This Bitcoin Investment Strategy Changes Everything | Jeff Park
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[{âkey_takeawaysâ=>[âThe âWashington Consensusâ is dead, evidenced by government intervention like the Intel stake, meaning traditional valuation metrics based on a stable risk-free rate are insufficient.â, âIdeological Investing requires fundamentally challenging the assumptions of modern finance, particularly the risk-free rate derived from T-bills.â, âRadical Portfolio Theory replaces the defunct 60/40 model by dividing assets into âcompliance assetsâ (bonds, equities) and âresistant assetsâ (scarce, non-financialized items like Bitcoin or gold).â, âPrediction markets are highlighted as a crucial âresistant assetâ because they allow individuals to bet on fat-tail, improbable events that traditional models cannot account for.â, âStablecoins currently offer little advantage over electronic dollars but are significant as a customer acquisition tool for DeFi and may play a role in the future US fiscal framework, mirroring early Eurodollar market dynamics.â, âBitcoin Treasury companies are defined as operating entities leveraging Bitcoin as their unit of account to organically acquire more Bitcoin per share, extending beyond simple spot holding to include ecosystem plays like mining.â, âThe ability for Bitcoin Treasury companies to use âaccretive dilutionâ (e.g., via ATM issuance) is a privilege earned by delivering yield, not an inherent right based solely on trading at a premium to NAV.â], âoverviewâ=>âJeff Park argues that traditional value investing, rooted in the stable âWashington Consensus,â is obsolete, necessitating a new framework called âIdeological Investingâ to navigate a world defined by geopolitical shifts and challenging fundamental financial assumptions. This new approach emphasizes âRadical Portfolio Theory,â which moves beyond the dead 60/40 split to incorporate scarce, non-financialized âresistant assetsâ alongside traditional âcompliance assets.â The discussion highlights Bitcoin as a key resistant asset and explores the evolving role of Bitcoin Treasury companies in leveraging the networkâs ecosystem for growth.â, âthemesâ=>[âThe Death of Traditional Finance Paradigms (Washington Consensus vs. Beijing Consensus)â, âIdeological Investing and Radical Portfolio Theoryâ, âThe Role of Scarce and Resistant Assets (Bitcoin, Gold, Prediction Markets)â, âThe Evolution of Stablecoins and Digital Dollar Frameworksâ, âThe Business Model and Strategy of Bitcoin Treasury Companiesâ]}]
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"I made a joke that, you know, internally in the asset management world, we think of CIO as the Chief Investment Officer. But if you leave as management, CIO means Chief Information Officer. That's what most people understand; it's a technology job. But I said that this might be the one job at last where that I might be interchangeable because in Bitcoin, the investing is the IT and the technology to which there's gains that are generated within it."
"The blueprint is is your dollars and back when the Eurodollar markets were founded post-World War II, if you study the history, it feels a lot like what Tether looks like today."
"But the big picture, like away from the money-making opportunity for us idiosyncratic investors, is how stablecoin is going to change the United States fiscal and monetary framework into the future."
"And so, when you fatten the tails, what we're talking about here is allowing more improbable things to be outcomes you can bet on. And that's exactly what the world is. We are entering a period of a lot of uncertainty where we have to imagine the crazy things we never thought were possible might be possible."
"prediction markets is the antidote of AI where basically if you as a human have any insight that AI is going to be unable to front-run, it'll be because you, the human, are living in the now versus whatever recursive learning that the AI was doing."
"there are what I call compliance assets, and there are some that I call resistant assets. ... Bitcoin is one kind of example of it. Gold is another example of it that behaves differently."