#1209 Dom Bei | Firefighters Are Buying Bitcoin!
The Pomp Podcast
Anthony Pompliano
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Dom Bei is a Santa Monica firefighter, he is also the former president of the Firefighters Union, and a bitcoin author. In this conversation, we talk to him about the Santa Monica Firefighter Union being the first union in the country to not only buy bitcoin, but also hold it in self-custody. Dom describes how they did it, why they did it, what the risks were, and what the response has been.
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| 0:30.7 | Dom Be is a Santa Monica firefighter. He's the former president of the Firefighters Union, |
| 0:36.2 | and he's a Bitcoin author. |
| 0:37.9 | In this conversation, we talked to him about the Santa Monica Firefighter Union being the first union in the country, not only to buy Bitcoin on their balance sheet, but to hold it in self-custody. |
| 0:50.1 | There's many other pensions and unions around the country who have allocated to Bitcoin. |
| 0:55.0 | But the Santa Monica Firefighters Union is the first to do it with self-custody. |
| 1:00.0 | Dom does a great job describing how they did it, why they did it, what the risks were and what the response has been. |
| 1:06.0 | I really enjoyed this conversation with Dom and I hope you guys enjoy it as well. |
| 1:10.0 | Here's my conversation with Dom Bay. |
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