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“They then publish the music through a publisher... it becomes a, you know, a good passive income investment vehicle that's largely uncorrelated from equities, traditional markets, things like that. So it becomes a nice little, hedge too.”

“Now the way the streaming royalties work is it's done based on a percentage of revenue collected by the digital service provider, whether that's Spotify, Apple Music, whatever. These are royalty rates that are actually set by institutions.”

“Music catalogs typically follow a lifecycle where earnings spike early and then decline into a more stable, predictable long-term cash flow. Older, seasoned catalogs tend to be more attractive to investors seeking consistent passive income.”

“On royalty exchange, what we do is we take those shares of the royalties. We created this marketplace where people can now transact this stuff, create liquidity for it. And it becomes a, you know, a good passive income investment vehicle.”

“Other ways they can earn would be through, like, synchronization, which is basically when you synchronize music to video. So that's things like a commercial. Say there was a big song in a movie or TV show; high profile placements like that can also be significant.”

“So somewhere between probably September or October of 2026, we should see an all-time low for this cycle, not an all-time low over at all. Before heading to the fourth quarter of the post-having year. So by March of 28, we'll see another having. And then I guess Q4 of 2029 Although it's getting earlier and earlier. So I'd almost speculate it would be the end of Q3 probably of 2029, where we'll see a new all time high.”

“Looking back now on the analytics on 2025, there's no liquidity really in the market to pump all this. And that, with tariffs, with a lot of uncertainty, and then probably the inflation from those ETFs that were exciting this last year, that was definitely fun to see ETFs come online. And that drove a lot of market sentiment. That's probably why we had that early run up that you were just talking about before that last halving, which was April of 2024. So, a lot of excitement, but excitement without liquidity.”

“The House passed it last July 2025 It was passed to the Senate. And there's two portions of the bill that need to pass. There's a Clarity Act A. The A stands for the Agriculture Committee. And they did pass their portion a couple of weeks ago. But there's a Clarity Act B, which is the Banking Committee. And the bankers have dug in their heels. So that second portion of the Clarity Act, they're literally talking to Trump today. Trump has bankers at the White House to see if they can find some common ground.”

“One of the things that, then this is just a theory, of course, is that it appears China and India and some of these other countries are buying gold and silver with their finances, instead of putting it into Bitcoin. And I just wonder, like, how much of that is because of Trump's family's involvement in the crypto space that maybe some of these nation states are, who may have drifted in that direction, are now drifting away from it. So, any thoughts on that?”

“But at least as of 1 o'clock on the 10th of February, this one we're recording, the current price is $69,581, up about 15% from the low, which was $60,074, which was, I believe, 52% below or 52% correction from the all time high we saw in early October. So, yeah, just Will, what's going on? Well, it's good to be here. It's a sad day on one hand. From our last update, you were right in your prediction of Q1 2026.”