The DeFi Report

Bitcoin is pushing back toward $80K, but the underlying data still looks like a classic bear market setup. Mike and Ryan break down why “hot money” from the 2025 top hasn’t fully rotated yet, how past cycles suggest more downside or time is needed, and why dip buyers may be stepping in too early. They also explain what real bottom formation looks like onchain and why this rally could be more about positioning than a true shift in trend. 

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
1:44 Mike's Evolving Thinking on Altcoins
5:12 Analyzing Bitcoin's Cost Basis Data
8:11 Understanding Bitcoin's Cohorts
10:08 Exploring New & Old Money Patterns
14:20 Comparing Cohorts Across Cycles
18:09 Key Takeaways from the Cohort Analysis
26:33 Portfolio Moves & Strategy Discussion
32:07 Closing & Disclaimers

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What is The DeFi Report?

Our weekly show is hosted by Michael Nadeau (The DeFi Report) and Ryan Sean Adams (Bankless). Each week, we discuss how we approach managing our own portfolio and the data, research, and analytical frameworks that inform those decisions — for educational and informational purposes.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[0:09] Hey everyone welcome to the report the question today has the hot money rotated it is april 22nd 2026 so we are six months into the bear market the question today is how much of 2025's hot money all that new money

Ryan Sean Adams:
[0:25] Invested in Bitcoin, how much of that has actually rotated? That is a key milestone

Ryan Sean Adams:
[0:29] we want to check in on in this cycle. And this is where Mike opens today's report. Imagine you could analyze the cost basis of every Apple shareholder. What percent bought the peak? Who sold the 20% drawdown? Whether long-term holders bought the dip? On-chain lets us run that for Bitcoin. That's the focus this week. How much of 2025's hot money has rotated to the new hands. We're six months into the bear market. We're going to check in on this. This would be like a cost-based cohort analysis. We're going to look at these cohorts and how they match the 2021 cycle and how they match the 2017 cycle in order to answer the question, how close are we to the Bitcoin bottom? Also, stick around to the end. Mike, I think, earlier this week has made his first altcoin buys of the cycle. I want to check in on what is motivating that. Actually, Maybe we just start there. So you have said, and you still believe in today's report, that we're firmly entrenched in the bear market, that Bitcoin has not hit its lows. The lows are not in yet. Yet, yet earlier this week, it caught you up buying some altcoins. That was the TDR Pro portfolio alert. So what flipped on Monday? Why'd you do that?

Michael Nadeau:
[1:45] Yeah. So, you know, my thinking's evolving. We've talked a little bit about how, you know, a lot of stuff will bottom when Bitcoin bottoms and you know that is a strategy you can you can probably wait on a lot of this stuff my thinking is evolving a little bit on on this topic just because we've seen some other tokens high quality tokens start to do stuff slightly independent of bitcoin hype is an example of this and we're getting into the zone of the bear market here where.

Michael Nadeau:
[2:14] It looks to me like I can start to build a case that a lot of these altcoins are pretty much washed out. You know, that doesn't mean that we're not going to go lower or Bitcoin has more weakness that we can't go lower. But I think you can make a case that like the Solana ecosystem, parts of the Ethereum ecosystem have been in a pretty deep bear market now for over a year. And Bitcoin dominance tends to drop, you know, at the bottom of a fair market. So I sort of think we're kind of in this phase now where some of these charts that I'm looking at on some of these assets that we've been doing research on, on trading volumes just continue to decline. And some of these charts just kind of look like they're sort of starting to flatline a little bit. And to me, that's like a zone where you can start to think about making some buys and starting to scale in. So we're starting that process. Maybe I'm getting a little too impatient, but like I said, things are pretty washed out. And the focus is really kind of on building the portfolio out and then trying to get some better fat pitches on BTC here.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[3:23] All right. At the end of today's episode, we got to flip the hood on that and

Ryan Sean Adams:
[3:26] check in on the portfolio. But first, of course, we got to talk about Bitcoin cohorts. Before we do, we want to thank our friends and sponsors over at Galaxy. If you have not checked this out, Galaxy One is a consumer app for you, TDR listener. They're launching staking on Solana. So if you're already holding Sol, you need to be staking that Sol. Otherwise, you are losing like 6.5% in terms of rewards. And right now on Galaxy One, they have their own Solana validator infrastructure. And if you stake with them, there's no commission fee all the way to the end of this year. It's all integrated. You can buy Sol there, other apps, you can transfer it. Once you stake, it just compounds automatically. So you can kind of set it and forget it as long as you're holding Sol. You may as well be staking on Galaxy One. There's a link in the show notes. All right, the price, Bitcoin price at the time of recording, we're hovering below 80k. So about 89k. It's looking a little bit bullish. You might say this is short term bullish. I know you talked about 80k being resistance, 80 to 85k. Maybe we'll get to that. That's where we are at the time of recording. Now, let's set up what we're going to do in today's episode, which is the cohort analysis.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[4:43] This is a cost-based analysis. And you said in the opening note, imagine you could do this for Apple. Tell us the structure of this. Why is a cost-based analysis useful for any asset? And then in particular, why is it useful for Bitcoin? And what are we really analyzing here?

Michael Nadeau:
[5:04] Yeah. Yeah. This is like when I first got into crypto, this is like what hooked

Michael Nadeau:
[5:09] me is the fact that this data is different. It's unique. I remember when I first started looking at Bitcoin and I can't even remember what data company it was, but like you could see the flow of capital on chain. You could see when holders were sending coins into exchanges, things like this. This was like something that just kind of really grabbed my attention. It's really what kind of drew me to the space.

Michael Nadeau:
[5:31] And, you know, we opened with that because when I explain crypto and on-chain data to somebody from like traditional finance, And that, you know, when you typically do fundamental research and in TradFi, you know, you're going to be looking at the asset itself and doing the fundamental research and building a case for that sector. Maybe you're folding in some, you know, macro analysis or what the, you know, where you're at in the business cycle. But you don't really have this extra layer of data here where you actually can understand the holder base of the asset itself. And this is particularly helpful in crypto because things like Bitcoin are just store value assets, right? It's really just, you know, supply and demand asset. It trades more like a commodity. And what's interesting is like, I've had a lot of readers of the DeFi report that come from the oil and gas space. And this is the type of analysis that they do to determine if they're going to be risk-on or risk-off in oil markets. And I've had a lot of them reach out to me and compare what I'm doing to what they actually do in commodities markets. Really?

Ryan Sean Adams:
[6:38] It must be so much harder for them to get all of the data required to do this type of analysis, though.

Michael Nadeau:
[6:45] Correct. Correct. And we work with data providers to get a lot of this data. But what I think this is really helpful, particularly at this stage of the cycle, because we're about six months into the market, I want to understand sort of not only the supply and demand in the market out there, but what has happened, you know, typically in these cycles, you get a new cohort of investors that come in, typically later stage in a bull market. And we want to understand like, you know, how how strong are those hands? And we want to understand like historically, what has happened, you know, maybe six months into a bear market, how many of those coins, what percentage of those coins have rotated? And then, like, it really helps me understand just in some ways the psychology of the market and sort of dip buying behavior. And we just fold this into our analysis with everything else we're looking at on fundamentals and cycle awareness data and things like that.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[7:42] So cohort analysis, the type that we're doing today, it would be great if we had this for Apple for equities, but it's particularly useful when it comes to commodities. You know, the faith and flow type assets, assets like oil, assets like gold. And now, unlike any of those other assets, all of the data is available to us on chain. And that's the basis for the analysis that we're doing today.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[8:04] So you open this report with a graph, Bitcoin cost basis clusters. This is the number of Bitcoin and I guess the percent of supply. Is that is that correct? held at each price range. Walk through what this bar chart is showing.

Michael Nadeau:
[8:22] Yeah, this is showing the cohorts. This is as of April 20th. This is data from Glassnode. And it's showing all of the cohorts, the current cohorts. And what we can see is there's a percentage there on the top. That's the current number of coins held within that cost basis band. And then you have the actual number of coins on there as well. And what we've been observing here is, not surprisingly, the $66.2 to $78k ban there has been growing the most. We've been in this trading range for Bitcoin between $60k up to about $79k or so now for two and a half months or so. And we're observing lots of dip buying activity at this level. So coins are changing hands out there.

Michael Nadeau:
[9:15] And really what I'm looking at is like, trying to deeply understand how this played out in the last cycle. We can't predict where the price is going, obviously, but it's interesting to sort of see what percentage of the coins that came in at the top of the last cycle, what percentage of them had rotated six months into the bear market. We were at a similar stage back in 2022, where Bitcoin was trading around 30K at this stage of the cycle. And there was another leg to drop. And we can kind of see, does the dip buying behavior at this stage, six months in, in 2026, what does that look like compared to 2022? And if we get further weakness, how might this start to shake out? So I think that's the takeaway. Lots of dip buying in that zone. And we can kind of get in, there's a lot of

Michael Nadeau:
[10:06] nuance here that we can kind of get into with some of this data.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[10:09] Yeah, let's get into it. So we have these different cohorts based on the price at which they likely purchased their Bitcoin, right? And so everything over, I guess, everything over 78K or 79K at the time of recording, I suppose, they're underwater on their purchases. That would be kind of the newer money.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[10:33] And then we have some of the actually, you know, in order to understand this, you know, in a human friendly label type way, I actually ran some of this through through Claude, Mike. And I'm wondering what you think of this, which is these various bands. So there's a new money band, it seems to me. That's a pattern in 2025. Right now, that band is if the new money purchased between one hundred and eight K and one hundred and twenty six K.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[10:56] Um, the young money is, is the band that purchased between about a 66 K to 78 K. So we got the new money, the young money, and then we have old money, which is the band right now that purchased between 56 K and 66 K. And then we have like the ancient money and they purchased below, you know, a 21 K and these same bands show up every single cycle. So we always get new money. We always have, those would be the new cycle buyers or the new purchases that an existing cycle buyer made during that cycle. And then you have the young money and then you had the old money and you had the ancient, the OG type money. And these types of labels and these cohorts repeat. Now, of course, the prices are different each cycle. So in 2021, the new money they purchased between $56K and $66K rather than $108K and $126K. So the bands are different, but you see the same sort of cohorts of buyers each cycle. I think that's an important underlying principle when we're doing this cohort analysis. So what do you think of those labels? Does that work for you?

Michael Nadeau:
[12:06] It does. It does. I think this is a good way to lay it out. Thank you for throwing this together. And, you know, maybe getting into some of the takeaways here, if we compare, you know, the new money, so this is the 108 to 126k band currently in this current cycle, that relates to the 56 to 66k band last cycle. What we can see is that, Roughly at six months into the bear market in the last cycle, about 46% of the coins held in the new money band had been rotated to do hands. So 46% in 2022 of new money. Where are we at today with the new money from this current cycle? Down 43%, right? So lines up very, very similarly. We also looked at, you know, where do these land? Where do these cohorts land at the bottom of 2022?

Michael Nadeau:
[13:05] That new money cohort actually ended up selling about, you know, reducing their holdings by another 14% as the cycle went on. Obviously, you know, price action drove a lot of that behavior. But it's interesting to me that there was still a lot more of a shakeup that kind of came out later in the cycle. And what's particularly interesting to me is that this band that's picking up all of the coins today, this is the 66 to 78K band. And this was equivalent to, this is the young money, it's equivalent to like $29K to $34K in the last bear market. And that was the band that grew the most, you know, in the first six months of the last bear market, which was interesting. And it's also the band that's growing the most in this current bear market. What's interesting as the cycle played out for another six months in 2022 that cohort actually finished the cycle down down three and a half percent and it's holding so it tells you like people were jumping in too early and then it seems like they were coughing up those coins later we might have a similar setup you know in play you know today.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[14:21] So what we're seeing is, I guess, similar patterns across these cohorts in various cycles. This is another graph that Claude helped me output of the different cohorts in 2021 and what they did. There's the new money, the young money, the old money, and kind of like in 2021 and where we are today. It looks like the new money in 2021, it seems like they actually sold. They just like bleed steadily down. So that's kind of the bottom line in red, right? So at this point in the cycle last time, they were down 46% in terms of the amount of Bitcoin supply that they held. So they were selling. And I guess psychologically, new money kind of, they purchase this fantastic Bitcoin product because everyone tells them number go up. And then they become disillusioned and disappointed when number didn't go up and they're down and so they capitulate. And so this is the crowd in the cohort that capitulates the hardest. And in 2021, at this midpoint, they capitulated 46% of all of their Bitcoin. By the end of the cycle, they coughed up 60% total. So there's still more capitulation in store for them. Now, the young money, this cohort, At first, they accumulate, right?

Ryan Sean Adams:
[15:45] Which is kind of curious. So during the first six months of the bear cycle, they're still buying. They still have some faith, I suppose, given they're not yet underwater or they're barely underwater and they buy too soon is what you are saying. And then what happened in 2021 and 2017 is that. They cough it up later in the second half of the bear cycle, the second six months. And they end up actually with three to four percent less than when they started.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[16:19] But the old money, and this is what's interesting, the old money tends to be kind of the patient, I don't know, diamond hands, smart hands. They draw down a little bit during the bear market and then they rapidly accumulate. Yes. So the old money in 2021 was up 356% because they continued buying during these dips. And this pattern, this trend, you're saying persists. You saw it in 2017, you see it in 2021, and now you're kind of looking at some extrapolation in 2026.

Michael Nadeau:
[16:54] Yeah, just helping me understand the holder base, trying to get in the minds of the market a little bit here, I think it's helpful. And yeah, I think that's the big takeaway is that the old money was actually down, you know, six months into the bear market. And in 2022, this was like 18K to 21K, which also aligns with the prior cycle top, which is kind of interesting. So that cohort was actually down and it's holding six months into the bear and finished the 2022 bear market up 356%. So there was a ton of buying late in the cycle from this cohort, potentially even from people that were buying in the cohorts above them, right, that were buying too early and then they still, you know, started buying the dip later. We have a similar setup. I think that the equivalent of that cohort today is the 56 to 66K aligns with the prior cycle top. It's down 18% in its holding. So that also looks similar. It's down 18% six months in. we will see if that cohort, it's only about 5% of the supply right now, and the band above it is 10%, we'll see if that flips potentially if we have

Michael Nadeau:
[18:07] some more weakness in the market, I think.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[18:09] Okay. So let's make sure we get the takeaways that you have in your report from this cohort analysis. So there's four key takeaways here. I think they're all worth highlighting. So let's start with the first. We continue to believe the same setup is in play today, similar cohort pattern. If we are correct, we expect to see the $66,000 to $78,000 cohort holdings decline as the bear market drags on, assuming Bitcoin revisits the early February lows, that's $60,000, and possibly drops further. Okay, so that's a takeaway, I suppose. What would you say about that?

Michael Nadeau:
[18:47] Yeah, I think the takeaway is that people are potentially getting back into the market, buying dips a little bit too early, And we won't know until, you know, the price, you know, potentially comes back to some of these levels or drops further. But the setup here looks very similar to 2022.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[19:11] The second is we should see the 56 to 66K cohort, currently 5.7% of the supply, increase its holdings. So you'd expect to see that as well in the next six months? Yep.

Michael Nadeau:
[19:24] Exactly. And that's the cohort, again, lines up with the prior cycle top. That would be the cohort that grew the most in the 2022 bear market.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[19:34] And then number three, you'd expect to see investors just chopped up. In other words, particularly the new money, and I guess the young money gets chopped up by rushing too early to buy dips. And in fact, that's kind of what we're seeing right now.

Michael Nadeau:
[19:51] Potentially. Potentially. We can get into sort of what's going on out there right now as well. And, you know, this could be totally wrong, right? If the price doesn't, you know, just ends up establishing support at some of these elevated numbers, you know, maybe these dip buying opportunities don't come into play and the coins don't rotate as much as normal. To me, that's an anomaly. And I want to anchor to kind of what I think is more likely to play out. But, yeah, I mean, it's kind of interesting. We've been in this band here for two and a half months or so. It looks like a pretty typical bear market rally from my perspective. And what we saw like a move up towards $78K or so early this week, maybe last Friday.

Michael Nadeau:
[20:42] And we're now making another move back up there. What's interesting is like there's a lot of negative funding out there. So the trading community is fading this rally and shorting into this right now. It's the most negative funding, which is just an indication that people want to be shorting the market. It's the most we've seen since April of 2025. 25 um so what's interesting is like that could you know there's been some short liquidations short squeezes um that have been going on over the last few days and i think that's sort of pushing the price up into these like resistance zones and we'll see you know i'm also looking just you know are there is there some indication that like people are really kind of coming coming in and going risk on are the etf flows picking up you know large large inflows not not really seeing that on-chain. I think the one bright spot is just Saylor. He bought another $2.5 billion.

Michael Nadeau:
[21:42] He's relentless in the bear market. And so he bought another $2.5 billion, I think, by my count, up to roughly $10 billion of purchases so far in 2026. So I think the big question is, does that have the same sort of... Is that pouring gasoline on the market like we typically see during during bull markets or is he just sort of able to quietly go in by by uh spot bitcoin over the counter you know not move the price really and he's not necessarily like uh.

Michael Nadeau:
[22:15] Sort of, you know, buying up all of the, you know, the supply that gets sold in the next capitulation. We'll see.

Michael Nadeau:
[22:23] So yeah, I think that's a setup. I don't see any, I'm not seeing like some, any activity that makes me think like this is a real durable push just yet. And so we'll see, like this is, it looks to me like a pretty typical bear market rally that maybe extends into 85k zone or so but these next few weeks are going to be really interesting to see how this how this shakes out are.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[22:46] You leaving open the possibility mike that michael sailor's buying activity has just blunted the crypto winter and made it a much milder crypto winter than we would normally experience and so we won't see that dip that capitulation

Michael Nadeau:
[23:02] I'm open to it. I still think like, you know, Bitcoin is a supply and demand market. And if we do have, you know, I don't know what the catalyst would be. There probably needs to be, you know, a catalyst potentially for this move. I mean, you know, we've sort of been moving away from macro and like less focused on what's going on over in Iran. The market's sort of moving past some of this, but there's always a chance that that actually re-escalates and causes some turbulence in the markets. But I'm really, I think the thing that I'm mostly anchored to is just this is a supply and demand asset. Like one buyer can't blunt, you know, a multi-trillion dollar asset. I don't think. I could be wrong on that. But I can't build an investment. I wouldn't be able to build an investment case on just like one buyer in the market.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[23:53] So you think there's more rotation that needs to happen before this whole thing plays out that the new money coins from last year, they haven't fully rotated. And we won't conclude the bear cycle until that rotation happens, essentially. That's your base case, at least.

Michael Nadeau:
[24:13] That's the base case. And, you know, we have kind of like a view of that. And it does look like there's just more... There's more coins that need to sort of change hands here just to really establish that bottom that we're looking for. And then, you know, hopefully we get some sort of catalyst in the market from a liquidity perspective that sort of leads Bitcoin, you know, back out of this on the other side. So we'll see. We're coming into a very interesting zone here. This is the latest, you know, battle between the bulls and the bears. Is I think I'm seeing more sort of positive sentiment around Bitcoin, more bullish sentiment out there. It's been a rough few weeks in crypto broadly. I think everything that you would look for kind of at the depth of a bear market is playing out, I think, actively in the market right now. That's one of the other reasons that we want to be in a little bit more of a risk-on stance, even though we think there may be some more weakness coming for Bitcoin.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[25:12] And I mean, just this week, talking about sentiment, There's some DeFi has failed, you know, crypto is dead. We've got this barrage of hacks that are hitting us right now. I mean, that's a low market sentiment indicator. So with these cohorts, I suppose you're going to be continuing to watch them to see how well they fit the pattern. In particular, now the new money has to capitulate a bit more. You'd expect to see them selling. Same with the young money. And you'd expect the old money to start accumulating maybe somewhat aggressively into the future. And if you see those signs, then you have further indication that it's fitting the cohort rotation cycle that we've seen in previous cycles.

Michael Nadeau:
[25:52] Yeah, exactly. And that's the base case. And I should just mention, too, like this data is evolving with time. Yeah. So the data that we're looking at is on-chain data. This comes from Glassnode. There is some data that's out of our purview, right? That's the ETFs. That's 6% of the supply. And then there's some of the supplies held on centralized exchanges. We don't have a view into that. So we're working with about 80% of the data. This has been high signal for us as investors through these cycles. But I just want to just let people know this data is evolving.

Michael Nadeau:
[26:29] And there's other ways to analyze ETFs and things that are happening on exchanges as well.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[26:34] Okay, let's talk about the portfolio moves. Earlier this week, as I said, I received a TDR Pro alert that the portfolio had changed. I excitedly opened up that email and I saw a few purchases, a few altcoin purchases. So we won't talk about the exact percentages. Maybe we won't cover them all, but you made a few moves. Do you want to talk about those moves? What can you tell us? I know the full story is reserved for TDR Pro members, but what do you want to share about this?

Michael Nadeau:
[27:03] Yeah, so what we're doing here, and I'll preface this to say that some of the best moves we made in the last bear market were kind of focused on similar research that we're doing now, trying to identify the stuff that is deeply oversold and somewhat overlooked, that was working well in the last cycle, that's getting somewhat overlooked. And maybe there's attention going into other areas currently. And so that's the focus. What we're trying to do here is find stuff that we can get into for at least a one to three year holding period. And I'm looking for like venture style returns where we can outperform Bitcoin over that whole holding period.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[27:45] What's venture style? Is that like a 10X to you?

Michael Nadeau:
[27:47] Um, we, we had a few 10 X's, uh, in the, in the last cycle. Uh, those would be, that's, that's a venture style of return. Like to me, like anything over five X or so is really what I'm looking for. And I'm looking to outperform Bitcoin over, over a cycle.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[28:01] So is that like a five X on Bitcoin or in a 10 X on Bitcoin? Or is that on, you say dollars?

Michael Nadeau:
[28:06] I get my base case is probably that Bitcoin, you know, may be able to get to like 250 K or so through the next expansion, maybe, maybe, maybe higher, but that's kind of like a, you know, kind of a base case to set. And so I'm trying to identify where's that bottom going to be? What are those returns look like? And then like any other capital that's going into the market, I want to have some thesis for why that could outperform Bitcoin, you know, across a cycle. And again, these are like, you know, one to three year holding periods. And, you know, We started buying Solana in 2022 at $30 in the last bear market, and we bought it all the way. This is an example of what I think it was down close to 90% or so at that point, and we did have another move down. We kept buying it and then ended up in a position where our average cost was about $15.

Michael Nadeau:
[29:00] That was one of our best moves of the cycle, and we also did pretty well on Bonk. So if people are following some of the moves that we made here, You may see like some similar themes where we're looking for things that worked really well in the last cycle that are somewhat overlooked, that are down, you know, 90% or so. They're pretty washed out. These charts are, you know, there's very low trading volumes. These charts are starting to flatline a little bit. You know, I'm looking for seller exhaustion. At some point, even if there's sort of risks on macro and there's risks in the market, at some point, crypto just gets washed out. And like there's the sellers are somewhat, you know, somewhat depleted out there. And that's kind of what I'm looking for as we start to move more into risk on. We have a number of themes that we're focused on and I'm trying to find the category winners and be able to build a portfolio around these like kind of, you know, high conviction bets.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[29:57] So you're buying these assets. I think it was four assets on the week and they're all in deep value territory, fair value at least, but deep value territory. Are you worried at all that it's still a little bit early, given we haven't seen the Bitcoin macro lows? Because I would guess that your base expectation is if we hit lower lows on Bitcoin, then the rest of the down market stuff is going to go to lower lows as well.

Michael Nadeau:
[30:25] Correct. And I would expect that. There's also a chance that as I look at sort of the setup on some of these things, there's also a chance that they actually don't hit like a lower low on like their bitcoin pair so some of the analysis that we were doing before we made these purchases is looking at where they're trading on on their bitcoin pairs and they're all like almost at their you know you know all-time low in that regard so that's one thing that can help me say like well even if bitcoin shows weakness these things are already like undervalued against against bitcoin themselves and so um so i I think you can start to think about being a little more risk on. But yes, that's why I kind of preface this with saying we were early on Sol. Last time, it was still our best trade. And it looked like maybe that was a bad move for six months or so. But it still turned out to be a good trade.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[31:17] And there are some factors at play that are, let's say, exogenous of Bitcoin demand this cycle that maybe we haven't had in previous cycles. So we have some revenue generating assets, for instance. We have things like stable coins, right? And these things can go up even if Bitcoin stays muted because the demand structure there is a faith and flows asset. It's very much a store of value demand. So that can impact the decisions in terms of when to buy.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[31:44] Well, it's been fascinating being on this journey with you and reading the journal every single day. We should say to TDR listeners, if you are not subscribed to TDR Pro and you want access to the portfolio, including the moves we just talked about, there's a link in the show notes you can subscribe. I think generally what, there's a one month free trial. Is that right, Mike?

Michael Nadeau:
[32:03] One month free out there. So people can access that link, get access to the portfolio, see what we're doing.

Ryan Sean Adams:
[32:09] So everyone listening can go see the moves that we talked about in detail, right? And if you want to try that for a month, you're welcome to do so. I got to let you know, of course, none of this has been financial advice. This is an investor journal. We're on the journey right alongside you. Until next time, stay curious.