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

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Speaker 1: with my co host of Bonnie Quinn. Every business day

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Speaker 1: and on Bloomberg dot com. Taking a look at x

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Speaker 1: BT on my Bloomberg terminal, Bitcoin thirty four at ninety dollars,

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Speaker 1: up four point seven percent today, up five hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty percent off of its March low, leading some folks

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Speaker 1: to speculate whether this is this move is real or

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Speaker 1: if it's suspective of BUBBLEO. Next guest has a firm

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Speaker 1: opinion on that. Anthony Scarmucci, founder and co managing partner

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Speaker 1: of Skybridge Capital, joins this here. Anthony, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us here. You guys at Skybridge launching a

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Speaker 1: bitcoin fund. Tell us about that. Well, first of all,

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Speaker 1: great to be honest. I I you know, we've done

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Speaker 1: a tunnel research on bitcoin. After my disaster or fiasco

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Speaker 1: firm and it took about three years for us to

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Speaker 1: get comfortable frankly with bitcoin. But there are three things

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Speaker 1: in place right now that I think are quite meaningful. Regulation,

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Speaker 1: as you can see the December twenty three regulation or

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Speaker 1: yesterday's decision by the control or currency to allow these

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Speaker 1: stable coins to go through the system. UH. Secondarily, the

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Speaker 1: architecture is in place now to store the stuff easily

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Speaker 1: uh in an unhackable space. As an example, the Skybridge

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Speaker 1: Bitcoin fund is using fidelity digital assets, and so that

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Speaker 1: is a major upgrade to anything that was existing prior. UH.

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Speaker 1: And the third reason, I think this is the most

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Speaker 1: compelling reason bitcoin is one. If you take a look

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Speaker 1: at crypto assets or digital forms of storage of value,

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Speaker 1: Bitcoin at five and fifty billion dollars now has beaten

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Speaker 1: the competitors. It was probably hit were attacked sixty hundred

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Speaker 1: times uh since its inception twelve years ago. UH. And

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Speaker 1: here we are now with an encrypted technology which is

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Speaker 1: effectively a ledger. And as you and I both know

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Speaker 1: when you study the history of money, that's all money

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Speaker 1: really is. It's a ledger. UH. It's defended by tens

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Speaker 1: of millions of people that are supporting the system. As

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Speaker 1: an example, Skybridge as an active technological node attached to

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Speaker 1: the bitcoin ecosphere. Uh and, so for us, we're very confident.

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Speaker 1: I'm obviously got a great relationship with Michael Sailor and

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Speaker 1: uh Tyler and Camberrall, Cameron Winklevoss, and I worked with

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Speaker 1: Mike Novigrads closely at Goldman Sacks years ago, and while

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Speaker 1: it took us a long time to make the decision,

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Speaker 1: we came in in a very big way for Skybridge.

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Speaker 1: We put twenty five million dollars at the firm's capital

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Speaker 1: into the Skybridge Bitcoin Fund, and we now have over

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Speaker 1: three million dollars a bitcoin across our platform. Uh And

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Speaker 1: I would encourage people to go to Skybridge bitcoin dot

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Speaker 1: and the analysis that we've done as to why we

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Speaker 1: see bitcoin becoming a digital form of gold um in

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Speaker 1: the ensuing years and why it will be volatile. I

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Speaker 1: gold over the next ten to fifteen years, having a

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Speaker 1: five five billion dollar market gap gold of course having

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Speaker 1: a ten trillion dollar one five billion dollars. So, Anthony,

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Speaker 1: who are the people that have come in post the

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Speaker 1: institutional investors or retail investors. Well, it's certainly open to institutions,

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Speaker 1: accredited or qualified investors. And just to take you back

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Speaker 1: hedge fund space by having a fifty dollar minimum on

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Speaker 1: You've got to be a qualified investor to got to

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Speaker 1: buy you a whole if if you're just to put

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Speaker 1: coin and a bit. That's correct. That's that's correct. It's

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Speaker 1: probably buying you about one point eight coins right now.

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Speaker 1: a premium to where the underlying asset is actually trading,

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Speaker 1: and so and so. In the Skybridge situation, we're trying

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Speaker 1: So I would say limited supply growing demand because people

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Speaker 1: Bitcoined is portable, it's easier to store than gold. Uh

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Speaker 1: it wasn't practical. So there's nothing in the near future. Uh,

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Speaker 1: much for joining today. Congratulations on the launch of Skybridges

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Speaker 1: new Skybridge Bitcoin fund. Anthony Scarlucci, found of Skybridge Capital.

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Speaker 1: fascinating conversations around bitcoin. But I know there's one question

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Speaker 1: and that is, what did you watch on New Year's

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Speaker 1: Day or New Year's Eve? And wasn't Wonder Woman? It

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Speaker 1: And the movie theater business has been in shocking state,

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Speaker 1: joining us today. You know it's been it's been a

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Speaker 1: the theaters have been open for months, generally since September, UM,

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Speaker 1: the shores of North America. So Richard, give us a sense,

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Speaker 1: We appreciated Stephen Short, President of the Short Group, editor

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Speaker 1: The issue will be I think you know what we're

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