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🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Alex Thorn, Head of Research at Galaxy Digital, joins us to unpack the impact of last night’s sweeping Republican victory on the crypto landscape.
We dive into record-breaking price action, potential shifts in crypto legislation, and the role Polymarket played in election coverage. Tune in for insights on what lies ahead for crypto in this new political climate.
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0:00.0 | Bankless Nation, last night the United States had an election in last night, an election was |
0:08.5 | concluded. Today, to unpack all of that with us is Alex Thorne, the head of research at Galaxy |
0:13.6 | Digital. He's going to help us understand the impact of the election results last night and what |
0:17.9 | it means for the crypto industry moving forward. Alex, thanks so |
0:21.7 | much for, I know it was a long night last night and it's an early morning this morning. |
0:25.7 | Thank you so much for coming on the show and unpacking all of this with us. |
0:28.8 | Yeah, you're welcome, David. Hey, Ryan. Wow. I mean, wow. What a night, I think, |
0:33.1 | better than certainly the mainstream media would have had anybody expect. I think that's right. |
0:38.4 | I think that's right. |
0:38.8 | That's definitely a big topic is the gap between the mainstream media and our more |
0:43.7 | crypto-native news sources. |
0:45.2 | Polymarket definitely having a front and center role here. |
0:48.9 | But first I want to just kick things off, Alex, with the Red Sweep. |
0:52.4 | Last night, the Republicans won the presidential race, |
0:55.9 | the Senate, the House, and the cherry on top. It looks like the popular vote as well. First |
1:01.7 | reaction. What does this mean for crypto? What does this mean for our industry? It's game-changing. |
1:06.4 | We are about to enter a golden era of crypto and Bitcoin in America. That sound that you're hearing, |
1:12.2 | maybe you're hearing some static. That's thousands of crypto entrepreneurs buying tickets to move |
1:17.0 | back to the United States. This is an absolute game changer. You're going to have endless |
1:23.2 | nonstop catalyst every week for 18 months. The headlines are going to knock your socks off, |
1:28.1 | just like the former president said in Nashville, we're going to be so tired of winning, sir. |
1:32.0 | We're going to be begging him, please, sir. No more winning. No more electricity, sir. I mean, |
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