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The Pomp Podcast

#255: Matt Luongo on Bridging the Gap between Bitcoin and the Real-World

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Investing, Business

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Matt Luongo is the CEO of Thesis, a cryptocurrency venture production studio that includes Fold App, Keep, and tBTC. In this conversation, Anthony and Matt discuss bringing the worlds of Bitcoin and Ethereum together, how Matt is a monetary maximalist, what tBTC is and why it should be valuable to the DeFi community, and how crypto companies are prepared for working through the COVID-19 crisis. =============================== BLOCKFI-----BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral, and receive a USD loan funded directly to your bank account. They do loans ranging from $2,000 to $10,000,000, and they're perfect for helping you reach your financial goals of all sizes. Visit BlockFi.com/Pomp to learn more about putting your crypto to work without having to sell it. ~If you enjoyed this episode and want to stay updated on everything Bitcoin, tech, and finance. Check out my newsletter by visiting pomp.substack.com and join 35,000+ other investors currently subscribed to my daily investor letter.

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0:00.0

What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening

0:04.5

Off the Chain, simply the best podcasting crypto. Let's kick this thing off.

0:10.5

Matt Luongo is the CEO of Thesis, a cryptocurrency venture production studio that includes

0:16.1

Foldap, Keep, and TBTC. In this conversation, we discussed bringing the worlds of Bitcoin and Ethereum together,

0:24.0

how Matt is a monetary maximalist, what TBTC is and why it should be valuable to the Defi community,

0:31.1

and how crypto companies are prepared for working through the COVID-19 crisis.

0:35.8

I really enjoyed this conversation, and Matt didn't disappoint.

0:39.9

Before we get into the episode, though, I want to quickly talk about the sponsors that made it

0:43.6

possible. The first is BlockFi. BlockFi has three products today. The first one, you can deposit

0:51.1

crypto and receive a U.S. dollar loan. The second one, you can deposit

0:54.9

crypto and receive up to 8.6% interest in an interest-bearing account. And the third is a

1:00.6

cryptocurrency exchange where you can buy and sell crypto. They'll be coming out with a Bitcoin

1:05.1

rewards credit card later this year that is a normal credit card where you can earn your

1:10.0

reward points as Bitcoin rather

1:12.0

than loyalty points or mileage. I'm an investor, a user, and a big proponent of BlockFi. The

1:18.3

wealth management services they're building, I think, are incredibly important for the crypto

1:22.0

and Bitcoin ecosystem. You can go to BlockFi.com slash pomp. Again, blockfi.com slash pomp.

1:29.2

And you can learn more there, sign up for an account, and even receive some free money.

1:33.8

So blockfi.com slash pomp.

1:36.7

Now remember, the podcast is also a newsletter.

1:40.0

You can go to pomp.substack.com and receive an email from me every single morning with my analysis

1:46.5

of markets and join 40,000 other investors who receive the same email. So pomp.substack.com. And lastly,

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