A (4:34)

Seems like that's all going to take a while. I mean, I guess if I'm being sympathetic to the banks, which is, like, gives me, you know, hives. But the Genius act did sort of allow Coinbase to get around the yield conversation, right? I mean, and Coinbase is in a position, if we're being honest, where they can effectively offer rewards or yield in a way that they like, when nobody else almost can. So it seems like the ball really is in Coinbase's court and they probably have very little incentive to push for change. And as a second to that, why does Brian Armstrong have so much power? Like the fact that you said they're just waiting for Brian Armstrong to come in, like he doesn't have a vote.

C (5:14)

It's interesting, right? And CEOs have not been privy to these talks. They have not brought in sort of the big guns, as it were. There's no bank executives, no Brian Armstrong. It's very much been the bank trades, the crypto trades. I think, you know, the. The highest level of sort of like senior executives we've seen is like, as I mentioned, Paul Grewall, who's the chief legal officer, Miles Jennings, who's the head of policy and the chief legal officer at a 16Z. So you're not getting to like, the C suite level in this, in these conversations. But, you know, Brian definitely knows what he's talking about when it comes to, you know, the crypto side of the conversation. He's also very sort of skewed to the crypto side, obviously. He saw Jamie Dimon speak to CNBC yesterday, and, you know, he's got the bank angle, but he's also got the crypto angle, might I say a little bit wrong. Right? You know, he's talking about yield and rewards is the same thing, while they can be the same thing. In this. In this conversation, you know, like I mentioned before, yield and rewards are not the same thing anymore. He's also talking about, you know, the crypto industry not being regulated in the same way as banks, which I think, you know, in some cases that is true. The genius act, though, it's almost like the genius act never passed in Jamie Dimon's eyes, right? He's like, you know, there's no bsa, there's no AML with the Genius act. Stablecoin issuers are going through, you know, rigorous, you know, aml, bsa, kyc you know, regulation. So there's some points there that he made yesterday that's like, okay, well, you know, you are very talking the one side of the book, but I guess when you. In these negotiations, both sides are trying to get what they want here, so it's not entirely surprising.

A (6:46)

Yeah. I just don't understand why Coinbase would ever come around. If they're going to have something taken away,

D (6:52)

there's no reason for them to.

A (6:54)

Yeah.

D (6:54)

125 million customers, and so there's a reason why people are like, I want Coinbase to come to the table. Well, of course. They're the 8, 000 pound gorilla in the room and they're the reason why. They're the only reason why. Jamie Dimon has decided to talk about crypto and blockchain over the last six to 12 months as if he knows what he's talking about. You know, one thing about Jamie Dimon, he hasn't done anything of, of real constructive meaning, even in the banking space over the last five years, other than build a really big building in Manhattan. Right. So Jamie diamond should have retired probably five years ago and he'd be a name that's recognized as, you know, a scion of J.P. morgan and a CEO. That was meaningful. He, he's, he's on the back. At best, he's on the back three of 18 holes of his career. Right. There's nothing that he's going to do that's going to be innovative in any way, shape or form. So, you know, we talk about Jamie diamond because it's a name that people know and will get some clicks associated with social media, yada, yada, yada, but it's just, there's nothing coming out of that guy's mouth, slash brain, slash action that's doing anything that's meaningful for the next five to seven years of the world of finance and crypto going forward. Brian Armstrong, that's another conversation. That guy's doing all sorts of meaningful stuff. And so thus the idea that, well, Brian Armstrong has to come back to the table.

C (8:33)

And let's not forget there's, there's real animosity there. I mean, Jamie Dimon, yeah, I mean,

A (8:39)

give him the finger or drop an F bomb or something at him and, yeah, for sure.

C (8:44)

Told him he was full of shit.

D (8:46)

Yeah, yeah. Right. And, and the reason why he's saying that is because he sees the data of the leak of assets and clients that move to Coinbase, by the way, and never come back to J.P. morgan. Right? Because the, the, the Ability to move money, the ability to avoid a behemoth of ask questions and, and, and not be able to do certain types of business, yada yada, that all exists. And let legacy JP Morgan that doesn't exist at Coinbase. Tillman's got all kinds of stories associated with how easy it is to do business at Coinbase. Right there, therein lies the problem right there in life.

B (9:24)

Well, and I think it really stems from a redefining of the definition of the word bank. In the past, banks were brick and mortar on the corner of every small town. Then it got expanded to JP Morgan and the likes of them being called banks so that they could issue debt on the back of securities and use that as collateral. And now there's a broadening of the expansion of that group of people called banks. And there should be. And to think that we're going to not issue yield on stablecoins because legislation here in the US says that the world can't do that is foolish. Deposits look for, for yield, period. The end. And so if you want to be a bank and you want to entice deposits, you have to address this issue and you have to address it not from a domestic perspective, but from a global perspective. Because if we don't issue yield or make it illegal to, to recognize yield with deposits of stable coins, the stable coins, and that those deposits are going overseas, period. The end. Because there will be other countries that allow that. There's going to be a fight for this territory, this market share. And the banks obviously are protecting the legacy way in which they make money. And the legacy industry makes money in holding a lot of deposits, playing with those deposits at leverage in the overnights and the likes, and then also charging an AUM management fee to hold those assets, that, that game has completely changed. If you look at that model of making money compared to coinbases, it's, it's polar opposites. And so therein lies the, the friction. And you know, you know, for the banks to succeed secede on this issue is going to mean that they're going to have to adopt a new way of making money. They're not going to. Right.

A (11:26)

Ellie said it's dead in the water.

B (11:27)

And I would argue the same thing is true for Brian Armstrong. Like why would he. Again, same thing.

A (11:33)

Yeah. So to me and Elliot, I want some, no, no pun intended, clarity here. But so stablecoin is a major sticking point and issues that could potentially be bigger are tabled. Ethics is a huge issue. I can't see that. Seems like they would be further apart than even stablecoins. So you have the banks and the crypto industry, and then you have the political side. Right. Democrats versus Republicans. Is it fair to say that this is unlikely to get passed anytime soon and that maybe we can just move on in the conversation for a little while?

C (12:03)

Well, it's interesting, I think. Depends who you talk to. I tend to talk to a lot of optimists. I think whenever I talk to people, they tend to be people who are on the Senate Banking Committee who are very optimistic that this thing is going to pass. But I think we're at the point now, you know, I talk to Senate Democrats and I talk to Senate Republicans, but I think we're almost at the point where they are so done with crypto. I mean, you've heard Mark Warner in the Senate Banking Committee hearing with Scott Bessant a couple weeks ago, he said, I've been living in crypto hell. He's like, we just want to get this done. And I've heard, you know, I've heard this from other Senate Democrats, too, that it's just like we. It's almost like fatigue. Right? It's crypto fatigue. They just want to get this done and out the way so they can move on to other things. You know, I think at this point, the White House and the Senate Democrats, they've. They've drawn the red lines in the sand, Right. When it comes to the ethics agreement. Agreement, the White House has said they don't want anything on the table that will restrict the president or his family members or the vice president or his family members from being able to, you know, dabble in the crypto market because they say that's, you know, against the. That's against the Constitution. Right. They don't want members of Congress to not be able to do that. I mean, that's a whole different conversation. Right. That kind of goes into the whole, like, you know, inside. I mean, you've got a whole insider trading bill. Right. Just introduced by. I believe it was. It. Was it Elizabeth Warren. She's just introduced a bill or she's like behind a bill that will.

B (13:27)

Which is, you know, starting now.

C (13:30)

Yeah. I mean, that's a whole nother thing. Right. This is not just. My point is that it's my whole, you know, it's not just crypto. Right. This is a whole different thing like ethics and, you know, trading and owning stocks and owning crypto. This should not be put into the Clarity Act. This should just be something that is completely separate. So, you know, you're putting something that shouldn't be in a crypto bill in a crypto bill. Anyway, the Democrats and the White House, you know, probably can't get any further together than they are on this on this issue. So you've got that and then you've got the, the defi side of things, which is, you know, conversations over 1960, which is specific section of the, of the BSA, I believe. And you know, just little things over illicit finance that I believe the Democrats want to just great. Gain some more ground on. So I in my latest newsletter, I reported that the Senate Banking Committee is eyeing mid to late March. So a couple weeks from now for a new markup. Right. So we they postpone that markup because of Brian Armstrong's tweet on January 15th. So we're a month and a half past that now. They're looking at later this month to potentially schedule another markup. So I think they're trying to get this thing out of committee, guys. And then, you know, from there, it's kind of like it's out of Scott, Tim Scott's hands. Right. So once it's out of Senate banking, then it has to merge with the Senate ad Committee's text, and then you've got one legislative bill that has to pass the Senate. Once it gets past Tim Scott, then it's in Leader Thune's hands and then it has to get out of the Senate. So I think they're trying to get that next step passed because once you've kind of got that next, you know, you're out of committee and then at least you're, you're past that hurdle. So TBD when but I'm hearing mid to late March for another Senate banking try at this markup. But I know that they want to clear all these hurdles before they reschedule that markup because they don't want the same thing to happen again that happened back in January where it's like, oh, all these sides are unhappy. And at the last minute they're like, oh, no, no, no, we can't do this.

A (15:21)

So I appreciate the people you've talked to who are optimistic. I love optimism. But what I'm hearing is see you in 2036. I mean, it's just like. And luckily I've watched Schoolhouse Rocks and I've heard the song I'm Just a Bill. So I understood that process that you talked about, but I know that it's going to take a really, really long time. I know you got to go in a couple minutes. I Want to bring up one other thing that you highlighted yesterday. So which is, and the irony, you kind of said, hey, you know, we've got these crypto provisions and bills that seemingly have nothing to do with crypto. Well, here we are. Guess it's not a crypto provision. But CBDC ban has now made it into the 21st century road to Housing Act.

C (16:01)

Yes, yes. If you remember the. It was a standalone bill. So this is different than. So Tom Emmer introduced his anti CBDC act. That was, remember there were three bills last year that went to, that passed the House. It was the anti CBDC bill, it was the Genius act and it was Clarity, the House's version. They all passed. This was in June and then it was this whole kerfuffle was like, it was like, are we going to put Genius and Clarity together? Are we just going to pass Genius on its own? And it ended up being like genius went to the President's desk, Clarity was sent to the Senate. And then anti CBDC was just kind of floating there. And if you remember the Freedom Caucus, they were all, you know, they made a whole stink on the floor because they were like, we've got to do something with this anti CBDC act because we don't think the Genius act is strong enough where, you know, it's going to prevent a CBDC in the future. And there was a whole like, if you remember this was the Genius act almost didn't like have enough votes because the Freedom Caucus wouldn't vote for it. The Freedom Caucus Republicans, because of this CBDC little snafu there. Then they came to an agreement that's like, okay, we'll put the CBDC ban in the ndaa, the must pass defense spending bill at the end of the year. It was all scheduled to go in there in December. And then all of a sudden it was taken out of that because I think a lot of people were kind of of the opinion like if you've been in Congress for a while, they kind of were like, okay, we say it's going to go in there, but probably has no chance of actually going in there and passing. Anyway, it was taken out of that and now you see it back in this new housing bill from the Senate Banking Committee. So whether it stays in there, I don't know. I mean it's, you know, it was just introduced yesterday, so we'll see. It's not exactly the same bill that Emmer introduced. It's a little bit watered down, a little bit more limited. And you see a provision in There that it actually sunsets in 2030, which I think a lot of people were a bit startled by.

A (17:52)

Yeah, I mean, who needs a CBDC when we have the GENIUS act anyways, right?

C (17:56)

There are provisions in the Genius act that prevent the Fed from implementing or, you know, establishing a retail CBDC indirectly or directly. But I think a lot of people just didn't think the language in that was strong enough, so they needed an extra little boost. But I guess we'll see what happens with this one. But, yeah, funny that things just get tacked on to pieces of legislation that have absolutely nothing to do with crypto. Right.

A (18:19)

The Veterinary Save Dogs act now has a central bank digital currency provision. Yeah, I don't get it at all. Ellie, I know that you got to run. You have a train to catch. I appreciate you being here unpacking all this for us. Thank you so much, everybody. Give her a follow and hopefully we'll see you really soon.

C (18:33)

Yeah.

A (18:33)

Thank you.

C (18:34)

Good to see you. Talk soon.

D (18:36)

Has it. Has it dawned on anybody, any politician for that matter, that Coinbase is sending their chief legal officer to these meetings so he can take as much notes as he can to make sure that they navigate whatever the hell comes out of those meetings? Is it dawned on anybody that that's what they're doing?

A (18:55)

Well, I. I like, hear her talk about it and I love the coverage and I love the dil, but, like,

D (19:01)

I just want to punch myself in the face when I listen.

A (19:05)

So stupid.

D (19:07)

Yeah, it is. Really.

A (19:08)

I'm here for democracy, but, like, it is so broken and ineffective and dumb and counter to the interests of humanity. Like the very fact that nobody is sitting back and going, maybe people should be able to earn yield on their deposits.

B (19:26)

Seems pretty.

A (19:27)

Seems pretty obvious that a person who parks their money at the bank should be the one to benefit from. From parking their money at that bank.

B (19:33)

Well, and you do get that when you have 20 million at J.P. morgan, you get to have a three point.

A (19:39)

Oh, right. I forgot about the whole socialism for me and capitalism for the rich poor thing. Yes.

B (19:46)

Yeah, and that's really what needs to be rich.

A (19:49)

That's all.

B (19:49)

Well, it's what this struggle is about. It's why Brian's really. You know, most of his tweets this year have been centered around access and breaking down the barriers of access for. For everybody to participate in IPOs through tokenized securities, through ICOs, you know, through yield, through staking all. All the defi protocols that he's integrated natively into the user interface. All that stuff is it, you know, like Andrew said earlier, it's groundbreaking efforts and it does deserve an applause. But I think the bigger issue that the legislation of these types of tax have need to start with one premise. Can we legislate them? I mean, if I make, you know, making fires illegal, you know, you're policing something that everyone can do anywhere. And it's kind of a basic necessity of life. Well, moving money and moving value is a basic necessity of life. And so when people, you know, like the Trump sons have said so eloquently a million times, when you get debanked and, and you rely on those things and you go, aha, there's another system here that, that I'm in control of. That type of innovation can't be legislated. It can't be put in a bag. It's, it's globally out. So the question then has to be is what sets America up to be the leader? What sets America up to be the innovator? What sets. And then, you know, criminal behavior is easy to spot. How do you know it's criminal? Well, because it breaks the laws that are on the book. So whether you're doing it in crypto, whether you're doing it in any other business, it's all, you know, it all falls to the same standard. Right, the law.

A (21:36)

Okay, so quickly, two things I want to pivot to the actual market and all the things that we discussed there. But one is bothering me, Scott, that better not be twisted tea or drinking the nerve. All right, the tangerine Lacroix.

D (21:50)

That's right.

A (21:50)

And they're my sponsor and I would lose them if I had. It's Lacroix 30T is just, it's just, that's just a. Guys, it's just an uncarbon.

D (22:02)

You didn't get that joke, Tillman.

B (22:04)

Yeah, he didn't get that one.

A (22:05)

I'm just saying I was, I was too bad. I was in my zone.

D (22:08)

Yeah, well, LaCroix 30 is 30 proof.

A (22:11)

Oh, I would drink that. I mean young for me would have drank that. Now that I'm not Draker, but. So listen, let's talk about what's happening in markets, right? We've got breaking, just said markets, but markets post largest declines in month as Brent oil prices surge above 85 a barrel. We're going to get there. Korean stocks suffer worse sell off since 2024. That's cool that Korea has a stock market. Didn't know that. Just kidding. And breaking. Iraq has shut down oil production at Ramayala, the world's second largest oil Field. This by the way, follows the shutdown in Qatar yesterday. Straigh and formulas effectively are closed. And this is just rocking oil markets around the world. I'm sure I have it here somewhere. Now I can't find it because I'm bad at prep, but yeah, we're having some issues here in the oil market. 93 Europe 54%. It's a complete shit show out there. And what I want to get to with that long monologue, Bitcoin flat.

D (23:16)

Yeah. Nation states are trading like altcoins. So that's fun. Also, you know your last headline about the, you know, the cost of gas, you know, associated with oil. That has to do with Europeans, that doesn't have nothing to do with us here in the United States. So you know, we're good on the oil front here domestically with our, our ability to, to generate barrels of oil has, has gone in the right direction over the past decade.

A (23:53)

We can't make small plastic toils toys, but we've got oil nailed. That's right.

D (23:57)

That's right. Yeah. It's interesting. It'll play out. I mean yesterday markets were down big to start the day and then they were essentially flat. The NASDAQ was actually up, you know, for the, for the day. You know, Eric Balchunas put out a tweet today that like the past five business days, you know, 1.5 billion has gone into Bitcoin ETFs. Right. So, so I, I, you know, it would. I understand that if all I ever do is come on this show and just say look at ETF inflows or outflows and that is the price of, of bitcoin and where it's headed. And that's just kind of the reality, man. It's, it's.

B (24:41)

They're the new miner for sure. They control the price, they control the supply, they control access. Close the closer you are to the printing press.

D (24:51)

Yeah.

B (24:52)

The, the more you control in this world. And I would argue Wall Street's as close as it gets. And bitcoin, I, I will say I think that what you're seeing, mature markets reward utility, they reward actual use of technology. And if you have been in the crypto space for any length of time, you've seen the reshuffling of the deck of the top 10 cryptos, the top 50 cryptos, the top 100 cryptos, like go back to 2015. None of those projects exist with the exception of Bitcoin and Ethereum. Basically Litecoin. But yeah, but the point I'm trying to make is this. That type of disruption causes a reshuffling of what's valuable from a utility perspective. And our market today, global market, is doing some serious reshuffling. And it's doing it because things have changed so drastically from a landscape, from a technology perspective with AI, that there's a big question mark is like, what's going to have utility going forward? What's going to be the safe haven asset? It sure is. Heck, in Silver, Silver was up 7 1/2% yesterday, down 6% today. I mean, it's become an altcoin basically from a volatility perspective.

A (26:17)

Risk on, gold's risk off, but silver's risk on. We've been saying that a long time.

B (26:21)

So you're seeing this reshuffling of like, people going, okay, how, how important is this going to be to our future? And technology is driving that equation like big time. And so I don't see it as a bad thing, and I just see it as a reconsolidation of wealth, no different than what we were arguing about as it pertains to the traditional banks and their voice. What's crazy to me is that, you know, who's controlling the conversation? The banks and Brian Armstrong. It's like, when did, when did private industry become the legislator? And, and I guess this is so complicated that we can't put people in positions that don't have a dog in the fight to, to make those laws. But it seems to me like that would be the logical solution is actually have unbiased, you know, bipartisan people in there going, okay, what's good for America? And how do we push this technology to the forefront so our people can innovate on, on it. It's just our system is so broken from, from politics to technology to the markets. You know, this whole thing with Jane street. If you have gotten digging into that rabbit hole, good luck because that will again prove that there's going to be a big reshuffling. And I, I think markets going forward are going to have to be on the blockchain in order to provide the trust that people are going to need to place as much money as, as the market makers want to be placed on those markets. Right.

A (27:54)

Andrew, can I show you something? Can I show you something that it will feed your think kink?

D (27:58)

Yep.

A (27:59)

Challenge you not to have a spontaneous orgasm. Okay, here's our friend, Matt Hogan. I made it weird, didn't I? Here's our, here's our friend saying the

B (28:08)

show's live on the show.

A (28:12)

Whatever. Here's our friend Matt Hogan talking about blackrock. This, this one might, might really caught

E (28:17)

me was an interview with blackrock CFO Martin Small. Right. Not a household name, but obviously a very important person at blackrock. And he said they plan to tokenize all of their ETFs in the next three to 12 months. The thing I'm not sure crypto gets is that for a large institution, when something is on a 3 to 12 month time frame, it's a fait accompli.

D (28:40)

Right.

E (28:40)

At that point, you're dotting the I's and crossing the T's. And it's not a project that may or may not happen, it's something that's going to happen. And yeah, if you think of a world where all of BlackRock's ETFs are tokenized and it's fully embracing defi and on chain finance, that's the world we're going to be in in a year. And I think it's just absolutely remarkable.

A (29:09)

That's awesome. When he said Martin Small, by the way, I couldn't help but thinking about Martin Short. And then I was thinking about the Three Amigos. But anyways, go ahead. What do you think, Andrew?

D (29:17)

When I think of Martin Short, I think of Jiminy Glick. Okay. That, that's the more committed.

A (29:24)

Correct.

D (29:24)

He plays. So what I think about it is I'm not surprised. And by the way, to Matt's point, three to 12 months, it's not a fait accompli like it's already done. They're just back testing it right now in some sandbox so it's ready to go when they, when they launch it. So it, by the way, this plays into the whole what's going on in politics and the genius versus clarity act like that literally doesn't matter based on what Matt Hogan just said.

B (29:57)

Well, it means that, it means that Larry Fink is the new Brian Armstrong. 12 months. Right. He's going to be pushing the boundaries of Defy and this future finance, which should tell us that this cat's. Again, you can't. Good luck. I mean, I don't even think we'll get clarity from the Clarity act before this project is complete.

D (30:19)

Listen, I, I freaked out when I, when I saw this now I think three or four months ago, whatever it was. So the deal Book Summit in New York City in the middle of Manhattan is as big a TRADFI event as exists on the planet. All right? So everybody that's anybody that wears a suit and is worth a hundred million dollars or More and still has a C something next to their name in tradfi goes to that and wants to speak at it. The fact that Brian Armstrong and Larry Fink were sitting next to each other talking about the future of finance. Done over. I don't need to seek anything else. Nothing else.

B (31:01)

And Brian's holding the majority of their. Their.

D (31:04)

That's correct. That's custodian. So I mean like Larry's like, hey man, make sure is everything good over there? Are we. This is our most important product. Make sure we're good. And then Matt just says, what?

B (31:16)

Well, I guarantee he's been brought in there. Who do you think is providing the tokenized infrastructure?

D (31:23)

So that's the outgrowth of, of all of this. Like step one, step two, step three, step four. Oh, it's done. Right? So we're gonna be, we're gonna be in a tokenized trading world. You know, I keep saying like two to three years. It's going to be sooner than that. It's going to be sooner than that. Right? We have all of these announcements. So the NYCFC and the NASDAQ and all that stuff, they don't talk about 247 trading and tokenized trading again without being like, oops, we didn't mean to say that six months ago. We were just kidding. We're just goofing off.

B (31:55)

CME's already announced it for a. Yeah. For certain date in to in the future. Remember when it is. I think may, but so, so again,

D (32:04)

you, you just the, the picture of them sitting together, talking through stuff. By the way, that's also why Jamie Diamond's pissed off because Larry's like, man, I'm not your friend anymore, Jamie. I like Brian better. I mean, that's the reason why I'm like, seriously, that's the reason he hates Brian Armstrong right there. That's the reason. Because five years ago, I bet if you did a grok search or something, you could find a world where, where Jamie and Larry are sitting together on a panel somewhere.

B (32:35)

Listen, you know what? Fortune favors the bold, right? It's like you, you gotta be willing to take that bet. Jamie had all the chances in the world to embrace this. He's been talking about it for as long as anyone hating on it. You know what I mean? So, I mean, he could have jumped into the pool at any point in time. So you know what they say, you get the price you deserve in Bitcoin. That's, that's the.

A (33:00)

Also I, I thought you get meme coins at the price you deserve.

D (33:04)

So the fact that BlackRock CFO is talking about three to 12 months, that's a bigger deal than visionary CEO guy. Right? CFO is like, that's hedge.

B (33:18)

That's hedge guy. He's probably added a few months to that.

D (33:22)

He's like, I gotta be careful here.

A (33:26)

And by the way, it's not just them. I mean we've talked about the fact that the DTCC is doing this stuff before, but yeah, I mean, let me take away Matt. Add this bad driving Tokenizations evolving from concept toward integration with market infrastructure. This foundational explainer breaks down the basics and outlines how the DTC tokenization service is designed to extend yab. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is the guy. These are the people that do 4 quadrillion in transactions.

D (33:52)

Yeah, that's right. So again, let's not, let's not go too far with this. Right? So tokenization is a cool word, right? It's a cool thing for our industry. It's, it's a, it's a buzzword, all that stuff for the time being. And again, this is meaningful and in. As it relates to the evolution of finance. 24. 7 Availability of trading and moving money is a significant leap forward, but at the same time currently in the way that it's going to be rolled out. Tokenization is effectively just always on functionality for right now and they'll use certain types of Rails and buzzwords. But it's, it's not necessarily.

B (34:32)

Not the full feature set.

D (34:33)

No, it's not the full. Right, it's not the full feature set. But again, 24. 7 availability is going to be a huge adjustment for what it is though.

B (34:44)

I think the biggest point that it gives them is a settlement layer across all of their asset classes. Because if you tokenize everything now, you can collateralize everything now. Everything is a form of collateral. Again, trading activity, not just your equity position and your cash position.

D (35:08)

Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how that BlackRock Coinbase relationship evolves. By the way, you know how hard, I mean my, my goodness, how hard is it for Coinbase to be like, forget all this clarity garbage. We're just gonna get a conditional banking license.

A (35:31)

And then I think they're just going through the motions with clarity. All of them I think completely agree. I think it's a show at this point and even when I've had we. I have guests on, we'll have like a private conversation right before and it'll be like, oh yeah, this thing's dead in the water. And then we come on the show and it's like, yeah, well here's all the progress that we're making. You know, it's just like every, they all have to have their seat at the table. They all have to work through it. But if they're saying, hey, this is going to be done by May or March or I think Garlinghouse, 90% or 99%, I think he said 90% chance this gets done. Like, I think everybody, no, no disrespect to him, but I think everybody's just talking the most favorable potential outcome because it's better for the market if everybody believes that there's a chance that this is going to happen. I mean, right. I mean you even have like, you know, we talk about Jamie, Jamie Dimon, Clarity Act Passions could trigger crypto rally says JP Morgan. Right? So this is why everybody's speaking favorably of it, because everybody wants to not admit that this thing that I'm going to show you is happening, which is that altcoins or 38 of all coins are now trading near their all time lows, worse than the post FTX period for crypto coins. Pretty bad out there. So everybody needs, we need hope that,

D (36:47)

that just goes to Tillman's point about, you know, at some point we just get to what level of utility does that this token or this project have? And so altcoins going closer and closer to zero is just the natural evolution of a, of an industry. Like if, if, if your stuff isn't meaningful enough to have users that are using it on a daily basis, it's, it's not, it's junk is what.

B (37:17)

Yeah, this is, this is what we've been waiting for. I mean I've seen so much hype and so much sizzle in this space with no follow through, no real disruption, no real user base. Coinbase is one of the rare exceptions of just a domestic company being riding the wave of crypto from origin to now and picking up the market share that they deserve based upon that innovation. You cannot stop this train. And so the Clarity Act, I don't even understand why people are waiting on it based upon the fact that people are already doing this again. The utility of Larry Fink Tokenizing ETFs, the utility of Brian Armstrong tokenizing stocks and putting them on, you know, futures Copper. You can now trade on Coinbase. It's, it's kind of like the what we have now from a framework perspective allows that. What, what else do we need? Like what, what are we trying to gain from this? It seems to me like this is A last ditch effort for the banks to force the industry to sign something that puts serious handcuffs on us going forward. That's what it feels like to me. And let me tell you, I've been around the block from a contract perspective and you don't sign stuff where there's non negotiable hard line items that you disagree on.

A (38:44)

Period.

B (38:45)

The end.

A (38:45)

Because that's going to affect you in 30 years. Right. Legislation like this is, this is your precedent. We're still talking about the Howie test from the 1930s or whatever. Right. So I mean you could literally be talking about what's going to be in there a hundred years down the road.

D (39:00)

Ellie, Ellie brought up. Well they're talking about the 1960 whatever. And I'm like, I want to, you know, didn't want to jump in and say something that would, you know, be stupid or mess up what she was talking about. But I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. Like what, what, what is what A complete and utter waste of time.

B (39:18)

You never have to worry about saying something stupid and

D (39:22)

expected. Yeah. So again, very low.

A (39:25)

And then people will be impressed when you say something.

D (39:28)

Right, right. That, that you just kind of summed up most of my life. But anyways, different subject. So it, but again, you know we're Talking about the 1960 blah blah blah act about something finance like this isn't serious. Like checking accounts hardly existed back then. You just wandered around with a big wad of cash and hope for the.

A (39:52)

That's where we're all going. By the way,

B (39:57)

if you force all stable coins that are issued to be issued by banks and to be backed with T bills you, you solve this problem with the exception of one thing that the big banks have to readjust their entire profit model. That's the only thing that and, and we could get this bill passed in a nanosecond if true motives were, were on the table. And it wasn't really. This is just about protecting their legacy revenue streams. In my opinion. It's no different than like the real estate market, you know, was in such flux that that law got passed. That had to get it all kind of solidified on how they were going to play the rules going forward. And man it, it was a rainy day for a lot of folks and then for other folks it was a little bit of a, a leveling of the playing field. This I don't, to yalls point, I don't think that we're even close. It reminds me of the dumb and dumber scene where he says, so you're telling me we have a chance?

A (41:02)

What was all that? One in a million times.

B (41:04)

There is no chance.

A (41:09)

Maybe the most quotable movie of all time.

B (41:11)

It really is.

D (41:12)

Now you got my mind going. There's a million quotes that I can pull.

B (41:17)

Sam's night, I was way off.

A (41:21)

Next time I come to the Tillman, I'm going to give him my extra pair of gloves. I mean he's literally an Aspen. I mean he's like, tell me that the jokes write themselves.

D (41:37)

What's funny to me is that, you know, Jamie diamond being pissed off at Brian probably has less to do with the, you know, the back and forth politically and yields or whatever. Jamie's just pissed off that Brian's still making him work hard. He's like, I didn't, I didn't want, I don't want to do this much work in the last three or four years of my time as a CEO. I just want to kick back and, you know, relax. Which again, based on the scale of JP Morgan and what they get in yield by not paying a meaningful yield to 90 plus percent of their customers. Customers, right. What's the interest number that they make each quarter? It's like crazy. It's like 20 some billion dollars that they make between what the Fed gives them and then what they give out. You know, if he wasn't facing meaningful competition buzzing around him, he'd be like, well, I don't have to, you know.

B (42:33)

Yeah, but when, when did we start relying on people that have, you know, 20 billion dollar a year interests to be at the table, right, writing the bills? I mean that seems insane to me. It seems like a very clear conflict of interest. And, and same goes for Brian Armstrong. I mean the whole point I thought of getting the pro crypto cabinet and all the czars or whatever their titles are in there was so that we had real people that had unbiased positions of power in the government that could make clear rulings on what was best for the American people. That that's what I would think would be the process for getting something like this passed. But this is just highlighting how backwards everything is. Quite honestly.

A (43:18)

I thought they were gonna pump our bags.

D (43:21)

Yeah, no, not been a whole lot of pumping.

A (43:24)

They suck.

B (43:28)

Well, not if you think, if you understand the fact that these things can't die, they really are here for good. Like crypto is here to stay. It's like these are buying opportunities. I mean, I, I can't this morning. Yeah, well, listen, the dips are like opportunities. If you look at the risk reward ratio. So got it. It's got an 80 chance, I think plus of doubling from here. Bitcoin does. And a 20 chance of having from here. That, that sounds like a pretty good risk reward balance to me. But yeah.

A (44:04)

The alarm just going off in do what? I heard an alarm.

B (44:08)

It's my cuckoo clock.

A (44:10)

Oh, your clock. I figured that was the gimp in Andrew's basement needing fever.

D (44:15)

It's breakfast,

A (44:18)

Rocky road. So I did buy the dip this morning automatically with Arts Public, my favorite algorithmic trading tool that you all should try. Right.

B (44:29)

Well, listen, I think the thing that is a great segue into, you know, what we, what we do at Arch Public is the, the New York conference that we were at a couple of weeks ago. Anthony Pompliano put on that the room was all institutional enterprise buyers. Folks that have been sitting on the sidelines for a very long time. They have been waiting for the opportunity to present itself to buy rash based upon rational decision making, not emotion or fomo. They haven't experienced FOMO yet. They, they, they put great barriers in their life to prevent them from experiencing fomo because FOMO makes you make dumb choices. And so, you know, what we saw there is, is that there's a ton of dry capital that just is a steady buying floor. And so if you, you ever hear any adage in trading, it's always about, you know, following the smart money or you know, playing the, the counter trend, if you will. This is this, these are the opportunities that everybody talks about. It's hard to enter it, it's emotionally distracting, it's emotionally taxing because everybody thinks doom and gloom, the sky is falling. But that is the very nature of the markets as it relates to, you know, opportunity and buying, buying opportunities. And when, when you make money, you want to make money when everyone's selling. And I try to give analogies sense to people, but imagine everyone in the crypto space. There's 21 million seats in a stadium. Those, those stadium seats are season ticket holder seats. If you own the ticket, you get in the stadium. If you don't own the ticket, you don't get in the stadium. When the team's winning tickets are going at huge premiums, people are paying stupid money to get into that stadium to watch the winning team, right? Because they want to feel a part of the winning team. When the team's losing, they are, they can't fill the stadium, they can't give away the tickets. Right. If you want to buy a block of tickets in that Stadium because you think that team has a lot of potential and you don't think they're going to blow up that stadium and it's going to be a permanent staple in that city. You buy the tickets when the team stinks. Yeah, Bitcoin's team from, from that analogies perspective, stinks. We were at 5% confidence level. Fear Greed Index 5.

A (46:58)

I mean that is,

B (47:02)

5% is the lowest we've ever had in like my recent, I can't remember it ever.

D (47:07)

It's the lowest reading ever.

A (47:09)

It was the lowest reading ever stayed in fear the longest period ever. Yeah, we, it was the lowest it ever hit. The previous was 6 in July of 22 and it only stayed there briefly. So we're the lowest and the longest in extreme fear and we did spike out of it to break that streak right before coming back. It's disgusting out there.

B (47:29)

Yeah, well, but, but it's disgusting if you look at that number. But if you think about a floor price of 65, 000 or 60k with that low of a number, what, what, what other correlated drops? When the number's been that low, what percentage drop has it been from all time?

C (47:47)

High.

B (47:47)

80 plus percent. We're like a 50 pullback. Great, that's, that's healthy. That's what you want. You can't, you, you can't go straight up forever. Right.

D (47:57)

So yeah, we, we, you know, we have individualized stories too about clients that have been using our tools and using them the way that they want to. These are you know, user driven tools that have had just extraordinary experiences. And, and to me our tools are more effective and, and more useful in down markets, in bear markets than absolutely in up markets. So in up markets you can throw a, you know, you can have a monkey throw a dart at something and it's going to go up. Right? Like that's just the nature of markets. But when you're in down markets and we start bombing Iran Friday slash Saturday morning at 1:15am and Bitcoin is going lower, who in the world is taking a trade at 63k? One, you're not awake. Two, if you are, you're probably drunk. Three, on top of that it's Iran and the US going to war. You gotta think that it's going lower. But it didn't, right? So everybody that was in that particular moment using our tools, they grabbed more Bitcoin at 63, 60 before and no, nobody else did. Another thing is, you know we, we had somebody, we had a bunch of clients that came to Bitcoin investor week. One of the clients said, hey, I was, wasn't going to get in, wasn't going to be part of the concierge program because I thought, you know, bitcoin's price was going to go lower. But I decided to get in anyways because I, I needed the tools. And this guy was a reason to get in. Yeah, this guy was going around telling people at the conference, Arch Public helped me build my house in Puerto Rico and put in a pool. That's how effective these tools are. That's what it's done for me. I've been able to use them in a way that has allowed me to do real world stuff. Right. So listen, we, we let the tools speak for themselves and then we let our customers speak for us as well. We get on this show and we talk about how effective it is, but the proof is in the pudding. The proof is in 18,000plus users. The proof is in Scots putting a hundred thousand and two hundred thousand, then more than that, because I don't want to manually trade ever again. I just want to do this right.

B (50:15)

Well, and we want the proof to speak for itself. Like you said, that's why the product is free. You can use the product absolutely at no cost. We also had a lot of people came to the conference that were free users and they would come up and say, your team has supported me through my journey of getting the software up and running and accomplishing what I want it to accomplish for me, you know, as if I was a paid customer. That's, that's what we want to do. We want to make the experience of getting bitcoin ownership more, more accessible and easier for people. It's just been so hard and so complicated and really, if you boil it down to simple, you know, financial premises or simple financial rules, which is like, if you want bitcoin exposure, you should be separating your purchases. Don't ever buy at one pricing level, all of your purchasing power. You need to spread it out and dollar cost average into your cost so that you have a healthy cost curve. But the next question is, is like, is Tuesday at 9am the best time to buy or Wednesday at 5pm or are you just going to buy based upon when you're available to buy after work? Those aren't the ways in which you should apply capital. You should apply capital when there's a structural weakness in the markets. When you see a dip that provides a buying opportunity that then starts to bottom and you see buying pressure start to, you know, come back and you have to have tools to monitor those things in real time. And those are the very tools that, that we provide. And so use them for free, see if you like them, see if it provides value to you. Dig into the customer service side of what we do and, and get set up to. To, you know, whatever you want it to do, it will do. It's a very, very robust tool. And then call us and let us know what, what you think the highest value is. We love to hear feedback. Like Andrew said, we've got a lot of customers and we.

A (52:15)

Andrew, you actually came to me yesterday with an idea, and I think we should absolutely do that. Like, I'm not officially announcing it today because I don't know when we'll do it because of schedules, but to put together a webinar where basically, like, instead of doing it here every Tuesday, we sit down with anybody who's actually interested and walk very, like, diligently through what I. My. The process for me, at what point, like, we thought it was calibrated wrong, how we recalibrated that, how we got it to a point where it's basically perfectly calibrated, when and why I continue to add capital. You know, what the experience was like starting at the top of the market. How I wish, you know, we were starting right now, which I will be with another portfolio as I'm addicted. You know, I think that it would be really valuable for people and we could kind of take it offline from here and just really get into the details of what that looked like for people because, like, yeah, it's been just an exceptional tool for me, obviously. Right. It just makes my life so much easier. And I get those little dopamine hits where that alert goes off. And we all need that.

D (53:19)

Yeah. Or when you wake up and you're like, cool. My robot version of Scott Melker just did this for me while I was sleeping. Right. And, and, and that is the nature of. By the way, I get semi annoyed when I just hear singular tool or singular algorithm. We have tools, all plural. There is almost an unending version of our tools available to you. Scott, how many are you running right now?

A (53:50)

11 or 12 or 13. I scaled back. See, this is an exact perfect example. We have about 13 set up. But as the market started to drop, I actually wanted to focus more on Bitcoin. And so I kind of recalibrated to buy a higher percentage of Bitcoin and a less lesser percentage of all coins, because obviously they're going to need bigger bounces to kick in the selling side. So at any given time, you know, 6 to 13 and.

B (54:14)

And let's even break that down there, right? I mean, yeah, let's break that down even more. So those six to 13 that you can turn on and off are also. They have 15 variables that you can change within each one of those that you're also tweaking. Like if it drops by this percentage and you can change that percentage from 2% to 3% to 4.

A (54:36)

Yeah, I raise those. Right. Because, like, exactly right. Seeing how much more volatile when you see it in real time, obviously certain assets are and that. I was pretty convinced we were going lower, not higher. I wanted to buy bigger dips. Right. And spread out how much we were doing them. Listen, at the beginning, it would be like the weekly. Can I said this before. It'd be like the weekly candle would close down and my weekly daily 12 hour, six hour would fire on three complete separate assets that I would buy, like, 30 things. Right. You know, but like, there came a time I was like, okay, well, I don't have infinite capital, so I'm going to slow it down. And. And it's continued to just bring the cost basis down slowly.

B (55:16)

You can dial it to Sport plus Sport normal. Heads out there. Yeah. You get what I'm saying? It's very customizable as it pertains to how aggressive or, you know, if you want to divest of your portfolio to some degree to create cash balance because you think that we are going lower and you want to apply that capital at lower prices. All of these tools are meant to. To. To steer you in the direction that you want to head. But do it in a prudent way over time versus doing it instantly or when you're available or when the emotion, you know, gets you to the computer to actually do it. Those are all bad, bad ways to react. You should never react to the market.

A (56:01)

Right.

B (56:02)

You should be proactive in what you want to accomplish. Set those rules up and then allow the market to present the opportunities and capitalize on them. And that's what these tools do exceptionally well.

A (56:13)

I need to use my AI agent because I have an AI agent now. I'm very sophisticated. She's named Athena.

B (56:21)

You only have one, so listen.

A (56:24)

Oh, she does a lot of things. She has sub agents. Okay. But either way, like, I need to. Actually, I was gonna say something serious because somebody in the comments said, make a milker tracker. I need to literally program her to just tweet every time I get an alert and share it.

B (56:37)

Yeah, that'd be awesome.

A (56:38)

I'm not gonna do that. Right. But because that's like work.

D (56:42)

It's, it's. By the way, to tie this to 247 trading, BlackRock, Coinbase, all that stuff is coming, right? So our tools will be more and more and more and more valuable as innovation continues to find its way to financial markets. Like if we cut our teeth in

B (57:05)

the futures market, for example, like we, we will be applying these strategies across every tokenized market, every traditional market, every traditional and tokenized assets.

A (57:16)

Our hedge funds are so screwed. I've said it before, but these guys are shaking in fear of 24. 7, 365.

B (57:25)

Yes, they are and they should be.

A (57:27)

And I'm not. And I'm. And I'm sympathetic because like, if you're used to market hours and actually getting a break, sorry, welcome to crypto. Because everything is becoming. Firms are going to have to automate everything. There's just no way you can have enough competent people working at every shop who are available at 3am on Sunday to actively trade the market. And there's actually liquidity at those times. So you got to participate because 24, 7, 365.

D (57:53)

Yeah. Market hours have almost been like being a teacher. And you know, because think about this. You know, the market doesn't open till 9:30 for most traditional markets and it closes at 4 4. Right. So I mean that's, that's not even a full day for your average, you know, guy working on the line on Ford.

B (58:11)

Well, even then they give up on large sections of the year like the summer selling May and go what?

D (58:16)

You know. Yeah. And, and you get a bunch of, bunch of days off associated with, you know, different types of holidays and you know, weekends off. Right.

B (58:27)

I bet you could boil down the real trading days to under 150 a year.

D (58:32)

Yeah, there's for sure. That's absolutely.

A (58:34)

Oh, and if you actually do forget trading days, hours of, I mean like entire hours versus like hours in the year.

D (58:42)

Yep, that's right. So to your point, Scott, people kind of freaking out about this in the world of finance for sure that that's the reason why, you know, talking about it at Pops Conference like, you know, Jeff park works, it works with Pop and his organization now at Pro Cap. And you know, you either have to, to clone Jeff or several clones of Jeff or you got to figure out a way to automate, you know, the way that Jeff thinks.

A (59:13)

They just bought some bitcoin I saw that was announced Yesterday. I think 450 Bitcoin or something. Yeah. Good job, Jeff.

B (59:18)

Yeah, big purchase. Kudos to them for having dry capital to place. I. I will also say that I think that, you know, this 24. 7 markets and trading automation specifically, and what we can provide. If you go dig into that Jane street article and you see what they've been using as tools, it's automation. Every one of these big shops uses automation. Every single one of them. So the question you have to ask yourself is, is like, where can I buy automation? Where can I license this type of technology? Not a black box version of it where I don't get to control it and I don't get to work it, but something that I can download on my computer and actually work it myself. Where, you know, if you ask yourself if every one of these pro shops is using automation and yet retail has not been given access to it, there might be an advantage there that is worth checking out.

D (60:16)

Yeah, yeah. And again, we have teams. We're not just telling you to, you know, go on Twitter and say, hey, I need to be using Claude with seven different, you know, imac little machines. Right? Like, I'm not going out and doing that. I don't have any idea how to do that. But what I do know is, yeah, if I get involved with Arch Public, then there's a team of people that can help me say, hey, I want to do this. Or you know what? I want to do what Milker's doing. Can you guys set up my thing the way that Melker's doing it? Yep, we can do that.

A (60:45)

You know,

D (60:47)

then you're trading like an 8080 ADHD riddled, you know, podcast. Perfect. Well done.

A (60:53)

Honestly, I'm gonna be honest with you. My ADHD is pretty much gone. Yeah. Thinking about actually writing a book about it

D (61:06)

all those years. We're not laughing at you. We're laughing with you, Scott. That's what we're doing.

B (61:12)

That's an excellent exit joke. That's when you drop the mic and you walk out of the room like George Christ.

A (61:22)

I can't drop this mic. It's attached to something. I'm gonna break the mic. Damn it. Now it's like Placid.

D (61:30)

Yeah. Weird.

A (61:32)

Never experienced. I swear this never happened to me before. Oh, my God. We gotta go, guys. We'll be back next Tuesday. Here, Right here. I'm glad we let Ellie go early.

D (61:43)

Yeah, really good idea, you know, because

A (61:47)

I'm not sure she would have liked this part. Now that's all we got. We will be back. We're gonna set that webinar up it's gonna be great. I'm gonna be there. You're gonna be there. Everybody you know is probably going to be there, so don't miss it. I'm setting an outro video. I'll see you guys later. Peace out, everyone. Bye.

B (62:06)

Let's do. That's dope.