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  • Untitled Episode

    Untitled Episode
    Oct 15 2026
    Good now revolutionaries—Thursday wrap with a hot inflation print. PPI came in at 6.3% versus 5.3% expected — a FULL percentage-point miss — and crypto broke live on-air. Will's second short of the week was already open (50% of his account, high conviction) and started printing immediately. The FedWatch odds for an October hike moved 20% → 25-30% on the day. Kevin Warsh speaking at the IMF 10:30pm tonight — fireside chat, could leak forward direction. The run-up: Alex closed his Quant long yesterday just before BTC nosedived, Quant dropped from $200 to $190 in seconds. Will's own short tightened too aggressively — took the 17% win and watched it quadruple without him. Then the risk-management teach-segment — why Will doesn't use stop-losses anymore, cross-margin at 25% of account with 30-50x leverage, picking ONE support/resistance line as your make-or-break, and the casino analogy for position sizing.Patrick Witt officially confirmed OUT (Eleanor Tourette retweeted + the White House replied within hours of her posting the Rise Up rumor). The corporate-crypto comment section going into mourning — Brian Armstrong, Jake Chervinsky, the whole wealth-made-this-year crowd. Alex's bigger pattern-recognition: Bo Hines left White House → straight to Tether as CEO of USAT (their Genius Act-compliant US stablecoin), with Tether money flowing into companies Hines already owned during his White House tenure. 'The conflict of interest is absolutely crazy.' Then the receipts: Richard Heart's SEC case was dismissed in 2025 as part of the blanket enforcement halt. CFTC identified flagrant insider trading on prediction markets ahead of the Iran war reversal — told to drop it. The CFTC is now just Michael Selleck. Alex's full rant: the industry supposed to disrupt global money has been handed to the worst people on earth while people lose healthcare and homelessness gets criminalized.Also in the pod: Octant launches a live-stream series TODAY 11am ET with Epoch 13 projects — Paperweight, Hisoka Labs, Umbra — all around privacy; follow at Octant app. Jeremy Allaire (Circle CEO) retweeted Argus — 'The whole industry wants to be serious until they look at how much revenue Pump Fun made.' Circle buy-zone math: $73 first gap, $68 real buy. Kraken's parent Payward buying a Lithuanian bank. TAO + the AI bubble — 'imaginary money between six companies and twelve dudes and the US government.' Citrini Research's new 79-page token basket (DRV, EtherFi, AAVE, Athena, Sol, Hype, Aero, LayerZero, Chainlink, Backpack, Maple, Uni, Pendle, Ondo) and the public-markets basket right alongside. Ledger Open live-stream roast as the Laura Shin tampered-Ledger thread ran next to it in the feed. Will's close: 'practice your buying muscle' — $5 micro-buys for anyone paralyzed on the sidelines. The Rise Up mission statement sends off the week: 'You're 99.99% closer to the person you've been told to hate than to the one you think has your best interest at heart.' Lovable Paws Rescue plug + the local-CSA angle.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.Support the show— Want to hang out with us after the show, get live answers to your questions, or join future giveaways? Join our free community where the show lives 24/7: community.rumshq.com—☕ THE RISE UP MORNING SHOW☀️LIVE Monday - Thursday @ 7a centralHelpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions.🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p centralDYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research.📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑LIVE Mondays @ 7p centralTechnical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market.⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p centralBreaking down U.S. crypto policy, regulation, and legislation—what they mean for the industry and what comes next.—WANT MORE?👉Connect w/us on your favorite social: https://rumshq.com👉Become a guest or sponsor: riseup@rumshq.com👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.comFOLLOW OUR HOSTS:☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info🐬 Will Watson: https://c...
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • After Dark Hits Episode 100🎉 Our Favorite Moments + Crypto Macro Updates | Ep 100🍻🌗

    After Dark Hits Episode 100🎉 Our Favorite Moments + Crypto Macro Updates | Ep 100🍻🌗
    Oct 15 2026
    Good now revolutionaries—Rise Up After Dark hits ONE HUNDRED. The headline comes in as the show opens — Richard Heart (Hex / PulseChain) was perp-walked in Istanbul. Alex reads the full Turkish-media inventory: $600K in cash, 24 wristwatches, 20 gold bracelets, 7 gold necklaces, 7 firearms, 1,300 rounds of ammo, 12 phones, 6 laptops, 20 GPUs, 14 SSDs, 2 drones. His wife was taken in too. Caps a long run — SEC's 2023 case alleged ~$1B raised in unregistered offerings and $12M in misappropriated investor funds; Finland's 2024 Interpol red notice did the rest. Will's wearing a $750 Ren Faire fur he eventually names Argus. Alex finally joins at 10:45 after what he calls the seventh-and-a-half circle of VA hell — AND a StreamYard horror story about playback-speed scrubbing silently changing timestamps in cloud recordings, invalidating every clip timestamp he'd pulled for the Ep 100 highlight edit. Silver lining: Alex's demo CARDS buy from this morning's JTX walkthrough fell on-air and he happened to catch the bottom, up 38%. '$50 — now I can afford my healthcare for 17 more minutes.'Patrick Witt officially confirmed OUT: Eleanor Tourette emailed the White House three times trying to confirm the Rise Up rumor, no response. The moment she posted the breaking rumor, the White House replied back — 'His service is over.' Full crypto-council clear-out confirmed on paper now. Then a 90-minute Will-vs-Evan Quant debate. Evan's long leaning on the Coinglass heatmap stacking $2B of shorts at $250. Will's three counterpoints: Coinglass is Binance-owned (don't trust it as a sole source), PPI tomorrow is expected hot, and the chart itself still has no bottom indicator. Round 2: Will overlays BTC and QNT side-by-side — Quant has decoupled from the macro but is actually UNDERPERFORMING Bitcoin on an accelerated schedule, not acting as some market-maker-manipulated outlier. Evan concedes the risk-management point. Full 'how CPI actually moves crypto' explainer from Will — Fed → rates → money supply → risk-on assets, with crypto as the most risk-on in the world.The milestone retrospective: Will's fart heard around the world, William Quigley chasing the bear outside his window, counting in the Bitcoin halving live on TikTok, the Alon-from-Pump-Fun phone call. Aerodrome-Velodrome merger details — Tuesday Nov 1, 1 old AERO → 1 new AERO, every 1,000 VELO → 44 AERO, Alpenglow goes live same day. DeFi Llama's revenue research pins launchpads as the #2 fastest-growing category — exactly why Argus is on Will's watchlist despite the $7M market cap. Doxxed-vs-undoxxed teams got the full accounting: FTX, Terra Luna (currently #119 by market cap, one spot above Jito at #120), Celsius, Richard Heart all doxxed and all rugged; Satoshi was anonymous. Membership giveaway starts tonight as a new tradition — Faye Leaf wins the free month of Premium. Jane Polly takes the dings leaderboard on a birthday bonus. SatRush update: Ethical-ish from the community won the Epoch Vault; White Whale has paused sponsorship temporarily while they onboard a new director of marketing. Alex's close is a hopeful one — Twitter discourse is noticeably better since Ukraine blew up the Russian bot farm (Tucker Carlson's engagement collapsed with it). Will names the fur Argus. 'Here's to a hundred more.'Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/Support the show— Want to hang out with us after the show, get live answers to your questions, or join future giveaways? Join our free community where the show lives 24/7: community.rumshq.com—☕ THE RISE UP MORNING SHOW☀️LIVE Monday - Thursday @ 7a centralHelpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions.🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p centralDYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research.📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑LIVE Mondays @ 7p centralTechnical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market.⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p centralBreaking down U.S. crypto policy, regulation, and legislation—what they mean for the industry and what comes next.—WANT MORE?👉Connect w/us on your favorite social: https://rumshq.com👉Become a guest or sponsor: riseup@rumshq.com👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.comFOLLOW OUR HOSTS:☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info🐬 Will Watson: https://c...
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    1 hr and 55 mins
  • The JTX Tutorial: Zero to Pro in Under an Hour + How to Handle Your Crypto Taxes | Ep 588

    The JTX Tutorial: Zero to Pro in Under an Hour + How to Handle Your Crypto Taxes | Ep 588
    Oct 14 2026

    Good now revolutionaries—

    A full JTX tutorial day — from zero to pro — triggered by Daniel P's '4% fees' question from the community. Three sign-in options, fund the wallet, cap your spend-authority permissions, and run through all four order types with Alex live. Market vs limit vs smart fill vs pro. The structural win over a Coinbase or Kraken limit order: on JTX the parameters live ON-CHAIN, so a smart contract forces the fill — flash crashes don't blow past it, platform glitches don't eat it, no priority stack putting your order behind someone else's. The CEX spread example: BTC market-buying at $84K while a limit sell on the same book is $82.2K — set a limit at market price even if you want it to fire now; you still save the spread. Smart Fill splits one big order into a burst of smaller ones to beat slippage, with a randomize toggle that masks your size from whale-hunters watching the book.

    Right in the middle of the tutorial — Will crashes in. CPI came in HOT: 3.7% headline (vs 3.6% expected), 2.6% core (vs 2.5%). 'I was right that the PCE methodology change was manipulation to make inflation look better going into the election.' Bitcoin breaks live on-air. Key support $82.3K; break opens $79-75K; worst case $69K. Oil pumpy = crypto dumpy. 'Might be the right day to be learning JTX to lock in gains.' Rate hikes at the end of October now a real possibility.

    Then a Coinglass liquidation-heatmap deep-dive on Quant — zoomed out to one week, a massive $256 band showing the whole market betting lower while market makers have every incentive to push HIGHER to collect those liquidations. Full explainer on why price is an outcome of activity, not the other way around. Dark pools, CZ, and what hyperliquid Jeff said — 'shocking breaking news: billionaire wants more money.'

    Taxes without the eye-glaze: HIFO vs FIFO vs LIFO, pick-one-and-stick-with-it, both long- and short-term rates are bracket-based (not a flat 37%), Alex ran Awaken against Coinly this year to compare. POAP has officially sunset — no more minting, Will figure out an alternative for Ep 100 tonight. Then the sober Clarity answer: it's coming back post-midterms and it's going to be WORSE — $84M already spent against Sherrod Brown — plus the political autopsy on how an eviscerated SEC/CFTC/White House Crypto Council (Sacks + Hines + Witt all gone) got here. The DOGE pattern repeats. Pig butchering mechanics + why 'traceable ≠ recoverable.' And breaking: Richard Heart (Hex / PulseChain) arrested in an early-morning Istanbul raid — luxury watches, firearms, cash — on an Interpol red notice from Finland. The Plume Network warning — $2M TVL, negative net flows, stale oracles, $2K daily volume on the 'most liquid' venue. Ep 100 of After Dark tonight.

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    LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central
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    Breaking down U.S. crypto policy, regulation, and legislation—what they mean for the industry and what comes next.


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