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Guest: Travis Kling is the CIO at Ikigai Asset Management, a crypto hedge fund. In this episode we discuss his 3 part thesis for 2024 which went viral after it accurately predicted how strange crypto would behave this cycle. We explore financial nihilism, the rise of memecoins, billions of dollars in FTX redemptions hitting the market, Bitcoin seperating itself from everything else, how the presidential election will impact prices, which sectors could emerge as the new meta, quiet quitting, and more.
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