Bits + Bips: Bitcoin Finally Acted Like a Hedge. Will It Last?
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Hi, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Bits and Bips, the interview. I'm your host, Steve Ehrlich, and I am here today with Andy Bear. He is the managing director of asset management at GSR, and many of you will probably know him as the former head of CoinDesk indices. So welcome, Andy.
Good to see you. Thanks for having me on.
Yeah, absolutely. And I know you've been a GSR for a couple of weeks now, but welcome and congratulations on the new role. Excited to see what you're doing.
GSR is one of the firms that got me into crypto in the first place. John Laughlin, who's the Chief Investment Officer here, we've known each other more than twenty years, and I remember seeing on LinkedIn when he joined GSR and thinking like, John Laughlin's at a crypto firm, like, okay, so we have to look into this a little bit more. And so we kept in pretty close touch. GSR was a great client of ours when I was at CoinDesk. And you know, now we have this great new venture to embark upon. So it's really exciting and I think it's at a good time for the industry and a good time for GSR, good ti
Yeah, and it's fun too. I mean, you and I, we used to appear on panels together both as members of, I guess full time members of the media, you at CoinDesk, me at Forbes and Unchained, and now I'm at SharpLink and you're at GSR and, but we still get to have the same conversations. I love it. Yeah.
Yeah. That's right. No, that's so true. And that's kind of what's great about this industry that people who can get around and know folks and are well networked, but also just have a good technical sense of how the markets work and really do a lot of interesting things on the practice side, but also on the content and media side.
Yeah, absolutely. So we have a ton to talk about today. I mean, all of it's gonna be sort of being driven by what's happening in the Persian Gulf, so on and so forth. But before we get to that, just a little bit of housekeeping. Number one, as always, nothing that anyone, says on the show should be, construed as investment or financial advice. For full disclosures, please see unchained.com/bitsandbips. And second, before we really kick things off, let's just take a brief pause so we can hear from one of the sponsors who makes this show possible.
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Okay. Alright. So let's kinda dive in here. Probably makes sense to just set the stage for for where we're at right now. We are talking on Thursday afternoon eastern time, and, obviously, the world is on knife's edge. Oil keeps going up. I believe it's over $100 a barrel yet again, despite an unprecedented, I guess, release or scheduled release of I think 400,000,000 barrels from the I think it's the EIA or the IEA. I forget exactly what the acronym is. The largest in history because the Strait Of Hormuz is more or less closed. And despite what was supposed to have, I guess a bit of a palliati
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