#515: Understanding the Bitcoin Cash and Carry Trade with James Check
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Intro
Exploring the impact of currency devaluation by the Fed on Bitcoin's popularity and the success of Bitcoin ETFs in accumulating a significant amount of Bitcoin.
Marty sits down with James Check to discuss bitcoin cash and carry.
James on Twitter: https://x.com/_Checkmatey_
Checkonchain: https://charts.checkonchain.com/
Newsletter: https://newsletter.checkonchain.com/
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Exposition
8:45 - Aussie ETF and in-kind withdrawal
12:04 - River & Unchained
13:20 - What Jim Bianco is missing
21:18 - Who is making the trade
26:03 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
27:40 - Coinbase
30:36 - Realized capital
39:19 - Don’t whale watch
41:59 - Engineering and on-chain analysis
49:09 - Checkonchain analysis framework
55:11 - Wall Street using the data
57:10 - What would disprove the model?
1:00:25 - Profit/loss ratio
1:04:40 - Time off, Will the cycles continue?
1:11:58 - Price prediction
1:15:39 - Managing generational wealth
1:20:04 - Bitcoin in bad economic times
1:28:15 - Bitcoin improving politics and energy
1:35:13 - Wrapping with plugs
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