Fed Rate Cut Decision LIVE: Market Reactions and Macro Analysis for Crypto and TradFi
CRYPTO 101
Bryce Paul & Brendan Viehman
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In this special Crypto 101 Podcast episode, Tevo and Brian react live to the Federal Reserve’s 25-basis-point rate cut, analyzing how markets, Bitcoin, and macro trends respond. They discuss the Fed’s policy tone, China–US tariff de-escalation, and how easing could spark a Q4 crypto rally led by Bitcoin’s strength relative to gold. The duo dives into major crypto stories — Solana ETF’s record debut, banks’ accelerating crypto adoption, and IBM’s surprising entry into digital-asset custody — while fielding community reactions. The show closes with post-Fed analysis, market overreactions, and reflections on AI, layoffs, and whether today’s boom resembles the dot-com bubble. If you DO NOT want to listen to speech SKIP 30 min - 60 min mark.
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Chapters
00:05 — Fed rate cut announced (25 bips) and live market reaction begins.
05:47 — China–US tariffs de-escalating; optimism for global trade.
08:27 — Gold vs. Bitcoin correlation and Tom Lee’s chart analysis.
10:12 — Fed split votes and expectations for future rate cuts.
12:14 — Solana ETF launch smashes records and Bitwise discussion.
17:00 — Banks adopting crypto, highlighting JPMorgan and others.
19:27 — IBM enters digital assets, offering custody and payments.
23:18 — Fear & Greed Index at 2022 lows; sentiment analysis.
27:00 — AI-related layoffs (UPS, Amazon) and labor-market impact.
30:00 Jerome Powell's Speech
01:00:50 — Fed press conference recap and market overreaction breakdown.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody, welcome back to the Crypto 101 podcast special edition here. |
| 0:11.6 | It's the Crypto 101 podcast presented by Gemini, your bridge to the future of money. |
| 0:15.6 | But we are doing a special episode today. |
| 0:18.4 | A little bit of a market update. |
| 0:19.9 | You see on the screen there, we've got |
| 0:21.4 | Brian. It's Brian and TiVo. We're going to go over what is going on in the markets because breaking news, the Fed has cut interest rates by 25 basis points. If you want to sound fancy and you want to sound cool, Brian, you just say 25 bips. You say bips. It makes you feel like you work on Wall Street. It makes you feel like you're in the no. 25 bips. We're going to go over what the Fed's doing. We're going to cover the live press conference of Jerome Powell that happens usually right around 230. So 20 minutes, 25 minutes from now. In the meantime, we're going to go over the rate cut of 25 bips and going to see the reaction in the markets, and then we're going to dive into the crypto markets as well and kind of give you a midweek rundown. If you guys were here earlier in the week with Brendan and I, we told you we were going to try and do this. We are here for you. This is what we're calling a for you show. We're here for you. We're short staff this week. Brian's been doing double duty, working hard. |
| 1:11.1 | I'm doing double duty. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm also moving. |
| 1:13.5 | I'm in the middle of a move right now. |
| 1:15.0 | Brian saw it in the background. |
| 1:16.7 | My poor mother's here helping me. |
| 1:18.5 | We got movers here. |
| 1:19.4 | We've got plumbers here. |
| 1:20.5 | But that's no excuse on Fed Day, Brian. |
| 1:22.5 | We have to get here and give something for the people. |
| 1:25.2 | We love everybody joining us. |
| 1:26.8 | We've got comedy video. We've got |
| 1:29.0 | Mike Surrey, Mike Surrey, hi from Poland. God, what a way to start the stream when you're getting |
| 1:34.8 | a hello from Poland. But Brian, how are you and how are the markets looking? Yeah, the markets, |
| 1:40.6 | they're starting to bounce back a little bit here. We got somebody else coming from London. I mean, |
| 1:44.0 | we're just touching everybody in the world. Shout out. God, I love it. You made me laugh whenever. You said the 25 bips, we've never talked about that. But any of my buddies are like financial advisors, whenever I'm talking and I make sure to like, hey, we're expecting 25 bips. |
| 2:01.3 | So I sound like a little bit cooler out there. |
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