Bitcoin CRASHES as Wall Street keeps buying! | Chris Kline
Full Signal
Phil Rosen
4.8 • 18 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Chris Kline is the co-founder of Bitcoin IRA. He joins Phil Rosen to discuss the new bear market, why bullish policy tailwinds haven't pushed the asset higher, institutional adoption, bitcoin tax advantages, and more.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
00:22 - Why Bitcoin underperformed
4:29 - Gold vs. Bitcoin
6:44 - Volatility, bear markets, and why long-term DCA still wins
10:03 - Retail Is Selling, Institutions Are Buying
12:06 - Bitcoin in retirement accounts
15:39 - ETFs vs. owning real Bitcoin
18:41 - Why Tokenization is coming
21:35 - Bitcoin IRAs
25:26 - Bitcoin Price Prediction Through End Of Year
27:17 - Thanks Chris For Joining![5:01 PM]
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of Full Signal, I sit down with Chris Klein. He is the co-founder of Bitcoin IRA, |
| 0:05.1 | and we get into what Bitcoin is going to do in 2026, why it disappointed last year, |
| 0:10.6 | the tax advantages of using Bitcoin in a retirement account, what wealthy people are doing |
| 0:15.3 | with their Bitcoin and much more. This is a fantastic conversation. Chris really brings the |
| 0:19.6 | energy. I think you're going to love it. Chris, it's great to see you. I want to start with why Bitcoin did not do what most of |
| 0:28.8 | expected last year. Everyone was putting out pretty ambitious price targets. I was very bullish. |
| 0:34.1 | I started last year. We had ETFs, Propto, White House, all these tailwinds |
| 0:38.4 | didn't actually materialize. What's your take on this? And I was one of those guys, too. I think I sat in this chair and might have thrown in a number that was a little ambitious out. I still haven't until April, but I don't think we're going to hit that. When we were touching those all-time highs in October, I think there was a euphoria that was like, oh, it's fine. |
| 0:55.0 | We're so back. |
| 0:55.7 | It's on, right? |
| 0:56.6 | And then the government decides to take its longest break in the history of government shutdowns. And most posts, they think of that as like, oh, well, that just means, you know, the Congress is, but it's actually all three-letter agencies, too. So the SEC, the CFTC, IRS, everybody shut down for 30 plus days. |
| 1:13.1 | All that backlog, the clarity bill that we're still trying to get through, the clarity act |
| 1:17.4 | we're trying to get through into a bill, into legislation. A lot of ETPs, ETF approvals, |
| 1:22.9 | new financial instruments. It's just kind of like, we just hit this wall, right? Like it just |
| 1:26.4 | shut down and it affected |
| 1:27.5 | everything. And then coming back out of that, we're now in the summer, the winter solstice, |
| 1:33.4 | which does happen. You know, we see exciting winners when the price action is crazy. If the |
| 1:38.0 | price action is kind of stable and a little bit boring, people check out. They enjoy Thanksgiving |
| 1:43.0 | with their families. They enjoy the |
| 1:44.3 | holidays with their families. They celebrate New Year's and then they come back and see what |
| 1:47.9 | things look like. Put all that together and now we're running into the headwinds of a midterm |
| 1:52.5 | election. One side of the party wants to see the economy bad because that would that's a referendum |
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