Ari Paul

Ari Paul is co-founder and CIO of BlockTower Capital. He was previously a portfolio manager for the University of Chicago's $8 billion endowment, and a derivatives market maker and proprietary trader for Susquehanna International Group (SIG). Ari earned a BA in political science from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the University of Chicago with concentrations in economics, entrepreneurship, strategic management, and econometrics & statistics. BlockTower is a crypto and blockchain investment firm, applying professional trading, investing and portfolio management to this digital asset class. it is funded by well-known investors such as A16z and Union Square Ventures.

Key quote:
"If you don't have firsthand experience with how traditional financial institutions (pensions, corporate treasuries etc) administratively permission the moving of assets, it's hard to understand why it's still very difficult for an institution to own bitcoin."

When describing the relationship between monetary policies of central banks: “If we have a return to something like the 1970s, I think probably gold rallies five to 10 times or more, I think Bitcoin probably rallies 10 to 30 times or more,” as reported by Cointelegraph.

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