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Is Bitcoin’s bear market almost over? Macro analyst Lyn Alden joins Coin Stories to give her honest read on Bitcoin’s price, where we go from here, and why she says no rescue is coming. Lyn returns to cut through the noise: why hard assets like Bitcoin and gold have been left behind, and why Bitcoin has to prove itself on its own merits. She also breaks down the volatility around Strategy’s ($MSTR) digital credit instrument $STRC, and the protocol fight dividing the Bitcoin community right now.

00:00 Why AI Stocks Are Booming While Bitcoin Falls
4:59 Is AI a Bubble? Lyn’s Honest Take
11:31 The Real Cost of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok
13:48 Why Bitcoin Miners Have the Edge on Cheap Power
17:09 When Will Money Flow Back Into Bitcoin?
19:16 Is Strategy in Trouble? Lyn Stress-Tests the Bears
28:14 The Digital Credit Fight Dividing Bitcoiners
33:41 Who Is STRC Actually For?
35:45 How Wall Street Trading Desks Profit From Digital Credit
39:59 How the Crypto and Memecoin Collapse Is Dragging Bitcoin Down
44:43 Will the Clarity Act Actually Pass This Year?
48:02 Is This Bear Market Worse Than the 2022 FTX Crash?
48:48 The Bitcoin Protocol Fight over BIP110 Explained
52:49 The Battle Over What Belongs on Bitcoin
55:22 Why the Big Money Print Still Isn’t Coming

Lyn Alden is the founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy. Lyn has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in engineering management, with a focus on engineering economics and financial modeling. She worked as an electrical engineer at an aviation facility, and over the course of a decade worked her way up from being an intern to being the lead engineer and running the day-to-day operations and finances of the facility, before retiring early at age 33 with financial independence. Since then, Lyn has been a full-time investor and independent analyst. Her latest book is Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better.

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