#713: Bitcoin Was Warning Us for Months with James Check
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Marty sits down with James Check to discuss the current Bitcoin bear market, where on-chain data and mean reversion models suggest we're in the bottom fifth of the cycle, why capitulation is a necessary process, the quantum computing FUD, the role of gold as portfolio ballast, and why staying convicted through the storm is the only rational move if your decision tree says Bitcoin isn't dead.
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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 |
| 0:23.5 | currency, Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor. |
| 0:29.2 | I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin. |
| 0:31.9 | If you're not paying attention, you probably should be. |
| 0:36.4 | James Check, we meet here. |
| 0:39.4 | In the bottom fifth of the spare market, of this capitulation, where are we? |
| 0:43.6 | It's time for the eulogies, mate. |
| 0:45.2 | It's Bitcoin obituary's going to be flying, left, right and center. |
| 0:48.2 | Peter Schiff's having the best day of his life. |
| 0:49.7 | Bitcoin has died once again. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, mate, here we are. |
| 0:53.3 | It's amazing watching, I mean, socials. Yeah, here we are. It's, it's amazing watching. |
| 0:56.1 | I mean, |
| 0:56.9 | socials. |
| 0:57.5 | Socials are just a cesspool at the moment. |
| 1:00.4 | It's just noise, |
| 1:01.4 | everything. |
| 1:02.2 | But yeah, |
| 1:03.4 | look, |
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