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Good now revolutionaries— Pirate Fest Thursday — the whole crew in costume, Will's hat sized up a notch, and Alex opening another short because Bitcoin just crashed through the top of its consolidation range. The chart drive: thick angry red daily candle, closed below the 21-EMA, immediate target $79K, real target $75-76K (the 12-EMA on the 3-month that gets retested in every bear-to-bull tra...

Good now revolutionaries— Episode 99, full crew in person on Tybee for the second night. The opening question that doesn't go away: do you need a trust or an LLC for your crypto? Alex's firsthand answer — he set up an irrevocable, non-grantor, spendthrift, discretionary trust that cost him real money and he has used it exactly zero times. The pitch gets interesting above ~$100K in assets...

Full crew on the Tybee Island couch — Evan, Alex, and Will in person — opens with Will driving the Bitcoin chart live. The three signals that triggered yesterday's Beacon short call: an 8-hour BTC candle with a tall upper wick at the top of the wedge, an RSI trendline break on the 12-hour, and a hammer candle on daily oil (which runs inverse to BTC). Target $82K first, prepare for $76K (the 1...

Good now revolutionaries— Will's in the air, Lindsay just landed back from Korea Blockchain Week, so this is Alex and Emily holding down a shorter Trust Issues built around one question: how does crypto actually integrate into a society that still has to deal with illicit finance, terrorism, and cartels — without burning personal sovereignty to the ground? Emily reframes it as the two incompa...

Good now revolutionaries— Tuesday morning kick-off of Tybee Pirate Fest week. Evan + Alex live from Alex's house in Tybee; Will remote for one more day before his flight. Cold open: Reposa coffee's new Klenosaurs flat-white can with a derpy stegosaur plushie (code RISEUP for 20% off), then ZachXBT dropped a movie post after two months of silence — if you had any lingering ZachXBT critici...

Good evening revolutionaries— Monday Market Watch with Will + Doug. Macro setup: ISM services PMI came in at 54 vs ~55 last month — still growing, just a touch slower. Not weak enough to take Fed-hike pressure off, so markets gave back some gains. US 10-year bond yields may be rounding over off Friday's hammer; DXY has been surprisingly strong but has to run out eventually; oil continues to s...

Good now revolutionaries— Extended Monday Rise Up Morning Show. Evan is traveling to Alex's for Tybee Pirate Fest week; Alex + Will + Matthew hold the show down and friend-of-show Hermine Wong (former SEC attorney, now teaching at UC Berkeley) joins mid-episode for a quick-hit on all things SEC. Cold open: CollectorCrypt watcha + Klarna Pokemon ($40K card for $800/mo payments — welcome to 202...

Good now revolutionaries— Thursday morning, abbreviated show, after-show heading straight into the free Rise Up community for voice-to-voice Q&A. Cold open: Alex is face-down on the floor from VA paperwork purgatory — Evan proposes a splinter network called 'on-the-floor crypto' where the correspondent is just laying under his desk sighing about the latest grift. While we're the...

Good now revolutionaries— Full-length Wednesday Rise Up After Dark with the trio + returning guest Viv Ford. Litecoin halving reminder (July 27, 2027). 'Quant micro-influencer' status acknowledged. Full Quant chart deep-dive — Ken's $87 entry at 4x + the sell-ladder. Attention-of-the-market framework for altcoins. Alex's 'coordinated doesn't mean conspiracy' take...

Good now revolutionaries— Wednesday morning, monthly candle close day, and the trio is back for an extended session. Cold open goes straight to Magic's Beacon cards-alpha call (buy zone incoming on Collector Crypt) plus Will's full framework for the ARC / Argus / Robinhood-chain play — 'money is honey, degens are flies.' ARC will attract institutional money; whether it also att...

Good evening revolutionaries— Solo Alex Trust Issues tonight. Congress is on recess, Clarity is still stalled at cloture, and Washington's crypto attention has shifted to AI. In the dead zone, the SEC dropped a new interim guidance memo. Alex decodes it: 'functional' and 'decentralized' now have working definitions, promoting a token's current utility (and even vague...

Good now revolutionaries— Tuesday morning and Evan opens the show admitting he's trapped in a Quant short at ~72% drawdown. Full post-mortem: entered at $237 based on textbook pump-and-rinse signals, forgot to set the take-profit, watched it hit $205 (up 150%), didn't close, watched it round-trip back to $237 and then rip to $280. Liquidation still ~$350 away. That kicks off the meatiest...

Good now revolutionaries— Solo Market Watch tonight with Will (Doug out). Bitcoin is holding the $82.3K consolidation top as support after the reclaim, and Will's macro read is bullish — first relative higher high on the chart plus support hold. The key caveat: Bitcoin has been lagging gold by about three weeks, and gold just broke its own equivalent support and is heading down to make a new...

Good now revolutionaries— Monday morning and the trio is back for an extended session before Will heads out to host Market Watch tonight. Cold open dives straight into Quant, which pumped ~400% and is now bleeding back — Evan and Will's read: classic pump-and-rinse pattern, and the news catalyst (UK banks / clearinghouse rumor) is thinner than the price move implies. That kicks off the show&a...

Good now revolutionaries— Thursday morning and news drops within the first minute. IBM has officially connected banks to SWIFT through their Digital Asset Haven, built on Linea (Ethereum L2) with Chainlink infrastructure, enabling 11,000 financial institutions to move tokenized deposits 24/7. Evan immediately calls the XRP audience: 'What about XRP?' Full-episode diatribe with Will and A...

Good now revolutionaries— Wednesday morning and the full trio is back. Will opens on his Boston North End video (a quarter-million views in 30 hours) blasting the De Pasquale Ventures piazza project — 'looks like the end result of a Blank Street Coffee fucking an Ikea.' Kalshi wash-trading update is the substance news beat: Benny partnered with the Wall Street Journal to drop 'Five...

Good now revolutionaries— Wednesday-night After Dark with the full trio back. Scrimmy from PizzaDao was scheduled to continue the Stand With Crypto conversation from Trust Issues but got surprised by his family for his birthday (rescheduled). We roll with it. SatRush update: round 1466, $145 currently deployed, 176.88% APR, Matthew's mining alongside his dad. Alex pitches a two-person team co...

Good now revolutionaries— Tuesday morning and it's officially the first day of fall. Will kicks off by making the case that we're at the end of the first inning of the bull market — the altcoins are running for no good reason and that's the signal. Full walkthrough on how to build an altcoin watchlist from CoinGecko's top-30-day movers: Akito ripping 500%, Near Protocol #2, Arb...

Good evening revolutionaries— Trust Issues is back and Alex is fired up. Full-episode diatribe on standwithcrypto.org and the diabolical scoring bias in their politician-grades page. Side-by-side proof: Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) rated A/strongly supportive despite half his statements being neutral-to-very-anti; Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) — who literally co-wrote the Clarity Act with Sen...

Good now revolutionaries— Monday-night Market Watch with Will and Doug. Will's back from Italy where he was in a 35x Bitcoin short the entire vacation and closed it Sunday at a 174% loss on the position. He turns this Market Watch into a Doug data-dump: everything that happened in the markets while Will was away. Macro first — 30-year Treasury yields cooling for the first time in a while, Dix...

Good now revolutionaries— Monday morning and Will is back from Italy with a story: he was in a 35x Bitcoin short for two weeks while he was gone, lost 174% on that trade before he closed it Sunday night just ahead of what would have been a liquidation. Full 5-lesson post-mortem in this episode: don't leverage-trade while you're on vacation, don't hold a two-week position at 35x, don...

Good now revolutionaries— Thursday rounds out the week with Matthew the intern back for his twelfth(?) appearance. Today's House Republican-majority day is the last one before recess (Senate stays a bit longer). Three startups get demoed live. First: Packly (packly.gg), Alex's new favorite Pokemon pack-ripping platform — not gotcha slabs but actual booster packs at real prices ($6-$15),...

Good now revolutionaries— Danielle Lukens (Crypto Crush Show, Crush Insights, Crush Circle) joins from northern Bali on the night the Fed hikes 25bps in line with the 92% CME probability. Danielle has been calling the CBDC transition on-air for six years, and it's now confirmed: the digital Euro goes live in 2029, 140 countries are in pilot or development, and the first ratchet is the EU&apos...

Good now revolutionaries— Wednesday's show sits on top of the biggest macro morning of the week. The FOMC rate decision lands at 2pm ET; the CME Fed Watch is pricing a 92% probability of a 25 basis-point hike; Polymarket disagrees and is closer to zero. Trump has publicly threatened to immediately end trade with every country the US is running a deficit with if the Fed hikes — which is, per W...

Good evening revolutionaries— the cloture vote on the Clarity Act failed this afternoon, and Alex, Emily, and Lindsay run the post-mortem. Opening beat: Mitch McConnell's on-floor rigor-tortoise moment ('the funniest people on Earth don't get Netflix specials, they leave TikTok comments'). Substance: cloture only closed the door on this specific procedural motion — it doesn&apo...