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Caitlin Long

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
199 total appearances

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The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

Bingo.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

And it's seamless.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

You don't have to.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

So one of the problems with moving money, as you know, between TradFi and the crypto world is bringing it back from crypto to TradFi.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

And the hard part about that is there's a lot of friction, of course, but it's also the BSA piece, the Bank Secrecy Act piece.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

JP Morgan did a study two years ago with their own data of what happened during the crypto bull market in 2020.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

And they found that 88% of the deposits that went into Coinbase did not come back into the banking system.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

Now, let's face it.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

A lot of us have had bank accounts closed because we tried to send money from...

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

crypto exchange into our traditional bank account.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

So there's a big piece of that, that part of the reason that folks who move money into the crypto space don't want to bring it back because they don't want to risk getting their bank account closed.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

But it's also very difficult from a

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

from just a pure friction standpoint.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

And we're abstracting away all of that complexity by enabling the tokenized deposit and the stable coin to convert back and forth based on what the user's preference is and abstracting away all that complexity.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

It's really cool.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

Yeah.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

And I will tell you also, Custodia is kind of a barometer, Anthony, of this, because we see a big spike when banks start closing accounts and people contacting us.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

Now, we're not opening new accounts, so unfortunately, we can't really help.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

But I will tell you, Operation Chokepoint 2.0 never ended.

The Pomp Podcast
Why The Fed Can't Ignore Bitcoin Anymore | Caitlin Long

And there's been a real uptick recently in people who have been debanked looking for new bank accounts.