Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Right Home. I'm Brian McCullough.

So for the final weekend bonus episode of 2019, I wanted to check in with crypto. What a year

for the crypto space. Seemingly dead at the beginning of the year but then the

crypto spring happened and then Libra happened and so

where are we now? No one better than coin desks Brady Dale to catch us up.

So I know this is the most annoying question

to get asked as a reporter on your beat,

but let's start off with Bitcoin and the price of Bitcoin and I because I think the last time I spoke to you was right when the so-called

crypto spring was happening and Bitcoin was back above 10,000. So in the intervening months, what has happened? I see we're back under 10,000 and have been for a while.

Yeah, I'm kind of falling like around 7,000.

You know, no one ever really knows like why the price is what the price is, but like,

I can tell you that like as spring was coming, you know, I had people telling me to a who argued that like every

time they point starts to like really do a rally it like does an enormous rally and

look for a giant number by the end of the year and that really doesn't seem like it's going to happen.

I think, you know, this is just my explanation just based on some stuff people have said to me around the space.

But I think folks continue to be disappointed

by the fact that big players still aren't moving into this space.

And so, you know, that's what I going to go to for my explanation but you know a

million things are happening another you know another important another useful thing

though and we don't really know why exactly but one of our reporters is a story recently that was about how the

correlation between the stock market and Bitcoin is really starting to break down so it used to be that as stocks would fall,

people would retreat to Bitcoin

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