MARKETS DAILY: Featured Story | Bitcoin and the Changing Definition of 'Safety'
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
When supposedly safe investments like bonds and stocks underperform, what does that mean for our view of apparently risky investments like bitcoin? Noelle Acheson offers her thoughts.
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For today’s featured story, Noelle Acheson reads her piece written for CoinDesk, titled: “Bitcoin and the Changing Definition of 'Safety'”
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| 1:02.6 | Hello, this is Markets Daily from CoinDex. |
| 1:05.4 | I'm Noel Acheson here with your featured story. |
| 1:13.8 | Today, I update a piece I wrote earlier this year that looks at how Bitcoin is changing what we mean by safe assets. |
| 1:19.0 | And just a reminder, CoinDisc is a new source and does not provide investment advice. |
| 1:27.7 | Its title is Bitcoin and the the Changing Definition of Safety. |
| 1:29.2 | Here we go. |
| 1:35.8 | Fortunately, we rarely have to think about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, that triangle we saw in school that layers the key human requirements for flourishing. |
| 1:39.8 | Until that is, one of the needs towards the bottom isn't being met, and then we think about |
| 1:45.1 | it a lot. |
| 1:46.7 | To recap, at the very bottom, we have the basics for survival, the physical needs of nourishment, |
| 1:52.8 | rest and shelter, and then layered on top of that, is safety. |
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