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Laura Shin
Why Twenty One Capital Is More About Volatility Than Bitcoin - Ep. 826
1 hour 15 minutes Posted Apr 29, 2025 at 4:00 pm.
Introduction
Why Jeff sees the Twenty One Capital launch as a huge development
How Twenty One might learn from MicroStrategy’s playbook
Risks of turning into the next Celsius, Voyager or Genesis
Why Bitcoin needs income-generating activities to evolve
How metrics like bitcoin per share bridge crypto and TradFi
Whether Tether’s participation makes sense
Why Jeff thinks SoftBank and Tether are “a perfect match”
Is SoftBank entering crypto a top signal?
Why Cantor’s involvement shows Wall Street is serious
Why bitcoin vehicle stocks trade at a premium
Why timing matters compared to MicroStrategy’s 2020 debut
How to decide between investing in vehicles, spot bitcoin, or ETFs
Whether SOL investment vehicles will have the same success as bitcoin ones
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The race for Bitcoin supremacy just got more complicated.
Twenty One Capital, backed by Tether, SoftBank, and Cantor Fitzgerald, plans to stack as much BTC as it possibly can. 
But is this new venture really about Bitcoin … or about creating a hyper-volatile stock to play market cycles?
This week on Unchained, Jeff Park of Bitwise and Mark Palmer of Benchmark join to discuss:
Why SoftBank and Tether are a “perfect match”—and why they turned to Bitcoin
How volatility, not bitcoin itself, might be the real asset investors are buying
What Cantor’s involvement says about Wall Street’s readiness for crypto
Why the launch timing matters
Whether Twenty One could repeat MicroStrategy’s mistakes
Whether these new Bitcoin vehicles are better bets than spot bitcoin or ETFs
Plus, is SoftBank getting into crypto a top signal? 👀
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Bitwise
Jeff Park, Head of Alpha Strategies at Bitwise
Mark Palmer, Senior Analyst at Benchmark
Recent coverage of Unchained on Twenty One: Twenty One Aims to Buy as Much Bitcoin as Possible. Can It Succeed?
Press Release: Tether, SoftBank Group, and Jack Mallers Launch Twenty One, a Bitcoin-native Company, Through a Business Combination With Cantor Equity Partners
Jeff Park’s post on X
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