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Bits + Bips: Bitcoin Brushes Off Another War & Will Powell Relent on Rates? - Ep. 857

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 01:05:15
Publish Date: 2025-06-25 11:00:00
Description:

As tensions flare between Iran and Israel, investors are watching oil, gold, and, of course, crypto. In this episode of Bits + Bips, the panel digs into the market response to war risk, the chances the Fed will actually cut rates, and how Circle’s IPO is being treated more like a meme stock than a fintech play.

Plus:

  • Why Scaramucci says we’re all living in a surveillance state 

  • Whether stablecoins are being kneecapped by U.S. regulation 

  • When altcoin ETFs are coming

  • And what BlackRock’s Larry Fink secretly told Scaramucci about Bitcoin in 2021

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US-Iran-Israel war

Macro

Stablecoins

ETFs

  • James upped the odds on a bunch of altcoin spot ETFs


Timestamps:

  • 0:00 Intro

  • 2:51 Are there lessons in how the markets shrugged off the Iran-Israel conflict?

  • 9:37 What flashpoints in the Middle East could ignite next

  • ️ 14:40 Will oil supplies remain safe?

  • 22:13 Are cracks finally forming in the Fed’s resistance to rate cuts?

  • 28:08 Why Anthony believes that Fed Chair Powell is playing politics with rates

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