25/04/2025

Decline of the Dollar? What Does This Mean for Bitcoin? | Britcoiners by CoinCorner #167

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This week's topics:Intro01:07 - Bitcoin price01:45 - Google not celebrating Easter04:09 - US Bitcoin ETFs see biggest inflows since January08:19 - US dollar losing value11:23 - Coinbase rug pull21:50 - Stablecoins saw more volume than Visa in 202427:25 - Gary Gensler talking about Bitcoin on CNBC32:03 - European Central Bank cuts rates to 2.25%Trump blasts ‘too late’ Powell for not cutting interest rates41:43 - Arizona’s Bitcoin Reserve Bill in jeopardy48:43 - BBC article on Bitcoin mining in Zambia56:02 - CoinCorner News: Retail report dropping soon
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Transcript

We'll see. I hope it all falls around him. Just crumbles. People would like a... But that'd be the whole economy globally. That would be " ", you don't want that. Part of me does. See what happens. See what happens. Oh, weak, weak, weak... Clap. Okay, we live. Was that the clap? What else was it, Molly? I don't know, what else could it have been? Hell.

Right, guys, welcome back. This is Britcoiners 167. Like and subscribe, please. Remember that this week. Nice, thanks. You're on the top of the sheet. Yeah, please like and subscribe and join our Telegram chat if you want to.

Agenda this week: we've got Coinbase's rug pull, stablecoins outpaced Visa in volume, Gary Gensler on CNBC, European Central Bank has cut interest rates, Elizabeth Warren, Arizona update on their strategic Bitcoin reserve, and a BBC Gridless article thrown on the end here.

Cool, price. I can't see from here... 88,600. Calm down a little bit. Last episode's price was 83,800, so we're up a little bit. Did you say calm down a little bit? Calm down a bit. Steady away. It's absolutely skyrocketed in the last, like, 24. Bit of a bank holiday pump, bit of a pump, and then steady away. Been doing " " all for the last week. Day? Oh yeah, in the US though. Yeah, so it's bank holiday in the UK, wasn't it? Bank holiday was... oh, who's it going to be? It was bank holiday on Friday and Monday for the UK, but it was only on Friday for America. I don't know why. Happy Easter to all those who celebrate.

Google did not... there was a kickoff around Google not all that celebrating Easter. What do you mean? They didn't... they didn't do a change? They usually change the logo for Easter, but they've not for the last two years, is it? They've not done it for Easter, but they do it for loads of other holidays. Maybe they're just going to slowly phase that out. They do it for the holidays.

That was the kickoff. Why are they not doing it for Easter? They're doing it for all the other religious holidays and things. So, I caught bits of it. I mean, they don't do everything for all the other religious holidays, as in they don't do every single Muslim or Jewish festival type thing. No. This is just a... Easter's quite a big one though, is it? It's up there. Well, seems to be. Is it across the board for quite a few religions? It's an important one, is it? Or is it? I don't know if I'm stepping back... So, yeah. Nice, isn't it? The religious... we've got a whole country's bank holiday for it, as do America. Do you think they do it on Google UK, on countries that would celebrate? Don't know.

Anyway, what are they doing today? I noticed they had a custom one today. Some random day. Oh, it was Earth Day 2025. Happy birthday to all those we can all celebrate Earth Day. Weed-that's a safe one to celebrate, isn't it? Sorry, we're going off on a tangent here. So, yes, yesterday was a normal day for the US, but a bank holiday for the UK. But yesterday, pump... was ETFs, I believe. We've not got it on the agenda, have we? No, no. Are they actual? Do you think they're AI-generated, or are they actual photos of Earth to make the Google... I think they might be genuine ones. Sorry, guys, we'll back off another time.

Yeah, I think they're genuine. You can find... I think there's... Imagine whose job that was to find those. Yeah, I quite like that Google spelled out in the landscape of Earth. I mean, the "E" is the most impressive one on the right. AI to do it? No, I don't think it is. That's the point. No, I'm saying AI to find it in the planet. Go and find us a bit of land that looks like a "G". Yeah, actually, that's probably what they've used, I would imagine. It tells you there, just scroll back up. It tells you where they are.

Okay, that's next level. Can we do that with Coin Corner? Sure can. Can we find a "B" for Bitcoin? Yeah, they definitely already have, like, just the alphabet banked. Yeah, they would. I'm trying to bring it back to Bitcoin here, guys, I'm trying my hardest. Oh, look, there's an orange Bitcoin. Bring it back. Bring it back.

Okay, we talking about the price? No, I was. That's what I was getting on to before, but got distracted. Inflows, what you were saying. Yes, biggest day. So, yesterday, not being a bank holiday in the US meant that ETFs were open, markets were open, and it was the biggest inflow since the 30th of January-381 million, which I assume is why the price went up yesterday. Which is what we've seen historically, like this time last year, when there was massive ETF...