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July 10, 2026

Summary

MoonKing joins The Block Runner to recount entering SHIB within its first few days, watching its community form during DeFi Summer, and navigating the extreme volatility that followed. He explains how conviction, narrative, liquidity, and community participation shaped his decisions as SHIB grew.

The conversation examines how meme coin culture has changed since 2020.

MoonKing contrasts the longer holding periods of earlier crypto cycles with today’s rapid trading environment, where launch platforms, copycat tokens, and fragmented liquidity can make sustained community growth more difficult.

The discussion then turns to NAT and its thesis surrounding Bitcoin’s long-term security budget. MoonKing explains why the underlying argument captured his attention, while the hosts discuss miner adoption, TAP Protocol, BIP-110, OP_RETURN, and how NAT could continue operating as Bitcoin evolves.

MoonKing also shares his approach to crypto marketing: lead with a clear, provocative claim, invite disagreement, and support the message with an understandable argument.

The group considers whether a more controversial framing could bring wider attention to NAT and force a substantive debate among Bitcoin supporters and critics.

MoonKing holds NAT and operates paid educational subscriptions and ProudProfits.com; the hosts are active NAT advocates and have interests connected to the project and its ecosystem. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.

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As Bitcoin displays its volatility over the last few weeks, Iman believes we’re at the top of a bubble. He predicts prices to go as low as $8k which would be salivating for many investors. Oscar, who is the owner of Member.Life, joins us to discuss updated plans for our Decentraland plot. Our goal is to figure out a way to get a passive income from the land that we own through interactions we develop for Decentraland. Finally, catch the end of the podcast to listen to our thoughts on Super Powers, which are life skills that can make you a passive income.

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16

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We’ve seen some scary lows for the 2019 year of Bitcoin. We discuss what the probability is for Bitcoin to go to $8k. Meanwhile, Binance continues its parade of Launchpad tokens that seem to always pump and we question how much of it is greed versus valuable for the startup? On this journey, we look into as many cryptocurrencies as we can and this time we land on MakerDAO and decentralized loans. Finally, tokenizing real world assets can become then next new phase of blockchain with a spirited debate on the real value of gold.

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15

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Emotions play a sneaky role in evaluating cryptocurrency prices and we discuss the causes and effects and how much influence it has on your next move. As a result, we discuss some strategies that will help remove emotions from decision making that can help improve the probability of a better outcome. Does it make sense to try to time the top of a market or should we consider other metrics in decision making. Finally, universal basic income, taxes and other cultural expectations and their relation to the crypto-verse.

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14

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This week, we see Bitcoin rise to $10,000 after over a year long bear cycle. We discuss what this could mean for the future price of Bitcoin and how this affects the altcoins. Libra has quickly become a source of debate for many in the crypto community, how much of an impact could Libra make? With Mitch, who’s background is in finance, we discuss how Bitcoin has not gone through a recession. Economists have their own view of the crypto space and we dive in and provide our thoughts. Finally stay tuned to the end of the show where we see how robots can fight back!

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13

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We talk to our friend Joe and get how he was introduced to cryptocurrency and what his thoughts are on the whole thing. William and Iman introduce him to the concept of Decentraland and what it could bring to the future of NFT’s (Non Fungible Tokens). Joe brings up his thoughts on Quantum Computing and the effects it could have on cryptography, the foundation of all cryptocurrencies. Finally we introduce Basic Attention Token and how it will improve advertising on the internet.

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