https://1n2.org/tbg/ An editorial newspaper covering the longest-running cryptocurrency show, est. 2013. Episode notes, analysis, guest desk, predictions, and archive. en-us Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:14:27 +0000 https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-497/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-497/ Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Saylor Sells; New Stocks; ATM sued (Panel: Victoria Jones, Adam, Robert Allen) https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-496/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-496/ Sat, 23 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A familiar pattern from MicroStrategy’s chairman; Cuban quietly trims his bag; and a Republican from Alaska tries, again, to legislate a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. (Panel: Jess C.) https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-494/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-494/ Sat, 16 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Consensus 2026 holds its flagship afterparty at a Miami club called E11even; four thousand badge-holders are left in the street; the Clarity Act passes; nobody moves. (Panel: Victoria Jones) https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-493/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-493/ Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's April rebound a durable recovery, or mainly another Wall Street-shaped speculative rally around treasury companies, political branding, and the Las Vegas conference machine? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-492/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-492/ Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A Forbes investigation arrives the day before the Bitcoin Conference; Strategy posts its first positive month since July; and the Celsius founder is, formally, banned from crypto for life. (Panel: Victoria Jones, Ben Arc) https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-491/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-491/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin rising because geopolitical risk had eased, because Washington had delivered a stablecoin bill, or because the old system had finally learned to dress itself in crypto clothing? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-490/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-490/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Could Bitcoin keep rising as geopolitical pressure eased, while the network confronted harder questions about quantum risk, frozen coins, and the institutional capture of crypto? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-489/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-489/ Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin facing a normal bear-market reckoning, a technical governance crisis, or the first signs that the treasury-company cycle had run ahead of itself? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-488/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-488/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's slide below $66,000 a bearish near-term turn, or just another institutional accumulation window wrapped in ETF, stablecoin, and political noise? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-487/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-487/ Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 What does crypto look like when the outsiders win enough institutional approval to become the thing they once opposed? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-486/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-486/ Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's current strength a war-driven trade, a rotation back into digital gold, or simply another week in a long monetary experiment still waiting for broad recognition? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-485/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-485/ Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How should Bitcoin be read in a week where war risk, sanctions, pensions, New York licensing, and old protocol fights all pointed back to the same unresolved institution? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-484/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-484/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's latest weakness about price, or about the institutional and political machinery now wrapped around it? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-483/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-483/ Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Was the week's crypto drama a story of institutions maturing around Bitcoin, or of old speculative habits returning under new corporate and AI wrappers? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-482/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-482/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin facing another temporary drawdown, or had the recent institutional bid become another source of pressure on the market? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-481/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-481/ Sat, 07 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's sudden drop and sharp rebound a temporary leverage flush, the start of a bear market, or the visible cost of Bitcoin's deeper financialization? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-480/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-480/ Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's drop into the low $80,000s a temporary liquidation event, or another reminder that Bitcoin still trades like a risk asset when liquidity tightens? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-479/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-479/ Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's latest weakness the end of a shallow cycle, or another sign that the old four-year rhythm still governs a market now tangled with Wall Street, banks, stablecoins, and politics? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-478/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-478/ Sat, 10 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin merely waiting out another tariff-driven political shock, or had the market already slipped back into the familiar four-year-cycle pattern despite a week of institutional adoption stories? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-477/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-477/ Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Could Bitcoin enter 2026 with its price floor restored while its public liabilities - scams, mining noise, political conflicts, and paper-market expansion - grew harder to ignore? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-476/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-476/ Sat, 27 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin entering a 2026 Wall Street super-cycle, or was the market merely recycling the familiar optimism of a late-cycle price narrative? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-475/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-475/ Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin merely waiting out another forced market structure, or had the familiar cycle narrative finally weakened under institutions, leverage, and exhaustion? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-474/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-474/ Sat, 13 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's pullback below $90,000 a normal market washout, the start of a broader AI-led correction, or simply another week in a maturing Bitcoin economy? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-473/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-473/ Sat, 25 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's week defined more by institutional normalization, political corruption around crypto, or the recurring hazards that come with an open monetary network? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-472/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-472/ Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was the historic crypto liquidation a normal leverage unwind, an exchange failure, or a politically timed market event hiding in plain sight? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-471/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-471/ Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's week defined by institutional normalization, internal governance stress, or the return of older unresolved crypto problems under new names? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-470/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-470/ Sat, 04 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's move toward $120,000 a shutdown-driven hedge trade, a post-halving cycle move, or another stage in institutional normalization? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-469/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-469/ Sat, 27 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Would the Bitcoin Knots dispute over data filtering and illicit-content risk become a genuine Bitcoin governance crisis, or merely another doomed fork episode? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-468/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-468/ Sat, 20 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was the week's Bitcoin story a maturing market rejecting derivative Bitcoin wrappers, or simply another round of crypto spectacle built on top of the same asset? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-467/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-467/ Sat, 13 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was the renewed Bitcoin Core versus Knots fight really about OP_RETURN policy, or was it a governance and trust dispute over who gets to steer Bitcoin development? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-466/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-466/ Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was the Bitcoin Core versus Bitcoin Knots fight a necessary engineering cleanup, a reckless change to Bitcoin's character, or simply another old argument wearing new clothes? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-465/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-465/ Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's latest pullback a real change in direction, or just the market absorbing the United States stepping back from buying Bitcoin for a strategic reserve? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-464/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-464/ Sat, 02 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's pullback to the $114,000 area a tariff-driven macro stumble, or still part of a broader liquidity cycle carrying the market higher? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-463/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-463/ Sat, 26 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 What does this week's Bitcoin news say about the new rule for states, companies, and old holders: hold the coins, prove the reserves, and survive the temptation to sell? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-462/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-462/ Sat, 19 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin entering the mind-bending phase of the cycle, or was institutional capture arriving in the same package as higher prices? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-461/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-461/ Sat, 28 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 If institutions, ETFs, treasury companies, and now governments are buying Bitcoin, why does the market still feel stalled rather than transformed? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-460/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-460/ Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was the week's crypto policy turn really a Bitcoin victory, or mostly the dollar system learning how to survive through stablecoins? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-459/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-459/ Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Can Bitcoin absorb war headlines, failed Washington legislation, and a new wave of institutional paper claims without losing the custody logic that gave it value? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-458/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-458/ Sat, 07 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin entering a new institutional feedback loop, or was the corporate treasury boom recreating the old financial system that Bitcoin was built to escape? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-457/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-457/ Sat, 31 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas a sign of Bitcoin's success, or a sign that its older ideals had been absorbed by banks, politicians, and wealth machinery? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-456/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-456/ Sat, 24 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's new all-time-high cycle being strengthened by institutional adoption, or was it being reabsorbed into the same fragile and corrupt financial system it was designed to escape? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-455/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-455/ Sat, 17 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was the week's real Bitcoin story Coinbase's data failure, the growing corporate treasury bid, or the increasingly political machinery forming around Bitcoin and crypto? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-454/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-454/ Sat, 10 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Should Bitcoin loosen its OP_RETURN limits and absorb more arbitrary data just as institutions, scammers, and political operators are crowding into the system? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-453/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-453/ Sat, 03 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Did Bitcoin's institutional victory arrive as adoption, or did it arrive as the banks and states rebuilding the old custody system around Bitcoin? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-452/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-452/ Sat, 26 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Can Bitcoin remain useful as money while the new institutional treasury trade turns it into something large companies simply warehouse? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-451/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-451/ Sat, 19 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Can Bitcoin still be treated as working money, not merely institutional collateral, while macro pressure and large holders pull the narrative toward hoarding? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-450/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-450/ Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Did Bitcoin still have a credible path higher after Trump's tariff whiplash, or had political volatility turned the cycle into another macro trade? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-449/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-449/ Sat, 05 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin entering another acceleration phase, or had Trump's tariff shock and crypto conflicts turned the week into a test of Bitcoin's political and monetary assumptions? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-448/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-448/ Sat, 29 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Can Bitcoin absorb a week of corporate imitation, tariff anxiety, regulatory retreat, and Trump-family stablecoin opportunism without losing the plot? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-447/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-447/ Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was the market's weak response to Trump's Bitcoin speech a temporary correction, a warning about political chaos, or the beginning of a more formal state-and-Wall-Street Bitcoin era? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-446/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-446/ Sat, 15 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's post-reserve disappointment a temporary correction, a broken cycle, or the first sign that institutional adoption had changed the market more than Bitcoiners expected? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-445/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-445/ Sat, 08 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was the new strategic Bitcoin reserve a genuine institutional milestone for Bitcoin, or a thin political promise built out of seized coins and market theater? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-444/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-444/ Sat, 01 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's post-inauguration pullback a temporary retest, a political disappointment, or the first sign that institutional Bitcoin had been sold a weaker deal than it expected? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-443/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-443/ Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin's institutional moment being strengthened by new capital and public-company balance sheets, or weakened by exchange hacks, meme-coin fraud, and political shortcuts? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-442/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-442/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Does Bitcoin's institutional adoption make holding Bitcoin the only rational business strategy, or does it simply rebuild the same intermediated financial system around it? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-441/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-441/ Sat, 08 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Was Bitcoin entering another institutional leg higher, or was the week mainly a reminder that custody, politics, and leveraged wrappers still define the market around it? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-440/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-440/ Sat, 01 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Did Trump's early crypto friendliness, tariff politics, and pardon culture mark a genuine Bitcoin turn, or just another round of power attaching itself to money? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-439/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-439/ Sat, 25 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Did Bitcoin politics just receive its promised dividend, and at what institutional and civic cost? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-438/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-438/ Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000 In a year when Bitcoin crossed 100,000, Wall Street arrived through ETFs, and Trump returned to power, what actually defined Bitcoin in 2024? https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-437/ https://1n2.org/tbg/episode/TBG-437/ Sat, 04 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000 On Genesis Block Day, did Bitcoin's original self-custody and settlement-layer ideas still matter amid a market now dominated by price, ETFs, miners, and stablecoins?