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Jeff Walton

👤 Speaker
893 total appearances

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

It's like, well, that was before the Bitcoin ETF.

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

That was before digital credit was an instrument.

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

That was before there was regulatory clarity of Bitcoin being incorporated into the United States, having a strategic Bitcoin reserve.

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

That was FTX, Celsius, BlockFly, Contagion, interest rates going up at a faster rate than we've seen in history, in our lifetimes.

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

And you think about that event and underwriting that event, like I can underwrite that.

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

I could throw a probabilistic curve on top of that and you start to think about the relative risk profile.

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

And that looks pretty interesting.

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

I think that's a compelling story.

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

And I think that would be a healthy perspective to take

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

is what does this look like in a very bare scenario?

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

As a credit investor, you are underwriting the balance sheet.

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

You're underwriting the balance sheet of us and our transparency of that balance sheet.

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

The great thing about this, we're filing 8Ks very frequently with the SEC, the regulator.

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

Everybody knows what our balance sheet looks like.

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

We're not rehypothecated.

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

It's very clear.

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

It's very simple.

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

You compare that to dollars that you store in a bank.

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

You have no idea how much is rehypothecated.

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

You have no idea what's going on with that.