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Matt Hougan is the Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management — one of eleven spot Bitcoin ETF issuers, managing over $10 billion. When family offices, RIAs, and pension consultants size their Bitcoin allocation, his is the analysis they read.
This is the institutional case for Bitcoin in plain language: Bitcoin as two investments at once (digital gold plus a call option on becoming the world's apolitical currency), the math behind his $1.4 million by 2035 call, and why he thinks Bitcoin is about to repeat the supply shock that just took gold parabolic. If you've been trying to explain Bitcoin to the most sophisticated person in your life — send them this.
We discuss:
- Bitcoin as two investments in one — store of value + call option on currency status
- The kinetic vs. monetary chaos lenses, and why both push Bitcoin up
- Why Harvard's endowment quietly went BTC + gold as their two largest 13F positions
- The $36 billion first-year ETF launch — 6× the previous all-time record
- Why Matt's personal price target is $1.4 million by 2035
- The gold supply shock parallel — and why Matt thinks Bitcoin is next
- Quantum computing — manageable upgrade problem or existential threat?
- Three ways to pitch Bitcoin to three different kinds of institutional allocator
- Why generational change is the biggest underrated catalyst in the space
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