#699: TradFi's Secret War Against Bitcoin with Ryan Lane
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Marty sits down with Ryan Lane, founder of Empory Asset Management, to discuss his journey from traditional finance to Bitcoin treasury strategies, how legacy banks are covertly fighting Bitcoin adoption while publicly embracing it, and why sovereign treasury adoption could be the catalyst that finally stabilizes the asset.
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| 0:00.0 | You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free. |
| 0:10.0 | If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts. |
| 0:16.0 | So it's all acting like safe haven. |
| 0:18.0 | I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their |
| 0:23.5 | currency, Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor. |
| 0:29.2 | I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin. |
| 0:31.8 | If you're not paying attention, you probably should be. |
| 0:36.9 | Ryan, thank you for joining us. |
| 0:39.6 | I think these have been an interesting discussion |
| 0:43.3 | because I think you've been heavily immersed |
| 0:46.8 | in what many would deem to be the Tradfai world |
| 0:49.3 | for years with Embry asset management. |
| 0:53.3 | You founded it in 2008. |
| 0:54.8 | So I think you've been through a couple of Tradfai cycles. |
| 0:59.6 | Interesting founding an asset manager in 2008 when the world was a bit more chaotic. |
| 1:07.2 | So I think to really set up this conversation is let's go back to 2008, starting |
| 1:13.4 | Empry Asset Management being very successful in that world and then coming to find Bitcoin |
| 1:21.7 | and really lean into it full bore. |
| 1:25.4 | Yeah. It's really through conversations like this that makes me think back to |
| 1:30.9 | what that was then because 2008 was a fascinating time, right? It was a true financial crisis, right? |
| 1:40.8 | Driven by finance, you know, consequences to finance. It was just financial all |
| 1:46.4 | all around, right? Money markets trading, it discounts to their, you know, power value or a dollar, |
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