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Bits + Bips: Bitcoin Brushes Off Another War & Will Powell Relent on Rates?

June 25
1h 5m

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Episode Description

As tensions flare between Iran and Israel, investors are watching oil, gold, and, of course, crypto. In this episode of Bits + Bips, the panel digs into the market response to war risk, the chances the Fed will actually cut rates, and how Circle’s IPO is being treated more like a meme stock than a fintech play.

Plus:

  • Why Scaramucci says we’re all living in a surveillance state 

  • Whether stablecoins are being kneecapped by U.S. regulation 

  • When altcoin ETFs are coming

  • And what BlackRock’s Larry Fink secretly told Scaramucci about Bitcoin in 2021 👀

Sponsor:

US-Iran-Israel war

Macro

Stablecoins

ETFs

  • James upped the odds on a bunch of altcoin spot ETFs


Timestamps:

  • 🎬 0:00 Intro

  • 🌍 2:51 Are there lessons in how the markets shrugged off the Iran-Israel conflict?

  • 🔥 9:37 What flashpoints in the Middle East could ignite next

  • 🛢️ 14:40 Will oil supplies remain safe?

  • 💸 22:13 Are cracks finally forming in the Fed’s resistance to rate cuts?

  • 📉 28:08 Why Anthony believes that Fed Chair Powell is playing politics with rates

  • 🇺🇸 33:55 Whether TACO Trump or tough Trump will show up on tariff day

  • 🎯 36:26 What Anthony says that people get wrong about Trump’s economic strategy

  • 🏦 43:52 Why Circle’s IPO feels more meme than fintech and what Larry Fink once secretly told Anthony about bitcoin 👀

  • 🚫 50:27 One thing that Anthony HATES about the GENIUS Act

  • 📊 56:17 Why James is upping his odds on a wave of altcoin ETFs, but doesn’t expect many to be successful products

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