Keeping the fact that I work in China, crypto in mind, I have to tell you, this is the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life.

Yeah.

I mean, it's just nuts.

It really has been like out of a movie.

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The clip you just heard that kicked us off was from Monday's interview, which was a view from

China with investor Matthew Graham. And it sort of has to be said that the background noise

for this week, and probably honestly for most weeks going forward, is the coronavirus.

However, that wasn't the only topic that we covered on this week's episodes of the breakdown.

On Monday, as I said, we started with this view from China, but then on Tuesday, we did a little

bit of a detour into U.S. electoral politics.

And if you'll remember, it seems now like a month ago,

but the markets were actually really excited that Biden outperformed as compared to what everyone

thought with Bernie Sanders. So we looked at what election outcome might be best for Bitcoin

on the basis of a poll that I did on Twitter. On Wednesday, we got into recent news from

Libra that they would be pushing out

digital fiat effectively. So digital fiat pegs currencies in addition to their basket currency,

which I think might actually be much better for adoption for them. We also talked about news

out of India where the Supreme Court overturned a two-year ban on

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