Crypto Talk Radio: Basic Cryptonomics
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18 Feb 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to Crypto Talk Radio, the podcast for everyday investors like you. Visit us on the web at CryptoTalkRadio.net. And now, here's your host, Leister.
Thank you for that, Bailey, and welcome everybody out there on Crypto Talk Radio, found at CryptoTalkRadio.net. I have a confession to make.
i got on and right on the top of the show in my head i said do i really have to talk about this crap i did because i don't want to talk about crypto not because it's down but because it's boring because it's boring there's no incentive to discuss it many have dialed out i don't know if you've noticed if you've watched any of the youtube folks but views are down almost across the board
The only people who still have views are the ones that it doesn't make any sense why anybody listens to him in the first place. Like George, I forget cryptos RS, I think it is, or whatever his name is. Andrew Tate and Logan Paul, Jake Paul, you know, these ones where it's like, why are you listening to these people?
But it tells you the age range of the people that are still dialing into those shows because there's a lack of maturity.
in crypto has been the case for years that's what holds it back that's what keeps it from being successful is the age the age of people is low because it's low they're just being exploited by those people by the institutionals and the cycle continues bitcoin's price has never been more clear as
an explanation to what it just said so i struggle to talk about it because it's just i see what's happening and nobody everybody's just jumping over to the garbage we'll talk about it again and see what we can do
coin microcap.com and we are going to zoom out to the month chart starting with bitcoin as i mentioned at the top of the show because bitcoin in a strong downward trend despite some youtubers telling you it was going to go back up if you listened to the last episode at cryptotalk.fm you'd heard me say i did not see an upward trend whatsoever i saw down i still see down
I still, I see me more pain. I did see another prediction that said 29,000 and they showed a graph that said 29,000 is the next destination. If it got to 29,000, that's a buy point for me.
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Chapter 2: What is the current state of cryptocurrency and why is it considered boring?
I'm not buying now. I refuse. I have a little bit of it, but I don't, I mean, it's fractional. Like I think it's probably 15 bucks in there because I don't, it's, it's not like 2021. It's not fun. It's, it's quiet. And when it's quiet, there simply isn't significant profit opportunity, at least not to the point it's worth my time. Like one of my payments, invoice payments is so high that,
that I think, well, geez, if I can just do this on my job, what's the point of crypto? Like crypto is not enriching me to that degree. All that rhymes. And I just watch and wait for a, what I would consider an appropriate buy area. And then I still have my ETF.
So I'm watching to see if I can get below my initial buy point on the ETF, then I would certainly get more on the ETF separately from buying the crypto directly. That's what I'm waiting on. I'm waiting on just absolutely critically low pricing to consider buying. So if it does go 29, I will buy, but that's, that's about all I can justify.
And I'm still watching precious metals because precious metals is up and down and up and down right now, which tells me that money's flowing in and out from cryptocurrency to some degree and silver. I'm waiting for it to go a little bit lower than where it is. I did buy a couple of more things from, uh, on the crypto side. I think I got those already.
I haven't even been paying attention, but I think I got them already. Yeah, precious metals is already starting to go back up again. Gold, at least. Gold, platinum. Starting to go back up again. I think I received, I'm actually looking, because now I'm curious if I received the last order that I did. I don't even remember what the heck it was.
i ordered i wonder if the uh i wanted the goldbacks was was the goldbacks the last thing i ordered or did i order metal so this says shipped january 20th so i probably did receive it i think this is the goldbacks yeah and i did get those so those are those are limited run goldbacks i got those tossed into the vault and i'm waiting for apparently the california
is gonna have a set of gold backs that's coming so i'm watching for those gold backs as well as some of the silver bars are the only things that i buy on precious metals right now and i'm waiting silver's priced well but the premiums are a joke like the trump one they went like 100 bucks i'm like screw you bro it's not gonna work anyhow bitcoin over the month downward trend as i said ethereum
over the month it spiked and then crapped back down sharply back down off the heels of idiot vidalik trying to defend his position and that of his organization by saying that the ethereum foundation as well as him that they don't have any sort of authority over the ethereum chain that ultimately anybody can use the chain as they see fit and they have no control now we know that's not true because the ethereum foundation
has done freezes of assets per the government's request. So if it's truly decentralized, there would not be any sort of freezing of assets, but we know there's freezing of assets that they did at a point in the past. We have to look and question, do we, is there really a decentralized world?
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