BREAKDOWN: Travis Kling on Bitcoin as a Safe Haven Asset | January 8th, 2019
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4.7 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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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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