All right, everyone, welcome back to the Crypto 101 podcast.

We have an awesome podcast in store for all of you today.

And as we're coming in here, at least at the time of recording, the crypto market,

I'll tell you what, it is soaring. Bitcoin is well above all-time highs. It's above $110,000,

and the crypto market is booming. So you better believe we're going to bring in some of the

biggest leaders in the space to talk about what's going on. And as per usual, we got a very special

guest in store for all of you. So I want to welcome Mr. Johnny Garcia. He is the head of

institutional strategy over at VChain. And before he came on and started working with VChain,

he was the director of ETS and ETPs at Bitwise Asset Management, another group

who we've had on here before and clearly an ETF provider. But over there, he played a key

role in bringing these ETFs for Bitcoin and Ethereum to the markets. And prior to that,

he played a key role at Vanguard. So he's no new name to the space. He's not a new name to the space. And prior to that, he played a key role at Vanguard. So he's no, he's no new name to

the space. He's an absolute veteran and we're excited to have him. So Johnny, welcome and

excited to have you here. Excited to be here, Brendan. Thanks for the kind words introduction.

Absolutely. Well, let's kick things off i mean you have this extensive

career you went from first uh being in the army then you went to vanguard then bit wise and now

you're at v chain i guess at what point in all of that did crypto come on your radar

britton it's interesting it's it's quite well it's just a long and winding road, right, as oftentimes these things

are.

And my career or my professional sort of tenure has not been, it's been nonlinear for sure.

So as you mentioned, interestingly enough, I'd heard, I'd come across Bitcoin, right, as most

of us do. And traditionally speaking, when you think about folks in their first intro into crypto,

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