Crypto Twitter Hall of Flame

Nansen founder Alex Svanevik tips a $100K Bitcoin price if Trump is elected, and admits he ignored Bitcoin initially in favor of Ethereum.

Alex Svanevik, founder of onchain analytics firm Nansen, predicts that Democratic candidate Kamala Harris billionaire minimum tax could tank markets via asset selloffs but tips a $100,000 Bitcoin price if Republican candidate Donald Trump wins.

Speaking to Hall of Flame about his journey into crypto and rise to prominence on social media, Svanevik says he was skeptical of Bitcoin when he first encountered it. If it werent for a random lunch break at work one day, he might never have changed his mind and Nansen mightve never existed.

I first looked at Bitcoin in 2013, and I dismissed it. I thought it was only for money laundering criminals, like everyone else, Singapore-based Svanevik says.

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Ethereum and DeFi will “both surge in the coming months” according to analyst Michaël van de Poppe: X Hall of Flame

The recent crypto market plunge, followed by some tokens quick bounce, helped MN Trading founder Michal van de Poppe spot a clear new trend forming.

If the markets didnt have a narrative, then it has presented a new narrative, which is DeFi, I think in terms of investment perspective, van de Poppe tells Hall of Flame.

A net positive strategy to allocate toward ETH and DeFi I think both will surge in the coming months, he claims.

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Roman says that Bitcoin will peak around $120K by December before Ethereum gets its time to shine: X Hall of Flame.

Just hold off on assuming that Ethers price will surge now that spot Ether ETFs have launched. Bitcoin is kind of holding up the price queue, according to pseudonymous crypto trader Roman.

In the short term. I don’t see Ethereum doing that well, at least for the next couple months,” he predicts in an interview with Hall of Flame.

The popular crypto trader with 56,000 X followers thinks that, similar to the rest of the cryptocurrency market, Ether needs to hang tight and wait for traders to get bored with Bitcoins price before they start moving their money into other cryptocurrencies.

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Electric Capital co-founder Avichal Garg believes that spot Bitcoin ETFs have helped ease the blow from the collapse of crypto exchange FTX.

According to Avichal Garg, co-founder of venture capital firm Electric Capital, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will probably not need to mention the word crypto in the future.

Garg predicts that probably in the next five years, Coinbase will not really mention crypto as part of their advertising, as people will just know that you can buy stuff on Coinbase, similar to how people view trading platform Robinhood. He thinks it will just be known as another financial instrument that investors can buy and gain yield from.

The reason I think that is theres this adage where people overestimate whats possible in two years, and they underestimate whats possible in 10, Garg tells Magazine.

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Thomas Fahrer says multiple “low-probability” events could push Bitcoin into a “strong bull market.”

A number of factors in Bitcoin could increase its price over eight times its current value, even if most of them dont materialize, according to the CEO of crypto-focused reviews portal Apollo, Thomas Fahrer.

Each one of these individual things is kind of a low probability, but theres a lot of low probability potential outcomes that can cause a really strong bull market for Bitcoin, Fahrer tells Hall of Flame. 

He predicts that, even if just a couple of these events occur, Bitcoin could reach the half-a-million-dollar mark within the next four-year cycle.

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Dynamo DeFi isn’t expecting Ethereum to double anytime soon due to the ETFs but says the recent pullback could be a “gift.” X Hall of Flame.

The impact of spot Ethereum ETFs on Ethers price once trading starts might challenge the old saying “first the worst, second the best, suggests crypto analyst and educator Patrick Scott, also known as Dynamo DeFi.

The popular crypto personality predicts that Ether wont follow in Bitcoins footsteps, after BTC almost doubled its price soon after the spot Bitcoin ETF launched in January.

I’m not expecting the same sort of multiples immediately in a two-month period that we had with Bitcoin, Scott tells Hall of Flame from his car in a parking lot, shortly before saying, Hold on because a police car has pulled up behind him.

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Crypto analyst Charles Edwards believes we’ve entered “the 12-month window” to make altcoin profits: X Hall of Flame.

Crypto on-chain analyst Charles Edwards, the co-founder of the digital assets hedge fund Capriole Investments, believes now is the perfect time to get some allocation into altcoins.

But he says you probably shouldnt hold onto them for too long.

If this is a normal four-year cycle, which so far has been playing out like a textbook like the previous cycles, we can expect that Bitcoin will probably top either later this year or next year, the Australian-based crypto analyst tells Hall of Flame.

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Brett Harrision (ex-FTX US) dishes the dirt on the “insecure, prideful” SBF and tips a spot Bitcoin ETF will shatter the futures ETF’s records

The former president of FTX US dishes the dirt on his falling out with former Jane Street colleague Sam Bankman-Fried and predicts the spot Bitcoin ETF will far outshine the record-breaking success of the Bitcoin Futures ETF.

Who is this guy anyway?

The ex-president of FTX US, Brett Harrison, tells Magazine that he didnt say a single word to Sam Bankman-Fried during the two-month notice period after he resigned, which was only months before the whole exchange blew up. Even getting a message to SBF to say he was resigning in the first place was hard work.

I had to talk to other people in the company to formally resign. I wrote one text to Sam and I got back a single heart emoji. That was the last I heard from him, Harrison declares.

Harrison and Bankman-Fried had been colleagues years earlier at quantitative trading firm Jane Street, where Harrison saw his potential while teaching SBF in a course on programming for traders. But things went south real quick between them at FTX.

Harrison claims it was due to Bankman-Frieds inflated ego and his reluctance to accept any feedback or advice.

Sam hated criticism and, as a result, refused to communicate with me. It drove my decision to quit even further, he says.

Yet, Harrison says he had no clue of the storm about to engulf the company with FTX declaring bankruptcy only a few months after he bailed from the U.S. arm of exchange.

The rest of us, especially in the U.S., were blindsighted. We were working with regulators, top lawyers, and to have the whole organization fail because of one persons greed, will stay with us for the rest of our life.

However, he feels justice was done in the recent fraud trial against his former boss.

I do feel the result was absolutely just, and I’m glad that justice was served quickly; I think it was essential that Sam was held accountable for his actions, he declares.

Meanwhile, Harrison wasted no time diving into a new project.

He co-founded Architect.xyz, a DeFi platform that focuses on bridging all the different opportunities in the digital asset space for both institutional and retail investors.

Harrison is a bit of a brainiac and has a computer science degree focused on artificial intelligence (AI) from Harvard University. So, who better to ask about the potential for AI to take over the world?

I do not think AI is a threat to humanity, he declares, pointing out that AI has been in development for much longer than people think:

Lots of people are now seeing AI for the first time, they don’t appreciate the decades of progress that has gone into it.

Harrison is more concerned about humans using AI to pull off scams and swipe identities more effortlessly.

It truly is just linear algebra,” he says. “The idea that linear algebra is some existential threat to our survival just feels somewhat fanciful to people who have been practitioners in the field for a long time.

What led to Twitter Fame?

Harrison is a smart guy who drops interesting stuff on social media that people seem to dig.

But let’s not dance around the fact that the FTX connection is what blew up his follower numbers, with his count hitting its highest weekly peak when FTX took a nosedive in November 2022, when he gained 2,140 followers, according to data from Social Blade.

Back in January, his long rant about his departure from X got nearly 3 million eyeballs. He said he wasn’t canned from the FTX gig; it just wasnt his dream job, and SBF was an insecure, prideful manager.

Content people can expect

If you scroll through Harrisons timeline over the years, you’ll notice his glam lifestyle has toned down considerably since the FTX days. 

Back then, he was often seen hanging out with celebs and former prime ministers.

Nowadays, its way more low-key. Besides throwing in some market talk, Harrison’s been sharing snippets about his family life lately. 

He’s even flexing about saving toys from the FTX US office that somehow dodged the whole bankruptcy drama.

What type of content does he like?

Harrison loves the blend of genius and goofiness on Crypto X getting a daily fix of humor and high intellect.

One of the things I love about Crypto Twitter  is the perfect mix of highly intellectual cerebral, either Market structure or political commentary, and degenerate memes.

However, when we asked about the accounts he’s into, hes not that forthcoming. 

After doing some light digging, it turns out hes following 2,100 accounts, and guess who’s in the mix? None other than Bankman-Fried’s pal Tiffany Fong.

Bitcoin predictions?

Harrison used to avoid making predictions, saying hed never have predicted the events that happened to him. But that was when things were going too smoothly, and that’s all changed. 

Harrison declares there is a very high probability that a spot Bitcoin ETF will get approved in the first quarter of 2024.

As for price predictions? Harrison isn’t tossing out any six-figure numbers right away.

In Q1 assuming there is an ETF that’s approved. I think something in the $50,000 to $55,000 range feels pretty probable, he states.

He doesnt see Bitcoin hitting six figures until toward the end of 2024 or early 2025 at the earliest.

He points to the first day of Bitcoin Futures ETF as just a little hint of how optimistic he is about the spot Bitcoin ETF:

If you remember the day when a Bitcoin Futures ETF was listed the inflows were some of the highest ever seen in the history of ETFs. I think we’re going to see even more records broken for a spot Bitcoin ETF.

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Bitcoiner Dominic Frisby counts Michael Saylor as a fan… but says we need a new Bitcoin evangalist & narrative to propel the next bull run.

Dominic Frisby recalls meeting MicroStrategys Michael Saylor for the first time at a crypto event. What started off as an awe-struck moment became confusing after things took an unexpected turn.

I saw Michael Saylor there. I was like, Wow, thats him! he tells Magazine. But it was Saylor who quickly came over and introduced himself before Frisby had a chance:

He just came up to me and said, Ive seen some of your videos, and I really like your work and what youre doing. Would you like to come over to dinner?

Frisby explains he was thrilled to be hanging with the OG Bitcoin maxi in Saylors house, which is much nicer than his own.

Every time I watch a Michael Saylor video, I get orange pilled. The guy is so clever, he declares.

Its something of a mutual admiration society, with Saylor frequently sharing Frisbys television appearances discussing Bitcoin.

Frisby is not just a Bitcoiner and has his fingers in a bunch of different pies, including cracking jokes on stage as a respected comedian, writing books and hosting TV shows.

With a modest 32,300 followers on Twitter some way behind Saylors massive 3.1 million hes still making a name for himself and can often be heard talking about Bitcoin on radio stations like BBC 5.

Oh, and ever heard of hit U.K. show Money Pit? Well, Frisby was the face of it. He admits he has a knack for juggling multiple balls at once.

Im a bit of a jack of all trades, and I just tend to go and do whatever interests me in any given moment.

Frisby can also boast of having penned one of the very first credible books on Bitcoin, Bitcoin: The Future of Money, published by Unbound back in 2014. 

I think it was the first book on Bitcoin from a recognized publisher, he declares.

Despite his admiration for Saylor, he thinks the next generation needs its own Bitcoin champion.

I think Roger Ver was a brilliant evangelist for Bitcoin. Saylor was a brilliant evangelist for Bitcoin. But when the next bull market happens, we need a new evangelist. We need to find some new narratives to propel the story.

And even though hes a self-proclaimed Bitcoin maximalist, he admits hes got a small bag of Ether tucked away, even if thats more an investment in Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin than the actual network itself.

My portfolio is probably over 90% Bitcoin, and Ive got some Ethereum. That guy [Vitalik] Buterin, hes obviously really clever. And I sort of think by investing in Ethereum, youre effectively investing in Vitalik.

What led to Twitter fame?

Frisby admits that his Twitter is a bit all over the place, a bit of a hopscotch.

He acknowledges that things might be better for him if he just focused on ranting about one topic.

If I just tweeted about crypto all day long, I would probably have a much bigger following than I do.

His followers spiked in 2021 when Frisby and a group of others went to well-known landmarks in the United Kingdom and beamed messages onto them.

I was involved in this thing where we got a projector. And we went round projecting slogans on public buildings, he explains.

Frisby decided to project the message Bitcoin fixes this on the Bank of England.

What type of content can people expect?

Frisbys tweets are all over the place one day its Bitcoin, the next its CBDCs, and then he throws in some comedy or drops a new music video.

His latest project is a parody song and music video on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

Titled Programmable money, Frisby plays the chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab. He starts off chanting CBDC and then goes these monitor every purchase you make, every transaction or decision you make.

It cost me a few thousand quid, and I had to call in a lot of favors. Yeah, I mean you can see its an expensive video.

It looks like its paying off, getting shoutouts from well-known economist Lyn Alden and the famous Bitcoin podcaster Peter McCormack.

What content do you enjoy?

Frisby is a Bitcoin maxi for all the wrong reasons.

I just dont have the time to study all these other coins, and Im in various WhatsApp groups and stuff and Telegram chats, and I just cant keep up with this new coin and that new coin. I just dont have the time or the energy.

He rattles off a few of his favorite commentators, like Lyn Alden, Peter McCormack, GiGi, Bitcoin entrepreneur Robert Breedlove and Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream.

Predictions?

By the sound of it, Frisbys been thrown the prediction ball before:

Do you want me to give you a headline stupid prediction that will get loads of clicks because Ive said Bitcoins going to half a million dollars, or do you want me to give you a realistic one that in three years time people go, You got that prediction right!

Obviously, we want the prediction that gets lots of clicks, but well take what we can get.
Frisbys prediction seems pretty reasonable for the upcoming cycle, suggesting we might hit an average price between $70,000 and $100,000.

But it could shoot up to a whopping $250,000 during this cycle. Maybe we should put that in the headline?

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