All right, everybody, welcome back to the Crypto Rundown presented by Gemini, your bridge to the future of money and happy 2026. It is our first episode of the new year.

Super excited to be with you. I have Brian with us today.

So we're going to cover a ton of the macro stuff. We've got the rally going is the crypto bull market of 2026 kicking off because after all that downward pressure to the end of the year, that first week of the new year has been quite green for Bitcoin crypto and meme coins across the board. We're going to talk about all of it. There was some worldly news out of Venezuela and you might be thinking yourself, how does that affect the crypto markets? You'd be surprised because it does. We're going to cover that. And we have Brian with us. So definitely some momentum of money makers and stuff and meme points to cover on the back half of the episode Brian welcome in how was your break and were you

having conversations at the dinner table like I was where they were telling you like

yeah how's your how your coins doing there little buddy that's that's the best tweet around

uh I had a couple conversations like that, but I've

massaged everybody in my inner circle of exactly what to expect. They've heard me a lot talk about

volatility and not to get too worked up on the big moves upward or the big moves down. But I had a great

break, man. No complaints. Kids,

kids were having a blast. I'm ready to be back in it for a fiery 2026. How is yours?

Is the big question. Yeah, man. It was good. I'm kind of in the same boat. Excited to be back.

We're definitely going to try and get back to our regular kind of flow of putting out these

episodes. Obviously, we're always going to have our flagship interviews to our regular kind of flow of putting out these episodes.

Obviously, we're always going to have our flagship interviews with Bryce and Brendan,

but the rundown family has grown over the last couple years and people want more.

So that's what we're going to try and do in 26, is try to figure out how we can bring you the same content,

but maybe on a more frequent basis.

So excited to be with everybody. I think it was a great sign.

I bring this up for laughs. I think this is one of my favorite memes. As you can see down here,

you commented, you loved it. But I do remember from last year that, you know, people were asking about it.

And, you know, hey, what's Chris? Should I buy? You know, I, an uncle I remember that texted me in the middle of 25, kind of like is now the time to buy Bitcoin. Should I buy some of this stuff? And then the same uncle at Christmas didn't bring it up at all or ask any questions about it. So I think that's a good sign. Um, you know, Hey, could it be a bottom tick? Who knows? We're kind of been holding that range as we will switch over to coin market cap of kind of the support for Bitcoin.

Really holding strong in the 80,000 level popped back up to the 90s. We got up to what do we hit? 94 this week, which again, everybody was kind of

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