Episode 16: Crypto News Explosion: Tron Breaks Records, SEC’s Project Crypto, & Trump’s Bitcoin Push

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Hey everyone, welcome to the show. This is J.R., founder and CEO of Social

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Market here with the Social Edge Report. So, we haven’t made a video in two

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weeks. As you may have noticed, I’m in a new apartment. I’ve been moving. I’ve

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been so incredibly busy. My partner here isn’t available right now. I’m doing it

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just solo right now. If you want to support the channel, you can leave a

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like or subscribe to the channel. Cost you nothing and it supports us so we can

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keep pushing more of these type of videos and more more of this type of

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content for you. With that being said, today we’re going to cover almost two

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weeks worth of stories. I’m going to try to keep it concise for you all just so

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that way, you know, we can understand what’s happening and not get too

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confused or dillyd too much into this. So, in the last two weeks that we

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haven’t made a video, there’s actually been a number of pretty big influential

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stories that have been happening. So, first uh we’re going to talk about Tron,

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which Tron has surged quite a bit since it minted I think the number is 81.2

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billion in USDT, the stable coin. And that actually jumped the value of Tron

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significantly. Two weeks ago, we had the release of Telegram. If you guys don’t

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know what Telegram is, it’s a think of it like Messenger or WhatsApp, but a lot

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of techies and a lot of people in the web 3 space use it. Well, it released

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its its own self-custody wallet, which I think is amazing. We’re going to talk

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more about it here in a moment. Um, and it’s connected to their own blockchain

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that was open sourced and I guess people are contributing to it because Telegram

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stopped working on it as much in 2021, but it’s a ton or the open network short

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for it. And then the third story, we’ll talk about the SEC project crypto. So,

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the chair Paul Atkins came out in a video talking about what their next

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agenda is for this upcoming presidency or legislation with under Trump. We’ve

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talked about in before in past episodes where things are going to change

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drastically than what we’ve seen under the previous administration. So he kind

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of gives us an umbrella statement saying there’s going to be a push for

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innovation and a pull on on aggressive persecution which is literally the total

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opposite of what we’ve seen with the previous administration. But more into

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that in a moment. The next story will be on American Bitcoin. That company is

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I don’t want to say co-founded by Eric Trump, but he’s pretty involved with it.

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So, I almost want to put him at that level of founder status. Correct me if

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I’m wrong. You can leave a comment on the video if you think I’m wrong here.

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But yeah, we’re going to be talking about American Bitcoin. It looks like

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they are moving for NASDAQ next. So, their ticker is going to be ABTC, which

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when Leon and I went to consensus this year, we saw Eric Trump and he was

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talking about American Bitcoin and he was just glazing the fact that ABTC

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sounds really nice, which I agree. But more on that in a bit. And our last

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story here will be just talking about Trump’s latest executive order with his

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crypto narrative, pushing it so people can actually invest in Bitcoin and

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Ethereum and possibly other tokens and put that on their 401ks. I have some

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thoughts on that and I’ll tell you all that here in a bit. All right, so

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without further ado guys, let’s talk about how the markets have been in the

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last two weeks. So just to be brief here, currently altcoin season index is

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more leaning on favor Bitcoin. Fear and greed index is at 70% greed. So more

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people are being greedy this time around. We’re still seeing inflation

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around 3%. So things have been pretty much the same there for the last two

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weeks. As far as Bitcoin in the last two weeks almost, it’s been right about

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almost 120. Now I’ll say this real quick. So this is what you’re seeing is

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what’s in development. So, we might not see some data showing like the recent

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transactions, but I digress. Bitcoin has stayed almost at 120,000. So, that’s not

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too bad. Now, let’s go for Ethereum just being

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the number two. Ethereum has surpassed uh 4,000. So, that’s a pretty big deal

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because we haven’t seen that, I guess, since 2022. So, given by this chart,

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we’re almost at 2021 2022 hype. So, that’s kind of exciting. So anyways, our

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next segue here will be Tron because of their recent parabolic performance. So

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this is at a five-year level, but in the last month, this is where we’ve seen

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just a big surge. Now, this all recently happened like two weeks ago, I believe.

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So, uh, the recording of this video is on the 11th, and the last few weeks,

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we’ve seen the price surge. Typically, it was like at almost 30 cents, but now

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it’s at 35, right around the corner. Their market cap’s not it’s now at 32.63

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billion. And in their latest 24-hour trading volume, as of August 11th, it’s

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almost $1 billion. So, what I can say is a lot has been happening here in the

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space because about 1 billion in tether was minted by Tron. So this is from

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Coindesk and the article says just in Tether has minted 1 billion USDT on the

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Tron blockchain. So this is as of July 28th. So yeah, it’s been about 2 weeks

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now. This is the official statement because it’s coming from CoinDesk and

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they do have that somewhere in their website. So you can always look it up

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there. We’ll leave some relevant articles here on the description for you

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on YouTube and Spotify, Apple Podcast, anywhere else that you can find this

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content in. So this is a post on Twitter or X on this amount that it was minted

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on Tether. Now this is from AI invest and this is the headline that says Tron

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surpasses 81.2 billion USDT supply as stable coin dominance grows. So this is

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kind of like the trend we’ve seen for the last two years or I guess last year

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because everyone recognizes that the main technology advantage on crypto let

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alone you know the memes the hype you can put all that aside the actual

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opportunity here is on the technology that is stable coins. There’s certain

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services like Western Union or sending money overseas like Remington. They

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charge you like 30% on the amount that you’re sending as a transaction fee. So

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if you’re sending your mom or your family $100 USD overseas, they’re

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keeping $30 and your mom will get $70. So

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those are insanely high fees and stable coins effectively solve that issue. If

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you have, you know, any crypto-based app like Coinbase or Binance, you name it,

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you can send your family across borders, $100 USDC or USDcoin,

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and they’ll get almost $99 uh fees are going to be significantly lower. So,

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that’s why stable coins are here to stay. And in this case, you know, it

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helped Tron’s value increase. So, here are some talking points. AM summary. So

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I think it’s cool how some some articles are using AI to kind of give you the

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summary on this whole article. So again, you can find this link here in the

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description below on YouTube if you’re watching it or anywhere else in any

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other place you’re reading this. So Tron led 2025 H1 blockchain performance with

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916 million revenue and 81.2 billion USDT supply. This solidifies stable coin

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infrastructure dominance. Now, Network, I’m not sure if that’s some sort of um

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platform on news or anything, but Network saw 41% USDT supply growth, 12.6

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quarter over quarter transaction increases and 71.2%

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USD supply surge to 43.8 million. USD would be for D. Um it’s another stable

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coin. All of this says that, you know, stable coins are becoming active in the

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crypto space, people are realizing that, hey, stable coins actually have a lot of

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value into it. Um, I mean, don’t get me wrong, while there are some tokens like

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Tron for itself and Bitcoin, Ethereum, those are not stable coins, those are

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just crypto coins. You there’s still value in them, but stable coins

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effectively help you move money online free. Well, in most cases, free like if

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you’re a paid subscribe member on Coinbase. So, it’s not necessarily free,

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but at least you don’t have to pay insanely high fees. So, that’s a huge

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advantage. So, that’s pretty much it for Tron uh token just kind of going

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parabolic and surging. But now, let’s talk about the the TON. That’s the open

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network for Telegram, and it released its own wallet in the Telegram app. One

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thing I want to talk about is Ton was not necessarily a active blockchain. It

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was being developed by Telegram. I’m not sure if they had like some sort of pivot

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or change of heart or plans on the business, but it kind of just abandoned

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the open network development and made it open source fully. So that’s pretty much

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where people have been building it. This was all in 2020, I should say, where

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people just stopped working on it. So in any case, yeah, this is from Twitter.

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This is from Watcher Guru. Telegram launches the built-in TON wallet to its

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87 million US users. So that’s a [ __ ] ton of users. So you know, people are

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going to start using crypto, which to be fair, people who mostly use Telegram.

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They’re pretty tech-savvy. A lot of cryptobased

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group chats are on Telegram. And Twitter references Telegram a lot. I should say

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crypto Twitter or cryptox if that’s what we want to call it. But for the most

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part, crypto Twitter uses Telegram as a reference for having these group chats

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discussing crypto stuff. So, I think it’s a smart move. I think this is

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something that quite honestly should have happened a while ago, but it’s

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pretty cool. So, this is from Mir. I think that’s how you pronounce his

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name. So, here’s kind of like a quick demo on how to enable the Telegram

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wallet. And, you know, we’re not endorsing Telegram. I do like the app.

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So I’m just speaking from experience but not from financial advice just to be

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completely clear. So you can buy USDT and then you can fund it into your

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wallet and it’s almost like using um iMessage where you have Apple wallet

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there. You can not only message people but you can also send money. So comments

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here, they’re all kind of just talking about for one, Brian says, “I cannot

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find a wallet in my Telegram and search wallet on Telegram.” People kind of talk

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about the experience installing the wallet on Telegram, which is kind of

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hidden. I’m not sure if it was intentional for them to leave it hidden

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almost where you need to go into settings, scroll among the settings, and

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then select wallet. And you know, you can follow this video for example. We’ll

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leave this link here in the description as well. But if you are a US user and

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you have Telegram, you should check it out. I think it’ll be worth it. If

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you’re watching this channel anyways is because you are to some extent

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comfortable or at least familiar with crypto. So if you want to pursue a

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Telegram wallet, you can. The way I see it is as a crypto wallet with messaging

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capabilities almost like Apple Message like I said. So, I think there’s some

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value to it because for instance, when you message your friends or something on

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iMessage and you want to send money, you know, it’s still going to take like one

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to three business days to withdraw your entire money. So, if you’re doing it on

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on a Friday night, good luck getting it, you know, that weekend. You’re going to

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get it on Monday, unless you pay like a a huge percentage on withdrawing that

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money almost immediately. But with this, because it’s all crypto and stable

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coins, like we just talked about USDT, which funny enough, you can you can put

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USDT into your wallet, you can send that money to your friends in just seconds,

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and if they have Coinbase, they can withdraw it. They will get that money

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relatively quick, or at least much faster than they would with iMessage. In

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any case, this is this is a post from ownership coin, and it kind of just

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talks about a lot of people getting access to this. So, Telegram has the

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most potent mobile wallet in the world. It’s live on 1 billion phones. So, this

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is worldwide. And right now, the the wallet is only available in the US. So,

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this is something for people to look at in the future. And it’s already moving

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$3 million a day. No bank account required. So, that’s a lot of money. And

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I’m telling you is because stable coins is where it’s at. So, again, I’ve been

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in in this space for a few years now. And one thing I’ve noticed is that it’s

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becoming increasingly easier to use crypto because of the user experience,

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the user interface that we’re seeing across several apps like now with

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Telegram. So this is a thread that talks about how to use it and how this app is

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potentially going to change the world from

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payments and messaging perspective. You can read it on your own. Um, if you also

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want to look at the open network or ton, you can just follow them at ton.org.

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We’ll leave the link in the description below as well. And if you have any

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questions or any comments, just leave them down below as well. So, now that

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we’ve kind of done talking about the Telegram wallet, let’s talk next about

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the regulation. So, in this case with the SEC and Project Crypto, couple

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points that I want to talk about are the SEC chair or at least the current one,

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his name is Paul Atkins. He introduced project crypto where he’s effectively

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marking a shift from people enforcing rulem and with more clear guidelines for

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token classification and custody. It’s kind of interesting seeing how much the

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space is shifting. I think it was Harvard in 2018. They said that it is

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more likely for Bitcoin at the time that was 2018 to reach $100 than to reach a

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million dollars. And now in just 2025, you know, a few weeks, a few days ago,

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um they bought like a Bitcoin spot ETF from Black Rockck. So if you can’t beat

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him, you can join them. And this is what we’re seeing with the SEC. the last

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administration, we saw that Gary Gensler was making the SEC to enforce crypto

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regulation as this predator almost where if you were in the space, if you were

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creating a meaningful product on crypto, you’re not doing meme coins, you’re not

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doing rugps, you’re not doing none of that [ __ ] you’re actually creating a

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service that can help people like Telegram with the crypto wallets,

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the SEC is going to pursue you and they’re going to effectively take

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hundreds of millions, if not billions on a lawsuit.

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and all for it to just be delayed, waste people’s time, and have no meaningful

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outcomes. Coinbase being one of the leaders in the US for crypto, they’ve

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approached the SEC numerous times. According to Brian Armstrong in several

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tweets and a while ago, they pursued the SEC. They couldn’t give them any

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updates. And also Coinbase’s uh chief legal officer was also expressing how

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difficult it was to work with the ACC previously. But now we’re seeing you

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know the ACC effectively doing project crypto where it includes innovation

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exemptions for startups and it aims to enable integrated super apps platforms

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where users can trade, lend and stake all in one place. That’s kind of what

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we’re seeing with the base app. It’s trying to become a super app almost like

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WeChat where not only does it have social capabilities, money sending

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capabilities, and also just entertainment in my opinion. That’s what

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a super app is. I know that’s something that I wanted to do with WebC, my

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previous business, but you know, it’s definitely something more than one

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person can do. So, of course, it was not going to work with me. But, I digress.

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So, with Paul Atkins in this post, he talks about we will make sure the next

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chapter of financial innovation is written right here in America. So he

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releases a YouTube video which I’ll play here in a minute for you and he kind of

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just talks about everything more in detail. So this is the SEC’s uh chair

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Paul Atkins talking about project crypto where he kind of just lays it all out

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for everyone. Today I should like to discuss what

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commissioner pur tester purse and I are calling project crypto which will be the

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SEC’s north star and aiding President Trump in his historic efforts to make

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America the crypto capital of the world. The SEC will not stand idly by and watch

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innovations develop overseas while our capital markets remain stagnant. We are

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at the threshold of a new era in the history of our markets. As I mentioned

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earlier, today I’m announcing the launch of Project Crypto, a commissionwide

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initiative to modernize the securities rules and regulations to enable

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America’s financial markets to move onchain. and the president’s working

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group on digital asset markets released the PWG report with clear

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recommendations for the SEC and other federal agencies to build a framework to

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maintain US dominance in crypto asset markets. This report is the blueprint to

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make America first in blockchain and crypto technology. We will not watch

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from the sidelines. We will lead. We will build.

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You get the gist. I think it’s amazing. I’ve already kind of covered everything

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here with with the SEC Project Crypto. I’m pretty excited, you know, not only

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as someone who is not only investing in crypto, but also building a company in

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the crypto space. I think this is amazing. I’m excited. So, we’ll keep you

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guys updated here for more updates on the SEC. On to our next story. We’re

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going to talk about American Bitcoin. And this is an article from Benzinga

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Crypto. I swear to God, who even come comes up with these names? Like that

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Benzinga? That’s such a mouthful. Now, I’m ESL or English second language, so

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I’m also kind of just going to butcher a lot of things here. So, American

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Bitcoin, this uh this is an Americanbased Bitcoin mining company,

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and it’s largely funded by Eric Trump and the Trump uh media company. I think

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that’s generally the basis of it. So, when Leon and I went to Consensus 2025

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in Canada, uh they were talking about how they wanted to make America the

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capital of the world. Eric Trump thought about American Bitcoin or ABTC sounding

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really nice. So, especially for NASDAQ, which is what we’re going to cover here

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in a moment. Quick segment though. I thought it was really interesting being

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in Canada. As you may have already known, there’s been this massive

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narrative push that that Canada is going to become the 51st state. So, You can

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imagine the kind of crowd that was there in consensus 2025. It was a bit of mixed

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crowd. You know, you had, you know, Canadians and then you had Americans. So

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the crowd was kind of polarizing which I’m not trying to make this political

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but that’s kind of the current state of affairs with American Bitcoin is kind of

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controversial because the name being tied with Trump but also I mean if you

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ask any people who is in crypto here in America they’re going to think that you

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know Trump is doing amazing things for crypto which I agree. So people who are

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not crypto experts they’re probably not going to be in favor of American Bitcoin

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or anything that Trump is doing with Bitcoin. That’s as far as I’ll get

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political. So, this article is from Benzinga, which is kind of a mouthful.

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In any case, Eric Trump last week actually came out with a post saying

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American Bitcoin ABTC. Next up, NASDAQ. And you can find this article in the

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description as well. So, there’s this story, there’s this image that I saw

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last week that said that to mine one entire Bitcoin in America costed about

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$109,000. Now this new bill that Trump pa passed

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like last month I think it was called the big beautiful bill there was going

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to be a increase on light or electricity use in the states so that’s certainly

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not going to help for mining Bitcoin but that’s mostly for residential buildings

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I think because in commercial buildings electricity rate is less because there’s

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going to be more required anyways in this case Eric Trump is talking about

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ABTC being in the NASDAQ so American Bitcoin has already acquired ired $23

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million in Bitcoin to build its reserve. So, not only are they building a

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infrastructure based company, but also a treasury in of itself. So, the Wlvoss

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twins, the people who founded the Gemini American exchange have said before that

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they’ve invested in the IPO using Bitcoin, not cash. So, uh, American

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Bitcoin is largely holding a lot of Bitcoin, which is amazing. I think this

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is going to be the first company that we’re seeing rely heavily on Bitcoin.

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We’ve seen Micro Strategy or Strategy Now by Michael Sailor talk about using

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Bitcoin as a way to increase the value for a company which is really

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interesting. We’re now at the point where companies like GameStop who can

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barely function as a business just by buying Bitcoin their company value

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increases significantly. So, it’s kind of a cheat code if you think about it,

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but it’s also kind of interesting seeing how it affects all these companies. So,

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we’ll see what happens. I think ABTC being the first company that is going to

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be in the NASDAQ that is purely only Bitcoin is going to be interesting.

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Well, obviously we have Coinbase and then we have Circle. So, there’s

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actually all these multitude of crypto-based companies coming out for

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strategy. They’re just doing a variety of things, but they are incorporating

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Bitcoin a lot for their strategy reserve. So, all this to say that we’re

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starting to see a big influence here with crypto coming up and it’s really

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exciting. Now, this is from Yahoo Finance. Finally, a name that I can

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pronounce. It says, “American Bitcoin and Griffin announced a commencement of

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Griffin stockholder voting on go public transaction.” So, what this means is

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there’s going to be some actual significant movement to um ABTC going

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live or going public. So this meeting is going to be held on August 27th, 2025.

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Yahoo Finance says that American Bitcoin Corp, ABTC, a Bitcoin accumulation

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platform focused on building America’s Bitcoin infrastructures backbone in

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Griffin Digital Mining Incorporated or GRP.

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Griffin, an innovative venture in the Bitcoin mining space, today announced

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that Griffin stockholder voting has commenced in connection with the

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previously announced stock for stock merger transaction between American

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Bitcoin and Griffin. Upon closing the transaction, the com the combined the

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combined company will operate under the American Bitcoin brand led by the

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management and board of directors of American Bitcoin. The combined company

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is expected to trade under NASDAQ, I’m sorry, on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol

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ABTC with this with the transaction currently targeted closing early

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September 2025 subject to Griffin stockholders voting

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to approve the proposed transaction and the satisfaction of other customary

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closing conditions. So again, yeah, it means ABTC is going to go public if all

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goes well. It’s going to be interesting. One thing we’ve seen with crypto-based

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companies going live is their price just goes parabolic. Well, there was Figma,

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but Figma is not cryptobase. That one’s just more like hype. It’s a great

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product. Uh, Circle went parabolic. Circle is the issuer of USDC, which is

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largely owned by Coinbase. Coinbase uh stock did go up a lot initially. It was

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the first crypto-based company to go live as a result.

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And now we’re gonna have a BTC. So I’m really interested to see this. This will

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be the third only crypto company that will be going live, I believe. Correct

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me if I’m wrong. So yeah, uh we’ll see what happens. This meeting is supposed

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to happen on August 27th. I can expect Bitcoin price to go up if I’m being

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honest if this goes through just because of the hype and because more people are

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going to be using Bitcoin. So that’s going to be amazing. So now that we’ve

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been talking a little bit about Trump, let’s talk about the big daddy himself,

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Donald Trump. just last week actually he signed an executive order uh saying that

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hey people can now put Bitcoin in crypto on their 401k retirement plans as you

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can see on this headline this is from Coindesk so couple of thoughts that I

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have about that is yes that’s amazing it’s been shown that with the current

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price of Bitcoin and the the patterns that we’ve seen it go it’s outperformed

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the S&P 500 more than any other asset And traditionally the fi the S&P 500 is

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supposed to be the the safest form of investment. So I’m not a financial

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adviser, but if you go on YouTube, you go anywhere, uh, financial advisors are

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always going to push for the S&P 500. I think it’s smart. I think personally I

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do have some Bitcoin more I have more Bitcoin than I do with the S&P 500. So

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in my portfolio. So for those reasons, I’m excited. And we’ve already seen um

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Bitcoin and crypto have an influence on people’s 401k because again people are

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not only putting the money in the S&P 500 which the S&P 500 is a it’s a

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coalition almost of the biggest 500 companies uh in that index and among

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them recently was Coinbase. Coinbase was added around May and you know you’re

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effectively almost in a way putting Bitcoin on your 401k but now it will

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officially be Bitcoin itself that will be in your 401k. I think that’s amazing.

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In this article, one thing to know here it says what to know. Donald Trump

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signed an executive order Thursday to open a 401k retirement plans to a

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broader swath of investments including cryptocurrencies. So yeah, border swath

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of investments. I think it also includes private equity and and private companies

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can actually get into people’s 401ks. So that’s going to be interesting. We’ve

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already kind of seen that, you know, my 401k is managed by a private firm. That

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happens with anyone else in certain companies. I know if you work in some

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tech jobs, some tech corporations like Google, Metime, sometimes they let

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people have a financial advisor or a financial

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company manage their portfolio. So that’s not uncommon, but this could

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probably expand further than that. I mean, there’s one way to find out in the

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future. Also, the order directs the Department of Labor and Securities

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Exchange Commission to go through rulemaking processes to revise guidance

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for retirement accounts. Trump also signed an order directing bank regulars

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to prevent debanking. Now, I think the banking is amazing. I think this is

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influenced heavily on one of the one of the experiences that the Donald Trump

27:16

children had. In Consensus, Eric Trump talked about how he was debanked. His

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family was debanked at one point. I think it was after the the January 6th

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insurrection, which I mean, not going to I’m not going to talk about that. it’s

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not really related except that because of all that commotion for lack of a

27:37

better word, the Trump name was kind of ruined. So because of that, people or

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banks were debunking the Trump brothers. So I guess that’s why they also opted

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into Bitcoin if you think about it or crypto because crypto is bankless. Um I

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know Donald Trump Jr. also talked about it in Bitcoin 2025. That’s kind of what

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they’re coming from. They do have firsthand experience with this. So now

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I’m seeing Donald Trump the father uh create some sort of regulation that says

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hey you cannot debank people. We’ll see what what happens with that. So this is

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from the Wall Street Journal opinion and this is just an opinion from them. It

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says Trump plans to give your 401k a boost. His order on alternative

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investments will make it possible to realize much stronger returns. So yeah,

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it’s kind of like I said I mean Bitcoin has outperformed the S&P 500 before. The

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same people who said, “Hey, you know, your money is going to go to zero if you

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put your money in Bitcoin, they’re now saying, hey, it’s actually gonna boost

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your 401k. So, just follow the money, guys. Just that’s all you got to do.

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Don’t even listen to me. Just follow the [ __ ] money, you know?” So, anyways,

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uh the article says that President Trump issued an executive order. This 401k

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inclusion includes a private equity, real estate, and digital assets such as

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Bitcoin. This would allow them to achieve better returns on their savings.

28:56

It’s kind of interesting that we’re adding private equity and real estate

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aside from Bitcoin into the 401k investments. I mean, I guess if you

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think about it, real estate, some assets do appreciate better than the S&P 500,

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but as far as stocks and all that, it’s the king of it is supposed to be the S&P

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500. I believe real estate is interesting. I wonder how that would

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look like. Maybe that’s where private equity could come in handy, but who

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knows? So, I mean, there’s I have more questions than I have answers. So, I

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probably shouldn’t give you more than that. I think that would be

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irresponsible. What I’m going to say for now is expect more Bitcoin to be part of

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your life in your financial life. You know, in this case with your retirement,

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people could already put Bitcoin spots on on their Roth IRA. So, I’m only

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seeing news on 401k, not for the Roth IRA, which is a big difference. But, I

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digress. I’m just here to give you the news. That’s kind of what’s happened in

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the last two weeks, which was kind of a lot. I tried my best here to put it

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together in simple terms for you all. So, let me know what you think. Let me

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