BREAKDOWN: Who Is Better for Bitcoin, Trump or Biden?
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🗓️ 2 November 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In a chaotic year of dueling recriminations and very different visions of the future, the real question of this U.S. presidential election is: Who is better for bitcoin?
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com and Nexo.io.
Today on the Brief:
- The digital euro is closer than ever
- Checking in on European COVID-19 lockdowns
- Economic events this week that aren’t the election
Our main discussion: Which U.S. election outcome is better for bitcoin?
Poll: twitter.com/nlw/status/1320884275110137863
After a surprisingly close Twitter poll with more than 1,600 respondents answering the question “Is Trump or Biden better for bitcoin?”, NLW breaks down the most common themes, including:
- The Senate matters more
- Anti-encryption history
- And of course… Honey Badger Don’t Care
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| 0:53.8 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:58.7 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 1:04.8 | The breakdown is sponsored by crypto.com and nexo.io and produced and distributed by CoinDest. |
| 1:12.2 | What's going on, guys? It is Monday, November 2nd, and today we are talking. You've got to know we were going to do this. |
| 1:20.4 | Is Trump or Biden better for Bitcoin? First up, however, let's do the brief. First up on the brief today, the digital euro is closer than ever. |
| 1:31.3 | Yesterday, Christine Lagarde, the head of the ECB, tweeted this. |
| 1:35.3 | We've started exploring the possibility of launching a digital euro. |
| 1:39.3 | As Europeans are increasingly turning to digital in the ways they spend, save and invest, |
| 1:43.3 | we should be prepared |
| 1:44.6 | to issue a digital euro if needed. |
| 1:47.4 | I'm also keen to hear your views on it. |
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