How To Get Started With Crypto In 2026 (Zero To Hero)

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]So, um, you threw a lot out there, but for the people that are kind of just tuning in, um, >> [snorts] >> what is crypto and why should people invest in it?

[00:00:07]>> Good question.

[00:00:07]>> Super basic.

[00:00:08]>> Yeah.

[00:00:09]>> I mean, basically, it is the I would I mean, I call it the I mean, the modern-day like greatest investment like area in the whole planet, basically. It's the biggest wealth transfer in history. We've seen assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, even Solana, right? Go from literally like I remember buying Ethereum for $8 back in 2016.

[00:00:29]>> Wow.

[00:00:29]>> Right now, it's what? Like $2,300, right? It's all-time high was $4,800.

[00:00:34]That first cycle, it went from $0.25 to $0.50. It topped out at $1,400.

[00:00:40]Bitcoin, where I saw it where I got it, you know, where I got in, it was like $400 and went up to 20 grand. This is back in 2017.

[00:00:48]And like something even like Solana, like Solana in the in the cycle like when we came when we came when we did the mega course last time in Q4 of 2022, Solana was like $7.

[00:01:00]It went to 300. Right? And, you know, this is kind of like some of the research that we do for guys is like we we go over like, okay, during a bear market, a lot of projects shut down. And we And one of the big things that we're doing in the background is figuring out, okay, what's surviving? What's got the financial backing? Is the community still alive? Sure, the charts wrecked.

[00:01:17]We're not talking about Bitcoin, Ethereum. We're talking about like the alts and stuff, right? But, also we give guidance on when's the best time to kind of buy into Bitcoin and Ethereum. One One of the big things that that we did or I did as well with Charlie is you know, we gave recommendations when to stop buying Bitcoin, which I know for the Bitcoin maxis that's crazy, but you know, we were telling guys to buy Bitcoin back in '22 and '23 at 15,000, 25,000 dollars, mostly around that range. And where I told our guys to kind of stop DCAing was around 52,000, which was a very very powerful psychological level because that's the trillion-dollar market cap for Bitcoin. And that's still in profit right now. All that Bitcoin that we bought is still in the money now. This is why it's not it's not hard for a lot of our guys to hold our Bitcoin or Ethereum. Like we bought Ethereum at $700 and it went up to it went up to $4800. It crashed back down. It's still at $2000. Even even back in '25, remember when it crashed to $1400? We were all calling each other and everything like that. That's still in profit right now.

[00:02:14]>> Yeah.

[00:02:14]>> Still in profit right now.

[00:02:16]>> Damn.

[00:02:16]>> And this is why it's so important during like those flash crashes when things go bananas to to buy. But it's the biggest wealth transfer because basically Wall Street's basically accepted, okay, bit crypto Bitcoin is here to stay. The tech is real. They're they're slowly starting to adapt it right now.

[00:02:30]>> Wall Street's throwing hell of money into it. I mean, like I said, not all the money that's in Bitcoin and Ethereum's ETF right now together is what? Almost $70 billion.

[00:02:40]That's just the money that's there right now. That's not total volume of inflow outflows. Total volume is probably like almost $200 billion that's been going in and out of Bitcoin and Ethereum for the last 2 years since January of 2024.

[00:02:55]And like you know, if you look at price as the main reason of why you should get into an asset or something, Bitcoin and Ethereum year on year their average over their entire lifespan has beat every other traditional asset in in the market like hands down.

[00:03:09]So, if you're looking at Bitcoin and Ethereum as a long-term store of value, you're they're going to go up. I mean, you'd be stupid to think that Wall Street's just going to adopt it this cycle and abandon it next cycle. If you listen to Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, he's like, real world assets, tokenized securities, equities, stocks, that's what we want to go for. 24/7 365 market. He's hell-bent on that. That's why BlackRock has put so much money into it. And then you had Stanley Druckenmiller who's pretty good at different hedge funds and very successful on Wall Street. And he basically said, I hate that Bitcoin exists because I'd rather have that money go towards gold. But the fact that it does exist means it's going to basically stick because the brand is going to stick. And then also he said, stablecoins. He said in 10 to 15 years is going to be what everything in banking runs on simply because they're way more efficient and they're way faster and they're way easier for people to use than anything in finance right now. And so one rule, this is the best part. One rule in terms of price, right? So the the one rule about Bitcoin and Ethereum is the more stable coins that come into the market, the higher the price goes.

[00:04:16]Why? Because now that money is on the blockchain easy to spend on Bitcoin and Ethereum and people tend to do that more. And so because stable coins are going to go towards ubiquity here in the next 10 to 15 years, you're going to have Bitcoin running towards gold's market cap.

[00:04:31]Bitcoin's market cap right now is 1.5 billion dollars or less, 1.2, something like that. And or probably what 1.5 to 2 billion, somewhere in there.

[00:04:40]>> Billion, right?

[00:04:40]>> Trillion, sorry, my bad. Yeah.

[00:04:42]I just added an extra zero. No, a couple zeros, right?

[00:04:46]But basically gold is around 35 trillion, something like that. Of course, it'll probably go towards 50 and Bitcoin will go towards like 10, 20, 30 in the future. I would say by 2033 to 2040 you're going to get your first million dollars per Bitcoin. And that so that's all, you know, price. If you're like, "Hey, I just want to get into this to make money."

[00:05:05]Beautiful. But if you also want to store your money in there and have it as a place that can't be confiscated, or if you have your money in the bank, government doesn't like you, come in, shut you down, right? Any country in the world, that's possible. Whereas with Bitcoin, if you have that money or Ethereum, too, you can use that all across the world, all across DeFi, borderless, you know, trustless, you know, store value that you can use.

[00:05:28]>> what is a stable coin and can you identify the stable coins for the audience right now?

[00:05:31]>> Yeah, so the two biggest stable coins are USDT, Tether, and USDC, uh Circle's stable coin.

[00:05:38]And uh Circle's more related to like Coinbase, JP Morgan, those types of ones.

[00:05:41]>> a stable coin?

[00:05:42]>> So a stable coin is uh it's stable to a local currency. So in this case it's USD dollars.

[00:05:48]Uh so $1 per token. And so uh it's kind of like an IOU for your dollars, so similar to a bank, right? If you're using >> fiat currency rates.

[00:05:56]>> Exactly. Exactly.

[00:05:58]>> All stable coins now, at least the major ones like Tether and USDC, those are the big two ones. Those are the ones you want to use. Tether, USDC. Personally, I use USDC more.

[00:06:06]>> Where does um Bitcoin and Ethereum fall into it as the two, you know, most popular?

[00:06:11]>> Well okay, so >> What would those be considered?

[00:06:13]>> I would say >> chips?

[00:06:14]>> Yeah, the blue chips that are never going to go away. Basically, Bitcoin and Ethereum are here to stay. All stable coins are built on Ethereum. And we're going to have central bank digital currencies, probably first the first ones are going to be Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the EU are going to have your first stable coins. It's all going to be built on Ethereum or Ethereum layer twos.

[00:06:31]>> So USDT and USDC are going to be built on Ethereum network.

[00:06:34]>> They already are.

[00:06:35]>> They already are. Okay.

[00:06:36]>> any new ones are going to be built, but Tether is like um I would say like 60% of the stable coin market, if not more.

[00:06:43]Uh USDC is like 25%, so >> And who's the last 15?

[00:06:47]>> Everybody else. I mean, Trump Trump has one, USD one, um PayPal has one, but uh they'll they'll get bigger in the market and everything, but USDT has such an advantage over everybody else. I mean, how much money are they making per year? It's like insane.

[00:07:01]>> It's It's like they're they're basically the most profitable company on the planet per employee.

[00:07:05]>> So just so the audience So for the audience, stable coins are basically coins that are pegged to some type of fiat currency, right? Some government currency. And then the blue chips are the coins that aren't going to go anywhere. And it would be fair to say it's Ethereum, Bitcoin. Is there anything else out there in that realm or not?

[00:07:21]>> Solana's getting to the third spot, but it hasn't solidified yet. So I would say after 2026, Solana's still going to be around, still going to be useful. The main thing with Solana is uh the first cycle, its tech would needed to kind of get tested a lot. Now this cycle, uh there wasn't as much going on on it, so it's kind of a meme coin chain, so it had some utility but mostly towards the crypto side.

[00:07:44]In the next cycle, that's when Wall Street starts adopting stuff that's not Bitcoin. Cuz they wanted to get as much Bitcoin as possible first, and then they're going to go towards Ethereum, then Solana.

[00:07:54]>> So so it would be fair to say the blue chip coins are the coins that aren't going to go anywhere and that traditional finance institutions are starting to buy to buy into the market.

[00:08:01]>> at least 1 to 2% >> they know.

[00:08:03]>> Because because they have a certain like some some banks and some people they basically can just buy it and there's no problem, right?

[00:08:09]>> Yeah.

[00:08:09]>> But there there is like some institutional funds and some retirement funds where they have like the industry or the asset they're buying has to be at a certain size, right? So it's really only like Bitcoin and Ethereum for the all the largest funds are the only ones that they can really buy in bulk because they basically if they bought any smaller coins, they would just move the price too much and own too much of the supply. So it just becomes a huge like like problem, basically.

[00:08:32]>> I think the state of New Hampshire, I believe cuz there's about three or four states now that have digital asset treasury reserves. Um New Hampshire was one of the first ones along with Arizona to get a uh basically Bitcoin strategic reserve for the state. And what they put in the rules was basically any uh digital asset that's worth over 500 billion dollars in market cap is uh basically able to be bought by the state. So that's only Bitcoin right now that actual, you know, US states are willing to buy. Once Ethereum >> ETFs on Bitcoin and Ethereum at this point, right?

[00:09:04]>> No, there's plenty more. There's >> more coins.

[00:09:06]>> The Sui had the first staked ETF before Ethereum. Solana has >> Uh >> its ETFs for sure that are going to get money poured into them in the next cycle. Uh then you have a few others.

[00:09:14]Doge has one as well. Ripple as well, but >> [snorts] >> um yeah, you're >> But that's a good distinction. So now people know what a stable coin is versus blue chip coins.

[00:09:23]>> And I want to say one thing about the stable coins. So this just started happening very recently. No, they I mean they started disclosing this now, but it's become sort of a de facto one. It's something like a USDC. What they do with the dollar that you deposit, right? So most most of the times you're just buying on Coinbase, they give you the coins and that's it, right? But what they're doing with the coins is they they take the coins and they're essentially just buying US debt with it.

[00:09:45]So, they're getting anywhere from 3 to 4% yield on it. And this is why these companies are making so much money cuz they as soon as you give them your dollars, they're just turning it into into US Treasuries and then just living off the dividends. This is why they're so they're so profitable. I mean I mean I mean what is I believe Tether has like what 100 billion dollars? I mean or more?

[00:10:03]>> Yeah.

[00:10:04]>> Like I mean they're so it's a massive massive amount of money they're making.

[00:10:08]Um and they're taking that investment money they're making, buying more crypto, more Bitcoin, more more gold.

[00:10:13]Tether its company itself is the single largest holder of gold as a private like corporate entity.

[00:10:20]>> And also also part of Rumble as well.

[00:10:22]>> Yeah, part of Rumble as well. They have they have UST gold, right? Yeah, and so they're they're doing all these innovative products, but but basically the stable coins the US has basically pushed this out.

[00:10:32]This is why Russia was kind of tripping about it is that basically fine, if if let's just say if the world governments are starting to get shaky on the United States and they don't want to buy our debt anymore, the global citizen will buy the debt unknowingly through crypto. So, it's it's been a strategy.

[00:10:46]Like the big the big thing the governments have been doing is if this crypto thing is going to exist, it's going to be priced in dollars. So, it already like crypto the more viral it gets, the more it kind of rugs local currencies. It brings that into dollars and then those dollars get converted into into basically US Treasuries which basically fund the government. So, it's all this giant circle.

[00:11:05]>> Cool. Now.

[00:11:05]>> And this is why like there's all there's all these like laws trying to pass because right now banks are super scared because if they allow Coinbase and Kraken and Gemini and crypto.com to just give free yield away on these stable coins cuz they want to be competitive and just want to get these customers, there's like 5 trillion dollars of deposits that want to like jump into crypto and then the banks are scared cuz that'll cause like a bank run on them.