How Do We Build a Better Crypto Marketplace? | Omid Malekan (Part 2)
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
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🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.7 | This is the James Altiger show. |
| 0:18.4 | Remember like 20 years ago David Bowie took his catalog and he borrowed, I think it was |
| 0:25.0 | about $700 million and it was going to be the interest rate that the lenders would |
| 0:30.6 | get would be based on how well those albums did over the next 10-20 years. |
| 0:37.2 | And people who invested in those, they're now across the industry called Bowie bonds |
| 0:40.9 | and his was the first one. |
| 0:43.0 | They made a significant amount of money like more than, definitely more than interest rate |
| 0:46.8 | returns were returning then and probably more than stock market returns. |
| 0:50.5 | But people like you and me couldn't get Bowie bonds. |
| 0:53.8 | Like you had to call a bond broker who knew about those bonds, who could then get access |
| 0:58.2 | to them and there was no market to trade them. |
| 1:01.0 | Like you want to be able to buy them after they initially sold and that's almost like |
| 1:05.9 | a relic. |
| 1:06.9 | Like that's an antique way of thinking. |
| 1:08.7 | Like technology's already here where if someone like David Bowie wanted to do this now |
| 1:12.0 | he could tokenize in the same way and now anybody could buy them at any point and then it |
| 1:17.6 | would be a market to trade them. |
| 1:19.0 | Maybe you and a swap or sushi swap or pancake swap or whatever. But the one thing I always |
| 1:24.2 | think is and this is again like the early days of not only the internet but anything it's |
| 1:29.3 | hard to do this. |
| 1:30.8 | Like the average person is not going to suddenly say, oh I'm going to sell Exxon on the |
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