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#51 - 15 Critical Lessons For Trading Crypto & AI - Big Trout

Big Trout is one of the sharpest small follower count traders to appear on X (formerly known as Twitter) in the last few 12 months. He has an incredibly in-depth technical and macro knowledge of markets that he turns into actionable trades, funny tweets, and incredible trading content here on YouTube. In this episode, Trout and I conduct an in-depth technical overview of Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), and Hyperliquid (HYPE) in terms of short-term price action and longer-term macro outlook for each asset.Trout and I also discuss what really happened on October 10, the damage that Donald Trump has caused crypto as an industry, the looming legal and technical threats to Solana, why Ethereum actually looks better than ever as a long-term investment, how he interprets at the AI boom in equities, the SpaceX IPO & why the four-year cycle still holds, and much, much more.

#50 - The Bull Case for Ethereum in 2026 - Clouted

Clouted is the founder of ETH Strategy, an onchain digital asset treasury for Ethereum (ETH). It is a protocol for "generational unliquidatable giga long ETH exposure" and currently holds $21 million in ETH in it's treasury. In this episode, Clouted and I discuss the failings of Ethereum to successfully capture value and reward the developers on its network with price appreciation to the native ETH token. Additionally, we go into depth on why Hyperliquid has been so successful in solving specialized financial problems where Ethereum could not, why Ethereum is fundamentally about sovereignty, security, and programability and why those features make it inherently valuable on a long-term time horizon. Clouted is one of the original visionaries who believes in the cypherpunk roots of cryptography, cryptocurrency, and permissionless digital assets. In a world of ever-increasing surveillance, control, and censorship, Clouted believes that Ethereum is one of the best technologies for safeguarding one's personal, financial & economic freedom.

#49 - AI Is a Bubble but It’s Bullish for Bitcoin - Adrian Morris

Adrian Morris is a founding partner of Bitcoin investment group True North and one of the foremost experts on Bitcoin & Strategy (formerly Microstrategy). It was a pleasure to welcome Adrian back to the show to break down the Strategy ecosystem as it stands today, including an in-depth explanation of STRC (Stretch) and how Strategy's financial product offerings function within the broader ecosystem.Adrian explains why Saylor recently sharing that he would sell Bitcoin should not come as groundbreaking news, and details how & why Saylor has sold Bitcoin in the past in order to service Strategy debt in 2022. Adrian and I also discussed the Cambrian explosion of AI, why AI is in a "bubble-like" state, the future of labour in an increasingly AI-integrated economy, why many of these effects feed positively into a long-term bullish outlook for Bitcoin, and much more.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SOCIALSAdrian Morris: https://x.com/_AdrianTrue North: https://x.com/TNorthTom Mitchelhill - https://x.com/ideacasinoNGMI: https://x.com/ngmi_xyz------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TIMESTAMPS00:00 - October 10th10:45 - Strategy Ecosystem Update15:30 - STRC Explained + Critiques19:25 - Risk: Strategy Owns 4% of Bitcoin 22:55 Saylor: “Never Sell BTC” - Then Sells BTC 27:05 - Adrian’s Mid-Term $BTC Thesis30:00 - The Bull Scenario: BTC to $250k33:10 - Bitcoin’s Function as an Asset 39:52 - AI Bubble & Dispersion of Capital Back To Bitcoin45:00 - Agentic Use of Crypto: Bearish Alts 47:45 - Tokengooning 52:00 - K-Shaped Labour Scaling Economics1:00:00 - Learn To Code 2.01:05:00 - Behavior Bottlenecks

#48 - DoubleZero: The New Internet Layer For Crypto - Austin Federa

Austin Federa is the co-founder of Double Zero, a new infrastructure project that’s creating a new, high-speed layer of the internet for crypto. Previously, Austin served as the Head of Strategy at the Solana Foundation for 3 years.In this episode of The NGMI Podcast, Austin breaks down what DoubleZero is, how it all works, why he left the Solana Foundation to pursue a new project, why crypto needs a new infra layer for speed and throughput, and much more.Additionally, Austin explains the thinking and decisions that went into the 2Z token’s launch, he discusses its price action following launch, and describes the specific tokenomics and infrastructure elements of the project in great detail.

#47 - How The SPX6900 Memecoin Can Actually Flip The US Stock Market - Murad Mahmudov

Murad Mahmudov is a multi-cycle crypto investor who shot to immense popularity for popularizing the 'memecoin supercycle' market thesis, asserting that memecoins like SPX6900, MOG & POPCAT are capable of running to insane valuations in the absence of traditional valuation metrics. In this episode of The NGMI Podcast, Murad breaks down the genesis of the SPX6900 memecoin, what he means by the term "movement coin," why Bitcoin remains the best asset to own for the next 20 years, how crypto displaces traditional finance at every level, why memecoins will only grow more popular with retail investors, why XRP will fail while SPX6900 succeeds. Additionally, Murad almost perfectly calls the local top on the price of gold, explains why Bitcoin will proceed to flip the precious metal, breaks down his 'barbell strategy for memecoin investing, explains the impact of pump.fun on the wider market and much, much more.