And welcome to a very special edition of Fast Money and

tonight, Bass is going crypto.

We're live at the St Regis Hotel in San Francisco.

The Credit Suisse Block Chain West Symposium

is a gathering of a who's who and the top investors,

thought leaders and executives in the world of investing in

crypto and we've got three of the biggest names joining us tonight

Tim Draper a billionaire VC legend in early backer of Tesla among other

companies he'll be here shortly plus the president of

Coinbase as if he or she is going to make a major announcement right here on the

show that will rock the crypto world forever. You won't want to miss that and

Brad Garling has the CEO of Wall Street's most beloved crypto,

Ripple will join us to talk the next big thing for that coin XRP.

I'm Melissa Lee if you're just joining us.

Yes, you arrived in crypto heaven here on Fast Money tonight.

With me are my crypto partners in crime,

BK, the original Bitcoin Boller himself and Dan Nathan,

who is a consultant for Credit Suites.

We're all Bitcoin today, but first, first we got to start off with the markets

a volatile day that started in DC and much talked about here at the conference and of course the big

driver of the volatility talk about a possible trade war.

Right, and so part of this conference we were talking about is what do you use for a hedge in that?

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