BTC058: Bitcoin Real Estate Loans w/ Mauricio Bartolomeo & Adam Reeds (Bitcoin Podcast)

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

Stig Brodersen

Education, Investing, Business

4.6 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

01:28 - How Mauricio and Adam first met.
03:38 - Mauricio's experience with hyperinflation in Venezuela.
08:09 - Why Build Ledn and what's its value to the market.
11:50 - How Ledn assist borrowers with Real Estate down payments.
14:49 - Why would a person pay such a high-interest rate?
18:06 - How individuals can use reverse loans on Real Estate to buy Bitcoin.
26:45 - How does the custody of the collateral work?
28:22 - Why use USDC versus Tether.
32:46 - What's the growth in the borrowing and lending space look like.
36:12 - How does the appraisal of the real estate value work?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to TI-P.
0:30.0	Further delay? Here's our discussion.
0:32.0	You're listening to Bitcoin Fundamentals by the Investors Podcast Network.
0:40.0	Now for your host, Preston Pish.
0:44.0	All right, so everyone, welcome to the show. Like I said in the introduction, I'm here with Mauricio and Adam.
0:59.0	Thank you so much, Preston. Thanks for having us.
1:03.0	Thanks for having us. Great to have you guys here.
1:05.0	So the first thing that I want to do is just talk about your story because I'm sure you guys got one hack of a story.
1:13.0	Mauricio, I know you're from Venezuela. Adam, where are you from?
1:17.0	Canada, I haven't moved too far, so I grew up in a small town outside Toronto.
1:22.0	How'd you guys meet each other?
1:24.0	Western University, 15 years ago.
1:27.0	Okay, so 15 years ago, what did you guys study? What were you guys doing that made you want to start a business together?
1:34.0	Because obviously, Bitcoin wasn't around 15 years ago.
1:38.0	Yeah, we met at Business School at the University of Western Ontario.
1:42.0	So I remember the first day coming over and seeing this enthusiastic guy that, you know, we're all opening up our fresh Mac computers and getting started and set up and happened to be sitting close by.
1:53.0	So obviously, it's reduced ourselves and stayed in touch really from graduation back and forth.
1:59.0	But all that Mauricio, of course, getting to his story, but he was back and forth between Venezuela and Canada.
2:04.0	I was for the most part, me and the Canada working and really just stayed in touch.
2:08.0	Mauricio, when are you jumping and talking about when you came back and then finished the story?
2:13.0	I got the privilege, I would say, to do my university in Canada.
2:17.0	What's Venezuela kind of started falling off a cliff or lack of a better description? Many families chose the most willing kid to go study abroad and hopefully help the family of things went south.
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