In this YouTube video, Crypto Mason delivers his daily crypto market briefing, covering price movements, options‑expiry effects, and his personal outlook on several assets. He notes Bitcoin hovering around $36,000, cites a recent options‑expiry dip, and predicts a future rise to $10,000 for Ethereum. XRP is down 10% and he sees a buying opportunity. He highlights top gainers such as Helium, T‑Fuel, Chiliz, and Zcash, and comments on Bitcoin dominance falling to 42.9%. Mason critiques the narrative that options expiry drives price moves, suggesting possible whale manipulation. He references Japan’s central bank chief dismissing Bitcoin as a settlement tool, and counters that XRP is the true payments crypto. He disparages Charles Hoskinson’s criticism of Ethereum 2.0 and Hedera, defending Hedera’s technology. He mentions an upcoming closed‑door Sunshine Act meeting related to institutional settlement. He promotes IOTA’s fully decentralized testnet, defends Hedera’s performance versus Cardano (TPS, finality, fees, dApp count), and praises Quant Network’s enterprise backing. He shares an Edward Snowden quote about a $6 trillion Bitcoin market cap and a bullish Hedera marketing clip. He warns about an XRP‑related YouTube hack, and announces the listing of PlanetWatch (CERN‑linked, Algorand‑based) on Bitfinex, expressing personal interest. Throughout, Mason maintains an informal, enthusiastic tone aimed at his “Gold Squad” community.
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What is up? I am Crypto Mason and welcome back to the Crypto Mason YouTube channel. In this video, we've got another daily market update. I will be going through the market and giving you my thoughts on what has happened over the past 24 hours. As well as some of the news, um, that actually matters and is important to the timeline that we are trying to create for ourselves. Now you guys are the Gold Squad. Make sure you drop a subscribe, drop a like, and comment. Um, I am part of the Gold Squad as well because we look for gold in, in every aspect of our lives, folks, and we always find it. Now let's get into it right here. Uh, no more talking, let's go. $36,000 Bitcoin. So we had the options expiry, uh, thing going down right here with the max paying for the May expiry, $50,000. Um, so I mean, the price is being affected. It's at $7.27 right here. Uh, we have Ethereum at $2.5K. I think, in my opinion, that's a good accumulation, um, point right there if you're trying to accumulate some ETH, uh, before it goes to $10,000, because I know it will go to $10,000. Hopefully this year. Um, we've got XRP sitting 10% down over, over, uh, 24 hours. So we basically have a good dip today. We're back down to $1.6 trillion on the total, uh, crypto market cap. Um, so let's talk— let's check the top gainers here. We've got Helium. I am a big fan of Helium. Lots of people ask me about Helium mining. I do have a Helium miner coming in the mail. It has taken 3 months so far, so I'm, I'm not getting my hopes up, but it is coming. We got T-Fuel. T-Fuel's decent. We got this— I, I have no idea what that is. Chiliz— I'm decent on Chiliz as well. It had a lot of hype. And Zcash, I'm definitely bullish on. Zcash is one that I'm bullish on, uh, but I don't own any anymore. Now Bitcoin dominance has dropped, so we dropped all the way to 42.9, and we're we're heading back up. So it seems like we're just holding $40 levels now. Um, seems like we're just holding $40 levels. We did dip into the $39, I believe it was there before. So here is the Bitcoin price. Uh, we did wick right here to literally $29,000, which is pretty crazy. Um, but as far as like this options thing really driving the price down, personally I think it maybe was like an excuse for whales to manipulate. Like they say to the TikTok community and the crypto community that, oh, this options expiry is going to really affect the price. And then they proceed to manipulate with that as a, as an excuse. But I don't know. I don't know because I looked at the April options expiry, which was double this one, and the price actually mooned. Like it went up on the expiry date and it was actually bearish 3 days before it, which is very interesting. But let's get into the news right here. We got Japan's top central banker, uh, saying that Bitcoin is barely used for settlements. Folks, I got a new mic, I can do ASMR now. Um, Japan's top central banker, Bitcoin is barely used for settlements. We know this. Bitcoin isn't for payments. That's not what it is anymore, right? The original vision of Satoshi was a peer-to-peer decentralized payment system. Bitcoin doesn't do that. Well, it does that. People make payments in Bitcoin, but the main use is a store of value, I would say. Isn't that agreeable? Um, so that's what he said, and we know that, okay. Clearly XRP is the one for payments. That's the one created for, for settlements. We already know that. Moving on, right here we have Mr. Charles Hoskinson saying that ETH 2.0 will fall flat. Man, come on. Every time I see this dude, he is tearing other projects down. He is not All he does is talk how bad other projects are. He said that Hedera is patented garbage. Um, he's hated on Ethereum. All he does— can he like stop with this? Because this is just terrible. He says ETH 2.0 will fall flat. Governance is lacking. Um, one of the big things ETH 2.0 has bowed out on is governance. Blah blah blah. So now let's move into this from Stefan Huber right here. A new Sunshine Act meeting, folks. I guess nothing happened with the other one in May, but on June 3, 2021, we have a Sunshine Act meeting. Now these are very important in my opinion, and this one is for institution and settlement of injunctive actions, institution and settlement of administrative proceedings, resolution of litigation claims, and other matters relating to examinations and enforcement proceedings. So very interesting right there. Um, we will see what happens with that Sunshine Act meeting, and that is a closed meeting, folks, so I will not be streaming that. It's not available to the public. Now let's move on right here. We've got Dominic Shiner right here, who's the co-founder of IOTA. I'm heavily invested in IOTA, if you didn't know. Did you know that the Fully decentralized version of IOTA has been running live in a testnet for several months. Feeless plus distributed ledger technology, that sounds bullish to me. Um, we will see what that is. And this dude in the comments says full decentralized IOTA network is still far away, this is the truth. Dominic says no, stern no right there. Here we've got Khaled Joubeh, and this is from HBAR Tower, this graph. We compare Hedera and Cardano since August 2019, September 2017. This is DAG-based, it's a hashgraph proof of stake. This is blockchain-based proof of stake. 10,000 TPS, 1,000 TPS. 3 to 5 seconds with finality, 3 to 20 seconds with a block. You can see the fee is better. The total transaction— Hedera has 1.1 billion while Cardano has 7.7 billion. Uh, they have the trans— transactions per day record. Hedera has 500+ dApps and Cardano possibly has zero right now. Uh, Hedera's forkless, Cardano several forks. So you can see that we blow them out of the water, yet the market cap says otherwise right there. Here we've got Dread Bongo. Some of the largest, most influential companies in the world are constantly praising and highlighting one project And that is Quant Network. If entities like KPMG, Oracle, Deloitte, SIA, and Hyperledger are impressed with what they are seeing, it's time for you to look and notice too. It's just so clear with, with that one. Quant is absolutely so clear. Edward Snowden right here says $6 trillion, this is good for Bitcoin, absolute fact. And I like this comment right here. Look at this. Bitcoin is shaking hands with Bitcoin Cash. He says, hey Bitcoin, hey Bitcoin Cash, I want to be digital gold and a decentralized store of value. Bitcoin Cash says, best of luck, bro, I'll be decentralized peer-to-peer money for the world. And that's exactly what Satoshi wanted, wasn't it? Who knows. Here we've got a clip that I posted on Twitter. Um, this is so bullish right here. You might have already seen this, but Make sure you watch it again because this is so bullish. This is a Hedera Hashgraph marketing meeting and watch what this dude Christian says.
Incredibly seriously, but what I want to reassure everyone of is the things that other networks do are easy. That is easy marketing. Here's my coin, stake my coin, give me a return. Here's my node, run my node, give me a return. That's easy. We, when the regulatory environment is right and we feel comfortable and the council feels comfortable, we can do all of those things, no problem. But other networks cannot flip a switch overnight and have hundreds of use cases solving real problems for real businesses on their network, flip a switch overnight and have hundreds of use cases.
If you heard him correctly, um, so basically he says that Hedera staking is coming soon, um, because once the regulatory environment is right, he said they'll come out and just blow everyone out the water. Here we've got XRP scammers have hacked the official YouTube channel of Spain's Oldest law enforcement agency, and it's been changed to Ripple XRP Foundation. So these people are crazy. They'd be hacking, they're hacking channels out here. Like, what is going on? Now we have an update from an old hidden gem on the channel. If you've been with us for a while on this channel, you know that I talked about PlanetWatch. They are connected to CERN. They have, um, former CERN employees working there. And this is a great little hidden gem. It is being officially listed right here on Bitfinex. PlanetWatch will be, um, officially listed on Bitfinex for people to buy. Now, I don't know if you're a US person, I'm not sure if this works, but it is on Bitfinex. And look at this, Bitfinex is the 6th largest by volume in the exchanges. So super crazy right there. PlanetWatch. I probably will be buying some PlanetWatch, folks. And you can look into mining— basically it's like mining with the PlanetWatch sensors. Okay, so go check out this video if you want more information. Hidden gem crypto partnered with CERN, and it's also built on Algorand, and we love Algorand. But that is all we have for today. Kind of a calm day. Kind of a calm day in terms of the news, but who knows, it might pick up after. It seems to always pick up as soon as I post my video. Make sure you, uh, follow on Twitter, Instagram. I love you all. Shout out to the Gold Squad. Um, and that is all I've got. Goodbye.
