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Hey, everybody, Welcome into the Thinking Crypto Podcasts. You're home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. I'm your host, Tony Edward. On your way in. Please sit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platforms such as Spotify or Apple, please leave a five star rating and review. Folks, let's quickly take a look at the price here. I
¶ Bitcoin analysis
want to talk about what I'm seeing on the bitcoin chart because the mac D on the daily chart is about to flip bullish. Bitcoin currently trading over one hundred and eleven thousand dollars. As I've been stating, guys, we're not out of the bullmarket as yet. I don't believe the blow off top has happened, and I've given various factual data signals and much more. This is not about
emotions or feelings. We want to be educated about the data and the charts, and what I'm seeing on the chart once again, guys, is that the mac D is about to flip bullish. So let's see how things play out. We do have to give it time and of course, expect volatility, expect fake outs, expect that potentially the price could roll over and go test one hundred and one thousand. Right. I'm not saying that is going to happen or guaranteed.
I'm just saying it's a scenario. There is a probability of that, because we don't have a crystal ball, But we're going to look at the data and look at the macro and see what it's telling us, and I believe it's a bullish scenario. Here the bitcoin monthly chart still shows the bulls are in firm control despite the short term volatility we're seeing. And here's a very positive sign. Today the S and P five hundred hit a new all time high. So what have I been telling you guys,
rotation of liquidity. Gold has been correcting, cooling down. Whether that's a local or blow off top, I don't know. We'll have to wait and see. But all of a sudden, the SMP five hundred pops up to a new all time high. Right, and we're starting to see the other stock market indexes like the NASDAC and the Dow Jones and the Rustle and all these things started to wake up. Rotation of liquidity, and we are a macro bowl market
for all asset classes. So that's why you're seeing real estate, crypto stocks, precious metals all hitting new all time highs. Go look at the past two years the charts and you'll see it right, the data again, no feelings, no motions here, I'm repeating myself, because people get very emotional about these things. I understand they have money, I understand they want to make money. I understand the volatility bothers people.
But I'm emphasizing that so you can start looking at the markets from a data perspective and not be emotional and not be in the roller coaster ride. It will really help as you get more educated about these things. Right, So SMP five hundred hitting new all time highs, and guys, we've seen this story before. Crypto's going to follow right. In addition, global liquidity, which is one of the macro factors that we're looking at, has been a leading indicator
that shows we still have room to run here. So if all these assets are following global liquidity, I think we know crypto is going to catch up. Here's something that crypt Wizard shared which I thought was very interesting, and it's along the lines of bitcoin dominance as well as the Russell two thousand, So he says, bullish breakout. Next, a liquidity storm is coming. Bitcoin dominance can sense it.
So one of the factors we've been highlighting why the top is not in Bitcoin dominance has not collapsed like we've seen in the past, right where Bitcoin goes on that massive run and then the all coins follow. So that has not happened as yet. So he adds here the russell is trying to break, whiles Bitcoin dominance is on the verge of a monthly shooting star. Each time this happens, all explode. Crisis brings opportunity. So again the data is showing us this. We're seeing multiple factors still
screaming bull market despite the short term volatility. And obviously we've had some wild swings in the market due to the tariff news, of course, and we continue to see that whales are accumulating despite the short term volatility and some outflows. The black Rock Bitcoin ETF they bought another nine hundred and seventy six big coin and they now hold over eight hundred and four thousand bitcoin. So on
chain data, ETF inflows still showing accumulation. Now today I put out a newsletter covering a lot of this, guys, that what bitcoin has been doing is testing the resistance levels from December and it's building support off of that. We've seen this time and time again, and there's just a strong case, guys, of this bull market continuing again. That's not a guarantee, you know, it's a probability, but I do believe it's the scenario that has the higher
probability of playing out. So let's see what the next couple of weeks bring us, because there are some macro factors coming up, with the FED cutting rates, governments shut down, ending Trump and China and the US and China and the entire situation resolving, and the Fed. We just heard from Jerome Powell last week that they're going to ramp down quantitative tightening. So I believe quantitative easing will be
returning sooner. And I've often stated the market just needs a signal, a doverish signal from the FED saying hey, at some point, let's say in early twenty twenty six, we're going to go back to money printing, right, and we know they don't call it money printing, and they call it quantitative easing. That's all the market needs to know, right,
Markets are forwardlooking. And in addition, you have the Crypto Market Structure Bill that would be a huge milestone if it passes the Senate this quarter, and I believe it will. There's a lot of meetings happening in DC with the crypto industry to crypto lobby. We just heard from White House cryptos or David Sachs saying there's a strong possibility
gets done, and I think you will, guys. I think once the government opens up and the government goes back to getting their work done right, they're going to be able to push this bill through. So there's also the SEC approving the all coinyt app So all these things are on the horizon. So in addition to the data points and the signals and the metrics make me believe that this bull market's not over. I hope you understand that's not an emotional take. Yes, I want to make money,
but I'm also not a fool. If I see something that is detrimental to the marketer and validates all of this, I'm gonna be here. Guys. It's over right. Something is completely different. Let's let's see what our new strategy is going to be. But that's not what I'm seeing just like I was telling you guys earlier this year with the big tariff sell off and crash, I was like, this is this is not the end of the bull market. Even though people were screaming at me it's over look
at what's happening. Trump did this blah blah blah blah blah, and I'm like, no, the data is just telling me here that despite this being a severe sell off a lot of fear, this structure still in place. Right. So this is why, folks, I am not bearish. I am not worried. If there was something to be worried about, I'll be on there here telling you guys. And I've often stated there will come a point where I will turn bearish when this market tops out, so just be
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¶ JPMorgan BTC ETH Collateral
coming out from Bloomberg. Here's the headline. JP Morgan to allow clients to pledge big coin and Ether as collateral. So JP Morgan continues to capitulate. This is the final boss. Remember all the things Jamie Diamond has been saying over the years, and they've been doing, and now they're launching services around crypto, they are tokenizing, They're doing so much and it's amazing. This is why the saying goes, watch
what they do, not what they say. So Jamie Diamond's been playing the smoke and mirrors moves for years fooling retail while he's been building and taking a position, and all of Wall Street's here, So let me give you some more details here. So, investment banking giant JP morgan Chase plans to let institutional clients use their Bitcoin and ether holdings as collateral for loans by year end, according
to a report by Bloomberg. The tokens pledged under the Global program will be safeguarded by a third party custodian and extends JP Morgan's earlier move to accept crypto linked ETFs as loan collateral. Huge news, guys, and we know they're going to go beyond Bitcoin and etheromy it's a Bitcoin or ether, and then it expands other coins. Now what's going to be interesting. I think we are in
the early stages of these crypto assets being used as collateral. Eventually, if you hold crypto, you will be able to use it to get loans as well, whether it's for a mortgage or a car loan or whatever it is. So I think that's down the road, right. I think we can see the direction to Puck's heading in here. So very bullish news, and expect the other Wall Street players to do the same game. Theory will play out here now, speaking of banks, look at this Zell wigh's stable coin
¶ Zelle Stablecoin
integration to expand its trillion dollar payments network abroad. Everybody's building and adopting with crypto and folks, there are still people out there who think this is all a scam. They don't get it because they haven't gotten past narratives, they haven't gotten to the factst they haven't educated themselves.
So if you're here and you understand what the hell is happening, you know, consider yourself lucky because we're seeing the biggest institutions in the world adopting this technology so wildly use US payment network. Zell is eyeing an international expansion utilizing stable cooin technology, according to a statement from Friday, here's a quote. Zell transformed how Americans send money at home.
Now we're beginning to work to bring the same level of speed and reliability to Zel customers sending money to and from the United States. Early Warning Services CEO Cameron Fowler said, our goal is to bring the trust speeding convenience of Zell to consumers. International money movement needs Early Warning Services operates Zell. The company said this initiative, which is scant on details marks an important step in expanding the reach of Zel globally by leveraging stable coins. Zell
has been exploring issuing its own stable coin. So, folks, we know the benefits of blockchain and stable coins, instant settlement, twenty four to seven, trading, the ability to do these things, more trust, more transparency, borderless. You guys know the benefits, right. So that's why these companies are capitulating because the old system can't compete, so they have to build with this technology. This is the future now. More bank news. Signum Bank
¶ Sygnum Bank Bitcoin loans
bets on bitcoin lending with multi sign custody model. So these banks and institutions are coming up with new financial products. Here. Signam Bank has partner with bitcoin backed lending platform deb Fi never heard of that to launch a multi signature lending product that allows borrowers to retain shared control of
their collateral. According to the Swiss Digital Asset Banks announcement on Friday, the product introduces a bitcoin native multi sign lending model that allows clients to retain control of their collateral through distributed key management, ensuring that the assets cannot be rehypothecated. Signum's clients can take out fiat loans backed by bitcoin in a setup that requires three of five keyholders to authorize any transaction, allowing borroers to track and
verify their collateral directly on chain. So I love that they can still have access, right, the control is split up here, So I like this model. You know what JP Morgan, you know in the news I just shared And look, it's maybe too early to criticize JP Morgan, but I hope JP Morgan does this where you don't, you know, lose complete control of your collateral here, your assets. So let's see what they're able to come up with. But what signam is doing is really really cool. So guys,
notice they're starting with bitcoin again. It's going to go beyond bitcoin. So there's more to come here, folks, this is really really big news. Now. Today the folks at
Ripple confirmed that they have completed their acquisition of Hidden Road, which is a massive, huge, huge, huge acquisition for Ripple. Right if you understand what Hidden Road does, and so they said here introducing Ripple Prime, we're please to share that our acquisition of Hidden Road is officially complete, making Ripple the first crypto company to own and operate a global multi asset prime broker bringing the promise of digital
assets to institutional customers at scale. We knew this was happening right because the news of the acquisition was announced months ago. But what Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said today is very bullish for XRP. He said, with today's close of Hidden Road now Ripple Prime. Ripple has announced five major acquisitions in approximate two years. G Treasury last week, Rail in August, Standard Custody in twenty twenty four, Medico
in twenty twenty three. As we continue to build solutions towards enabling an Internet of value, I'm reminding you that XRP sits in the center of everything Ripple does. Lock in very bullish. This is huge, guys, and you know they're going to push for the use of the XRP ledger and have folks bill on the XRP ledger. Use XRP where it makes sense. I don't. There's some people who get very confused. They think, oh, everybody has to
use XRP. No, they simply just have to use the XRP ledger because that gives the network more value and of course it's native token. This is metals law reads law as well network effects, and I've talked a lot about this. You know, you look at etherorem the amount of building that was happening. It's not that people are using ETH itself, but as they're using the network, ETH gets greased, so to speak. You know, its value goes up, the network goes up. Right, the more participants, YadA YadA.
So study Metcalps law network effects and you understand what I'm talking about here. So these folks don't have to use XRP directly, but I do believe they have to use the XRP ledger. That's the point. It's a network. Participate on it. More value that's moving, the higher evaluation of the said blockchain network. And of course it's native token. So this is really big and great to see Brad giving the details here. All right, let's move ahead. Trump
¶ Trump new CFTC chair
to nominate SEC's pro crypto Mike Sealig as CFTC chair. So you know, things fell through with Brian contents, but we get another pro crypto person that's going to be heading up to CFTC as the chair, So I think this one should go through right now. Caroline fam who's the acting chair, has been doing a great job with the crypto Sprint and much more. So let's see if he can get confirmed sooner than later. But here's some details.
Celick currently serves as the SEC Commissions Crypto Task Force Chief Counsel and Senior Advisor to SEC Chair Paul Atkins. So you can't get more pro crypto than that, right, So he knows everything that's going on already, so it's not like he has to be brought up to speed. So I think this is a solid pick. Moving ahead, Rumble,
¶ Rumble BTC USDT tips
the video platform, partners with Tether to add bitcoin tips for content creators. Now, I personally do use Rumble to publish my content. There's not a huge following there. The majority of the following is on YouTube of but you know, I do use Rumble because I know there's an audience there. So this is really great though. This is real world adoption of crypto. So Rumble has teamed up with Staplecorny
Shirt Tether to enable bitcoin tipping. Pavlowski excuse me, CEO Chris Pavlowski set on stage at the Plan B form in Lugano, Switzerland. So he says, right now, we're in the testing phase, but we're gonna start rolling that out alongside Tether here in the coming week. So I love it. Guys. This is a real world adoption here, and you're going to see more and more platforms adopt crypto in different ways. Now, look at this TYE regulators raid world iris scanning site
¶ Thai SEC Worldcoin WLD
in latest headache for Sam Altmans. So this is talking about the world coin and you guys know how I feel about worldcoin, right. I like the mission, but the way they're going about it with the draconian IRIS scan that is not I'm not a fan of that right, spoken about it a lot, and that's my personal feelings. You know, you don't have to agree with me, but
I don't like that. And one of the things I said was, where is the independent audit to say they're not doing anything the furious or bad or violating your rights with the data they're collecting. Because if they're connecting your biometrics and they're doing this in different countries, then people are getting coins. What are they doing with that data? Right? So these are things that have me worried and why
I'm not personally, you know, invested in the token. Look, it may do well, I'm not saying it won't, but I don't you know, I need more information here, and I've been on record saying that, right, you guys know that who've been following me on this podcast, I've said I don't like that, and I said the governments, a lot of them are going to push back and their Thailand Securities can Exchange Commission conducted a joint operation with
Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau to raid an IRIS scanning location related to the WLD exchange services. So let's see what happens. I think a lot of governments are going to push back because you're taking people's data and nobody knows where it's going. I'm not saying they're doing something bad with it, but we just don't have that clarity. Right. Is it truly encrypted on the blockchain or is someone at world coin able to pull that data and do the fairest
things with it? Right? Who can answer that question? And I would love someone. I would try to get someone from world Coin on the pod to talk about it. But I've not seen this concern and address completely and again needs an independent auditor to review this. Anyway, folks, I digress. Let me know what you think. Leave your thoughts and comments below, hit the thumbs up button. If you appreciate this content, please support the podcast by subscribing
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