Bitcoin Hits a New All-Time High: What Happens Next?

Why a price surge is not only attracting a new cadre of institutional investors, but also producing the beginnings of a new set of FUD.

AccessTimeIconNov 30, 2020 at 6:20 p.m. UTC
Updated Sep 14, 2021 at 10:36 a.m. UTC
AccessTimeIconNov 30, 2020 at 6:20 p.m. UTCUpdated Sep 14, 2021 at 10:36 a.m. UTC
AccessTimeIconNov 30, 2020 at 6:20 p.m. UTCUpdated Sep 14, 2021 at 10:36 a.m. UTC

Why a price surge is not only attracting a new cadre of institutional investors, but also producing the beginnings of a new set of FUD.

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This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and this week's special product launch, Allnodes.

On this historic day, NLW looks at bitcoin’s punch through its previous December 2017 all time high. Specifically, he looks at:

  • How different people benchmark the all time high 
  • What drove the latest price action, including the prospect of a new investment from institutional asset management giant Guggenheim 
  • Why historian Niall Ferguson is arguing that bitcoin has won the Covid-19 monetary revolution 
  • Why macro giants including Raoul Pal, George Gammon and Ben Hunt got into disagreements with Bitcoin Twitter about how co-opted by the state and Wall Street bitcoin was likely to become

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