May 8, 2026, 8:30AM EDT · 19:53
Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley discusses why BlackRock is ‘the best thing that ever happened to crypto,’ the death of the four-year cycle, and why Saylor’s $STRC is about to drag Bitcoin into fixed income
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00:00 – Introduction
00:55 – Bitwise origin story
04:27 – Why Facebook keeps producing crypto founders
07:15 – Why BlackRock is a gift to Bitwise
10:30 Bitcoin utility
13:35 – Saylor’s $STRC playbook
17:44 – ‘The four-year cycle is dead’
Guest links:
Hunter Horsley – https://x.com/HHorsley
Bitwise – https://x.com/Bitwise
Host links:
Gareth Jenkinson – https://x.com/gazza_jenks
The Block – https://x.com/theblockco
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