Latest / Panic Drop Podcast / Tu 22/9 | Daily Crypto & Macro News
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- 0:06SPEAKER_00: Happy Tuesday, everybody.
- 0:07SPEAKER_00: Let's get into what's been happening over the past 24 hours because Bitcoin just had
- 0:11SPEAKER_00: an absolutely explosive move.
- 0:14SPEAKER_00: Bitcoin surged as high as Bitcoin.
- 0:15SPEAKER_00: The crypto market added about 100%.
- 0:30SPEAKER_00: $560 billion in market cap over 24 hours as shorts got absolutely squeezed,
- 0:37SPEAKER_00: with more than $1 billion in positions liquidated,
- 0:41SPEAKER_00: including roughly $850 million in shorts and more
- 0:45SPEAKER_00: than 130,000 traders getting wiped out.
- 0:49SPEAKER_00: Michael Saylor's strategy now holds about $8.75 billion in unrealized Bitcoin profit
- 0:57SPEAKER_00: and the stock rallied sharply,
- 1:00SPEAKER_00: so the Bitcoin Treasury strategy continues to pay off.
- 1:04SPEAKER_00: Polymarket put a 78% chance on Bitcoin,
- 1:08SPEAKER_00: finishing the month above $87,500 and odds of 100,000 this year hit
- 1:10SPEAKER_00: a four month high.
- 1:11SPEAKER_00: October has historically been Bitcoin's
- 1:20SPEAKER_00: So the seasonality is lining up nicely with the momentum.
- 1:24SPEAKER_00: Stocks also had a massive day with the Nasdaq closing up 2.8%,
- 1:28SPEAKER_00: the S&P 500 gaining about 1.5% and the Dow rising 0.7% adding roughly $1.2 trillion
- 1:33SPEAKER_00: to the US stock market.
- 1:42SPEAKER_00: AMD crossed $1 trillion in market cap for the first time after jumping roughly 10%,
- 1:49SPEAKER_00: ARM rose about 17%, Intel 12% and Meta 11% so it was a risk on day across the board.
- 1:59SPEAKER_00: Oil prices fell for a fourth session and treasury yields eased,
- 2:02SPEAKER_00: which helped fuel the rally in risk assets.
- 2:06SPEAKER_00: In a major development,
- 2:07SPEAKER_00: X is partnering with Gemini, Kraken,
- 2:09SPEAKER_00: Coinbase,
- 2:10SPEAKER_00: Interactive Brokers and Moomoo so users can trade Google
- 2:18SPEAKER_00: and Apple are also hiring crypto specialists as they expand into stablecoins,
- 2:25SPEAKER_00: tokenization and blockchain payments,
- 2:28SPEAKER_00: showing that Big tech is taking this space seriously.
- 2:32SPEAKER_00: On the labor front,
- 2:33SPEAKER_00: US unemployment has now stayed below 5% for 60 months,
- 2:38SPEAKER_00: the second longest streak on record.
- 2:40SPEAKER_00: However,
- 2:41SPEAKER_00: housing affordability remains a challenge with the The median US home now requiring
- 2:46SPEAKER_00: about $126,000 of income against a median household income of $86,000,
- 2:49SPEAKER_00: a 47% gap near the highest on record.
- 2:58SPEAKER_00: On the altcoin side, Ethereum rose more than 4% toward $2750.
- 3:02SPEAKER_00: XRP gained around 8%, Solana nearly 8% and Dogecoin as much as 14%.
- 3:06SPEAKER_00: Pepe rallied over 23% in 24 hours and hype broke $95 continuing its incredible run.
- 3:25SPEAKER_00: Arbonneer are up more than 70% over the past week,
- 3:29SPEAKER_00: so altcoins are really starting to catch a bit.
- 3:33SPEAKER_00: Adagon Games launchpad also went live on Robinhood Chain with Chainlink integration.
- 3:39SPEAKER_00: That's your crypto and finance wrap for today.
- 3:43SPEAKER_00: Make sure to follow along and I'll catch you tomorrow with another update.
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