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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
And we're back for another Bankless Friday Weekly Roll-Up.
Chapter 2: What is Hester Peirce's stance on the SEC and capital markets?
It's the second week of June. Ryan is back from vacation.
Chapter 3: What is the current state of Bitcoin and the crypto market?
Ryan, we were fighting. I guess we made up. Wait, fighting? On Twitter you're talking about? Yeah. That was not a fight. Come on. I was on vacation, and I just felt compelled. I just had to tweet at you, David. It actually wasn't about you at first. It was kind of subtextually about you. It was about my take. It was about some of your takes?
I was like, I read that tweet and I was like, okay.
Okay, dude. Well, we're going to discuss that, right? I saw a meme. Babe, look, the Bankless guys are fighting. What's happening? So we got to resolve this and actually see where the daylight is between us on the question of the old asset that you formerly loved and I still do love, ETH the Asset. Do I not love ETH? I love ETH as an idea, but we'll get into that.
The topics of the week, the crypto crash, the third 25% drawdown in crypto since November, the deepest yet. Bitcoin has round-tripped the entire Trump presidency. Ryan, we are back towards Joseph Biden Bitcoin prices. Oh, my God. Thanks, Obama.
Chapter 4: What insights do recent IPOs provide about capital markets?
Yeah, and you never thought, thanks, Obama. $4.4 billion flowed out of the ETFs in over 13 days. And then Michael Saylor sold Bitcoin. He did the thing that he said you should never do. What? And then he bought more.
Chapter 5: How does the Ethereum vs. ETH debate reflect on the future of crypto?
So why did he do that? Why did he do that? I don't know. It's also IPO season. The SpaceX IPO is coming up tomorrow, which will be today for you listeners, if you're listening to this on Friday. Fortunately, in the crypto side of the world, we have pre-markets. We have pre-IPO markets, which is something new out of crypto. So we can take a look at what the valuations are saying. It's too high.
It's too high, I think. Oh, you think the IPOs are too high? God, they're so high. They're in the trillions. Well, they are too high, but they could go higher. Too high to buy. I mean, they could go higher, but they could also go lower. This is the kind of analysis that people show up for on a weekly basis. They could also go lower. That is right.
Chapter 6: How is Michael Saylor's recent Bitcoin sale impacting the market?
Why don't you take us to charts? Yes. Because it was gross on Friday.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of Morpho flipping Aave?
I looked a couple of times at prices and it looked disgusting. Before I start sharing my screen, Ryan, we got to talk about OKEx, our friends and sponsors over at OKEx. The Intercontinental Exchange, which is the parent company of the NYSE, they backed OKEx at a $25 billion valuation with a plan to launch New York Stock Exchange stocks and derivatives later this year on the OKEx platform.
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That's Ripple Stablecoin through the bankless link. Not available in New York and Texas, so I won't be able to get it. But you can, Ryan. But that's not investment advice. OK, let's go right into the charts. So the Iran war was technically bullish for Bitcoin because it was up, Bitcoin was up about 30% over the course of the war. I think we invaded, when did we invade Iran?
Like something like March 1st or something. No real reason why though. I thought like maybe stocks were up and it just dragged Bitcoin up as well. I think it is a complete anomaly. It was just because Bitcoin had fallen from its highs, if we're looking at the charts, from its highs down to the Iran war, negative 50%.
And so it recovered a little bit, but then we fell from the peak about another 25%. Bitcoin is right on the 200-week moving average. It wicked below it. Yes. Bitcoin tagged $59,000. It's firmly below it. It has since recovered to above it. First time below the 200-week in this bear cycle since November, right? That's right.
Well, also, if we go back, we're going to zoom out on the charts here, right? Because since you have taken a vacation last week, I am now a pro charter. Yeah, I see that blue line. That's got to be the 200 week. Yeah. Okay. So the only time we spent below the 200-week moving average in Bitcoin's history is briefly during the COVID crash for like maybe five to seven days back in 2020.
And then the meaningful time it spent below the 200-week moving average was after the three errors capital FTX drama, like the worst bear market, worst- That looks like months it spent below there. Yeah, months below. So it spent 280 days below. Popped back up, went back down below. But then as BlackRock issued or announced the filing for the Bitcoin ETF, that's when we broke to the upside. Yeah.
We've never been below the 200-week moving average before that. So I think this is kind of the question that, like, Mark, the people who are buying Bitcoin or not buying Bitcoin right now are asking is, Will we do the historically normative thing of bounce off of the 200 week moving average? Or are we going to be due for one more 25% drop?
When you say historically normative, we see both examples. Sometimes we bounce, but in 2022, as you just said, we stayed below for a while. We can't there. Only once. Granted, we camped there for a while. Yeah. It was only one time. Once? And again, it was after FTX, three hours capital, the worst contagion event in crypto's history. Actual for-selling capitulation, which we really haven't seen.
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