Is Bitcoin Humanity's Last Shot at Freedom? | CoinDesk Spotlight with Jack Mallers
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Insights into the past, present and future of the crypto industry with Jack Mallers.
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Strike founder Jack Mallers joins "CoinDesk Spotlight" with a conversation about building Twenty One with Tether and SoftBank, and why he sees bitcoin as “moral imperative” as much as a financial instrument.
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| 0:00.0 | Bitcoin, before it's computer code, before it's an asset, before it's an ETF. |
| 0:05.2 | To me, it's moral code. |
| 0:07.5 | Bitcoin is you shall not censor. |
| 0:10.4 | You shall not inflate. |
| 0:12.8 | You shall not confiscate. |
| 0:14.8 | You shall not counterfeit. |
| 0:16.7 | And you shall not steal. |
| 0:18.8 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Jensenassie. |
| 0:20.6 | And on this episode of Coin Desk Spotlight, I talk to Jack |
| 0:24.4 | Mallors. He's the CEO of Strike, the host of the Jack Mallor's show, and now the CEO and |
| 0:29.8 | co-founder of 21 Capital, a new kind of Bitcoin Treasury company backed by SoftBank and Tether. |
| 0:35.7 | Now, we cover a lot in the hour-long conversation that you're about to watch. |
| 0:40.4 | And if you know Jack, you know that he doesn't hold back. |
| 0:43.4 | This is not a conversation about price action or ETFs. |
| 0:47.6 | This is about why he's building what he's building and what's at stake if we don't get it |
| 0:52.1 | right. |
| 0:53.0 | Some things that really stuck for me, |
| 0:55.0 | Jack doesn't just believe in Bitcoin. He lives it. He told me he doesn't think in dollars. |
| 1:00.3 | He thinks in Bitcoin. For him, it's not just an investment. It's a way to build a better future, |
| 1:05.6 | and he's bringing that conviction to capital markets. Now, the second thing is that he told |
| 1:10.5 | a pretty wild story about |
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