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Welcome back to the breakdown.

It is Tuesday, March 10th, and I got to tell you guys, yesterday was exhausting.

And well, it should have been.

It ended up being the worst day in markets since 2008, since the last financial crash.

It wasn't much better for Bitcoin. It was maybe a little bit better by percentages, but it wasn't much better around here. In fact, everything kind of moved

in lockstep down. Now, because of that, much of the conversation today has been about Bitcoin

as a safe haven asset or even as a non-correlated asset and whether this

just puts the nail in that narrative coffin. So I am going to touch on that a little bit to kick

off today's show. However, at the risk of being polyanish about what we're facing next,

I think that we're in for a very long, very extended, challenging period,

both in the context of this public health emergency as well as in the context of not just the

market's ability to deal with it, but the economy's ability to deal with it in general.

Because of that, we're going to have to win some positivity

where we can here and there. And so today I'm going to actually look at a slate of fundraising

news from the last few days. Companies that were fortunate enough to get their capitalizations

done before the coronavirus really kicked in, I think are in a good position

as long as they manage their treasury as well. So we're going to look at some of that news and

hopefully remind ourselves that even as bad as this might get, it will pass and a whole new

set of exciting companies and ideas and innovations will come out of it too. So that's where we're

going to focus today. First up, like I said, let's look at the safe haven asset narrative in the

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