Hi everyone we are live thank you so much for waiting a little bit of

tech issues Kate Rooney I am thrilled that you get to join me this week how are you

I'm great it's good to be here. We had an actual tech check before.

An actual tech check. And I should say we do have the comments on so please those of you who are watching thanks for waiting feel free to

comment ask questions keep it clean in the chat right Kate

okay so let's jump into it. I mean, we wanted to do this this week because we've seen some action in

Bitcoin, but the year as a whole has actually been notable because we haven't seen the kind of action that we have seen in recent years.

What do we make of it all and you know it's worth noting that even though we dip below 40K

it's been a lot less volatile than say the

Nasdaq. Yeah that's true and that happy one-year anniversary by the way.

I'm check check. Well so if you look at I guess Bitcoin prices, we'll use that as our peg is the launch of

Tech.

So one of the things that has been lacking in crypto markets and Bitcoin in particular has been new retail interests.

So since January at least if you look at the addition of new wallets it's been pretty

stagnant so it's been pretty stable and one of the things and hallmarks they call it of a bull market is

really new retail interest that has not come in at the pace that it has in

previous bull markets.

So that's one thing that analysts say,

is sort of holding Bitcoin back from this next leg

of a bull run.

So that's one of the things that people watch and say,

yeah, the price has been a lot more stable

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