92: Bears Smell Blood

Pleb2Polymath 210 sats Feb 18, 2026

bobbypin 10,000 sats Feb 18, 2026

I'm willing to go to a Bitcoin meetup if it's relatively close. I'll be going to Mining Disrupt in Dallas/Fort Worth later this year.

Boba 7,000 sats Feb 18, 2026

Interesting how people in the space were calling the 4 year cycle dead or never existed (expecting it to go UP against the 4 year cycle’s down prediction) while I’m sitting here seeing it go down and down. Is it possible that 2025 was the up year, but whales taking profits just masked the top, and now in 2026 we are “down” relative to where 2025 would have been?

Boba 7,000 sats Feb 18, 2026

I believe I saw the floor in real time at 60k during this last leg down. The bounce back looked almost like it was programmed. Maybe everyone set their auto buy back in at 60k? Miners may need to brace themselves as The chart readers touting this “Capital Rotation Event” think it’ll go lower still in Q3&4.

Boba 7,000 sats Feb 18, 2026

What do you think Jack means by the term “home,” what exactly IS “home” in this case?

nakamoto6102 3,500 sats Feb 17, 2026

Appreciate the value

Kiwi Bitcoin Guide 4,567 sats Feb 15, 2026

Part 2: I’d love to hear more about your node config on Bitcoin Core and what version you’re running. I’ve been holding off upgrading and am still running v28 but as v31 is coming out soon I think I need to upgrade to keep within the maintenance window. What configuration changes have you made to the defaults and what do you suggest for version updates and basic config changes?

Kiwi Bitcoin Guide 2,222 sats Feb 15, 2026

+1 for ppq.ai This has been my go to AI for about a year now. It’s built by a Bitcoiner, you get discount when you pay in Sats and if you pay over LN, there’s zero KYC and the built in privacy of Lightning. Use it with a VPN (like Mullvad, also paid for in Sats) and offers pretty good privacy for general use. You can connect via a browser or with API keys. I use it for general topics or learning, not for anything pr…

muyfrio 33,333 sats Feb 14, 2026

Maybe your best episode yet. If it’s your first bear market, the key is to distract yourself by listening to Bitcoin podcasts. It will reinforce why you’re in this and also will help pass the time until it turns up. Also make sure and put another drop in the bucket every time it dumps.

Thomato 2,222 sats Feb 14, 2026

I don't see any reason why btc couldn't stay under the cost of mining a coin for quite a while. The miners with reserves would keep going, and the small ones wouldn't make it. But my prediction is that it doesn't stay below $60k for long, exactly because this idea is widespread and people will start buying again if it does

aceackerman 2,222 sats Feb 12, 2026

$58 K is a likely bottom- I'm starting to agree with the idea that not only is the 4 year cycle dead but that it never really existed in the first place

Kjartan 4,747 sats Feb 12, 2026

Greetings from Iceland. I completely agree with @torched-esc This is a great time to work hard and stack more sats. I think we will stay at these lower levels for a big chunk of the year, just a feeling.

npub156mtu…dygp 221 sats Feb 12, 2026

Thanks for another great ahow

GeneBean 2,222 sats Feb 12, 2026

🤔💭I wonder if Wes could update y’all’s boost tooling to resolve Nostr addresses as I tend to boost this show from Fountain simply because it also posts to Nostr. I wonder if the the tooling could also use info Fountain includes in boosts to make that easier. That would help with truncated boosts from here too since Nostr notes can be way longer than boosts natively support.

Nicholas Bartlett 1,253 sats Feb 12, 2026

#TheHolyHandGrenade Boost. 1253, though 12533 may be the price to warrant the clip 🤔. Boosting to drive you to another episode. I believe if we talk about gold and the other currency in their lowest denomination it would help. An atom of gold's worth, the dollar can be infinitely divisible just look at Office Space. A Sat is therefore much more valuable than any current atom of element 🤯

GeneBean 2,222 sats Feb 12, 2026

From what I’ve learned thus far, it feels to me like there are other things at play that generally line up on 4 year intervals rather than #bitcoin itself having a 4 year cycle. Primarily, I think what you’ve laid out previously about the liquidity market being the driver is key.

Gene Everett 101 sats Feb 12, 2026

Who is not used to this 4 year cycle by now? Anyone who still believes Bitcoin move 50% lower = death is a fool. We’ve been through this 4 times and 16 years now

Akuchi Rao 500 sats Feb 12, 2026

Samorat 100 sats Feb 12, 2026

Thanks for your Signal, in a see of Noise. Appreciate.

DerivationDingus 21,000 sats Feb 12, 2026

I might be biased, considering I’ve “nix-ified” nearly every device in the house, but I’ll add a big +1 to nix-bitcoin. It’s been rock solid for me. I deployed it in a NixOS container a couple years ago, and I just did another major version update on it a couple nights ago. The update went super smooth, no issues. After a quick reboot, everything was back up, including the lightning channel with your node. Nix-Bitco…

Steady_Eddie 21,112 sats Feb 12, 2026

Chris, I have looked forward to your show every week now for the past year. I respect the hard work you put into each of these episodes; keeping signal high and emotion low. I hope your content continues to turn on new people to Bitcoin, fountain, and the value for value structure. With that said please accept my humble investment of 21k sats. Also I know you talk about the fold card and bitcoin rewards. What are yo…

OB 21,000 sats Feb 12, 2026

Great episode! Great boost episode! What is all this noise around bip110.

Chris Fisher 1,999 sats Feb 11, 2026

Fresh one for ya! The knives are out this week, the new quantum super team, and some spicy clips. Enjoy! 🍻