#1539 Fred Thiel | Why the U.S. Needs a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve — Before It’s Too Late

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Fred Thiel is the Chairman & CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings (NASDAQ:MARA), a digital asset company that mines cryptocurrencies with a focus on the blockchain ecosystem and the generation of digital assets. This conversation was recorded at Bitcoin Investor Week In New York. In this conversation we talk about what Marathon Digital currently does, AI vs bitcoin mining, evaluating what is happening at the nation state level, gold vs bitcoin mining, hardware in bitcoin mining, and what Marathon Digital plans to do in the future.

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