 Welcome to the last set news to get top stories in crypto and bring out a bite-sized pieces today just the thumbnail suggest is retail and control or is it really institutional investors? We're going to take a look at data that should suggest that institutions are really running everything. So what we're going to do is a little bit something different. We're going to take a look at what's going on now. We're going to talk about a little wealth preservation because it's not how much you make, it's how much you keep and finally we're going to take a look at the future. So we'll take a look at the little bit of blue chips, what's going on the crypto blue chip and then what's going on into the future. So the first thing's first, let's just talk about what's going on in the market. Again, we're looking at December 28th, 29th. Wow! Time is flowing by so fast. And again, another day where we're just kind of bobbing up and down, market cap is 2.24 trillion and we're down almost a point. So hey, it is what it is and you really can't take that into or overlook what's going on. And the big thing is the idea here is that people are, they're selling off and they're doing everything for taxes and then also institutions are locking in their profits because hedge funds, they want to show that they are in profit and that they're up 700% of whatever they're doing. Sure, great. Maybe that's it and maybe that's not. The big thing is that in this channel, we talk a lot about just holding strong and just seeing where things go. But the big thing is investing into projects that actually can weather the test of time. And the ones that have so far, of these two ones right here, Bitcoin and Ethereum, looking pretty darn good. We're at negative 0.31% actually, down below 50. Ethereum is 3,700. Binance, coin, everything's down across the board. Let's just call it what it is. And even the top, gosh, the top 10, 15, 16, Uniswap is the only one that's up pretty big over the seven days, 16%, 8% for Algorand. That's in the 19th. Good for you, Algorand holders. And then near protocol, up 8% in 24 hours. That's pretty good for a pretty bad day. So that's what's going the market. We're just moving either sideways or slowly going down a couple of projects or turning a profit, but not many. Now we take a look at some on-chain analysis, like we always do. I don't really, you've already heard about this, all miners outflow. We can actually see here, if we're taking a look at miners that are actually selling right now, we can see that if we break this down by day, then let's just do day, not an hour. But you can see there's a little bit of an uptick of miner selling as far as like 27 December. So there's people that are taking profits. And they got to take profits because like we talked about as far as like taxes, perhaps also exchange reserves, bitcoins being taken off, but looks like there's a little bit some that are being put back on, which would make sense because some people are selling all exchange reserves for Ethereum, a little bit uptick. And I don't really care so much about that. What I care about is this. And I keep talking harping on this, harping on this, because I really do think it's, it's a powder keg and it could blow up at any time. This is the all exchange estimated leverage ratio. And what this is is all exchange open interest divided by their Bitcoin reserve. So anything over 0.2 is super ridiculous high. And right now we're looking at a all time high of 0.216. And does that mean everything's going to collapse and everything else? No, it just means that those, those leverage plays could sink a lot of traders. And that's what's going on as far as on chain analysis. Now let's just dig into this little metric, which talks about our institutions running the show. And this was a really good one. I found this on Twitter. This is from Will Clemente. You've probably seen him on the pumps podcast, really smart guy. And he just talks to it and says like this, look, if we're going to take a look at what's going on as far as retail versus institutions, there has been much going on for retail since spring. And what he's talking about here, we blow this up so we can see it. Let me actually lift it up so you can see it. So this is from Glassnode. And what this is is total transaction fees. So when we have total transaction fees, and they are, you know, because every single person that transacts with Bitcoin, if they're doing just a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, there's probably a lot of fees going on because there's small people or individuals like me and you, let's call a spade a spade, moving Bitcoin around a little bit. But the whales don't have to pay you so much because they're moving, you know, millions, a hundred million around at one instance. So it's not like they have to pay for all these little transactions, just one transaction to move a hundred million. That's why around April or so, it just kind of died off because all the whales are like, okay, well, I'll move it here. I'll move it there. But I'm not moving $100 worth of Bitcoin that I got from a referral bonus. I'm moving $250 million from this big interest play that I got. And that's all I have to do. So we can see here that, okay, as far as transaction fees, but maybe it's not that. Maybe the people who just aren't moving Bitcoin. We'll take a look at this. So there's two more. And then we'll get to the big guys. Total transfer volume breakdown by size. And we can see here in the pink, this is a volume of zero to a thousand. And this, this black line right here is the price of Bitcoin looking pretty good. But unfortunately, from volume of zero to a thousand, we can see a big drop off. People aren't really buying too much here from between zero and a thousand. What about like something a little bit higher? How about 1000 to 10,000? Well, a little bit more happened back here, but it's still dropped off. Well, what about this big guy of volume 10 million plus? And we can see back here, not too much, then a big tidal wave, then a dropped off as, as everybody started to sell off and everything else in April or so. And now it is picking back up exponentially. So if we can take a look at this, we can say that, yeah, maybe these institutional investors really are running the show right now, but I have to tell you, it doesn't matter in the long run. If you're into a project, like I'm not talking about the products who are like 500, 600, 7,000 in the market cap realm, if you're in some of the blue chips and it's a pretty good project, you feel like it's a pretty good project, you're investing into it. Sure. Why don't you just stay of the course? Now, not all of these are going to do really well. Some are actually going to die off. And that's just the way it is. But for me, I just think it kind of looks like this. This is the plan. The plan in 2022, the same almost as in 2021. I'm going to, the majority is just to hold on for these different positions, but I'm going to reveal the ones I'm going to get rid of and just consolidate because it is about that time. But I'm going to be, keep doing on a dollar cost average in, dollar cost average out, have my exit strategy and keep going. BTD is by the dip. And of course, hodl for the long term, because that is where most of the wealth is made. Now, I'm also going to trade a little bit. That's like 3%. And I'm going to gamble a little bit. And that's for like some metaverse plays, because those are long-term plays. Those aren't like get rich quick tomorrow or a month or even a year. That's a long, that's a one, two, three, four, five plus year play, the metaverse. And of course, even cement FT. So that's on the left hand side. And there's another big thing to take into consideration. And this will lead me to my next point, which if we're talking about retail is out, we move into wealth preservation. So you can see on that bottom right hand corner where we've got wealth and it says, I trust capital and there's a little house and a big M. So I trust capital. That stands for I trust capital. So look, this is what I use as far as a crypto Roth IRA. I chose a Roth IRA because it is post tax dollars. And what that means is that I am actually paying taxes and already in the money that has gone into this IRA, I'm picking up my crypto that I want to put into this Roth IRA. And if my Bitcoin or my Ethereum or my blah, blah, blah goes all the way up to like a million dollars, guess how much I pay in taxes? Zero. So that's why I have an I trust capital IRA. Also, there is no monthly fees. And if I want to trade within my account, it is tax free. You have to pay for a 1% for, you know, swapping your transaction, but not too shabby. So that is the first part of what I do. And then also masterworks. So if you are into wealth preservation, this is a great one. This is what I use right now. And the reason I'm talking about it is because I picked up a Banksy today, an art piece. And what this is, is you can buy a fractionalized share of multi-million dollar pieces of artwork. So what I do with this is these guys do all the hard work and I just put my money in and they buy these, these art pieces and they sell it on time in like two, three, five years or so. But I don't care because the money that I have to say in the bank is doing nothing for me. So I'm also put into some other investments. I did a deep dive into I trust into masterworks. And then also I did a deep dive into real estate. And you can find all three of those. There's a link in the description looks just like this. And these are my three pillars of wealth preservation, Roth IRA, fractionalized share of art pieces and real estate. I'll show you how I do it and what I'm doing. Also, for I trust, you get $100 sign up for the masterworks. You skip the wait list. And then for the real estate playlist, well, that's just for you to show you how I do pick up real estate and how I actually purchase things, as far as with short term rentals, VRBO, Verbo and Airbnb. So that's all we have for that piece. And then also there's another thing that is going to lead into moving forward. And that is follow the developers. And I saw this video and it's starting to make or this piece and it's starting to make a lot more sense as I've been talking to more individuals and in the projects of the metaverse. And this makes a lot of sense now. So this is a quick snippet. It says Apple aims to prevent defections to meta with 180,000 bonus for top talent. And all that is, Apple Inc has issued unusual and significant stock bonuses to some engineers looking to stave off defections to tech rivals such as Facebook owner meta platform. But they're not just losing them there. They're also losing them into blockchain. They're also losing them into metaverse plays. And again, they're doing this by issuing them stock and it's parceled out over years. But what I've seen the people that I've been talking to for these metaverse plays, because as you know, I like real estate, I like real estate, that's real real, I like real estate that is virtual. I think that is the next big play. So I've been talking to a lot of different places from people who have connected me, people who are pretty high up, honestly, and they've got some pretty good ideas. But the thing that the projects that I delve into and have invested into are the ones that have the developers, because there right now is a shortage. And I've talked to one group, they wouldn't even give me the names of developers because they're like, look, we're not going to have them poached. Right now, we've got some of the best ones, and we're not going to lose them. So when I talk about follow developers, that's where it all comes to, and actually good developers, which leads me to my next point as far as when we talk about moving forward or looking for we already talked about the blue chip stuff, the bitcoins, the theorems, the Solanas, the Cardinals, the avalanches, all that stuff in the top 20 or so, right? That's great. But to look forward, and these are like forwards thinking like your three year, five year, seven year plays. This is what I've been talking about. So the metaverse play, there was one that I did a deep dive, it's called again, so Kishi game, it's a game that's already on Android iOS, it's already on a Nintendo Switch, and also on PlayStation. So they're going to move over from those platforms, free to play, to the metaverse play to earn. I think it's going to be pretty big because they've got a lot of, well, first they have a great community, they've got a lot of developers, and things are really moving fast. Also, just so you know, I had to talk about this today, because it'll be an IDO, an initial DEX offering, and it's going to happen on January 18th, 2022. So if you would like to get into this, I can't tell you what to do. I'm just a kickstart. As far as education, you must do your research. I'm not a financial advisor, and this is just financial opinion, not financial advice. So it might behoove you to take a look at this project on top of the fact that if you want more information, I did a deep dive. I'll link in the description, also link at the very end. This is on my second channel over at Digital Asset News Clips, where we do just deep dives. So I don't even monetize that channel. So check that video out. On top of the fact, there's also another one. If you're big into this project called MetaHero, which takes you and scans you and puts you into the metaverse, that one did initially, I want to say between 45 or 65X from the time from the pre-sale all the way the launch has been handing out pretty strong. A little bit of dips here and there, but not too bad. So if you're familiar with MetaHero, this should probably be on your radar. And what we're talking about here is one called Everdome. It's another metaverse play, and they are partnering up because the same developers that are working on MetaHero, and there are some great ones. And you'll can find why it's so big in the deep dive that I did. This one is also coming to fruition because they have, they just released their new section of their website, tells you everything that they're doing as far as branding, social, buy, sell products, marketplace, how this metaverse really fits in everything. I thought this was interesting medicine, gain new opportunities to diagnose diseases or cure medical consultations. Interesting. That's crazy. Also, they break down the tokenomics, which I think was a missing component. And right now, if you have purchased the hero token, which again did pretty darn well, or you're on the 10 set gem launch pad DGLP, you're already into that sale. So this one is coming out in Q1 2022. Not for sure on the exact dates, but I needed to tell you now because if it's in January, probably should know about that. Again, this is your initial kickoff to these types of information and these types of projects. I also did a deep dive on this one. You can find that in the same place, Digital Asset News Clips, and these are looking into the future. So look, I am biased. I only talk about the things that I actually buy because I have skin in the game. I will never talk about things and like that looks good and not really put anything into it because I think that these plays will be big. I could be wrong. I've been wrong before. So that's up to you to do your own research and that is it for today. So look, I know there's a lot of information, a lot of things going on, but I want to say if you stuck with me all the way in, thanks. I appreciate it. If you like today's video, give it a thumbs up. Also consider subscribing. A lot of things we talk about are time sensitive and that's it for today. So thanks so much for watching. I appreciate it and I'll see you on the next one.