Crypto Market Reset: What To Do Now

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Welcome everyone to the Directed IRA webinar and special Directed IRA podcast.
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We are here talking about crypto.
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This has been the hot asset over the last 10 years, the one that's probably made the most people money if you were smart and investing on it early.
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But this last year we have had a major crypto reset.
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Bitcoin as an example is down 50% from all-time highs last year.
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I don't know, it might be up 300% if you look two or three years ago.
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Who knows?
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But many people have seen some hunter plus numbers at the price of Bitcoin, and we're enjoying that wealth and that growth, feeling great about their investment, and it has reset.
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And so we brought some experts on today from ArchPublic.
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We've worked with these guys for many years now, um, who have an algo trader.
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Um they're in the crypto markets every day, working with investors, getting a pulse on things.
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We're great at retirement accounts, of course.
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And by the way, yes, your retirement account can own crypto.
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We'll talk about that.
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But we kind of want to get some insights on what's going on in the crypto market and what you can do about it from Tillman Holloway, CEO of ArchPublic and co-founder Andrew Parrish as well.
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Um, so Tillman and Andrew, welcome to the special webinar and podcast episode.
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Thanks for being on.
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Thanks for having us.
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We appreciate it.
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Absolutely.
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All right.
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So what's the story?
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What's happening?
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How come on, you know?
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I mean, let's just get to it.
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Well, I mean, if you're plugged into the retail space, you think the sky's falling and the price is indicative of uh, you know, people running for the hills and and kind of abandoning their their Bitcoin and crypto aspirations.
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I think that the narrative from uh developer um from a enterprise and a corporate treasury perspective is the exact opposite.
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It could not be more white hot, uh, if you will.
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Um, there's a lot of capital on the sidelines right now.
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Um, and that capital is being very prudently placed into Bitcoin to get the exposure percentage that those large institutions are looking for.
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Um, so I I think we're just seeing uh a different four-year cycle than we've ever seen before.
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And it scares people and it causes people to um, you know, wonder if if you know the the market's changed materially.
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And I think the market has changed as it pertains to who's kind of the dog and who's the tail.
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Um, I think Wall Street is firmly entrenched in our space at this point.
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They're not going anywhere.
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Um the integration.
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Yeah, for better or worse.
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Well, and but I will say, like things like Coinbase um um, in terms of breaking down access barriers to people being able to invest in IPOs and securities um through the tokenization of those assets, I think that's a big deal.
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I I think that's gonna change the world for the better, uh, and it's worth whatever um, you know, growing pains we have to incur along the way.
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Yeah, and I think go ahead, Andrew.
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I I I would just say uh uh probably sentiment could be best uh put together like this.
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I I saw a post earlier and then I commented on it that um you know Bitcoin was dead at 13, Bitcoin was dead at 64, Bitcoin was dead at you know three thousand, Bitcoin was dead at twenty thousand, Bitcoin's dead at sixty-four thousand.
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And the caption there is, you know, uh Bitcoin's funeral keeps getting more and more expensive.
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Um and so when when you look at it through those that that particular lens, um it is it it changes um you know what you actually see.
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Um and so you know, we spent uh a week in New York at Anthony Pompliano's uh event, Bitcoin Investor Week, and the sentiment there was significantly different than let's call it retail crypto Twitter space.
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Um it was opportunity is always found in depressed prices of an asset that isn't going anywhere and is still of meaningful value.
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And so people are looking at opportunities to accumulate an asset that always has a cycle of some sorts that has a pullback.
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And if you're smart enough and use the right tools to accumulate during that time period, uh you end up all the better for it.
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Yeah, and I think there's like, you know, there's some psychology on this perhaps as well.
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I don't know, you know.
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I mean, it went over 100K.
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A lot of people maybe have taken some money off the table.
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Some people, I think there might have been some consumer pinch in the economy right now.
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We kind of a little bit of a divided economy.
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Some people have some wealth in it.
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Maybe it's time to take some money off the table.
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I mean, let's be honest, there's a lot of people that have made money in crypto, right?
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And and they're starting to maybe deploy that.
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And we got a little pinch in the economy for some people, new highs, you know, other.
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I think there's some psychological thing to it.
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Also, what if what do you think, though, about ma some of these macro things happening?
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Like, you know, inflation starting to trend down.
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It seems like a lot of people like Bitcoin, especially when we have massive inflation.
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They feel like there's some protection to it, almost kind of like precious metals used to be.
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It's not anymore.
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But um do you feel like that's at play too, that we're like starting to have some deflationary pressure?
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We are having deflationary pressure.
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I mean, the AI um impact this last you know week on stocks is uh a pretty significant um example of that.
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I think that you know, we we are be are becoming um AI driven from a markets perspective.
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All innovation, every company on the earth is going to be impacted by this.
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Um to say that it's um understated, I think is short-sighted.
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I I think it's uh I think we couldn't overstate this more.
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I think it is going to impact us um globally in ways that we can't even predict.
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But the negative impacts in in the form of you know lost jobs or repositioned jobs also come with uh, I think, exceptional opportunities.
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And I think those opportunities far outweigh the negative aspects of AI and crypto and these new AI agents that now are uh becoming um you know well known, but they're also driving this conversation around how do they pay each other?
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And crypto is the natural um leg of that conversation that then takes takes over.
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So I think we're we're living in a day and age where wait a week and we could have a monumental headline that everybody uh you know gets bullish sentiment around, and we see this parabolic spike up.
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I think we're just uh uh I said this earlier on a podcast.
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I think the frequency of human beings through social media and the connectivity that we have to technology is now allowing the the masses um to move very rapidly in and out of investments.
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And that's a good thing, but it also uh creates a lot of volatility in markets that we haven't seen that volatility in the past and similar to silver.
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I mean, silver has shown exceptional volatility compared to what it traditionally does.
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And it's because you know, people people want the two, three X.
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Um, and Bitcoin will have that day in the sun.
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And I think the longer it stays at these prices, the higher we go when it does.
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There the the you know, to come back to macro, uh there's a lot of narratives out there.
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And in fact, in 2026, there's no shortage of narratives.
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That that's how we live our lives now at this point.
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Like social media is just narratives, and right.
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So, how how do you work through all of the noise and and get to the signal?
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So some signal is you know, we're less than two percent away from uh another all-time high in the S P 500, right?
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Like one and three-quarters of a percentage.
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Given the narratives that exist and and the negativity um that often exists in echo chambers, you know, you wouldn't think that that that's the case, right?
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You you you just wouldn't you you wouldn't think that that's the reality.
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Uh but media is such that you know blood cells, and so negative headlines are always going to take precedence over good ones.
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Um so that again, that's when discipline and unemotional decision making make the most sense.
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When the noise is really noisy, uh as it is right now, and the narratives aren't difficult to find to grab onto to make maybe some poor decisions.
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Uh, you know, you you signal has to be the thing that that you're focused on.
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Yeah.
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And finding a way to reduce emotional decisions is is really, really important.
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Right.
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Yeah, I think, you know, from kind of like someone I'm not following crypto every day.
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Obviously, I've been aware of the the price change and this Bitcoin, particularly here being the most popular, widely held cryptocurrency, is, you know, when I started digging into it, I'm like, there's nothing there, there.
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Like sometimes it's like, okay, there was a new law, or maybe Jay, you know, um Jamie Diamond speaks talks crap about crypto, or like, you know what I mean?
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There's like there's something that happens that's like that's a negative thing.
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Crypto goes down and there's a reason for people to sell.
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When you look into it, it's like there wasn't something that happened necessarily, right?
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Um, which is a good thing if you're investing in it, because it is seems to be like a there's that's like a good thing, I think, if you're interested in the asset.
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It wasn't like a negative news, a negative law, or something that's permanently going to affect it.
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It's this weird sentiment thing happening right now, and maybe this fear of people.
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And so I don't know what your guys' perspective is on that.
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And like, I mean, because I didn't right, there hasn't been something like momentous from a legal or a structural or how traditional financial services view it.
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If not, if anything, it's been the opposite in terms of institutional adoption.
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And Wall Street, as you as you mentioned earlier, Tillman, about like kind of embracing it more.
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Like, am I missing something?
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Smart money is accumulating, and smart money uses headlines to accumulate.
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There was, I think,$500 million of uh liquidated long uh leveraged longs last night in Bitcoin.
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Those are that that's right for the pickings.
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If you if you have it, just go look at Jane Street headlines today as it pertains to manipulation of the Terra Luna crash and and making money and how they made money and that that is common practice across the board.
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Uh, if you are a market maker, there's this very fine line between being a market maker and a market taker.
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Um, and a lot of people in the crypto space don't even know that line exists.
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Uh so there are there are DeFi um liquidity crashes that cause algorithms to essentially panic and uh can't find an equilibrium.
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And they find that equilibrium in price below liquidity events and high high leverage areas and big price breaks.
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And once you get that cascading effect, it's hard to recover.
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That's there's no rhyme or reason.
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There's no, like you said, there's no driving uh reason behind that, other than what I would point to as a rounding bottom accumulation like point in time.
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Like the where you see the big firms, the people who can't place their trade over a month, even over five months, like firms that are wanting to buy Bitcoin in the billions of dollars need to appropriate that capital very on the smoothest cost curve that they can appropriate it on.
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They can't take big bets and place all their eggs in one basket.
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Look at the Bitcoin treasury companies and how well that turned out, right?
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So the important thing is to spread the capital out over long periods of time.
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What do they do?
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Well, they buy when there's blood in the streets and they buy prudently.
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They don't overload.
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They're none of them are sitting there going, oh, 60's the bottom, bet the farm.
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That's not how they work, right?
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It's like systematic placement of capital, putting um, you know, as much um risk adverse cost management into that purchasing schedule as you possibly can.
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That's how the big players move.
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And I think that's what we're seeing on the charts.
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And I also think that's what we're seeing in these liquidation events as it pertains to leverage longs and how everybody is wanting to pick these bottoms and bet the farm on it.
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Yeah, and it it seems simple, buy low, sell high.
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Um, yet the psychology of people is they just don't want to do that.
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I mean, we even see it here, you know.
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I mean, I I I you know I fell victim to that even because I bought Bitcoin at 2,500 per BTC, you know, with my retirement account, by the way.
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This is 2017.
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And I don't know if maybe there's a hundred people that have done it by then.
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I don't know, maybe a thousand, but I thought I was pretty pretty pioneering how to figure out how to do that.
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And we have a whole product about that.
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We're gonna talk about that.
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It's a tax-free way to grow and build wealth.
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By the way, right now is like the prime opportunity to invest in crypto and take what I call the tax-free crypto pledge.
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We'll hit that in a second.
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But I wanted to make a point, which was that even I, you know, I think crypto kind of I made quite a bit of money on it.
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It went up, and then it I feel like there was crypto winner.
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And I don't remember when this was, but it was, you know, maybe a year or a year and a half after that.
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And and it kind of went down about 30, 40 percent.
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And I sold a bunch of it.
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And it was like the dumbest thing ever, obviously.
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And we've had so many times of that over the past, you know, Bitcoin's been around 15 years now.
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Um, where I was like, that was a total mistake, even though I understood the asset, I believed in it, I saw that the adoption is particularly Bitcoin within crypto in the as a general market.
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And but the psychology is that's when I need to get out.
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It's too much.
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Yeah, let let me nerd out for a second, because I think some people would appreciate this.
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Um, I look at Bitcoin as a network.
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Uh, a network has value.
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Amazon is a network, Facebook is a network, all of these companies that are building connective points where data can be transmitted, received, and sent.
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That is that is the definition of a network.
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The more people you have in that network, the more valuable it is.
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The more people you have in that network by definition, the more computational power you have to have in that network to support all of that data.
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If I gave you a window into Amazon's um capacity needs and how much throughput as it relates to server capacity that they have online at any given point to host the transactions that we all are utilizing to give us goods to our house, right?
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If you were able to track that, it would be an incredible indicator as to the growth of Amazon and the services they're in and their profits.
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We actually have that window into Bitcoin and yet no one uses it.
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And so if you go look at the hash rate of the Bitcoin network, you're gonna find out something that we are now above one Zeta hashes, which a Zeta hash didn't exist before Bitcoin existed because Bitcoin broke the ceiling of the largest network that's ever been created by man.
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So we have this network that has more data, more computational power, more capacity to work than Amazon.
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And we can see it because it's public information behind the curtain as to the growth of that computational power in the form of hash rate.
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It's at all-time highs.
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And guess what?
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The the hash rate continues to grow consistently for the last 17 years without the same interruptions in progress that the price has.
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So I think it's a much better indicator than price as it pertains to kind of measuring and monitoring the success of the Bitcoin mark, you know, uh uh network, if you will.
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And I think that would help people kind of quelch their fears as it pertains to whether this is dying or not, because it doesn't take you very long to figure out it's growing very, very rapidly.
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Yeah, one one would one would do well to you know disconnect from let's call it crypto social media and then just only follow uh hash rate growth, right?
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If you only follow hash rate growth, eventually Bitcoin price, you know, not not necessarily always catches up, but it certainly follows it.
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Um and and and and that would be you know your signal versus noise, right?
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Yeah, I mean that's definitely like the key performance indicator, right?
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For for Bitcoin, period.
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Value, adoption, whether it's gonna be here tomorrow.
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I mean, that that would that would tell all, I think.
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It's a really, really great insight.
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Um if you and if you want additional, you know, let's let's let's get back to the world of finance and you know, traditional markets, right?
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So there is no slowdown in the narrative associated with what BlackRock is doing with Bitcoin and and then also uh DeFi, you know, just announcing a couple weeks ago that they're opening up their now almost six billion dollar biddle portfolio and it's available to trade on Uniswap.
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That sounds, you know, somebody mentioned a couple weeks ago that that sounds like a babble and beat, you know, type of headline from three years ago.
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Like that would be a joke to most people that BlackRock is now involved in buying with Uniswap um uh several years ago.
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But but now it's a reality.
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So I I remember we talked about this before, I think on Scott Milker's podcast of I was watching a 60 minutes episode of Larry Fink crapping on crypto that then they cut back to him and now he's champing it.
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Yeah.
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And they're like, What happened?
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And then this is 60 minutes, of course.
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You know, well, he's become the CMO of Bitcoin, he's the chief marketing officer of Bitcoin.
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He never stopped talking about it.
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They never stop putting out educational videos for their you know, their investing uh community associated with both both Bitcoin and crypto.
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So they haven't slowed down, they haven't stopped anything.
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They're going about it as is this is an asset, an asset class that is worth owning, that has meaningful upside.
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You know, again, I I I you know, people that you know, negativity in the space, I just keep coming back to besides the the hash rate discussion, um, I I I don't think BlackRock is in the is in the habit of of bringing on billions and billions and billions of dollars from very, very large institutional clients that that probably you know that have additional billions with them and other asset classes.
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Right.
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They're in the habit of trapping those people into meaningful losses and and saying, we gotcha.
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That's not the business that they're in at all.
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It's the opposite.
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So um, you know, again, those narratives working towards, you know, if they stay here and go meaningful lower for forever, no, is the answer to that.
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Yeah.
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Okay, so I think we've kind of hit some you guys are hit some really good points.
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And I mean, my original take was I didn't really see anything negative, so there's some hysteria out there.
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You guys have drilled in on some things that are actually happening that are meaningful to help you understand the value of say Bitcoin here.
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But um, Andrew, I know we were talking about still just like even winning in a bear market, even if crypto is going down.
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I mean, what have you seen of uh people investing in crypto, doing things smart?
00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:49.359
Um, I know you guys have your algo trader, but like, is there a case study or anything about winning in a bear market that'd be helpful to people?
00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:59.759
So we yeah, we shared with you guys our our our team finished a case study yesterday taking a look at you know bear market outcomes, not only short term.
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But they took a look at the entire cycle since the top of of the last cycle in 2021.
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And I'll try and uh I'll I'll try and share it here.
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Um for some reason I'm I'm having a little bit of a hard time.
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It's it's giving me some errors, but I'll I'll just talk it through and maybe your team on the on the back end can pull it up.
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Um so so here here is working on it.
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Right.
00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:33.519
So so in 2000 and in 21 and 22, you know, we we were at cycle highs for the previous cycle, 69K, which is higher than we are today.
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Um and if you would have bought and hold Bitcoin, you'd you'd have had some real fun, right?
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We hit 126 six months ago, and now we've we've we've come back down.
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But if you just bought back then and you held until now, in that period of time, you had a net standard buy and hold return of eight percent, right?
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Eight percent over that period of nearly four and a half, five years.
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Um using our algorithmic tools, right?
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By the way, we we don't just have a tool that folks can use, uh we have an an an an enormous amount of tools that you get to choose from and decide what you want to do and work with our team and make that happen.
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But if you you do use just using our Oracle protocol over that time period, instead of the 8% return you got on Bitcoin with buy and hold, you got a hundred and eighty-nine percent return.
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See, there it is, right?
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So not only did you end up with 189% return, but you also added an additional 1.5 bitcoin to your total stack.
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Okay.
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So what does it mean to take advantage of the volatility presented to you with Bitcoin?
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Because volatility with Bitcoin is a feature, it's not a flaw, right?
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You have opportunities to enter into an asset that is volatile to the good over meaningful periods of time.
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It will give you entry points, and it's just a question of are you disciplined enough to take those to take those entries?
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Well, our software um is the key to making sure you're disciplined enough because you set it and then you don't have to fool with it.
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Your your hands and your mind are off of it, it's making those decisions before you.
00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:36.960
So uh these are numbers that not only are meaningful in the aggregate, but they're even more meaningful inside of an IRA because that compounding really begins to make a a huge, huge difference to to your portfolio.
00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:38.000
Yeah, yeah.
00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:41.519
I mean, when you're making money in crypto, again, many people have.
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I love the case study there.
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Um, you know, but you may be trading on that.
00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:52.880
And one thing when you're doing this individually is you're gonna get a 1099 DA, right?
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That's gonna go on your 1040.
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These are all tax forms, people, that the the that results in you sending money to the IRS.
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When you do that with a crypto Roth IRA where you're trading with ArchPublic, you have the algo trader, and now you're making money.
00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:11.599
Well, that's not going anywhere.
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There's no 1099, there's nothing going on your 1040 to the IRS, and every penny that you're making can be reinvested.
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And maybe penny's the wrong phrase there, but you know, everything that you're making there, depending on what you're investing in crypto, is being reinvested, compounding over time.
00:25:31.839 --> 00:25:36.880
And the the power of retirement accounts is the compounding over time.
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And using that Roth account, which grows and comes out totally tax-free in an asset you believe in and that can have the highest um rate of return over a 10, 20 year, whatever your investment horizon is, when you're looking to retire, um, I mean, that is so significant.
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Even if you were still investing, let's say, 100 grand personally and 100 grand in a Roth IRA.
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Um I'm just telling you, when you look at investing over 10 years at the same rate of return, you will have at least twice as much money in the Roth IRA account because every penny got to be reinvested and nothing's going to the IRS.
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Well, it's the laws of compounding are the eighth wonder of the world, as they say.
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And Einstein said, you either understand it or you're a slave to it.
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Those are his words, not mine.
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And so, you know, you look at um yield harvesting or taking advantage, like Andrew said, of volatility.
00:26:39.839 --> 00:26:42.079
Um, a lot of people don't know what that means.
00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:47.440
So I'd like to kind of dissect that and go into it as it from a software perspective.
00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:52.799
So if you're familiar with like a covered call strategy, it's gonna need to explain that.
00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:53.599
You'll need to explain that.
00:26:53.839 --> 00:27:05.039
Okay, so let's just say let's take through the decision-making process of I am a high net worth individual and I've come to the decision that I want to have Bitcoin exposure.
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And I've come to the decision that I want to own Bitcoin, spot Bitcoin, not an ETF.
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I want I want to own it.
00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.519
Well, I I how do I appropriate dollars to that?
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Well, if I have a long time horizon and I have the um desire to save as much of my gains as possible, I open up a directed IRA account and I put uh money, a contribution into that, and I start accumulating the 5% exposure in Bitcoin that I would like to gain.
00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:42.960
So Bitcoin, as it drops in price, presents buying opportunities.
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You know, you always want to buy when there's blood in the streets or buy other people's fear, as Warren Buffett says.
00:27:50.720 --> 00:28:03.519
And so when there's a giant disproportionate drop in price against what we would call the VWAP or the volume weighted average price, that is a mean regression play.
00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:10.319
If your objective is to accumulate Bitcoin, that's too good to pass up, which means you're buying the dips, right?
00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:16.720
So as the market presents those dips, you have automated software sitting there ready to buy those.
00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:30.559
Well, as you're accumulating those dips, there's different entry points to every one of those cost spaces is giving you a very smooth cost curve against the average price of Bitcoin over that time period.
00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:36.880
That's the best way to accumulate a long-term position that you can do.
00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:39.200
That is what a mathematician will tell you.
00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:49.359
That's what a professional trader will tell you, that's what a money manager will tell you, is dollar cost averaging is the tried and true method to remove volatility risk.
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Um, that is that's what it does.
00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:55.119
So the question on your buys is now answered.
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Instead of dollar cost averaging on Tuesday at 9 a.m.
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arbitrarily, because that's when you're available to sit at your computer.
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Now you're dollar cost averaging when the market gives you the best discount to do so.
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As those positions are accumulated, there is upward volatility as well, right?
00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:21.039
You don't just have a bunch of red candles, you've got some big green candles too.
00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:34.400
Well, on those big green candles, because you have software that's keeping track of cost basis, you can program it to say, never sell on those green candles if I'm below my cost basis.
00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:42.640
Well, what that does from a rules perspective, it allows you to know that every time you're selling, you're profit taking, right?
00:29:43.119 --> 00:30:07.039
Well, those profits, if you're playing the yo-yo and Bitcoin isn't going directionally one way, if it's just bouncing and trending, you know, you have yield potential, you have all of this earning potential in that volatility that if you set the traps and you have automated tools, that you can you can harvest that yield.
00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:15.119
Well, inside of a retirement account, all of that is accrued and compounded.
00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:24.880
So you're buying you're literally buying low, selling high, buying low, selling high, buying, and all of that growth is compounding tax-free.
00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:37.920
That's I don't know of another system on earth that is offered that gives people that advantage, un you know, other than this this collaboration that we're doing with you guys.
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I I don't know any other automated tools that can be appropriated into a self-directed IRA, and you self-custody the assets that you're buying um and grow them tax-breed.
00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:57.759
So real quick to add something, uh, there's portions uh of this that sound complicated.
00:30:57.920 --> 00:31:12.880
The word algorithm, the word automation, the word, you know, volatility, all that stuff can sound somewhat complicated when most people just want to put a certain amount into their IRA each year and they want to put in some stuff that just kind of grows.
00:31:13.359 --> 00:31:18.000
That's why we have concierge program teams at uh ArchPublic.
00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:31.599
We will do everything in our power uh to shepherd you along this process, to give you opportunities to say, if you do this, then then this, if you do this, then this, and let's make that decision together.
00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:41.839
We work very, very hard at ArchPublic at being a crypto company that is the best there is at service, literally the best there is at communication and service.
00:31:42.079 --> 00:31:55.680
So if you reach out to us, if you want to have communications with us, we have a team of service folks that are going to listen to you, understand what it is you want to get accomplished, and going about the process of getting that done with you.
00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:56.240
Yeah.
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And they're passionate about that because 90% of them were customers first.
00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:05.440
Uh they they love the product, they it's changed.
00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:13.279
We the I think one thing you have found uh in crypto, and I think you know, you said it very well at the beginning.
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Once you get into crypto, uh it's hard to get out.
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And and you become very passionate about it.
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And I think it becomes a force multiplier for you in whatever your goals may be.
00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:34.160
Because I think the goal of growing, right, is uh growing our retirement account, growing our investment accounts, growing in wealth.
00:32:34.319 --> 00:32:36.799
Um, those are questions that we all have.
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And Bitcoin provides a very, very unique set of characteristics that you can't find other other places.
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:53.440
And the these tools that we're providing collectively um allow people easier access, easier management, easier accumulation of that very asset.
00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:54.079
Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We've had, I mean, a lot of customers working with Directed IRA and with ArchPublic.
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We are of that same mindset as you guys know in terms of customer service, best in class in our industry, and and value that.
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We want to have the great strategies and opportunities and let clients be able to invest in what they want to and what they know.
00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:18.319
And as crypto came on the map for us, it was like we've got to let clients use their IRA to buy crypto.
00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:20.880
Why would you limit it to stocks, bonds, and mutual funds?
00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:22.400
Why would you limit it to real estate?
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:24.000
Why would you limit it to private equity?
00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:26.319
Why would we limit virtual venture capital?
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You know, and so for us, when you have an IRA at directed IRA, just so everybody knows, if you don't have an accountant with this already, is we let you invest in any asset allowed by law.
00:33:35.279 --> 00:33:38.960
Now we have a specific crypto IRA product.
00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:44.000
The most common crypto IRA is someone using a Roth IRA.
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You've got, you know, a 300,000 Roth IRA at Charles Schwab, and you're doing stocks or ETFs, and you're like, eh, maybe I want to send 50 grand over to directed IRA and invest in crypto.
00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:56.720
Well, you could do that.
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That's a not taxable transfer over 50 grand.
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You could make a new contribution to 7,500 bucks for 2026, 7,000 for 2025.
00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:12.159
You could combo that up, by the way, right now, because you can still make 2025 contributions until April 15th.
00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:14.159
That'd be$14,500.
00:34:14.719 --> 00:34:17.679
Um, but but you got to get the money in, right?
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:24.320
In this tax-qualified account, whether you make new contributions, you're moving money from an existing account somewhere else.
00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:27.119
But this could also be a traditional IRA.
00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:30.719
This could be money sitting in an old employer 401k, right?
00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:33.679
There is$45 trillion in U.S.
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retirement accounts.
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There is more money there than in any other place.
00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:48.159
But most people, when they thought about crypto, they thought about, you know, linking some money to their checking or savings account and on-ramping into some crypto.
00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:50.000
You can do that.
00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:50.960
That's fine.
00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:58.079
And so many people, you know, they traded some dollars for crypto, but they did it with personal funds that's now hitting their 1040, right?
00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:03.760
Page one on your 1040 tax return says, have you made money in digital currency?
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Yes, no, under penalty of perjury.
00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:06.880
Okay.
00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:15.760
Now, when you what you can bypass that question, if all your crypto is owned in your retirement account, even if you made money, nope.
00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:20.239
Because you didn't make money, your IRA did, and it doesn't pay taxes.
00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:24.320
So, so this could be the traditional IRA, this could be the Roth IRA.
00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:26.639
We love the Roth because it grows and comes out tax-free.
00:35:26.719 --> 00:35:31.039
You could have a health savings account, you could have a Coverdale education account.
00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:34.960
All these different account types can be invested into crypto.
00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:40.400
And for a lot of people, where they're like, all right, well, how do I be more strategic about crypto?
00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:53.599
And this is a lot of your clients at ArchPublic, is, you know, they're working with you guys, and and like, and I like how you kind of positioned it, Tillman, of like, you know, let's buy at the right buying time and sell at the right selling time.
00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:58.559
And that might not be nine o'clock in the morning on Tuesdays when that's just the time you have for this, right?
00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:00.559
I mean, we're busy people, right?
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And I think a lot of people's mindset with their retirement account is set it and forget it.
00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:07.920
Let me work hard, get the money in, and set it and forget it.
00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:15.760
Um, but if I can be more strategic about that, um then I have other greater opportunity perhaps to win.
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:21.039
So um I think that's really the combining a number of concepts here, right?
00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:23.039
There's a number of concepts we're combining here.
00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:25.519
An asset class, if you believe in it in crypto.
00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:28.320
I'm not trying to convince you, by the way, not financial advice here.
00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:36.960
I'm just saying if you believe in it, and I know many of you do, um, how can I own it in a most tax advantageous way?
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:41.119
To me, I'm like, you should take the crypto tax-free pledge.
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Pledge to never pay taxes on crypto again.
00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:45.679
How do you take that pledge?
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You open up a crypto Roth IRA directed IRA and you start accumulating crypto there.
00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:59.679
And then the third piece here is the ArchPublic and what Tillman and Andrew are talking about is now let's be more strategic about it.
00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:03.360
We've all seen what's going on in the crypto market, it going up, it going down.
00:37:03.519 --> 00:37:10.480
How can I profit on that and be more strategic to maximize my yield and return to grow and build more wealth?
00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:13.119
So those are all the pieces coming together.
00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:17.119
I just will touch on one more thing that's really powerful here.
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Um, to maximize yield, you're day trading.
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:28.800
Because the yield can happen in very short windows of time, four-hour candle.
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:36.079
Day trading is taxed at the highest rate of any trading activity.
00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:45.760
You can literally go from the highest rate for this activity, which should tell you the potential it has, to zero.
00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:46.880
You're not doing that.
00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:52.800
For those in California, when Tillman says the highest rate, we're talking 37% federal tax.
00:37:53.119 --> 00:37:55.760
We're talking 13% state tax.
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We're talking you make less than half when you actually make money on a winning trade.
00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:03.519
Yeah.
00:38:03.840 --> 00:38:05.920
But big stuff make it all huge.
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:07.599
Yeah.
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:08.159
Yeah.
00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:08.960
Yeah.
00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:11.440
Um, well, we might have some questions coming in here.
00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:16.079
I've got Aaron, the great Aaron Hallerman, our CEO at directed IRA, the great and powerful over here.
00:38:16.239 --> 00:38:18.000
Um, he's been in the chats.
00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:20.000
Um, I don't know if you have any questions yet.
00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:29.679
If you guys do have questions, throw them in the chat that you want to ask um Tillman and Andrew here while we've got them or anything on the Roth IRA.
00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:36.639
I think Ryan from our team, um, Ryan Hyde, uh director of new accounts, is in there as well answering questions.
00:38:36.719 --> 00:38:39.599
You can book a call with him if you need help on your crypto IRA.
00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:42.000
I think ArchPublics contacts in there too.
00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:44.320
I've been dropping all that in there.
00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:44.800
Okay, all right.
00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:45.519
Aaron's on it.
00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:47.519
You know, he's not just sitting over here, you know.
00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:54.639
So let me ask this just to give this as an example, because we were talking about some of the different product types.
00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:57.519
We have what's a checkbook IRA?
00:38:58.000 --> 00:38:58.320
Okay.
00:38:58.639 --> 00:38:59.280
Let's cover that.
00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:02.000
And then I have some other questions that are specific to Arch.
00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:05.679
Okay, checkbook IRA, we call that an IRALC.
00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:14.800
So there you'll have your IRA, but rather than it going directly and opening up a wallet, which we use Gemini for that, it works with ArchPublic too.
00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:16.000
It's all coordinated.
00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:22.960
Um, but if you just have a crypto IRA, what'll happen is your IRA account actually owns a and has a wallet with Gemini.
00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:23.679
Okay.
00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:29.840
And we send the money in, it goes into USD and your Gemini wallet, then you can decide what crypto to buy.
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:34.800
We talked about Bitcoin, but you could be doing XRP, Solana, you know, other cryptocurrencies.
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:39.519
Um that's option one.
00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:41.599
That's probably the most common and simplest.
00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:45.360
Some clients use something called an IRA LC or checkbook IRA.
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:50.880
A lot of like real estate clients, clients using their IRA to buy real estate use this IRLC.
00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:52.559
Some crypto clients use it.
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:57.519
What that is, is you have an IRA, but it'll own an LLC 100%.
00:39:58.000 --> 00:39:59.199
You don't own the LLC.
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:02.079
Your IRA, your self-directed IRA owns the LLC 100%.
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That LLC has a bank account.
00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:07.679
There's a bank we work with that understands what the heck this is.
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:09.679
And then you're the manager of the LLC.
00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:16.960
You don't own it, your IRA owns it 100%, but you're the manager, which gives you authority to act for the LLC, manage the LLC's bank account.
00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:24.639
There, you could actually do the same thing here that we're talking about with the IRA LLC that now has a bank account where you can link it.
00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:28.960
Well, you'll get a wallet Gemini and then also can connect to Archpublic.
00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:36.960
So that is the IRA LLC used for crypto, sometimes called a checkbook IRA.
00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:41.360
And you can book a call with one of our team members if you're like, what option should I do?
00:40:41.599 --> 00:40:43.280
That's a more advanced strategy.
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:44.400
It's gonna cost you more.
00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:47.760
The lawyers in my law firm, KQS Lawyers, set up that LLC.
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:49.280
It includes a consult with the lawyers.
00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:52.400
They all understand crypto and have worked with hundreds of crypto investors.
00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:59.119
So um, but it's gonna cost you like$1,200 more because you need that LLC set up properly.
00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:05.440
It's different than your regular LLC you might have for business or rental real estate or other investments.
00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:08.239
Final answer.
00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:14.079
Oh gosh, don't be mentioning our competitors on here, some of our listeners.
00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:16.559
What is wrong with you people?
00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:19.920
They work there and they can't happens all the time.
00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:21.599
What are you doing?
00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:23.119
Yeah, it's painful.
00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:25.440
Yeah, because they don't have any good content themselves.
00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:28.000
So our heart, our heart hurts.
00:41:28.159 --> 00:41:28.639
Yeah.
00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:30.159
Um, no, it's all good.
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:32.880
We uh hey, competition's good, it's good for the industry.
00:41:33.119 --> 00:41:36.000
Okay, so let me hit this real quick.
00:41:36.159 --> 00:41:46.719
So, one of the ideas of what are called moving of crypto and another IRA uh company or account, you can do that with this.
00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:57.119
A few people have asked if I have uh you know an IRA uh that's already invested in crypto, it's holding uh uh Bitcoin, uh, can I move that?
00:41:57.280 --> 00:41:58.639
Do I have to liquidate it?
00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:01.599
What and I'm interested in putting that to use and doing the arch algo.
00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:03.679
Let's hit on that process real quick.
00:42:03.920 --> 00:42:05.119
Yeah, absolutely.
00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:09.039
So, what we'll do is we do what's called an in-kind transfer.
00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:12.719
So we will open your crypto IRA here, depending on the account type.
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:16.159
Maybe it's traditional IRA, maybe it's Roth IRA, whatever the account type is.
00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:19.199
And then we will actually transfer that crypto.
00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:36.400
So we will make a request with your other provider to say transfer that crypto directly into to us, which we will then put into your wallet at Gemini, and then you can go through the same process um with Arts Public if you want to link with their services as well.
00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:44.079
So, yes, that way you're still invested in the crypto, no matter what's happening in the interim, as you're opening up the account and moving it.
00:42:44.239 --> 00:42:47.119
So absolutely you that's that's a possibility.
00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:56.239
Um most people I'll say transfer over in cash and are coming in you know from a brokerage IRA or you know, an old employer 401k.
00:42:56.320 --> 00:42:57.199
That's that's the most common.
00:42:57.280 --> 00:42:58.400
It's just coming over in cash.
00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:03.599
That's that's easier to on-wrap, but we can still do the in-kind as well, and we we do that often.
00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:12.000
Uh there's a couple what we would call prohibited transaction questions coming in, and we'll just address that.
00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:22.239
You can't mingle if you have other crypto wallets or other cryptos that you own personally, you you're you're not gonna be able to move that into an IRA.
00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:22.559
Yeah.
00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:24.880
That's that's you can't do that.
00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:28.800
So Yeah, and we've we've like done the gymnastics.
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:33.280
I've had so many clients, you know, over the years pay for my time to try to figure that out.
00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:34.960
There's no way to do it legitimately.
00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:43.039
If you personally own crypto right now and you're like, but I want it in my Roth IRA, so I pay no tax when I sell it.
00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:44.639
There is no way to do it.
00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:47.519
Even if you're like, well, what if I transferred to my friend or my brother?
00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:48.880
And then they transferred to me.
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:49.920
Step transaction.
00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:52.639
Yeah, that that that is this IRS is all over this.
00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:55.119
That causes what's called a prohibited transaction.
00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:59.760
So when we're talking about buying crypto with your Roth IRA or other technology.
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:01.199
Tax advantage to count.
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:03.360
We're talking about new dollars.
00:44:03.679 --> 00:44:16.239
And this is why I think it's kind of compelling now, if you believe in the discounting value concept that we've been talking about and buying low, is you obviously make money when on the buy.
00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:19.679
Like you want to buy low, and now's a good time to buy.
00:44:19.840 --> 00:44:22.960
So, but this would be new money coming in.
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:30.320
Whether this is a new contribution, as I talked about, into a new Roth IRA or backdoor Roth IA for those of you who are high income earners.
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:32.320
Maybe it's a health savings account.
00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:37.039
You've just been, you know, letting sit at a bank or credit union doing nothing for you.
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:43.280
You know, let's get those dollars to work and invest it in an asset you believe in that has some act that has significant potential.
00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:47.840
So um, but but you're you're buying now, and this is new crypto.
00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:50.880
The crypto you personally own, hang on to that.
00:44:51.039 --> 00:44:54.079
They'll have a different thesis on what's happening there.
00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:58.480
But no, if I'm buying new crypto, I want to do it in the tax advantage way.
00:44:58.559 --> 00:45:00.400
And particularly, I like the Roth IRA.
00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:01.679
I love the HSA too.
00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:03.519
Even the traditional account, it's growing tax.
00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:05.119
So you could do a crypto HSA.
00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:05.679
Yeah.
00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:07.039
Yeah, we do lots of those.
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:08.960
We do kids Roth, by the way.
00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:18.559
You could do a if your kids have income, maybe they have a summer job or they work in your small business or at a rental property, you can do a kids Roth IRA for them.
00:45:18.719 --> 00:45:25.760
Throw seventh grand a year into that working enough to provide that value, and they can be investing that and growing that too.
00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:30.960
Let me say this and let's get into the process to how the R Telago works.
00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:35.599
Because I think that's probably what he's getting at, because we're getting a flood of questions of what are the fees?
00:45:35.679 --> 00:45:36.400
How do I use the algo?
00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:37.440
What are the next fees?
00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:47.519
Oh, I I was just gonna add one thing is if you do own a lot of crypto and you want liquidity against that personally, the crypto lending is now becoming more and more prevalent.
00:45:47.679 --> 00:45:54.400
That's the way to do it in a tax-advantageous way, but legally, uh, that doesn't get you in trouble.
00:45:54.719 --> 00:45:57.199
Yeah, let me make sure everybody understands that.
00:45:57.440 --> 00:46:01.360
Let's say you have a$100,000 personal crypto portfolio.
00:46:01.519 --> 00:46:03.440
You could take a loan against that.
00:46:03.599 --> 00:46:09.119
Maybe it's 50 grand, you know, there's different lenders have different priorities, and you don't want to over-leverage too, right?
00:46:09.280 --> 00:46:13.440
But let's say that you you can take out you can loan against that.
00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:16.800
When you take a loan against that, that's not capital gain.
00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:17.679
That's not a sell.
00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:18.719
You haven't sold the crypto.
00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:20.079
You've gotten a loan against the asset.
00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:22.960
I mean, this is like a wealthy person strategy, right?
00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:34.800
They never sell assets, they accumulate assets and then they borrow against those assets, whether you're Jeff Bezos, who borrows against his Amazon stock or Donald Trump borrowing against his real estate, I don't care who you are.
00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:41.519
They're they don't sell the assets to then take the money to go, you know, buy the new house or the yacht or whatever the heck they're doing.
00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:44.960
Um those are just the crazy, you know, rich people thing.
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:45.920
I just I don't know.
00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:46.800
I don't know, whatever.
00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:48.480
I like the examples, I'm sticking to them.
00:46:48.639 --> 00:46:48.960
All right.
00:46:49.039 --> 00:46:53.519
So whatever your need is, you're like, Matt, find a yacht, bro.
00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:55.840
Whatever your need is, it's the same concept.
00:46:55.920 --> 00:47:01.599
Okay, we're just like a couple less zeros behind it, but there that has become uh more prevalent.
00:47:01.760 --> 00:47:11.199
Is institutions willing to provide to let you lend against it, which is as um Tillman said, is a there's no tax on that when you're drawing against that equity.
00:47:11.280 --> 00:47:13.119
It's kind of like a home equity line of credit.
00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:15.039
Take stripping out equity.
00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:25.039
We uh just for those of you that are popping in or hanging with us, we will have this recorded and put it up on our website and on our uh webinar and podcast page.
00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:47.039
Uh, why don't we go through the process of next steps like how the Arch algo works, opening up a crypto IRA account with us and how all that comes together, kind of a paint by paint by numbers situation on on next steps and how how bring it bring it home for us on how it all works.
00:47:48.079 --> 00:47:48.480
Sure.
00:47:48.559 --> 00:47:55.760
I can I from an Arch perspective, yes, our algorithm is completely free to use.
00:47:56.000 --> 00:48:02.559
Um uh we we make that available so that we don't have to explain the ins and outs.
00:48:02.719 --> 00:48:06.320
There's thousands of different ways to use the software.
00:48:06.400 --> 00:48:17.119
It's a toolbox um that allows you to allocate capital, allows you to unallocate capital, allows you to trade trends, all sorts of things that we can walk you through.
00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:20.559
And it's very simple once you put your hands on it.
00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:24.639
Um, but we pride ourselves in walking you through that process.
00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:34.800
So, what the best way to do to get started is to come to our website and click get started now and schedule a time to meet with one of our concierge team members.
00:48:35.039 --> 00:48:37.199
They will help you get up and running.
00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:46.400
And uh once you see exactly what the software does, you can step up into our paid version if there's uh a desire to do so.
00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:48.159
But uh seeing is believing.
00:48:48.239 --> 00:48:58.559
So we want everybody to kind of try it um and and prove to themselves that it's got a lot of value to them before moving to the to to paying us anything for the software.
00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:14.639
And once you do move to that, if if you uh see the value, it's a lifetime license that allows you to pay us one time and get unlimited support um while you're getting up and running so that you know how to use it exceptionally well.
00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:21.119
And then you have that uh tool in your possession and in your toolbox for forever, a lifetime.
00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:38.639
One critical piece if you are going to do this from the very beginning and this is like what your intent is, and you're going to use the algo, we do have a separate um relationship with our uh uh crypto exchange of choice at Gemini.
00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:44.239
You would need to tell us that in advance that that's what you're planning to do.
00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:52.480
If you open a crypto IRA and then that's not what you're planning to do to use the Arch Algo at this time, that's totally fine.
00:49:52.639 --> 00:50:02.400
But if you are going to use it and you're new to this and this is what you're using from day one, you'd need to let us know because there's some steps that we have to take on our end to set that up.
00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:18.400
Alternatively, if you're an existing crypto IRA with us and now you're wanting to add in the Arch algo, you'd have to let us know there is some additional steps again and things that we have to do on the back end uh to enable that and help uh process that.
00:50:18.559 --> 00:50:24.079
Um, if you're an existing client, you can contact uh our customer service team.
00:50:24.320 --> 00:50:30.480
If you're a new client, please reach out to our new accounts team uh on our appointments page.
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:36.000
You can book a free call and I'll I'll put those links on uh on the chat here again, right now.
00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:44.320
Yeah, and part of that's just about information sharing and coordination, that communication between us, Arch Public, and then also Gemini.
00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:50.400
We've we the those three parties, we've all worked together, had a lot of uh clients successful and happy.
00:50:50.559 --> 00:50:54.800
So it's just a just a coordination of the different parts to uh make it all happen for you.
00:50:55.039 --> 00:51:01.039
So um okay, any other questions or Tillman or Andrew, anything on your guys' end?
00:51:01.119 --> 00:51:06.559
I appreciate the um make sure we got the link in there so everybody can go test it out and try it if you're interested in it.
00:51:06.639 --> 00:51:14.800
I like that concept too, and the ability for people to get an understanding of it for themselves before they deploy it into real practice.
00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:24.079
Um, I think that can be, you know, everybody wants to have some level of comfort of being able to do that without having to take a huge you know, financial commitment to implement it.
00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:31.920
The only thing that I would add is, you know, we're we're north of 17,000 users at this point, and and we don't have unhappy users.
00:51:32.159 --> 00:51:44.400
Um the reason is is because once you see our tools, you know, execute their first autumn automated trade for you, I think this is magic.
00:51:44.639 --> 00:51:50.800
Uh I probably will never take take positions ever again that are not automated.
00:51:51.199 --> 00:51:54.400
Um we work with Scott Melker, we've we're on Tuesday shows.
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:56.000
Matt, you've been on the show with him.
00:51:56.559 --> 00:52:02.159
Um he started with a portfolio with us with 100k, and then it turned into 200 and 400 and 600.
00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:02.880
Why?
00:52:03.199 --> 00:52:13.119
Because he kept waking up and at 230 in the morning our algorithms were taking positions for him that he wouldn't have taken himself, and and they were remarkable.
00:52:13.440 --> 00:52:19.599
And he even said several times, like this feels like magic, and I'll never manually trade ever again.
00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:30.880
So so once you have that experience, you'll realize this is this is so much better than I, or even most experts, could ever do it.
00:52:31.119 --> 00:52:33.840
And so I I'll I'll never do it any other way.
00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:42.639
And and people have that experience with us, and uh you know, it it changes the way they look at accumulating great assets.
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:47.920
Yeah, and Scott's someone who's like in the crypto industry every day.
00:52:48.880 --> 00:52:49.440
You know what I mean?
00:52:49.760 --> 00:52:55.360
Not just like me or some of us that might be on here that are like, I follow crypto a little bit, you know.
00:52:55.920 --> 00:52:59.519
I mean, and and so the the difference in value, I mean, it's big for him.
00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:01.440
I mean, it can be significant here.
00:53:01.519 --> 00:53:10.480
And so, so what I want to say is like, you know, and this is not to be any like endorsement or, you know, obviously we just want to provide good information, people we've liked working with.
00:53:10.960 --> 00:53:13.119
We're not about telling you what to invest in.
00:53:13.199 --> 00:53:14.000
That's not our thing.
00:53:14.159 --> 00:53:16.079
Please don't misunderstand what I'm talking about here.
00:53:16.159 --> 00:53:18.639
I tell you what we do, we tell you what your options are.
00:53:18.719 --> 00:53:22.800
But the greatest thing about having a self-directed IRA is you're captain of your own ship.
00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:33.519
You get to decide, but we let you, we enable you, I should say, and give you the tools available to invest in the assets you know and believe in to grow and build wealth in a taxed-advantaged way.
00:53:33.679 --> 00:53:39.119
We just trying to bring together the tools to make it possible for you to captain the ship and do what you want to do.
00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:46.639
So um, if you have any questions for us at the directed IRA team, Aaron gave you the contacts there for new accounts versus existing accounts.
00:53:46.880 --> 00:53:48.719
ArchPublics info is in there.
00:53:48.880 --> 00:53:54.239
You can work with their concierge team as they talked about, test out what they're doing or learn a little bit more about them as well.
00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:56.159
I'll have a couple announcements too.
00:53:56.400 --> 00:53:57.679
Okay, Aaron's looking at me.
00:53:57.760 --> 00:53:58.800
I'm like, I'm not dying.
00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:03.360
I was actually gonna hit something else before you even get to announcements.
00:54:03.679 --> 00:54:07.039
Okay, let me get the announcement and then I'm gonna turn it back to Aaron here for a second.
00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:12.800
Um, we do have our self-directed IRA summit, and we should we need to get Tillman and Andrew on that actually.
00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:14.559
Yeah, um, do a little section on crypto.
00:54:14.880 --> 00:54:15.519
April 17th.
00:54:15.760 --> 00:54:18.559
April 17th, our self-directed IRA summit.
00:54:18.719 --> 00:54:20.960
It is 100% virtual this year.
00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:23.039
We're doing a throwback to COVID.
00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:28.559
Usually that's not a cool thing, and no one wants to go back to that time and shelter in place and all that.
00:54:28.800 --> 00:54:31.599
But we did a self-directed IRA summit during COVID.
00:54:31.679 --> 00:54:35.199
We had to cancel the hotel, all the contracts, and we were bummed out.
00:54:35.280 --> 00:54:41.440
We wanted to be with everyone, but it was a really good event because we focused on the virtual audience.
00:54:41.679 --> 00:54:45.760
It wasn't just like a live audience and we're, you know, we're we're filming it for the virtual.
00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:47.599
We're gonna focus 100% on the virtual audience.
00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:48.639
We're excited about it.
00:54:48.719 --> 00:54:56.239
That'll be Friday, April 17th, a full day, A to Z, how to self-direct your retirement account, take control of it, invest in the assets.
00:54:56.320 --> 00:54:59.039
You know, one of the options, of course, is crypto.
00:54:59.119 --> 00:55:00.320
So put that on your calendar.
00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:04.400
If you are an account holder at Directed IRA already, you get to attend for free.
00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:05.760
If not, you have to pay.
00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:10.000
It's SDIRA Summit.com where you can register.
00:55:10.079 --> 00:55:13.920
And if you are an existing client, check the newsletters, the client newsletter.
00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:19.840
There's a code in there you can use, or you can hit up our team as well to get that code so you can register for free.
00:55:20.320 --> 00:55:22.559
Okay, Aaron, announcement?
00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:39.119
Or well, I have yeah, I have a more of a question just from like um more of like all the rumblings and grumblings that come on because of the volatility and different things and forums that people are plugged into.
00:55:40.079 --> 00:55:46.239
The crypto uh space is just very different than other like traditional financial services, I would say.
00:55:46.480 --> 00:55:49.760
Um especially like in forums.
00:55:50.159 --> 00:55:53.440
Um it's pretty interesting to read.
00:55:53.760 --> 00:56:03.119
Anyways, I'd be curious your thoughts on just kind of a take on Gemini as an exchange, you know, Coinbase Crack and others.
00:56:03.280 --> 00:56:06.239
We obviously have a strategic relationship with Gemini.
00:56:06.800 --> 00:56:09.920
That's who we've chosen to work with for lots of reasons.
00:56:10.079 --> 00:56:12.800
We've we've used them for many, many years now.
00:56:12.960 --> 00:56:17.519
Uh, we like that they're a licensed trust company, we're a licensed trust company.
00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:29.519
Um, and you know, they have audits and exams, they put it publicly in their trust center, they put status and system updates as well, just like Coinbase and and others as well.
00:56:29.679 --> 00:56:31.920
But what what are some things that you could say?
00:56:32.079 --> 00:56:43.519
Because there's been different headlines and user errors, and it that's always the case, but it it tends to like tick up a lot more when you know crypto is going down.
00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:46.320
And when it's up, everything seems amazing.
00:56:46.480 --> 00:56:52.400
Like all the exchanges up, their stock is all high, and everything is just like you know, uh peaches and cream.
00:56:52.559 --> 00:56:55.599
But when it's not, it's like everything's wrong.
00:56:56.400 --> 00:57:00.159
You know, maybe Coinbase is going bankrupt, like who knows?
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:02.239
Like, what are some of your thoughts?
00:57:02.320 --> 00:57:09.519
Uh, because you you know, you have your algo with you know, um, you know, with Gemini as well, and that's how we even made the connections.
00:57:09.599 --> 00:57:18.480
Could so can maybe you talk to that of some of your insight and uh experience um and how maybe people can uh view that.
00:57:19.119 --> 00:57:32.800
Yeah, I mean, I I look at data from a factual perspective, and if you look at what happened happened with the Gemini Earn program, uh that was a black swan event.
00:57:33.039 --> 00:57:47.199
FTX literally uh deceived tremendous uh amounts of players in the market, uh, and it caused a cascade uh uh of of defaults.
00:57:47.679 --> 00:57:53.199
Jim and I made good one for one on every Bitcoin.
00:57:53.519 --> 00:57:58.400
They didn't take the easy way out and paying uh some discounted rate.
00:57:59.119 --> 00:58:11.119
So number one, New York City, very highly regulated, have passed the scrutiny test, like you said, have structured themselves in a way that provides a lot of trust.
00:58:11.280 --> 00:58:13.599
Um, so I I just think it's sterling.
00:58:13.679 --> 00:58:25.840
And I think at this point in the crypto space, if you still are around, uh, you have gone through the necessary trial by fire that should make everybody feel warm and fuzzy.
00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:34.719
And you know, if you look at even the FDIC puts a cap at 250,000 on cash in banks.
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And there's bank failures around the US every year.
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I think 8% of banks have failed over the last 20 years.
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Uh, that's it, you're not immune to institutions going out of business and making bad decisions.
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But when you look at some of the biggest players in the crypto space, um, Gemini being one of them, you're talking about insurance being issued to some of them north of$100 million for deposits and and things that are really groundbreaking from an industry standard perspective.
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So I I have a lot of faith in uh Gemini's deposits.
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I have uh I know that Tyler and Cameron have a lot more Bitcoin than I do.
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Um, and I think you know that bodes well for the the they trust uh Gemini.
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It's their firm.
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So yeah, I I think it's a I just like you said, I think you know, when when price is down, you hear a lot of noise and and uh congestion, but it's not indicative of really what's going on.
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Yeah, and I'll say this, you know, when we started working with Gemini, I mean, when we started our crypto IRA product, and I didn't know there's people in the chat, I guess, talking about this.
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There is, and it's it's valid.
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People's concerns are valid.
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There's no reason to not ask those types of questions.
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Um and so, and there's, you know, there's lots of other good crypto companies out there, but you know, with with Gemini and being able to do the retirement account structure, we want to do have a high level of service and give clients options besides just Bitcoin because they can do other types of cryptocurrencies, it's it's pretty unique.
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But I'll just say the companies we were looking at at the time was Voyager, FTX, and Gemini.
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Those are the three companies that we went down, you know, the path with.
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And Voyager went into bankruptcy, the Canadian company, actually.
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FTX, we all know the story there.
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Um, despite being the cool hot company, everyone was like, we need to use them, we need to use them.
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We use Gemini.
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Why'd we use Gemini?
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They picked a highly regulated way to go about it, the hardest way to structure their business that it protects customers.
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You have to understand, as a trust company, there's the company's assets and there's the customer assets.
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When you're FTX, it's all the same.
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When you're Voyager, it's all the same.
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When you're a trust company, it's different.
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You have your assets as a business.
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You have your customer assets that are not your assets that your creditors can't come after.
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So as a trust company, customer assets are always protected from the business assets.
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That's what we are for our customers and our accounts.
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That's what you have to be to be a retirement account custodian properly.
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And there's a reason for that, right?
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If the company fails, they don't want customers' retirement accounts affected.
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It's the same thing for how they approach being a custodian and holding people's cryptocurrency.
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And so we like that from you know, five plus years ago when we started investigating that, audited by Deloitte in terms of their practices and how they do things and licensed.
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And so, so we like that type of stuff.
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Um, it's how we do business, and we saw someone that approached it in the same way.
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And so that's if you want the backstory on us on on them, um, we went that path.
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Well, and and let me add just this the the truth is is Jim and I've been forward-thinking enough and customer-centric enough to allow the API bridges to be built to allow for this.
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There, they we do you can't get this anywhere else.
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So there's a question in the chats who other what other exchanges do we work with?
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We work with all the major exchanges, but not on the IRA side.
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Uh, and and that's where this is a huge differentiator, huge distinction point, uh, huge advantage uh that you really can't ignore at this point.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Okay.
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All right, great guys.
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