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Scott Melker (0:00)
We just saw one of the biggest deals, at least regarding institutions in bitcoin that we've seen announced, period. It is actually shocking when you dig into it. Hard to imagine that it won't help push the price of bitcoin up. Of course, I'm talking about Cantor Fitzgerald alongside Tether, Bitfinex and SoftBank, with Jack Mallers as the CEO to basically replicate on a larger scale what MicroStrategy Strategy and Michael Sailor are doing. Absolutely huge news. We're going to break it down today, of course, with Yago and special and very frequent guest David Young from Coinbase. Let's go, let's go. That's dope. What is up, everybody? I'm Scott Melker, also known as the Wolf of Allstreets. Before we get started, please subscribe to the channel and hit that, like, button. Going to bring on David and Iago. Now. This is obviously the story of the day. I don't think there's a question about that. Cantor Starch, crypto firm with backing from Tether and Softbank, as we dig into it, they're going to start with about 42,000 bitcoin, so about $4 billion worth of bitcoin. Already talking about raising convertible debt, going full microstrategy. Jack Mollers is also the CEO of Strike, is going to be the CEO of this company. And I think maybe the most shocking part to me is that SoftBank is contributing $900 million in Bitcoin. And at no point had I seen that SoftBank had $900 million in Bitcoin. So that either means they've been holding it quietly or they're buying it. I mean, that could be a part of this kind of steady bid we've seen. But, David, I mean, this seems like an absolutely huge piece of news to me.
David Young (1:55)
Oh, absolutely. I think this definitely legitimizes Bitcoin further as a Treasury asset for a lot of these major public companies. So I think that we've been seeing it move this direction for a while now. And I'll be honest with you, because it was kind of used more speculatively rather than as a cash management tool. I think there was kind of questions around what corporate accumulation would actually look like. But now I think that this is actually something that's going to set a pretty high floor on bitcoin. I mean, we were kind of going that direction anyway over the course of the week, but now I think this locks it in and a much higher entry point for a lot of new players.
Scott Melker (2:31)
It's interesting here. Iago he said, we're very inspired, encouraged by what microstrategy this is, Jack Mallers and other publics have been doing in the public market. He says we're not a pivoting business. We're not a business that sells video games to buy Bitcoin, obviously shots fired at GameStop. We're not, you know, and to buy Bitcoin or sells hotel reservations to buy Bitcoin. I mean, he's not even criticizing MicroStrategy directly. He's friends with Saylor, but he's saying, I mean, Saylor has an underlying software business, right, that still exists at MicroStrategy that made him a billionaire in the first place. And then he says, our treasury is not trading at any premium to net asset value. So we believe it's a very attractive vehicle for those that are looking for Bitcoin exposure. And we think it could be one of, if not the winner of this trend. So he's basically also saying this isn't going to be like MicroStrategy where it's trading at many multiple multiples to our Treasury. Kind of interesting because this is sailors.
