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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. Now today we are back for a market update that will blow your mind if you watch until the end of it. Make sure you drop a like. If we hit 888 likes, we will do a 100 XRP giveaway, uh, inside our free Gold Squad Discord. I wanted to hop straight into it. Super funny, our last video about the New World Order got, uh, community noted, kind of. They had to add this stupid context thing right here. So dumb. Uh, we did not hit the like goal, so no giveaway. But let's get into it. The market is doing some weird stuff. We're dumping, we are dumping. Bitcoin is down 2.6%, Ethereum is down 4%. Uh, we've got a lot of the other altcoins also down. SEI is retracing. Chiliz, we got NEAR down, you know, a lot of red across the board. Quant down 5%. So what is going on? Like, we're going to talk about what is going on here. Um, the market cap is also down, uh, 3%, the total crypto market cap. Uh, if we look into the total crypto market cap chart, I mean, it seems obvious where we're heading to, right, which is a, a clean touch of $1.5 trillion. I honestly think Bitcoin could wick below, um, $40K here, uh, depending on if they want to try and take out some, some people down at the $30K, you know, like $38K, and liquidate some of those people. I don't know, it's gonna get crazy. But you can clearly see right here, very clear, this support level is decently strong, pretty dang strong. Right? And as you're watching this, we are testing this support level, right? If you guys don't know how this works, when a crypto continuously hits a level like this and you can put these circles across a straight line, I mean, that's a strong level, right? So the whole thing to watch right now is for how far, uh, below $40K, uh, we could potentially go. Um, and are we even going to tap $40K? Total market cap, I, I honestly think we might come down and hit the $1.5. Here's the thing, BlackRock and Fidelity have been buying every single day. So are they manipulating the market in some way to dump the price down and get the lowest entry? I always think of this when these morons are buying, right? I call them morons because this is literally the corporate Illuminati. Right? Like, they, they own everything, um, and that's why I, I don't like them, right? I do not like them, but their money is coming into crypto, which could make us rich. So we kind of have to be on board with that, right? But this is crucial moment, crucial, crucial moment right now. Um, I don't care, right? My portfolio is bulletproof to this price action. If we go back down to $30K, I do not care, right? I've positioned my portfolio to be bulletproof and unemotional to price action. And if you feel yourself getting emotional about this price action, you need to look yourself in the mirror and say, am I too invested in crypto? Do I need to build external other cash flow? Do I need to get a second job to make yourself more comfortable with seeing your money fluctuate? Right? This crypto is not for the weak, uh, minds. Okay, now I wanted to— I— so I asked you guys, what did you want me to talk about in today's video? Um, and later on we're going to talk about, um, Quant has a new integration. We're going to talk about, uh, should I add ICP to my portfolio? Am I going to add it? We're also going to talk about Algorand. We're going to talk about, uh, LCA TX and Hedera and comparing the World Economic Forum announcements and how it affected the price. So tons of good questions. I'm going to show you guys another project, upcoming new project that I just, uh, did an early investment into. We're also going to talk about SatoshiVM, which I was an early investor in as well. So lots of good stuff coming if you keep watching. But this one, this guy responded and said Why are we in a bull market yet everything's tanking? This is why you have to be careful with this stupid terminology of bull and bear market. It's not black and white, right? The market is not black and white. It's not like, okay, it's bull market time, we're only going up, right? This is a good point by Digital Asset Buccaneer. He says, check the tank moves in the last bull market. They were 10x down. Dude, for example, I'm going to show you the Algorand chart, right? Look what the Algorand chart looks like on the yearly. You can see all these crazy movements, right? 29 cents all the way down to 10 cents, then back to 23 cents. But if you flick this switch— this is the yearly chart, this data is what happened in the last year for Algorand— if you flip this to all Where, where did those dumps go, right? Where did those dumps go? It looks like nothing. It looks like absolutely nothing. Look, where's your dump, right? Look at the drastic— so what I'm, what I'm trying to say here is zoom the hell out, right? These type of crazy movements happen in a bull market, right? In a, in a true real like bull run, like when Bitcoin's actually ripping. Dude, you're gonna see like 20% days up and then like 15% down and then like 30% up, especially for altcoins too. That's what you're gonna see, and it is stressful like to anybody. I can, I can claim to be so unemotional about my portfolio, but dude, it's stressful, uh, in a real, real bull run. But this is why you don't deem periods of time bull market or bear market until after the fact. Right? We're just in a market that goes up and down. You can make money anytime. Um, now everything is not tanking either. You don't know what tanking means, bro. Tanking— you have not seen this market tank. If you're new, you have not seen this market tank. It is bloody, right? For example, when Luna, um, and FTX happened, that is tanking. This is not tanking. This is regular market activity. Okay, let's move on to some of the altcoin talk. Shout out to Chainlink. Shout out to my Chainlink holders as well. If you're holding Chainlink, Chainlink is in my long-term portfolio, uh, which my long-term portfolio, I don't care where those prices go. So they have just put out an adoption update, uh, so they've got +1 price feed, +1 VRF. So just showing that, you know, they've got some good adoption happening. Um, and you know, Chainlink is one of the, the very most bullish coins, uh, in my portfolio. We had another person get rugged playing around with Solana meme coins. I want to warn you guys about playing around with meme coins. Uh, it is Las Vegas, it is a casino, it should be treated as such. If you get scammed, that's entirely your fault. Entirely. Even if someone else told you to invest in it, it's still your fault because you click the buttons, you made the decision, you click the buttons on your keyboard. Uh, this guy asking, asking me for money, I'm not gonna give him money. You know, if you get scammed, it's your fault. You need to pay for that lesson, right? We're paying for the experience here. Just don't play around with stupid coins and don't get wrecked. Now, one of the biggest pieces of news, folks, absolutely giant— payments are coming to X. So, uh, X, formerly known as Twitter, has just made a handle called X Payments. Uh, you can tell this is real because it has a gold check mark and it's affiliated directly with the real X page. 100,000 followers already. This news kind of blew up uh, but they're building X Payments, okay? Payments are coming to X. First of all, I mean, you're calling the thing X Payments, right? It only makes sense that they activate XRP, XLM, XDC, XYO, all the X coins. Now, this will not happen. It will not, okay? But if it does, that's going to be amazing, right? XRP, it could happen for. XLM, it could happen for. but other X coins, probably not. Okay, but what I want to see from Elon is a massive crypto integration, a big middle finger to the SEC, um, and the banks. Uh, I also put out this tweet: banks will look way different by 2028. A major player in this transformation of finance is X. Elon is shifting the paradigm. He absolutely is. There's never been a social media platform that starts experimenting with payments, right? And like running their own payments and doing payment integrations natively like Facebook. Apple kind of did it though. Apple's not a social network though. He has all these users on Twitter that can automatically use X Payments. So that's what I want to see so badly from Elon. Now let's get into some XRP talk because we need to be honest with ourselves. About XRP. Moon Lambo, big shout out to Moon Lambo. Uh, this is one of the XRP guys that I also watch, and you know, he's talking about kind of a reality check, uh, for XRP holders, um, and being honest about yourself. And this is the wave I've been on for like the last 6 months now, right? Last 7 months or something, is that you need to be honest with yourself about XRP. This is being honest. This is being honest. Being able to look at that and say, dang, this coin doesn't move. It— there's something going on that makes this coin not go up fast and hard and the same as everyone else, right? So down on the 24-hour, down on 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, year-to-date, all in the red, right? When you have other coins that are all in the green. They have across the board 100% gains over the last 90 days, 30 days, right? You have to be honest with yourself right here. What Moon Lambo is showing is the number of newcomers who wrote code in each crypto ecosystem. Now, I don't know how they measure this, right? I don't know how they measure this, but they're like, how do you measure that, that someone's a newcomer and then if they wrote code? Uh, however, XRP is way at the back. Stellar is way at the back, right? All of these different coins, uh, are way at the back here. And then some of the top ones, you have Solana, Polygon, Arbitrum, Near is up there, uh, Celo. So his message is basically we need to attract more, uh, developers, um, and people that build on the network, right? And in turn, that can increase price action. If we look at the XRP chart, also a crucial moment for XRP, um, testing this previous resistance, right? So right here, this price couldn't break that, and then again it tried again and didn't break it, and then it did break it, and now we might use it as support right there. Right? So we might use it as support. Heavily depends on what Bitcoin does, which sucks. Uh, this is why I do like to experiment with upcoming and new projects a little bit more during bullish periods, is because they don't really depend on what Bitcoin does, right? You can have a launch that does 3,000% and you're in early through the launchpad or through any launchpad or private investing, or just getting in on, on exchange listings right before they list on exchange exchanges. Uh, so that is what's going on with XRP. Um, let's talk about one of the sponsors of our channel quickly, CoinLedger. So if you're in Canada— I'm in Canada— how the heck do you do your crypto taxes, right? Because that's a key thing to do, is your crypto taxes. Knowing that blockchain is all traceable, they— the government can click one button and see everything you've ever done on blockchain and a tree of all your wallets. So make sure you're doing your crypto taxes. Use the link in the description to sign up for CoinLedger. And this is actually built specifically for Canadian tax rules, so you can skip this if you're not Canadian. But CoinLedger is the number one place to do this. They've got DeFi and NFT support. You can connect your wallets and exchanges in minutes, and you can also try it before you buy. So you can try this out before you buy, and this is going to show you everything, right? Your cost basis, your gain and losses, your short-term capital gains, your long-term capital gains. It's going to show you everything you need to file your crypto taxes. It's very, very nice. So make sure you go check that out. Let's move on to comparing Hedera and LCX. Both are members of the World Economic Forum. Both had massive announcements at the World Economic Forum. Some of the stuff that HBAR had was, um, the whole collabing with Ripple, the collabing with Algorand. Um, what else did they have? They had some other stuff. They had the council member, uh, new council member Hitachi, which I don't know— I didn't know people were so passionate about Hitachi. People— I, I said I didn't know who Hitachi was and people were getting all weird about, weird about that. Dude, I don't pay attention to random megacorps like that. Didn't know who Hitachi was, but I know now. I know that they're giant now. Um, maybe they got salty because I was kind of downplaying that announcement. But here's how we've gone, right? Here's how we've gone. Last— or sorry, this February— or sorry, last February, um, we were peaking out and at 9 cents, at 10 cents basically. And now in January were peaking out. So are we gonna get another little like trough on HBAR and maybe another opportunity to get in at 4 cents? That would be amazing. That would be amazing. But this guy's point is that, um, or this guy's asking, why the heck did LCX price skyrocket off of the World Economic Forum news but HBAR didn't do anything? Okay, does the top 5 LCX wallets now holding 25% of the supply have something to do with that? Um, I had to look into what LCX even announced because I didn't even see any announcements, uh, excuse me, from LCX. They, uh, Monty, uh, who's the CEO and founder, Monty, uh, announced his book, The Trillion Dollar Asset Revolution: Tokenization. Okay, uh, they're, they're pumping out a lot of clips from it, that's for sure. I don't see anyone else around them. I see him like, I don't know, they pumped out a lot of, a lot of content, right? It's at this point connecting yourself to the World Economic Forum is branding you as an elite coin. I do like LCX a lot. However, let's look at the price action, right? Honestly, if you really look at this, it's kind of similar to where they were in January of last year. Right? And was this Davos again? I don't remember. I don't remember. I think they're always in January, so maybe that had something to do with it. But they're back at 18 cents. Uh, the— here's the reason: this is way lower volume, easier to manipulate. The pumps are, are crazier because there's no price suppression that I know of with LCX. Uh, with HBAR, you have rampant dumping of the token You have funding of operations needing the token, right? LCX actually has an exchange which actually generates revenue, right? HBAR in itself doesn't really have anything that generates revenue for like the company, right? They might, they might have a few things, but one of the main sources is dumping their own token. And this is just the truth, like stop ignoring it. Right? Stop ignoring it. HBAR, one of the main strategies for them to expand is allocating HBAR tokens and building with them. That's okay. I have nothing against them, uh, funding operations by dumping. Just don't try to time it when the price goes up, right? Because that is like, that's pretty bad. So LCX versus HBAR, I like both of them. Um, this guy wanted me to talk about Algorand. So we have Algorand down to 30% on the month, kind of retracing from this massive run it had, uh, 8 cents all the way up to 24. Very nice run for Algorand. That's amazing, uh, to see, like super amazing to see. And now we're just getting the natural retrace, right? This is the natural retrace of Algorand going down to 16. I predict maybe a 13-cent or maybe 10 cents. Hopefully you can hold the 10 cents. This guy wants me to talk about ICP. I did put out a tweet saying, should I add ICP to my long-term don't care where price goes portfolio? That's what my portfolio is called, my long-term portfolio don't care where price goes. That's the name of it, uh, because, you know, ICP seems like a worthy candidate as my long-term portfolio is coins that have great tech and utility but bad price action. So coins that are like extremely good tech but they don't move, that's the trend in my long-term portfolio. So maybe I add ICP. Overall, my stance is the same. ICP is great technology, they have a great passionate community. I won't say great, I just say passionate. Actually, they're not a great community. They don't treat people with respect. They're kind of like Hexagons is what I've seen. They don't treat people with respect, some of them, right? Only the menaces in the ICP community are the people that I don't like. There are great, you know, great people in the ICP community. This guy wanted me to talk about Quant and their integration with Make. This is something that I completely missed, I believe. Maybe not. Um, Quant has launched a new integration with Make, their last big integration. If I can— don't quote me on this, they might have had other integrations, uh, but Quant and, and, uh, Zapier, uh, was the last one that was a big one. And now they've got Make, and, and Make is a similar platform, okay? Make is an automation software. Zapier was also an automation software. Make enables users to visually create, build, and automate workflows. I actually have used and experimented with Make. So, you know, that's cool. That's a big company. Make is a big company. Zapier is a big company. Very cool integration. Did nothing for the price. Now let's talk about some of— these are not sponsors. These are investments that I've made. As an influencer and as a crypto content creator, you do get access to invest in projects early. It's just how it goes, right? That's why I, I keep telling you guys that creating content in Web3 is a great thing to do because you can start to garner an audience, you can get attention from some of these founders, and then they want you to be an advisor, and then you can get paid to be an advisor to a project and just simply give them your thoughts, help them do marketing, help them grow. Um, for Backstage right here, I am not an advisor. However, I'm an early investor. Very cool project, keep your eye— I recommend following them. Decentralized ecosystem powering the events industry. So they're doing smart tickets, uh, they're also doing a, uh, Point of sale. So they actually have a point of sale, uh, that allows businesses to accept crypto anytime. Uh, they have some AI tech as well, um, and the smart tickets. So events, um, and like ticketing plus Web3 is a match made in heaven in my opinion. And then this guy wanted me to talk about SatoshiVM. So much controversy with the launch of SatoshiVM. Uh, I will be holding, uh, SatoshiVM. My tokens are vesting over time, so when those new tokens come out, um, unless the project's doing good, right? I think anyone who gets in early on a project, um, you should take some profits if the token does good. But I believe in SatoshiVM in the long term. Uh, their launch was amazing, right? Skyrocketed all the way up to a 14, then down to 10, then down to 12, then down to 8, then back to 12, and then, uh, back to close to 14. Like, very nice price action on SatoshiVM. Uh, they've got Uniswap, MEXC, they've got a bunch of, of other ones. Getting in at $7 is probably ideal for you guys. $8, $9, $10, under $10. Um, and then just holding that thing. It has the same supply as Bitcoin. Bitcoin, 21 million. 21 million. So imagine getting in at $10, right? And when— where this price can go, you know. Quant did it. Like, Quant did it. Let's go to Quant as an example, right? SatoshiVM, 21 million supply. Quant, 12 or 14 million supply, right? So a little bit less supply on Quant, but Quant was once $4. Quant was once $3. Quant was once $10, and now it's freaking $100. Bitcoin was once 5 pennies, now it's 40,000 bucks, right? SatoshiVM, you do have to do your research into the tech here. ZK rollup layer 2 for Bitcoin using Bitcoin as the native gas. Very cool. But that is all we've got for today's video. Drop a like and comment. Join the Gold Squad Discord. 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