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Pompliano: Bitcoin will protect corporate purchasing power better than cash over 10-20 years
“I think it is riskier for a company to sit with five hundred million dollars in US dollar cash on their balance sheet than five hundred million dollars worth of Bitcoin. And the reason being that or maybe the one clarifier is if you have a long-term oriented p…”
Pompliano: Shareholders will revolt against public companies holding massive cash reserves
“My expectation is actually that shareholders at some point will start turning on some of these public companies that have tons of cash and saying like, Hey, if we're sitting there with, you know, Warren Buffett sitting with a hundred billion dollars of cash, l…”
Shah: The odds of Balaji's $1M Bitcoin bet hitting are very low
“If I were a betting person, I would not bet that the odds are what do you think they are? Could happen, but nowhere near the probability that that he's suggesting.”
Dollar-euro parity and VAT refunds created a 35% luxury arbitrage opportunity
“Cause the dollar and the Euro like got to parody and the luxury stores hadn't changed the prices.
So basically like things were always typically priced higher in dollars than in euros.
or whatever.
So I might get that backwards, but like you, the Louis Vuitto…”