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- 0:06Welcome back to The Starting Block.
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- 1:10If you're here for the first time,
- 1:12we're gonna start off the show with
- 1:13the Block Briefing, which is our
- 1:14rundown of the top news you need to
- 1:16know from the last 24 hours,
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- 1:27what's happening in the
- 1:28cryptocurrency industry.
- 1:29So without further ado, we are going
- 1:31to jump into the block briefing.
- 1:32And then just to announce who we've
- 1:34got joining us on the show today,
- 1:35we've got Sam Callahan, who's of
- 1:37course the Director of Bitcoin
- 1:38Strategy and Research at Orange
- 1:40BTC.
- 1:41Just a public service announcement,
- 1:43it's not Oranje BTC, as a lot of
- 1:45people tend to say out there, it is
- 1:46Orange BTC moving me talking
- 1:48about a new Bitcoin ETF
- 1:50product that they've launched in
- 1:51Brazil. Bye.
- 1:51And then we'll be having a wide
- 1:53ranging conversation about the state
- 1:54of Bitcoin treasury companies, the
- 1:56state Bitcoin and what the rest of
- 1:582026 looks like.
- 1:59So that's what we've got coming up
- 2:01on the show.
- 2:02But first things first, let me give
- 2:03you a rundown of the top stories you
- 2:05need to know. Our top headline of
- 2:06the day, Bitmine keeps stacking
- 2:08ETH. The company added nearly 10,000
- 2:10ETH over the past week, pushing its
- 2:13total treasury past 5.8
- 2:15million ETH worth roughly $11
- 2:17billion.
- 2:18That makes Bitmime the largest
- 2:20corporate ETH holder on the planet.
- 2:22And the second biggest corporate
- 2:23crypto treasury overall, trailing
- 2:25of course, strategy's $58
- 2:27billion Bitcoin pile.
- 2:29Of course, we made mention of
- 2:31the latest update from strategy
- 2:33yesterday. They didn't buy or sell
- 2:34any more Bitcoin last week, but they
- 2:36did sell some MSTR shares
- 2:38and beefed up their US
- 2:40dollar reserves to continue meeting
- 2:42their dividend obligations to pay
- 2:44back investors in
- 2:47largely their STRC product.
- 2:49Bitmine now holds about 48%
- 2:51of Ether's entire supply, putting
- 2:53it 96% of the way to
- 2:55its self-styled alchemy of
- 2:575% target.
- 2:59And more than 5 million of those
- 3:00tokens are staked earning
- 3:02yield. So a big focus of
- 3:04Tom Lee at Bitmime.
- 3:06Our next story, a Bitcoin miner
- 3:08turned AI play.
- 3:09Iren just hit a milestone with
- 3:11Microsoft.
- 3:12The company delivered the first of
- 3:14four plan Horizon AI
- 3:16cloud deployments under its five
- 3:18year $9.7 billion
- 3:20contract.
- 3:21Horizon One is a 50 megawatt
- 3:23liquid-cooled sighted irons,
- 3:25Childress, Texas campus, and
- 3:27it's already earned NVIDIA's
- 3:29exemplar cloud status.
- 3:31The remaining three phases are due
- 3:32later in 2026,
- 3:34eventually totaling 200 megawatts of
- 3:36capacity packed with NVIDia's
- 3:38GB300 GPUs.
- 3:41It's another sign of miners pivoting
- 3:42hard into AI infrastructure to
- 3:45chase bigger, steadier revenues.
- 3:47Now to a security mess
- 3:49at Harmony, the layer one blockchain
- 3:51plans to roll back its network to
- 3:53before last week's exploits after
- 3:55concluding an attacker forged
- 3:57more than 3 trillion of its
- 3:59native one tokens.
- 4:01Validators will wind both
- 4:03shards back to just before that
- 4:05fraudulent mint, discarding
- 4:07every block and transaction after
- 4:08that. Harmony says it weighed other
- 4:10options, including a token burn,
- 4:12blacklisting wallets, and even a
- 4:14token migration.
- 4:15But landed on the rollback as the
- 4:16fairest and most secure fix to
- 4:19that problem.
- 4:19A drastic move and a reminder of how
- 4:21far chains will go to
- 4:23undo and exploit.
- 4:25Then Washington is putting
- 4:26stablecoin rules out for public
- 4:28feedback.
- 4:29The US Treasury issued a notice
- 4:31of proposed rulemaking on Monday,
- 4:34opening comments on how it will
- 4:35implement a key section of the
- 4:37Genius Act, the landmark stablecoin
- 4:39law that was signed into law
- 4:41last year.
- 4:42That law takes effect in January,
- 4:432027.
- 4:45And once it does, issuers generally
- 4:46won't be able to offer payment
- 4:48stablecoins in the US without
- 4:49a proper federal or state
- 4:51license.
- 4:52It also puts guardrails on foreign
- 4:54issued stablecoins.
- 4:55So this comment window is the
- 4:57industry's chance to shape that
- 4:59fine print.
- 5:00Then the blockchain association is
- 5:02siding with the SEC on a piece of
- 5:04market plumbing.
- 5:05The group filed a letter back in the
- 5:07agency's proposal to scrap two
- 5:09decades old regulation NMS
- 5:11rules. Arguing that they've
- 5:13outlived their purpose and could
- 5:14stand in the way of tokenization.
- 5:16Rule 611 forces trading venues
- 5:18to honor the best price available
- 5:20elsewhere, while Rule 610e
- 5:23limits locked and crossed quotes.
- 5:25The association says rescinding them
- 5:27would be a clear path
- 5:29for tokenized securities.
- 5:31It's a notable moment for the crypto
- 5:33lobby cheering on a Wall Street rule
- 5:35rollback.
- 5:36Our last story of the day, Ripple is
- 5:37expanding its payments footprint in
- 5:39Asia. The company has partnered with
- 5:41South Korea's John Book Bank to
- 5:43roll out Ripple payments for
- 5:45real-time cross-border remittances.
- 5:47The pitch round-the-clock settlement
- 5:49in seconds to minutes versus
- 5:51traditional SWIFT transfers that
- 5:52can drag on for days.
- 5:54John Book becomes the first regional
- 5:56bank in Korea to deploy the
- 5:58service, targeting import-export
- 6:01firms, IT startups, and online
- 6:03content creators.
- 6:04Ripple's Asia Pacific chief says
- 6:06regional banks play a vital role
- 6:08in the real economy, and this deal
- 6:10plants Ripple flag deeper.
- 6:11In that market.
- 6:12If you're looking for more
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- 6:16That's theblock.co and
- 6:18you can check out all of the
- 6:20latest news coming from our
- 6:21fantastic news team.
- 6:23And that's it for the block briefing
- 6:24today. We're going to move on very
- 6:26swiftly into the hot seat today.
- 6:27No market pulse. I think we'll be
- 6:29diving deep into that tomorrow on
- 6:30the show.
- 6:31It's a great pleasure to have Sam
- 6:33Callahan, Director of Bitcoin
- 6:34Strategy and Research at Orange BTC
- 6:36back on the show.
- 6:37We met in person and had him on the
- 6:39live stream at BTC Prague
- 6:41so First things first, Sam, welcome
- 6:43back. How are you doing?
- 6:45Great, good morning, thanks for
- 6:46having me back.
- 6:47Yeah, it's great to have you.
- 6:49Let's jump straight into the big
- 6:50news. Last week, the launch of
- 6:53a new product,
- 6:55Orange BTC launched the Digi 11,
- 6:57which is touted as Brazil's first
- 6:59monthly income ETF focused
- 7:01on Bitcoin preferred equity.
- 7:03And for anyone out there wondering
- 7:03what that means, it means that this
- 7:05ETF is essentially giving exposure
- 7:07to products like
- 7:10Strategies, SDRC and
- 7:12Strive products.
- 7:14You've obviously played a key role
- 7:16in rolling this out and designing
- 7:18this product. Can you talk to us and
- 7:19give us the TLDR of what we need to
- 7:21know about the G11.
- 7:23Yeah, thanks, Gareth.
- 7:25So OrangePTC has been
- 7:27working hard behind the scenes to
- 7:28bring this to market.
- 7:29And we announced it last week at
- 7:30Blockchain Rio.
- 7:32It's a new ETF that pays monthly
- 7:33distributions in Brazilian
- 7:35reais with currency
- 7:38hedging and daily liquidity.
- 7:40It will initially uh,
- 7:42have a weighting of about 95%
- 7:44STRC and 5%
- 7:46of Strive SATA.
- 7:47And we hope that that universe
- 7:49expands with more issuers in the
- 7:51future, but it's a passive
- 7:53fund that holds a basket of the
- 7:55perpetual preferred equities
- 7:57like the strategies, STRCs,
- 7:59as you mentioned.
- 8:00But the idea is that this is a
- 8:02differentiated source of income
- 8:04in this market that loves
- 8:06fixed income instruments.
- 8:08But there's a problem, is
- 8:10that all the traditional
- 8:11alternatives have shared
- 8:14the same source of income.
- 8:16As well as have the same risks,
- 8:18and mainly that they have Brazilian
- 8:19risk.
- 8:20A lot of income products are either
- 8:22you're investing in a Brazilian
- 8:23bank, you're lending to
- 8:25the Brazilian government,
- 8:27you're a investing in REIT that
- 8:29invests in Brazilian properties.
- 8:31This is different.
- 8:32This source of income
- 8:34derives from some of the
- 8:36largest corporate Bitcoin balance
- 8:37sheets in the world.
- 8:38And so we think it could be quite
- 8:40popular because not only
- 8:42does it have things like monthly
- 8:43distributions denominated in a local
- 8:45currency, but it also is
- 8:48a really competitive yield because
- 8:49it is supported by Bitcoin.
- 8:50And so, we think we estimate that it
- 8:52could return about CDI,
- 8:54which is the benchmark plus three to
- 8:56five percentage points, which is
- 8:58quite competitive in that market.
- 8:59So we're excited to bring this
- 9:01these perpetual preferred equity
- 9:03instruments to this market.
- 9:04And we partnered
- 9:06with some great...
- 9:08We created the index with Market
- 9:10Vector and then we partnered with
- 9:13some asset managers to
- 9:15bring this to market.
- 9:16And so this is what we wanted to do
- 9:17is set out at Orange BTC, which is
- 9:19launch Bitcoin-backed financial
- 9:20products and improve investor
- 9:22access to Bitcoin.
- 9:24So like this is our mandate.
- 9:26And we're just following through
- 9:28that. Bitcoin bear markets are
- 9:29for building. And that's what Orange
- 9:31BTC is doing.
- 9:33This must have been something that
- 9:34was kind of built and designed
- 9:36fairly recently, just given that
- 9:39SATA, and I guess STRC has been
- 9:41around a little bit longer than
- 9:43SATA has.
- 9:45But yeah, can you talk to us a
- 9:47little bit about the thinking and
- 9:48the actual design of the product and
- 9:50how long that's been in the works?
- 9:51I would say less than a year.
- 9:54Yeah, yeah, we've been working on it
- 9:55for the last couple quarters.
- 9:56It was a little bit challenging
- 9:58because there is a lot of education
- 9:59around these new instruments.
- 10:02They've come on the market,
- 10:04they've made a mark really
- 10:06early on, you know, they've already
- 10:08raised a cumulative, collectively
- 10:10over $16 billion across
- 10:12all these perpetual preferred
- 10:13instruments, but the market's still
- 10:15wrapping their head around them.
- 10:16So we actually had to go and partner
- 10:18with Market Vector to create an
- 10:20index and create a methodology
- 10:21around these instruments.
- 10:23You know we We have an
- 10:25eligibility screening of the
- 10:26securities. It takes into account
- 10:28total Bitcoin holdings,
- 10:30market cap, liquidity,
- 10:32and then volatility to
- 10:34ultimately create a passive
- 10:36fund of basket of these instruments
- 10:38that provides this income.
- 10:39We also had to create
- 10:41a FX hedging to
- 10:43deliver that local currency
- 10:45yield.
- 10:46And so, we had to remove the
- 10:48fluctuations between the USD and
- 10:50the BRL because SEDA
- 10:52and STRC are U.S.
- 10:54Denominated instruments.
- 10:56And so we wanted to strip that
- 10:57currency fluctuations and deliver
- 10:59a real yield to Brazil.
- 11:02And so We had to incorporate that
- 11:03into the index as well.
- 11:04So there was a lot of work behind
- 11:05the scenes to do this.
- 11:07But we got it done.
- 11:08And, you know, we hope that it will
- 11:09begin trading on the B3 in
- 11:12early September.
- 11:14I can imagine then you're keeping a
- 11:16very close eye on what's going on,
- 11:18both at Strive and Strategy.
- 11:20And, obviously, Michael Saylor
- 11:22doesn't sleep, and I guess the
- 11:24guys at Strived don't either.
- 11:25We're getting information every
- 11:26week, new updates every week.
- 11:29Saylor hasn't bought any Bitcoin for
- 11:30a number of weeks, and
- 11:33they've been beefing the U.S.
- 11:34Dollar reserves to I
- 11:36guess try and get SDRC back to that
- 11:38kind of $100 mark.
- 11:40I don't want to say peg because it's
- 11:41not a peg, but get it back up to
- 11:43that with a lot of buybacks.
- 11:45You have to follow most of this
- 11:46quite closely, right?
- 11:48Given that 95% of
- 11:50the Digi 11 product is
- 11:52back by, or exposure
- 11:54to SDR.
- 11:56Yeah, look, I mean,
- 11:58I think it's funny that it's a news
- 12:00story when they don't buy Bitcoin
- 12:01for several weeks.
- 12:04It really speaks to how much Bitcoin
- 12:06they've been buying broadly.
- 12:08And even in the second quarter
- 12:09alone, taking into account
- 12:11some of the sales, they still
- 12:13bought over 80,000 Bitcoins.
- 12:15So I think people really need to
- 12:16zoom out a little bit.
- 12:17That's what they mean when they say
- 12:18net accumulator.
- 12:19And what they're doing now is
- 12:21they're strengthening up their
- 12:22balance sheet.
- 12:23They're improving their capital
- 12:25structure because they want to get
- 12:26STRC back to par.
- 12:28And why do they want do that?
- 12:29Well, they have found over the
- 12:31last five years that these
- 12:33perpetual preferred equity
- 12:34instruments is the best way
- 12:36to accumulate more Bitcoin for
- 12:39the common shareholder.
- 12:40It's the most creative way to do it.
- 12:42And right now, it's imperative
- 12:44that the STRC
- 12:45gets back to power to allow them to
- 12:47accumulate more bitcoin.
- 12:48But it's also their goal to have.
- 12:51That instrument trade with less
- 12:52volatility than Bitcoin, which it
- 12:54has.
- 12:55But they found they're kind of
- 12:56responding to the market.
- 12:58The market told them, we really
- 13:00liked having a USD reserve
- 13:02to support those dividends.
- 13:04And so they're increasing the USD
- 13:06reserve I think $4.8
- 13:08billion now today.
- 13:10They're really showing that they can
- 13:11still have access to capital markets
- 13:13despite challenging market
- 13:14conditions.
- 13:16And the reason they're doing
- 13:18this is because
- 13:20Their goal is long term to
- 13:22create a Bitcoin accumulation
- 13:24machine that consistently
- 13:26increases Bitcoin per share over
- 13:28time.
- 13:29And so every single transaction
- 13:31might not result in more Bitcoin
- 13:33holdings, but they're thinking about
- 13:35not the next quarter, but the next
- 13:37five years, 10 years.
- 13:39How do we build this
- 13:41capital structure that allows us to
- 13:43consistently accumulate Bitcoin?
- 13:45And they believe that's through
- 13:46STRC. And so.
- 13:48I think people need to like not
- 13:49focus on every single action and
- 13:51kind of look at the big picture of
- 13:52A, how much Bitcoin they've been
- 13:54buying across the entire,
- 13:56let's say year.
- 13:57And then two, you know, what
- 13:59their goals are long forward
- 14:01and and what they're trying to do to
- 14:03create a structure that works for
- 14:05common shareholders over the long
- 14:07term. And so I think that's that's
- 14:09how we're viewing it and we've been
- 14:10pretty we've
- 14:12been supportive of what they've been
- 14:14doing over the last few.
- 14:16Let's say month or so to
- 14:17achieve that goal of getting
- 14:19STRC back to par, whether that's
- 14:22the STRC buybacks,
- 14:24creating a dividend
- 14:26reserve specifically earmarked
- 14:28for the dividends,
- 14:30having a BTC monetization
- 14:32program related to it.
- 14:34So all those things are actually
- 14:35good in terms of supporting
- 14:37the digital credit franchise.
- 14:41Yeah, obviously I saw
- 14:43some clips doing the
- 14:45rounds in the last 24 hours also
- 14:47of one of the MSTR
- 14:49shareholders on the
- 14:52quarterly financial call
- 14:54asking what's the plan for
- 14:56MSTR in the long run here because
- 14:58I bought a lot of MSTR shares
- 15:00for my children and I'm down bad and
- 15:02I'll even just go, I
- 15:04hold some MSTRs and I am also down
- 15:06bad. So a lot of people are
- 15:08kind of sitting there thinking like.
- 15:10You're putting STRC very much first
- 15:12in terms of the priorities
- 15:14here.
- 15:16And what about MSTR?
- 15:17Like, when does that start to look
- 15:18up? Do you have any thoughts on
- 15:19that?
- 15:20Yeah, I think if I'm an
- 15:22MSTR shareholder, I
- 15:24should have a long time horizon
- 15:26first off, you know, and
- 15:28this is amplified Bitcoin, you're
- 15:30in MST because you want even more
- 15:32volatility than spot Bitcoin.
- 15:34Right? So you should have a
- 15:35long-time horizon when you hold
- 15:37MSTr.
- 15:38And what I really care about
- 15:40is how much senior obligations
- 15:42are above me.
- 15:43And specifically, like, for
- 15:44instance, when they paid down
- 15:46portion of their convertible debt
- 15:48a few months ago, the market
- 15:49kind of reacted poorly to that
- 15:51move. But if I'm an MSTR
- 15:53shareholder, I should actually like
- 15:54that. Because it strengthens
- 15:56the entire capital structure makes
- 15:58it more resilient, it actually
- 15:59removes a senior obligation.
- 16:01That is a hard cash obligation.
- 16:04You know, when those converts are
- 16:05trading under their conversion
- 16:06price, that could lead
- 16:08to you know, that actually has a
- 16:10maturity and they have to pay that
- 16:12back the principle that's unlike the
- 16:14preferreds.
- 16:15And so if they're making moves like
- 16:16this, like strengthening the USD
- 16:18reserve in order to
- 16:20improve the price stability of
- 16:22STRC and an
- 16:24increased demand for STRC,
- 16:26which is, like I said before, the
- 16:27best way to accumulate Bitcoin
- 16:29long-term for the MST or
- 16:31common shareholders.
- 16:32You know, I should be supportive of
- 16:33this if I have a long- term view,
- 16:35because what they're doing is just
- 16:36strengthening the balance sheet and
- 16:38the capital structure to
- 16:40make them more capable of
- 16:42accumulating more Bitcoin over the
- 16:43long-terms.
- 16:44And so I think, you know,
- 16:46amplified Bitcoin exposure, more
- 16:48volatility in the spot Bitcoin, you
- 16:49should expect it to be lower than
- 16:51Bitcoin and bear markets.
- 16:52And then like it has in previous
- 16:54bull markets, it should outperform
- 16:56in bull markets.
- 16:57And that's why you held it.
- 16:59You know, so I sympathize
- 17:01with the people. It's a bear market.
- 17:03You know. It's hard when you look at
- 17:05on paper, you see it down a lot.
- 17:07But try to remember what it was
- 17:08like, you know, two years ago when
- 17:10it was the exact opposite.
- 17:11And that's why you gain exposure to.
- 17:14You know, amplify Bitcoin
- 17:16exposure, it's more volatile.
- 17:19Yeah, just taking the conversation
- 17:21back to Digi 11 now, can you talk to
- 17:23us a little bit about the appetite
- 17:24for the product? I mean, it's only
- 17:25been a week, but now that that's
- 17:27gone to market in Brazil,
- 17:29are there a lot of people that are
- 17:30interested in this? And do you think
- 17:31that it could kind of set a
- 17:33benchmark? Because I know there are
- 17:35a few other products out there that
- 17:37aren't very location specific.
- 17:39And I think I'm looking at
- 17:41things like Saturn, sort of in
- 17:44the DeFi space that also has
- 17:45exposure to.
- 17:46Um you know um
- 17:49strategy related products that kind
- 17:50of thing but yeah in this specific
- 17:52market do you think it'll take a
- 17:53little while for people to warm up
- 17:55the idea and do you think it can
- 17:56set a precedent or get more
- 17:58financial institutions launching
- 18:00similar products that are you
- 18:02know packaging strc
- 18:05say to similar bitcoin backed
- 18:07preferreds
- 18:09Yeah, look, we, we did this because
- 18:11we think it could have substantial
- 18:13demand in this market.
- 18:14You know, we just announced that
- 18:15it's not live yet, but we've already
- 18:17had an outpouring of
- 18:19questions and interest from
- 18:21retail and institutional investors,
- 18:23uh, because this is a market that
- 18:26appreciates fixed income, you
- 18:28know, where it has pretty high
- 18:29yields. But like I said, no,
- 18:31they have no short of, of income
- 18:33products, but they're all derived
- 18:34from similar sources and carry
- 18:36similar risks.
- 18:38Digi 11 is genuinely different.
- 18:40It offers a competitive yield, but
- 18:42it's generated by companies whose
- 18:44balance sheets are full of Bitcoin.
- 18:47And so for Brazilian investors,
- 18:49now they have a new way to earn
- 18:50income with a different risk and
- 18:52return profile.
- 18:53And that's really attractive.
- 18:54I mean, it's not very often where a
- 18:56brand new income
- 18:58ETF comes to market.
- 19:00And so, if an investor wanted
- 19:02to access...
- 19:04You know, US security like STRC
- 19:06or SATA when they're sitting in
- 19:07Brazil's, you know they would have
- 19:09to open an overseas brokerage
- 19:10account, execute the
- 19:12FX transactions, maybe they do their
- 19:14own hedging of the FX themselves,
- 19:17and it's not the most tax-efficient
- 19:19way to gain exposure to those
- 19:21instruments.
- 19:22Digi11 transforms that
- 19:24international strategy and packages
- 19:26in a vehicle that works for
- 19:28these investors. It's just publicly
- 19:29listed.
- 19:30Daily liquidity, anybody could use
- 19:32it. So we think there's gonna be
- 19:33quite a lot of demand for it.
- 19:35And that's what we hope for.
- 19:35But it comes down to our education
- 19:37efforts, our marketing efforts and
- 19:39market conditions, all different
- 19:41things like that.
- 19:42But there's a reason why we decided
- 19:43to build this and launch it.
- 19:45This is our way of bringing these
- 19:48perpetual preferred equity
- 19:49instruments to the market today.
- 19:51Yeah, when it comes to the payouts
- 19:53of did you live and I understand
- 19:55it's monthly
- 19:57Figure I have a certain lack of
- 19:59understanding of some of these
- 20:00financial products, but it
- 20:02kind of Bitcoin I mean an ETF like
- 20:03this ever have daily payouts like
- 20:06strive say the product has and
- 20:08was that a considered consideration
- 20:10It was a consideration.
- 20:11We explored what was possible, given
- 20:13the traditional plumbing in the
- 20:15market. Here, it's more about the
- 20:17traditional plumbing, as well as our
- 20:19partners involved, the
- 20:21fund administrator.
- 20:24We all have to kind of work together
- 20:25to make this ETF work.
- 20:28And ultimately, we decided to
- 20:30start monthly was
- 20:32what we were able to do.
- 20:35In the future, as the plumbing
- 20:37and rails improve, Like we hope
- 20:39that we're able to.
- 20:40Potentially issue the distributions
- 20:42more frequently.
- 20:43But today, that's pretty interesting
- 20:46in this market as well.
- 20:47I mean, a monthly distribution in
- 20:48Brazil, a lot of other income
- 20:50products pay less frequently than
- 20:52that. So we're excited that it pays
- 20:54monthly, but as we
- 20:56work with the traditional rails and
- 20:58technologies, we hope to increase
- 21:00that frequency.
- 21:02Sam, obviously, when we met each
- 21:04other in BTC Prague, you kind of
- 21:05gave us your background and how you
- 21:06got into Bitcoin and you've been in
- 21:08the industry for quite a long time
- 21:09and you are in avid Bitcoin.
- 21:11I'm sure you've watched with
- 21:13great interest like the rest of
- 21:15us have and perhaps a little bit of
- 21:16trepidation with the cold card
- 21:18exploit, the BIP 110 fork
- 21:20in recent weeks as
- 21:22well, which is probably
- 21:24something I actually don't want to
- 21:25give any more air time to.
- 21:26So I'm actually not going to talk to
- 21:27you about that today, but I did want
- 21:29to on cold card and
- 21:32just what that kind of meant for the
- 21:33industry because obviously
- 21:34everyone's taken stock of what has
- 21:35happened.
- 21:36A lot of Bitcoin was stolen in a
- 21:38very unfortunate way.