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Bitcoin Hits a New All-Time High: What Happens Next?
Why a price surge is not only attracting a new cadre of institutional investors, but also producing the beginnings of a new set of FUD.
Updated Sep 14, 2021, 10:36 a.m. Published Nov 30, 2020, 6:20 p.m.
Why a price surge is not only attracting a new cadre of institutional investors, but also producing the beginnings of a new set of FUD.
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On this historic day, NLW looks at bitcoin’s punch through its previous December 2017 all time high. Specifically, he looks at:
- How different people benchmark the all time high
- What drove the latest price action, including the prospect of a new investment from institutional asset management giant Guggenheim
- Why historian Niall Ferguson is arguing that bitcoin has won the Covid-19 monetary revolution
- Why macro giants including Raoul Pal, George Gammon and Ben Hunt got into disagreements with Bitcoin Twitter about how co-opted by the state and Wall Street bitcoin was likely to become
See also: Bitcoin Price Sets New Record High Above $19,783
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