James Check: From Engineer to Finance, Technical Analysis, & Market Cycles - Bitcoin with Jake #79

"... Markets are a collection of all of our human decisions." - James Check

BWJ 079: I was joined by James Check this week. He's the creator of checkonchain.com and Lead On-Chain Analyst for Glassnode, who provide financial metrics, charts, data & insights for Bitcoin and other digital assets.

In this episode you will learn about:

• 1:44 Becoming fixated on Bitcoin
• 5:31 Civil Engineering crash course
• 11:22 Market psychology & Technical Analysis
• 19:18 Educating through content creation
• 22:30 Analytics vs Forensics
• 25:49 Market cycles
• 32:19 Bitcoin adoption
• 35:29 Fan question from @MichaelDunwort1
• 42:32 Trading & investing
• 44:58 Lightning Network analytics
• 47:52 Does on-chain analytics have value?
• 52:14 BTC in the next 2 years

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• Bitcoin's social layer - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Orange Pill App⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -> Learn more: ⁠⁠⁠on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠on Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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Relevant links:

• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@_Checkmatey_⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Twitter
• @glassnode on Twitter
• ⁠Website: ⁠checkonchain.com

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