- Crypto's transition from a speculative and "scammy" perception toward broader legitimacy through regulation, ETFs, and institutional adoption.
- Bitcoin is increasingly viewed as a store of value similar to gold rather than a scalable transactional currency.
- Bitcoin's fixed supply and resilience through multiple market cycles were highlighted as key drivers of long-term investor confidence.
- Bitcoin's historical growth rates are unlikely to persist, with future returns likely slowing and volatility remaining high.
- The growing divergence between Bitcoin performance and stagnant altcoins was identified as a sign of increasing market maturity.
- Many altcoins from earlier cycles failed due to hype-driven models that never delivered real value.
- The current crypto cycle was compared to the post–dot-com bust era, where focus shifts from excitement to sustainable business models.
- Regulatory clarity, including frameworks for crypto and stablecoins, was viewed as a major catalyst for continued adoption.
- Whether investors should trade or hold crypto, with emphasis on patience and fundamentals over speculation.
- Future crypto valuation models were described as moving toward revenue, profitability, and clear value propositions.
- Arrash outlined his work on BitTensor, a blockchain designed to create and trade real digital commodities.
- Crypto's long-term value lies in practical applications that quietly use blockchain under the hood rather than hype-driven narratives.
Investing in Bitcoin in 2026
Money Tree Investing
Money Tree Investing Podcast
4.6 • 733 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Arrash Yasavoli discusses how you should jump on investing in bitoin in 2026! Arrash's path from data engineering at LinkedIn into quantitative trading, crypto, and building Glitch, a SaaS platform that gives broader access to advanced trading strategies gives a unique perspective into possible 2026 investing plans. We also talk Bitcoin's role as a potential store of value, the divergence between Bitcoin and altcoins, the growing importance of real utility and valuation in crypto projects, the rise of ETFs and stablecoins as bridges to mainstream adoption, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, Smart Money Tree Podcasts. Welcome to this week's show. |
| 0:14.0 | My name is Kirk Chisham and I'll be your host. |
| 0:16.0 | So today I'm joined with Arash Yazavolian. How you donate Arash? |
| 0:20.0 | Good. Thanks for having me, Kirk. Glad to having me in the show. For those of you who don't with Arash. Yes, I'm Bollean. How you donate Arash? Good. Thanks for having me, Kirk. |
| 0:21.5 | Glad to having the show. |
| 0:22.9 | For those of you who don't know Arash, maybe you can tell us a bit about your background. |
| 0:26.6 | My background is in tech. |
| 0:28.6 | I worked in tech for 15 years across a variety of startups, large corporations like LinkedIn, |
| 0:34.4 | gone to quant trading, built proprietary trading algorithms, and then built the first |
| 0:39.8 | decentralized prop firm. We essentially are taking into market with a SaaS platform called Glitch |
| 0:45.3 | to get everyone access to high-end trading strategies. So kind of a crazy background, but it's been |
| 0:51.4 | a fun ride. Nice. What were you doing over at LinkedIn? |
| 0:55.0 | I was a data engineering manager. |
| 0:57.0 | Big data platform. |
| 0:58.0 | Obviously, LinkedIn collects a ton of data from users. |
| 1:01.0 | Being able to optimize and handle that scale is what we worked on. |
| 1:05.0 | So I led a data software engineering team. |
| 1:08.0 | It's a weird platform. |
| 1:10.0 | I've always felt like they could do a lot more with it, and they're just trying not to. They're just trying to milk the cow. They don't want to make more cows. It's changed quite a bit. When I was a wonderful culture, you know, extremely competitive to work there. I think the culture's changed quite a bit over time, especially like post-microsoft acquisition. It's just generally changed and that happens. |
| 1:29.5 | But there were the developers of Kafka, which is like one of the biggest developments when |
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