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The Pomp Podcast

Meltem Demirors, CSO of CoinShares: Bitcoin, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the Current Pension Crisis

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Meltem Demirors is the Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares, a digital asset management firm that provides professional-grade tools and services for investors. In this conversation, Meltem and Anthony discuss CoinShares, Tesla, central bank digital currencies, Barstool Sports, the shitcoin waterfall, politics, the average age of regulators, pensions, retirement funds, venture/macro markets & how crypto may connect them, and what the wealthy elite do to control the government.  BLOCKFI-----BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral, and receive a USD loan funded directly to your bank account. They do loans ranging from $2,000 to $10,000,000, and they're perfect for helping you reach your financial goals of all sizes. Visit BlockFi.com/Pomp to learn more about putting your crypto to work without having to sell it. UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS-----Make your crypto currency payments simple and build censorship resistant websites. Visit unstoppabledomains.com and purchase your blockchain domains today! -----If you enjoyed this episode and want to stay updated on everything Bitcoin, blockchain, and crypto. Check out Off the Chain newsletter by visiting offthechain.substack.com and join 35,000+ other investors currently subscribed to my daily investor letter.

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0:00.0

What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening

0:04.5

Off the Chain, simply the best podcasting crypto. Let's kick this thing off.

0:10.1

Meltem DeMiers is the chief strategy officer of coin shares, a digital asset management firm that

0:15.7

provides financial products and services for professional investors. In this conversation, we talked about a lot.

0:23.0

We talked about coin shares, Tesla, central bank digital currencies, barstool sports, the

0:28.7

shit coin waterfall, politics, who should be allowed to vote, who shouldn't be the average

0:33.7

age of regulators, pensions, retirement funds, the problems there, venture markets,

0:40.1

macro markets, how crypto may connect them, and then what the wealthy elite do to control the

0:45.1

government. We talked about a lot. This episode was a lot of fun to record. But before we get into it,

0:50.7

I want to talk about our two sponsors for today. The first is BlockFi.

0:55.1

BlockFi, everyone knows they're leading the charge when it comes to wealth management

0:58.9

services for crypto. If Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have any choice of becoming the next

1:04.0

global reserve currency, we're going to need a lot of infrastructure and wealth management

1:07.3

services built. This is exactly what BlockFi is doing. As many of you already know, I'm a big fan of the company.

1:13.1

I even invested and I'm a big user.

1:15.6

So today, they offer three products.

1:17.2

The first is giving U.S. dollar loans against your crypto as collateral.

1:20.3

The second is an interest-bearing account for your crypto deposits.

1:23.3

And the third is allowing you to buy or trade cryptocurrencies.

1:26.4

These three products are obviously important helping people do more with their Bitcoin,

1:29.9

Ethereum, GUSD, etc.

1:31.5

If you don't want to sell your crypto, but you need U.S. dollar liquidity, BlockFi will give you a loan.

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