85: Cycle Breakers

The Fed cuts rates again and quietly pivots to baby-QE. How this shift could finally blow up Bitcoin’s four-year cycle.

Episode Links

• 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US
• 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform
• ⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning
• 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats
• 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling

Show Notes

• Dow gains almost 500 points, S&P 500 ends shy of record high after Fed’s final rate cut of 2025 bolsters case for early start to ‘Santa Claus rally’
• Here are the five big takeaways from Wednesday's Fed rate decision
• Fed interest rate decision December 2025:
• BIP The Cat - Draft discussion - Protocol Design - Delving Bitcoin
• The-Cat: Draft BIP: Non-monetary UTXO cleanup (“The Cat”) and related materials.
• Stablecoin Adoption Could Stifle Central Bank Control, IMF Warns - Decrypt
• Acting CFTC chairman Caroline Pham on new crypto collateral pilot program - YouTube
• I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto
• The $100 TRILLION Problem No One is Connecting To BITCOIN - YouTube

Music

• Apex By: Empath Eyes