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You have roughly 18 months before AI permanently separates the builders from everyone else. Fernando Nikolic, former VP at Blockstream and now a profitable AI solo founder, says most people including most Bitcoiners are going to end up on the wrong side of that line.
In this conversation we get into the permanent underclass, the dying Bitcoin culture, the chaos gap we are all living through, and the forensic analysis Fernando ran using 17 AI sub-agents through five years of Michael Saylor's public communications that found something deeply disturbing about how the STRC launch was engineered.
Here is what we cover:
• What the permanent underclass actually means and why you only have 18 months to escape it
• What it is like to run a fully profitable business where all your employees are AI agents
• Why AI psychosis is real and how Fernando pulled himself back from the edge of it
• Why taste and voice are the last human advantages that AI cannot replicate
• How the Gutenberg printing press, Bitcoin, and AI are all doing the exact same thing to different institutions
• Why AI is homogenizing the web and what that means for anyone trying to build a brand
• The forensic analysis of five years of Saylor's communications and what it reveals about how STRC was engineered
• Why Strategy selling 700 Bitcoin in 2022 moved markets less than selling 32 Bitcoin in 2026
• What Perception is, what it does, and how companies are already using it to track narrative shifts in real time
• Why BIP-110 is failing to break out of the Bitcoin echo chamber and what it would take to change that
• Why this bear market has the worst memes and most uninspired content of any bear market Fernando can remember
• Why the Bitcoin and AI symbiosis is the only narrative that can drive the next wave of real adoption
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LIVE 🔴 Matt McDonagh lays out a thesis that sounds crazy until you follow the logic… America has exactly one move left to secure its dominance for the next 250 years, and it's Bitcoin. As the dollar's grip on global reserve status weakens and rival powers position for the next era of monetary competition, embracing Bitcoin as a strategic asset may be the only play left that actually works. This isn't just speculation — it's a geopolitical chess move hiding in plain sight.
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Back in the fall of 2025, when almost everyone was calling for a final blow off top above $200K, Ben Cowen said the opposite. The top is in. A year long bear market is coming. Nine months later, he has been proven right.
Now he is back to give you the exact price target, the exact month he has circled on his calendar, and why the biggest Bitcoin treasury company on earth bleeding out might just be the thing that finally ends this bear market.
Here is what we get into:
• How Ben called the October top when everyone else was calling for $200K
• Why the four year cycle remains undefeated and why it has nothing to do with the halving
• The three stages of a bear market and why we just entered stage three
• Why October keeps showing up in the data no matter which indicator you use
• The MicroStrategy chart from last cycle that points to the exact same week in 2026
• Why the realized price at $53K and the balanced price at $38K are the two levels to watch
• Why the 200 day moving average is resistance until 2027
• How volume spikes have ended every prior bear market and why we have not seen one yet
• Why narratives follow price and not the other way around
• Why a stock market correction in August or September could be the catalyst that unlocks rate cuts
• Why the people who end bear markets are always forced sellers, not willing ones
• Why social interest in Bitcoin is down 10x from the 2021 peak and what that tells you about timing
• Why Ben is already okay with starting to accumulate at current prices
He is not a perma bear. He is just following the data. And the data says October.
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Bitcoin is down 50 percent. Stocks are at all time highs. The preferred shares sold as money market alternatives are trading 25 percent below par. And the man who said he would never sell Bitcoin just sold Bitcoin, causing a deep bear market in both crypto and MicroStrategy.
Will Reeves, CEO of Fold, has been building in Bitcoin for over a decade. He has been through every bear market. And he says this one feels different. Not because Bitcoin is broken, but because for the first time, the whole world is watching.
Here's what we get into:
• Why this bear market feels different to a decade-long Bitcoin builder
• Whether the four year cycle is truly undefeated and what that means for where we go next
• The real story behind the preferred shares down 25 percent and who actually bought them
• Why Saylor's transparency was one of his greatest assets and how the last few months have challenged that
• Whether Strategy having 850,000 Bitcoin is a risk to the entire market
• How gold took decades to emerge from the derivatives games played on top of it and why Bitcoin could face the same thing
• Why institutions are in wait and see mode and what would bring them back
• How Fold sold Bitcoin to fund the business and why that was the right call
• Why airline miles are the ultimate shitcoin and how Fold has delivered $70 million in Bitcoin rewards instead
• How Steak and Shake's Bitcoin integration is the most bullish real world signal nobody is talking about
• Why HODL does not mean hold to your grave and what it actually means to use Bitcoin to unlock your life
The end goal is not Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the tool. This conversation is about what it unlocks.
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LIVE 🔴 Strategy has just crashed below $100 per share and Bitcoin is sitting under $61K — and the panic spreading through the market right now is exactly the kind of moment that separates long-term holders from people who never really believed in the first place. The questions everyone is asking are the right ones: is this a temporary flush or something more structural, and what does it mean for Michael Saylor's entire thesis if the numbers keep moving in this direction? Here's the honest breakdown of what's really going on.
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Grant Cardone says the biggest financial lie ever told is: “Save your money.”
While most people are taught to save cash, Grant argues that cash is constantly losing purchasing power and that the wealthy play a completely different game. Instead of saving, they acquire assets, use debt strategically, and convert fiat into things they believe will outperform inflation.
In this interview, Grant breaks down:
• Why saving money can actually make you poorer
• The difference between scarcity and abundance thinking
• How wealthy people use debt differently
• Why he is bullish on Bitcoin
• The Bitcoin + real estate strategy he believes could change investing
• The biggest mistakes investors make
• How AI, Bitcoin, and hard assets could reshape wealth creation
Whether you agree with him or not, Grant’s views on money, Bitcoin, investing, and entrepreneurship challenge almost everything most people have been taught.
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The Dow just hit a record high above 52,000. Elon Musk became the first trillionaire in history. And Bitcoin is sitting 50% off its high with some of the worst sentiment on record. So are we in the mother of all bubbles?
Former BlackRock VP John Gillen, host of @MilkRoadMacro , joins Bitcoin News to break down one of the strangest macro setups in years. Record highs in the indices, a brutal grind in Bitcoin, an AI IPO frenzy led by SpaceX at a 1.77 trillion dollar valuation on a company that lost roughly 5 billion dollars last year, and Kevin Warsh stepping in for his first FOMC meeting as Fed Chair with inflation ticking back up.
John recently sat down with macro analyst Henrik Zeberg, who argues this is a final blow-off top before a deflationary crash that could rival 2008. We pressure test that thesis from every angle and ask where John actually stands.
In this episode:
🔶 Are we in the biggest bubble in history, and how close are we to the end of it
🔶 Is the AI trade real, and does the SpaceX IPO mark the top
🔶 Is Bitcoin a safe haven, or the canary in the coal mine
🔶 Why is Bitcoin sentiment so poor while the indices print records
🔶 The case for hard assets as sovereign debt goes parabolic
🔶 How an ex-BlackRock insider is positioned right now
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Everyone asks how much Bitcoin they need to retire. Almost no one asks if they actually have a plan to get there.
Trey Sellers of Unchained and FireBTC joins the show to break down the retirement math Wall Street uses, why Bitcoin completely rewrites the equation, and how a focused four-year stacking sprint could put ordinary people on a path to financial independence decades earlier than they ever thought possible.
Here's what we cover:
• Why 6.15 BTC is the meme answer and what the real answer actually depends on
• The 4% rule explained and why Bitcoin lets you apply an 8% withdrawal rate instead
• Why selling your stocks first and letting your Bitcoin run longer is the smarter withdrawal order
• The four-year stacking sprint — why front-loading your effort early has a compounding impact that nothing else can replicate
• Why someone saving less but starting 10 years earlier will end up far wealthier than someone saving more and starting late
• How every extra 1% allocated to Bitcoin increases total portfolio returns by 9.6%
• Why the fire movement has a blind spot that Bitcoin fixes — and why Bitcoiners have a blind spot that fire frameworks fix
• The difference between good debt and bad debt and why paying off your mortgage early might be the worst financial decision you can make
• How to get spousal buy-in on a stacking sprint without sounding crazy
• The FireBTC Compass — a free privacy-first browser tool that runs your retirement numbers without sending your data anywhere
Most Bitcoiners know how to stack. Far fewer know when they have stacked enough. This video is for both.
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Everyone has Saylor's trade completely wrong. The bears think it's a Ponzi. The bulls think it's invincible. Dan Hilery says both sides are missing the actual numbers and the real story is more interesting than either of them.
Bitcoin is at $62,000. MSTR is trading where it was two years ago. STRC has broken its $100 par and is sitting in the low nineties. The shorts are piling in, put volume is three times the calls, and Peter Schiff is calling the whole thing a Ponzi.
But Dan Hilery says everyone is looking at this completely wrong. And he has the numbers to prove it.
Here's what we get into:
• Why the MSTR short thesis has a fatal flaw that almost no one is talking about
• How Strategy selling Bitcoin made headlines while the 50x buyback was barely mentioned
• Why STRC breaking par is not the death spiral signal the bears think it is
• What the put to call ratio actually tells you about positioning and why it could be the setup up for a violent short squeeze
• The real math behind Strategy's Bitcoin treasury model and why the numbers still work at $62,000
• Why this moment looks a lot more like a buying opportunity than a blowup
• What has to happen for MSTR to get back to all time highs — and why Dan thinks the catalyst is closer than most people think
• Why Peter Schiff has been calling this a Ponzi from the beginning and why he will be wrong again
• The shorts are the loudest they have ever been. Dan says that is exactly when you want to be paying attention.
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Tom Luongo has a theory that most Bitcoiners are not going to like. And he's got the data to back it up.
Bitcoin should be at $400,000 right now based on everything we were told. It's at $60,000. Tom says there's a reason for that. And once you understand it, the road to $1 million Bitcoin looks very different than the one most people are expecting.
Here's what we get into:
• Why Bitcoin hit $125,000 twice and went nowhere — and what that tells you about who is actually in control of the price
• Why Tom thinks the price of Bitcoin may be pre-negotiated and we are living through Bitcoin's version of gold's lost decade in the 2010s
• Why Scott Bessent would rather buy Bitcoin at $60,000 than $125,000 — and who has to go broke to make that happen
• Tom's spicy call: Michael Saylor (Chairman of MicroStrategy) goes bust before Bitcoin reaches $1 million — and his Bitcoin ends up on the US government's balance sheet
• Why Bitcoin only hits $1 million when the US Treasury has enough Bitcoin to balance the books
• Sovereignists vs globalists — how to make sense of every major geopolitical conflict right now through this single lens
• Why Trump going to war with Iran was not a betrayal — and who actually manufactured that narrative and why
• Why the oil crisis is already over and who has been painting the tape on the Brent Crude chart
• Why the dollar is being redollarized — not destroyed — and how Bitcoin and gold fit into that plan
• The end of Fed dominance and the rise of Treasury dominance — and what that means for every asset you own
• Why $15,000 gold, $400 silver, and $1 million Bitcoin are the numbers that balance America's books
This is one of the most different and challenging takes on Bitcoin you will hear all year. Whether you agree or not, you will not look at the market the same way afterward.
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