Tom Lombardi (@tomlombardi) is an adjunct professor of finance at Pepperdine University, California, teaching Decentralized Finance in the Business School. He was formerly a Managing Director at 3iQ (worked on the first regulated crypto fund), Director at Wave Financial (one of the first crypto RIAs), and Head of Growth for the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.

Show highlights:

[8:00] Importance of institutional investments in digital assets

[16:00] Bitcoin and institutional investors

[24:00] Bitcoin Spot ETF

[39:00] SEC proposed custody rule

[42:00] SEC actions pre-Coinbase and Binance charges

[59:00] Bitcoin is Venice?

[68:00] Regulation and technology

& much more.

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#103 - Tom Lombardi on Bitcoin ETFs, Institutional Investors and SEC's proposed custody rules