An excerpt from the Crypto Astrology Report Live Update on January 22, 2025.
Transcript edited for print.
The Collapse of the Traditional Financial System
I want to get you to understand—why are they talking about a Bitcoin strategic reserve? Because they realize the bond market is broken. The debt is so great. The central banks are propping up everything, preventing global economies from collapsing. We’re talking like total collapse of the fiat fractional reserve banking system.
The more they keep printing, the more they continue to debase the currency. That’s the key to understanding the real challenge. If the money supply is expanding by 8 to 10%, and the S&P delivers an annualized return of 9%, you’re basically just keeping pace with inflationary pressure. You’re not building true wealth. Real wealth isn’t about breaking even—it’s about consistently outpacing the rate at which the currency is being debased. To achieve that, you’ve got to invest in assets and strategies that grow faster than the money printer operates.
Bitcoin and Gold: The Real Inflation Hedges
Last year, we saw Bitcoin as the winner again—121% return. The year before, 156%. Its annualized return is 147%. Gold? Gold had a 26% return, so gold did extremely well. One of the reasons both gold and Bitcoin are going up is because they realize inflation is about to get out of control. There’s not enough liquidity going into the market.
Liquidity: The Invisible Hand Driving the Markets
And as we know, liquidity matters. Liquidity is what keeps markets propped up. They print money, inject it into the system in all different ways—what’s called monetary liquidity. If we look at the MSCI World price performance and the month-over-month change in the G4 central bank reserves, we can see how liquidity correlates with the global economy.
We also see this with global liquidity—when it goes up, the stock market follows. There’s a clear correlation between global liquidity and market movement, especially with crypto. When we look at the GMI Total Liquidity Index and track the 10-week lead, we can see how the price of Bitcoin moves. Cryptocurrency trends are tightly tied to global liquidity cycles, especially during speculative blowoff phases that decouple from fundamentals.
So this is where we’re at—we’re going to see much more liquidity pumped into the system. Liquidity props up markets and keeps things flowing, but at the same time, it causes debasement. This is important because in 2025, we can expect even more inflation than we saw in 2024.
What does that mean? If more liquidity is entering the system and people are buying more Bitcoin and gold as a strategy against debasement and inflation, then Bitcoin is going up.
The Bitcoin “Banana Zone” and Halving Cycle Correlation
If we look at the post-halving cycles and say, “Alright, if you go back to every post-halving,” we know that the banana zone—the parabolic rise in Bitcoin price—always occurs about a year after. Sometimes six months.
So we’re correlating very closely now with the 2015 to 2018 cycle. Once we enter the second phase of the banana zone, we’ll see that type of spike. If you look at global M2 from August 2016 to 2018, you can see what it did—this is where we are today. Liquidity hit a bottom, and now it’s being injected again.
The Trump Pump and M2 Money Supply Dynamics
Go back to August 2016 to 2018. Who was president? Trump. It was called the “Trump pump.” January 4, 2017—liquidity got pumped, Bitcoin peaked, then dropped. It went from $750 to around $20,000 by December 2017. That pump correlates with global M2—the money being injected. The M2 money supply is following that 2016–2017 performance.
So what’s Trump going to do? He’s going to pump money into the system. Why? Because the system is about to implode. We’ve got all this debt and so many economic problems. He’s going to pump money while attempting to restructure the economy. That’s no easy feat. But it helps us, because if we compare Bitcoin today to March 2016–March 2018 when Trump took office, it’s projecting a Bitcoin price of around a million dollars.
Larry Fink’s Bitcoin Forecast and Institutional Momentum
Now, I’m not saying it’s definitely going to hit a million, but if it follows the same trajectory—which it probably won’t exactly—but if it does, that’s where it goes this year. And what’s interesting is, we just heard a statement from Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, managing $11 trillion in assets. He said if everyone had 2–5% of their assets in Bitcoin, that would target Bitcoin to $700,000. And that’s without a strategic reserve.
So if regulation gets cleared, and we get a new crypto czar, a new SEC Chairman, OTC Chairman—very pro-crypto—and they say, “We’re going to make it possible for every pensioner, teacher, cop, firefighter to have a 2–5% asset allocation starting in 2025,” that could push Bitcoin to $700,000 this year.
From the Boring Zone to Banana Zone: A Cycle in Motion
Now, think about that. We just exited the boring zone—we’re entering the banana zone. Boring zone was 2024. Boring, boring, boring—then boom. First phase: breakout and consolidation—happened during the solar eclipse in October. Then comes phase two: altcoin season. The banana singularity. Altcoin prices will surge broadly—doesn’t matter which ones. Some will go up 5x, 8x, some 1000x.
How do you pick those altcoins? That’s the big question. Then we go into phase three—the concentration phase. That’s where a few core cryptocurrencies dominate and hit record highs.
The Historical Wedge Pattern and Price Spike Potential
So, we just completed phase one: consolidation. We’re entering phase two: banana zone singularity. A wedge pattern is forming. Historically, during post-halving periods, these wedge patterns push up. So now we’re in consolidation, wedge forming, and more liquidity is coming. If history repeats, we could see a 52% increase.
Now, I’m not saying it’ll be exactly 52%, but the last time this happened, January, when Trump took office, Bitcoin jumped 52%. That would put Bitcoin to around $155,000.
Post-Halving January and February Trends
When you look at the year after a halving—2012, 2016, 2020, now 2024—January and February are key. In 2013, Bitcoin jumped 51%. In 2017, 0.2%. In 2021, 14.4%. Today, 11%. February is better: 63% in 2013, 23% in 2017, 36% in 2021. So Bitcoin could hit $155K or $160K fast. We don’t have to wait until the end of the year.
Altcoin Season Is Coming—But We’re Not There Yet
We’re on the edge of that sudden price spike. But we’re not in altcoin season yet. We’re not quite there for phase two of the banana zone. The altcoin season index needs to be in the 70–75 range. Right now, it dropped. Once it hits 75, we’re in. That’s when altcoins outperform Bitcoin and go parabolic.
Bitcoin Scarcity: The Game-Changer No One Is Pricing In
And the demand for Bitcoin is accelerating. That’s the big news. There used to be plenty of Bitcoin on exchanges, and demand was modest. But that’s no longer the case. We’ve now entered a phase where scarcity is becoming a significant factor in the market dynamic.
Traders have started noticing increasing buying pressure, particularly for Bitcoin and Solana. As more capital flows into these assets, the available supply on exchanges is shrinking. Liquidity is drying up, and this is especially visible with institutional interest heating up.
Take MicroStrategy, for example—they’re buying thousands of Bitcoin on a near-daily basis. Meanwhile, conversations across forums and investor circles are highlighting a growing concern: there may be looming supply shortages on over-the-counter (OTC) desks due to the surge in institutional buying. Even major platforms like Coinbase and Binance are beginning to struggle with fulfilling large buy orders, and not just for Bitcoin, but for Solana as well.
Try buying Solana—you might wait two days just to get it. Say you’ve got 250 Solana in your Coinbase account, but try moving it into a cold or hot wallet—you’ll wait a week or two. Just because the account says it’s there doesn’t necessarily mean the exchange actually has the liquidity to fulfill that transfer immediately.
The amount of Bitcoin available on public exchanges has dropped significantly, and the scarcity factor is real and growing. The problem is, many market analysts and forecasters are still pricing Bitcoin based on traditional models—using historical fundamentals—without factoring in the impact of its increasing scarcity. And that scarcity is going to accelerate and intensify.
Between now and the first quarter of 2026, it’s going to get real. You’ll try to buy Bitcoin, they’ll take your money, say it’s yours—but you can’t collect it. You won’t know when you’ll actually receive that full Bitcoin. That doesn’t mean you can’t buy $100 worth. But try buying a whole Bitcoin? Good luck.
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