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Show Notes 🚀The Golden Bull Cycle Repeats… Trading Shot has calculated the remaining days of the current Bull Cycle. 🤓 We are in based on the Top, Bottom and Halving of each Cycle. These parameters are effectively used to distinguish the Bull from the Bear Cycles. Tops are obviously where the Bull phase ends and Bear starts, while the Bottoms are where the Bear phase ends and the Bull starts.The 51%-49% Ratio and the importance of the HalvingThe focus of this study is the Bull Cycle.
Thriller Insider: Digital Economy Report 2019 | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 33
Show Notes US: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Speech Jerome Powell isn't sounding too dovish, once again saying the economy is performing well and is in a "good place." The Federal Reserve chair described today's employment report for August, where payroll growth slowed, as consistent with a strong labor market. Powell also said the consumer sector remains strong but that manufacturing is moving sideways to down.
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Thriller Insights: Maximum Bitcoin Scenario | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 15
Show Notes Car discusses bullish scenarios for Bitcoin in 2019. The halving is in 314 days. Bitcoin's inflation rate will be cut to 1.8%. Why is that important? It will be lower than central banks target of 2% inflation. In 2012 when Bitcoin halved the price was $12.50. In 2016 it was $650, up 50x over 4 years. If Bitcoin appreciates 50x again, at the 2020 halving the price will be $32,000 per Bitcoin. If it does it again for 2024 the price will be 1.6 million a coin.
Thriller Rundown: The Certainty of Bitcoin | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 41
Show Notes The Rundown One of Germany’s biggest bank predicts bitcoin will reach $90,000 due to the halvening based on a stock to flow model that measures the hardness of a money. “The stock-to-flow approach originating in commodity-market analysis serves to quantify the ‘hardness’ of an asset. Applied to Bitcoin, an unusually strong correlation emerges between the market value of this cryptocurrency and the ratio between existing stockpiles of Bitcoin (‘stock’) and new supply (‘flow’),” they say.
Thriller Insider: Consensus Distributed 2020 - Day 2 Recap | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 68
Show Notes CoinDesk's annual conference on the future of the global financial system is happening this week. Consensus: Distributed features hundreds of hours of programming with more than 150 speakers over five days, from May 11th-15th. Highlights Chris Giancarlo and Martin Chorzempa talking with CoinDesk Asia about the Digital Dollar Giancarlo is a renowned blockchain technology advocate and key contributor to the global discourse on cryptocurrencies and digital assets.
Thriller Rundown: The 18 Millionth Bitcoin | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 42
Show Notes The Rundown The 18 Millionth Bitcoin The countdown begins to the 18 millionth Bitcoin (BTC) that was expected to be mined early Friday morning. The most popular cryptocurrency currently has 18,000,137.5 Bitcoin in existence. At a rate of 1,800 BTC mined daily. After this, there are just three million left to be mined from a total of 21 million Bitcoin. Notably, it is said that about 14 to 19 percent of BTC is gone or lost forever.
Thriller Insider: The Looming Recession | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 40
Show Notes The United States is currently experiencing one of the longest periods of economic expansion in its history. However, the expansion has not reached all households and many are struggling to cover the costs of basic emergencies. At the same time, economic growth appears to be slowing, and there are warning signs that a recession is possible in the near future.
Thriller Insider: Yield Curve Inversions | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 43
Show Notes What is an inverted yield curve? To understand what an inverted yield curve is, you must first understand one of the most basic financial asset classes out there: Bonds. A bond is like an IOU given to you by a bank. When you lend the bank money, it’ll give you back that same amount at a later time along with a fixed amount of interest.
Thriller Insider: What Now? | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 27
Show Notes By October 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to decide whether to approve two bitcoin ETF applications. Filed by Bitwise Asset Management and VanEck, these ETFs would give investors a simpler way to gain exposure to bitcoin cryptocurrency. Approval doesn’t mean immediate launch—that could take time. But if approved and launched, should you invest in it? How big can the ETF market become? In 2017 was a record year for the global ETF market.
Thriller Insider: The Great Monetary Inflation | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 71
Show Notes As Quantitative Easing approaches infinity, it simply has to have an impact on things whose quantity can’t be eased. Quantitative easing is a tool that central banks, like us, can use to inject money directly into the economy. Money is either physical, like banknotes, or digital, like the money in your bank account. Quantitative easing involves us creating digital money. We then use it to buy things like government debt in the form of bonds.
Thriller Insights: Post Bitcoin Halving Analysis | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 69
Show Notes On May 11th, the block reward in the Bitcoin network was decreased from 12.5 to 6.25 BTC heralding the 3rd halving in Bitcoin history. Block #630000, was the first to bring a decreased reward, and it was mined by the AntPool mining pool group. On Chain Metrics The number of active addresses (and entities) has increased to levels not seen since the 2017 bull market - as has the number of new addresses - suggesting an increase not just in activity, but also in adoption.
Thriller Rundown: All Roads Lead Back to Bitcoin | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 140
Show Notes More and more past Bitcoin “holders” are pro Ethereum now. Why all the sudden change? This has more to do with them shilling to institutional investors than anything else. "The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work.
Thriller Insider: Digital Yuan Bitcoin Analysis | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 63
Show Notes The People’s Bank of China is poised to become the first major central bank to issue a digital version of its currency, the yuan, seeking to keep up with -- and control of -- a rapidly digitizing economy. PBoC’s official website, the word “Bitcoin” is not mentioned even once, although China is one of the top players in the crypto industry. The principles and technologies on the basis of which it is planned to create a state digital currency are also not explained.
Thriller Insider: Digital Dollar Bitcoin Analysis | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 61
Show Notes What a Digital Dollar looks like… We are on the cusp of a new monetary era. Central bankers around the world are increasingly worried that privately controlled digital currencies will relegate them to the sidelines of monetary affairs. To avoid this fate, central banks have been studying, and in some cases actively pursuing, issuing digital currencies of their own: so-called central bank digital currency (CBDC).
Thriller Insider: Fed Effect on Bitcoin | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 22
Show Notes The last three or four decades have seen a remarkable evolution in the institutions that comprise the modern monetary system. The financial crisis of 2007-2009 is a wakeup call that we need a similar evolution in the analytical apparatus and theories that we use to understand that system. Three features of the new system are central.
Thriller Coin Talk: Bitcoin and the Next Recession | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 28
Today we are talking Bitcoin and the Next Recession. This is not to scare you but to give you different scenarios on what could occur during the next global financial crisis like in 2008 (type level financial crisis.) Go back and listen to Thriller Coin Talk: The End of Central Banking where I discusses why the world’s monetary system is being destroyed.
Thriller Insights: BlackRock Effect on Bitcoin | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 30
Show Notes Car discusses the latest BlackRock Investment Institute MACRO AND MARKET PERSPECTIVES for AUGUST 2019 Dealing with the next downturn: From unconventional monetary policy to unprecedented policy coordination https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/literature/whitepaper/bii-macro-perspectives-august-2019.pdf He specifically dives into the the portion of the report where they discuss Monetary Financing. They also mention Cryptocurrencies as not playing a role in the next downturn.
Thriller Insights: The Repo Market Meltdown | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 37
Show Notes The Real Story Of The Repo Market Meltdown, And What It Means For Bitcoin: Last week the financial system ran out of cash. It was a modern version of a bank run, and it’s not over yet. Stepping back, it reveals two big things about financial markets: first, US Treasuries are not truly “risk-free” assets, as most consider them to be, and second, big banks are significantly under-capitalized.
Thriller Insights: The Bitcoin Crash Explained and Whats Ahead | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 56
Show Notes First we need to acknowledge that Bitcoin wasn't sold because it stopped working or because it was 51% attacked. It hasn't lost its market share either in speculative interest. People are still purchasing Bitcoin at its current price of $5K. Soon USD will be pumping again especially when lower interest rates and more stimulus kick-in this week from the FED. But make no mistake this is an orchestrated crash of all markets.
Thriller at BitBlockBoom: The State of Bitcoin - Recap | Thriller Bitcoin | Episode 85
Find more panels live from BitBlockBoomSubscribe via iTunes or Substack. Also follow on Twitter and Medium."If you enjoyed listening to this episode and you want a really easy way to support Thriller Premium, why don't you head over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a quick rating or even a review?Please leave a Review.
⚡ Streaming Sats on Fountain Podcasts + Boostagrams!
Exactly how I felt when I discovered Fountain Podcasts So I am in love. Yes I am in love with a new app called Fountain Podcasts. It is currently available on Android and iOS. It is described as a social podcast player that makes great audio content discoverable - and helps podcast creators monetize their content through the Bitcoin Lightning Network. The UI in Fountain Podcasts app is stunning. One of the special highlights of Fountain Podcasts is its beautiful UI.
⚡ Set up your New Podcast with Lightning Payments on Umbrel
Streaming Lightning payments is not what Homer is doing here. lol Today I wanted to take a break from the regular bitcoin news cycle and get to, setting up a new Podcast to accept Lightning Payments using Umbrel and Sphinx Chat. Sounds simple enough right? Well it is but nothing is out there with pictures and an easy walkthrough that gives you a step by step. So I decided to give it a shot.
📝 How Austin Became The Bitcoin Mecca Capital of Texas.
The booming and rapidly evolving economy of Austin is making it one of the more desirable cities to live in America. According to the U.S. Census Bureau figures released on May 4th, Austin's multi-county metro population saw a 3% increase from the previous year and now stands at an estimated 2,295,303 people as of last July. Therefore, Austin officially tops the list for the fastest population growth amongst metros with a minimum of 1 million residents.
🎧 Thriller Insider - S4EP25: 💩 ULtRa $HiT M0nΞY
ETH Premine: 12 Million ETH for Ethereum Developers + 60 Million ETH for Ethereum Investors = 72 Million ETH at Launch ETH Total Supply Today: Unknown ? Best Guess: 112 Million ETH 62% of the Current Supply was PreMined and was distributed before the first ETH Block was mined. Source: EthHub The Ethereum Foundation is re-creating The Cantillon Effect on Ethereum. Issuance is inflationary on Ethereum and causes price depreciation of ETH.
Thriller Rundown - S3EP21: CURRENC¥ WAR$ ₿EGIN...
How many Satoshi’s are there in 21 Million? After bitcoin becomes too expensive for the average person to deal with it in whole bitcoins (already the case for some people), we will begin dealing, speaking, and thinking in smaller units like millibitc…
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