Bill's passion is investing, technology and science and how they can all be used to improve people's lives. I'm particularly interested in cryptocurrency and Bitcoin technology, wealth management (especially in the crypto space), fitness (trail running, cross fit and weight lifting), psychedelics for treating mental well being, and depression mobile money, education, group collaboration and messaging, cryptography, smart devices, robotics, or games I believe in the power of science and technology and the people behind it to make a big difference.
Balanced portfolios are for lazy people who don’t do research, understand markets or can’t stomach short-term losses.
The future of banking is borrowing against your Bitcoin. So don't sell your Bitcoin.
If you're able to hold Bitcoin as collateral (and) never sell your Bitcoin... You can get anywhere from a 15% LTV or 50% LTV loan in real-time at the point of sale. That's the future of payments.
Startup investor and technology entrepreneur Bill Barhydt breaks down the evolution of Bitcoin, the world’s first decentralized digital currency. Its creation is completely crowdsourced, and transactions are both anonymous and transparent. Could this cryptocurrency provide the stability paper money cannot? Bill shares the possibilities he foresees. TEDArchive presents previously unpublished talks from TED conferences. Enjoy this unedited talk by Bill Barhydt. Filmed at TED University 2012. NOTE: Comments are disabled on this video. We made this difficult decision for the TED Archive because we believe that a well-moderated conversation allows for better commentary from more people and more viewpoints. Studies show that aggressive and hateful comments silence other commenters and drive them away; unfortunately, YouTube's comment moderation tools are simply not up to the task of allowing us to monitor comments on so many videos at once. (We'd love to see this change, YouTube.) So for now, if you'd like...
Abra's chief executive, ex-Goldman Sachs analyst Bill Barhydt, spoke to Insider about the five crypto funds his firm is opening up to high-net-worth individuals.