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Time of India
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Tour de France: Unchained Season 3 OTT Release Date - When and where to watch final edition of hit docu-series
Tour de France: Unchained Season 3 OTT Release Date - Netflix's fan-favourite sports docu-series is hitting the finish line. The final season, Season 3, drops on July 2, 2025, on Netflix, and it's packing all the grit, rivalries, heartbreak, and glory from the 2024 Tour de France. With eight hard-hitting episodes, this is the last, no-holds-barred look at cycling's most brutal race, and it promises to go out with a bang. What's this show all about? If you've followed the first two seasons, you know Unchained is all about men pushed to their breaking point, egos clashing, dreams crashing, and others rising from the dust. Season 1 gave us the foundation, an introduction to the chaotic, ruthless world of the Tour de France. We saw teams battling weather, injury, and each other. Season 2 dialled it up: more drama, more crashes, and raw emotional moments. Jonas Vingegaard's rise, Tadej Pogačar's relentless push, and the mind games of elite cycling were front and centre. Now, Tour de France: Unchained Season 3 turns the intensity to max. This is the 2024 Tour, tensions are higher, and the stakes couldn't be bigger. Season 3: What's going down? This final season is pure adrenaline. Jonas Vingegaard is back from a nasty crash earlier in the year. Most thought he wouldn't make it. But he shows up anyway, bruised but burning. Then there's Tadej Pogačar, fitter, faster, and with a chip on his shoulder. There's a new generation hungry to take over. Young riders, outsider teams, and fearless newcomers come flying into the peloton, ready to blow it all up. The Tour isn't just a race but a war on two wheels. And in this final chapter, the lines between underdog and champion get blurred. Who's in it? The cameras follow every key player and the unsung workhorses who live and die by the team strategy. Some familiar faces include: Jonas Vingegaard – The quiet killer with ice in his veins Tadej Pogačar – The Slovenian superstar with fire in his legs Wout van Aert – Always in the mix, always dangerous Fabio Jakobsen – The comeback story you'll never forget Tom Pidcock, Jasper Philipsen, David Gaudu – Young, bold, and out for blood Narrated once again by Alec Newman, the series is brought to life by the team behind F1: Drive to Survive: Box to Box Films and Quad Productions. James Gay-Rees and Paul Martin return as executive producers, with razor-sharp editing by Franco Bogino and team.
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump Media plans $2.5 billion bitcoin reserve
Donald Trump'a media company has announced plans to establish a bitcoin reserve by selling $2.5 billion (£1.85bn) of its stock to institutional investors. The Trump Media and Technology Group, which operates the Truth Social platform, said about 50 institutional investors will put up $1.5 billion in the private placement for common shares in the company and another $1 billion for convertible senior notes Trump Media said it intends to use the proceeds for the creation of a 'bitcoin treasury', with chief executive Devin Nunes describing the cryptocurrency as 'an apex instrument of financial freedom'. He added: 'Trump Media will hold cryptocurrency as a crucial part of our assets.' Industry figures have said the move reflects bitcoin's transition from a fringe asset, to one endorsed by the highest levels of government. 'Trump Media raising $2.5bn to buy bitcoin reflects a broader trend: publicly traded companies are waking up to the idea that holding debasable dollars is a liability – and bitcoin, money that cannot be debased, is the solution,' Joe Burnett, director of market research at crypto firm Unchained, told The Independent. The announcement is the latest potential conflict of interest, which has seen Trump pursuing policies while in public office that may financially benefit his business interests. Trump, who referred to cryptocurrencies in his first term as 'not money,' citing volatility and a value "based on thin air," has shifted his views on the technology. During an event at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida during his presidential campaign in May 2024, Trump received assurances that crypto industry backers would spend lavishly to get him reelected. Last week, Trump rewarded 220 of the top investors in one of his other cryptocurrency projects – the $Trump meme coin – with a swanky dinner luxury golf club in Northern Virginia, spurring accusations that the president was mixing his duties in the White House with personal profit. Trump has received significant support from the crypto industry since appearing at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville last July, during which he pledged to be the first 'crypto president'. Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to speak at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Additional reporting from agencies
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Bitcoin Legacy: Securing Your Block of Generational Wealth
(0:30) - The Journey of Bitcoin: In Search of Scarcity (9:15) - Trey Sellers Teaches "Bitcoin for Bankers" (21:00) - No Dumb Questions: Finite Supply, Self-Custody, Cold Storage (25:25) - Unchained Services for Security and Legacy (33:30) - FIRE & BTC: Bridging Two Worlds With Common Goals (42:55) - Las Vegas Bitcoin 2025: Trey Will Be On FIRE! Podcast@ Welcome back to Mind Over Money. I'm Kevin Cook, your field guide and storyteller for the fascinating arena of Behavioral Economics. In this episode, I sat down with a Wall Street veteran who now spends his days helping high-net-worth individuals, families, and business owners to secure their Bitcoin for optimal inheritance planning, loans, and legacy solutions. Trey Sellers has worked for Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, and MetLife where he specialized in technology consulting and back-office systems. At the investment bank Truist, he worked on the capital markets trading floor running risk analysis and P&L models for multi-asset institutional portfolios. Trey is now a Vice President of Sales for a company called Unchained. Unchained offers a suite of financial and custody services designed to, in their words, "protect your bitcoin with cold storage -- that you control." Clients also get access to other services including trading, inheritance planning, loans, and Bitcoin IRAs. Unchained helps thousands of individuals and businesses by securing nearly $10 billion worth of Bitcoin. Bitcoin Security and Scarcity Are For Everyone Now if you don't consider yourself HNW, don't worry 'cause I'm not either. Recall that Forbes, in their original definition of "rich" for the "400" list, used to define it as "$10 million net worth and $1 million in annual income." Now I think everyone on the list is a billionaire. In the conversation with Trey, you are still going to learn a lot about the Bitcoin investment frontier that will apply to you as you build your own family legacy and inheritance plans. You should take away key questions that you can ask your financial advisors about Bitcoin and your own "family office." Trey helps us navigate terminology like "on-chain," self-custody, and cold storage. And he lays out the importance of knowing how you own and secure your Bitcoin, whether you bought some in a Coinbase COIN or Robinhood HOOD account, or you're using a hardware wallet and private keys. Your Own Personal Fort Knox There were three highlights in my conversation with Trey that I want to preview. First, was how he seized the moment at Truist to teach the staff at all levels about what he thought was coming with Bitcoin after the "halving" in 2020. He built a slide deck he titled "Bitcoin for Bankers" which made its way throughout the organization and made him an authority as interest grew during the rally to $69,000 in 2021. Second, as he was explaining the services of Unchained and how they openly work with your financial advisors -- legal, tax, planning, estate -- to create sound structures and procedures, he said it's like building your own 'personal Fort Knox.' The third highlight with Trey is how he has adapted the FIRE concept of "Financial Independence, Retire Early" to the ultimate freedom asset. You can jump right into the podcast linked above and hear Trey's story in his own words, but be sure to come back to this article as I have some goodies for you. Millions of Stories, Only 21 Million Bitcoin Since I've been in financial markets for three decades, I tend to notice a big divide between the "youngsters" who grew up with Bitcoin just like smartphones, and the traditional finance or "tradfi" folks (like me) who studied the new asset class for years and one day finally realized the true power of Bitcoin (btw, I still capitalize the "B" just like the Internet as a unique technology protocol). The first group tends to be tech-savvy and skeptical about old institutions, while my group can be full of late-adopters who understand the fiat monetary system that got us to the day where we said "Wow, this digital gold is really an entirely new and compelling asset class that can compete with barbarous gold and money printing!" Trey Sellers is a bridge in the middle of these two broad groups. You can follow him on X @ts_hodl for excellent education and wry wit to understand why. Even Michael Saylor, the current champion of "hodling" (buying, "holding on for dear life" and never selling) didn't "get Bitcoin" until 2020. My story of "getting Bitcoin" is summarized in this 9-minute video... Bitcoin for Family Offices in 500 Seconds To symbolize the "speed of light" power of Bitcoin as a digital asset, I tried to make the message only 8.33 minutes long, the time it takes the Sun's light to reach Earth. I wish I could say I borrowed the "Bitcoin for [insert professional audience]..." idea from Trey because that means I might be further along on my Bitcoin accumulation journey by now! But since my full appreciation of this new asset class didn't occur until March of 2024 -- after I listened to Saylor speak -- I think my story might also be useful to some people. From Fed Apologizer to Fiat Antagonist In 2017, I learned a "little bit" about Bitcoin and Blockchain. Like "a little enough" to be dangerous. I thought it could be a big force of change in finance and technology, but I didn't really understand how. I even did a podcast episode titled "CRISPR or Bitcoin: Which is the Bigger Disruptor?" Turns out neither were working for me, so I just stuck with the one area I did understand and had high conviction about: the NVIDIA AI revolution. But I was still watching Bitcoin. Like "on the edge of my seat" during the 2022 bear market when it looked like Michael Saylor's Bitcoin strategy was about to implode his company MicroStrategy... because his "digital real estate" was about to go below his average buy price near $15,000. He had just bought new highs above $60,000 in 2021. And then he lived under constant media and Wall Street scrutiny as prices collapsed again. The last thing he needed was a numbskull by the name of Sam Bankman Fried (SBF) creating yet another scandal in the wild west of crypto. As I've written about since my first article on "rogue traders" in 2008 -- before we even heard Bernie Madoff's name -- technology and regulations may evolve, but human nature never does. In fact, it just occurred to me that my study of Mental Models of Financial Sabotage was the perfect precursor to what Satoshi Nakamoto invented: impossible to trust jungles of finance in search of a trust-free asset. But what kept me on the sidelines, or "on the orange fence" to turn a phrase, was that I still couldn't answer two important questions: (1) How does Bitcoin keep getting hacked, stolen, and lost? (2) How do I know the supply cap of 21 million is real and permanent? Sam Bankman Fried, Champion of Dunces When I learned that SBF didn't even read books, it all made sense. So many kids who grew up with the web, social media, and online forums pride themselves on their internet education. And there's more than ever on X spouting wild views, who you can tell got their "minor in macro" from YouTube. The problem with this approach is that while Bitcoin is a revolutionary financial asset, technology, protocol, and network... it is not completely separate from the traditional finance world that made it possible. I know that must sound heretical to some Bitcoin maxis listening, but hear me out. How finance works, how derivatives work, how the Black-Scholes option pricing model works, how complex systems emerge, how semiconductors have evolved because of traditional capitalism -- all of these areas have created the soil for Bitcoin to develop and grow. Satoshi didn't invent the Secure Hash Algorithm 256 out of thin air. Cypherpunks like Tim May and Hal Finney had been in search of digital, stateless, private money for decades... until the greatest "anon" who ever lived, finally found a recipe in 2008. The Problem with Fiat Was Still Invisible To Me But even as recently as early 2024, I was still on the "orange fence." Then I listened to an event where Saylor was on stage with Peter Diamandis and a Strategy MSTR investor in the audience essentially asked him, "I have made so much money on your stock, why should I buy Bitcoin?" The next few minutes were a masterclass for me. Here was a guy who spoke my language of markets, derivatives, and economics with the knowledge and conviction that only an MIT engineer could. Saylor explained how he could offer convertible bonds to investors and arbitrageurs that created a packaged, lower-risk form of Bitcoin volatility for them. He was essentially siphoning-off capital from Wall Street to build his revolution -- that he now teaches other corporations. I went on to watch more of his interviews and presentations about his 2020 "conversion" moment. Saylor admits he was acting out of desperation during the pandemic when his company was barely growing and he might only have a 2-3 years of cash runway. But when he studied "the problem" of run-away inflation from deficit-driven fiat printing, it became crystal clear that a digital, secure, finite-supply asset was "the solution." You couldn't run and you couldn't hide from dollar debasement. And I already agreed with him that a precious relic like gold couldn't be the only way. This was a turning point in my Bitcoin education. I trusted Saylor's knowledge, his conviction, and his long-term plan. So I hit the books to learn all I could about monetary history and fiat debasement. And to get my two burning questions answered about security and scarcity. I had always taught investors that we could easily beat price inflation with stocks and real estate. Now I suddenly saw the "hidden inflation" of excessive money printing -- driven by endless fiscal deficits. And then I saw what it could do to silently degrade any investment portfolio with another 5-10% of annual monetary inflation. My "Gradually, Then Suddenly" Moment In the podcast, Trey Sellers and I talk about the work of Parker Lewis who wrote the 2023 book Gradually, Then Suddenly: A Framework for Understanding Bitcoin as Money to explain the inevitable Bitcoin monetary revolution. I hadn't read it, but the title sounded like a microcosm of the thought process one goes through as they study Bitcoin. We discuss the view that you should be skeptical as you do "the work" of understanding Bitcoin. And there are no dumb questions. Is it a commodity? Is it money? Is it a better store of value than gold? Who controls it? Can it be outlawed? These are all smart and essential questions that you must pursue to their ends. Once I "got Bitcoin" I wanted to explain it to everyone I knew. I started a small education group for friends and family and began recommending to investors to at least get started with the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF IBIT. Once they had some skin in the game, I knew their interest and learning curve would accelerate like mine did. And in October, I published an article that basically said, "Get ready to go all-in because Bitcoin is about to breakout above $70k and it will go very quickly to $85K and then $100k." That prediction worked and my followers and I made some dough using call option strategies. Then things got tricky as Bitcoin stalled again below $100k. The nation-state 'sovereign cavalry' was not showing up to send Bitcoin to $125,000 as I had imagined would happen in Q1. But my conviction remains that Bitcoin can hit $500k in 5 years by 2030 -- that's only a 38% CAGR and there's no reason that Bitcoin shouldn't ascend to a ratio with gold of at least 25% to 50% of gold's current $22 trillion market cap. In fact, in my October article, I give you 10 reasons -- without even comparing the two assets. I think they will coexist for some time, just like the US dollar will still be a central part of the global economy in 2050. Here's that article... Scaling Laws 101: It's Beyond Exponential and Bitcoin Will Benefit I also have a special gift if you are trading options. My PDF, titled OptionsPhysics 101: Put-Call Parity, is the foundation of understanding and working with options even before you learn about volatility strategies, Black-Scholes, and the greeks. That link will lead you to the Gumroad site where thousands of creators post their work for free and for pay. In my case, I just post valuable long-form content there for free. Cantor Equity Partners and Twenty One Capital Speaking of scaling, there was an incident last week that attracted lots of attention in the Bitcoin community. First, Bitcoin surged 6.8% Tuesday April 22, its biggest one-day rally since November 11 (the Sunday March 2 rally of +9% I'm not counting because it was immediately reversed on 3/3). I was scratching my head about that surge for days, until I started to see the chatter about a new Bitcoin "consortium" to challenge Michael Saylor's Strategy, announced on April 23. The announcement was previewed on Tuesday evening by the Financial Times (FT) and Reuters... CANTOR NEARS $3BN CRYPTO VENTURE WITH SOFTBANK AND TETHER - FT TETHER WOULD CONTRIBUTE $1.5BN OF BITCOIN, WHILE SOFTBANK AND BITFINEX WOULD CONTRIBUTE $900MN AND $600MN- FT This consortium came about after Cantor Equity Partners CEP went public as a SPAC (special-purpose acquisition company) in August 2024, raising $100 million through the sale of 10 million Class A ordinary shares. Brandon Lutnick, son of U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and chair of brokerage Cantor Fitzgerald, somehow found his way to partner with SoftBank, Tether and Bitfinex to create a multibillion-dollar bitcoin acquisition vehicle. And their plans appear to be for a 'soft IPO' of Twenty One Capital as a SPAC entity under the stock symbol XXI. XXI expects to launch with more than 42,000 bitcoin, which would make it the third-largest bitcoin treasury in the world, it said. The transaction gives Twenty One a $3.6 billion enterprise value. It is expected to provide $540 million in proceeds to Twenty One as the company also entered a subscription agreement with investors to raise $585 million of additional capital. Some of the net proceeds will be used to purchase additional bitcoin. Shares of Cantor will continue trading on Nasdaq under the symbol CEP until the transaction closes. And that's okay, as they've already created quite a few millionaires in just a week. CEP shares vaulted +55% off of $10 on 4/23 and the next day traded as high as $39 but fell back to $25 on some fast profit-taking. On the morning of May 1 as I write this, CEP has hit $57 for a gain of over 400% since the announcement. The backroom deals in Washington DC should never cease to surprise us. And with crypto, the grifts have grown even greater as suggested by this morning's New York Times article "Trump Shapes the Policy on Crypto, and Cashes In: Hushed Deals and Foreign Investors Propel President's Digital Money Start-Up." But after we recover from the shock of the latest "political blessing on private wealth" (bypassing all regulatory functions in favor of crony capitalism) we must then consider if any of this can benefit us... vs the insiders who easily grow their fortunes. The one way this works for you and I as Bitcoin investors is that this new institutional demand will make a scarce commodity-asset-protocol even more scarce. So if you buy this year, you'll have increased leverage on the future where 95% of the population still doesn't understand or care about the Bitcoin monetary revolution. I don't think Twenty One Capital will meet its claim to be the biggest corporate Bitcoin holder in the world. There's a low probability they will catch Saylor's Strategy which has amassed over 550,000 BTC. But the race is heating up among big players. In the last slide of my video presentation (link below), I show a favorite Saylor image of the greatest purchases on the American frontier, from Louisiana to Alaska, and I say: 'This is our chance to grab big pieces of the new world for ourselves… while it's still on sale.' Remember that there are only 22 million 'dollar' millionaires in the USA. And that means there's not enough Bitcoin for them all to own even ONE. Now is our time. Bitcoin For Family Offices in 500 Seconds To wrap this up, I encourage everyone to watch the video linked above. My goal was to encourage busy HNW individuals to give just a few minutes to understand why their assets were not entirely safe in the dollar system of stocks, bonds, real estate, and private equity. But the real message is this: it won't move the needle for HNW as much as it will for you and I. So my goal here is really for all of us to learn quickly about monetary debasement and investment alternatives outside of any fiat system. It will make you think strongly about why you need to allocate a portion of your savings outside of the stock market and real estate into Bitcoin -- either directly with self-custody or just getting your beak wet with the iShares Bitcoin ETF IBIT. Where to Learn More about Bitcoin and Unchained If you go to the Unchained website, you'll find educational resources and a link to their YouTube channel with lots of good discussion and tutorials. And Trey Sellers will be speaking at the world's largest Bitcoin conference May 27-29 at The Venetian in Las Vegas. The theme of Bitcoin 2025 is "Embrace Game Theory." One more thought: As many of my followers know, I am building a free youth STEM education organization that I want to be funded by Bitcoin. I already know that when I launch the non-profit and begin accepting Bitcoin donations to fund it for a century or three, I will be calling Trey and Unchained to help me plan it properly for such longevity. I leave you with an X post by Saylor on Monday 4/28... When banks finally bless Bitcoin and the experts agree it's a good idea, everyone will want to buy it, no one will need to sell it, and you won't be able to afford it. Talk soon, Cooker Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report MicroStrategy Incorporated (MSTR) : Free Stock Analysis Report Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN) : Free Stock Analysis Report Robinhood Markets, Inc. (HOOD) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research ( Zacks Investment Research
Axios
01-05-2025
- Business
- Axios
Bitcoin has found a place in the global portfolio
Bitcoin is now an investment held by regular people who want to diversify their portfolio, while the rest of the cryptocurrency world (stablecoins aside) struggle to catch on. Why it matters: The question of "what is bitcoin actually good for" has been answered by the market: It buys (and is buying) the digital gold narrative. Zoom in: Bitcoin was created to be a medium of exchange on the internet. But what really worked for it was becoming an alternative investment — something that has a good track record of going up over time, even if its day-to-day volatility can be stomach churning. The original blockchain may end up being useful to the world in other ways, but bitcoin's basic function as a store-of-value has been established. In tech world parlance, Satoshi Nakamoto's innovation has found product-market fit. Catch up quick: The approval of Bitcoin ETFs 15 months ago proved that a lot of capital had been waiting to hit buy on bitcoin as soon it got some kind of regulated wrapper. And last week was the best week this year for crypto ETFs. What they're saying: The ETFs "basically helped, if you will, normalize cryptocurrency into an investable asset," Mike Johnson, a partner at EY, the giant professional services firm, tells Axios. In recent research his company did in collaboration with Coinbase, they found that a majority of institutional investors have become comfortable with bitcoin as an investment, and plan to increase their allocations. Further, EY is seeing people start with ETFs and then get interested in directly purchasing bitcoin, suggesting that the new instruments are an entry point to greater sophistication about the asset's unique features. Other forces are at work now, too. Charles Edwards, of Capriole Investments, a quantitative bitcoin-focused hedge fund, said on an Unchained podcast, that there's a flywheel developing as corporate investors imitate the purchases of publicly traded Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy). Most notably, SoftBank and some big players in bitcoin just launched Twenty One, a big fund, with $4 billion in BTC, aimed at making similar moves. "It's probably going to be the main driver of price action the next 12 months," Edwards said. Other digital assets Investors' recent push into bitcoin — and mainly only bitcoin — can be seen in the recent surge in "bitcoin dominance," a metric measuring BTC's share of the total crypto market cap. At 64%, it's at the highest level since January 2021. Between the lines: Other crypto assets and blockchain projects are stuck in what's known as the trough of disillusionment — the period when a much-hyped class of product loses interest from the public because it hasn't lived up to expectations. Yes, but: EY's Johnson ascribes the weak demand for other blockchain-powered products to regulatory uncertainty and also their very newness. Regulatory clarity should bring more products to market as more market participants feel comfortable innovating on chain. Bitcoin "decoupling" Bitcoin is up 700X since May 2013. The S&P 500 is 3X over the same time period. Bitcoin has also doubled in value since January 2024. This is what the believers are looking at when they call bitcoin a hedge against inflation. They aren't watching the asset on a weekly or monthly timeline. They are looking at what happens if they hold it for years. Zoom out: At present, with the larger economy awash in uncertainty, many investors have retreated into gold, driving it to a new all-time high. At first, bitcoin didn't benefit from that same shift, but that has started to turn around more recently, making it again — at the moment — look more like digital gold than a risk asset. The bottom line: "Obviously, there's some trepidation in the market because the last crypto winter," Johnson said.
Forbes
20-04-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Gold Or Bitcoin? 3 Firms Make Holding Bitcoin Easier Than Ever
Bitcoin or Gold? (Photo by Romain Costaseca / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP) As tariff talks continue, geopolitical tensions escalate, and the global economy wavers, investors are gravitating towards store-of-value investments. Gold, the traditional go-to during times of crisis, just breached a record $3,300 per ounce. The surge is driven by a weakening dollar and renewed U.S.-China trade friction. In 2025, a growing number of investors, from hedge funds to retirees, are beginning to question whether gold remains the best store of value. Increasingly, the answer is Bitcoin. Once dismissed as a speculative plaything, Bitcoin has matured into a borderless, digital alternative to gold that offers both finite scarcity and functionality. It's divisible, portable, and most crucially, a currency. Billionaire investor Mark Cuban agrees, 'It's easier to buy and sell,' he said. 'You can fractionalize it, you can buy things, you can transfer it internationally. And so I think it has more value than gold.' On March 7th, 2025, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced that national banks can now participate in particular crypto activities, including custody, without needing prior regulatory approval. The OCC rolled back previous guidance from the Biden era that required banks to seek permission and demonstrate risk controls before engaging in crypto. Acting Comptroller Rodney Hood emphasized that banks must still manage risks appropriately, but the move is intended to ease regulatory burdens and create consistency. Bitcoin can also be held on centralized exchanges, but past failures like FTX have shown the risks of trusting third parties with your assets. For those who value direct, tangible control over their assets, much like holding physical gold bars, there are several options for maintaining full custody of their Bitcoin. Unchained, Casa, and Onramp are among the growing number of companies in 'cold storage' Bitcoin custody. They make investing in Bitcoin easier, safer, and more rewarding by offering trusted, secure platforms that help minimize risk. Bitcoin's decentralized nature is its strength, but it also puts responsibility entirely on the individual. Unchained offers a solution to that challenge by providing multisignature vaults that blend personal control with institutional-grade security. These vaults require multiple keys to move funds, dramatically reducing the risk of theft, accidental loss, or single-point failure. Unchained distinguishes itself with its Concierge Onboarding program, which guides users step by step through the self-custody process. Designed to support everyone from first-time investors to businesses managing Bitcoin on their balance sheets, the service has proven valuable to older investors seeking long-term wealth preservation, many of whom previously turned to gold. Another company offering a straightforward and intuitive way to secure funds through multisig is Casa. Their platform is tailored for investors who want to hold Bitcoin but avoid complex hardware wallets or opaque solutions. Casa streamlines Bitcoin custody for everyday users. It's designed to be accessible for all ages, from Zoomers to Boomers, making Bitcoin custody simple for anyone. Unlike some fintech platforms that lump Bitcoin in with other cryptocurrencies, Onramp focuses solely on Bitcoin. Their transparent approach appeals to advisors and institutions who want to offer Bitcoin exposure without hearing a sales pitch for other digital assets. Onramp works directly with financial advisors and RIAs, offering tools to integrate Bitcoin into long-term portfolio strategies. They also prioritize education, helping advisors explain Bitcoin's role as a hedge against inflation, its function as a store of value, and its technological advantages over gold. While you decide on whether to invest in Bitcoin or gold, consider this. Unlike gold, Bitcoin can be bought instantly, stored digitally, and sent globally. It's programmable money, backed by a growing ecosystem of infrastructure that supports everything from everyday purchases to intergenerational wealth transfers. It's especially appealing to younger generations who prioritize autonomy, accessibility, and ease of use. This forward-looking approach increases Bitcoin's value in the long term. Gold, while still valuable, is frozen in time. It doesn't offer rewards, and you can't use it to book a flight or buy groceries. Bitcoin, in contrast, is as adaptable as the internet, able to weather global instability and still function as a real currency. Investors must no longer ask, 'Is Bitcoin as good as gold?' They must ask, 'Why settle for gold when you can have Bitcoin?'
