Latest / Simply Bitcoin / Michael Saylor EXPOSES How the supply shock will FORCE Bitcoin to EXPLODE!!! | EP 1492
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- 0:02Michael Saylor has been buying thousands of Bitcoin per day.
- 0:06And yesterday, on stage at the biggest Bitcoin conference in
- 0:09the world, he told us what the long-awaited supply shock will
- 0:14look like in 2026. And if Michael Saylor's even
- 0:18directionally correct, I don't think anybody is prepared for
- 0:23the rally we're going to see towards the year end of 2026.
- 0:27We have a ton of news coming out of the conference that I will
- 0:31break down for you today. But before we get to that, let's
- 0:34start with the first Michael Saylor clip.
- 0:37Here we go. Just curious in terms of what
- 0:41your thoughts are, what's next? What should we be excited about
- 0:45closing out this year of 2026? Well, I think bitcoins going to
- 0:51rally. I, I, I think there's a lot of
- 0:53capital flowing into Bitcoin right now.
- 0:57And at the rate that digital credit is forming and at the
- 1:02rate you saw our buy this morning, we bought the entire
- 1:05supply last week. Then Strive announced a massive
- 1:08buy. Then there's a massive bank
- 1:11credit coming online. All the big banks, JP Morgan
- 1:15City, Schwab, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, they're all coming
- 1:19online. So I think the formation of
- 1:22you're talking about between 20 and $100 billion worth of credit
- 1:29formation in the next 12 months. And there's only $10 billion of
- 1:33Bitcoin naturally available for sale.
- 1:35So I think that we're setting up a massive supply shock.
- 1:40There ought to be a rally in in BTCI, think that'll catalyse a
- 1:45rally and all the Bitcoin treasury companies, I think it
- 1:48will cause a rally and demand for digital credit.
- 1:51I think there'll be a rally in bank credit.
- 1:54I think, I think the Clarity Act will go through and there'll be
- 2:00a lot of very constructive guidance from the CFTC, Treasury
- 2:05and and the SECI think that that will accelerate digital assets
- 2:09innovation. Guys, I, I obviously you know
- 2:15me, I, I guess don't have the best memory, but if I'm not
- 2:19mistaken, this feels like the first time sailors said supply
- 2:23shock, or at the very least he's only said it a couple of times.
- 2:27And I know a lot of us Bitcoiners have been saying
- 2:29this, but I think This is why this clip hit so hard because
- 2:33it's not just me and our boy Luke saying supply shock every
- 2:37week. It's Sailor with his vantage
- 2:39point, which is one of the things I've been telling you
- 2:41guys in regards to the amount of capital going into stretch or
- 2:46the amount of capital that Sailor is being able to attract
- 2:50with his new Bitcoin products. Now, one of the interesting
- 2:53numbers in there that I I actually had to think about a
- 2:58little bit is what he said about there's only 10 billion of
- 3:03naturally, you know, natural supply of Bitcoin.
- 3:07And at first I was thinking maybe he's talking about the
- 3:10Bitcoin on exchanges, but I think what he's talking about is
- 3:14what he mentioned in the beginning of the clip that
- 3:16they're buying up all the mine, you know, the Bitcoin left to
- 3:21mine supply, which would roughly be around 12 billion a year, at
- 3:27least at current prices. So I think what he's saying is,
- 3:31hey, look, me myself with Stretch, with the amount of
- 3:34interest going into stretch, we're buying up literally all of
- 3:38the newly supply, newly mined supply of Bitcoin.
- 3:43And that doesn't even account for everything else that we're
- 3:45seeing. Obviously, I covered it for you
- 3:47guys yesterday Strive announced a he, he called it significant
- 3:51by maybe in comparison to what we saw from Sailor, it was
- 3:55didn't feel that significant. But again, there's multiple
- 3:58players, multiple factors playing out right now that
- 4:00wanted to acquire a lot of Bitcoin And that doesn't even
- 4:03account for what we're seeing from the institutional interest,
- 4:05which as Sailor laid out seems to be accelerating.
- 4:10So all of this is playing out with almost like little to no,
- 4:17how do I say it, like attention coming into Bitcoin right now,
- 4:20the majority of people are still sleeping on Bitcoin.
- 4:23I will be covering later on in the show what levels people are
- 4:27probably watching right now, at least from an institutional
- 4:30perspective, what we're all kind of watching to wrap our heads
- 4:34around whether we are making it out of a bear market, where
- 4:37we're whether we're at the end of a bear market, where, where
- 4:39do we currently stand right now? But as you can hear, Sailor is
- 4:43extremely bullish. Now obviously you guys joke all
- 4:46the time. We are simply Sailor here at
- 4:48this show because he's been the biggest proponent for Bitcoin
- 4:53for the last couple of years. And in I think a further clip or
- 4:59maybe actually it was in in the beginning of this clip and I and
- 5:01I cut it out. He basically said that in the
- 5:03last 12 months or the last six months I believe it was, he's
- 5:07seen more innovation than in the first five years that he's been
- 5:10in Bitcoin. As you can see, there's a lot of
- 5:13factors accelerating right now that are making everyone feel
- 5:17extremely bullish. Obviously we've had a lot of
- 5:19really good news stories. We have a generally positive
- 5:24administration around Bitcoin and I will cover some of the
- 5:27stuff you know that we heard out of the Bitcoin conference which
- 5:30were a little more contentious. But we are starting to see that
- 5:34everything is kind of building in our direction right now.
- 5:38And if we continue to see the amount of interest going into
- 5:42stretch like I've been covering, they've been able to acquire
- 5:46about a billion dollars a week. And I will update that for you
- 5:48guys in a minute. Things are heating up.
- 5:52And I saw you guys in the beginning of the show being or
- 5:56rather saying something on the lines of I've been hearing about
- 6:00the supply shock forever. I think we've all been hearing
- 6:03about it. And maybe in true Bitcoin or
- 6:07fashion, we've all been a little bit early on whether this is
- 6:12happening. Now, I did see some people say
- 6:14like it's not going to happen this cycle is going to happen
- 6:16next cycle. But it does feel as if the
- 6:20institutional interest coming into Bitcoin, the institutional
- 6:23products, the amount of, I don't want to say regulatory clarity,
- 6:28but the amount of factors playing into the Bitcoin bull
- 6:33run that is probably ahead of us in 2027.
- 6:38It does seem as though we are all probably a little little
- 6:44bearish on what we think the next cycle is.
- 6:47A lot of people have this impression.
- 6:48I think I was covering it yesterday or maybe it was the
- 6:50end of the last week. We all have this impression that
- 6:53since Bitcoin is a 1 1/2 trillion dollar asset, the
- 6:57higher it goes, the harder it is for it to go even higher.
- 7:01But that's if you really account for a steady influx of capital
- 7:06coming into Bitcoin. What we're seeing is that the
- 7:09influx of capital is accelerating.
- 7:11It is going higher because of what Sailor did.
- 7:14Now, obviously Sailor himself isn't going to be the sole
- 7:18person to drive the Bitcoin price up.
- 7:22But once it starts turning around, once people start
- 7:25feeling a little comfortable, whether it's the macro
- 7:26landscape, whether it's the price of Bitcoin going up and
- 7:30people start to FOMO into it, all of these factors are really
- 7:34going to magnify and crash into a hard cap, limited supply.
- 7:41Again, thinking about that $10 billion number, he said anywhere
- 7:44between 20 and $100 billion of capital is going to be fighting
- 7:49for about $10 billion of Bitcoin.
- 7:52So A2 to 10X influx of capital fighting for the daily mind
- 7:57supply of Bitcoin. Obviously, there is this
- 8:00contention or this idea of what two and a half million Bitcoin
- 8:05on exchanges. You know what, how do we really
- 8:08factor this in because a lot of people will just bring more
- 8:11Bitcoin when they want to sell and there's even a kind of
- 8:14concern about that two and a half million.
- 8:16Is it really off the exchange? Are they factoring in the
- 8:20strategy holdings? Can we really trust that
- 8:23Coinbase isn't rehypothecating etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
- 8:28But what we are seeing is that we as an industry, as a
- 8:35phenomenon have grown way bigger than we ever have in every other
- 8:40cycle. And maybe we are waiting for a
- 8:43fabled supply shock. But again, I don't think I've
- 8:45ever heard sailors say supply shock in any clip sound by
- 8:50interview. You guys can correct me and I
- 8:53and I could be wrong on this, but I think this is the first
- 8:55time he said this. Maybe he's been listening to a
- 8:58little bit of Samson Mao here. But this does seem to be a hot
- 9:03take because we've all been saying supply shock.
- 9:06I've seen you guys yell at me in the chat being like, oh, here we
- 9:09go. Supply shock.
- 9:10Is the supply shock in the room with us?
- 9:13Not yet, but it seems like all the factors are leading into the
- 9:18fable, the mythical supply shock actually playing out in 2026.
- 9:23So it's going to be interesting to see this happen.
- 9:26Now there is another clip that I want to add here and it is the
- 9:30same speech, but it's Saylor talking about the quote digital
- 9:34credit. Now, obviously we are hardcore
- 9:38self custody maxies, but it does seem like the digital credit
- 9:42quote UN quote meme is catching on.
- 9:44It does seem like there is a real interest in digital credit,
- 9:48which is being led by Saylor and the Stretch or STRC product.
- 9:53And that does seem to be bringing in a whole new audience
- 9:57or a whole new demand from a totally different market that
- 9:59Bitcoin wasn't able to attract. So this clip, just in addition
- 10:05to what he just said, is really playing out through the idea
- 10:08that maybe the supply shock is starting to enter the room.
- 10:13Let's let's watch this clip. So I, I don't think there's any
- 10:17question digital credits going to work.
- 10:19There's 3/3 and 1/2 trillion dollars in private credit right
- 10:23now and that 3 1/2 trillion is getting 8 1/2 percent, 9% yields
- 10:28is totally a liquid. And if even 1 or 2% of it flows
- 10:34into digital credit, this will be an explosion.
- 10:37I don't know why you wouldn't have 10% of it, $370 billion
- 10:42just coming out of private credit flowing into digital
- 10:44credit. It's all illiquid, opaque under
- 10:49collateralized unrated stuff. So digital credit, if it if it
- 10:57got even 1 or 2% of the junk bond market, the private credit
- 11:00market, you know, or, or other sorts of exotic credit, it would
- 11:06be exploding. In fact, if you look right now
- 11:11at STRCSTRC is the largest preferred equity in the world
- 11:17and it is the most liquid preferred equity in the world
- 11:21and the fastest growing, maybe one of the fastest growing, you
- 11:25know, financial products in the world all in the first eight
- 11:27months. And that's without any of this
- 11:30happening. So I think that the digital
- 11:34credit train has left the station stretch is working even
- 11:40today as SATA, you know it's like what $99.99 hitting par
- 11:45right now. So, so you can see that that
- 11:48asset class is working. Both those instruments are
- 11:51working right now. I think that all of the
- 11:54uncertainty is really just opportunity.
- 11:58I love that ending. All the uncertainty is really
- 12:02just opportunity. You love to hear it.
- 12:04OK, guys, to put this in the context because he didn't
- 12:07actually put the numbers, but from my understanding and from
- 12:11my memory here, the credit market's about like what, $300
- 12:14trillion? So 1 to 2%, about what, 3 to $6
- 12:21trillion of demand coming into Bitcoin.
- 12:24If my math is correct, that's a multiple of, you know, two to
- 12:30three times the Bitcoin market cap.
- 12:32The only reason I'm bringing these numbers up because as
- 12:36Taylor said and as we've been watching, it does seem like the
- 12:39digital credit idea has left the station.
- 12:43It does seem like there's an incredible demand going into
- 12:45digital credit. Now obviously from our
- 12:48perspective, we're always like just buy spot Bitcoin.
- 12:54But again, from the credit market participant perspective,
- 13:00either they don't want to buy spot Bitcoin or further, they're
- 13:03not even allowed to buy spot Bitcoin.
- 13:05And now they have something that they can get into with
- 13:09incredible upside. Again, what we've been talking
- 13:14about, rather what I've been talking about and I've been
- 13:17trying to put this into context or rather into a framing model
- 13:21that obviously makes you extremely bullish.
- 13:24That's, that's my job here. Full disclosure, I am a Bitcoin
- 13:27propagandist. I am a, you know, I'm not biased
- 13:30Bitcoiner. I think this is going to
- 13:33explode. But as you see, the numbers
- 13:35aren't even that crazy. Just a little bit of capital
- 13:39finding its way into Bitcoin and and obviously relative little
- 13:43bit of capital. It would be huge.
- 13:45Bitcoin's market cap's at 1 1/2 trillion right now if $3
- 13:48trillion found its way into digital credit.
- 13:51STRC or the what is it Strata, the Stride product or I think
- 13:57it's Strata. This is an incredible demand
- 14:02coming into Bitcoin, something that we've never seen before.
- 14:07And I think This is why Saylor is finally going into the supply
- 14:11shock meme. He's finally saying what we
- 14:13look, he's basically saying Bitcoin simply Bitcoin headlines
- 14:17here. Bitcoins going to explode.
- 14:19You guys yell at me all the time for for the titles.
- 14:23He's saying it now he's starting to get bullish.
- 14:26Remember last week, he basically said that he believes that the
- 14:32crypto winter is over. And I think this is because
- 14:37we've seen, I literally said that on Friday that I think the
- 14:40reason he's saying that is because of the amount of demand
- 14:43that he's seeing going into this, quote, digital credit
- 14:47product that he's created. And further, the other people
- 14:49follow along. And that really leans into the
- 14:53idea that I've been saying it's not that much or sorry.
- 14:57It's not too crazy to think that the diminishing returns meme
- 15:01could fundamentally break here in the next year or so.
- 15:06I know everyone is still locked in on the four year cycle
- 15:10diminishing returned. Bigger number means it's harder
- 15:13to get bigger number and we got to attract a lot more capital.
- 15:18But it seems like the quote digital credit idea is the very
- 15:25thing that is going to attract a lot of capital.
- 15:27Now to give you an update because I have been doing this
- 15:30lately, here is the current numbers.
- 15:35Oh wow, it literally jumped 25,000,000 since I started the
- 15:40show. That's crazy.
- 15:43OK, so you saw yesterday, I think yesterday when I brought
- 15:45this up on the show, it was around 80 million.
- 15:47It finally ended at 200 million yesterday.
- 15:51When I got this website up this morning, it was 70 million and
- 15:57now it's at 94,000,000. So in about an hour, obviously
- 16:01it doesn't mean that in an hour it's attracted 2425 million.
- 16:05They probably just updated this, but you can see how crazy this
- 16:09is. There's still a lot of time
- 16:10left. So if he gets another $200
- 16:13million a day, I think they're going to have another billion
- 16:20dollar week into stretch. And if this happens, this is
- 16:25where we are starting to see the trend of exactly what Saylor
- 16:29just said. The digital credit has left the
- 16:32station. This is the hottest product
- 16:35right now. It's performing incredibly.
- 16:39It's getting a lot of attention because it's attracting so much
- 16:42capital. And a sailor likes to say that
- 16:44is that flywheel where you track more interest, you create more
- 16:50demand, they buy more Bitcoin. And this just keeps repeating
- 16:55and repeating and repeating. If Sailor is capable of doing
- 17:00another billion dollar week, and I really had my doubts yesterday
- 17:04when I was looking at the numbers, I'm like, oh, he's,
- 17:07he's going to, you know, slow down a little bit.
- 17:09But here you can see last week, 1.2 billion.
- 17:12I'm guessing today they're probably going to attract in the
- 17:15100 million. So it might end up at 200
- 17:17million, you know, 5 * 2. I think they might have a
- 17:21billion dollar week. Again, that's four weeks in a
- 17:24row. I think it is becoming very
- 17:29clear that what Saylor is saying is backed by much more than just
- 17:34me shilling hopium on the show. He's seeing stuff behind the
- 17:40scenes that is really making him be or rather making him go out
- 17:44there and say at the Bitcoin conference, obviously he needs
- 17:47some sound bites. Like I'll give that to you, he
- 17:49needs some sound bites, but he's going out there now and saying
- 17:53supply shock rally into the end of 2026.
- 18:00He's already put his head on the on the chopping block and said
- 18:03the crypto winter is over. Though again, I do have another
- 18:08little update from Andre for Bitwise kind of talking about
- 18:12where we currently stand in the market.
- 18:15We're not out of the woods yet. And and further, we did see
- 18:21that. The Bitcoin conference dump the
- 18:24the classic Bitcoin conference dump every single year.
- 18:29It did go a little lower. It's a it.
- 18:31From the high of yesterday, we're about 5% down.
- 18:35Obviously it's not crazy. It's a dump.
- 18:36For ants it I wouldn't really be concerned about it.
- 18:39It's not something to really panic, but it's playing out
- 18:42exactly as we all knew it was going to happen, which is just
- 18:46always hilarious to me that the biggest event in Bitcoin, the
- 18:50Bitcoin conference, the price always dumps.
- 18:54But anyway, sailors out here first day of the conference to I
- 18:59think what the numbers were is about 8000 people that were in
- 19:02attendance yesterday. I think today is going to be a
- 19:05little more. He's out there saying, look,
- 19:07this year is going to blow everyone's socks off.
- 19:11I think we're all going to look back and be a little mad that we
- 19:17weren't as bullish as we say we are, that we weren't stacking as
- 19:21hard as we like to say we do in the chat all the time.
- 19:28But all these factors are playing out, which we've been
- 19:30covering on this show for a long time.
- 19:32And I know a lot of us, I mean included, and you guys in the
- 19:36chat are not the happiest of or not the happiest about the
- 19:42institutional interest in Bitcoin.
- 19:44I have been saying that it seems like the biggest attack on
- 19:46Bitcoin is not, you know, what node you're running, It's that
- 19:50Wall Street wants your Bitcoin. They are delivering products to
- 19:55incentivize you to give up custody of your Bitcoin.
- 20:00So what are you going to do? You're going to acquire,
- 20:02accumulate more Bitcoin and make sure you take that into self
- 20:05custody. Because if you're giving up your
- 20:07Bitcoin right now and we're on the verge of an incredible
- 20:09rally, who knows what happens and who knows who's going to
- 20:14blow up? You probably won't know until we
- 20:17see some kind of drawdown again. But I would not risk it if what
- 20:22we think is going to happen and Bitcoin's going to have an
- 20:26incredible rally 2020 end of 202620272028 like the four year
- 20:33cycle kind of basically says the safest and best place for you to
- 20:37have your Bitcoin is under your control, Not your keys, not your
- 20:43cheese. We all know the memes.
- 20:46We can't forget our fundamentals here.
- 20:51But I'm going to side with Sailor on this one.
- 20:54I too also believe that we are probably seeing a supply shock
- 21:01building out right now in real time.
- 21:04I, I said it a couple of times. It feels like the foundational
- 21:07steps are being built out right now and it, it is kind of like
- 21:11the matrix meme, you know, like not like this.
- 21:13You guys know that one where the they unplug her and she's like
- 21:16crying, not like this. It isn't happening, happening
- 21:20exactly as maybe the cypherpunk perspective thought it would,
- 21:28but it's happening exactly as it was always going to happen,
- 21:32which is literally the theme of today's show.
- 21:35This is like the theme of today's show is Bitcoin is for
- 21:38enemies. Yes, there is literal, you know,
- 21:46ABC men at the conference speaking to us, trying to
- 21:51persuade us that they are on our side.
- 21:53And I will break some of this stuff down later on in the show,
- 21:57but we are seeing that look, it's almost a repeat of what we
- 22:01saw in November of 2024. And, and this is really where I
- 22:06start to probably become cynical fields here is because it is a
- 22:12lot of rhetoric and we have yet to see that much action.
- 22:17Though we did get like an announcement of an announcement.
- 22:20And I, and I didn't bring it up on today's show, but we did get
- 22:22an announcement of an announcement by, I believe it
- 22:24was Tom Willis, I believe, or Tom Wills.
- 22:27He said that we will get a very big strategic Bitcoin reserve
- 22:32announcement soon, in a few weeks.
- 22:34So he, he's literally doing an announcement of an announcement
- 22:37on stage. But I, I, I'm not playing that
- 22:39clip for you guys, but it does seem like maybe they are
- 22:44starting to realize that they need to get some action, like
- 22:49they need to do something concrete here, especially if the
- 22:54midterms are about to heat up, especially now that it seems as
- 22:59if the Clarity Act, it's still in limbo now it's been pushed
- 23:03back. Shouts out to Senator Lummis.
- 23:05I saw her, her, you know, her blurb yesterday, a little sound
- 23:09bite. Now they're saying mid-May,
- 23:12mid-May is when the Clarity Act is going to happen.
- 23:14I did see some people say that by June, it's going to happen,
- 23:17keeps getting delayed, right? But I think they're starting to
- 23:20realize like, OK, it's time. Everyone's got this feeling that
- 23:26it is time now for some action to happen.
- 23:30And if we do see the action, then maybe in hindsight, we'll
- 23:35look at the rhetoric that we're hearing today and we won't be so
- 23:39cynical about it. I will be a little cynical about
- 23:43it on today's show, I'm not going to lie.
- 23:44But hey, how about in the chat? Do you believe in the supply
- 23:51shock? I want to believe in the supply
- 23:53shock. Is it ever going to happen?
- 23:55Are we going to see this start to play out?
- 23:58Right now it really feels like with the amount of education
- 24:06reports, analysis from the institutions with the
- 24:09recommendations of anywhere between 1:00 to 20% of their
- 24:15clients portfolio should be in Bitcoin.
- 24:19With the supposed Clarity Act going through and whether that's
- 24:23going to be beneficial or not, the unlock of capital could be
- 24:26very, very swift and we could see an increased demand that
- 24:34we've never seen before. That's obviously the bull case.
- 24:37That's what I've been saying for a long time in regards to.
- 24:40The only thing I was bullish about the institutions coming
- 24:42was that they were supposed to pump our bags.
- 24:44And yet it seems like they've been shorting us and they've
- 24:47been making money on basically making us all poor again.
- 24:51So we'll see. We'll see.
- 24:53But Saylor starting to get a little more bullish than we've
- 24:56seen him in the last couple of weeks.
- 25:00Crypto winter is over, supply shot coming soon, Stretch is the
- 25:04best product ever, and bitcoins going to rise.
- 25:10And all of this is going to be a nice little story that we tell
- 25:15people in the past. So it's like, remember when we
- 25:17were buying Bitcoin AT70K and we were all mad, We were all
- 25:21disillusioned because we had the first Bitcoin president quote
- 25:25Bitcoin president and nothing happened.
- 25:27And we went sideways for a year. And then the end of 2026 and
- 25:322025, we saw an incredible bull run the likes we've never seen
- 25:36before. I'm, I'm here for it.
- 25:38I, I really, I'm, I'm really going to agree with a couple of
- 25:42my friends when they say that the 2021 and the 2025 bull runs
- 25:49weren't real bull runs. And now we will see an
- 25:54incredible bull run. Hopefully it'll bring us back to
- 25:59the glory days of like 2017. It's what we all want.
- 26:02That's what we're all here for. We're like junkies waiting for
- 26:06the price to do what he did in the pack, what it did what, 10
- 26:09years ago? What a long.
- 26:11Ride and yet we are still obsessed with Bitcoin.
- 26:15We are still buying Bitcoin accumulating Bitcoin taking into
- 26:19self custody doing the Bitcoin first principles because we know
- 26:23the game and you know shouts out to Simon Dixon.
- 26:25He's been very strong on this message that if you don't like
- 26:31these people coming to Bitcoin if you don't like the people
- 26:34speaking at the Bitcoin conference then literally the
- 26:38only move you can do is acquire more Bitcoin and take that
- 26:41Bitcoin into self custody. I know it sounds almost naively.
- 26:45Easy, but that, that is the game here.
- 26:49Why they try to financialize Bitcoin?
- 26:53You just buy spot Bitcoin and take it into self custody.
- 26:56Or you know, like a lot of the stuff Jack Dorsey was talking
- 26:59about yesterday. You just use Bitcoin as money.
- 27:02You work for Bitcoin and you store it in cold storage.
- 27:07Anyways, I rambled enough. I rambled enough on the supply
- 27:11shock. I know I'm I'm not checking out
- 27:13the chat but. Someone does not want Sailor to
- 27:17be the richest man. Yeah, I agree with that.
- 27:23Supply shock is already here one Bitcoin is expensive for plebs
- 27:27already. Honestly, I was saying that this
- 27:29morning and and side tangent. I, I, I will keep the show
- 27:32going, but I I literally said the same thing this morning to
- 27:38Luke. I was like, dude, you know, it
- 27:41really does feel like us Bitcoiners right now.
- 27:46And maybe This is why a lot of people are tuning out of
- 27:50Bitcoin, why they're not as obsessed with Bitcoin, why they
- 27:53why they don't think it's still the exit that we think it is.
- 27:57It's because we literally got in the door like right before it
- 28:00closed. We got in at like 11:30 right
- 28:03before the clock strikes midnight.
- 28:06And now we're just kind of waiting and everyone else is
- 28:09outside the door. And they're like, I don't even
- 28:11know if I want to buy this. Why would I buy this?
- 28:13If the institutions are going to control it, centralized, it's,
- 28:17you know, what are what are all the things they've been saying?
- 28:20It's been captured. It's not the freedom tool we
- 28:24thought it was. You know, the government's
- 28:26embracing it. I thought this was for freedom
- 28:29and separation of money and state.
- 28:32But yeah, it does sort of feel like the price has gotten to a
- 28:35point. Or you might believe in the
- 28:37Veblen good idea that the higher the price, the more people want
- 28:40it. But it does feel like a lot of
- 28:42people have been priced out and now they're looking at Bitcoin
- 28:47and they're wondering whether they should get in.
- 28:49But we'll see once the price starts ripping, if we get
- 28:52another FOMO round like we've seen before.
- 28:56It's not clothes. People's ego is keeping them
- 28:59from buying. Yeah, let's say it's an
- 29:01optimistic take. Optimistic take.
- 29:04It's simple, but I'm so true. Yeah, agree.
- 29:08You guys, it's really this simple, but people want to
- 29:10complicate things. Anyways, let's keep the show
- 29:13moving. Again, we got an interesting
- 29:15clip from US Senator Nick Begich and he's reintroducing a bill.
- 29:22But it's not really so much about the bill that I find most
- 29:26interesting. It's about not only the rebrand
- 29:29of they bill. Uh oh, did it knock me off?
- 29:38No, I think I'm good. But he is starting to emphasize
- 29:43and we we are seeing this a little bit the, the reemphasis
- 29:46of self custody and the importance of self custody and
- 29:49how it's truly an American value.
- 29:52And then to in the news, I'm going to be covering probably
- 29:57the most contentious talk that we saw yesterday, which was
- 30:00Attorney General Todd Blanche and of course, FBI Director Kash
- 30:04Patel. There's an interesting clip
- 30:06coming out of it. A lot of people were celebrating
- 30:10it and then you then there's some probably less favorable
- 30:18coverage that I want to highlight.
- 30:22And then to wrap up the show, I'm I'm going to continue the
- 30:24coverage of where are we currently in the cycle
- 30:28considering on chain metrics. So that's today's show.
- 30:30I'll be right back after the commercial break.
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- 32:47the chat. I I.
- 32:49Hopefully I'm back. I I did notice that it did.
- 32:52I got kicked off for a second low bandwidth, but I should, I
- 32:55should be back at least it looks like it's back to me.
- 32:58So anyways, you know, I do the show every single day, guys, and
- 33:05there's still issues and, and it's not me, OK, It's not me.
- 33:10Whatever, whatever, you guys don't care.
- 33:12You guys don't care about me, but it's not it's not my fault,
- 33:16alright? Anyways, the current Bitcoin
- 33:18price is 76,000 and $40. I repeat 76040, which is a
- 33:23discount of 39.7% from all time high.
- 33:27We have definitely at least up to this point secured that 1 1/2
- 33:31trillion dollar market cap and the current block height TikTok
- 33:35next block 947 and 48 I repeat 947048 OK, so as.
- 33:46This is not a wig, guys. OK, this is not a wig.
- 33:52Enough about my hair, guys. So you're making me
- 33:54self-conscious. Anyways, there's a clip of this
- 33:59was actually if you guys were watching yesterday's show after
- 34:03the first break, I was like, oh, we got a we got a breaking news
- 34:06story coming out, but obviously I couldn't package it.
- 34:09I couldn't couldn't get it uploaded for you guys.
- 34:12But this is what I was talking about.
- 34:13It was this clip here of US Congressman Nick Begich.
- 34:17He's reintroducing his bill, but he's going hard on the
- 34:24protection of self custody. Your Bitcoin, which personally,
- 34:29from a hardcore Bitcoin perspective, I'm like, like,
- 34:34yeah, I know Nico says all the time we need to what do you
- 34:37always say codify the protection of self custody?
- 34:43I'm like, bro, I don't need to ask your permission to do what I
- 34:49can do already. That just seems as backwards to
- 34:52me, Okay. But I do find it interesting
- 34:55that we are hearing US Congressman, obviously he's been
- 34:59orange paled. He's been talking with the
- 35:01Bitcoin community for a long time now at this point.
- 35:03And it's just interesting to hear you as congressman.
- 35:06And again, this could be rhetoric, it could be hot air.
- 35:09Obviously, I think they know who they're talking to and they want
- 35:13us to support them. So that I keep that in mind.
- 35:19But it's still interesting to me to hear, you know, politicians
- 35:26say stuff, sort of what would be what we've been saying.
- 35:29I've said on the show a lot of times, you know, Bitcoin is as
- 35:32American as apple pie. And then everyone's like, well,
- 35:35isn't apple pie French? I'm like, yeah, whatever.
- 35:37You know, the meme. I think Bitcoin is truly
- 35:43exporting the American ideals to the rest of the world.
- 35:45And maybe that's just because an American and you guys are like
- 35:48this silly American. Look at it.
- 35:50Look how he sounds. He thinks America is the
- 35:52greatest and you know, the Constitution.
- 35:55So good. Yeah, whatever.
- 35:58I'm an American. OK, We have our politicians
- 36:01saying this while on the other side of the pond.
- 36:04What are your politicians saying?
- 36:07We want to. We want to have CBD CS.
- 36:10You can't save your money. Look, I'll take this over that
- 36:14any single day of the week. So let's watch the clip and we
- 36:18talked about individuals self custodying, their corporations
- 36:21self custodying, governments potentially self custodying.
- 36:25Can you maybe hit on some of those latter points?
- 36:29Should exchanges and corporations, should they be
- 36:31self custodying? Is it easier to just give it to
- 36:33a qualified custodian? Where do you kind of land on
- 36:35that point? Well, I'll tell you, you know,
- 36:38history can be quite instructive when looking at the importance
- 36:42of self custody. If you go back to 1933 and you
- 36:47had an executive order from the president at that time to
- 36:51confiscate privately held gold and it was effective.
- 36:58It was effective because gold at that time was viewed as the
- 37:01money supply. The government was short of
- 37:03money supply, wanted to increase its money supply and went out
- 37:07acquired in my view, illegally this these, these gold assets
- 37:13from individuals and and then revalued and devalued the dollar
- 37:19a year later. And it it really impacted people
- 37:22who had been savers of actual money of hard money at that
- 37:26time. And I think when we Fast forward
- 37:29to today, we need to make sure that that doesn't happen again.
- 37:33And I think it's in the best interest actually of exchanges
- 37:37to support self custody because it's a lot harder for a
- 37:41government under pressure to to confiscate millions or maybe 10s
- 37:46of millions of privately held wallets than it is to go to one
- 37:50of a dozen, a few dozen places and confiscate a critical asset
- 37:55like Bitcoin. So I think it's important.
- 37:57I think it's good for the ecosystem.
- 37:58I think it's good for everybody to make sure that we have laws
- 38:01that enshrine the ability to self custody.
- 38:05And if you don't mind, I did bring from my bill the Bitcoin
- 38:11Act, which I carry with Senator Lummus in the House, the
- 38:15language as it relates. To.
- 38:17Self custody. Affirmation of Rights This act
- 38:21affirms and protects the rights of persons to maintain full
- 38:24lawful control over the Bitcoin and other digital assets of
- 38:27those individuals, recognizing that the ability to maintain
- 38:31self custody of private keys is fundamental to the principles of
- 38:36financial sovereignty, privacy and personal liberty in the
- 38:40digital age. Hey, hey, guys, come on.
- 38:54Is that not some good rhetoric? Look, I'll, I'll be a little
- 38:57cynical. Is that not some good rhetoric
- 38:59there? Man, you got to love that.
- 39:02I mean, a sitting US Congressman talking about Executive Order 61
- 39:07O2 1933 when we confiscated the gold from asset holders,
- 39:12basically saying, hey, it's a lot harder for the government to
- 39:15take millions of people self custodying their Bitcoin then if
- 39:19it's all the Bitcoin is basically legally forced to stay
- 39:22on the exchanges. Like this is the stuff that we
- 39:28want to be said. Like this is the stuff we want
- 39:31more people to hear. Say what you want about him
- 39:34being a politician, but have we not said the same thing on this
- 39:39show multiple times? That's some signal right there.
- 39:44OK, Obviously, again, he's at the Bitcoin conference.
- 39:48He wants to get his bill pushed through.
- 39:51At this point, a lot of the Bitcoin bills that we've seen
- 39:55are usually DOA. But you, you got to love to hear
- 40:00that. I don't know about you guys, but
- 40:02you know what I was thinking during that clip.
- 40:05It was Dang, I'm blanking on that cartoon.
- 40:08The the puppet movie. Yeah, it actually it's just like
- 40:10America. Fuck yeah.
- 40:12Like let's go. That's.
- 40:14What I was thinking throughout the whole clip, Yeah.
- 40:17Are you not entertained? Like for reals guys, that was
- 40:24some good. Stuff.
- 40:25OK, that is the type of rhetoric that I want to hear politicians
- 40:31saying. Imagine if everyone, all the
- 40:34congressmen were as orange, pailed and based as this guy, US
- 40:41Congressman Nick Begich. We'd be in a totally different
- 40:45world. And that does lead to a kind of
- 40:47a broader conversation that I brought up on the show multiple
- 40:50times where I know a lot of us bitcoiners don't like politics.
- 40:56We've been, how do I put it, pushed out of politics.
- 41:03You know, people ask me all the time, like, you know, what side
- 41:06of the aisle are you? What will you know?
- 41:08Who do you support? And I'm usually, I steal the
- 41:10line from Eric Case. I'm like, I'm politically
- 41:11homeless. I see some things maybe from
- 41:15both sides that are like, OK, I understand it, but none of it
- 41:19really encapsulates what I believe as a Bitcoiner.
- 41:25But hearing someone like this say what I believe, it's a
- 41:28bitcoiner, it's hard for me to not fall for again, being a
- 41:33little cynical here for the propaganda.
- 41:36You got to love it, man. Like this is the stuff you want
- 41:39to see politicians all around the world saying.
- 41:42This is good stuff here. OK, I'm cynical here.
- 41:46Yeah, yeah, me too, bro. I know.
- 41:48I know politicians lie. I know politicians say what they
- 41:51want the audience to hear. Obviously I know all that.
- 41:54I'm as cynical and sarcastic as anyone else, but man, that was
- 42:00some good stuff. OK, It was projection.
- 42:02You probably probably, man, it was still good, OK.
- 42:11I guess you have no clue then. OK, all right, I get it.
- 42:16You guys don't like politics? I have AI, have a very real
- 42:21distrust for politicians myself. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 42:28Wig party, guys, This is my real hair, OK?
- 42:31This is my natural hair, OK? I have some luscious locks, all
- 42:35right. All right, love of my hair.
- 42:39All right. Now, now we're going to get into
- 42:42the real meat of the conference. Yesterday.
- 42:46This was probably the most anticipated speech, at least
- 42:51from a social media perspective. But actually, this was probably
- 42:54the most contentious speech that happened yesterday, and I do
- 42:59have a sound bite for it. I will, you know, breakdown what
- 43:02he said and I will give you kind of the, I guess the real full
- 43:10breakdown of of what was said yesterday by Attorney General
- 43:13Todd Blanche in regards to the speech titled like code is
- 43:19speech. I think it was I think that was
- 43:21the title of these this conversation.
- 43:24And everyone was freaking out heading into this.
- 43:26Like how do you have the attorney general and the FBI
- 43:30director talking at the Bitcoin conference and their keynote is
- 43:38titled CODIS speech when we have open source developers in jail
- 43:45for this very thing. This, you know, actually it
- 43:51probably wasn't the most popular speech because I saw some I, I,
- 43:54I didn't pull them up for you guys, but I did see some more
- 43:57behind the scenes and, and the. The audience was like completely
- 44:00empty, so bitcoiners obviously didn't really care.
- 44:03But this was the most contentious conversation that
- 44:07was had yesterday, so let's get into it.
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- 45:53code simply. OK, guys.
- 46:01So I'm. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 46:04Johnny go. We have a booth over there, man.
- 46:06Or actually, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll I'll update you on, on what
- 46:12I where I think Miko is right now.
- 46:13But anyways, as I was saying, probably the most contentious
- 46:17speech yesterday was the keynote by the US Attorney General, Todd
- 46:25Blanche and the FBI Director Kash Patel.
- 46:29And there was an interesting sound bite coming out of this,
- 46:34and it does seem bullish on the surface.
- 46:38It did seem like a good sound bite.
- 46:41Now, obviously, maybe it's because us Bitcoiners are very
- 46:47cynical, untrustworthy, not what?
- 46:49We're not untrustworthy. We don't trust the politicians.
- 46:54A lot of people just out of this is hot air that they're just
- 47:00saying what they want us to believe or what they want us to
- 47:02hear. And they're not actually going
- 47:05to do what they said in this clip.
- 47:07But let me just play the clip for you guys and then we can
- 47:10we'll we'll have a little back and forth in the chat as I, you
- 47:14know, kind of give you my initial reaction to it.
- 47:17And then from what I saw, a lot of people kind of breaking down
- 47:21in detail what was said. So here is Attorney General Todd
- 47:24Blanch in regards to the clip that was going around of they
- 47:29will no longer prosecute Bitcoin developers.
- 47:34And with the FBI as well, the basic principle is that if you
- 47:39are developing software, if you are a coder, if you are part of
- 47:43that process and you are not the third party user and you are not
- 47:47helping and knowing the third party is using what you
- 47:50developed to commit crimes, you are not going to be investigated
- 47:54and not going to be charged. And obviously facts matter
- 47:58because if, if, if you're laundering money or violating
- 48:01sanctions, the mere fact that you happen to be a coder doesn't
- 48:04excuse you from criminal liability.
- 48:06So there's a distinction there. And that's why the facts of a
- 48:09particular case are very important.
- 48:11But I really need coders to understand, I really need the
- 48:14industry to understand that we have fundamentally changed the
- 48:17game when it comes to our investigations.
- 48:19And if you, if, if you're a coder out there and you're,
- 48:22you're listening to me speak and you are under investigation or
- 48:25you have to hire a lawyer to, to respond to subpoenas, you, your
- 48:29lawyer should feel very comfortable communicating with
- 48:32the FBI, communicating with the prosecutor on the case and
- 48:35making sure that they are not violating them, violating my
- 48:38memo. Because if they are, that can be
- 48:41elevated all the way to me, but certainly elevated within the
- 48:44department because we are not doing that anymore.
- 48:46And, and I know that there's some lingering cases that, that
- 48:49are very fact specific and, and very procedurally complicated.
- 48:53And I'm not saying that as an excuse.
- 48:55It's just, it's a fact. It's the way it is.
- 48:57But, but those, those cases are, are, are something that that
- 49:00we're continuing to deal with. But, but make, make, let me make
- 49:04myself crystal clear that that's, I want to put my money
- 49:07where my mouth is. And, and I expect director Patel
- 49:09does as well. And, and when we say that we're
- 49:12not, we're not conducting those type of prosecutions anymore,
- 49:15we, we mean it. And and I and I want to make
- 49:18sure that that that is felt throughout the industry.
- 49:22OK. So Chad let's, I don't know,
- 49:26what do we do? One, if you believe him, 2 if
- 49:29you don't, and and then we'll talk about it.
- 49:31But as you can see from the beginning of the clip, the main
- 49:35contention is this idea of you can create open source software,
- 49:41you can create the software and you won't be legally liable for
- 49:50anything people do on that. If you don't know, I obviously
- 49:54I'm butchering that, but that's basically what he said.
- 49:56As long as you are not aware of what is going on and you're not
- 50:00actively pushing for money laundering, criminal activity,
- 50:06avoiding sanctions, then you will not get prosecuted again,
- 50:10rewind it. You can hear him, but that's, I
- 50:13guess my layman terms of saying what he said.
- 50:18And then further, and he did say that they're no longer going to
- 50:21be prosecuting such cases. But there are some lingering
- 50:26cases, which as you guys know, we all know basically what those
- 50:29are. It's the Roman Storm, Tornado
- 50:31Cash case and of course the Samurai wallet deaths.
- 50:35And these are the big precedents that we've been covering for a
- 50:38long time here on the show. And I did see a couple of
- 50:43updates here. First one I want to cover is by
- 50:48Eleanor Terrett. Of course, you guys know I'm a
- 50:50huge fan of her work. She's been doing extremely good
- 50:53work covering Bitcoin or crypto in America and the Washington,
- 51:03DC politician's view on Bitcoin and how this is all interacting.
- 51:07She's been very good coverage on the Clarity Act.
- 51:09Now, she dropped this tweet yesterday.
- 51:12So Eleanor goes new. I asked Roman Storm's defense
- 51:15team if the Attorney General Todd Blanche's comments at the
- 51:21Bitcoin conference today gave them any hope.
- 51:24Storm's lawyer, Carrie Curtis Axel, said no, quote, DOJ cannot
- 51:30credibly claim it has, quote, changed the game while still
- 51:33persecuting Roman Storm. The president SDNY is trying to
- 51:37set is wholly at odds with Blanche's memo and the
- 51:41president's policy. Axel also pushed back on
- 51:44Blanche's claim that cases can be elevated all the way to the
- 51:47top. More on that to come.
- 51:51So this is from one of the big cases that he basically talked
- 51:55about saying some lingering cases.
- 52:01And this is what the official response.
- 52:03Well, I wouldn't say official response, but what a response
- 52:06from one of the lawyers said. So they're not taking this as
- 52:11bullish as maybe a lot of people on Twitter were saying.
- 52:15If you saw this circulating, a lot of people were saying, oh,
- 52:18Samurai wallet devs are going to be free now because of what he
- 52:20said. I'm still a tad bit skeptical
- 52:25here. And going further, there is, you
- 52:29know, maybe a less faithful reading of this because he did
- 52:34basically said like, you won't be arrested for coding Bitcoin
- 52:37privacy tech as long as you don't use it yourself, as long
- 52:41as not only you don't use it yourself, but as long as you
- 52:45know that a third party user isn't using it in criminal
- 52:49activities. And this is where I think the
- 52:52big contention happened on Twitter.
- 52:55It is shouts out to low elites from the rage.
- 53:00I I will. She does get a little spicy
- 53:03here. I will read this.
- 53:06With a APG reading here and Lola goes, have you been celebrating
- 53:12Todd Blanche's comments on developer protection from
- 53:14yesterday's Bitcoin conference panel?
- 53:16Congratulations, you are regarded what what Blanche
- 53:21really announced yesterday that the DOJ continues to seek and
- 53:25intentionally create the legal circumstances to continue to
- 53:28prosecute non custodial developers.
- 53:30How? By making a single important
- 53:32distinction. Knowingly transmitting a legal
- 53:35fund will continue to be a crime in the US whether you have
- 53:38custody of funds or not. This means that anyone sending a
- 53:41non custodial developer an e-mail message or XDM on
- 53:45knowledge of illicit use could send you to prison for decades
- 53:48to come. Worse, even Googling a hack
- 53:51could be used to construe criminal liability.
- 53:54How do we know this? Because this is exactly what
- 53:57they are doing in the Roman Storm case.
- 54:00Roman storm case. Non custodial developers
- 54:03transmit funds and thereby knowing of the transmission of
- 54:05illicit proceeds creates criminal liability for sanctions
- 54:09evasion, for money laundering, and for money transmissions laws
- 54:11carrying a total of up to 45 years in prison.
- 54:15If I were developing non custodial software in the USI
- 54:18would get out as fast as I can. If I wasn't in the USI would
- 54:21make sure to not make my software available to US users
- 54:24and ensure to not do anything at all to give these politicians
- 54:29jurisdiction. The US is not a safe place for
- 54:33Bitcoin. So that's the rages read on
- 54:37this. And first of all, I am a huge
- 54:40fan of Lola Elites. I usually do defer to a lot of
- 54:44the things she says because she reads the stuff and she does
- 54:48have a very hyper focused on the protections of not only privacy,
- 54:54but of open source developers. So I think this read is probably
- 55:01what was said. If you are being a little more
- 55:03cynical on what that sound bite was saying.
- 55:06Obviously a lot of people are trying to take this as a win and
- 55:10I I would love for it to be an actual win if we do see here.
- 55:15I mean, he did say, I want to put my, you know, my money where
- 55:17my mouth is. So maybe it's not going to be a
- 55:21lot of hot air. Maybe this isn't just them
- 55:24trying to appease the crowd, though.
- 55:26I know that that is the cynical view here.
- 55:30But as we've seen, I mean, he very clearly basically said as
- 55:34long as you don't knowingly know that your software is being used
- 55:40criminally, you won't be liable. So there's still this push for
- 55:49Bitcoin to be the crypto capital world.
- 55:52And there's a lot of headlines on this idea that we are in fact
- 55:55the Bitcoin capital of the world.
- 55:57And I'm honestly like, I want to believe it.
- 56:00But as we've covered on this show, when we saw the privacy
- 56:04wars really coming up coming tough, I think that is when Nico
- 56:12started crashing out. That's when he got a little more
- 56:14cynical. I think I've been pretty cynical
- 56:16in the whole political process since the jump.
- 56:19So I would like to believe that this is as bullish as everyone's
- 56:23making it out to be. I do like to have opposing ideas
- 56:27here. This is why I usually give you
- 56:31like a bullish take and then I'll give you the cynical take
- 56:33so that we can, I would argue, have a more balanced nuance take
- 56:37of what is being said instead of just always completely bullish
- 56:41about it. But let me see.
- 56:43Let me see is there? Let me see, did did you guys
- 56:49throw any ones in there 21.5 cap 21.5.
- 57:00Dan B. That is the big contention.
- 57:02Mixers that don't hold fun to any time are protected.
- 57:04That is basically what the Roman Storm Tornado Cash case and the
- 57:13Samurai Wallet dev like. That was the big contention.
- 57:15And as we saw, it really didn't mean much because they basically
- 57:20made the case that they got some emails, you know, they got some
- 57:25DMS and some of their marketing was basically saying, hey, come
- 57:29use our product, even if you're doing stuff that skirts the line
- 57:35here. That's what made them liable.
- 57:38And that's why that clip is. So I would say interesting and
- 57:42maybe contentious because there is a little bit of Gray area
- 57:47here of what what it means. If what it means to know that
- 57:51people are using your software for criminal activities.
- 57:59Pardon those that have been, then I'll vote one yes.
- 58:02So the US should end the dollar? Because they're aware that is
- 58:06honestly, that's such a Bitcoin, such a Bitcoin.
- 58:10Take it easy. Don't communicate with the
- 58:12users. Yeah, maybe.
- 58:15Maybe be anonymous. Actually, I forgot to bring this
- 58:18one up. Let me bring up Giacomo's
- 58:22response to this, and we'll have one more editor.
- 58:28How is my Twitter acting up? Is Twitter down for you guys?
- 58:34Oh, dude, it's it is down. Am I cooked?
- 58:42Oh, here we go. OK, we're back.
- 58:43No, dude. Did I save it?
- 58:45All right, Twitter's not working for me.
- 58:47Wow, dude, what an L OK, let me see.
- 58:51Did I save this? Did I put it in my notes?
- 59:00Dude, Twitter's not working. Oh, did I get banned?
- 59:06Yo wow, am I banned dude? Am I cooked guys?
- 59:15Did I just get banned? What is going on?
- 59:20I didn't even post anything this morning.
- 59:25Yo. OK, let me.
- 59:29Let me. OK, We're back.
- 59:31We're back. Dude, I just thought I got
- 59:35banned live. What's going on here?
- 59:40All right, here we go. I found it.
- 59:43Here's Giacomo's take. You know, hardcore bitcoiner.
- 59:51And he goes quote if you are coder working on privacy and
- 59:55freedom tech and you're not sure if we are sending armed goons to
- 59:58hurt and kidnap you for your. Code, please reach out to us,
- 1:00:01tell us who and where you are so that we'll make sure clarifying
- 1:00:04whether we are. Stay anonymous, guys.
- 1:00:07Use disposable nymphs. If you have to fall for an
- 1:00:10obvious trap, at least wait for a less embarrassingly obvious
- 1:00:14one. I gotta love it.
- 1:00:17Gotta love it. OK, what's going on here?
- 1:00:21Let me see. OK, OK, everyone.
- 1:00:26OK, it's down for everyone. Too OK that was that was
- 1:00:30interesting OK, so let's. Damn, my Twitter's down now.
- 1:00:39Well, I'll, we'll, we'll shoot the shit to wrap up today's
- 1:00:41show. So last commercial break.
- 1:00:43I'll be right back. My my Twitter's down, guys kind
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- 1:02:27Yeah, hold on, hold on. The the rumble chat.
- 1:02:30Rumble chat. Who is this mind of Elijah X
- 1:02:33goes down show ends law. Getting banned on Twitter is a
- 1:02:39rite of passage. No, well, I'm not banned.
- 1:02:43I'm a I'm a good shit poster. OK, I just.
- 1:02:46I don't say anything crazy, all right?
- 1:02:48Anyways, someone was asking, I forgive me, I forget who it was
- 1:02:52a minute ago. They're going to meet Nico.
- 1:02:54Well, check out Nico. Apparently he's racing some cars
- 1:02:58right now. Here I am in the dungeon,
- 1:03:00sweating. I'm doing work here, and Nico
- 1:03:05gets to go race freaking supercars.
- 1:03:10Guys, it's not even fair anymore.
- 1:03:18No, I'm trolling. I'm trolling.
- 1:03:20It's all good. It's all good.
- 1:03:23But yeah. Nico will be at the conference.
- 1:03:26We do have a booth, bro. So there's a booth.
- 1:03:29I don't know where it is. I obviously I'm not there, but
- 1:03:32there's a booth there. We got the signs, you know, go
- 1:03:35there. I know we have some of our team
- 1:03:37there. Unfortunately, I'm not there,
- 1:03:42so, you know, going to miss out on me.
- 1:03:44But Nico should be back. I'm sure he'll be back at the
- 1:03:47conference later on today. I don't know when he's doing his
- 1:03:50keynote stuff. I think he had one yesterday.
- 1:03:53I don't know if he has any more appearances today, but he'll be
- 1:03:58around. They're around.
- 1:03:59So, you know, go check him out. Anyways, let me see, is my
- 1:04:03Twitter working? Yeah.
- 1:04:06OK. This is kind of what I want to
- 1:04:09talk about because I was covering this yesterday and I,
- 1:04:11and I really love Andre's coverage here.
- 1:04:14Obviously he works at Bitwise, he's got the data to back it up,
- 1:04:18but this is kind of what we're seeing right now.
- 1:04:22This is the general sentiment, I think from people that aren't
- 1:04:26biased. And by the biased, I mean that
- 1:04:29we're going to be seeing a prolonged bear market until
- 1:04:33October or, you know, Q3 of this year.
- 1:04:38Everyone's kind of watching the 82801K range right here and I
- 1:04:43know you guys don't really like the Opti Tai know actually some
- 1:04:48of you guys do, some of you guys do like it.
- 1:04:50But I think this is this is just to give us a framework for where
- 1:04:56we currently are right now. And it's really going back to
- 1:05:01the idea of should you be smashed buying right now?
- 1:05:06Should you be waiting for a dip? Wait for the Bitcoin conference
- 1:05:09dip to. Finally end and then maybe we'll
- 1:05:11get a little more price action to the upside.
- 1:05:14But here is the breakdown. The real question for everyone,
- 1:05:18of course, isn't whether Bitcoin is going to return into a new
- 1:05:24bull market. It's at what price point does
- 1:05:27that psychology flip? I don't think anyone here, at
- 1:05:31least if you've been around for a while, has any doubt that
- 1:05:35we're going to go into another bull market.
- 1:05:37We've been around long enough. We know how this plays out.
- 1:05:43Bitcoin. 'S not going to 0A bull market's
- 1:05:46coming back. It's not a if, it's just when.
- 1:05:49When are we going to see that psychological shift?
- 1:05:51When are we going to see the FOMO start to come back, the
- 1:05:54price start to get a little frothy.
- 1:05:57And here's probably the best breakdown, at least maybe this
- 1:06:00is the best breakdown to me 'cause it's confirming my bias.
- 1:06:03And you guys know I I only trust the science when it confirms my
- 1:06:06bias. So right now the market is
- 1:06:08staring at a massive confluence of cost bases between 80 and 81
- 1:06:13K. Our latest status shows that the
- 1:06:15true market mean the short term holder cost bases and the US
- 1:06:18spot ETF cost bases are all clustering at this exact level
- 1:06:23of 82801K. This isn't just a random number,
- 1:06:27it is the demarcation line. This 801K level is a significant
- 1:06:31technical indicator in our on chain models as it could
- 1:06:35represent the shift from a period of aggregate market
- 1:06:38stress to one of broad based profitability.
- 1:06:41Until we reclaim this level, we remain in a late stage bare
- 1:06:45phase defined by seller exhaustion, which is what we
- 1:06:50were covering the other day. And here.
- 1:06:53Let me let me zoom in here on this chart Bitcoin momentum
- 1:06:56levels, Bitcoin price true market mean I'm.
- 1:07:00I'm color blind, so I. Can't really tell which lines
- 1:07:03which guys, sorry but ADK. Oh, here we go, ADK.
- 1:07:08Line, that's what we're all watching here, guys, OK?
- 1:07:12Which? Is what I've been saying and now
- 1:07:15I have the data, the on chain metrics and the cost basis for
- 1:07:21what, What do you say again, cost basis for the ETF and the
- 1:07:25short term holder and the true market mean?
- 1:07:3080K to 801K. Obviously, we got the classic
- 1:07:35every year Bitcoin conference dump.
- 1:07:37It's roughly down 5%. Let's see, are we dumping more?
- 1:07:42We've been dumping more every time I do a show now.
- 1:07:46We are currently at 76 one. It's not that bad so.
- 1:07:54The real number that we're probably all watching is that 80
- 1:08:01to 80. 1K which is to say. Another way, if we breakthrough
- 1:08:04the 81 Ki think it's pretty safe to say that we're not going to
- 1:08:10be in a bear market until October.
- 1:08:14I mean, who knows, maybe there's one more dip in US.
- 1:08:16Maybe we got a, maybe you. Got one more chance to get some
- 1:08:20cheap sets before. The game starts to have some
- 1:08:30fun. You guys are funny.
- 1:08:37Let's see. Let's see.
- 1:08:39He's schmoozing Opticos. Nico's right?
- 1:08:42No, dude. Nico's my handler, bro.
- 1:08:45You got it mixed up. I did get rugged.
- 1:08:48You always have Matchbox Optic. Yeah, dude, I I get Hot Wheels,
- 1:08:54bro. Daddy.
- 1:08:55Oh, thank you. For the Super chat to $5.
- 1:08:58Since you got left behind. Appreciate it man.
- 1:09:03Oh, Misfit, Thank you. Man, I appreciate.
- 1:09:05That I don't. I don't know.
- 1:09:07I don't know about that. I will.
- 1:09:12Say that we do have a lot of fun here.
- 1:09:17You know what? You know, I, I.
- 1:09:18Was actually thinking about this.
- 1:09:21You know why I think you guys really enjoy the.
- 1:09:26Opti Show. The Simply Opti shows and this
- 1:09:30is not to pat myself on the back 'cause I cause I've really been
- 1:09:33thinking about this is if you've ever met me in person, I'm like,
- 1:09:39I'm literally the same guy that I am on the.
- 1:09:41Show, obviously. I, I probably have to tone it
- 1:09:43down a little bit on the live show, but this is me like I, I
- 1:09:49tell you exactly what I think. Obviously I got to tone it down
- 1:09:52a little bit, but I, I think, I think.
- 1:09:56Part of. What has connected you guys with
- 1:09:58me on this show is there is a a sense of.
- 1:10:03Authenticity here like I, I. This is me.
- 1:10:06If you talk to me in person, I'm the same way on and off the
- 1:10:09show. Again, I'm probably a little
- 1:10:11more extreme off the show because it's like, hey, we're in
- 1:10:13person. There's no cameras.
- 1:10:15You know, we we can have a little fun here.
- 1:10:17We're, we're, we're in IRL, you know, life's let's.
- 1:10:20Let's have a little fun but. I appreciate it Misfit Droid I I
- 1:10:24really do appreciate it. Let's see episode.
- 1:10:32I I don't get this episode 1492 talking.
- 1:10:36About a supply shock that will usher in a new world.
- 1:10:42I don't know man, it's 1492. Oh wait, are you talking about
- 1:10:49the? Year 1492.
- 1:10:55Hey, hey, let's go. Yo, you're funny anyways guys.
- 1:11:05I do have to. Give you 1 update here on.
- 1:11:08The show I told you guys yesterday, tomorrow might.
- 1:11:14Be a little weird again. They are.
- 1:11:16Redoing the roof here on the studio, there hasn't been that
- 1:11:20much noise. I'd I'm I'm really hoping that
- 1:11:23the noise that I am hearing isn't picked up on the mic, but
- 1:11:26tomorrow I might have to stream from my apartment.
- 1:11:31I'm still unsure if it's going to be a little too chaotic in
- 1:11:34here. The first two days have seemed
- 1:11:35pretty chill, so tomorrow it might not be the fancy studio.
- 1:11:41I might have to do the first stream since we got the studio
- 1:11:45from just the home apt. I will be bringing some of the
- 1:11:49gear home tonight. I will come into studio tomorrow
- 1:11:54so. I'm going to attempt.
- 1:11:55To make sure that I'm streaming from the studio tomorrow, but if
- 1:12:00for whatever reason it's a little too loud in here or there
- 1:12:02might be fumes in here. If I don't, you know, if I can
- 1:12:07actually stream from here tomorrow, I will we.
- 1:12:12Are going to have a show tomorrow.
- 1:12:15Obviously this is the second day of the Bitcoin conference.
- 1:12:18I will give you all the highlights that I find to be the
- 1:12:21biggest signal coming out of the conference and we'll talk about
- 1:12:24that tomorrow, but I'm I'm going to need you guys to.
- 1:12:29Be a little. Lenient on me because I might
- 1:12:32not be able to stream from the studio tomorrow.
- 1:12:35I might have to stream from from my apartment and it's it's not
- 1:12:40as nice as this. I don't.
- 1:12:41I don't have. AI don't have a set.
- 1:12:42Up for streaming in my apartment, 'cause I come here to
- 1:12:45stream every single day. OK, so I got that head.
- 1:12:51She goes, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:12:53So anyways, yeah, I'm from the fumes, you know, I said the.
- 1:12:59Same thing. And then Sophie's like.
- 1:13:01Yeah, I don't, I don't know if they're going to be that those
- 1:13:03type of. Fumes, bro.
- 1:13:03It might be the type that's going to kill you, so I don't
- 1:13:07know. I'm going to come into the
- 1:13:08studio. Tomorrow.
- 1:13:09We're going to have a show I just might have to stream from
- 1:13:15my apartment because it it might.
- 1:13:17Be a little too chaotic. Here.
- 1:13:18So that's the only update. Maybe honestly, maybe I'll maybe
- 1:13:23I'll be able to stream tomorrow. I'm just saying might be a
- 1:13:25little different tomorrow, but I am so expect a later show.
- 1:13:30Maybe. Maybe stream from the bar.
- 1:13:34Yeah, that'd be lit. That'd be lit.
- 1:13:37All right, anyways, I. Appreciate you guys.
- 1:13:40I love you guys. I'll see you tomorrow same thing
- 1:13:43we're going to give you the biggest highlights coming from
- 1:13:45the Bitcoin conference, so you guys don't have to watch the
- 1:13:47whole 9 hours if you don't want to and if there's any other
- 1:13:52breaking news, I'm I'm I'm not just going to cover stuff from
- 1:13:56the conference if there's. Some other big.
- 1:13:58News. But it seems like all the big
- 1:14:00news is coming out of the conference.
- 1:14:01So we'll be getting all the sound bites, we'll be getting
- 1:14:04the news stories, but it might not be in the studio tomorrow.
- 1:14:08That's all. I'm saying, all right, on that
- 1:14:10note, guys, I appreciate you guys.
- 1:14:12I love you. Thank you for all the support.
- 1:14:16Honestly, it means the world to us means the world.
- 1:14:19To me. And you already know the deal.
- 1:14:22Make sure you. Get a workout in you, eat some
- 1:14:25good food, get some sun on your eyes in The Morning, Call your
- 1:14:30loved ones, cut some grass. But most importantly, make sure
- 1:14:36you are buying some Bitcoin, because if you're leaving SAT on
- 1:14:40the table right now, Wall Street's picking.
- 1:14:44Them up if you don't like what you're seeing with the.
- 1:14:48Institutionalization of Bitcoin. Then you need to be stacking SAT
- 1:14:53and taking it into self custody. On that note, Boys stream at
- 1:14:59the. Barbershop.
- 1:15:01Hey, hey, hey, my. Apartment isn't that.
- 1:15:04Messy right now, OK. All right, later, guys.
- 1:15:11I'll see you tomorrow. Have a good rest of your day.
- 1:15:15It's been SP live. I should stream at our normal.
- 1:15:18Time tomorrow at 12:40. And.
- 1:15:20Actually, I do want to say one last thing before I shut up.
- 1:15:22I know you guys yell at me about putting the show up at 12:16
- 1:15:26every morning, but I don't just put up the stream.
- 1:15:30And then I I sit around. For 30 minutes waiting.
- 1:15:32I'm literally working up until I go live making sure I got
- 1:15:37everything for you guys, got the research, got my, you know, my
- 1:15:41rants percolating in my head, so I should be live.
- 1:15:47Tomorrow at 12:40, but if not. I'm just, you know.
- 1:15:52I'm working. Up to the buzzer beater.
- 1:15:54All right, guys, peace out. Today's episode was brought to
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