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we got big news today. But let's start off with the price of bitcoin
really quick. Earlier today in the live stream, we talked about bitcoin cooling
down. Right now, it's sitting at seventy one, seven hundred and thirteen
bucks at the time of recording. But if we look at the daily chart
here, we're seeing a bit of a pullback and that's healthy. That's normal
after a strong breakout above the old all time high. The key indicator we
have to look at, though, is the Dollar Currency Index, which is
finding some support and bouncing right now. Now. It could bounce a little
bit but then continue to break downwards, which I anticipate it will, but
who knows. Right we have to watch as closely, so Bitcoin and some
many all coins can possibly consolidate and move sideways for a while, so just
be prepared for that maybe over the next two weeks, right, But we'll
have to wait and see as the charts get updated. But the dxy is
finding support here. This is why you're going to see bitcoin and other risk
assets slow down a bit. But the bull market's not over just we are
going through market cycles from a micro standpoint. From a macro we are still
on track to go to new all time highs. But some of the all
coins are popping off. Salana is ripping right now, folks. It's at
one hundred and eighty five dollars, up near twelve percent over the past twenty
four hours. Now, let's look at the top trending coins on social media,
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This data was updated forty eight minutes ago, and of course Solana leading
here because the price has been going parabolic. It has huge positive sentiment e
theorem and number two still seeing a lot of social mentions from its upgrade,
the den Kin upgrade Dog with Hat. These meme coins are going nuts.
Look at this. Doge coin comes into number four behind Dog with Hat,
So the meme coins are going crazy. Earlier today in the livestream. We
talked about Elon Musk talking about Tesla is going to accept those coin pretty soon
BSV. That is trending because Craig Wright got slapped in the face by the
judge. He's got another huge loss saying he's not Satoshi, he's not the
author of the white paper, and much more. You got hack protocol.
Haven't heard about this? This comes in at number six, Bitcoin at number
seven fracts it says fras on ethereum, I haven't heard of this token.
That's number eight. And then you have the open platform at number nine and
the near protocol at number ten. So those are your top trending tokens on
social media, and some of these make a lot of sense, right because
price action and big news items now, folks, huge huge news. You
know, we've been talking a lot about crypto and the elections, and we
saw on Super Tuesday that many of the candidates who align themselves to Elizabeth Warren
and the anti crypto banner loss, but pro crypto candidates are winning. We've
talked about crypto being a ballid issue, not the number one, not the
number two, not the number three, but sometimes the number four or five,
Right, But many crypto holders are single issue voters, and folks,
we've also been talking about former President Donald Trump, who's obviously the Republican candidate
for this upcoming presidential election. He has been softening his tone around bitcoin and
crypto. He's issued NFTs bitcoin ordinals, they've been accepting bitcoin and crypto for
payments for his sneakers and much more. Right, And once again, I'm
not trying to endorse those things. I'm just telling you the facts. But
here's some data, and it's actually been reported by Justin Slaughter, who's head
or policy director of Paradigm, And here is the data. Very interesting,
folks. Let me give you the details now for something surprising. Crypto voters
leaned to Biden in twenty twenty, but now lean to Trump. Among crypto
voters, forty three percent recall voting for Biden in twenty twenty and thirty nine
percent recall voting for Trump. Now crypto owners support Trump forty eight to thirty
nine. In a close election, This swing could be decisive, folks.
Very interesting dynamic playing out here. Crypto is a ballot issue. We are
already seeing it on smaller levels, and already the polls are showing from a
crypto standpoint, people believe Donald Trump would be a better candidate for crypto.
Wow. Let that sink in. And once again, this is not a
political podcast. I'm not telling you who to vote for. I'm just giving
you the facts and the data and you make your decisions from there. But
there are certain things we can deny and we have to look at what the
potential outcomes may be. So in a race that may be tight again like
it was in twenty twenty, we could see crypto being a big deciding factor.
And the question is will Biden. Will Biden pivot? And I'm not
saying I believe he will or I want him to. I'm just saying,
giving the scenario, maybe he pivots because he sees Elizabeth Warren's agenda is failing
and the anti crypto people are losing. So we shall see. He could
pull something out of his hat and do something with Congress or some executive order.
I don't know, but what we'll have to wait and see. But
this is very interesting. Now, huge huge news today folks, and Nate's
Garachi, president of the ETF Store, reported on this. But here's the
headline. SATA introduces bitcoin ETF policy and guidance for financial professionals. You may
say, who the hell is Satera. SATA is among the first wealth management
firms to deliver comprehensive education, training, and resources addressing rapidly growing investment products.
What have I been telling you guys for months? Now? We are
in the early innings. These ETF issuers are actually going out to the wealth
managers and rias and educating them. Hey, guys, here's the bigcoin ETF.
Here's how it works. Here's our fees to get them to be comfortable.
So there's a ton of capital that is not being allocated yet. There's
a ton of investment advisors who have not told their clients, hey, let's
put some exposure or give you some exposure to bigcoin ETFs. They haven't done
yet yet. The education and awareness building process is happening right now. So
here's what Nagarachi highlighted. Here's a quote. As expected, we are prudently
embracing bitcoin ETFs. That's a quote, Nate says. Financial advisory firms now
issuing press releases regarding the use of bigcoin ETFs, in other words, attempting
to use bigcoin ETFs as a point of differentiation slash competitive advantage. Things getting
wild, He says. Setera has four hundred and seventy five million dollars of
assets under management. So incredible, incredible things happening, folks. Once again,
it's the early innings. There's still a ton more folks coming in.
And if anybody from Vanguard is listening, this is your wake up call.
You will get left behind this This thing is taking off now now. Earlier
today on the live stream, I shared this chart, but I think it's
helpful to highlight it again. Micro Strategy is Bitcoin holdings versus black Rock.
For those of you listening on the audio, you won't understand what I'm saying,
but micro Strategy gradually bought bigcoin over the years. You look at the
chart, Blackrock is literally a straight line up because literally open the past two
is it just over a month and a half now, they've been accumulating and
they're about to surpass or they have surpassed micro Strategy. It's incredible. And
this doesn't even include the other nine ETLs out there in the market. It's
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description. Now, folks, not everyone is happy with the bitcoin et apps.
We got a couple of senators here writing the sec saying stop the et
aps. So Alexander Grieve, who is government affairs at Paradigm, tweeted out
the success of the BITCOINSTF products clearly ruffling some feathers on the hill. Senator
Jack Reid and Senator Lafonza Butler, if I'm saying her name right, wrote
a letter to the SEC urging no more ETPs exchange traded products for other tokens.
They're trying to stop it. They're saying, don't go beyond bitcoin,
No ethereum, no XRP, no cardano. They said, make life difficult,
for example, examinations slash reviews for brokers and advisors that recommend bitcoin ETPs.
Now, bunch of senators, right, who do you think is behind
us? Folks? Who do you think is behind us? Elizabeth Warren and
who's behind her? Jamie Diamond and the banks? We think these banks like
the money leaving their investments and going into the ETFs. They hate it because
right now they can't even custody the ETFs. Right That's why they wrote a
letter to the SEC about SAB one two one their block right now. They
hate this, folks. That's why you have all these tratified guys. Even
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger rest in peace. I respect Charlie Munger and Warren
Buffett very much. I've learned a lot from them. But they hate that
there's a disruption and the capital is leaving their trad fi investments, equities and
so forth, and it's going to ETFs. They see the flows. You
think these senators just dreamed this up by themselves, that they woke up and
said, man, I hate them becoin ets. I hate that they better
not have an et theory metf Hell no, right, this is someone paying
them. You know, you guys know how the game works. Right,
They're getting lobbied, and Elizabeth Warren probably send them met with them in the
back room, along with Gary Genser and so forth, the anti crypto army.
Right, eleanor Terott of Fox Business gave some more contact. So Jack
Reid is out of Rhode Island, and Lafonza Butler she is out of California.
So they pend the letter to Gary Genzer. Here here's a quote from
that. It says, while the bitcoin market has displayed serious weaknesses, it
is nonetheless far more established and scrutinized than the market for the other cryptocurrency.
However, vulnerable Bitcoin maybe to fraud and manipulation, markets for other cryptocurrencies are
far more exposed to misconduct. We do not believe that other cryptocurrencies show the
trading volumes or integrity to support associated ETPs. It's funny how they don't send
out stuff like this for like the banks that were collapsing last year, and
just recently we saw NYCB that' stop plummeted off a cliff. They had to
hault trading, and then they had to get a billion dollar lifeline. Right,
there's no letters being sent, there's nothing being said about that. But
obviously there is an agenda here. Right, they're trying to paint crypto in
a negative light, trying to stop the ets, and this is all coming
from the banking incumbents. Now. Paul Griwall of coinbase weighed in on this.
He said, respectfully, Senators, the evidence points exactly the opposite way.
We have discussed our analysis with the SEC staff and would be happy to
do the same for you and any other policymakers who have questions. Many digital
asset commodities, not just bitcoin, demonstrate market quality metrics that exceed even the
largest traded equities. For example, each spot market is deep in liquid.
Only two S and P stocks have a higher notional dollar trading volume. So
he goes on, you know, explaining this, But folks, these two
senators then just wake up and dream this up right and say, oh,
we need to stop. It's Elizabeth Warren, it's the banks again, they
are afraid more crypto ETFs get it created, more capital leaves their tradify investments.
Right, these investment banks, Goldman Sachs guys, think about this,
they had the stranglehold. You have to come through them, right, their
products. What they're doing this is very much so outside of their system.
Don't get me wrong. It's getting integrated into the system because Black Rock and
Wall Street. But the point is the network, the control of the assets
is distributed globally. Bitcoin and cryptos a global asset class versus you know,
certain people in certain countries can access certain equities and so forth. Right,
but you can mean any country, as I've given an analogy to story many
times, any country in the world. You have an Internet connection, you
can buy a fraction of a bitcoin, and that gives you know, kind
of an exponential aspect to the price and the appreciation of the price. So
guys, they don't like this, they don't like this. They're probably having
boardroom meetings and so forth. How do we combat this? Who do we
buy off, who do we lobby? How can we stop this? Can
we launch our own thing? Right? Those are definitely meetings that are happening
folks at the end of the day. Now, James Seifert of Bloomberg weighed
in on this. He says, as someone who spent significant time trying to
obtain the data required to do this type of analysis on a minute by minute
basis, it wasn't easy. And I work at Bloomberg. There's almost zero
chance these senators did the analysis themselves. Someone sent it to them. But
who, James, I know the answer. It's Elizabeth Warren and the banking
cabal. That's who. That's who it is. And he says, have
to assume the SEC. Like Eric hints here, Eric balchunis you know highlighting
here that TRADIFI and the SEC and these guys send this stuff to the senators.
It's all behind the back room deals, the alleyway meet and the alleyway
type things going on here. Once again, these two senators didn't randomly wake
up and say, oh, we need to stop all these ets, right.
I think we know the game, folks, and this is why we
got to expose it. Now, a final item here, President Naibu Kelly
of L Salvador, we know they hold a ton of bitcoin. He's been
trolling all the critics lately because holdings are up significantly, but during the bear
market, all the floodsters came out. Well, he said, We've decided
to transfer a big chunk of our bitcoin to cold two way cold wallet and
store that cold wallet in a physical vault within our national territory. You can
call it our first bitcoin piggy bank. It's not much, but it's honest
work. Wow. But the total bitcoin is five six and eighty nine bitcoin's
that's pretty incredible. I wish I had that much bitcoin. But guys,
they're setting the standard, they're setting the blueprint here for many smaller countries to
do this. Once again, we're not talking about the US and first world
countries and the superpowers, right, We're talking about smaller countries who are fighting
inflation, who need to boost their gdp AD much more so, I think
many other smaller countries are going to follow Elsalvador's move. It's incredible. What's
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