BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin Is Now a Trillion-Dollar Asset – Where Do We Go From Here?
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🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The milestone isn’t just psychological, and potentially opens entire new groups of investors who couldn’t participate previously.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.
Bitcoin is officially a $1 trillion asset. As the price surged over $54,000, the total market cap of bitcoin reached the new all-time high.
In this episode, NLW explores the significance of the milestone, arguing:
- There has been a slate of good news, from BlackRock rumblings to Canadian ETFs that have been driving recent price action
- There are a variety of institutions that couldn’t allocate to the space before because it was too small but which are now in play
- In the wake of the milestone, we’re likely to see more research house FUD
- We’re also likely to see a number of major bitcoin positions announced in the days to come
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| 0:00.0 | Institutional Bitcoin buying in 2021 is an iceberg. We've seen how big the part that's above |
| 0:07.0 | the surface is, but we haven't seen how many things are going on just below. A trillion dollar |
| 0:13.2 | market size not only incentivizes new people to join up with that iceberg, it also creates |
| 0:19.1 | a lot of momentum for the people who have been keeping |
| 0:21.5 | what they've been doing out of plain view to lend their voice to this momentum. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the |
| 0:34.1 | Big Picture Power Shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:43.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:52.3 | Well, damn it. It is Friday, February 19th at 1149 a.m. I just finished today's podcast episode. |
| 0:56.7 | It's a ripper about the GameStop hearing yesterday and why it shows how much we need a new financial system. I was sitting here getting ready to push that out |
| 1:01.5 | when all of a sudden Bitcoin did Bitcoin things and surged up to a trillion dollars in total |
| 1:09.2 | market cap. So here I am. We're switching it. That GameStop |
| 1:13.2 | Roaring Kitty episode will be tomorrow. That will be the weekly recap. And now we have got to talk |
| 1:18.8 | about Bitcoin as a trillion dollar asset and ask the question, where do we go from here? |
| 1:25.6 | There is so much to cover. so let's just dive right in. |
| 1:28.5 | And first of all, let's not bury the lead. |
| 1:30.6 | Just a few minutes ago, Bitcoin surged above $54,000, which is cool because that's a lot of money |
| 1:37.5 | when we started the year under $30,000 per coin. |
| 1:40.8 | But turns out that's not actually the big thing. |
| 1:43.4 | The big thing was that when Bitcoin |
| 1:45.3 | crossed a threshold around $53,700, it became a trillion dollar asset. Now the first question |
| 1:53.9 | around that is, how much is Bitcoin being a trillion dollar asset a fund psychological barrier |
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