know it's a lot, it's like 400 bucks a month, right? But you'd have $116,000 sitting in the bank right now. So maybe start to look at these things and just go, you know, where should I be? What should I do? Well, you can go all in and we talk about that. But sometimes just good, just a dollar cost average in and just go from there. Anyhow, let me know what you think about that in the comment section. Let's move on finally to our last piece. And this, this is interesting to me because it's fascinating that this can actually happen for, for legislation to just come out and go, hey, cryptocurrency is great. So what's going on here? So the Louisiana House of Representatives resolution by Rep Mark Wright, entitled commends Bitcoin and the crypto industry has been enrolled in sign by the speaker of the house. This is what it states. This is a resolution to commend Bitcoin for its success in becoming the first decentralized trillion dollar asset and to encourage the state and local governments to consider ways that could help them benefit from the increased use of this new technology. When I saw this, I was like, are we in crazy town? This doesn't make any sense that the legislation would come out and go, hey, this is Bitcoin is a fantastic and it's really great. And we're actually going to put out a resolution to commend it. But here we are 2021 is a crazy year. And if you don't think that's going to be huge, just look at this. The resolution proceeds to describe that cryptocurrency could potentially replace gold as a monetary reserve. Look, I don't care if you're a gold bug, silver bug, bug, bug, I don't care. I own both. Why don't you just own both? I don't understand the whole argument. Like you got to have gold, you got to have Bitcoin. Stupid. Just get both and hedge your bet. And then it goes, it talks about Bitcoin's finite supply. It's one of a million. It's completely decentralized and allows for secure transactions without the need for a trusted third party. And then to finish up, it says it additionally notes that not only has Bitcoin proven to be a critical tool for businesses, it has proven to be a critical tool for citizens around the world to protect themselves from currency debasement. And then, uh, in retrospect, to, finally, it states the house of reps of the legislation, legislature of Louisiana does hereby command Satoshi Nakamoto for his contribution to economic security. So, uh, amazing. So again, I know how people say, you know what, this is bad news. Once we get regulation in there, it's just going to be awful. And it's going to bring everything down. Well, look, we need a little, we need a little regulation. Little regulation goes a long way. It's like a, it's like a slice of cake, you know, slice of cake's okay. But if you eat the whole damn cake itself, then it'll just kind of branch ruin your night. So again, little bits goes a long way, worked pretty well for the internet, the government was pretty much hands off a lot. Everything's a flourish. And it kind of gave people the right direction to where it wouldn't didn't go too crazy, even though in some places it's a little bit off the rails, but whatever. So that's it for today. So look, if you liked that video, give it a thumbs up. That helps tremendously. Also consider subscribing. A lot of things we talk about are time sensitive and don't forget all the things we talk about are in the links below in the description. There's all the links, especially, uh, the artwork, stone book, uh, link to, uh, trade the chain. That's it for today. So thanks so much for stopping by. Appreciate it. See you on the next one.