This week Samson Mow, Blockstream’s Chief Strategy Officer, is hosting Blockstream Talk. Our guest for this episode is no other than our usual host, Jesse Knutson, Blockstream’s VP of financial products. In this episode we dive into Jesse’s background as he comes from the banking industry. We talk about his early days as a bitcoiner in a bank. We also talk a lot about the Blockstream Mining Note (BMN) which Jesse is the primary driver for here at Blockstream so he deals with STOKR (our partner in Luxemburg) to do all the tranches, he handles the investor relations and also is very active in the community talking about the BMN. We also talk about his newsletter, which he has been writing for a very long time which gives a lot of insights into the bitcoin markets. We wrap things up by discussing his vision of building financial products on top of the Liquid Network. I hope you enjoy this episode.
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1:25 Jesse’s introduction
2:15 Jesse's journey from banker to bitcoin
4:32 Jesse trying to get banks to get involved in Bitcoin
10:50 What is BMN?
15:50 What is the future for BMN?
17:32 Paul Tudor Jones on investing in Bitcoin and Bitcoins network effects growing
20:39 Institutional investors taking a while to get into Bitcoin
21:55 Goals for Blockstream's acquisition of Adamant Capital
23:25 Macquarie's partnership with Blockstream
26:49 What is Blockstream markets newsletter
28:25 TA in bitcoin charts
30:48 What is Jesse most excited about for Bitcoin's future
32:10 Closing remarks