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<h2>Bitcoin as a Generational Asset</h2><h3>Imagine Waking Up</h3><p>You wake up one morning and Bitcoin is at US$1,000,000.</p><p>Take a moment with that. Not the number on the screen, but the feeling. The mortgage you’ve been chipping away at for fifteen years is now covered, several times over, by an asset you bought with the price of a second-hand car. Your children’s education is no longer a source of quiet anxiety. The family home you’d resigned yourself to never quite owning outright is suddenly, unambiguously yours.</p><p>It sounds unreal. But I’ve learned not to trust that instinct. I first came across Bitcoin in early 2013, when it was trading at around $13. Even $1,000 seemed absurd back then, yet by the end of that same year, it had crossed that mark. At $1,000, the idea of $10,000 was laughable. At $10,000, $100,000 looked like pure fantasy. Each of those “impossible” milestones became reality. Through all the crashes and the “Bitcoin is dead” headlines along the way, I kept coming back to the same conviction. The distance between $100,000 and $1,000,000 no longer feels like a canyon. It feels like a question of when, not if.</p><h3>The Scarcity You Can Count</h3><p>Generational wealth is rarely built in a single transaction. It’s built over decades, through compounding returns in equities, accumulating investment properties across market cycles, reinvesting profits from a business you built from the ground up, and having the foresight to allocate into assets that your children and grandchildren will thank you for. The pattern is always the same. Patience. Discipline. A willingness to think beyond your own lifetime.</p><p>For a growing number of high-net-worth families, Bitcoin is becoming part of that equation. Not as a speculative trade. Not as a punt on next month’s price. But as a long-term, supply-constrained asset that may play a meaningful role in a multi-generational wealth strategy.</p><p>The question, then, is not whether to allocate — it’s how. And for investors who think in decades rather than days, the answer may be simpler than expected.</p><h3>What Makes a Generational Asset?</h3><p>When people think about generational assets – something you pass down to your children and grandchildren – Bitcoin usually isn’t on the list. The mental model is rooted in the physical world: your grandmother’s rare diamond necklace, a painting that’s hung in the family home for decades, a trophy property in Sydney’s Double Bay or a waterfront mansion on the Gold Coast, gold bullion sitting in a vault, or a basket of long-term compounders like Berkshire Hathaway. These things feel solid, proven, socially accepted as “real” wealth.</p><p>This scarcity, amongst other things, is what makes me believe Bitcoin is not just an asset. Having watched it survive and recover from every crisis thrown at it over the past twelve years, I’ve come to see it as what I call a <strong>generational asset</strong> – something with the potential to compound across decades and transfer real, enduring value to the people who come after you. But to see it that way, you have to look past four common objections.</p><h2>The Four Objections – and Why They’re Fading</h2><p><strong>It’s too young.</strong></p><p>Bitcoin has barely existed for half of most people’s lifetimes. Gold has thousands of years of history as a store of value; property has centuries. Bitcoin has a little over a decade of mainstream visibility. The critique is fair. But consider what it actually proves. If you reframe Bitcoin as a startup, the picture shifts. A startup with a credible solution to a big problem is volatile, misunderstood, and regularly dismissed. Right up until it isn’t. That’s exactly how Bitcoin has behaved. It addresses a real, growing need: a digitally native, censorship-resistant, globally accessible store of value in a world where trust in fiat currencies and institutions is quietly eroding.</p><p><strong>You can’t pass it down safely.</strong></p><p>How can something be a generational asset if you’re not confident you can hand it to your children? With a house, you sign a transfer. With a painting, you carry it across the room. With Bitcoin, you’re dealing with private keys, seed phrases, and the risk of irreversible loss.</p><p>The concern is legitimate but increasingly outdated. Custody solutions have evolved rapidly: multi-signature setups, institutional-grade custodians, programmable inheritance schemes, and legal frameworks that are beginning to catch up. It is now entirely possible to design a Bitcoin estate plan that allows your heirs to access your holdings reliably, without giving them immediate unilateral control while you’re alive. For a generational asset, the plumbing matters, and that plumbing is being built.</p><p><strong>It’s not real. It’s just digital.</strong></p><p>You can’t walk into a room and point to “your Bitcoin.” That raises a natural fear: how do you know this thing will still exist by the end of your lifetime, let alone your grandchildren’s?</p><p>But this critique is losing force as the rest of the world dematerialises. If you claim Bitcoin has no intrinsic value because it isn’t physical and doesn’t throw off cash flows, you could have said the same about Google in its early days: a search box and some ads, with no factories, no inventory, no tangible product on a shelf. Yet trillions of dollars of equity value now sit in companies whose primary assets are code, data, networks, and brand. All intangible. AI is pushing this further still. Much of tomorrow’s value will be purely digital, running on energy and information rather than bricks and mortar. In that context, an open, neutral, digital bearer asset isn’t a contradiction. It’s a logical building block.</p><p><strong>It’s far too volatile.</strong></p><p>Generational assets, in most people’s minds, feel stable. Property prices dip, but they don’t typically fall 70% in a year. Bitcoin’s violent drawdowns make many wonder whether it can truly deliver a risk-adjusted return that outperforms more traditional investments over the long run.</p><p>But volatility is better understood as a feature than a bug for an emerging form of money. I can tell you from personal experience: the 2014 crash, the 2018 winter, the 2022 collapse. Each one felt like the end. None of them were. Some of the best long-term returns in history have come from assets that were extremely volatile on the way up. Early-stage tech stocks, frontier markets, even coastal property in the 1980s. All went through wild cycles. The trophy home on the Gold Coast was once an under-bought, risky bet, not a safe blue-chip store of wealth. What mattered wasn’t the short-term swings but the underlying theme: demographic shifts, lifestyle changes, scarcity, and the compounding that followed.</p><p>Bitcoin sits in a similar position. The question isn’t whether the price moves sharply in any given quarter. It’s whether Bitcoin truly solves a real problem and whether adoption continues to compound over decades.</p><h2>Why This Moment Matters</h2><p>If Bitcoin does have the potential to become a genuine generational asset, the natural follow-up is: why consider it now?</p><p>Because we are at a pivotal point in both monetary and technological history.</p><p>Around the world, currency debasement has quietly shifted from an occasional crisis response to a structural feature of modern governance. Developed-market governments have shown, repeatedly, that they will expand balance sheets aggressively. The US dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency is being subtly but persistently questioned at the margins. In that environment, scarce, non-sovereign assets with credible neutrality become more attractive, not less.</p><p>At the same time, artificial intelligence is reshaping the value stack in ways that make Bitcoin’s design look increasingly prescient. AI models are ultimately constrained by energy. Computation is just organised electricity. Bitcoin mining already sits at the intersection of energy production and digital value, co-locating with stranded or surplus energy sources around the world. In a meaningful sense, Bitcoin is tokenised energy: a way of storing the output of energy expenditure in a digital form that can be moved and verified anywhere on the planet. As AI drives the demand for computation, and therefore energy, ever higher, this linkage between energy, information, and value is likely to become more important, not less.</p><p>Infrastructure, too, has reached an inflection point. Bitcoin has crossed the line from fringe hobbyist asset to something sophisticated investors can access with institutional-grade tools: regulated funds, listed vehicles, professional custodians, derivative markets, established accounting and tax standards. That doesn’t eliminate risk, but it means large pools of capital can now participate without reinventing their entire process.</p><p>And as more states begin to treat Bitcoin the way they have quietly accumulated gold over the decades, as a hedge sitting in the background, the repricing potential is significant. China as a state is not meaningfully in Bitcoin yet, though Chinese individuals certainly are. We’ve seen this pattern before: official policy and popular practice can diverge for a long time before converging suddenly.</p><h2>Planting the Seed</h2><p>None of this guarantees that you’ll wake up one morning to see Bitcoin at $1,000,000. But it does suggest that dismissing it as “not a real generational asset” simply because it is young, digital, and volatile may age very badly.</p><p>The supply is finite. The world is digitising. Trust in traditional money is fraying. Against that backdrop, owning even a small slice of 21 million units starts to look less like speculation and more like a rational, if unconventional, way to plant a seed for the next generation.</p><p>The question isn’t really whether Bitcoin can reach $1,000,000. It’s whether, when that morning comes, you’ll be holding some.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>If you’re persuaded that Bitcoin belongs in your generational plan, the next step is thinking about how to build that position. 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<h2>Summary</h2><p>In this interview, Coinstash CEO Ting Wang joins Kane Dury, Director at Discover Buyers Agency, for an in-depth conversation on the intersection between property and crypto investing, and how both serve as powerful hedges against inflation and currency debasement in today’s economy.</p><p>From Bitcoin’s evolution into a maturing asset class to the growing role of digital assets alongside real estate, Ting and Kane explore how Australian investors are diversifying beyond the traditional market of property with crypto.</p>

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<h2>DCA: The Case for Consistency</h2><h3>The Role of Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) in Building a Generational Wealth Portfolio</h3><p>Why the smartest capital in Bitcoin doesn’t try to time the market and what the numbers actually show.</p><p><strong>The Familiar Problem</strong></p><p>Generational wealth is rarely built in a single transaction. It’s built over decades, through compounding returns in equities, accumulating investment properties across market cycles, reinvesting profits from a business you built from the ground up, and having the foresight to allocate into assets that your children and grandchildren will thank you for. The pattern is always the same. Patience. Discipline. A willingness to think beyond your own lifetime.</p><p>For a growing number of high-net-worth families, Bitcoin is becoming part of that equation. Not as a speculative trade. Not as a punt on next month’s price. But as a long-term, supply-constrained asset that may play a meaningful role in a multi-generational wealth strategy.</p><p>The question, then, is not whether to allocate — it’s how. And for investors who think in decades rather than days, the answer may be simpler than expected.</p><h2>What Is Dollar Cost Averaging?</h2><p>Dollar Cost Averaging is straightforward: you invest a fixed amount of money at regular intervals weekly, fortnightly, or monthly, regardless of the current price. When the price is high, your fixed amount buys less Bitcoin. When the price is low, it buys more. Over time, your average cost per Bitcoin smooths out, sitting well below the peaks and well above the troughs.</p><p>For experienced investors, this isn’t a novel concept. It’s the same principle behind salary-sacrificing into superannuation, reinvesting dividends in an equity portfolio, or making regular contributions to an investment trust. The mechanism is identical, the asset class is simply newer.</p><h2>Why Dollar Cost Averaging Works Well for Bitcoin</h2><p>Bitcoin is more volatile than most traditional asset classes. In any given year, it’s not unusual for the price to swing 40–60% in either direction. For a lump-sum investor, that volatility is the primary source of anxiety: what if I buy at the top?</p><p>For a DCA investor, that same volatility is an advantage. Drawdowns, which happen regularly in Bitcoin’s history, become accumulation opportunities. You don’t need to predict them. You don’t need to react to them. Your investment strategy already accounts for them.</p><p><strong>The investor who shows up consistently through a bear market accumulates significantly more Bitcoin per dollar than the investor who waits for confirmation of a recovery.</strong></p><p>This isn’t a retail-only approach, either. Institutional allocators routinely use systematic entry strategies when building positions in volatile asset classes. DCA is not a compromise, it’s a risk management framework.</p><h2>The Numbers: Three DCA Scenarios</h2><p>Theory is useful, but numbers are more persuasive. Below, we walk through three hypothetical scenarios using historical Bitcoin price data and a consistent monthly investment of $15,000 AUD. These scenarios are illustrative, they don’t account for transaction fees, tax implications, or platform costs — but they demonstrate the power of disciplined accumulation across very different market conditions.</p><p><em>Note: All figures are in Australian dollars. Bitcoin prices have been converted to AUD using approximate prevailing exchange rates for each period. Current portfolio values are calculated at an approximate Bitcoin price of A$96,000 (mid-February 2026). Past performance is not indicative of future results.</em></p><h3>Scenario A: The Disciplined Investor</h3><p><strong>Start date: </strong>January 2020&nbsp;|&nbsp;<strong>Monthly investment: </strong>$15,000 AUD&nbsp;|&nbsp;<strong>Duration: </strong>73 months (~6 years)</p><p>This investor began accumulating in early 2020, just before COVID-19 upended global markets. At the time, Bitcoin was trading around A$10,400. Over the following six years, this investor lived through a pandemic crash, an explosive bull run, a brutal 75% drawdown through 2022, a recovery through 2023 and 2024, an all-time high above A$177,000 in October 2025, and the subsequent correction to today’s levels.</p><p>Through all of it, they invested $15,000 AUD every single month. No timing. No pausing. No panic selling.</p>

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<p>An investor who deployed just over a million dollars over six years through simple, consistent monthly purchases now holds a position worth approximately $2.7 million — even after Bitcoin has corrected nearly 46% from its October 2025 highs. That’s the power of a low average cost built through discipline.</p><h3>Scenario B: The ‘Worst Timing’ Investor</h3><p><strong>Start date: </strong>November 2021 (near the previous all-time high)&nbsp;|&nbsp;<strong>Monthly investment: </strong>$15,000 AUD&nbsp;|&nbsp;<strong>Duration: </strong>51 months (~4.25 years)</p><p>This is the scenario every hesitant investor fears. Imagine you began your DCA strategy in November 2021, when Bitcoin was trading above A$84,000 and sentiment was at its most euphoric. Within months, the market collapsed. By late 2022, Bitcoin had fallen below A$26,000 in Australian dollar terms, a decline of over 75% from where you started.</p><p>Most lump-sum investors who bought near the peak in November 2021 would have been underwater for years. Many would have sold at a loss. But the DCA investor who kept buying through the drawdown? They accumulated significantly more Bitcoin at those lower prices, dramatically reducing their average cost.</p>

<p>This is perhaps the most important scenario in this article. Even an investor who started at objectively the worst possible time, the very top of the market, is now sitting on an unrealised gain of approximately $462,000 AUD, representing a 60% return on invested capital. That is the mathematical reality of what consistent accumulation through a bear market can deliver.</p><p><strong style="color: rgb(92, 91, 213);">The investor who started at the worst possible time and never stopped buying is now sitting on a 60% gain. Timing didn’t matter. Consistency did.</strong></p><h3>Scenario C: The Long-Term Accumulator</h3><p><strong>Start date: </strong>January 2018&nbsp;|&nbsp;<strong>Monthly investment: </strong>$15,000 AUD&nbsp;|&nbsp;<strong>Duration: </strong>97 months (~8 years)</p><p>This investor started their DCA journey in January 2018, when Bitcoin was coming off the euphoria of the 2017 bull run and was about to enter a painful year-long decline. Over the next eight years, they invested through two full bear markets (2018–2019 and 2022), two bull markets, a global pandemic, regulatory crackdowns, exchange collapses, and the emergence of Bitcoin ETFs.</p>

<p>Under $1.5 million deployed over eight years has produced a portfolio worth approximately $6.5 million. The average cost per Bitcoin of roughly A$21,450 means this investor has substantial downside protection — Bitcoin would need to fall a further 78% from current levels before their position moved into loss.</p><p>More importantly, this investor now holds nearly 68 Bitcoin. In the context of a network with a hard cap of 21 million coins, of which approximately 19.8 million have already been mined and a meaningful portion is believed to be permanently lost, that is a significant position in a supply-constrained asset.</p><h2>Why Invest In Bitcoin?</h2><p>For investors who have built their wealth in property, equities, or private business, the natural question is: why would I allocate capital to Bitcoin at all?</p><p>The answer is not about replacing what already works. It’s about diversifying into an asset with fundamentally different characteristics to anything else in a traditional portfolio.</p><h3>Finite Supply</h3><p>Bitcoin has a hard cap of 21 million coins, embedded in its protocol and enforced by a decentralised network of nodes. There is no central authority that can change this limit, no board that can issue more shares, no government that can print more. For investors who understand the long-term impact of monetary debasement on purchasing power, this is a compelling feature. It is, by design, the scarcest financial asset ever created.</p><h3>Institutional Legitimacy</h3><p>The approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States in January 2024 marked a turning point. Major asset managers — including BlackRock, Fidelity, and Invesco — now offer regulated Bitcoin investment products. Corporate treasuries, sovereign wealth discussions, and the establishment of strategic Bitcoin reserves at a national level have all contributed to Bitcoin’s transition from a fringe technology to a recognised asset class.</p><h3>A New Category of Store of Value</h3><p>Bitcoin is increasingly compared to gold — not because it replaces gold’s role in a portfolio, but because it shares key attributes: scarcity, durability, divisibility, and portability. Where Bitcoin diverges is in its accessibility and transferability. It’s digital and can be sent electronically across borders using decentralised networks. Transfers may happen without traditional financial intermediaries and can offer a transparent, publicly verifiable record. For investors who think globally, this matters.</p><h2>Addressing the Hesitation</h2><h3>“It’s Too Volatile”</h3><p>Volatility is not the same as risk. Risk is often considered the potential for permanent loss of capital. Volatility is the price you pay for asymmetric returns. Bitcoin’s annualised volatility has been steadily declining over time as the market matures, but it remains higher than most traditional assets. For a DCA investor, however, volatility can create opportunities&nbsp;to accumulate at a lower average cost. The scenarios above demonstrate that even extreme volatility, including a 75% drawdown, did not prevent a disciplined DCA strategy from generating significant positive returns.</p><h3>“I’ve Missed the Boat”</h3><p>This is what people said when Bitcoin reached US$1,000 in 2013. And when it reached US$20,000 in 2017. And US$69,000 in 2021. And over US$126,000 in 2025. At every point, the belief that it was “too late” would have been proven wrong by simply starting a consistent accumulation strategy and maintaining it. Bitcoin’s addressable market — as a global store of value, settlement layer, and reserve asset — is orders of magnitude larger than its current market capitalisation. Whether that potential is realised is an open question, but the thesis has never been about today’s price. It’s about where the asset sits in ten or twenty years.</p><h3>“Regulatory Uncertainty”</h3><p>Regulatory clarity has been increasing significantly. In Australia, simple crypto exchanges operate under AUSTRAC registration and anti-money laundering obligations. ASIC has also clarified how laws apply to digital assets, and the Digital Assets Framework Bill 2025 — creating a licensing regime — has passed the House of Representatives and is before the Senate.In the United States, the regulatory environment has shifted materially since 2024, with the approval of Bitcoin ETFs, executive orders establishing digital asset working groups, and the creation of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Globally, the direction of travel is toward integration and regulation, not prohibition. For institutional and high-net-worth investors, this evolving regulatory framework actually de-risks the asset class over time.</p><h2>The Generational Wealth Lens</h2><p>For many of the investors reading this article, the question is not just whether Bitcoin deserves a place in their personal portfolio. The question is whether it deserves a place in their family’s long-term wealth strategy.</p><p>Consider the framing: there will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin. The global population is approaching 8 billion. If your family holds even a small amount of Bitcoin — accumulated patiently over years — you are securing a position in an asset with absolute scarcity. That is not a guarantee of future returns. But it is a thesis that resonates deeply with investors who understand what happened to the price of well-located property in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane over the past 30 years. Scarcity, when combined with growing demand, tends to reward early and consistent participation.</p><p><strong style="color: rgb(92, 91, 213);">Wealth that lasts generations is rarely built by timing markets. It is built by identifying asymmetric opportunities early, allocating consistently, and having the conviction to hold through volatility.</strong></p><p>A DCA approach to Bitcoin fits naturally into a broader family wealth strategy alongside property, equities, superannuation, and business holdings. It is not an alternative to these pillars. It is an additional one — one that, unlike most traditional assets, your children and grandchildren can hold directly, in a self-sovereign manner, without reliance on banks, brokers, or intermediaries.</p><h2>The Principle, Not the Prediction</h2><p>This article is not a prediction about Bitcoin’s future price. Nobody knows where it will be in six months or six years. What we do know is this: across every historical timeframe longer than four years, a DCA strategy into Bitcoin has produced positive returns. Even investors who started at the absolute worst possible entry points have, with time and consistency, moved into profit.</p><p>The principle behind DCA is the same one that has driven wealth creation across every asset class, in every era: show up. Be consistent. Think in decades, not days. And let the mathematics of disciplined accumulation work in your favour.</p><p>If you are an experienced investor who has been watching Bitcoin from the sidelines, waiting for the “right time” to enter — the historical evidence suggests that the right time is not a moment. It’s a commitment to a process.</p>

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DCA: The Case for Consistency

<h2>What Is Brevis: What’s the Hype?</h2><p>As blockchain technology continues to evolve, a major challenge remains — how can decentralised apps (dApps) access complex off-chain data without compromising security or trustlessness?</p><p><strong>Brevis Network</strong> is a project designed to solve this. It’s gaining attention for its ability to bring off-chain and historical blockchain data into smart contracts using <strong>zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs</strong>. This means developers can build dApps that rely on accurate, verifiable data — without needing to trust external sources.</p><p>Whether it's powering rewards on platforms like <strong>PancakeSwap</strong>, enabling large-scale user campaigns through <strong>MetaMask</strong>, or offering dynamic fees on <strong>QuickSwap</strong>, Brevis is becoming a foundational piece of infrastructure for the next generation of decentralised applications.</p><h2>Key Features of Brevis</h2><p>Brevis stands out for its technical design and practical utility across the blockchain ecosystem. Here are some of its key features:</p><h3>ZK Data Coprocessor</h3><p>Brevis allows dApps to access and compute off-chain data — such as trading history or balances — and return it on-chain as <strong>ZK proofs</strong>. This keeps apps trustless and efficient.</p><h3>High-Performance zkVM</h3><p>The project includes <strong>Pico zkVM</strong> and <strong>Pico Prism</strong>, a high-speed virtual machine and distributed proving system that enables near real-time proof generation — even for full Ethereum blocks.</p><h3>Brevis Chain</h3><p>A dedicated rollup chain that handles coordination, settlement, and slashing mechanics, supporting the broader Brevis ecosystem.</p><h3>ProverNet Marketplace</h3><p>A decentralised marketplace where proof jobs are matched with provers using a fair auction system. This makes the verification process scalable, secure, and decentralised.</p><h3>Real-World Adoption</h3><p>Brevis has already generated <strong>over 100 million ZK proofs</strong> and is being used by well-known protocols such as <strong>Uniswap</strong>, <strong>Euler</strong>, <strong>Linea</strong>, and <strong>Incentra</strong>.</p><h2>What is the Role of the BREV Token?</h2><p>The <strong>BREV token</strong> powers the Brevis ecosystem and serves several important roles:</p><ul><li><strong>Payment for proof jobs</strong>: dApps use BREV to pay for zero-knowledge proofs generated by provers.</li><li><strong>Gas token</strong>: BREV is used as gas for transactions on the <strong>Brevis Chain</strong>.</li><li><strong>Staking by provers</strong>: Provers must stake BREV to participate in the ProverNet marketplace, helping ensure honest behaviour.</li><li><strong>Governance</strong>: Token holders can participate in on-chain governance to propose or vote on changes to the protocol.</li></ul><p>By serving these functions, BREV helps maintain the integrity, security, and decentralisation of the Brevis ecosystem.</p><h2>Risks and Considerations</h2><p>As with any emerging technology, there are a few factors to consider when it comes to Brevis:</p><ul><li><strong>Technology is still developing</strong>: While Brevis is pushing the boundaries of ZK infrastructure, zero-knowledge systems remain a relatively new and evolving area.</li><li><strong>Network decentralisation</strong>: The long-term security and efficiency of ProverNet will depend on a broad and decentralised set of provers participating in the marketplace.</li><li><strong>Adoption by dApps</strong>: The real-world impact of Brevis depends on continued integration by DeFi protocols and decentralised apps.</li></ul><p>It’s important to stay up to date with ongoing developments and understand the project’s role within the broader crypto ecosystem</p><h2>Final Thoughts</h2><p>Brevis is carving out a unique position in blockchain infrastructure by enabling <strong>secure, scalable, and trustless access to off-chain and cross-chain data</strong>. With a strong technical foundation, real-world integrations, and a growing ecosystem, it's becoming a critical tool for developers building next-gen decentralised applications.</p><p>As more protocols look for reliable ways to connect with data across chains, <strong>Brevis is well-positioned to support this shift — all while staying true to decentralisation principles</strong>.</p>

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What is Brevis (BREV): What's the Hype?

What Is Brevis (BREV): What's The Hype?

<h2>Summary</h2><p>In this webinar, Coinstash Head of SMSF Strategy, Simon Ho, sits down with Harrison Connor, GM of Ledger, for a deep dive into how self-custody works for SMSFs, how it compares to keeping on exchange, and how this affects compliance audit, and long term asset security.</p>

Crypto Self-Custody for SMSFs: Coinstash Webinar with Ledger

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