🚨 Trump Trade WAR Incoming?! (MAJOR Bitcoin Reaction!)

Unknown Source August 06, 2025 57 min
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Podcast Summary: 🚨 Trump Trade WAR Incoming?! (MAJOR Bitcoin Reaction!)

This 57-minute episode of Discover Crypto on the Blockchain Basement focuses heavily on the intersection of geopolitical trade tensions (specifically involving former President Trump), macroeconomic indicators (US debt and interest rates), and the resulting impact and sentiment within the cryptocurrency market, particularly Bitcoin and Ethereum.

  1. Focus Area: The primary focus is on Cryptocurrency Market Analysis (Bitcoin/Altcoins), Macroeconomics (US Treasury auctions, household debt, Fed policy), and Geopolitical Risk (potential Trump-initiated trade wars, specifically concerning India and Russia/Ukraine).

  2. Key Technical Insights:
    • Bitcoin Liquidity & Price Targets: The host identified specific liquidity targets, noting that upside liquidity at $115,000 was recently “gobbled up,” with a strong magnet noted at $116,500 on the weekly Binance perpetual futures chart.
    • Trade War Impact Weakening: Historical analysis shows that the market’s negative reaction (percentage drop) to trade war announcements has been diminishing, suggesting increasing market resilience or fatigue regarding such headlines.
    • Bitcoin Dominance Shift: The host observed initial weakness in Bitcoin dominance (printing a red weekly candle) coinciding with positive net flows into Ethereum ETFs, suggesting a potential early signal for altcoin season if this trend continues.
  3. Market/Investment Angle:
    • Cautious Short-Term Trading: Due to the impending 4:30 PM announcement from Trump, traders were advised to be cautious, manage stop losses, and potentially take short-term profits.
    • Bullish Long-Term Outlook: Despite short-term turbulence, the host remains highly bullish, anticipating Bitcoin moving toward $130k–$140k and suggesting the current market structure resembles an “institutionally controlled stair-step to heaven,” similar to gold’s multi-year bull market.
    • Altcoin Season Potential: Increased inflows into Ethereum ETFs, coupled with waning Bitcoin dominance, suggest that the “wildest alt bull season in history” could be imminent once Bitcoin breaks higher resistance levels.
  4. Notable Companies/People:
    • Donald Trump: Central figure due to his scheduled 4:30 PM announcement regarding potential sanctions/tariffs against India for purchasing sanctioned Russian oil, escalating trade tensions.
    • Mike Novogratz (Galaxy Digital): Mentioned for his view that the “crypto treasury boom has now peaked,” a sentiment the host disagrees with, especially regarding Ethereum treasuries.
    • Jerome Powell (Fed Chair): Discussion centered on whether the Fed would politically or personally be motivated to hold interest rates steady until December, potentially forcing an emergency rate cut later, which would be highly bullish for altcoins.
    • Alex Becker: Referenced for his assessment that retail investors are asleep and that an unprecedented alt season is approaching.
  5. Regulatory/Policy Discussion:
    • Fed Rate Cuts: Strong market expectation leans toward Fed rate cuts in September and October, with a potential 25 basis point cut in December, driven by macroeconomic factors like record US household debt ($18.3 trillion).
    • Geopolitical Tariffs: The core policy discussion revolved around Trump threatening a 25% (potentially 50% total) tariff on India for circumventing sanctions by buying Russian oil, directly challenging the BRICS coalition’s efforts to bypass the US dollar system.

  6. Future Implications: The conversation suggests a future where institutional control over Bitcoin (via ETFs) leads to a more predictable, stair-step upward trajectory, potentially mirroring gold’s long-term performance (leading to a $1 million BTC valuation if it matches gold’s market cap). Furthermore, geopolitical instability (BRICS vs. US trade policy) is seen as a catalyst that accelerates the loss of trust in fiat and strengthens Bitcoin’s role as “the next literal gold.”

  7. Target Audience: Crypto Traders and Investors focused on technical analysis, macro drivers, and geopolitical risk assessment, particularly those holding high-conviction altcoins anticipating a major market rotation.

🏢 Companies Mentioned

Moonwell âś… DeFi Protocol
XRP âś… cryptocurrency
Artificial Super Intelligence âś… unknown
Ocean AI âś… unknown
Chuck Schumer âś… unknown
But I âś… unknown
RIP Fed âś… unknown
If I âś… unknown
Discover Crypto Alliance âś… unknown
Crypto Cody âś… unknown
Bittensor TAO âś… unknown
The Graph âś… unknown
DeFi Mullet âś… unknown
Chain Mines âś… unknown
Jesse Pollock âś… unknown

đź’¬ Key Insights

"There is Ocean AI, there was Fetch.ai, and then there is one more. Can't think. I think it might have been Fed. Well, it's Singularity, wasn't it? Singularity. That was it. And they had the merger between the three, and now it's the ticker is FET for Fetch, but it's ASI for Artificial Super Intelligence."
Impact Score: 10
"TAO has been very connected to Grayscale. TAO has been shielded by Grayscale in their AI basket since freaking if D dollars. Now, TAO is in the $230, $400 range, and Grayscale's AI fund consists of 30% of it being TAO."
Impact Score: 10
"Coinbase is talking about every Base token can be traded on Coinbase per Jesse Pollock. No listing required. Users can search and buy directly without the token even needing to be listed on Coinbase."
Impact Score: 10
"MAMO is an AI agent that does DeFi on the Base network. In my opinion, MAMO has a good chance to be chosen by Coinbase to be an in-Coinbase app AI agent that is going from one DeFi yield location to the next, doing the action for you."
Impact Score: 10
"The number one of all assets: number one is BlackRock's USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund. This is tokenized treasuries. This is on ONDO connections."
Impact Score: 10
"This loss of trust on world trade, loss of trust on a fiat-based system of the world, the US dollar being the world reserve currency, in my opinion, quickens our transformation of Bitcoin turning into the next literal gold."
Impact Score: 10

đź“Š Topics

#artificialintelligence 85 #aiinfrastructure 4 #generativeai 4 #investment 3

🧠 Key Takeaways

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