#1308 Travis Kling | Bitcoin Saves The World From Speculation

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Travis Kling is the Founder & Chief Investment Officer of Ikigai Asset Management. In this conversation, we talk about cryptocurrency prices & protocols, the ultimate use case, liquidity, bitcoin vs gold, Saylor vs Schiff, financial nihilism, allocating capital in today’s market, and more.

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Many of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp
0:07.7	podcast, which is my effort to find the most interesting people in the world and sit with them for hours while I ask questions in an effort to learn. So it would mean the world to me if you would subscribe to the show on your favorite audio platform, watch episodes on YouTube,
0:21.1	and tell your friends and family about the podcast. My goal is to help millions learn from the
0:26.5	world's most interesting people. So let's get in to today's episode. This episode is with
0:32.5	Travis Kling. He's the founder and chief investment officer of Aikai Asset Management. In this conversation, Travis and I talk about if prices can go up without any adoption of these
0:42.3	crypto assets and protocols.
0:44.3	We also talk about liquidity driving investor interest and maybe crypto is just all one big
0:49.1	global liquidity trade.
0:50.7	And then why crypto may be the greatest video game in the world and how that actually
0:55.0	could be the ultimate use case.
0:57.6	We get into is Bitcoin gold, is Michael Saylor similar to Peter Schiff, which is a critique
1:02.1	that one of my friends recently said.
1:03.9	And then also we talk about financial nihilism and eventually we get to how is Travis
1:09.3	allocating capital in today's market? This conversation is
1:12.2	fascinating. It has lots of taboos. We talk about it all, and I hope that you learn from it.
1:17.6	Here is my conversation with Travis Kling.
1:20.7	Anthony Pompliano runs pomp investments. All views of him and the guests on his podcast are
1:26.4	solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of pomp investments.
1:30.2	You should not treat any opinion expressed by pomp or his guest as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as an expression of his personal opinion.
1:41.1	This podcast is for informational purposes only.
1:46.9	Today's episode is brought to you by Espresso, the maker of the world's thin as portable display. Now listen up. If you're like me,
1:52.2	you feel like you are at a command center when you sit down at your desk. I got a gazillion tabs open
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