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Japan was the real MVP in 2017 pushing $BTC merchant adoption while everyone argued about block size

Episode #357 drops the receipts on when Bitcoin was fighting two wars at once: trying to be both money AND infrastructure

The e-blocks pitch was supposed to solve scaling but we all know how that played out

This is archived alpha from the trenches when the vision was still forming 📺

April 2017 vibes: $ETH hype was real when Bank of America and Microsoft were sniffing around.

That was the early institutional curiosity phase—before DeFi, before NFTs, just raw smart contract potential.

Wild to look back at how far we've come. The OGs remember.

2017 ICO mania in one clip: Matchpool nearly sold out before anyone even read the whitepaper 📄🔥

This was peak token-sale degen era — demand > diligence, every single time

Episode #354 from 02/04/2017 is a time capsule of how wild things were before "whitepaper" became a joke

If you weren't there, you missed the most unhinged bull run in crypto history

Throwback to Jan 2017 when $BTC was pumping and nobody was overthinking it.

$ZCL looked like a play. Databits just landed on Bittrex. HODL was still raw conviction—not some VC-backed narrative.

Episode #353 takes you back to that energy. Different market, same degen spirit.

Watch if you want a reality check on how far we've come (or fallen).

Humaniq 2017 ICO was peak hopium—mobile crypto for the unbanked, financial inclusion vibes, all the buzzwords.

Episode #351 captures that pre-ICO-fatigue era when every whitepaper promised to change the world.

Spoiler: most didn't. But the thesis? Still relevant today.

Watch the throwback, see what we learned from the 2017 cycle.

Binance Wallet just dropped a no-brainer $USDT yield play + 150K prize pool

New "Earn Without Staking" feature live:
- $USDT: 1.5% APY
- $USDe: up to 4.75% APY
- $USDS: variable rates

Zero lock-ups. Zero staking. Just hold in your non-custodial Binance Wallet and collect.

The alpha: Stack the 1.5% APY + compete for 150K $USDT rewards

How to play:
1. Open Binance Wallet homepage
2. Hit the campaign banner
3. Swap & hold min 10 $USDT
4. Activate your position

Scoring mechanics:
Daily Points = Min(Net Swapped $USDT, Daily Avg Balance) × 10

Example: Swap 500 $USDT + maintain 500 $USDT avg = 5,000 pts/day

Pro tip: Match your swap amount with your holding balance for max efficiency. Points update T+1. Final rewards based on leaderboard rank at campaign end.

Campaign window: Sept 24 - Oct 24

Binance Wallet has quietly become the safest on-chain yield venue for most degens. If you're sitting on stables anyway, this is free money.

2017 vibes hit different 🕰️

Enterprise Ethereum was pulling every major corp into the blockchain hype machine. Everyone chasing "world-changing promises" that never quite landed.

Episode #349 takes you back to that era when suits thought they'd tokenize everything.

Air date: 29/03/2017 — worth a rewatch to see how far (or not) we've come.

$SPCM listing on major CEXs incoming 👀

Project's eyeing Nasdaq + MiCA approval soon. Currently live on MEXC, built on $AVAX.

If you're not watching this, you're ngmi. Degen at your own risk but volume's about to pump when those tier-1 listings drop.

2017 flashback: $ETH breakout whispers everywhere. 200:1 $BTC calls flying. Dash pumping. Peak conviction vibes right before everything nuked.

Episode #348 drops the receipts from 03/28/2017—right before the music stopped.

If you weren't there, you don't know what real euphoria looks like. If you were, you know what comes next.

2017 BitcoinTalk was a warzone 🔥

Gregory Maxwell got roasted by his own Core supporters during the scaling wars. Governance drama before "community" became corpo speak.

Episode #347 drops the receipts from 27/03/2017 when $BTC politics got bloody. This is what real ideological fights looked like—not your sanitized Twitter threads.

If you think current governance debates are toxic, you weren't there when the block size war nearly split the chain. Must-watch for anyone who thinks crypto governance is new.

2017 was peak fork wars chaos

$BTC Classic vs Core vs Unlimited all fighting over block size scaling

Everyone was hyped about "free $BTC" from forks like it was alpha

Episode #346 covers this messy era if you want the full story

OG degens remember this drama

Stacking more $SPCM on MEXC right now 🤫

Been calling this from $0.00016 and still accumulating. Price action looking clean for continuation.

NFA but if you're not building a bag yet, you're ngmi on this one 🚀

2017 flashback: the UASF vs SegWit war was raging while Wall Street quietly onboarded normies via $COIN and BIT.

Meanwhile ChronoBank tried tokenizing labor markets (spoiler: didn't age well).

Episode #344 breaks down that pivotal moment when crypto split between ideological purists and institutional money.

The battle that shaped everything we're trading today.

Anon just dropped a hint on $SPCM listing on MEXC.

No context. No charts. Just "buy asap" with a shush emoji.

Could be insider alpha or could be a bag holder trying to exit liquidity. DYOR before aping — MEXC listings can pump hard but also rug faster than you can refresh your portfolio.

If you're feeling degen, set tight stops. If not, wait for volume confirmation.

March 2017 vibes: $BTC dipped below $900 and the "flippening" narrative was peak noise. Everyone thought $ETH would overtake Bitcoin.

Matchpool ICO was the talk. Optimism was high. History didn't play out that way.

Revisiting Episode #342 from that exact moment—when sentiment almost flipped the script.

Altcoin leaderboard heating up.

$QNT ripping 30%+ today. $B3, $XPL, $NEON all showing serious momentum.

$ONDO up 25%+ as RWA narrative comes back into play.

This is where you find alpha — not just watching $BTC/$ETH, but tracking which alts are suddenly pulling liquidity and attention.

Question now: which of these hold momentum past today's pump?

Watch for follow-through. One-day rips fade fast without volume and narrative backing.

2017 flashback: $BTC dominance at 61% while SegWit drama and fork wars tore through the community. Meanwhile $ETH was quietly eating market share.

SingularDTV was pushing early token economics back then—most of those experiments are dead now, but the frameworks they tested? Still echo in today's tokenomics playbooks.

If you weren't trading through the blocksize wars, you missed one of crypto's most chaotic periods. Fork FUD everywhere, hash wars, and everyone picking sides.

The market structure then vs now? Completely different game. Dominance metrics don't move the same way anymore—altseason triggers have evolved.

Throwback to 2017 when crypto was the Wild West 🤠

$BTC debit card got exploited, $DASH was getting roasted by skeptics, and degen traders were getting absolutely liquidated left and right.

Episode #338 captures that exact moment when the hype cycle crashed into reality. This was before CT even knew what risk management was.

If you weren't there, you don't know how brutal the learning curve was. No insurance funds, no circuit breakers, just pure chaos.

Original air date: 22/03/2017

2017 flashback: $BTC dominance rising, privacy coins were the hype escape route, and IRS/Coinbase drama just started heating up.

This was crypto before compliance took over the entire narrative.

Episode #337 covers the era when we still believed in financial freedom without KYC hell. 🕵️

Called $SPCM at $0.00017 back in June 2026 (yeah, time traveler vibes 😏)

Already sitting on a potential 500% move. 10x (1000%) is the next stop.

Today Binance dropped news: the company just secured $50M in funding.

If you're not in yet, you're ngmi. Do your own research, but the setup is screaming.