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Welcome back to The Breakdown.

It is Saturday 314, March 14th.

And today, as every Saturday, we are doing our weekly recap all of the previous week's

episodes in one long form piece.

And man, what a week it was. This is honestly, guys, a week that

will go down in history, not just in the crypto industry, not just in the world of finance,

but in just history, right? This is an epical time that started with a president denying that this was any worse than the flu and ended with a national emergency.

Multiple sports league shut down.

Areas of cities completely quarantined in the U.S.

And everyone wondering what happens next.

Not to mention the biggest single-day market fall since

1987, 40% dips in the Bitcoin price in a single day. I mean, this is just wild historic times.

As you might expect, the podcast this week has been all about those historic times.

On Monday, we had Delphi Digital's Kevin Kelly try to come explain what the recent market crash meant for Bitcoin

and talking about how the equities markets were actually only one part of the overall ecosystem

that we needed to be paying attention to. On Tuesday, we

got into the latest discussion of the Bitcoin as a safe haven asset. And the point that most

people were making, which would be validated later in the week, was that in the type of crisis

we were seeing, when companies need to stay solvent, nothing is a safe haven

other than cash and approximations of cash like treasury bills. And that is absolutely what we saw

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