So, oh food, three, two one, stop the wreckage. What is going on moon gang hang on. Let me get this switched over for one. Second, hello, hello, hello.

It is december 31st, it is new year's eve and we just got ta get uh. I guess some other market talking just you know before everyone's celebrating the new year, but this particular video. I really want to talk about, of course, some news updates about. What's going on in the world of crypto, bitcoin ethereum attic all that good stuff, but really what i want to dive into is what i see happening in bitcoin, particularly for 2022.

I think you're really really gon na, like what i have in store for you. So, let's hop right into it just so i have some extra time to answer all of your questions. So, first of all, right now, if you take a look at the crypto market, things are a little bit red. Uh btc ethereum avalanche is doing well matic, a lot of crypto is selling off and you could track it either.

Here on coin market cap, i'm a little bit more of a visual person, you're going to see a bunch of red on coin 360 and i think actually, the most fun one is crypto bubbles here. So congratulations. I guess, if you're in safe moon, if you're in sushi rose um, those ones all seem to be really really crushing it right now, other than that we have a bunch of red. Now, before we get into the specifics of what's happening, i suppose in the short term i do want to give a little bit first of that kind of generic overview and then we're going to get into the specifics of what's happening right now, bitcoin and then some Of the news, you're really gon na like that, so to kick this off.

Let's just talk about how crazy 2021 was. Volatility ruled crypto markets in 2021, from 69 000 bitcoin on elon musk's dogecoin to the moon, nfts exploded into the mainstream consciousness. China, cracked down on crypto this time for real okay, yeah they're about to do that. A couple hundred more times just reiterating the same thing.

Coinbase stock went public, el salvador bought the dip digital tokens like solana, sola and polygons maddox, shot up by multiples of 90 or more and traders in traditional markets finally got a bitcoin etf sort of, as in reference to a bitcoin futures etf, not a spot one. Here's how it all went down. Well, you could check this out if you want, but i'm here, okay, this is in the past. This is water under the bridge.

Either you took opportunity or you didn't take this opportunity. Let's look forward, let's see, what's coming next, so with this and feel free, we can. We can refer back to this december 31st of 2022, but here are some of my biggest predictions. Let me get this set up.

Here are some of the biggest things i'll be watching for and or predicting for 2022 and then we're going to get a little bit more specific for january of 2022 and then we're going to get to the most up-to-date news, basically so for 2022. Let's kick it off of what i think is going to happen in the btc sphere. First of all, the main thing you have to pay attention to, especially in the us, is what's going on with the federal reserve, i.e interest rates, we're going to basically find out. Does the mainstream do people like you, do people like me and do all those fancy banks and institutions truly view bitcoin to be an inflationary hedge, because i think we're going to actually spike and have another record high inflation reading some point in 2022 and then, obviously With that, you have to see how hawkish the federal reserve is going to be.

Most people right now are pointing at two different interest rate hikes, going hawkish to battle inflation. But of course, any new variant or anything like that - could throw a wrench into the entire formula so be on the lookout for that. But as inflation goes up and i think it will continue to go up because they're not going to be done at the earliest, with their bond purchasing as in the federal reserve until probably march so inflation i'm still looking at that higher. And i think we will find out this concept is bitcoin, truly digital gold.

Is it going to be an inflationary hedge? I think the answer is yes, but i think that will actually be put to the test. On top of that, i think we're going to see more regulations on various fronts, so i think the first one is going to be related to esg, environmental, social and government governance. That's what esg is, but even this past year with tesla adopting bitcoin, then saying no. We're not because of the mining and what it does to the environment.

I think we're going to see more. I guess esg regulation, i think they're going to be some countries that outright ban it and that could have implications on the cost of itself on bitcoin itself. So i think you're going to see more regulatory developments there from various countries, but then here within the u.s, i think you're going to see regulations related to two key things: number one stable coins. That's already been discussed, it's actively being discussed.

I don't think that's the craziest call that we're gon na have more regulatory debate and updates related to stable coins and then from there also dow's daos uh kind of the wild west. Right now - and i wouldn't be surprised if the sec steps in to want to kind of do something there and speaking of etfs right now, we do have various bitcoin-based future etfs. I think in 2022 we're finally gon na get those spot etfs. Most likely grayscale will be the first one and then from there i wouldn't be surprised if we spin off and we see some ethereum etf solana, etfs kind of ones in the top five 10 15 in market cap and then.

Finally, my final prediction for bitcoin, similar to el salvador - i think, there's going to be more countries adopting it and it's as its official currency uh, i think first up to bat, is actually turkey. Turkey right now is having uh horrific issues, i believe their local currency, their fiat currencies referred to as the lira. It's it's. The inflation is absolutely horrific.

If you think inflation is bad in the us right now, look up anything about going on with turkey. I think turkey is first up to bat, but i wouldn't be surprised if there's actually multiple countries that have like a distressed inflationary currency. You like problem that end up adopting bitcoin at the as its official currency. So those are all my 2022 predictions for bitcoin.

Moving on to ethereum a little bit more quickly, i believe that we're going to see the official, the next major step in ethereum's 2.0 rollout we're already kind of on step one. We have that beacon chain when it's going from proof of work to proof of stake. Most likely also going to end up becoming deflationary. I think the next step, hopefully most likely in the first quarter, but i would argue that it's going to be before june because of the difficulty bond related to ethereum and their mining.

I think we're going to get that roll out. I think they're going to merge the beacon chain back into the main one and we're going to get that next step, and i don't know if i would really put sharding on the list for ethereum in 2022. The to my understanding, the technology, the engineering, the software, the computer science development in that to pull it off it's a vast undertaking, so that might be more of a 2023 type of an issue overall, this past year, very, very strong for both layer, one and layer. Two but layer, one really crush it.

These other layer, one options such as avalanche solana, polka dot like a lot of them, there's many they all crushed it. They all. There were so many that made so many in immense amount of money and i think we're going to see a strong continuation of that in 2022, the likes of d52 when web 3.. I think you're going to be hearing those bud buzzwords all the time.

I think you're going to see an increased multiple of venture capital funding going into anything that says defy 2.0 web 3.0 you're going to see a bunch, a bunch of investment into that now. I also think that you're going to see a complete switch in the world of nfts and metaverse. So let me split this up. Nfts right now took the world by storm.

The past week there was over 300 million in transactions in nfts. I think how we think of nfts right now will be absurdly different in 2022., this concept of so much money relating to the best that i can come up with. It is more of like social clout of just people, knowing that it sold for a lot and then someone bought it for a lot. So hey, they're, rich, that's not new to being a human whatsoever.

I think that concept is going to get less and less popular and i think we're going to have - and it's not new nfts like we already have these nfts, but i think they're going to get much more popular when we have nfts that are purely tied to Utility beyond just being a cool piece of arp, so i think we're going to kind of see a big switcheroo in the world of nfts and i think anything related to the metaverse. I think that's where a lot of the funding is going to go. I think there's going to be a lot more institutional adoption and i actually have a story related to the miniverse and china and what's going on there, but i think the metaverse it's just getting started between real estate games like honestly, it's as far as people's imagination Can go, i think the metaverse is going to be hugely possible and one little. I guess prediction that i have for you about meta, aka, facebook and its attempt to get into the world of the metaverse.

I think they are going to fall flat on their face. I think one thing that's highly attractive about krypton in general sense, and particularly the metaverse is true decentralization and i guess not to be corny, but the power in the hands of the people, not one giant conglomerate that will like harvest your data and sell it to The highest bidder, i think, facebook's attempt of being meta and leading the charge in the metaverse is going to end horrifically for them. That might not necessarily be 2022, but i think it's coming and i'm saying not necessarily 2022 just because they have like so much money to sustain themselves and they can keep doing what they want. But one corporation running off it like truly, is kind of the antithesis of like really what crypto kind of stands for there.

So those are some of my big predictions for 2022.. Obviously, i would love to get yours feel free to comment them on the end and we'll read over that, but moving on to what's happening in more of like a shorter time frame, i want to talk about crypto bitcoin january 2022. Cryptocurrencies approached new year in positive mood. Well, i don't know they might have been writing that article a little bit too early because we're seeing a decent size sell-off in the short term, in fact fear and greed index uh.

We are currently fearful yesterday. We were extremely fearful. Last week we were fearful, and last month we were fearful this. You can get this on alternative.me for the crypto fear gauge.

It was last updated. It updates every couple hours, but remember what warren before it said be greedy when others are fearful and be fearful when others are greedy. I actually view this as a buying opportunity, and i am not the only one bitcoin sees non-stop of year buying as 10k btc leaves coinbase in a single day. Almost 10 000 btc left major us-based exchange coinbase on december 30 and a sign that investors appetite is returning to the sphere and, according to ryan clark, coinbase buying has been been pretty non-stop today they are just loaning up on btc and finally, in 2022.

The first thing we can expect to see is a major flipping of crypto ownership, from primarily retail to institutional players with institutions having a much larger participation, and this actually leads me to what we're seeing right now. But before i get into like my reasoning of why. We're particularly seeing a red day and why i'm literally not worried at all before we get into that. I kind of want to show you this.

This is willywoo on twitter. Uh. Definitely worthwhile twitter account to follow. I've learned a lot.

Retail continues to stack stronger than ever for this year. Meanwhile, institutions in wales bought august to september sold november to december and now swinging towards a buy zone in january 2022, and so in the orange right here holders of more than a thousand btc and then in the blue, less than one you can see. Retail is kind of always but like surely adding just like retail is getting a little bit a little bit strong, but remember, there's not that much money in retail but they're, not the ones who were buying a lot and then selling a lot and then buying a Lot the swings that are really being produced. Look at institution they had these swaths of selling, then they're buying.

Then they were selling and now we're swinging back around like we previously were. Was this may junish right here, maybe like end of may early june. That kind of purchasing we're swinging back around, but overall, i just wanted to show that okay, based on what we were saying here, uh that flip it seems like it might be right, at least in somewhat of the short term institution coming back around inclusive of other. Probably individual whales, but it's in no way retail.

So when we're talking about this extreme nature of leverage and people getting margin called and liquidated, look to institutions look to wall street. Look to the big players, not necessarily retail retail, is all hunky-dory just sitting on their position holding when necessary, and then dollar cost averaging when necessary. So i just want to bring that up. I think that's important to see kind of like the breakdown and if you want to check this out yourself once again, willywoo on twitter.

But this kind of brings me to i guess some of my predictions of what i think is going to happen in january. And it actually leads me to the sell-off that we're currently seeing right now in real time. What do i think is going on actually literally as i'm talking bitcoins going lower avalanche took a hit maddox continuing down and ethereum's going down. I actually think that there's two major things, two major things right now: uh, if you haven't heard of this term before it is called tax loss harvesting.

So, basically, if you have losses, you can sell it off and it's going to count against your capital gains on the year, so you pay less taxes most of the time in the world of stocks. Please i am not a cpa, i'm not a lawyer, i'm not a financial advisor, i'm just a guy that wears high fashion shirts and talks about markets and things that i find cool and sometimes i go on rants. So please take this with a grain of salt and you should probably reach out to someone that has a little bit more professionalism and expertise that i do, but anyway, tax ox harvesting is a very, very real thing and what's interesting this year, according to my cpa, Is in the world of crypto, usually in stocks there's this thing called a wash sale where, if you sell it, you actually have to wait. I believe, 30 days before you rebuy it so you're not like messing with your taxes there, but what's interesting, is in crypto and they're gon na close up this loophale.

This is like the last year. People can do it, you can sell for a loss and then turn around right away and buy again. So you can write the losses off this year or i guess if for some reason you want to lock in those gains, but then right away, you can go. Buy it tomorrow and you're not going to have like the wash sale ramifications once again, that's how i understood it from my cpa.

If that's something you're interested in you might want to be calling your cpa right now. So i think we have some people trying to take final advantage of this rule that will no longer be around in 2022 and on top of it, let's talk a little bit about those big institutions and they got in early they're, obviously up because bitcoin's up the Market's up for them, it's always a game of every quarter. Did you do better than the previous quarter? That's how they get more aum assets under management. You're always basically showcasing how smart and how good of a trader you are, how good of an investor you are! How good you are at making money to attract more and more money, and it always goes quarter by quarter and now that we're at the end of a quarter.

It wouldn't be surprising if they're, literally locking in just to lock in their gains so starting tomorrow, starting monday coming back after the new year. They can start shopping around again say: look how good we did we locked in these gains. You should give us money, so i think you have people intentionally locking in gains, and you also have people intentionally locking in losses today and locking in as in selling no matter what group you're in. If that's true they're both selling - and i think that's literally what we're living through in the real time - and i think we'll can - i think it's actually going to switch tomorrow, but i think starting the first week of january, it's going to switch like, i think, the Buying is about to start, if you can just wait a couple days.

That's my current reasoning, but also seasonality is on my side, shout out to alex krueger. First week of the year effect, btc returns first week of the previous 2018. 19. 20.

21. 18. 7. 13.

36, so over the past four years, the stats tell us that the first week of the calendar trading year, if you believe in the gregorian calendar, i don't want to offend anyone. It's positive, and this is actually also true for the stock market. If you look at the s p 500, the qs, the dow the first week statistically, is bullish. So actually it's no different for btc.

So i think, there's a com couple things coming to a head right now that actually truly are beneficial and, with btc being the equivalent of the s p 500 in the world of crypto. I think it will end up relating to the likes of ethereum avalanche polygon. All of those i think a rising tide raises all ships, so that's why it's important to watch it just like when you're watching an individual equity. You should probably know what's going on in the overall market now, on a completely different note, part of my predictions for 2022 were hey an explosion in the metaverse.

I think what we're seeing is just getting going and that's exactly what the officials in shanghai also believe includes meniverse. In its development plan, shanghai, china's most crowded city is looking for ways to use metaverse in public services over the next five years: promoting metaverse's use in public services, business offices, social leisure, industrial manufacturing, production safety and electronic games. The commission plans to encourage further study and development of underlying technologies such as sensors, real-time interactions and blockchain technology. Now, if you've been paying attention to the world of the metaverse crypto and its interactions with the powers, the ccp it you might be like whoa whoa whoa, i thought they were noteworthy out like to a noteworthy level outspoken against crypto, and you were very very right.

Despite the people's bank of china's warning on meniverse and nfts in november, over a thousand chinese businesses have filed tens of thousands of trademark applications that reference the term more than 1 360 chinese businesses have applied for over 8500 trademarks. So yeah a little bit of confusion. There do they like it, do they not like it, and i think it's one of those things that if you are in the good graces of people in power, you're gon na get access to this and if you're not you're, not gon na get access. I think it's one of those uh continuing on with the metaverse metaverse property sales are accelerating, as investors take out virtual land in the potentially one trillion market.

Here are three recent examples that have sold for eye-popping amounts, and this is crazy. I hope you don't have socks on, because if you do i'm about to knock them off, the metaverse is becoming a hot property market, with investors buying millions of dollars worth of virtual land. A recent transaction on this central land was worth about 2.5 million of cryptocurrency. The metaverse represents a 1 trillion with a t a year revenue opportunity according to grayscale those are the people running uh, hopefully getting the spot.

Bitcoin etf, rocking and rolling pretty soon so number one metaversus group, 2.43 million land purchase into central land um. There was another plot that was sold for nine hundred and thirteen thousand uh republic realm. A digital real estate firm invested in june that one's nus um 259 parcels around 16 acres, the average pro that's ridiculous. It's similar to the prices in manhattan, uh number, three axi, you've, probably heard of this axe, infinity 2.3 million land was bought there and i do have a little bit of a bonus one for you.

This isn't necessarily land, but it's still, i guess a metaverse. I guess asset of sorts 650 000 for a mega yacht on the sandbox, not real estate, exactly but a virtual mega yacht was sold this week in the sandbox for an astounding, 650 000 usd the mega flower super mega yacht was purchased for 149 ether. This is just the start. I think you're going to continue to see more publications like this hear stories like this honestly as 2022 rolls out, i think, like i said i think we're just getting going with the metaverse, and you know who's one brainiac, that's taking advantage of it.

Is this child prodigy? He has an iq of 162. two points more than our boy einstein himself and he wants cryptocurrency for christmas and gets it a 12 year old, barnaby swinburne, scored 162 on the mensa iq test and became a member of the high iq society. Now i get it, maybe you don't want to be getting your financial advice from someone in a suit. In a time.

Maybe you don't want to be getting your financial advice from a guy in his basement yelling at a camera. Maybe your option is just following a 12 year old genius who, for christmas, decided he wanted to get into the world of crypto and he's particularly also interested in nfts, apparently he's already looking at university courses and wants to go to oxford. This guy's a big brain, a big brain 12 year old, so that's another option for you, but more exciting and literally another genius. I have two genius stories for you today: how lucky what a new year's eve surprise, but speaking of geniuses, paris, hilton, is hosting new year's eve in the metaverse.

Here are three other ways you can celebrate without leaving your house, paris hilton will be among those parting. In the metaverse on new year's eve to send off 2021 the ball drop in new york times square will take place in the virtual world and in south korea. They will stream bell ringing ceremony on the metaverse. So a lot of action, uh periscope, non roblox, ball drop in times square and then in south korea a bell ringing ceremony.

You can check all of these out in the metaverse. So if you want to know how you can participate in this, just find this story on market insider uh, but once again, this stuff is just absolutely too funny. I love it. I love it.

I love it. I myself will not be able to attend. Miss hilton's party, but if you do, i would love to hear about how the experience goes on monday. Please keep me posted so with all that.

That's what i have for you today. What is this episode? 11. 12. That's what i have for you uh.

Let me know folks um we're here it's new year's eve. I just wanted to get some of these predictions per se out of the way and we're gon na see how 2022 plays out, but my from the highest level of you, i think it's an absurd amount of opportunity. I think if you know where to look and you're actively seeking opportunity, i think the financial windfall from 2022 as it relates to crypto, and i think, there's going to be very hot sectors within the market itself. You just have to be prepared and that's what this is all about.

It's putting in the time and the dedication and having the curiosity now to work realize the opportunity um really, i guess properly execute on that opportunity and i think the time dedication versus reward payoff. If played right will be astounding, very, very excited for the upcoming year in the crypto market, the stock market, the futures market, the options market - i think retail is going to have another amazing amazing year, and it's honestly just on us to know when opportunity is looking Us in the face, so with all that being said, i want to give it back over to you guys and how much time we have a little bit more time. So what? What are your questions? Uh, let's hop right into that. Let's do some new! Your new year's eve questions um.

What ten cryptos are we dropping a grand in so i'm slowly but surely whittling down my list so sand, mana satima crow. We are going to do. Link we're gon na do matic floki ripple and those were the eight that i have confirmed uh. So there's two more spots and there's like people are saying: gala people are saying spell probably luna luna, i'm re, probably tara luna will probably be uh nine.

So i guess we technically have like one open spot there, i'm figuring out we're really honing in, but we don't have almost all of them figured out. I have not purchased any of them. We're going to be going through that type of stuff. Tomorrow, um i'm going to try to get as many on january 1st as i can just so when we do the whole year, it'll be more obvious of what we're at a lot of the ones that are being suggested.

I already have so like. I don't want to, i guess, like necessarily just rebuy i mean i guess i can't because i already have manic. I don't know i'll be figuring it out, but will you average down in litecoin in 2022? No! No! No! No! I am very um comfortable, never purchasing litecoin, again like i just i got severely beat up on litecoin, i already own cheap. So, like i know, a lot of people are suggesting sheeb or doge, but, like i already have them so like i'm, i'm particularly interested in getting ones that i don't already have um wait.

Is that true about betty white did betty? Am i being lied to oh wow? It was just reported that betty white passed away at the age of 99. betty white yeah. It was like just reported minutes ago. Betty white dies 18 days short of her 100th birthday.

Well, that's a little bit of somber news. She was hilarious, reals for secrets, a happy life 99. You know, that's a good run. That's definitely a good run right there, any more, safe moon thoughts.

I will not be getting safe, moon, uh thoughts on avex networks and the frog nation, and how bullish are you on time? Um i like avalanche. I think it's an impressive, impressive project. I have avalanche. I like avalanche.

I like the fees on avalanche. I think it's led by a good group of people um. How bullish are you on time? I mean i have time, but i dow protocols and i'll be making the video like it seems like it's a big rug, pull, i have to admit it doesn't seem like. That's true with wonderland time, but these other ones they just seem to be completely full of and there's been uh.

The rug pulls on them across the board, uh the actually, the only one that really really was stuck. It was wonderland time. So all of my money's in that, but the the money in the other ones like whatever, was being promoted there were so many of them. They all seemed to be like completely full of so, if you are in dow protocols, understand very, very high risk, and i would stick like with the main well-respected ones, because the other ones do seem like complete rug pulse.

That's what happened to me. The rug got pulled on many of them across the board, um, the only one that i'm really seeing that like strongly withstood it and actually came out stronger, was wonderland time ever grow coin check it out uh crater app out soon, so ever grow coin. I haven't heard of that one i can look into it, but i do have a particular interest, i would say in the top 20 in on coin market cap. How do you buy land and yachts in the metaverse? Would you guys, like like a video about that? Like if we do it live together, like we go into the metaverse and like we like, i just show you how to buy stuff or, like i don't know, even how to do it like.

Would you guys enjoy that video? We could either do it live or i could record it but kind of like a how to buy stuff in the metaverse. What is the metaverse? How do you go into the metaverse? What's the password all right we can get set up for that? We can definitely all right, there's quite a bit of interest in that one more than happy to more than happy to all right. That is it for crypto cores. I appreciate the support, as always uh on your way out.

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We don't need to take stupid, leave the stupid risks for the market. Don't don't leave it up with your life, but thank you. Thank you thank you, and for those of you who are interested in it, we will be back in about 30 minutes to do a power hour stream. When we see what's going on with the market, we'll play, some games on twitch have a good old time to close out the day the week, the month and the year, as always.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you and from both chair and myself. Best of luck in the markets,.