#488: Eric Balchunas and James Seyffart on the Bitcoin ETF

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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James Seyffart is an ETF Research Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence and Eric Balchunas is a Senior ETF Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. In this conversation, we discuss advantages of public market fund structures, Grayscale, Bitwise, institutional interest in Bitcoin, the historical analysis of gold ETFs, and the future prospects of a Bitcoin ETF. ======================= OKCoin.com is the leading crypto exchange for both beginners and experienced users. You can fund your account in under 2 minutes, and get access to the most advanced trading engine, all while paying the lowest trading fees in the industry (0.1%). Visit www.okcoin.com/pomp and open your account today. ======================= Own crypto in multiple exchanges and wallets? Sync them to CoinStats so you track and manage them from one place. Track 8000+ coins and 300+ exchanges all from the Coinstats platform. Try it for free or go to coinstats.app/pomp and get 40% off your premium subscription. ======================= Remote makes it easy for companies of all sizes to employ global full-time employees and contractors. We take care of international payroll, benefits, taxes and local compliance, so you can focus on growing your business. Learn more about Remote and their new Remote for Startups program at https://www.remote.com. =======================

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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 to the Pomp podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Let's kick this thing off.
0:09.5	James Seyffart is an ETF research analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, and Eric Balchunas is a senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence.
0:18.7	In this conversation, we discuss advantages of public market fund structures,
0:23.1	gray scale, bid-wise, institutional interest in Bitcoin, the historical analysis of gold
0:28.5	ETFs, and the future prospects of a Bitcoin ETF.
0:32.4	I really enjoyed this conversation with both James and Eric, and I hope you do as well.
0:36.9	Before we get into this episode,
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