How Financial System Is Structured Part 3
Part 3 Of Beginners Guide To Structure Of Traditional And Crypto Finalcial Systems
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Crypto Collapse Soon? (Sell or Hodl?) – Beginners’ Guide
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======== VIDEO SUMMARY ======== 00:00 – Introduction 01:37 – Recap 02:44 – Tether vs Lehman Brothers 04:35 – Tether’s Majority Holders 06:27 – Tether in Trading 07:22 – How Margin & Leverage Trading Works in Crypto 10:25 – Tether Printing 12:45 – How & When a Crypto Collapse Could Happen 16:31 – Worst Case Scenario: Crypto Collapse 20:40 – Crypto Casey’s Play 23:14 – Outro
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00:00
is the cryptocurrency market a card
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house that could collapse at any moment
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and if so what’s underneath the card
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house well if you tuned into the first
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two videos of this series you know that
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it might
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frightfully be another card house hello
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i’m cryptocasey and this is the third
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video in a three-part series where we
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investigate whether or not the
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cryptocurrency market
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as well as the entire global financial
00:18
system is indeed on the verge of
00:20
collapse
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this is a beginner’s guide where we will
00:23
break down step by step how tether
00:25
the largest and most pervasive stable
00:26
coin may have become a metastasized
00:28
cancer that is too large and pervasive
00:30
to simply remove
00:32
without causing the entire crypto market
00:34
to collapse here’s a visual
00:35
representation of the current structure
00:37
of the cryptocurrency market
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a card house with tether as the bottom
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base level propping up everything else
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for now in this third and final video
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we’re going to pull it all together and
00:46
explore why the structure of the
00:48
cryptocurrency market
00:49
may be a card house on the verge of
00:50
collapse courtesy of
00:52
tether other stable coins lack of
00:54
regulatory oversight
00:56
and the fact that its foundation is the
00:58
inverted card house that is the current
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traditional financial system
01:02
our goal by the end of this video series
01:04
is for us to understand
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the traditional financial systems
01:06
relationship with the cryptocurrency
01:08
market
01:08
and if a crypto collapse can happen how
01:11
and when it could
01:12
happen and what we can do to protect
01:13
ourselves as investors
01:15
in this space if you haven’t yet click
01:17
on the link above to check out video 2
01:19
where we learn about the structure of
01:20
the cryptocurrency market and the
01:22
crucial role that stable coins like
01:24
tether
01:24
play in its system awesome let’s hit
01:27
video three
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[Music]
01:37
just a quick recap for a more seamless
01:39
transition between the first two videos
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currently the crypto markets are still
01:43
highly correlated with the traditional
01:45
markets
01:46
and on an abstract conceptual level the
01:48
crypto markets are still
01:49
utilizing the traditional global
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financial system as foundation
01:53
and here’s a visual representation of
01:54
the current state of the u.s financial
01:56
system
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an inverted or upside down card house
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the lowest rows representing less risky
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assets and the highest rows representing
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the most risky assets
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from bottom to top we have a few real us
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treasury bonds
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above those we have rehypothecated bonds
02:11
and real estate
02:12
then mortgage-backed securities and
02:13
commodities next stocks bonds and
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equities
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and finally options futures and
02:18
derivatives and as we reviewed earlier
02:20
the structure of the cryptocurrency
02:22
market is a right-side up card house
02:24
whose foundation
02:25
is the traditional financial system
02:27
inverted card house
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which when we pull it all together looks
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something like this in this video we are
02:32
going to focus mostly on the bottom row
02:34
of the crypto card house
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tether so let’s break down the situation
02:37
together in six sections so we can get a
02:40
better understanding
02:41
about the current state of affairs in
02:42
the crypto markets
02:44
section one tether versus lehman
02:46
brothers if we consider the straw that
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broke lehman brothers back
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in the last global financial crisis
02:51
which was 1.2 percent of their portfolio
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that consisted of
02:55
commercial paper going into default that
02:57
should be extremely
02:58
worrisome as we discussed in the last
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video 50 percent of tethers reserves
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consist
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of commercial paper which is unsecured
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corporate debt
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to which companies we don’t know and
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unlike a regulated entity like lehman
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brothers that has to list asset values
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using amortization schedules and similar
03:16
to ensure accuracy of the assets current
03:18
valuations
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tether is able to list the value of its
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commercial paper as the purchase price
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not what the commercial paper is worth
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at this time so they very well could be
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reporting that 50
03:29
of their reserve assets are commercial
03:30
paper at the price they initially
03:32
purchased it for
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meanwhile since then the loans are in
03:35
default making them
03:36
worthless so we’ve got a regulated
03:38
entity lehman brothers that had 1.2
03:41
percent of their portfolio
03:42
go into default which triggered the last
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global financial crisis
03:46
and we have tether with 50 of their
03:48
portfolio of the same type of assets
03:50
that destroyed layman
03:51
except we have no idea who the
03:53
corporations are that tether lent out to
03:55
and we have no idea about the current
03:57
status of the loans
03:58
a 1.2 default affected the entire global
04:01
financial system
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by triggering a run on lehman brothers
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which was stopped and mitigated by the
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government
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stepping in and guaranteeing the loans
04:09
the bailout consider the size of the
04:11
cryptocurrency market
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compared to the entire global financial
04:14
system which is quite insignificant at
04:16
this time
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and then consider that the third largest
04:18
cryptocurrency by market cap
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is tether and 50 percent of its reserve
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assets
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could be worthless that is more than
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enough to cause a systemic collapse of
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the crypto market at any time
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and there is no government that is going
04:31
to step in and save the day
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but wait it gets darker section two
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tethers majority holders so we know how
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pervasive tether is in the crypto
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markets
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but what’s even more disturbing is how
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most of the tether tokens in circulation
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are in a very small number of addresses
04:47
who owns those addresses
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and where they are located check it out
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over 65
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of tether tokens are currently held
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through chinese exchanges like
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wabi in binance which is lovely
04:58
considering the massive drama with china
05:00
versus crypto
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and the massive drama recently with
05:03
finance if china bans tether
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meanwhile over 65 of all tether is held
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up in chinese exchanges
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what do you think they’re going to do
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with all that tether yeah they’re going
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to get rid of it
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not good also out of the 3.3 million
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total tether addresses
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the top 100 addresses hold more than 45
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of all circulating tether that means
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then less than 0.0003
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holds over 45 of all tether tokens it
05:31
would not take many people liquidating
05:33
their tether
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to end the musical chairs game that is
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the cryptocurrency market right now
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but it’s even worse than that get this
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the top 10
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addresses which accounts for a whopping
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0.0003
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of all the existing tether addresses
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holds and controls over 25 percent of
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all the circulating tether tokens
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this means if one person or entity or
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whoever is in control of one of these 10
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10 only 10 wallets decides to liquidate
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all of their tether it would start a
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massive run on tether
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to redeem for dollars that are most
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certainly not available
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for redemption thinking back to tether’s
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2.9
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cash in reserves so when the music stops
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there will not be enough chairs for
06:13
everyone to sit in
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the fate of the entire crypto market is
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extremely concentrated
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among a few people likely in a country
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that is on a war path to ban
06:22
cryptocurrency at large
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big yikes guys big big yikes section 3
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tether in trading so 50 to 60
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of all bitcoin trades are for tether
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which considering the fun facts we just
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shared together previously
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is a scary situation for the price of
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bitcoin
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trades aren’t just back and forth
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between tether and bitcoin and other
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cryptos
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trading can also consist of margin and
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leveraged trading
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and due to lack of regulation and
06:48
oversight there is an unknown amount of
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leverage in the crypto markets
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right now and as we go through this
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section also keep in mind how we
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discussed in the last video
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how rehypothecation of crypto like
06:59
tether via lending is absolutely
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out of control and if you haven’t
07:02
watched that video yet you can do so by
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clicking on the link above
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okay cool so as if lending out the same
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tether a million times over
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isn’t bad enough let’s talk about how it
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relates to margin and leverage trading
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and how it exponentially multiplies by a
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staggering factor how bad a systemic
07:18
collapse of crypto
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could be if there was a run on tether
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how margin and leverage trading works in
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crypto
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margin and leveraged trading in crypto
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is gambling with money you don’t have
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people borrow money that has likely been
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lent out five times over to make a bet
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about the future price of bitcoin or
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other crypto
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and then sit and pray for massive
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massive profits that nine times out of
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ten
07:40
do not materialize quite the opposite
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actually check it out
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let’s say this person has one thousand
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dollars that they decide to gamble
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and the exchange they go to use offers
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to lend them an additional 250
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to gamble with for free awesome free
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money to gamble with
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sign me up right and that they did they
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took the 250
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loan and gamble a total of 1 250
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on the unknown future price of bitcoin
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nice
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and just to further set the scene when
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this person gave the exchange their one
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thousand dollars
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the exchange credited their account with
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a thousand dollars worth of fugusi
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fugazi fairy dust teller tokens
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and took the real one thousand dollars
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cash to either reinvest in likely
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rehypothecated treasury bonds
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pay for real expenses like office
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supplies payroll etc
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or similar oh and that 250 they lent to
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that person
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was lent to them from another exchange
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where they also took some poor souls
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real cash in exchange for tether
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plus 10 interest to let them borrow it
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out so who actually has the real
08:39
original tether tokens in lending
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situations
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nobody knows but does it really matter
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because in the end
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if an extremely small amount of people
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with an extremely large amount of tether
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decide to get out
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no one will be able to redeem the tether
08:52
for anything anyhow
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awesome back to the example so on the
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original exchange where the gamble in
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question
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is taking place on their balance sheet
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they show one thousand two hundred fifty
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dollars worth of
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assets one thousand dollars of which is
09:06
tether and 250 dollars of which is a
09:08
re-hypothetic
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and the total 1 250 of tether
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is only as good as its reserves which is
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largely unknown but probably worthless
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see how the card house situation is
09:19
starting to play out
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right so let’s say the gambler in our
09:23
example bet that the price of bitcoin
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would
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increase and at the time of the bet the
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price of bitcoin was 30
09:29
000 but as luck would have it
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unfortunately the price of bitcoin falls
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to 22
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500 which is a 25 decrease
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what happens well the 250 they borrowed
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becomes due and is instantly wiped out
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the 1 000 of tether they gambled is now
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worth 750
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and considering that they had to pay the
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250 back that they never had in the
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first place
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they only have 500 of tether remaining
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also notice how the balance sheet of the
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exchange
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went from a cool 1 250 asset to a paltry
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500
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asset now imagine this on a large scale
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where tons of crypto is being
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rehypothecated
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a large percentage of the trading is via
10:07
tether lots of entities have been
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borrowing against one set of real
10:11
dollars to create digital
10:12
representations of dollars out of thin
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air
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and then a flash crash happens in their
10:17
underlying asset values
10:18
drop very unstable the antithesis of
10:21
what stable coins should be capable of
10:23
in crypto section 4 tether printing
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it was once believed that for every
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tether issued into circulation
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it was from someone else depositing a
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real us dollar into tether’s bank
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account
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so when lots of tether was entering the
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crypto markets people believed it
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signaled lots of money coming into the
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space
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new investors with new money or existing
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investors with more money
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people and companies choosing to invest
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more capital in the space is a great
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thing
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however over time and since we now know
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that each tether token has never
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ever once in its entire existence been
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backed one to one by real dollars
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and since we know it’s shady characters
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business structure and foul play
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it’s become quite clear that tether has
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adopted fed chair jerome powell’s go-to
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move
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[Music]
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that’s right printing tether out of thin
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air and every time there was a massive
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increase in the supply of tether
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it perfectly correlated with a massive
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increase in bitcoin’s price
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in fact if you remember from the last
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video over 50
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of bitcoin’s price increase was due to
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bitfinex and tether manipulating the
11:26
price
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also suspiciously but rather
11:28
unsurprisingly tether is the only stable
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coin that only increases in supply
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and doesn’t decrease people aren’t
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redeeming their tether for dollars
11:36
or other crypto please they are but
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tether tokens have been lent out and
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rehabilitated so many times
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there’s no regulation or oversight and
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so tether prints to their heart’s desire
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to their few cronies that hold ungodly
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amounts of tether tokens
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and what are they doing likely buying a
11:52
lot of bitcoin and other crypto
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and then what holding or selling for
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real dollars
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who knows but either way this is the
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main thing that vastly concerns me
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in the short term we don’t know how much
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crypto valuations are propped up from
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debt
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and not just debt debt upon debt upon
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debt
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debt issued upon something that’s
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underlying asset valuation is
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unknown risky commercial paper junk
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bonds rehab propagated treasuries where
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the same treasury
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simultaneously exists on who knows how
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many other entities balance sheets
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all as collateral for loans so both
12:25
aimless printing of tether tokens as
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well as rampant rehypothecation of
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stable coins at large
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is absolutely propping up the current
12:32
prices of crypto today
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and when either people get scared and do
12:36
a run on stablecoins or when stable
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coins get the smackdown from governments
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it will likely affect the crypto markets
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let’s talk about how
12:43
and when section 5 how and when a crypto
12:45
collapse could happen
12:47
let’s talk about how a crypto collapse
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could happen i think the most likely
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scenario
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is that one or many of the few addresses
12:54
holding large amounts of tether tokens
12:56
dumps causing a mass liquidation of
12:58
tether
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and crypto at large why because everyone
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a part of the tether scheme
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knows they do not have underlying
13:05
reserve assets backing all the
13:06
circulating tokens
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they feel the heat from regulators
13:09
worldwide and yes for years and years at
13:12
this point there has been tetherfud
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but it’s coming to a head and coming to
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an end soon
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they know it their buddies running
13:18
exchanges know it so what would you do
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if you were a criminal committing a
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crime for so long
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that’s about to come to an end do you
13:25
just let everyone else that’s not in on
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it
13:27
pull out of the market first or do you
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and your cronies
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pull out first right so i think they
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will orchestrate a
13:34
d-day and get out causing a mass
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liquidation
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and mass crash of the crypto market it’s
13:39
either that or the market loses
13:40
confidence first
13:41
and starts pulling out or the government
13:43
could wield its sword and cause a run to
13:45
begin as well
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but i think they are less likely to do
13:47
that because they know how inextricably
13:50
intertwined crypto has become with the
13:52
traditional markets
13:53
and a crypto crash could cause a
13:55
breakdown in their precious
13:56
stock market as well so when could a
13:58
crypto collapse happen
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it could be sooner than we think here
14:01
are some reasons why
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tether’s next audit is due this month
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and as we all know the very first audit
14:07
they produced for q1 was extremely
14:09
alarming
14:10
also congress has given the sec a july
14:12
28
14:13
deadline to address crypto regulations
14:15
and you know they are especially keen to
14:17
sort out the stablecoin fiasco
14:19
the us is approaching its debt limit and
14:21
congress is running out of time to
14:22
address that
14:24
also the fed continues to buy treasuries
14:26
which is increasing the money supply
14:28
reverse repo activity that we discussed
14:30
in video 1 suggests that there is
14:32
way too much counterparty risk for
14:34
financial institutions to park excess
14:35
cash anywhere
14:36
except for the fed which is creating
14:39
deflationary pressure
14:40
in the economy we also have way too much
14:42
liquidity in the financial system
14:44
without adequate collateral in
14:46
circulation which is causing banks to
14:48
choose not to lend
14:49
stifling economic stimulation we have
14:52
asset prices bubbling
14:53
prices of goods and services increasing
14:56
supply and demand for goods are
14:57
simultaneously dropping
14:59
and as always the last friday of each
15:01
month options expire
15:03
on top of it all we are in the midst of
15:05
typical summer doldrums
15:06
and lots of uncertainty awaits as the
15:08
northern hemisphere enters into flu
15:10
season
15:11
in the wake of the cobia delta variant
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situation look
15:14
the tether thing has been a long overdue
15:16
long time coming thing
15:18
but there is a perfect storm of events
15:20
converging over the next couple weeks
15:21
and months that has me confident that
15:23
something will happen
15:25
a crypto crash maybe a slow bleed out
15:28
over time in crypto
15:29
maybe lots of boring sideways movement
15:31
keeping us relatively stable
15:33
maybe a massive bull transcending crypto
15:36
prices parabolic
15:37
sure anything is possible tether hasn’t
15:40
been printing any new tether tokens
15:42
in a while which is probably most of the
15:44
reason we’ve been sideways
15:45
now but they could decide to start
15:48
printing tether by the millions
15:49
massively stimulating the crypto market
15:51
for a final hurrah
15:52
to drive up prices before exiting or
15:55
better yet
15:56
i think this would be the best case
15:57
scenario tether is slowly carefully
16:00
extracted from the market
16:01
while regulation and oversight are
16:03
imposed allowing more
16:04
trustworthy stable coins to take its
16:06
place and preferably
16:08
a lot of different ones so we don’t have
16:09
one stable coin that can corner the
16:11
entire market
16:12
like tether has either way i’m going
16:14
with a crash or slow bleed out i’m
16:16
bearish on crypto for the short term
16:18
especially uncertain about what the
16:20
coming weeks and months hold
16:22
i’m still super bullish for the years to
16:24
come in the space
16:25
but for now let’s talk about how we can
16:27
protect ourselves as
16:28
investors in the space during these
16:30
uncertain times section six
16:32
worst case scenario crypto collapse so
16:34
what happens if crypto collapses
16:36
well some entities go insolvent and
16:39
people that have lent out their money
16:41
who have zero clue how many times it has
16:42
been lent out and rehabilitated
16:44
when they go to redeem their loan there
16:46
may not be and probably isn’t
16:48
enough actual dollars in the system to
16:50
cover everything and it’s the same
16:52
situation for most of the other stable
16:54
coins
16:54
as there is no regulation or oversight
16:56
at the moment and even if decentralized
16:58
stable coins are available
16:59
like die the volume associated with them
17:02
isn’t enough to keep things afloat
17:04
if tether goes bust and we discussed in
17:06
the last video
17:07
there is no fdic insurance behind any
17:09
stable coins
17:10
and any stable coins stuck in the market
17:12
when a mass run on them occurs
17:14
it will likely affect their dollar peg
17:16
as we’ve seen in the past
17:17
this happened with bitfinex exchange
17:19
back in october of 2019.
17:20
bitfenix froze withdrawals and stopped
17:23
allowing deposits of dollars
17:24
into tether and the dollar peg went down
17:27
to 85 cents
17:28
sure there was no market crash but the
17:30
value of tether went down by
17:32
15 the same and similar would happen
17:34
again
17:35
tether withdrawals will be frozen
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exchanges could halt trading activity
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and likely all deposit and withdrawal
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activity
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people will freak out and the price of
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stablecoin could fall below
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the one dollar peg anything you have on
17:47
exchanges
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be prepared to have access deposit and
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withdrawal restrictions
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all while the price of everything drops
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significantly
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and quickly to the tune of could be 80
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to 90 percent
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literally be prepared to watch the value
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of your accounts drop while there’s
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nothing you’re able to do about it
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as entities like exchanges go insolvent
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lawsuits get filed
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people sign up for them but in the end
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lawsuits take years and if there’s
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nothing to recover
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there’s nothing to recover no stablecoin
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or crypto is backed by the fdic
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the government will not come in and save
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you and with lack of regulations
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in most of these entities existing on a
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global scale the legal system is
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far too behind to rely on if you lose
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your funds
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if restrictions are lifted people will
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be so desperate they would take 50 cents
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per stable coin
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then nothing at all if that’s the only
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option either way we all need to make a
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decision
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if you are comfortable with the
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possibility of an 80 to 90
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pullback and would hold for the long
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term anyways talking
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a year five years and want to avoid the
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tax implications of selling
18:48
and want to keep your crypto get it off
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the exchanges
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yesterday and onto cold storage hardware
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wallets
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bear in mind that even if you have your
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crypto on a hardware wallet
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the value in price that you see on the
18:59
market will be the same value and price
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of your investments in your wallet
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the only difference between leaving them
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on the exchange versus your own wallet
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is if the exchange goes bankrupt and
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your crypto is still on the exchange
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you will probably lose them forever and
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not be able to recover your funds
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on your hardware wallet sure the value
19:16
drops but you still own the crypto you
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can scroll down to the description area
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below to access the correct and official
19:21
sites of my recommended hardware wallets
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bc vault is my personal favorite another
19:25
option is the ledger nano backup pack
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so scroll down to check them out if you
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choose to stay in your crypto positions
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also consider what you’re invested in
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could small and medium cap projects
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survive if posts crash we have a long
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nuclear bare winter
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most won’t so i would assess my
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portfolio and hold on to the larger cap
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main cryptocurrencies
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if that’s how you choose to play out a
19:46
potential crash bear in mind that even
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if the crypto is on your hardware wallet
19:50
if a project fails and the token becomes
19:52
worthless or if the project is very
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small
19:55
after a crash there may not be enough
19:57
buyers available in the market
19:59
if you choose to sell rendering it
20:00
worthless so consider that possibility
20:03
if you are not comfortable with the
20:04
possibility of a significant crash in
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the short term
20:06
consider consulting with an accountant
20:08
about the tax implications of selling
20:10
and trade your crypto for cash and
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withdraw the cash to an fdic
20:14
insured bank account if you’re a high
20:16
roller consider only putting a max of
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250 000
20:19
per bank account as the fdic only
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insures up to 250 000
20:23
per depositor if a crash happens or slow
20:26
bleed out happens
20:27
it would present great opportunities for
20:29
jumping back in after we know more about
20:31
what the heck is going on
20:33
or if we rise and continue the bull
20:34
cycle sure you may miss some games
20:36
but at least you got some sleep over the
20:38
next coming weeks and months
20:40
right section seven crypto cases play
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this is not financial advice
20:44
this is what i decided to do based on
20:45
what i think may happen
20:47
and on my unique current situation
20:49
tether is so entrenched in the crypto
20:51
market
20:51
and considering the totality of all the
20:53
information we discussed
20:54
over the course of this three-part video
20:56
series i can’t in my wildest imagination
20:59
figure out how we can avoid a
21:01
substantial collapse
21:02
if or when tether goes bust i also can’t
21:05
in my wildest imagination
21:07
see how tether would be able to continue
21:09
on its current path
21:10
for much longer considering the current
21:12
perfect storm brewing we discussed
21:14
earlier
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at the end of the day bear markets are
21:17
perfect for building
21:18
we shake out all the crypto tourists the
21:21
fundamental investors stay
21:22
like we always have been the last
21:24
several years and we build
21:26
we build our knowledge about technology
21:28
about finance
21:29
investing economics psychology
21:32
the government business structures
21:35
geopolitical relations
21:36
history everything that affects
21:38
cryptocurrency where it’s headed
21:40
and how it will get there with that
21:42
knowledge we can build income streams
21:44
that help us maintain our wealth over
21:46
time regardless of what market cycle we
21:48
are in
21:49
if we enter another extended bear market
21:51
most of you will quit crypto altogether
21:53
and only come back for the next bull
21:55
cycle if you would rather use a bear
21:57
cycle to build your knowledge in crypto
21:58
consider protecting your ability to
22:00
generate income in the space by learning
22:02
more about the advanced technical
22:04
concepts of blockchain
22:05
to become a developer in the space ivan
22:07
ontax academy is a great resource to
22:09
consider
22:09
and if you use the link below you can
22:11
get access to the academy at a
22:12
discounted price
22:13
so scroll down to check it out so my
22:15
play considering all of the uncertainty
22:17
ahead in the short term
22:19
that may create extraordinary buying
22:20
opportunities if you’re a long-term
22:22
fundamental investor in the space
22:24
is selling all small and mid-cap
22:26
altcoins
22:27
cashing out 60 of my positions and
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keeping the cash on the side
22:31
for the short term the 40 i’m holding
22:33
consists of bitcoin
22:34
ether chain link polka dot and matic and
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yes i know i’m a big proponent of
22:39
don’t try to time the market but again
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it looks like a weird perfect storm
22:43
may be underway so i’m acting more
22:45
cautiously for the time being
22:47
if i lived in a country with
22:48
untrustworthy banks and an already
22:50
hyper-inflated largely worthless fiat
22:53
currency i would probably just keep my
22:55
bitcoin and major crypto
22:56
on a wallet getting it off exchanges if
22:59
you want to keep crypto
23:00
is imperative right now in my opinion
23:02
again not financial advice
23:03
this is the play i put into action for
23:05
my unique position
23:07
hopefully this video series will give
23:08
you some things to consider when
23:09
assessing your own
23:10
unique position during these crazy times
23:13
and behold for the last time in this
23:15
series
23:15
the structure of the current traditional
23:17
financial system in the form of an
23:19
inverted
23:20
card house that also currently serves as
23:22
the foundation of the entire
23:24
cryptocurrency market
23:25
card house the crypto card house that is
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most certainly
23:28
courtesy of tether awesome
23:31
congratulations for making it through
23:32
the final chapter of this video series
23:35
i hope it helps us all better understand
23:37
and appreciate the current state of the
23:38
crypto market so we can all
23:40
implement ways to protect our
23:41
investments this is the final video in a
23:43
three-part video series
23:44
so make sure to check them all out to
23:46
get the full scoop if you enjoyed this
23:48
video please make sure to like this
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more
23:51
crypto content so do you guys think
23:53
there will be a crypto market crash soon
23:55
or am i being too bearish what’s your
23:57
plan of attack over the next month or so
24:00
let me know in the comments below be
24:02
safe out there
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you
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