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Goodnow revolutionaries— Live from ETH Denver in a bear market, and the builders are still here. Excited and a little sad, but still building. Someone asks: if you had 40K to invest in crypto for the first time, what would you buy and how would you do it? The answer is simpler than you'd think—and Kraken and Coinbase both make it easy. Then it gets weird: the Netherlands wants to tax unrealiz...

Goodnow revolutionaries— Evan's solo from Denver for ETH Denver, and the builders are already here. This week: Alex and Will arrive Wednesday, and we're broadcasting live from the conference all week. Someone asks why the market is down, and Evan talks about the survival mindset—what it means when you're asking that question and how to make sure you never end up in that position aga...

Goodnow revolutionaries— It's President's Day, Will and Alex have the day off from their regular jobs, and Will's breaking down Bitcoin charts while plotting his next move on Circle stock. Also: someone floats the idea of a hot tub livestream, which goes about as far as you'd expect. Will explains why he bought Circle (CRCL) stock and what "USDC to the moon" actually...

Goodnow revolutionaries— Chelsea from The Bullish Babe joins us for a full hour of technical analysis education. She breaks down her exact chart setup, explains the RSI strategy that changed her trading, and shows why TA works best as risk management—not fortune telling. Evan delivers a much-needed mini-rant on the toddler energy plaguing crypto comments. Bullying and misogyny have no place here....

Good now, revolutionaries— Tonight's theme: there's no such thing as the "best" investment. Whether you're picking wallets, platforms, or altcoins, what matters is what meets YOUR needs. Your risk tolerance. Your comfort. Your skill level. Evan unveiled Rise Up's official Allies & Enemies list and asked for your input. We dreamed about future sponsors. We analyzed...

Good now, revolutionaries— DeFi isn't just surviving. It's evolving. Today JSB from Carrot and Dara from Gauntlet break down what institutional-grade risk management actually looks like, why perpetuals are getting easier to use, and how smart humans still beat dumb automation. Plus Will unpacks the better-than-expected jobs report and what BlackRock buying Uniswap really means for the sp...

Welcome to Trust Issues-- A Forbes report drops that Binance and CZ hold 87% of World Liberty Financial's USD1 stablecoin. That is not decentralization. That is one entity holding almost all of a dollar-pegged token tied to the sitting president's family business, with early investment flowing through a sovereign wealth fund. The crew breaks down what that concentration actually means an...

Goodnow revolutionaries— Bitcoin's sitting at a critical level and Friday's CPI data could change everything. We break down the technical setup, what a hot inflation print would mean for crypto, and why patience might be the play right now. Plus: crypto taxes are a nightmare—we compare Koinly vs Awaken and why you should start now. And your questions about cold wallets, building blockcha...

Goodnow revolutionaries— Will shares an update on his $5K trading challenge and walks through his latest experiment with perpetuals on Hyperliquid—the position, the margin, the liquidation math, and your questions answered. We catch up on the Super Bowl (Seattle won) and screen that Coinbase commercial—the one with >$50M in spend. Was it worth it? Our first CommUnity Scholarship initiative goes...

Goodnow revolutionaries— Will got liquidated. For the first time ever. His $5K challenge went from $5K to $18K... and then to zero when he shorted Hyperliquid and it went green while everything else went red. Would've been $36K today. Brutal. But here's the thing: he learned a lot, and he's starting fresh with new rules. This time it's Drift Protocol and DeFi Carrot, max 10x le...

Goodnow revolutionaries— Dawufi returns to talk hair care secrets, the honest state of crypto social media, and why audiences do not actually care about decentralization. The conversation moves through Farcaster and Zora's real value propositions, whether competition enables or prevents extraction, and what independent media really means in a world of algorithmically-driven feeds. Someone ask...

Goodnow revolutionaries— Will's in the mountains of Maine catching fireball nips from strangers in overalls. Just another Wednesday. Aave founder Stani Kulechov dropped $30M on a Notting Hill mansion. Meanwhile, Vitalik says most L2s are unnecessary—and Will agrees. As Ethereum mainnet gets faster and cheaper, what happens to the chains that only sell "we're faster and cheaper"...

Welcome to Trust Issues-- New time slot. Alex, Emily, and Lindsay are all here, and nobody is pulling punches. Lindsay frames the whole Clarity Act situation in one line: this is your financially abusive husband keeping it all from you and handing you just enough to survive. Emily follows up with a thread she found defending Genius Act stablecoin provisions, written by someone she describes as dem...

Goodnow revolutionaries— Evan's computer is melting into sludge (Zincian crab claws involved). Will's skiing in Maine. Alex is captaining. It's Monday. Will shares his $5K trading challenge update with a key lesson: don't set margin trades you can't watch. Also, Polygon's chart is looking clean—could run if 12.5 cents becomes support. Then we welcome Ashane from Metan...

Goodnow revolutionaries— It's Groundhog's Day! Did Satoshi see his shadow? 6 more weeks of bear market or is the sun coming out? Will kicks off his $5,000 trading challenge and breaks down how leverage, longing, and shorting actually work—including the mistake that almost cost him everything. Then we go around the horn: Evan added BTC, Turbo SOL, ETH, and UNI. Will's DCA-ing BTC/ETH...

Goodnow revolutionaries— Will's back from snowy Boston and we're talking wintahs, the Rise Up calendar (sexy George Washington?!), and the Fed's 10-2 vote to hold rates. Alex breaks down DeFi Carrot's Turbo product with a focus on Turbo Gold—think leverage-lite with built-in liquidation protection. Tokenized gold options are heating up—PAXG on Drift, tether gold, and whether On...

Goodnow revolutionaries– Tonight we welcome Azeem Khan, co-founder of Miden, to Rise Up After Dark. Med school dropout, biotech escapee, Kimcoin creator, Gitcoin alum—Azeem's path to privacy-focused blockchain is anything but ordinary. He's the non-technical founder making zero-knowledge proofs accessible to builders and institutions alike, and his journey includes marrying friend of the...

Welcome to Trust Issues-- Alex and Emily cover the Fed's decision to hold rates, then dig into how the Clarity Act got renamed the Market Structure bill and what that rebrand is hiding. The real meat: a breakdown of how campaign finance and lobbying shape which bills get prioritized and who sits on the committees that write them. French Hill gets named. Coinbase and a16z get named. The machin...

Goodnow revolutionaries– Will's back with updated Bitcoin technical analysis—there's a potentially bullish break forming. He walks through how to weigh bull and bear cases before placing a bet. We pull up the Bitcoin heat map to see where market makers might be targeting next. Does an unpredictable news cycle make charting pointless? Will addresses the elephant in the room. Then we get i...

Goodnow revolutionaries– Will's back from Miami with a market update: precious metals are swinging like meme coins while Bitcoin continues sideways. Could the 4-year cycle theory actually be valid? One Reddit trader thinks tungsten is the trade of a lifetime—here's what caught our attention. Will shares which tokens have revenue buyback models that inform his conviction—including HYPE, A...

Goodnow revolutionaries– Clawd Bot took over our timeline this weekend—an open-source AI agent that can actually do things on your computer. Evan installed it, tested it, and walks through why you should be careful before giving an AI carte blanche to your digital life. From there, we answer your crypto questions about using crypto as cash—exploring debit cards from Phantom, MetaMask, Coinbase, an...

Goodnow revolutionaries— Evan and Alex are back for the final show of the week, starting with extreme cold weather reports (negative 30+ windchill in the Dakotas!). They share ideas for the Rise Up Community Scholarship: naming tiers after first donors (the "Bearded Tier" at $10!), a senior citizens crypto workshop with Sandra from Onboard60 ($500 allocated), and funding IRL meetups.  Th...

Goodnow revolutionaries—  Evan and Alex kick things off with a little light reading from Alex's nightstand: the new 161-page Senate Agriculture Committee Market Structure Bill released today. Alex is tired but committed to reading through the legislation that could reshape crypto regulation. We cover CFTC Chair Mike Selig's "Future Proof" initiative and his Washington Post op-e...

Welcome to Trust Issues-- The World Economic Forum is happening in Davos, and Alex and Emily use it as a lens to break down the real question: is crypto being integrated into traditional finance, or is it being absorbed by it? Alex built a side-by-side framework comparing the integration model, where banks adopt blockchain to make existing systems faster, versus a parallel systems model, where DeF...

Goodnow revolutionaries— Dr. Nick Almond, Head of Governance at Jito joins the show to talk DAOs. He explains what a DAO is, shows us the forums and features that give life to Jito DAO, and we discuss how crypto, as a new medium for making meaning, can help people align their values and coordinate at scale to do things that matter (like collecting and sharing recipes, buying the Constitution, or s...