09 - Charlie Morris - Cryptocurrencies and what to expect for 2021

Welcome to the ninth episode of the Bonner Private Research Podcast. I'm joined by Charlie Morris, founder and chairman of ByteTree.com, an ambitious blockchain 2.0 software project to provide real-time economic statistics and data from blockchains. Today we chat about all things crypto, what he expects for the markets at large in 2021 and beyond, and just how he came to find himself heading one of Britain's oldest, most revered financial publications, the Fleet Street Letter. Bullet Points 00:50 - 2014 and cryptos 03:24 - Introducing Charlie Morris 06:49 - Finding out about Bitcoin 09:00 - ByteTree: the professional tool for valuing and understanding Bitcoin 09:40 - The biggest change in regards to the attitude of professionals towards cryptocurrencies 11:28 - The UK’s regulator: being pretty unfriendly to the industry 12:00 - Why Bitcoin is inherently a good idea 15:57 - Do alt coins pose a threat to fiat hegemony? 19:30 - Assets vs money / Gold vs Bitcoin 26:26 - What network indicators to look at: Supply and Demand School arguments for Bitcoin’s price fluctuations 32:04 - Why has Bitcoin not pulled along the alt-coins as it did in previous bull runs? 35:56 - The Government’s response to COVID 40:05 - What Charlie does for a living and how his analysis can help individual investors 44:54 - Dow 50,000 or Bitcoin 50,000 first? Or neither?