# Crypto Bottoming Signals and Liquidity Shifts

**Podcast:** The Milk Road Show
**Published:** 2026-02-12

## Transcript

A lot of people look at Bitcoin and crypto as an ATM.
They see it as a vehicle for them to basically deposit money and then withdraw later at a higher price.
What's up, everybody?
It's LG Du Set here, and welcome to the Milk Road Show, the daily crypto show that's so desperate to speedrun this bear market, it wants to move to Spain to run with the real life bulls.
Today is February 12th, 2026.
We are recording this on February 11th, 2026.
A week ago, as Bitcoin imploded to the tune of an absurd 17% daily red candle.
One of the top voices in the space admitted that they had played the last few months a little bit wrong.
Jamie Coots, one of our favorite guests and the chief crypto analyst at Real Vision, admitted his model had been partially right since back in September when he recommended trimming positions, but that it had also missed the technicals that called for the bigger drawdown we are now living through.
His core lesson from his massive tweet there can be a huge gap between being right on fundamentals and actually making money.
And today he's on the show to break that down and give us a preview of the massive report that he's actually working on that he's gonna post to Real Vision members.
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Jamie Kutz, man, welcome back to the show in this new year.
The the almost the man of the hour because you had such a viral tweet.
Uh last week, I think that really something's up really hit a chord for everybody.
How are you, man?
Yeah, I'm doing really well, OG.
Nice to see you again, man.
Nice to see you.
Let's talk about this tweet, man.
Because this came across the timeline, a massively viral tweet, basically just explaining like a little bit of everything that's been going on.
Tell me about the thinking that went into that.
Yeah, look, I mean, the the origin of the tweet was really um, I guess a bit of a vent of my frustration because you know, we obviously had uh three to four months of um deteriorating price action in crypto.
And the tweet was really just my I guess my explanation of um, I guess what had happened, so the causes behind the um the capitulation in Bitcoin and then the wider crypto ecosystem, but also uh frustration at the fact that I was highlighting things back in September which were pointing to something very significant on the horizon in that time in early September, like September 2nd, we were only like a week or so from the the all-time high at that time, uh, which was formed in August.
Um we went on to make a new high, I think later in September later in September.
But at that time, you know, what I was seeing on a from a technical perspective and also on the liquidity front was actually quite concerning.
But it was, you know, a post that sort of expressed my frustration at perhaps not de-risking a little bit more.
Um, but also just an explanation of around sort of people needing to maintain their own um frameworks and time horizons.
Because you know, I'm an investor in this space, so I have most of my liquid wealth in crypto, and that and my time frame is you know, through multi-cycles.
So I'm accumulating in the core assets, which I think are are building the the new digital economy.
Um so a little bit of frustration on that front, but also just an explanation around, you know, the culmination of events that happened in Q4, which really kind of rugged the crypto market, some of it independent of crypto, some of it within the crypto ecosystem.
So, you know, crypto is not um left unblamed, I guess, for for you know, the deterioration in price action.
You can't just blame it on Binance or blame it on liquidity.
There are other aspects, but there were also extenuating circumstances.
The end of every cycle has a reason.
They're usually different in some way.
We did not get the typical tightening cycle, which has usually cut uh a crypto cycle off, but there was tightening that played into the Q4 situation.
So all of that was sort of wrapped up in this tweet.
And um, yeah, I think um, you know, it uh it got a pretty big response.
Do you think, Jamie?
And while we're we're just really talking on the emotion as well of a drawdown that, or a top really, that many people didn't see coming.
Um, do you think that the price action also plays into that?
Do you think that there's this very simple idea of well, the Bitcoin hit this top last time, it has to hit this X multiple top next time, and that we never got there, and that that is one of the reasons that people just couldn't accept that we had topped back in October.
Yeah, so I think what you're really asking about is the psychology of the market or the psychology of participants.
And this is something that I was talking about, like even at the start of this bull run was that the, you know, once you focus on something, you change the outcomes.
Um, so Bitcoin or crypto has had somewhat of a symmetrical cycle to it.
Um, now there's underlying reasons for that, um, justifiable reasons.
Initially, it was the Bitcoin um halving cycle, which most certainly played a role in the way the cycles played out.
That has become less important.
Global liquidity or the refinancing cycle is still a major driver of crypto prices.
But the fact that, you know, liquidity in and of itself, the mechanisms which are driving liquidity higher have changed this time around.
We're in a very different liquidity environment, in my opinion.
That has also sort of changed the way crypto relates to liquidity.
But just the notion that I think, and this was expressed in the post is that a lot of people look at Bitcoin and crypto as an ATM.
They see it as a vehicle for them to basically deposit money and then withdraw later at a higher price.
And that's no different to anyone who sort of looks at markets, but it's especially acute in crypto.
So that, you know, by focusing on the cycles and when they top, I think you blunt the actual response of the asset to, you know, the actual drivers of prices.
So that needs to play out.
And I think that means that we're in a very different paradigm going forward uh in terms of like where we bottom and how we bottom from here relative to the past.
Um, so yeah, it definitely plays a huge part in um, you know, in the psychology of the market.
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Absolutely.
Let's talk about um the report that I think you're about to put out.
We're getting a little sneak peek, and you and right off the bat, you kind of discuss how you had started to flag some of these warning signs um back in September.
Tell me a little bit more about that, because I've been very interested to talk to people who who were able to see that some of the stuff was coming weeks before we topped, if not months.
Yeah, so it's not like I'm nostrojama.
So just basically use uh, you know, the technical indicators and some of the other factors in my toolkit to sort of look at where there could be potential elevated risk.
Uh, and we're starting to see I've got a you know a framework which I published called the Bitcoin Cycle Risk Framework.
Um, there were elevated levels in sort of December, January of 2025.
There was the first real signal um back in March of 2024 when the ETFs launched.
Um, that sort of washed out because liquidity uh wasn't rising at the time, then liquidity started to rise, and that justifies higher prices in Bitcoin and also in crypto.
But December was a huge spike in um some of the elevated risk metrics that I use.
Uh, and then we saw another one sort of in middle of the year.
But what I was pointing out in this particular um tweet was not necessarily those factors which are on-chain and derivatives based, but actually the technical indicators.
And this, you know, I've been in the markets for a while.
We go back to sort of like the tech bubble in the late 1990s, um, early 2000s.
Um, and one thing that I've always used is longer time frame analysis on you know, the asset class, which I sort of grew up with and worked in, which was equities.
When you look at the longer time for the higher time frames, like a weekly on equities, it doesn't give you topping signals or bottoming signals, it gives you warnings.
Warnings for reversals, either to the upside or the downside.
And so, you know, the same pattern I started to see in Bitcoin this cycle was uh that I've seen in previous instances for like the SP and other equity markets, which is you know a very large momentum divergence on the weekly chart.
So you can measure it by using like an RSI, or I use RSI, but you could use other indicators as well.
Each consecutive peak higher in the price is coincides with a lower peak in momentum, and that just tells you that the momentum engine is stalling.
Now, when you get it on very, you know, you get on a weekly chart, these longer time frames, you know, that can that can take many weeks or months to resolve, but um it tends to it tends to resolve with things that you just can't see.
You know, it was basically back in 1998, was like you look at the SP, there were three big instances in the last sort of 20 years.
There was leading up to 1998, which was followed by LTCM.
Like you can't have um you can't have predicted that, but it's a good warning.
It happened lead up to 2008 financial crisis in 2007, it flashed again.
And that was one of the things that actually helped me have a great year in 2008 as I was trading Asia because it was flagging on the NICKA and and the SP.
And um, so ironically, that was a good year for me.
Um, and then it it appeared again in 2020.
Um, pretty now, you know, some of these things are embedded into the financial mechanics of the market.
So you can say that they're um that they're like it's financial plumbing and that you know it's somewhat predictable.
Things like COVID are unpredictable.
I mean, we live in a natural world, so viruses appear, so you know, things come out of the blue, and so it's just a warning signal.
And we saw that in Bitcoin leading into September as we made the New York Time high.
We had this bearish divergence on the weekly, and so I didn't know October 10 was going to happen.
Did and that was basically just created the market, which was already on a weak footing, just that it was less buyers being able to support the higher prices, and there was um, you know, there was momentum fatigue.
So is that is that measure, and when you're referencing back to 2008 and 2020, is that a measure of the broader economy in this case, or are you specifically discussing crypto when you're looking at these metrics and and referring them for this time?
Yeah, so I was highlighting in that tweet the um the bearish divergence of the Bitcoin highs that we've seen in this cycle starting in 2024, and then the last one in sort of September or October being lower coinciding with lower momentum peaks.
But the other instances were referring to the SP, which was you know leading into a financial crisis in 98, another financial crisis in 2007, then a then a you know a virus in 2020.
Yeah, yeah, something something hard to call.
Something came out of the blue.
And we saw you know big declines from there on.
Have you have you what's your analysis now if you have any of the broader market of the SP at this current point?
Because I think that that's very, you know, uh, and we can also discuss the events of last week, um, where a lot of people have been pointing to February 5 as another similar similar 1010 as like something clearly changed in the market structure, not just for crypto, but for the broader market.
I don't know if you track that, Jamie.
So if you don't, um uh for the purpose of this discussion, that's fine.
But I'm wondering, are you seeing similar signs for the SP or or or other equities commodities right now?
Uh look, I haven't looked um specifically.
I think back in September, I was trying to draw a comparison to the SP, and I wasn't seeing the same divergence uh on the SP at the time.
It seemed to be very Bitcoin or crypto related, um, which in and of itself is a signal.
I think for the SP, the cyclical indicators that you know that I look at, but also you know, as part of the realvision platform with Julian Patella and and Rouse, clearly that um that the cyclical side of the economy is really starting to fire.
GDP growth, is accelerating.
The ISMs above 50 after the longest period of of drawdown, I think, in the in the in its history.
Um, we're starting to see a broadening out in terms of some performance in the Russell um in the Russell 2000s, so small cap stocks, but there's definitely um cracks appearing because of, I guess, the um the way in which AI is killing a major component of the SP, which is software.
That's a real thing.
There's going to be so much disruption on that front.
But I think generally the outlook for equities is actually looking pretty positive for this year.
You know, we're starting to see, you know, we'll see massive uh liquidity increase in um US M2 with all the changes that are happening at the banks around capital requirements and buying bills, but essentially monetizing the debt.
That's just going to amplify credit.
But we'll get into that, we'll get into the liquidity side of things if you want to in a later bit because it deserves um special attention.
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We're here to talk crypto, man.
Let's keep looking through this.
Let's keep looking through this report.
So a little bit later on here, uh a few slides later, you're telling us caution at the top and exhaustion now.
Are we uh tell me a little bit more about this and and and how exhausted do you think the market really is?
Everything that's happened.
I guess it fast forward and uh the last three months and sort of seeing some um signs.
And I mean, admittedly, like uh again in that post, I was being very, very clear and transparent.
I de-risked my portfolio slightly in September and October, but I didn't do enough on some of the peripheral positions that I had from a risk management standpoint, but I was never going to basically sell my portfolio because I have positions in um assets which I think long term are going to outperform just about everything else.
Um, that was sort of like my frustration in seeing some of the um topping signals, but perhaps not de-risking a little bit further.
But you know, in the last three or four months, there's been a ton of damage that's um come through to, you know, it's come through on um crypto prices.
To the point where we're actually seeing across many different metrics, um, all of the exhaustion capitulation metrics you typically see at a very significant bottom, or the or a first of a bottoming process, but a lot of the washout and capitulation is now built in such that we are closer to the bottom than we are than we are to the top, obviously.
And this is uh this is the big question in my mind.
What does the bottom look like?
Is it a V shape from here, or is it a more rounded bottoming process?
I'm in the in the camp, even though a lot of the capitulation signs are very clear to me, uh, whether you're looking at funding rates or looking at on-chain metrics like realized losses, long liquidations on the on the perks market, um, you know, RSIs, I think we've got a couple of these charts.
Um, there's certainly in the camp that there is a bottom in place.
And I but I think that with the damage that's been done, there's still going to be with a lot of people underwater.
If you know, my if it doesn't turn around within the next sort of one or two months that it could just roll over and give us a new low.
But the point being is my view here, LG, is that we are deep into the value zone of Bitcoin and Ethereum and some of the other smart contract platforms which have real network adoption.
And so a longer-term view from here is that you've you've been given an opportunity to start accumulating again in these assets at undervalued levels.
But it's not to say that the bottom is definitively in.
Got it.
Okay.
And so, you know, it's interesting to hear you say that because I do I do feel like that's what the narrative has shifted in the last two weeks, right?
Is that for a while we still had this?
Was that the top?
Are we just in a short-term pullback?
And then I think after that bottoming last week, after that, especially that single-day drawdown, everybody has now shifted gears to will this be a V-shaped recovery, or are we in for more pain longer term?
Jamie, if you had to gander a guess, what would it be?
Are we are we following the you know, uh Ben Cohn, who gave you great feedback on your tweet?
Are we following what he's been saying for a while that you're going to see a bottom in Q3, probably lower than this at the 200-week EMA, or is this some or is uh is it open to something else at this point?
I'm I'm in the camp that we actually uh are going to go through a bottoming process that's gonna take months.
I I don't think it's gonna be as long as what Ben is saying because I think the I think the the velocity of the move down is actually sharper this time around than in other cycle tops.
It also you have to factor in the volatility of the assets.
So a 50% drawdown in Bitcoin today is actually significantly higher given the reduction in overall volatility since the last major cycle and the cycles before that, because volatility has been compressing, partly due to the maturation of the asset, but also the amount of derivatives activity that are taking place, uh, which is suppressing and amplifying volatility as we've just seen, suppressing volatility and then bam amplifying it as the as the positioning got far too skewed in one direction.
But I think you know, my working thesis right now is it's probably more like a Q2 scenario, but like, you know, I don't think there is you know another 30 or 40 percent from here, but you know, we could be.
But I think in terms of like the volatility of this asset long term and the adoption cycle, these are areas which will be interesting.
I'm just not I just don't see an urgency to be um you know accumulating large here or taking the definitive position.
I think it'll be a multi-month process.
How do you spot the bottom if you have to try?
What do you use?
You spot the bottom by waiting several months and then looking back and saying that was the bottom.
Because it like the indicators are there that we've got extreme capitulation, but obviously there's no certainty until after the fact.
The bottom is always known when you've got a trend reversal, right?
In the in the price action.
But do you have the conditions for a bottom to form when you look at all the capitulation metrics that have really served me well over the years, including in 2022, again in September of 2024, and then again in March and April of 2025, a lot of them have fired.
Um, so the the the the issue here is I think that's the swing factor is what's your view on liquidity?
Um, because that's such an important aspect.
Um and it's a very murky topic because it's you know, liquidity analysis is not as simple as it used to be, because the mechanism, um, the mechanisms which are driving liquidity into the financial system, into the economy, have actually changed, right, through treasury policy and all through central bank policy.
Uh, and I think they have a nuanced and different impact on asset prices, especially crypto.
Is that what we're seeing?
Can you tell you've got a great section here about liquidity?
And I've just pulled up your your your slide, liquidity debt near record record lows.
Walk me through that.
Is that kind of what you're telling me here?
Yeah, so the you know, the the issue with liquidity is that yes, it's inflecting a higher and it's been sort of rising now for several years, right?
Off the sort of 2022, 2023 lows.
But when you actually compare it to the debt, to US government debt, actually, debt has been rising faster than liquidity.
And that long term is a huge problem.
That is why we started to see um, you know, the collateral lending markets in Q4 repos, right?
The repo market and the rates in repos and the inter-bank market start to spike um because there just wasn't enough reserves in the system.
The set so the Fed had to basically reverse QT and then move towards what it calls reverse um reserve management program, RNP, because the Q word can never be mentioned.
But it's essentially monetizing the debt.
Now it's great because it looks, you know, it's actually a start and it gives them scope to widen it over time, which I think they're definitely going to do.
But when you compare it to the rate of growth of the US government debt, it's only going to just basically stop the bleed or plug the hole.
Now the other liquidity mechanism, um, which is really the the at the forefront of the Trump administration's policy is just allowing the banks to lend more and getting it into the sort of productive end of the productive into productive use cases.
So I sort of define this as you know, we're in a post excess liquidity world where central banks were just, you know, at buy asset purchases using asset purchases to basically um support the banks.
The banks didn't really use that to use that to fund the economy.
There wasn't a lot of credit creation during that period, some from sort of 2009 to sort of 2020 or 2022.
Um, and a lot of that excess liquidity just basically went into financial markets and into speculative um asset classes, and crypto was a main beneficiary of that.
I think now, um, you know, quite rightly, from my opinion, the Trump administration is focused on economic growth.
There is a war or a race with um AI to be the dominant player.
That is they need the banks to start opening up the spigots.
Those um those banks are going to start lending or are already starting to lend to businesses to actually onshore industry and um re-industrialize the US.
And I think that money essentially flows into the businesses that are going to be direct beneficiaries of that.
Um, so I in a in the report that's coming out is like uh a big piece on sort of is crypto a productive asset class.
And it was always designed to be, but it's you know, you look at 2025 and some of those numbers.
Um, there might be a slide there, LG, but it was really a two-speed economy in the crypto in the crypto ecosystem.
Put a Bitcoin aside, look at smart contract platforms, the speculative end of the market, the fees, um, application revenues and all that were down, but stable coins um and stable coins and application um counts were actually up.
So this is just looking at some of the returns.
So interesting from there is that 2025 masked a little bit of the performance of some of the smart contract platforms which kind of outperformed Bitcoin because it was seen as a year that you know everything underperformed, but that's not necessarily the case.
So the question is from here is like, what is is crypto going to catch a bit from liquidity that's gonna flow into the productive economy.
And I think we're definitely starting to dovetail into that scenario, may just be more evident as in the second half of the year.
Stablecoin growth, clarity acts will um harden institutions and bring them into the space.
Financiation and tokenization is going to drive more productive use cases of crypto.
Of course, speculation is part of that.
If you get tokenization and then you get um, you know, stocks being used as collateral, that's going to feed speculation.
It's all kind of part of the same thing.
But I think it's a it's a less cyclical, more structural change to blockchain or block space usage.
And so I would argue that they are definitely part of the productive economy.
Um, it's just that there's been blockages with regulations, whatnot that have prevented the use cases for block space or blockchains to um proliferate.
Once that unlocks, though, Jamie, um, you know, because uh kind of what I'm hearing from you is that you know, we're talking about the broader economy, the reindustrialization of the US, and you know, we're seeing the the Russell move and the massive the record amounts of capex that these AI companies are now announcing and and planning for and hopefully getting that from the banks, I'm assuming, right?
And those are those are the bank where the banks are gonna go spend.
Yeah, they're raising a lot of debt.
That's it.
And they're and you're losing a lot of that bid for crypto, potentially as a result, we don't know.
But the bull case is that like a lot of those same banks, a lot of those institutions, they want to tokenize a lot of their assets.
And we talk about that a lot about that on Milk Road.
My question for you, Jamie, then is let's say that that happens.
Why or how would the value accrue to the cryptos that we know right now, right?
Because that's also that's a question I've been wondering.
I'm like, okay, yeah, the Clarity Act passes, all these banks can do all this fun stuff with DeFi and all the other things that's in there, stablecoin.
Why why would that benefit Bitcoin?
Like what would that benefit Bitcoin and Ethereum?
There's a bit more of a case, but I'm just trying to understand if there is a correlation there because it seems like that's what we're all waiting for.
Well, I mean, let's talk about smart contract platforms first, and then we can talk about Bitcoin.
So there's just a natural value accrual mechanism from block space usage, which drives the prices of the tokens of L1s.
The key is does it have does the L1 actually have any activity?
Um, so you once you start sort of looking at the space and looking at how activity is concentrating into just a few L1s after years and years of L1 entries, right?
Then you start to understand that really you have to be exposed to the to the blockchain set of actually got and will it continue to attract liquidity.
That liquidity drives activity, activity drives fees, fees drives in most cases a positive value accrual mechanism.
In ETH, it becomes deflationary.
In Solana, it becomes less inflationary.
So there's nuances between the between the tokens, but essentially more activity number go up.
The change in um structural activity uh, I think is very important as well.
So stable coins initially uh until tokenization really takes off is just a lower velocity.
Uh if it's just pure payments um that we're seeing tapped, we're seeing uh stable coins tapped into the general economy.
That doesn't seem to have the same sort of impact as just a hyper-speculative cycle with tons of DGen activity and DEX activity.
So you need sort of all these, you need these combinations of things to take place.
But once financialization of tokens of sort of financial real world assets comes onto these um as uh onto these blockchains, then um I think that's the the quantum of activity is just going to magnify, be less cyclical, and that's going to support valuations.
For Bitcoin, I mean, as soon as you've got, you know, once we're in a world where banks are telling you that they have a wallet, right?
Essentially a wallet with stablecoins or tokenized deposits, then the fungibility or the transferability of Bitcoin with other tokens just becomes so much more real for the average user.
And so Bitcoin will benefit.
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It will be used to underwrite, you know, um staking protocols already is today, um, but just used as collateral as it already has.
If you look at sort of um Bitcoin-backed loans.
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Absolutely.
So Jamie, let me ask you this then if we if you you're painting a nice picture for us and you're kind of giving us a you're zooming out talking about a few other things I want to come back to our talk of the bottom right and and spotting the spotting the bottom in retrospect is very sage.
You did say though that you wish you had trimmed more when we were at this top and you saw some of those signs.
I feel like somewhere in your research here you're kind of also telling us that we are in it we are getting some kind of bottom signals, right?
So tell me this you circled it on on it already.
What should we look for if we're looking for recovery and we're going to be patient.
We know it's not going to happen in the next couple days or a couple weeks or maybe a couple months but what are the signs that we know we're going to get opportunities maybe back at the 60 or below the realized price for Bitcoin, which has been um one of assets is Jamie Coutz looking at?
Yeah so I think it's for Bitcoin bear markets, is currently sitting around 55,000.
Um, we've tended to trade below that in previous instances.
Um, but regardless, you're in deep value zone for Bitcoin at 60,000 or below.
Um, and I would even argue at these levels as well.
Um, so that's sort of like my key thesis, I think for Ethereum 1800 to, well, so between 1500 and 2,000 is just deep value for long-term accumulation.
So I'm interested in, I'm interested in the assets that have got network adoption, right?
Which have already proven themselves.
They're not going anywhere.
So Ethereum, Solana, clearly two.
You know, there are other smart contract platforms which just continue to do well despite everyone dunking on them.
They have a whole lot bunch of issues, issues from a centralization standpoint, key person risk.
But fees and a deflationary protocols kind of underwrite their performance.
And as long as they continue to grow the number of users, and I'm talking about here is like BNB and Tron.
I wouldn't put them in my top ones, but they are, you know, retrospective, they are basically, you know, continue to do well.
They were the best performing smart contract platforms of last year and have even like matched Bitcoin's returns over the full cycle.
And people don't sort of people don't recognize that.
So they're the uh, but I mean Solana and ETH, I mean, as boring as it is, if you look at some of the um analysis that I do on looking at the top 200 uh market and breadth indicators, it is down and to the right of four um breadth indicators in the top 200, right?
It just means that as market caps have risen, the number of uh tokens participating in the rally is is declining and declining.
Now, this is a this is a one of my capitulation signals, actually.
But like another there's another um chart in there which looks at the advanced decline lines for those that uh equity who trade equity markets, the advanced decline line is a breadth indicator.
Usually you want to see the advanced decline line go up when the market's going up because it tells you that hey, the the number of assets in the SP or the Russell are joining in the rally when that diverges, it just means it's becoming narrow and a few stocks uh uh uh are actually pulling the index higher.
And it's certainly been the case ever since 2021.
So this whole bull cycle has seen crypto um alt market deterioration, but yet you've got those um smart contract platforms which have pretty much held ground against Bitcoin, which is seen as the best performing asset.
So it tells you that you know, value is concentrating into the top um smart contract platforms, and that's where I'd be looking.
Excellent.
Okay.
Well, thank you for sharing that.
Yeah, that's uh we will continue to to follow you as you look there.
Jamie, where can people find this report if people want to read it?
Uh the report will be on the Real Vision platform uh probably on Friday.
So if you're a Real Vision Pro member, you'll see it there.
And you can find me on Twitter uh or on the Real Vision platform.
We have a um a new platform which is launched as basically a let's uh a much nicer version of crypto Twitter because I don't know what's happening to crypto Twitter, it's in the toilet or the algorithm sucks.
I can't get the content I want.
Realvision platform is now just basically crypto Twitter on steroids, but without the um the cat photos you don't like all the the info fi and life advice stuff we're seeing on crypto Twitter these days well I I mean I'm just about to set up my open claw but if I see another open clawed uh post about setups and you know I'm gonna it's gonna do my head in all right well thank you JB uh I'm sure we'll see you again soon man and uh thank you as usual for the excellent uh analysis appreciate it LG take care man want insights on what's moving crypto markets and how we're trading each event subscribe to our channel join the Milk Road daily and pro newsletters and start investing like the top one percent this show is for educational purposes only nothing we say is financial advice investing is risky never invest more than you can afford to lose