BREAKDOWN: What Bitcoin and the Stock Market’s Correlation Really Means
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Risk assets have traded together this year, so what does it actually tell us about bitcoin?
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and FTX US.
On this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads:
“Bitcoin Is Macro, but Not ‘Correlated’ in the Way You Think” – Noelle Acheson
“Why Bitcoin Has Been Highly Correlated With Fiat” – Steven Lubka
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.3 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:15.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, circle, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.9 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, October 30th, and that means it's time for Long Read Sunday. |
| 0:29.2 | Before we get into that, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, |
| 0:32.6 | give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, |
| 0:36.3 | come join us on the Breakers Discord. |
| 0:38.1 | You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit.LY slash breakdown pod. |
| 0:42.0 | Also a disclosure as always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, I also work with FTX. |
| 0:47.1 | All right, folks. Well, this past week was trading week on CoinDesk. |
| 0:53.1 | And so I thought for LRS it would be fun to do a few of the |
| 0:56.2 | pieces that relate to that theme. Where we're going to start is with a piece from Noel |
| 1:00.8 | Acheson, who is a former head of research at CoinDesk as well as Galaxy Digital, and who wrote |
| 1:06.9 | on October 14th a piece called Bitcoin is macro, but not quote-unquote correlated in the way |
| 1:12.3 | you think. Quote, Bitcoin is correlated. I often hear that thrown out in conversations as a dismissive |
| 1:18.9 | way of saying that it isn't really an alternative asset at all, and that all this mumbo-jumbo about |
| 1:23.9 | it being external to the broader economy is just opium. But very few who say this have |
| 1:28.6 | actually dug into the data or thought about the reasoning behind that claim, which is understandable. |
| 1:33.6 | Why mess with convenient narratives? I confess that even I used to think that the surge and the |
| 1:38.1 | correlation between Bitcoin and the S&P 500 was because the institutional investors marched |
| 1:42.7 | into the market in the second half of last year. |
| 1:45.3 | Now I'm not so sure. The institutions did indeed march in, and Bitcoin has, to a large extent, |
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