A Massive Bitcoin Bull Case Is Forming | Bill Barhydt
The Pomp Podcast
Anthony Pompliano
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Bill Barhydt is the founder and CEO of Abra and a longtime leader in digital assets and crypto wealth management. In this conversation, we discuss bitcoin’s relationship to global liquidity, money printing, and geopolitical risk, as well as why retail investors still drive crypto price action. We also cover new crypto regulation and the Clarity Act, Abra’s plans to go public via SPAC, the rise of tokenized equities and real-world assets, and how AI is transforming financial services and business operations.
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- 0:00 - Intro
- 0:55 - Why bitcoin is holding up during war & market panic
- 5:17 - Private credit, private equity, & where cracks could show
- 8:40 - Crypto regulation & The Clarity Act
- 13:18 - Why Abra is going public via SPAC
- 15:30 - How wealth advisors are changing around crypto
- 17:51 - Tokenized portfolios & the future of digital assets
- 22:30 - Will AI replace financial advisors?
- 25:11 - How Abra uses AI internally & building AI agents
- 33:33 - Machine-to-machine payments & crypto
- 36:20 - What’s next for Abra?
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| 1:00.2 | All of that equates to incremental, significant money printing this year. I wouldn't be surprised |
| 1:06.5 | if we see stimulus checks this summer going into the midterms. Crypto is is screaming right now. I mean, we've never had more tailwinds in our space. But if you're just talking about price, I think you need retail. My biggest concern, and I've been very clear about this publicly. What's going on, guys? Today we've got a great conversation with Bill Barheight. He is the founder and CEO of Abra. and in this conversation, we talk about what's going on with the Bitcoin price, given all the context of the Iran conflict. What's going on in traditional assets? How is it going to impact your personal portfolio? Then we get into regulation and the new SEC CFTC rules that came out, the Clarity Act. We also talk about his big deal that he just announced, where Abra is going public via |
| 1:44.1 | SPAC transaction. And then we finish it up with some talk around artificial intelligence, how they're using it internally, how he's using it personally, and how it could impact the finance industry more broadly. All that and more of my latest conversation with Bill Barheight. All right, Bill, I thought a great place to start the conversation as the Iran war kicks off. We're dropping bombs all over the Middle East. |
| 2:00.7 | And now we've got to figure out what does that mean for Bitcoin? |
| 2:04.0 | Very interestingly, |
| 2:04.7 | oh, a great place start the conversation is the Iran war kicks off. We're dropping bombs all over the Middle East. And now we've got to figure out what does that mean for Bitcoin? Very interestingly, |
| 2:04.9 | almost everything else is sold off. People are really worried, oils up, right? Inflation concerns. |
| 2:09.4 | But Bitcoin's hanging in there. Why do you think Bitcoin is doing so well? |
| 2:12.9 | I think it's the two points are mutually exclusive. I'm not convinced that it's because of the war that it was falling or going up, right? I think it's the two points are mutually exclusive. I'm not convinced that it's because of the war |
| 2:18.8 | that it was falling or going up, right? I think I think Bitcoin is still a macro liquidity suck. |
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