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Real Vision: Finance & Investing

Abra: The Future of Crypto Banking ( w/ Bill Barhydt and Raoul Pal )

Real Vision: Finance & Investing

Real Vision

Investing, Business News, News, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Crypto Wednesday:: Abra CEO Bill Barhydt joins Raoul Pal, Real Vision CEO and co-founder, to discuss Abra, the future role of banks, and security. Barhydt describes Abra as moving towards the vision of being a full bank for cryptocurrency as it offers trading and investing in over a hundred crypto assets as well as the option to earn interest and borrow against them. Barhydt does not believe traditional banks will have a value proposition over the next 25 years and suggests that many of them will either become crypto-centric or disappear. He explains that Abra provides the full spectrum of security needs for their customers, covering "cold, warm, and hot" custody solutions. This means that Abra provides custody solutions for short term active trading (hot) and for long term storage of assets (cold) and everything in between. Recorded on March 1, 2021. Key Learnings: Abra aims to become a full bank for crypto assets. Barhydt believes most banks will become crypto-centric or die out, and Abra provides the full spectrum of custody services for their wide range of customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Bill, it's been a while, but we've got your unreal vision eventually.

0:47.0

Yeah, I'm great. Thrilled to be here. Thanks for having me.

0:50.0

So listen, you've been in this space for a long time.

0:53.0

And you'll need to many people, but not to others.

0:57.0

But let's go back and just go through a bit of your journey.

1:00.0

How the hell you've got here? Where did you start your career?

1:02.0

This kind of circular path of I worked in cryptography.

1:06.0

When crypto men cryptography, not cryptocurrencies.

1:09.0

I worked on Wall Street as a go min.

1:12.0

I kind of went through a phase of like learning all about financial markets, fixed income,

1:18.0

built trading systems, designs, portfolio management systems.

1:22.0

But then I went to got the internet bug and ended up joining Netscape pretty early around the time of the IPO.

1:29.0

And that's more or less been my 20 year journey now.

1:32.0

It's just really focused on the internet eating the world kind of mantra that I've always had in my mind.

1:37.0

And the things that have always resonated for me is how the internet can basically act as a great leveler

1:43.0

and democratize access to anything, whether it's entertainment, media,

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