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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Crypto, a daily Bloomberg I Heard podcast,

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Speaker 1: and I'm a Donna Hark, a crypto reporter for Bloomberg News.

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Speaker 1: In Today for Stacy Marie Ishmael, It's Monday, October. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm just the Wonderrett from the Bloomberg Crypto podcast team.

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Speaker 1: For the last five years, September has been a bad

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Speaker 1: month for crypto prices, but October, the month of ghoules,

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Speaker 1: gablins and pumpkin spite lattes, has in the past been

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Speaker 1: a more hopeful time for bitcoin enthusiasts. Crypto advocates have

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Speaker 1: been optimistic that this year will be the same. In

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Speaker 1: this episode, guest host and Bloomberg reporter vil Donna Harrick,

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Speaker 1: Bitcoin actually has been less volatile by some measures than

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Speaker 1: stocks have been. Just the moves in the stock market

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Speaker 1: have been crazy. Keeping me up is joined by Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: reporter Hannah Miller. A lot of the sell off happened

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Speaker 1: earlier this year is part of why you know October

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Speaker 1: could be maybe a decent month for crypto to better

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Speaker 1: understand the dynamics at play during the not so spooky

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Speaker 1: month of October. Oh you look good, O'm my gosh,

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Speaker 1: she looks you look good. Thank you Bush. Okay, right

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Speaker 1: off the bat, I'd love to start with a very

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Speaker 1: bad joke, which is that October is a scary month. Right,

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Speaker 1: we have Halloween, we have ghouls and goblins and whatever else,

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Speaker 1: But actually it tends to be a not so scary

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Speaker 1: time for bitcoin, and I'm hoping that you can out

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Speaker 1: for us why that might be. Yeah. Well, historically October

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Speaker 1: has been called October in crypto because we've seen in

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Speaker 1: the past that bitcoin and ethereum have actually performed pretty

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Speaker 1: well and have had price increases. I think investors are

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Speaker 1: kind of waiting to see if that'll be the case

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Speaker 1: a cold crypto winter. I love the meme October, and

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Speaker 1: I remember writing about it the last couple of years,

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Speaker 1: and I'm so happy that you brought it up. But

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Speaker 1: just to take a big step back, so we've had

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Speaker 1: this really big down draft this year. Both August and

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Speaker 1: September were very bad months for cryptocurrencies, and I'm hoping

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Speaker 1: you can just lay out the foundation for us for

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Speaker 1: what it is exactly that's been happening in crypto markets

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Speaker 1: that's been pushing prices lower. Yeah, there's been a lot

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Speaker 1: had to file for bankruptcy. And it's really just brought

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Speaker 1: prices down enormously. Oh and not to mention the whole

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Speaker 1: these things have helped tank crypto prices. And then the

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Speaker 1: other big one also being the Fed and everything that's

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Speaker 1: been happening with interest rates and how it's impacting. Is

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Speaker 1: the Fed going to change its rate path because the

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Speaker 1: markets are nervous inflation? Inflation, inflation, It's fair to say

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Speaker 1: inflation dominated the discussion at the last FED meeting. The

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Speaker 1: Fed has been raising rates that is spooking investors when

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Speaker 1: I think we're waiting to see whether more rate raises

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Speaker 1: Halloween joke when you said spooky? I did. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for touching that. So when you're talking to people, because

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Speaker 1: the investors I speak with are really you know, buckling

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Speaker 1: You know that there are still a lot of unresolved

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