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Part of the reason I want to work with Bitcoin companies or wanted to and got into this space was they're the only ones, they're the only times I have discussions about like 20, 30, 40 years in the future that are like positive, hopeful, and where people are looking to build something.

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mental health wise I found it so much better the volatility is easy to deal with for the positivity

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that you get out of just the discussions and being around uh people who are actually like

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building with hope for the future bitcoin is a currency on the internet if you don't trust any

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other currency this is where you go it's going to outperform everything bitcoin could eventually

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be worthless every day is a good day to buy bitcoin bitcoin reached its highest price to date

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Antisocial.

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Fix the money.

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and values of Bitcoin. And today we have on the CFO from Block Rewards, Travis McDonald.

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Today, I'm super excited. We've got Travis from Block Rewards and honestly wears

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several different hats have been uh very blessed to know travis i guess i don't know since sometime

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last year in 2025 um but you know i think that there's there's more to than meets the eye with

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travis and uh and so i'm i'm actually very excited to learn a lot of things uh today myself so

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travis thanks for thanks for joining us on the first day back i guess from from the new year break

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yeah that when you said uh yeah great great to be here man uh thanks for having me and yeah when

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you it took me took me a second there when you said last year 2025 i was like wait instead last

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year i went 2024 like yeah it's january 2nd so you know that's uh you're still still making a

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mistake when you write the year sort of thing yes great to be here man yeah i mean so i'm i'm

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excited because I mean, I keep hearing about block rewards, the company. And so I'm excited to hear

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hear more about that. And then I think we initially met, I guess, just in a Bitcoiner

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accountants telegram group through that. And so yeah, looking forward to this, I think that you've

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got a ton of valuable just background and knowledge to share with this space and kind of

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one of the core principles of this podcast is is trying to bring bitcoin into you know kind of the

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big boys table and uh yeah the more i hear about your background it's like okay you're gonna you're

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playing a big role in that in that uh piece so why don't you give us a background of like

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what you used to get into before you were in bitcoin i think that's an important uh kind of

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framework to start. And then I'm very excited to kind of hear once you made that switch from

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more traditional finance world and into the Bitcoin world and what you've been up to since.

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Yeah, sure thing, man. And yeah, I think that's, that's an important, I mean, that's part of the

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interesting aspect of, I think this podcast and just the discussions you're having is

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seeing that transition as people move from the TradFi industries and start utilizing Bitcoin.

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I know myself, it took about 10 years. I first heard about it in 2011. I went to Waterloo, went to math and accounting at Waterloo in my master's of accounting year 2011. I heard about Bitcoin. You know, it was already past CPU mining. It was into the GPUs. I had no idea what I was doing. Technically, I couldn't even like open the ports to figure out how to set up proper. And I just noped out at that point and was like, OK, cool.

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you know kind of dismissed it saw it again in 2017 18 um when a guy at at uh at the firm i was

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working at which i'll kind of get into in a sec uh he was investing in hud 8 and working at an

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accounting firm at the time everyone kind of dismissed it and then so i i again ignored it

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and then in uh 2021 had a friend who uh deals with some black market stuff and uh he was still

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using Bitcoin. And I went, oh, like I thought they would have shut it down because of the Silk

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Road thing I heard about. I thought I thought all of these, you know, FUD reasons were why it would

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have disappeared and it's still around. So I found I had to look at it then. But like I said,

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I was at an accounting firm. So my background, I've got my CPA. I got that in what, 13 or so,

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graduated 2011, did my time in audit, immediately noped out of audit and went into the transactions

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group. So that was focused on valuations, mergers and acquisitions and due diligence.

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CBV, which is Chartered Business Valuator, as part of that group, and then essentially

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because I found just the partnership model and the approach to the business didn't work for me.

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I got out of there and started looking at fractional CFO work because I really wanted to help businesses, especially as they prepped for M&A and exits.

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And it became clear to me that just so many businesses weren't preparing properly for that process. And there was a lot of kind of money left on the table by owners by just not really taking a look at their internal processes and how to best prepare for a sale.

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so I got into the fractional CFO work that way and then like I said that was right around the

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same time as I found Bitcoin so like kind of mid I bought my first Bitcoin May 2021

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left the firm in June 2021 started working on the fractional CFO stuff and as I did the you know

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the required 40 hours a week of Bitcoin podcasts I was just like wait this makes so much sense like

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why why aren't more businesses using this and really started to get into trying to understand

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how to make it part of the the financial framework for any company realizing that a lot of the fiat

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companies i was dealing with weren't necessarily there yet and that there was still a gap there

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with because I was like, they're already there. And then I can learn more with them. And that's

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got connected to Scott Dietles, who's the co-founder here, because he had written a book,

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Bitcoin for Financial Advisors. He comes from kind of the health benefits space and was very

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financial. I didn't know that about Scott, actually. That's really cool context.

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I think we've got it here, actually.

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And I think it really makes the case that just I think similar to was it your last episode or two episodes ago where it was the fiduciary duty to to almost, you know, start looking into it and at least understand it.

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uh very quickly became this isn't a fractional role this is a full-time thing and and i i came

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on board full-time so okay so before that so so you got when you say you left the firm and you got

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to discuss it with some of those fiat companies.

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no, what is this craziness?

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through a third party

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who acted as the middleman,

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and convince them that,

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you know, here's how we can use Bitcoin.

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Well, I love what Block Rewards is up to and had a call with Scott, I don't know, a month or two ago.

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So, um, I mean, as our firm has grown and you try to build any business these days, as much as you want to try to automate things and, and all of that, you still need very high quality people.

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And I think one of the hardest parts about keeping one attracting high quality people and highly talented people, that's one thing is attracting them in, but also keeping them over a long, you know, stay at a company these days is almost unheard of.

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And so I want to ask you, I guess, first, how do you see that?

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Like, obviously, it's top of mind for every business leader is building a core team and continuing to build out the team of employees that help support the entire business.

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I guess, what did you see the incentive structure being pre-Bitcoin?

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And then what was the compelling case that was made through Black Rewards that can, you know, kind of flip that on its head and help the employers that you all work with now essentially extend out the lifespan of an employee with a company that you guys are working with?

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yeah so i i guess like where we've been and and really pre-bitcoin right like it's it all comes

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down to i think something that a lot of bitcoiners will be familiar with is just like the concept

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that the monetary system is you know broken um when you look at like wages real wages you know

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over time especially when compared to you know anything like housing and that sort of stuff it's

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just fallen behind um you we've generally just you know had it where people are not getting paid

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in good money they're not able to save they're forced investors it's just kind of a compounding

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of that system so i think bitcoin really what it does is just by fixing the money if you're

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compensating people in a money that actually holds its value. One, you're paying them in something

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better. Now, I think there's a couple aspects to this, maybe just to step back for a second.

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spending Bitcoin. That's kind of the way down the road. But there's a lot of transition period to

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get there. And, you know, that that also fundamentally is a different conversation if

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you're talking someone with disposable income versus not. But what I think Bitcoin's doing

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is and what we're doing with it at Block Rewards is really trying to use it to build tools and

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incorporate it into tools that employers can use to improve the compensation that they offering their employees So that takes a couple forms in terms of you can create stuff

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that creates a longer term incentive

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where you're using Bitcoin to reward someone

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and tie them to the company for a longer period.

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There's an actual tangible real cost to them if they leave because because they lose some of that longer term incentive.

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Like the retention is a long term outcome.

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You want to do that because it keeps the institutional knowledge in your business.

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It keeps the person around who, you know, presumably if they're a good employee, again, assuming that you're doing your hiring right and bringing in a good person, if you're bringing in a bad person, you know, maybe you want to get them to go.

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You want to retain that institutional knowledge.

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In the short term, though, and medium to long, you want to also drive the behaviors that you want within your business. You want your employees operating in an efficient manner. You want them doing the actions that you know are going to result in the outcomes that you want.

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And I think Bitcoin offers ways to also improve that. And that's one of the things we're looking at is essentially micro incentives paid in sats that are more real time. And this is really looking at the fact that right now, you know, if you want to drive a specific behavior within your business, whether it's someone, you know, clawing in on time or showing up early or, you know, hitting a certain metric in terms of number of calls that day, there are systems that do that.

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but they're all, you know, points based.

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and exchange them for a gift card.

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I think I was reading a thing recently on this,

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especially with regard to like referral bonuses,

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where they're like paid out,

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someone paid out bonuses six months,

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they noticed the referrals dropping

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They, you know, that time difference

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discounts the value in their mind.

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all the layers getting built on top,

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especially that allow for more of the instant settlement, there's opportunities to really create tools that can drive behaviors and incentivize behaviors in the short term, as well as the tools to drive retention over the long term.

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And then all of that is if you're paying people in Bitcoin and, you know, assuming they're able to save some portion of that.

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Well, if that appreciates over time, as we all here expect it to, then you're increasing their actual real compensation in terms of dollars.

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And, you know, especially for someone who made it previously wasn't able to save, but now they're able to save, you know, a small portion in Bitcoin because that's just what they're getting on top of what they, you know, their paycheck to paycheck that they're running.

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Now they're able to save a small portion and that actually creates, you know, a bit of a safety net for them over time, which means they're less stressed, which means hopefully they're showing up better at work and kind of creates the benefits that way.

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Um, just some of the HSA stuff and all of that, right?

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Like this is, it's all the connected health, um, aspect.

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That point.

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So is block rewards, does, would it replace a gusto or an ADP for a client or is it more

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on the benefits side that plugs into the overall payroll software?

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So not, we, we don't currently replace those.

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Um, we, we, we have had discussions and are looking at what does payroll on Bitcoin look

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like and what does net pay and all of that look like um but i i kind of just leave it if we've

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had discussions around that i won't comment specifically on on uh on on kind of what the

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opportunities are or you know yeah anything that's coming there but um you know stay tuned

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on all of those fronts we're continuing to discuss these things um yeah i but to your point is i do

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think ultimately that like this is actually it's it's one of the the interesting discussions that

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has come up is where does bitcoin or where where does payroll itself go um and if you think about

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it like right now payroll generally is an employee loaning their labor to their employer for you know

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a two week period and then being paid at the end of it.

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Bitcoin theoretically enables, I mean,

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I can stream sats for listening to the podcast, right?

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Why can't I be streamed sats while I'm at the office?

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So like theoretically we could move to more real time pay.

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And you see this, you know,

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you see this to a certain extent already with,

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with some fiat products that are out there that are borderline predatory.

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But but you already see this, you know, the demand for instant pay.

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And I think that I don't know that we're ready for that yet because people haven't practiced and aren't trained to save because, again, of the fiat system.

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And so if you receive all of your money up front and don't save enough to make sure you can pay rent, then suddenly it's an issue.

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But I mean, this could get really interesting.

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Who knows where we're at 50 years from now?

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maybe I'm being paid as I, as I'm at the office working and I'm streaming sats to Netflix and my

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landlord and whoever I've got my monthly subscriptions and other stuff with. And like,

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I think it, it will change how we generally interact like that. Payroll is one of them where

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again, you could stream the sats. Um, so anyway, like, like I said, lots of interesting discussions

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here. Um, you know, keep an eye out for, uh, shifts in that industry. I think overall

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100 i mean i think that that's honestly one of the last frontiers of um of bitcoin really

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blossoming is is in the payments rail between employer and employee so i'm glad to hear that uh

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that you guys are at least uh you're thinking about that so that's that's really cool i talk

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me through you know i'm an employer i you know i want to introduce this because i was even on a call

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I think it was last week with more of a traditional benefits company that was pitching a business owner on starting a 401k plan for I think about 50 employees.

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And, you know, even in that sense, there was like a financial advisor who was on the call who was like, oh, you know, we'll come and educate your employees on all these things about how they should invest and how this is a big value add for them as an employee.

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how is block rewards, I guess, thinking about, cause you have to do kind of like twice the

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education, right? It's not only, Hey, here's why this is a benefit, whether, you know, it's health

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benefits or retirement benefits. Um, but you also have to educate on like, what is this underlying

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asset, um, that you're actually getting paid in, um, talk me through that. Cause I know that

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you've been in anyone who's been in the Bitcoin space long enough. It's hard enough to even

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you know, educate anyone, let alone a group of employees that made that might just not be

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something that they're, they're thinking about a lot. So curious how you guys are approaching the

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education piece. Yeah. So that, that is an aspect of what we're building out. Certainly is a learning

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management, uh, kind of section of the app. So we're, we're, we're building an app that should

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be launched in the U S, uh, probably late this year. Um, that is the idea. Part of that will be

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a learning management system that has videos and has content to teach people about Bitcoin.

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And like I said, we're dealing with various micro incentive stuff. So there will be,

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you know, ways to drive people to go through that content and consume it.

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Okay, nice.

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And so that's kind of for educating them. And then the other part of it is, you know,

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with more and more companies putting Bitcoin on the balance sheet with that stuff, we're really

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trying to make sure we're targeting companies where the senior management and where there's

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already some of it instilled, at least as an understanding at the upper levels and where

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they might be looking to make it more a part of the culture, which then that's that tone from the

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top. Just if your management is saying, hey, yes, this is something we're implementing, we think you

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should get it or you know we're at least offering it to you we think you should learn about it

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that you know that makes it a more welcoming environment from like the employees being

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willing to learn and and feeling like this is something that um you know an authority figure

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in their uh you know boss or boss's boss or the ceo or whoever is is championing and championing it

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uh is is kind of giving them the okay that like yes this isn't a scam you're not this this isn't

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ftx you know this isn't like any of that that stuff um right so yeah that's good so i guess

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honestly it leads right into yeah in order to pay employees with bitcoin presumably the business has

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to hold the asset on the balance sheet you know if 2025 was oh no then no they don't that's who

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we're finding like from a from a like where they're at with it it's there's the that's the

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the easiest person to talk to is that that senior manager who already gets bitcoin who wants their

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employees to get it that sort of thing um but we we've made the product really focused but and and

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what we're still designing is is really focused on making it accessible to everyone so even companies

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that don't have Bitcoin on the balance sheet

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or aren't using it in the business yet

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could still do this

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and have their employees hold some Bitcoin

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on this platform

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and still use it for their compensation

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without necessarily having to buy it themselves

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and worry about the account for it

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or gains or anything like that.

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depending on the product

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and like some of the longer term incentive stuff,

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might require them to actually hold it, but that's built into kind of how the product is designed.

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Whereas if it's kind of Bitcoin payroll or into what we call our Bitcoin savings plan,

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which is kind of the 401k like product where it's just every paycheck, you're taking a portion of

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your net pay, using it to buy Bitcoin, and the employer has the option to match a portion of

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that. It's a taxable benefit because, you know, the government hasn't recognized this as a register.

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This isn't an actual registered account. But that version of it, they can just do with fiat flows.

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And then the employee receives Bitcoin, but the employer doesn't have to kind of worry themselves

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and delve into that accounting headache if they don't want to yet.

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no that's awesome so you're saying an employee that just wants to get paid in bitcoin or some

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of their benefit coming in bitcoin the upper echelons of the company doesn't even have to

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bought in they just have to i guess sign up with black block rewards to be set up and then and then

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it can flow that way that's awesome okay i love that because i think yeah trying to make that

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barrier to entry for anyone, be it an employer, any kind of corporation, any kind of individual,

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Well, I guess going into Bitcoin with corporations, I mean, it was such a hot topic.

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I was even, I was just, of course, it looked like a golfer.

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I just came from playing golf.

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And the guy I was playing golf with, true accountant, you know, January 2nd, got to do it.

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So what we were talking about how this year or this past year, I should say, was, you know, all about all of the buzz was about Bitcoin for corporations, Bitcoin on balance sheets of corporations.

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and man it just it's in so many ways it was like it seemed like another stain kind of on our shirt

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of of like on bitcoin's journey and so i'm curious and i don't i don't know if i saw you in in new

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york at the bitcoin for corporations or not no it was uh well i know that one was in orlando but

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there was another one that was in new york scott was at the uh florida one i think but i yeah i

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I wasn't able, I didn't make it out to those.

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I also didn't even make it to the, the, to the space in, uh, in October.

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I know that one.

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Cause it was the same weekend as the Canadian Bitcoin conference.

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I know we had, we had our overlap and honestly, I did not even.

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That's kind of on us.

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So I'll take, I'll take that the heat on that one.

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Oh, I mean, dude, there's so many conferences.

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You can't, I don't think you can schedule a conference without conflicting another conference

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at this point.

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Like it's not.

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Well, it's just funny, though.

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There's so many strong Bitcoiners who are Canadian.

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So we definitely, we're going to make sure we don't overlap this coming year.

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But I guess all that...

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I personally appreciate it.

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Okay, yeah, yeah.

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All of those conferences, though, be it the one in Orlando that Saylor put on.

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But then there was another one that like Julian put on in New York That would have been I think in October November that were just it was so heavy on this whole like lever up Bitcoin in the balance sheet

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And, you know, obviously, you know, there's just some of them that completely fell apart.

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And I'm just curious as someone from your seat, that's like, Hey, we're, we're trying

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to educate business owners and convince board of directors to, to like take interest in

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this um i don't know is there is there any way that you think that it could have gone different

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to with with how it was handled in 2025 be it with corporations adding bitcoin to the balance sheet

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yeah and and i'll uh i'm just i'll stop stop me if i start ranting too much but it's a personal

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of mine the whole bitcoin treasury company um like i i think it's a misnomer that people are

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kind of bucket throwing everything into one bucket and not really looking properly at it and in that

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sense because they're all just painted with the same brush and everything's like it's a it's a

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very oversimplified view and then you have some of them perform poorly and people aren't really

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understanding what they're buying and in that sense I think you're right like it really was

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kind of a it was a net negative almost i i'd say um for kind of really beyond you know micro

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strategy meta planet maybe there's you know maybe similar or something like that but um

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i and i think where where it comes from is just again it's it's a it's a misunderstanding and

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and oversimplification of the industry there's profitable companies using bitcoin as a savings

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vehicle, which is really just the recapitalization of the balance sheet.

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I think Lynn Alden had a great article on that that was just speaking about how in the

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low interest rate environment that we've had and with everyone doing share by like it's

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just become give the money back to shareholders, lever up the balance sheet, don't hold a

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significant amount of actual capital because that's not yielding a real return.

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Bitcoin allows the recapitalization of the balance sheet and for profitable companies to actually save. And that's just, you know, using Bitcoin as part of your capital stack and your long term planning and actually having a savings vehicle just like for any individual.

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Then you've got the capital arbitragers and, you know, potential future Bitcoin banks, which is like MSTR, who like they're arbitraging on just, you know, the general capital market's ability to access Bitcoin's returns.

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And so they're structuring different products to give different things to different parts of the market to generate investment interest from that and then turn around and buy Bitcoin with it.

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maybe that becomes a Bitcoin bank thing. I think that's a whole other, like, what does that look

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like? Um, but that's, you know, just essentially making money and arbitraging the shift from trad

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or from fiat to Bitcoin over time. So I think that also has to morph as that transition happens,

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which is where I say, maybe those are the Bitcoin banks, whatever that is. Um, then you've got the

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Bitcoin investment companies that are like actually investing in the ecosystem using Bitcoin as a hurdle rate.

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That's kind of just a Bitcoin, you know, that's that's essentially a hedge fund or investment fund that is using Bitcoin as it's.

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Denominating in Bitcoin, right, rather than fiat.

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So, you know, are you earning a return in Bitcoin terms?

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And then you've got the meme companies who are just riding the hype.

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But like those are the four like there are four categories there. There is not one Bitcoin treasury company. There are four different ways that people have put Bitcoin on the balance sheet and are using it as part of their treasury. But like that's that's it's a vast oversimplification to just paint them all with one brush.

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and then because doing that people aren't understanding the differences between them

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which then leads to missed like expectations gaps and where they fail to to live up to the hype

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um and i mean yeah some of them have i think also just been like it's been an excuse to to pump so

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it seems it seems a little too pump and dumpy it seems a little too you know i'm an influencer let

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put some money into this and use my name it it feels very shit coiny in that sense to me so um

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i i like i like people actually defining what their business is saying here's how we're using

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bitcoin and being like very clear about how it fits into that structure and i i feel like it's

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very much been used as just a hype word bitcoin treasury company pump the stock and and try to

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make money off it. So it seems like morph beyond ease. Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, so when you're,

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when you are like sitting in with client from the CFO role or outsource CFO role,

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how are you, and maybe let's start with one of these big, like a company that's already,

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you know, Bitcoin focused, maybe that's part of their customer base. Maybe they're earning

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some in Bitcoin, maybe they're mining. Um, I guess, how, how are you helping them think through

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how to manage the Bitcoin on the balance sheet.

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I mean, and maybe we just focus on mining

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or whatever direction you want to go.

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But it's one of those things where, you know,

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sometimes you're just accumulating,

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sometimes you're accumulating and you're needing to sell.

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Are you all dealing with that much from your role right now

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or any thoughts on that?

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So we're, Block Rewards itself is still in the startup phase.

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So we're again, like it's very different, I think, depending on the stage you're at. If you're a profitable company saving in Bitcoin, looking at it as part of your capital stack, then I think it's you're looking at.

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And I think actually, really, this is true for anyone.

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It's what are your short term needs?

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What are those denominated in?

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Denominated in?

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Sorry, if I can speak.

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And then what are the assets you're using to cover those and making sure that you're not having, you know, potential mismatch there where the short term volatility in Bitcoin means you're unable to, you know, meet your immediate liabilities.

409
00:37:33,076 --> 00:37:41,396
so I think like viewing it as part of working capital you know if you've got bills you can pay

410
00:37:41,396 --> 00:37:46,376
in bitcoin even that's where you're still subject if they're denom if you're paying them in bitcoin

411
00:37:46,376 --> 00:37:51,056
but they're denominated in the fiat currency then it's really the fiat currency that you're having

412
00:37:51,056 --> 00:37:58,096
to worry about because that's you know the value you're having to pay so I think from that

413
00:37:58,096 --> 00:38:05,896
perspective, you know, the working capital management is one thing. The long-term capital

414
00:38:05,896 --> 00:38:10,956
management is another. If you're using it as part of planning long-term projects and just your

415
00:38:10,956 --> 00:38:17,556
overall capital stack, then, you know, it depends how you're able to use it. If you can look at

416
00:38:17,556 --> 00:38:24,276
selling it off as you need to shift, you know, the level of risk and your exposure to that

417
00:38:24,276 --> 00:38:30,116
volatility, you're starting to see the Bitcoin backed loans and like maybe it starts to become

418
00:38:30,116 --> 00:38:36,116
part of some asset backed lending stuff where you've got it as part of the collateral you're

419
00:38:36,116 --> 00:38:42,036
putting up and that can change the rates. So I think this is also something that, yeah, if you're

420
00:38:42,036 --> 00:38:46,716
using it in the short term versus using it as long as part of a like five or 10 year capital

421
00:38:46,716 --> 00:38:51,296
planning project, you know, that can look a bit different. We're also going to, you've also seen

422
00:38:51,296 --> 00:38:56,696
so many derivatives come in, especially on the mining side, right? Like this is one that

423
00:38:56,696 --> 00:39:03,016
anyone in that space, I think needs to be looking at what are the hash rate and other derivatives

424
00:39:03,016 --> 00:39:08,196
out there that I can use to help, you know, plan and make my business more efficient.

425
00:39:09,696 --> 00:39:15,536
So I think it's just, yeah, it's, it's still early stages. And I would say it's, I don't know that

426
00:39:15,536 --> 00:39:20,676
I've got like a, here's general, like, here's the way it should be used, but it should just be,

427
00:39:20,676 --> 00:39:26,236
It should be part of that discussion of, you know, view it as another currency, view it as highly volatile.

428
00:39:26,816 --> 00:39:33,716
But what do we have our assets and liabilities denominated in and where does it make sense as part of that stack?

429
00:39:34,476 --> 00:39:43,556
I know at Block Rewards, one of the things we've done with it is actually used it as part of trying to drive our raise.

430
00:39:43,556 --> 00:40:01,156
And so we've, and I think this is one of those things of like anyone, anyone looking at raising money and, and in this space, especially can look at how can I use this to, again, make, make something that works for investors and works for the company.

431
00:40:01,156 --> 00:40:25,516
And so part of what we've done is we have a debenture that's offered that's a convertible debenture that a portion of that went on funding, a set percentage of that of the funding that comes in is used to buy Bitcoin, which is then held in a wallet with a custodian that's verifiable.

432
00:40:25,516 --> 00:40:31,696
like you can view it on chain. It's a cold wallet. It is with a custodian. And part of the reason for

433
00:40:31,696 --> 00:40:40,936
that is that in the debenture agreement, if the investor goes to that custodian with documentation

434
00:40:40,936 --> 00:40:47,336
of an event of default, they are able to claim that Bitcoin as security directly from the custodian.

435
00:40:47,336 --> 00:41:00,956
And so what that's done is we've got a convertible debenture out there that, you know, converts at a valuation that we might not be able to validate today.

436
00:41:01,156 --> 00:41:07,136
But in three years at the end of the debenture, we expect to be a fairly conservative valuation.

437
00:41:07,456 --> 00:41:14,876
But it defers the actual decision for the investor on whether to invest at that value until later.

438
00:41:14,876 --> 00:41:32,876
In the meantime, it gives them an instrument that is producing. We've got a cash or a PIC option as far as how they want their interest paid. So they can either be getting a portion of their capital back or they can be receiving additional equity as they go.

439
00:41:32,876 --> 00:41:51,576
But then making that final decision on do they want to convert or do they want their cash back at the end of the term? And in the meantime, they've got the partial Bitcoin security there, which as Bitcoin appreciates means their loan is actually increasing with the amount of security over the term of it.

440
00:41:51,576 --> 00:42:04,896
Um, so it gets them, lets them be, you know, very confident that they'll at least receive the fiat denominated principal back along with whatever their interest payments are over the course of the, of the term.

441
00:42:05,316 --> 00:42:12,176
Um, and then, you know, also means they don't have to fully buy into the valuation that we're discussing today.

442
00:42:12,176 --> 00:42:13,876
It's a future valuation.

443
00:42:14,176 --> 00:42:20,856
So it also removes some of the kind of need for due diligence and really digging in on that valuation today.

444
00:42:20,856 --> 00:42:26,756
because it's a future valuation that by the time we get there,

445
00:42:26,936 --> 00:42:28,956
we should have more than validated.

446
00:42:29,696 --> 00:42:33,096
And so then they're able to convert at essentially a discount at that point.

447
00:42:33,416 --> 00:42:35,716
But relative to today's value,

448
00:42:35,716 --> 00:42:39,496
it's actually less dilutive than offering equity for us.

449
00:42:40,116 --> 00:42:43,656
So it works great for them and works great for us.

450
00:42:44,556 --> 00:42:49,236
And so again, I think this is where we're in this transition period

451
00:42:49,236 --> 00:42:52,796
from strictly fiat to strictly Bitcoin,

452
00:42:53,116 --> 00:42:55,176
in that transition period,

453
00:42:55,176 --> 00:42:58,156
you can use both tools and ways

454
00:42:58,156 --> 00:42:59,856
to kind of create these products

455
00:42:59,856 --> 00:43:04,356
that wouldn't work under, you know, 100% either.

456
00:43:04,616 --> 00:43:06,016
Like if you're purely fiat,

457
00:43:06,936 --> 00:43:09,356
you know, this doesn't work.

458
00:43:09,436 --> 00:43:10,436
If you're purely Bitcoin,

459
00:43:10,556 --> 00:43:11,796
this doesn't necessarily work.

460
00:43:11,936 --> 00:43:14,376
It's this transition period.

461
00:43:14,376 --> 00:43:16,396
There's a lot of opportunity there.

462
00:43:17,396 --> 00:43:17,496
Yeah.

463
00:43:17,496 --> 00:43:40,636
Yeah. Well, I mean, I've spoken with founders now. You kind of have to time it. But I mean, I've spoken with some folks that like Bitcoin helped extend their runway by quite a bit. And so that's one very interesting thing to consider. But then, you know, it can very easily say, well, maybe it shrinkens or, you know, compresses your runway as well. Right. So.

464
00:43:40,636 --> 00:43:42,176
So yeah, it definitely can.

465
00:43:42,316 --> 00:43:45,096
It cuts the volatility can cut both ways.

466
00:43:45,976 --> 00:43:50,276
That's part of where and you're right, like this, this would apply on this product as well.

467
00:43:50,276 --> 00:44:06,336
Like we've issued it with a three year term and we're we're with the investors we're talking to are expecting that over these three years, Bitcoin will appreciate if you were doing this, you know, right at a market top where people were expecting it to decline.

468
00:44:06,556 --> 00:44:08,176
You know, maybe that's a different discussion.

469
00:44:08,176 --> 00:44:14,016
but also at market tops, people generally aren't thinking it's going to pull back.

470
00:44:14,156 --> 00:44:15,296
They're just FOMOing in.

471
00:44:15,676 --> 00:44:21,516
So it actually could work really well as a sell there, their expectations.

472
00:44:22,056 --> 00:44:22,836
But you're right.

473
00:44:22,836 --> 00:44:26,956
You have to look at the timing on any of these.

474
00:44:28,216 --> 00:44:33,336
But again, if you're looking at the timing and you're understanding who you're talking to,

475
00:44:33,416 --> 00:44:36,416
who your universe of investors is, at that point,

476
00:44:36,416 --> 00:44:45,776
It's how do we construct this in a way that works for them? Right. Like we've set it up with the interest rates we've set it up with and the security percentage we've set it up with.

477
00:44:46,516 --> 00:44:57,496
You know, you can look at do you have a call option on there such that you can do an early redemption, like call and put options for early redemption from either side.

478
00:44:57,496 --> 00:45:03,716
you know you could look at you know under what terms you know what what is considered a default

479
00:45:03,716 --> 00:45:09,756
or what what allows them to claim the security you could even look at doing that in partial terms or

480
00:45:09,756 --> 00:45:16,776
something like that like there you could really get into kind of fine-tuning this to work for the

481
00:45:16,776 --> 00:45:22,656
company as well as work for the investors and an understanding of like what are the potential

482
00:45:22,656 --> 00:45:27,476
outcomes we're planning for and therefore you know making sure that this structure works under all of

483
00:45:27,476 --> 00:45:30,816
those or where your pitfalls are.

484
00:45:57,476 --> 00:46:05,156
term to learn more or book consultation visit satoshipacioli.com where do you kind of see

485
00:46:05,156 --> 00:46:11,996
us going i mean i guess this is the new year's the new year show that you're leading off 2026 so

486
00:46:11,996 --> 00:46:18,376
i think it's only appropriate at least to throw it out there to say like you know where do you see

487
00:46:18,376 --> 00:46:33,654
bitcoin going uh specifically in like maybe track like how do you see it keep coming into the tradify world uh and maybe we we specifically focus on 26 it was so weird again i was talking with uh with that

488
00:46:33,654 --> 00:46:41,654
guy i played golf with um today bitcoiner it was like man 25 i mean it's one of those like you

489
00:46:41,654 --> 00:46:47,674
couldn't have really put together a more bullish year in terms of news and and everything that

490
00:46:47,674 --> 00:46:54,294
happened with the administration changeover and all of that. It feels to me like something is

491
00:46:54,294 --> 00:47:02,054
brewing. But I'm just, but obviously I think a lot of investors, there's just a lot of an

492
00:47:02,054 --> 00:47:12,134
uncertainty of what's going to happen overall, be it currency debasement or macro or wars or AI or

493
00:47:12,134 --> 00:47:19,214
whatever. And so I'm curious to get your thoughts on how you kind of see things trending with Bitcoin.

494
00:47:19,374 --> 00:47:26,774
Yeah. Continuing to increase its foothold inside of more traditional finance circles going into 26.

495
00:47:27,434 --> 00:47:35,714
Yeah. I mean, I, yeah, 2025, the, the, all the tail for all the tailwinds, the fact that it ended

496
00:47:35,714 --> 00:47:44,094
up being a red year um is uh is that's bitcoin doing you know what bitcoin does which is exactly

497
00:47:44,094 --> 00:47:49,414
the opposite of what you think it will do sort of thing um yeah in terms so

498
00:47:49,414 --> 00:47:57,034
that is to say like i have no idea what price will do so god only knows there like i i'm not

499
00:47:57,034 --> 00:48:01,874
really my any if anyone who listens back to any of my price predictions for 2025

500
00:48:01,874 --> 00:48:07,074
should know that I don't know what I'm talking about, um, in terms of price. Cause who knows?

501
00:48:07,714 --> 00:48:16,954
But, uh, in terms of adoption, I, I think it's, it just continues like to, to be, I, I, that,

502
00:48:16,954 --> 00:48:24,774
that seems like kind of a weasel out of an answer, but I think at this point it's like, I, I go to CFA

503
00:48:24,774 --> 00:48:32,694
events and meetups, or at least especially when I lived in Vancouver, I was. But I would say that

504
00:48:32,694 --> 00:48:41,154
when I got into Bitcoin 2021, 2022, and again, market bottom 2022, I would go to those events

505
00:48:41,154 --> 00:48:47,594
and wear a Bitcoin shirt and just trigger people into asking me about it and get into discussion.

506
00:48:47,714 --> 00:48:51,574
By the way, for anyone who goes to CFA events or interacts with CFAs,

507
00:48:51,574 --> 00:49:01,174
ask just get a group of cfas around and just ask them what is money define it for me and it's it's

508
00:49:01,174 --> 00:49:05,274
really entertaining to get into that discussion in trad by circles because as much as everyone

509
00:49:05,274 --> 00:49:11,654
deals with money and deals with like nine figure deals no one has defined it at a first principles

510
00:49:11,654 --> 00:49:18,434
basis possibly ever like i know it was bitcoin that got me to do that for the first time um but

511
00:49:18,434 --> 00:49:38,954
To get back to your question is, I go to those meetups now and I still try to trigger the CFAs. The new way I do it is by telling them that I'm 100% allocated to Bitcoin and that's the lowest risk allocation you can have for a portfolio because it's the everything ETF, right? Everything divided by 21 million, Bitcoin is the everything ETF.

512
00:49:38,954 --> 00:49:59,514
But I've had to shift it to that to really get them to think about it in that way, because they're no longer just hearing Bitcoin and going like, oh, that's correct. And like, they don't have the automatic FUD response that, you know, I know in 2022 was there, you know, even just a few years later, a few years later now.

513
00:49:59,514 --> 00:50:03,894
So it's, there's some interest in it.

514
00:50:04,214 --> 00:50:07,654
You know, you're seeing the investment advisors and all of that.

515
00:50:07,754 --> 00:50:13,194
You know, it's almost where the default now is to have some allocation there.

516
00:50:13,954 --> 00:50:23,254
You know, you've heard that you guys have had the discussions in the last few weeks around how, and as we mentioned, the fiduciary responsibility is to know about it now.

517
00:50:23,254 --> 00:50:26,134
Like, so I think that just continues.

518
00:50:26,134 --> 00:50:33,994
with that as you continue to have companies like block rewards and others starting to build ways

519
00:50:33,994 --> 00:50:40,134
that employers and others can use it i think it just you know sure maybe we see some pullbacks

520
00:50:40,134 --> 00:50:47,714
and some like when it's hyped or or not based off of narratives and and other things um but i think

521
00:50:47,714 --> 00:50:53,734
you're starting to see where you know businesses that are using it are using it in ways that lower

522
00:50:53,734 --> 00:50:57,234
their costs and increase profitability.

523
00:50:58,214 --> 00:51:04,034
So as long as you continue to have that work and people are continuing to develop products

524
00:51:04,034 --> 00:51:09,574
that businesses can use to improve their business, that's what they want.

525
00:51:10,214 --> 00:51:13,354
And Bitcoin just continues to be a part of that.

526
00:51:13,554 --> 00:51:17,734
And as the tools are developed that allow it to be obfuscated more into the background

527
00:51:17,734 --> 00:51:21,834
and for it to be presented in a way that people are already used to,

528
00:51:21,834 --> 00:51:29,074
then I think it just kind of continues that infiltration into the system.

529
00:51:30,254 --> 00:51:30,434
Yeah.

530
00:51:31,034 --> 00:51:31,594
I think...

531
00:51:31,594 --> 00:51:32,694
I guess...

532
00:51:32,694 --> 00:51:38,674
Sorry, just on that, one of the biggest risks is what we've seen with the samurai guys and that

533
00:51:38,674 --> 00:51:44,874
and the attacks on privacy and the attacks on ways we can use Bitcoin where if it infiltrates in,

534
00:51:44,874 --> 00:51:50,734
but it's in a very regulated manner and a very managed way and you can't escape that,

535
00:51:50,734 --> 00:52:20,714
Like that's, that's one of the bigger risks I would see to like Bitcoin as, as overall, um, you know, it's used long-term. Um, so that that's just with that integration, I think that it's not to say that that's all positives. Like, I think there's a lot that people have to look out for there, um, and make sure that we're not taking short-term wins that set up for long-term pain, right? Like still, still have that low time preference, even as we try to develop this stuff.

536
00:52:20,734 --> 00:52:27,594
yeah i mean yeah even one of the conversations so i so i played golf today with a bitcoiner and

537
00:52:27,594 --> 00:52:33,494
a non-bitcoiner but the non-bitcoin guy has dabbled in it and made some fiat gains and gotten

538
00:52:33,494 --> 00:52:37,894
out and he's kind of you know he's like i'm so smart because i've you know i made ten thousand

539
00:52:37,894 --> 00:52:45,014
dollars in bitcoin and then and then i got out and um but it was all inside of an etf and one

540
00:52:45,014 --> 00:52:55,374
One of the conversations we had towards the end was kind of like the risk of all of this Bitcoin consolidating into BlackRock's hands.

541
00:52:55,614 --> 00:53:00,614
That's something that I'm really trying to keep an eye out for for 26.

542
00:53:01,034 --> 00:53:03,914
And especially with the conversations we're having with advisors.

543
00:53:04,074 --> 00:53:12,894
It's a hard conversation because they their whole AUM model is to keep their clients inside of something like an ETF.

544
00:53:13,214 --> 00:53:13,394
Right.

545
00:53:13,394 --> 00:53:15,394
So they can keep charging on that.

546
00:53:15,394 --> 00:53:21,034
And so they're never going to recommend a client take, you know, full self custody of

547
00:53:21,034 --> 00:53:26,014
their Bitcoin because, well, well, one, maybe they shouldn't do that because they've been

548
00:53:26,014 --> 00:53:28,374
so babied their whole, their whole life, right.

549
00:53:28,414 --> 00:53:31,674
That they don't actually know how to custody their own assets.

550
00:53:32,194 --> 00:53:37,354
But two, their advisor would always, you know, strongly discourage that kind of behavior

551
00:53:37,354 --> 00:53:39,194
for their own incentive structure.

552
00:53:39,374 --> 00:53:40,914
So it's a tough thing.

553
00:53:40,914 --> 00:53:45,954
I mean, it's an uphill battle for guys like us to, you know, to try to educate people.

554
00:53:45,954 --> 00:53:50,854
And even if they take that step to say, okay, I am going to allocate into it specifically

555
00:53:50,854 --> 00:53:53,234
how they do that is also extremely important.

556
00:53:53,414 --> 00:53:57,034
So yeah, I think we'll, we'll keep an eye on that.

557
00:53:58,034 --> 00:54:01,674
That's where the tools, that's where the tools need to continue to develop.

558
00:54:01,674 --> 00:54:06,254
Like, like I was here, like, again, this was before my time, but like, cause I got, I was

559
00:54:06,254 --> 00:54:13,934
class of 21 but like seed words bip 39 was what 2015 i want to say it's like before that you know

560
00:54:13,934 --> 00:54:19,714
for the first six years of bitcoin's existence you didn't have 12 or 24 words you had you know

561
00:54:19,714 --> 00:54:26,954
some private like some paper wallet with like a huge string and so i think the the continued

562
00:54:26,954 --> 00:54:32,414
development of the tools and that's that's where i'm like we need those tools to be able to be

563
00:54:32,414 --> 00:54:38,174
developed in ways that also promote the permissionless and privacy and decentralization

564
00:54:38,174 --> 00:54:44,734
and don't drive us towards that centralization. But if those tools can continue to be developed,

565
00:54:45,434 --> 00:54:50,274
it'll allow people to use it in a way where, again, it just pushes some of that complexity

566
00:54:50,274 --> 00:54:57,274
into the background. There are trade-offs around that, of course, but I think that's

567
00:54:57,274 --> 00:55:01,574
kind of the direction we go is it just gets easier to use so that people can use it with

568
00:55:01,574 --> 00:55:05,754
in it like you see this with bit key right like they're they're trying to make it where

569
00:55:05,754 --> 00:55:11,074
you can have a version of self-custody where you're not having to do the the 12 word backup

570
00:55:11,074 --> 00:55:16,034
and i i don't i haven't dug into it too much i don't really have any opinions on that other than

571
00:55:16,034 --> 00:55:21,134
like okay people are doing it in different ways that might make it easier for some segment of the

572
00:55:21,134 --> 00:55:28,094
population. And so, you know, now more people can, uh, can, can actually, you know, participate in

573
00:55:28,094 --> 00:55:34,314
that. And I think for companies, same thing, like we're starting to see now the tools get developed

574
00:55:34,314 --> 00:55:42,154
for like, you know, um, like where you could have multiple members, multiple key holders,

575
00:55:42,154 --> 00:55:46,954
and then swap one out because, you know, maybe you've got a couple of board members and some of

576
00:55:46,954 --> 00:55:50,774
your senior management and like, here's your key holders for your corporation.

577
00:55:51,034 --> 00:55:56,994
And then one of them leaves and you need to replace them, you know, tools to easily allow

578
00:55:56,994 --> 00:56:02,014
that where it's not now a huge risk of, okay, we've got to spin up a whole new wallet and

579
00:56:02,014 --> 00:56:03,914
everyone's got to replace their key.

580
00:56:03,994 --> 00:56:05,754
And we transfer all of this over here.

581
00:56:05,754 --> 00:56:07,594
Like you've now got it.

582
00:56:07,594 --> 00:56:07,754
Okay.

583
00:56:07,754 --> 00:56:10,454
We just swap out the key and we're good to go.

584
00:56:10,934 --> 00:56:16,734
Um, so again, I think just continued development of those tools is what will

585
00:56:16,734 --> 00:56:22,514
also allow for the increased adoption at the corporate level, because as it gets easier to do,

586
00:56:23,874 --> 00:56:29,874
you know, now there's less cost to the organization for implementing it. There's less risk for them.

587
00:56:30,474 --> 00:56:35,454
You know, it becomes an easier thing to say yes to from a governance perspective.

588
00:56:36,694 --> 00:56:43,274
Yeah. All right, man. Well, this is great. I would say if you could, okay, so if there's any

589
00:56:43,274 --> 00:56:49,734
kind of, you know, CFA, really anybody, CFP, CPA, any kind of professional three-letter person out

590
00:56:49,734 --> 00:56:55,994
there that's listening, I would just be curious to get your thoughts, you know, in a summary of like,

591
00:56:56,674 --> 00:57:01,314
what was it, you know, was it a good decision to jump off of Tradfire world and go into Bitcoin

592
00:57:01,314 --> 00:57:06,974
world? Like what, what does that opportunity look like for you? And then, and then lastly,

593
00:57:07,074 --> 00:57:11,694
maybe just, you know, anything else that you want to mention about Block Rewards, if someone's

594
00:57:11,694 --> 00:57:15,274
interested in working with you all today like what does that look like especially if they're

595
00:57:15,274 --> 00:57:20,754
canadian-based are you guys up and running on that side today yeah we do have the so we do have the

596
00:57:20,754 --> 00:57:28,154
bitcoin savings plan operating uh in canada um anyone's what so i i'm anyone who wants to to

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ask about anything with regard to block rewards um feel free to reach out to me it's travis

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at block rewards.com um we do have that product up and running uh in canada as i said we're looking

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at launching an app in the US later this year,

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so that they'll probably, you know, late in the year.

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But there will be progress and stuff coming around that.

602
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I'm actually going to speak to you and the team there

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about some of the demo stuff we've got coming

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and getting some eyes on it.

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So you may have a sneak peek there.

606
00:58:00,514 --> 00:58:06,454
But yeah, anyone who's interested in hearing more about that

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and seeing what we've got coming

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is welcome to reach reach out to me.

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00:58:12,074 --> 00:58:13,774
Like I said, it's coming in the US.

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We do have a limited version right now in Canada,

611
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but there should be more coming there as well.

612
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Sorry, that was the block awards piece.

613
00:58:24,814 --> 00:58:27,034
Oh, anyone with a three letter designation,

614
00:58:27,254 --> 00:58:28,094
was it a good idea?

615
00:58:28,154 --> 00:58:29,274
A hundred percent.

616
00:58:29,574 --> 00:58:30,034
Great idea.

617
00:58:30,174 --> 00:58:37,214
Like I, I, I think you see this generally just again,

618
00:58:37,214 --> 00:58:57,394
The money is broken. Everyone's living in this broken system. The amount of nihilism and just negative thoughts on the future that I generally see from anyone who's solely focused on TradFi and how terrible inflation is and just where everything's going.

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00:58:57,394 --> 00:59:02,774
and I know that was a little more my mindset too like I found Bitcoin part of the reason

620
00:59:02,774 --> 00:59:07,614
I want to work with Bitcoin companies or wanted to and got into this space was

621
00:59:07,614 --> 00:59:13,834
they're the only ones they're the only times I have discussions about like 20 30 40 years in the

622
00:59:13,834 --> 00:59:19,714
future that are like positive hopeful and where people are looking to build something to help

623
00:59:19,714 --> 00:59:25,054
that it's the only none of the fiat companies I worked with were looking to like plant the tree

624
00:59:25,054 --> 00:59:30,974
for their, you know, grandkids to, to grow up on sort of thing that I've only heard that

625
00:59:30,974 --> 00:59:32,414
discussion in the Bitcoin space.

626
00:59:32,414 --> 00:59:38,874
So, um, like mentally just mental health wise, I found it so much better.

627
00:59:38,954 --> 00:59:44,994
The volatility is easy to deal with for the positivity that you get out of just the discussions

628
00:59:44,994 --> 00:59:49,754
and being around, uh, people who are actually like building with hope for the future.

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So, um, I love it, man.

630
00:59:52,534 --> 00:59:52,774
All right.

631
00:59:52,774 --> 00:59:54,134
That's a great place for us to end.

632
00:59:54,134 --> 00:59:56,054
So Travis, thank you seriously so much.

633
00:59:56,194 --> 01:00:00,834
One thing I wanted to throw out there, because Brian, Brian Hirshfield wrote Bitcoin for

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01:00:00,834 --> 01:00:01,374
institutions.

635
01:00:01,374 --> 01:00:05,814
So anyone who's got three letters after that and read that book, it's, it's also not too

636
01:00:05,814 --> 01:00:11,814
long, but, um, I think was a really good, good take on like how some, how some of this

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01:00:11,814 --> 01:00:17,814
is going to work into corporations and institutions and, and even gets into some of the like deferred

638
01:00:17,814 --> 01:00:21,594
comp and long-term retention stuff that we're literally looking at at block rewards.

639
01:00:21,594 --> 01:00:26,374
So just wanted to throw that out there as a quick recommendation for anyone.

640
01:00:27,034 --> 01:00:28,294
Yeah, no, that's great.

641
01:00:28,894 --> 01:00:33,434
We'll make sure that we link that to Amazon or something in the show notes.

642
01:00:34,194 --> 01:00:34,714
Solid.

643
01:00:34,854 --> 01:00:35,294
Well, this is great.

644
01:00:35,394 --> 01:00:36,034
I learned a lot.

645
01:00:36,094 --> 01:00:37,114
I learned a lot about you.

646
01:00:37,214 --> 01:00:39,494
I learned a lot just about the entire landscape.

647
01:00:39,994 --> 01:00:43,494
So and I know we're working together offline and all of that.

648
01:00:43,814 --> 01:00:45,954
So I echo what you're saying now.

649
01:00:46,254 --> 01:00:46,634
Probably today.

650
01:00:47,054 --> 01:00:49,814
So that sounds good, man.

651
01:00:49,814 --> 01:00:50,454
All right.

652
01:00:50,454 --> 01:00:53,394
Well, thanks so much, Travis, for coming on and we'll talk to you soon.

653
01:00:53,394 --> 01:00:53,574
Okay.

654
01:00:54,054 --> 01:00:54,474
All right.

655
01:00:54,514 --> 01:00:54,954
Thanks, man.

656
01:00:55,014 --> 01:00:55,874
Thanks for having me.

657
01:00:56,014 --> 01:00:56,334
Talk later.

658
01:00:57,134 --> 01:00:57,434
Absolutely.

659
01:01:02,294 --> 01:01:04,014
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