Ladies and gents welcome back to another video in today's live stream. We're going to be going over some of the immense price action that we're seeing from bitcoin and we're going to be talking about where we are currently with russia, ukraine and some other crypto news going on in the markets. For today, like the usual, if you guys are enjoying these type of updates - and you guys appreciate these type of videos - don't forget to drop a like down below, and i know a lot of us are thinking what's gon na happen. Next is there world war iii coming up? Are things about to be doomed and gloomed forever? Shall we be racking up on the ammo and getting those uh granola bars just in case? You know something catastrophic happens.

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You all soon, peace out, all right, i'm just kidding. No, we got a livestream dude all right, let's hop in the computer. First of all, 1.73 trillion dollars is the current market cap we're actually up compared to yesterday's live stream right now, bitcoin is actually making some significant movements. I did put in a little bit of a short uh short-term swing trade.

Actually yesterday uh and it is up - i actually used my strike referrals i'll, be completely honest. That's why i didn't make a call within my group uh, but uh. According to this, i i did just make like 40 profit, it ain't much but hey! It's like a free half a nice luxury dinner somewhere in maryland, right anyways. Let's talk about why bitcoins pumping! I think this is some interesting news, because a lot of people thought yesterday uh the day before that bitcoin was done.

It was done and gloom when you see this much red. Obviously it freaks out a lot of people and people do not want that to be happening. So today we saw the green candlestick, the mother, of all green candlesticks, and we got this reaction coming from the uh new crypto market um. In reality, though, we are up.

Ten percent, we are not up one percent with the gaping mouth uh i can. You know rest assure that, but right now, at bitcoin sitting with thirty eight thousand eight hundred dollars, it did show a sign of relief in the market. Not everything is gloom. Not everything is death, not everything is red people assume that in a climate like this, where we're talking about wars, money cannot be made, but that is something that we have to dispel on this channel money is made everywhere.

It's about the rocks that you look under and you decide to put a little bit of work into uh going into some topics of interest, we'll actually notice that bitcoin is doing the opposite of what gold gold is doing right now. So we'll notice, while gold decided to take a dump, bitcoin decided to pump take that dr seuss, on top of that guys, going back into the overall coins on the market, you'll notice that ethereum is actually up about 10 as well today, if anyone did buy the Dip where ethereum was sitting at near 2, 000 around 2 200 earlier this week, you definitely would be up in the green right now as well. Some interesting stats, though talking about other cryptocurrencies and things that you can swing trade you'll notice that when we have red in the market like this ethereum is going down towards 2200, it's sitting at 2 300. These are the times where it's incredible.

To take that emotion and understand, nothing in the crypto market has changed nothing at all. We just got news about russia, ukraine, having some beef, which is not new, either 2014. They had beef again, although right now it is very unfortunate and seeing i'm seeing a lot of videos, instagram tick, tock, just a lot of terrible stuff going on with the war. Nothing bad within crypto has happened.

Nothing fundamentally has changed within crypto. The adoption is still going, we haven't heard about some huge hack or some just you know, regulation or anything that could stop it. It's just the fact that people's emotions are getting tied into the market, the nasdaq s, p 500 stocks have been taking a huge huge hit. Thank goodness we're not over in stocks.

That would be like 10 times worse than crypto, just from my own portfolio and what i'm seeing on that side. Crypto has a little bit of life. We are seeing some activity of decoupling and it's only going to take a matter of time. It might take a little bit of a bit more time - maybe maybe a year or two, but we are going to see time in the future where crypto really separates this asset class is completely in its league of its own and most people still don't grasp that Content just yet - and i think once we start to get a better idea of that, we will have the opportunity to see tremendous growth in the market, but take a look at this guys, even solana, back up 15, today, tara luna back up 21 or in the Last few days, it's up 31 imagine being able to make 31 back on your investment in a single day and just riding a big candlestick like this.

This is why it is important to not panic sell when things go hit the gutter and to freak out thinking. Everything is over now, even on the upside like this, you do want to tread the waters carefully. If you are entering day trade position, swing trades do not get overly greedy trying to go for a 50 to 60 swing to the upside, when there is still a lot of uh regulation. A lot of news, uh february, was supposed to be a huge month for regulation.

We covered this three times on this channel about how the bite administration was supposed to come out with an executive order. This month we are approaching this month. We still haven't gotten word. So if they have not postponed it, it should be happening within the next seven days that is going to affect the market, whether it drives the price up even higher, or we get a little bit more volatility to the downside.

There are going to be events just like that. On top of that, we do also have word of interest rates coming up. This is going to sound like a broken record, to some of you, because i do mention it a lot, but it is going to be important and i think i just want to hammer it into your brains. That is going to be a day of a lot of volatility.

It might not be the exact day where we get that announcement. It may just be a week or a few days before that, but i do believe march 15th chat make sure i got the date right on that is going to be the days where we get additional word on that with a 99 guarantee that we are going To get interest rate hikes, which is going to be very important in terms of that, taking a look at other all coins on the market, you're going to be noticing a lot more green, so your portfolio should be looking a little better. I know most people are still underwater uh, taking a look at even some additional data coming from the daily hodl, also coming from glass node, which they used in reference. They did talk about all the positions that were currently underwater about 4.70 million bitcoin are currently underwater.

This means people were buying bitcoin at a price above this where we are currently and they are not in the green. Normally, what happens is if you buy an asset, it is red. Your natural instinct is wanting to sell it and to hold on to it and take the losses. I personally don't understand the reason of that.

I do understand. People are scared to lose additional money. There is psychological reasonings behind feeling additional pain in the market. When you lose money versus the upside and the dopamine rush of you making money, so you know i understand principles behind that which actually goes behind stock trading old school uh, fundamental, even analysis too.

It just relates to most traders in that instances uh as being a you know, a newer investor and learning from your mistakes. But what we've realized is when you do sell your positions at a loss and the market recovers. The pain of that is going to hit twice uh double the fold, so what i've been doing? Personally, i've been mentioning this. A lot is just hodling through the ups and downs enjoying my time and finding other projects that we can get insane price action into.

One of the hedge funds that i personally like to do additional research in is pantera. I'm going to do a full analysis on one of the reports that they came out with recently it's a monthly report and they talk about how undervalued, bitcoin and the entire market is now, and we are still due for a big spike. Not only that but iot ex, which recently renamed themselves iotx, i believe i know they shortened it a little bit on their app about a month ago. They went ahead and had their ceo make an announcement talking about what they should do or what we should do.

As investors regarding all this up and down in the markets as well, mr chai or ceo chai cerchai, dr chai, whatever his uh profession, is it looks like he's got like five of them. He stated. I would certainly not encourage investors to sell their crypto now in the hopes of buying back at a cheaper price, as the reality is no one knows when we'll reach the bottom, and when the market will rally again where you, wherever you go for your news, uh, Whether you go on crypto, twitter, reddit or you're on youtube and you're on that weird side of crypto youtube, where they're all doing the gaping mouth face with the eyes bulging out you're gon na hear so many people making these predictions about. Crypto.

I make my own predictions too and i'll be honest here. No one knows i don't know. What's gon na happen, no one has a crystal ball. People can make predictions and guesses on what's gon na happen next, but it's in your due diligence as a viewer to collect these opinions and then form one for yourself.

If i think the market is gon na do really well at some point this year doesn't mean you should believe what i'm saying. If another youtuber is claiming that the market is going down, it's finished, it doesn't mean that they know exactly what they're talking about either we're going to take all the data that we're getting and we're going to take it day by day and stick to our strategy Before you make an investment before you buy, you should have an understanding of when you want to sell and how much risk you can tolerate. That is how you're going to find success in this market, because crypto can be volatile. Crypto can experience diffs.

We have that time and time again it sucks. It is an up and down. We got the ups up upside down head and shoulders uh tyranitaris rex uh, you know slide gazoo formation going on in the one charts. Whatever you want to see.

Okay, it happens. We go up. We go down long-term vision, we're up, okay and right now we're at a peak of the valley when the dip, where obviously the market is not doing well stick through it. Everyone is suffering.

Everyone is seeing some red right now and it's times like this, where you pull it together and you realize long term we're still here we're still in it, and this is still going to do better than the s p, 500 or any other index that we're seeing Within the stock market gaping up mouth face, this is a quick little ta analysis that we got from tradingview on another account and he's actually shown us a clear head and shoulders indicator, but also talking about a potential death cross happening. If you don't know what the death cross is, let's open up bar charts for crypto and then we'll get some moving averages death cross right now, with bitcoin sitting at thirty, eight thousand seven hundred three dollars currently below the 20 day moving average and above the five Day moving average, we want to make sure that we are still above a lot of these uh exponential moving averages. A lot of people like to use their bollinger bands, and you know like to see the different peaks i'm personally just focusing on the news. I think, regardless whatever ta line we have, even though it does predict and can tell us a story, maybe mid-term run, i think short-term volatility is just coming from within the news.

A lot of people didn't expect for us to be seen a type of pump like we did today with bitcoin right here, just getting bought up, but we did. We did and that's what you see with bitcoin, we're going to see ups and downs, we're going to see it defying a lot of people's emotions during the markets, and i do think on the days where the market is in. The extreme fear like we saw yesterday that is really when you want to start acting on top of it. Phillip, blue.

I appreciate you and the kind of words my brother, let's go into defy lama, if you guys don't know why we look at this or what it's all about. This is going to give us an indication of how much money is locked within other protocols and projects. The more money is locked inside of them, the more we can do a little bit of math and see how much undervalued projects there are so you'll notice. Tvl today is down about one percent, but it is consolidating.

It is not dumping. I do believe when we do get some additional money going into some of these other projects. We will see another extraordinary pump uh. We are seeing that pump happening today with a lot of these all coins.

So that's what i'm saying swing trades are still always there. You could be holding on to your bags that you bought in at the top leave that alone, and then you could still with the income that you have right now, use that to double or quadruple just bring on the gains that you may be experiencing. Uh moving forward, russia wants to be a naughty boy, so they got a little bit of response back in the market. Their stocks went ahead and crashed 33 and it plunged to some record lows.

Let me know if you guys like that i feel like that is a pretty interesting story. Uh ukraine went ahead and also showed uh that the conflict that we're having right now with all the uh, the talks of war - and you know russia making their initiation. We did see large amounts of crypto liquidations. This was mentioned in yesterday's live stream.

How this was going to happen today whenever we get liquidations in the market, this is good sign because we do not want to grow crypto and the overall markets on uh bad sturdy. Wrinkly little stilts, stills stilts. I know i messed that up before we want to make sure we can grow a crypto on strong wooden tree trunks. What does this mean? Why are you talking about wood? Brian? Are you a wood man? Do you like wood? Am i wood well when it comes to crypto? The reason why we don't want liquidation is because when we do get volatility and not even when it's, if yeah it's it's, when we get volatility, we do see a lot of those liquidations happening, because people are borrowing money.

People are using leverage in order to grow their portfolios, which is something i don't recommend. I recommend being able to continue to make money off the bag that you have i've heard of plenty of stories where people are able to take a hundred dollars or a thousand dollars in the market. I was able to do that. Uh in the previous bowl run that we had in the summer and growing that amplifying that turning that to a thousand to ten thousand ten thousand to fifty fifty to a hundred 000, and then you realize hey, i made some life-changing money.

We had many more millionaires made this year from nfts and cryptos than i've ever heard of in the last few years that i've been within the finance community. So it's all about learning, staying, attentive and realizing the education that you're getting in right now, the type of work that you're putting in is not going nowhere. The fact that you guys are watching this video is just showing your dedication to the market. Most investors do not keep up to date; they have no idea what they're doing and they're just going to enter at the worst times and sell at the peaks too.

So the fact that you guys are doing this, i think you are on top of it. Do we get a dono tree mix ultra? Thank you for the donor by the way, if you guys are watching a replay of this, i am gon na set a live schedule where i am on consistently. So you guys know when i'm on uh, but in the off case, i'm still not. On top of my schedule, make sure you guys turn on that notification bell for the channel, because i'd love for you guys to be watching these live now going back into some world news, president biden went ahead and announced technology, export controls and the banks sanctioned against Russia, so several european countries have also announced measures to try to force russia to seize hostilities after it invaded ukraine, so this was after russia went ahead and fired some cruise missiles and sending troops into ukraine.

The sanctions announced thursday include technology export controls to limit russia's ability to work on its aerospace, shipbuilding and other industries, freezing assets belonging to russia's largest banks and freezing assets belonging to russian's elites and their family members. Biden said thursday. Sanctions could cut off more than half of russia's high-tech imports. Now, if you guys didn't know vlad putin net worth little typo, if you guys did not know mr vladimir's net worth is actually not 1 billion, not 2 billion 70 billion dollars.

Obviously, this guy has a a lot of money if the u.s is freezing accounts and hurting some of russia's top billionaires, i can imagine it is going to affect him a little bit, so it looks like we are taking some different stances. We have a statement here stating a u.s treasury department. Press release had thursday's action would fundamentally alter these banks ability to conduct operations so on a daily basis. They also quote russian financial institutions, conduct about 46 billion dollars worth of foreign exchange transactions globally and 80 of which are in u.s dollars.

The vast majority of those transactions will now be disrupted. You can imagine that a move like this is, you know, going to escalate. What we may have, but you know on the more optimistic side it might, it might calm it down. I don't think that's going to be the case, but i do think russia and vlad can also make some pivots in the market.

Uh we've seen assets getting frozen across different markets, different countries and what normally happens is people go to crypto peer-to-peer crypto people use different exchanges. People are able to send money directly from cold storage wallets to other accounts, and we are seeing that going on right now. On both sides of this war, so i do think on the off chance that vlad does say you know what screw that we'll just put our money into a stable coin and then exchange that with one another, because it is decentralized. No one can stop his funds.

I think in a way that may even help the overall crypto market and just seeing the utility that other country leaders are forced with. So that would be incredible, incredible news, and hopefully that could even result in seeing that decoupling effect between crypto and all the other asset classes, where crypto continues mooning, regardless whatever's happening in the world, and people really do recognize it to be an international currency. Babbages to the moon. On top of that, there was one more article that i did want to talk about, and this is people have donated over 400 000 in crypto to support the ukrainian army in the past 24 hours.

A lot of these were larger bags about one to two thousand dollars with an average amount of 370 individuals in the past two days donating this, we've seen people using crypto to donate to other campaigns in canada. We've had the truck protesters and they had a fund that was rejected by gofundme, which is millions of dollars that they could have used to support their cause. People then go to crypto. Do not forget the reason why crypto was created.

It was for democracy and for us to have separation between central entities and banks. Now i think this is really good. I really think just seeing headlines of utility behind this is so so good for the overall development of what we have going on. If you are betting against crypto, i think you are really in for an uphill battle.

The momentum that we have behind everything going on in international waters is so strong right now, and i just i, i am still a firm believer what i've been saying. We are going to have another tremendous bull run at the end of this year at some point this year and if i'm wrong, i am wrong if i'm wrong. This is not financial advice psych now, if i'm wrong i'll, take it i'll, take it, ladies and gents. Ah, anyways, how you guys doing anyways to wrap this live stream up, i feel like we did cover most of it folks, article article article article, okay, is this something i did want to mention.

I did talk about it earlier. We have about 30 to 40 percent of bitcoin investments underwater, so they say we can see in the charts below that the proportion of on-chain entities and profit is oscillating between 65 and 76 of the network. There's going to be people who all bought before the price target of 38 000 anytime anytime bitcoin hits a new all-time high. Everyone is in profit.

So with that idea, when everyone is in profit, usually it forces the bags to go a little bit higher, but that's when the whales decide all right. This is where we sell. This is where we got ta calm down a bit and humble the people. One more thing before i forget: ethereum made an insane upgrade recently uh and i do not know if my tab is up, but ethereum ethereum, ethereum ethereum tab is not up.

Let me go to my notes. Ethereum made an amazing update today pushing us towards some roll-up uh solutions. Let's go into the video calendar, let's go into the notion and then let's open this up my database, i don't see it. Ladies and gents.

Let me google it ethereum upgrade today. Bop ethereum upgrade news come on brian jung. I expected the cleanest, crypto updates on your channel. You imbecile, i got you guys so ethereum went ahead and got an upgraded scaling test net and it's actually years ahead of schedule.

The zk evm test network network will be the first of its kind and could change the ethereum scaling landscape in the near future. So the zk sync, a protocol responsible for implementing ethereum scaling platforms accomplished the unexpected yesterday, announcing the test network release of an ethereum virtual machine compatible zero knowledge. Roll up is called zk roll ups, which is popular amongst most layer. One projects that are working in the roll-up scene so we're going to make a video.

I have made a video talking about the difference between z, case and optimistic roll-ups. Here they do talk about the different categories and why that's important, if you guys, are new to crypto and you don't even know what any of this is. That's? Okay, if this goes over your head, that's, okay! It's a more complicated concept, but here's what you need to know ethereum is ethereum is making major gains. This is actually very unexpected.

I did not expect this either, and this is one news article that we do have on this, so they state here, zk roll ups have historically focused on offering a single type of application per chain, because the full ethereum environment offers customizable smart contracts. This would be to computationally extensive until now, trade-offs tended to favor, arbitrarum and optimism. Optimism now, zk sync has the opportunity to level the playing field. Optimistic rollups are currently able to offer a single composable environment in which the users can use applications ranging from nft marketplaces.

Like openc to lending protocols like ave on mainnet zk rollups are more computationally extensive and put a burden on nodes looking to solve zero knowledge validity proofs, but they are able to post network states ethereum for a fraction of the cost of even optimistic roll-ups. So the this is just good news: they do talk about the transaction fees and currently what it's at right now in comparison to what we've seen before take as you see it, ethereum is making strides. If we go into ethereum's website right here, we can actually get a look at where they are in terms of landscape, uh and their road map. So they did make a little bit of changes to their website since i last saw it, but i think we can find it right here.

Ethereum ethereum ethereum upgrades explosive upgrades, so we have the beacon chain. When is it shipping december 1st 2020? We have been getting additional upgrades going into ethereum as well right now, we are seeing 2.0 do believe. There should be another part to this clicking on this. We got the 2.0 beacon chain article and with ethereum, currently right now going to the uh development of proof of stake.

Talking about it right here becoming a staker that should be underway by the end of this year. If they can finish earlier, it would be good if it takes longer. It is going to be patience, but the reason why this is important, why ethereum's upgrade is important is because we do know how much volume or value two words. I was going to say at the same time, which came out the way.

There's a lot of money in ethereum ethereum has a 111 billion dollars locked right now, a lot of huge nft projects, yet ethereum's price action hasn't done too much differently. It had its peak, it's been flat, we haven't seen anything happen after it rolled up to even almost five thousand dollars anytime. We see all-time highs like this. I do think with the further developments.

There's no reason why ethereum won't be worth at least a minimum of five thousand dollars and a ten thousand dollar ethereum. It's gon na happen in the future. We're gon na wake up, it's gon na happen in the future. It might not happen tomorrow, the next month or maybe even the next year, but it will happen.

We will see it in our lifetime now guys that is today's live stream uh, something i am bullish on, though, are metaverse projects. I know gala games had a little bit of a pump earlier today too. In the last seven days they were getting wrecked, but today they did go up 13 in the last one year hasn't been looking good, but they had a lot of potential of even almost hitting a dollar at a certain point. On top of that, i do want to do a brief view of other metaverse projects, because that is what the ted talk is going to be all about, and i'm sucking myself into it.

Learning all about it. Sandbox back at the three dollar support level actually might be resistance now and then, if we go into decentraland up 12 at 2.61, so a lot of all coins are making the same formation. Seven days are red. One days are looking good.

Let me know if you guys are buying up the dip or, if you did do that yesterday, also just because the market is green, today doesn't mean the market is going to be green tomorrow either. So keep that in mind it's going to be a lot of ups and downs, a lot of roller coasters. But that's what we got. Someone says: no, don't please go.

I got ta go i got to, but i'll be back and i'll be back soon. Honeyball67 i'll. Do my best with the ted talk, i am prepared now, i'm terrified of public speaking, but i'll try my best. I appreciate you guys.

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