What is Bitcoin? This question is constantly posed to us at Bitcoin Magazine. The truth is that the answer varies depending on who you ask. With the recent economic shock from the global spread of COVID19, now feels like the right time to revisit it.

In this episode, Dave Hollerith talks with Yassine Elmandjra, crypto analyst at Ark Invest about whether or not Bitcoin does and should correlate to the stock market and global economy more broadly.

Yassine doesn't claim to know what Bitcoin is, but he has a firm grasp of the many things it can be in a realistic future, and more importantly, he has a lot of experience explaining its value to less familiar and more skeptical peers and institutions.

Topics:

The downfall of breathing narratives into existence
Bitcoin bugs and the believers of digital gold
Why noncorrelated assets are essential for mitigating risk
How Bitcoin could potentially separate not just money from the state but also property and the state
How Ark uses the Sovereign Individual thesis
Who is going to support Bitcoin's development
The Cash App's connection to Square Crypto
Underhyped v. overhyped

Resources:

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Yassine Elmandjra (@YassineARK)
Dave (@dshollers)
Bitcoin Magazine

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Yassine Elmandjra on Whether Bitcoin Should Correlate