@_Checkmatey_
Shahararren manazarcin on-chain na Bitcoin, kuma ɗaya daga cikin 'yan kaɗan da ke buga ra'ayi mai ɗauke da kwanan wata kowane mako. Shi ne ke gina ma'aunin maimakon ya ɗauko su kawai — kuma yana faɗa a fili sa'ad da ra'ayin gama-gari ya kuskure, wanda shi ne mafi yawan abin da ya gina wannan tarihin 2026.
A taƙaice. James Check — “_Checkmate” — shi ne wanda ya kafa kuma babban manazarci na Checkonchain, kuma kafin nan ya gina ya kuma jagoranci ƙungiyar manazarta ta Glassnode, inda ya rubuta ya kuma shirya The Week On-chain. Tsohon injiniyan ƙasa ne, kuma yana karanta Bitcoin ta hanyar farashin siye, riba/hasara da aka tabbatar da kuma halayen masu riƙe, ba ta hanyar siffofin chart ba, kuma ya bayyana a fili cewa ba ya ba da siginar ciniki ko kiran cikin rana. A cikin kasuwar beyar ta 2026 ya tsaya a gefen da ba a so sau biyu — ya ƙi burin faɗuwa na $40k da na tsakiya zuwa ƙasan $40k sa'ad da dukansu su ne ra'ayin gama-gari — kuma sau biyu kasuwa ta goyi bayansa. Ya kuma kuskure wajen karanta ƙarfin dangantaka a tsakiyar Maris, daidai kafin faɗuwar 19.7%.
Bisa ga nasa labarin, Check ya “started his career as a civil (geotechnical) engineer, specialising in the design of tunnels, basements, foundations, and mines”, kuma ya kawo wannan horon — manyan bayanai, rashin tabbas, yiwuwa — cikin Bitcoin tun 2019. Yana cikin mutanen farko da suka tsara nazarin on-chain a matsayin fanni, ya ƙirƙiri ma'auni da tsare-tsaren da yanzu suka zama ma'auni na masana'antar, kuma ya gina ya kuma jagoranci ƙungiyar manazarta ta Glassnode daga 2021 zuwa 2024, inda ya kasance babban edita, marubuci kuma mai shirya The Week On-chain. Ya haɗa rubuta tsarin Cointime Economics tare da David Puell na ARK Invest.
Tun bayan barin Glassnode yana gudanar da Checkonchain — wasiƙar Substack mai sama da masu biyan kuɗi 30,000, tarin chart na jama'a, da reshen ba da shawara — yana rubutu sau biyu a mako da sunansa. Ƙa'idodin da ya bayyana suna da tsauri fiye da yadda aka saba a wannan fannin: babu siginar ciniki, babu kiran cikin rana, babu ƙoƙarin kama ainihin kololuwa ko ƙasa, abin da yake kira “a fools errand and a time sink”. Yana kwatanta aikinsa a matsayin “a balance between James Check the Analyst focusing on providing value for James Check HODLer.” Ya kuma yi magana a fili kan iyaka: “No model is perfect, and no analyst will ever predict the future correctly every time.” Wannan ba magana ce kawai ba a nan — karatunsa na 16 ga Maris 2026 cewa Bitcoin shi ne “the fittest player on the pitch” faɗuwar 19.7% ta biyo baya, kuma an zana shi a ƙasa a matsayin kuskure maimakon a cire shi.
Sources: x.com/_Checkmatey_ (posts captured verbatim via fxtwitter/X syndication) · newsletter.checkonchain.com (publicly-served text of dated editions) · checkonchain.com/about · cointelegraph.com · coindesk.com — full corpus re-fetched live by scripts/cm_fetch.py and asserted by scripts/cm_qcheck.py
On-chain da farko, halayya ce ke jagoranta, Bitcoin kaɗai. Check yana aiki daga farashin siye (realized price, farashin siye na masu riƙe na ɗan gajeren lokaci da na dogon lokaci, matsakaicin motsi na mako 200), riba da hasara da aka tabbatar, shekarun tsabar kuɗi da kuma wadatar da ke cikin riba — sa'an nan ya karanta su a matsayin ilimin halayyar mai saka jari ba a matsayin sigina ba. Manyan ra'ayoyinsa guda biyu su ne zafin farashi (faɗuwa mai tsanani da ke fitar da masu riƙe) da zafin lokaci (tsayawar gefe mai gajiyarwa da ke fitar da sauran); yana auna kasuwar beyar ta yadda aka biya kowane ɗaya daga cikinsu. Da gangan yake aiki da yiwuwa da ma'aunin kashi — amsarsa ga hasashen $40k shi ne cewa zai zama karkata a kashi 0.4, ba cewa ba zai yiwu ba. Rauninsa shi ne ɗaya gefen wannan: tsarin da aka gina bisa watanni zuwa shekaru bai kusan faɗa kome ba game da makonni masu zuwa, kuma shi kansa ya faɗi haka.
A tsarin gaba ɗaya yana da kyakkyawan fata kan Bitcoin kuma a duk shekarar 2026 bai kasance mai tsananin fargaba kamar ra'ayin gama-gari ba — amma yana bayyana wannan fata a matsayin tara a tsawon watanni, ba a matsayin burin farashi ba. Bai da ra'ayi ko kaɗan kan altcoins: Checkonchain Bitcoin kaɗai ce.
Eleven dated calls inside the CoinGecko price window, all first-person: two posts from @_Checkmatey_ captured verbatim from X, eight dated editions of his own Checkonchain newsletter, and one Cointelegraph interview. An honest caveat on the newsletter eight — those editions are paid, and what is charted is the portion Substack serves publicly (the opening section, which is where he states the week's thesis). The paywalled remainder is not quoted and may carry qualifications this page cannot see. The shape of the record: he was right on the big structural questions and wrong on a short-term one. His 24 February accumulation call named the 200-week moving average at $58.5k; the window's actual low was $58,566, 0.1% above it. He rejected the $40k bear case in April and the mid-to-low $40ks consensus in July, and Bitcoin never went below $58,566. The single red is a mid-March relative-strength read that preceded a 19.7% fall. His $82k “The Bears Last Stand” line broke on 22 September, as he had said it would have to for the bear case to die. Two calls are still open: his September claim that the cycle bottom is already in, and an October warning that a correction is coming.
“At some point, we will get a correction, and at that time, all the sidelined folks who panic buy into the next high will be the ones panic selling at the local low.”
With Bitcoin at $86,490 and the recovery “just isn’t giving sidelined investors any dips to buy”, he warned that a correction would come and that whoever panic-bought the next high would panic-sell the local low. No close since has been higher: BTC slid to $81,686 (−5.6%) by 9 October and is $82,171 (−5.0%) now. That is a pullback rather than a deep correction so far, and he gave no level or timing, so this is logged open.
SourceStill Stair-Stepping Higher — Checkonchain newsletter, 5 Oct 2026↗ newsletter.checkonchain.com“The Bitcoin price looks coiled up across all time-frames, and yet there are still people trying to short it into the prophesied Q4 low. Good luck with that!”
Three days after his cycle-bottom call he said Bitcoin “wants to take even more bears out to the woodshed”, and mocked the shorts positioning for a Q4 low. The next daily close was $86,597 (+6.7%), and three days later he wrote that the rally had “squeezed a mountain of short traders from their positions”. BTC has not closed below his $81,169 since and is $82,171 (+1.2%) today — most of the squeeze has been given back, but the bears he was talking about did get taken out: played out.
SourceThe Coiled Serpent — Checkonchain newsletter, 21 Sep 2026↗ newsletter.checkonchain.com“What’s the difference between $58,000 and $59,000 or $60,000? Nothing,”
His most explicit claim of the window: the cycle low was the $58,000 time-pain capitulation of June–July, not an October low the four-year-cycle crowd is waiting for. BTC was $76,371 when he said it and has not closed lower since, peaking at $86,597 (+13.4%) on 22 September and standing at $82,171 (+7.6%) today. Three weeks is nothing against a cycle-bottom claim, so this is logged open — but the level he named, $58,566 on 1 July, is still the floor.
SourceBitcoin cycle bottom may already be in at $58K, says analyst James Check (Cointelegraph, 18 Sep 2026)↗ cointelegraph.com“In my opinion, the equivalent level for The Bears Last Stand is $82k, which is a stone’s throw away, and I believe it will be very difficult to justify a bear case should it break.”
A rare precise level from a man who avoids them, and the mirror of his October 2025 $95k “bulls last stand”. BTC was $77,658; it dipped −2.7% to $75,590 on 16 September, then broke the line on 22 September with a close of $86,597 (+11.5%). Two days later he wrote that Bitcoin had “convincingly re-established a weekly scale uptrend by clearing the May high at $83k”. The break he said would make a bear case very hard to justify happened, and the bears who were short got squeezed — played out. BTC has since given much of it back to $82,171 (+5.8%), right at his line, so the retest is live; a slide back under it would reopen the question.
SourceThe Bears Last Stand — Checkonchain newsletter, 31 Aug 2026↗ newsletter.checkonchain.com“This scenario is not my base case view, and not what my analysis of the data suggests is the most likely setup.”
Writing against “at least half a dozen bear market reports” that all pointed to a final low in the mid to low $40ks, he refused the consensus — while spending the piece stress-testing his own thesis against a $45k Bitcoin. The best-timed call on this page: BTC was $62,279 and has never closed lower since (low after = the day itself), running +39.0% to $86,597 on 22 September and standing at $82,171 (+31.9%) today. The $40ks never came within $16k.
SourceWhat If I’m Wrong? — Checkonchain newsletter, 14 Jul 2026↗ newsletter.checkonchain.com“These are the conditions we historically see as we approach the pointy end of a bear market, where hopelessness peaks, and the maximum number of people start to truly believe the asset is never coming back.”
Total apathy, dead volumes, gutter sentiment — he read it as the end of the bear rather than the middle. BTC was $63,937, fell a further −8.4% to the window low of $58,566 eight days later, then never looked back: +35.4% to $86,597 on 22 September, and $82,171 (+28.5%) today. He called the chapter, not the wick, which is exactly what he says he tries to do.
SourceThe Pointy End — Checkonchain newsletter, 23 Jun 2026↗ newsletter.checkonchain.com“For the folks who missed the lows, many are about to buy far too much at the next local high, and get smoked once again on the pullback.”
With the bulls “running victory laps” and BTC at $81,437, he told the people who had missed the bottom not to chase. Four days later Bitcoin closed at $82,018 (+0.7%) — a close it would not beat again for more than four months — and from his warning it went on to fall −28.1% to $58,566 on 1 July. Anyone who bought that local high waited until 22 September to see it again. BTC is $82,171 today, +0.9% from the day he warned.
SourceSweaty, Sweaty Bears — Checkonchain newsletter, 7 May 2026↗ newsletter.checkonchain.com“consider that on a mean reversion basis, averaging relative to nine anchors (a mix of technical, onchain, trend, fast, slow etc), it is a Q 0.4 event. Lower than $2 Bitcoin in 2011.”
Not a target — a probability. Against the loudest bear number of the spring he put $40k in the 0.4th percentile of all daily deviations across nine anchor models, adding “there’s no zero probability in markets, but this would be a near-unprecedented outcome”. BTC was $76,326; its deepest close since was $58,566 (−23.3%) — painful, and still $18.5k above the level he ruled out. It stands at $82,171 (+7.7%).
𝕏 Post@_Checkmatey_ on the $40k bear case — 22 Apr 2026 (cited by CoinDesk, 25 Apr)↗ x.com“There isn’t much value in sugar coating it, as the world is in a very tricky spot, and the odds that conditions improve before they get worse…are not great.”
Two weeks after the miss below, he turned cautious with oil above $100 and BTC under $65k, and went looking for where the time-pain capitulation would bottom. It got worse first, as he said: from $65,947 BTC fell −11.2% to $58,566 by 1 July before turning and running to $86,597 (+31.3%) on 22 September. It sits at $82,171 (+24.6%) — the sequence he described, in the order he described it.
SourceTime Pain Usually Ends With A Bang — Checkonchain newsletter, 30 Mar 2026↗ newsletter.checkonchain.com“Today’s post will be a study of why this may be the case, and my read on why Bitcoin appears to be the fittest player on the pitch right now.”
The one that went against him. Bitcoin was up 5% on the month against a risk-off tape, and he read that relative strength as a positive signal with BTC at $72,934. Instead it led the way down: a −19.7% slide to $58,566 by 1 July, and it took until August to recover. BTC is $82,171 (+12.7%) now, so the position came good — but the next three months went the other way, and this is logged as a miss.
SourceBitcoin Up, Everything Else Down? — Checkonchain newsletter, 16 Mar 2026↗ newsletter.checkonchain.com“If you're not actively accumulating Bitcoin at this stage, then when?”
Posted on 24 February — a day that has since rolled out of this chart's price window, so the chart now anchors at $70,839 on 14 March. Mid-panic, he said “Price pain is largely behind us imho, however time pain likely remains” and told readers to dollar-cost-average for six months rather than hunt the wick — while explicitly warning that lower lows usually come first. Both halves landed. He put the 200-week MA at $58.5k; the window's actual low was $58,566 on 1 July, 0.1% above it. From the anchor that low was −17.3%; Bitcoin then ran to $86,597 (+22.2%) on 22 September and is $82,171 (+16.0%) today. The verdict rests on the level he named, which the moving anchor cannot change.
𝕏 Post@_Checkmatey_ on the bottom formation — 24 Feb 2026 (cited by CoinDesk the same day)↗ x.comSakamakon shi ne karatunmu na matsayin da ya bayyana idan aka kwatanta da ainihin farashin rufewar yau da kullum na CoinGecko, ba nasa kimantawa ba. Kowane dala da kowane kashi a cikin katunan yana fitowa daga jerin bayanan guda ɗaya da aka zana chart ɗin da su. Check ba ya buga siginar ciniki ko burin farashi, don haka a nan ana auna ra'ayoyi na alkibla/na sharaɗi bisa abin da farashin ya yi da gaske bayan haka; da'awar dogon lokaci wanda ba a ma kusanci matakinsa ba ana rubuta ta a buɗe maimakon a ƙidaya ta a matsayin nasara.
Checkonchain kasuwanci ne na bincike bisa biyan kuɗi, kuma Check yana da bayyani na musamman game da abin da yake sayarwa da wanda ba ya sayarwa. Babu token, babu ƙungiyar sigina, ba mu sami haɗin gwiwa da kowace kasuwar musaya ba — amma bangon biya kansa shi ne dalilin da ya kamata a sani, domin buɗaɗɗen farkon kowace wasiƙa dole ne ya sa ka so sauran.
Checkonchain a Substack — sama da masu biyan kuɗi 30,000 a matakin kyauta, matakin biya (nazari a rubuce da bidiyo sau biyu a mako tare da zaman Q&A) da kuma matakin sama “Orange” wanda ya ƙara rahoto na wata-wata a PDF irin na hukuma, kira na wata-wata da James, kira na gabatarwa ɗaya-da-ɗaya, da imel mai fifiko.
Tarin chart na jama'a a charts.checkonchain.com, tare da shawara da horo ga kamfanoni da mutanen da ke shigar da nazarin on-chain cikin binciken su.
Shafinsa na ƙa'idodi ya bayyana cewa Checkonchain “not provide trading signals, and intra-day calls of any form” kuma ba ya ƙoƙarin kama ainihin kololuwa ko ƙasa — don haka ba a sayar da kome a nan a matsayin wurin shiga ba. Ka karanta kiran da ke wannan shafin a matsayin ra'ayi mai kwanan wata, wanda shi ne kawai abin da yake da'awa.
“Price pain is largely behind us imho, however time pain likely remains.”
24 Feb 2026 · tsarin da dukan tarihin 2026 ya dogara a kansa“No model is perfect, and no analyst will ever predict the future correctly every time.”
14 Jul 2026 · an faɗa a rubutun da ya gwada ra'ayinsa“Look for the evidence, not the calendar.”
18 Sep 2026 · gaba da auna lokaci bisa zagayen shekara huɗuAn ɗauko maganganun daga tushen jama'a nasa; ra'ayoyi ne da aka bayyana, ba shawarwari ba.
There is no public video library to link — Check's video updates sit behind the Checkonchain paywall, and his free output is X posts and the opening section of each newsletter edition. That is why every call above is a timestamped post or a dated letter rather than a clip. The editions behind eight of the eleven cards are public at the links on those cards.
Manazarcin on-chain ɗan Ostiraliya, wanda ya kafa kuma babban manazarci na Checkonchain, kuma ɗaya daga cikin mutanen da suka gina fannin nazarin on-chain na Bitcoin. Ya fara aiki a matsayin injiniyan gine-gine (na ƙasa), ya koma bayanan Bitcoin a 2019, kuma ya gina ya jagoranci ƙungiyar manazarta ta Glassnode daga 2021 zuwa 2024, inda yake rubuta The Week On-chain. Yana wallafa a matsayin @_Checkmatey_.
Ba a tabbatar da ita a bainar jama'a ba. Kuɗin shigarsa yana fitowa daga kasuwancin biyan kuɗi na Checkonchain (matakan wasiƙa, chart da shawara), ba daga ciniki da aka buga ba. Ka yi watsi da duk wata lamba ta musamman — ba a tabbatar da ko ɗaya ba.
Da gangan, kusan ba ya yi. Ƙa'idodin da ya buga sun ce Checkonchain ba ya bayar da siginar ciniki ko kiran cikin rana, kuma ba ya ƙoƙarin kama ainihin kololuwa ko ƙasa. Abin da yake bugawa shi ne ra'ayi na alkibla mai kwanan wata kowane mako — kuma wannan ne abin da wannan shafin ke zanawa.
Mostly, on the structural questions. He called the February accumulation zone and named the 200-week moving average at $58.5k against an eventual low of $58,566; he rejected both the $40k and the mid-to-low-$40ks bear targets, neither of which came close. He also got a mid-March relative-strength read wrong, right before a 19.7% fall, His $82k “The Bears Last Stand” line broke on 22 September. Eight played out, two are open, one went against.
Check yana karanta Bitcoin ta abin da masu riƙe suka yi da gaske, ba ta yadda chart ɗin yake kama ba — kuma yana wasa da watanni, ba da mintuna ba. Yaya kusa hankalinka yake? Ka auna shi da gaske da Trader Passport.
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Nazari na ilimantarwa da bayar da bayani wanda ya dogara sosai kan kayan jama'a — saƙonninsa na X, sashin da aka bayar ga jama'a na fitowar Checkonchain masu kwanan wata, da rahotannin wasu masu kwanan wata, duk an haɗa su a kowane kira. Sashin waɗannan fitowar da ke bayan bangon biya ba a ɗauko shi ba kuma ba a auna shi a nan. Ba shawarar kuɗi ko saka jari ba ne. Lambobin kusan ne kuma suna canzawa koyaushe. Spotted an error, or are you James? Gabatar da gyara →
An tabbatar da masu amfani · An ambaci tushe a sama · Hanyar ba da maki · An sabunta 9 October 2026
