COINDESK DAILY: Bitcoin Rebounds Amid Trade War, Crypto Reserve Hope
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🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Host Christine Lee breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry as bitcoin rebounds amid hopes for tariff negotiations and a bitcoin strategic reserve plan.
Bitcoin is rebounding as the Trump administration indicates the president will "probably" announce tariff negotiations on Wednesday and a bitcoin strategic reserve plan by the end of the week. Plus, Blockstream's multi-billion dollar bitcoin lending funds and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele defies the IMF and buys more bitcoin. CoinDesk's Christine Lee hosts "CoinDesk Daily."
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| 0:00.0 | Bitcoin rebounds as the Trump administration says tariff negotiation and crypto reserve plans will be announced. |
| 0:06.8 | It's Wednesday, March 5th, 2025. I'm Christine Lee. This is Coiness Daily. |
| 0:15.6 | Bitcoin climbing toward $90,000 after suffering a trade war sell-off. |
| 0:22.6 | Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik telling Fox that U.S. President Donald Trump was open to negotiation |
| 0:27.9 | and would probably make an announcement Wednesday. |
| 0:30.4 | The crypto market rebound follows Tuesday's dip as tariffs against America's top trade partners went into effect, |
| 0:41.4 | with China, Canada and Mexico promising retaliatory tariffs. |
| 0:47.8 | There's a 70% chance that the trade war between Canada and the U.S. will end by May, according to polling market odds. |
| 0:53.5 | While President Trump's address to Congress last night made no mention of softening tariffs or crypto policy, |
| 0:55.8 | Lutnik reportedly told Pavlovak today that the president will introduce a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Plan at the White House |
| 1:00.5 | Crypto Summit this Friday. |
| 1:03.3 | Bitcoin development company Blockstream has secured a significant multi-billion dollar investment |
| 1:08.8 | to launch three new institutional funds, including |
| 1:11.6 | two focused on crypto lending and one employing hedge fund strategies, signaling growing interest |
| 1:17.0 | in leveraging Bitcoin for financial products. |
| 1:20.0 | Blockstream says their institutional-grade Bitcoin investment solutions will go live on April 1st, |
| 1:24.9 | with external capital acceptance opening on July 1st. The funds will enable |
| 1:29.0 | Bitcoin-backed loans and crypto borrowing with U.S. dollar collateral, filling a liquidity |
| 1:34.0 | gap left by bankruptcies like FTX Genesis and BlockFi. Friends, Defi is having a moment. |
| 1:41.6 | Uniswap Labs web app and wallet connect you to the excitement. Swapping and bridging |
| 1:46.2 | our simple, low cost, and lightning fast across 13 chains, including base, arbitrum and unichane, |
| 1:52.3 | the new layer two network designed for defy. Thanks to deep liquidity on uniswap protocols, |
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