PERSON DIRECTORY
Avi Felman
Host of 1000x. Avi Felman appears in 146 indexed conversations across 1000x. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
MARKET UPDATE: Live With GMoney, Inflation Is In, Is This The Crypto Top?
An in-line CPI print makes a next-meeting hike near-certain, but Avi says AI capex may mean the cycle will not last.Nvidia’s neocloud financing could become capital-light SaaS-like revenue after roughly two years of consolidation.Tokenized-stock pairings may create on-chain demand; Quotrons has roughly $10M market cap, and FWA depends on sustained top-of-funnel spins.
MARKET UPDATE: Bitcoin Rally, Zcash ETF, Bessent Humbled, NVDA Earnings
Bitcoin’s 25% rally toward $80K reflects a shift from AI productivity to Treasury and Fed-driven debasement, after equity vol cooled and Bessent deployed capital to defend yields.Avi sees a reasonable chance of $95K-$100K within six weeks and substantial ZCAF flows, with $15.5M in day-one volume comparable to BSOL as a percentage of market cap.The key risk is that this remains an early-innings lockout rally rather than a new bull trend, while NVDA’s crowded short positioning creates a potential one-to-two-day rebound catalyst into earnings.
MARKET UPDATE: FED Backstops The Yen, Metals Rip, And Neoclouds Rebound
The yen intervention may be a Treasury backstop designed to prevent Japanese reserve sales from pushing U.S. yields higher, reinforcing a policy regime where Washington’s favored assets and lower rates shape positioning.Avi sees metals rotating as central-bank selling reverses, while Jonah prefers copper’s supply bottleneck and direct exposure; crypto remains resilient, but HOOD offers a higher-margin expression and political risk could redefine the rally.
MARKET UPDATE: How Situational Awareness Blew Up, Will Rates Nuke Us, What’s Next?
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s fund was margin-called after 4x leverage created roughly $120 billion of memory exposure, showing how public weakness can turn a sound AI thesis into a path-dependent liquidation.Both hosts are buying the dip, citing 40%-50% memory undersupply over the next 12 months.Watch whether the vanished $25 billion July bid delays recovery for 2, 3, or 5 weeks.
Has Memory Bottomed?
Only 2.2% of US households pay for AI subscriptions, leaving a large adoption runway that could flow to Micron, MSFT, Meta and Google.A 40% memory drawdown has not ended Avi’s thesis, but Korean margin calls show bubble-like leverage, making forced selling and earnings misses the risks to monitor.
Who's Coming For The Market In Q3?
Avi sees the hyperscaler-to-memory melt-up becoming fully priced, prompting a rotation toward indexes and AI downstream beneficiaries such as ARKG and Reddit.Jonah still sees fundamental support in Micron at 7.5x forward earnings, while both debate dollar strength, Bitcoin’s 1-2 year outlook, and whether rising volatility demands smaller Intel positions.
AI Cracks: Where Do You Hide?
Hyperscalers’ $600–700B data-center spending has largely been priced in, and cracks are shifting attention from AI demand to what AI changes across the real economy.Avi favors short Accenture and long XBI/ARKG while warning that volatile memory proxies are not the same as buying suppliers’ products; Micron earnings and biotech’s 50% drawdown test remain key risks.
SpaceX Over, Fed Meeting Done, What’s Next?
The one-hike dot plot kept summer fears around Iran, oil and the SpaceX IPO from materializing, supporting Intel, SanDisk and Micron through August–September.Mag 7 companies are selling equity and raising debt for data-center capex, favoring semiconductors.Robinhood’s assets rose 50% to roughly $400B despite crypto revenue falling 47%, while conflict risk remains unresolved.
The Market Is Splitting In Two — How Do We Navigate it?
HP and Dell’s catchup rally alongside weaker Mag 7 leaders may signal a late-cycle shift into derivative trades, though Avi points to surging physical DDR4 demand as evidence against a bubble.The IBIT/MSTR pair trade, upcoming OpenAI and Anthropic supply, and Iran’s $200-crude downside scenario frame catalysts and risks for a concentrated, high-cash approach.
Is The Soft Landing Officially Dead?
The next Fed meeting’s 5% tail flipped from a cut to a hike as PPI rose 1.4% MoM versus 0.5% expected and oil stayed above $100 with Hormuz closed.Avi moved to 30% cash targeting 50%, while Jonah trimmed 7%; memory remains a demand-driven bottleneck, but inflation and capital withdrawal from OpenAI and Anthropic are the risks to monitor.