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Jeff Walton

👤 Speaker
893 total appearances

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

There's a concept, Markowitz modern portfolio theory.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

I studied finance in college and that's the

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

If you have a different asset with different risk return metrics in your portfolio, it should improve the return and reduce the risk of your entire portfolio.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

Now, it's funny, you look at like the sharp ratios of these instruments and they're like literally on a different planet.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

The sharp, the risk return of these instruments from like a price volatility perspective are on a different planet.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

It actually improves most portfolios pretty drastically because of the low vol and high return.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

Yeah, yeah, you can absolutely buy the common.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

If you wanted high volatility Bitcoin exposure, like amplified Bitcoin exposure, think about like every instrument that we sell, every share that we sell, we are chopping off the excess risk and we're chopping off the excess return.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

And that excess risk return is going directly to the common stock.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

So, like, we are chopping off all of the volatility as humanly possible, and we are trying to strip it out into pure yield and then just amplified Bitcoin exposure because we are long the underlying asset.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

We are long Bitcoin.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

True North, are you guys publicly traded?

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

So Strive is publicly traded.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

True North owns, or Strive owns True North.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

True North is effectively like the media branch that I started that sits underneath True North.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

The common stock or the preferred?

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

The common.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

The common.

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

The common because our capital structure is different, right?

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

We've got no debt on our balance sheet, zero.