Black Swan Virus Returns? Gematria Just Dropped Major Ripple XRP Clues!

Añadido: 2026-05-17

[00:00:03]Hey guys and welcome to the working money channel. This video includes paid promotion. Well, take a look at the Bitcoin chart. It's having a heck of a time trying to get up past these levels in here, guys. We hit a high or rather Bitcoin hit a high of about 82,800 over the last week or so. I guess I should say this is the hourly chart and uh as you guys can see, Bitcoin still reaching to try to get up to that high. As of the time of this recording though, we are seeing a big drop over the last couple of hours. A couple of drops here on lower volume, but price is moving. I mean uh I mean they're not huge bars, but uh mediumsiz I guess we could say mediumsiz candlesticks on low volume.

[00:00:41]Not looking good. Currently the Bitcoin price is uh just about 80,500 per coin.

[00:00:48]Um you know, it's going to be a heck of a time getting up past these levels. We can see though crypto sentiment still smack dab in the middle at neutral. So 50% bearish, 50% bullish. You can see average crypto RSI is also somewhere in the middle there. And the market cap is only up by 0.4 or sorry 04%. We haven't seen a big numbers here on the charts for quite a while. When is that next crypto move going to happen? Is it going to be bullish or is it going to be bearish? Very, very good questions. I know I've been having debates. There are so many people who think uh we are going to continue to go up. put it down in the comments if that's you. Uh then some people saying you know no I mean uh it is looking like we are approaching some uh well some factors that's going to get the market down again. Sentiment uh here posting this according to our onchain data though XRP ledger uh now has reached an all-time high of about 332,230 wallets holding at least 10,000 XRP. So holders growing. Okay. The XRP ledger did just reach this new all-time high getting up past uh that level I guess that we saw at the end of January, early February right after we saw that big dump right for XRP. So holders have been accumulating guys obviously uh to the tune of over 10,000 XRP. Uh so what does that mean? Historically rising numbers to mid to large wallets suggest increasing conviction from investors who are less focused on short-term price swings and more interested in long-term positioning. This is especially notable because XRP has spent much of 2026 trading below previous highs, meaning many holders appear willing to accumulate during fear rather than chasing the momentum. So, has this been fearful enough for you guys? Hey guys, I'm just going to interrupt this video for a second. Here's a word from one of today's video sponsors. All right, so I've been following Fortis X for quite some time, and what I like is that they continue to move towards greater transparency and security. Fortisx is designed for long-term crypto holders who want to put their assets like XRP to work through liquidity pools instead of simply holding them idle. Over the past months, the team has completed audits with Certic and Cybercope. On top of that, they made the company publicly visible through the SEC Edgar filings and recently launched a $50,000 CERTC bug bounty program so independent security researchers can continuously test the platform. They clearly keep investing in security and transparency, which is exactly what I want to see from a project I share with my audience. So guys, if you've been holding XRP for the long term and want to learn more, check out the link in the description of the video.

[00:03:23]Right guys, remember investing is inherently risky. Always diversify your investments. This is not financial advice. says down here, "As for a sharp drop of more than 4,500 of these 10K wallets between February 6th and February the 8th that you see here, uh there does not appear to be one confirmed XRP specific direct uh XRP specific event directly tied to it." So, it's not like they're saying, "Oh, because of this, this is why we're accumulating XRP." Uh, you know, I think it just has to go back to supply and demand fundamentals. Just going to bring up the XRP chart here for a second just to show you guys XRP in that same boat.

[00:04:00]This is the XRP hourly chart. You guys can see over the last couple of hours, same thing for XRP. And now we are printing a brand new hour here on the chart. Starting off uh bullish, at least as of now. Compare that to Bitcoin. Same thing. So, I guess we're just going to have to wait and see. But we've also got White House crypto advisor Patrick Wit, guys, on the strategic reserve. Remember that strategic crypto reserve that we were talking about months ago? These assets are the new architects of the financial future. Patrick Wit confirms that the administration is working diligently to implement the strategic reserve which does still include XRP Salana 88 alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum. A couple of the OGs there.

[00:04:36]This is courtesy of Bank XRP. Anyway, here's what Patrick Wit had to say about that.

[00:04:40]>> So, when it comes to the current administration, what's the thinking when it comes to Bitcoin in terms of a strategic asset? Well, we uh we talked about it a little bit out in Las Vegas.

[00:04:51]Uh we will be making an announcement around the strategic Bitcoin reserve digital asset stockpile in the coming weeks. Um obviously the president signed the executive order last year and that was really a starting gun for the agencies to go implement. Uh we've continued to work diligently. My deputy Harry Jung has done an incredible job of leading that inter agency uh effort in order to uh get this on solid footing and uh we'll be rolling out some announcements with that. but uh properly safeguarding these assets, making sure that the United States leads on on Bitcoin and other critical assets and starts to view these in the same way that that we would view gold or that we treat our own currency. It's critically important for our national security. I think President Trump was really the first one to come along and say that economic security, a lot of the issues in that space are issues of national security. Um, one of the pillars that that underwrites American hegemony around the world in addition to our military and our judicial system is our place in global financial markets. And so these assets are the the new infrastructure, the new architecture of of the financial future. And we need to be leading on these and and thinking very very uh forward in terms of how we're approaching these assets.

[00:06:00]>> So pretty straightforward answer there.

[00:06:01]Uh you know cryptocurrency is going to be valuable. Which ones? Of course, uh well, the list is up there, but uh you know, some of you know, not all cryptocurrencies are going to be treated the same, guys. Remember, 50 million, over 50 million. I can't believe the number is that high. Feels like just a few years ago was just under 20 million, but 50 million currently exist. And so, 99% of them, if they do, fall to the wayside. What does that mean? Invest in cryptos that uh well, are going to have a future. And if you guys want to follow me, I'm going to be updating the Patreon subscribers today. I know I said I was going to do it over the last couple of days, but I just uh ran out of time. I had a lot to do. Uh patreon.com/workingmoney channel. This is where I'm outlining my crypto trading journey. I made 1,200 over 1,200% in the last cycle. I cashed out. Yes, I am still holding a portion of my XRP for the long term. But you know, I'm happy I cashed out where I did. Prices are going down lower, lower than where I sold. So, you know what?

[00:06:53]I'm already up. Follow me patreon.com/workmoney channel if you want to see what I'm doing this round. The Monx Group in Canada, they just uh released their financial results, guys. And uh you know these XRP ETFs have been adopted in Canada. Well uh well there's an XRP one.

[00:07:06]There's also a Salana one. The XRP one has about 45% market share. And Salana at 66. So uh they did just release these results. Salana and XRP uh which were listed with the Toronto Stock Exchange secures and maintains a high market share as they uh as they mention here.

[00:07:22]So check out that market share 45 and 66%. Of course, these cryptos are uh you know, among the most popular uh you know, and the institutional players, they know the inside scoop. They know uh you know, companies like DTCC are going to be running on XRP ledger rails. An executive over there at DTCC did just sit down with NASDAQ business news. The SEC no action letter has given DTCC a three-year timeline to unlock $114 trillion in onchain opportunity. This courtesy of Chart Nerd. Here's what he had to say. We are on a path over the next few months to deploy our tokenization service. And so what is that? It's it's really the tokenization of assets of that 115 trillion of assets that we that we talked about at DTC in the sort of just just after Christmas sort of just before the the end of the year time frame. We we received a a no action relief from the SEC which allows us with some level of regulatory certainty over the next three years for a particular set of securities that make up that in our depository to allow us to to engage our clients and to offer that tokenization service which I think is a real unlock that maybe didn't otherwise exist before right our our highly regulated clients that interact with us now have some level of regul regulatory certainty around interacting with our tokenization model >> so he's actually sayingund in 15 trillion. So, uh, looks like this is a typo here, but you know, in 2026, we're going to be seeing way more tokenization. It's just going to be a parabolic change, I think. Um, you know, they're already talking about it in terms of, uh, well, institutional trade.

[00:08:56]Uh, but investment firms like Van has also identified the XRP ledger as a blockchain network capable of handling significant settlement and going up toe-to-toe with Swift. This one courtesy of Michael Branch, VANC is no small player either, guys. They just flagged the XRP ledger as emerging settlement layer challenging Swift DTCC. Well, DTCC is going to be running on the XRPL and JP Morgan Rails. VanX latest assessment of the XRP ledger is fueling institutional debate over the future of global settlement infrastructure. And so uh he was just highlighting Smoke's uh tweet here with regards to this statement. Van has officially identified the XRP ledger and blockchain infrastructure. Of course, we're looking at quadrillions of dollars eventually.

[00:09:37]So uh here are the uh the guys over there at VANX, senior investment analyst and the head of digital asset research.

[00:09:43]They did uh just do a um or put out a report here. The rise of corporate blockchain settlement goes on chain and value is going to be captured going in house. Okay. Since the beginning of 25, altcoins like Ethereum and Salana have fallen by 40 and 57% respectively while an index of crypto equities are down about 4%. The divergence reflects a deeper shift. Corporations are capturing the settlement economics that previously flowed to uh public chain tokens. Uh even with a more permissive regulatory environment under a bitcoin president value is migrating from protocol tokens to the equities and infrastructure providers building corporate blockchains corp chains as they put it here. So looking at who is um going to be changing the monetary system not just focusing on any old crypto. And guys, look at this. Corporate blockchains. One of them being used here or one of these uh chains that they've identified is the XRP ledger. So, VANC also very bullish.

[00:10:38]Wanted to thank uh Smoke wanted to thank Michael Branch, Chart Nerd, Bank XRP, and Santiment just for posting those.

[00:10:44]Now, we also have this one uh with regards to the Clarity Act. Michael Branch uh also confirming the new Clarity Act text is out. Experts claim XRP looks strong in the details. Of course, the Clarity Act is not just for XRP. XRP already has clarity uh you know as per the uh the verdict from the the ongoing very very long lawsuit that we had to endure over the last few years but um you know Ripple Bullwinkle essentially outlines it here. It was a 309 page Senate bill which I talked about yesterday. It's structurally legally and foundationally bullish in ways almost nobody is talking about yet though. So it starts with the definition sections through page uh 4 through 21.

[00:11:20]The Clarity Act creates a category called a network token. So this is uh this is where I think we're going to see some divergence with um you know the many cryptocurrencies that exist versus particularly network tokens. A digital asset intrinsically linked to a distributed ledger, one that deres value from the network's use, not from a company's profit. So enter XRP. XRP derives its value from the XRP ledger.

[00:11:45]So from payments, from settlement, from utility, not from Ripple's profits. So identifying uh a network token specifically. Now, here's the section that made me stop to reread it three times. Uh, and he outlines the section here. If a court already found a transaction was not a security before enactment, that asset cannot be reclassified as a security. So, guys, the Ripple ruling is now into federal law. Judge Torres ruled that XRP uh secondary market sales were not security transactions. That is the final ruling.

[00:12:12]So, banks, credit unions, their subsidiaries explicitly authorized to use digital assets for payments, custody, clearing, and settlement. Every bank that's been watching Ripple's ODL rails from the sidelines just got their green light. Now, of course, uh the clarity is still uh in draft phase. It has not yet been uh signed into law.

[00:12:30]Hasn't passed yet, but what's in the document is the most favorable regulatory framework for XRP ever put on paper by the US government. So, uh wanted to thank Ripple Bullwinkle there just for uh for outlining that because I don't think uh all of you guys read the 309 pages. I certainly did not. I read some of it. But you know this is this is incredibly important because we know there needs to be the regulatory clarity but you know and which coins again which coins are going to really capture uh and really kind of benefit from that regulatory clarity. XRP. It's good to see that uh you know it is being emphasized here. XRP network token and uh you know through some of this um through through some of this bill through some of this uh text here. It makes it very clear XRP is going to be one of the winners uh if not one of the bigger winners from this bill. So great news there guys. Wanted to thank Ripple Winkle for that. Uh we've also got Chart Nerd here noticing something interesting. All the new BIS governors that were just announced the other day.

[00:13:32]Fabio Panetta, Gabrielle Galipolo, Michelle Bullock and Cazo Uea. Well, they all have ties to Ripple guys. Uh Fabio from Italy. Well, in Tessa S.

[00:13:42]Paulo, they already deploy Ripple custody. Uh from Brazil, Ripple applying for a VASP license as we know. Uh in Australia, Ripple is securing the AFSL and active the RBAled project, Acacia.

[00:13:55]And uh in Japan, of course, longtime SBI Ripple partner. So interesting to see that all these central bank governors that have been just recently appointed do also have connections to Ripple and I think you know as uh you know in 2018 and 2019 it wasn't as obvious who was going to be connected to Ripple but I feel like now Ripple has made so much progress over the last decade that uh you know we're going to start to see I mean the connections just become clearer and clearer but the connections become more plentiful as the years go on as well. Regardless it is all great news.

[00:14:26]Wanted to thank Chartner Nerd for pointing that out. Now guys, in the news, we have been uh noticing some interesting things with regards to uh well, the financial landscape and Donald Trump uh making an important trip to China. So, it looks like they're on good terms. Looks like uh you know, the trade talks are opening up. But guys, it's not only that, he's expected to arrive in Beijing on Wednesday to meet President Xi Jinping. And guys, he's bringing CEOs from all over the United States of America, including Elon Musk, Tim Cook of Apple, okay? Yensen Huang of Nvidia, Kelly Ortberg, CEO at aerospace manufacturer Rockwell Collins. Uh, and here's a list of other people that are going to be showing up. Larry Frink of course from BlackRock. uh the Blackstone chairman, Cargill chairman, city chairman, uh Coherurren uh CEO, the uh GE of aerospace, Goldman Sachs chairman, Aluminina CEO, Mastercard CEO, the Meta President, so from uh Facebook Meta, uh Micron chairman, Qualcomm, Visa, guys, these are heavy hitters. So, you know, it makes me wonder what the heck is going on. Is Donald Trump going to be making a deal that will permanently change the fabric of how the United States trades? I mean, he did uh just post this uh I guess on his truth social, Donald Trump on a $100 bill.

[00:15:44]Notice this, though, the 241 in the bottom uh corner of that bill. And guys, we're already starting to make the connections. 214. Of course, those numbers uh not in the correct order, but guys, you know, I'm noticing other signs as well. Of course, we've been hearing about this uh this latest virus that has been going around. Let's start with the obvious. This is coming from uh Dr. Monica Gan. Now, I'm not going to go over this entire tweet thread. I don't uh you know, this is not a a medical video, but I do want to point something out. The beer flu, okay, that started in 2020 and now we have this, okay, this particular virus, H virus. One thing I want to show you guys here is that interest in this virus worldwide has popped since about May, let's see, um what was it here? Let's call it May, early May. Okay, May 2nd to May 9th, guys. it went from pretty much from 0 to 100 on the Google Trends scale. So, obviously we've been hearing news about this. The other thing I wanted to just point out here was uh you know I mentioned the beer flu in 2020 and uh the reason I mentioned that just going to put the Bitcoin chart on the daily uh just to show you guys where we were in 2020 in terms of uh well we had the beer flu right beer flu really did shut down everything that was uh in and around here March 2020 markets all around the world did dump but then guys look at what we saw from there an a huge rise okay a huge rally for the king crypto.

[00:17:11]Of course, this was an historic time for cryptocurrencies. Uh, you know, a lot of people made a lot of money. If you were holding XRP at this time, you were kind of upset that XRP was mired in a lawsuit. But, uh, regardless, XRP did still make some gains. This was the bullish phase for the last cycle. And guys, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, they rallied uh over 1,400% in that last rally. Now, of course, uh you know, it was not because of the beer flu, but that was the catalyst for this rally.

[00:17:39]Some are suggesting that maybe now that we're getting word of this uh brand new virus, this could potentially start something uh well, maybe revitalize markets. I had a Patreon subscriber point me in this direction, guys, when you put this word into the geometria calculator. Okay, it's very interesting what you end up finding here. Okay, I'm just going to uh scroll down. First of all, just going to keep scrolling here.

[00:18:05]What you find when you go down here and uh you take a look. First of all, I want to point out you find 589. Okay, f first of all, you find that 589.

[00:18:20]Not to mention, you also find this right down here when you take a look. All right, it's right up here. Ripple moon.

[00:18:30]So 589 ripple moon. But then he told me something else that I found interesting.

[00:18:35]Uh and I had to look it up with Google myself. Uh he was basically saying that the Andes virus is a type of antivirus.

[00:18:42]So yes, the Andes virus is a specific type of antivirus found in South America, particularly in Chile and Argentina. Now guys, when you put in Andes virus in the geometria calculator, no, I'm not making this up. This is uh confirmed. And I'm just going to show you guys here. And you scroll down here.

[00:19:02]The other thing you notice, boom. Okay, let's uh let's bring it up here. Phoenix coin, meaning the phoenix is going to rise from the ashes. But not only that, guys, the triccalion, which is in fact the Ripple logo. So boom goes the dynamite. Are we seeing something that uh I don't know, maybe could be the catalyst for another bare market very soon? I mean, I don't know, guys. I mean, I've got my opinions. You guys probably already know that I'm not a super bull right now. Nevertheless, I think there's room for uh well for everybody in the crypto space. Follow me if you want to see what I'm doing.

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