Good morning, everyone. It’s Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025, and today’s show is a wild one. Odell Beckham’s Bitcoin salary? Tesla’s dystopian diner? A Japanese textile company stacking sats? Plus we’ve got a solid listener question about Bitcoin vs. XRP, some serious red flags in the stablecoin space, and today’s market price rundown. Let’s get into it.
🏈 NFL Star Odell Beckham Jr. Explains Why He Took His Salary in Bitcoin
🍔 Tesla’s Retro Diner Brings Burgers, Big Screens, and Angry Neighbors to LA
💴 Japan’s Kitabo Buys Bitcoin to Survive Financial Strain
📈 Ethereum ETF Investors Are Outperforming Bitcoin HODLers
🚀 ARK Invest Buys $182M in ETH as Bitmine’s Immersion Mining Surges
🏆 XRP Now Bigger Than Pepsi, Uber, and BlackRock — McDonald’s Next?
🎥 VIDEO: How the Bitcoin Bull Run Could Change Everything
📉 Trader Cobb & Market Training via The Grow Me Co
OBJ's Bitcoin Paycheck Aged Pretty Well
Remember when Odell Beckham Jr. took his 2021 Rams salary in Bitcoin? It was $750K at the time—BTC was around $60K—and people laughed when the price tanked. Well, they’re not laughing now. That Bitcoin is worth around $4.7 million today. Even after taxes, he’s sitting well over a million. Turns out, patience pays.
Tesla's New Diner Has Robots, Roller Skates—and Angry Neighbors
Tesla launched its sci-fi-themed diner in LA this weekend, featuring drive-in movie clips timed with EV charging, roller skating servers, and even an Optimus robot slinging popcorn. It’s flashy, weird, and very Elon. But locals? Not thrilled. Some say the massive LED screens block their apartment views, and 24/7 supercharger traffic is chaos. Classic LA: build cool stuff, then complain about it. Still, Elon’s hinting there’s more to come globally. Just don’t try paying in Dogecoin yet.
100-Year-Old Japanese Textile Company Buys $5.4M in Bitcoin
Yep, Kitabo, founded over a century ago, just announced it’s buying 800 million yen (around $5.4M) worth of Bitcoin to hedge losses and boost cross-border efficiency. Their financials are rough—losses, weak cash flow—but their stock jumped on the news. Another legacy firm stacking sats. The tide’s turning.
Ethereum Surging on Institutional Demand
ETH is up 50% against Bitcoin this month, and it’s not just price action—it’s capital flow. ARK Invest dropped $182Minto BitMine’s immersion stock. BitMine now holds over $1B in ETH, aiming for a 5% stake of total supply. People are projecting $8,000 ETH by year’s end. I don’t know about that yet, but the trend is clear: Wall Street likes Ethereum.
XRP: Bigger Than Pepsi?
XRP is now the #3 crypto by market cap at $203.89B—bigger than Pepsi, Uber, and BlackRock. It’s had a 71.6% monthly rise and 585.8% growth since President Trump won reelection. That’s not nothing.
Listener Q: Bitcoin vs. XRP – What's the Real Difference?
Ton sent in this question: “Would you give a breakdown of Bitcoin vs. XRP in terms of utility, market cap, and traditional finance?” Here’s the quick version:
Bitcoin is decentralized, capped at 21M, proof-of-work, censorship-resistant, and not tied to any company. It’s slow, but resilient—and it doesn’t care about your bank account.
XRP, meanwhile, is built by Ripple Labs, centralized-ish, pre-mined at 100B supply, and tied heavily to traditional finance partnerships.
Bitcoin is about freedom, decentralization, and unstoppable money. XRP is about speed, efficiency, and bank rails. In 10 years, Bitcoin will still be here—even if XRP isn't. XRP’s future depends on institutional partnerships, regulation, and whether Ripple can convince banks to adopt RippleNet over launching their own coins. In my opinion? If Ripple IPOs, the stock might be the better investment—not XRP.
Scam Alert: MUSD Is NOT It
Big thanks to Mikey for flagging this one. A new “Bitcoin-backed stablecoin” called MUSD just launched under something called the Mezzo ecosystem. You give them 100% of your Bitcoin, and they give you 90% of the value in some made-up stablecoin, promising fixed loans and “permissionless access.”
Sound familiar? It should. This is exactly how DeFi scams work: you give them real BTC, they give you fake money, and then one day—poof! They say there was a hack or a bug, and your Bitcoin is gone. Rinse, repeat.
Don’t fall for it. There’s no need to take this kind of risk with your Bitcoin.
Watch This
I linked a great video in the show notes called "Why This Bitcoin Bull Run Is Different (And It Changes Everything)" by Bravo’s Research. It breaks down the money supply (M2), past bull runs, and why things are unfolding differently this time. Worth your time.
Crypto Market Prices
As of 9:02 a.m. EST:
Bitcoin: $117,507 — down 1.2% (24h), rough pullback from near 120K
Ethereum: $3,601 — down 1.3%
XRP: $0.325 — down 7.2%
Binance: $780 — up 2.2%, hit an all-time high of $809
Solana: $189 — down 5.5%
Dogecoin: $0.243 — down 8%
Cardano: $0.814 — down 6.4%
Tron: $0.31 — down 0.8%
It’s mostly red out there today. This looks like a healthy pullback to me, not a reversal. BTC’s fighting resistance near $120K, and I expect it’ll consolidate a bit before the next move. Let’s keep watching.
Total market cap: $3.86T (down 2%)
Bitcoin dominance: $2.34T
Ethereum dominance: $435.7B
Happy HODLing, Everyone.
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