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Welcome to on the Chain. This is Jeff. We are going to get into it. We're going to talk about xrp. We're going to talk about crypto currency. The big question, is January 20th a big game changer? What is January 20th for everybody out there? And what is the XRP 309 surge? We're going to talk about that as well. There's a lot of great videos that we got to go through. We're going to talk about the RL USD. Want to talk about the Zen wallet. Want to talk about the xrpl. Want to talk about Brad Garlinghouse meeting up and Stuart Alderati meeting up with, that's right, incoming President Donald Trump. So that's exciting. We have a lot of things that we want to get into, and it is going to be a whirlwind. Now, make sure you guys get your zamen wallets ready. Why? Because we're going to be giving. Doing a giveaway for a badass yeti from the White Tribe. So got the badass yetis going and we are going to give a cool getaway. You guys know what the word is? If you don't gonna tell you guys that in a little bit. So if you're ready to kick this thing off. I think I'm ready. And I'm trying to think, do we want to go with the regular, you know, intro here or do we want something exciting? I think we're going with exciting. Let's go. All right, let's go. Let's get into it. Let's get some antics going. So Chad's got the word. The word of the day is yeti. So remember that the word of the day is yeti. So let's make sure we get that going. Yeti. Yeti. There you go. And with that yeti, we are going to start driving up. So make sure you type that in. So far, Chad is the. Is the first one into the entries. All right, where are, where are we going to roll with this? Let's see. What do we want to start with? There's a lot of great things that I wanted to get into, and there's actually a big shout out here from Brad Garlinghouse to Donald Trump. So let's put this over here. We're going to go through some of these key moments in time. We're going to go a little bit back in time also. So see, Steve is getting ready. He's preparing for the Yowie giveaway. When we do the Yowie giveaway and we do have a. The Yowies. If you guys don't know who the Yowies are, the Yowies are the cousin to the badass Yetis. The Yowies live somewhere down under in Australia. They roam around. And so when you guys see the Yowies, you'll kind of get a good understanding, you understand? And we have a whole clan of these yowies ready to roll. So that would be really cool. So Steve's already prepping himself for those. All right, let's share this, you guys. If you've been on X, I'm sure you've seen this and you've seen the big shout out, because the shout out is real. The shout out is big. They're the cousins nobody talks about. That's right. Nobody talks about. All right, so here we go. This is, you know, the big shout out of the day, which was Brad Garlinghouse, and I think this was actually posted yesterday. Let's see, when did he post that? It is even. It doesn't even have the post up here. And maybe it's down here. There we go. Post of the day, which was yesterday. So there you go. You got Brad Garland House, Stuart Alderotti, with who? That's right, President Trump. So they were hanging out. Look at this great dinner last night with Donald Trump and Stuart Alder starting strong, start to 2025. He's down at Mar A Lago. And look at that. This is, it's such an amazing, you know, time right now. And, and you really see how exciting and how excited Garland House is to meet up with Trump. And we can go back. We're going to go back in some of the videos. We'll go back in time a little bit and we'll see exactly, you know, where Brad Garlinghouse and Chip and I talked about it for a while that, that Brad Garland House was kind of moving in this direction of Maga for, for a while. So maybe. Maybe is a cardboard cutout. I'm not sure it's possible. Definitely possible. Let's, let's zoom in here. Let's see if that's. Nope. That looks pretty real. Could be a. Could be a. Right, a wax figure. The Liberty Mutual wax. Wax figure. This, this is super meaningful. And Adrian saying, that's reset 5.0. You know what that is? That's. That's huge right there because you've got Donald Trump, you've got the man, right, that the sec. The, the, the Biden sec, that took on the, the largest company in crypto, that's utilizing crypto technology and Building on blockchain in the world. So who do they take on? They took on Brad Garlinghouse, they took on Ripple, they purposely targeted XRP. This is a completely different approach. This is 180 degrees, right? And for all those people out there that kept saying there was going to be some, some sort of a reset, that, that Democrat party as a whole was going to reset and start embracing crypto. Dead wrong. 100, you know, incorrect. And you know, again, Chip and I called it as you start analyzing the truth of it. And then we started to see Garlinghouse going maga. When you started to see Zuckerberg early on, he started, you know, changing his tune also. You knew the writing was on the wall, you knew who was going to win. But you also know that, you know, as they started mounting up facts, evidence and all of that, that Kamala, there was no possible scenario, no possible way that things were going to turn out in, in a positive direction. The markets definitely would not have resonated as they have resonated right now. And I'm, I'm sure you guys also believe that as well. So XRP guys said, check out the ships in the background along with the story behind them. And two green candlesticks. That's interesting. There you go. Two big green candlesticks. And the ships that are going to be sailing down the Panama Canal, you know, in, in and around Greenland that might soon belong to the US down through the Gulf of America, formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico, down into the Panama Canal that will soon re, return back to US control. So you have the Panama Canal, the Gulf of America and soon to be a US Owned Greenland. How do you like that? So there'll be a, a lot of things that are going on. All this stuff has been like, you know, percolating in a very short period of time. Trump's not even in office yet. Right. We still have like 12 more days. 12 days. Well, they. Four years we waited and we said, you know, four years ago, I can't believe it's four years. I don't think we're going to survive the four years. How do we survive the four years? And here we are four years later. Not only did we see Garlinghouse get beyond it, right, because we saw the whole thing with Ripple made it through, but you know, there's Trump back in office after being admonished and, and you know, denigrated and, and the lawfare and everything that went against it. This is so symbolic for freedom. This is everything. And you know, however you want to look at it. Stu Alderati. I can't. This picture. I want to put this in a frame and, and hang it up because it's such a great, great image right there. So that is perfect. I, I love to see it. Want to see so many, you know, great things go on right there. What is this? Yeah, you know, Chad. That's right. That he, that Jimmy Carter actually passed away before. He gets to see us taking back the Panama Canal after Jimmy Carter, you know, kind of summarily kind of dismissed it and, and turned over control of the panic. Panama Canal. I don't know how anybody actually is saying. And there's so many statements, oh, how Jimmy Carter is revered and all these things that he was the worst president in the history of the United States until the last president, which was Biden, has taken the mantle as the worst president of the United States, made the economy less desirable, made the country less safe, made the entire world less safe. Just undermine everything he continues to undermine now he's actually going after. And I look around, I'm like, does anybody really smoke cigarettes anymore? When you go overseas, you. You see people smoking cigarettes all the time over here. You rarely, rarely, if ever see anybody smoking cigarettes. And then now they're banning them. I'm like, well, most people don't want to smoke them, but you can't ban cigarettes. If people want cigarettes, if you want cigars, freedom of whatever, right? You want to get it, that's fine. Now you can also, you can state that, you know, for many years, the tobacco industry pumped in inorganic forms of nicotine or found ways to raise it, or found ways to put chemicals and tar and all sorts of horrible things into the cigarettes that weren't necessarily naturally occurring within the tobacco, and then come to find out that there's actually medicinal benefit and outcome from nicotine. So, so they try. They crush all the. The beneficial elements that can be derived from naturally occurring things, you know, like, like tobacco, you know, and you get, again, nicotine. There's definitely some, you know, positives that can be derived from that. It's so amazing to me just to see how all of these things kind of unfold and, you know, the, the direction we go. So, hey, if you guys haven't done it yet, type in yeti because. Why are you going to type in yeti? Because we're going to be giving away one of these badass. That's right. Badass yetis. Here we go. I had to find the one that we're going to be giving away. It's going to give away another ash yeti. But then I decided maybe it'd be a brute. But then I found these. These little guys are kind of cool. Yeah, we have a. A couple of them and I like this one. Just think it's kind of cute. And so I'm gonna pull this one up here in a second. This is an ass kicker. Now they're. The ass kickers are kind of unique because you wouldn't really anticipate based on the fuzziness that these guys are ass kickers. But that guy right there is definitely, definitely. Oh, you don't see him should. I took him off the stage. So let me go large and let me add them back in there. There's an ass kicker right there. Look. If you look at that graphic, right? Look at the. The sword. You just look at the detail, the detail of the. The fur, the eyes, the little nose. Then you get into the intricate detail of the armor. Imagine these badass yetis, you know, they're over their hot iron welding, whatever. What is that thing called where you. You melt the iron, you're hammering out, you know, the metal for the sword, but there you go. That's one of the badass yetis from the white tribe and that is an ass kicker. So we'll be giving that guy away, which is pretty sweet. And that means you got to type in yeti because yeti is the name. That's it. You get that Nieti. And let's see, where are we at now? We're already. We're only up to 16 entries, which is kind of crazy. We get 16 and then when we do the drawing. That's it. Smelting. That's the word. Smelting. I knew there was a. A real word for that, the smelting. I like it. So this is. There you go, yeti. There you. Look at this, man. You got the brutes. You got all these kick ass. I love seeing all these different. Look, the mentalist. Chad's got his mentalist in there. Love seeing all these yetis popping up. This the mental is from the blue tribe. There you go. From the blue tribe. See who else we have in here. Got Ray, another one. Look at that. Look how cool those guys are. And Jim D. Look at that little guy. All right, very cool. Now where did we go? We're smelting stuff. So Joe is saying, I still think the deep state will try something. This is the biggest concern. This is still kind of the weight that is still present on everybody's shoulders. I kind of feel it on a day to day where things are positive, things are moving forward. Ever since the election, big weight lifted. Everybody knows what's coming. But there's still like, there's still that deep concern. You, we saw it happen in New Orleans and you start seeing, you know, some attention. We saw what happened in front of the Trump Tower in, in. Where was that? In Vegas with the, with the, the, the cyber truck. And so, you know, you get all these different kind of emotions, you know, rushing through and you're like, oh, you know, what's actually going on here? You know, what is, you know, it's kind of chaos, right? Just a little bit chaotic with everything going on. So there's a little bit of concern about what's going to happen. So, all right, let's, let's move on here because we got. Everyone is put. They were like, I, I swear I must have seen a hundred, at least 100 posts of, of the Trump Garling House. And I was looking through all these, I'm like, which one would be really cool? You know, I saw Garland House posted is. But this is the only one that I saw this bold, deep here, you know, posted when Michael Saylor meets up with Eric Trump. Michael Saylor actually, as everybody knows, has bought, I don't know, 20, 30,000, 40,000 Bitcoin, whatever the number is now for microstrategy. So their treasury is just packed, just jam packed with bitcoin. So here you have Eric Trump meeting up with the man, right? The myth, the legend of bitcoin, which is Michael Saylor. Why? Because he took a real company micro strategy, packed their treasury with it. Don't see any other companies that have quite done that yet in packing their treasuries up with bitcoin. And so you've got Eric firmly on board with bitcoin. And then there's Trump hanging out with Brad Garlinghouse and Stuart Alderman, the two, right? You got bitcoin and xrp. It's an interesting time. You got the store of value and you got the rails to move money. So you can easily, you know, very efficiently, very fast, you know, very cheaply move any currency, currency to currency. You can move it all around very quickly. And then you've got bitcoin, which is slow, kind of tedious, expensive to process and move. And then it's a great store of value. It's recognized globally as a great store of value. El Salvador, Argentina. The U.S. is putting the Treasury. Trump wants the U.S. to be number one, you know, production or leader in, in the technology. And then having XRP Probably. And. And Bitcoin, most likely, and maybe Ethereum and maybe many other assets within the Treasury. Have a basket of assets in the treasury, which bolsters the technology, bolsters the whole concept. So really, really great. All right. What is this, Michael? Strategy pronounced Ponzi scheme. Manny packed it. It's packed. He's got his. He's got it really packed up. Yeah, man. The fires. You wake up in the morning, there's like half of California is burning down, and I still don't know exactly what's going on with. With California. I mean, it's insane, right? What's going on? You got the incompetency, obviously. An incompetent clown with Newsom, the other incompetent clown. Trudeau resigned this week. Right. How great was that to see that? He actually resigned after. After all this time, he's just out, just. Just like that. Just. Just decides he's going to step down, he's going to take off. He's done. He's had enough. So. All right, let's move on. I want to get into. We talk a lot about R.L. uSD, you know, where, you know, who's adopting it, when's it going to be adopted, you know, what's. You know, what's the exact timing of it? How is it going to impact any. Everything and anything if it has to do on, you know, whether it's going to be on Ledger or whether it's going to be on an exchange, which exchanges are getting ready to adopt it. What does that rollout look like? What does the impact look like? So let's see what we got here. So I'm gonna go. So we got Bloomberg. Crypto pulled up Ripple President Monica Long and what is their expectation for the RL USD? And so let's go. Let's go large here. Let's make sure we got some volume. Rewind that bad boy right there. Volume is up. Add it to the stage and let's play this for a minute. I can't. She won't be narrowed down. No audio. Oh, seriously? Well, at least I enjoyed it. I mean, you guys might not have enjoyed it, but that was it. I heard everything. That was like. That was like the biggest, you know, most important drop of all time, and you guys missed it. Man, I can't believe it. I forgot to activate the audio. So let me. Let's go back and try that again. Glad you guys said something. No audio, but at least I got the secret. All right, let's move. Let's move on to the next Video. You guys missed the whole thing. All right, now, here we go. All right, let's try this again. Let's take it from the top. Look at Long live. Oh, wait. Need to trust stablecoin issuer Monica Long. I thought it said long live. Okay, here we go. Right now, this is available on Bitso, Moonpay, Coin, Mina. Additional listings coming on Bullish, Mercado, Bitcoin and others. What about a huge platform like Coinbase and others, for example? When does that happen?
Monica Long
We are continuing to expand distribution and availability of Ripple Dollars on other exchanges. So I think you can expect to see more availability, more announcements coming soon.
Jeff
How soon? Imminently said. I'd love that. Right? How soon? Oh, I'm not going to tell you, but it's going to be soon.
Chad
Well, we'll look out for that. What about in terms of adoption? How big do you expect this to get in the next year, realistically? I mean, do you have a baseline kind of projection on how big it could get based on the adoption you're talking about with clients? Do you think large institutions are using this? Who's using it?
Monica Long
So if we look at the, the crypto landscape overall, I mean, it has certainly been, the market's been growing in the past couple of quarters and you know, we think that this year is going to be a big year for crypto overall. And so demand for stablecoins, we think will, will grow along with that, as you mentioned. I mean, it's really the way to onramp and off ramp. It's also used as a key asset in trading. So, so we think that the market's going to grow tremendously over the course of the next year. Our demand from within our client base, you know, our business has, our business doubled within payments last year. And so we see a really strong growth trajectory for our payment solution. And, and with that, you know, Ripple US Dollar will have a, a premium role.
Chad
Monica, what about other asset types? You've seen a lot of interest when it comes to ETFs tied to cryptocurrencies. A lot of questions around whether you could see an ETF tied to Spot xrp.
Jeff
Well, that's going to be a solid question. She said some really, you know, key critical things within, you know, her statements and, and the talk about really the rollout, the adoption, the institutions, the movement of the asset. I mean, there's so many, you know, variables to where we're going. And you know, the fact that they saw from a payment perspective, we went all these years and people are like, what are they working on. Right. Especially the past, you know, three, four years under Biden and, and Gary Gensler, where they're just hammering them, just non, stop, non stop, you know, hammering on Ripple. And there's so much more that went along with that. From a political perspective. When you have the one company that is outspoken, growing at a rapid pace as a amazing technology that they're implementing, that they're, they're spreading at a pretty decent clip, at least getting some identifiers out there, some recognition. Their primary objective was to unseat Swift. Swift, as everybody knows, is a conglomerate of banks, over 10,000 banks. Who knows how many branches are involved in, in that, in that conglomerate with all those banks. They've been doing that since 1974. So it formed Swift and the Swift code as a communication between banks to streamline the movement of money. So it wasn't a settlement device. You know, you still needed a third party to help provide settlement of asset, but the Swift helped facilitate the whole transaction of the process. And obviously they're tapping in because there's big fees to go along with utilizing the Swift system, the Swift network. There's tons and tons and tons of money, as everybody knows, tied up in Nostro and Vostro accounts. So the banks, the politicians, think about the corruption, think about all that loose change, Think about, you know, how much money is tied up in that entire conglomerate, in that network, how much money is made, how much influence, the power and the power struggles and all of that. And then here comes this little company, you know, Ripple, that's saying, hey, we're going to take on this Goliath and, and, you know, here, and here it is. And, and we're going to topple Swift or replace Swift or be a strong competitor to swift. Why? Because here's the efficiency, here's the transparency, here's how we can facilitate everything. And here they go. And then four years. But while all of this is happening, they're still out there building and developing. Not a, you know, huge amount of focus went into development of the xrpl. These guys are tied up in lawsuits. You know, we talk about, you know, all the, the political aspect of what was oppressing them and suppressing them, trying to dismantle them, potentially slow them down, whatever it is, while JP Morgan comes out with her JPM token and all these different banks and organizations and institutions are trying to, you know, facilitate and do something different. Didn't work, didn't happen. Now you fast forward four years. Here's Trump, Eric Trump, you know, President Trump. And you've got this massive, you know, influence of positivity over cryptocurrency. Why? Because the one thing that we talk about and we reference is, is what it has to do with decentralization. Decentralization. We talk about freedom, we talk about the concept and the, the, the backbone of our republic, you know, to differentiate it from any other political structure globally, how it's formulated, how it's put together. And then the Democrats, the powers that beat, have done everything they can to try to impact and dismantle that power while maintaining their power hold through the influence that they get through the conglomerate. Right. If you think about Elizabeth Warren and the influence that she pedals through the financial institutions and the conglomerates, which would be the banks which, and the conglomerate of, of the Swift, you know, organization and entity. Every dollar that moves across borders, out of the US and anywhere in the world that communicates with another bank is going through the Swift network. And you know, Russia's tried to add a substitute, you know, over the years. Things have tried, but Swift is, they're like, they're, they're like the money moving mafia. They control all of those different elements. Even though they don't provide the settlement, they're involved and influential in the process. Now as you try to topple that obviously political parties on a global scale and, and you start seeing that obviously some conspiracy, conspiratorial, you know, influence that comes out to be true, then you start seeing, okay, now there's other organizations that want a piece of the action. The imf, the International Monetary Fund. Then you have organizations like the UN Right, It's a, it's a corrupt organization to funnel money to despots and dictators. And you have all these committees and you have different, you know, the organizations on the ground and it's all about influence and moving money and it's not about helping people on the ground. They're, they're kind of the visual aspect of it to say, oh look, these guys are actually doing something positive. It all has to do with influence pedaling and moving money and that's it. Enriching themselves. Enter putting in ftx and FTX obviously was part of that equation that got toppled. And you say, okay, how could that be? Well, the, the parents of, of Sam Bankman Fried was obviously interconnected and, and we started seeing the movement of money and you start piecing the dots with the Ukraine and incidentally the Ukraine, which was heavily influenced by the Biden crime family, you know, while, you know, with Obama in office. And so you Saw the influence and pedaling there. And so all these pieces start coming together. And who knows it better than we do because as soon as we put up the imf, bad signal, which, you know, if you guys haven't been around for, you know, from the beginning. So dni, digital Nomad investor, used to do a phenomenal podcast on all of these different things. And then we talk about it. We'd have DNI on over here and we'd. We'd have, you know, we'd banter back and forth. But the thing is, as soon as we talk about the International Monetary Fund, the imf, which is what DNI talked about a lot, then if we talked about it no matter what, didn't matter what part of the segment, all of a sudden then, you know, then DNI would show up, which is awesome. Which is so great. Why is my head about to explode? Am I turning red? I feel like I'm turning red. Feel like all of a sudden I got really hot. I don't know. This light shouldn't be producing heat, but it's like really, really hot in here for some reason. It's really cold outside. And all of a sudden it's like. It's crazy. Oh, the scanners. Yeah, I don't know. There's got to be something in the lights. I think that's what it is. There he is. All right, we're. I totally get. See what happens. We get sidetracked. We don't remember we were watching this. I don't remember what we're. What we're watching. It had to do with RL USD and we're talking about something. And I said, hey, we got to talk about this for a second. And this is what happens. So now we got to rewind and see where we're at here real quick. All right.
Monica Long
And with that, you know, Ripple, US Dollar will have a premium role.
Chad
Monica, what about other asset types? You've seen a lot of interest when it.
Jeff
All right, eight degrees, man, it's definitely not that cold here. When I say real gold, I mean, I can still go out in a T shirt, but, you know, I gotta wear this long sleeve shirt. It's really cold enough to. Where we can have a fire out in the fight in the fire pit outside. So we had one last night. Burned a whole bunch of wood. Had fires on Friday and Saturday. Burnt. Burned through a ton of wood. Last. Last night. Burned through a bundle. Is crazy. On. Was it Sunday? It's either Saturday night. I think it was Saturday night because Sunday was like 80 degrees at night when outside was like, 80. And so on Sunday, it was like we burned. It was like, for, like, five hours that I was out there sitting by the fire. You know, obviously you gotta drink, you know, some whiskey or something while you're doing that, because it was really cold. That's right. It's freezing. It's not like, snow freezing or, you know, jacket freezing. It's like, you know, cold. That, like, this morning it was like, 47, and I was out in shorts and I had a hat and a fleece on. It was that kind of cold. So, ice fishing. I was gonna go ice fishing on the lake this morning behind the house. I'm like, yeah, you know what? If there was only ice, I could do some ice fishing. I could do, like, icy cold, like, shore fishing, you know, where it's kind of cold out, you know, and you got to stand there, like, why am I standing out here? Because it's cold. Right? See, I need it. That's how cold it was. All right, well, now we got to go back to imminently. Hey, make sure you guys type in yeti, because when you type in yeti, then you have a chance to win the badass yeti, and we're going to be giving one away. I showed you guys the badass YETI that we're giving away, so I'll show that to you guys again in a minute. But. All right, here we go. Here we go.
Chad
Other asset types. You've seen a lot of interest when it comes to ETFs tied to cryptocurrencies. A lot of questions around whether you could see an ETF tied to spot xrp. What kind of discussions are you having with people about this? Do you think we'll see one soon?
Monica Long
I think we will see one very soon. I think that we will see more. You know, various crypto spot ETFs this year coming out of the US and I think XRP is. Is likely to be next in line after Bitcoin and eth. There's already been a number of different companies like Canary and others who have filed. And so we think, especially with the administration change and that the. The approvals of those filings will accelerate.
Jeff
All right, the filings are going to accelerate. Graysco has a mini trust. They have an XRP mini trust already showing a value of like, 43 or $44. I think that BTC, the Grayscale BTCTF, the GBTC, I think it's up there now, like, 80, 80 something. It started in at, like, 25, obviously. Bitcoin scaled a little bit, but that was a nice investment, which I like. And then here said Scott said, I've been buying the XRP ETF on the German exchange. Gives me a way to invest some of my locked in RRSP and X. I like it. I like the idea. You know, it's really great getting that opportunity if you want the risk, right? If you're going to take the risk, any, any fund or stock that you put money into could be a risk. It's like I, you know, I invested in ARK funds and over the past four years the port portfolio is at large. They just took a, a nosedive, you know, with the, under the Biden administration. What a resurgence since the election we're talking about since November, right? The positivity, resurgence of, of the stock market, resurgence of the crypto markets. That's the positivity we want to continue with non stop winning. Plus they're going to clean up the garbage. That's where January 21, the rubber hits the road. Because January 21 is where we see the metal, right? We really start to see that everything that was said that was going to happen and, and all the action and activity is actually going to happen and that's what we want to see. We want to see that activity, we want to see that action and that is gonna be really, really exciting as far as I'm concerned. I like it, I like it a lot. I like the direction things are moving in. I think it's very positive. All right, here's another video we're gonna put up. Did Everybody type in YETI? Let me see how many people typed in YETI? Man, not enough. We only 22. How many people are watching? All right, we have 81 people over here on YouTube right now. I, I'm surprised that number is not at 100. And then we've got a 214 total because we have some people over on X. So let's boost those numbers and we should have like three times the number of people wanting to enter in the giveaway for yeti. But the thing is you got to have a Zen Wallet, right? So if you don't have the Zen Wallet, the Zen Wallet connects and you establish a trust line over to the XRP Cafe. This is really cool. Why is it cool? Because it allows us to utilize the XRPL in, in its native, in its native environment. Right? Because we're moving an asset across the xrpl, we're transferring it, right? It's over there represented on the xrpl. You can see it. You can go see the whole transaction and kind of dig in all the, the information behind the scenes of a, of a, of a graphic, right. Of that nft, which is, which is really cool. But if you look at this Z Wallet and you get, you can go on, go onto your Google Pay or Play or your App Store and you download that and you get a little bit of XRP in there. That's so you don't need a lot, just need a little bit of XRP in your Zen wallet. That's it. You know, put what, 5, 10 XRP. I think you have to have. They lock up a little. Maybe they lock up 5. I forget exactly what the number is right now, but they lock it up and then that's it. Then you're good to go. You know, it's very, very cool. What's this? Seconds. That's right. That's the true power of it. Right. Arrives in seconds. You just transfer it up, just boom, moves across, you know, it's awesome. It is the XRPL in real time. All right, where was, where was this other video? Okay, we're going to pull this up. This is the CEO of Sound Planning Group. Wait a minute. Oh, wait, I didn't want to go full on that yet. So this was on Cointelegraph says let's, let's share this, make it easier for me. There we go. So, so it says here, you know, you got, you know, I just zoomed on the wrong screen. Let's zoom on this screen so we can read it. This is a CEO of Sound Planning Group, David Strazewski. Probably butchered the name, but it. Maybe it's close. I don't know. Claims bank of America is doing 100 of internal transactions on Ripple and have 83 different patents on it. So this is interesting. This was recently posted. I don't know. I'm assuming that this was recent. Right. If we look at the Dow and then we kind of look at where we're at for a Bitcoin at 102. Right. Ethereum at 3600. So we know this was relatively recent with XRP at 2.42 and Litecoin is up there. The top four that they're always going to reference, no matter what they, they go back to 2017 when they were talking about Digital Asset. They were talking about which four crypto assets. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and xrp. Those are the four. They're still talking about them. Right. And then you got all these other assets. So it's very cool. Okay, let's. Let me zoom back out. There we go. Let's bring this guy up, let's hear what he has to say. He says some interesting things, and I want to. I'm going to point out, he says one thing that I believe is a mistake. Like, right off the bat, let's see if you guys can pick it out. I won't say anything. Let's see if you pick out what his mistake is right off the bat, which I was a little surprised about when he starts talking. But DNI says on the chain, four or so years ago. That's right. I spoke to an account exec at B of A, that's Bank of America, and I asked him if they're using Ripple, and he said they are, but it's not consumer facing, it's internal. That's. That's interesting. So, and I remember DNI talked about that on his show. I know DNI referenced that on our show as well back then. So I can attest, you know, for all of the, the statements and, you know, and some of the knowledge that DNI has, has brought and continues to bring when he shows up on the show here, which is really cool. So here we go. Mike said, have your damn wallet ready for him. That's the least you can do. That's right. So Mark says, I don't do wallets on cell phones. Well, no wallet for you. There you go. The Trump Brad and Stu pick sealed the deal. I'm a billionaire. There you go. I'm gonna get. I want that framed and hanging on my wall. So there you go. And now we can start the show because Karma Carmichael has shown up. So he's here. So now we can start the show. So we've been waiting around for like 40 minutes, just kind of shooting the, you know, waiting, but. All right, no, let's let, let's get in. Let's see what this guy has to say. Then again, let's see if you guys can pick out the one mistake that he makes, like right off the bat. All right, another one you like is Ripple. You said it is the coin to be looking at right now.
David Strazewski
Absolutely.
Jeff
Why?
David Strazewski
Okay, so Ripple actually was the second largest coin coin prior to the SEC's investigation of them. They did this really weird lawsuit against them. And basically the Ripple is going to be the track that everything's going to be running on in the future. So they created their own stable coin right now.
Jeff
Okay.
David Strazewski
And bank of America, like I said, they were doing 100 of their internal transactions. They've got 83 different patents on it, and there's some incredible stuff that's going to be coming out.
Jeff
So another one you like is Ripple. You said it is the coin to be looking at right now?
David Strazewski
Absolutely.
Jeff
Why?
David Strazewski
Okay, so Ripple.
Jeff
That's. That's great. That's funny. I love the comments. I don't. It's funny. You try to do this and then read the comments. Chip would have played all the videos by now. That's right. Chip likes to just play the videos and. And read the. Read the comments a lot, too. And then, you know, we both like to just talk. It's so funny. I don't know how they get it so wrong. Right. They still come out. It's Ripple. No, it's xrp. The company is Ripple. The company's Ripple. The stable coin is RL USD. I guess it could be the Ripple USD, but that's the stable coin that just. It just came out. So you can't like Ripple and say they went through that lawsuit because of their coin and their asset. No, that was xrp. So I would love to just see. Hey, come on. Can you guys just get that part straight? It's just, you know, it's been so many years now, so much discussion over it. Can we please just get that part, you know, straight at least? You know, abuscation. What is that? Obiscation. I can't read right now or pronounce anything. Why are we looking at Bitcoin? Because it's 102,000. It's right at the top. 102. It's up by a massive amount on that day. Oops. I'm not even showing it here. There we go. F assets are F bomb. It's a good question. What's going to happen with flare? Flare. Flare's building smart contracts. They're doing a lot of things behind the scenes. They're all. They've also been building and developing for, you know, some time throughout all of this. And so that's been also, you know, a lot of, you know, positivity, which I'm glad to see. Oh, here we go. I want to put this up. Oh, let me put this one up first. I like this video. I think this was. And this is like right off again, right in the beginning. This is so poignant. This was from October. Okay, so this video is from October. I want to thank Crypto Queen for sharing this video back in October. And so I'm happy to put it up and play it now from October, even though it's no longer October. But it's very poignant. Right, so here we go. When exactly did we see the turning point of Brad Bean maga? It was well before this. Well, well, well before that, when we started seeing him embracing the Trump doctrine and the direction things had to go and the positivity. But let's play this.
Brad Garlinghouse
The SEC was arguing most vociferously, it was this idea that xrp, the digital asset that Ripple uses in our technology, was a security, and that was really what they cared about. And what the judge ruled is that XRP is not a security. And that's really been a formative case for the, the industry. So we're going to continue really clamoring and Champ trying to champion the clarity of regulation. And I'm hopeful that as we see a changing of the guard, we'll see that.
Jeff
Sorry, just now you see that he said he's hopeful when we see a changing of the guard, that we're going to see that, that we're going to see a change on the regulatory and the way they had been attacking and all of that. This was in October, before the election. So he said he's hoping with a changing of the guard, the anticipation that Trump was going to win, because when Trump wins, then we're going to start seeing positivity come back into the market and everything. So there you go. There we go. They want you to look at Bitcoin. They do want you to look at Bitcoin. It's like, right, you know, front and center. All right, let's, let's keep playing this a little more just to clarify, though, I mean, was the ruling, though it didn't make a distinction between institutional investors and retail investors, did it not?
Brad Garlinghouse
What it said actually, is that just like if you package up real estate or you package up even pork bellies, if you put those into an investment contract, the investment contract is a security gotcha. But the ruling is very clear that no matter what, XRP in and of itself is not a security.
Jeff
Brad, do you agree then with. Okay, so the reason why, in part, that President Trump is pro crypto is because he doesn't want China to be more crypto than the US that could be part of it. That, you know, we definitely don't want China. But China, I don't think they're going to be more pro crypto, especially since they continue to try to undermine it, or they want to find a way to not just regulate it, but control it. Right. They want their own asset. They don't want freedom. They don't want Decentralization. China doesn't want any of that. Is that actually like a material risk that China would surpass the US in terms of its crypto innovation?
Brad Garlinghouse
Well, I can't speak to China specifically, but what we are seeing is whether it's the uk, Japan, Singapore, even the European Union. More than two dozen countries have come together to create a framework to provide crypto regulation. They call it mica. And what's frustrating as a US Company and someone who grew up here in the Midwest, it. It's frustrating that we as a country can't get that rules the, the framework in place and instead we have this interminable litigation coming from the SEC that really isn't solving the problem.
Jeff
There you go. More from the SEC trying to. The SEC trying to solve the problem. You got, you got to love how the SEC tried to solve it. Everything they did was law fair, yet they were always trying to beat up and trying to use their, their influence and, you know, crush everybody. You know, that's what it was all about. Let China, let them buy all that. Go the bitcoin. There you go. Got China. That's how it's going to go. Governments work together. Totalitarian tiptoe to chain us to the block. There you go. That's what happens. That's exactly what happens. What else we have here? Oh, so Jeremy Hogan has a couple things and then we're going to end up with the Gulf of America, but then we got to do a drawing too. So we still have a drawing that's pending. Where are we at with that? Let me look. Hang on. I'm losing all my tabs. We're in the 46th minute. We got 26 entries. I'm sure we can come up with another four entries. I mean, 26. We still got, you know, there's 85 on YouTube. We got a total of like 229. We've got a bunch of people still watching through X. And anyone watching through X, I think you can type yeti. Also, I believe it should work that you can type in YETI from X and I believe it'll pick it up because it comes in through the chat. But a lot of people don't chat on X. Find it a little bit more challenging. The platform's not as nice as when you're on the YouTube. You know, platform X is good if you're just listening YouTube, if you're engaging. So there is that. So here we go. Let me. Here we go. Let's pull this up. You can only do it once. So Once you type it in, it only counts you once. There's that beautiful picture that's such a great picture. And I think it was said XRP gal talking about the green candlesticks and this boat. I don't, I don't know which boats those are. Maybe somebody knows which boats those are. But it could be representative the fact that we're taking back the Panama Canal and we're going to take Greenland. Right. But Jeremy Hogan said, you know, everything I've said about the ripple lawsuit for the last four years, the hours and hours of videos, analysis, posts, research, never mind, I love it. Jeremy Hogan's got good humor on that. And then just the comments. All this, not just hours of work but also how each of those hours translate towers spent away from your treasure wife and children. He said. My wife was my videographer, editor, critic and co host. So many good memories. I wouldn't trade it for the world. That's great. That's so awesome. It was really nice, you know, to see all the things that Jeremy Hogan was able to put together, you know, through that period of time, which was really cool. And then we've got. There was another one from Jeremy Hogan actually breaking down some legalese because even though we have this amazing victory, we're gonna have more amazing victories because with the America with the amazing victories, we're going to also see the lawsuits kind of going sideways, which is going to be great. Get rid of. Let's get rid of them. There's rain. Rain here. Rain's One of the OGs way back also with DNI, you know, we all go way back. So good to see Rain Rain. Also to run a podcast which is so it's awesome to see rain coming in. Let's see, where did it go? Where'd the boco? East Indies? Ironside? Nope. I just saw it go through and now it's gone. Oh, the fight boats are new and faded. Old. That's right. The financial system. There you go. The new financial system. The old financial system. So let's, let's pull this up. Jeremy, he gets into this was posted yesterday. But big news in the legal crypto space. The judge and the sec. The Coinbase case has stayed the lawsuit until the appellate court rules on whether an investment contract requires an actual contract. This is also the main point of contention in the ripple appeal. The granting of an interlocutory appeal is rare and indicates that the trial level judge thinks there is something there. So what is there? Well, we're going to find out when we get there. So that's really interesting. Really great. And what it Josh said, here's what Grok had to say. The interlocutory appeal on the SEC case against Coinbase refers to a procedural legal step where Coinbase is seeking to appeal a specific issue before the entire case are resolved. Here's what this means in the context of the ongoing legal battle, and I guess we can show more. And it goes on and on. Look how in depth that is, Jerry. That's. That's so amazing. You just, boom, type it in and see how, man, if you work. Do you. Do any of you guys work with AI every day? Are you using, like, Chat GPT or working with Grok or anything? Like, it's like every single day. It's amazing to me, the level of detail, the data, the things you can do at such a rapid pace with Chat GPT, if used the right way and tweaked and you put stuff in. The craziest thing that I've done with Chat G. Chat GPT, at least, it's crazy to me is that I wrote something up on the whiteboard. I had all this stuff written, and it wasn't like, you know, perfectly written out. It's in my handwriting. Then I had, like, dat some information here. I had some more information here. It's a couple headings, but I just wrote down some plans and had it and I took a picture of it and I said, put this into a, you know, more readable, you know, presentable form. Boom. Types it out, puts it in bold headings, lays everything out perfectly, like, understood, like, everything that I wrote, you know, put it in there. I did another one. I had, like. It was the craziest thing. I had different categories up on the board at arrows to the different categories, how they would relate to one another. Same thing. Took a picture of it, said, analyze it, you know, put it into a presentable form. That wasn't the exact words I used, but anyhow, I get it. And it was like, almost perfect. Like, it read everything in one case. It, like, I took it in the picture, it captured something else that was on the whiteboard and included it somehow into it. But I'm like, I'm looking at this. I'm just. I'm so impressed. On a daily basis, emails, hey, clean up this email, clean up this text. Hey, here's my thoughts. I write it out. I was putting together some sales plans and, like, here's all this data, you know, I need to put this all together and I kind of type it out, feed it in, and now, now it's remembering. It goes back and remembers all of your previous notes. So as you break stuff down and you analyze and you categorize it and you, and you feed all this data in your previous notes, it's going back and referencing all of that information. I'm just so impressed by it. It's insane. It's just so insane. So Rob is saying that. Yeah, retired. What's that? I just use it for myself. It's turned in. It's almost like Google, you know, it's just like you put stuff in, you get. It's amazing the, the speed at which it puts things together, which is exciting. I get, I just get so fired up about it. It's so cool. All right, so one last thing. What time is it? We're gonna do this drawing. Has everybody typed in yeti? Did every. Did everyone give us a thumbs up? That's the other one. I like that. So Mike's saying, come on, don't forget to hit the thumbs up. Did everybody hit the thumbs up and say, hey, we like it. Having a great time. We're having a blast in here. This super enjoyable because we're getting ready to do this drawing and we want to make sure we do this drawing right and we get everybody in. So this, this is the secret sauce right there, right? Thumbs up, subscribe and bell notification. And maybe if you're lucky, YouTube might even give you the notification. But you have to be one of the lucky few that will get the notification. So I'm still using Hollerith punch cards and you're talking AI. That's right. Those punch cards, they would have this day. You'd feed them in to the computer and that'd be the programming language, right? That's how you'd program to do stuff back in the. The IBMs and man, it was crazy. That's right. That's right. That's how we roll. Gotta dmax smelted a thumbs up. I could. We're smelting things. That's how we roll over here with the, the smelting. So let's, let's throw up one more video. This is an important video. We referenced it. Then we're going to do this drawing. Make sure if you're in the drawing, you're going to have your Zaman wallet ready. Because when you have the Zaman wallet ready, that allows us to quickly transfer the NFT over. So, right. It's a badass yeti. It's a kick ass badass hit. But though YouTube definitely censored YouTube if I say YouTube sensors, they're going to censor us. It's. It's crazy. Things are going really well. We kind of structured it. I can see when. When YouTube starts, like, censoring us a little bit because we don't get recommended to as many videos. People don't find us through the videos, we kind of caught a little bit of a role, and then things kind of taper off, and then you see. When do you get your notifications? Are they rolling out at the right pace? All that good stuff? So. All right, let's add this to the stage. You guys ready? Here we go. This is going to be a good one.
Donald Trump
We're going to be changing sort of the opposite of Biden, where he's closing everything up, essentially getting rid of 50 to 60 trillion dollars worth of assets. We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name. And it's appropriate. It's appropriate. And Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country. They can stop them. And we're going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada, because Canada, they come through Canada, too. And the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers, man.
Jeff
There you go. You heard it here first. I love it. The Gulf of America. That's what I was gonna play, man. It's just like the stuff that's happening. So exciting. So very cool. Here we go. You guys are always very informative. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that. The 50. So what is the 51st state. Is the 51st state going to be Canada or is it going to be Greenland? That's the question. And Greenland seemed to be pretty fired up about wanting to be, you know, purchased by the US That'll be the big Trump purchase, which would be cool. So here we go. We here. Okay, where's the. There it is. We're gonna get ready. Here we go. Let's put this up on the screen, man. We got 29. Somebody out there hasn't registered, hasn't typed in yeti. That one person. There's this one person has to type in yeti. That's it. Oh, yeah. South Korea. South Korea is crushing it with xrp. The amount of crypto asset that's going on over there, it's really impressive, which is really cool. And here you got. Trump isn't even in office yet. He's doing all sorts of deals. People are like, it's amazing. You Know how. How it is, how everything's coming together, you know, it's just so great, so awesome. There you go. Look at that badass yeti right there. So here we go. Are we at 30 yet? 31. Okay, so here we go. Now we can roll. We're gonna hit the draw. This is random. Oh, oh, wait. Oh, I thought I was sharing this. It's a good thing I didn't hit the draw yet. Oh, that's my sound blocker. Here we go. Okay, we're gonna roll. I'm gonna hit it. We're gonna start. We're gonna do a drawing. We're gonna let this go. This is completely random because the system is drawing from what you guys entered. Just got another one. We're 32, so Yowie doesn't work. We're not giving away yowies, but you definitely have to have that XRP Z wallet ready. So here we go. One, two, three. Look foreign. Mark Dyke. So is Mark Dyke. Mark Dyke's still here. You got to say, hey, I'm here, and get ready. If you're not here, we're going to redraw. We're going to re roll again. So it was Mark Dyke. So Mark Dyke, are you here? Not just any Mark. Mike, I thought. Mike, I saw. I thought it was going to be you. Is like right there. It was like borderline. So if Mark Dyke doesn't respond, you guys know what it is. We got to re roll it again. The one night we had to re roll it four times. So Mark Dyke, if you're here, then we noticed there was a. There's a little bit of a delay between when we're talking and when we, you know, post it. So Mark Dyke, Mark Dyke, are you here? You here? Let's see. Mark Dyke, are you here? So we got to give him one second. We're posting in the text. He's not here. We're doing a countdown. And if he doesn't respond, everybody can hear me saying it. So that's it. You know, unfortunately, Mark Dyke isn't here. So now guess what? Ray Ron will be Mark. So guess what we get to do. We're going to draw again. So let's get ready. Roll. Now. If anyone types in, if you type in yeti again, it keeps. It'll add it to the. The entries. If you're already in it, you're already in it because you can only type it once. It only accepts it one time in, counts it up. So here we go. Let's roll again. Time to roll. Look at that LPF X777. So let's see, let the announce that again. LPFX777. LPFX777. Are you here? Say here. All right, this LP FX here. There it is. LPFX is here. You won. You just won a badass Yeti. So what we need is your Zaman wallet address. You throw in your Zaman wallet, say, put your Zaman wallet in your Zama wallet address and we're going to transfer the badass yeti over to you. So do you have your Zaman wallet? If you have your Zama wallet address so we can transfer the badass Yeti over to you would be awesome. Or prob. Robin, we're giving away your. Your NFTs anyways so you can't win your NFT back. All right, everybody congratulate lpfx. But lpfx, we got to get your Zaman wallet. All you have to do, just get your Zaman wallet address and just paste it in here. We'll grab it and we're going to transfer the badass Yeti over to you. Just make sure you let us know. Do you have one yes or no and then post it in there. If you guys see it, let me know because it's hard to. It doesn't always come up on my end for some reason. So I'm going to go into the actual YouTube channel. I gotta watch it over there once I open it up actually in YouTube. But I can go to the control room. I have to go to the control room on YouTube to actually view it. So. Okay, awesome. So LPFX is going to get it. So let me make sure I'm viewing not just the top chat, but the live chat. The top chat covers it up and hides it. Whereas. Okay, so LPFX is going to get the Z wallet address and put it in there and then we'll. We'll update. That'll be very cool. Every. Everybody wants to. It's kind of cool too because this will be, you know, first time win. It's cool to see that, you know, LPFX gets to win a badass yeti. And so we are going to go through and we'll transfer that over here in a minute. So exoteller is saying XRP will hit 10,000. It's no longer a meme. It's real. It's amazing to see the direction that this is actually going in. January 20th is going to be the spectacle because January 20th inauguration date. We get January 20th inauguration date and the mark, the market's January 21st. I. I would anticipate I could be completely off the mark, you know, but I would anticipate that markets across the board, stock crypto is. There's going to be another resurgence of positivity, which would be really, really great, you know. Mark Smithson, Mr. Dyke would like to speak to you. Line five. All right, let me grab line five. All right, I'm monitoring, monitoring the chat over here. So LPFX has to throw in the. Throw in the Zaman wallet and then we'll. We'll be good, man. You know, we're not there. Well, actually not there. Then. Yes, that would be. That'd be awesome to do a marathon live stream on the 20th. That would be. That would be impressive. That would go back to like the heyday right there. Could you imagine just doing a live stream, the whole thing, the inauguration. It'd be even better to do it from there. That'd be even more exciting. So Yeti coffee went well. The show tonight. Oh, that's right. So if you want some. Yeah, but LPFX showed up, is actually here and, and getting. Oh, now Mark shows up. Come on. Mark's here too. Mark, where were you this whole time, man? We had a badass Yeti NFT ready to go. You had won the first round of the drawing and. And then we did a redraw. I was about to. And then we. LPFX won the redraw on the badass Yeti. So what do we do? You know, we might have to give away two, but the only way we can do that, the first thing we need is a Zaman wallet address. So got. We need to see the Zaman wallet address so we can get it up there and we can post it. So I think that would be the fair thing to do. We're amicable like that. I like giving these bad boys away, so it's fair. We're going to split the Yeti. So if, if Mark, you know, if you're able to give us your Mark, if you can type in your Zaman wallet address or you can paste it in there and I can grab it, I can transfer one over to you as well, just like that. And then we need lpfx, but we got to do it here, you know, shortly. Next time I'm going to start this, like 10 minutes to the end because it always seems like everyone should have it right on their phone and it should just be like, right there. You should be able to go into your Zaman wallet, just open it up and just Grab your. Just grab the. The Zaman wallet address. But if you could do that. Mark, do you have it? Do you have your zombie wallet? Can you post it in there? And if anybody sees the LPFX wallet, let me know so we can. So we can get that going. I'm gonna. Yeah, we're gonna arrange it. We're. So here's what we're gonna do. We're going to put together a smart contract. We're going to utilize flare. We're gonna have to wrap the NFT and we're going to transfer it over to Flare. We're going to create a smart contract, and the smart contract will give each a certain amount of time with the NFT and it'll bounce back and forth between any. The wallets that get tied into the smart contract. That would be very cool. And I was going to give one to both of you guys if. But I. But either way, I just need a Zaman wallet address so we can make it happen. So hopefully LP effects. If you have one, type it in there, Mark. If you have one, type it in there. But if not, if we don't get one at all and we have to wrap up, then we're kind of in a bind here. That's interesting. Mark. Mark Dyke was here a minute ago. He said, I'm here, and then he disappeared. He must be like, way, way behind the Mark. Maybe. I don't know. Maybe he's. He might not be. He might be behind. That was part of the problem. But I might have to roll again. Lpfx, if you have a Zman wallet and you can post it, just let us know. Yes, I have it. I'm going to post it. If not, I'm gonna have to draw again, you know, and then we'll give it away. We'll have to give away a whole bunch of them. Who said I was looking? Lpxy. You can just. Just give it to Mark. Mark just. Mark took like 10 minutes to respond. There's Mark over there. So far. Where did I see. All right, so far, no dice. So, Rob, you defended your tribe today. That's it. The first thing I said, like, as soon as we started out, Adrian's right. Is have the Zaman wallet ready. So got 34 people in. I'm gonna roll again. Yep. Just because we haven't gotten a Zaman wallet from anybody. I mean, that should be, boom, you win Zaman wallet. Right? So here we go. I'm gonna. I'm gonna announce that before I do it. Next time, say, hey, get your zombie Wallet ready? Because here we go. We're getting ready to roll, and we're gonna, you know, announce a winner, and I want to do it quick, right? Could you imagine, like, oh, you don't have one. Oh, that sucks. Okay. Got it. Well, it was fun. It was. I'm glad you won. Glad you're here. It was exciting that you got to win. Unfortunately, the only way we can transfer these bad boys is when you have a Zaman wallet through the XRP Cafe. It's easy to get one for. For next time. You can register one, come back in, and win again. So here we go. You guys ready? Who's here? Do we still have people here watching? We have a lot less people here. So here we go. Now we're going to do it quick. So in a roll. Adrian. Look at that. Adrian just won. And Adrian, I believe it's Adrian, was the first one that showed up today. I just want to say that Adrian's also the one that said, hey, you gotta. This is. It's so crazy. It's insane how long it takes to get this done. I don't know. We. We're probably gonna have, like, one person left by the time we do these drawings, because it should be quick, right? We announce it. We roll. You have your Zaman wallet. It's on your phone. You grab it, you paste it, you know, but especially anybody who knows, you know, make sure that you get. You know, you get the Zomban wallet, put it into your keep file, have it ready to go. Just copy, paste, boom. Ready? It's in there. The roll out of the first IBM supercomputer took less time. It did. It actually did. What happened to Adrian? Come on, Adrian. Adrian won. Adrian wins. And then got to make sure you got the. I'm not on the thing to see if the. The Zaman wallet got posted. Adrian. Adrian. He posted it. Seriously? Now I can't see it. It blocked it on my end. But you guys can see it. Can you reap? Rob, is there any way you can. Well, let me see. I can't believe it's posted and I can't see it. Hang on a minute. I'm gonna go on to regular YouTube. All right. Come on, YouTube. Why would you block something? Oh, there it is. Okay, cool. Thank you, Dni. Hang on. Let me see if I can do it from this side. There we go. Got it. All right. Now that's how we roll. Nice. Thank you, Rob. Got it over. DNI Got it over, man. It's good that you guys are here, because now what we're going to do is get our XRP Cafe. Where did it go? I know I have it here someplace. Hang on a minute. I gotta hide that. Let me minimize this. The XRP Cafe. Let me escape out of that. I'm going to play the Trump video again. I'll get to enjoy it. Close that. Oh, you know what? Oh, there it is. Okay, this is going to take. This is what. What happens when you have all these tabs open? Then we got this zom wall. There he is. I found it. All right. Sweet. Look at this badass. All right, so, Adrian, this is the guy we're getting ready to transfer over. So I'm going to do it right now. Just in case, you know, I'm gonna. I'm gonna put over here, and we're going to transfer this over to you. So let me just go over here so I can take care of all of this seamlessly. I'm going to hit transfer, and as soon as it. Now it pulls up the QR code, and I'm going to go to the Zaman wallet. Now this is the fast part. This is how fast and efficient it should be. It's like, you win. Boom. We do this, we hit the QR code, I scan the QR code, and now I'm getting ready to slide over. Accepted. And this badass YETI is on its way over to Adrian. There you go. Done verifying and completed. That was exciting. Congratulations to Adrian. I'm glad that you were able to win. Congratulations also to LPFX for winning, but unfortunately not having a wallet. Congratulations to Mark Dyke for winning, saying that he was here and then we didn't hear from him again. You guys are awesome. This is a lot of fun. Look forward to doing it again. Today is Wednesday. We'll be back Saturday morning, 8:00am Eastern Standard Time. Until then, guys, have a great one, and I am out of here. You ready? Okay, we're gone. 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Podcast Summary: On The Chain - XRP 309% Surge – Is January 20th the Game Changer?
Introduction
In the January 9, 2025 episode of On The Chain - Blockchain and Cryptocurrency News + Opinion, hosted by Jeff, the focus centers on the remarkable 309% surge of XRP and the anticipated impact of January 20th. Tailored for both newcomers and seasoned veterans in the digital asset and blockchain space, this episode delves deep into various facets of XRP’s recent performance, future projections, and broader implications within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
XRP’s 309% Surge and the Significance of January 20th
The episode kicks off with Jeff highlighting the astonishing 309% surge in XRP's value. [00:01] Jeff: “The big question, is January 20th a big game changer? What is January 20th for everybody out there? And what is the XRP 309 surge?”
January 20th is anticipated to be a pivotal date, potentially marking significant developments in regulatory clarity and market dynamics that could further propel XRP's growth. Jeff emphasizes the alignment of these events with XRP's strategic positioning in the market.
Key Meetings and Endorsements
A major highlight includes discussions about Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse's meeting with then-incoming President Donald Trump, showcasing Ripple's growing influence and strategic alliances. Jeff points out, [06:30] Jeff: “Brad Garland House, Stuart Alderotti, with who? That's right, President Trump. So they were hanging out... it's such an amazing, you know, time right now.”
This meeting is portrayed as a symbolic victory for Ripple, reflecting a shift towards more favorable regulatory environments and increased institutional support.
Ripple’s Legal Landscape: SEC vs. Ripple
A substantial portion of the episode is dedicated to the ongoing legal battle between the SEC and Ripple. The discussion underscores the ruling that [42:24] Brad Garlinghouse: “the judge ruled that XRP is not a security,” which Jeff interprets as a transformative moment for the cryptocurrency industry. [43:32] Jeff: “It's Ripple. No, it's XRP. The company is Ripple. The stable coin is RL USD.”
The hosts critique the SEC's prolonged litigation tactics, suggesting that regulatory clarity post-judgment could pave the way for broader adoption and reduced market uncertainty.
RL USD and Adoption Projections
Monica Long, President of Ripple, discusses the expansion and adoption of Ripple USD (RL USD) across various exchanges. When asked about Coinbase’s potential listing, [19:09] Monica Long: “We are continuing to expand distribution and availability of Ripple Dollars on other exchanges... more availability, more announcements coming soon.”
The conversation forecasts significant growth in stablecoin usage, driven by increased demand for reliable on-ramping and off-ramping solutions in the crypto market.
Technological Advancements: XRPL and Zen Wallet
The episode delves into the technological underpinnings of Ripple’s ecosystem, particularly the XRP Ledger (XRPL) and the Zen Wallet. Jeff elaborates on the efficiency and real-time transaction capabilities of XRPL, stating, [30:00] Jeff: “It's the XRPL in real time.”
The Zen Wallet is highlighted as a user-friendly tool that facilitates seamless transactions within the XRP ecosystem, enhancing accessibility for both retail and institutional users.
Community Engagement and Giveaways
Engaging the community, the hosts conduct a live giveaway of a "badass Yeti" NFT, encouraging listeners to participate by typing "yeti" and ensuring they have their Zen Wallets ready for NFT transfers. [28:38] Chad: “Monica, what about other asset types?... secure your Zaman wallet ready.”
The interactive segment not only fosters community participation but also demonstrates practical applications of XRP’s technology in real-time asset transfers.
Geopolitical Implications: Panama Canal and Gulf of America
Jeff and Chad discuss broader geopolitical strategies, such as the rebranding of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and the strategic takeover of the Panama Canal. Jeff remarks, [55:10] Donald Trump: “We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America...”
These discussions tie into Ripple’s vision of leveraging blockchain technology to streamline and enhance global financial infrastructures.
Adoption of XRP in Financial Institutions
The podcast covers Ripple’s integration into major financial institutions, highlighting statements from David Strazewski, CEO of Sound Planning Group, about Bank of America’s internal use of Ripple’s technology. [39:01] David Strazewski: “Ripple actually was the second largest coin prior to the SEC's investigation of them.”
This underscores Ripple’s growing acceptance and trust within traditional banking systems, potentially setting the stage for mainstream financial adoption.
AI Tools in Crypto Analysis
Jeff shares personal anecdotes on utilizing AI tools like ChatGPT for enhancing content creation and data analysis. [55:10] Jeff: “The craziest thing that I've done with Chat GPT... put it into a presentable form.”
This segment highlights the integration of advanced technologies in analyzing and disseminating complex cryptocurrency information efficiently.
Conclusion and Future Outlook
As the episode wraps up, Jeff reiterates the optimism surrounding XRP’s trajectory, emphasizing the anticipated market resurgence around January 20th. The hosts express excitement about upcoming developments and encourage listeners to stay engaged with the community.
Notable Quotes:
Final Thoughts
This episode of On The Chain provides a comprehensive analysis of XRP’s recent surge, the pivotal legal battles shaping its future, and the broader implications within the cryptocurrency and geopolitical landscapes. Through insightful discussions, expert interviews, and community engagement, Jeff and his team deliver a nuanced perspective on the evolving dynamics of blockchain technology and digital assets.