HBAR + MARK CUBAN? RIPPLE XRP, THE US DOLLAR IS DEAD & MORE - CRYPTO NEWS TODAY

What is up? I am Crypto Mason and welcome back to the Crypto Mason YouTube channel. In this video, you will find me giving all of my thoughts and opinions on only the important news that's coming out today. We don't avoid anything. We talk about XRP, we talk about Ripple. And all of that. You guys are the Gold Squad, as you can see right here. Look at that nice little coin animation. You guys are the Gold Squad. I am part of the Gold Squad as well, and we look for gold in every aspect of our lives, folks, and we always find it. But let's hop into the markets today. Make sure you hit the, the like button. Click the like button for me. I really appreciate that. Drop a subscribe, drop a comment, um, and let's get into it right here. Bitcoin Did cross $40,000. It did cross $40,000. We just came down from it actually. Hold on, uh, this is the daily. Let me go to the 5-minute right here. We did just come down from $40K right here. We were above it, uh, but now we're going down. We're going down. So maybe it goes up to meet its $45,000 price for the options. I believe, uh, we have that. So right here, basically we have $1 billion in Bitcoin options set to expire on May 28th, which is tomorrow. So you probably know this already, um, it's been blasted all over social media. So possibly we can expect the price to be driven down by this, um, but who knows what's going to happen. I guess historically these have driven the price down when these expire, but we will see what happens with that. Now we go back here, Ethereum has not crossed, uh, $3,000 yet. Has not crossed it. Uh, it's not holding it. XRP is still at a stable $1, literally looking like a stablecoin right there. Uh, we've got Chainlink up to $34, Stellar $0.44. Uh, basically everything is standard except I want to show you something right now. Hold on. So we've got Bakery Token. I'm not really a fan of that. Not really a fan of ThorChain. EOS decent. So those are the top gainers, but watch this. We go to XYO. Look at this thing, 70% up in 24 hours. 70% up. It is mooning once again. We are almost, almost gonna hit that 1 cent. Look at that, we're about to flip the switch and hit that 1 cent. So shout out all the XYO holders. I am holding a big, big bag of this. I believe this, uh, once the— once the Earth and the technology catches up, or like our reality catches up to what this is going to be used for. Um, if you don't know what it's used for, I have an entire video detailing everything to do with XYO. Now let's take a look at Bitcoin dominance right here. By the way, the market cap of crypto is still $1.7 trillion. We like that. Um, 43.40 right here. So as you can see, we literally have been dipping since January 1st. We went up dipped again, and now it looks like we're back on the rise. But we will see what happens. Lunar Crush right here, um, this is social listening for crypto. Basically, it combines, um, like all of the social media engagement around a crypto and the performance. So number 1 coin today is Reef Finance. I want to throw this in here because I just— it's a good way to have a random coin and you get to hear my thoughts. For Reef Finance, not a fan. I'm sorry, I'm not a fan of Reef Finance. Just because of some of the stuff they've done with influencers and positioning it. It's not— I'm not really a fan of it, but it'll probably make you money. It's probably a great project. The coin of the day as well is Nexo. I've heard some great stuff about Nexo. Here we go with the most important news probably of all today. Bitcoin tackles $40,000 as Biden unveils new $6 trillion federal spending budget. So basically what this means is get ready to wheel your damn cash around in a wheelbarrow to pay for a loaf of bread or something. What's happening is he has revealed a new $6 trillion federal spending budget. May 28th, he will announce the massive fiscal policy. Biden reportedly wants the federal government to spend $6 trillion in 2022. He also plans to raise the total spending to $8.2 trillion by 2031. Like, what the hell is this? Um, and then we've got Bitcoin Archive right here. The US President Joe Biden, the debt as a percentage of GDP will rise to the highest levels since World War II. What is going on, folks? The money printer is going brrr. As you can see, they put that right there. That's hilarious. Um, so this is a, this is a good, uh, excuse to buy Bitcoin, folks, for sure, for sure, or any crypto in my opinion. Um, but that, that just blows my mind. It blows my mind. Um, so this is also some big news. Ripple will go public, CEO says very soon. But, um, and basically he was at a Consensus 2021 conference He says the likelihood that Ripple is a public company is very high at some point, but being in the middle of an SEC lawsuit is a significant hurdle. He further added, it's easier to do that after you have closure and clarity and that regulatory certainty we have been seeking for so long. If you guys didn't know, like, regulatory clarity has been something the XRP community has talked about for like years. They've wanted this for years, clarity on, on, uh, on regulations in the United States so we can get this shit popping. That's what happens as soon as you get regulations like in place. Big money can flow in and real shit can start going down, or going up, I should say. Um, after the current lawsuit, Ripple will go public. Chris wants the company to move in the same direction. So that's, I mean, that's perfect. That's perfect. That will be a stock I will for sure invest in right there. Um, so billionaire Carl Icahn prefers Ethereum over Bitcoin. So basically this dude was super bearish on Bitcoin and now he has switched, I guess. Um, he said he's also going to invest one, he has $1.5 billion. No, he has $1 billion. He claims that he could put over $1 billion into digital currencies. Also, he talks up Ether. You see how all these people are talking up Ethereum? So Ethereum and Bitcoin are different. Bitcoin to me is just a store of value. So it really looks like the stage is being set for Ethereum to flip Bitcoin, which would be probably one of the happiest days of my entire life, just because personally I think, I think I'll be very wealthy if if that happens, that like that almost confirms it in the future, right? Because that, that lets me know that Bitcoin doesn't always have to be king, right? So XRP could be king. If Ethereum is— if Ethereum could be the number one digital asset, XRP just as well could be. Um, and that would be the day, man. Oh my, all the haters. If you see XRP in that number one position, just manifest it with me, folks. Imagine The day we get to throw up our middle fingers and just celebrate. So here's another article from Daily Hodl. White House is reviewing crypto regulation to ensure traders can Dogecoin to their heart's content. Come on, man. Uh, administration officials are discussing whether guardrails on crypto can be imposed while still allowing investors to Dogecoin to their heart content— heart's content. So Biden administration is examining this. So it's, it's picking up steam, folks. It's picking up steam. Uh, I think we're in for some crazy stuff. On Twitter I said I'm ready for 5x on the absurdity scale, just in terms of what crazy stuff can go down in crypto. Um, here we've got another little news, little piece of news from Ripple right here. Ripple partner Ria Money is transferring up, uh, real money transfer teams up with leading payment platform Mooney. Right there, they are, um, partnering with Mooney, and Mooney's nationwide coverage in Italy has 45,000 points of sale and 20 million customers who make more than 200 million transactions a year. So bullish partnerships right in the middle of a damn, uh, lawsuit. So crazy to me. And here is— this is from U Today. I don't know if it's true, um, it just came out like literally 3 minutes ago. It says SEC attorney moves to withdraw from the Ripple case. The SEC attorney wants to withdraw. And when you click on their little source, it brings you to this BS where you have to log in and stuff with a— on a government website. So I'm not sure if this is true. You Today is kind of sketchy, but I believe we will see this story unfold if it is true. Right here at the end, I'm gonna throw in some HBAR news. We've got Hedera tweeting out, congrats to Hala Systems and Project Starling, which are both built on Hedera Hashgraph, for being featured use cases of hyperledger technologies that are operating in or enabling cross-platform production deployments. Now, why did I throw this in here? Hala Systems is Mark Cuban, folks. This is Mark Cuban's company, or markcubancompanies.com. He is invested in Hala Systems, which is connected to Hedera Hashgraph. As you can see right here, both built on Hedera Hashgraph. Hala Systems right there, connected to Mark Cuban. So Matic is not the only one, folks, that's connected to this. But that is all we've got for today. I hope that you enjoyed the video. Make sure you drop a like, smash the subscribe button, um, catch me on Instagram, Twitter. I love you all, and good—