Ladies and gents welcome back to another video boy, oh boy, it has been an insane week so far within the crypto markets. In this video, we're going to be talking about whether or not russia and the invasion that is happening within ukraine could be the next start to the bitcoin super cycle, and we're also going to be talking about whether or not this pump may even last. If you guys have been enjoying these updates, do me a favor smash that, like button down below, really helps out the channel and, with that being said, a lot of stuff going on today, which we really need to cover and uh, let's hop into it. First things.

First, the crypto global market cap - let us fix the screen - is currently sitting at 1.93 trillion dollars almost near two trillion dollars now. Something you have to take note of is that bitcoin is still leading the pump right now, which is actually really really good indicator on. Seeing healthy growth within the market, bitcoin is currently up 16 in the last seven days and it just broke 44 000 as a resistance level and what you'll notice, though tether, has actually come about and has had a tremendous amount of volume going into this asset as Well, we'll be talking about why they are experiencing 80 billion dollars in the last 24 hours of volume compared to you know like ethereum, which only has 20 billion dollars still a lot or 35 billion dollars being moved across these assets. On top of that, we are still seeing some all coins having a major rip to the upside and something we still have to make a note of is tara luna, making that tremendous amount of gains just in the last week up 71.

So let me know if you guys have been placing your bets during that large dip. We had, if you guys, are up on your investment, because if you did buy up, if you did buy into it, you should be up significantly on most of your trades uh going down you'll notice that avax is still at 87 and then we have many other Cryptocurrencies still up in the green, with ethereum, uh and bitcoin up about five percent on average leading the charge looks like ethereum, is still struggling to get above that three thousand dollar level. We did experience it yesterday before it did have that sell where it was pulling back. Sorry that was actually today, we actually did have it experiencing today this morning, where ethereum did break above and start hitting almost three thousand dollars.

So i know a lot of you guys are excited for that and you guys are really anticipating some higher movements to the upside with some of these top crypto picks as well. Moving down the list, we did have a mention of some other exchange-related cryptocurrencies and you'll notice that, even as an example, bnb they're still having a decent amount of gains, they're back at 408 dollars and on top of that cro they're having the same amount of gains Reflecting other exchanges, which is up 10 in the last seven days as well alongside other uh cryptocurrencies like near today, they're up 23 of 30 in the last seven days and then all across the board. Like we mentioned, we are still seeing a decent amount of green uh, but it looks like other cryptocurrencies like icp. You know the troublesome the troublemaker, the one that never caught up uh is in the bit of the red, but you'll notice that for the most 100, top 100 cryptocurrencies we're gon na be seeing that uh going up today in value as well.

What you'll notice today is that we are actually in a neutral state within the crypto fear and greed index uh. This is something that we mentioned yesterday talking about as soon as we get that refresh in the market. We're gon na be seeing a lot more people getting back onto the train and feeling a bit more bullish within the markets right now, and that is definitely the case, especially when we see bitcoin having the rip it did within the last few days, you'll notice at The end of february, before we start to go into the recent days we just had bitcoin experiencing at the start of this week, just so much volume and so much uh price action that is moving it to the upside one question that a lot of you guys May have is brian what the heck is going on. Why is bitcoin all of a sudden making some of these larger uh green candles that we haven't seen in the last one year, so these uh the past few days, especially yesterday, these green candles were the largest that we've had had experienced since uh february.

What you'll notice is that, according to data, we're actually getting a lot more crypto liquidations, a lot of people assume that this is bad, but this actually helps uh crypto, especially when a lot of these were short positions that were getting liquidated. You'll notice that, on top of that, if we go into data with coin glass, we're getting a lot of positions wrecked. So what this forces bitcoin to do is to result in these micro short squeezes, also known as gamma squeezes and pretty much it's. When short positions have to get uh realized and people are starting to cash them out, and then we do get the price of other cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin, moving up and up higher in volume and when we do get that buys - and we do get a mindset of Where crypto seems to be catching back onto that fire that that is when we get a lot of new investors coming back in on boarding the train and also riding that higher momentum.

So an example of that is just going to be momentum trading. It's just an easy example of what we see. A lot of traders do within the crypto space, and that is when we do get indicators showing that we are more positive, we're finally out of that red. Instead of trying to perfectly time the market you're gon na be able to ride the momentum up uh to whatever price action, we're able to get something really interesting according to this data too, so we pull it out.

We have 293 million positions getting liquidated uh and in the last 24 hours we had 67 000 traders, which were liquidated, and this comes to be at a total of 293, which is something we just mentioned right here. A lot of the liquidations are coming from the short positions: you'll notice that ok, x and uh binance right here. It was a lot of short positions that were getting wrecked. We had buy bit 91 of short positions, getting wrecked and then 51 or 56 of those positions from ftx also getting wrecked as well, and then this is just going to give us another visual of what those candles are looking like, especially in terms of that short Volume going by by now a lot of you guys are wondering what the move to do in this market is brian.

Should we be buying? Should we be selling? What should we do? I think whenever you are trying to cash in those gains - and you have been you know, as an investor a little bit shaky and you haven't been able to tolerate volatility. I understand the logic behind wanting to cash. Those investments out for me personally, i'm holding everything right now, especially when we started to see a lot of that further momentum if this happens to be just a much larger dead cat bounce. Obviously, the move within that is going to suck, but from the data that we're seeing and just moving into the month of march, i mean this is still confusing a lot of people uh in markets like this, where a lot of the unexpected is happening, especially with World war circumstances, i don't think many people expected russia to be making the moves that they did uh and i don't think a lot of people have been expecting the volatility that we've experienced within bitcoin as well too.

So when there is a lot of uncertainty within both the economy, the world markets and then within crypto as well, the safest bet, in my opinion, is just going to be dollar cost averaging up the dip holding on and then, when you do have certain price targets Or you have met those uh price points where you know you're happy on how many gains you're able to make that's how you can stay on top of the markets because crypto it gets rough when the price of this goes down. It hurts a lot of people and emotions get evolved and a lot of new investors. They don't survive a lot of people end up selling at the bottom and they just aren't able to recover. That is why, on this channel, we really practice and emphasize the importance of making sure that we are on top of our emotions and that we aren't making radical choices based on what the market is doing, because at the end of the day, bitcoin has outperformed bitcoin And most cryptocurrencies, how has outperformed many traditional investment sectors, bonds, uh, precious metals, gold, silver, uh? Even the stock market indexes as well crypto in the last year, has still given us a decent amount of gains.

If we pull it back to the all-time charts, you'll notice that, depending on when you had entered you'd, still be up significantly on your investment. So let's talk about russia. Let's talk about what's next and this is actually going to result in some of the moves that we're seeing within the market. So this is just a highlight on what we're seeing the futures tied to the s.

P. 500 slipped. The 10-year treasury yield went ahead and hit a one-month low and the yield on the 10-year german bund yield returned to negative territory after a month. So what this actually means is whenever we see money rotating into treasury yields or bonds.

It's because a lot of those larger investors and institutions are trying to place money where they believe it's going to be the safest in order to hedge against a falling market which presumably was crypto and stocks. This is why we've seen other influencers or the gym cramers of this world going ahead and selling at the bottom, expecting for us to go down even more in price, but obviously that is not what we're experiencing right now within this market. We're experiencing the opposite of that and we are seeing the recovery happening within the market as well, so if you guys have been holding on to your investment, definitely let us know down below in the chat on what your strategy has been since the start of this Year, uh because i know it hasn't been easy for many people, but patience pays off. Patience is a virtue within the crypto markets, which is shown to really just emphasize the amount of gains that you can make within this industry.

On top of that inc, uh currency markets, a safe haven, u.s dollars and japanese yen picked up a bid, while the growth, sensitive, aussie and kiwi dollars erased early gains and gold rose point. Five percent and oil jumped five percent on both sides of the atlantic. The traditional market action signaled lingering anxiety and sense of a pr uh apprehension. Given the russia, ukraine, peace talks failed to achieve anything concrete yesterday and violence has continued.

So if you didn't know, this is the sixth day that we are going into this war today. Is tuesday march 1st, and in a midst of all of that, we're seeing bitcoin still pumping up and going up in price. There are a few reasons for this, so i think the article that explains this the best. Let me pull it up here this one war in the time of crypto in the russia, ukraine conflict, which side is crypto helping, and the answer is both so the way ukraine has been using crypto in order to help them is that they've been accepting a lot Of donations, uh and they've done this by having their crypto wallet address where it's like a public venmo code, it allows you to deposit money, transfer money to that wallet address without any type of intermediaries.

Disk patreon gofundme, anything that is owned by central governments, have usually shut down anything that involves war or protests, and what we've also noticed is that, because crypto is so decentralized we're seeing these donations going through seamlessly, we talked about in yesterday's episode, uh of how much Money, ukraine was able to get in donations, it's at least 11 or 13 million. I know it's been going up even more since then. We also got a recent article just talking about how ukraine is processing where those donations are going. So even right.

Now we got an update at 8 00 a.m today that those donations have gone up, listen to this 16.8 million dollars, it's a lot of money uh - and you know, although countries are known to have a lot of money when you're under war and you're about to Get you know just assimilated by another country, every dollar counts, and this is why donating donating and and being a part of these uh groups that can support these countries right now that need it is so critical, especially, i think just because of how crypto has revolutionized The space and what bitcoin has been uh standing for this is going to just be decentralization. This is going to be staying away from traditional payments right here. We actually got an article talking about where this money is going, so these crypto funds have been anonymous. They're not reporting on how it's getting spent just because i think if that gets revealed, it's gon na give a little bit of leverage for russia in knowing how to track those funds they did state in this article here, the ukraine government has not revealed where the Funds are getting spent due to a level of secrecy involved, but it insisted that it is transparent thanks to blockchain technology.

So once money is able to hit this wallet you we could actually track where it's going if it gets exported in another wallet and seeing where that is tied to or if that has any type of cooperation with other wallets that we may know about. That is where we can get a little bit of an idea of where this money is going, but for the most part the donors have been very active and it looks like this is helping ukraine quite a bit right now, uh against their defense with russia. Trying to invade the country on top of that, we also had members of the crypto community rally behind ukraine and it looks like nfts, have suddenly become a 21st century war bonds. So around 22 million dollars in crypto has been raised to help ukrainian buy arms and supplies, including more than three million dollars raised through nfts.

So there is one group in particular that has been making a huge, huge impact within all of the things going on. With regards to the war, so this is going to be the ukraine dao. Adao is just a decentralized autonomous organization, and this is co-created by the russian riot founder and artist nadja, toloko nikova. Let me know if i said that right chat, probably didn't so as far as raised more than 4.6 million dollars of usd worth of ethereum and the group said 100 of the funds is raised would be donated to the come back alive, a crowd funding organization that Funds, members of the ukrainian military and their families, so the group was removed from the patreon last week due to rules about raising money for the military groups.

Any time we get centralized donation companies, we see the issues that they have if they can allow for uh. The ukrainian military to have their own organization or crowdfunding donation on their platform uh. I think the argument is then: we can't have other groups that we're not in support of, and there are some groups that clearly people would not be in support of think about afghanistan and just some of the efforts that we have seen within that country as well. On top of that, there was another group called relief which raised over a million dollars worth of ethereum through the sales of nfts as well, and so far they have deployed 185 ethereum or about half a million dollars to three wallets associated with the comeback live as Well, as the local ukrainian media vetted by the news organization, kiev, independent and a group of front line workers, so what does this mean? We are still seeing the use of crypto on both sides.

This is going to be ukraine, accepting donations and being able to use this in order to fight for their cause, but on top of that we do see russia using crypto as well. So this relates to the title. This uh live stream here, the first crypto war. What does this have to do with everything we're seeing well we're seeing both countries right now utilizing crypto in order to get uh, past sanctions or just being able to accept money while their country and their economy is falling apart? Russia is still being quite proactive during this time and they're doing a good job as well in making sure that they can move a past that swift regulation uh.

But only time will tell to see if they're going to be successful in that. But, based on the data that we're getting, it seems like russia is getting additional volume coming in and going out and leaving their exchanges as well uh, forcing a lot of their citizens and some of their higher ups to be moving money back into the crypto markets. On top of that, we also had unisa, went ahead and add a tool to facilitate crypto donations to ukraine, so this is also helping out ukraine as well. This decentralized exchange has built an interface that allows users to swap any tokens for ethereum and then send it to the ukrainian government.

This is where we're also seeing a lot of these uh token projects, putting more involvement into everything that is going on in the world. On top of that, we did get some additional news talking about ripple and xrp. We did get some rumors that some are saying that russia could potentially evade sanctions and get around swift using crypto ripples. Gm to outline some of the key arguments refuting uh this as well, though so in the last few days they state we've seen some say that russia could potentially evade sanctions and get around swift using crypto, and he outlined some key arguments refuting this down below.

So, first of all, crypto is only becoming more and easily trackable by software and governments number two. There simply isn't enough global liquidity to support russia's needs. They move a lot of money and even doing the math on how much money gets offloaded. It wouldn't make sense on how much would be able to get taken up by exchanges so you're talking about you know if you're trying to process billions of dollars, the transaction will not literally will not be able to get held up by the current limitations we have Within exchanges uh, this has also resulted in a lot like ukraine actually reaching out and tweeting to crypto exchanges and saying hey.

Could you do us a favor and not let russia citizens be able to make crypto transactions? Can we you know, stop this on the forefront? I want to find that twitter thread because i found it pretty pretty interesting, uh twitter thread. What was it, ukraine, stopping crypto regulations? Let's see, let's see, let's see ukraine's are in the top wow ukraine latest. Let me go on my twitter for this one. I believe it's an interesting story just because we are now getting different perspectives on how exchanges feel about not letting certain countries being able to dictate what they can and can't do with their money.

So i'm just in my like sections within my twitter account, and here it is so. The vice prime minister of ukraine's uh made a tweet and he said i'm asking all major crypto exchanges to block addresses of russian users. This was a few days ago. It's crucial to freeze not only the addresses linked to russian and belarusian politicians, but also to sabotage ordinary users, so we actually had a response from jesse powell.

If you don't know who that was it's the ceo of kraken, which is another large crypto exchange, he stated. I understand the rationale for this request, but, despite my deep respect for the ukrainian people, kraken cannot freeze the accounts of our russian clients without a legal requirement to do so. Russians should be aware that such a requirement could be in uh imminent. He stated that requirement.

Could also could come from your own government, as we have seen in canada in response to protests, bank runs and attempts to flee the country. It could come from foreign states like the u.s as a weapon to turn the russian populace against its government policies. Fw iw chat. Let me know what fw iw stands for by the way i was reading this tweet earlier.

I didn't feel like looking it up uh, but he states. I would guess that the vast majority of crypto holders on kraken are anti-war. Bitcoin is the embodiment of libertarian values, which strongly favor individualism and human rights in canada. Crypto is the only financial rail left for those who oppose the regime for what it's worth? Thank you.

Our mission at kraken is to bridge individual humans out of the legacy of financial system and bring them into the world of crypto, where arbitrage lines on maps no longer matter where they don't have to worry about being caught in broad, indiscriminate wealth, confiscation. Sometimes the hardest thing about having power is knowing when not to use it, and our mission is better served by focusing on individual needs, above those of any government or political faction, and the the people's money excuse me is an exit strategy for humans, a weapon for Peace not for war. Besides, if we're going to voluntarily freeze financial accounts of residents of countries unjustly attacking and provoking violence around the world step, one would be to freeze all us accounts as a practical matter. That's not really a viable business option for us, so i you know, i don't know how this last statement made me feel because this is just assuming you know us accounts where we're you know doing some bad stuff in the world, but you know other twitter users Argue that you know, listen man, we understand your your.

You know perspective on what's going on in the world and trying to keep this uh a freedom free asset, but at the same time, russia is the one that instigated the war on ukraine and they're, just asking them to look and lock up the russian user. Uh politicians and you know their other ordinary users as well. Let me know how you guys feel about that, especially with this last statement here just talking about how you know what they would do, instead, if they could, the argument here is also it's a business move. You have to realize exchange like kraken they're, making money off their exchange fees.

So if they do freeze a bunch of accounts, they are actually reducing the amount of money they can make. So that is what he is mentioning when he talks about uh it being a viable business option as well. Kraken exodus are for the streets, yeah there's so many other exchanges out here that we can use that are very viable as well uh. On top of that, ladies and gents crypto businesses will be rewarded over the long term, says voyager ceo, some more bullish news uh.

He states crypto's becoming more and more of a long-term, safe haven for future generations and we just got a little picture of a guy in a little hour glass. I don't even know what's going on here, it's turning sand into like money. So i guess time is money. Ah, very smart actually put that together.

They stayed here in 2021, bitcoin outperformed, all major asset classes, something we mentioned earlier check this out: one upping crude oil, nasdaq, the s p, 500 and gold. Moreover, the number of hodlers is trending in a positive direction: signaling crypto's, long-term viability. This is really important for any asset to grow. It's not about how many new users you can get it's about how many hodlers you can get throughout the course of a time.

That is where you can keep building the foundation. You keep increasing that market cap with people who are able to hold their assets for a while. For me, i'm holding my assets not just for the movement of helping the entire crypto wave grow, but for me i do believe that it is the best place for me to place uh my investments or my money right now. We say this so much on our channel, but it is true.

The price of gas, at least in maryland, has been going up so much it's ridiculous uh and whenever you can't find a viable hedge against what we're seeing with the money that was printed in current inflation rates, i would just personally rather leave that in crypto have It on cold storage wallet and then throw it into an apy, yielding account where i can still earn some additional interest as well. I think a lot of this is going to be dependent on what you value as an investor too. If you're more traditional, you can still look into bonds or the s p 500 as well uh. But for me, based on the research that we're seeing and the innovation that we're getting and then even right now with how russia and ukraine are utilizing crypto, where it's in headlines every single day, i would not be surprised if this could possibly be the start to The next crypto super cycle, meaning bitcoin, would hit another all-time high and then all coins could have a tremendous amount of rip and we could see a lot of regular ordinary people becoming millionaires.

Now that is more on the optimistic side, only time is going to tell where we're going to see the entire market move. Uh patience is going to be key here, uh and just simply put sticking with the strategy of putting into your putting in your investments when the markets are down. When the markets are extremely fearful, it has been pretty good for at least me, and i know for a lot of our members within the discord as well. It is the start of a new month.

So that is something i want to mention. Let me actually pull up one of those things and we'll do a quick little q a while. We do that so chat. What do we got? How y'all feeling someone says? It's all biden's fault.

Another individual says biden is the reason for high gas prices and the war, and we got kingsley kezie says i'm keeping my aida until 2025.. So it looks like we got uh investors from all over the spectrum and we got some uh expert politicians up in here too. I like it. I, like it ave, looks awesome.

What else do you think so ave? I think there are going to be some better defy alternatives right now, especially when we're talking about other layer, one protocols off ethereum. I would personally be looking more into luna solana or avax and some of their top projects that they have, and if you don't know where to get started with that, you can always look onto d5 llama and just see the volume that is going on into some Of the other protocols that are much lower, but i think, in terms of if we were on the more optimistic side of seeing where we can go with the market. It is not a bad choice, especially if it did take a larger dip. But at the same time there are many other cryptocurrencies, i think, which have some large upside as well within the market as well.

Uh technical analysis. Okay, so i am pulling up one thing: entire screen, current application, all right, so we're in our discord right here and something i wanted to bring about - was a testimonial. We recently got, which i really liked boom boom boom. If brian john can find it all right, we're getting some super chat donors as well, someone is mentioning drip network, looks like they are an investor within that project, and it looks like they want people to know chat.

I think secret network will be the next thing to do a luna like move. Let me know what you guys have in terms of favorite cryptocurrencies or any all coins that you guys are looking to enter right now, oh shoot. We got my boy nate o'brien up in here, oil is shooting to 140 dollars soon nate. What is up man thanks for tuning in i miss you, we're gon na be hanging out soon, uh, i'm just going up and down right here there we go.

That's why all right, so one of our members recently gave us a good little testimonial. She said giving a big shout out. I've been in crypto for only four months at the uh made a lot of mistakes at the very start of my journey. As i didn't know much about crypto, i was hopping onto whichever coins that my friend said was good without reading into the white paper.

I remember when i first started. I was buying sand when it was at the highest thinking that it would go even higher. Only for it to go so low that i lost 40 of what i put in this is important. I think this really relates to a lot of people in here, though, what i put wasn't much but being a student, it definitely took a toll on my pockets.

It was in december when i started to take crypto seriously reading into projects and, finally, following thy, i was watching videos after videos and became a member of the chat in the end of december, as well after having knowledge about the art of dca, which is dollar Cost averaging i bought my first three digits worth of crypto. It was like 70 of what i had back in the bank account and thinking back. This isn't very wise during the big market dump at the start of the year, but only got a little return as markets kept dropping. I was worried for my money and even pulled out some of my projects, as fear took over me.

I know a lot of you guys can relate to that. Yet something just told me hold on to some of my more established coins and i just kept waiting until this morning. I checked my coin market cap portfolio and realized that my portfolio had actually grown over 65 and i covered all my losses, even the ones that i made in november and even made profits not much, but definitely ample. It's only been four months since all this started and i'd still be the same girl in november, if it was for the people in here, uh also emphasizing dollar cost averaging, and my key takeaways is dollar cost averaging for this, individual is the way to go when, In doubt, just average into those big dips, and this is why we talk about it so much on our channel.

It actually gives out results and the journey may be long, but the rewards are definitely sweeter and jiggly. J-Puff says fear is an emotion. It isn't a controller and never hop onto a he or she say bandwagon without doing your own research. So i really think this is just amazing in terms of how you should have your mindset.

I know whenever crypto drops down below, it can be rough and it sucks seeing your portfolio going down, especially when it had such a high potential. But if you're able to stick through and even just take some key points from what this individual talked about, it is, it is really worth being patient in the market. Uh, not panic, selling and just realizing that when things do get green, especially on a day like this, you can make back a lot of those losses in a single day. Just make sure that you are diversified to make sure that you aren't trying to time the market every time, especially if you're a new beginner.

If you are a more advanced level day trader by all means, you have your strategy stick by it, but i think if you are still a novice within the market, you join within the last year, make sure you stick by those key principles, and i think it Really does work so what about usdt 24-hour volume? Someone said: if you actually go to the beginning of this live stream. It's something we talked about. There's a lot of volume clearly going into it. This is just showing us how much russia other countries are placing their bets and obviously you can invest into bitcoin, but at the end of the day, if you are trying to have stability within your assets, it's going to be projects uh, like any stable coins.

That can just hold it so yeah usd coin, actually usd coins at 53 bill tethers at 79 bill compared to. Oh sorry, sorry, not looking at market cap bitcoins at 35 bill tethers at 80 bill for volume and then usd coins at 6 billion. So obviously we're seeing a lot more with the stable coins still going into the market now guys that is going to wrap up today's video. It is the start of the month uh.

If you guys do want to check out uh, our community check out the link down below in the description - and i also do want to mention blockfy, if you guys want to earn up to 250 on your account, and you want to check them out. Even though they don't have that crypto yielding interest feature which was really really amazing, you can still have access to their exchange where you can buy crypto for less so check them out listed down below in the description as well. Thank you all so much again for watching today's live stream and uh we'll be doing an additional update later this week too, i'm trying to do monday through friday. As my current schedule, uh, we are trying to get more solidified on a proper schedule.

So you guys know what time i'll be on. So you know we have a little bit of consistency on that sector as well, but before we do that, i will just be making some announcements uh within the uh, the youtube channel and the discord. So have that notification bell on for this channel and whenever i do set that live stream it'll actually give you uh the heads up on that. But thank you all so much again for tuning by.

I do appreciate you guys for a lot of support. Man. Look at the chat you guys are so freaking awesome got 1200 people in here. Thank you all so much again for tuning by and i'll see y'all soon, peace.