SECRET XRP FOOTAGE! Ripple + MasterCard & More Crypto News Today

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 another market update. We've got some great stuff. If you watch until the end, you will find out my thoughts on if XRP can surpass Ethereum. We have a rare interview clip from Vitalik Buterin saying that Ripple is the chosen one and XRP is the chosen one. Uh, we've got a lot of different stuff to cover, so make sure you drop a like. If we hit 1,000 likes on this video, I will give away 100 XRP to one lucky viewer, uh, who's watching this video. So let's get into the video. Here we go. First things First, let's take a look at the market. We are approaching the $1 trillion level, folks. Bitcoin is down to $25,862. Um, if we click on the biggest gainers, we have Mantle, uh, DYDX, Zcash. Nothing really, you know, standing out right now. Quant is moving a little bit. As for the biggest losers, we have Pepe. A lot of drama going on with Pepe right now. Um, but overall, you know, we're heading back towards, uh, that $1 trillion level. Now if we go and look, um, at the total market cap, uh, on Coin— or sorry, on TradingView here, uh, we click this, right? Um, you can see our lines. So this is the chart we've, we've had for a while. And dude, just like I've been saying, we like— we always return to the $1 trillion level. August, in this whole month of August, we've been toying with this level, right? What happens if we dip below this? Well, we'll probably fall into this box right here, this blue box that I have. Um, you know, there could be an easy falling out, and that would be horrible right now. This is not what people need. Uh, but we have done this whole little rainbow, some rainbow action there. Um, but if we go to Bitcoin, let's go back to Bitcoin here. If we look at Bitcoin, right, this honestly looks like, you know, we're at a breaking point. We're either gonna rock it up like we did here, or, you know, we could fall out. Now what's more likely in my opinion is to rock it up, right, or to go back up to toy with $30K. That's more likely in my opinion. Um, for right now. But you know, this is the 12-hour chart. It, it— we could go back into this range. Nobody wants to be here though. Like, this would— right now, this would just ruin the market morale, uh, in the crypto space. It's already so dead on Twitter and stuff. Obviously, the Gold Squad Discord is still thriving every day, thousands of messages. It's hard to keep up, but it's an awesome place to be in there. Uh, so that's my analysis on Bitcoin. You know, XRP has returned right to the start of where we were before the lawsuit. This is— excuse me— this is the true test. Uh, I believe I made a TikTok saying, what if XRP wins the lawsuit and it doesn't even pump? Well, folks, this is the equivalent basically of that. We got this big pump right here within 12 hours. Uh, within 12 hours we went from 47 cents to 93 cents, right? And then boom, we've all— we've went all the way back down. This is the true test. Who's still willing to hold this thing, you know, after just years of waiting? I am, right? I am. Uh, as for HBAR, I do see HBAR probably coming back down a little bit. Hopefully we can get back in, uh, at the 3-cent level. Uh, we did get this opportunity right here. Excuse me, that was a great opportunity to get in. Um, a lot of people keep asking me like, what's a good goal? Or like, how much HBAR is enough? And this is one of the dumbest questions. I'm sorry, you know, I'll answer any question. I have nothing against anybody for asking questions. You should always ask questions. But dude, like, how much is enough HBAR? A gazillion, right? It, it depends on your personal budget, right? But a good goal that I would aim for, uh, is 100,000 HBAR tokens. Don't measure it by the dollar amount, measure it by the token amount. Shoot for 100,000 tokens, um, and then when HBAR goes to $1, uh, that will be worth $100,000, right? There's no guarantee of HBAR going to $1, But personally, I am, I'm bullish on it. So let's keep it moving here. Let's get into some of the news. Donald Trump, the legendary mugshot has came out. He's been arrested. This is just insane, right? 165 million views. His Tucker interview did a quarter of a billion views in like 12 hours. It's just insane. But the reason I wanted to bring this up is because I want to think about the crypto world with Donald Trump as president? If he becomes president, what will the crypto world— will it benefit or will it be worse? Uh, I think it will benefit. Trump literally built a project on Ethereum, and his financial records just came out and they show that he's still holding that Ethereum that they brought in. It's like $250,000. Uh, so I think totally he might make some great choices. For crypto if he becomes president. Now let's keep it moving. Let's talk about the gem that I bought the other day. This is not sponsored. We do have some sponsors at the end of today's video, but this is not sponsored. QANX. Okay, this is the, um, potential hidden gem that I purchased the other day. Both me and Megan own, uh, a quite a substantial amount of this, uh, project. Uh, and this is QAN platform, quantum-resistant layer-1 blockchain. So it is another layer-1 play, uh, but they're kind of marketing it around being quantum-resistant, which I think might be a big narrative, um, in the bull runs to come. Now if we go and visit their website here, uh, we go to their Linktree and we will go to, uh, where's their website? Hold on, uh, they've got their— oh, there, there's the website. Let's check out their website. QAN platform. Basically, they allow you to code in any language, uh, which is pretty crazy. So make sure you guys go do your own research. Here's the classic cliché comparison, uh, between Bitcoin, ETH. Obviously, it just knocks them out of the water. Uh, great project. So I purchased some of that, um, the other day. Big shout out to QAN, uh, doing great things. They naturally got got me to talk about them. This is not financial advice. Please refer to the disclaimer in my YouTube description, folks. Here is the clip we've all been waiting for though. This is a 17-second clip of Vitalik Buterin basically saying that Ripple is the chosen one. Let's listen first and then we'll talk about what he says. Here we go.

Really what Ethereum is, you know, people talk, people talk about things, uh, talk about cryptocurrency 2.0 being like the internet of value. We're not the internet of value. Ripple is the internet of value. We're an arbitrary processor for C transaction functions.

So right there you hear him say Ethereum is not the internet of value, Ripple is the internet of value. Okay, this guy says, um, banks are preparing to adopt XRP. They had to slow it all down because they were not ready yet for mass adoption. Every banking corporation was getting ready in the background. Okay, this is a very old interview, um, and Vitalik knows the truth, right? Vitalik knows the truth. Ripple is positioned in an interesting way, uh, to take over the world, in my opinion. Now let's talk about some more Ripple news. They just got featured in People's Magazine, people.com, uh, 82 out of 100 Um, and basically this is, uh, 100 Companies That Care. So this is kind of highlighting, um, some of Ripple's, uh, like contributions to the, to the world, uh, in terms of sustainability and stuff. So that was some good news that came out. Uh, and then this as well: the Digital Euro Association announces Ripple as pioneers in Mastercard's CBDC partner program. Uh, so here we go to the Digital Euro Association, and if we actually click this, you will see that this is actually a couple weeks old, this news. Uh, but they just tweeted it out, uh, celebrating it on August 24th, but this really, uh, is from August 17th, you know. And if we do a search for Ripple, boom, you'll see this. This is on mastercard.com. Saying the inaugural set, uh, of partners includes CBDC platform Ripple. They're calling it— they're calling Ripple a CBDC platform. And there's a couple other mentions right here. Obviously, there they are right there alongside a couple different ones as well. So that's a great piece of news. Moving forward, let's talk a little bit about our nodes. Um, our Casper node is doing amazing. Our Corium node is doing amazing. Um, our Corium node has provided 96 people, or is providing 96 people, with passive rewards paid out in the Corium token while they freaking sleep. This is the definition of passive income, uh, because basically you stake your Corium, uh, you delegate your Corium to our node. For example, like this guy uh, right here has delegated 13,000 Corium. Uh, this guy has dedicated 2,000,000. Uh, 1,800. So these people, you know, are all making— and there's just pages and pages of them— 5,000. So these people, like, the amount you delegate, uh, you earn APR on that, right? Uh, and, you know, you can go to the Home Explorer right here, uh, and see the APR. Currently it's at 30%. which is pretty crazy, right? Uh, and for our node, we also, we also allow you to, um, compound basically, so your, your rewards can get restaked. Um, and there's our Gold Squad validator right there confirming a block. This is very, very cool stuff, uh, and we are honored to run these nodes. But what I wanted to show you is until September 5th, there are free uh, free of fees. So there's no transaction fees in the Casper Dash wallet. So we are, um, partnered kind of indirectly with Casper Dash. Um, basically on your phone, you can go on your phone and download the Casper Dash app. This is not sponsored, by the way. Uh, we are not sponsored by Casper, uh, at all. We are sponsored by Corium, uh, just for full disclosure. But you can download the Casper Dash app, right? And that's where people stake from. Most people who are staking in our validator, uh, they stake from there. And let's go visit our Casper, uh, Casper validator. The reason I talk so much about these is because it's so cool, right? Our community is actually— we just hit 300 as well. 300 delegators in here, and people are just cashing in. The APY is almost 11% right now. which is very crazy. But get your Casper staked, free transaction fees, or no, no fees on Casper Dash. Now let's get into our sponsored section, which we do have some very, very cool projects in here. The first one is Linqto. Now Linqto is your access to private investment. Now one of the dopest things, my favorite thing that Linqto offers, uh, is actually the ability to invest in pre-IPO Ripple shares. So you guys know Ripple like has promised kind of to do an IPO in the future, which is initial public offering, uh, but LinkTo allows you to buy shares in Ripple before it even goes live. So make sure you use the link in the description, uh, and make an account on LinkTo. Now the thing here is you do have to be an accredited investor, but I still urge you guys all to follow them on Twitter, visit the website, go to the learn section and learn more about this because one of your goals should be to become an accredited investor and then you can get into these type of private investments. They currently have $261 million in total investments, 43 companies available. And almost 250,000 registered users right there. And you can see some of the differences here. I did post a TikTok the other day showing you kind of like what happens when you actually gain access and what the app kind of looks like. But you know, this is a very, very cool platform. Ripple is one of the companies they have. Discord— like, they've got some very, very cool companies on here. Um, so big shout out to LinkTo. Uh, if you're not accredited, once again, go follow their Twitter and stay up to date with this. Um, and you know, it's gonna be awesome. It's gonna be awesome. So let's move on to our next sponsor, which is SeedWorld, um, ran by Seedify. Seedify is a massive incubator and launchpad, uh, but this is SeedWorld. And they are launching their Vanguards, Seed World Vanguards, very soon. This is an NFT collection, and this, this project is popping, man. This is, this is gonna be pretty dope. So right now, here's the website, um, and basically they're like a— they're like where your, your community can like build the metaverse. So just take a look at this real quick. Look at this, uh, teaser video um, right here. So here's the teaser video. You can basically look at these graphics first of all, and this, this kind of mechanics where you can place stuff and build out the metaverse for your community. Um, so get on to the whitelist by going to the AlphaBot link. I'll put the link in the description. Um, and there's 6 days left, uh, to get onto this. So Seed World You know, vanguards are the, the forefront of this. SeedWorld is a world that is created by its users, focused on user-generated content. Our mission is to transform the inhabitants of this virtual world into creators by providing the tools to shape and build your land, create social and gaming experiences, monetize the experiences. That's a very cool part. Let's check out this thread from Loki the Bird. So who's behind this project? A leading team endorsed by Seedify. And this is a user-generated content social gaming metaverse to transform its users into creators. So here's another, here's another clip right there. You can build land, create assets, produce games. Imagine your favorite NFT project now providing you the chance of shaping the community metaverse. So the process: mint, stake, get rewards, build, and earn. And they're minting— they're going to be minting in late August. And 6 days left on the AlphaBot, uh, right here on the AlphaBot app to get, uh, yourself on the list. Uh, so here we go, let's keep it moving. Let's go into our final sponsors, uh, I just wanted to talk about our stream that we did on the Gold Squad Kick. Uh, we do have an official Gold Squad Kick, um, and actually, uh, a YouTube channel as well. So the Gold Squad actually has an official YouTube channel. Um, you might notice that this is my NFT Mason account transformed into the Gold Squad account. Uh, I just think where the NFT market is right now, it's not worth it to have a channel dedicated to that. So instead we have transformed this into the Gold Squad official YouTube channel. I will leave both links to these in the description. But me and Megan did a gambling stream in which we won thousands and thousands of dollars, which is crazy. You guys can watch that right here if you would like on our Kick. But the two sponsors for today's video and for that livestream were Mega Dice. And Lucky Block. So Mega Dice and Lucky Block are two online crypto casinos. Obviously, you know, gamble responsibly, uh, don't use money you can't afford to lose, uh, and it should always just be for fun, right? Always for fun, never, um, never not for fun. But here's Mega Dice. Make sure you go into the description and sign up for Mega Dice and Lucky Block. And you'll get access to the deposit bonus. One of the dope things that Megadice has is they have the first Telegram casino. So you can click join Telegram casino. There's a 200% deposit bonus and 50 free spins. They have all the same games as the leading, the leading crypto casinos. We were playing Gates of Olympus, Sweet Bonanza, They also have some awesome game shows. We were playing Crazy Time before, so make sure you go sign up. And then this is Lucky Block. They also have sports betting. You can buy the LBLOCK token right on their, um, on their platform. You know, they take XRP, they take all these cryptocurrencies right here, and you know, they have all the leading leading games. Sweet Bonanza, they got Dice Hotline, they got Plinko, uh, some very, very cool games on here. Uh, so stay tuned for the next gambling stream. We will be playing on Mega Dice and Lucky Block in the future. So that is all we've got for today's video. I love every single one of you. Drop a like and comment, join the Gold Squad Discord, and goodbye. Mason Versluis.