⚠️⚠️ THE REAL EVIL AGENDA... BLACKROCK. ETHEREUM MERGE DATE CONFIRMED. XRP NEWS TODAY AND MORE...

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 daily market update. Today we have a very important one. I'm sorry I missed I missed a day there, but we are back. Make sure that you are following me on Twitter. Also make sure you join the Gold Squad Discord with the link in the, in the description. But we're gonna hop right into this. This one is jam-packed. We have Ethereum merge date confirmed. We have BlackRock entering the crypto space even further. We have XRP stuff. We have everything in today's market update. So Bitcoin $23,852. One thing I will admit, bro, is that this is getting stronger. Okay, so this is one thing I do have to say about Bitcoin. We are, we are getting a little bit stronger towards that $25,000, uh, dollar mark, right? So it's— it— we have not came down all the way back yet, right? But we are, we are progressively getting stronger, um, heading up to this blue box. I, I hope that by the end of August we're into that blue box and we're surpassing it. That would be very good to see a steady, steady build, uh, breaking through that. What's pumping and what's keeping Bitcoin alive right now is announcements like this. We had BlackRock, um, and if you guys want to see the, the best best video on BlackRock ever. This video will change the way you think about the entire world. Um, hold on. BlackRock owns everything. There's a video on Lewin Rockwell. Um, I, I don't know if they took it down or something, uh, but it's called Who Owns the World. I'll try put the link in the description. If it's not there, just do a Google search for that. Uh, but they own the world. BlackRock is the top of the top. Um, and they've launched a private trust offering direct Bitcoin exposure. This is extremely bullish for Bitcoin. But also, like, dude, we're, we're, we're celebrating BlackRock getting involved in this. Um, I mean, BlackRock, those are the real elites there, right? They own every single corporation in the world, um, or they own pieces of every single corporation in the world. So that is pretty insane that they're getting involved right there. We also have Ethereum sitting at $1,881. Uh, we have Ryan Sean Adams saying, I can't tell you the number of crypto experts who told me Ethereum would never transition to proof of stake. In September, Ethereum will transition to proof of stake. And Ethereum will prove the critics wrong yet again. So, and then we have this idiot that says, are you sure? What if the ETH proof-of-work fork is favored? Okay, no, nobody's gonna— the, the ETH proof-of-work fork will not be favored, in my opinion. And this is true, I've heard many people even tell me that the merge will never happen, and it is happening. Okay, Vitalik even tweeted today, uh, bordel.wtf predicts the merge will happen around September 15th, though the exact date depends on hash rate. So the exact date depends on hash rate, but they, uh, they're trying to achieve the difficulty, um, of 5, 5875 with a bunch of zeros. Okay, so that is coming soon. Here's the bordel.wtf website. Depends on hash rate, but around September 15th, 16th— excuse me— Ethereum will merge, uh, to proof of stake fully. We had the Goerli testnet, uh, or the Goerli network also merge already. That was the final one. Now we have Jim Cramer. Listen to what Jim Cramer says on live television about Ethereum here.

But I would say that, look, Coinbase, look, it's a new day. It is a new day. It's a new day, by the way. It is a day we got a non-hot CPI number and the S&P is up 1.5%. Well, that's when you buy Ethereum, right? Oh, I think that's what it says in the Ethereum playbook. Yes, buy Ethereum, buy anything. How about Dogecoin? Do you buy that? No, but no, please. It's down 99% or something from when he was on Saturday Night Live. But I'll tell you You know, it was the real—

so that's a good, good thing right there. Don't buy Dogecoin. It's down 99% from when Elon was on SNL. But he does say buy Ethereum in here. And then everyone, including Crypto Ran, is saying do the opposite of what Jim Cramer says. It might be a good time to do what he says, though, because Ethereum merge is coming up and this thing will probably pump in anticipation for that. and then obviously you're hearing it right here, it will dump after the merge. Obviously, that's the big hugest planned event ever, right? Anytime you have a planned event in crypto like that, you're gonna dump, you're gonna dump right after, right? Every single time there's the pump leading up to it and you dump, uh, and that's just like, it's just easy, right? Stock Money Lizards shows this graph of altcoins. Uh, he has lined up these two fractals with 2018 to 2021 and 2021 to 2022. Okay, and you can see we're on the, the verge of going crazy in 2022 to 2024. Um, this could play out, but I mean, this is a pretty macro view. Uh, And I mean, it does look the same. It does look the same, right? And we should be coming up, not back to all-time highs, we should be coming out up to about half of it and then down, and then half of it again, and then down, and then all the way up. So that's— we'll see if this plays out. A lot of the macro charts, uh, that we were showing before during the bull market did not actually play out. A lot of them actually did. As well. So it was, it was basically an even split, but we never know with these type of charts. Update on the Tornado Cash situation: Tornado Cash, uh, has been banned everywhere. It has been banned everywhere. Okay, I don't even think you can get onto the app anymore. Yep, it's gone. Uh, you can join their Telegram, of course, because you can't really censor Telegram, I don't think. Uh, yeah, you can join their Telegram. Uh, but they are saying Tornado Cash GitHub organizations banned, personal GitHub accounts, all USDC on Tornado Cash contracts by CirclePay. So all of these, uh, have been banned. Okay, and now they've also, uh, arrested an alleged Tornado Cash developer in the Netherlands. The Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service Service, uh, rolled out a statement revealing the arrest of an unidentified 21— 29-year-old in Amsterdam. Okay, he was suspected of concealing criminal financial flows and facilitating money laundering through the mixing of cryptocurrencies through the decentralized Ethereum mixing service Tornado Cash. Uh, by the way, that anybody can use for good or bad. He just built it. Neutral, right? Uh, and I get— I guess we should, uh, arrest the developers of like SWIFT, right? And, and fiat, because this type of shit happens with fiat too. And over those networks, it happens over Visa every single day. It happens over SWIFT every single day. So just because, uh, it's, it's Ethereum, or it's a, it's a decentralized service, it's a mixing service. They're banning it and they're arresting people for building a neutral technology, right? Now we have this guy right here, okay? I don't know who this is, but what he says about SWIFT is very accurate. Let's, uh, take a look. 32-second clip about XRP.

I don't believe Ripple is going to replace SWIFT. Ripple is one of the complementary networks which going to allow those institutions who need real time to make use of that. And I think we're also seeing that SWIFT are changing their network capabilities. So real time will be a possibility as well. But we may also see Ripple XRP moving across the SWIFT network as a currency when we're perhaps using something like FX.

So first of all, he's saying that SWIFT is like updating to the times, right? They are updating, uh, all of their stuff and making sure they can compete with something like Ripple. And then he also says we might see XRP as a currency moving over SWIFT. Okay, so that's pretty interesting that he would say that. I do see that potentially happening in the future. Um, I just want Ripple to replace Swift, to be honest, because that would reap the greatest benefits in terms of token price or coin price on XRP, for sure. Uh, that would reap the greatest, uh, benefits. But I mean, you'd never, um, you never know what that competition is going to look like between Ripple and Swift. Now this is a 3-minute and 37 second clip. But this is one of the best clips I've ever seen from a Bitcoiner. This guy just nails it. And this is talking about ESG. Okay. And ESG is environmental, social, and governance. Okay. And this is a way— it's kind of like a protocol that big investors use to scope out whether an investment is worthy of their money. Right. It has to be environmentally friendly, social governance. Now watch what this dude says. 3-minute clip. It's very worth it to watch through this. Let's watch it right now.

Well, we'll take a step back. I mean, ESG or ESG is a social construct or social construct. And like everyone is, you know, pro-environment. So where is the attack coming from? Like, who, who are the attackers? And I'll open this up to Marty and Troy. Like, who is actually using this as a weapon to attack?

Bitcoin?

I mean, just broadly speaking, ESG is an attack on free markets and Bitcoin is just collateral damage. And Bitcoin is arguably the freest market in the world. And so by extension, ESG is going to attack that. These people don't care about the environment, social justice, people. So capital allocators, BlackRock is Larry Fink.

Okay.

Larry Fink is the godfather of ESG. He also happens to be the largest asset manager in the world, so he passively gets dollars that he's able to invest on behalf of millions, tens of millions of people to acquire stock, to get positions on board, and then to force behaviors on companies. So it's multifaceted. I mean, if you can't control free markets, you need to find a mechanism to do that. I think ESG is, is that mechanism in the fund world. It's a, it's a great meme to make fees on. There's a lot of people trying to sell products at a premium because it's ESG certified. But again, yeah, at the end of the day, this is an attack by quintillionaires who have access to the Fed window, who are able to take that money and then try to force behaviors on markets. They say it's a free market reaction to the challenges of our day. This is how Larry Fink positions it. However, It's not a free market reaction. He's getting money passively. He helped the Fed directly execute on its bond purchasing program last year. He is connected to the money spigot. And so it's not a free market at all, even though they want you to believe it is.

So it's the powers that be trying to consolidate their power and they're using this as an excuse.

Yeah, I mean, they're playing to people's feelings. Like Jamie said, everybody's focused on the E, nobody focuses on the S and the G. Let's go.

That point right there is crazy, crazy facts. Everyone focuses on the E, not the SG. Let's keep watching.

I don't like government forcing anybody to do anything. So like these disclosures, again, we're playing into this narrative. It's all about control. No matter, like, at the end of the day, they don't care how much green renewable energy I mean, you just saw last week one of like the lead climate scientists came out and said, I don't care if Bitcoin miners are using 70% renewable energy, uh, they're taking that electricity from better resources. Like, these people don't care about Bitcoin's energy use. They don't like Bitcoin, the fact that they can't control it. They want to shut that down. And as an industry, what— why I've been very vocal about this for many years is we could be walking into a very bad situation if we play along with the ESG narrative and we bend the knee and we say, all right, here's our carbon emissions. And it's like, what's next? What's next after those disclosures? All right, now you need 50% to be— you need this particular energy mix. And then again, forcing behaviors on an industry that's supposed to be a free market. Bitcoin is doing incredible things for the environment and energy efficiency by We don't need to be forced to do anything. And the more we cater to these people, the more control they have over us at the end of the day. And I don't think we should be catering.

So he got the claps right there because he absolutely nailed that. Insane, insane, right? They're using ESG and he's explaining kind of in just a nice way how they're using the environmental agenda to control things and implement there are coins that they want. Uh, now look what this guy says. I forgot to play this last clip. Look what this guy says.

Yeah, you can tell the truth, but it's already—

the—

like, we in this room are not going to win the battle that ESG isn't good. It's like, it's—

that wave is cresting on top of us.

We're going to destroy ESG. Um, it's destroying itself already.

So this guy says you can tell the truth, right?

The—

yeah, you can tell the truth, but it's already You can tell the truth, but it's already— and then he goes into how ESG has already won. They've already won. And then this guy who knows his audience, he's on a Bitcoin 2022 stage in Miami speaking to brainwashed Bitcoiners. He obviously has to say we're going to destroy ESG, right? And look, she laughs. He laughs, she laughs like crazy, and look at his reaction. He knows the truth. He knows the truth that they've already lost. Okay? And you cannot just beat— you know, I hope, I hope, I pray that Bitcoin can do this. Obviously, like, everybody gets me so twisted on my thoughts on Bitcoin, dude. I am the number one cheerleader for Bitcoin, basically. Like, I want the decentralized world to win. I just don't see it happening. I want it to happen really badly, uh, but the decentralized world, it's just tough to win, dude. Now moving on, we have Ripple voting yes on the NFT update to the XRP Ledger. Uh, there's an NFT amendment right here, and you can see all of the node operators, node validators, um voting, and Ripple is in the yes category. In the no category is some interesting people: Coil, Bitrue, uh, who else? GateHub, uh, Bitso, and then a validator from— what is it called— uh, a validator from Flare. Yeah, development partner for Flare. Now it might just be that they haven't clicked a vote yet and they're being placed in the no category by default. Because they haven't chosen. Uh, but that's pretty interesting. You can also use this website, whenmint.day. Uh, this is showing, uh, when XLS-20 is coming and the votes, uh, the vote distribution there. Uh, we also have Mr. Quanfy. LCX has listed Quant on LCX's regulated cryptocurrency exchange, but recently LCX has started to set up the details to become a network gateway at the Overledger Network. Quant will integrate LCX within the Overledger Network as a key partner. We do share research and development results, collaborate and explore technical and high-level issues among LCX management and the Quant management team, especially evaluating CBDC exchange settlement. And that's the CEO of LCX right there. So LCX and Quant are going hand in hand. Uh, we also have a final clip right here, uh, from O'Shea. Oh, I'm so sorry, I just sneezed on the video, folks. I might have to edit that out, who knows if I did or not. But we're gonna watch this clip from O'Shea. Uh, this has nothing to do with crypto. I just wanted to throw this in here because it's hilarious and it's very true. Okay, 58-second clip. From Osho right here. Take a look.

Because democracy basically means government by the people, of the people, for the people. But the people are retarded. So let us say government by the retarded for the retarded. Of the retarded, because—

And we will leave it at that. So I appreciate all of you for watching. I love every single one of you. Make sure you sign up for Binance with the links in the description. Follow my Instagram, Twitter, all that stuff. I love every single one of you, and goodbye.

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