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Bitcoin is not a safe haven for criminals

Fox Business · 2022-02-09 · 4m · View on X →

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join in now micro strategy chairman michael sailor

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michael you know i got to tell you i was struck by that common made by the

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deputy a g leesa monaco

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that the cesar uh... cesar of uh... shows that crypto currency is not a safe

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haven for criminals

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despite quote

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uh... a few talitim to maintain digital uh... uh... anonymity

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so here's a thing

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we heard we keep hearing from politicians saying

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and we don't like bitcoin because it's hailer made for criminals i guess

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that they were wrong after all

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i think people fear what they don't understand but as they're becoming

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educated there becoming much more comfortable with this new technology

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you know bitcoins have been saying for a long time that you know the blockchains

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of public ledger

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right and uh... because it's public it's not ideal for any kind of uh... elicit

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behavior and i know i think we have a

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three point six billion dollar

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example yeah no uh... the perhaps the best ever so i was reading yesterday

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where you said it if fast be fixed accounting

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uh... at the fd i'd be at the i c update rules for banks in the s c approved

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the

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spot bitcoin ETF

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the price with search tenfold

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so how likely is that the happen in an over what time frame

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you know i i think it's a uh... something that's going to happen this decade so

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i look out over the next eight years

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i think it's an inevitable that we will see more regulators embracing the

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crypto economy and embracing bitcoin in particular

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and uh...

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you know at when banks can hold it on their balance sheet you'll see a lot of

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a lot of uh... less expensive credit and then the selling pressure will

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decrease and people won't sell their digital property

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and i think uh... the the spot ETF would be an on ramp for

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tens or hundreds of billions of dollars of capital to flow very easily

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and uh... the the fax be changes make a lot easier for publicly traded gap

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oriented company so

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these are catalyst uh... that we can look forward to but

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uh... as i said before

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i think it's fine the way it is right now you have an opportunity to buy

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bitcoin at a discount before these things get fixed

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and it's highly likely they will get fixed in time

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uh... another potential boost uh... apparently rush uh... i read

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uh... making moves to recognize crypto as a form of currency your thoughts about

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that

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and they want to bring it into the public policy framework protect retail

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investors and keep track of the money flows

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it sounds kind of like every other government in the world

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so no news in that regard except for the fact that

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as the regulators provide clarity um... their view is this this uh...

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makes it possible for legitimate business activity take place

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i think it's a green light for investors

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everywhere in the world especially in russia and is a green light for businesses

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to embrace bitcoin in their operations

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so so michael i ran across and an old sweet from you and i was a little bit

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surprised to learn you were not always a bit coin believer

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so this why you you're always so confident that the skeptics ultimately will

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come around by the way you should know i mean my first purchase this week

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i'm so proud of you Charles we've been expecting you

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everybody's against people and you thank you

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yes you did everybody's against bitcoin before they're for it

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because you got to understand it you got to do the work to figure it out

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on september 18th of 2013 i wasn't in favor of it i didn't understand it i

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don't think i needed it and it was trading at

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five hundred dollars in change and it had just traded down 20 percent in the

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day it was horrific drawdown so here we are a hundred

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x from there i think people understand why they need it better i think that the

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uncertainty is much less yeah and we still have a very brilliant future ahead of

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us yeah in my epiphany came at forty two thousand but who cares it's going to

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a million michael thank you so much my friend great stuff i'm so glad you've

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been vindicated on just one of many things i think you will be in the future

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we'll see you soon thanks for having me Charles

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