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- 0:02SPEAKER_00: It's where we find the truth.
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- 0:06SPEAKER_01: Happy Wednesday, everybody.
- 0:07SPEAKER_01: Let's get into what's been happening over the past 24 hours,
- 0:11SPEAKER_01: because we've got a significant technical development for Bitcoin.
- 0:15SPEAKER_01: Bitcoin crossed the Golden Cross formation,
- 0:19SPEAKER_01: which is a setup that previously preceded the $126,200 all-time high in May 2025.
- 0:23SPEAKER_01: So the technical traders are certainly paying attention to this one.
- 0:32SPEAKER_01: Corporate Bitcoin buying continues with Strive purchasing 1,375 Bitcoin
- 0:36SPEAKER_01: for $109 million and French company Capital B buying 376 Bitcoin for $25.3 million.
- 0:48SPEAKER_01: Block applied to the OCC to establish Builders Bank and Trust,
- 0:52SPEAKER_01: which would offer federally regulated custody and fiduciary services for Bitcoin
- 0:58SPEAKER_01: and stablecoins,
- 0:59SPEAKER_01: showing how traditional finance infrastructure is increasingly being built around
- 1:04SPEAKER_01: crypto.
- 1:06SPEAKER_01: On the regulatory front,
- 1:07SPEAKER_01: the US Senate is set to hold a procedural cloture vote on the Clarity Act next week,
- 1:14SPEAKER_01: though Senator Cynthia Lummis warned that failing
- 1:17SPEAKER_01: to pass it would mean no realistic shot before the end of the decade.
- 1:21SPEAKER_01: While Republicans expect the bill to fail.
- 1:24SPEAKER_01: Crypto Super PAC Fairshake launched national TV ads pushing the Clarity Act
- 1:30SPEAKER_01: and calling out big banks, with AARP endorsing key provisions.
- 1:35SPEAKER_01: So there's significant lobbying effort behind this.
- 1:40SPEAKER_01: To put long-term performance into perspective,
- 1:43SPEAKER_01: over the last 10 years, NVIDIA is up 14,572%, Bitcoin
- 1:50SPEAKER_01: S&P 500 earnings are now projected to surge 34% in 2026, more than
- 2:05SPEAKER_01: More than double the 15% growth expected at the start of the year,
- 2:10SPEAKER_01: driven by an AI boom without a preceding recession.
- 2:14SPEAKER_01: On the global front, China's holdings of US treasuries fell to the lowest level since 2008.
- 2:21SPEAKER_01: And China posted a $119 billion trade surplus in August.
- 2:26SPEAKER_01: Canada's retaliatory tariffs on select US imports officially took effect.
- 2:32SPEAKER_01: And the Bank of Japan is expected to hike its key interest rate
- 2:36SPEAKER_01: by 0.25 percentage points at its September meeting.
- 2:41SPEAKER_01: Since the start of the Iran conflict,
- 2:43SPEAKER_01: European natural gas is up 143%, WTI crude oil 41%, and heating oil 78%.
- 2:46SPEAKER_01: Iran is using Bitcoin and UAE.
- 2:55SPEAKER_01: USDT to bypass US sanctions according to the Financial Times,
- 3:00SPEAKER_01: and Tehran demanded new conditions from Washington to resume negotiations.
- 3:06SPEAKER_01: A former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher resigned citing fears that The AI race
- 3:11SPEAKER_01: towards self-improving superintelligence could destroy humanity by the end of
- 3:17SPEAKER_01: the decade, which is certainly a sobering perspective.
- 3:20SPEAKER_01: About $188 million in long positions were liquidated across crypto in
- 3:26SPEAKER_01: the past 24 hours,
- 3:28SPEAKER_01: and Kalshi traders are pricing in a possible drop for Bitcoin as low
- 3:32SPEAKER_01: as $74,000 this month.
- 3:36SPEAKER_01: Short-term Bitcoin whale profits also hit a record $9.07
- 3:41SPEAKER_01: billion, raising sell-off risk.
- 3:45SPEAKER_01: Robinhood is taking a minority stake in crypto.com as part of a prediction markets
- 3:52SPEAKER_01: On the altcoin side,
- 3:53SPEAKER_01: Tether froze approximately 39.27 million USDT across 10 addresses linked to
- 4:01SPEAKER_01: the Jinbi Guarantee escrow platform on Tron.
- 4:05SPEAKER_01: Bitcoin Mine bought $70 million of Ethereum last week,
- 4:09SPEAKER_01: bringing total holdings to $14.7 billion.
- 4:25SPEAKER_01: XRP was the best performing top 10 crypto over the past 7 days despite the broader pullback.
- 4:32SPEAKER_01: Visa said crypto stablecoin cards are
- 4:34SPEAKER_01: in hypergrowth mode Cracken launched Cracken wrapped hype,
- 4:38SPEAKER_01: backed one to one in Cracken custody and usable across DeFi on Inc.
- 4:44SPEAKER_01: Pump.fun flipped ponds in 24 hour revenue
- 4:48SPEAKER_01: and hyper liquid listed useless meme coin perpetuals with up
- 4:52SPEAKER_01: to three times leverage.
- 4:54SPEAKER_01: That's your crypto and finance wrap for today.
- 4:57SPEAKER_01: Make sure to follow along and I'll catch you tomorrow with another update.
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