Banking Cartel Part 2 (FREAKY Truth About The Biggest Global Financial Titans)


The titans of traditional finance have maintained their positions at the top through decades of fraud and manipulation, which is why the transparency and decentralization that crypto offers is such a massive threat to these big players. This is why they are now trying as hard as they can to push for regulation of the industry so they can keep their cartel strong in the new era of finance.
Read More Lets get it! Welcome to BitBoy Crypto. My name is Ben and my mission is to help you find financial freedom through crypto assets. If that sounds good, click that subscribe button and don’t forget to hit that bell while you’re at it so you get updated on the content we make every single day. In this video we’re going to continue our series on the incumbent financial cartel with a deep dive into State Street, one of the longest-standing financial institutions in the United States. State Street is a continuation of Union Bank, which was founded all the way back in 1792. It is the one of the largest custodian banks in the world, running a very close second to the largest BNY Mellon. In 1993, State Street launched the first ever ETF, the SPDR S&P 500 Trust, and it remains one of the largest ETF providers in the world today. This firm is so influential that the entire world’s economy is dependent on its stability, or at least that’s what the international Financial Stability Board says, who has labeled the bank as “too big to fail.” This perception of the bank being “too big to fail” is why it was one of the firms that received billions of dollars in bailout funding from the United States government during the financial crisis of 2008. State Street alone received $2 billion as part of a $700 billion bailout package which essentially rewarded the banks that were responsible for the crisis in the first place. Even the SEC later ruled that State Street lied to its customers and investors about its exposure to the risky subprime mortgages that sparked the crisis, but it still didn’t face any serious consequences. However, in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, State Street and other members of the OldFi cartel have become major sources of controversy, as the world starts to pay more attention to the proverbial “man behind the curtain.” The crimes of these firms likely go all the way back to their founding days, but it was much easier for them to get away with robbing the public before the internet came along. This might be why most of the major cases against the firm started to roll in around the turn of the new millennium. The public was also paying much closer attention to what financial institutions were doing after the economic challenges of 2008, because the bailouts provoked so much anger across the entire political spectrum. This event was responsible for the rise of both Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party, two protest movements on opposite sides of the aisle that were both trying to express the same frustrations. Shortly after the bailouts occurred, some very serious cases were filed against State Street. The following year, in 2009, the firm was accused of defrauding pension funds in the state of California. A lawsuit said that between 2001 and 2009, State Street defrauded the pensions of teachers and other public employees. The firm eventually settled with the SEC in 2016, and was forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars as a part of a private class action lawsuit. Then in 2011, two executives from State Street Global Markets were forced to resign from their positions after they were accused of securities fraud and wire fraud after years of skimming off the top of their customer’s portfolios. It took 5 years before they were formally charged by the US Department of Justice, and then another 2 year legal battle before they were finally convicted. Over the years, the allegations of fraud and market manipulation have started to pile up against State Street, and like many other traditional firms, it has been going to great lengths to clean up its reputation. These big players in traditional finance have been positioning themselves as defenders of the environment who are fighting for equality. As we discussed in our previous video about Blackrock, this hypocritical public posturing is a calculated business strategy, not a genuine desire to improve society. They understand that the culture is shifting in a way where people are starting to seriously consider the social impacts that companies have, so instead of being the targets who are under a microscope, these firms are seeking to be in charge of deciding who the bad guys are, which effectively makes them above the law. After claiming to grab the high ground in debates about social impact, firms like State Street have been going on the offensive and using ESG concerns as an excuse to maintain their stranglehold on the markets. As we discussed in previous videos, ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance. This is a term that is used to classify investments based on their social and environmental impacts. Take a look at our breakdown of the FUD around Bitcoin here BUT before you do that, go ahead and smash that like and subscribe button, it really helps us out and tells us that you like this type of content. We all know that big time Wall Street firms are not making the world a better place in any of these areas, but they are too big to fail and too big to jail, so they continue to rule the markets. Some analysts have called the current situation “a growing threat to shareholder democracy,” because the outsized portfolios of the financial cartel also give them an outsized share of the voting rights that push ESG proposals forward. While many involved with the ESG have very positive goals that most of us can agree with, the framework is being taken over by some of the most powerful organizations on the planet, and even the environmentalists who are active in the ESG movement have become wary of influence from these financial institutions. Knowing that State Street and other members of the traditional financial cartel have such strong influence over the ESG narrative, it’s easy to see how they could use this as a weapon to fight against one of their biggest rivals, the growing crypto industry. It seems like this has already begun, with Bitcoin’s proof of work mining algorithm becoming the central point of criticism. Many of these firms are telling the press that they won’t make major investments in Bitcoin unless significant changes are made to reduce its energy use. But, let’s be real, State Street and the rest of Wall Street could care less about energy use or environmental impact, just look at their other investments. They have not cut off investments to any energy companies during all this controversy, and they haven’t stopped backing projects that devastate ecosystems to extract minerals and other valuable resources. So why are they singling out Bitcoin for criticism, while conveniently overlooking these other companies in their portfolio. Well I think the answer to that should be obvious. Comment below with a financial firm YOU think we should look in to next. But that’s all I got. Be blessed. Bitboy out.
🚨ATTENTION Cardano Holders🚨 (Huge ADA Ecosystem Boost TODAY!)


After years of waiting, we are finally seeing the first major DEX launch on Cardano and the market has been reacting in a very strong way. The price of ADA has been rallying this week as the rest of the market has been struggling. Cardano’s day is finally here and that day is…Sunday….SWAP.
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For the past few months, the price of ADA has been taking a breather, ranging between a dollar twenty and a dollar fifty. Some investors were getting impatient and we started seeing a ton of comments about how Cardano was dead, but this couldn’t have been further from the truth. The Cardano ecosystem was just getting started and now we are starting to see activity on the network heating up. In recent weeks, the level of activity on Cardano has been exploding, and at one point even temporarily surpassed activity on Ethereum.
According to data from Messari, Cardano’s transaction volume surpassed Ethereum by nearly $2 billion on January 6th. For that day, Cardano saw $7 billion in transaction volume while about $5.4 billion in transactions passed through the Ethereum network. For those transactions, Cardano generated less than 100K in fees, while fees on Ethereum were over $40 million. We have actually seen something similar play out on Polygon, Ethereum’s most popular scaling solution, which now has more active users than the Ethereum mainnet. Newcomers see the exciting opportunities available with blockchain technology and they want to get involved, but they are usually priced out of the Ethereum mainnet. There are a lot of these people coming into the space, and they are going to end up using the networks with low fees and high transaction speeds because those will be the only chains that they have access to. Maybe that’s why the ADAGANG showed up in full force last week when Vitalik Buterin posted a poll on his Twitter page, asking his followers which currency they would prefer to have their savings in over the next decade. Cardano won the poll by a decent margain with 42% of the votes, and Bitcoin was lagging behind in the number two position with 38.4%. It is very impressive to see the ADAGANG coming in stronger than Bitcoin, considering that BTC would be the default option for most people, because it’s the oldest and most established. This really shows the power of the Cardano community.
This week, one of the biggest stories in the Cardano ecosystem has been the launch of SundaeSwap, the network’s first major DEX. The platform is expected to launch in beta on Thursday January 20th. Surprisingly, they aren’t launching on Sunday. It seems like a missed opportunity to me, but I’m sure they had other things to consider.
offering rewards to early participants, including liquidity providers, and users who decide to delegate their ADA to the ISO.
ISO stands for initial stake offering, and it is a unique funding mechanism used by Cardano, that is similar to an ICO or an IDO. Users will be able to receive SUNDAE tokens in exchange for delegating their ADA to the ISO, but there will also be opportunities to yield farm on the platform and earn SUNDAE tokens that way as well.
If you want to participate in the ISO, you’ll need to make sure that you have your ADA staked in one of the appropriate pools by January 25th, when the first snapshot will be taken. If you miss the snapshot, you’ll still be able to earn Sundae tokens through yield farming over the next 6 months. Yield farming will begin on the platform as soon as it goes live on January 20th.
One thing that you need to be aware about when you decide to delegate to a stake pool, is whether or not the pool actually has room for you. If a stake pool becomes saturated, you should look for another one because your earnings will be lower if you are staked in a saturated pool, and you’ll also be reducing the rewards for everyone else in the pool too. There should be plenty of room for everyone to get in because there are many different pools available, so make sure to pick one that has room so you can earn as much as possible.
Early users have been warned that this is a beta launch, so all of the features won’t be available yet and the network may be a bit slow as it becomes operational and onboards more users, but this is expected in the very early stages of the rollout. Out of all the decentralized exchanges launching on Cardano, Sundaeswap seems to have been getting the most funding, promotion and development support. It will not be the only DEX, but it is looking like it will probably be the most popular on the network. Think about the previous performance of other top DEXES like Uniswap or Pancakeswap, they all experienced incredible growth in value after they launched.
NFTs are picking up steam on Cardano as well, and they have also been seeing incredible growth. NFTs are a great fit for Cardano because NFTs are driven by communities, and Cardano has one of the most powerful communities in crypto.
New NFT projects are launching every day on Cardano, but this week the big story was the launch of Pavia, Cardano’s first active metaverse. Over 60% of the land has already sold, in two different minting events that sold out almost instantly. The next land sale is expected to come sometime in the next few months. There are currently over 8,300 plot land owners in the Pavia metaverse.
This virtual world will also have its own native token that will act as an in-game currency, and the token will initially be airdropped to land holders. Speaking of airdrops, now that we are starting to see exchanges, applications and games roll out on Cardano, you can expect that this ecosystem is going to be exploding with airdrops. Many of these new applications that are going live will want to have centralized governance, or they are just going to want to drive value to their projects through a token. Airdrops have also become a very popular way to bootstrap communities and create hype about new applications, so there is a good chance that many teams will decide to use this method to distribute their token.
But that’s all I got. Be blessed. Bitboy out.
BEST Crypto Safety Guide 101 (Keep Your $$ SAFE with Passphrases)


If you have just started your crypto journey or maybe just crypto curious there is a phrase you’re going to hear it all the time: not your keys, not your crypto. All cryptocurrency has a public address that can be shared with anyone for receiving crypto; and a private key that gives access to move funds OUT of your digital wallet; THAT should never be shared. Proper use of seed phrases and passphrases can help secure private keys. What is a passphrase though, and how do I create one? How do passphrases fit in with seed phrases? If you’re asking this question about your own portfolio security, you’ve come to the right place.
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Let’s define some terms first. Private Keys, Seed Phrases and Pass phrases.
PRIVATE KEY: It’s backbone of crypto assets. It’s the base layer 256 bit randomly generated code of numbers that is made when you make a digital wallet. They look like THIS. But if you had to type that number in to retrieve your Bitcoin, Litecoin or any other crypto asset, that would be very tedious. So the developers made a shortcut that retains the security of a privatekey but is easier to manage.
The SEEDPHRASE is a collection of 12 to 24 words that represent your private key. It can be custom made or randomly generated from the wallet itself. It’s something you should write down on a piece of paper and keep it stored in a safe spot. Most crypto experts suggest memorizing it as well. Either way. If you lose it. Your assets will be gone forever.
PASSPHRASES: a heightened level of security similar to two-factor authentication that you can choose to add to your seed phrase. Passphrases are also called “seed extensions”, “extension words”, “extension phrases”, “13th word” for twelve-word seed phrase wallets, and “25th word” for twenty-four word seed phrase wallets. Whatever it’s being called, a passphrase is an extra layer of security added to your seed phrase, that the user creates themselves.
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We know that means leaving coins on exchanges or storing them in custodial wallets, which gives others ownership of private keys, allowing them to control how much of our crypto we can move, when, and for what cost. It’s a little like keeping a genie in a bottle: giving final say on something as powerful as crypto to someone else. (*cut to “phenomenal cosmic power” scene in Aladdin1*). Passphrases can be added to your wallet configuration. Once you set a passphrase, it has to be entered every time you run your wallet. This is unlike the seed phrase, that you write down when you configure your wallet, store it somewhere safe and only use it when you need the wallet to be restored.
By default, wallets leave passphrases blank, and some don’t support passphrases at all. To add a passphrase to a Leger or Trezor wallet for example, passphrase configuration can be found in advanced settings. Enter any passphrase you want, and make sure you remember it.
Choosing a good passphrase can be tricky. They should be complicated and randomized, but easy enough to remember. A conventional passphrase like “to the moon” and don’t get me started on “diamond hands”, is easy to guess especially considering there is password cracking software out there, and hackers are using it. Your favorite movie quote or song lyric? Same applies. They’re too easy to guess.
A good passphrase should be strong and memorable, and be at least four words in length. Wallet platforms allow different character length limitations. Trezor allows fifty characters, while Coldcard and Leger allow a hundred. You have to consider how often you will log in to your wallet, and how likely it is that you will remember the password. It’s always best to back up the password with pen and paper, and keep it safe in a fireproof vault. There are also many encrypted digital password managers that provide a safe way to store your passcode.
No matter what you choose as your passphrase, and how you choose to store it, remember to assess the risk if you forget or lose it, and act accordingly.
Once you set a passphrase, a wallet can no longer be recovered with a seed phrase alone. This means that if you lose your hardware device or something happens to the phone2 or computer where a software wallet is stored, you’ll need the seed phrase and the passcode.
Also, when you set a passphrase and put some crypto into your wallet, you will see your crypto. If you install a second wallet using just the seed phrase without the passphrase, the new wallet will show a zero balance, even if there’s crypto in it. This could lead some to panic, especially if you’re new to wallet configuration and security. Once the passcode is set, it’s necessary for all wallets to be configured with the same seed phrase and passphrase.
This is why a passphrase is an excellent tool, but it can also be a risk. Because a passphrase is an added layer of security that only you know, it can quickly become a single point of failure that could allow all the crypto in that wallet to be inaccessible, forever. This is true also with the seed phrase, but many users are now accustomed to storing seed phrases properly when they configure their crypto wallets. With a passphrase, the user may assume that they will remember the phrase, but if they don’t back it up properly by writing it down and storing it somewhere separate and offline, it could spell trouble. There’s no “forgot my passphrase” button. If it’s lost or forgotten, so is the crypto.
Do you need a passphrase? If you have a lot of crypto and you’re very careful with recording and storing its backup information, it might be a good idea. If you’re the type to store seed phrases meticulously on a steel plate or in a fireproof safe, a passphrase can be an added level of security that you might want to use. If, on the other hand, you have seed phrases written down and stored in forgotten places, well, a passcode might add another possibility for crypto to be lost forever. Don’t worry, I know you’re better at safekeeping your crypto than that, but there have been plenty of stories of people losing millions to lost seed phrases, keys and passwords.
In a lot of these cases of lost crypto, the problem is that when the crypto was initially bought or mined, it wasn’t worth much. It seems less critical to back up a wallet with a few hundred dollars worth of crypto in the wallet, and it usually doesn’t get the same care as, say, a wallet that holds a bitcoin or two. That’s why it’s always best to backup passcodes and wallet restoration information as if the coins are worth a million dollars. Because who knows, some day, they might be.
Passphrases, seed phrases and private keys only work on a non-Custodial wallet, which means a wallet that you own the private keys to. The first indication that a wallet is non-custodial is when you are prompted to record a seed phrase to set up the wallet. A custodial wallet means that someone else has custody of the private keys, like an exchange or custodial wallet platform.
Examples of non-custodial hardware, or cold storage, wallets that store crypto offline are: Exodus, Leger, Trezor, KeepPay, and Cold Card. Examples of non-custodial software wallets that store crypto online are: Crypto.com, MetaMask, Bitpay and Trust Wallet.
Examples of custodial wallets that don’t give users private keys, and no option to create a passphrase to secure their crypto, are: Coinbase, FreeWallet, Binance, and BitMEX.
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Although less secure, some customers prefer custodial wallets because there is less risk involved in making a mistake, or losing the information needed to restore a non-custodial wallet. Custodial wallets are a great way for beginners to start purchasing and storing crypto. Just don’t forget to use strong passwords and two-factor authentication, like google authenticator to verify login attempts and withdrawals. You can also use hardware security keys with some wallets, like Coinbase. Security keys are encrypted USB devices that can be registered to a Coinbase account, and are small enough to fit on a keychain. Like everything we’ve talked about today, the security key can be lost, so it’s best to register multiple security keys and have a backup. Setting up any two-factor authentication can usually be done in the platform’s security settings.
We stand by: “not your keys, not your crypto”, and prefer non-custodial wallets that give users their own private keys, and allow them to move their crypto, and secure it, in any way they want. This is crypto afterall, a way to have ownership over money in a way that has never been done before.
So let’s review: non-custodial wallet means owning private keys. Private keys should never be shared and represent final control and ownership of cryptocurrency.
Public keys facilitate transactions and verify the digital signature: a wallet address is basically a hashed version of the public key. Both public keys and wallet addresses can be shared with other people.
Seed phrases are generated when a new wallet is created, and can restore a crypto wallet. And finally, passphrases are an optional extension of the seed phrase, created by the user.
Once a passphrase is set up, it has to be entered with the seed phrase in order for the wallet to be restored. Seed phrases and passphrases should be recorded somewhere safe and never be shared. Crypto is about decentralization and self sovereignty. You control your wealth. Not banks. Not governments. Not your great uncle. If you’re watching this video, your ahead of the curve and well on your way to securing your future.
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UNBELIEVABLE Crypto Returns CRUSH Banks by 2500%! (MIND-BLOWING ROI)


Let’s be real. If you walk into your local bank to make a new account and you ask them about their interest rates…you’re about to have a pretty sad conversation. You would think that the banks would want to give you a real incentive to choose them over their competitors, right? Wrong. Unfortunately for us, they won’t even give us 1%. Many banks these days are offering a “high yield” savings account for the grand total of 0.5% APY. This means, if you were to deposit one thousand dollars into one of these “high yield” bank accounts and didn’t spend a penny for an entire year, you will make staggering 5 dollars. Oh hang on BENS HOLD UP HIS CELL PHONE. Inflation is at least 7%? Ok so you actually lost $65. This is not sustainable or fair and it’s why crypto is well on its way to changing the face of finance forever. When that happens, the banks will be the first ones to go. One thousand dollars has much more financial leverage than you think, but you have to look outside of the box of the legacy system for that to be true. There’s an array of crypto lending/ borrowing platforms you could use to outperform the banks, but today, we’re going to focus in on the high interest rate accounts available NOW using crypto.
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You’ve been told since you were born that the safest way to store your money was to put it in the bank. And for a time that was true. But after 1971, when Richard Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard, the foundation for banking has started to fracture. And today it’s a husk of what it used to be for the average investor or even working class American. The interest rate on a savings account in 1970 as about 8%. Since then it’s slid to .55% in 2021. That’s hardly keeping up with anything and losing to inflation every year. So that’s a scam if I’ve ever seen one. But what if you just need a safe place to store your cash for a while, away from scallywags, robbers or your deadbeat father in law. But “banks keep my money in a safe and all the money is insured right”? Wrong.
As of March 6th 2020 the reserve rate for Banks, or how much cash they must hold on hand, was reduced to zero. So if there is a crisis like a hack, or global internet outage and a bank run ensues….there won’t be anything to hang out except crusty old lollipops. Crypto Lending Services started popping up around 2017; Nexo, Celsius and Blockfi were some of the first crypto loan platforms and the first in the world to offer its users instant loans. All of these platforms boast millions users, support dozens of different cryptos and has over tens of billions in assets under management. What’s great about a CLS is that all of your assets are placed directly into a custodial savings wallet, instead of just sitting in a position with your fingers crossed hoping the price goes up; you’re earning interest on your assets just by keeping them on the platform.
This is a great way to put your money to work, earn passive income and it’s an especially attractive feature for traders who plan on hodling for the long term. Also, unlike banks that pay out interest once a month a CLS will pay out your interest once a week or even every day. If you like learning about crypto and financial freedom, we make videos every day, so go ahead and smash the like and subscribe button and don’t forget to hit the notification bell so Youtube stops hiding our videos from you.
So compared to the generous half of a percent a bank would give you to keep your money with them, you can expect to make somewhere between 5-17% on your assets by using a CLS. How much interest you make depends on what asset your holding and your loyalty level. (breakdown) Keep in mind, this is not staking, this is simply the interest rate you’ll earn on your assets for keeping them on Nexo. Unlike several other platforms, Nexo and Celsius have their own token, named NEXO and CEL respectively. Your loyalty level correlates to your interest rates and is based off what percentage of your portfolio is made up of their tokens.
For instance Less than 1% of NEXO is the base loyalty level, 1-5% for Silver, 5-10% for Gold and above 10% for platinum. If you live in America, you can hold and gain interest on NEXO tokens, but you currently cannot sell them. There’s still an incentive to hold some NEXO to increase your interest rates and decrease your loan rates. You can add an additional 1-2 percentage to your interest rate if you agree to get paid in NEXO or hold your assets in a “fixed term” for a specified amount of time. So compared to the 0.5% at the bank, how much are we talking here? On a fixed term, with base level loyalty, i.e. having no NEXO in your account at all, you can earn 10-13% if you hold DOT, MATIC or AVAX, 5% for most other coins, including BTC, ETH, ADA and XRP, and for stablecoins, which are coins pegged to the dollar, the interest rate is 8%.
Why is this important? Well first of all, with stablecoin interest, you can make 8-10% on your money without taking the risk of trading. Compared to the banks, is it even up for debate for which is better? Some people will argue that the “banks are safer” and all that jazz, but Nexo is insured up to 375 million by BitGo and Ledger. The reason they are able to pay this much interest on your assets is because they generate money by lending your assets out to institutions on an over-collateralized basis. This means that the collateral is worth more than enough to cover potential losses in case they were to default.
This is a crucial ingredient to how their business works because it protects their users and keeps their interest rates stable. Because crypto isn’t regulated the same way banks are, there’s much more wiggle room to give a percentage of the money they generate back to their users. Companies like Celsius also generate money through the interest rates they charge from giving out loans to their users. On this platform, the loan rates are between 0-13.9% APR based off your loyalty level, how much you borrow from them and how much of your crypto you decide to put up for collateral. With Celsius, you can get a loan without a credit check and get approved instantly.
There’s no paper work, no impact on your credit score and you’ll receive your funds within one day. If you need to leverage some crypto to make a big purchase, the best part is, with a crypto credit line, when you spend it, you don’t have to pay capital gains taxes like you would have had to if you converted your normal crypto to fiat. (source) Yes, you still have to pay them back plus interest, but you can do this on your own time and there’s no installments or fixed payment schedule. They will automatically charge your collateralized crypto if your LTV ratio exceeds 83.33% in order to keep that ratio below 83.33%.
The LTV or “Loan to Value” is the amount of crypto you have to put up in order to take out a loan. For example, if you put up $5,000 and you borrowed $2,500, your LTV would be 50%. It’s best to make sure you keep your LTV ratio in a safe range to avoid losing some of the crypto you put up for collateral. Once you pay off your loan, you get your crypto you put up back, no questions asked. Celsius recently put out a tweet celebrating their winning 2021 BlockchainFest award for Best Cefi Lending Platform.
The point of this video is to educate and inform our viewership, the Bitsquad, so you can empower yourself and gain financial freedom. If you’re new to crypto, I highly suggest checking out these financial services and learn how to put your money to work. You don’t even have to deal with the risk of trading if you don’t want to; get your feet wet and make 8% on your money using stable coins instead of losing to a bank. You’re not doing yourself any favors by making 0.5% a year. Life hack. The goal is to accumulate wealth over time. A great way to do that is to get out there and provide yourself with multiple streams of passive income. Everyone has to work to make money, but once you have money, put that to work too! When you add it all up at the end of they year, you’ll be glad you did.
That’s all I got, be blessed. BitBoy out!
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