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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: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. All right, folks, looking

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Speaker 1: at bitcoin once again. It is up five percent today

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Speaker 1: called as to the green Side, putting it just over

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Speaker 1: fifty one thousand dollars per coin. Let's get a sense

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Speaker 1: of what's going on with bitcoin at All Things Crypto.

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Speaker 1: We're fortunate to welcome our next guest, melt Him Demire's

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Speaker 1: chief strategy officer for coin Shares Group. They have about

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Speaker 1: four billion dollars in assets under management. Matt, what do

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Speaker 1: you think is driving your Actually I can't wait to

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Speaker 1: One of the products that coin share offers is an

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Speaker 1: e t P and exchange traded product, and of course

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Speaker 1: there haven't been any e t f s yet for

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Speaker 1: why why is they just haven't been allowed by regulators,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Winkle Vye. We're trying to get one

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Speaker 1: F out there. Um. One of the main problems, Paul,

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Speaker 1: that you don't understand in the first place, and you

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Speaker 1: have to figure out where to put it in the wallet,

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Speaker 1: then inevitably, as I did, you lose your password and

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Speaker 1: then it's just lost forever. It's terrifying. So I'd rather

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Speaker 1: be able to buy an e t F or um

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Speaker 1: they sell an e t P and I wonder what

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Speaker 1: it is. It's apparently it's physically backed e t P. Alright,

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Speaker 1: we have Mel tem back whether Mel Mel temp Demere's

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Speaker 1: chief strategy officer for coin Chairs Group about some Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. I'd love to just get

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Speaker 1: your thoughts initially here on what's driving bitcoin at Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: great to be here, Thanks for having me. Um. Look,

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Speaker 1: what's driving bitcoin is with driving I think all aspects

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Speaker 1: I think the macro environment is definitely driving some of

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Speaker 1: the inflows into bitcoin, but more than anything else, over

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Speaker 1: the last six months, we have seen the sentiment and

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Speaker 1: demand for bitcoin shift dramatically. We have corporate treasurers and

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Speaker 1: the renown spot managers, Bridgewater, black Rock, all of the

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Speaker 1: So overall, really, the way I think about it is

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Speaker 1: sentiment more a brilliant, more ulish than ever. Sentiment translates

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Speaker 1: into demand. There is more demand than ever. Bitcoin has

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Speaker 1: a limited supply um. Only eighteen and a half million

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Speaker 1: As demand goes up, price goes up. And then the

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Speaker 1: the world's first asset manager to actually give you a

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Speaker 1: certified aspectation from Armanino LP, one of the world's large

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Speaker 1: audit firms, every thirty minutes our blockchain wallet and confirmed

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Speaker 1: that that bitcoin is there. You can check that on

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Speaker 1: is pretty cool. Alright, So meltem it was a big

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Speaker 1: news when Elon Muska and Tesla they put a billion

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Speaker 1: you think bitcoin is going into? Uh? You know, I

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Speaker 1: What's the biggest risk to bitcoin, meltem It's had such

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Speaker 1: biggest risk, honestly, I think um cyclicality. Right so we're

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Speaker 1: malt Tom, thanks so much for joining us. As always,

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Speaker 1: we love to get your thoughts on all things crypto.

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Speaker 1: Meltemp demers, chief strategy officer for coin Share Group. US

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Speaker 1: retail sales they surged in Januate by the most in

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Speaker 1: seven months, beating all estimates. So really just some strong

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Speaker 1: numbers showing that the consumer, at least in January was

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Speaker 1: We can do that with Craig Johnson. He's the president

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Speaker 1: I guess as a number of drivers, we weren't surprised. Frankly.

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Speaker 1: But we do anticipate some inflation creeping into into the mix. Correct.

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Speaker 1: It's the biggest risk to your retail sales forecast this year.

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Speaker 1: Craig Johnson, thank you so much for joining us. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate your thoughts and sharing retail sales forecast with us

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Speaker 1: on the back of a very strong retail sales number

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Speaker 1: for or January. Craig Johnson, He's the president of Customer

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Speaker 1: Growth of Partners Based. He's up in a New Canaan, Connecticut.

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Speaker 1: Again some very strong retail sales number suggesting that the

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Speaker 1: independent contractors. So you've had these controversies about so called

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. Josh Idols, Bloomberg Labor Reporter,

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