The Wolf Of All Streets - Bitcoin Headed To $200K-$315K, June Will Be Explosive | Mike Alfred
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Bitcoin is headed to 200,000 to $315,000 and June will be
explosive. Many of you point out that we can be a bit bipolar
on this channel and that maybe on Monday we had more bearish
targets when we were talking to Mike McGlone, but now we've got
a different Mike and it's Mike Alfred. He's going to tell us
why things are looking great for Bitcoin. We can going to discuss that, everything else market related.
And of course, Chris, thanks from Texas West Capitol on the back.
Let's go.
Let's go. What is up everyone Bitcoin to $315,000 everybody loves a huge number you may notice that for
the first time in years I did not say the same sentence right there at the beginning
of the show that I always say I said I wasn't going to do it and do it but you still like
and subscribe if you want.
I'm going to bring on Mike right now.
Yeah, 88,000.
You and I just talked about before this
that you listened to Macro Monday for a bit.
Clearly you don't think Bitcoin's going to $10,000
anytime soon.
No, it's going higher, not lower.
But I totally understand McGlone's perspective.
He's a serious analyst, he's You know, he's a serious analyst.
He's credentialed.
He's very intelligent.
It's really frustrating when you do a lot of work like that
and then you see people that to you
don't look very intelligent,
look like just pure gamblers making more money than you do.
And it's a common affliction in markets.
You'll see people miss out on entire trends
just because they're angry
about the types of people who are making money on it. So I'm sure he's a great guy.
Clearly very, very smart, but he's got to stop worrying about what other people are doing with
their money and just focus on the fundamentals. So we've got our big, huge target here. Where
did we get it? Of course, this came from one of your amazing tweets, Bitcoin closed over 107,000 for the
first time in the history of the asset and protocol.
So for those who missed it on Sunday actually had the highest weekly and daily close.
That's great.
But we're headed to 200 to 315 soon.
So the only question you should be asking is, do I have enough Bitcoin?
Interestingly, if you take a look at what options traders are doing, they're making
the same bet and on June 27th
strikes, as wild and maybe hyperbolic and exaggerated as
people might have thought your tweet, they'd never know if
you're serious or sort of kidding. People are actually
taking huge bets on a strike price of 300,000 for June 27th
in the options market.
Yeah, I mean, that's too soon, but look,
a lot of my tweets are hyperbolic. A lot of my tweets are fun.
And look, I give this caveat every time.
Like if you're using X as something other than
entertainment, you're using it incorrectly, right?
If you're using it to like,
YOLO your entire net worth based on what somebody says on X,
like again, you need to think a little bit harder,
but my target from the
cycle bottom was 315 K. So when we were at 16 going to 20, I said I thought that 315
was a reasonable target for the cycle. And of course, I've tweeted it repeatedly on and
on for the last almost two and a half years now. And so we're just getting closer to where
it looks more obvious that that's a potential level we could go to. I think like, when you look at,
you deconstruct the cycle fully relative to previous cycles.
This looks like a entirely institutionally driven cycle as,
as many guests I'm sure pointed out on your show the past,
like there's no retail involvement whatsoever other than indirectly via the ETF,
but there's no like retail FOMO into Bitcoin and crypto this cycle.
It's almost all driven by institutions. And so the cycle buildup has been a little bit slower
with long consolidation periods like last year between March and November where people basically got bored
out of the market or whipsawed out by minor volatility between 50 and 70, right? And then it broke out.
I think we're about to do that again. We're about to break out of this consolidation pattern
from January and that'll take us up to 130, 140, 150,
somewhere in that range.
And then we'll consolidate there for some period of time
before we break out towards 180, 200.
I do think we hit 200 this year.
Like maybe I'm at 25, 30% statistically,
but like, but
like my gut says that, that it's coming. And then if we hit 300,
315, I think that happens potentially q1, q2 of next year.
I think we're looking at an elongated cycle. I mean, this is
something I've been talking about for a couple years now,
you'll start hearing more commentary probably from others
as we get closer to the end of the year. If we haven't
already gone into a parabolic price discovery mode like we've seen in previous cycles, it'll
be more obvious that perhaps we're not going to just make this huge run up top and then
pull back that we might actually just stretch the cycle out further. And there's no reason
rooted in physics why the cycle has to magically turn over on a certain date. I think a lot of people think just because it's happened on similar time
frames before that'll happen again, but you got to overlay the current liquidity
cycle and we're going into a new liquidity boom right now with the DXY
softening with a lot of money printing needed to happen around the world just
to hold up economies like Japan and China and so I think we're in we're
positioned really well for the rest of the cycle. Now, I think
we're mid cycle.
Yeah, it's interesting comment. I think that in the earlier days,
the animal spirits of the four year cycle made a lot of sense.
It was a nascent asset, there weren't that many people
participating. So there was a bit of the having actually
mattering, because that was actually quite a bit of a
supply. And just the belief, you know, obviously the self-fulfilling prophecy of it.
But I agree with you.
I think at this point, it's going to trade more like macro assets.
I'm not saying it's going to follow them, but you know, the stock market, the NASDAQ
doesn't have a predictable four-year cycle where on a certain date it tops and then on
a certain date it tops and then on a certain date it bottoms.
I think that we get more traditional price action
moving forward from Bitcoin.
Doesn't mean not as much upside.
I just don't see unless we have some major black swans
or something 85 down, 10X up, 85 down, 10X up,
predictably every four years.
Yeah, I mean, if we do 10X from the bottom, we should be at 160,
right? And then 80% down takes us quite a ways down, I think, from where most people would
expect. I think it's more likely that the cycle top is between like 15 and 25x off the bottom,
and 25 X off the bottom with again,
315 right there kind of in the middle of that range. And then the drawdowns,
there may not be one major drawdown that's so obvious
that everyone can take advantage of
where we just draw down in a straight line for one year,
which is historically what's happened, right?
When you look back to like 2018 or 2022
is like exactly the same structure,
almost exactly the same drawdown amount.
It could be that we just see a couple of 30 to 50%
drawdowns followed by pushes back towards all time highs
or pushes to new all time highs
where the whole cycle structure is actually broken
completely because we make a new all time high
before falling another 30 or 40%.
And so I think people need to be prepared.
I mean, the only strategy like candidly that really works in Bitcoin without
fail is just a long-term DCA strategy where you just buy it over and over and
over and over again, relentlessly.
Um, and you just hold it for as long as you can. Basically like set yourself up such
that you can hold it forever.
And if you do those two things,
then you basically can't fail.
I mean, I've told people before,
like the big chunk of the Bitcoin that I hold
was purchased between like December, 2018
and like March of 2019.
And I literally haven't touched it.
It just sits there doing absolutely nothing.
I don't lend it out. I don't try to generate additional yield on it. I haven't touched it. It just sits there doing absolutely nothing. I don't lend
it out. I don't try to generate additional yield on it. I don't trade it. I don't buy shit coins
to try to buy it back. Like to me, it's just, it's a legacy asset and you just, you just hold it and
it just tends to go up over time. For periods of time, you're like, man, I could have made more
money doing X, Y, and Z. But when you look back 10 years later, it almost always has been a better decision to just buy and hold. So we're back there now. I mean, look how many guys
got shaken out between 109 and 74. I saw so many tweets from even really smart people. They're in
their 20s, some of them in their 30s. And it's like, you guys have 20, 30, 40 years to invest,
and you're trying to trade a candle between
84 and 74. That's just not smart. Those people have less Bitcoin now, almost certainly. Anybody
who's selling Bitcoin between-
I do not have a cent of them do.
Yeah. Every cycle. There's like literally no one who ends up ahead playing those games.
The only people who end up ahead are the people that look dumb, buying, buying, buying, buying
relentlessly when it's in a drawdown and then just hold it.
Say like buying the top every time,
buying the top forever sort of the joke.
So listen, this actually leads me to a question
we've been sort of pondering on this show
for the last few days or weeks
that I'm very interested for you.
So the idea that we could have some sort of contagion
that pops the next bubble, right? Obviously, we
know that we had Luna and the CFI collapses and all these
things in the past. I have a bit of a concern. Here's here's one
story sort of related Ramaswamy strive I 75,000 Bitcoin and
Malcox claims amid Bitcoin Treasury push strive obviously
one of the companies that's making a big push in this
Bitcoin Treasury space. I am a, one of the companies that's making a big push in this Bitcoin treasury space.
I am a huge fan of the idea of companies adding Bitcoin to their treasuries.
I'm a bit concerned if we get 20, 30, 40, or 50 companies trying to raise convertible
debt and take you on leverage to buy more Bitcoin and think that could be a catalyst
for a larger drawdown than we would have had.
I mean, does any of this concern you? Nakamoto 21 strategy,
I think those are the kind of people we generally can trust to do this properly. But you're going to
end up with a bunch of hedge funds at the top down this risk curve. We're going to try this and then
be force sellers, in my opinion. Yeah. I mean, look, there's some truth to that. If everybody
is using debt to file on Bitcoin, yeah, of course, there's some truth to that. If everybody is using debt to file on
Bitcoin, yeah, of course, it's going to make the volatility potentially worse. But you
also got to keep in mind, there's a finite limit to the amount of capital that's available
to do convertible notes. And you'll notice like MetaPlanet is being really cautious in
particular about how they do that. And they're using other approaches to try to build their
stack without using as much convertibles as some of the others are. So there's a limit.
The market will only bear so much. So if there are a thousand companies trying to run a convertible
note strategy, like the total aggregate amount of debt that will be priced is sort of limited
unless it gets recycled from existing
convertible notes that are successfully.
Or if they just start to take, I mean, that doesn't mean someone will buy it, but if they
just start to take more risk off or more yield, whatever that is, like we saw with sort of
CIFI in the past cycle, oh, they're doing 9% yield, we will do 12% yield, right?
Then going further down the risk curve to find a way to, you know, find that in the
market.
That's possible.
But candidly, like right now, these companies are just front running.
What's inevitable that every corporate entity is going to be forced to do, I think over
the next five or 10 years.
And so I think it's well supported by the fact that like 0% of the S&P, right?
0.1% of the S&P balance sheets are denominated in Bitcoin
and that number is gonna go to two or three or 4%.
And so that may happen at some point in the future
where there's a retrenchment,
but right now I think it's an asymmetric,
it's pretty asymmetric bet to do anything you can
to add Bitcoin to your balance sheet
knowing that you have like effectively a tsunami of capital
behind you that that has to get out of the dollar and the euro
and the yen.
And that's part of why you're seeing such a big multiple on
MetaPlanet right now is because of all the financial distress
in Japan.
So there's these huge macro tailwinds for this type of
strategy.
And so like, yeah, I hear you.
I wouldn't rule out a treasury,
a Bitcoin treasury company driven cycle top
and roll over and eventually pull back.
Maybe that's what creates a 50% plus drawdown.
It's possible, but that would probably happen
from much higher levels.
Yeah, to me it would be like we're at 180,
Bitcoin rolls over 20% because Bitcoin rolled over 20%. And then a bunch of these idiots are
forced to sell because they managed it poorly and it sends
it down another 20%. I don't think it's like the end of a
cycle type thing. It just seems like it's going to get there. It
just I it my spidey senses tingle that it's going to become
irresponsible as
who amongst the the number of firms that are on the field now, like who amongst the micro strategies, meta
planets, strides, right? Well, but so then who, who's it going
to be between here? And 180 that doesn't exist yet that's going
to show up and be that off sides like I just it just looks to me
like we would need significantly higher prices. And so that's
the case, like if we do see if you're right, and the Bitcoin Treasury
companies blow up, I think it's more likely to happen in a million or two million.
That's fair because somewhere between-
That's fair because it's going to have to have been, yeah, they're not fomo-ing in
now.
No, those guys are going to come in when there's actual fomo.
And what I'm seeing in my travels and what I'm seeing in my analysis is there's none of the sentiment indicators,
none of the FoMo indicators that you would have seen in previous
cycles to tell you that you're getting into the late part of
the cycle, the things that I'm seeing are still saying early
to mid. And that sounds crazy, because we're, you know, almost
two and a half years in to the cycle, but there's no indicators
of extreme sentiment. There's nothing happening on chain, right?
There's transaction costs.
Yeah, spot driven, like the derivatives markets
aren't going crazy.
Crypto beyond Bitcoin isn't doing anything.
The search traffic on Google is in the floor, right?
Like you go talk to, go stand in Midtown Manhattan
or go stand on the Las Vegas strip and ask 100 people what they think the Bitcoin price is.
And like one person will be able to tell you what it is. Everyone else will be like,
well, I don't know. Last time I checked it was 24 K or something. Right.
So like we're in a very unusual environment because if you're paying close
attention,
there's people doing incredible things like micro strategy and meta planet and
just stacking Bitcoin like crazy and doing stuff we've never seen before.
But then you go talk to the average person on the street, they have no freaking idea
that Bitcoin is even over 100K.
And so look, I hear you.
I think we should always be looking for cycle top markers.
We should always be looking for risk factors.
But if there is a Bitcoin treasury company crash, it'll probably happen between 500,000
and like 2 million, which is why I'm so bullish on the cycle because there needs to be a lot more
buildup of excess and speculation and FOMO before you're going to see any sort
of crash. And that's the biggest criticism I have. Like when I hear,
when I sit in spaces right now, crypto guys are like, Oh,
Bitcoin is getting so hot. And I get it on a relative basis.
It feels like Bitcoin is really hot because crypto has done absolutely nothing
the cycle and people are frustrated by that. But Bitcoin, when it does break out to new all-time highs again, I'm pretty
confident there will be a crypto cycle and the crypto kids will start to see their favorite meme
coins going up again. And that's when you'll start to see some reason to be concerned. But Bitcoin
at 100k or 110k, there's zero signs of that. And so I'd be doing exactly what Jack Mallers and Strive
and those guys are doing right now.
If I were in their position
and I could issue corporate level securities
in order to buy Bitcoin, I'd probably do the same thing.
Yeah, Dave Weisberger has pointed out a number of times
if you take a look at the perpetual swaps
in the derivatives markets,
it's like annualized 5% right now
interest on being long or short when even in the early iterations of a real FOMO cycle,
you're talking about 80, 90% with those perpetual swaps or, you know, the funding rates change
every eight hours. So there's really just, as you said, I mean, traders are not aggressively
trading it and there's really no FOMO. It's just a lot of buying.
You know, that's that's that's one of the best setups I've seen because you rarely see
an asset basically this close to price discovery, probably going into a multi-month or even
multi-year type of run up entirely backed by like institutions that are long term and
orientation and like almost no interest from
the retail public.
So typically, you'd have expected a lot of interest.
I think a lot of us at 16K, 25K, 30K would have thought, oh, at 100K, retail won't be
able to ignore Bitcoin and retail is sitting there ignoring Bitcoin, defying all predictions
from earlier in the cycle.
So people forget that. They forget just, they forget that that was
the mood back in the spring of 2023. Like people were worried
about a retrace to 20k when we were at 25k. That's what people
were talking about. Like, if you go back and like, listen to a
lot of the spaces at the time, and a lot of podcasts at the
time, it was like, Oh, the traders see a bearish divergence
on the daily and on the weekly and we're at 25. We might go back to 20. And I was like-
For the traders though. It works for the traders.
The fundamental guys were like, hey, we're probably going to see some FOMO at 100K. That's what we
were talking about at 20, 25K. And that's been wrong. I'll freely admit.
Yeah. I really thought that big round number was going was gonna send it but I love that it didn't right because that that
means that you have a lot more room to move. I want to ask
them about miners because on spaces also on Monday, I think I
had Marshall Long, who I'm sure you know, Ryan Condren was
there Gary Cardone and they were actually pointing out that they
think miners and they are miners could be the publicly traded
miners I should say could be the publicly traded miners, I should say
could be the bubble of this cycle, because they're now
taking on debt and following the same sort of path. And that
actually all in the price of mining right now is because of
hash rate flying is so high and so hard for them to make money.
I have a feeling you might have an opinion on that.
Oh, hey, it's like the least levered the public industries ever been. Right. And so I get it. The non public
guys love to throw eggs right at the public guys, basically
private miners and vice versa. Yeah, like the private miners
are always jealous of the public miners because the public miners
can access a ton of capital and they can't. And so I've heard
this for years. The argument was basically they're doing
financial engineering at this point using their stock and such to make
money.
And if you look at it in the aggregate, Scott, like this is
the least risky the industry's ever been because you have like
industry, the worst industry economics you ever had, and yet
the balance sheets are super strong. So what I what I see
happening, candidly is you saw a huge build up, like this massive aggregation of capital
around this sector over the last couple of years driven by the public miners in anticipation of a
breakout in the Bitcoin price. But you haven't seen a Bitcoin price high enough to make some of the
worst publicly traded miners from an operations standpoint profitable, especially on a gap basis,
net of depreciation, net of employee compensation,
et cetera. And so you really need to see like 110, 120, 130, 140, 150 to see real operating
leverage in some of those companies. Taking Iron, putting that aside, because Iron's got a 24, 25K
energy cost. So they already are sitting at like a 75% plus gross margin and they're actually posting and to the utility for AI. So I'm not worried at all, actually.
I think if anything, what's going to happen is the price of Bitcoin goes into price discovery
again, but because almost all those large public miners are getting some of their infrastructure
sucked away to AI, the guys who have the best infrastructure are all getting pulled into
AI because the economics for AI are so good and so consistent and predictable.
You could do 10 to 15 year leases, right?
At a much higher Fiat amount.
And then you're aggregating some of your revenue
into consolidating into Fiat terms
where it's less volatile, right?
And so if you could own a stack of infrastructure
where it's split between AI and Bitcoin,
you can essentially oscillate and toggle between them.
You basically want Bitcoin as an offtake, right?
Because there's periods of time where you want to curtail, and so you can curtail Bitcoin
a lot easier than you can curtail AI, but AI is a lot more stable over the long run.
So I think this is actually a really good time.
And I think what's amazing is we're so late, according to what most people would have thought,
right?
We're like two, almost two and a half years
into the cycle, but you can still buy miners
for effectively the cost of the infrastructure buildup
that they've undertaken.
Like, so you still have miners trading
near their kind of infrastructure cost basis,
which I wouldn't have expected candidly.
So that just shows you how much they've underperformed
expectations this cycle so far.
But again, if we're still early to mid cycle, miners historically generate most of their
stock market returns in the last few months of the cycle.
And so we still have another year in the cycle, then like everyone's going to write them off
and say negative things and they've been so shitty.
And then they're going to tear people's faces off in the back half of 25 and post almost all of their cycle return in a small window.
And so I look like I look at CleanSpark right now. CleanSpark has no additional capital in the very short term they need to raise. They stop using their ATM cipher. It's going to be down today because they priced 150 million convertible note, but that literally finishes all of their remaining capex this cycle if they don't end up diverting devoting most of their remaining infrastructure to AI.
So like,
no, I
cipher today.
Yeah, I mean, like, like you buy it in the 330 340 350 range and
you hold it until they announce an AI deal, which is likely to
happen in the next 1234 months, the stock could be 10. Right,
especially with Bitcoin at 150 K. And so are you going to get a to happen in the next one, two, three, four months, the stock could be 10, right? Especially with
Bitcoin at 150k. And so are you going to get a 3x or 4x from here in micro strategy? Maybe if Bitcoin
goes up to 200, 300,000, like probably. But you might get it with a lot more leverage, in my opinion,
in the miners here, because they're so exposed to the Bitcoin price. I mean, it's the core of their operations,
whereas these other companies are just borrowing money
in the capital markets or printing money via an ATM
to just buy it.
Spot price, and again, as the price of Bitcoin goes up,
they're paying an increasingly high price
to continue to run their strategy,
whereas Iron will just keep making new Bitcoin at 40k all in no matter what price it goes to. So there is a spread
there that widens.
I just don't understand how that's not flying 40k. I mean,
you know, they're minting something that's worth almost
three times as much.
Right. It's part of it is part of it is their small cap
companies and the IWM has been compressed and underperformed
For a while part of it is that liquidity tightened in in q1 the DX Y going to 110
Part of it is just sentiment part of it is investment alternatives, right?
So like you have more places you can speculate on Bitcoin
But none of that's gonna matter like what happens over a full cycle is fundamentals eventually
But none of that's going to matter. What happens over a full cycle is fundamentals eventually
roll out. And I think the market is smart. It will figure out if we go to 110, 120, 130,
and hashrate growth slows down, which it will inevitably because the people who have capital right now are again devoting more and more of their resources to AI. So you'll see the global
hashrate top out right at a time when Bitcoin is breaking out into price
discovery and mining economics will improve at least once before the cycle is over unless
the cycle is already over right now.
Right?
So there's like one of two options either the cycle is already over right now and we're
not going to break 109 and crypto kids are going to cry for the next year or two because
they're never going to see a breakout in their favorite meme coins or alternatively, Bitcoin
is going to break out over 110,
head to 150 and mining economics
are gonna prove dramatically
and miners can reprice in literally a month.
If you look at previous cycles,
they can go from looking like they're in the tank
to being the best investments in the market in a month.
And that period of time
can last a total of two to three months.
But you can make an entire lifetime's worth of return
in that window if you're positioned correctly.
I have a really important question because one of your
other tweets here, I'm in a good mood and feeling bullish. I'm
willing to bet $10 million that Bitcoin hits 124 before 84. Do
you have any interest in that?
Unsurprisingly, there's zero people who want to take their
cash and literally incinerate it in a furnace. No, like no interest.
I didn't even get a single person saying that they would do more than $1,000.
I had $1,000 and a couple of, I'll do one to $5, but you would have expected like given
how much confidence there seems to be that we're going to 84,000 that somebody would
have wanted to step up and at least do like a million or something like that.
Nope.
Zero.
Zero interest in it.
And I don't blame them.
Like I don't like lighting my money on fire either.
I mean, 124 does not feel so far away.
No, once you, once you hit 110, it's basically inevitable.
Like when you're at 110, when you hit 110 and $1, 124 is inevitable.
No, look, I actually view like every price between1, 124 is inevitable.
I actually view every price between here and a million is inevitable.
It's merely a question of timeframe.
Because my timeframe is longer, I can continually make the same prediction with no consequences.
Because again, if you don't use options, you don't use leverage, and you just position
long and you're just holding, then you could call for 315k
repeatedly and you're invariably going to be right unless it blows up. And I just don't see how a
decentralized computing platform like Bitcoin blows up completely, much like I couldn't see how
the internet could blow up even though 90%, 95% of the internet companies from the late 90s are
no longer with us. Bitcoin is the same way. It'd be as dumb as saying,
oh, the internet's going to go away completely, right?
Cause the internet's going to crash.
Like the Bitcoin's not gonna crash
just like the internet.
It's not gonna crash.
If it doesn't crash, then it will go up
because they're not gonna stop printing money.
So 124K, 150K, 200K, all those numbers are inevitable.
The question is just the timeline.
And again, no one can predict that.
I like to joke.
I like to make short term and midterm predictions, but those are completely impossible to win
on.
We've all been wrong about Q1, Q2 of this year.
Every single person who was bullish coming into this year thought that Trump would cause
the price to break out.
In the price discovery, nobody thought that we would be at 74k and everyone would be talking about going much lower
than that. But look, here we are, we're right near all time
highs, it's still only May and Bitcoin could easily go to two
or 300k by the end of the year. But again, that's not like a
solid prediction. Nobody knows, right? Like, that's the whole
point.
Yeah, timing is impossible. But the path is all that matters.
I wish I could have invested.
I wish I could have, let's put it this way.
I wish I could have dollar cost average into the internet and self
custody in the 1990s.
That didn't, didn't exist.
You couldn't buy HTTP or SMTP tokens.
So imagine that you now live in a world where you can actually do the equivalent.
No, it's incredible. This is still probably 2002 2003. At the
worst internet, right. And I say that meaning like we've already
seen a couple of washouts. A lot of crypto that existed five
years ago is gone, or at least greatly diminished or crashed or
whatever. But you're still left with like solid core assets like
bitcoins not going anywhere. There is not going
anywhere. Solana is not going anywhere. I personally don't feel
the need to put a lot of capital behind those other things. But I
think Bitcoin today is still an incredible 20 year opportunity
where you're looking at even if it's only a 20% kegger, you're
not going to get a 20% kegger in too many other assets with
basically zero idiosyncratic
bankruptcy-style risks like you get with a company.
So people who say, oh, you could have beaten Bitcoin with Nvidia.
Yeah, if you could have picked the one company out of three, four, five thousand, sure, good.
But with Bitcoin, you don't have to.
It's already won as the money of the internet.
And so you're already betting on the winner and you're still gonna get a 20, 30, 40% CAGR.
And for periods of time, it might be higher,
particularly during times where in the recent past,
it's underperformed.
Like, I don't know if you saw this,
but people were posting a lot of charts
as recently as six months ago,
pointing out that Bitcoin's had almost no significant return
since November of 2021.
And they were cherry picking gates to show you that.
Well, great, that means you buy it. Because anytime when you look back three, four year periods historically
and Bitcoin is not posting like a very exceptional return, you can fast forward. Yeah. Another
year or two. And from a mean reversion standpoint, you'll look back from there and you'll be
like, God, so obvious whenever the kid analysts are posting that Bitcoin's underperforming,
that's exactly when you buy it.
So I think we're going into a period now
where it's gonna generate most of its return
over the next year or so,
and then we'll look back from there and say,
oh yeah, look, it's just doing what it's always done,
like a keger that far exceeds the market average.
Any final thoughts before I let you go?
Anything I might've missed?
Just, no, you didn't miss anything, but I just remind people to buy and hold Bitcoin. And at
these prices, buy and hold the top infrastructure companies, companies like Cypher and Iron and
CleanSpark and others, because they're invariably, they're the means of production. So if you believe
Bitcoin is going higher, there's no way that those companies' balance sheets,
as well as their streams of cash flow, don't get revalued, especially if we see some sort
of curtailment in the global hashrate growth, which I think we will see over the next six
months or so.
Well, it'll still go up towards 1,000 exa-hash, but it will start to slow down on the way
there at the same time that hopefully
Bitcoin's price accelerates.
So this is prime time.
The back half of this year is prime time.
Either that happens or it doesn't, but you're not going to see a huge bull market in Bitcoin
treasury companies without a repricing of the infrastructure stack.
It's not going to happen.
So people think that you can have one in a vacuum, you won't have it.
You couldn't have seen Facebook
or Google without Cisco, right?
And the buildup of the infrastructure business
behind the internet.
Like you needed that excessive buildup in the late 90s
in terms of broadband, infrastructure,
chips, data centers, et cetera,
in order to lay the groundwork
for the future of the consumer internet.
The same thing's happening in Bitcoin.
You won't get 200,000, 300,000 Bitcoin.
You won't see huge multiples in MicroStrategy and MetaPlanet
without a fundamental repricing of the infrastructure.
And if that's gonna happen,
it's gonna happen in the next call at six to 12 months.
Love it.
Hopefully I'll see you next week.
Maybe, maybe a coffee, a drink, a high five, something.
If I get lucky, I'll see you and I'll be down there.
I'll be there like in the afternoons.
I'll be there in the evening basically
for a few of the days.
So let's coordinate by a text.
Awesome, I'll send you a text man.
Thank you as always for waking up early to do this with us.
Really appreciate it.
Anytime, talk to you later.
All right guys, before I bring on Chris
who was actually nodding a lot in the background, I could see him in there. And he
was like, Yep, by Bitcoin, I could see it obviously get a
mention since it's Wednesday, we got Aptos here. I actually
randomly was in Dubai. And I saw Avery walk by the CEO of Aptos
as dude, let's sit down and do a quick chat for the street. If
you guys have not been paying attention. I've been doing a
lot of interviews on the street, we're actually
going to start posting those on my channels as well and
syndicating my content from these morning shows onto the
street and Yahoo and MSN. So that's going to be really
incredible. But we sat down, I did this interview for the
street. And when we do interviews for the street, we
obviously focus on what a TradFi audience is going to want to
hear they have 30 million subscribers. All of them have a plus, you know, a million dollar portfolio
or more. And most of them are boomers. So really an opportunity to sort of not scream
into our echo chamber. I found this conversation that I had with Avery at token 2049 Dubai
really fascinating. And we've talked about this before, but really his point was that
at this point, these chains,
Aptos in particular, is faster and cheaper than the largest in the world and is finally
ready to operate at scale.
As he said, it can surpass the likes of MasterCard and Visa.
But more interestingly, at Aptos, at least, they've kind of focused on this being the
global trading engine.
And that's what's going to be built that basically all trade and commerce will happen on a blockchain, whether that's
investable or not.
This will be the underlying technology.
Here's what I said.
We can actually build out systems that are going to be one
global market.
An example would be like if you want to take out a loan
and then make a trade and then upon the trade do another
action, you can string all those together things together
on a blockchain permission, permissionlessly.
I think that that's the future of what's happening.
Obviously that's what they're trying to build.
So check out that interview.
It's on the street.com slash crypto.
It's a good one.
If I do say so myself, which is weird,
cause it's like, it's me, kind of awkward.
Anyways, now it's time to go to Chris
and let's talk about how Bitcoin,
would you take the $10 million bet against Mike,
84 versus 124?
Oh, I'm not even thinking about 84 at all. That makes no sense right now.
I'm going to say that I was a little worried and Mike mocked it, but fairly, you know,
I do see some serious bearish diverged across the board and even maybe on the weekly. So I'm not saying 84, but this does feel at least Sunday. I will say felt euphoric on a Sunday on no volume with price pushing
into resistance with overbought conditions, embarrassed divergent.
So I obviously think we're going way higher.
Yeah, obviously.
But I do think this is a time for caution.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, shorter timeframe.
Sure.
You know, if you want to take a little, uh, take a little off the top there, I mean, you know, shorter timeframe, sure.
You know, if you want to take a little,
take a little off the top there,
I think, you know, that there's nothing wrong with that.
You're coming up into resistance.
You know, one of the most basic tenants of trading
is you don't buy resistance, you don't sell support.
You know, does that mean that price always bounces
at support or, you know or always gets rejected at resistance?
No.
But you-
Statistical odds.
Yeah.
You also push in with pocket aces and sometimes lose in poker, but just-
Yeah, exactly.
You're just trying to figure out what can I do that gives me the best possibility that
I'm going to come out at least somewhat ahead here.
I bring up the monthly chart because look at these monthly candles. possibility that I'm gonna come out at least somewhat ahead here.
I bring up some monthly chart
because look at these monthly candles.
Absolutely amazing coming off here.
I mean, this is not a bearish move.
When you're coming off support,
you've got two large bullish candles, very little overlap.
I mean, the previous month,
just a slight little wick up here.
And then here we are back up here. Uh, and you know, we've got what we've got, uh, three day
weekend coming up here, uh, this weekend.
I was thinking it was next weekend, but it's this weekend,
Memorial day.
Yeah.
Um, so liquidity will dry up then.
Um, and then we've got just, you know, next week.
So I like what I'm seeing so far.
Uh, you mentioned bearish divergence.
Here's what, here we are in the monthly. Here's the bigger picture, right? So we had some bearish divergence over here, which we got the
rejection here, right? But then we have, you know, again, we got higher highs here. We've got higher
highs here. And we've got, I don't even know. Yeah, a little bit of a bearish divergence right there.
And then we got the pullback. But a lot of people are going to jump from here. A lot of, you know, yeah, a little bit of a bearish divergence right there. And then we got the pullback. But a lot of people are going to jump from here. A lot of, you know, new traders, amateurs, right?
They come in and go, oh, but look, from here to here, it's bearish divergence, but that isn't how
it works, right? Divergences always go from peak to peak, you know, trough to trough. And so right
here, these are the peaks right here. And so at that point, we're now here and here.
And so now we've got, you know, higher highs,
we've got higher highs.
Like I said, a little bit of bearish divergence right here.
And then we pulled back, found support.
I mean, it's absolutely incredible.
This chart is amazing here.
The Stochastic RSI reset into oversold, pop back out.
It's threatening to cross bullishly here.
So I think our monthly setup is looking amazing.
But like you said on the weekly, you know, again,
a bit of bearish divergence there, which brought us down.
And then here we are potentially, potentially here.
And maybe, yeah.
But you know, again, here we are.
Everybody was, this was the end of the world.
Remember, this was the end of the world. This was the end of the world this was it that the Bears were right
the top was in oh my god it's gonna go lower and what did we do oh we did was
hit that previous resistance as support right there around that pivot and then
just kind of took off you know this is what this is like 40 somewhat percent in
less well yeah it just what a month and a half right now.
Absolutely insane.
Great movement.
This is the Bitcoin all time history index chart.
So that that all time high is 109,346 here.
But I mean, look at this structure.
It's absolutely beautiful.
You know, an expanding funnel coming off that bear market low here.
More sideways here as we got kind of to the breakout point. And then again here,
after we got through the breakout point retesting here.
So I mean, we're, you know, base here,
base sitting right on top of it.
You know, and, you know, Mike was saying what 300 and,
what was he saying? 315, something like that?
315, yeah.
Okay. So if we look at this here as a one and a two here, I think this will do it.
I think that even get a little bit better target off that.
Uh, that gives us a three 62 and a half.
And so, you know, there's different ways to look at this,
but here's the thing,
most people when they're counting this,
they'll go one, two, three, four, and five.
We're so close to that resistance
that it's highly unlikely,
but all we need is one penny,
and it's aimed to close it,
just one penny push above the all time high.
And this cannot be one, two, three, four, or five,
which means all of a sudden we have to look here and go,
well, maybe this is one, two three four five which means all of a sudden we have to look here and go well maybe this is one two three four and then one two one two and again that gets us up
into the territory where you know where everybody's scared to talk about they all want to believe they
all want to say 300 000 but it's a scary thought from you know because we're you know number bias right we're already at 107,000 right now so um
I you know structurally we look absolutely it looks absolutely absolutely amazing uh the weekly
the continued pullback right to this same level uh and all these major kind of sideways has held
perfectly um my usual thought on something like this is that we get this rally right up into this resistance area into the previous swing high.
A little bit before, a little bit after, usually somewhere there. You get the rejection and then you get the real breakout.
So that's my default case here is that we're going to potentially get that.
We could be at the top, but I think we've got a little bit further
push. I think we're gonna actually challenge that all-time high there.
You know, finishing up like an ending diagonal here. So one, two, three, four, and
then finish five up here. But we'll see. We'll see if we can get it. I think we
will. But man, oh man, you know, pullback, I've kind of got this area here. This is
like that main area, right? You're either below it or you're above it, and we're above it now. So
the idea is we would pull back to it. It should hold the support. So we're really kind of talking
about this hundred thousand level, you know, on the daily or higher. Should find your candles closing around there on a pullback. Um, so, you know, I think, uh, I think we could maybe see something like,
maybe like a pull out here and a move up here.
And then like, um, let me see here, maybe something like this.
And then a breakout, I could see something like this where we continue to hold this
here and we just do some kind of backward forth here and everybody keeps freaking out every time it breaks out and comes
back the bears jump out of the woodwork and say oh look we were right we were right back over here
we were right at the top and it does that and then kind of takes off but um you know this is
really just kind of guessing on this but uh you know I would generally my first thought would be
that this would hold here now this is all just if we get you know, I would generally, my first thought would be that this would hold here.
Now, this is all just if we get, you know, rejected in this area, the reality of it is
it could take off.
We could hit 135 or something like that before we even start getting some kind of pullback,
just because he hit here, we hit here, we hit a few times here, here we're coming again
and finally ready for that breakout, right?
So we'll
see what happens with it but I'm not in the least bit worried about Bitcoin
overall. Like I said my initial thought is we usually kind of hit that area and
then we get a pullback and then we do the real breakout but it doesn't have to
you know nothing's a hundred percent in trading and so you know the idea
shouldn't be to try and get cute and sell everything at every top or every
what you think is a top and buy back everything at what you think is a bottom.
You should be, if you want to make the most of Bitcoin, it should always be scaling in
and scaling out.
So you've always got some kind of positions building or taking profit on as the price
continues to move.
And that really is the safest way to do it,
but it takes a little bit more work, right?
You can't just jump all in and go, woo, here we are.
We're all gonna be rich now kind of thing.
But yeah, so I like Bitcoin.
I like the way it's looking right now.
I do have some all charts here.
I've got this first one, man, this is super USD.
Look at this chart.
This is absolutely amazing.
I love seeing this chart.
Looks like a huge bit of reaccumulation here
from right around, what is that?
March of last year.
In terms of value wave would be a flat.
So three down, three up, one, two, three, four, five,
back down here. Support at the S1 pivot on the yearly rallying up here so basically
would expect a rejection here a pullback then a breakout I've got two local
targets here at two dollars eighty seven eighty eight cents and three dollars
forty seven cents but I would highly expect this to break out above, you know, this 397 up here and a lot of kind of upside on that.
But it's not gonna do it right from right now, right?
I think we potentially push up a little bit further
and then pull back and then kind of get some movement going.
But just from the monthly,
this is just such an absolutely gorgeous chart.
Pulled right to the low volume node.
I mean, there, everything that you
want to see happen happened here. And with, you know, over a year of accumulation happening here,
it really sets up the move out on that larger timeframe. I've got PYTH here, Pith, does it sound
weird saying Pith? Pith, P's pith. Pith, pith.
But it looks like we've got five waves up and then an A and a B and a one, two, three, four, five.
So it looks like a large expansion,
a really large flat correction here.
Pull back right into this demand structure on the daily,
right to the EQ there, coming back off in here.
Stochastic RSI resetting and oversold.
I think we're probably good to go here.
That would give us a minimum
expected wave 3 target up at around 38 cents. If you really are much more risk adverse you want
to see a breakout at least above this swing high right here at 16 basically 16 cents because that'll
say okay well this wave can't subdivide any lower. I mean, most likely that's gonna be complete.
But I think we're good here.
You could also look for a daily candle impulsive breakout
and close here above the monthly pivot here at,
oh, did it not show up?
What's going on here?
Oh, there we go.
We've got about 14 cents.
If you wanna get a little bit earlier.
But the 14 cent and then breaking above that 16 cent,
those would be the other two areas I'd look to enter if you're not willing to do
it here. But man, oh man, if you're willing to do it here,
yeah, I mean, it looks, it looks just really great,
which things can look really great and end up not working. I mean, you know,
that happens, but I mean, right there, if you're doing it properly, that's,
that's 23 and a half hour right there. That's an amazing trade
so
Liking the setup there on the daily
Uh, we've got this other one. I hadn't heard of this one, but the chart looks kind of interesting right here. This is strax
strax usdt
Um just looking for a breakout an impulsive breakout and close here, a daily candle above this descending resistance. And if we can get that, I've got a target, a
pattern target of about $12, I'm sorry, 12 and a quarter cents up here, based on
the height of that pullback. But I like the pullback. I like where it's come down
to. You've seen this a lot of this. And by the way, there are a ton of charts
right now that look really good. I just picked some.
If you're paying attention, the setups are there just about there.
But I mean, you've got this great resistance as support.
Just looking for the breakout to kind of grab it
and run that up.
Oh, what else do we have here?
I've got cake.
I've got cake.
A lot of people are gonna say this looks like a triangle.
It's just, it looks
to me like it's three waves setting up in consolidation, which means you could actually
get a really huge breakout. And so based on the height of this largest one here, that
would have us minimally looking about $8.45. But if you just want to play the local here,
we've got the breakout of this descending resistance,
kind of like what we're seeing on the other one, what they were waiting for.
That gives us a pattern target up here at two dollars and basically ninety four cents, which puts us just right here.
Support resistance, perfect area to, you know, to kind of get that move into.
But I wouldn't be surprised to see that much bigger move coming out of cake.
Pancake swap, right? Did I get that right?
Yeah, I guess, probably.
See, I asked you because I love that you're like, yeah, maybe. Yeah, you're like, yeah,
what does it do? I don't know.
I said that Rihanna song, kick, kick, kick, kick.
This one, I've got a couple of targets here to depending how you want to play it, based on the height of this pullback right here.
We've got a target of about 0.1137 or so,
which as you can see,
gets us right to this support resistance right there.
Absolutely beautiful target area.
And then also, if we're going up through that,
you can look up here toward 0.1282,
and then 0.1571 would be the targets
following that if it continued breaking out through that. But again you know just
get this these great setups right you have the the kind of like the swing
there and then the pull back into it and then the move up and then you kind of
get the same thing here right it's not exactly but you're getting where that
general resistance is and the support
keeps pulling up.
And so we're seeing this on a lot of charts right now.
It's really not too hard to mess it up unless you get all up in your feels when it comes
to alts right now.
This one's render, render USDT.
We know what that one is, right?
Yeah.
Again, based on the height of the pullback here,
we've got a target around $6 and 44 cents.
If you wanna look for a breakout here above $4 and 96 cents,
if you're more risk-adverse,
that would be something you might wanna wait for,
but I think we're kinda getting this rally up over there. We're finding
some great support right here with this nice bit of accumulation, a little spring
here thumping out and continuing up through this low volume node here
moving up. So again kind of liking that as well, and then I've got Adam here
Let me see here yeah there we go looking for a breakout I mean, I think that most probably in but if you're again more risk adverse with the breakout above $5 and you know point
136 here 13 and a half cents
Based on the height of that pullback. We've got a pattern target up here of about six dollars and 16 cents
Which will take us to the top of the low volume node,
potentially right up here
around the top of this ascending channel.
It's a really clean target,
a really good area to look for if you're looking to trade that.
And finally, I've got graph here, the graph GRT.
Again, just lots of really great stuff.
We have this descending resistance as support here right at the monthly pivot.
Looks like a pretty clean five waves up and then A, B, C is a flat here.
Pulls back right to this previous support resistance level.
I mean, like I said, the setup just looks absolutely amazing.
So we just want to see some follow through now.
And if we can get that, we would actually need, because it'd be an A, a B up here and a C here we'd
need a breakout above 0.1312 to add confidence to this count but wave 3
minimum expected target up there at 29 almost 29 and a half cents but really
liking this you know again some people might look at this and go, okay, well,
it's a, oh, I don't even have it. There we go. It's a inverted head and shoulders here.
So we kind of just get this like this or yeah.
With a perfect retest.
Yeah.
With a retest of the neckline right there. And if you're going to look at that, you know,
again, pattern target wise, you're just looking for a 200% based on the height of that
at the point of breakout.
So you're basically looking at 0.168.
And as you can see, I mean, again,
takes you a perfect resistance
kind of support level area there.
So, man, you know, it's hard to be down.
I know people are beat up and they,
but you know, for most people,
it's because they don't really know what they're doing. Um, and so they get all, you know, upset because it's so long been looking like crap.
And then when it finally starts looking good, they're scared to take it, right?
They're scared to get excited or they don't even really know what it means to
look good on the chart there.
Um, and so hopefully I kind of clarified a little bit that here showing, you know,
the pullbacks into previous resistance to support and nice breakouts and stuff like that.
But I think if you've been waiting for alts, if you haven't been trading them, heaven forbid
you haven't been, but I think if you're, you know, looking at them, I think you should
be finding entries.
You know, we've got a lot of them turn out really well there at the Academy. Not just with myself and Fibble, but also with Andrew and Vince
and their trades they've been putting out there. And it's just been a lot of money to be made.
A lot of money being made, not just with crypto, but also with stocks.
So I like it. I feel good about it.
Called Stonks.
My bad. My bad. That's my 50 going on 51 getting at me there.
You're old, man. You don't even know what they're called anymore. My bad, my bad. That's my 50 going on 51 getting at me there.
Too old man, you don't even know what they're called anymore.
But yeah, so I continue to feel good about it. I think maybe it's giving people what they've finally been looking for,
but a lot of people are going to be too scared right now to enjoy these as they've been coming off the lows.
I mean, they're already up pretty good. You know, again, Just looking at the last one we had there the graph. It's already up
What is that so far? It's been up almost a hundred percent off its low back in back in April April 7th
I mean come on
It's it's telling you guys. It's there. You just got to take advantage of it, right?
Yeah, you do and now I got to go take advantage of having to do Twitter Spaces today.
So we gotta go.
We got Chris, Inc's TX West Capital.
Guys, give them a follow.
Go join the Academy.
Go watch Beards and Big Bored.
Just paint everything they're doing.
Watch his streams.
Watch him with Tillman and Andrew.
Yeah, it's today.
Today, guys, it comes in about, what is that?
Two hours from now.
Yeah, guys, enjoy that.
Otherwise, we are out of here. Thanks Chris. Appreciate it man.