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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney alongside

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: you interviews from CEOs, market pros, and Bloomberg experts, along

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. Matt, this next next

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Speaker 1: segment is right down your alley. We're talking bitcoin. As

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Speaker 1: I look at my Bloomberg terminal here, XPTU top one

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Speaker 1: percent today to thousand, call it one seventy five dollars

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Speaker 1: for the coin. Let's introduce some safe He's the founder

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Speaker 1: and CEO of Purpose Investments. They're based in Toronto, Canada.

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Speaker 1: So thanks so much for joining us. I want to

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Speaker 1: talk to you about your Purpose Bitcoin e t F.

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Speaker 1: It's the world's first bitcoin ETF backed by physically settled bitcoin,

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Speaker 1: and it just crossed one billion dollars in assets under

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Speaker 1: management on this one month anniversary. Talk to us about

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Speaker 1: how the last month is gone for you guys. Thanks guys.

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Speaker 1: That yeah, no, it's been quite exciting. UM, I mean

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Speaker 1: we knew it was gonna be UM an interesting product

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Speaker 1: to get out the marketplace, being the first of its

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Speaker 1: kind in the world. And you know, I I've been

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Speaker 1: quite amazed by the one of course, the global interest

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Speaker 1: in in the product, but also just the continuous focus

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Speaker 1: on its uniqueness. UM. And you know, I think we're

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Speaker 1: we're we've been, you know, pleasantly surprised by by such

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Speaker 1: an amazing on point and the continuation of it, I mean,

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Speaker 1: across the billion dollars and you know, ironically on this

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Speaker 1: we've seen just really rapid continued interest in the asset.

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Speaker 1: And you know, look, I think innovation always wins in

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Speaker 1: the long run, and I think that's what this ultimately proves.

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Speaker 1: So some lift up the hood for us and tell

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Speaker 1: us how this works mechanically. How do you trade, for example,

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Speaker 1: your bitcoin for the fund? So yeah, I know, it's

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Speaker 1: look at it's actually really important. You know what sounds

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Speaker 1: the bitcoin asset, digital assets in general trade uh in

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Speaker 1: real time and settle in real time, so they are

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Speaker 1: instantaneous settlement. Then, of course, the traditional securities market trades

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Speaker 1: an important thing. So what we do is, we of

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Speaker 1: accumulating the interests and demand. And then what we do

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Speaker 1: is we work with them on you know, when they

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Speaker 1: bitcoin in real time UM with them, with them and

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Speaker 1: our specific traders. So we work with some of the

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Speaker 1: best institutional traders in the over the counter market of bitcoin, uh,

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Speaker 1: is investing in your e t F. I've be interested

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Speaker 1: Of course, retail UM continuously is looking for unique ways

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Speaker 1: opinion columnist Joe No Sarah. It takes a lot to

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Speaker 1: Joe has one that should tell you how important we

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Speaker 1: consider his opinion. Joe, you're talking about union saying they

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Speaker 1: agree with Vince's point in that you're going to see shortages,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. This is going to be a

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Speaker 1: big issue for this economy and will certainly pay attention

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