What's More Important: BlackRock Trading Crypto or 7.5% Inflation?

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Investing, Business

4.8 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Arculus, FTX US and MELD.com. Today Twitter was alight with discussion of the biggest inflation print since 1982. With 7.5% inflation, a hike of 50 basis points is looking more and more likely in March. This should be bad news for risk assets. On the other hand, bitcoin and crypto are being buoyed by other macro forces. Notably, news broke yesterday that the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, is likely to begin allowing clients to trade crypto. As many have pointed out – it’s hard to be bearish when that type of adoption is happening. So which of these forces have a stronger impact on bitcoin and crypto? - Nexo is a powerful, all-in-one crypto platform where you can securely store your crypto. Invest, borrow, exchange and earn up to 18% APR on Bitcoin and 20+ other top coins. Insured for $375M. Audited in real-time by Armanino. Rated excellent on Trustpilot. Get started today at nexo.io. - Arculus™ is the next-gen cold storage wallet for your crypto. The sleek, metal Arculus Key™ Card authenticates with the Arculus Wallet™ App, providing a simpler, safer, and more secure solution to store, send, receive, buy, and swap your crypto. Buy now at getarculus.com. - FTX US is the safe, regulated way to buy Bitcoin, ETH, SOL and other digital assets. Trade crypto with up to 85% lower fees than top competitors and trade ETH and SOL NFTs with no gas fees and subsidized gas on withdrawals. Sign up at FTX.US today. - MELD is building the first-ever decentralized, non-custodial crypto to fiat lending and borrowing solution that will allow its users to lend and borrow both crypto and fiat currencies seamlessly. Users can stake MELD directly on the MELDapp, which will allow for governance voting for new protocol improvements, insuring the protocol, and earning up to 15% APY in MELD rewards. Start using MELD today at app.meld.com. - Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1438693620?at=1000lSDb Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/538vuul1PuorUDwgkC8JWF?si=ddSvD-HST2e_E7wgxcjtfQ Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9ubHdjcnlwdG8ubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M= Join the discussion: https://discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8 Follow on Twitter: NLW: https://twitter.com/nlw Breakdown: https://twitter.com/BreakdownNLW “The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “Vision” by OBOY. Image credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images News, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.

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0:00.0	But I still think the impact here is a bit more muted than that January QT surprise.
0:07.2	Indeed, if you listen to all the smart observers, what they're focused on is not the potential
0:11.8	of problems from rate hikes, but what happens when you remove liquidity from markets?
0:17.7	That's, I think, what people are going to be looking out for next.
0:22.4	Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the
0:29.5	big picture power shifts remaking our world. The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io,
0:34.8	Arculus, and FTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk.
0:40.2	What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, February 10th, and today we are talking about the weird
0:46.0	back-and-forth tension between macro being good and macro being bad for crypto and what it all
0:53.0	means. But before we do that, if you're
0:56.1	enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it five stars, leave a nice review, or if you
1:01.6	want to get deeper into the conversation, join the Discord. You can find the Breakers Discord at the
1:06.8	link in the show notes or go to bit.ly slash breakdown pod. As usual, a quick disclosure.
1:13.2	In addition to them being a sponsor of the show, I also work with FTX. And one final note
1:20.3	before we get into today's fascinating topic. This week, I'm incredibly pleased to have a special sponsor in Meld. If you've ever
1:30.4	wondered how the rich are able to spend their money and still stay rich, it's because they borrow
1:35.5	against their assets. Meld is creating a protocol that can be used by anyone, and which offers this
1:41.0	exact service, but in a decentralized way.
1:48.3	Users of Meld's protocol will be able to borrow dollars, euros, and other fiat currencies against their cryptocurrencies.
1:50.2	If you want to learn more about the first defy non-custodial banking protocol today, go check
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1:56.6	That's MELD.com.
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