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The Wolf Of All Streets
Hosted by Scott Melker · EN
Host Scott Melker talks to your favorite characters from the world of Bitcoin, trading, finance, music, art, and anyone else with an interesting story to tell. Sit down, strap in, and get ready – we’re going deep.
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SpaceX IPO Frenzy Hits Crypto as $557M Floods In #CryptoTownHall
Jun 1200:56:31Summary readyIn this lively episode on SpaceX IPO day, the guys break down Elon Musk’s paper trillionaire moment as a classic buy-the-news event, covering heavy passive index inflows, massive retail oversubscription exceeding $100 billion, and Fidelity’s push to democratize access, while weighing crypto spillover possibilities like Dogecoin shoutouts, SpaceX’s Bitcoin holdings, space mining ideas, max pain scenarios, and longer-term $250K BTC views alongside cautions on emotional investing. They also explore capital reallocation, silver’s potential bottom, oil sliding below $90 with peace deal rumors and Cushing inventories pressuring inflation, the AI industrial revolution, expectations for lower interest rates, currency debasement boosting real assets, a sharp debate on Visa/Mastercard versus Bitcoin and stablecoin rails—including chargebacks, fraud, rewards, and merchant surcharges—and bullish signals from SEC Chair Paul Atkins on Rule 611 paving the way for tokenized assets and market convergence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SummaryBitcoin Faces A $75B SpaceX Drain Today – Largest IPO In History
Jun 1200:17:39Summary readyBitcoin and Gold are both posting the worst year of any major asset class in 2026 — BTC down 30%, Gold down 6% and Charlie Bilello says it's the first time we've ever seen this in a calendar year. Meanwhile, SpaceX just made history today, debuting at a $1.75 TRILLION valuation in the largest IPO ever recorded (2.4x the previous record Saudi Aramco) with retail orders alone exceeding $70 billion. We break down whether Bitcoin and Gold's historic underperformance signals a generational opportunity or the death of the safe haven thesis, what $75 billion flowing INTO SpaceX means for the next leg of crypto liquidity, and which catalysts could finally turn the tape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SummaryBitcoin Just Hit The 2022 Bottom Signal At $62K – 10M Underwater
Jun 1100:29:08Summary readyBitcoin just triggered the signal that has marked every previous bear market bottom — half of all circulating BTC supply (roughly 10.5 million coins) is now trading at a loss per Glassnode/K33 Research, the first time this has happened since the late 2022 cycle low. But realized losses over the last 30 days sit at just 187,000 BTC versus 1.2 million after the FTX collapse, meaning capitulation hasn't actually hit yet. Meanwhile, Japan just delivered the biggest bullish policy shift of 2026 — reclassifying crypto as financial products, slashing the tax rate from 55% to 20%, and opening the door to spot crypto ETFs. Add Wall Street dumping $10.8 billion of tech stocks last week (largest tech outflow ever recorded), SoftBank trying to borrow $6 billion against its OpenAI stake just to keep funding OpenAI, Warren's Hail Mary to delay tomorrow's $75B SpaceX IPO, and the historical reality that the 10 biggest IPOs in history dropped 35% in their first six months — and today's setup may be the cleanest historic bottom signal we've seen in three years. We break down whether the supply-in-loss signal actually holds, why capitulation hasn't fully hit yet, what Japan's bombshell means for the bull case, and which catalysts could trigger the real cycle bottom before $50K comes into play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Bitcoin Down, Confidence Gone… Perfect Setup? #CryptoTownHall
Jun 1001:00:12Summary readyBitcoin sits near $60K in despondency with fresh buyers scarce and warnings of a quick move to $50K before $75K as sellers line up higher up. This candid roundtable examines the grinding bottoming process and tough psychology of buying when it feels bad, while unpacking why substantial new capital is needed to overcome layered selling. The group explores AI draining liquidity into Spacex IPOs even as it builds an agentic economy on stablecoins and blockchain rails for machine payments, Spacex's space data centers solving AI's energy woes, miners pivoting to lucrative AI/HPC or serving as flexible grid balancers, AI agents adding BTC to portfolios, resilient hash rates from sovereign players, ETF outflows mostly from hedge funds while core holders and banks accumulate, and banks launching competing stablecoin networks amid stalled regulatory clarity. Could high money velocity spark a fast recovery from this muted phase or is deeper capitulation still ahead? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SummaryBitcoin SHATTERS Its 200-Week Floor – Worst Week Since FTX
Jun 1000:29:02Summary readyBitcoin just posted its worst week since the FTX collapse — a 16% slide below $60,000, the steepest drop since Sam Bankman-Fried's exchange imploded in November 2022 — and analysts are warning the modest bounce to ~$61,300 may be short-lived. What makes this scarier than the FTX-era crash: there's no single catastrophic catalyst. Analysts are calling it a "silent bear market" because Bitcoin just broke below its 200-week moving average for the first time in this cycle, rate-cut bets have flipped to rate-HIKE bets thanks to strong U.S. jobs data, gold/silver/BTC are all falling together as the safe-haven thesis breaks, and Friday's $75 billion SpaceX IPO is poised to drain another $22.5B of retail capital directly out of crypto. Add Anthropic launching its zero-day-finding Mythos AI today (the same tech that found the four-year-old Zcash bug), Warsh planning to kill the Fed dot-plot, JPMorgan deploying long-running autonomous AI agents, and today's U.S. CPI print landing into the chaos — and this may be the cleanest structural bear market we've seen all cycle. We break down whether the FTX comparison actually holds, what a 200-week MA break historically means for Bitcoin, and which catalysts could stop the bleeding before $50K comes into play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SummaryBitcoin BLEEDS $235B As Saylor "Gaslights" Holders
Jun 900:49:24Summary readyBitcoin shed $235 billion in seven days and Arca CIO Jeff Dorman is calling Michael Saylor's "AI capital rotation" excuse for the crash pure "gaslighting." Strategy may have only ~5 months of cash flow left to fund STRC dividends, meaning the world's biggest Bitcoin buyer could become a steady forced seller. USDT just printed a golden cross (historically bearish for BTC), Bitcoin dominance cracked under 58% for the first time since September, and Bloomberg argues the entire industry is structurally pivoting away from speculation toward stablecoins. We break down whether Saylor IS gaslighting holders, when the forced-seller overhang breaks, and whether $60K is the cycle bottom or the trapdoor before $50K. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Bitcoin Bottom or Bull Trap? Fear Hits 8 #CryptoTownHall
Jun 800:56:08Summary readyBitcoin bounces off its 200-week moving average amid a quick pump to $63.7K on Trump Iran comments before pulling back. The crew discusses whether this is a bull trap, double bottom test, or the start of a hated summer rally, while covering MicroStrategy’s latest BTC buy, SpaceX IPO liquidity drain, and AI sucking capital from crypto. Other highlights include the Clarity Act push by Sen. Lummis, new crypto tax discussion drafts, Zcash’s Ironwood upgrade after a major bug discovery, altcoin weakness, leverage dynamics, and long-term Bitcoin adoption challenges around taxes, self-sovereignty, and bank balance sheet rules. A wide-ranging market sentiment check with bullish long-term conviction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SummaryBitcoin WIPES OUT $504M Of Shorts As Korea PLUNGES 9% - Macro Monday
Jun 801:00:21Summary readyBitcoin sparked its first real relief rally of the cycle this weekend — pumping from sub-$60,000 lows up to $63,700 and crushing $504 million in shorts in 24 hours (the biggest single-day short squeeze since late April) — but the bounce is already losing steam as fresh Iran-Israel strikes shatter the April ceasefire, sending oil up over 3% to $96 and Korea's KOSPI crashing nearly 9% in three minutes. This week's macro calendar is brutal: Wednesday's U.S. CPI print is expected to jump to 4.2% YoY (from 3.8%) — a hot reading locks in a restrictive Fed and could deepen the record ETF outflow streak — plus the ECB hikes to 2.25% Thursday, the CLARITY Act enters full Senate floor debate all week, JPMorgan/BofA/Citi just unveiled their own bank-backed tokenized network as a defensive move against stablecoins, massive token unlocks (HumidiFi unlocking 111.59% of supply Tuesday alone, HYPE $673M) pile selling pressure on already-weak markets, and global central banks have pushed gold holdings to the highest level this century. We break down whether $504M of squeezed shorts marks the cycle bottom or just a dead-cat bounce before the next leg down, what a hot CPI print means for Bitcoin's $60K floor, and which catalysts this week could finally turn the tape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SummaryWhy Bitcoin Is “Preeminent” In The Biggest Macro Trade Ever - Dan Tapiero
Jun 700:30:42Summary readyDan Tapiero has deployed over half a billion dollars into crypto's biggest private companies - Kraken, Ledger, Animoca, and the Deribit deal that became the largest M&A transaction in crypto history. In this conversation, he explains why we're at the integration moment between traditional finance and the onchain world, why his team is now exclusively looking at AI-adjacent deals, and why he believes thousands of trillions of dollars in agent-powered transactions are coming within the decade. We also get into why Coinbase could become the Amazon of finance, how prediction markets are creating truth machines, and why the digitization of money is bigger than the internet itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SummaryBitcoin PLUMMETS Below $62K As Arthur Hayes DUMPS Zcash
Jun 500:28:50Summary readyBitcoin just collapsed below $62,000 in one of the worst weeks since July 2024, with the AI trade unwinding violently and $1.5 billion in crypto longs getting wiped out in 24 hours. We are now staring down $60K with the next technical support all the way at $55K, and the safety nets that held earlier 2026 drawdowns are gone. Meanwhile Zcash absolutely cratered 37% in one of its worst single day slumps ever after Shielded Labs disclosed a critical Orchard pool bug that could have allowed unlimited undetectable counterfeit ZEC, a vulnerability hiding since 2022 and uncovered by Anthropic's Opus 4.8 AI model. We are breaking down whether Bitcoin defends $60K or rolls to $55K, what the Zcash bug means for the entire privacy coin narrative, and why this could be the most dangerous setup of the entire cycle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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