December 16, 2025 • 21 mins
This conversation delves into the current state of the cryptocurrency market, exploring various factors influencing Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It discusses market manipulation, the impact of global economic policies, particularly from the US and Japan, and significant legislative changes that could affect Bitcoin adoption. The conversation also highlights the rise of the Midnight Blockchain and its potential in the crypto space.
Takeaways
✅ The crypto market is heavily influenced by manipulation and speculative news.
✅ Regular patterns of market manipulation can be observed, particularly around specific times.
✅ China's regulatory actions continue to impact Bitcoin mining and market dynamics.
✅ Interest rate changes in Japan have significant ripple effects on global crypto markets.
✅ Legislative changes in the US could unlock substantial Bitcoin demand.
✅ Institutional adoption of Bitcoin is increasing, with major banks accepting it as collateral.
✅ The SEC is becoming more supportive of crypto, indicating a shift in regulatory stance.
✅ Japan's tax reforms could encourage more investment in cryptocurrencies.
✅ The Midnight Blockchain is gaining traction and could present new investment opportunities.
✅ Understanding global economic policies is crucial for navigating the crypto landscape.
Chapters
00:00 Overview of the Crypto Landscape
01:06 Manipulation
03:26 Speculative News
12:31 General Good News
18:38 Midnight Updates
DISCLAIMER: This content is for informational and educational purposes only and is not financial, investment, or legal advice. I am not affiliated with, nor compensated by, the project discussed—no tokens, payments, or incentives received. I do not hold a stake in the project, including private or future allocations. All views are my own, based on public information. Always do your own research and consult a licensed advisor before investing. Crypto investments carry high risk, and past performance is no guarantee of future results. I am not responsible for any decisions you make based on this content.
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Takeaways
✅ The crypto market is heavily influenced by manipulation and speculative news.
✅ Regular patterns of market manipulation can be observed, particularly around specific times.
✅ China's regulatory actions continue to impact Bitcoin mining and market dynamics.
✅ Interest rate changes in Japan have significant ripple effects on global crypto markets.
✅ Legislative changes in the US could unlock substantial Bitcoin demand.
✅ Institutional adoption of Bitcoin is increasing, with major banks accepting it as collateral.
✅ The SEC is becoming more supportive of crypto, indicating a shift in regulatory stance.
✅ Japan's tax reforms could encourage more investment in cryptocurrencies.
✅ The Midnight Blockchain is gaining traction and could present new investment opportunities.
✅ Understanding global economic policies is crucial for navigating the crypto landscape.
Chapters
00:00 Overview of the Crypto Landscape
01:06 Manipulation
03:26 Speculative News
12:31 General Good News
18:38 Midnight Updates
DISCLAIMER: This content is for informational and educational purposes only and is not financial, investment, or legal advice. I am not affiliated with, nor compensated by, the project discussed—no tokens, payments, or incentives received. I do not hold a stake in the project, including private or future allocations. All views are my own, based on public information. Always do your own research and consult a licensed advisor before investing. Crypto investments carry high risk, and past performance is no guarantee of future results. I am not responsible for any decisions you make based on this content.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've got a lot of big headlines here that we
need to look into so we can understand what's happening
in the crypto space. And I've got a lot to
go through. We have a lot of manipulation. We have
speculative news, good news that's come out from the US
and the Japan, and then also a look into what's
happening with Midnight at the moment as well, the Midnight
blockchain for privacy transactions. That's all coming right up, so
(00:23):
let's get into it. I'm Peter. If it's the first
time here, hit that thumbs up button, that like button,
subscribe notification bell, get me to thirty k mark, I'm
almost there. Just a few more subscribers, guys that would
absolutely appreciate it if you can subscribe if you haven't
done so already. So let's have a look at what
we have here, and this is what our week is
looking at. So it's Monday already, and Monday FED liquidity
(00:45):
injection ten to twenty billion into the economy. Tuesday, we
have at US macrodata coming out Wednesday, the FED President speech, Thursday,
US CPI report, and then Friday Japan rate height decision,
and we'll look into that one a little bit later
as well, So definitely a big week for crypto, bitcoin
and crypto in general. Have a look at this. This
(01:07):
is what we're seeing on a weekly and regular basis
at the moment, and this is exchanges aggressively buying BTC.
So we've got to hear finance coin based bitmes strategy,
Winter Mute and Fidelity or buying massive amounts of bitcoin
all at the same time. And this is also going
(01:28):
to other ETFs and other coins as well. That's why
you see the market drive up and down all the time.
But we also see the opposite finance coin based winter Mute,
Random Wales and bitmex all selling massive amounts of BTC
within minutes of each other, so they're all coordinating this
(01:48):
or they all have stop losses and whatnot, all at
the same points and time, or very similar or watching
each other, maybe even copy trading, who knows. But this
is a really interesting theory, and this is the ten
am market manipulation. So let me just go through this
post here. So breaking the ten am manipulation is active
(02:10):
once again. It coin dumped two thirty minutes as soon
as the US market opened, auty billion wiped out from
BTC market cap and one hundred and twenty five million
worth of longs have been liquidated in the last sixty minutes.
Just a regular day in crypto now, and this is
what we see. The markets open on a weekly markets
drive up after the weekend dips, and then suddenly at
(02:33):
ten am we see the whole market dump. This isn't
the first time, this is a regular occurrence. This is
the same person here posting the week before on a
regular basis. Just happens again and again. It's a repeating cycle.
So watch for this, guys, if you are training, if
you are seeing these patterns yourself, check it for yourself.
Check the chart, See what's happening here, See where the
(02:55):
money is going, so you see who's buying and selling.
Jump into the markets when these guys do and then
sell at the just before ten am. It might be
a sound strategy, a pattern definitely to look for. So
that is some of the manipulation that we're seeing at
the moment, and why we're seeing spikes and strong dips afterwards.
(03:15):
Because some people have the amount of money required to
move the entire market, we're still very small here in
the clost space. Let's have a look at some speculative
news at the moment. So this here, this is kind
of speculative. But the Fed will buy six point eight
billion in treasury bills tomorrow at nine am. So this
was over the weekend. I haven't verified this if they
(03:38):
have or not. So this is something that we need
to look into as well. Bitcoin here, Bitcoin is crashing
and this is the reason why. So this is a theory.
Bitcoin is down today for simple reasons, and almost nobody
is explaining it properly. It's coming straight from China, and
the timing matters. That's right, China's crashing bitcoin again. Here's
(04:01):
what's happening. China's tiding regulation on domestic bitcoin mining. Again.
I thought China just pushed all of bitcoin mining out there.
They had enough of the miners and didn't want the
electricity used for that. Okay, that's nothing. In Hiangxiang alone,
a huge chunk of money operations were shot down in December.
Roughly forty thousand miners went offline in a very short window.
(04:25):
You can already see it in the data network. Hash
rate is down around eight percent when miners are forced
offline like this. A few things happen fast. They lose
revenue immediately, they need to cash. They need cash to
cover costs of or relocate. Some are forced to sell
BTC into the markets. Uncertainty spikes short term that creates
(04:46):
real cell pressure, not the other way around. This isn't
long term bear signal for bitcoin. It's a temporary supply
shot caused dumb policy, not demand. We've seen this movie
before it, yeah, we certainly have. We've seen the China
crack down this and then and half of the bitcoin
miners had to move across the world to find safe
havens where they can continue mining operations. So that's one
(05:08):
theory that happened. I can't verify this news. I can't
find any news sources. It's very hard to find new
sources about what the Chinese government is doing internally around
bitcoin and all that. But that's a very interesting bit
of that came out this one here Jerome Power suggests
interest rates will be cut a lot. Now this is
all speculation. We don't know what the interest rates will
(05:31):
be cut the moment. But going back to the week
that we are looking at here, this all comes around
this type of data that we could see. So once
they report on this data. The US had that government
shut down, so there's a bit of data delay from October,
but they have the data now to be able to
verify if they can cut interest rates and who's the
(05:54):
US economy in that regard. So we're looking for data
around this announcement, around this say, and should be interesting
to see what happens after that. But if interest rates,
I can't if the money printers are going BurrH, we
could very well see a spike in the general speculative
investment spaces around cryptocurrencies, and of course in the share
(06:17):
market as well, So we'll see what happens. Now. This
is another interesting thing here, and I do closely watch
what happens in Japan, and there's a lot of things
happening at the moment. Usually when something happens in Japan,
they're looking at the global market and trying to predict
where things are going. So whatever they're doing, they're usually
(06:38):
ahead of the curve. So let me go through this
post here. Bitcoin will crash on December nineteen today recording
is the sixteenth. The crypto markets is leaping on Bank
of Japan and that's a mistake. On December nineteen, the
Bank of Japan will widely expect it to raise interest
rates again. Most trait to see this as just another
central bank meeting. But here what they're missing. Japan holds
(07:02):
over one point one trillion in US treasuries, making them
America's largest foreign credit. When the Bank of Japan adjusts rates,
it doesn't just affect the end, it ripples through global
dollar liquidity, treasury yields, and risk assets like bitcoin. The
pattern is brutal and consistent. Here, in March twenty twenty
(07:23):
four of the hike, BTC dropped twenty three percent. Here,
in July twenty twenty four hike, BTC dropped twenty six percent,
and then January early this year, btc's dropped thirty one percent.
So Japan, stop, stop changing the interest rates. It's affecting
all of our crypto holdings. Anyway, let me go on here.
Each time the Bank of Japan has titan, we've seen
(07:46):
violent deleveraging across crypto markets within days. Why does this
happen when Japan raises rates? The yen carry trade unwines
for years. Traders borrow cheap yen to buy high yield assets,
including crypto. So for a while, the banks in Japan
(08:06):
were paying you to essension because they had negative interest rates.
So the Bank of Japan were like, take our money, please,
So you'll take extremely cheap loans and then just shove
it into wherever what's making more money. So easy way
of getting some capital and then just chuck it into
something that makes more yield. So if the Bank of
(08:29):
Japan is paying you to take their money, sure, take
it and then put into a Bitcoin, and you know,
get a twenty percent yield off that yank that back out,
pay off your loan, and you're sitting pretty So that's
that's what people were doing. And you know when now
when the interest rates hike, you'd be like, hey, let's
(08:49):
get out of this, Let's take our money out of
bitcoin and move elsewhere. So that's what's happening. So rate
rights reverse this flow instantly, forcing liquidations and argent calls
across the board. Add to this, Bitcoin is already down
from recent highs. Leverage in the system remains elevate, so
still a lot of leverage out there. It's risky stuff, guys.
(09:11):
Retail sentiment has collapsed on chain metrics show capitulation. The
current setup looks eerily similar to previous Bank of Japan
triggered down draws. The market positioning suggests most traders are
either ignoring this catalyst entirely or hoping this time is different.
History says otherwise. Bank to Japan moves the markets. Whether
(09:34):
crypto Twitter is paying attention or not, December nineteenth is
then just another date. It's a liquidity event. You can
see the overlaps here of the dates that I mentioned
a little bit earlier here, and you can see that
on the charts here down below, So just make that
a little bit bigger for you guys. But you can
see the patents here repeating each and every time. So
the announcement here of rate heights, and you can see
(09:57):
the market crash rate heights, market recovers RT heights much crash,
et cetera, et cetera. So if we see another one
here on December nineteenth, we could see even more pain
at the moment from where we are at the moment.
So something to think about if you're trading, stop losses
in whatever you need to do so you can protect
your positions, all right, Next one here, this one I
(10:21):
this isn't a new speculative piece of news, and before
Trump came in. I quoted someone on a few things
that they were the administration was going to do. So
they were going to wipe out the three point five
trillion debt by devaluing it. So let me just go
through this clip quickly. Here, the US is now trying
(10:42):
to rewrite the rules of the gold and cryptocurrency market.
Remember the size of their debt thirty five trillion. Two
sectors crypto and gold are essentially alternatives to the traditional
global currency system. Washington's action in this era clearly highlights
one of its main goals to urgently address the declining
(11:03):
trust in the dollar. As in the nineteen thirties and
the nineteen seventies, the US plans to solve its financial
problems at the world's expense, this time pushing everyone into
the crypto cloud. Over time, one part of the US
national's debt is placed into stables stable coins. Washington will
(11:24):
devalue that debt. But simply they have thirty five trillion
currency debt, they move it into crypto cloud, devaluate, and
then start from scratch. Yeah, okay, so that's a very
interesting theory. This was requorded back in September six, twenty five.
Now this. Like I said, this isn't a new theory.
(11:46):
This was actually spoken about before Trump got into office,
while his the election was still going on. This was
one of the big things talking points in the crypto space,
where devaluing the US dollar, moving every thing into like bitcoin,
for example, and then moving and then devaluing the dollar
to just wipe out that debt. So countries never need
(12:09):
to pay back their debt if they just devalue their
dollar and increase inflation. That could very well be something
that's happening at the moment. Not an economic expert, I
can't comment any further than that, but it's something to
keep in mind, guys. So whatever you're doing, just keep
these speculative news items in mind because they could very
(12:30):
well be true. Let's get into some of the good
news stories for this week around the crypto markets, and
this one here breaking. The US just unlocked the biggest
bitcoin demand driver in history. And this is this is
really cool. Congress just announce the Bitcoin for America Act.
Americas will be able to pay federal taxes in bitcoin
(12:53):
with zero capital gains tax. Amazing, and every BTC goes
straight into the national strategic The US government wants your
bitcoin and not paying any capital gains tax on it
shows clearly they do want it. And you know, this
might play back into that theory of you know, pump
upholding assets of the US government the reserves they are
(13:15):
into BTC, devalue the US dollar and then move on afterwards.
Maybe the math is brutal. IRS colicks five point two
trillion a year. Even five percent opt in is two
hundred and sixty billion in annual BTC inflows. Ten percent
is five hundred and twenty billion. No ETFs, no mining subsidies,
(13:36):
no speculation. You are unstoppable taxpayer driven accumulation. This isn't
a bill, it's monetary engineering on planetary scale. Bitcoin becomes
the de facto state back Collateral volatility gets absorbed by
sovereign scale. Scarcity intensifies, while adoption normalizes. One law turns
(13:57):
the IRS into the world's largest bitcoin buyer. Bitcoin won't
replace a dollar. It's about to start. It's about to
start backing it. The domino has fallen, the reserve is loading.
Get position. History doesn't wait. Now would you pay your
tax in bitcoin? But do you want to end up
like that guy that paid ten thousand BTC for two
(14:20):
large pizzas. I don't know about that. It's kind of
convenient to be able to pay and have not having
to pay that extra capital gains tax. That sounds really
really appealing there, But yeah, I don't want to end
up in a position in twenty years time where I've went, oh, god,
remember but that tax bill that I paid back in
(14:42):
twenty twenty twenty six and now looking back at it,
that that cost me you know, ten bitcoin, and now
that's worth you know, trillion dollars or whatever. You know,
you get the idea. I don't know if that's the
best idea, but you know, if you have to pay
your tax that way, at least you have the option
(15:02):
and you don't have to pay the capital gains tax.
That is kind of appealing. All right. This next one here,
Breaking black Rocks thirteen trillion ceo just said bitcoin and
crypto is taking over old financial systems. This is something
that we know. If you're in the space, you know
that's the whole point of crypto blockchain tech. It is
to digitalize the old system so that they can all
(15:25):
move onto on chain as a level transparency, there and
a lot of efficiency in regards to using the blockchain
in general. But I don't think I need to play
this clip. I will link it down below for you
guys if this one here. This was quite interesting from
CNBC and now it's live on TV that the banking
giant JP Morgan will now accept bitcoin as collateral. Bitcoin
(15:48):
is going mainstream now again using collateral into your loan,
so there'll be the custodian, so you won't be holding
your bitcoin in your own wallet. You give it to
JP Morgan to hold onto and do whatever they want
with it. Hopefully they don't lose it, but they can
do whatever they want with it, earn some yield there
or whatever it might be, and then you can get
(16:09):
that USD loan and use that as spending money, whatever
it might be. So very similar to how like our
Elon Musk as all those Tesla shares, he uses that
as collateral and then has a loan that he can
use to live and pay for the Delhi expenses by
luxury support cars, that kind of thing. So that's possible
(16:32):
for bitcoin holders now, really really cool stuff. Hopefully that
opens up to more than just bitcoin, so there's a
broad crypto ecosystem here and hopefully opens up to at
least the top ten crypto assets out there, so that
there's more users potentially using their crypto assets for collateral
for loans. Really cool stuff. There's another breaking news. SEC
(16:56):
chair says Crypto markets Structure Bill is about to part.
Institutions can finally scale in. Banks and funds get green
lit and this unlocks trillions. Mega bullish for crypto. So
lots of regulation around in the US space making it
easier for the crypto markets to actually function. That's really
(17:16):
really good to see there too. Now this is another one.
SEC publishes crypto asset custody basics for retail investors, explaining
how crypto wallets and custody works. Really good. The SEC
are really leaning into crypto assets at the moment and
explaining what and how things should work. So really good
there to see the SEC now do major backflips from
(17:39):
the previous administration to now really embracing crypto. Now, this
last big crypto news story here, This is in Japan.
They're cutting the crypto tax from fifty five percent to
a flat twenty percent, massive bullish reform for Japan. So
all these big Japanese investors that were around, there's a
(17:59):
lot of up in his whales, for example in the
Kadano ecosystem, and they were always never selling because of
this massive bit of tax here. So if they sold
any of their eight and now it went up quite
a bit from when Japan went through the ICO for
Kadano back in early days. So now if they was
to sell, they would pay massive amounts tax. And now
(18:22):
reducing this to a flat twenty percent just makes things
so much easier and more appealing for people to get
into the market because they know that only need to
pay twenty percent when they exit. So that's really really
good for anyone that is getting into the crypto space
in Japan. Now, my last bit of news stories I
wanted to talk about was around the Midnight blockchain. Now
(18:43):
Midnight just launched last week for trading and it's now
surpassed one point four billion in twenty four hour trade volume.
That's massive. Last time reported on this, it was just
under half a billion, so now it's actually tripled that
and has to pass Doge and Tron. Midnight now ranked
(19:05):
sixty according to coin market cap. And if we do
look at coin market cap here I scrolled down a
little bit here where is it? There we go Midnight
is ranked sixtieth at the moment, I'm all looking very
good on a coin Gecko, it's a little bit lower
because of the way they rank their tokens. That's ninety
(19:25):
fifth on on a coin gecko. There. Now, I'll just
point out this post here. Now, please do not take
this as investment of financial advice. This is just someone's
comment online. Buying Night around an eighty million market cap
is like buying eight in the green box, this particular
green box here. The difference Midnight is around seven six
(19:48):
thousand to seven thousand holders and a full product roadmap
ready to roll out. But some this looks like a
once in a lifetime opportunity. Could be it could be
a once in a lifetime opportunity, or it could go
down to absolutely especially with the unlocks and the thawing
process at the moment with more token holders coming into
(20:08):
So we just have to wait and see. But we'll
see what happens with the Night token over the next year. Personally,
I am pretty excited about the projects. Privacy is definitely
one of the big things that needed in the crypto
space to make things work and to make a real
fight come into the So that's all I got for
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(20:31):
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(20:52):
I'll see you guys in the next video.
I've got a lot of big headlines here that we
need to look into so we can understand what's happening
in the crypto space. And I've got a lot to
go through. We have a lot of manipulation. We have
speculative news, good news that's come out from the US
and the Japan, and then also a look into what's
happening with Midnight at the moment as well, the Midnight
blockchain for privacy transactions. That's all coming right up, so
(00:23):
let's get into it. I'm Peter. If it's the first
time here, hit that thumbs up button, that like button,
subscribe notification bell, get me to thirty k mark, I'm
almost there. Just a few more subscribers, guys that would
absolutely appreciate it if you can subscribe if you haven't
done so already. So let's have a look at what
we have here, and this is what our week is
looking at. So it's Monday already, and Monday FED liquidity
(00:45):
injection ten to twenty billion into the economy. Tuesday, we
have at US macrodata coming out Wednesday, the FED President speech, Thursday,
US CPI report, and then Friday Japan rate height decision,
and we'll look into that one a little bit later
as well, So definitely a big week for crypto, bitcoin
and crypto in general. Have a look at this. This
(01:07):
is what we're seeing on a weekly and regular basis
at the moment, and this is exchanges aggressively buying BTC.
So we've got to hear finance coin based bitmes strategy,
Winter Mute and Fidelity or buying massive amounts of bitcoin
all at the same time. And this is also going
(01:28):
to other ETFs and other coins as well. That's why
you see the market drive up and down all the time.
But we also see the opposite finance coin based winter Mute,
Random Wales and bitmex all selling massive amounts of BTC
within minutes of each other, so they're all coordinating this
(01:48):
or they all have stop losses and whatnot, all at
the same points and time, or very similar or watching
each other, maybe even copy trading, who knows. But this
is a really interesting theory, and this is the ten
am market manipulation. So let me just go through this
post here. So breaking the ten am manipulation is active
(02:10):
once again. It coin dumped two thirty minutes as soon
as the US market opened, auty billion wiped out from
BTC market cap and one hundred and twenty five million
worth of longs have been liquidated in the last sixty minutes.
Just a regular day in crypto now, and this is
what we see. The markets open on a weekly markets
drive up after the weekend dips, and then suddenly at
(02:33):
ten am we see the whole market dump. This isn't
the first time, this is a regular occurrence. This is
the same person here posting the week before on a
regular basis. Just happens again and again. It's a repeating cycle.
So watch for this, guys, if you are training, if
you are seeing these patterns yourself, check it for yourself.
Check the chart, See what's happening here, See where the
(02:55):
money is going, so you see who's buying and selling.
Jump into the markets when these guys do and then
sell at the just before ten am. It might be
a sound strategy, a pattern definitely to look for. So
that is some of the manipulation that we're seeing at
the moment, and why we're seeing spikes and strong dips afterwards.
(03:15):
Because some people have the amount of money required to
move the entire market, we're still very small here in
the clost space. Let's have a look at some speculative
news at the moment. So this here, this is kind
of speculative. But the Fed will buy six point eight
billion in treasury bills tomorrow at nine am. So this
was over the weekend. I haven't verified this if they
(03:38):
have or not. So this is something that we need
to look into as well. Bitcoin here, Bitcoin is crashing
and this is the reason why. So this is a theory.
Bitcoin is down today for simple reasons, and almost nobody
is explaining it properly. It's coming straight from China, and
the timing matters. That's right, China's crashing bitcoin again. Here's
(04:01):
what's happening. China's tiding regulation on domestic bitcoin mining. Again.
I thought China just pushed all of bitcoin mining out there.
They had enough of the miners and didn't want the
electricity used for that. Okay, that's nothing. In Hiangxiang alone,
a huge chunk of money operations were shot down in December.
Roughly forty thousand miners went offline in a very short window.
(04:25):
You can already see it in the data network. Hash
rate is down around eight percent when miners are forced
offline like this. A few things happen fast. They lose
revenue immediately, they need to cash. They need cash to
cover costs of or relocate. Some are forced to sell
BTC into the markets. Uncertainty spikes short term that creates
(04:46):
real cell pressure, not the other way around. This isn't
long term bear signal for bitcoin. It's a temporary supply
shot caused dumb policy, not demand. We've seen this movie
before it, yeah, we certainly have. We've seen the China
crack down this and then and half of the bitcoin
miners had to move across the world to find safe
havens where they can continue mining operations. So that's one
(05:08):
theory that happened. I can't verify this news. I can't
find any news sources. It's very hard to find new
sources about what the Chinese government is doing internally around
bitcoin and all that. But that's a very interesting bit
of that came out this one here Jerome Power suggests
interest rates will be cut a lot. Now this is
all speculation. We don't know what the interest rates will
(05:31):
be cut the moment. But going back to the week
that we are looking at here, this all comes around
this type of data that we could see. So once
they report on this data. The US had that government
shut down, so there's a bit of data delay from October,
but they have the data now to be able to
verify if they can cut interest rates and who's the
(05:54):
US economy in that regard. So we're looking for data
around this announcement, around this say, and should be interesting
to see what happens after that. But if interest rates,
I can't if the money printers are going BurrH, we
could very well see a spike in the general speculative
investment spaces around cryptocurrencies, and of course in the share
(06:17):
market as well, So we'll see what happens. Now. This
is another interesting thing here, and I do closely watch
what happens in Japan, and there's a lot of things
happening at the moment. Usually when something happens in Japan,
they're looking at the global market and trying to predict
where things are going. So whatever they're doing, they're usually
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ahead of the curve. So let me go through this
post here. Bitcoin will crash on December nineteen today recording
is the sixteenth. The crypto markets is leaping on Bank
of Japan and that's a mistake. On December nineteen, the
Bank of Japan will widely expect it to raise interest
rates again. Most trait to see this as just another
central bank meeting. But here what they're missing. Japan holds
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over one point one trillion in US treasuries, making them
America's largest foreign credit. When the Bank of Japan adjusts rates,
it doesn't just affect the end, it ripples through global
dollar liquidity, treasury yields, and risk assets like bitcoin. The
pattern is brutal and consistent. Here, in March twenty twenty
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four of the hike, BTC dropped twenty three percent. Here,
in July twenty twenty four hike, BTC dropped twenty six percent,
and then January early this year, btc's dropped thirty one percent.
So Japan, stop, stop changing the interest rates. It's affecting
all of our crypto holdings. Anyway, let me go on here.
Each time the Bank of Japan has titan, we've seen
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violent deleveraging across crypto markets within days. Why does this
happen when Japan raises rates? The yen carry trade unwines
for years. Traders borrow cheap yen to buy high yield assets,
including crypto. So for a while, the banks in Japan
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were paying you to essension because they had negative interest rates.
So the Bank of Japan were like, take our money, please,
So you'll take extremely cheap loans and then just shove
it into wherever what's making more money. So easy way
of getting some capital and then just chuck it into
something that makes more yield. So if the Bank of
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Japan is paying you to take their money, sure, take
it and then put into a Bitcoin, and you know,
get a twenty percent yield off that yank that back out,
pay off your loan, and you're sitting pretty So that's
that's what people were doing. And you know when now
when the interest rates hike, you'd be like, hey, let's
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get out of this, Let's take our money out of
bitcoin and move elsewhere. So that's what's happening. So rate
rights reverse this flow instantly, forcing liquidations and argent calls
across the board. Add to this, Bitcoin is already down
from recent highs. Leverage in the system remains elevate, so
still a lot of leverage out there. It's risky stuff, guys.
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Retail sentiment has collapsed on chain metrics show capitulation. The
current setup looks eerily similar to previous Bank of Japan
triggered down draws. The market positioning suggests most traders are
either ignoring this catalyst entirely or hoping this time is different.
History says otherwise. Bank to Japan moves the markets. Whether
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crypto Twitter is paying attention or not, December nineteenth is
then just another date. It's a liquidity event. You can
see the overlaps here of the dates that I mentioned
a little bit earlier here, and you can see that
on the charts here down below, So just make that
a little bit bigger for you guys. But you can
see the patents here repeating each and every time. So
the announcement here of rate heights, and you can see
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the market crash rate heights, market recovers RT heights much crash,
et cetera, et cetera. So if we see another one
here on December nineteenth, we could see even more pain
at the moment from where we are at the moment.
So something to think about if you're trading, stop losses
in whatever you need to do so you can protect
your positions, all right, Next one here, this one I
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this isn't a new speculative piece of news, and before
Trump came in. I quoted someone on a few things
that they were the administration was going to do. So
they were going to wipe out the three point five
trillion debt by devaluing it. So let me just go
through this clip quickly. Here, the US is now trying
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to rewrite the rules of the gold and cryptocurrency market.
Remember the size of their debt thirty five trillion. Two
sectors crypto and gold are essentially alternatives to the traditional
global currency system. Washington's action in this era clearly highlights
one of its main goals to urgently address the declining
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trust in the dollar. As in the nineteen thirties and
the nineteen seventies, the US plans to solve its financial
problems at the world's expense, this time pushing everyone into
the crypto cloud. Over time, one part of the US
national's debt is placed into stables stable coins. Washington will
(11:24):
devalue that debt. But simply they have thirty five trillion
currency debt, they move it into crypto cloud, devaluate, and
then start from scratch. Yeah, okay, so that's a very
interesting theory. This was requorded back in September six, twenty five.
Now this. Like I said, this isn't a new theory.
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This was actually spoken about before Trump got into office,
while his the election was still going on. This was
one of the big things talking points in the crypto space,
where devaluing the US dollar, moving every thing into like bitcoin,
for example, and then moving and then devaluing the dollar
to just wipe out that debt. So countries never need
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to pay back their debt if they just devalue their
dollar and increase inflation. That could very well be something
that's happening at the moment. Not an economic expert, I
can't comment any further than that, but it's something to
keep in mind, guys. So whatever you're doing, just keep
these speculative news items in mind because they could very
(12:30):
well be true. Let's get into some of the good
news stories for this week around the crypto markets, and
this one here breaking. The US just unlocked the biggest
bitcoin demand driver in history. And this is this is
really cool. Congress just announce the Bitcoin for America Act.
Americas will be able to pay federal taxes in bitcoin
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with zero capital gains tax. Amazing, and every BTC goes
straight into the national strategic The US government wants your
bitcoin and not paying any capital gains tax on it
shows clearly they do want it. And you know, this
might play back into that theory of you know, pump
upholding assets of the US government the reserves they are
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into BTC, devalue the US dollar and then move on afterwards.
Maybe the math is brutal. IRS colicks five point two
trillion a year. Even five percent opt in is two
hundred and sixty billion in annual BTC inflows. Ten percent
is five hundred and twenty billion. No ETFs, no mining subsidies,
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no speculation. You are unstoppable taxpayer driven accumulation. This isn't
a bill, it's monetary engineering on planetary scale. Bitcoin becomes
the de facto state back Collateral volatility gets absorbed by
sovereign scale. Scarcity intensifies, while adoption normalizes. One law turns
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the IRS into the world's largest bitcoin buyer. Bitcoin won't
replace a dollar. It's about to start. It's about to
start backing it. The domino has fallen, the reserve is loading.
Get position. History doesn't wait. Now would you pay your
tax in bitcoin? But do you want to end up
like that guy that paid ten thousand BTC for two
(14:20):
large pizzas. I don't know about that. It's kind of
convenient to be able to pay and have not having
to pay that extra capital gains tax. That sounds really
really appealing there, But yeah, I don't want to end
up in a position in twenty years time where I've went, oh, god,
remember but that tax bill that I paid back in
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twenty twenty twenty six and now looking back at it,
that that cost me you know, ten bitcoin, and now
that's worth you know, trillion dollars or whatever. You know,
you get the idea. I don't know if that's the
best idea, but you know, if you have to pay
your tax that way, at least you have the option
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and you don't have to pay the capital gains tax.
That is kind of appealing. All right. This next one here,
Breaking black Rocks thirteen trillion ceo just said bitcoin and
crypto is taking over old financial systems. This is something
that we know. If you're in the space, you know
that's the whole point of crypto blockchain tech. It is
to digitalize the old system so that they can all
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move onto on chain as a level transparency, there and
a lot of efficiency in regards to using the blockchain
in general. But I don't think I need to play
this clip. I will link it down below for you
guys if this one here. This was quite interesting from
CNBC and now it's live on TV that the banking
giant JP Morgan will now accept bitcoin as collateral. Bitcoin
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is going mainstream now again using collateral into your loan,
so there'll be the custodian, so you won't be holding
your bitcoin in your own wallet. You give it to
JP Morgan to hold onto and do whatever they want
with it. Hopefully they don't lose it, but they can
do whatever they want with it, earn some yield there
or whatever it might be, and then you can get
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that USD loan and use that as spending money, whatever
it might be. So very similar to how like our
Elon Musk as all those Tesla shares, he uses that
as collateral and then has a loan that he can
use to live and pay for the Delhi expenses by
luxury support cars, that kind of thing. So that's possible
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for bitcoin holders now, really really cool stuff. Hopefully that
opens up to more than just bitcoin, so there's a
broad crypto ecosystem here and hopefully opens up to at
least the top ten crypto assets out there, so that
there's more users potentially using their crypto assets for collateral
for loans. Really cool stuff. There's another breaking news. SEC
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chair says Crypto markets Structure Bill is about to part.
Institutions can finally scale in. Banks and funds get green
lit and this unlocks trillions. Mega bullish for crypto. So
lots of regulation around in the US space making it
easier for the crypto markets to actually function. That's really
(17:16):
really good to see there too. Now this is another one.
SEC publishes crypto asset custody basics for retail investors, explaining
how crypto wallets and custody works. Really good. The SEC
are really leaning into crypto assets at the moment and
explaining what and how things should work. So really good
there to see the SEC now do major backflips from
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the previous administration to now really embracing crypto. Now, this
last big crypto news story here, This is in Japan.
They're cutting the crypto tax from fifty five percent to
a flat twenty percent, massive bullish reform for Japan. So
all these big Japanese investors that were around, there's a
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lot of up in his whales, for example in the
Kadano ecosystem, and they were always never selling because of
this massive bit of tax here. So if they sold
any of their eight and now it went up quite
a bit from when Japan went through the ICO for
Kadano back in early days. So now if they was
to sell, they would pay massive amounts tax. And now
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reducing this to a flat twenty percent just makes things
so much easier and more appealing for people to get
into the market because they know that only need to
pay twenty percent when they exit. So that's really really
good for anyone that is getting into the crypto space
in Japan. Now, my last bit of news stories I
wanted to talk about was around the Midnight blockchain. Now
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Midnight just launched last week for trading and it's now
surpassed one point four billion in twenty four hour trade volume.
That's massive. Last time reported on this, it was just
under half a billion, so now it's actually tripled that
and has to pass Doge and Tron. Midnight now ranked
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sixty according to coin market cap. And if we do
look at coin market cap here I scrolled down a
little bit here where is it? There we go Midnight
is ranked sixtieth at the moment, I'm all looking very
good on a coin Gecko, it's a little bit lower
because of the way they rank their tokens. That's ninety
(19:25):
fifth on on a coin gecko. There. Now, I'll just
point out this post here. Now, please do not take
this as investment of financial advice. This is just someone's
comment online. Buying Night around an eighty million market cap
is like buying eight in the green box, this particular
green box here. The difference Midnight is around seven six
(19:48):
thousand to seven thousand holders and a full product roadmap
ready to roll out. But some this looks like a
once in a lifetime opportunity. Could be it could be
a once in a lifetime opportunity, or it could go
down to absolutely especially with the unlocks and the thawing
process at the moment with more token holders coming into
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So we just have to wait and see. But we'll
see what happens with the Night token over the next year. Personally,
I am pretty excited about the projects. Privacy is definitely
one of the big things that needed in the crypto
space to make things work and to make a real
fight come into the So that's all I got for
this particular news update for you guys. If you enjoy
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(20:52):
I'll see you guys in the next video.
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