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2024, it was the year It was

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what it was, which is to it was,

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2024, say it was was the year.

0:06

But that was the year. We

0:08

that year is gone. We

0:10

have turned the page. We

0:12

are unburdened by what has

0:15

been in optimism in the crypto

0:17

world raging as the year is

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now. now. what what? 2025. I guess

0:21

I guess you can say the

0:23

the year that it is.

0:25

And we're going to take

0:27

a look at what was

0:29

by revisiting the top 24 crypto stories of 2024.

0:31

And we're going gonna look

0:33

at what is now we're

0:35

we're entering 2025 and then

0:37

then prognosticate on what

0:39

very well be, be providing

0:41

you incredibly valuable insights

0:43

and a steaming pile

0:45

of bad puns and

0:47

dad jokes and that's

0:49

what we do what to

0:51

episode number to episode number 758.

0:55

of The Bad Crypto

0:57

the four. crypto

1:02

podcast.

1:26

Happy year, Year, Sir right? Did you

1:28

bring your steaming pile of

1:30

puns and bad dad jokes? and bad

1:32

dad Did I I I supposed

1:34

to bring them? I bring think them?

1:36

I think year. left them in last them

1:38

are the same of them are the same

1:40

And, you know, no longer being

1:42

so full shit. Try to Try to

1:45

minimize my shitfulness. I don't I

1:47

don't want to set expectations too

1:49

high. high. It's good. You know, did I Did

1:51

I send that video to you on Instagram where there

1:53

was a little kid, he was in the bathroom

1:55

and he was like, the on, I need this one

1:57

to be a on, I need this one to be a large.

1:59

Oh, guys. large. Oh, I actually sent that

2:01

to you to me. Oh, Oh, God,

2:03

it was hilarious. It's funny. The dad

2:05

is filming, you know, outside the bathroom

2:07

in the kids and they're going, come

2:09

on, I need a large. Oh, that

2:11

was a small, but I got it.

2:13

Come on. Large. I

2:17

Who sent it, but I knew it was a

2:19

poop joke. And so I knew it would be, it

2:21

was between us somehow. Yeah, it was funny, dude.

2:23

I said that to a bunch of friends and now

2:25

every time I'm on the toilet, I'm like, come

2:27

on, give me a lock. Oh, it's a medium. It's

2:29

a small. More fiber,

2:31

sir, more fiber. Welcome. I know

2:33

that story on the show about

2:35

what I did on Thanksgiving and

2:37

consuming too much fiber. But

2:39

yeah, you went and went and went. No,

2:42

I consumed too much fiber and I

2:44

did not go at all. Great. Oh,

2:46

you gummed up the works. Oh yeah,

2:48

yeah. It was like rush hour on

2:50

Friday at like about 4 .45. And

2:53

then I had the biggest meal of

2:55

the year, double dosage of it. And

2:57

dude, I was in misery after Thanksgiving.

2:59

So that's the last time I've actually

3:01

taken any fiber. All the

3:03

rest of it's been, I was like,

3:05

give me a, just give me a small,

3:07

I'll take a small. Welcome to the

3:09

first. show of the year of the bad

3:11

crypto podcast. We welcome back our old

3:13

listeners, uh, both of you. And if

3:15

you're a new listener, well, this is

3:18

welcome. You have been, uh, inaugurated in

3:20

this in it initiated into the show.

3:22

We the do talk about more than

3:24

poop here. We do talk about cryptocurrency,

3:26

Bitcoin, alt coins, on trading the shit

3:28

coins, folks. That's how we do all

3:31

of the coins. We're glad that you're

3:33

here. I'm Joel That's Travis, right? And

3:35

we're gonna take a look at the

3:37

top That's four stories of for

3:39

today kind of taking a look

3:41

in the rear view mirror of

3:44

where we've been and help that

3:46

the stage for where we're going.

3:48

But I thought I would start

3:50

Sir Lord Travis by pulling up

3:52

coin.com and refreshing it. So we

3:54

have a refreshing view of the

3:56

crypto market caps right now. Time

3:58

stamp on the second of January

4:01

we we are pre -recording

4:03

this episode episode at .m. Atlantic

4:05

Time because I am

4:08

in Puerto Rico in

4:10

the whole island where the

4:12

without power on New

4:14

Year's Eve. Eve and fortunately

4:17

We were were out for about 12 hours

4:19

and it it so that the party

4:22

was, know, know, lights on. But here

4:24

we go, total crypto market cap cap.

4:26

So the party the new year. the New had

4:28

lights on? Oh, we had lights, there?

4:30

Oh, for sure. lights, yeah, everybody on the

4:32

island. In fact, I think that

4:34

there's still some people that don't have

4:36

power, don't have power, but yeah. That power grid

4:39

oh boy 3.54 four trillion dollars

4:41

in the market the

4:43

market Bitcoin at at 96,652

4:46

Ethereum 3428 XRP nice move in

4:48

the last seven Nice

4:50

move in the

4:52

last seven days.

4:55

Back to seven hundred two

4:57

dollars Solana 205 doge coined 33

4:59

and a Cardano 96

5:01

cents 96 cents and

5:04

cents. cents on our

5:06

first official day

5:08

back on the on the market. Wow,

5:10

look at this. AI 16Z went up 175%

5:12

this week. went up big gainer. Yeah, I got

5:15

this week. That's a big that

5:17

thing Yeah, I got into that

5:19

thing. I saw that thing Dow's it popped

5:21

off on and then it was doing some things and it

5:23

was doing some things and then some

5:25

of the other ones were so so

5:27

I got out of it when it

5:29

was around was market million market gap.

5:31

Whoops. Yeah, that happened. So I lost about a

5:33

about a 30 there. there. Actually, it

5:35

looks like to me. You have

5:38

had some of this movement token

5:40

when you were backed up over

5:42

Thanksgiving, up over Travis. would have helped. Travis,

5:44

some of that. But here's the

5:46

deal is some something interesting for

5:48

folks is that, This is you know,

5:50

we've seen pump .fun, which is mostly

5:52

folks is people know, we've quickly. dot fun, which is

5:54

mostly is basically you donate money

5:57

into a Dow's That is for a

5:59

year money then whatever. gets into that that they

6:01

donate into or they invest in

6:03

other cryptos and so so AI 16z is

6:05

going going off because it's invested

6:07

in some other projects and there's

6:09

another one another one that had reached out

6:11

to me recently it was like was

6:13

like Space X but Space AI X which which converted

6:15

it turned into locks so that's another

6:17

one that's going off now off now

6:19

It's really small market but these are

6:21

these dowels are interesting because people

6:23

are able to donate into them

6:26

and you you trade normally like you

6:28

would on on radium the liquidity pools

6:30

are not on are not on They're actually on

6:32

actually on dows So so. It it seems like it's

6:34

a little more vetted, more I think we

6:36

need to get to a place where meme

6:38

coins are a little more vetted meme not just

6:40

the Wild Wild West because people are not

6:42

just the Wild Wild West because the worst of

6:44

Vegas Like is what it is.

6:46

the right now in the casinos

6:48

and greed index, people are kind

6:50

of right on the line

6:52

right now. and greed know, I don't

6:54

actually see this right I see

6:57

people posting on Twitter and

6:59

in the groups see in. when I

7:01

week, posting on Twitter This week, we're I'm

7:03

in. 49 fear. I just I don't I just,

7:05

I don't think that accurate an

7:07

accurate indicator based on what I'm seeing. I

7:09

see a lot of optimism out there. What

7:11

about you? about you? Well, I

7:13

I mean, let's look at this,

7:15

though, I wish we could see wish we

7:17

could see a fear greed more more historical every

7:19

time every time it's gotten into this

7:21

yellow, you you look at this yellow now.

7:24

There you go, there's your historical right

7:26

there. Yeah, but that's only like a

7:28

year. only like a year.

7:30

And it's not longer than that. Because

7:32

I don't know if there's another way to show it longer

7:34

than that, way to show it mean, than that, but pretty

7:36

much every time that it's every

7:38

time it doesn't bounce out of

7:41

yellow quickly. bounce out of yellow It

7:43

looks like maybe it. It looks like maybe in

7:45

May, pretty quick. out pretty quick. There.

7:47

There. There. There. There. But I'd like to

7:49

see it like to see it on the These These

7:51

aren't really the the bull it should be interesting

7:53

to see. I mean see. I mean, I would think think it's

7:55

gonna get more more at the price of this

7:57

thing It's over a hundred thousand dollars, so Let's

8:01

go. Yeah, so let's,

8:03

you know, 24 stories is a lot of

8:05

stories. So we're not going to spend

8:07

too much time on them, but we're going

8:09

to kind of take a look back

8:11

or ask chat GPT to help provide what,

8:13

you know, AI thought was the top

8:15

stories in order top Well, in not just chat

8:17

GPT, but we perplexity, used some Masari,

8:19

used some other tools, pull all a bunch

8:22

of things in to give you guys

8:24

just a general Cause it's kind of fun.

8:26

Like let's, let's look back at 2024

8:28

and then let's look forward to 2025. And

8:30

you know, Joel 2025 is a really interesting

8:32

year. It's a really interesting

8:34

number because for one it's

8:37

45 times 45 it's the

8:39

square root of 45. It's

8:41

also very peculiar it is

8:43

if you take one cubed

8:45

plus two cubed, plus three, plus

8:47

four, plus five, plus plus five,

8:49

eight, plus seven, plus eight, plus

8:51

nine, plus nine All the single

8:54

digits cubed added up, the sum

8:56

of that is 2025. And you

8:58

know how the global elites love

9:00

these symbolisms and whatnot, and they

9:02

always sort of do weird shit.

9:04

But this is a really wild,

9:06

like, Wow, God put together

9:08

some serious math on 2025.

9:10

There's all kinds of things. Those

9:12

are just two of like 10,

9:14

15 different things that's peculiar

9:17

around 2025. And And it's

9:19

actually the first time we've

9:21

had a square root year

9:23

since 1936. I believe,

9:25

was the year that Hitler started doing it.

9:27

That's when the Olympics were going on full

9:29

in Germany. Hitler started doing some things. So

9:31

I don't know, I don't know what's gonna

9:33

happen, but I know there's a lot of

9:35

math evolved around 2025. Well,

9:37

this is the year of we're

9:39

back baby. This is the year of

9:41

we're back. A lot of people

9:43

are super optimistic. So what happened in

9:46

2024? Let's go through these pretty

9:48

expediently, not to be too loquacious. But

9:50

the big story of the year

9:52

was that Bitcoin broke $100 ,000. And

9:54

of course, there were people that said

9:56

like Peter Schiff that Bitcoin will

9:58

never hit $100 ,000. It did in

10:00

December. It went up

10:03

to went ,000 And the reason

10:05

reason it did is really attached

10:07

to the next two items

10:09

here on the list. on the list.

10:11

Yeah. Very very true very true. And

10:13

it hit hundred eight ,000, $108 ,000, and they and

10:15

they had an extreme greed of Only you think

10:17

like oh we hit a hundred think there was still people there

10:19

was still people very optimistic, we like, it's

10:21

here we go, now it's gonna really

10:24

roll. it was I pop people thought it

10:26

was gonna pop. I Once it popped thought the

10:28

I thought people thought the next. 120

10:30

right and but probably to realize it went it went you

10:32

have to realize months it it went

10:34

in three months. It went from thousand to

10:36

$108 ,000. but people are greedy. They're

10:38

extremely greedy. that's what we expect. I'm very non -plus.

10:40

Oh, it went from, from, yeah, but it

10:42

if you look at it, like what

10:44

was it even in August? was if

10:46

I don't look in August, was, in

10:49

September, if I was like $50 ,000, dude. from

10:51

September to November,

10:53

really. to November, really, it

10:55

hit from 50-something that's crazy. That's

10:57

a lot. That's what

11:00

I just said That's what I

11:02

gonna say said. So I'm gonna say it

11:04

too, really big was the

11:06

really big was the Bitcoin spot eats. The

11:08

U.S.S. regulators approve that and

11:10

then that gives investors direct

11:12

exposure into exposure then you've

11:14

seen some of these big

11:17

companies seen some of these big companies

11:19

I wrong? Did I Rock. Am has

11:21

almost a million Black Rock? Am

11:23

I I are not wrong. You

11:25

are almost had they they Bitcoin than

11:27

wrong? Nakamoto wrong. You are correct. remember,

11:30

they just had like half a million Nakamoto now.

11:32

Yeah, do you yeah, half a million. And then

11:34

what was crazy was that it was

11:36

like. Yeah. Oh micro strategy and black and

11:38

BlackRock, and then all of a sudden

11:40

and then all of a Every time Michael like every

11:42

time buys a little bit of

11:44

Bitcoin, a it's huge news, of but

11:46

I don't see big news but I don't

11:49

see time buys. every time black rock buys like I

11:51

that thing. And here's what that

11:53

I take away from that really BlackRock

11:55

is buying that much rock is what

11:57

do they know? what do they know

11:59

right they are preparing preparing

12:01

for what is gonna be a

12:03

crazy, crazy run in my

12:06

personal opinion. just think they're just

12:08

hedging their bets because if have, they

12:10

have over $10 trillion in

12:12

assets over there, right? there so, so

12:14

I mean, how much is a

12:16

million It's It's compared to their

12:18

whole freaking assets, it's nothing

12:20

to them still. Yeah, but they

12:22

don't play. don't take calculated risks.

12:24

They have They that are paid

12:26

that are to make sure that

12:28

every move they make make is super super

12:30

calculated and gonna be profitable for

12:33

them. for them. I don't I don't

12:35

discount it at all, but they're

12:37

not not They're not like not goes, we

12:39

goes, we go, oh yeah, look at that. that shit

12:41

coin. Sure, I'll ape in bucks or a thousand

12:43

bucks. or a thousand bucks. Okay, Well, I look

12:45

at this and I well, if Black Rock wants

12:47

to wants to tank future markets in

12:49

the future, they're going to be

12:51

able to, that's one of the reasons

12:53

why they were buying up all

12:55

of these, all family homes at two,

12:57

three 2 3X, the actual value of the

12:59

price. So like them owning so much

13:01

to me is me is almost like, future

13:04

away future They're going to do to

13:06

do something dastardly. be. Could be.

13:08

Could be. right. Move in

13:10

quicker because this is only

13:13

number three three now, Trump. President Trump, President-elect Trump,

13:15

18 days from now. now

13:17

He committed at the Bitcoin in

13:19

Nashville to make the to

13:21

crypto U.S. a He promised He

13:23

regulation fuel, which fueled market

13:25

optimism and investment in the

13:27

crypto sector. And I think

13:29

that sector. And I think

13:31

that expect know, with, I

13:34

expect Bitcoin to roar. up to the

13:36

inauguration and then beyond because of

13:38

this. mean, people can see the

13:40

future. Yes, traders are gonna trade

13:42

up and down, but this is

13:44

a very bullish move. bullish

13:46

move. What's number I'm looking I'm looking at this

13:48

I see the total market

13:50

cap of of Bitcoin and how this past

13:52

week, it had dumped a bit,

13:55

right? And then it's like,

13:57

now it's like now it's back up like I

13:59

think we're going to see it's going

14:01

to be the last time we

14:03

see 100 ,000. Once it passes it

14:05

again, it'll probably be the last time

14:07

we see it under 100 ,000 in

14:09

a long time until the bear

14:11

market Bear market will probably drop it

14:13

back down to 9080 90 or

14:15

something. But I can see that once it

14:17

pops through that, fair to what you

14:19

were just talking about, that's probably going

14:22

be the case. Now, Ethereum has also

14:24

been growing pretty consistently. They have not

14:26

taken back their all -time high, but they

14:28

are maintaining its position as one of the

14:30

top cryptos. There's some other ones up

14:32

there that's popping up, obviously, like Solana

14:34

and it has a lot of users.

14:36

Solana has a bunch of users and they're

14:38

all because of these shitcoins that have

14:40

been launched on pump .fun. But

14:43

Ethereum is still doing stuff

14:45

in DeFi. They're pretty important, but.

14:48

I don't think they have their edge

14:50

like they had before, but they

14:52

are still one of the top cryptos.

14:54

They're big. And number five, XRP

14:57

scored a big legal victory and the

14:59

price went up commensurate with that.

15:01

In fact, I think as of right

15:03

now, it's around $2 .40. If you

15:05

were scooping it up at the

15:07

bottom, know, of this bear market, it

15:09

was something like 30. sense

15:11

or so then you are

15:13

in the money. right now. And

15:17

if you did not, then you are not. And

15:19

it's not too late. A lot of people see

15:21

it going to as high as $10 on this

15:23

round. We shall see. Yep. and

15:25

there's a lot of new cryptos popping

15:27

off, right? I mean, we see more

15:30

cryptos popping off every day than ever

15:32

before, even some legit ones. But

15:34

I mean, if you're looking at all the new

15:36

cryptos that have popped off. I mean,

15:38

dude, every day on pump .fun,

15:40

So many new coins are coming. So

15:42

take a look at them. Chad ChadGPT

15:44

said Hyperliquid's coin is one of the

15:46

new coins. Who cares? That's just a

15:48

hype deal right there. But you know,

15:51

it's a real that's a real thing.

15:53

That's a real project. It's kind of

15:55

an exchange. Yeah. and

15:57

they've also, there's been some. some leverage

15:59

tax again. It's that thing too.

16:01

It's You're just fudding. You're just

16:03

fudding. just fudding. Number seven. I'm almerfud.

16:06

by the way say the By

16:08

the people can follow along so

16:10

people can in along. Number seven indian

16:12

crypto exchange crypto was hacked resulting

16:14

in loss of approximately loss of

16:17

.9 million dollars one of the

16:19

largest crypto heists of the

16:21

year speaking of crypto heist travis

16:23

have you seen that new you

16:25

seen that new is on that is on

16:27

biggest the ever heist ever? You got go

16:30

look it up. up Everybody just go

16:32

watch just go watch us. craziest thing ever

16:34

thing ever about guys that stole ridiculous

16:36

amounts of crypto. I don't even

16:38

remember us covering it when it

16:40

happened. I was looking through our

16:42

notes on this thing and I

16:44

could not find our notes on this thing and I

16:46

hack, find it so. you're moving on Number

16:48

seven so 235 million Let's go, sorry.

16:50

was here. I'm sorry number eight Dokwan extra-dited and

16:53

all of his legal things. things

16:55

We like to say that, you

16:57

know, know, not a was not

16:59

a project that we just as

17:01

an FYI. they had some big problems

17:03

some big problems have you goodness,

17:05

have you ever seen a

17:07

crypto crash so quickly? It

17:09

was like the opposite of

17:11

fireworks. of We do like to

17:14

remind people to we had

17:16

nothing to do with nothing to do

17:18

with them. the reference the reference

17:20

for the show is

17:22

called show Biggest Biggest Heist. ever.

17:24

It was recently added and it's

17:27

a true crime thing. Ilea

17:29

a true crime and

17:31

Heather Ilya It's the and Heather

17:33

Morgan. I don't know how the craziest

17:35

thing. I don't know how we

17:37

missed it is so bizarre. but it

17:39

is so bizarre. It's about an

17:41

hour half. And I recommend

17:43

everybody go watch it the the biggest

17:45

heist ever on Netflix. Yeah, there's there's

17:47

also one on video about heisting

17:49

called Chief Saholic, a wolf in Chief's chief's

17:52

clothing about the dude was

17:54

Robin Banks, so he he could

17:56

go to to games and

17:58

shit. and shit, and I watch. that last

18:00

time on my daughter. We watched

18:02

it too because you know I

18:05

live with a raving chiefs fan

18:07

as well so we had to.

18:09

No crypto involved in that one

18:11

just an entertaining story. Number nine.

18:13

Tether's financial growth and investments. Tether

18:16

reported significant profits and diversified its

18:18

investments including a $200 million stake

18:20

in brain chip maker black rock

18:22

neurotech. Are they affiliated with black

18:24

rock? a financial company? I would

18:27

assume it sounds like it. It's

18:29

a black rocks neurotech company, which

18:31

again, eat a bag of dicks,

18:33

black rock, not a big fan.

18:35

Anyway, number 10. Quantum computing concerns,

18:37

advancements in quantum computing has been

18:40

crazy. Google actually launched a new

18:42

quantum tip. Did you see this

18:44

thing? They said this thing could

18:46

do computations in five seconds that

18:48

would take historic superpower computers to

18:51

do like... Quintilians of years or

18:53

something stupid. It was just most

18:55

unbelievable thing. And so they're definitely

18:57

concerned about cryptographic securities popping off

18:59

in cryptos in the future. But

19:02

they say it's not quite able

19:04

to do that yet. But dude,

19:06

wow. And the quantum computer is

19:08

actually utilizing somehow utilizing parallel universes

19:10

or some shit. It's it's a

19:13

mind bending thing to even think

19:15

about how these quantum computers are

19:17

working simultaneously. Across parallel universes or

19:19

something dude like what I don't

19:21

even know So and I look

19:23

this up black rock neurotech is

19:26

not affiliated with black rock Okay,

19:28

so that's why we call ourselves

19:30

the black rock crypto show, but

19:32

we're not. Number 11 number 11.

19:34

I got to remember to do

19:37

the voice. Speaking of black rock

19:39

major financial institutions financial institutions. I'm

19:41

wording including black rock remended portfolio

19:43

Damn. I can't they remended I

19:45

can't use words. I'm going to

19:48

say this again just to make

19:50

sure I'm speaking. English financial

19:52

institutions, including including Black

19:54

portfolio allocations to

19:56

Bitcoin, signaling growing

19:59

mainstream acceptance, growing

20:01

at that point

20:03

that we said and

20:05

it's officially turned

20:07

the corner said we

20:09

mainstream adoption, the

20:12

very beginning of

20:14

the mainstream adoption

20:16

curve, which goes... of

20:18

the really high curve we're really know at

20:20

the beginning of it right now

20:22

the beginning of it to be really interesting

20:24

as this unfolds this year. as

20:27

this unfolds this year. the regulate

20:29

some developments that's happening.

20:31

Regulatory developments in Australia. They've

20:34

introduced new in Australia they've introduced at

20:36

providing clarity. aimed at they are

20:38

tired of driving away crypto

20:40

businesses away and they said,

20:42

hey, we need to stop. said

20:44

hey the flow of brain talent

20:46

brain digital asset companies

20:48

were leaving the country. were leaving

20:50

the country put on the bobby

20:53

on the bobby mate yeah Number

20:55

13, Bitcoin mining mining challenges. faced increased

20:57

operational due to rising energy

20:59

prices and hardware expenses, impacting

21:01

profitability despite the overall market

21:03

rally. I'll tell you, those

21:06

that tell you those in it in it

21:08

and are part of of this bull

21:10

run now, they are going

21:12

to be glad that they

21:15

were able to stick with

21:17

it. it. They They were smart, for

21:19

sure. sure. Yeah, now number 14, the

21:21

14, the of you have seen

21:23

cycle. So if those of

21:25

you have seen presentation. It's about 21 minutes long.

21:28

it's about 21 minutes long. It's

21:30

highly valid to go check it

21:32

out to see why meme

21:34

coins. are so powerful

21:36

like the cult like communities

21:38

that get created behind them,

21:40

go check that out. that out. And

21:42

so there's some thoughts around. around Why

21:45

certain meme coins take off and why other

21:47

ones don't and he thinks that there

21:49

will be will be a hundred billion dollar meme coin

21:51

in the future. coin will will probably

21:53

be the very first one, but there'll

21:55

be some other ones that pop

21:57

up. so pop up and so whole meme coin

21:59

world. has taken off this year and

22:02

people are going crazy on this

22:04

Joe. Let's revisit that when we

22:06

get to 2025 because I want

22:08

to talk about that some more.

22:10

Number 15. Advancements in defy and

22:12

AI integration. The integration of artificial

22:14

intelligence into defy platforms led to

22:16

innovative financial products and services, attracting

22:18

increased user engagement. And I think

22:20

AI is also going to be

22:22

one of the big sectors that's

22:24

going to boom in in in

22:26

crypto. Have you looked at desink

22:29

at all? Yeah, looking at some

22:31

of these different things, and there's

22:33

a lot of things that's kind

22:35

of in parallel with that, there's.

22:37

You know, all the all the

22:39

Bitcoin hash power that helped mine

22:41

crypto. There's all this AI compute

22:43

that's being used for helping out

22:45

AI. They kind of can work

22:47

together in some ways, which is

22:49

interesting. And there's going to be

22:51

some big, big advancements in that

22:53

stuff moving forward. AI agents is

22:56

another thing. I think it's going

22:58

to be so huge. And we'll

23:00

talk a little bit about that.

23:02

here in a little bit. Now,

23:04

the crypto industry, number 16, the

23:06

crypto industry had some concerns about

23:08

environmental concerns and things, especially around

23:10

impacts on mining. There is an

23:12

amazing documentary out called Dirty coin,

23:14

which we interviewed Elena Halana for

23:16

that. Dirty coin the movie.com. Dirty

23:18

coin the movie. And then so

23:20

it talks about that. So there's

23:23

a lot of innovative. energy efficiencies

23:25

that are happening. I actually was

23:27

talking to a guy the other

23:29

day Joel who back in 2017

23:31

started working with some casinos and

23:33

because they noticed that wait a

23:35

second all of those slot machines

23:37

have a GPU in them and

23:39

a computer so they were working

23:41

with them and split the profits

23:43

for a theory of mining. So

23:45

whenever the slot machines didn't have

23:47

money going in them they were

23:50

back and forth.

23:52

So when they

23:54

weren't being used

23:56

as a slot

23:58

machine, they were

24:00

being used as

24:02

a machine they were

24:04

That's brilliant. used as a

24:06

crypto miner. That's that that's

24:08

amazing. know, maybe they should You know

24:10

maybe they should turn like there's these these only fans

24:13

out there there doing you they're doing.

24:15

And I know they have I

24:17

know they Maybe they should maybe they should

24:19

they're not not working and

24:21

they could be slut machines. could be slot

24:23

machines. tell could. kind of are

24:25

already. of are already. I thought

24:28

that was funnier than, than then

24:30

actually was. it actually was number 17 Global regulatory

24:33

scrutiny worldwide continued to

24:35

elevate and implement regulatory

24:37

frameworks for for to

24:40

balance innovation with consumer protection.

24:42

We see this We see you know,

24:44

in places like China and

24:46

Russia, like China and Russia, we will not

24:48

will not have the we will not we

24:50

will not Maybe we Okay, maybe we allow the

24:52

the same thing. the same thing. kind

24:54

of looking, you know, with

24:56

this with this stink eye going, maybe we

24:58

should be paying attention to this.

25:00

And with Trump talking about

25:02

making a Bitcoin reserve of a million of

25:04

a million Bitcoin over the next

25:07

five years, rest of how does the rest

25:09

of the world to attempt

25:11

to participate? We're, you know, we're

25:13

the biggest economy by more a

25:15

factor of three more than

25:17

China, at least double. else, the And

25:19

everybody else, the numbers just go down,

25:21

down, down. We are still the and what

25:23

we do matters. Well, Well, not what

25:25

you and I do. I do, but... Well, I mean,

25:28

think about that. Now that. has their own

25:30

strategic own reserve of a million. Then

25:32

America wants it a million. then two million.

25:34

wants And then we know there's got million, and

25:36

then we know micro And then all these other

25:38

countries are going to start doing that.

25:40

all these other and then also going to the

25:42

way, as you mentioned, So, and off love

25:44

affair that the way, as and Russia has had

25:46

with Bitcoin off it's legal. It's not

25:48

legal. It's not. Putin came out and

25:50

it's way we came out and said, the

25:52

sanctions is because we use

25:54

these sanctions is been using we use Bitcoin.

25:56

to avoid all the sanctions

25:59

which which is Smart now something

26:01

that's popping up number

26:03

18 rise of Central

26:05

Central Bank currencies A lot

26:08

of countries several of them

26:10

in fact in fact are advancing and exploring

26:12

into the central bank digital

26:14

currencies, which is a problem.

26:17

I don't think we want that

26:19

because digital bank digital currencies can

26:21

be and said, said wait a

26:23

second you have You have spent too

26:25

much money on marijuana this

26:27

week and too much money on

26:29

much money on too much money on the rest of

26:31

your are blocking the rest of your

26:33

money, you cannot use the rest of

26:35

your money Joel. And we And we you tried

26:37

to use your crypto 17 miles miles away from

26:39

your home. That's sorry, that's a big

26:41

no -no. Well, you're you're not gonna have

26:44

to worry about me using too much of my money on

26:46

my money on weed, though. In college, would have,

26:48

but you're not going to have

26:50

the problem. to have the give me the

26:52

heebie give me the Hebe Geez. Geez, like don't

26:54

like him. Number 19, increase focus on security

26:56

and fraud prevention, especially after you

26:58

go watch watch his greatest The industry

27:00

emphasized enhancing security measures and combating

27:02

fraud with collaborations between crypto firms

27:05

and regulatory bodies to protect

27:07

investors. In fact, there was a

27:09

story that happened just two

27:11

weeks ago from another ago from another

27:13

Puerto Rico Rico he was for I I

27:15

Puerto think it was, $1.2 million

27:17

in crypto. got They

27:19

got into all of his

27:21

stuff and somehow not only

27:23

got into his salana wallet, unstaked

27:25

over ,000 salana then remove them from

27:27

his wallet, but they

27:29

also got his ledger keys.

27:31

keys and guy swears that

27:33

he did not click on

27:35

any any links. The has

27:37

been doing forensics on

27:39

his computer. They've managed to

27:41

identify the wallets and

27:43

major centralized exchanges are freezing.

27:45

you know, and know in banning the

27:48

ability for to go. So to go so

27:50

there's a chance that he might actually

27:52

recover some of it. Wow. Well, good luck well

27:54

good luck and hopefully that out for him. him.

27:56

Number 20, the the

27:58

growth crypto derivatives. Has

28:00

been been huge only that but

28:02

the ability Not only that, but

28:04

the ability for people to hedge their

28:06

bets and to do speculation and to

28:08

do these on a trades on X margins and stuff

28:10

and stuff up up. Even some meme coins

28:12

are doing this X or 10 X 10X. lot

28:14

of times they won't do do a on

28:16

meme coins, but they will give you

28:18

a little bit of a you a on

28:20

that. of a of a a lot of stuff

28:22

that's popping off. a lot of stuff that's

28:25

popping off around You know

28:27

speculation around crypto so Be careful.

28:29

careful, Don't never bet more than you can lose.

28:31

I kind I of of stay away from that

28:33

that but I probably should do it whenever

28:35

I'm pretty smart online, but I don't

28:37

ever seem to be ever the right be Of

28:40

course, we have, you know, friends we associates

28:42

and family asking us, and I'm sure

28:44

asking you as well, what about as well, what about

28:46

And I never give financial advice. And

28:48

even if it's a close friend or family

28:50

member, I tell them, not gonna tell

28:52

you what to buy. not This is what

28:54

I do, but the only advice I do

28:56

give them advice I do give them is when with crypto,

28:59

with crypto, whatever amount of money money.

29:01

you can up, put on the

29:03

table and set on fire and

29:05

not have it, you know, have

29:07

it, you know, your future. and

29:09

that's how much that you'll want

29:12

to invest into crypto. And I'm

29:14

not saying to a safe

29:16

investment, but it's still incredibly

29:18

speculative. In spite of all this

29:20

good news, a safe we're just

29:22

what, years in, it's to 15

29:24

years, 15 years in, it's still

29:27

very speculative And you could lose

29:29

everything. So So real real careful, Which

29:31

which to, us me to, number everything. Leads

29:34

me to number 21,

29:36

educational initiatives and public awareness

29:38

efforts to educate the

29:40

public about cryptocurrencies and and

29:42

technology have increased aiming to

29:44

demystify the space and

29:47

promote informed participation, which by

29:49

the way, bad crypto which

29:51

that since summer of

29:53

2017. that since summer of 2017. the

29:55

goal here is to here is

29:57

to to to educate, entertain,

29:59

to make complex. subject matter, easy to

30:01

understand, and what better way to do

30:03

that than have a couple idiots teaching

30:05

you. That's true. And matter of fact,

30:08

I am working on a book around

30:10

this now, kind of taken into all

30:12

of these principles and all this subject

30:14

matter around all this from sort of

30:16

A to Z kind of given there's

30:18

a lot of new investors that are

30:20

coming over the baby. There's a lot

30:22

of new investors that are coming over

30:25

the baby boomers and Gen X that's

30:27

coming over. So these aren't for the

30:29

degents and these aren't people who really

30:31

understand crypto. But just when you dive

30:33

in Joe and you look over to

30:35

and you start making the parallels, like,

30:37

we made these, we made these parallels

30:39

back in 2017. We saw, oh, this

30:42

is obviously where it's going. A lot

30:44

of people aren't there yet, so we're

30:46

trying to get them up to speed,

30:48

and then I'm launching that with coinresearch.

30:50

AI, which will be live in the

30:52

next month. So it's like, help, I

30:54

want to help people stay safe, because

30:56

dude, it's such a jungle out there.

30:59

If you don't do things right, you

31:01

will lose your ass, you will lose

31:03

your ass. You will get wrecked. So

31:05

you don't get wrecked in the rectum?

31:07

We're going to protect you. Well, protecting

31:09

your rectums. Travis, what's number 22? Number

31:11

22 is the technological innovations and blockchain

31:13

scalability. A lot of development in improving,

31:16

improving transaction speeds, making things more scalable.

31:18

There's a lot of challenges that's happening,

31:20

but we're seeing more and more of

31:22

this is happening. And then also, I

31:24

want to mention this because this. is

31:26

not on the list. One of the

31:28

biggest things I think is the visa

31:30

digital asset platform that they built. It

31:33

is I think it's called VAT and

31:35

Visa's asset and token platform or something.

31:37

Basically, they're allowing banks to create their

31:39

own stable coins. So if you're like

31:41

Wells Fargo, you'll be able to have

31:43

the the JP Morgan dollar or whatever.

31:45

Not like the original silver coins, but

31:47

I think that's I think that's really

31:50

interesting. It reminds me of back in

31:52

the day when all the different

31:54

banks had their own

31:56

dollars as well. as

31:58

well. I have some,

32:00

some, I have some

32:02

right here. which I love. I which

32:04

I love, I think these are always awesome I

32:06

have these old school dollars like the the

32:08

different banks had different dollars, man.

32:11

And so they're gonna be able

32:13

to able to to different currencies and

32:15

still fit within their fractional or

32:17

reserve banking model, banking heard some stuff

32:19

about this too. Let's revisit that

32:21

in a moment because I have

32:23

some thoughts there. Number 23, there

32:26

the number 23 the NFT market The NFT market

32:28

continued to evolve with new use

32:30

cases emerging beyond digital art, including

32:32

real estate and intellectual property applications.

32:34

property applications are definitely making a

32:36

comeback. the Most of the

32:38

collections we own are going

32:40

to remain worthless until somebody

32:42

in the community comes along

32:44

and brings value to them.

32:46

But value to them but pudgy penguins officially flipped board

32:48

a yacht club have out done uga they

32:51

They did their pangoo drop. know,

32:53

if you had a Pudgy

32:55

a you got something like

32:57

$80 ,000 worth of worth of of

32:59

token for having that. that. Absolutely

33:01

crazy and it's now I it's now as think I saw

33:03

as number top 100 it's the top 100 It's got

33:05

a two and a half billion dollar market cap

33:07

I I think it's one of those meme coins

33:10

coins I'm personally holding what I got dropped and I'm

33:12

not selling it because I think that that

33:14

I've seen what they've accomplished so far.

33:16

so far. Right. I think that that why, you

33:18

know, why would they they relent They've

33:20

already become the face of NFTs. the face

33:23

of and I still look still look impressive,

33:25

at Pretty impressive what they've done with

33:27

that. You know what I mean?

33:29

Like taking that little they've done with that. You know

33:31

what I mean? was an abandoned project, by

33:33

the way. little Oh, that

33:35

was an abandoned project.

33:37

was an abandoned project, the way. And these

33:39

guys stepped in and they rescued Wow.

33:41

Well, that's a good story right a good story

33:44

right there that needs to be a

33:46

like a documentary, except all the bad shit. all the always

33:48

talk about the bad always talk about the Like,

33:50

oh, hey, here's another hey here's another documentary

33:52

about some bad shit that happened about the

33:54

about the good shit that happened I

33:56

want a about the good shit good communities

33:58

and cultural impact impact. Number 24 and

34:00

the crypto community's impact on culture has

34:03

grown I mean, I don't have you

34:05

seen the new the new Squid game

34:07

I watched the first episode so far,

34:10

but I heard that it broke records

34:12

for the most streamed show on Netflix

34:14

like 68 million people to the premier

34:16

so so one of the characters on

34:19

there if you've seen Squid games and

34:21

one of the contestants was a KLL

34:23

key opinion leader in the crypto space

34:26

who was recommending some crypto projects and

34:28

this coin got rugged and and so

34:30

he was in there no spoilers I'm

34:32

not he was in there with a

34:35

couple other people who were in there

34:37

who had took it as advice to

34:39

get in on that crypto so they

34:42

were all they owed lots of money

34:44

because they have invested in that but

34:46

it was just kind of funny to

34:48

be like As you just mentioned, the

34:51

very most streamed crypto or the very

34:53

most streamed show in Netflix here's history.

34:55

One of the key storylines is about

34:58

this crypto project, but it's bad news

35:00

about the crypto project. And it's kind

35:02

of crazy. A lot of stuff impacting

35:04

the world. Even, you know, back in

35:07

the day, Russell, O'Kung and NFL player

35:09

took part of a salary in Bitcoin.

35:11

Now that Bitcoin's worth, you know, multiple,

35:14

I think you put like six million

35:16

in Bitcoin. Now it's worth over 50

35:18

million in Bitcoin or something. It's pretty

35:20

awesome. His king, O'Kung. Okong

35:22

is kicking it, kicking it, yeah, good

35:25

job. So here we are, Treb, 2025,

35:27

and a lot of optimism in the

35:29

crypto world. We've got Trump coming into

35:31

office in just over two weeks, a

35:33

very pro-scripto administration before us. The rest

35:35

of the world's going to be paying

35:37

attention. We are seated at the beginning

35:39

still of the bull run in the

35:41

four-year cycle. And I have to agree

35:43

with... What you told me to watch

35:45

that video about the meme coins, I

35:47

thought that was really prescient, what he

35:49

was saying in that, and I tend

35:51

to agree that this cycle.

35:53

Yes, we're going

35:55

to see multiples, I

35:57

believe, on Bitcoin,

35:59

on Ethereum, on all

36:01

the alt coins.

36:03

and I think many

36:05

of the gaming

36:07

tokens will you know,

36:09

back again, but

36:11

the biggest multiples may

36:13

just be these

36:15

meme coins. Well,

36:18

mean, it's they're culture coins, right?

36:20

And you think about it, most

36:22

once, once agree. that

36:24

this is a something that I hold value

36:26

in and people are trading it just

36:28

like. you know, these baseball cards are made

36:30

of a cardboard and they got a photo on them,

36:33

And, but you know, you you get one that somebody

36:35

says they think it's worth a lot of money,

36:37

then it's worth a lot of money. I have one

36:39

that's like a 1941 Ted Williams

36:41

play ball card. That's like

36:43

a it's a mint nine.

36:45

Super good. Super good card.

36:48

One of the one of

36:50

the nicest Ted Williams cards

36:52

ever. for that year that was the

36:54

year he batted 406. So a lot of people really love

36:56

that card, but it's just a piece of cardboard. You

36:58

know what I mean? It's just a little

37:01

piece of cardboard, But but somebody said that's worth,

37:03

you know, $80, $90 ,000. Like, okay, great, that's

37:05

cool. Like maybe I'll sell it someday. I

37:07

won't, maybe I'll hold it forever because I love

37:09

cardboard. People will put

37:11

value on whatever they think

37:13

has value. And so, you know,

37:16

Let I some per predictions

37:18

for the year I

37:21

think that Bitcoin

37:23

doubles for sure. For

37:26

real? Yeah, I think so. I I

37:28

think that the FOMO that's good, I

37:30

think that BlackRock is a clear signal

37:32

that they're expecting big things. I think

37:34

that there is nothing but the wind

37:36

at the sales. And you know, you

37:38

even said you BlackRock's got a million,

37:40

Michael, sales got a half a million.

37:42

Satoshi's got a million. There's a list

37:44

of all of these enterprise and are

37:46

the countries of the world that are

37:48

holding, you know, millions between them and

37:50

enterprise that's holding and how how enterprise much

37:52

is there out there? get, there's $19

37:54

and a half million. in mind. there's

37:56

four million lost

37:59

Start subtracting. and this concept

38:01

of supply shock I think

38:03

becomes a real thing and what

38:05

happens if there's no supply

38:07

price goes Ba goes we blah talked

38:10

about this trip We've seen

38:12

already the $10 ,000 we've seen we've

38:14

seen in previous markets

38:16

five up five down It's

38:18

not gonna be up five down

38:20

see when be hits see

38:22

when FOMO thing to go

38:25

this to go even $30 ,000

38:27

in a day in a

38:29

day. In a day? a day. It's The day.

38:31

be exciting. I tell you what, we're going

38:33

to see big, going to be exciting. I

38:35

tell you what, we're going to see big,

38:37

big I down the road. at the I I was

38:39

thinking about this. I always do to every 10 at

38:41

the beginning of, I used to do it

38:43

every 10 years. I normally So the to do it.

38:46

in zero, I it in to do it. I

38:48

didn't do it in 2020 because I had a feeling like

38:50

the next five years are going to be weird. weird. I I didn't

38:52

know how to predict it. I don't

38:54

know how to predict how to to 2030 because

38:56

I think 2030 is gonna be so

38:58

different so than where we are now now because now

39:00

there's opportunities to make this extremely prosperous for

39:03

everyone if you get involved. get I think

39:05

we're gonna see robotics happening a lot.

39:07

I think a lot of these fast food

39:09

places are gonna have robots that's making

39:11

the food for us. None of that food's

39:13

gonna be good for us. It's still

39:15

gonna be the same crappy food to be good

39:18

make America healthy again, man. to be the All

39:20

right, food. and then, well, let me

39:22

say my thoughts here. here. And

39:24

then, pretty big is these AI agents are going to be

39:26

so to be so huge. Every single

39:28

crypto project out there is going to

39:30

have its own sort of own agent AI agent.

39:32

and there will be like these little virtual

39:34

Star Wars these where the little AI where the

39:36

little AI agents can go in and

39:39

they're going to communicate with one another and

39:41

then then they're going to have their

39:43

own like brainstorming sessions and come up

39:45

with their own projects and then then the

39:47

other AI agents are going to start

39:49

aping into those projects and and the in the

39:51

and then people are going to get

39:53

excited about to get then they're a whole

39:55

lot of money. make a whole looking

39:57

at a potential, I would say, I

39:59

before two. 2030 AI agents are going to

40:01

be to be a 10 trillion industry

40:03

on its own. on its agents

40:06

are such a shift in

40:08

how things are done. there There

40:10

will be job boards. There

40:12

will be jobs, there there will

40:14

be job companies like Indeed

40:16

and LinkedIn that have human

40:18

resources next to computer resources

40:20

and you know, help computational resources to

40:22

help you do Zapier sort of on

40:24

of on, on know, right? Look

40:26

at this, 31 you know,

40:28

speaking of the category is coin gecko,

40:30

the category is artificial if you

40:32

look at. if you look at official

40:35

intelligence is one area AI agents. is the sub

40:37

of that of is but there's not

40:39

a crypto category for it So just

40:41

looking at AI because that's what

40:43

people are gonna be looking to at AI,

40:45

Which coins what people are going at that looking

40:48

right there right there the very

40:50

top of the screen which coins are

40:52

in the space. Well, right right

40:54

there, stop. on that. that. See,

40:56

right here is pretty crazy what these guys are

40:58

doing. right These are launching a bunch of

41:00

meme coins as well. right it's

41:02

an AI agent that's doing it,

41:04

right? Virtual. You could have could have gotten

41:06

in for a nickel a little

41:08

over a month ago ago it's

41:10

at at 450 now. It's good. It's always great

41:13

to see them always great to see them

41:15

after the effect. 20. I I got really good

41:17

really good 2020 hindsight vision. I'll tell you

41:19

tell you, I'm still holding on to to

41:21

my I think I think internet computer, They

41:23

I saw a I saw a chart that

41:25

of the number of developers that are

41:27

moving to different platforms that are

41:29

developing on the platform. And they are

41:31

now, and they according to the data to

41:33

saw, I saw. They've got the

41:36

biggest growth, number one, in terms

41:38

of developers that are moving to

41:40

a chain to build on it. on

41:42

Nice. So if that's true, then then this

41:44

could be, especially when you look

41:46

at the chart, the remember what

41:48

happened at the beginning with them?

41:51

When we go to at the they

41:53

came out and it popped up,

41:55

some say and they place, out it it

41:57

to say 700 in some place coin and the it

41:59

to $461. were the ones that were manipulating that right out

42:01

from the get go. that right out and

42:03

brought it way down, brought it all

42:05

the way down to down, brought it all the

42:08

way down to $3 and now it's sitting

42:10

at 10 sitting so And so, again, not not

42:12

financial advice, but I'm looking at it

42:14

as a sleeping. sleeping. Giant sleeping giant should be

42:16

be good. a lot there's a lot of

42:18

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42:20

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in July. We'll be our doing it

43:26

year of doing it. And

43:28

then we're going to start doing

43:30

doing year. year and you said final

43:32

year. what I was like, what don't

43:34

know? The final of the eighth

43:36

year. final of the eighth year. Oh okay Are

43:38

Are you leaving me? me? Uh, dude,

43:40

well you never know You never

43:43

know Find a podcast host. Good luck.

43:45

Good luck luck. Yeah. Try to stay as

43:47

to stay as long as we

43:49

can dude. It'd be crazy,

43:51

dude We're gonna get going gonna

43:53

year this year. That's pretty nuts

43:56

That's pretty I appreciate you and Wow.

43:58

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44:00

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