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This will never resolve. No objective test could be drawn from the speaker's own words. It stays on the record as something said on a date, and is never counted for or against anyone.

Peter Brandt: “I'll go out on a limb and say we bottom on October 4th. So we'll see,

I'll go out on a limb and say we bottom on October 4th. So we'll see,
No test — this claim will not resolve

No objective test could be drawn from the speaker's own words.

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Quote verified against the source

Peter BrandtCointelegraph MagazineSaid Jul 20, 2026Captured Aug 19, 2026

Read the original on cointelegraph.com

Brandt told Cointelegraph in an interview for its Trade Secrets series that he had pinpointed the exact day in 2026 he expects Bitcoin to hit this cycle's bottom.

History — append-only

2026-08-19
Recorded · Recorded and locked from the original source

Proof

Evidence hash0x88b77f20…e1f342
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Record fingerprint0x88b77f20eea0e3f42a15de543e307d8898fcdbe7d221b94001ad9b8789e1f342
Proof path
2 hashes from this record to the anchored root
  1. 0x21ccc96505bcea037dde123e33c8ac2398a386e402d44ff17bbd1021d5048f33
  2. 0x23a0e7e4f331e97fbbc87e6560423fda291da81df35081104d0802e7ac506cf4
Merkle root0x2aa9a54f9b44c6a17a7224fff9fe8ba3e3415e02d7e29ad42f99d21f88bb5dd4
batch #7 manifest · 4 entries
Registry0x3d74d9e2f0f4c741fc49b34cc119b6db0cef47c0 · entry #6
the contract refuses any batch that doesn’t follow the previous one, and has no function to edit or delete one — including for us
Anchored onchainbase-mainnet · Aug 19, 2026
0xab265e0d…b2f59a on block explorer
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Platform capture0x0bc99637ad1ff96fc2fea79a69deb3a6506e518645e36fcdc90fa707289dea4a
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