40% BELOW Fair Value 🚨 Extreme Divergence + Macro Chaos
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Hello everybody. It's a crazy Friday.
Everything is all over the shop. We're
going to break it all down. It's Friday
fire and we're going to talk a lot about
Bitcoin and where we are because we've
had other stuff going on this weekend.
Crypto markets, some new records, some
new winners, some new losers, and so
much more. So, thank you all for coming.
Thank you to the best mods in the world
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So, let's go as they say and make sure I
haven't broken anything. Okay. Yeah,
this one's called 40 below because it's
winter time and it's cold in different
places and never financial advice. And a
big thank you to Rick and Patreon.
You're the Patreon equivalent of an Iron
Man. I've done about 70 half iron mans.
Never did a full iron man. Never had the
time. But I appreciate that and I can
relate to it. Let's get into sentimental
signals. First of all, crypto is still
at seven. Extreme fear. We did fall as
low as five about 10 days ago. Now it's
back up to seven. It hit nine two or
three days ago. Back down to seven.
People are terrified. People are
worried. People are anxious.
People are bored.
The sentiment is very low. But remember
everybody, and I say this a thousand
times, billions are made in the bear.
Okay? This is not the time to lose
interest. It's very difficult to make
money in a bull market. Very easy in a
bear if you're patient. So please
everybody don't don't lose faith. This
is the most important time. We we went
to this before, okay? Not the time to
lose faith. Stocks, fear and greed is at
40, so not too hot there either, but
there's a lot of weird macro stuff going
on. We'll break that down, too. Let's
talk about Bitcoin and crypto. Yeah,
look at the results so far. February is
down 14%. It's been a nasty fab. And
that's why I understand why people are
like, "Oh my god, Bitcoin sucks." Yeah,
especially after Jen down 10% and
everything else. But here we are, five
months of hell. It's ugly and it
happened fast. Got a lot of people with
their pants down. Let's look at some
charts. Let's look at uh this is our
mean reversion from IDs. We are at the
lowest level on the mean reversion. That
little dip at the bottom, little blue
thing is the lowest level since November
2022. By the way, guess what happened in
November 2022? That was the low of the
Bitcoin bare market.
Is there a pattern here that we can look
at? Maybe. Maybe. But we'll see. Either
way, a lot of people are chatting about
how this could be a It was definitely a
quicker dip,
could it be a shallower dip?
Could it be a quick recovery? It all
depends on the money coming in. Let's
look at some other charts that are
important to take into account as well.
Bitcoin's fair. Bitcoin, this is from
Andre, by the way. Bit, not Bitcoin's
not fair. Bitcoin's current price is 40%
below the model fair value implied by
the global ETP flows. So something funk
is going on because given ETP ETFs the
money coming in etc.
it it's really way way way off where it
should be considering how much money has
come into the space through these tools.
Now, what Andre Drago says is once the
risk appetite returns, Bitcoin could run
it back turbo. So, I keep saying money,
money, money, no money, no fun. If the
money starts coming back into ETFs, we
could run it back real fast. And
remember, it just takes, you know, the
price drives a narrow. When the price is
down, negative and stable, people get
bored and they move on to different
shiny new objects. Once the price if it
does rebound a lot of people will come
back real fast. Let's look at the
another chart here. This is the gold
Bitcoin divergence from Deran BTC
is according to him Bitcoin is trading
at 51% below its gold relative moving
average and this divergence is 64%
off where it typically should be and
that's in the first percentile of
events. So basically only 1% of the time
it's ever this low. And this is
basically the other way to interpret
this. This is the most extreme
extreme
Bitcoin underperformance versus gold in
the history of Bitcoin. We're going back
16 years. Wild. Now there's some other
weird stuff happening with Bitcoin. We
had that massive dip a couple weeks ago
in the hash rate. The bottom chart here
is from the tabby model and the top one
is the Bitcoin price. Now we always go
back to the age old thing is does price
follow the hash or hash follow the
price.
It's very difficult to say. There's
different theories on both depending on
the weather depending on the markets.
The more hash the more secure the
network the more money it should attract
is one theory. Also the higher the price
goes up the more miners come into the
space and the higher the hash goes up.
So it's somewhere in between and it's a
very fine balance. But what's really
cool about this chart though is the hash
rate has shot up nearly 40% since the
bottom about 25 days ago and that is big
a very big move. So it's getting harder
once again for the miners to make money.
Anyh who, moving on. We have another
cool chart here which is not so cool and
it reflects the overall sentiment and
this is the risk appetite for Bitcoin
index and basically it's hammering on
the all-time low which we saw back in
2021 and 2022 etc. Nobody is going risk
off into Bitcoin. Now despite it being
so low,
the price is still holding up there
around that 67k level which is actually
a positive sign. But again, nobody is
thirsty for Bitcoin yet. Some smart
people are doing their little DCA stuff,
you know, guilty of that myself. Uh, I
think it's a pretty good riskreward
here. And considering the amount of
money printing and debasement
scarcity AI, you've heard this story
before.
It's got to it's got to return back up.
But another weird chart which is also
from Duran BTC and shout out to um
Bitcoin long for this by the way brought
it to my attention. Uh this is the worst
performing having cycle in Bitcoin
history by a factor of 100x. The 2016
cycle at this point was up 3,000%. The
2020 cycle at this point was well over
350 360%. this current cycle flat flat
basically uh the having price was 64908
we're at 66920 so give or take 2 or 3%
we're basically haven't moved since the
having which is nearly 650 days ago
it'll be 2 years in April
so that's quite disappointing it was not
the cycle that we expected nothing was
same as before so moving on. Also, today
we've been waiting for the so-called
Clarity Act in the US to bring a lot of
money into crypto. And the banks don't
want to give up their gravy train, which
I've covered many times before. They
take your money, they pay you 0.01%.
Like literally, no joke, you could drop
a million dollars into a big top five
American bank, and they'll pay you 0.1%
on your million bucks. 10 million, 0.1%,
100 million, 0.1%.
And then they lend it up in a fractional
way. and they make 6% on that or 8% or
if it's a credit card maybe even more.
They don't want to give that up and
that's where they're afraid of these
stable coin things and the you know if
they do
why how else will they make profit? So
there was a separate meeting. They're
trying to get this thing pushed through.
The banks have lobbied hard against it
over competitive fears because if you
can get yield on your stable coin,
everybody will drop their cash into
stable coins on chain and take them out
of their banks from the banksters and
then the banks won't be able to make
their gravy train. It's very simple.
This is what they're fighting against.
Will they win? We shall see. They're
looking at doing other things with
incentives or trading fees or I don't
know. Anyway, it's terrible. I think
either way when when you try to prevent
progress,
you'll eventually shrivel up and die. So
why prolong the inevitable as they say?
Also another cool chart with lots of
charts today on Bitcoin. Did promise you
that. This is a one-mon TA which is
pretty cool. This is from um
I think it's psycho psycho something.
really cool little chart and I grabbed
it because it makes a lot of sense. Let
me try to walk you through what it
means. The chart is on the one monthly
uh and you see a huge secular uptrend
every single cycle. You got a breakout
and then a retest of the prior all-time
high. The prior all-time high bit for
Bitcoin was 67K in April 2022 and then
69K in in November 2022. Then the bare
market kicked in. But between let's say
67K which is exactly where we are now
which is exactly where we were in April
2022
got that green box. Okay. So that's the
first thing. The tags are the one month
50 EMA also the old all-time high. And
historically this is an important piece.
We never close on the monthly. We can
peak beneath it with a candle but on the
monthly we never close below the old
all-time high. And the RSI resets to
similar levels. And the cycle difference
is the RSI has never ever entered over
expansion. Right now RSI is at the
bottom just like mean reversion is at
the bottom since November 22 and 22. And
will that level hold up? So this is you
know I'm so weary if if we do break
through that say close the monthly below
say 614 that would be the first ever
time in history that this has happened.
We don't know if it's going to repeat
and I don't want to jinx myself by
saying it's a sure thing but it would be
unusual if it does that means pretty
much everything is broken now in other
news too Salana TVL's keep on rising
despite the crappy Salana price action
total value locked on chain it keeps on
going up Jupiter nearly 2.1 billion
Camino 2 billion Sanctum 1.2 billion
1.1 billion Jetto 1.047 047 billion. By
the way, there was a time where Jetto
was number one. Now Jupiter is number
one. And I still have a Jupiter position
waiting for that thing to come back to
life as well. Now, it was also another
bad week, not just for the for the all
the ETFs except for one, by the way.
We'll get to that. But the Bitcoin ETFs,
again, still down for the week. 400
million out of Bitcoin. About 350
million out the week before, about 320
million out the week before that. And
before that it was billions and
billions. Five weeks drainage.
This is what Andrea is talking about. If
the money comes back into the space, we
could go very high very fast. But we
need the money to come back. ETH has
been following the Bitcoin ETF lows as
well almost perfectly to a tea. The ETH
ETF so far this week has drained $123.38
million. The week before was higher and
the week before that was higher again.
The week before that was higher again.
The week before that was about
uh I don't know a lot uh a lot indeed.
So it has been a very ugly 5 weeks for
ETH too. Let's check in on Salana see
how they're doing. Well positive this
week 11 million the week before about
134 million and they had two red weeks
before that but since then overall it's
been pretty much up which is breaking
the trend with Bitcoin and Ethereum. So,
somebody is trickling their money into
Salana. Somebody sees something from a
fundamental perspective. Let's talk
about markets real quick. It has been a
quiet market despite the crazy macro
stuff which we'll get into in a second.
Some very important micro stuff. But
Google up 2%, Microsoft down 2%, Nvidia
up 1%, Apple half a percent, Amazon up
5%, but remember Amazon was clobbered
last week, Tesla down 1%. The rest kind
of pretty humbho. Pounder recovered,
Broadcom recovered. It's just but
nothing nothing nothing too big to write
home about. Also, we saw a new record
too. Amazon became the largest seller,
the largest revenue generator, the
largest company on the earth with the
largest number of sales. And that was
always held by Walmart for the last 13
years straight. Guess what? The
31-year-old Amazon just knocked Walmart
off the throne and they started as a
bookstore and I believe soon it'll get
to a trillion dollars. The currently
their sales are about
717
billion. So not far to go. They're
growing at a 20% clip. They should be
there in 2028 trillion dollar in sales
of which they make good margin onto.
Interesting to watch. That's probably
why they can afford to invest so much in
capex as well. Also, for those who are
looking for a new utility truck, best
car I've ever driven, I have one.
Cybertruck has a flash sale for 10 days
according to Elon Musk. You can buy now
one for $599.90. These were over 100
grand not too long ago. So, uh, again,
it's America's bestselling electric
truck, and all the other electric truck
companies have departed the market,
except for Rivian, but, uh, it's a lot
better than Riv. It's bulletproof,
four-wheel steering, all that good
stuff. Fast as hell, too. Way quicker
than Riven. So, if you need if you are
somebody like me who has to do a lot of
lugging stuff around, and, you know,
it's worth going for a test drive. You
will not look back. AI. Let's get into
AI, which dovetales into crypto as well.
Phantom came out with their multi- aent,
multi-chain capability with their
Phantom MCP server. So, agents can swap,
sign, and manage addresses across all of
Phantom supported chains. So, basically,
it's multi-chain, multicurrency,
multi- aent. It's all happening. And
remember, remember this is the most
important thing. Crypto is the only
platform that can support this
egentification of the planet that's
happening. And this will blow your mind
and you're not even going to believe
this news when I say it, but it's true.
And it's also a little bit of silver
lining, too, cuz people are saying,
"Well, AI is going to take up over all
the jobs." Well, no. No. AI is actually
creating jobs. There's a new website
called rent a human.ai, AI. And this is
where agents go to rent humans and you
can charge
one guy here, I think Patricia Tanny,
she charges $420 for her services. And
what do they do? Well, what what the
hell do AI agents need humans for? Well,
there are some things that software or
an agent out in the wherever they are
can't do. for example, um be a power of
attorney or sign documents or get
notaries or verify locations or take
pictures or so need some type of warm
body. I don't know, warm warm body
presence in a meeting. It's crazy. Maybe
some field work. I don't know. But the
machines are taking over and they're
giving back. They're hiring humans.
It's a crazy world. Absolutely crazy.
Speaking of AI too, uh Google Gemini has
just legged anthropic claude opus 4.6
which was a smoking hot LLM. By the way,
this does not include XAI's Grock for
some reason in their evaluations. They
don't want to embarrass themselves, so
they don't include it. But the data that
I've looked at shows Grock is cheaper
and faster, etc., etc., more capable,
more honest as well. But here, Gemini
3.1 Pro preview leaprogs everything with
a score of 57, which is quite a bit
above 53. And of course, GPT is way in
the distance. So, that was a big big
jump as well. And other crazy news as
well regarding AI. And remember, you
have to lean into AI. It's big. It's an
asteroid that's going to hit this
planet. But here, this this took me by
surprise. Shout out to Sunj2. This is
what I call the fear versus excitement
for planet Earth. Asia is absolutely off
the charts in terms of AI enthusiasm.
The bottom axis there is how excited
people are. Goes up to 80%. China is the
most excited. Also, China is the least
fearful. The vertical axis on the left
is how nervous people are about AI, how
afraid they are. Japan, it seems like
they're not excited and they're not
afraid. They just don't give a damn.
It's like it's not impacting their
culture. And there are many people, you
know, I speak to people all over the
world and sometimes people in Europe and
Scandinavia and stuff and I ask them,
"Do you care about AI?" They say, "No,
no, it's it's nothing. It's not
impacting your life." So, for some
reason, there are parts of the world
that believe AI is a nothing burger or
they haven't actually taken time to
understand what it does. Place like
Poland, Japan, Italy, Argentina, etc.,
Switzerland. Or maybe they're not
excited, but they're also not that
afraid. Now, if you go to the United
States, they have extreme anxiety. So
does Ireland, Great Britain, New
Zealand, Australia, Canada, they're all
very worried about AI. I'm not sure why,
but they're not excited about it. So,
what I conclude from this is Asia is
very excited about it because they see
the potential for it. And sometimes when
humans see things that are new and
different, they are afraid, nervous, and
they back off because it's fear of the
unknown. That's not a good way to be in
this time. You got to lean into AI hard.
And that's why the Chinese probably are
so good at it because they're both
excited by it and not afraid of it. So
that's what you need to do when things
get disrupted. Do not stick your head in
the sand, my friends. Let's get into
macro. This is going to be a little bit
of a wild macro Friday. We'll go through
it in four minutes or less. First of
all, the PCE is up. This is the Fed's
preferred indicator to see what's going
on in the economy and inflation. Okay,
their preferred gauge head P head
headline PC rose to 2.9% year-over-year
and that was above expectations at 2.8.
Not a big burger, but they thought, you
know, the peak was kind of way back when
late 2024 and then all of a sudden it
goes back to 3%. That has them a little
bit nervous. Again, a core PC, as a
reminder, excludes food and energy and
it shouldn't be this high. Not at all.
Now, this could be for a number of
reasons. The government doesn't know how
to measure stuff or they're very late,
etc. Who knows? But I know things like
uh what is in there? uh rent is affect
affecting this too because very few
people can afford to buy a home and
that's actually driving up the prices of
rent which is a big impact on this too
probably other factors too I know food
shout out to our friends in Canada I
read somewhere the price of food in
Canada went up 7% in January alone that
is pretty extreme anyhow who knows how
they measure this stuff either way it's
laggy and probably wrong because
trueflation says something different
then this is the bad news too the US is
expecting the government grow by a lot.
This is the GDP growth
and last time they measured it the month
before was 4.4%.
And the expectation was 3% and it came
in at 1.4%.
So somebody's going to get spanked
because that's not good. That's not good
at all. And the economy is slowing. Now
there is good news about this. First of
all, when this news gets released, the
markets get rattled and get really
afraid and futures drop and prices drop.
And then they think, "Oh, hey, guess
what? If inflation is going up, that's
bad. But if the economy is slowing,
that's good for maybe a rate cut." So
now people begin to think, okay, maybe
the rates will go down and that'll help
the economy. Who knows? It's all it's
all nonsense. Anyway, and then we had
this whole thing today as well. After
them spending months and months and
months trying to determine what to do
with the tariffs, you won't believe this
story. It's kind of mad. The US Supreme
Court struck down President Trump's
tariff authority 6 to3. That was big.
How can it be so large and it take so
many months to decide when the
difference is so large, 6 to3? And then
they believe when this first came out,
they believe the US would have to refund
150 billion. But then
it's all theater, ladies and gentlemen.
And then Scott Passen comes out and he
says, "Nope, don't worry. We're not
going back. There will be no changes.
There will be no changes in 2026."
Absolutely crazy. Because the six judges
simply ruled that the EA, I think it's
called, cannot be used to raise even a
dollar of revenue. But don't worry, the
Treasury has a whole bunch of other
plans to do that. They can raise tariff
revenue using different tools. Here is a
couple that I showcas. You got section
232, section 2011, 301, 122, 338. They
have many ways in which they can
not do tariffs. So all of this drama
across PCE inflation and GDP growth and
striking down the tariffs and then
bringing in new tariffs, it's nonsense.
Just stay the course. Don't be rattled
by this short-term hour to hour news
cycle because it'll rattle you out of
position. And finishing up, Ila Musk is
being sued for freedom of speech in
Europe. Nothing else. Our European
friends, we know everybody here from
Europe is pro- freedom of speech. We
love it. But the powers that be do not
like it. And I love this little meme.
And by the way, he's trying to sue them
back. Give me your name and address if
you want to speak freely. That is not
freedom of speech, my friends. So
anyway, make sure if you are in a
nation, you have the ability to speak
freely. It's the most important thing.
It's the pillar of democracy, my
friends. Hope you all learned something
new today. And by the way, I'm going to
check that little poll. Thank you to the
team who ran it. Uh the preference on
duration of videos,
39% 20 minutes, 31% 30 minutes. So
somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes is
optimal. 20% want 40 minutes plus. The
Q&A on the weekends is always very deep
and long, so that tends to be 40 42
minutes. Uh, but this is really good to
know. I thought people were getting a
shorter attention span. Only 10% wanted
a 10-minute video. Good. 10-minute
videos would be easy to do. I come up
here, talk freely for 10 minutes on
anything, any time, but doesn't require
10 hours of preparation. But I'm glad
people want more information. And that's
what we do here. KPM, knowledge per
minute, every single piece of
information I put out there. You learn
something new every 60 seconds. That's
always been my goal from the beginning
because that's the way I like to learn
too. Grateful to everybody here. Thank
you to the mods in the chat and the
whole team that's out there. And a shout
out to Jean D&D
K8 Hala Swiping and Swiping Piper and
DBF430.
Appreciate you from all over the world.
God, Canada, Hawaii,
Swiper, I don't know where you're based,
and DBF in Australia. All over the
world. Love it. Thank you. Have a great
great Friday night. See you all
tomorrow. Bye.
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