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All right, friends, well, this is going to be a fun one.

One of the things that always marks crypto is what you want to say to your family about it at

Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was famously part of the big run-up in 2017. People talking about

Bitcoin led to their friends and family going out and buying Bitcoin, which led to the 20K top, which was for so long, the marker that we used to signify what a return

to success for Bitcoin would be.

This year, we have Bitcoin at, at the time of recording, very nearly $100,000.

And so we turned to coin market caps Jonathan Isaac for his take on how to talk about crypto with your family this

Thanksgiving. I'm going to turn it over to an AI version of me to read his essay, and then I

will come back and discuss. How to Talk About Crypto with your family this Thanksgiving.

With Bitcoin eyeing $100,000 and peanut the squirrel grabbing headlines with 3,000% gains,

crypto is firmly back on the menu this holiday season. Family debates about Bitcoin,

meme coins, and the dog thing Elon tweets about will no doubt liven up the dinner table,

and you, as the designated crypto expert, will need some talking points to win over the normies.

Crypto is libertarian lunacy. Trump's candidacy and victory

sparked the latest crypto bull run, and many now associate it with the worst excesses of

Maga and Elon's dogg trolling. For your left-leaning relatives, seeing crypto champion so hard

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