Joshua Lai, for his part, had sort of prophesied this.

In an op-ed in the New York Times at the end of May, he wrote,

I have always thought I might one day be sent to jail for my publications

or for my calls for democracy in Hong Kong.

But for a few tweets, and because they are said to threaten the national security of

mighty China, that's a new one, even for me.

Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW.

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What's going on, guys? It is Monday, August 10th, and today we are going to look at the latest

in the world's most contentious and important business relationship. That is, of course, the relationship between

the U.S. and China. There has been a huge number of new developments over just the last week or so,

so we're going to look at all of that. First, however, let's do the brief. First up on the brief today,

it is not just me who thinks that we are on the verge of a new bull run.

Grayscale has launched a new national ad promoting their products around digital assets.

The new national campaign is being run on CNBC, MSNBC, Fox and Fox Business, and features

this 30-second spot.

Before money, people traded goods, tools, cattle, brain, even shells represented value.

Then currency came along.

They made it out of copper, gold, silver, wampum.

Soon people decided to put all that value into a piece of paper.

Then proceeded to wave goodbye to value, printing unlimited amounts of money as they passed a buck to the future.

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