[Music] Bless nation. For all our American listeners out there, happy 4th of July. Happy 4th of July to you, David. How you doing? You You're not actually in America on the 4th of July. Are you? No, I am in France where everyone celebrates Fourth of July every year, right? I don't know, man. You tell me. I've never been there for 4th of July. What are you doing in France? Uh oh, it's ECC week this week. Uh one of the oldest running Ethereum conferences. unofficial like not not thrown by the EF just bootstra ...

Bankless Nation, welcome to our monthly crypto fundamentals podcast. We got a few topics to discuss today. Are we forever stuck at like 107k Bitcoin, 2500 ETH, and 150 Salana.Feels like we've been in this zone forever. We're going to talk about that. Also, are alts the most hated asset right now.And if that's the case, are we actually going to get an alt rally. Maybe a hate rally. And uh where approximately are we in the cycle.Feels like some summertime blues maybe. And when the bull market comes, will it a ...

Last year we made 13.7% billion in in profits and this year I think we're going to beat that. Wait 13.7% billion in profits. Last year and this year I think we can do a little bit better.Look only with only having $155 billion. You know the Fed didn't cut the rates. We have been saying that for a long time and you know kind of was true.So the rates are still around 5%. So you do the math it's you know give or take 7.5% billion just because of that and then all the rest we are doing all the other investments ...

I got a call from Congress last night. Sir, there's a problem. I said, what is it.Money is pouring in. We don't know how to account for it. I said, check the tariffs.$88 billion came in from tariffs, no inflation, and it's going to get even more. So, I know what I'm doing. So, we have a a stupid person, frankly, at the Fed.He probably won't cut today. Europe had 10 cuts and we had none. And I guess he's a political guy.I don't know. He's a political guy who's not a smart person. But he's costing the country ...

Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of stable coins. On today's episode, the Genius Bill just passed in the Senate. David and I have Senator Bill Hagerty. He's one of the co-authors of the bill. He's on the episode today. David, what' you think? Yeah, Bill is uh he's bullish. Uh he he also shared with us a story of his first interaction with crypto and illicit payments and that was his first impression about crypto like way back I think it was in like 2018 2019 when he told that story it was ...

Ethereum and ETH is not a tech company. ETH is a store of value. It took 15 years for institutions to understand Bitcoin, right. It took 15 years to get regulatory clarity.So, this did not happen overnight. We need needed a first easy to understand digitally native store value. Bitcoin paved the way.Bitcoin's going to be a treasury asset. That's phenomenal. It is a little bit harder to understand ETH.Not a lot harder. As we're clearing up in this report, it's actually pretty simple, but the understanding ga ...

ETH is digital oil. Why the digital oil metaphor. What's the market value of oil.I mean, I think people are pretty familiar with gold, something like $20 trillion, something like this. How about oil. What's the market cap of oil.$85 trillion. So, there's some upside. So, we like it cuz it's a bigger number. Is that why we like it. We like it for a lot of reasons.One is it's a bigger number. Oil is a strategic asset. It is a strategic reserve asset.It powers economies. It's stockpiled on a national level. It ...

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It's not going to be long until people say ETH belongs in a portfolio with Bitcoin. But coming back to the tech stock part, it just you're missing the forest for the trees. You're saying that cash flows are just one tiny tiny portion. We should be looking at what digital oil means for the digital economy, what a store of value asset, what a reserve asset, what a fuel actually means. And that belongs in the same conversation, in the same valuation zone as Bitcoin, if not higher. Beglas Nation, we have VC and ...