Bitcoin's Coming of Age with Dan Morehead - WBD211
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
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🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Location: Zoom Date: Friday, 3rd April Project: Pantera Capital Role: Co-Founder & CEO
Markets around the world have posted their worst quarterly results in decades with the FTSE, DJI, S&P500 and many others down over 20%. While the coronavirus pandemic is certainly the catalyst behind this drop, it may have been the pin that popped the global economy propped up by cheap credit.
With the markets falling, the forced closure of businesses and unemployment at record levels, governments around the world have taken unprecedented action with their monetary and fiscal policies.
With huge amounts of quantitative easing globally, this economic event again highlights the benefits of Bitcoin's monetary policy. It was created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, born out of years of cheap credit and poor government oversight. Now nearly 12 years since its creation, we are again in a time of financial crisis. So, could this crisis lead people to a non-sovereign, global, immutable, digital, decentralised, hard money?
In this interview, I talk to Dan Morehead, a veteran investor and the co-founder & CEO of Pantera Capital. We discuss the effect of coronavirus on the economy, how the markets will recover, and Bitcoin's coming of age.
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| 0:00.0 | If it was born in a financial crisis, it will come of age in this one. |
| 0:04.0 | That was Pantera, a suitable intro for today's guest, veteran investor Dan Morehead, the CEO of Pantera Capital. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello there, welcome to the What Bitcoin did podcast, which is brought to you by Krakhan, the best place to buy, sell and trade Bitcoin. |
| 0:24.3 | How are you all coping with the lockdown? |
| 0:26.0 | Are you all doing well? |
| 0:27.4 | I'm here in Bedford adapting to this new life thinking about the post-coronovirus world. |
| 0:33.0 | Anyway, let's get on with the show, |
| 0:35.0 | but firstly, we are going to hear about my amazing show sponsors |
| 0:38.0 | who I couldn't make this without. |
| 0:40.0 | So first up, we have the amazing BlockFi, |
| 0:42.0 | the future of Bitcoin and Financial Services. |
| 0:45.2 | And this week I sat down with Zach and Flory, the co-founder of BlockFi. |
| 0:49.5 | We talked about how they managed the recent volatile conditions that will be out next week and |
| 0:54.1 | we also get into some of the questions that people have around the company. |
| 0:57.9 | They have absolutely crushed it as a business they've just raised another 30 million |
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