BREAKDOWN: The Year of Institutional Bitcoin, Feat. Galaxy’s Alex Thorn
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This was the year that institutions finally, truly arrived.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On this edition of “The Breakdown’s” “End of Year Extravaganza,” Galaxy Digital’s head of firmwide research discusses the key trends that shaped 2021.
Find our guest on Twitter: @intangiblecoins
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| 0:49.3 | We're talking sovereign wealth funds. We're talking pension plans and endowments. |
| 0:54.5 | It's crazy. |
| 0:55.5 | I mean, we take these meetings all the time with these allocators and the folks that they send |
| 0:59.3 | of these meetings, they know what they're talking about. |
| 1:01.6 | They're asking about how long it will take for wallets to upgrade for tap root support. |
| 1:06.0 | The differences between Solana and Avalanche. |
| 1:08.1 | They're asking about what layer two adoption on Ethereum |
| 1:11.1 | is going to mean for scaling in light of Ethereum 2.0. These are smart people and they're |
| 1:16.6 | really digging in. It's just that their committee schedules and allocation approvals take a long |
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