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Bitcoin Is Headed for a Bubble This Year

Episode #397 | January 21, 2025

Episode #397 | January 21, 2025

Bitcoin Is Headed for a Bubble This Year

In This Episode

On this week's Stansberry Investor Hour, Dan and Corey welcome their colleague Eric Wade back to the show. Eric is the editor of Crypto Capital and Stansberry Innovations Report here at Stansberry Research. He returns to the podcast to talk all about crypto – from the bitcoin bubble he expects to happen this year to two free crypto recommendations. 

Eric kicks off the show by explaining the four-year bitcoin cycle. He breaks down how bitcoin halvings fit into it and its four one-year parts – crash, accumulation, growth, and bubble. He also covers how this cycle has played out in the past, optimism fueled by Donald Trump's presidential win, the possibility of a U.S. Bitcoin Strategic Reserve, tailwinds for further crypto adoption, and several indicators to help you spot the top of the next bitcoin bubble. However, he warns listeners to temper their expectations for gains this year...

When I say bubble, I don't want people thinking that we're going to get another 9,300% bubble like the first time... We could go $1 trillion up from here... and be around $200,000 per bitcoin in this bubble stage.

Next, Eric discusses the exciting world of "altcoins," i.e., cryptos other than bitcoin. These altcoins can range from silly (such as meme coins like Fartcoin) to incredibly useful (solving real-world problems). In Crypto Capital, Eric and his team are focused on finding the latter – "projects that are established yet phenomenally undervalued." If you're a bitcoin skeptic, Eric urges you to give altcoins a chance...

When you're investing in a [microcap stock], you look for something that if this works, I could make multiples upon multiples on my money... You put $100 into that or $1,000 into that, and it pays off a lot of your other sins. Is there a cadre of people out there that'd say, "I still don't love bitcoin, but wow, a technology that I've never even thought of before that maybe the world needs – if that came online, [it's] maybe worth looking past some skepticism"? We're looking for those that could maybe convince the world to try a new technology.

Finally, Eric lists off two altcoins that he likes today. The first one is up more than 700% in the Crypto Capital portfolio, and he believes it will continue doing really well. And the second altcoin has been largely hated ever since it collapsed 90%-plus. But Eric and his team believe it could soar 10 times over the next two years and eventually challenge heavyweights Solana and Ethereum, as its "superior" blockchain technology is different from anything else out there. Eric even jokes...

Anybody who's so bored with 10-baggers that they just have so many of them in their portfolio that they think, "I don't need another. What am I going to do? That's such a tax nuisance," then don't listen to me on this one. But if you're not bored of 10-baggers, start accumulating [this altcoin]... This is probably my highest-conviction research that I've published in a long time.