Welcome to the ninth episode of the Bonner Private Research Podcast. I'm joined by Charlie Morris, founder and chairman of ByteTree.com, an ambitious blockchain 2.0 software project to provide real-time economic statistics and data from blockchains. Today we chat about all things crypto, what he expects for the markets at large in 2021 and beyond, and just how he came to find himself heading one of Britain's oldest, most revered financial publications, the Fleet Street Letter.
Bullet Points
00:50 - 2014 and cryptos
03:24 - Introducing Charlie Morris
06:49 - Finding out about Bitcoin
09:00 - ByteTree: the professional tool for valuing and understanding Bitcoin
09:40 - The biggest change in regards to the attitude of professionals towards cryptocurrencies
11:28 - The UK’s regulator: being pretty unfriendly to the industry
12:00 - Why Bitcoin is inherently a good idea
15:57 - Do alt coins pose a threat to fiat hegemony?
19:30 - Assets vs money / Gold vs Bitcoin
26:26 - What network indicators to look at: Supply and Demand School arguments for Bitcoin’s price fluctuations
32:04 - Why has Bitcoin not pulled along the alt-coins as it did in previous bull runs?
35:56 - The Government’s response to COVID
40:05 - What Charlie does for a living and how his analysis can help individual investors
44:54 - Dow 50,000 or Bitcoin 50,000 first? Or neither?
