The Rails for Finance’s Future Is Bitcoin!

Hey SatsMate Stackers,

I'm glad to be back posting about Bitcoin, finance, and the broader economy. I've come to self-reflect that this is something I am very passionate about and want to keep doing! We are witnessing a lot of bullish things happening on the institutional side of Bitcoin over the past couple of months. I think this broader acceptance will be very bullish for Bitcoin over the coming year, and with that, we will see broader user adoption & more accommodative finance solutions. 

In this podcast, I go over some bullish news from the OCC, and what this means for the broader rollout across the ecosystem. 

Everyone be sure to stay humble, stay hungry, and keep stacking: 

• The last time I posted here was October 24th, 2024 at a price of $68K
• I took some time off to focus on two marathons I completed
• Bitcoins price was rising, and I want to focus on based content, not fall into hype and euphoria as many have been
• So much has happened since I last spoke, but the main point in this podcast is discussing 
• The Office of Comptroller for Currency made a large announcement
• 3/7/25 - In the depths of the pullback, banks authorized they can hold Bitcoin on behalf of customers
• Furthermore, there have been affirmations surrounding banks' ability to engage in stable coin activities
• This along with the EO announcement (separate podcast) is a strong signal of institutional acceptance of bitcoin
• I think we are going to see more Bitcoin Banks, Bitcoin Bonds, and Bitcoin lending in the coming months
• Whether we like it, or not - bitcoin is becoming financialized before our very eyes
• What we can do is position ourselves for the better to capitalize on where we think this is all headed

Best Regards, 

I hope you all enjoyed this one! Please be sure to stand up for freedom money, Bitcoin & the right for us to not get taxed without representation! 

Best Regards, 

The SatsMate Stack

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Transcript

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Hey, what up everyone, it's the Satsmate stack. Today I'm talking about some very interesting stuff happening in the future of finance and Bitcoin. First and foremost guys, it's been a while. The last time I posted on here was October 24th of 2024. At this time, we saw a Bitcoin price of about 68,000. We didn't really know exactly who was going to be president at the time. My life, it got a little bit crazy after the election for many reasons. Overall, I kind of wanted to take a step back, kind of reassess my life, reassess some things that I want to focus on. I completed the Honolulu marathon, I completed another half marathon. I got some big physical, health goal accomplishments completed, but I also wanted to spend time with family and friends and just kind of take a step back. What happened after November 5th is we saw the price go from 68k to about 109,000 in pretty short order. With Bitcoin's price rising, I could have obviously podcasted and been really euphoric and look, I've been talking about this for the past year, look at what's happening. I just want to focus on based grounded content. I don't want to fall into the hype in euphoria. Many other people may get into it. I just want to focus on the facts and just be welcoming and warm with a lot of my content. So much has actually happened since I last spoke to all of you. I'm really excited about the state of the Bitcoin network and Bitcoin. I think it's getting a lot of adoption. A lot of growth. It is that ember of light where we're seeing the greater market deteriorate. It's kind of in a way holding up, well, I think in the face of unemployment shooting up. It's really hard to buy a house right now. There's a lot of things happening with Doge for the better, but I think overall, I think we're seeing some really exciting things in the Bitcoin space. Now, this particular podcast is actually about an announcement that was made. And I think it may have gotten overshadowed by some other things because what happened was there. There was a big pullback a few weeks ago. I think about a week or a week and a half ago. And the Bitcoin's price dropped to about $77,000 pretty quickly. So it went from $109,000, dropped to $90,000, went to $77,000. Now what happened was there was, I would say, like a brief liquidation event. You know, it's healthy. These things are healthy. Markets should always kind of consolidate at certain levels. You don't want to just see it rise, rise, rise forever. That's not healthy either. But during this whole mess of people getting liquidated and the market, quote unquote, crashing from $100 to $77,000, there was a huge announcement by the office of Comptroller for the currency. And this was made on March 7th. So this was in the depth of the pullback. The banks authorized that they can hold Bitcoin on behalf of customers. And this is something that actually health any brought up back in the early 2011 timeframe, 2010, 2011, that in the future there'll probably be Bitcoin banks. And they'll help bank a lot of customers. And you know, I find it interesting because you know, the whole idea of Bitcoin is to get away from these centralized entities. But what I kind of look at this is, is it's a green light by greater institutional adoption in the US. And you know, it's just one of those things where we're, you know, Bitcoin is for everyone, right? There's going to be your friends using it. Like, you know, your friends where you go to lunch and dinner and you go on hikes with them. Your enemies, people that you hate you hold a grudge with, they're going to be able to hold Bitcoin. Same thing at the country level, your allies and your declared enemies. Like Russia and North Korea, I ran, you know, all these China, they can all buy Bitcoin. And as much of it as they want. So I think, you know, while I'm not a huge fan of banks, we can't stop them from using this open protocol. I don't stop them from using it. I do think that big pointers need to stop cheering them all on. But I think it's important to recognize that it does legitimize things even further. I mean, it's already pretty much fully legitimized, but it's something worth kind of talking about. So that's, that's something I, I just wanted to call it there. The next thing is, there has been kind of a affirmation with this statement around the state. The bank's ability to engage in stablecoin activities. Now, I think in the future, we're going to see stablecoins used much more frequency or frequently around the world. Now, I don't like stablecoins at all to be honest with you guys. I think stablecoins are essentially CBDCs, but in a different word. Now, if we called them a CBDC, nobody would adopt them. But because they're called stablecoins, I think it's kind of like the Trojan horse into getting people to adopt this technology. I really don't like them, but you know what? We can't stop it, right? I mean, they even announced that they're going to keep supporting and allowing stablecoin development in the US. Just like altcoins, you can't stop it, you can't control it. But I think there will be benefits of it, right? And I do think you can, with stablecoins, you can actually have more people around the globe transacting in these dollar stablecoins than otherwise before. And that, I think, could be a big win, you know, when you have the Turkish Lira or the Argentine Pay So, or the Brazilian Real. These are highly volatile currencies. Now, they'll be able to transact in a US dollar stablecoin. So, I think there is a better pathway away from their local currency. But I think Bitcoin is even a better pathway than that stablecoin. Because the stablecoin over a period of time will lose value even to Bitcoin. So, I do think it's better. I think Bitcoiners, as with Bitcoiners, we need to say, hey, we're in a position of privilege. If people want to transact in dollars, they can, if it's to get away from their Venezuelan boulevards. But I think it's important that we preach and discuss why Bitcoin is better in a sensible manner. The next thing is, you know, all this stuff that's happening right now, like these different rails being laid out with the stablecoins. And with the ability for banks being able to custody Bitcoin. I think this is huge news. Like this is probably the most important news we've seen. And I think this alongside that executive order announcement, it's a super, super bullish signal. I'll have a whole separate podcast on that. But this is very, very strong signal. I think we as a nation need to safeguard our assets. And we don't know how much gold we have in Fort Knox. It could all be there. It could not, but the bottom line is, you know, in a 21st century, we need to have 21st century assets. And specifically, I think Bitcoin to protect ourselves against a lot of debase, man. And we could live in a future where treasuries, people aren't buying our treasuries as much. And we need to be able to afford to just stick to hard assets. So, you know, we need to be a nation that has wealth. We need our own sovereign wealth and we need our own wealth. We can't just issue debt, kick the can down the road, and then have a situation where we pretty much in debt are future generations at the expense of living large now. So, I think, you know, this executive order is very bullish for Bitcoin. It's bullish for crypto and stablecoins. But I think what it really is is it's a strong acceptance institutionally of Bitcoin. Now, you know, it's one of those things where you can't have it both ways. Some people are like, well, you know, this used to be cypherponcant. This is just the nature of winning. The more the price goes up, maybe when it goes up to 500K, it'll be even more mainstream, right? And the whole cypherponc ethos won't be there as much. You know, and I think it's important to kind of just accept that's kind of what happens when the number goes up. But to try to keep the core there, it's so important to keep the heart and the soul of Bitcoin there with that cypherponc ethos. Now, with this institutionalization and with these rails that are being built for the future of finance, I think we're going to see a lot of these banks come up either net new banks. Like, we're going to see custodial bank by Caitlin Long, that one's going to probably get approved and roll up to more clients. Bitbons or Bitcoin bonds will come out as well to help pay off the debt. And then Bitcoin lending, which we all know, like what happened a couple years ago with BlockFi, but I think that will be occurring as well in the coming months. So, you know, whether we like it or not, I think Bitcoin is becoming financialized before our very eyes. I still think if you hold, you're in the first couple percent of the world, right? I mean, remember, there's 8 billion people and maybe there's 30 million people that hold a couple bucks of Bitcoin. And maybe there's like a couple million holders that actually hold a significant amount. So, I think we're going to start to see these financial products created before our eyes that will take care of many situations in which we want to be able to trade and leverage Bitcoin. So, you know, we can't do anything about it. I mean, you can speak up and you can lobby and you can kind of fight that fight, but I think what we need to do, ultimately, is as Bitcoiners, as people, we need to position ourselves to best capitalize on this opportunity because it's about to take off in the coming months. I'm very excited and very bullish on where we're headed. And, you know, I do think there could always be downside if the economy gets much worse, but, you know, I'm pretty bullish that we're going to see more money printing more M2. And eventually the price may go up, but just look at all these announcements and look at what the big players are doing. And, like Howard, Latinx, Scott, the Trump family, all of them, like those guys don't want to lose money and they're allocating pretty heavily to this. So, for me, what I'm doing personally is I'm allocating a position to try to take advantage of the upcoming bull run potentially. So, anyways, you guys let me know what you think. I'm glad to be back. I'm glad to be talking about this. I'm just, you know, I know I wanted to speak more in the past couple months. I just, I think now is the time the engine is going to get running again. I'll keep you guys up to date on any big announcements that come out. Again, I'm glad to have any and all of your support as it comes. This is a very exciting time. And, anyways, be sure to click any of the links in the description below to help support this podcast as well as feel free to share it. That means a lot. And I will keep you guys tuned and I'll see you guys in the next one.