Yaseen: We are at a point in time where crypto can never be broken by anyone if you don't want it to be. And therefore, is it in the purview of any particular government agency? Yaseen mentioned that Hayek also said that, you know, the only way this could happen was somewhat surreptitiously so that the government might have just tried to squash it. I think what you call it surreptitious, did you? I think it's sneaky. The genie is out of the bottle.
When ARK CEO and CIO Cathie Wood was discussing Bitcoin and Digital Assets in general with her mentor and famed economist Dr. Arthur Laffer, he told her that it reminded him of an era before the Federal Reserve existed. This idea spurred Cathie to invite Dr. Laffer on the FYI podcast to further discuss the history of money in general and what Bitcoin’s role in the history of money might be. Alongside Cathie and Art, we are also pleased to welcome Ophelia Snyder, the Co-Founder and President of 21.co, a Cryptocurrency Exchange Traded Product (ETP) provider. In the discussion, Cathie, Art and Ophelia discuss the original idea of centralized money, the economic booms and busts of the past, the transparency of digital assets and much more.
Key Points From This Episode:
- The United States early definition of a dollar
- The relatively novel concept of centralized money
- A world before the Federal Reserve (Fed) in 1913, and how the Fed changed money
- Economic booms and busts in history starting with The Great Depression
- How the real economy has changed in the US and globally
- What a new Gold-Standard in the world of Digital Assets look like
- Art argues for the necessity of a price rule
- Stable coins and some of their inherent challenges
- Bitcoin’s similarities to Gold
- The number of wallets that hold Bitcoin long term
- The potentially changing role of the SEC
- Why a more transparent and decentralized ecosystem may be beneficial
Please note that 21.co and ARK are unaffiliated entities.