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The "What is Money?" Show

How Bitcoin Changes Everything | The Saylor Series | Episode 17 (WiM065)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

Bitcoin, Breedlove, What Is Money, Investing, Rabbit Hole, Cryptocurrency, Money, Finance, Education, Robert Breedlove, History

4.8710 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Michael Saylor joins me to discuss anthropology, energy, and technology from first principles as we build the intellectual foundation necessary to truly grasp the historic significance of Bitcoin.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So that's mobile payments and then retail banks.

0:12.4

If you go to commercial banking, well, with commercial banks, you've got treasury

0:19.6

services for companies, and you've got credit lines.

0:24.1

So corporations like an individual in a way. I've got a bunch of cash. I want to generate

0:28.7

yield on it, call that treasury services. Or I have a lot of assets. I want to generate yield on

0:34.5

them. And I also want to borrow against my assets.

0:39.5

And so I need a commercial-grade bank to do that.

0:43.1

I tend to have slightly different requirements

0:45.3

and I'm going to move in greater scale

0:47.0

and I may have different accounting issues.

0:49.7

But the commercial banking application

0:53.1

and the retail banking are pretty similar.

0:59.0

Exchanges are another application of Bitcoin, and there people want to trade assets against

1:06.6

each other and trade derivatives against each other. And you can imagine infinite assets and

1:13.8

infinite derivatives. They will be compliance heavy, right? Do you need to comply with the CFTC or

1:20.9

the SEC or who knows what? And that gets very complicated. but it's a big business.

1:28.8

I mean, the next big area of applications would be corporations.

1:34.3

And here, any company that simply buys Bitcoin becomes an application of Bitcoin.

1:40.4

And this is not a technical application.

1:42.8

If we take micro strategy as an example, when micro strategy buys Bitcoin, then micro strategy

1:49.3

stock becomes a derivative of Bitcoin.

1:53.1

And now micro strategy stock is trading on a NASDAQ, a regulated exchange.

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