Latest / Panic Drop Podcast / Mo 09/11 | Daily Crypto & Macro News
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- 0:02SPEAKER_01: Happy Monday all and what a way to start the week.
- 0:05SPEAKER_01: Bitcoin is sitting around $74,800 down about 1% after a nasty little flush
- 0:12SPEAKER_01: where roughly $1 billion got liquidated from the crypto market
- 0:15SPEAKER_01: in just 10 minutes briefly pushing Bitcoin under 74 ,000.
- 0:19SPEAKER_01: Still, the bulls are not going quietly.
- 0:23SPEAKER_01: Michael Saylor is hinting at another Bitcoin announcement today
- 0:27SPEAKER_01: with his classic connecting the dots tease and the CEO of Strive says
- 0:32SPEAKER_01: the hurdle rate is orange, which is about as subtle as a billboard,
- 0:37SPEAKER_01: but the real headline this weekend is NVIDIA.
- 0:41SPEAKER_01: The board has opened an independent investigation into Jensen Huang's relationship
- 0:46SPEAKER_01: with a suspected Chinese spy after he admitted to an affair in a letter
- 0:51SPEAKER_01: to employees.
- 0:53SPEAKER_01: The stock slipped about 3.7% in after-hours trading on hyperliquid,
- 0:59SPEAKER_01: and Calci traders now give a 34% chance that Jensen steps down before July 2027.
- 1:06SPEAKER_01: On top of that, he called US chip policy a mistake and said China is not an enemy,
- 1:11SPEAKER_01: so this one is far from over.
- 1:13SPEAKER_01: Zooming out to macro, President Trump says the stock market lost $3 trillion
- 1:18SPEAKER_01: in a single day after the midterms.
- 1:21SPEAKER_01: Democrats plan to block his $1.5 trillion military budget and the Treasury is set
- 1:27SPEAKER_01: to buy back up to $9 trillion.
- 1:31SPEAKER_01: The AI build-out keeps rolling too,
- 1:35SPEAKER_01: with data center construction spending up 90% in a year to a record $96.5 billion,
- 1:40SPEAKER_01: and big tech now spending a record share of revenue on Apex with Meta at 43%.
- 1:47SPEAKER_01: Meanwhile, value stocks are beating growth by more than 30 points this year,
- 1:52SPEAKER_01: a spread even wider than in 2000.
- 1:55SPEAKER_01: And earnings season keeps going with constellations Energy, KKR and Take -Two today.
- 2:01SPEAKER_01: CoreWeave on Tuesday.
- 2:03SPEAKER_01: And Cisco Applied Materials are Nebius on Thursday.
- 2:06SPEAKER_01: Over in Altcoin land Ethereum is down about 4 % to around $2 ,137 dollars
- 2:13SPEAKER_01: And altcoins overall have shed roughly $200 billion with 70 %
- 2:18SPEAKER_01: of Binance listed coins now below their 200 -day moving average.
- 2:22SPEAKER_01: Vitalik stirred the pot by saying Ethereum makes more sense as a store of value
- 2:28SPEAKER_01: than as a fee burning token.
- 2:30SPEAKER_01: Tolly from Solana agreed, and at least one VC called him a wacko.
- 2:36SPEAKER_01: Starkware says Starknet going L1 is more urgent after the Glamsterdam upgrade delay.
- 2:43SPEAKER_01: That's your Monday rundown.
- 2:45SPEAKER_01: If you enjoyed it, hit follow and I'll see you right here tomorrow.
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