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Marty Bent on the Macro Fires on the Horizon
From a trade war tweeting president to protests in Hong Kong, 2019 saw global instability (and in turn, the raison d’etre for bitcoin) increase.
Updated Sep 13, 2021, 11:53 a.m. Published Dec 26, 2019, 8:00 p.m.

Marty Bent is the author of one of the most popular daily bitcoin newsletters and host of "Tales From the Crypt."
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In this end-of-year interview with The Breakdown, he talks about the macro context - from trade wars to pressure on the fed to continue and expand the QE experiment to global instability - and how it is painting in stark colors the need for tools like bitcoin.