#1563 Patrick McHenry | Washington Is Finally Embracing Bitcoin?!

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Patrick McHenry is the former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and the Vice Chairman at Ondo Finance. In this conversation we talk about bitcoin, ETFs, bitcoin treasury companies, legislation around stablecoins, tokenization, and how Patrick sees the world evolving.

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0:53.8	What's going on, guys? Today we've got an excellent episode with Patrick McHenry.
0:57.7	He is the former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and he's the vice chair
1:01.4	over at Ando. In this conversation, we talk about Bitcoin, the ETFs, what's going on
1:06.5	with the Bitcoin Treasury companies. Then we get into all of the legislation around stable
1:10.5	coins and market
1:11.3	structure down in D.C. And lastly, we talk about tokenization and how Patrick McHenry sees the world
1:16.6	evolving over the next decade. This conversation is packed with insights that come from one of
1:21.2	Washington, D.C.'s most important players over the last few years when it comes to the intersection
1:25.6	of politics and Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
1:28.4	Here's my latest conversation with Patrick McHenry.
1:30.9	All right, Patrick, I thought a great place to start this conversation is it feels like Bitcoin
1:34.7	is now infiltrating both Wall Street and Washington, D.C.
1:38.2	And part of that is the Bitcoiners are like pushing it into those two areas, but also it does
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