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We take for granted what banks do.

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When we say be your own bank, it sounds great, but it's so complicated and it's so scary.

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And when you try to teach a boomer how to be his own bank and self-custody crypto,

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and he emails himself his private keys so that he doesn't forget them.

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And you're like, stop, stop.

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I was in traditional Wall Street before I first heard about Bitcoin in 2013.

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I was on the trading floor at TD Securities.

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One of my clients was a hedge fund and the light bulb went off for me.

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It's like attaching money to an email.

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This is the days of Vine videos and like YouTube and like things went viral really quick.

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I mean, overnight things went viral.

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So I was like, oh my God, whatever this Bitcoin thing is, it could go viral tomorrow.

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I should buy it now.

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It was 300 bucks.

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I was shouting from the rooftops to anyone that was willing to listen.

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And on Wall Street, Bitcoin is like a real thing.

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Meanwhile, it was during 2024, however, that I discovered this company called Meanwhile.

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At the end of this 30 minute zoom, someone had to pick my job off the floor.

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I couldn't believe what I just heard.

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It was the most compelling product for Bitcoin that I'd ever heard in my life.

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It was Bitcoin denominated whole life insurance.

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It's a pretty unbelievable concept if you think about how it all works.

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How you can monetize Bitcoin through life insurance without paying taxes and without selling your original Bitcoin.

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The dollar purchasing power is decreasing and Bitcoin's purchasing power over the long term is increasing.

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It has no ties to any government. It has no ties to any fiat. It has no ties to any war.

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You have to ask yourself this as a Bitcoin.

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Would you rather leave your wife and child 10 Bitcoin when you die or a million dollars when you die?

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Bitcoin's staying power over the very long term is here and it's not going to zero. It's never going to zero.

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That's why we have a Bitcoin life insurance company where we're comfortable making long-term guarantees that when you die in 70 years, that we will give your beneficiaries, your family, whoever your loved ones are, Bitcoin.