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Welcome back to the Breakdown.

What's going on, guys?

It is Wednesday, January 8th, and today we are going to be starting by looking at this

ongoing question about whether Bitcoin is a safe haven asset with some new evidence from last

night during the retaliatory strikes from Iran.

And that will feature comments from Travis

Kling, who's an investor at Aikai and who has actually joined us on the show before to talk about

whether Bitcoin is or is starting to act like a safe haven asset. Next, from there, we're going

to be looking at the SEC, who has just published a set of priorities, including a set of priorities

for crypto in 2020. And third and finally, we're going to be looking at a recent senatorial appointment,

one of the first crypto-native people to be appointed to the Senate and their new role on

a committee that oversees the CFTC.

And we're going to talk about whether there might be a conflict of interest or whether

it's actually good for the industry.

So that's where we're going for today.

And first, let's dive into this question of Bitcoin as a safe haven asset.

Ever since the middle of last year or so, there's been this ongoing and kind of background

conversation around whether Bitcoin is a safe haven asset or whether

it might start to act more like a safe haven asset as the world gets more unstable. So a safe

haven asset being akin to gold as opposed to a risk asset, which is something like traditional

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