In this YouTube daily market update, Crypto Mason delivers a rapid-fire briefing on the current state of the cryptocurrency market and related news. He starts with a bullish market snapshot, noting Bitcoin trading around $44,000, Ethereum near $3,200, total crypto market cap surpassing $2 trillion, and XRP approaching the $1 mark. He highlights several altcoins experiencing notable moves: Saitama’s sudden pump, Engine’s rise to $2.15, QNT’s upward momentum, XDC’s partnership with GlobalID, Hedera’s (HBAR) open‑source shift, and a dramatic surge in LEO (Uniswap‑linked token) after news linking it to Bitfinex/Tether. Mason explains a potential Apple Pay crypto‑card use‑case, showing how a Crypto.com Visa can be loaded onto Apple Pay for tap‑to‑pay transactions, and includes an affiliate link. He then shifts to geopolitical risk, describing European and U.S. regulators preparing banks for a possible Russian‑sponsored cyber‑attack, while also noting Russia’s move to recognize crypto as a legal form of currency. The video covers the GlobalID‑XDC integration, Hedera’s open‑source decision to attract developers, ongoing U.S. congressional hearings on digital assets (including a 1,000‑page record dump involving former SEC chief William Hinman), and a bipartisan Senate bill aiming to ban lawmakers from trading stocks. Mason speculates on a “Super Bowl pump” for tokens such as FTT and CRO. The centerpiece is a deep dive into the 2016 Bitfinex hack: $3.6 billion in Bitcoin was stolen, recent arrests have been made, and blockchain analysis shows the stolen coins moving through darknet markets (AlphaBay, Hydra) and exchanges over five years. He ties this to LEO’s recent 59 % price jump, noting its connection to Bitfinex/Tether and its self‑destruct design. Throughout, Mason promotes his social channels, a Telegram group, and affiliate links, urging viewers to stay tuned for more updates.
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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. The market is very bullish today. There is a lot of stuff to cover. Make sure you're watching to the end. This will be one of the most informative videos about what's going on right now in crypto. Also make sure to follow my Instagram and Twitter at this username right here. You can also go check out this amazing, uh, documentary clip right here from the last Bitcoin Miami conference, and you can watch me, uh, talk on camera. About some stuff. Okay, so follow the IG as well, and let's get into the market. Whoa, LEO just, just retraced hard right there. We're going to talk about LEO at the end of this video, or nearing the end of this video. For our last topic, I'm going to talk about the Bitfinex hack, which is a massive story that's going on right now. We have so much stuff, so let's just get straight into it. Saitama is pumping out of nowhere. This is what you're dealing with when you deal with dog coins. You're dealing with pumps out of nowhere. So basically you buy at any time, you hold until it pumps randomly, and then you hopefully take your profit because that won't last forever. Um, I actually bet that this, this bubble will be red tomorrow. Engine. Engine is pumping it up to $2.15, right? Still down on the month. QNT is also pumping there. Let's look at the total market. We have— we're above $2 trillion, so that's my little profit-taking level. Like, uh, that's my little profit-taking level. When I see it go above that $2 trillion, I'm like, okay, I'm looking for like what's pumping in my portfolio, what can I shave off a little bit of? Or you don't have to, right? That's just what I do, um, because, you know, the macroeconomic situation is not too good right now. Um, but we see Bitcoin $44K, okay? 24-hour volume is $83 billion here. Ethereum is at $3,200. I really like to see that. That looks like it's, it's going to climb back to that $4,000 hopefully. We also have XRP approaching that $1. We're about 10, 11 cents off that $1. I would love to freaking see that. That would be amazing. We also have Crypto.com at 50 cents right here. I'm keeping an eye out for that Super Bowl pump. Hopefully that does happen. Also, FTX token, uh, is— it's very possible that that pumps as well. Market is looking pretty standard, right? Actually, I would say not pretty standard. Actually, above $2 trillion is not standard. Like, we are, we are moving there. So $44,000 Bitcoin, right? Um, still, like, there's no trend here, right? We had this uptrend, like a clear clear uptrend right here at the start of, um, we started February off just perfectly, uh, but now there has not been a trend really in the past couple days here. It's just, uh, pretty flat. So BTC still waiting. I want to touch that $50K. We have some, some catalysts for this, um, this $44,000 here. One of them is this kind of misleading title here uh, which is upcoming Apple iPhone feature to give merchants a way to accept crypto payments. So they're putting Apple, they're putting iPhone, and they're putting crypto payments in the same sentence. So what actually is this? Well, Apple Pay has, um, has released a new feature where you can basically like tap your iPhone against other iPhones and against, uh, point-of-sale devices, and you can actually pay. So CoinDesk, whoever this smart writer here— Arjit, you are super smart for this article, buddy— uh, he's— he put, uh, this is the only crypto part. If you have a crypto card, right? For example, I have, um, I have the Crypto.com card. I'll show you it here. Uh, I have the Crypto.com Visa, right? And basically you could load that into your Apple Pay, and then you can use this tap feature to pay with crypto. By the way, if you want one of those cards, I have a Crypto.com link in the description. You can get a free $25 if you sign up. Now let's move on. BTC, we covered Bitcoin, right? $44,000, looking perfect, right? I, I love to see this. Um, we need to talk about freaking Russia, okay? European, US regulators tell banks to prepare for a Russian cyber attack threat. There is a cyber attack on the way from Russia. Okay. Now, you guys know I've been covering this for months, for months. I've been telling you that the narrative is going to be a cyber attack. Okay. And I never knew who they were going to, who they're going to blame it on. Right. Because everything is planned out here, dude. The whole world's a stage. Shout out to Shakespeare. I didn't know who they were going to blame it on. I thought it might have been China, but it's looking like it's going to be Russia. Okay, European Central Bank is preparing banks for a possible Russian-sponsored cyberattack as tensions with Ukraine mount. So that is what's happening right now. You guys know that I covered this huge article right here. 10 countries simulated a cyberattack on the global financial system. Guess what? The 10 countries that were involved in this did not include Russia. Russia's not there, okay? It's very, very simple. The United States, right? United Kingdom, UAE, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Thailand. Does not include Russia here, okay? Very interesting right there. We also have Russia set to recognize crypto as a form of currency. This is bullish. This is big bullish right here. Russia set to recognize crypto as a form of currency. We like to see this, um, that makes sense as well. Uh, it also says— this was in a newspaper— it also says roughly $8,000 transactions will have to be declared or will constitute a criminal offense. Very interesting. GlobalID and XDC. We have not talked about XDC in a long time. They have landed a nice little partnership with GlobalID. If we take a look at XDC, it's at 6 cents. Um, the reason I haven't been talking about this is because I was taking profit. I didn't want to say like, yo, I'm selling my XDC, right, and taking profit up in the 10-cent and above range. But I was, I was. I still have— I still hold a, a bunch from, uh when I got in at 1 cent and 2 cents. So that was a nice little profit take on me. But this, this is good. XDC, I always mess with XDC. Um, they are integrating GlobalID. Okay, now what the heck does this actually do? GlobalID users will also have access to a brand new feature called the XDC Observatory, a block explorer, right? This integration is just the start. Uh, but basically this will allow— a global ID is about sovereign identity, right? Um, they are— so XDC is a DeFi project leveraging GlobalID's decentralized identity solution. Um, I can't tell what it will actually do, right? GlobalID's self-sovereign, uh, identity solution allows DeFi projects to address their identity. So it's, it's Anonymous and pseudo-anonymous, right? Uh, layer 1 networks continue to roll out, blah blah blah. This is where the global ID integration can address, uh, today's identification. Okay, so it's all about identification and DeFi. How do those two mix? I'd like to see that from XDC. Moving on, we have HBAR Foundation talking about why did they open source HBAR. Today or like now? Why was it now? Well, they, their reason is exactly what I expected. There has been a tension between Swirlds patent on Hashgraph. So by tension, they mean people hate Hashgraph because it's patented and was closed source, right? So they're open sourcing this. It's going to enable an influx of builders. So this is just a power move to attract more builders. Um, because most of the builders want an open source environment and they can only build with open source. Now, Bitcat right here, um, shows that there is a how to buy Hedera page on Coinbase. Hmm. Now apparently this has been there for months, so I'm not going to give too much, uh, weight to this, but that's very interesting. Um, by the way, we also have a hearing going on examining digital assets There is the FTX founder actually speaking right now. Unclear. And so the biggest thing that we see, right, sounding like exactly like, good job, sounding like exactly like Vitalik Buterin in a different way. He's like, he's Vitalik Buterin and, um, or Vitalik, however you say it, and David Schwartz combined. Okay, he is simple. Uh, but that's going on right now, so you guys can go to the link to this and watch the playback. Back. Um, we also have this amazing clip. I just wanted to shout out this clip. Definitely go check this video of Tucker. He's the founder of Messari Crypto. Or no, no, sorry, the, the Tucker guy is the, um, the Fox News guy, I believe. Uh, but this is Ryan Selkis from Messari Crypto. You guys gotta watch this clip. I'll leave the link to that. From Crypto Law, we have a document being released by Empower US, and they have found 1,000 pages of records detailing communications between William Hinman and Simpson Thatcher while he was in office. Okay, 1,000 pages. So we have all this evidence against William Hinman and we can't do nothing. They're trying to do stuff, but, you know, it's just interfering with the script. Moving on, we have unusual whales. Senator Warren and Senator Daines introduced the first bipartisan Senate bill to ban lawmakers from trading stocks. So we know there's already laws that like discourage them from doing this, but they're not clear enough, so they're trying to make this more clear. We also have Super Bowl is going on February 13th, right? FTX token and Crypto.com is definitely possible, uh, for those to pump here, right? FTT and CRO, just giving a shout out to those. Then we have this Bitfinex hack. So if you guys don't know what happened, there was $3.6 billion in Bitcoin stolen in a Bitfinex hack. Um, this was in 2016 and it has just been like found out and these people have been detained. Apparently they had a TikTok as well. There's a ton of memes happening. Um, also this Leo coin, this Unisaid Leo, uh, right here has been pumping off of this news, like straight up rocketed from about $5 to $8 here. Super crazy. One thing I want to point out is look at their write-up that they submitted to CoinMarketCap. It says, um, by the way, this coin is connected to Bitfinex. It says— and Bitfinex is connected to Tether, keep that in mind. Unisaid Leo launched in May 2019, and unlike many other cryptocurrencies out there, it is not designed to exist forever. What? So what, are they gonna burn it all or something? That is very interesting that they would say it's not even designed to last forever, but that token surged 59% here. Um, massive pump there. Now to end it off, we have this, which is a graph from Unfolded, actually from Elliptic, that shows the destination of the Bitcoins from the 2016 Bitfinex hack. So they were being moved and laundered over the past 5 years. You could see it was on AlphaBay, which is a darknet market. Then it went to exchanges. As time went on, it went to Hydra, which is a different darknet market, right? Join market. So pretty crazy right there. This just shows you, don't do crime on the blockchain, you idiots, because it can all be seen. It can all be seen. They literally— it can all be seen, and you will be found out. Okay, so that is the daily market update for today. A lot of stuff happening, right? We have this Russia threat. We also have this bullish Russia news. So it's interesting how this bullish Russia news comes out at the same time, um, as they sneak this Reuters article in here. Interesting. So we gotta watch out for that. Um, you have the hearing going on right now. I'm sure there'll be some clips circulating on Twitter about the highlights of the hearing. We also had this amazing clip from Fox News. Super dope stuff today. Make sure you're following on Twitter, Instagram, join the Telegram group. I love every single one of you that watches, especially to the end. And goodbye.
