In this YouTube video, Mason Versluis reacts to a sharp market downturn where XRP fell 20% in a single day and the broader crypto market experienced double‑digit declines. He urges viewers not to panic‑sell, reminding them of his 4‑tier portfolio framework taught in his Inner Circle. He weaves in astrological and geopolitical references—Chinese New Year’s fire‑horse year and Bitcoin’s “enemy year”—to provide a narrative backdrop, while emphasizing that correlation does not imply causation. Versluis then shifts to asset selection, highlighting several altcoins he views as deep‑discount opportunities: Chainlink (under $10), Quant (QNT) around $5‑6 with a total supply of 14.6 million, Hedera (HBAR) at 8 cents, Stellar, Algorand, SEI, and Provenance Blockchain, among others. He explains his preference for assets with low total supply, arguing that scarcity can drive future price appreciation. For execution, he recommends a staggered buying approach—allocating 25% of disposable cash in each batch to capture lower price points as the market potentially falls further (e.g., Bitcoin possibly dropping to $47‑50 k, XRP below $1). He warns that further crashes are likely and that investors should be prepared for deeper dips. Versluis also shares a macro‑political theory that upcoming U.S. midterm elections, the Clarity Act, and broader market manipulation could drive Bitcoin down to $50 k before a rapid rebound, setting the stage for a larger AI‑driven bull run. The video concludes with promotional calls to join his Gold Squad Discord, purchase his crypto‑tax service, and buy gold/silver at wholesale prices, encouraging viewers to comment on Bitcoin or XRP price expectations as a sign they watched the entire video.
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It is pure decimation out there in the crypto markets. XRP is down 20% in one day. Okay, we're going to talk about what are the gems, uh, what are the gem discounts on the market, what should you be doing, what should you not be doing. And make sure you watch until the end. I'm fresh off of the live stream, we just did one. Make sure you turn on post notifications, so click subscribe, turn on the notification bell and you won't miss the live streams. Drop a like. Let's get into it. XRP down 20% in one freaking day. This is not looking good. 3 months, we're down 46%. This month, 44% in one month. And then on the year, we are— so keep in mind, all altcoins right now are basically at their best entry they've ever been for the last year. So we're going to talk about some standout altcoins in this video that I'm thinking about loading my money into. But number one, do not panic. Do not get all crazy. Um, you know, don't panic sell, don't panic buy. Just really think about your financial position. Think about your long-term portfolio. If you know the 4-tier portfolio method that I teach in the Inner Circle, think about that. That's crucial right now. $1.25. Okay, now I've been sending off, just firing off the tweets, you know, XRP is taking a beating. That is true, the whole market is falling, so keep that in mind. This is not just XRP sliding down, this is everything sliding down. However, XRP is around double, double the other assets, right? XRP is down around 20%, but Bitcoin's down around 9%, Ethereum 9.8%, BNB 9%. Solana is a little bit higher. So there's varying degrees of, um, dumps right now. You've got Zcash and XRP and Monero actually dumping. So the privacy coins, maybe something big is coming out negative about the privacy coins. Kind of already did with the Epstein stuff. Um, one thing I wanted to remind you of is February 17th is the new Chinese New Year. They don't even start their new year until February 17th. It is the year of the horse, the fire horse, I believe. And this is Bitcoin's enemy year. So we don't play into the astrology that much, but you need to be aware of it. Because it does influence. It's, uh, correlation, not causation. So just because the stars are doing something, it doesn't cause things. It simply correlates with what the universe was going to do anyways, right? So it is Bitcoin's enemy year. Could that be good for XRP? XRP is a dragon year. I'm a metal dragon year. I'm born in the year 2000. XRP is a water dragon, which is awesome, and I'm, I'm a metal dragon. So, you know, one thing you should be doing is looking for good deals. Look for the good deals, okay? The real ones in crypto always look at these as discounts. These are discounts. You'll never get these entries, or for a whole year you couldn't get entries like this. Right, I said 7+ years of holding XRP, we can't even get above $5. That is the true reality. It's a tough one to swallow, but the fact of the matter, all price predictions of $10, $100, $1,000, $10,000, put them all aside. The truth of the matter is we can't even get above $5. What is going on there? We now know from some of the Epstein stuff There's been an evil force working against XRP for sure. Um, it— we've been through the struggle. We have, you know, Ripple holding 34% of the supply, slowly drip feeding it out, um, dumping on our heads occasionally, but they're strategically acquiring companies so that maybe XRP can go to the moon in the end. So sometimes the doubt, tiredness, annoyingness creeps in, but you got to shut it out. Stay strong. And keep stacking if you want. So a lot of people, these XRP haters, they take the low blows, they kick us when, when we're down, and they're quick to step on our necks when we're down. But when we go up, they are silent, absolutely silent. Um, so everything is dumping. Um, do not panic. Look for the good deals. Some of the good altcoin deals that I see right now— and by the way, look at Hyperliquid. Holding up like crazy. There's a link in the description, it says my free Telegram. We got into this one super early in the free Telegram, which was amazing. This is one of the first really good deals I see is Chainlink, um, $8 Chainlink, under $10 Chainlink. That is insanity to get in on that. You've got Stellar Still, you know, you know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't prioritize buying Stellar, um, but it's a good addition. It's in my long-term portfolio. Um, Hedera, 8 cents, could be a good deal as well. Definitely a better deal than a week ago, a month ago. But the standout is QNT, in my opinion. Dropping now to 5. or 59.80. Why is this a standout? Well, because it has the lowest supply, um, out of any of these assets we've ever talked about. It is 14.6 million tokens. So all of those supply shock narratives that you guys talk about and influencers talk about with XRP, all of those supply shock narratives directly go with Quant way better than they do with anything else, anything else. Okay, uh, it is akin to Bitcoin. We have less supply on Quant than Bitcoin. And so just as a solid investment, in my personal opinion, I love to buy Quant, and I love this discount we are seeing on Quant. And I am a lot more confident in looking at Quant as a discounted solid asset because the supply is so scarce. So if it goes to $50, you can be an owner of 2 whole Quant tokens for $100. That is crazy. Now you are a holder of 2 of 14.6 million instead of, you know, 2 of 100 billion tokens, right? Which that would cost you only $2 versus $100. It's all relative. Um, but in terms of supply shock, when you talk about supply shock, uh, that means there has to be literally no tokens left. Uh, and with XRP, it's just not true. Um, there's a lot of good thoughts and good ideas around the supply shock but there's just not enough demand to like take up all those tokens and really make it a scarce asset. Uh, you don't typically talk about a scarce asset having 100 billion tokens. Uh, you know, it starts to get scarce around the Chainlink area, in my opinion, where it's a 1 billion. If it's 1 billion supply, it starts to get scarce. Uh, that is why also Stellar or sorry, HBAR, with the max supply of 50 billion, exactly half of XRP's. That's why that's a good bet in my opinion as well. Now the big, big warning here, also Provenance Blockchain, great pickup, it's up 8%, standing out in the sea of red. Huge insight here. If you are going to purchase cryptocurrency and, you know, start your portfolio right now or get in on these crazy dips and discounts, you need to be prepared for us to go even further down. Okay, I'm talking $50K Bitcoin, $47K Bitcoin, around there. Um, you got to be prepared for that. Okay, so that means if you put $10,000 into XRP right now, you got to be prepared for us to go below a dollar. On XRP. And so that makes me think that maybe, in my personal opinion, and what I should do is maybe not put my full dry powder cash stack in at this time, but maybe I'm putting half or 25% of my available disposable income, right? So that if we drop more, I can unload the clip again, again, again, maybe up to 4 times with 25% batches, right? So I can get the best entry possible. That is going to set you up for success. As it crashes, you are deploying the clip and getting the lowest entry possible. That's going to set you up for success, in my opinion. SWE below a dollar, decent deal as well. Um, if we keep going down, you know, Algorand, 9 cents, decent. SEI is a decent coin as well, you know, the typical culprits down here. IOTA had so much issues with my IOTA wallet, it's insane. Telcoin, you know, some of the old OGs. Definitely not GALA anymore. You know, that's one that I don't believe in anymore at all. Karate combat, not really at all anymore. Actually, I'd say fully not at all. Sucks to see that it go that way, but that's the way it goes. The way she goes. Um, so ultimately, you can unload the clip if you want, but be prepared for more crashing, okay? Be prepared to to go even further down. I'm talking $1 trillion on the market cap, okay? So thank you for watching. Um, definitely, you know, try stay strong in these times. Study up. Join the Gold Squad Discord inner circle if you want. We're getting it really, really set up. Oh dude, the bear market is going to be glorious. Uh, this technically could be an entry you know, the big second signal into a bear market. How long that bear market is going to last? It's not going to be years for sure. There's no way, in my opinion, that we can stay down bad for years anymore. It doesn't exist. Um, I think, you know, we'll come swinging back up, um, probably around November for the midterm election. Right? So we got to think about that, factor that in, because do you think he's going to go into the midterm with a horrible stock market and crypto down bad when he's supposed to be the crypto president? Maybe this is their entry. My, my personal theory is that they're bringing Bitcoin down to $50K or around $50K. They're going to get their big capital deployed And then we're gonna run it back up to $100K, and now every dollar that they spent, they get $2. So they 2x very easily, um, and then they're prepared for the $250K, the $500K. They're in at the greatest entry possible, and it's all manipulation at the end of the day. And I think that's what's, what's really going on, um. They need better entries before the Clarity Act, the crypto market structure bill. They issue in the surveillance state through those clamp down on the crypto industry, make themselves more comfortable with it, control it more. It's already infiltrated by BlackRock, it's infiltrated by everybody, and that's what it is, right? So this could be the final shakeout before the major, major golden AI bull run, um, because something needs to save the economy, right? And, you know, crypto is flourishing because we have limited supply. It's hard money, real money. So stay strong. Um, still building out the Gold Squad. We got the course library going crazy in there. Uh, we just did a town hall meeting. We're doing lots of stuff, so join up. Um, we also have some new links in the description if you want your crypto taxes done. Tax time is coming. Got that down there. Full white glove service with my personal crypto tax team. Both Megan and I use them for ours, full white glove service. You can buy gold and silver in the description as well if you want to start stacking those at wholesale prices. We got lots of different offerings, uh, we're providing to you lots of free stuff as well. Appreciate all of you, love every single one of you, and wait if you made it this far, comment Bitcoin needs to go up, or no, comment, uh, where you think Bitcoin will bottom at, or where you think XRP will bottom at. And that'll be my signal to know that you watched until the end. So thank you for watching, appreciate everyone, and goodbye.
