All right. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, all of you good, wonderful citizens of Krip Nation. I hope you're having a fantastic morning, noon, or night, wherever you guys are in the world. You certainly are in the right place because you're joining us for another action-packed episode here, the Crypto 101 podcast.

I'm Bryce. You guys know me and my notorious compadre, Mr. Brendan Veman, reigning from the great state of Florida.

Brendan, how are you doing, my man?

Doing great, Bryce. You know, the are you doing, my man? Doing great, Bryce.

You know, the people have asked, we want to hear more about Bitcoin,

especially with everything that's going on.

You all asked, and we shall deliver.

And man, what a time to be talking about Bitcoin itself.

Yeah, everybody's been asking, when Wall Street,

when institutional investors, I want to know.

When's the big money coming in? And we've been asking ourselves this, Brendan, since the podcast started in 2017.

And it seems like this week, as we were recording this here, Tuesday, January 9th, we're on the precipice, on the cusp, on the very bleeding

edge, that moment where the ETF, the Bitcoin Spot ETF could be hitting the market,

which could bring in just a wave, a rush of liquidity. We're going to talk about all that

and more with a Wall Street veteran. And Chris Brenler has been the VP of

investor relations at Marathon Digital, which is one of the largest Bitcoin mining companies.

They're publicly traded. It's an incredible opportunity to speak with Chris. So, Chris, thank you for

joining us. And welcome to the podcast. Thanks so much.

Really happy to be here. And agree. It's exciting time. It's been waiting for this,

hopefully, tomorrow for a long, long time. And it's hopefully finally here. So fingers crossed.

Fingers crossed. You know, I just want, before we dive into anything about your background or

the company, I want to just

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