The Decrypting Crypto Podcast

Matthew Howells-Barby & Austin Knight
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Mar 20, 2025 • 41min

The Fed is Dovish, While Strategy Remains Bullish

In this week's episode we cover yesterday's Fed meeting and rate decision, discuss the macro outlook, dig into the pump.fun vs Raydium battle within Solana, and explain Strategy's recent STRF issuance.
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Mar 6, 2025 • 50min

The Crypto Strategic Reserve: What's Coming?

In this week's episode, we take a look at the state of the markets, as well as the recent announcements regarding the US Strategic Crypto Reserve.
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Jan 30, 2025 • 23min

Buying opportunity or a reason to be cautious?

In this week's episode, we dig into this week's market volatility, looking at the impact of DeepSeek across global markets, yesterday's FOMC meeting, and the reasons behind the disproportionate sell off in alts and memes.
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Jan 20, 2025 • 1h 4min

2025 Predictions & 2024 Prediction Results

This week's episode is a bumper episode where we look back at our predictions from the start of 20245 and see how we performed. Plus, we make predictions for 2025 across the following topics: What will be the highest price BTC hits in 2025? What will be the highest price ETH hits in 2025? How many rate cuts will the Fed make in 2025? And by how many bps will they cut (in total)? Which area of crypto will get the most hype and attention/price action in 2025? And why? Will inflation in the US remain sticky or will we get back to 2% in 2025? What will the S&P 500 index peak at in 2025? You have to pick one crypto asset (excluding BTC, ETH, or SOL) that you think will perform strongly from today to December 31, 2025. At the end of the year, we’ll see which of us picked the best gain. You have to pick one publicly listed stock that you think will perform strongly from today to December 31, 2025. At the end of the year, we’ll see which of us picked the best gain. What’s your contrarian prediction for 2025 (across any topic)?
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Dec 19, 2024 • 40min

The Fed Turns Hawkish: What's Next?

In this week's episode, we discuss the recent shift in approach from the Fed and how this has impacted the crypto markets.
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Dec 5, 2024 • 36min

100k BTC: What's Next?

In today's episode, Matt looks at the contributing factors to Bitcoin's meteoric rise above 100k and shares his take on where we go from here. After this, he looks at the emerging winners across the wider crypto asset space and shares some thoughts on how to approach the next few weeks and months.
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Nov 21, 2024 • 46min

The Golden Bull

After a couple of months off, we're back! We dig into everything you've missed and share our thoughts on how you can play the next few months. Could this be the beginning of a golden era of crypto?
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Sep 12, 2024 • 47min

CBDCs: The [Dark] Future of Money (Part 2 of 2)

This is the second of a two-part series where Matt and Austin take a deep dive into central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). This episode focuses on the arguments for and against their use.
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Sep 5, 2024 • 49min

CBDCs: What's Coming and Why Should You Care? (Part 1 of 2)

This is the first in a two-part series where Matt and Austin take a deep dive into central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). This episode focuses more on what CBDCs are, what they're capable of, and what their current rate of development progress is. Part two will go live next week where we dig more into the arguments for and against their use.
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Aug 22, 2024 • 35min

While the Rest of the Market Chops, DeFi is Thriving

In this week's episode, we dig into the impressive trading volume happening across the DeFi ecosystem and the gains that DEX volume is making on CEX volume. Alongside this, we look at some of the big capital movements from the past few weeks.

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