President elect Trump setting his sights on acquiring not just one but multiple strategic locations such as Greenland and the Panama Canal here with us now Anthony Pano professional Capital Management founder and CEO and you say he should also be looking at buying as much Bitcoin as possible why well if you think about what he's trying to do here right is he's basically looking at strategic reasons to acquire physical property in order to advance the American ideals ethos and and strategies well what about the digal world we live in a digital world and so if you're
going to go after the Panama Canal there's obviously strategic reasons to do that Greenland as well uh owning Bitcoin is digital real estate there's only 21 million that will ever exist we know other countries are mining buying holding Bitcoin and so are we going to let these other countries be the leader or are we going to be the leader and I think that's really the decision they have to make what do you say to people who say it has had a massive run it's you know mentally it's difficult to kind of get on board at
these levels when we know where it's been and we've also seen that volatility somebody very smart told me well take 2% and and just money that you know you're willing to risk and put it in I still find that difficult to do if you go back to the 1980s or 1990s buying the S&P 500 was real scary but you were a genius if you did it in hindsight and so same thing here with Bitcoin is uh you can look backwards and see how high it Rose but if you look forward and say well if this
continues which we have every reason to believe it will uh buying today is the second best time to buy because the first best time was yesterday and if we keep waiting it's only going to get worse and worse and so I do think hear you it's just hard to pull the trigger of course and that's true of all Financial assets right I mean think of a real estate market people will go and they'll say oh my God I could have bought five years ago now it's at this price uh I I just can't wrap my
head around that well if you wait five more years the dollar is going to continue to be devalued and so usually uh if you decide hey I want to own something go ahead and buy it Anthony uh crypto investors and crypto companies are obviously very excited about a trump presidency we know we now know that coinbase Kraken Ripple and moonay have all donated money to the Trump Vance inauguration what does the Trump Vance time in office over the next four years what has that done to their uh trajectory of where Bitcoin could go well I
think about 50% of the value they bring to the table has already been captured because really it was just Awakening America to this idea that technology is good business is good free markets are good capitalism is good uh Bitcoin is the most free market asset that we have and so out of nowhere we went from a world where I think a lot of people were saying hey is the future actually brighter than the past to now they're saying oh wait a second we are going to put business oriented people into the White House and into
the administration let's go right and so you hear things like it's morning in America people saying it's time to build Etc now what I do think is interesting about these businesses is it's actually showing not that crypto is different it's that crypto companies are the same as non-crypto companies if you look at Amazon and Facebook and many others they're also donating a million dollars to this inauguration fund and so it used to be a world where there was kind of like the adults in the room and then the crypto little kids were playing kind of
in the corner but now all of a sudden you're realizing that these crypto companies are showing up and they're saying look we are no different than these big multi-billion dollar hundred billion dollar companies we also are going to donate we have a seat at the table and so it's really crypto growing up more than it is these people mean he has to create a strategic strategic Bitcoin Reserve or else they turn on him I do think that that is a potential risk and so you know look if you look at the administration uh Trump owns
Bitcoin and crypto uh JD Vance owns Bitcoin I believe there there's a lot of people in the administration you just go through all the different roles that they've appointed people and so these are bitcoiners to a degree or crypto holders that are going into the office they're likely to go ahead and buy they're going to get criticized for that they may get criticized for it but also if you look at it right now what is the United States doing we're buying bonds we're holding other assets we have a president that's currently uh in office and
also politicians who are literally day trading assets and so it's no different right I think the big story of 2025 is going to be that crypto has now grown up and is part of the traditional Financial system and there's pros and cons to that but now we have a seat at the table you saw that in the political arena in terms of donations and influence uh but you also now are going to see it in the financial Arena and that is going to be a huge Tailwind I think for Bitcoin and crypto in 2025 does
that include all crypto or is are we talking more Bitcoin when we talk about crypto I think that Bitcoin is the king it will remain the king I think that most of the capital flows from the traditional world are going into Bitcoin uh there are going to be other assets that enter into the market you obviously see the uh the eth ETF got approved you'll probably see others that get approved as well but the argument for anything other than Bitcoin is a very different one that is a technology argument it's no different than trying to
pick between Amazon and Google and Facebook the Bitcoin argument is much more akin to do I want to protect my purchasing power it's digital gold and so that argument to me is much more uh reasonable for the government to say hey we're going to go and we're going to put this in our reserves I don't think that the United States wants to get in the game of trying to pick Tech winners uh or losers based on you know the allocation of capital do you have a a one-year Target for us on bitcoin with and without
the Bitcoin Reserve with or without we're going higher I don't have I don't necessarily have a price U but I do think that if we go ahead and buy Bitcoin uh what's interesting is we will not be the first country to do this there's a lot of other countries who have already bought they're mining they're holding Bitcoin what I do think is important though is America is the greatest Capital Market in the world and so if America does it it pretty much reduces all of the career risk all of the CR uh critiques for all
these other countries and so you know Russia recently came out and they said hey we're mining Bitcoin we're starting to use it in actions people are like oh that's Russia you know we kind of don't like them and so they're kind of in the corner people look at El Salvador and they're like Ah that's El Salvador I couldn't point it out on the map if they're doing it makes more of a case if your enemies are doing it that you should be well look the United States took a pretty drastic action in terms of the
sanctions that they went after individuals country and also took some of the Russian assets and said hey we're going to give to the Ukrainian people uh when that happened bitcoiners came out and they said you are actually going to further accelerate the demise of the US dollar because now you have introduced the sanctions risk there was a paper that came of the har ecomics department where they talked about will countries now to buy Bitcoin not for Price not for the sovereignty but actually as a sanctions hedge Russia and so Russia is actually doing that do
you think they're the only one no I wouldn't bet on it I will say someone on this program on the network said the first 100K on bitcoin was the easiest and it could easily get to 200k by next year I'm like it took us this long to get to 100K and you think 200k in the next year some people are saying 250 I heard 500 unbelievable well if you guys just keep we'll just wait a couple minutes you guys will be at a couple million here Anthony Pomo love having you thank you so much thanks
for having me guys
