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Matthew Sigel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
339 total appearances

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The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

And if you look at the rental costs for Nvidia chips on the spot market, those numbers are also going up.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

So I think the stocks are down 40% from the peaks.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

It doesn't feel like a time to be selling.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

I'm definitely managing position sizes, but I come out bullish because I can feel the productivity in my own work.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

Yeah, I mean, even just on my position sheets, instead of using formulas to calc how many shares I might need to buy or sell, I just input the instructions into Claude.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

I have Claude make a new sheet each day to analyze the attribution, what's helping my performance, what's hurting my performance.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

issues around, I care a lot about taxes.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

So I want to avoid fund shareholders being stuck with gains at the end of the year that I would have to pay out.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

So managing tax loss selling against gains, having Claude suggest some of those by taking a big spreadsheet and just simplifying like which lots have losses that I can sell easily.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

It's just cutting down on time.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

Yeah, so within Node, our universe is any company that has a strategy to make money or save money from the adoption of Bitcoin, blockchain, digital assets.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

And we've been fortunate that since inception, we're up 27%, Bitcoin is down 33%.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

So we've done a good job at capturing where the gains have been.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

That has been in the AI miners.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

We've been very underweight on digital asset treasury companies and exchanges.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

So MicroStrategy, Coinbase, very small positions, worried about the leverage.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

And Mara turned itself into a debt after the election.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

They caught the FOMO that public equity investors might pay a premium for the Bitcoin that a company holds on its balance sheet.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

They levered up the balance sheet, they did a bunch of converts and then the market turned and that premium to NAV that MicroStrategy was trading at 1.7 times collapsed to one and Mara caught that same D rating.

The Pomp Podcast
How Global Conflict Is Moving Bitcoin & AI | Matthew Sigel

Meanwhile, the economics around Bitcoin mining were also worsening and the CEO was very stubborn around the AI opportunity.