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The Breakdown

Crypto Daily 3@3 - 8.9 | Travis Kling on how BTC moves from risk asset to safe haven / Binance US listing framework / Crypto reality TV?

The Breakdown

Blockworks

Investing, Business

4.8786 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Travis Kling joins for today's 3@3 to explore how bitcoin might move from a risk asset to a safe haven. This isn't just about narrative, it's about how bets from one group trigger another group, which confirms models, and so on, creating a self fulfilling prophecy. You don't want to miss this. Also today, we look at Binance US's new asset listing framework and 30 prospects. And we ask that all important question: does crypto need a reality TV show?  Watch: https://www.youtube.com/nathanielwhittemorecrypto

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another Crypto Daily 3 at 3.

0:04.0

How's it going, everyone? Happy Friday.

0:06.0

So today we're going to talk about first how Bitcoin moves from a risk asset to a safe haven,

0:11.0

featuring a really great little segment from Travis Kling.

0:15.0

Second, we're going to talk about Binance US, the new US-based, or forthcoming, I should say, US-based Binance US, the new US-based, or forthcoming, I should say, U.S.-based finance exchange disclosed

0:25.4

which assets it's considering and how it's thinking about it. And third and finally,

0:29.1

we're going to ask the all-important question, does crypto need a reality TV show? So let's start

0:34.8

in with number one, how Bitcoin moves from a risk asset to a safe haven.

0:38.3

So this is a section that actually starts the beginning of the week, right? So over the weekend,

0:44.8

and the beginning of the week started with news that Trump and the Trump administration were

0:49.1

going to impose more sanctions, or more tariffs, rather, on Chinese goods. China responded by devaluing the

0:55.8

yuan to its lowest level in more than 11 years. The Trump administration responded again

1:01.2

by labeling China currency manipulators formally in a way that hadn't been for a quarter century.

1:07.5

And the stock markets did not like this. The markets were down hugely on Monday.

1:12.6

Meanwhile, Bitcoin was surging.

1:14.6

Bitcoin got up to 12 and has been hanging around 12 a little bit under all week.

1:19.6

And so this brought up a huge amount of attention around this question of whether Bitcoin was becoming a new safe haven asset, right?

1:28.2

So you saw it on Yahoo Finance where they were asking this.

1:31.5

The Financial Times was asking this.

1:33.3

You see things like this article from the New York Post,

1:37.3

Trump-Trina trade war, a boon for Bitcoin.

1:39.9

It was all over, right?

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