⚠️ BIG WARNING FOR CRYPTO! THIS COULD BE IT! (MUST WATCH!)

What is up? I am Crypto Mason and welcome back to the Crypto Mason YouTube channel. Shout out to the Gold Squad. We look for gold in every single aspect of our lives and we always find it. Damn, it's been way too long since I've said that, folks. Drop a like, we are back. Drop a comment as well. As you can see by the background, and I'm standing, I'm standing crazy, right? I'm standing. We're gonna do a green screen, we're gonna do a green screen background, folks. But we have been dealing with moving houses. Me and Megan have moved our entire house to a new house. We've got new filming setups. We've got a new podcast space coming soon. It's been crazy, okay? But you guys are here for the journey. Drop a like. We're gonna do a market update today. We've got a lot of stuff to talk about, okay? Luckily, the market hasn't exploded in an insane way, right? Because luckily we didn't miss that. But what we have missed is Bitcoin really toying around at that all-time high level. We slightly set a new all-time high, right? $73,000. We didn't go that much over. We really didn't go back that much over. This feels really good to be doing this again, folks, and I hope you guys have been making some money. We know the Gold Squad Discord has been making some money. Um, but Bitcoin, you guys can see we're sitting near all-time high levels. It's unbelievable. This is what the Bitcoin chart looks like right now. You can see right over here, this was in 2021, okay? And then right over here was also 2021. We are still battling 2021 levels technically, right? Like we're still struggling to really blast past this level. And that's what everyone thinks is going to happen and what I hope is going to happen in this bull market. Now, let me make one thing clear. You are in a bull market right now. So don't think in your brain that this big moment or something, you're going to wake up and everything's going to be telling you it's a bull market. No, you're in one right now and you have been since like August, okay, or, or since like October. You've been in one for months and months already. So if you haven't made money, that is concerning a little bit. This is nothing compared to where I think we will go. Like, where we're at now is nothing compared to where I think we'll go. However, if you haven't made money, you got to get in that Gold Squad Discord. You got to start engaging with these videos. Follow me on Twitter. Follow Megan on Twitter. And really just tap into the live information flow. YouTube is a slow platform, right? It takes me a lot of effort to get one of these videos out for you guys. So make sure you're on Twitter because you're going to get that live information. That's what Bitcoin is looking like. Now let's talk about altcoins, okay? Jasmy's having a good day. Not really a fan of Jasmy. We've got Beam, we've got Pepe, we've got Lido. The meme coins are all over the top 100 right now, and that crazy Solana meme coin craze that we had has definitely calmed down. Okay, so here's the total crypto market cap. We can also look at this, we're at $2.5 trillion. My prediction for this bull market, we should go to at least $4 or $5 trillion, in my opinion. Okay, so that means we're going way up here, hopefully. Excuse me, 6, 7, 8, 9, even 10, right? That is what we're hoping for. Um, however, I mean, this is how we're looking, right? I'm gonna show you something. Look at this, okay? This— you guys can see that? Oh, shit, you can't. You see that right there? Right there? This is 2017. This— I remember this moment. I was in crypto and I was 17 years old with my dad and my brother trying to capitalize on this. This felt insane. This run felt like so much euphoria. But when we zoom out, look at how tiny that thing is, right? We, we 3x'd it. But now we're, we're in 2024. And are we going to 3x? Uh, 3 times the length of, you know, the last one? Because if we do, right, this is one length, maybe another length, and then maybe another length, right? Maybe to 5 trillion. That would be amazing. And then in the grand scheme of things, when we zoom out, even that run will look like nothing. Okay, so that's just some general market takes. I'm still bullish. Right? You guys know I have a long-term portfolio. I have a medium-term portfolio which is full of angel investments now. Megan and I have stepped more into investing in early-stage crypto startups that we like, right? For example, one of them is Hey Wallet. We submitted some funds, we sent them some funds to help them build Hey Wallet. Uh, and there's a bunch, a bunch of others, right? That's one of the things we're now doing is investing early in certain projects, um, Commonwealth being one of those that is launching like right now, uh, which is crazy. But as far as altcoins, let's talk about our beloved utility coins, okay? We have Quant, $90. This thing has consistently been going down since, uh, you know, the middle of this month, right? We've had a horrible month for Quant. We're down 10% on Quant. These are the months that we love though, because look what happens. You guys see it on the screen? When we hit these type of levels, what tends to happen? We tend to go flying back up and almost doubling our money every single time, right? Not saying that's going to happen this time, but I will be placing some bets. I will be placing my money, putting my money where my mouth is, right? I don't just talk about this stuff. When I see Quant going down like this— excuse me— to $80, or maybe even— yeah, maybe even $80, I'm gonna be placing longs, right? I'm gonna be placing longs. So I'm bullish on Quant. Also had a horrible year so far on Quant with 21% down. However, you could have made some big money over here, right? You guys know I'm transitioning a little bit away from just stacking these old clunky utility coins, right? Quant is something that's been around now for years, right? For a long time it had a giant wealth creation run, um, and now we're waiting on the next one, right? But I'm done really stacking these coins because I want my new money coming in to go into new coins, right, to go into new projects. Same thing with XRP. We've had a 4% month for XRP, but lots of little pumps and dumps in there that you can, you can get in on. Stellar really hasn't moved the whole month. Hedera has had a decent month, 5% up. Uh, definitely an amazing year for Hedera holders, right? If you started 365 days ago and you said, hey, I'm gonna purchase, uh, an HBAR bag, you doubled your money. Do you guys remember when I was screaming at you to really— look at this idiot on the side who spelled Hedera wrong. Make sure you don't spell Hedera wrong, folks. Okay, back on track. Remember the 3-cent thing, the 4-cent, the 5-cent right? I was saying, oh yeah, it might still be good, it's probably still good to buy at 5 cents. And now, excuse me, you might never get an opportunity again to buy at 5 cents. Um, but you know, I do think you will because look at that price action, right? We haven't even had any type of explosion for HBAR yet. So my thoughts on the old utility coins My portfolio is there. It's not growing in tokens, right? This is my strategy. I get on these videos and I document what I'm doing, and, you know, people relate to it and watch it and, and might do some research based off what I say, right? However, I'm not stacking more of those. I'm done. I'm done stacking XRP. I'm done stacking HBAR. I'm done stacking all of those. I have a nest egg, right, of those coins that's going to sit there and I'm going to wait for the explosions. And yes, I am going to take profit. I am going to take profit when those explode because I do believe they're going to explode. And I will continue to cover the news and pay attention to those coins because I have a lot of personal money in those coins. Now let's get into some of the recent news. Okay, Joe Rogan was at the Karate Combat event last night. Um, you can see him there. He sat there the whole time and watched all the fights. Uh, very cool. This is a huge step for Karate Combat, right? Karate Combat is one of the coins we've been on this for a long time, man, a long time. Um, like since the Karate Token announced that they were launching on HBAR, I think we've been, we've been talking about Karate Combat. So amazing fights last night, uh, Megan and I did watch them. Mario was there, they had Mike Malak, obviously Cryptozaurus, GSP, some big hitters. Shane Gillis, um, Turbo Ross Levine had a nice win. J Chains got wrecked, but GG to J Chains, that was— he fought hard. Karate Combat is dope. Okay, this is the Web3 fighting league. Don't let the name karate turn you off, right? Karate seems like this stigmatized thing. Don't let it turn you off. This thing is, this thing is fire. So moving on, let's talk about the new narrative that just was kind of happening. The celebrity launched coins, right? This is Iggy Azalea. And Caitlyn Jenner directly launched actual tokens. And let's, for fun, let's go on DexScreener and let's look at how those are doing, okay? Because this is the same bullshit that happens every single cycle, folks. This type of stuff happens every single cycle. Here's the Jenner one, okay? So this is Caitlyn Jenner's. Obviously we had a big blow-off top right here, right? It went to 4 cents and now it's back down to like under a cent. Absolutely insane. Um, I believe it's been proven that they dumped on everybody as well. I don't even know what the Iggy one is called. I'm not even gonna look, but I will tell you right now, these will end up at zero. So if you didn't get in on this, nothing is gonna happen. Unless Caitlyn Jenner somehow makes the news in a big way, this might go up. Okay. Not just stay away, in my opinion, unless you're a real degen. Okay. So I'm staying away from that. It always ends up at zero. We got Trump being the first president to be convicted. Absolutely insane. Guilty on— found guilty on all counts. They waited strategically to sentence him, I feel like. Um, but apparently Elon Musk is giving Donald Trump advice on crypto policies. Now, what can Donald Trump do for America if he's in jail, right? If he goes to jail, he can't do nothing. Um, but I mean, somehow, if he— I don't know what's gonna happen, right? I really do not care, but I do think Trump is better for crypto than Biden, okay? I would rather, as a single-issue voter, right? I've never voted in my life and I never will vote in my life until they can show— or until I can vote from my phone and until they show me where all my tax money is going on blockchain, exactly where every penny that I send to the government is going. So I'm being stubborn, right? I'm being a little prick about voting. I don't care. I'm not gonna vote ever, okay, unless they fulfill my requests. Here's the thing, Trump is infinitely better. We— dude, Trump is the first president to launch his own NFTs. This guy has his own NFTs. So as a single-issue voter, meaning I care about crypto and I want to put the person who cares more about crypto and will help it in office, right? That's my stance. I don't care about any of his other policies or anything. I'm a single issue. I want crypto to go far, so put him in. He's probably— I don't know what's gonna happen, okay? But Elon also has been a big advocate of crypto, kind of. Um, so maybe Dogecoin will replace the US dollar. I don't know. Who knows? Okay, Master, we're gonna get into some new altcoins and some new alpha here. One of the two of the big pieces of news that came out was Ripple donated $25 million to a company called Fair Shake, or it's a political action committee called Fair Shake, and they are a crypto-focused one. So, you know, the lobbying continues from Ripple. They're dishing out their millions of dollars to help crypto, which is great, right? They are bankrolled heavily. They have so— they have millions and millions of dollars in cash. That they can hand out like that. We also had MasterCard. MasterCard came out with crypto credentials. So basically instead of your address, you now have a username. So you don't have to have this ugly address. You can have a.MasterCard username, which is pretty cool, right? MasterCard has always been a big supporter of crypto. That is dope. Okay, now excuse me, let's talk about Origin Protocol, right? This is one I announced that I had purchased this one. Um, dang, we're doing good. I haven't checked my Origin. I haven't checked my Origin, but we're, we're kind of doing good. I think I bought maybe like— I don't know where I bought, I'd have to look. Excuse me. However, Origin Protocol has something new that has just came out here called, uh, their ARN— or sorry, ARM. This is the Automated Redemption Manager. So ARM, okay, um, so this is a bit more advanced, uh, but basically this is unlocking new LST yield applications for automated market makers, bridges, NFT bidding pools, and beyond. So it's instant redemptions, um, through this ARM is what, is what it's called. ARM. Now let me just show you, uh, something right here on how crazy this is. So you can watch, uh, this video right here. This is comparing, um, the ARM, Origin's ARM, versus the, uh, Uniswap AMM bonding curve. And you can see the cost difference right here. $1,330 versus a million, $1.6 million. So you can see, way better. There's zero slippage, um, lower swap costs, and it's integrated with 1inch and CoW swap. So big shout out to Origin. I am holding, uh, the Origin Protocol, uh, token OGN. They got their new dApp out. They're doing big stuff. Uh, this is one that's kind of an OG in the space too. They've been building for a long time. But Origin Protocol is a, uh, a new addition to our portfolio. And then ATOR, uh, ATOR, we also made a purchase at a really good spot, uh, a really good spot. Now it's at $2. I do have my ATOR miner. They did send me this, the team did send me this. I haven't set it up yet. Um, but I believe it might— I need to learn more about it, but it mines and it's, it's contributing to their DePIN network. So DePIN, I wanted to talk about DePIN, Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks, right? And, uh, ATOR is positioning themselves as the anonymity layer for DePIN. So this is actually called a relay, uh, and you can run one of these relays and actually earn rewards. Okay, you can earn testnet tokens for contributing your resources right now with the ATOR Relay. Um, and there it is right there, and you can see all the different stats. There's like cooling built in, Wi-Fi built into this thing. It's a pretty crazy, uh, device. However, ATOR is one of the tokens I am— I have added to our DePIN portion of our portfolio. I've really zoomed out on my portfolio and been like, I need to have my hand in every narrative, my hand in every pot here, right? So we have tokens that range from complete meme coins to complete utility coins to like ballsy, very ambitious plays. Um, you know, like a meme coin on a completely different network, like Foxy. Uh, Foxy is one of the meme coins we have that's on the Linea network. Probably some of you haven't even heard of Linea network. Uh, we have some Foxy and this thing has been ripping, dude. This thing has been going crazy. 79 cents— or sorry, 79% up, um, already on KuCoin. So you can grab it on there. That makes the whole like bridging process and stuff easy. Foxy's one of those, um, but sticking back on ATOR right here, ATOR is available on basically everywhere— KuCoin, Bitget, BingX, Uniswap. Uniswap is the easiest. KuCoin does have some good volume on there, so if you buy on KuCoin, you're going to get a better price probably. But big shout out to ATOR. And then we've got Reach as well. Reach is one that we added to our portfolio— excuse me— a while ago. This is very cool. This is an engagement protocol. So engage to earn is another narrative that I've seen coming up out of the crypto space that's very interesting, right? So basically they have this nice dashboard and you can earn tokens for engaging with people's posts. So as a brand or as a company in crypto or as an influencer in crypto or whoever, you can come on there and put up some money, uh, for real people. It's not bots, it's no stupid stuff. You put up, you put up these missions, um, and they can go and engage with your, your, um, post and earn, uh, money for it, which is crazy, right? So this is— they actually moved to Base, which is very cool. So they're focused on social finance on Base, and this is an interesting use case within social finance, right? Uh, SocialFi is very interesting to me. That's another one. We have XCAD, uh, we have a few other tokens that are involved in SocialFi. But go check out Reach. The token has bottomed out for sure right now. If you look at the yearly look at that, you're getting a great deal, uh, on that token if you do your research. Still waiting on more exchange listings. We've only got Uniswap, Gate.io, MEXC. So hopefully they get some more. But Reach Protocol is a great one, okay? And they've got a great team. If you look into this team, it's very stacked. Um, awesome stuff. Now let's get back, uh, to the to the, uh, general market here and make some final points. Okay, so we were deep in the Solana ecosystem, right? We were deep in it. My Solana portfolio and dealings on Phantom Wallet made me more than XRP has ever made me. Okay, and that is a lesson in itself. The ones who are willing to open their mind to other opportunities in crypto Recently I had a heated Twitter DM war with a Bitcoin maxi, and this dude reminds me of a 75-year-old grandpa who cannot open their mind to the new generation, right? And shout out to the seniors and the older generation that watches my videos, because I know there's a lot of them. Shout out to you. And if you've made it 20 minutes into my video, an even bigger shout out for you. But this Bitcoin maxi could not understand altcoins. He thought everything— he called it crapto, right? Crapto, like crypto crapto. And he thinks every altcoin except for Bitcoin is trash. The ones who can open their mind will win, okay? This was my main issue. This is why I did not make multi-millions of dollars in 2017. Okay, was because I was closed off. And in 2021, why I didn't do better, right, why I didn't make money, more money in 2021, was because I was closed off to the idea of certain tokens. I was like, no, I'm like, I'm a utility coin holder only. It— what does the token do? I have to know what it does. It has to have partnerships with big companies and doing real stuff. It's bullshit. That's all bullshit, right? And I saw that recently when I dove into meme coins, and it's the coolest thing ever. It's the Wild West. It's complete just crypto cowboys. Anyone can generate a token for $2 right now. How are you going to deal with that, SEC? Government? How are you going to deal with that? How? You can't sue everyone. They're all from different countries. It's a global network. I can go right now and drop a freaking token for $2. $2. And people can trade it against the US dollar, and we can assign it value. And if we think it's valuable, it's valuable, just like you do with your dollar bill. Your, you know, the stupid toilet paper bill, right? This little toilet paper— this is toilet paper. It's the same material. It means nothing. And our response to them tricking entire lives to work for this— the whole life, people's whole life gets wasted working for this, a piece of toilet paper. This runs the whole world. Our response as people in crypto is we're going to generate our own money now and assign it value as a community. It's the response. It's only natural that the pendulum came swinging back on them right now. They've got hundreds of thousands of random tokens that they can't, they can't regulate, right? So we'll see what happens, but it's game over. Right? It is game over. And if you're not realizing what's going on in the financial world with this right now, you're, you're not gonna make it. All right, there's my little rant. Appreciate all of you. Um, drop a like, comment, all that shit. I love every single one of you. Join the Gold Squad Discord, and goodbye.