The financial world is changing from soup to nuts with transformations in central bank digital currencies, how we think of securities, how we own things, how we borrow things, and how we lend things, all happening at warp speed.

Rao started investigating Bitcoin and blockchain in 2012 after witnessing the near-collapse of the European banking system and realizing that existing financial solutions were inadequate, initially exploring creating a bank with no fractional reserve lending.

Real Vision published its first Bitcoin video in 2014, with Rao Pal explicitly framing crypto and macro finance as two worlds that would eventually merge, anticipated to occur during the next major recession when traditional monetary policy tools would be exhausted.

Current market valuations for crypto assets are not at record highs, bond yields are not at zero, and there exists a level playing field of opportunity unlike mature markets, creating conditions favorable for investment and participation in crypto.

Real Vision's mission is to democratize the best financial intelligence, and the company realized it would be wrong to exclude the crypto and blockchain space from this mission given the scale of financial transformation occurring.

Real Vision itself has purchased Bitcoin and stores it through BlockFi, effectively making the same allocation decision as Michael Saylor and other corporate treasurers who have moved to Bitcoin holdings.