Transcript
A (0:01)
Bitcoin is back above 70,000. In fact, it's back above 71,000American dollars. I thought that it was supposed to be crashing, that it was correlated to global markets where we're seeing historic downside in stocks across the world. Not necessarily in the United States, but the Korean stock market officially crashing. The stock market in Abu Dhabi crashing. Markets obviously have no idea how to react right now to the conflict in Iran. But bitcoin doing what you would hope bitcoin would do and rising and showing some small qualities as a safe haven asset. We're going to dig into that and everything happening today with Aya Kant Torovic. Let's go. Let's do. Let's do. Good morning everybody and welcome to the show. I hope that you're all having a wonderful Wednesday and that that wonderful Wednesday will continue along through this show. I'm going to go ahead and bring on Aya right now. Good morning. How are you?
B (1:08)
Good, good. How are you doing a lot better with these prices.
A (1:11)
I was just gonna say when you wake up and you see this, which is maybe unexpected because like it feels like it's been 100 years, like the, you know, the lady from titanic, it's been 84 years since we've seen price above 70,000 for Bitcoin. I know it hasn't been that long, but, you know, it seems like sentiment is still in the dumps and people are pleasantly surprised when you see this.
B (1:33)
Absolutely. I mean, look to your point, you know, we are down 47% from all time highs in October of 2025. And so we've been range bound in this like 60 to 70 range and we want to break out of it. And so I know you mentioned earlier it's trading like a macro asset. You know, everyone's been trying to say, is it a safe haven? Are we highly correlated with macro? What's the correlation with oil and the war in Iran? And we're just trying to figure out what that narrative is right now.
A (2:02)
I still continue the argument which I made again on X this morning that's been pretty much uncorrelated. I mean, you know, listen, we get all the downside of bad news for sure when it happens, but we don't, you know, it hasn't trailed stocks to the upside, it hasn't trailed gold to the upside. And if you want to be uncorrelated, sometimes that means things look pretty bad for your asset when they're good for others. And that's terrible when it's happening, but you still want to be uncorrelated. And right now you don't really have many things pumping. And bitcoin made a big jump. Right, right.
B (2:33)
Without, without a doubt. Look, you, you had the story, you know, previously when we saw the massive drop in bitcoin price because of the, you know, over levered Hong Kong fund that had to delever their bitcoin ETF positions. We're seeing like different narratives of, you know, macro funds that have some level of exposure where they have to again constantly sell out of their risk assets, which tend to be crypto. So to your point, Scott, the lows are much lower and the pain is much greater with crypto assets being those risk assets. The other narrative that people are keeping a very close eye on is US Regulation. There's a lot of really positive stuff coming out of, you know, the Senate and the House. I mean the Senate's trying to pass, you know, the Clarity Act. They're getting a lot of bank lobbying. We really hope that's going to pass. CFTC just said that perp futures is going to come to the US this year. I mean these are huge headwinds. And so the question is, can we get it over the finish line and then what's going to, you know, what's going to be the catalyst for bitcoin price?
