#576: Bitcoin Outpaces Everything with James Check
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Marty sits down with James Check to discuss bitcoin's position in the new year.
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0:00 - Intro
0:36 - SBR isn't Trump's top priority
7:05 - A hard market to predict
13:36 - Fold & Bitkey
15:31 - What’s next?
18:21 - Tariffs and revaluing gold
21:28 - Unchained
22:29 - Yield curve/rate cut discrepancy
28:57 - Bull and bear scenarios
35:47 - Long and short hodlers
39:47 - Bitcoin collateral and leverage risks
44:14 - Ethereum and the golden age of grift
57:31 - Crypto is barely a footnote to bitcoin’s scale
1:10:16 - Wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free. |
| 0:10.0 | If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts. |
| 0:16.0 | So it's all acting like safe haven. |
| 0:18.0 | I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency, |
| 0:23.6 | Bitcoin wins. |
| 0:24.6 | In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor. |
| 0:28.6 | I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin. |
| 0:31.6 | If you're not paying attention, you probably should be. |
| 0:34.6 | Sell the news, Sell the news. |
| 0:38.2 | The United States Strategic Shik coin reserve is here. |
| 0:42.5 | Bitcoin is down $828 in the last 24 hours. |
| 0:48.8 | James Check is here to join us. |
| 0:51.2 | What a time to be alive, sir. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, it's a strange time to be alive. |
| 0:55.5 | But, you know, what do you expect? |
| 0:58.1 | Chaos. |
| 0:58.7 | We should all have expected chaos. |
| 1:01.6 | Got a meme. |
| 1:03.1 | A president who won his first election on memes and arguably a second election on memes as well. |
| 1:09.7 | Getting into meme coins and shit coinery are you shocked |
| 1:14.0 | I mean this this was always the expected result right you weighed into the dirty waters of |
| 1:19.0 | politics you know financial incentives this is what crypto's built on right so it's kind of |
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