In this YouTube video, Crypto Mason (Mason Versluis) delivers a daily crypto market update. He begins by noting his 90‑day YouTube live‑stream ban and shift to TikTok/Twitch for live content. He reports the total crypto market cap at $2.4 trillion (all‑time high) and Bitcoin’s price hovering around $55 K, with Bitcoin dominance at 45 %. He reviews top‑ranked assets (BNB, DOGE, XRP, etc.) and highlights a sudden surge of the Internet Computer (ICP) to #8 on CoinMarketCap, questioning its marketing‑driven hype. He then focuses on Quant (QNT), citing unusually high buying volume on KuCoin, ISO‑standard discussions about interoperability, and a graphic placing Quant at the centre of an interledger network, suggesting a potential bullish catalyst. Mason shares a clip of Peter Thiel discussing Bitcoin as a geopolitical weapon and points out Thiel’s connections to two projects: Reserve (a diversified stablecoin pool) and Helium (a mining‑based passive‑income network). He moves to Elon Musk’s recent Dogecoin tweet, critiques the hype, references Bloomberg’s limited‑potential view, and notes community commentary. Finally, he presents a FUD claim that Bitcoin mining consumes eight times more electricity than Google and Facebook combined, showing comparative data. Throughout, he asks viewers to suggest a community name, encourages subscriptions, and promotes his social channels.
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What is up? I am Crypto Mason and welcome back to the Crypto Mason YouTube channel. Now today we're gonna do a daily market update video. I'm gonna go through all of the prices, what's going on in the market, my thoughts on the state of the market, and Um, and we've got some very, very interesting stuff today. Some weird things are happening on, on CoinMarketCap with this Internet Computer. We're going to go over that. We're going to cover Bitcoin dominance, Quant, Elon Musk doing— running some more little schemes. And I'm going to show you 2 coins, 2 new coins that you might not have heard of, um, connected to Peter Thiel. And then we're going to cover Dogecoin, Bitcoin, But before we do, I need a name to call the community, folks, because right now I just say you guys or supporters, uh, Crypto Mason supporters. I need a name for the army. We could call it army, but I don't know. Leave your suggestion for a name for this community in the, um, in the comments. Now also, before we get into it, make sure that you're watching these daily market updates until the end because I tend to place information in the middle or the back end of a video, and then many people just ask me questions that I've already covered in a video. Now let's hop into it. We're going to start off with checking the state of the market. So before we get into it, I am still banned on YouTube live streaming. It wasn't a glitch or anything, um, for 90 days. So the majority of the live streams will be on TikTok. Or, um, well, TikTok for sure, and maybe Twitch. I'm still gonna set it up, I don't know, but we will see. So currently the market cap is $2.4 trillion. $2.4 trillion. Um, that is some big achievements. Is that an all-time high for the, for the market cap? I believe it is. Um, I believe it is. That's the total market cap of the entire crypto space. Without Bitcoin, it looks like we're at $1.3 trillion. Now, some people think that's literally going to grow to like $50 trillion this year, which— that's kind of far-fetched, but who knows. Bitcoin, it looks like it's dropped to $55K. It just can't seem to get up past that $60K level. Um, Ethereum is almost, uh, almost at $4K, but it was at $4K and dropped below. Binance Coin still going crazy, giving me hope every day in the INX security token. Every time I look at that, Dogecoin is still the number 4 crypto. Let's go down. XRP has dropped below $1.50, um, and then we've got this weird Internet Computer thing, and we're gonna cover what this is, but that thing just popped up as number 8. I believe that it was actually in number 4 position. But that is crazy. We're gonna cover that. Uh, what else we got? Bitcoin Cash still doing great. Shiba Inu still doing great. Um, if you know, if you watch my TikTok livestream, I did put some money for fun. I just put some random money for fun into Shiba Inu. Um, no reason, I just had random money. I just put it in there for fun. Let's see, what else do we got going? 17 cents on CRO. Um, Revain. I, I don't know what Revain, but that thing is killing it. Um, let's check the top gainers. Hashgraph still at 27 cents. I'm telling you, it's letting people in under that 30 cents, letting people in. Um, looks like, okay, Internet Computer, Yearn Finance. So a bunch of weird, weird coins that I'm not really familiar with. I like EOS, I like Polygon. Um, but let's move into what is this Internet Computer thing? It's at $404. And it has a market cap of $50 billion out of nowhere, just randomly. So what this actually is, is it's DFINITY. It's the Internet Computer. I don't know if you should buy this. I don't know what this is. It looks like it's already peaked, right, because it's, it's so high up there. Um, but here is what is the Internet Computer. 4 days after launch, ICP hits number 4 on CoinMarketCap. DFINITY's newly launched, uh, Internet Computer. So this is a perfect marketing scheme. To make it just surprise everyone, right? Um, you've gotta— these people are marketing geniuses in here, so they know if that pops up on number 4 on CoinMarketCap like it did right here, they know it's gonna get blasted, these headlines. So basically it has been launching on some exchanges and it's just— I'm not sure what it is. I'm not sure what it is really. I Um, it looks like the Internet Computer is a blockchain. So there's a bunch of tweets right here. It's not an Ethereum killer. Um, this is just very interesting. Computer's Chain Key technology. I don't know, personally I would not invest in this simply because it looks like it's already peaked. It's literally number 8. Um, so you never know what type of gains you could get off this. If you look at the chart, it went straight up. But let's keep going. Bitcoin dominance sitting at even 45, an even 45. I was watching BitBoy the other day and he predicted that it'll get down to like 20, 20 to 30, um, which would be crazy, which would be crazy. I think that'll happen as well. I think that'll happen. Here we have got Crypto Nerd saying that the highest buying volume recorded for Quant on KuCoin on KuCoin. This usually happens on consolidation before a mega parabolic pump. Quant, as we know, Quant is basically a stablecoin. That thing has just been doing this, consolidating under, um, or just right at all-time high actually, um, or right under all-time high. But there's massive buying volume, smart people avoiding gas fees on Uniswap. So what are we about to see with Quant? What are we about to see? Look at this. It's just been up and down, up and down, staying at the same level. Um, here we've got a very important tweet right here. The European Digital SME Alliance, the CEO Jay Verdian presenting his work at ISO standards, ISO standards in the realm of interoperability and the importance of standards to unlock DLTs for small businesses. This is so bullish for Quant. This is so bullish for Quant right here. So I didn't even know there's an ISO standards account, but I guess there is ISO standards. And we know about ISO 20022. Um, if you don't know about that, let's pull it up. Let's pull it up right here for you. Graphs. Let me pull it up right here. This is what you're going to want to be looking at because this is what a lot of people are following. It's a I don't know where this came from, it's unofficial, but it makes sense. We've got IOTA, XRP, R3 Corda, XinFin, XDC, XLM, ALGO. They even put Circle, which is Coinbase's stablecoin, and then they put Quant in the middle. And that's an interledger protocol that is probably going to be implemented pretty soon, pretty soon, this year or next year, I would, I believe. But if you don't know, Quant actually connects all the distributed ledgers, and that's why you saw in that graph— graph, it's in the middle, it's in the middle. So now we've got an article coming out right here that the Bitcoin bull run is far from over, and basically they show a bunch of technical analysis here that says that the Bitcoin bull run is not over. Now I also agree, we will see $100,000 Bitcoin. or I hope, I can't say for sure, but I hope we do. I hope we see that, um, and then a major correction, and then maybe some, some kind of crazy alts. I don't know. Here, let's move into the Peter Thiel stuff. This is very interesting. Peter Thiel's Palantir Technologies now accepts Bitcoin for payments. So Palantir Technology is now accepting Bitcoin for payments. If you do not know who Peter Thiel is, he is this guy right here. He's an original PayPal Mafia member, which means he started up PayPal with a bunch of other guys. Um, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. He's a billionaire and he's very important in the crypto space. And now we're gonna play a video of him. Um, we're gonna play a video of him on Bitcoin being used as a weapon by China. This is a very interesting video, and then I'm going to show you two coins that he is actually connected directly to. But let's watch this, let's watch this. By the way, this is from Coingrams on Instagram. Here we go. Believe it or not, Instagram has some good crypto content.
From China's point of view, they want to get, um, they don't like the US having this reserve currency because it gives us, you know, a lot of leverage over, you know, Iranian oil supply chains and all sorts of things like that. They'd like— they don't want the renminbi to become a reserve currency because then you have to open your capital account and you have to do all sorts of things that they really don't want to do. You know, I think the euro you could think of as, you know, was in part a Chinese weapon against the dollar. Didn't— the last decade hasn't quite worked out that way. But that was— you know, China would have liked to see two reserve currencies like the euro. And, you know, even though I'm sort of a pro-crypto, pro-Bitcoin maximalist person. I do wonder whether at this point Bitcoin is also— should also be thought in part of as a Chinese financial weapon against the US, where it's— it is— it threatens fiat money, but it especially threatens the US dollar. And, and China wants to do things to weaken it. So it's sort of China is long Bitcoin and perhaps from a geopolitical perspective, the US should be a little bit— be asking some tougher questions about exactly how that works. But some internal stablecoin in China, I mean, that's not a real cryptocurrency. That's just, you know, that's just some sort of totalitarian measuring device.
So did anybody watch his body language during that? Did you see him kind of looking to the side every couple seconds at the beginning of that? So that's really crazy. But here is two coins that he's actually connected to, and I like both of these coins personally. I don't hold any, um, but this is one he's connected to right here, which is called Reserve, right? Reserve is a flexible pool of stablecoins designed to reduce risk through diversification and decentralized governance. So that's one that he's actually connected to. You can go and find the connections, they are there. As well as helium, which I did order a helium miner, and I will definitely be showing that off when I, when I receive it and, uh, telling you guys about it because that's a good way to earn, um, passive, passive income strictly, or straight up passive income. Now let's move into the shitcoin talk right here. Um, Elon Musk is tweeting out, do you want Tesla to accept Doge? So he, with what he's doing here is he's, um saving himself from his terrible, um, SNL performance. So basically what you do is you, uh, pump Doge and you get on SNL and you make it trash, Doge crashes, um, and then you save yourself by saying something like this. Like, I was literally seeing people beg him to say something bullish about Doge, and now he says this. I mean, look at Alex Cobb in the comments. He says, how much Doge you gonna sell to save your company from bankruptcy? I highly recommend watching Alex Cobb's video on what he thinks of Elon Musk and his Doge plays. He thinks that Elon Musk is broke, um, and he's keeping the company afloat with Dogecoin. Very good theory, a very good theory. But who knows? Here we've got some idiots doing technical analysis on Doge. They're actually not idiots, I don't know why I said that. But, uh, Bloomberg sees limited potential for Doge. Correct, there is limited, not unlimited. There's limited potential for Doge right there. Now ending off with this FUD right here: Bitcoin mining consumes 8x more electricity than Google and Facebook combined. So they're always talking about the electricity that Bitcoin uses, um, and it seems like a lot of people disagree on this, this issue. But look at this, they've got some graphs right here. All the world's data centers. Um, Bitcoin is right below that, above Norway, Bangladesh, Switzerland, Google, and Facebook. So I'm definitely going to make a TikTok out of that. Um, but that is the final article we have for today. So if you enjoyed the video, if you're still watching right now, I really appreciate you. You are a big supporter. Um, make sure you drop a subscribe, post notifications, turn them on. Follow my Twitter, Instagram, all of that stuff. But thank you so much for watching, and goodbye.
