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The message here from JP Morgan is that Bitcoin is way too big to ignore.

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JP Morgan, again, which is the world's largest globally systemic bank, has now adopted the

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Saylor playbook.

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Like not only has Jamie Dimon now said that Bitcoin is digital gold, but also his bank

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is offering a structured note using IBIT.

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Saylor's come out and said that's going to be the biggest development he sees in 26.

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Michael Saylor went up on stage and he said something that I think everybody should hear,

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And it's that a lot of major US banks and financial institutions have approached him about creating Bitcoin products.

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That's huge, right?

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Remember, Saylor's sitting on 660,000 plus Bitcoin.

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And it shows that JP Morgan has bent the knee, if you will.

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Vanguard has bent the knee by offering Bitcoin to their clients.

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And now Bank of America has bent the knee.

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It's definitely an admission that they're wrong.

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If Bitcoin manages to soak up just 1% of the global bond market, then Bitcoin would be

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about $159,000 at a 3% penetration.

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So 3% of the global bond market.

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I'm not even talking about the global money markets here, the global equities market or

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the real estate market for that matter.

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I'm just talking about the bond market, which Saylor is really hitting on quite aggressively.

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At 3%, you're talking about like half a million dollars per coin.

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And at 7%, you're talking about well over $1 million per Bitcoin.

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I think $1.2 million per BTC.

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And so you have the largest banks and financial institutions in the country

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going from avowed Bitcoin detractors to Bitcoin respecters, if you will,

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people who like the orange coin, and they want to offer to their clients, right?

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Bing bong, I am back with another edition of the State of Bitcoin podcast where I've got the man, the myth, the legend, Joe Consorti in the house.

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But Joe, I've been seeing you talk a lot recently about the banks coming in with Vanguard, JP Morgan, seemingly the biggest backflips we've seen in Bitcoin.

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up until this time. So tell me, what do you think of all of these banks now starting to come in and

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TradFi starting to wake up to Bitcoin? Yeah, so it's a hugely positive development. Thank you so

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much for having me on, by the way. You have a great show and we've been meaning to do this for

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a while. So it's great to finally be on here. Look, I mean, JP Morgan, Vanguard, Bank of America,

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like these financial institutions and banks finally coming around to Bitcoin. It's no surprise,

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but really these are some of the major developments, the biggest developments that Bitcoin has had

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in years, if not decades, right? Notably, Vanguard has been a huge detractor of Bitcoin forever.

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Its CEO, its prior CEO said that as long as I'm at Vanguard, we won't have any Bitcoin products.

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We won't offer any Bitcoin products. And lo and behold, he's no longer the CEO and they're

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offering a Bitcoin ETF, a suite of Bitcoin ETFs rather, to their clients. Notably, they're the

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world's second largest asset manager. So that's a huge development. JP Morgan is offering a Bitcoin

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structured note. So is Morgan Stanley, by the way, which is major. That opens up Bitcoin access to

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a huge cohort of folks who didn't have access to it previously. And Bank of America has advised,

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has opened up the floodgate for its wealth managers to begin advising Bitcoin to their

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clients, which previously they were not allowed to actively do. If a client came to them and said

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they wanted to invest in Bitcoin. The wealth manager was allowed to talk to them about it,

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but they couldn't actively pitch it to their clients. And now they can with a suggested one

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to 3% allocation. So that's basically the high level update here. And the message is that Bitcoin

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is finally coming into the fold with the major banks in the United States and globally, but

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obviously the US being the leader. And that's huge news, right? I tend to think that the primary way

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in which people interact with Bitcoin, this has been proven out by the ETFs and how successful

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they have been since they launched, will be through their banks or their financial institutions,

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whether it's through their checking account or sometime next year or the year after that,

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people can go into the bank and purchase Bitcoin the same way that they could purchase a CD or

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move money into a high yield savings account or through their 401k or their pension plan or

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whatever in whatever brokerage they have that at. So it's really just this evolution of Bitcoin

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playing out in real time. It's massively bullish, right? These are huge pools of capital we're

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talking about. Bank of America, one of the largest banks in the US. Vanguard, the second largest

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institutional asset or the second largest asset manager in the world. JP Morgan, obviously being

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the largest, most globally systemic, important bank in the US. So yeah, a bit of a ramble there,

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but those are the major developments on my mind and all of them are extremely bullish.

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Yeah. And I'm curious what you think of now the bank starting to come in and potentially custody

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Bitcoin and work towards that because I mean, sailors come out and said that's going to be

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the biggest development he sees for season 26.

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Outside of obviously being a proponent of self-custody

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and I think being your own bank

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is one of the true powers of Bitcoin.

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people in general would really appreciate

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having somebody, I guess, hold their hand through it

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and maybe potentially custody for them.

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So how big of a development do you just see?

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Like banks, not only like recommending it

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for asset managers,

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But the custody aspect of it, I think, is kind of unique here.

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So how do you see that, I guess, unlocking to potentially, you know, I guess, trillions of dollars at this point?

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Yeah, it's interesting.

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Michael Saylor went up on stage at Bitcoin Mina yesterday, and he said something that I think everybody should hear.

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And it's that a lot of major U.S. banks and financial institutions have approached him about creating Bitcoin products.

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That's huge, right?

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Remember, Saylor's sitting on 660,000 plus Bitcoin at the time of this recording.

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And so I tend to think that the primary way in which people engage with Bitcoin will be through their bank.

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Because think about it, right?

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Self-custody in and of itself is already a huge sell on top of it.

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It's a massively effortful thing that people have to learn how to do on top of something that's already so niche and relatively difficult to grasp, which is Bitcoin.

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And so if you bring somebody around to the idea of Bitcoin and then you tell them about needing to custody it on their own, that's a bridge too far for most people. The reality is that most people are comfortable with Bitcoin as an asset, as one asset that exists within their portfolio. Again, that's been proven out by the success of the ETFs, but they're not comfortable self-custodying it.

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I'm a self-custody advocate, but I believe that it's a step in your journey toward Bitcoin. I don't believe that it is a be-all, end-all. I'm not necessarily a purist. I think that the ETFs are a net positive for Bitcoin. They drive adoption. These are issued by highly regulated financial institutions. The likelihood of that Bitcoin not actually being there is extremely low, if not zero. So it's not something I necessarily worry about. If anything, the ETFs have been massive for driving adoption.

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And so I think that all that is to say, I do believe that banks will begin offering Bitcoin financial products at some stage next year, whether that's custodying spot Bitcoin at the bank itself, whether that's being able to potentially borrow against your Bitcoin at a bank.

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I think we're much further away from that.

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But I do believe that most people will interact with Bitcoin at their bank, and it's a huge development.

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And the fact that Saylor went out on stage at MENA and said that he had gotten calls from a horde of US banks asking him about this tells us that we're a lot further along in this than we expect.

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Also today with the IPO of 21, obviously backed by Cantor Fitzgerald, Tether, you have Paulo Arduino in there, you have Jack Mallers in there.

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You know, Cantor Fitzgerald, you're one step away from the United States government, right?

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And so I believe that Bitcoin's integration within the banking system at large has never

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been closer than it is today.

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only going to see more developments on that front.

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see a handful of banks across the United States offering Bitcoin to their clients.

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Now, do you think that this is a sign that either MicroStrategy, what they've been doing

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and Michael Saylor are either winning or have won or that Bitcoin is winning just in the general

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term as seeing JP Morgan, Vanguard, essentially kind of go from some of Bitcoin's biggest haters

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for the past few years to now flipping it as you described earlier. And then also JP Morgan

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potentially releasing some preferred notes and doing, I guess, the strategy strategy at this

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point. So do you see that as a sign of, I guess, like them admitting that they've been wrong in

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that Bitcoin's been winning this entire time? Yeah, no, I think that it's definitely an admission

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that they're wrong, that JP Morgan, again, which is the world's largest globally systemic bank,

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has now kind of adopted the sailor playbook. Like not only has Jamie Dimon now said that there is

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merit to Bitcoin, which is a huge shift from what he said a couple of years ago, and he's been saying

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for several years, which is that Bitcoin is worthless, to now not only saying Bitcoin is

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digital gold, but also his bank is offering, potentially exploring the use of Bitcoin as

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collateral for one. And then it's just created a structured note using IBIT. Now, granted,

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this is a very small structured note in terms of its market cap and its initial offering size.

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So I wouldn't read too much into this and say that, oh, it's going to siphon away trillions

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of dollars from the global fixed income market or what have you. However, I do think it's a step in

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that direction. Morgan Stanley also filed for a very similar thing and launched it, I believe,

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last month or the month prior. JP Morgan filed for this last month. And so the high-level story

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is that institutions want access to Bitcoin's upside, but they are prohibited for doing it

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for any number of reasons, namely their mandates away from being able to hold the actual spot

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Bitcoin being a commodity. Their mandates to hold fixed income instruments and equity instruments.

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But the message here from JP Morgan is that Bitcoin is way too big to ignore. And so rather

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than allowing you to purchase Bitcoin directly through them, IBIT obviously figured it through

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BlackRock, obviously figured out a way to monetize that demand for Bitcoin through the management fee

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of its ETF. BlackRock has since come out and said that the IBIT Bitcoin ETF is the most profitable

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ETF for them, driving hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. I believe $250 million worth

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of revenue this year or last year, I can't recall. And so basically these financial institutions want

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to monetize this demand for Bitcoin. BlackRock is doing it through the management fees associated

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with IBIT. And now JP Morgan is doing it by rather than allowing you to purchase Bitcoin and then

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getting a spread from that, creating this structured note in order to offer it to an

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entirely different cohort of investors, intermediate your exposure, and capture some fees in that

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spread. So for me, this is a massive development, right? And it shows that JP Morgan has bent the

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knee, if you will. Vanguard has bent the knee by offering Bitcoin to their clients. And now Bank

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of America has bent the knee. And so you have the largest banks and financial institutions in the

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country going from avowed Bitcoin detractors to Bitcoin respecters, if you will, people who like

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the orange coin, and they want to offer it to their clients, right? It's something that's too

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profitable to ignore. And the last thing that I'll say here before we jump to the next question

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is that ultimately people come to Bitcoin for different reasons. The banks were never going

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to come to Bitcoin because they believed in the ethos of the mission. They were inevitably going

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to come to Bitcoin because of the fat fees that they could farm by offering Bitcoin products.

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So while the incentives may be skewed, the outcome is the same, which is that more people

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have access to Bitcoin than ever before. This pristine savings technology, this absolutely

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scarce monetary vehicle, and that's a net positive, regardless of how they're holding it or the way

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that these banks structure these instruments. Yeah, I mean, I definitely agree. I mean,

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at the end of the day, these banks, they're profit maxis, right? They want to be able to

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make some money off of it. So it was no doubt that as long as Bitcoin kept winning, that they

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were going to come into this market. But something that a sailor here said, I believe it was either

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yesterday or the day before in Abu Dhabi is he's talked about the fixed income and the bond market,

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$300 trillion bond market, $145 trillion fixed income market. But he mentioned the $200 trillion

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credit market is something that could be next on the list to target. And I mean, just getting a

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small percentage of these giant pools of capital to move on over to Bitcoin would be absolutely

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massive. So with the revolution that you're seeing, I guess, kind of financial revolution

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towards the Bitcoin space. What do you make of, you know, Saylor, I guess, targeting these giant

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pools of capital that essentially have been needed some sort of, I guess, you know, a modernization

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of sorts in order to get into the 21st century, to say the very least. What do you take of,

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you know, these three big giant pools of capital that I just lined out here?

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Yeah, it's a really good question. So you have the equity market that strategy is hitting with

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it's common stock, MSTR, you have the money markets that strategy is hitting with stretch,

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it's preferred stock, it's perpetual cumulative variable 9%, I think they're offering now,

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paid out monthly, functions very similar to a money market account, that's been massively

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successful. And then you have them hitting the bond market with strife, stride, and strike,

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as well as the real estate market to some degree with strike. And so ultimately, these are huge

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pools of capital. When we talk about the commodities market in and of itself, you're

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talking about a market that's sub $30 trillion, probably sub $50 trillion in total, if I'm not

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mistaken. Very, very tiny, right? Gold in and of itself is, I think, $25 to $30 trillion,

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something like that. And Bitcoin in and of itself is only $2 trillion. And so we talk about Bitcoin

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reaching gold parity quite often, and we talk about it as this kind of hallowed event. And when

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it happens, Bitcoin will be about a million and a half dollars if Bitcoin were to reach gold parity

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today, assuming gold's current market cap. And we talk about it as some sort of hallowed event.

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But the reality is that a lot of gold bugs are just going to hold gold. That's assuming

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that the capital that's going to flow into Bitcoin will come entirely out of gold. And that's just

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not the reality, right? A lot of people crave Bitcoin exposure, but they have mandates that

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preclude them from being able to hold Bitcoin in a spot fashion. And so strategy has effectively

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created these pumps, these capital pumps in order to bring capital from these different areas

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of the asset market globally into Bitcoin, right? In some sort of proxy form and different proxy

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forms through its preferred equities and its common stock in the ways that I just explained.

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And so to me, this is quite revolutionary, right? And the price implications for Bitcoin are pretty

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enormous. If you assume that Bitcoin manages to soak up just 1% of the global bond market,

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and again the global bond market being about trillion then Bitcoin would be about And that just 1 penetration And that assuming that the only capital invested in BTC

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is coming from the bond market,

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a straight one-to-one translation.

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Obviously, that's not the way things work,

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but this lets us gauge the size

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of what that sort of transfer will look like.

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At a 3% penetration, so 3% of the global bond market,

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I'm not even talking about the global money markets here,

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including credit or the global equities market

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or the real estate market for that matter, which we're working on in Horizon. I'm just talking about

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the bond market, which Saylor is really hitting on quite aggressively. At 3%, you're talking about

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like half a million dollars per coin. And at 7%, you're talking about well over $1 million per

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Bitcoin. I think $1.2 million per BTC. And that's just for one market, right? That's just for the

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bond market. Not to mention the money market, not to mention the equities market, both of which

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have different instruments for people to invest in Bitcoin through. Obviously, the equity market,

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you have the spot Bitcoin ETFs through the money market. You have Stretch. Obviously, of course,

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Stretch does exist in the equities market. It caters to those who would otherwise buy money

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market funds. But in a very real sense, it exists in the equities market because it's a preferred

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stock. But it's targeting that same pool of capital that would be in a money market fund.

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And you have a whole suite of other instruments that are investing in these other preferred

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stocks that are more so hitting the bond market. So look, it's a huge revolution. As far as fixed

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And it's really just day one in that process.

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You only have one major player globally that's doing this

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and you really have no logical second player on the horizon

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or player in second place in the horizon.

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And I believe that what you're seeing with banks is just them trying to catch up to this reality that there's this insatiable demand for Bitcoin adjacent or Bitcoin back fixed income.

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And they're doing their best to catch up.

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Now, what do you make of the situation with JP Morgan?

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Because I think, you know, the way that they've been approaching all of this has been very interesting to say the very least.

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I mean, of course, we have Jamie Dimon, who was, you know, just one of Bitcoin's biggest detractors for a while.

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I mean, I think his comments even date back to maybe a full decade ago since he started talking about Bitcoin.

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But now, you know, they're allowing you to borrow against your IBIT Bitcoin ETF.

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But they also, you know, on the other side of things with MSTR and some of these Bitcoin treasury companies, they've made it difficult.

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I don't know how closely you're following the increase in the margin supply or the margin for the loans that is required.

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and the MSCI ruling and just kind of the hairiness going on around there.

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But with JP Morgan's new approach with this,

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do you think that they're losing potentially some market share?

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And that's why they're essentially, they do have a big moat at this point,

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but they're playing, I guess, a little bit of these fiat games

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in order to try to maintain and keep some of their market share

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by getting these Bitcoin products and trying to incentivize those

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that they have already in their grasp to utilize their own Bitcoinized products, I guess,

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for lack of a better term. Yeah, the incentives make sense, right? If you're going to launch

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effectively products that are sort of aiming at that exact same market as strategy, you would want

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to push back on allowing people to easily sell strategy or buy strategy or create artificial

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short pressure on strategy. So look, it makes sense. I don't think we have enough evidence to

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conclusively assert that those things are happening. As far as I know, it was just one

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individual who was unable to sell all of the microstrategy that he wanted to sell, or I think

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he was moving it. I'm not exactly sure. But either way, we just don't have enough data or evidence

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to be able to conclusively fit those pieces together. So I would say that that's mostly

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speculation. As far as the MSCI ruling, look, it doesn't make sense to me that you have a company

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that's creating financial instruments

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and they're trying to treat it

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as an investment fund and nothing more.

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It's not a closed end trust.

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It's not someone that's buying and holding Bitcoin

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and doing nothing with it.

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It's actively mobilizing the Bitcoin on its balance sheet

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to transmute its properties

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into different types of financial vehicles

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spread across the fixed income market.

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It has four different preferred stocks in the United States.

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It is one preferred stock in Europe.

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It's doing all of these things

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because of the amount of Bitcoin on its balance sheet.

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That's why it's able to sell into the market.

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That's why it's able to issue shares

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and raise so much money, specifically because of the Bitcoin on its balance sheet, even if the

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dividends themselves aren't necessarily being paid at this moment in time by selling that Bitcoin.

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But it's a huge stretch of the imagination to say that, oh, strategy, because most of its balance

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sheet is composed of Bitcoin, is an investment trust, because that's not what they're doing.

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They're mobilizing their balance sheet in order to transmute that digital property into digital

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credit, as Michael Saylor puts it. So it's completely absurd. It's arbitrary. It doesn't

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make an ounce of sense. And this is more of a blanket ruling in my mind to mitigate the amount

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of passive flows that would move into a strategy should they remain in MSCI's indexes. And so I do

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think that all of this is kind of not necessarily a direct attack on micro strategy, but the powers

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at large are creating conditions where it's unfavorable for micro strategy to be included

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in these indices, which would make it easier to run their business, i.e. getting a higher market

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cap, being able to raise more money, being able to purchase more Bitcoin. It seems that they're

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trying to prevent that from happening. Recently, you've had Strive put out a letter to MSCI to

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scrap their proposal that would exclude any entity. And this is the rule that we're talking

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about. It would exclude any entity holding 50% or more of its balance sheet in what's called

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digital assets. Obviously, Bitcoin being the main one kind of in that list. And so Strive pushed

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back against that. The Bitcoin for corporations company pushed back against that as well.

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I think it's completely arbitrary. I do think that you see strategy recently putting in measures to

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increase its likelihood of inclusion, namely it adding a cash buffer. I think $1.4 billion was

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the number, a US dollar reserve, if you will. A lot of Bitcoiners will look at that and they won't

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read the tea leaves. They won't read into that. And they'll say, oh, why isn't Saylor buying

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Bitcoin using those proceeds. Well, that was an announcement he made last week. And yesterday,

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he just announced another major Bitcoin buy. So that should put all of those fears to rest

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about Michael Saylor not buying Bitcoin anymore. The reason he did that was to appease the TradFi

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folks and to increase the likelihood that he would get included in the S&P 500, despite qualifying.

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Obviously, unfortunately, it is up to a committee that gives the final vote as to whether or not

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he'll actually be included or any company will be included. And they said no to strategy.

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And one of the reasons they said no was number one, well, actually three reasons they said no.

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The first being that they wanted proof that strategy would be able to raise money during Bitcoin downturns.

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And they proved that yesterday and last week by raising $1.4 billion for its US dollar reserve and then raising enough money as of yesterday to purchase 10,000 more BTC.

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So they quelled that. And they also wanted to see strategy have a bigger US dollar reserve,

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like a reserve of actual US dollar liquidity. And strategy did that, right? So two of the three

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major reasons that they were excluded from the S&P 500 or two of the three things that the S&P

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500 committee said strategy should do if they wanted to reevaluate their decision to include

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them in the index have been done, right? So these are just measures in order to increase the

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likelihood that strategy gets included in the S&P 500 and ideally the NASDAQ. Obviously,

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they're currently included in the NASDAQ. And so for me, it's a step in the right direction.

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You have all of these forces that are actively trying to push against strategies, inclusion,

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and other Bitcoin treasury companies inclusion in these indices. And it just so happens that

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those same forces, the largest banks in the United States are not necessarily the same forces,

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but the largest, most powerful banks in the United States are on the other side of that,

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creating certain instruments and also making it less desirable, less easy for those who own

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MicroStrategy to be able to use it on their platform. It's all a really interesting web.

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I don't necessarily believe a lot of it's connected, but at the very least, the incentives

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do make sense. Is it super common to, once you meet the qualifications, to get into the S&P 500

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on the first go? Because I mean, Saylor came out in September and was like, hey, I'm not surprised

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that we didn't make it in the first go around.

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But, you know, obviously we've got the second go around here in December.

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They weren't included again.

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So I'm curious, how common is it?

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And, you know, how long is it usually before, you know, some of these companies?

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Obviously, it could be like a case to case basis.

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But, you know, from your experience, do you think that this is something that is, I guess,

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you know, unique in a sense where they aren't being included in the S&P 500 kind of from the jump?

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No, so it's actually not all that common that companies join the S&P 500 immediately once they meet basic criteria.

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Because as I mentioned, it's this discretionary decision that has to go through the committee.

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So one of the things that has to be looked at is consistent profitability.

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Until the accounting rule change earlier this year, strategy technically was not profitable.

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They were allowed to book the Bitcoin losses as unrealized losses, or their unrealized losses on their Bitcoin as losses.

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Those were marked out as losses, but they weren't allowed to book unrealized gains as profits until very recently.

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And now they're allowed to, obviously, over the last two quarters, they've been allowed to book their unrealized gains as profits, which has been huge for strategy.

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That is something that they have going for them in their corner.

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but it's not all that common that the first time a company qualifies for S&P 500 inclusion,

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they actually get in. James Safard actually put out a great tweet about this. I don't have it in

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front of me, but there was a list of like a hundred different companies that were up for S&P 500

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inclusion. Ultimately, the decision rests with a committee. That committee has its own internal

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biases. It can create any reason under the sun for not including companies, even if they do qualify.

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And in the case of strategy, at this point in time, the zeitgeist is such that it's too risky of a company to include in the indices. Despite their insane balance sheet strength, the fact that they hold 660,000 Bitcoin doesn't matter to the S&P committee. Ideally, that changes in time. And thankfully, we have a lot of people who are actively working to change the perception over on Wall Street and make it so that strategy can be included in the S&P 500.

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All right. So, I mean, we talked a little bit about, you know, the potential credit bond and fixed income markets that strategy and, you know, Bitcoin in general is going to to swallow up.

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But, you know, outside of that, it seems not only the banks, it's starting to attract a lot of these sovereign wealth funds.

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You know, so Saylor has been spotted with, you know, the Saudi Arabians, you know, potentially talking to their sovereign wealth funds.

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Larry Finks mentioned that he's talking to sovereign wealth funds as well.

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So with these giant pools of capital coming in, one, is it bullish or is there potentially a bearish argument of the centralization, so to speak, of coins?

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And then two, with these big giant pools of capital, there's always been the narrative of diminishing returns over time.

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So do you think that this is actually a possibility of the diminishing returns or are these pools of capital so big that that's just a moot point and we'll see Bitcoin reach Valhalla one of these days?

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Well, it's a little bit of both, right?

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Ultimately, it's much harder to move a $2 trillion asset than it is to move a $50 billion asset, right?

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When Bitcoin was sort of like a micro cap stock, when it was 30 times smaller than it is today,

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when it was $3,000, you were looking at an asset that wasn't even hundreds of billions of dollars

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in size. It was tens of billions of dollars in size. And so all you needed to move the needle

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was very little. And now that's no longer the case, right? You need quite a lot of capital in

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order to move Bitcoin by the exact same percentage point that it would have taken much less capital

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to move in years prior. And so that part is somewhat true, that you will have diminishing

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marginal returns. However, you also have to juxtapose that with Bitcoin's absolute scarcity.

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The float of this thing will never increase beyond 21 million. We now have 95% of the

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terminal circulating supply out in circulation. 19.95 million coins, I believe, have been issued.

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And the remaining, however many, the remaining 1 million and some change will be mined over the

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next 115 years, right? So you do have Bitcoin's absolute scarcity, but that is juxtaposed with

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the fact that it is a much larger asset now. So that is a reality. However, at the same time,

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you got to talk about the size of these sovereign wealth funds that you mentioned

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and the amount of money that they just have sitting there. So Abu Dhabi, one of the

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largest sovereign wealth funds globally. It's interesting. Last year, I was at Bitcoin Mina,

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and they announced that they were purchasing Bitcoin while I was up on stage. And that was

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interesting. So I got to react to that in real time. But they hold a bunch of IBIT. I believe

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as of recently, as of their most recent filings, they hold, I think, 16 million shares or 17 million

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shares And it tripled its stake earlier this year The Sovereign Wealth Fund manager in Abu Dhabi has said that it very similar gold Uh you also have Luxembourg They have about 1 of their portfolio in Bitcoin ETFs You have the

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kingdom of Bhutan, obviously notoriously holding, uh, I think over 13,000 Bitcoin. It's a very,

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you know, that's that the kingdom of Bhutan set that aside. It's not necessarily a large,

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uh, systemically important country or a story that will move the needle as far as Bitcoin is

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concerned. But more recently, you also have Norway, um, with their, uh, their global pension fund,

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purchasing Bitcoin, I believe through indirect exposure like microstrategy, but either way,

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I think an equivalent of like 7,000 or 8,000 BTC. So it's a story that's been happening more often

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over these last couple of years, sovereign wealth funds purchasing Bitcoin. And it's no surprise

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that it's happening with higher frequency, right? They experienced the exact same problem that you

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and I experienced, Brandon, which is perpetual fiat debasement. And as capital allocators,

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it's their job to make sure that they're hedging themselves against that the most effectively.

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as effectively as they can. And so it's no surprise that you see these major players

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allocating to Bitcoin in size because they feel the exact same problem that you and I feel,

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albeit they might not feel it as acutely. But as capital allocators, they want to front run this

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thing. They want to get out in front of it and they want to allocate to it. And so it's no

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surprise that we're seeing it. Look, when we're talking about sovereign wealth funds,

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we're talking about entities with tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions of dollars,

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if we're talking about the largest sovereign wealth funds in purchasing power. And so even

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a small percentage allocation to Bitcoin really moves the needle as far as price is concerned.

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And you also have to remember that these are entities that don't usually sell things very

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quickly. They're not high-frequency traders. They're buying and holding. And I know this is

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not what we're talking about, but it also plays into the Bitcoin ETFs and that cohort of holders

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because they, as well, are buyers and holders of Bitcoin. They don't purchase Bitcoin and then sell

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it rapidly. They're not traders. They're not looking for a quick 100x. They're buying and

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holding for the long term. And the reason that we know this is on this major drawdown where Bitcoin

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fell 34%, the ETF AUM, the asset center management within the spot Bitcoin ETFs only fell by 5%.

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And so Bitcoin's price fell by six times more, actually almost seven times more than the AUM

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and the Bitcoin ETFs fell. And so that tells you that the ETF holders were holding tight while the

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spot Bitcoin holders were panicking and selling. The exact same dynamic, albeit to a lesser degree,

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is the exact same with the sovereign wealth funds. They are purchasing these things for years,

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if not decades. And so while we do see diminishing marginal returns in Bitcoin in terms of the amount

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of capital that's required to move Bitcoin by the same percentage as years prior, these are entities

395
00:32:55,124 --> 00:32:58,404
that are going to be holding Bitcoin for the long run, and they're not going to be selling it. And

396
00:32:58,404 --> 00:33:03,124
that's a massively bullish development. Yeah, no, that's what I have to say as far as sovereign

397
00:33:03,124 --> 00:33:07,724
wealth funds are concerned. Reading new news about that every single week, that makes me more

398
00:33:07,724 --> 00:33:12,224
bullish than anything that could happen to Bitcoin's price. Wow. All right. There we go.

399
00:33:12,284 --> 00:33:17,244
I like it. And I mean, I agree with you, right? These players that are coming in are very different

400
00:33:17,244 --> 00:33:20,844
to say the very least, right? I mean, like you said, they're buying and holding.

401
00:33:21,544 --> 00:33:28,864
Last bull run, we had exchanges blow up. You saw FTX, Celsius, BlockFi, you name it. But the true

402
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404
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405
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406
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the easiest way possible all right enough from me let's get back to the show all right there we go i

413
00:34:37,304 --> 00:34:42,184
like it um and and i mean i agree with you right these players that are coming in are very different

414
00:34:42,184 --> 00:34:46,984
to say the very least right i mean they're like you said they're buying and holding um so do you

415
00:34:46,984 --> 00:34:53,704
think i mean outside of the potential diminishing return just because it is a larger asset uh i'm

416
00:34:53,704 --> 00:34:58,264
kind of of the belief that it might be diminished to the downside but because of bitcoin's fixed

417
00:34:58,264 --> 00:35:03,544
supply we don't really have an asset like this of course you can maybe compare it to gold but for

418
00:35:03,544 --> 00:35:09,944
some reason they always find more gold uh that is unmined or something like that and more gold just

419
00:35:09,944 --> 00:35:16,904
magically appears um so because bitcoin has that true finality and that true scarcity uh do you

420
00:35:16,904 --> 00:35:23,624
think that this there is that potential where you know we we start to see maybe a supply shock or a

421
00:35:23,624 --> 00:35:28,744
short squeeze of sorts because, you know, I mean, if you look at the numbers, there's just over 2

422
00:35:28,744 --> 00:35:35,304
million left on exchanges. I think last I saw there was maybe 150,000 left on OTC desks. I mean,

423
00:35:35,304 --> 00:35:41,064
we got sailor and these treasury companies buying up over the year supply in nearly just a quarter.

424
00:35:41,864 --> 00:35:46,184
So, you know, from all the Bitcoin miners. So, I mean, I think at the end of the day,

425
00:35:46,184 --> 00:35:52,664
it's just math. But do you foresee this potentially happening where, you know,

426
00:35:52,664 --> 00:35:57,984
we could get something, I guess, better to the upside just because of the type of buyers that

427
00:35:57,984 --> 00:36:03,804
we're having coming in. Yeah, there's potential for it. I mean, ultimately, what dominates the

428
00:36:03,804 --> 00:36:09,184
U.S. stock market today more than ever is passive flows, right? People who are passively allocating

429
00:36:09,184 --> 00:36:16,324
to their 401k or their pension or their Roth, whatever, every single two weeks, or pensions

430
00:36:16,324 --> 00:36:20,644
allocating on behalf of the people who are in the pension, allocating just passively every single

431
00:36:20,644 --> 00:36:26,864
two weeks, that's increasing in its relevancy in the stock market over the last several years,

432
00:36:26,884 --> 00:36:30,924
over this past decade, has been totally dominated by an increasing amount of passive flows.

433
00:36:31,644 --> 00:36:37,184
And so that's a trend that you can't really ignore. And as Bitcoin bubbles to the surface,

434
00:36:37,184 --> 00:36:40,984
if you will, in terms of its viability as an asset, in terms of its popularity,

435
00:36:41,484 --> 00:36:47,044
you're only going to see more passive flow investing over time. And so I believe that

436
00:36:47,044 --> 00:36:52,784
is going to make up a larger and larger share of the pie as far as total passive investing is

437
00:36:52,784 --> 00:36:57,504
concerned on a dollar-for-dollar basis. Bitcoin is going to make up more of that, particularly as

438
00:36:57,504 --> 00:37:02,884
more young people enter the workforce, as more people that are the age of you and me, Brandon,

439
00:37:02,984 --> 00:37:07,424
or even slightly younger than us, entering the workforce, getting their benefits, allocating to

440
00:37:07,424 --> 00:37:11,664
their 401k or their IRA or what have you every two weeks. They're going to be buying Bitcoin,

441
00:37:11,764 --> 00:37:16,364
right? Because there's this recognition among Gen Z. There's this shared sense of financial nihilism

442
00:37:16,364 --> 00:37:20,524
or financial optimism, Bitcoin is owned by both people, both cohorts of people,

443
00:37:21,124 --> 00:37:26,964
that the only real way to get ahead is get an investment that can outperform the real rate of

444
00:37:26,964 --> 00:37:31,224
inflation, which is 7% to 10% annually. And Bitcoin is the only asset that's proven to do

445
00:37:31,224 --> 00:37:36,564
that through time. So I think that Bitcoin will make up even more of those passive flows as a

446
00:37:36,564 --> 00:37:40,644
result of who's entering the market now. And I think it's going to make for a much more stable

447
00:37:40,644 --> 00:37:47,244
base of Bitcoin going forward. Now, to the question of whether or not the new folks that

448
00:37:47,244 --> 00:37:52,864
are buying could create this material, this outsized impact on Bitcoin, where instead of

449
00:37:52,864 --> 00:37:57,004
seeing these diminishing marginal returns over time, and we're observing Bitcoin in log scale,

450
00:37:57,544 --> 00:38:03,264
and during the 2012 cycle, during the first halving cycle, we got like 10,000% gains.

451
00:38:03,264 --> 00:38:13,764
And so far this cycle, we've seen a few 100% gains. We'll have to wait and see. It really all

452
00:38:13,764 --> 00:38:17,224
depends on the macro backdrop and where we're headed and how important people view Bitcoin.

453
00:38:17,564 --> 00:38:22,984
I tend to think that as it grows larger in size, it's just going to flatten out in terms of its

454
00:38:22,984 --> 00:38:29,744
yearly average return profile, just like any other asset. Instead of seeing these crazy 40%, 50%,

455
00:38:29,744 --> 00:38:34,964
60, 70% average CAGRs over three, four years, you're probably going to see something more modest,

456
00:38:35,204 --> 00:38:40,644
right? 20%, 25%, 30%, which is still great if we're talking about a multi-year timeframe.

457
00:38:41,244 --> 00:38:47,144
And with that, you'll also see a decreased volatility. That's another hallmark of Bitcoin

458
00:38:47,144 --> 00:38:52,164
that you'll see as its ownership base shifts from OGs and a lot of people who are in the futures

459
00:38:52,164 --> 00:38:57,264
market and trading derivatives and things like that to people who are participating by ETFs or

460
00:38:57,264 --> 00:39:01,864
sovereign wealth funds. You're going to see a lot less volatility, not only because it's less

461
00:39:01,864 --> 00:39:05,924
leverage in the system, but because these people aren't actively trading in and out of the asset.

462
00:39:06,484 --> 00:39:09,944
You're going to see lower volatility. And because of that, you're going to see more muted return

463
00:39:09,944 --> 00:39:13,364
profile, but you're also not going to have the crazy drawdowns, right? It's been a saying that's

464
00:39:13,364 --> 00:39:18,124
gone around a little bit over these last couple of months that Bitcoin didn't have a blow off top

465
00:39:18,124 --> 00:39:24,124
this cycle. And so it's reasonable to assume that Bitcoin won't have this extreme crash, 80%. It

466
00:39:24,124 --> 00:39:31,224
didn't rally 90%, 100% over the course of like 40 days, 50 days. And so chances are it's not

467
00:39:31,224 --> 00:39:35,444
going to crash by that amount either. I think that's the MO for Bitcoin going forward. It'll

468
00:39:35,444 --> 00:39:41,704
behave much more like a traditional asset. But with that said, I still think it has this reflexivity

469
00:39:41,704 --> 00:39:48,704
to the upside because of its absolute scarcity. Yeah. And I mean, I hear you on that. And I mean,

470
00:39:48,924 --> 00:39:53,544
I always think just because of the way Bitcoin is being this scarce asset,

471
00:39:53,544 --> 00:40:00,664
But it's kind of hard to look at it comparatively because I don't think we've ever seen an asset like this in our entire lifetimes.

472
00:40:00,924 --> 00:40:09,344
Or even people much older than us as well, just because of the uniqueness of this and the adoption cycle that we're starting to see.

473
00:40:09,344 --> 00:40:13,984
So I think over time, people are going to start to figure this out.

474
00:40:14,104 --> 00:40:20,384
But I want to get back to some of the potential Bitcoin products taking over some of these markets.

475
00:40:20,504 --> 00:40:22,964
You mentioned the real estate market already.

476
00:40:23,544 --> 00:40:30,444
And I want to talk about what you guys are seeing with the macro picture right now.

477
00:40:30,584 --> 00:40:38,824
Because I think it's very, depending on who you ask, it's either we're very bullish, everything's looking good, or the world is burning.

478
00:40:39,144 --> 00:40:41,984
So I'm sure the answer is somewhere in between.

479
00:40:42,104 --> 00:40:51,584
But I'd like you to hear your kind of just general macro outlook and kind of what you're seeing from the housing market as well, if you're following that pretty closely.

480
00:40:51,584 --> 00:40:58,904
Yeah, for sure. So affordability is at a near all-time low. If we're talking about the economy,

481
00:40:59,164 --> 00:41:03,644
it really is an unfortunate thing to see, particularly home affordability. If you take

482
00:41:03,644 --> 00:41:07,964
a look at home affordability between record high prices and mortgage rates where they are,

483
00:41:08,344 --> 00:41:14,444
it's driven home affordability to an all-time low, unfortunately. And so obviously mortgage rates are

484
00:41:14,444 --> 00:41:20,424
nationwide, 6.5%, I believe right now, which is still extremely high, particularly compared to the

485
00:41:20,424 --> 00:41:26,144
near zero rates that we saw just three to four years ago, right? In 2022, 2021, most homeowners

486
00:41:26,144 --> 00:41:30,244
that you'll talk today, they're now in a pair of what they call golden handcuffs. But back then,

487
00:41:30,244 --> 00:41:35,844
it was them reflying into an extremely low rate, right? A lot of people who live nearby,

488
00:41:36,244 --> 00:41:44,164
live near me, my neighbors, they caught the bottom. They caught 2.1, 2.25, 2.09 is the lowest

489
00:41:44,164 --> 00:41:48,704
that I heard. They reflied to a 2.09% interest rate. That's a rate that we're never going to

490
00:41:48,704 --> 00:41:52,264
see again. And so you have this combination of people who do not want to sell their homes.

491
00:41:52,884 --> 00:41:57,084
And because of the massive amount of money that was printed in 2020, home prices are now more

492
00:41:57,084 --> 00:42:01,944
elevated than ever before. So you have extremely high rates, you have extremely elevated home

493
00:42:01,944 --> 00:42:07,804
prices. And because rates are so high relative to the average outstanding mortgage rate,

494
00:42:08,124 --> 00:42:11,544
nobody wants to sell. And so that's the situation that we find ourselves in, unfortunately.

495
00:42:12,164 --> 00:42:18,004
And what it's caused is this record low in home affordability. You see more people in Gen Z are

496
00:42:18,004 --> 00:42:22,004
saying that they'll never own a home than ever before. And it's really, really devastating.

497
00:42:22,604 --> 00:42:28,364
So the ways to fix this that have been proposed by the administration, they don't necessarily

498
00:42:28,364 --> 00:42:32,924
breed a lot of confidence in me. The first one is they've talked about a 50-year mortgage,

499
00:42:33,224 --> 00:42:38,544
which is, of course, renting from the government until you die. If you think about it this way,

500
00:42:39,304 --> 00:42:46,164
the money required to pay for a 30-year mortgage may save you on a similarly sized mortgage,

501
00:42:46,164 --> 00:42:50,924
$300 to $400 per month, which is pretty huge. That's going to put a lot of people into homes

502
00:42:50,924 --> 00:42:54,824
that couldn't previously afford it. But the caveat is that over those first 10 years,

503
00:42:54,884 --> 00:42:58,544
you're basically paying off only interest and you're not paying down any of your principal.

504
00:42:59,064 --> 00:43:02,764
So that's the unfortunate caveat. It's selling you the stream of home ownership,

505
00:43:02,984 --> 00:43:06,964
but for those first 10, 15 years, you're not actually going to be working toward ownership

506
00:43:06,964 --> 00:43:09,524
whatsoever. You're going to be working through your interest. And by the time you reach your

507
00:43:09,524 --> 00:43:13,064
principal, chances are you'll have already moved out because the average time that somebody owns

508
00:43:13,064 --> 00:43:18,184
the home is seven years. So we have this home affordability crisis, and we don't have necessarily

509
00:43:18,184 --> 00:43:23,784
a lot of great solutions to fix it. And that's kind of where we are. A couple of interesting

510
00:43:23,784 --> 00:43:31,624
stats for you. US home equity is at an all-time high, $35.7 trillion. The value of the total US

511
00:43:31,624 --> 00:43:37,664
residential real estate market is $55.1 trillion. And so these markets are more overvalued than ever.

512
00:43:38,184 --> 00:43:42,724
But at the same time, returns are also disappointing more people than ever before.

513
00:43:42,724 --> 00:43:48,244
If you take a look at the Case-Shiller national average, which is the across 20 cities in the

514
00:43:48,244 --> 00:43:52,744
country, the average price of homes. And then from that, we can gauge whether homes are rising or

515
00:43:52,744 --> 00:43:58,044
falling or whatever. And this year, when adjusted for inflation, right now, as of the latest numbers,

516
00:43:58,564 --> 00:44:04,144
home prices are actually declining 1.72% when you adjust for inflation, which is over 3% again.

517
00:44:04,964 --> 00:44:09,704
And so in reality, most homeowners, they're not moving, right? They're sitting on their,

518
00:44:09,704 --> 00:44:16,304
They've got their golden handcuffs per se. They're locked in with their low rate. They don't want to sell because then that would mean they have to buy a new home and that would mean getting into a higher rate.

519
00:44:17,304 --> 00:44:24,704
But at the same time, their home isn't returning them really anything. When adjusting for inflation, it's actually declining in value.

520
00:44:25,644 --> 00:44:33,484
And so this is a massive problem. And it's a problem not a lot of people talk about because most of the question around housing revolves around new homeowners.

521
00:44:33,484 --> 00:44:37,644
right? I'm of the belief that unless we see a massive correction in housing prices, which

522
00:44:37,644 --> 00:44:42,264
the Fed will not allow, the Treasury will not allow, we've seen that in 2008, we saw it in 2019,

523
00:44:42,644 --> 00:44:50,124
in 2020, in 2022, or excuse me, 2023, they're not going to allow a crash in home prices,

524
00:44:50,124 --> 00:44:54,624
which for me would be the single most important thing to actually get young people into homes.

525
00:44:55,004 --> 00:45:00,424
They're going to make sure home prices go up forever. And so I'm of the belief that the American

526
00:45:00,424 --> 00:45:05,444
dream of homeownership is very much out of reach until they allow that to happen. They can do one

527
00:45:05,444 --> 00:45:11,084
of two things. They can allow home prices to crash, which obviously in doing so, they would

528
00:45:11,084 --> 00:45:15,984
have to induce a recession in order for that to happen. Or they could build an insane amount of

529
00:45:15,984 --> 00:45:22,284
homes in order to bring prices down or do both in tandem. That would be the most impactful thing.

530
00:45:22,904 --> 00:45:38,135
But those are things I don believe that they going to do And so as far as the solution is concerned who knows But going back to existing homeowners the home tends to be people largest asset It makes up 60 of the average American portfolio But because of that

531
00:45:38,135 --> 00:45:42,155
stat that I just read off to you, which is that homes are actually declining in inflation-adjusted

532
00:45:42,155 --> 00:45:46,335
terms, it's actually their worst-performing asset, more often than not, unless they're holding cash.

533
00:45:46,456 --> 00:45:50,655
Cash is their worst-performing asset. Their home is their second-worst-performing asset. But it

534
00:45:50,655 --> 00:45:54,295
makes up such a large part of their portfolio. And so the question becomes, and this is why we

535
00:45:54,295 --> 00:45:59,896
build Horizon, the question becomes, okay, what can we do here? How can we solve for this problem?

536
00:46:00,536 --> 00:46:05,236
Record high home equity, it's actually almost doubled in the last five years. So prior to 2020,

537
00:46:05,335 --> 00:46:11,615
it was $20 trillion. Now it's $35.7 trillion. So it's doubled. This massive pile of money that's

538
00:46:11,615 --> 00:46:17,496
just burning in value has doubled. What do we do about this? Well, Horizon, we let people swap

539
00:46:17,496 --> 00:46:22,036
their home equity for Bitcoin. So you're moving out of this asset that in inflation-adjusted terms

540
00:46:22,036 --> 00:46:29,196
fell by almost 2% to an asset that has risen over the last five years, 70% every single year,

541
00:46:29,356 --> 00:46:33,175
or over the last three years, 70% on average over those last three years.

542
00:46:33,835 --> 00:46:38,196
So it's really a no-brainer. We've serviced dozens of homeowners at this point, but we're a solution

543
00:46:38,196 --> 00:46:44,295
that exists for existing homeowners. As far as new homeowners, I really don't know what can happen

544
00:46:44,295 --> 00:46:48,016
other than allowing the housing market to crash, which would induce a recession. But we've seen

545
00:46:48,016 --> 00:46:52,696
time and again that the Fed will do whatever they can to avoid a recession. So it remains to be seen.

546
00:46:53,036 --> 00:46:57,815
I think there's a massive class of renters who are increasingly gambling and they're doing sports

547
00:46:57,815 --> 00:47:02,776
betting and they're going on poly market because they can't afford homes. And unfortunately, I don't

548
00:47:02,776 --> 00:47:06,976
think that's going to change anytime soon. So the onus is on everybody that's listening, if you're a

549
00:47:06,976 --> 00:47:12,075
young person, to buy and hold Bitcoin. Yeah. I mean, it seems like that's the only, I guess,

550
00:47:12,075 --> 00:47:19,456
way out at this point to go and get some various assets, especially Bitcoin being one of them.

551
00:47:19,456 --> 00:47:24,315
But you mentioned one of Saylor's products here earlier, I can't remember if it was stretch or

552
00:47:24,315 --> 00:47:29,356
stride or one of those, but one of the perpetual notes that is essentially tapping into the real

553
00:47:29,356 --> 00:47:35,916
estate market. Do you think that the way that this market is playing out, that the way of real estate

554
00:47:35,916 --> 00:47:40,635
investing, so to speak, like owning multiple homes to try to get that cash flow in, do you think that

555
00:47:40,635 --> 00:47:58,896
But that is going to end here soon just because of the craziness we're seeing from these housing prices and that these Bitcoinized products are going to start to tap into that or we're already starting to see it tap into some real estate, to the real estate market, excuse me.

556
00:47:59,835 --> 00:48:00,615
Yeah, for sure.

557
00:48:00,756 --> 00:48:07,655
So I was talking about Strike and Strike is interesting because every share of Strike is convertible into 0.1 shares of MicroStrategy.

558
00:48:08,135 --> 00:48:12,496
Currently, a share of Strike is priced at $87 or $86.45 in the NASDAQ.

559
00:48:12,835 --> 00:48:14,736
And so they get to participate in common equity upside.

560
00:48:14,936 --> 00:48:17,856
They also get 8% dividends, and it's payable quarterly.

561
00:48:18,036 --> 00:48:22,115
And so very similar to owning a rental property, for example, you have the option to sell it

562
00:48:22,115 --> 00:48:27,315
to participate in the upside of that property's appreciation, but you're also receiving X amount

563
00:48:27,315 --> 00:48:29,276
of dollars every month in order to cover your expenses.

564
00:48:29,615 --> 00:48:32,896
And therefore, you're taking in this cash flow, but you have the option to sell it in

565
00:48:32,896 --> 00:48:34,976
the future, very similar to a rental property.

566
00:48:35,756 --> 00:48:38,756
That's the reason that strike hits on the real estate market so much.

567
00:48:39,135 --> 00:48:44,115
But it also is far superior to owning a rental property because guess what?

568
00:48:44,155 --> 00:48:47,736
When you own a rental property, chances are you're not clearing 8% a year.

569
00:48:48,295 --> 00:48:51,696
And also it comes with a whole host of liabilities that you have to deal with.

570
00:48:51,916 --> 00:48:53,675
It comes with a mortgage payment, of course.

571
00:48:54,155 --> 00:48:58,095
And the difference between what your renter is paying and what your mortgage payment is,

572
00:48:58,356 --> 00:48:59,095
that's your profit.

573
00:48:59,815 --> 00:49:03,916
If you don't have a renter for any number of months, you're high and dry.

574
00:49:03,916 --> 00:49:07,516
You have to cover that mortgage payment yourself. And then maybe depending on how long you don't

575
00:49:07,516 --> 00:49:11,956
have a renter for, a couple of months worth of no renter can clear you of an entire year's worth

576
00:49:11,956 --> 00:49:18,256
of profit. So that's thing number one. Thing number two, and this gentleman, Alex on Twitter,

577
00:49:18,315 --> 00:49:22,936
who is a pro MLS soccer player who also used to own a bunch of rental properties, he's talked

578
00:49:22,936 --> 00:49:27,856
about this. He has sold his rental properties for Bitcoin specifically because of the maintenance

579
00:49:27,856 --> 00:49:33,615
and upkeep that are required in order to have those rental properties running. My generation,

580
00:49:33,916 --> 00:49:39,216
the most popular job that people want to go into is actually landlord. More people than ever say

581
00:49:39,216 --> 00:49:44,095
that they want to become a landlord, which of course, a rent seeker, a rent seeker is somebody

582
00:49:44,095 --> 00:49:47,696
who does nothing or very little in order to get cash. They want to serve, they want to act as a

583
00:49:47,696 --> 00:49:52,416
middleman, right? They've been sold this dream of passive income. And the reality is that being a

584
00:49:52,416 --> 00:49:58,295
landlord, being someone who owns rental properties is not passive income, it's a job, right? And so

585
00:49:58,295 --> 00:50:02,396
I feel as more people are realizing this, they're looking at Bitcoin, but more specifically,

586
00:50:02,396 --> 00:50:08,815
these preferred equities that have a lot of the attributes that real estate has, right?

587
00:50:09,075 --> 00:50:11,856
You're getting this cashflow and you also have the option to sell it down the line,

588
00:50:11,956 --> 00:50:17,496
but it comes without all of the maintenance and the expenses and all of these other things,

589
00:50:17,496 --> 00:50:22,056
having to deal with tenants, having to repair things, having to run after people for a security

590
00:50:22,056 --> 00:50:25,876
deposit. You don't have to do any of that with Strike or with any of the other strategy preferred

591
00:50:25,876 --> 00:50:30,416
stocks or with owning spot Bitcoin. And so really it's a revolution in the way that people think

592
00:50:30,416 --> 00:50:36,996
about real estate investing. I tend to think that you're going to continue seeing a lot of people

593
00:50:36,996 --> 00:50:42,556
dump their rental properties. One of my absolute favorite things about Bitcoin is meeting all of

594
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606
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607
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608
00:51:42,716 --> 00:51:46,135
And so really it's a revolution in the way that people think about real estate investing.

609
00:51:46,736 --> 00:51:50,956
I tend to think that you're going to continue to see a lot of people,

610
00:51:50,956 --> 00:51:54,675
seeing a lot of people dump their rental properties. A lot of markets in particular,

611
00:51:54,996 --> 00:51:59,716
Kissimmee, Florida, next to Orlando, which is this hotspot for American tourism.

612
00:52:00,175 --> 00:52:04,095
A lot of Airbnbs are hitting the market down there. You can get a really cheap home if you

613
00:52:04,095 --> 00:52:07,956
want to right now because a lot of the people who were sold on this idea of, I'm going to be a

614
00:52:07,956 --> 00:52:14,976
landlord, I'm going to have an Airbnb. They're now realizing that, okay, this is very prone to,

615
00:52:15,135 --> 00:52:19,815
I'm very vulnerable if we see a decline in tourism. And it's hard to compete when there

616
00:52:19,815 --> 00:52:23,016
are thousands of other people who are doing the same thing as me. They're dumping their properties.

617
00:52:23,216 --> 00:52:27,696
You're seeing the same thing around Houston, Texas, the general Austin, Texas area, or Dallas,

618
00:52:27,795 --> 00:52:31,655
Fort Worth area, excuse me. A lot of these markets now, a lot of people are coming around

619
00:52:31,655 --> 00:52:35,976
to the idea that a landlord isn't passive income, it's an actual job. So they're selling it,

620
00:52:36,036 --> 00:52:41,655
they're buying Bitcoin instead. And for me, it's just this digital transformation and talking about

621
00:52:41,655 --> 00:52:45,315
strategy here and their different preferred equities. It's a digital transformation of

622
00:52:45,315 --> 00:52:49,936
physical capital, right? And so it's taking those properties of Bitcoin that we know and love,

623
00:52:50,036 --> 00:52:54,835
this extremely high compound annual growth rate, and it's transmuting those properties into a

624
00:52:54,835 --> 00:52:59,476
preferred stock that may be desirable to someone who is looking to invest in fixed income or a real

625
00:52:59,476 --> 00:53:03,575
estate investor, right? In the same way that a lot of real estate investors are turning to Bitcoin

626
00:53:03,575 --> 00:53:07,655
mining because they want that income, but they also want the optionality to sell the miner in

627
00:53:07,655 --> 00:53:13,516
the future. In a way, strategy offers the exact same thing, but could be even more desirable,

628
00:53:13,516 --> 00:53:17,956
right? Because you have to factor in Bitcoin miner depreciation, whereas with strike and

629
00:53:17,956 --> 00:53:22,315
with these other preferred instruments, their issuance relies on revolving around a certain

630
00:53:22,315 --> 00:53:26,655
strike price. And so ideally when you sell it, it'll be very close to the strike price that you

631
00:53:26,655 --> 00:53:31,236
had. You don't necessarily have to worry about depreciation. So arguably it is superior to

632
00:53:31,236 --> 00:53:35,716
Bitcoin mining in that front. And yeah, very long-winded answer, but you can see very clearly

633
00:53:35,716 --> 00:53:40,575
that these Bitcoin adjacent products are much more desirable than owning real estate outright.

634
00:53:40,575 --> 00:53:50,115
And so you're starting to see this trend anecdotally, but I believe it's going to be something that continues of folks selling their rental properties and buying Bitcoin instead or buying these strategy preferred instruments instead.

635
00:53:50,595 --> 00:53:52,236
Yeah, will this be something too?

636
00:53:52,396 --> 00:53:56,996
I mean, a lot of Bitcoiners talk about the great wealth transfer that's ahead of us, right?

637
00:53:57,036 --> 00:54:01,036
I mean, you lined it out about how much equity is in homes right now.

638
00:54:01,856 --> 00:54:09,615
And the boomer generation, I mean, I'm not trying to get grim too quickly here on the podcast, but let's be honest here, right?

639
00:54:09,615 --> 00:54:15,115
They've got, you know, only, you know, maybe a couple of decades left on the lifespan here.

640
00:54:15,775 --> 00:54:20,756
And because of that, you know, that boomer generation has never had more of a concentration

641
00:54:20,756 --> 00:54:22,896
of wealth than any other generation in history.

642
00:54:23,135 --> 00:54:28,696
And that's eventually going to get passed on to the millennial generation and below who

643
00:54:28,696 --> 00:54:33,335
have this affinity towards Bitcoin and start to understand it, have this distrust to the

644
00:54:33,335 --> 00:54:35,696
system because we've lived through 2008.

645
00:54:35,775 --> 00:54:37,756
We've lived through, you know, the COVID crisis.

646
00:54:37,756 --> 00:54:44,556
We've lived through a lot of these different things that make us distrust the current system just oh so slightly.

647
00:54:45,236 --> 00:54:52,135
But with this transformation of wealth, I guess put your tinfoil hat on me for a little bit here, Joe.

648
00:54:52,196 --> 00:54:53,736
What do you see this playing out?

649
00:54:53,835 --> 00:54:55,556
Do you see it all shifting towards Bitcoin?

650
00:54:56,095 --> 00:55:03,556
Do you see it kind of changing the way people look at wealth and how they're investing in markets, how Bitcoin can change all these different businesses?

651
00:55:03,795 --> 00:55:05,315
How do you see this playing out here?

652
00:55:05,315 --> 00:55:13,496
Yeah, I'll take a different approach entirely. I'm of the belief that this great wealth transfer

653
00:55:13,496 --> 00:55:16,775
people are talking about isn't actually going to occur. And let me explain.

654
00:55:18,095 --> 00:55:22,896
The reason is that the assumption is that, okay, when boomers pass away,

655
00:55:23,376 --> 00:55:30,416
they are going to leave to their estate a massive pile of cash. And that pile of cash is going to

656
00:55:30,416 --> 00:55:35,896
get invested directly in Bitcoin, everyone's going to party. A couple of flaws in that assumption.

657
00:55:35,996 --> 00:55:40,196
Number one, that boomers will leave their children a massive pile of cash.

658
00:55:42,016 --> 00:55:47,095
Survey data actually shows the majority of baby boomers don't plan on leaving anything to their

659
00:55:47,095 --> 00:55:52,196
children. Or actually, the majority says that they plan on leaving very little to their children.

660
00:55:53,275 --> 00:55:59,956
And so that's unfortunately flawed assumption number one. And the reason being is that they're

661
00:55:59,956 --> 00:56:04,595
taking that cash instead, and they're going on these forever cruises, or they're paying for a

662
00:56:04,595 --> 00:56:09,536
retirement home, or they're buying a second property. Most baby boomers would like to travel

663
00:56:09,536 --> 00:56:13,376
the world more than they would like to help out their children. Of course, this is a general rule.

664
00:56:13,835 --> 00:56:18,756
It's just a generality. It's not every case, of course. I don't want to paint baby boomers into

665
00:56:18,756 --> 00:56:22,956
a corner. But if we're going by survey data, then that's the unfortunate reality. They're not going

666
00:56:22,956 --> 00:56:29,456
to pass down their wealth to their children. That said, the younger generation purchasing

667
00:56:29,456 --> 00:56:35,216
Bitcoin at an increasing rate is something to keep an eye on. Because at some stage,

668
00:56:35,496 --> 00:56:42,696
these younger people are going to understand that the system is not coming to save them.

669
00:56:43,916 --> 00:56:48,115
And I believe that most folks who are in Bitcoin understand that very acutely.

670
00:56:48,615 --> 00:56:54,356
I think those that don't get it will be forced to understand it. And yeah, that's what I have to

671
00:56:54,356 --> 00:57:00,196
that's what I have to say as far as that goes. I don't necessarily believe in this great wealth

672
00:57:00,196 --> 00:57:03,775
transfer. I think the amount, and you can correct me if I'm wrong if you have more recent data, but

673
00:57:03,775 --> 00:57:09,696
the amount of wealth that baby boomers hold is over 50% of total household wealth. I think it's

674
00:57:09,696 --> 00:57:17,436
like $86 million or trillion, excuse me, not million, $87 trillion. But that said, I don't

675
00:57:17,436 --> 00:57:23,496
necessarily see a lot of that moving down to the younger generations. Not to be a doomer here,

676
00:57:23,496 --> 00:57:29,756
but I really don't see it given current social trends. Yeah. I mean, hey, you probably know a

677
00:57:29,756 --> 00:57:34,216
little bit more of the social trend aspect. I mean, I'm more of the, I guess, the optimist and

678
00:57:34,216 --> 00:57:39,016
kind of thinking of it in theory. But I mean, when you line it all out as well, I mean,

679
00:57:39,496 --> 00:57:45,856
majority of that wealth is in the home. And with housing where it is, I don't know too many people

680
00:57:45,856 --> 00:57:51,675
that would at least be able to move their houses in a sense like relatively quickly where that

681
00:57:51,675 --> 00:57:56,956
wealth would just all of a sudden unlock because, you know, I mean, what I'm observing from the

682
00:57:56,956 --> 00:58:01,056
housing market is houses aren't flying off the shelves like they were a few years ago.

683
00:58:01,256 --> 00:58:05,536
They're staying on the market, you know, for three to six to nine to maybe even a year.

684
00:58:06,016 --> 00:58:10,275
And people are lowering prices all over. I mean, at least where I was in Tampa,

685
00:58:10,275 --> 00:58:16,655
that was a pretty common occurrence where these houses just weren't moving very quickly. And,

686
00:58:16,775 --> 00:58:21,356
you know, with the current macro environment, it seems like it's going to, I guess,

687
00:58:21,356 --> 00:58:26,335
Well, we'll see how it plays out, you know, based on the situations that you lined out here earlier.

688
00:58:26,335 --> 00:58:31,856
But I want to jump back into the macro with the job Drone Powell's doing.

689
00:58:32,335 --> 00:58:34,615
We're recording this on the 9th.

690
00:58:34,675 --> 00:58:41,155
So I believe that he's going to, I mean, all signs are pointing to him cutting interest rates here in the next week or so.

691
00:58:41,456 --> 00:58:44,236
So within this week, actually.

692
00:58:44,876 --> 00:58:50,595
So, you know, with that, with inflation still running around 3%, at least for what they're reporting.

693
00:58:51,356 --> 00:58:54,976
This will be, I think, the first time I want to say in like 30 or 50 years.

694
00:58:55,056 --> 00:58:55,356
I don't know.

695
00:58:55,436 --> 00:58:59,575
I get my odd numbers mixed up sometimes here, especially towards the end of this podcast.

696
00:58:59,756 --> 00:59:09,135
But it's the first time in a while that they're cutting interest rates when we have it above or we have the inflation rate above that 2% target.

697
00:59:09,516 --> 00:59:19,135
So with all that being said, how do you see the potential of cutting interest rates affect the global macro environment?

698
00:59:19,135 --> 00:59:24,216
environment? Do you see this potentially keeping inflation running hot? Or do you think that that

699
00:59:24,216 --> 00:59:30,456
narrative is somewhat overblown? Yeah, I mean, look, the Fed isn't cutting rates right now

700
00:59:30,456 --> 00:59:37,295
because of inflation. They're cutting rates as a result of the labor market. And so there is a risk

701
00:59:37,295 --> 00:59:42,815
that it impacts inflation. But ultimately, think about it this way. If people don't have a job,

702
00:59:43,155 --> 00:59:47,315
right, if people are thrown out of work, right, total job openings, the jolt's job openings has

703
00:59:47,315 --> 00:59:53,456
been flat since 2021. Typically, as the economy grows, you'd expect more job openings crop up.

704
00:59:53,896 --> 00:59:58,275
But unfortunately, there was this massive drop off in 2020, obviously. I'll actually share my

705
00:59:58,275 --> 01:00:01,815
screen here so you can see what I'm talking about. So this is Jolt's job openings, and I have a

706
01:00:01,815 --> 01:00:06,835
couple of other charts here to show. You can see here that total job openings have hovered between

707
01:00:06,835 --> 01:00:12,115
seven and eight million jobs since 2021. Now, typically, if I'm going back here,

708
01:00:12,696 --> 01:00:17,075
you can see that they actually rise over time, or at least they're supposed to rise.

709
01:00:17,315 --> 01:00:19,556
It's very interesting.

710
01:00:19,556 --> 01:00:21,775
With the business cycle, obviously it ebbs and flows,

711
01:00:21,775 --> 01:00:23,996
it expands and it contracts.

712
01:00:23,996 --> 01:00:25,456
You can see here, this kind of lines up

713
01:00:25,456 --> 01:00:27,795
with the natural ebb and flow of the business cycle.

714
01:00:27,795 --> 01:00:30,016
You have the years leading up into the dot-com bubble,

715
01:00:30,016 --> 01:00:31,536
and then obviously the dot-com bubble burst,

716
01:00:31,536 --> 01:00:33,196
job openings fell.

717
01:00:33,196 --> 01:00:36,236
You have low interest rates leading into the housing bubble,

718
01:00:36,236 --> 01:00:38,036
and then obviously the great financial crisis hits,

719
01:00:38,036 --> 01:00:39,716
job openings fall.

720
01:00:39,716 --> 01:00:41,835
Throughout the 2010s, job openings rise.

721
01:00:41,887 --> 01:00:46,187
largely avert recession. 2019, it gets a little bit hairy as there's a cash shortage in the repo

722
01:00:46,187 --> 01:00:51,127
market. COVID hits, boom, we're in recession. Job openings fall. Massive expansion. Job openings

723
01:00:51,127 --> 01:00:56,627
explode. But for the last couple of years, job openings have been mostly flat. It's really,

724
01:00:56,767 --> 01:01:01,667
really odd. And so all that is to say, the reason Powell is cutting now is because of a labor market

725
01:01:01,667 --> 01:01:06,827
that is just on standstill. It is at an absolute standstill. In fact, unemployment is only rising.

726
01:01:06,967 --> 01:01:11,647
So you take a look here. This is on a quarterly basis. This is as of September, which is the most

727
01:01:11,647 --> 01:01:17,787
recent data that we have, unemployment has moved up from the cycle bottom in June of 2023 of 3.5%,

728
01:01:17,787 --> 01:01:24,307
3.53% to 4.3%. Now I'll overlay recessions here because this isn't necessarily something to be

729
01:01:24,307 --> 01:01:29,507
worried about just yet. If you take a look here, this is typically where you see recession.

730
01:01:30,167 --> 01:01:36,547
The unemployment rate is much higher than it is now. In fact, this cycle, we had a secular low

731
01:01:36,547 --> 01:01:40,487
in the unemployment rate that we haven't seen since the late 60s. But regardless, you can see

732
01:01:40,487 --> 01:01:46,667
that every single time it rises off that cycle bottom by about less than 100 points. In that case,

733
01:01:46,707 --> 01:01:56,667
it was 30 points. In this case, it was 50 points. In this case, it was 37 points. So we already have

734
01:01:56,667 --> 01:02:01,287
risen materially off the bottom. At the exact same time, you're seeing a labor market on standstill.

735
01:02:01,407 --> 01:02:06,627
These are Jolt's job openings. And so to me, this is exactly what Powell should be doing.

736
01:02:06,627 --> 01:02:13,667
If anything, he should be cutting by 50 basis points. The unfortunate reality is that despite

737
01:02:13,667 --> 01:02:19,287
having rates as elevated as they were, we were not able to get CPI inflation down below 3%.

738
01:02:19,287 --> 01:02:24,707
If I overlay the Fed funds target rate on this, do I have it on this chart? No, I don't. If I

739
01:02:24,707 --> 01:02:28,747
overlay the Fed funds target rate on this, you can see that even though rates were elevated at

740
01:02:28,747 --> 01:02:36,607
5.5%, the entire time rates were at 5.5%, inflation only went from 3% to about 2.5%.

741
01:02:36,627 --> 01:02:41,747
So it did manage to fall, but that was only after we started seeing acute financial stress and the

742
01:02:41,747 --> 01:02:49,347
Fed was on hold at 5.5% for a little bit over a year. So we weren't able to crack 3% inflation

743
01:02:49,347 --> 01:02:53,107
for a very long time. We're now back over 3% inflation, but it seems that the new norm

744
01:02:53,987 --> 01:03:00,627
was like 2.5%, 2.4% was the lowest we were able to go without risking immediate financial crisis.

745
01:03:00,627 --> 01:03:05,587
So all that is to say, I think 2.5% to 3% inflation is the new norm. I don't think we're

746
01:03:05,587 --> 01:03:10,127
we're ever going to see 2% inflation again. The Fed's reaction time to any sort of slowdown in the

747
01:03:10,127 --> 01:03:14,167
economy has been to immediately flood the markets with liquidity. So I think CPI, where it is right

748
01:03:14,167 --> 01:03:19,567
now, is a new norm. And the Fed is cutting for employment rather than inflation. It's just the

749
01:03:19,567 --> 01:03:23,087
unfortunate reality that elevated inflation is the new norm. Prices are going to go up.

750
01:03:23,567 --> 01:03:28,307
The official rate of price inflation is going to be 2.5% to 3% per year. You and I both know it's

751
01:03:28,307 --> 01:03:32,947
much higher than that in reality. And it's just, you know, it's a sign of the times. The labor

752
01:03:32,947 --> 01:03:36,967
market is weakening. That's why the Fed is cutting. If anything, I think we should be cutting faster,

753
01:03:37,207 --> 01:03:41,127
but I've repeated myself one too many times. That's my outlook on the economy as it stands now

754
01:03:41,127 --> 01:03:44,707
and where we are in the cycle. I think the Fed needs to be more aggressive, but that remains to

755
01:03:44,707 --> 01:03:49,647
be seen. We'll see. Yeah. I think a lot of Bitcoiners would like to see that. I think,

756
01:03:49,727 --> 01:03:54,707
honestly, if we were to cut 50 basis points here in the next couple of days, we might see a market

757
01:03:54,707 --> 01:04:01,187
rally just because I feel the market has priced in the three cuts already for this year. At least

758
01:04:01,187 --> 01:04:05,267
that's been the narrative. And if we cut a little bit more, I think that would be a surprise and

759
01:04:05,267 --> 01:04:09,887
we'd see a jolt up. But you already mentioned a little bit earlier about what you guys do over

760
01:04:09,887 --> 01:04:15,847
Horizon, kind of unlocking that, you know, home equity towards Bitcoin. Why would you ever hold

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774
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I think that would be a surprise and we'd see it jolt up.

775
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But you already mentioned a little bit earlier

776
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about what you guys do over Horizon,

777
01:05:16,161 --> 01:05:19,761
kind of unlocking that, you know, home equity towards Bitcoin.

778
01:05:20,241 --> 01:05:26,501
And I want to hear about the developments that you guys have been, you know, implementing there and how that's going for you guys.

779
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Because, you know, from my perspective, it seems like a lot of homeowners are still, I guess, tentative towards Bitcoin.

780
01:05:34,981 --> 01:05:40,261
You know, homeownership was the American dream, and at least it was for quite some time.

781
01:05:40,261 --> 01:05:49,361
And I feel like there's still, you know, as much as we get in the Bitcoin ecosystem, that there's still our echo chamber that there's still we're still very early.

782
01:05:49,721 --> 01:05:54,401
So how is the development at Horizon going and the response to your guys products?

783
01:05:54,461 --> 01:05:59,481
Because it makes a lot of sense. But are people jumping at it as quickly as you would initially think?

784
01:06:00,461 --> 01:06:05,641
Oh, 100 percent. Yeah. So I'll actually pull up the website here and I can show you a little bit about how it works.

785
01:06:05,641 --> 01:06:08,921
This is really cool. And I think the viewers will get a lot of value out of this.

786
01:06:08,921 --> 01:06:11,441
So I'll go ahead and share my screen here.

787
01:06:11,961 --> 01:06:17,321
But yeah, we've been very successful over the last couple of months.

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I'll go to the webpage first.

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This is our homepage.

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What we've seen is that, and this kind of plays into the problem that I was talking about earlier,

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U.S. home equity sits at an all-time high, but U.S. home growth is below 2%,

792
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which is well below the rate of reported inflation.

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and basically when they flooded the system with money back in 2020, a lot of it made its way into

794
01:06:42,441 --> 01:06:46,741
housing. And so housing has become sort of this de facto savings account. It's become a savings

795
01:06:46,741 --> 01:06:51,821
vehicle when nobody asked for it to become a savings vehicle. It's the largest asset in most

796
01:06:51,821 --> 01:06:56,521
people's portfolios. It's the most important asset, but not in a monetary sense. And nobody

797
01:06:56,521 --> 01:07:01,201
asked for it to become a savings account. Nobody asked for it to be their largest investment,

798
01:07:01,201 --> 01:07:08,981
the largest thing in their portfolio. And yet here we are. In 2025, when most homes within a

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01:07:08,981 --> 01:07:13,721
reasonable distance to a major American city are a million dollars or more, a lot of people will

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01:07:13,721 --> 01:07:19,141
cite the median home price statistic of, oh, well, gee, the median home price is actually $480,000.

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But what they fail to tell you is that obviously that's factoring in the enormous amount of homes

802
01:07:24,401 --> 01:07:28,141
that are in the middle of nowhere. And they're trying to sell young families on this idea that

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01:07:28,141 --> 01:07:31,901
they'll be able to find a home for less than half a million dollars. But then you look into that and

804
01:07:31,901 --> 01:07:35,561
you'll be two and a half hours away from the major airports and the major cities where people work.

805
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And so it's not a viable way to live. So the reality is that homes have never been more

806
01:07:41,101 --> 01:07:46,481
expensive. Existing homeowners are sitting on more equity than ever. And Horizon, we just offer a

807
01:07:46,481 --> 01:07:51,801
really simple way for homeowners to take their equity and put it into Bitcoin, all without monthly

808
01:07:51,801 --> 01:07:56,021
payments, without any term limits, no income requirements, and you could retain homeownership.

809
01:07:56,021 --> 01:08:01,421
And we've facilitated several transactions for homes that are $6 million in size, $7

810
01:08:01,421 --> 01:08:13,655
million in size like massive homes And we also helped folks who have homes that are And so basically everybody all across the spectrum we been able to help in one form or another

811
01:08:13,895 --> 01:08:18,055
And the process is actually really quick. So for larger homes, the process is typically three to

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01:08:18,055 --> 01:08:22,355
four weeks for smaller homes. And this is all based on when people can get an appraisal and

813
01:08:22,355 --> 01:08:26,675
the amount of paperwork that's required just two to three weeks. And so this is a hugely

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01:08:26,675 --> 01:08:31,575
transformative thing for many homeowners because whether you're cash poor and you just don't have

815
01:08:31,575 --> 01:08:36,155
money to invest in something like Bitcoin or another high growth asset, or you have money,

816
01:08:36,255 --> 01:08:40,495
but you understand the concept of intelligent leverage and you see your home is doing sub 3%,

817
01:08:40,495 --> 01:08:44,295
you see Bitcoin rallying over here. And even though you may have the cash to buy Bitcoin,

818
01:08:44,555 --> 01:08:47,415
it makes a lot of sense to swap out of your equity and put it into Bitcoin.

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01:08:48,055 --> 01:08:52,975
Basically, we've seen everybody across the spectrum and we've been able to service all of them.

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01:08:53,855 --> 01:08:57,015
And this is what the website looks like. So you can adjust your home value here on the front.

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This is our more basic calculator. Let's say we've got a home that's worth a million bucks and we've got $1 million, got a mortgage of $150,000. We'll throw in an example address here. This is the one that I've been using for basically everything.

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You throw in your address, it automatically pulls up who you are. And then you can type in your email

823
01:09:21,595 --> 01:09:27,415
here. I'm not going to type in my email live just so people don't email me. But then if you go to

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01:09:27,415 --> 01:09:32,815
the calculator here, I'll just type in the exact same address again, then we can see how much

825
01:09:32,815 --> 01:09:36,935
Bitcoin we can unlock assuming those values. Had I gone through the process, those values would

826
01:09:36,935 --> 01:09:42,775
have carried over. But let's assume again, $1 million home, $150,000 mortgage balance.

827
01:09:42,775 --> 01:09:49,655
you can swap about 150 grand from your house into Bitcoin in less than two weeks. And the best part

828
01:09:49,655 --> 01:09:54,335
is that the Bitcoin is entirely the homeowners to keep. We don't custody it. You can custody it

829
01:09:54,335 --> 01:09:58,835
however you want. And we have no claim on it at the very end of the process. So we don't want any

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01:09:58,835 --> 01:10:03,175
of the Bitcoin upside. The Bitcoin upside goes entirely to the homeowner. And this is a

831
01:10:03,175 --> 01:10:07,115
revolutionary wealth building tool, right? Ultimately, we've never thought of our homes

832
01:10:07,115 --> 01:10:11,235
as investment vehicles. And if you do want to deploy your equity into something like Bitcoin,

833
01:10:11,235 --> 01:10:16,595
It has always come with monthly payments and interest charges and term limits and yearly

834
01:10:16,595 --> 01:10:21,455
maintenance fees, and it counts as debt against your property. Horizon is none of those things.

835
01:10:22,095 --> 01:10:26,835
And so really, we're changing the game as far as wealth building is concerned. We've

836
01:10:26,835 --> 01:10:30,755
found an extremely successful six months since we've launched, and we're just so stoked about it.

837
01:10:31,775 --> 01:10:37,695
How does it work with no payments? That's the crazy part to me. That's blowing my mind. I got

838
01:10:37,695 --> 01:10:43,135
that question. And then, all right, if you've got multiple properties, say like instead of if you've

839
01:10:43,135 --> 01:10:47,955
got a real estate investor and they wanted to unlock multiple, would you be able to do like,

840
01:10:48,035 --> 01:10:51,135
or do you guys do like portfolio loans and stuff like that as well?

841
01:10:52,175 --> 01:10:56,635
Yeah. So we're only doing primary and secondary residences for now, but we are working on rental

842
01:10:56,635 --> 01:11:00,035
properties. That's the single biggest question we've got is when are you guys going to have

843
01:11:00,035 --> 01:11:04,555
rental property support? Because a lot of folks want to do this in their primary residence. And

844
01:11:04,555 --> 01:11:08,355
then they turn around and say, I want to do this on my four rental properties too. We don't have

845
01:11:08,355 --> 01:11:12,295
support for that yet, but we're working on it. And then also we're working on commercial properties.

846
01:11:12,295 --> 01:11:17,115
That's probably way further down the line because the underwriting for commercial properties is so

847
01:11:17,115 --> 01:11:21,235
varied. It'd be much more difficult for us to get that up and running, but rental properties are

848
01:11:21,235 --> 01:11:24,635
ideally on the way very soon. And then as far as the no monthly payments goes, basically the way

849
01:11:24,635 --> 01:11:28,655
that this works is we have a financing provider that is not interested in Bitcoin whatsoever.

850
01:11:28,835 --> 01:11:34,155
What they are interested in is getting long-term exposure to home prices. What they want is,

851
01:11:34,155 --> 01:11:35,995
in the same way that you and I invest in Bitcoin

852
01:11:35,995 --> 01:11:37,655
because we believe its price will be higher

853
01:11:37,655 --> 01:11:39,115
five years from now, 10 years from now,

854
01:11:39,175 --> 01:11:40,855
20 years from now when we plan on selling it,

855
01:11:41,315 --> 01:11:43,615
this home equity investor, if you will,

856
01:11:43,675 --> 01:11:44,795
on the other side of the equation

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01:11:44,795 --> 01:11:58,729
wants long exposure to residential real estate homes all across the country because they believe that the prices will be higher two years three years five years 10 years from now And so they willing to forego monthly payments and just get a slice of the home future value today

858
01:11:58,729 --> 01:12:05,029
for a certain amount of money. It's quite innovative. And so it's a tool that fits

859
01:12:05,029 --> 01:12:09,109
really neatly into people's lives, right? Because if you think about it, if you take out a HELOC,

860
01:12:09,169 --> 01:12:13,949
and let's say you took out a HELOC to draw this exact same amount of Bitcoin, $151,291,

861
01:12:13,949 --> 01:12:16,969
with current average HELOC rates of 8.5%,

862
01:12:16,969 --> 01:12:19,649
you're gonna be paying well over $1,000 a month

863
01:12:19,649 --> 01:12:21,769
just to access that capital and buy that Bitcoin.

864
01:12:22,589 --> 01:12:25,369
And you're gonna be paying $1,100, $1,200 a month

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01:12:25,369 --> 01:12:27,449
for the entire duration that you hold that Bitcoin

866
01:12:27,449 --> 01:12:28,709
until you sell the property

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01:12:28,709 --> 01:12:30,189
or you pay down the HELOC balance, right?

868
01:12:30,589 --> 01:12:32,709
And so it's not a very great proposition

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01:12:32,709 --> 01:12:33,909
because basically what you're doing

870
01:12:33,909 --> 01:12:35,369
is you're adding a second mortgage.

871
01:12:35,729 --> 01:12:37,349
And most people can't afford to do that.

872
01:12:37,369 --> 01:12:39,609
Or even if you can, you don't necessarily want to.

873
01:12:40,229 --> 01:12:42,469
With Horizon, the way that this works

874
01:12:42,469 --> 01:12:46,829
is because there are no monthly payments, because the home equity investor is willing to forego

875
01:12:46,829 --> 01:12:51,829
those, you don't have to worry about adjusting your lifestyle at all. You can really just take

876
01:12:51,829 --> 01:12:55,609
part in the horizon, buy the Bitcoin, set it and forget it. And it really is that simple.

877
01:12:56,149 --> 01:13:00,249
And you can do whatever term limit you'd like. And so if we push this out to 15 years,

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01:13:00,789 --> 01:13:04,289
this is assuming 3% growth rate on the home, 25% growth rate on the Bitcoin.

879
01:13:04,969 --> 01:13:11,629
The numbers can get quite crazy. Obviously, these are all projections. This is all illustrated. This

880
01:13:11,629 --> 01:13:16,389
is not financial advice, but we've helped dozens of homeowners to this point facilitate this

881
01:13:16,389 --> 01:13:21,829
transaction. We have great reviews from all of them. And it's a really, really exciting time

882
01:13:21,829 --> 01:13:25,829
because you have a bunch of different companies that help you get a Bitcoin back loan, help you

883
01:13:25,829 --> 01:13:30,029
acquire dollars using your Bitcoin as collateral. We're helping you acquire more Bitcoin using your

884
01:13:30,029 --> 01:13:34,069
house as collateral, right? Without the risk of like a margin call, for example, without the risk

885
01:13:34,069 --> 01:13:38,949
of home foreclosure. Those are the primary risks that people are worried about when they hear about

886
01:13:38,949 --> 01:13:43,569
a product like this. A lot of folks will quote tweet us and they'll say like, oh my gosh, it's a

887
01:13:43,569 --> 01:13:47,569
bubble, sell everything. This is the top, blah, blah, blah. But the reality is like with Horizon,

888
01:13:47,869 --> 01:13:50,889
your Bitcoin isn't at risk because we're not holding it as collateral. So if Bitcoin drops

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01:13:50,889 --> 01:13:57,549
99%, we're not going to foreclose on you. And the second thing is that if the home drops by 50%,

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01:13:57,549 --> 01:14:04,869
70%, 80%, or our provider comes in at any time, we can't kick you out of your home. We can't force

891
01:14:04,869 --> 01:14:09,309
you to sell your home. None of those things, right? So all of those risks that people think of when

892
01:14:09,309 --> 01:14:14,089
they think of a loan back by my house, they're not present with Horizon. And yeah, it's a really

893
01:14:14,089 --> 01:14:19,729
neat product. Yeah, that's amazing. So where can people find out more about this and more about

894
01:14:19,729 --> 01:14:23,869
you? You've been very generous coming on here, Joe. So I really appreciate it, man. And this is

895
01:14:23,869 --> 01:14:29,269
blowing my mind. I might have to be looking into this more here after we get off this call here,

896
01:14:29,329 --> 01:14:34,149
to say the very least. But yeah, man, where can they find out more about Horizon and more about you?

897
01:14:34,869 --> 01:14:37,749
For sure. Well, Brandon, you've been very generous with letting me use the last 10,

898
01:14:37,809 --> 01:14:42,029
15 minutes as a plug for Horizon. So I appreciate that. But it was great chatting with you, man.

899
01:14:42,069 --> 01:14:46,109
Thank you for giving me the mic. If you guys want to see more of what I'm doing and learn more about

900
01:14:46,109 --> 01:14:50,889
Horizon, you can just go to Joe Consorti. Search up Joe Consorti if you're watching on Google,

901
01:14:51,049 --> 01:14:54,069
not on Google, on YouTube, the exact same way that it's spelled right here.

902
01:14:54,549 --> 01:14:57,349
Or find me on X at Joe Consorti. It's where I do most of my tweeting.

903
01:14:57,949 --> 01:15:02,869
And to learn more about Horizon, you can go to joinhorizon.com and go from there.

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You can see your home's Bitcoin potential in 90 seconds and see whether or not we could

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01:15:07,149 --> 01:15:08,089
help you stack some more stats.

906
01:15:08,769 --> 01:15:09,269
That's amazing.

907
01:15:09,389 --> 01:15:10,969
I'll put all that in the show notes as well.

908
01:15:11,109 --> 01:15:12,109
And Joe, thanks so much.

909
01:15:12,889 --> 01:15:13,329
Thanks, Brandon.

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01:15:13,849 --> 01:15:18,389
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