BREAKDOWN: Soros Breaks Into Bitcoin
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CoinDesk
4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Recent investments and a TV appearance this week start to show how the legendary investor’s crypto strategy is shaping up.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Casper, and this week’s special product launch, Exodus.
On this week’s Weekly Recap, NLW:
- Highlights the four most important happenings around regulation and central bank digital currencies in the U.S.
- Updates the macro inflation narrative for a “new normal” era
- Digs into what we’ve learned recently about George Soros’ bitcoin and crypto strategy
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| 0:49.9 | Soros wasn't the only new investor we saw come into the space this week, however. A retirement |
| 0:55.7 | fund in New Zealand is reportedly now a Bitcoin investor. This KiwiSaver fund did not try to get this |
| 1:02.4 | to press. It was dug up by a local news outlet. My question then is how many more retirement funds |
| 1:08.7 | or sovereign wealth funds or institutions or insurance companies |
| 1:12.5 | or some other category of actor has been moving into the Bitcoin space without us even knowing it. |
| 1:19.9 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 1:24.0 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 1:29.8 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Casper, and Exodus, and produced and distributed by CoinDes. |
| 1:37.6 | What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, March 27th, and that means it's time for the weekly recap. |
| 1:43.7 | So three things I want to analyze a little bit more |
| 1:46.7 | this week. First, I want to recap the bajillion hearings and times we heard from major U.S. |
| 1:52.5 | officials. Second, I want to talk about the shifts in the macro scene. And three, I want to talk |
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