Latest / Panic Drop Podcast / Fr 16/10 | Daily Crypto & Macro News
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- 0:05SPEAKER_00: Happy Friday all and let's close out the week with everything that happened over
- 0:09SPEAKER_00: the past 24 hours because we got some massive news across tech and crypto.
- 0:14SPEAKER_00: Tesla officially unveiled its new flying roadster which sounds like something out of
- 0:18SPEAKER_00: a sci-fi movie but here we are in 2026 and Elon is actually doing it.
- 0:24SPEAKER_00: Google announced a major advancement in quantum computing,
- 0:28SPEAKER_00: which could have huge implications for cryptography and blockchain security down
- 0:32SPEAKER_00: the road.
- 0:33SPEAKER_00: Apple and Meta partnered to bring Meta's Muse AI to Mac computers,
- 0:38SPEAKER_00: which is an interesting collaboration In a
- 0:45SPEAKER_00: surprising move,
- 0:46SPEAKER_00: MSCI will remove strategy from its indexes,
- 0:49SPEAKER_00: which could create some selling pressure as index funds rebalance their holdings.
- 0:54SPEAKER_00: TSMC reported Q3 revenue of $46.7 billion.
- 1:09SPEAKER_00: On the inflation front, US producer prices rose 6.5%.
- 1:24SPEAKER_00: 3.3% over the past year and 4.2% annually over the last five years
- 1:30SPEAKER_00: and 72 million Social Security beneficiaries will receive a 3.6% cost
- 1:37SPEAKER_00: of living adjustment beginning in January.
- 1:39SPEAKER_00: Australia introduced legislation requiring crypto platforms to report transactions involving
- 1:55SPEAKER_00: Polly Market shows a 60% chance that Bitcoin will finish the year above 90,000.
- 2:10SPEAKER_00: And analyst Lark Davis said record Bitcoin ETF flows
- 2:15SPEAKER_00: and institutional interest are creating a new long-term flaw similar to
- 2:20SPEAKER_00: the gold ETF launch in 2004.
- 2:24SPEAKER_00: Fufu added 15 Bitcoin bringing total holdings to 1,388 BTC worth about $114 million
- 2:29SPEAKER_00: and Cardone Capital bought 60 Bitcoin worth roughly $4.8 million.
- 2:32SPEAKER_00: So institutions keep stacking.
- 2:43SPEAKER_00: CrossRiver Bank partnered with Ripple to integrate RLUSD
- 2:49SPEAKER_00: into its core banking infrastructure and expand stablecoin capabilities on
- 2:54SPEAKER_00: the XRP ledger,
- 2:56SPEAKER_00: and Ripple Prime enables institutional In Altcoin news,
- 2:58SPEAKER_00: an OpenAI AI agent used a publicly disclosed recovery seed
- 3:13SPEAKER_00: This is the lead phrase to take funds from an Ethereum Sepolia testnet wallet
- 3:17SPEAKER_00: without authorization which is a concerning development for AI and crypto security.
- 3:23SPEAKER_00: Paper trade surpassed Circle in 7-day revenue which is wild for
- 3:28SPEAKER_00: a hyperlinked
- 3:30SPEAKER_00: AMC Entertainment CEO stated the company does not consent
- 3:35SPEAKER_00: to Robinhood creating stock tokens that replicate AMC shares in the United States,
- 3:41SPEAKER_00: so there's pushback on tokenized equities from some companies.
- 3:46SPEAKER_00: Network School acquired Farkaster,
- 3:48SPEAKER_00: Nier Protocol enabled Brave Leo to run on private AI inference from Nier AI Cloud,
- 3:55SPEAKER_00: and Helios CEO Mert joined the Nier Foundation Council.
- 3:59SPEAKER_00: Murad said 99.9999999% of meme coins are the literal devil,
- 4:06SPEAKER_00: which is quite the hot take to end the week on.
- 4:09SPEAKER_00: That's your Friday recap, have a great weekend, and I'll see you all on Monday.
- 4:15[music]