{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Scoop","title":"Anthony Scaramucci: Paul Tudor Jones took \"a sledgehammer\" to the wall between Wall Street and bitcoin","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2504,"description":"If recent headlines are any indication, Wall Street's slow embrace of bitcoin – or, at least, financial instruments tied to it – is beginning to pick up the pace.\nEarlier this week, it was reported that JPMorgan is offering banking services to cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Gemini. And macro investor Paul Tudor Jones recently revealed that he allocated as much as 2% of his assets to bitcoin, while his fund has opened to door to buying bitcoin futures. Elsewhere, derivatives markets are heating up with volumes and open interest on CME Group's bitcoin option contract hitting fresh highs on Thursday. \nMarket participants point to the juxtaposition of central bank money printing and bitcoin's fixed-supply – the latter of which was very much on display this week during the halving event – as one catalyst for recent interest.\nOn this episode of The Scoop, Skybridge Capital's Anthony Scaramucci explores these developments and why he is \"there\" when it comes to being convinced to allocate some capital to bitcoin. \n\"Paul is closed for new investors, but if he wasn’t closed for new investors, I would be in his fund,\" Scaramucci said. \"And I have no problem owning, as a pass-through through his fund, some level of digital currency exposure.\"\nIn this episode, the former 10-day-long White House communications director said that Jones has helped the idea of owning bitcoin acceptable go mainstream.\nAn admitted non-crypto expert, Scaramucci said there is a technological opportunity for peer-to-peer transfer of value with permanency.\n \"There is an era coming where everybody is going to want to own something that is less manipulated by the governments as it relates to a store of value,\" he said.\nScaramucci said that a few more announcements like Paul Tudor Jones' revelation that he will take on exposure to bitcoin will cause the \"wall to fall down.\" \nWe also explore: \n\nWhy Scaramucci recently moved close to $300 million to legendary hedge funds Bridgewater Associates,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/kC6kzNjgr18dm0FmBfV_f9xccAkjj-QXoCJmVNlNtrU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xZmIz/N2E5MmRmMzJjOTU3/OTNhYjJkYzcxZTlj/MTU2Yi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}