The Case for $50M Bitcoin and Patrick Witt ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ on Clarity Act

On this episode of CoinDesk’s Public Keys at the New York Stock Exchange, Jennifer Sanasie is joined by White House Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors on Digital Assets Patrick Witt for the latest on the Clarity Act and why stablecoin yield poses limited risk to banks.
EMJX CEO Eric Jackson explains his Gen 2 digital asset treasury strategy and makes the case for $50 million Bitcoin by 2041.
Plus, Morgan Stanley Managing Director and Head of Digital Asset Strategy Amy Oldenburg discusses the firm’s spot Bitcoin ETF launch and its expanding crypto product suite.
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Timecodes:
00:00 Welcome to Public Keys
00:32 Tax Deadline, Inflation Data and Earnings Season Ahead
01:10 Barclays Downgrades Coinbase as Crypto Trading Declines
01:25 Senate Returns with Clarity Act on the Agenda
01:43 White House’s Patrick Witt on Market Structure Timeline
04:41 Stablecoin Yield Poses Limited Risk to Banks, White House Finds
07:37 DeFi, Developer Language and Other Sticking Points
11:03 EMJX CEO Eric Jackson on ‘Gen 2’ Digital Asset Treasuries
16:12 Why AI Agents Will Use Ethereum, Not Solana
17:09 The Case for $50 Million Bitcoin by 2041
19:24 Crypto Equities to Watch: Bittensor, IREN, Cipher and Hut 8
23:33 Bitcoin and Ether ETF Flows
25:48 Morgan Stanley’s Amy Oldenburg on the Firm’s Spot Bitcoin ETF
27:00 Spot ETH, SOL Filings and E-Trade Crypto Trading
30:06 Tokenized Money Market Funds and the Road Ahead
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