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Jul 16, 2025 1 hr 3 min

64: Blame the Dollar

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64: Blame the Dollar

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  1. 0:00 Bitcoin's Price Surge Explained
  2. 0:57 Introduction to This Week in Bitcoin
  3. 1:41 Bitcoin's Recent Price Increase
  4. 2:28 Anthony Pompliano on Bitcoin's Rise
  5. 3:10 Three Factors Driving Bitcoin's Move
  6. 4:17 Price Cycle Theory
  7. 7:37 The Dollar's Tanking Value and Bitcoin's Price
  8. 10:39 The Ideology Behind Dollarization
  9. 11:34 Private Stablecoins in the US
  10. 12:31 CBDC Concerns and Bitcoin
  11. 13:21 Alt-Coin Wave
  12. 16:11 Tether Bitcoin Theory
  13. 18:19 Vanguard Now Largest Holder of MicroStrategy
  14. 20:02 JP Morgan Chase CEO on Bitcoin
  15. 20:52 Jerome Powell
  16. 25:15 Boosts from Supporters
  17. 42:50 Updates
  18. 43:56 US Inflation Numbers
  19. 47:39 The Fed and Cutting Rates
  20. 51:16 Mining Bitcoin at City Hall
  21. 56:11 Digital Tulips Theory
  22. 57:33 State of the Network
  23. 59:15 Summary and Outro

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