Alan James

[PublicEnemy @publicenemy2024]

The more I think about the Russell Brand case, the more it stinks to high heaven.

[Alan James @TeaTimeEnglish]

@FefeDemeny Wonderful news! Congratulations! Eagerly waiting for the next phase

[Danny Alexander @RealDannyAlex]

Queers for Palestine elect first all muslim city council in USA.

Muslim Council bans LGBTQ flags from the town 🙂

That my friends is what "chickens for KFC" means.

#islam #radicalislam #lgbtq #queersforpalestine

[Alan James @TeaTimeEnglish]

@MarioNawfal What do you mean first time? First time this year! Hahaha

[Alan James @TeaTimeEnglish]

@kyledoops Take care of yourself Kyle. Much love ❤️

[Alan James @TeaTimeEnglish]

@miladreaamy 50

[Alan James @TeaTimeEnglish]

@MarioNawfal And it doesn't say Pedro, it says PERRO =DOG! 😂

[VirtualBacon @virtualbacon]

People ask me every day why I call some altcoins blue chips when the projects behind them barely make money. Here is the honest answer.

In crypto, fundamentals matter far less than you think.

The thing that actually matters is survival.

Most coins never make it through one full cycle, let alone three. They launch into a bull run, the story sounds great, the chart goes up, and then the next bear market kills them and nobody ever hears the name again. Every single cycle has a graveyard.

So I do not start with the product. I start with the track record.

Three questions, and a coin has to answer yes to all three.

1. Has it been around for three cycles?
A cycle is roughly four years, so three cycles means it has lived through two full bear markets and came out the other side.

2. Did it hold its previous cycle low?
This is the one people skip. When the market crashed, did the coin stay above the bottom it made in the last crash? If it broke below it, the buyers from the last cycle are gone.

3. Did it outperform bitcoin in at least one bull run?
If a coin never beats bitcoin, even when everything is going up, then owning it is just a slower and riskier way of owning bitcoin.

The names that pass all three right now are Ethereum, Solana, BNB, XRP and Dogecoin.

That is it. Five.

Notice that this list has nothing to do with which technology is better. Dogecoin has no fundamentals at all and it still makes the list.

It has been alive for three cycles. It held its bear market low. It runs on its own blockchain instead of living on someone else's, which almost no meme coin does.

Someone asked me on stream this week to pick between Dogecoin and Chainlink. I take Dogecoin.

Not because I think it is a better project. It just has more boxes ticked, and Chainlink did not outperform bitcoin in 2024.

I use the same three questions on newer stuff too. Render passes: three cycles old, it respected its last cycle low, it had a strong run last cycle, and people are still building on it.

Here is the part that makes this useful rather than just interesting.

A coin that has survived three cycles has proven there are buyers who show up when the price is on the floor. A coin that has not survived three cycles has proven nothing at all, no matter how good the pitch sounds.

So bitcoin stays my core holding, and the five above are where I am willing to take extra risk when the timing is right.

Everything else has to earn the label first.

[Alan James @TeaTimeEnglish]

@NIGANZENathana1

[Alan James @TeaTimeEnglish]

@FefeDemeny Hey Fefe, is the 100x channel a Banter channel?

[Alan James @TeaTimeEnglish]

@AstroCryptoGuru "Its" Home Sign
"Its" brightest
"Affect" Market Sector
Etc...

[Alan James @TeaTimeEnglish]

@jasonpizzino Sooo happy for you! Congratulations 🎊

[Alan James @TeaTimeEnglish]

@cz_binance @TrustWallet @binance Can't do #2...with being in Europe and so...

[Alan James @TeaTimeEnglish]

@MarioNawfal Menudo macarra...

[Alan James @TeaTimeEnglish]

@CryptoMichNL Gracias, Mich!

[Alan James @TeaTimeEnglish]

@PKurzin Vivaaa!!

[Fidias Panayiotou @Fidias0]

How Chat Control Passed

[CryptoGoos @cryptogoos]

THE BITCOIN 4-YEAR CYCLE IS STILL UNDEFEATED.

Every $BTC cycle follows the same sequence:

accumulation → bull market → cycle top → bear market.

If history repeats, this bear market should end around October, marking the beginning of a new bull run.

[Alan James @TeaTimeEnglish]

@Submission2T @MarioNawfal Dominated or dominating?

[Alan James @TeaTimeEnglish]

@MarioNawfal That's why most are hairless...