Why Buy Bitcoin with Andy Edstrom

Guest: Andy Edstrom, CFA®, CFP®, a financial advisor at WESCAP Group, where he manages more than $300 million for high-net-worth families. Andy is also an advisor and board member of Swan Bitcoin, and the author of a great book called Why Buy Bitcoin. Insight: At the top of the Bitcoin funnel, there are an almost endless number of entry points that could attract curious investors, consumers, business owners, thinkers, activists, and, yes, financial advisors. But you don't have to travel down the funnel very far before you hit some legitimate questions about Bitcoin and our broader financial system. Does Bitcoin really have the properties that we've historically associated with money and investible assets? Could the U.S government ban Bitcoin? Will the Fed develop a competing cryptocurrency that could hurt Bitcoin's value? And what does the ongoing "digitization of everything" mean for how we assign value? These are just a few of the questions that Andy and I tackle in this wide-ranging conversation.