BREAKDOWN: Travis Kling on Bitcoin as a Safe Haven Asset | January 8th, 2019
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🗓️ 8 January 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The conversation about whether bitcoin is a safe haven asset continues in the wake of Iranian missile strikes, which saw the price of BTC both surge and retrace in parallel with crude and gold. To help explain what’s going on, we feature comments from Ikigai Asset Management’s Travis Kling.
Also in today’s episode, we look at newly published priorities from the SEC around crypto including investor suitability, trading practices, and compliance program effectiveness. We also discuss former Bakkt CEO and now Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler’s appointment to the committee that oversees the CFTC. Is it a conflict of interest, something good for the crypto industry, or both?
Topics discussed:
Bitcoin as a safe haven asset as it follows crude and gold after Iran missile strikes
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SEC publishes 2020 crypto priorities
Related Story: Former Bakkt CEO to Help Oversee CFTC in Congress
Kelly Loefller appointed to committee overseeing CFTC
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| 1:15.7 | Welcome back to The Breakdown. What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, January 8th, and today we are going to be starting by looking at this ongoing question about whether Bitcoin is a safe |
| 1:20.7 | haven asset with some new evidence from last night during the retaliatory strikes from Iran. |
| 1:26.7 | And that will feature comments from Travis |
| 1:28.6 | Kling, who's an investor at Aikai and who has actually joined us on the show before to talk |
| 1:33.2 | about whether Bitcoin is or is starting to act like a safe haven asset. Next, from there, |
| 1:37.9 | we're going to be looking at the SEC, who has just published a set of priorities, including |
| 1:41.7 | a set of priorities for crypto in 2020. And third and finally, we're going to be looking at a recent senatorial appointment, |
| 1:47.4 | one of the first crypto-native people to be appointed to the Senate and their new role on a |
| 1:52.7 | committee that oversees the CFTC. |
| 1:54.2 | And we're going to talk about whether there might be a conflict of interest or whether |
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