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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This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and this week’s special product launch, Allnodes.

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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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