Bitcoin is above $69,000 as I hit record. And here are my predictions about what is about to c happen. First of all, I believe the Bitcoin bare market is over. I believe it ended on July 1st with a price just under $58,000. We never cracked 60,000 for even one whole day. Even though we went below 60,000 a couple times, a handful of times this year, we never stayed down there even for one whole day. Uh so the lowest price was just under $58,000 uh meaning I think that was the low. All right. So there is a bunch of stuff queued up here that is really good for Bitcoin that has been queued up for a long time. First this morning the Treasury Department announced that they were doing um bond buybacks. This is when the government has spent so much money they cannot even afford their own debt payments and there’s not enough other people to buy government bonds which is government debt. And so they are using the Treasury and Federal Reserve some combination. The government is buying the debt from themselves with m government money printed out of thin air which is basically the fastest way to just create inflation is the government wants to spend money it doesn’t have. So they borrow money and then they buy they borrow the money from themselves with money printed out of thin air. It’s just the dumbest stupidest thing. But that’s what happened and was announced this morning. So the government is ramping that up. uh the the clarity act which bitcoin does not need to bring regulatory clarity because bitcoin already has regulatory clarity but I believe that will pass in congress I don’t know the timing but I think that will become more and more certain over time even though poly market and keely the two major prediction markets the odds of that passing are all over the place I still think there is so much momentum behind that piece of legislation I’d really be shocked if it doesn’t pass some way somehow so I just think that’s gonna pass some way somehow before control of Congress changes in January to the next uh you know the next turnover based on who gets elected in November. So, I really think that the um I really think the Clarity Act passes. And Michael Sailor, who runs Strategy, the company formerly known as Micro Strategy, which is the largest owner of Bitcoin worldwide, bigger than the United States, bigger than China, big I mean they have more Bitcoin than any other entity. Uh they are in the process of trying to get STRC, Stretch, STRC, which is their preferred um preferred stock product. They are trying to get that back up to par so that they can raise uh money with it to buy Bitcoin. And they’ve gotten it all the way up to 90 above 95 cents on the dollar. They need to get it to $1 in order to be able to issue additional units of it. And I think all of these things are coming together about the same time. Simultaneously either I believe yesterday announced that later this year they will be launching uh custody Bitcoin custody solutions for institutional clients. And it sounds like they will provide that service to other financial instit institutions and potentially banks as well. Meaning that at some point you’ll be able to walk into I don’t know when this will happen. Maybe it’s going to take 10 more years, but at some point you’ll be able to walk into Trustmark Bank or Bank Plus or Community Bank or, you know, one of the the local banks in your state and they will actually have Bitcoin custody where you can actually hold Bitcoin in addition to US dollars in your account. Now, that’s not going to happen overnight, but the march toward having that as a possibility just is relentlessly marching on. uh similar to the way with uh contactless payments and Apple Pay. Initially, none of the debit cards could be added to Apple Pay other than a few large banks. Eventually, a trickle down where you can add basically any debit card to Apple Pay because all of the banks figured they better get on board or get left behind. And which is going to happen with Bitcoin. Eventually, people are going to start changing banks to banks that allow Bitcoin custody so they can custody their Bitcoin alongside their US dollars and swap back and forth anytime they want. And the banks that don’t allow that are going to lose customers to the banks that do and therefore eventually all the banks will allow you to custody Bitcoin alongside US dollars. The same way in a lot of Latin American countries you can custody US dollars alongside pay pesos or Limpira or uh Bolivars or whatever it is. So all of these things are converging at roughly the same time where you have the Clarity Act, you have STRC, you have um you know the the end of the Bitcoin bare market so people will stop talking about bare markets in general and just you know stop pretending that the calendar dictates such things. I think all of those things are going to converge about the same time and ultimately drive the price of Bitcoin higher. Uh the jump today appears to be related to the government effectively announcing they’re going to print a bunch of money out of thin air. Um, but a lot of these things are converging. The the Clarity Act, STRC getting back to par, which is $100 per share, and right now it’s above 95. And they’re going to be able to buy, frankly, just a ton of billions of dollars of Bitcoin as soon as they get STRC back to par. I mean, they have a lot of Bitcoin they plan to buy, but they have to have STRC back to par in order to do that. So, all of those things are converging. And then behind the scenes, I mean, Vanguard is opening up their platform to for for Bitcoin, even though they initially promised that that would never happen. Of course, they have now bent the knee. And if you’re on Twitter all day long like I am and Facebook all day long like I am, it is just a constant stream of positive news of the unrelenting adoption of Bitcoin. The unrelenting adoption of Bitcoin marches on. Every day that goes by, more people are buying Bitcoin. More people are integrating Bitcoin into their financial platforms. More companies are putting Bitcoin in their balance sheets. Even SpaceX, which went public a few a couple months ago, has 18,000 Bitcoin on their balance sheet, which nobody knew about until they announced it in their public offering. So, all of these things are just unrelenting Bitcoin adoption. That’s all pointed in the right direction. And the biggest things that are were holding Bitcoin back, which was the stupid, you know, BIP 110 dumbness that is now, you know, over as of Octo uh August 8th. So, that’s behind us. Um, I believe the bottom of the bare market is behind us. You’ve got, you know, people worried about strategy, Michael Sailor’s company, that somehow it was going to be insolvent. That’s now behind us. Not a soul on the planet thinks they’re insolvent now that they have $4 billion of US dollars on the balance sheet in addition to $60 billion of Bitcoin and their liabilities on an annual bas basis are a fraction of that. So all of the fear, uncertainty and doubt is slowly falling by the wayside and the positive catalysts that will drive the next phase uh of Bitcoin adoption are solidly in place. All of these things are coming to pass. So, I did not make a a list of all of those things in advance. Usually, the best place to keep up with news in the Bitcoin ecosystem is Natalie Brunell’s newslock. She releases it once a week. It’s about 10 minutes long and it’s basically news highlights of all of the latest news in Bitcoin. You can get it in written form by subscribing to her Substack or you can get it in uh audio form on her podcast. So, she releases it on her podcast, but she also releases it on Substack via an email blast if you prefer to read rather than listen. I always prefer to listen because, you know, I’m always driving around and doing stuff and I don’t want to be holding a book. Uh, so plus I can listen at more than 2x two 2.5x speed. So, I just cover a lot more ground letting the the audio content wash over me. Uh, and I can absorb it really well that way. Um, so anyway, lots of stuff going in Bitcoin’s favor. My prediction is just it’s going to be a fun next three years until people enough people predict that there has to be a bare market that we go through another bare market that looks like a miniature version of the one we’ve just been through. Uh inevitably it won’t be as long and it won’t be as deep and you know everybody claiming it will go deeper and longer will be wrong just like this time and all of that. But it just it feels like the tide has turned. It feels like now we get to the uh to enjoy the tide being in our favor instead of against us. And look about every four years you got to, you know, deal with nine months or a year or however long of the tide being against you. And thankfully it feels like that’s behind us. Um the tide has been against us for nine of the last 10.5 months. It’s been 10.5 months since the last Bitcoin all-time high. Uh and nine of those 10.5 months was between October 6 and July 1st. And in those nine months, uh yeah, it was painful. Uh and thankfully that’s behind us. And I don’t think we’re going back there to those low prices. So just feels like everything’s in Bitcoin’s favor. So my advice has never changed from the very first time I started talking about Bitcoin. Buy as much Bitcoin as you can. Hold on to it for as long as conceivably possible. And if you own more than $10,000 of Bitcoin, buy a Bitkey. bit bitty. Bitkey.World is the website. Buy a Bitkey to secure your Bitcoin and keep it out of the hands of hackers, scammers, and the government. So, pay your taxes, of course, but there’s no reason you want your Bitcoin where the government years from now can just arbitrarily take it or seize it or, you know, you lose it in forfeite proceedings or something like that. So, look, buy a Bitkey. The main concern is hackers and scammers. There’s no reason for your Bitcoin to get hacked or scammed and BitKey is the best solution to make sure you are never hacked, never scammed, and you are rock solid for the long haul. So, let me know if you need anything. Uh you can always text me questions at 601 uh2070813. That number again, 601-2070813. Happy to answer questions that way. Message me on Facebook Messenger at this channel. There are always fake accounts, so make sure you’re messaging me at this channel, not a fake account where they added a dash or an underscore and duplicated my profile. Make sure it’s this one, the real one. Um, but happy to answer questions about anything. Uh, message me, email me. Uh, whatever it is, I am available. I’m here to help you on your Bitcoin journey. Uh, the next three years should be a ton of fun and the next 30 years should be even more fun. So, I believe Bitcoin from here on out will outperform every other asset on the planet, especially for the next three years. And uh it will make the bare market we just went through more than worth it all the way through. So, let me know if you have any questions or if there’s content you’d like me to do videos on. And I am here to serve. I’m here to be your Bitcoin Sherpa all the way to the top of Mount Everest and back down safely to base camp. Uh always at your side for anything you need. Just let me know. Thanks everyone.