ROLLUP: ETH's Big Pivot | Tariff Recession? | Bitcoin's Political Win | Worldcoin US Launch!
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Bankless nation is the May. It's time for the Bankless Weekly Roll Up where we covered just about everything that happened in crypto, at least, everything that happened that's important. David, man, we we gotta talk about, tariffs. Alright? I wanna bring some macro into today's episode.
People have been looking for your macro takes. Oh,
yeah? Well, they're hot takes. Alright? And GDP numbers just came in, and they're kinda they're not looking great. Mhmm. So I've got, three macro catalysts. I think that bankless listeners, crypto investors Catalyst for them. Looking out for. Catalyst, not saying they're good catalysts. They could Oh. They could go either way, but we'll get into that. It
goes so somewhere. We're also gonna talk about the Ethereum pivot or just a strategic reprioritization. It really depends on who you ask, and we're also gonna talk
about that as well. Worldcoin also, they they're rolling out the orb in The US. We'll talk about what that means. And I guess this is, like, for people worried about dystopia and AI bot propaganda. I don't know which world is better, that world or, like, we're gonna all get orbed our eyeballs orbed. So, like, I may be up for this.
I think as AI has gotten more real, people are slowly coming around to the idea of Worldcoin more and more. We'll talk about that. And then also, Bitcoin is just embedding itself deeper into American politics. A massive hack sends Monero up 50%. Suey is up 60% on a bunch of speculation that they're gonna win Pokemon. Okay. And then Ripple tries to buy Circle but gets denied all of this and more. But first, before we get into all of that, a message from our friends and sponsors, Buildbear. This is, this one is for the Web three devs. We know testing smart contracts, it shouldn't be a pain. It i
Let's do it, man. It's been a while since I looked at these charts. So, tell me what's going on on Bitcoin.
Bitcoin up 4% this week. Really, strong showing this morning. $97,000. So slowly grinding up, trying to hit that $100,000 mark. Ether up 5% this week. 5% up to $1,850. Those are very different numbers. ETH Bitcoin ratio point zero one nine and a total crypto market cap. No. Ignore the ratio. Total crypto market cap of 3,140,000,000,000.00. As a reminder, Ryan, the all time high for the total crypto market cap, I believe, is just short of four. Yeah. It's, like, 3,900,000,000,000, and we are coming in at 3,130,000,000,000.00 today.
I mean, this is not looking so bad. Right? Where's the blood here? I mean, Bitcoin is down what's the point all time high? Oh,
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